Penn State DuBois wrestlers got back on the winning trail with a 38-14 victory over visiting PSU Mont Alto on Wdnesday night. Just four days earlier the PSUD squad got beat soundly by WVU Tech in Montgomery, WV and facing their toughest conference opposition the DuBois wrestlers got after the visting Mont Alto team early with physical style wrestling.
Leading the way for PSUD was 141 wrestler JP Hayles with a first period fall over Eric Janisko in 2:03 with a cross face cradle. Jake Himes (157lbs) followed up with a 18-4 major decision and Ty Haines (165) recorded a fall with 5 seconds left in the match to bring the team score to 22-6. Other winners for PSUD were "Bub" Lumadue(184) with a headlock and first period fall, Tige Woodson (197) with a fall in the second period - from a farside cradle, and finally Tim Suydan (235) recorded a major decision 11-2.
PSU DuBois will return to the mats aftyer Thanksgiving break on December 6th at the Niagara County CC Open. Wrestling will start at 10am.


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For A Thousand Beers - Deluxe Vinyl Box Set
With this product, you earn 420 Napalm Eagles.
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"For A Thousand Beers" contains all TANKARD albums which were released by Noise.
Tankard was founded in 1982 and is a German thrash metal band from Frankfurt am Main. Along with Kreator, Destruction and Sodom, they are one of the "Big Four" of German thrash metal. Stylistically at home in thrash metal, their songs are mainly about alcohol. With "Zombie Attack" they released their first album in July 1986. A year later, in October 1987, followed their second album, "Chemical Invasion" and in 1988 "The Morning After". After the first drummer, Oliver Werner, left the band and was replaced by Arnulf Tunn, the three albums were released: "The Meaning of Life", "Stone Cold Sober" and "Two-Faced". At the same time Tankard released the live album: "Fat, Ugly and Live". After that the line up of the band changed again. In May 1994 Arnulf Tunn was replaced by Olaf Zissel, who still plays the drums today. One year later another founding member, Axel Katzmann, was forced to leave the band due to arthritis in his wrist. In the same year the band released "The Tankard", which was their last album with Noise.
LP 1:
Chemical Invasion
LP 3 & 4:
The Morning After (Including Alien EP)
Stone Cold Sober
Two-Faced
The Tankard (Including Tankwart EP)
DVD:
Fat, Ugly & Live - DVD (Containing 'Open All Night – Live In East Berlin' plus a previously unreleased video concert from Eindhoven '87 and an audio concert from Frankfurt '87. Also includes the album Fat, Ugly & Live.)
Shark Attack - BLUE Vinyl
INVOCATOR
Excursion Demise - SILVER Vinyl
Repentless 6 x 6,66" BLACK Vinyl Box
4 Of A Kind - CLEAR AZURE BLUE Marbled Vinyl
Tales Of Morbid Brains - Deluxe Box Set
Metallica - BLACK 2-Vinyl
TOXIK
Think This - CLEAR Vinyl
Never, Neverland - PURPLE Marbled Vinyl
Hell Awaits - ORANGE RED Splatter Vinyl
Unplugged In Boston - SILVER Vinyl
Weave The Apocalypse - SEA BLUE Vinyl

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Linkin Park Cancels Tour After Lead Singer Injures Leg
Linkin Park is canceling the rest of its U.S. tour after its lead singer injured his leg. Chester Bennington says he needs immediate medical attention and it's impossible for him to perform. Bennington hasn't said how he injured his leg.
Pansies.... rock stars don't get sick days.
Fans can seek refunds for the remaining 16 shows.
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Bennington says he is "disappointed" that he cannot perform and called the first few shows "magical".
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"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is likely the worst Christmas song in the endless pit of holiday music. But in the hands of Star Wars: The Force Awakens stars Daisy Ridley and Oscar Isaac, it's downright charming. Between Ridley's perfect lipstick and Isaac's old-school sway, it makes me long for a full-length musical starring the pair. The video, from a Star Wars Twitter Q&A, is the most magical Christmas gift of the season.


