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Historical Maps of the United States
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html
Created and maintained by the Perry-Casta�eda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Reviewed June-July, 2013.
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Digital Collection
http://maps.bpl.org/view_collection
Created and maintained by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.
Although a small subset of the Perry-Casta�eda Library's 250,000 maps have been published online as Historical Maps of the United States, the selection provided by the site is a robust model for reclaiming and presenting important historical images for the digital age. Many are scanned maps from The National Atlas of the United States of America (1970), a massive compendium that became a staple in library reference collections. In 1998 that printed atlas was replaced by a version on compact disc; today, its contents consist of downloadable shapefiles and Geotiffs. As the technology for disseminating geospatial data has become more sophisticated, the range and content of the historical maps once represented in the atlas have been impoverished. Viewers can still find images of presidential elections and territorial acquisitions in these updated online collections, but one glance at these compared with the rigorous, detailed images from the 1970 print edition makes clear the wisdom of scanning the printed originals and making them available online.
An example is �Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks��located under the site's category �Early Inhabitants��the urmap that has informed basic understanding of Native America at the moment of contact. Open any U.S. history textbook and you will find the originals by which we have visualized the routes taken by European explorers across North America, the Proclamation Line, and the Louisiana Purchase. Under the site's category �Military History Maps,� approximately one hundred maps, most reproduced from the U.S. Army Center of Military History publication American Military History (1989), are equally rich, foundational sources for understanding the spatial dimensions of warfare. A final category of the online map collection, �Later Historical Maps,� contains a cornucopia of cartographic imagery, including maps of U.S. cities, of national parks, of electric railways, of ethnic population clusters, and of military installations. Alongside Historical Maps of the United States, other Perry-Casta�eda Library collections cover ten other world regions from Texas to Australia and the Pacific Ocean. Together, these historical maps make up a small portion of the library's approximately fifty thousand online images, most of which are scans of its vast archive of Central Intelligence Agency world maps.
British American Population Map, from the Statistics of the Population of the United States, Compiled from the Original Returns of the Ninth Census, 1872.
France's territorial claims in North America, initially focused on the St. Lawrence River valley and the Great Lakes, can be traced to Samuel de Champlain's explorations and trading activities in that region from 1603 to 1629. This rare 1632 map, �Carte de la Nouuelle France,� the last of several prepared by Champlain, accompanied his most complete publication describing his explorations in New France (Canada). Courtesy Norman B. Leventhal Map Center of the Boston Public Library, http://maps.bpl.org/id/m8645.
Once a viewer turns the page on a map that illuminates a historical argument, what happens to that image and the knowledge it represents? In particular, what is to become of the great masterpieces of interpretive historical cartography produced in the twentieth century that reside, largely unconsulted, within massive printed tomes housed in the map rooms of research libraries? These are the questions that Perry-Casta�eda map librarians have worked to answer by uploading images to their historical maps sites, which make no attempts to leverage other Internet resources or interactions with users to enhance the viewing experience. The interface is a straightforward list of hyperlinked titles. Other than a simple line of text noting each map's source and the size of its image file, none of the entries is associated with bibliographic metadata in the library's electronic catalog or any other database. Clicking one of these links opens a jpeg file that can be downloaded with three clicks of the mouse. These have been compressed to ensure that they display quickly at the minimum resolution required to view their smallest details; while these are clearly visible, close inspection reveals the trade-off: blurred edges of fine text and the trademark distortions or �artifacts� created by the file compression process. This streamlined approach has made it possible to scan, upload, and distribute images of thousands of maps. As fully accessible as url-linked jpegs they can be easily featured as content in other digital humanities projects.
The Boston Public Library's digital collections focus on older maps. Unlike the utilitarian links provided by the Perry-Casta�eda Library, the maps in the Boston library's Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Digital Collection are each tagged with a rich array of metadata and fully integrated into a searchable electronic catalog. This means that, at the click of a mouse, viewers can see all of the maps that relate to subjects ranging from African American teachers to the American Revolution and to places from Boston to Sudan. After clicking a thumbnail image, the Zoomify-based map viewer encourages the close inspection of high-resolution images and offers a �fullscreen� button that opens a new window with a separate url. Teachers can copy these urls to make use of the maps' fine detail and interactivity in any Internet-enabled classroom. Opening Samuel de Champlain's �Carte de la Nouuelle France� (1632), for example, displays the map above a detailed narrative description. The page also offers a �similar searches� link that goes to other collections of maps under such headings as �Great Lakes Region (North America)� and �Indians of North America.� Visitors who want to make their own use of this image outside of this congenial interface can do so by clicking �download for print� to receive a 406kb image of Champlain's map or �download full size� for a 51.4 mb version. Many of the collection's images, including Champlain's map and 3,397 others, are available at multiple resolutions as downloadable and url-linked images at the map center's Flickr photo stream.
The radical accessibility to high-resolution images that is a hallmark of this Web site is a boon to map-history research and digital humanities project development. The recently added Atlas Neptune collection displays 272 images from J. F. W. Des Barres's breathtaking late eighteenth-century maritime atlas. The London National Maritime Museum Web site was previously the only place to view a comprehensive collection of these important charts online, but the images are so well protected behind that museum's page that they are difficult to obtain at research-quality resolutions and impossible to download. As librarians charged with curating rare images debate how to design digital portals to their collections, they should fight the urge to limit access and should embrace the Boston Public Library's commitment to share its images as openly as possible with a scholarly community eager to make use of them.
S. Max Edelson


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May 2, 2014 May 1, 2014 by Save Virunga
1.000 Reasons Save Virunga: #32 Milner's Metaphor of our Time
Source: Claire A Milner Twitter
Claire A Milner is currently working on a new collection to serve as metaphors of our time. The works focus on endangered animals and symbolise an irreversible process which will ultimately affect the future of humanity through the decimation of important species due to acts of greed and vanity. These artworks include allegorical references, the co-existence of abstract elements with realist forms, literature and latin written as graffiti and the opposing aesthetics of precious crystals and mixed media. The collection will be exhibited in 2014.
Claire A Milner has created art for celebrities, large corporations, advertising agencies and private clients around the world. Her 5ft x 5ft portrait of Marilyn Monroe, owned by Rihanna is featured on the Official Website of The Estate of Marilyn Monroe. Her Swarovski artwork has received global recognition, and her work is regularly published in books and magazines. Her artworks are held in private collections in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Trinidad, U.K. & the U.S.A.
In 2011 Claire's artwork was chosen as a winner of a competition hosted by retail magnate and Dragon's Den star Theo Paphitis and shortly after won a competition hosted by one of Britain's most successful businesswomen; Jacqueline Gold. In 2013 her work was chosen for five separate featured collections with Saatchi Art by Rebecca Wilson, director of the Saatchi Gallery London. Her work was featured by Swarovski alongside prestigious designers in Swarovski Elements Magazine and her portrait of Amy Winehouse appeared in an exhibition in London curated by the Amy Winehouse Foundation to mark what would have been the late singer's 30th birthday. In 2014 Claire's work will be exhibited with the Rebecca Hossack Gallery at AAF Hong Kong and Singapore.
Claire is currently working on a new collection to serve as metaphors of our time. The works focus on endangered animals and symbolise an irreversible process which will ultimately affect the future of humanity through the decimation of important species due to acts of greed and vanity. These artworks include allegorical references, the co-existence of abstract elements with realist forms, literature and latin written as graffiti and the opposing aesthetics of precious crystals and mixed media. The collection will be exhibited in 2014.
Source: Claire A Milner
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A perfect and intelligent representation of the plight of the gorilla and draws all our attention to what is happening to this and so many other endangered species that we say we treasure-do we really?
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Leah Remini Talks About Dumping Scientology On Her New Reality Show
Clover Hope
In a new clip from her TLC reality series, Leah Remini: It's All Relative, Leah Remini keeps it real as usual about her falling out with Scientology.
Watch the preview here, which features Remini sitting around a dinner table with relatives as she breaks down what it means to leave the Church:
"If you make a stink in the public world, they call you a suppressive person, which means the church has put a stamp on you that says you are bad. They then go to all your family and friends and say you have to disconnect from this suppressive person."
She also explains not wanting to raise her daughter as a Scientologist:
"I decided I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I've experienced and what I saw was the church becomes your everything. It becomes your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church."
In a statement to People about the show, a Scientology rep took it back to the schoolyard, knocking Remini's public efforts to expose the religion:
"It comes as no surprise that someone as self-absorbed as Leah Remini continues to rewrite history and exploit her former religion in a pathetic attempt to get ratings for her cable show and seem relevant again."
Oh snap.
Contact the author at clover@jezebel.com.
Image via TLC
FrolickingGiant
Seriously, good for her. It is super super hard to get out of a cult and to not only do that but then talk about it publicly is a giant fuck you. Nicely done Leah.


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It's also true that for decades to come, oil will remain an essential non-replaceable commodity. Just consider the fuels vital to air travel, or the feedstock enabling petrochemical production. But EVs hold out the prospect of a largely oil-free future for ground transport — that piece of energy consumption that affects consumers most.
As in so many other industrial trends, it's the Chinese who have taken the lead — in this case the lead in battery storage technological competition. Seeking to reduce its role as the world's largest oil importer, and determined to reduce urban air pollution, China sees EVs as a way out. The country's industrial policy aims both to accelerate domestic adoption of EVs and dominate their production.
That means dominating the technology of the EVs' batteries. Despite Tesla's much-touted Gigafactory in Nevada, the United States badly lags in developing battery market share. The BMI claims that 70 battery mega-factories will be built around the world. Just five of these will call the United States home, including Tesla's Gigafactory.
Self-imposed barriers obstruct plans to ramp up domestic production of these minerals, crucial for the batteries to power the next energy revolution. Australia and Canada have environmental safeguards comparable to those in the United States but manage to implement mine approvals in two or three years whereas the U.S. process often takes 10 years or more. It's a matter of competitiveness, not of any deliberate attempt to dumb down environmental safeguards.
The United States has become a worldwide energy powerhouse and is poised to make even greater strides. There are ample reasons to be optimistic about America's energy future, though a host of political risks threatens our vast economic and environmental gains.
The Green New Deal has commanded attention because of its audacious attempt to end fossil fuel consumption within 10 years. But today, state policymakers including governors and utility commissions, pose a far greater threat.
This means America's energy boom will continue to create skilled jobs on top of the millions already produced. Our balance of trade improves, and energy prices remain affordable and stable, thereby stimulating energy-intensive industries like manufacturing. We are also far less likely to be drawn into wars over oil.
The future of the Green New Deal is uncertain at best. Some Democrats, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have seemed to brush it off or pivot by saying what is important is the vision of the legislation. Meanwhile, Republicans are salivating over this issue.
What is certain is that there are many developments at the state level that would overhaul how electricity is generated and consumed. Some are positive and others are not. The key ones follow.
—Support for Nuclear Power. Nuclear power accounts for approximately 20 percent of U.S. electricity generation and remains by far the largest source of carbon free electricity. As a 24/7 baseload power source that consistently contributes power to the grid, it is essential for electricity reliability. New York, New Jersey and Illinois have made modest subsidies of $2 a month or so to keep plants operating so that emissions stay low and that the vast economic benefits of these plants continue.
—Grid modernization. America's electric grid is getting old. A 2015 U.S. Department of Energy report found that 70 percent of power transformers and transmission lines are 25 years or older. Utilities are investing $50 billion annually into electric distribution systems and many experts believe much more will be needed.
How investments are prioritized will be critical for protecting consumers, meeting increased electricity demand and fortifying the grid against severe storms.
—Vast renewable subsidies. In many places, renewable energy continues to be quite costly and renewable energy subsidies can quickly get out of control. In Virginia, the State Corporation Commission reported that a wind energy plan would have cost 78 cents/kilowatt hour, 26 times the market price. Wisely, the plan was halted. New Yorkers are paying $2.1 billion for a wind energy plan, but few in the state will have access to the power.
As states like New Jersey consider ambitious wind energy and other renewable programs, cost transparency is critically important. Offshore wind facilities can be especially high-priced because of the initial construction costs. Also, significant engineering changes and improvements need to be made to the transmission grid so it can receive this power.
—Cost obfuscation. Many consumers have line items in their electricity bills for renewable energy costs. Some are clearly identified, others are not. Going forward, utility commissions in their decisions, and utilities in their bills to consumers, should be clear and explicit about all such subsidies.
—Support for Electric Vehicles. There are many benefits to significantly increasing the number of electric cars in America, powering them from cleaner natural gas, nuclear and renewable power. But a sharp growth in electric vehicles is likely to mean a sharp increase in the amount of electricity needed. As such, public policy should be to keep and expand our clean sources of electricity.