Whether you've found your soulmate or not you may find the need to delete your Tinder account, deleting your Tinder account is simple and easy and I will show you how to do it.
The first thing you need to do is open the Tinder app on your smartphone or tablet, simply uninstalling the app will not delete your account.
Next you need to click on the hamburger menu icon to open the side menu, then click on App Settings.
Then all you need to do to delete your account is tap the Delete Account button at the bottom of the screen, if it worked it will show you a message that says it successfully deleted your account.
If you payed for a Tinder Plus subscription and it's still active you will need to cancel your subscription via email, deleting your account does not cancel the subscription.
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If you are a renter, you can protect your residence with affordable rental insurance. Your landlord's coverage will not cover anything in addition to the actual structure of his or her property. Additionally, your belongings are not covered until you obtain a renter's insurance policy.
Whether you live in a Daytona Beach Shores condo, an apartment in New Smyrna Beach, or a rental house in Daytona, renters coverage is necessary to protect you and your belongings. And you might be surprised on how affordable rental insurance can be.
Call 1-800-767-3161 to talk to someone immediately or fill out the form on the right to get in touch with our Port Orange rental insurance experts.


Students are drawn to careers in engineering are often curious, like solving problems, and have a great interest in computers.
Engineering is an important part of the economy and is now a big demand for qualified engineers. So if you are looking for a job opportunity, then well-paid engineering jobs may be just what you need.
With the current changes in the economies of many engineers have lost their jobs or fear they may soon lose their jobs. Budget constraints, both public and private sector strength to think about how secure the jobs really are. But as we all know, this recession will last less than always. Late Early start the promised recovery. The question is what type of engineering will benefit from the economy and not be renewed, so good? No real crystal ball, but there are clear indications that every engineer must consider and make preparations accordingly.
There is a big difference between technical design and business administration. In the engineering vocation engineers are persistently studying to stay contemporary on the latest technologies and engineering strategies. For many engineers it is extremely difficult to changeover from engineer to manager. Since business and management are not usually classes in engineering college, engineers are expected to obtain their business skills through experience and continuing education. Unless you have a MBA, you will possibly find it difficult to locate eligible continuing education sources with management courses tailored for engineers.
Are you looking to achieve your dreams to come? Want to study the success of an incomparable career? There are many areas that can venture in. One area that is the genius evergreen and is considered a priority section. With intermediate students, there is an apparent aim to study engineering.


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Brigade Alpha
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We've started work on the [new Brigade website](http://codeforamerica.github.io/brigade-alpha). It is still very much a work in progress, yet we share early and often around here. The site at this repository is intended to eventually replace the [CfA Brigade site](http://brigade.codeforamerica.org).

We have a few main goals with this early prototype:

1. Clearly explain what the Brigade is.
2. Show off the activities and stories of the Brigades.
3. Make it easy to find a local Brigade.
4. Make it easy to join a Brigade.

Tech
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This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. It is entirely html, css, and javascript.

The data about the Brigades will soon come from the Civic Tech Movement API. The work on that project is happening under the [civic-json-worker](https://github.com/codeforamerica/civic-json-worker) repository. At the moment, it's still pulling data from the old Brigade site database.

Tools
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This repo includes a few tools that we are building to support the Brigades activities. They may be pulled into their own repos as development continues.

1. [Story Bucket](http://codeforamerica.github.io/brigade-alpha/story-bucket) - A simple madlib style storytelling form. All the stories told here will show up on the Brigade site. A few hand picked stories will show up on the [Code for America](http://codeforamerica.org) homepage. We hope that other tools we make will automatically create stories as well.
2. [Attendance Register](http://codeforamerica.github.io/brigade-alpha/attendance-register) - A quick form to help Brigades take attendance at events. It remembers what Brigade and event you are at.