The United States has come a long way from the 1970s era of oil embargoes, high energy prices and gruesome air pollution. By avoiding rash and hysterical actions, we will have a cleaner and more prosperous country.
A majority of states (47, plus D.C., Puerto Rico and the territory of Guam) have legalized or at least decriminalized marijuana to one degree or another, but the federal government — especially under now former attorney general Jeff Sessions — has been adamant about ignoring the will of the people of those states, as well as the laws passed by them.
Anyone working (or who wants to work) for Uncle Sam is subject to not being hired — or can be fired — for any use of marijuana, even if it it's entirely legal for them to do so in their state and even if it's on their own personal time and even when legally prescribed by a doctor as part of a pain management regimen and an alternative to physically and psychologically addictive opioids.
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Under current federal law, these veterans are ineligible for federal jobs and are subject to being fired if their use of marijuana should be discovered.
"This conflict, between medical care and maintaining employment needs to be resolved," says Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Florida, who is one of the bill's co-sponsors. The bill's Republican co-sponsor is Rep. Don Young of Arkansas, who is also co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus.
Disclosure statement: Dudley Poston does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Glimmer Paper gone – dye your own!
Did you miss out on the Glimmer Paper Pack that I featured earlier this month?
Here's a way to make your own glimmer paper in any Stampin' Up! color that you want!
Take a piece of the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper. Put some ink refill in the top of the inkpad and sponge onto your Glimmer Paper. (If you sponge directly from your inkpad, it will get a bit glittery).
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CONTEMPORARY ART - ARTISTS COLLECTION
Josep Clarà
Olot, Girona, 1878 - Barcelona, 1958
Originally from Olot, Josep Clarà moved after his training to live in Paris. There, his reference was Auguste Rodin and his sculptural work drew on symbolism to express human emotions through volume. Later on, influenced by Maillol, he developed his work to classic and Mediterranean styles linked to Noucentism. The Greco-Latin references, formal synthesis and purifying volumes led to an idealization of bodies and faces during the 1930s, the decade when he returned to Catalonia. Back in his homeland, Clarà undertook projects for public spaces and his career culminated with some monumental works based on the search for beauty.
Artist's expositions
L'univers de l'escultura
Saturday 25 | July | 2020
Sunday 29 | November | 2020
Can Mario Museum, Palafrugell
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Josep Clarà i l'univers de l'escultura
Josep Clarà, L´univers de l´escultura
Exhibition: Josep Clarà - The universe of sculpture


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Health-care start-ups bet on making a killing off Obamacare
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Obamacare may get mixed reviews from the general public, but it's a cash cow for start-ups. And investors expect the money pile to get bigger.
More money poured into health-care start-ups than ever before this last January, with $390 million invested across 25 deals, according to Rock Health, a digital health start-up accelerator. That helped make the first quarter of this year the best quarter ever for digital health, with $700 million pouring into the sector, Rock Health reported last week.
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Because of Obamacare reforms, many digital health start-ups, unlike a lot of social-focused companies, are making a lot of money, quickly.
"The performance of some of our alumni companies has been very impressive," said Brad Weinberg, a founding partner of Blueprint Health, a health-care tech accelerator based in New York City.
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"We now have 46 companies in the Blueprint Health family and my favorite stat about those alumni is that 80 percent of them are generating revenue. Some of those companies are only six months old," Weinberg said at the Blueprint Health demo day in New York City on Thursday.
Ten companies that came out of Blueprint are on track to do $1 million or more in their first year of existence, Weinberg said.
"These companies are generating real revenue because they are solving real problems," he said.
Another reason these companies are making money faster is because they can't afford not to, said Malay Gandhi, chief strategy officer at Rock Health.
"I don't know if the rate of success is sooner or not, but it's fundamentally harder to go longer without profitability for digital health companies," Gandhi said. "So it forces a lot of companies to find revenue and customers early on."
Unlike start-ups in the consumer social space, digital health companies can't just focus on growing users and develop a business plan later. They can't be scaled fast enough for this model to work, Gandhi said. So they start to figure out how they are going to make money from the beginning—a priority that investors naturally like.
The public market is also starting to notice. On Friday, IMS Health—which provides analytics and services to pharmaceutical companies, health-care providers and payers—raised $1.3 billion when it went public, making it the second largest IPO in 2014.
Aside from early profitability, investors also believe these companies will help overhaul the overly complex and bureaucratic health-care industry--an industry that, despite institutional resistance, is unlikely to survive in its current form, Gandhi said.
"More investors are getting into the space because the longer they stare at it the more they realize how screwed up it is," Gandhi said.
For most of these digital health companies, the goal is saving health-care organizations money while also improving the quality of care, often by utilizing big data.
RubiconMD, one of the companies that demoed on Thursday, is trying to help save primary care physicians money by helping them avoid specialist referrals.
"Increasingly, physician groups are entering into value-based contracts with insurers. This means if they help their patients avoid unnecessary care they will earn more money. When done right patients see fewer doctors and receive better care," said Gil Addo, co-founder of RubiconMD.
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In a typical value-based contract, a primary care provider can earn an additional $150 if they can help a patient avoid an unnecessary referral, and customers using RubiconMD system have already seen a 30 percent reduction in referrals, Addo said.
"The challenge is that primary care providers still rely on specialist input for a number of cases. And the only way to receive that input is using this complex and confusing, inefficient referral process."
RubiconMD simplifies the process by allowing a primary care physician to submit a question about a patient's condition, along with any relevant imagery, to the company's platform where RubiconMD routes the case to a specialist and returns the opinion within a few hours.
This enables the primary care provider to follow up with the patient with the necessary best steps faster and also helps the patient avoid multiple doctor's visits. Addo added that his company is not in the business of blocking referrals to a specialist, but is more about making the process more seamless and making sure the patient sees the right specialist in a quicker manner.
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"The physicians that we work with are always going to do what's in the best interest of the patient, it's just how they are wired," he said.
Some of Rubicon's investors include one of the co-founders of Skype, a former president of Walgreens Clinic and a former president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.
"We are literally bringing specialist expertise into the primary care setting," he said. "It's that simple."
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Review of Death Walks on High Heels
Luciano Ercoli is best known (to the few who know him) as the director of a pair of well-titled gialli featuring Susan Scott: "Death Walks on High Heels" (1971) and "Death Walks at Midnight" (1972). With a DVD two-pack available, fittingly from a distributor called No Shame, I decided to give them a try. After viewing the first of these films I can understand how Ercoli failed to become a household name, but he puts in an ambitious effort and entertains better than I expected.
The picture opens with Mr. Rochard, a mysterious man wearing an eye-patch (really the eye-patch makes "mysterious" redundant) getting stabbed in a train by I masked killer bent on getting a handful of diamonds, themselves stolen by Rochard.
When we are introduced to Susan Scott, she's being interrogated by the police as his daughter, Nicole Rochard, although she claims not to know anything about the diamonds. Nicole ends up being the protagonist for the first half of the film, with the narrative impetus coming from two detectives, Inspector Baxter (Carlo Gentili) and Captain Lenny (George Rigaud) in the second half.
Nicole spends the first twenty minutes of the film making sure the audience knows that she doesn't have any tattoos in not one, but two, tedious nightclub routines. Some truly ill-chosen wigs, a fistful of zooms and the dated psychedelic music make sure that no one watching these scenes in the 21st century gets much more than kitsch out of them, but many (film scholar Gary Needham included) have proposed that the sheer silliness of such indulgences and the outrageousness of the costumes became at least as much of a draw as the presumed erotic effect. Keep an eye out for the preponderance of fuchsia outfits that overtake the bad wigs.
In some ways it's a minor shame that the Ercoli wastes so much time on the early exploitive material and then fazes Scott out in the second half, since she was eager to unseat Edwige Fenech as the reigning giallo scream queen. In the space allotted her to shine in "Death Walks on High Heels" she does a fine job, at least as talented for the little range required as Fenech and a knockout beauty.
The story doesn't really get started until Nicole is attacked by the blue-eyed masked killer and threatened by an electronically scrambled voice. She seeks comfort in her drunken, madly jealous boyfriend, Michel (Simon Andreu), but he doesn't exactly endear himself. In fact, he throws a knife across the room into her wardrobe inches from her face; the first in a series of fake-out scares that deserve laughter and applause purely for their contrived extremism.
Later, Nicole will overhear a creepy electronic voice saying "I've been looking for you for a long time" only to discover that it's a priest with a voice assistor talking on a nearby phone. (You know, the type of coincidence that happens all the time.) My favorite red herring is a ridiculous false lead played with utter sincerity: a bleach-blonde, arched-eyebrow ogre with a gloved metal hand and a cat that he pets in a sinister manner as he glares at Nicole. How can you not love that?
[Images: Fake outs and red herrings that are so bad they're good.]
It doesn't take long for Nicole to run frantically away from Michel's house and elope with the slimy Dr. Robert Mathews (Frank Wolff) who she met filming her at a strip club. Why would she flee into the arms of a notorious married playboy with a fetish for boots a fancy for foreign women? A montage in her boyfriend's bathroom helps explain:
Nicole makes a shocking discovery!
A pair of blue contact lens!
In the possession of the brown-eyed Michel!
Surely he must be the masked killer, betraying her love to get at the diamonds!
It soon appears that Nicole has made the right choice, considering that Dr. Mathews flies her to his glorious seaside villa, takes her on a whirlwind shopping spree (an irresistible chance for yet another sequence of male gaze and 70's Italian fashion) and treats her to a hilariously erotic meal where she eats greasy chunks of fresh fried fish and washes her hands in rose-petal water. One gets the impression that the screenwriter designed the scene based on a vintage magazine's idea about the ultimate British date.
The days of hedonistic pleasure can't last forever and soon Dr. Mathews is called away to London. While working on curing a blind man at his ophthalmology clinic, Mathews is shot by someone wearing high heels. What appallingly poor luck that the only witness is blind! Meanwhile, Nicole has disappeared and resurfaces in shocking circumstances. Corpses increase inverse proportionally to the suspect list until the truth comes tumbling out in the wickedly satisfying conclusion.
[Image: The title warned you. No points for the lighting director who is clearly using a flashlight.]
Much like "The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh" (1971), also penned by screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi, "Death Walks on High Heels" brings together a well-orchestrated finale that shows ingenuity, foresight and a combination of well-crafted layers. The problem with both films, particularly this one, is that the first half of the film is nearly empty of interest, filled for utilitarian sake with the obscure clues, character backgrounds and plot setups that will payoff only in the last act. At 108 minutes, the film is far too long and there is absolutely no reason not to be choosier in the editing room concerning the first half of the film.
The casting is spot on with acting that saves many of the scenes from the embarrassments that they could be, although Inspector Baxter is so wooden and incommunicative that he frustrates more than he investigates and gets outshone by the peripheral figures. Despite the reduced presence of Susan Scott in the second half, it's there that the suspect roster really fills out to the benefit of the mystery. It becomes simultaneously amusing and baffling how everyone in the tiny fishing village where most of the action takes place comes off as so secretive and scheming.
Ercoli is far from a hack director (despite the claims of many critics) and while he lacks an evenhanded pacing and the ability to squeeze A performances from B actors, he admirably cultures a visual talent that has plenty of potential. I almost feel that the director has been unfairly punished for not taking his camerawork quite far enough, for despite plenty of filler sequences of bland conventions and sloppy focus all the hallmarks of a burgeoning giallo master are present. I'd even go so far as to say that the filmmaking is above the level of the average Lucio Fulci feature. To honor the unsung work of Ercoli and his cinematographer, Fernando Arribas, I'll distribute some fictional awards:
Best Window Shot: (How can one not appreciate the little touches like how ridiculous the chair is and the way see-through black lingerie hangs from both the lamps.)
Best Mirror Shot: (Sadly out of focus)
Best Masking Shot: (Following the single really brutal death sequence tossed rather conspicuously to the gore hounds in the audience)
Best Focus Pull: (Through a model ship!)
Best Camera Placement: (Wait! Stop or you'll shatter the lens!)
It may be a long shot, but I can't help feeling that the film is only a good editor away from being a great giallo. As it stands, the film is a moderate success with moments of inspiration and a stellar final ten minutes. Cap it all off with some minimalist box art, an amazing trailer (don't miss out on it) and a decidedly flirtatious final image between the detectives (WHY?) and you get a giallo DVD two-pack that just might be worth the investment. I'll get back on that after I see "Death Walks at Midnight."
[Image: The most meaningful stares in the film have nothing to do with the villain…]
Walrus Rating: 6.5
Posted by FilmWalrus at 7:41 AM
Labels: 1970s, Giallo, Horror, Italian Horror, Italy, Review, Screenshots and Images
I love the silly awards. You should do that more often when you have a movie that fails overall but does some things excellently.