Contacts
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* Andrew Hyder ([ondrae](https://github.com/ondrae))
* Frances Berriman ([phae](https://github.com/phae))
* Michal Migurski ([migurski](https://github.com/migurski))

## Contributing
In the spirit of [free software][free-sw], **everyone** is encouraged to help
improve this project.

[free-sw]: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html

Here are some ways *you* can contribute:

* by using alpha, beta, and prerelease versions
* by reporting bugs
* by suggesting new features
* by translating to a new language
* by writing or editing documentation
* by writing specifications
* by writing code (**no patch is too small**: fix typos, add comments, clean up
  inconsistent whitespace)
* by refactoring code
* by closing [issues][]
* by reviewing patches
* [financially][]

[issues]: https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade-alpha/issues
[financially]: https://secure.codeforamerica.org/page/contribute

## Submitting an Issue
We use the [GitHub issue tracker][issues] to track bugs and features. Before
submitting a bug report or feature request, check to make sure it hasn't
already been submitted. You can indicate support for an existing issue by
voting it up. When submitting a bug report, please include a [Gist][] that
includes a stack trace and any details that may be necessary to reproduce the
bug.

[gist]: https://gist.github.com/

## Submitting a Pull Request
1. Fork the project.
2. Create a topic branch.
3. Implement your feature or bug fix.
4. Commit and push your changes.
5. Submit a pull request.

## Copyright
Copyright (c) 2014 Code for America. Still debating the license we use.

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When you want to be a winner and operate a successful home business, there are several things that you need.
You don't need millions to invest or a large home office. No, the things that really matter are things that you can control, for free. These things are characteristics that you can develop in order to fulfill your dreams and make a real difference in your life.
The first thing any home business entrepreneur needs is passion about their business. If you don't have passion for what you are doing, you can bet it won't be as successful as you want it to be. People with passion work harder and more focused on goals than those who could care less about what they are doing. Passion is something that costs nothing and can be mustered up with the right attitude.
Did you ever hear that attitude is everything? Growing up you likely heard that from your parents, teachers, and coaches. As an adult, the same principle is true. Your attitude can make or break you in the world of business. There are many examples. If you have a bad attitude, you will not be a success because no one will want to work with you and no one will buy from you. If you have a good attitude, on the other hand, then people will love working with you and will buy from you.
The last thing you need to develop a winning home business entrepreneur's profile is to have faith. Many people can create ideas and winning marketing plans. However, they lack the faith and determination to actually believe their ideas are successful ideas. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either. So, you have to keep the faith in your ideas, yourself, and your business.


Earlier today DJI introduced the Phantom 4 PRO – an advanced version to the existing Phantom 4 with quite a few new and exciting innovations.
On the video above video Colin Smith from PhotoshopCAFE takes the new Phantom 4 PRO for a spin and shares his initial impressions of it.
The New DJI Phantom 4 PRO has quite a few improvements – maybe the most important one is the new and larger sensor with wider dynamic range with better performance in low light, slow motion (4K at 60p), higher res still imaging and more. It also has a stronger battery for up to 30 min flight a new monitor (in the plus version), more sensors (in the back as well) and more subject tracking options.
Stills : 20MP images (11 stops dynamic range).
Maximum Control Range of 4.3 Miles/7km.
The DJI Phantom 4 PRO will be selling starting at $1500 and the DJI Phantom 4 PRO plus version (with the additional 1080p display) will sell for $1800.


There is a certain joy in proving the knockers wrong, doing it your way, showing that success is the best revenge and I'm proud to say that today I've managed that, Check it out here.
You're a wag, Dave. On ya!
Well done Dave, that's now two Grods awards for the Border region – yours and mine for the Brendan Nelson caption.
PS: I didn't boast about it though!


Genome Pharmaceuticals are committed to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines and health products.
We are committed to being the research-intensive pharmaceutical company and are dedicated to provide innovative health care solutions.
Good health is a priority to all of us, and finding imperishable innovative solutions to overcome health care challenges is very important. That's why we at Genome Pharmaceuticals are committed to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines and health products. We are committed to being the research-intensive pharmaceutical company and are dedicated to provide innovative health care solutions.
Genome is a group of companies with a major interest in pharmaceuticals and allied fields. Company's head office is located in Islamabad, Pakistan. Genome's principal activities are to manufacture, import and export, market research based and specialized pharmaceutical products.
The facility is spread over a covered area of 50,000 sq feet and is consistent with all international cGMP standards.
It's the role of the staff at our production plants and of the technological development units to provide drugs to patients that can be used over a long period of time with peace of mind.
We have drawn up standards of good manufacturing practice (GMP), which meet local as well as globally accepted quality standards.These rigorous quality control standards cover not only the production, equipment and processes employed, but the methods of raw material procurement and storage, staff training and logistics services including delivery.
At the same time , through the use of advance factory automation system and computerized production control systems, we have constructed a system of manufacturing that effectively balances the twin requirements of low cost and high quality.Genome Pharma also provide " Training of all members of the Production, QA."
Genome's own in house R&D and regulatory departments have acquired considerable experience in bringing new products to global markets.Genome's R&D team,having specialist expertise in drug delivery and technologies is working in the highest international standards of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). This have given Genome a vital competitive edge in local as well as International market.