Also...it's fun.
I agree with the awards. Also... that detective duo shot cracked me up so much. Weirdest innuendo to throw in at the last moment.
Mad Dog said...
Jesus Christ, those detectives. And their FACIAL HAIR.
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It will come into effect on Sunday December 1, 2019…
The UAE Cabinet has announced plans to introduce an excise tax on e-cigarettes, vapes and certain soft drinks. From December 1, 2019, electronic smoking devices, and the liquids used in them, will be hit with a 100 per cent tax, while soft drinks containing added sugar and sweeteners will be subject to a 50 per cent tax.
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The tax was originally planned to come into effect in January 2020, but the Federal Tax Authority has now stated the earlier increase.
In a Tweet, the UAE Government said that decision to expand the list of excise taxable products comes in an effort to "enhance public health and reduce consumption of unhealthy goods".
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The excise tax in the UAE was first launched on October 1, 2017, and saw an excise tax of 100 per cent introduced for tobacco and energy drinks, and 50 per cent for fizzy drinks (except carbonated water).
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Q: Computing the homology groups of the torus or a cell complex I've found this table of homology groups of the tori $T^n$.
My question is: How did they compute these? More generally: what's the "recipe" to compute the homology group of say, a cell complex?
Many thanks for your help!

A: In a simple case, such as the 2-torus, it's very straightforward to compute the simplicial homology from a simplicial (or Delta) complex. You should really sit down and do this for - at least - the torus, the circle, and $\mathbb{R}P^2$, because it's a great way to start to get a handle on what homology is all about. You'll soon realise that it's easy to calculate the homology of a given simplicial complex... but also long-winded.
For cell complexes, we can use cellular homology, which is a much more powerful way to find the homology groups for CW complexes. But often that's not enough (with the information we've got, or, we don't want to spend hours computing), and we have to use tools such as excision, the Mayer-Vietoris sequence, and the Kunneth formula to compute the homology of a space by considering its geometry, "nicer" subspaces, and the like.
Everything I've talked about here (apart from Kunneth) is in Chapter 2 of Hatcher's book, which I can't recommend enough if you're just starting to learn about homology. It's a very lucid exposition.

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George shines on
by Fred Zwicky · July 3, 2013
If you are from Peoria, then you've likely heard of George the shoeshine man. He has been a fixture downtown since 1946, shining the shoes of the famous, including several presidents over the past thirty years or so.
George had a heart attack. Ten days later, he's back in his shop, shining shoes. He's on doctors orders to limit his hours.
I've photographed George many a time before. I've probably even shot these same images. However, it's reassuring to able to revisit the past in the present. Shine on George, shine on.
FRED ZWICKY/JOURNAL STAR
George Manias was back at work shining shoes just ten days after having a heart attack. George, 82, said that the doctors are ordering him to work fewer hours, which he will begrudgingly comply with. George polishes up the ostrich leather boots of Peoria attorney Tom Sheets.
George Manias was back at work shining shoes just ten days after having a heart attack. George, 82, said that the doctors are ordering him to work fewer hours, which he will begrudgingly comply with.
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Q: uCrop library - it is not displaying the crop window I am using uCrop as per the directions given here -https://android-arsenal.com/details/1/3054#!description.
But the application is not displaying the crop window. After the below code, it goes to onActivityResult also outputUri is null;
UCrop.of(imageUri, outputUri)
                .withAspectRatio(16, 9)
                .withMaxResultSize(maxWidth, maxHeight)
                .start(RecognizeActivity.this);

A: See this sample example of their you will get the all the options, i think you have to add some other configs with setting aspect ratio
https://github.com/Yalantis/uCrop/blob/master/sample/src/main/java/com/yalantis/ucrop/sample/SampleActivity.java
advance config
https://github.com/Yalantis/uCrop/blob/master/sample/src/main/java/com/yalantis/ucrop/sample/SampleActivity.java#L257


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Here's what we have experienced, missing pills, not getting food and transporting someone who has gotten hurt on the courtesy bus instead of calling an ambulance. And now I find out about the incident that happened not too long ago. I will make it my number one goal to make sure that this gets reported to medicare and to the state and federal agencies who deal with these issues.
After having "Major Surgery" for partial bowel obstruction, my wife took Ill on day I was to transfer home w/severe Stomach Flu. @last minute I had to shift gears & go to Brookdale Atrium until wife's illness passed (2.5 days). From minute "1" @ Atrium was a nightmare to put it lightly. I was in severe pain upon checking in by a Nurse who was rude @best. It took 1.5 days to check in prior to straintning out required pain prescriptions, leaving me in toe writhing, crying pain. Staff was non-compassionate stating nothing they could do until Dr. Yu (Dr. on call) could come in. I did not see Dr. YU for 2 days. Upon leaving Baptist downtown where surgery was conducted, My surgeon, DR.ROSE, had written home prescription for pain which was filled prior to xfering to Brookdale Atrium. That medication was confiscated by Brookdale and not returned (after my insurance had paid for it. I was left in a room over 24 hours (despite constant request for pain relief.) w/no solution. DR. ROSE'S treatment plan was filed as to requirements for surgical maintenance..ie..drain and document fluid drainage and charted for follow-up. This was not performed "one single time" in 4 days..upon my repeated request to drain, measure, and document per DR.'S orders. When nurse(s) finally came to drain tubes they lacked the procedural knowledge and ""I HAD TO TRAIN THEM ON PROCEDURES", which were still not followed per DR.'S ORDERS-THEY DID NOT KNOW HOW TO DRAIN AND PROPERLY CLOSE DRAIN TUBES.!! My care @this facility was "very poor @best !!" I would not send my pet to this place!! I suffered in pain for 3.5 days during my stay til I left ASAP on Monday. Upon leaving, they refused to give me "my discharge paperwork from DR. ROSE,stating I would have to subpoena the paperwork !!! More follow-up to continue !!! R/John Thomas. To add- I was left in dirty linen x 3 days before living. Staff lied about job performance and verified through through supervisors. This place is a bad SY-FY MOVIE!!! After leaving Brookdale atrium, where they did not check my surgical wound or change the dressing, when I got home I was going to change my dressing myself just two find out the wound had actually opened. It left a baseball sized hole in my stomach where you could see the mesh. Make the rest of the story short I was on a wound vac machine for over 3 months with home nurse care coming 3 times a week and still healing to this date.