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January 12, 2018 2:21PM EST | Dispatches
Pakistan Needs to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse
Protests Erupt After 7-Year-Old Girl Raped and Killed
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People chant slogans and hold signs to condemn the rape and killing of 7-year-old girl Zainab Ansari in Kasur, during a protest in Peshawar, Pakistan January 11, 2018. © 2018 Reuters
Yesterday, Pakistani news anchor Kiran Naz went on the air with her young daughter to protest on camera the rape and killing of Zainab Ansari, a 7-year-old girl, whose body was dumped in a pile of garbage.
"It is true when they say that the smallest coffins are the heaviest," Naz said, her daughter sitting on her lap. "And all of Pakistan is burdened by the weight of her coffin."
Zainab went missing on January 4 and her brutalized corpse was discovered five days later, leading to widespread protests in Pakistan.
The cruel indifference of some crimes can shake a nation. But too often, incidents of child sex abuse remain hidden.
According to the Islamabad-based nongovernmental organization Sahil, an average of 11 cases of child sexual abuse are reported daily across Pakistan. Zainab was among the dozen children to be murdered in Kasur district in Punjab province in the past year. In 2015, police identified a gang of child sex abusers in the same district.
It's not just Pakistan – sexual violence against girls and women is commonplace in South Asia. In India, the crime that awoke the nation to this cruel reality happened in 2012, when a 23-year-old student, Jyoti Singh Pandey, was gang-raped and left fatally injured on the road. Indians erupted in rage, demanding that the government take action to end sexual violence.
Although much remains to be done, the Indian parliament eventually did respond, unanimously adopting reforms to prosecute sexual violence and initiating new policies. Yet even before the Pandey attack, the Indian government had enacted a law to protect children from sexual abuse.
In 2013, Human Rights Watch published Breaking the Silence, which included detailed recommendations to the Indian authorities on protecting children from sexual abuse. Similar steps are needed in Pakistan. These include believing children who report abuse, ensuring victims receive respectful care from health providers, and making sure police respond in a way that protects victims instead of harming them further.
Child sex abuse is not inevitable. A strong public and government response can mean the difference between life and death for little ones who deserve our protection. The heavy burden of little coffins needs to end.
Sexual Violence and Rape
September 25, 2017 Dispatches
'Honor' Killings Continue in Pakistan Despite New Law
March 27, 2017 News Release
Pakistan: Attacks on Schools Devastate Education
October 29, 2020 Report
"I Sleep in My Own Deathbed"
Violence against Women and Girls in Bangladesh: Barriers to Legal Recourse and Support
"No #MeToo for Women Like Us"
Poor Enforcement of India's Sexual Harassment Law
January 20, 2021 Dispatches
On Day One, US President Biden Reverses Odious Travel Ban
February 14, 2018 Q & A
Trump's 'Mexico City Policy' or 'Global Gag Rule'
January 9, 2017 Commentary
Barack Obama's Shaky Legacy on Human Rights


Leolah Brown, the aunt who was thrown out of Bobbi Kristina's funeral by Pat Houston, has posted a message on her Facebook page to rattle the seats of those who want more details about her niece's death.
Please get prepared for the truth to be revealed! I am hurting so badly right now for the death of my niece Bobbi Kristina and what REALLY happened to her! Hold on to your seats as I expose some really terrible things! And please! Most of all…always know that I would NEVER lie on anyone! There's nothing for me to gain that way. Furthermore, its just not me! I will always speak the truth no matter whom or what!!! Sadly, I feel like I am out here alone fighting for Bobbi Kriss & Whitney! But of course NEVER!!! There is a very powerful Man and Force that I KNOW is with me TRUST!!!
Her message sounds a little animated,but maybe she does know something we don't. She has been saying that Nick Gordon, Bobbi Kristina's boyfriend, is responsible for drugging the young woman since she first slipped into a coma.
What else could Leolah be talking about?


Wang Bing's documentary Dead Souls tells the story of China's deadly re-education camps.
UPDATE: After watching the first half of this documentary I can say that it did not seem long at all, and it certainly was not boring.
A long story, with many victims, takes a long time to tell. RIDM is presenting Dead Souls in two parts, over two days, Saturday Nov. 17 and Sunday Nov. 18, 2018. Each part is 250 minutes long. A ticket for Saturday's screening is good for Sunday's as well.
Dead Souls has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. You can read 13 favourable reviews there.
I will watch this on Saturday and report back. I imagine that one COULD watch Part 2 without seeing Part 1.
Nov. 17, 2018 6:30 p.m.
Nov. 18, 2018 6:00 p.m.
Livestreaming celebrity Shen Man in a scene from the documentary film The People's Republic of Desire.
Yes, Fantasia shows documentaries, too!
The People's Republic of Desire is a fascinating (and sad, disturbing and depressing) introduction to China's livestreaming celebrities. Some people from very humble beginnings have become rich and famous because they are very good at cajoling, begging, browbeating their fans into sending them gifts and money, lots of money.
The People's Republic of Desire concentrates on "comedian" Big Li, "singer" Shen Man, their families and their fans. I use quotes above because we don't hear many of Li's jokes or Shen's songs. Her voice sounds OK, but director Hao Wu shows us what I think is a vocoder – is that the audio equivalent of plastic surgery? Shen admits that she has had plenty of surgery, too.
On the other hand, Big Li is fat and not handsome, either, but that didn't prevent him from becoming popular. His wife is his manager which puts a strain on their marriage. He sometimes rebels against her like a kid who doesn't want to get up or eat his vegetables. He is also under pressure to join a big management company. Yes, there is lots of competition to manage the celebrities and take a cut of their earnings.
Shen Man has pressures of her own – she is the sole support of her father, stepmother and younger siblings. And who bought that furniture, anyway? It's really quétaine, as we say here in Quebec.
In the Q&A director Hao Wu explains that he had intended to follow the stars for just one year, but that turned into three. An annual competition for most popular celebrity provides a natural focus. Shen Man has won it, ands wants to stay on top. Big Li has lost several times and wonders if he should keep fighting or just give it all up. The awards show for the competition looks just as glitzy as Hollywood's Oscars and Golden Globes. Maybe it has a large audience, too.
The graphics in The People's Republic of Desire are superlative, immersive and very busy!
The film has won many awards already and will probably continue to do so. See it if you can! Hao Wu will be at the Fantasia screening to answer questions.
The People's Republic of Desire, Friday, July 20, 2018, 1:00 PM, Salle J.A. De Sève, 1400 de Maisonneuve W.
P.S. When I read the synopsis of The People's Republic of Desire I thought that it might be a bit like the film Dragonfly Eyes, shown here in Montreal at the 2017 edition of the RIDM documentary festival. It isn't really, though the main character does become an Internet celebrity near the end. Dragonfly Eyes has mixed reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, but I thought it was worth watching.
RIDM 2017 Review: Don't Miss Dragonfly Eyes!
In the Chinese docu-fiction Dragonfly Eyes, Qing Ting, a woman who has spent several years living in a Buddhist monastery decides that she must leave.
Dragonfly Eyes is one of my favourite films of RIDM 2017. It's inventive, fascinating and more than a little disturbing.
Qing Ting (Dragonfly) has spent the last few years living in a monastery. She was sent there for its calming effects, and considered becoming a nun, but changes are in the offing at the monastery and she does not feel comfortable there anymore.
She goes to the city and takes a job at a dairy farm. (Sounds weird when you think about it, that's not a calm place, either. Are there dairy farms in cities? It seems so!) The work is hard, it doesn't pay much, the bosses are disrespectful and the cows and workers are under constant camera surveillance. The people who watch the screens are watched as well.
Everyone and everything seems to be under surveillance in the Chinese docu-fiction Dragonfly Eyes.
At the farm, Qing Ting is noticed by the technician Ke Fan, and they start spending time together, visiting restaurants, and driving out into the countryside. Soon he is calling himself her boyfriend, even though she doesn't seem to want one. Ke Fan does things that he thinks will please her, again without asking if that's what she really wants. He's quite violent, though not towards her. After assorted incidents that I won't spoil here, Qing Ting loses her job at the dairy. She is insulted in her search for a new job and insulted some more once she gets one.
Ke Fan is sent to jail for several years, and starts looking for Qing Ting as soon as he gets out. It's not easy, because she does not want to be found.
What do I mean by disturbing? Ke Fan's violence, other violent instances we see, celebrity culture, an obsession with money and appearances, and all that surveillance video. In many places I couldn't help but think, why would anyone need to watch or tape those places, or this activity?
Director Xu Bing collected hundreds of hours of video from the Internet to make the film. In many instances, the people who installed the cameras had not changed default passwords and other default settings, and they probably did not even know that they were broadcasting to the Internet.