After going to another rehabilitation center I was very leary of going to another because of my past experiences. When I admitted to Brookdale Atrium I was very surprised and relived by the quality of care, cleanliness and tastiness of food. I had many advocated who helped assist with any need I had along the way. The quality of rehab services was the best ive seen ever. This team has done so much for me for the long run and I truly appreciate everything. THANK YOU BROOKDALE!!!!!
Everybody has been very nice and have gone out of their way to get anything I need. When doing rehab the therapist were very compatible and nice. Helped me a whole lot.
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Punishing his body to near-collapse for the glory of sport was part of an identity forged for Keith Marshall as a teenage soldier caught-up in the carnage of a Japanese POW breakout It's a funny thing, he says, settling those broad shoulders, steely arms patchworked in age-mottled skin, a veteran swimmer's-frame cranked like high-tension fencing wire from a relentless crawl through the blue. This beautiful world. A mile a day, 7.15am plunge, drying off with a towel by 9. Yes, it's bewildering, while making the clearest of sense. "You sort of enjoy the pain." Though it's not a suffering inflicted in the trance of mowing down that black line. Strokes of a soft and reassuring dream, silence and isolation, soothed by the otherwise out-of-reach crutch of all that water. His indulgence, from where he amuses himself and ticks off the laps by solving the world's problems as mind races ahead of body. It was in the ravages inflicted when he took to the road. Keith Marshall shared the theory with another ultra-marathon runner, Ian Colston, years before he switched to the pool, some time after one Sydney-to-Melbourne slog where his tortured kidneys had him pissing blood for the last 10 days' straight. So Ian, he says, you get to the stage where you'd be lost without all the hideous discomfort, without the agony that should have a sensible type say 'nup, that's it, I'm done'. This other fellow replied in kind. "His eyes lit up and he said 'yes, isn't that a funny thing?'" Remembering an almost-yearning for pain could seem an unintended though likely consequence of the time-ravaged thinking of a man now in his 90s. It's not. He's got all his marbles, for sure – Tom Bowlers, catseyes, aggies, the lot. Marshall might talk of his athletic exploits in the old lingo of yards and miles, but both the humdrum and satisfaction of yesterday and the Army shenanigans of his "bloody stupid" 18-year-old self are delivered with the abundant clarity of someone living fully in the here and now. It's just the legs that once took him from one capital to the other in 13½ days, back in September of 1977, have taken an earlier semi-retirement than the rest of his old bones. Sport is passion, passion is sport; where mind is body and body is mind. It was as intrinsically relevant to him as an ultra-marathoner, when he was buddies with the star of '83, Cliff Young – "Cliffy", a Colac dairy farmer who trained at home in his gumboots, who shocked and enraptured the country in taking out the inaugural Westfield Sydney-to-Melbourne that year – as it is today. "He was a character, Cliff. He used to punish himself mercilessly. But then again, he disciplined himself to do it. He'd say to himself 'keep going, keep going, keep going'." Marshall had the same approach; you would fail if you weren't disciplined. It's why he finished fifth in the 1984 race. "You gotta do it. You go through the pain but when you reach your goal, when you've done it, it's a glorious feeling." ON a night "as dark as dogs' guts", Keith Marshall lay in his bunk, in full uniform, terrified of what he knew was to come Just 18, he was a "red raw" recruit to the 19th Australian Infantry Training Battalion. He and his new mates had had the misfortune to be shipped first to Cowra, where his was one of two units guarding 1000 Japanese prisoners of war. It was August 4, 1944, when 900 of them broke through the barbed wire. By the end, 234 Japanese and four Australian soldiers were dead. Many of the POWs committed suicide, or were murdered by fellow prisoners. All the while, the Italian POWs hid under their huts in as much fear as their captors of the screaming, hollering mass. "We knew the Japs were going to break out weeks before. The old diggers who had been campaigning out through the islands, they were actually taking bets on it – the day, the time." The money was on an 11pm kick-off. Marshall and his mates also had little faith in their superiors, which made them even more "shit frightened". They had begun dummy runs out to the camp; the bugle would sound, they'd race to the trucks. "The NCOs would be screaming out 'put your hands over the end of ya bayonets, someone will be killed before we even get there'. This is how dumb and stupid they were. We were told that if they did break out all we'd do was herd them back into the camp and lock them up again." Marshall had good reason to be worried. One Sunday, on weekend leave, he visited the camp and saw a Japanese POW "doing something, I don't know what". "But I just said 'ay!' and there was no response, so I said a bit louder 'AY!' and he just looked at me. I nearly shit myself," he says. "You talk about hatred, you can see it in their eyes. To them they were like a zoo and we were just looking at them. "But when he looked at me I went for my life. He was only perhaps in his early 20s, but they were tough." Marshall's unit was sent straight to the camp when word came through the break-out was on, but had to return because they weren't given proper ammunition. They had just found out about the Australians' deaths. "By the time we got back there again the show was over. It was an absolute shemozzle. There were reports in the papers that they were buried with full dignitary. Like hell they were. "Some of me mates were on the burial party and they said they just chucked them in two big common graves; arms and legs, bits and pieces, because that's how much respect we had for them." Soldiering was "three of the happiest years of my life, really", he says. It was where he got the discipline drill, even if "Marshall was always in trouble". Again, it was a Sunday when Marshall and some others were told they had to watch a demonstration of the destructive power of three inch mortar bombs. As the barrels fired, Marshall counted, then they walked a few hundred yards to look at the potholes. He reckoned one, maybe two shells didn't explode and immediately saw a bomb that failed to blow. "And guess what I did? I picked it up. Honestly, I picked it up, I looked at it, shook it and held it up to my ear to see if I could hear anything. I look back today and I can't imagine the sheer, utter stupidity of what I did. "But nothing happened, so I stuck it in my tunic." Half an hour later he was back in the company orderly room, failed to salute then showed-off his find. "I saw the fastest withdrawal in the Second World War. In a couple of seconds everyone in the room was gone." Still ignorant of the grave danger he put himself in, Marshall was blasted in front of the company parade. The sergeant-major said if Private Marshall was an example of a soldier, "then thank God we've got a Navy". "I still reckon that if you haven't done something stupid in your life, if you haven't done something dangerous, if you haven't done something humorous, you haven't lived much