Dragonfly Eyes, 81 minutes long, in Mandarin with French subtitles, at Cinémathèque Québécoise, Salle Principale, 335 de Maisonneuve Blvd E.
RIDM (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal) runs until Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017.
Visit the RIDM web site at RIDM.ca for more information.
A stupid guy steals one million yuan from his boss in the Chinese animated neo-noir Have a Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day (Hao Ji Le) is a very clever, animated neo-noir film from China. I don't remember seeing such a thing before. You?
The character Xiao Zhang, on the other hand, is not clever at all. In fact, he's dumber than the proverbial sack of hammers. As a fan of movies like The Godfather, he ought to know that stealing from your sadistic, criminal boss, is a very bad idea. Mistake No. 2 was taking the bag full of money (100 million yuan = $187,090.52 Canadian) from a fellow employee at knifepoint, so there's no mystery about who the culprit is.
Maybe he could have gotten away with this for a short time, but the idiot doesn't even leave town! And he isn't any good at covering his physical tracks, nor his digital ones.
The crime boss, Uncle Liu, sends his henchman Skinny, who is also a butcher (gulp!) after Xiao Zhang. Of course, once other people hear about the stolen money, they go looking for him, too. He draws attention to himself by using a large bill to pay for a cheap meal. His rudeness towards a guy at an Internet cafe leads the man's friends to beat up Xiao Zhang and take the bag.
That bag passes through many hands, rooms and vehicles in the course of Have A Nice Day.
This is Uncle Liu, the baddest bad guy in Chinese animated film Have a Nice Day. Would you mess with this man?
BTW: There's no question that Uncle Liu is sadistic – early on we see that he's holding a hostage – a half-naked, bruised and bloodied man who's tied to a chair. When Uncle Liu tells an embarrassing anecdote about him we realize that they've known each other since childhood, though we never do find out exactly why the man is tied to a chair.
In old U.S. films, a guy might do a stupid or dangerous thing (robbery, kidnapping or a boxing match) because a sick mother, brother or sister needs surgery to prevent blindness, replace a failing kidney, etc. But Xiao Zhang has stolen the money because his his fiancée's plastic surgery did not go well. He wants to take her to South Korea to get the job done right. He must make her happy, so they can marry, have children and make his mother happy. Filial piety is still a thing!
These are just two of the many people chasing after stolen money in the Chinese neo-noir animation Have a Nice Day.
Philosophical remarks about the different levels of freedom, and an animated music video that mocks the iconography of Chairman Mao's era are among the many things that make Have A Nice Day entertaining. We are so very far from that era now. People dye their hair all sorts of colours, including blue; they wear U.S. T-shirts; they have U.S. film posters on their walls, they struggle to send their children to university in the U.S. or U.K., they talk about Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Brexit. We even hear a few words from Donald Trump on the radio! Some practice Christianity, while others just wear crosses as a fashion statement. I didn't see anyone riding a bicycle, either!
The Chinese animated film Have a Nice Day contains a music video mocking the iconography from the era of Chairman Mao.
Director Liu Jian also wrote the film and his name appears in several other places in the credits, too. Seems like a multi-talented guy! And I wonder if he jokingly named the villainous crime boss after himself?
Have A Nice Day was shown in competition at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. Variety says that Strand Releasing has bought the distribution rights for the U.S. and the company plans to show the film there in the fall. Memento Films International has sold distribution rights for Have A Nice Day in the U.K., Spain, Benelux, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey and Eastern Europe.
Meanwhile, lucky Montrealers can see it on Wednesday, July 19, at 3:15 p.m., in Salle J.A. De Sève of Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival.
The Chinese film Free and Easy has two screenings at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. The film won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision at the Sundance Film Festival.
Free and Easy is low-key, black comedy that takes place in an unnamed Chinese town in winter. Many of the town's buildings have fallen down, while others are in an advanced state of disrepair.
There's some symmetry in Free and Easy: two con men, two policemen, two guys pasting posters on walls. Eventually we see a con woman, too, and a third person pasting posters.
One con man asks people to smell the soap he's selling. Something in it quickly renders them unconscious. He takes their money, phones and watches while they're knocked out. Pretty easy as far as it goes, but the pickings can't be great in such a rundown place. There aren't many people out and about, either, though it's not clear if they're sticking close to home or if the town is more or less abandoned. If there were more people around, surely they'd warn each other about this guy.
The other con man is an alleged monk who offers "free" amulets, but then requests a "donation," to rebuild his burnt-out temple. If they don't want an amulet, people can touch him "for luck." Of course, he wants money for that, too.