of a life anyway." SPORT still motivates and fascinates, his own achievements anchored in a dedication to never forgetting the goal. "My wife always said to me 'it's that discipline'. When the bugle goes at 6 o'clock in the morning and you've got five minutes to get on the parade ground for roll call, you get out on the parade ground. If you don't, you suffer the consequences." The passion and the "you've just got to do it" philosophy is seen in his love of race and sports callers, the ones who add high drama to a big event with ease. Marshall eases back in his chair, daily swim done an hour before, at an old table in the small kitchen of his nondescript brick bungalow in West Wodonga. And he marvels, drawing breath again having just shed dry tears, overcome and barely able to talk, over his own defining moments. But before that he wants to talk about the 1970 VFL grand final, where Carlton great Alex Jesaulenko entered Australian sporting folklore, along with the black-and-white TV footage of what he did – "Jezza" soaring over the top of Collingwood's Graeme "Jerker" Jenkin. "I'm a great Carlton man. When Jesaulenko took that mark and Michael Williamson said 'Jesaulenko, you beauty'; I'll never forget those words." He points to the framed newspaper clippings above the table of his record-breaking 1977 run, old black-and-whites that look even more from an earlier era than you might expect, the grainy photos showing Marshall (with his big hair) in full flight, kitted out in his tight running shorts and shirt. That picture belies what Marshall went through on the second last day, as he was heading into Dandenong. After that was the final run in to the city, but he went close to pulling out. "Coming into Dandenong I was in absolute agony. I didn't know when I was going to get to the last two miles. I was absolutely gone, I was shot." He always faced the oncoming traffic when he ran. But when he hit a median strip down the highway he admits he "didn't know whether I was going to sit down or collapse or what was going to happen". What followed hits Marshall so hard that he is sorry for tears his eyes cannot drop. It's the only moment where at first he cannot find the words, just one exasperating false start after another. "And then I hear a voice say 'hey Keith, come over here'. I looked up and it was Bill Hipwell and he had a stable of runners , Australian pro-runners," he says. "I just staggered across past the traffic and I said 'what are you doing?'. This makes me a bit teary. He said 'we've come to run with you to the end' and I burst out howling. You've got no idea the effect it has on me." That night he suddenly realised the gesture coincided with the pain disappearing. "I didn't feel the pain go, it didn't go gradually. I was getting into bed and it was 'the pain, the pain is back' and I didn't know how I was going to run those last 20 miles." Many years later he had the same experience in the pool. Once, on hitting the 18-hour mark of his first 24-hour plunge, he could no longer lift arms that had been turned "from chocolate to boiled lollies" by hypothermia. It was Kyabram, summer's making the horizon dizzy, so the pool wasn't cold, rather a balmy 22 degrees. But, the doc explained, it wasn't the temperature. It was the suffocating exposure to so much water. Marshall eventually gave up competition swimming because he couldn't manage the winter training. One indoor centre he dismisses as "the flea pit", because he was always getting sick. It's what happened before one masters event in Melbourne. "I had the record broken in training and yet I couldn't compete," he says. "But I love my swimming. The people you meet, from every part of life, you become friends with them. It's just great." IDENTITY – THE SERIES
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March 16 2018 - 2:00PM
Life's going swimmingly
Nigel McNay
Punishing his body to near-collapse for the glory of sport was part of an identity forged for Keith Marshall as a teenage soldier caught-up in the carnage of a Japanese POW breakout
Dreamscape: Keith Marshall swims "a mile a day", though still hankers for times spent in the old Stanley Street pool. Picture: MATTHEW SMITHWICK
It's a funny thing, he says, settling those broad shoulders, steely arms patchworked in age-mottled skin, a veteran swimmer's-frame cranked like high-tension fencing wire from a relentless crawl through the blue.
This beautiful world. A mile a day, 7.15am plunge, drying off with a towel by 9. Yes, it's bewildering, while making the clearest of sense.
"You sort of enjoy the pain."
Though it's not a suffering inflicted in the trance of mowing down that black line.
Strokes of a soft and reassuring dream, silence and isolation, soothed by the otherwise out-of-reach crutch of all that water. His indulgence, from where he amuses himself and ticks off the laps by solving the world's problems as mind races ahead of body.
It was in the ravages inflicted when he took to the road.
Keith Marshall shared the theory with another ultra-marathon runner, Ian Colston, years before he switched to the pool, some time after one Sydney-to-Melbourne slog where his tortured kidneys had him pissing blood for the last 10 days' straight.
So Ian, he says, you get to the stage where you'd be lost without all the hideous discomfort, without the agony that should have a sensible type say 'nup, that's it, I'm done'.
This other fellow replied in kind.
"His eyes lit up and he said 'yes, isn't that a funny thing?'"
CLOCKWORK: Keith Marshall swims daily at WAVES in Wodonga. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIRE
Remembering an almost-yearning for pain could seem an unintended though likely consequence of the time-ravaged thinking of a man now in his 90s.
It's not. He's got all his marbles, for sure – Tom Bowlers, catseyes, aggies, the lot.
Marshall might talk of his athletic exploits in the old lingo of yards and miles, but both the humdrum and satisfaction of yesterday and the Army shenanigans of his "bloody stupid" 18-year-old self are delivered with the abundant clarity of someone living fully in the here and now.
It's just the legs that once took him from one capital to the other in 13½ days, back in September of 1977, have taken an earlier semi-retirement than the rest of his old bones.
Sport is passion, passion is sport; where mind is body and body is mind.
It was as intrinsically relevant to him as an ultra-marathoner, when he was buddies with the star of '83, Cliff Young – "Cliffy", a Colac dairy farmer who trained at home in his gumboots, who shocked and enraptured the country in taking out the inaugural Westfield Sydney-to-Melbourne that year – as it is today.
"He was a character, Cliff. He used to punish himself mercilessly. But then again, he disciplined himself to do it. He'd say to himself 'keep going, keep going, keep going'."
Marshall had the same approach; you would fail if you weren't disciplined. It's why he finished fifth in the 1984 race.
"You gotta do it. You go through the pain but when you reach your goal, when you've done it, it's a glorious feeling."
Raw recruit: An Army mugshot of an 18-year-old Keith Marshall.
ON a night "as dark as dogs' guts", Keith Marshall lay in his bunk, in full uniform, terrified of what he knew was to come
Just 18, he was a "red raw" recruit to the 19th Australian Infantry Training Battalion. He and his new mates had had the misfortune to be shipped first to Cowra, where his was one of two units guarding 1000 Japanese prisoners of war.