When the monk and the soap man walk along some railroad tracks, there are ugly grey hills in the distance, the kind of scenery we see in films by Jia Zhang-ke. Is this place a former mining town?
As for the poster-pasters, one is looking for his mother, who has been missing for years, while the other is looking for a very large tree, which vanished more recently.
The policemen don't seem to have much to do; they smoke and eat in the station house, even sharing their medications in a weird, comradely way. One of them has plenty of time to make unwelcome visits to a woman who runs a boarding house. Coincidentally, the soap man rents a room from her, and her husband, who's in charge of a reforestation project, is the man looking for the missing tree. This tree man is a very quiet sort. Slow moving, too. He might be bored out of his. . .tree, exhausted, or suffering from narcolepsy, who knows?
The jokes in Free and Easy are subtle; there aren't any martial-arts battles, or car chases (hardly any cars at all, actually). There is a troublesome dead body that has to be dealt with, though. Free and Easy won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision at the Sundance Film Festival. Music in the film is from Chinese band Second Hand Rose. Second Hand Rose has a web site, and a Facebook page. The New Yorker wrote a profile on the group back in 2014.
Free and Easy will be shown on Thursday, July 20, 2017, at 5:30 p.m. in Salle J.A. De Sève of Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival.
Zhao Liang's documentary film Behemoth shows how parts of Inner Mongolia have been destroyed by coal mining.
RIDM, Montreal's documentary film festival, takes place in November, but festival organizers keep the doc spirit alive throughout the year with monthly screenings at Cinema du Parc.
The selection for Thursday, May 26, 2016, is the Chinese film Behemoth, from director Zhao Liang.
Behemoth looks at the human and environmental devastation created by coal mining in Inner Mongolia. The landscape is scarred and ugly, while the men have blackened faces and hands. Imagine what their lungs must look like. We don't see any chest X-rays in the trailer, but we do see them cough and struggle for breath. We see some hooked up to oxygen tanks, too.
The sooty face of a coal miner in Zhao Liang's documentary film Behemoth.
That coal powers smoky, noisy, iron foundries and steel plants that glow with red-hot heat like a vision of hell. In fact, Zhao Liang took inspiration from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, which sees the Florentine poet travel to Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Behemoth uses excerpts from the poem in place of dialogue.
Foundry employees work with molten metal in Zhao Liang's documentary film Behemoth.
I have read more than 10 reviews of Behemoth and they were all extremely enthusiastic. Here are quotes from a few of them.
Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 8 p.m.
To avoid disappointment, consider buying your tickets online, here on Cinéma du Parc's web site.
In the Chinese film Wolf Totem, Chen Zhen (played by William Feng Shaofeng) adopts a wolf pup, against the wishes of his Mongolian mentor.
Wolf Totem is a Chinese film with a Chinese cast, based on a Chinese book, shot by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud.
The 2004 novel Wolf Totem was an international best-seller. It was translated into more than 30 langauges, sold millions of copies, and won the Man Asia Literary Prize in 2007. It was based on the experiences of author Lu Jiamin (writing under the pen name of Jiang Rong) who lived among the semi-nomadic herders of Inner Mongolia for 11 years, beginning in the late 1960s. He was one of the millions of students who were sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution.
The landscapes in the Chinese film Wolf Totem are stunning.
The author's alter ego, Chen Zhen, learns a lot about the herders' traditional way of life, and the fear, respect and admiration they have for the wolves who share the grasslands with them. Some of the book's dialogue sounds more like one-sided lectures than true conversations; even so, it's a fascinating read. Politicians living far, far away make cringe-inducing decisions of the "this-will-not-end-well" kind – to set up large farms, to encourage the immigration of Han Chinese, and to slaughter all the wolves.
Chen Zhen (played by William Feng Shaofeng) develops a fascination with the wolves, and adopts a young pup, going against the wishes and advice of his Mongolian mentor, Bilig.
While an official announcement hasn't yet been made, several news articles say that Wolf Totem will be China's entry in the race for an Academy Award.
Wolf Totem has two Canadian connections. One is actor Shawn Dou, who plays Chen Zhen's friend and colleague Yang Ke. He moved from China to Vancouver with his parents when he was 10 years old, and returned to China in 2008 to study acting.
During the filming of Wolf Totem, a wolf named Cloudy became very fond of director Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Director Jean-Jacques Annaud, left, and animal trainer Andrew Simpson with some of the trained wolves from the Chinese film Wolf Totem.
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Max Wang, Xu Jianhai, China Film Co., Ltd. / Beijing Forbidden City Film Co., Ltd.
Festival des films du monde / Montreal World Film Festival continues until Sept. 7, 2015. Consult the festival's web site for more information.