It was August 4, 1944, when 900 of them broke through the barbed wire. By the end, 234 Japanese and four Australian soldiers were dead. Many of the POWs committed suicide, or were murdered by fellow prisoners.
All the while, the Italian POWs hid under their huts in as much fear as their captors of the screaming, hollering mass.
"We knew the Japs were going to break out weeks before. The old diggers who had been campaigning out through the islands, they were actually taking bets on it – the day, the time."
The money was on an 11pm kick-off. Marshall and his mates also had little faith in their superiors, which made them even more "shit frightened".
They had begun dummy runs out to the camp; the bugle would sound, they'd race to the trucks.
"The NCOs would be screaming out 'put your hands over the end of ya bayonets, someone will be killed before we even get there'. This is how dumb and stupid they were. We were told that if they did break out all we'd do was herd them back into the camp and lock them up again."
Marshall had good reason to be worried. One Sunday, on weekend leave, he visited the camp and saw a Japanese POW "doing something, I don't know what".
"But I just said 'ay!' and there was no response, so I said a bit louder 'AY!' and he just looked at me. I nearly shit myself," he says. "You talk about hatred, you can see it in their eyes. To them they were like a zoo and we were just looking at them.
"But when he looked at me I went for my life. He was only perhaps in his early 20s, but they were tough."
Marshall's unit was sent straight to the camp when word came through the break-out was on, but had to return because they weren't given proper ammunition. They had just found out about the Australians' deaths.
Former times: Keith Marshall still wishes the old Stanley Street pool was never closed. Picture: MATTHEW SMITHWICK
"By the time we got back there again the show was over. It was an absolute shemozzle. There were reports in the papers that they were buried with full dignitary. Like hell they were.
"Some of me mates were on the burial party and they said they just chucked them in two big common graves; arms and legs, bits and pieces, because that's how much respect we had for them."
Soldiering was "three of the happiest years of my life, really", he says. It was where he got the discipline drill, even if "Marshall was always in trouble".
Again, it was a Sunday when Marshall and some others were told they had to watch a demonstration of the destructive power of three inch mortar bombs.
As the barrels fired, Marshall counted, then they walked a few hundred yards to look at the potholes.
He reckoned one, maybe two shells didn't explode and immediately saw a bomb that failed to blow.
"And guess what I did? I picked it up. Honestly, I picked it up, I looked at it, shook it and held it up to my ear to see if I could hear anything. I look back today and I can't imagine the sheer, utter stupidity of what I did.
"But nothing happened, so I stuck it in my tunic."
Half an hour later he was back in the company orderly room, failed to salute then showed-off his find. "I saw the fastest withdrawal in the Second World War. In a couple of seconds everyone in the room was gone."
Still ignorant of the grave danger he put himself in, Marshall was blasted in front of the company parade. The sergeant-major said if Private Marshall was an example of a soldier, "then thank God we've got a Navy".
"I still reckon that if you haven't done something stupid in your life, if you haven't done something dangerous, if you haven't done something humorous, you haven't lived much of a life anyway."
PERSISTENCE: Swimming keeps Keith Marshall's mind and body in perfect alignment.
SPORT still motivates and fascinates, his own achievements anchored in a dedication to never forgetting the goal.
"My wife always said to me 'it's that discipline'. When the bugle goes at 6 o'clock in the morning and you've got five minutes to get on the parade ground for roll call, you get out on the parade ground. If you don't, you suffer the consequences."
The passion and the "you've just got to do it" philosophy is seen in his love of race and sports callers, the ones who add high drama to a big event with ease.
Marshall eases back in his chair, daily swim done an hour before, at an old table in the small kitchen of his nondescript brick bungalow in West Wodonga.
And he marvels, drawing breath again having just shed dry tears, overcome and barely able to talk, over his own defining moments.
But before that he wants to talk about the 1970 VFL grand final, where Carlton great Alex Jesaulenko entered Australian sporting folklore, along with the black-and-white TV footage of what he did – "Jezza" soaring over the top of Collingwood's Graeme "Jerker" Jenkin.
"I'm a great Carlton man. When Jesaulenko took that mark and Michael Williamson said 'Jesaulenko, you beauty'; I'll never forget those words."
He points to the framed newspaper clippings above the table of his record-breaking 1977 run, old black-and-whites that look even more from an earlier era than you might expect, the grainy photos showing Marshall (with his big hair) in full flight, kitted out in his tight running shorts and shirt.
That picture belies what Marshall went through on the second last day, as he was heading into Dandenong. After that was the final run in to the city, but he went close to pulling out.
"Coming into Dandenong I was in absolute agony. I didn't know when I was going to get to the last two miles. I was absolutely gone, I was shot."
He always faced the oncoming traffic when he ran. But when he hit a median strip down the highway he admits he "didn't know whether I was going to sit down or collapse or what was going to happen".
What followed hits Marshall so hard that he is sorry for tears his eyes cannot drop. It's the only moment where at first he cannot find the words, just one exasperating false start after another.
"And then I hear a voice say 'hey Keith, come over here'. I looked up and it was Bill Hipwell and he had a stable of runners , Australian pro-runners," he says.
"I just staggered across past the traffic and I said 'what are you doing?'. This makes me a bit teary. He said 'we've come to run with you to the end' and I burst out howling. You've got no idea the effect it has on me."
That night he suddenly realised the gesture coincided with the pain disappearing. "I didn't feel the pain go, it didn't go gradually. I was getting into bed and it was 'the pain, the pain is back' and I didn't know how I was going to run those last 20 miles."
Many years later he had the same experience in the pool. Once, on hitting the 18-hour mark of his first 24-hour plunge, he could no longer lift arms that had been turned "from chocolate to boiled lollies" by hypothermia.
It was Kyabram, summer's making the horizon dizzy, so the pool wasn't cold, rather a balmy 22 degrees. But, the doc explained, it wasn't the temperature. It was the suffocating exposure to so much water.
Marshall eventually gave up competition swimming because he couldn't manage the winter training. One indoor centre he dismisses as "the flea pit", because he was always getting sick. It's what happened before one masters event in Melbourne.
"I had the record broken in training and yet I couldn't compete," he says.
"But I love my swimming. The people you meet, from every part of life, you become friends with them. It's just great."
IDENTITY – THE SERIES
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Will make the folks for miles around sing I Saw the Light.
And show our love for Jesus as we pray.
Than to have a good old gospel singing country Christmas time.
George Jones - Country Christmas Song Lyrics from "Other Songs".