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Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed
GAO-05-956: Published: Sep 21, 2005. Publicly Released: Oct 21, 2005.
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Randolph C. Hite
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 established the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to help improve state and local administration of federal elections and authorized funding for state and local governments to expand their use of electronic voting systems. EAC began operations in January 2004. However, reported problems with electronic voting systems have led to questions about the security and reliability of these systems. GAO was requested to (1) determine the significant security and reliability concerns identified about electronic voting systems, (2) identify recommended practices relevant to ensuring the security and reliability of these systems, and (3) describe actions taken or planned to improve their security and reliability.
While electronic voting systems hold promise for improving the election process, numerous entities have raised concerns about their security and reliability, citing instances of weak security controls, system design flaws, inadequate system version control, inadequate security testing, incorrect system configuration, poor security management, and vague or incomplete voting system standards. It is important to note that many of these concerns were based on specific system makes and models or a specific jurisdiction's election, and there is no consensus among election officials and other experts on their pervasiveness. Nevertheless, some have caused problems in elections and therefore merit attention. Federal organizations and nongovernmental groups have issued both election-specific recommended practices for improving the voting process and more general guidance intended to help organizations manage information systems' security and reliability. These recommended practices and guidelines (applicable throughout the voting system life cycle) include having vendors build security controls and audit trails into their systems during development, and having election officials specify security requirements when acquiring systems. Other suggested practices include testing and certifying systems against national voting system standards. The federal government has begun efforts intended to improve life cycle management of electronic voting systems and thereby improve their security and reliability. Specifically, EAC has led efforts to (1) draft changes to existing federal voluntary standards for voting systems, including provisions addressing security and reliability; (2) develop a process for certifying voting systems; (3) establish a program to accredit independent laboratories to test electronic voting systems; and (4) develop a library and clearinghouse for information on state and local elections and systems. However, these actions are unlikely to have a significant effect in the 2006 federal election cycle because important changes to the voting standards have not yet been completed, the system certification and laboratory accreditation programs are still in development, and a system software library has not been updated or improved since the 2004 election. Further, EAC has not consistently defined specific tasks, processes, and time frames for completing these activities; as a result, it is unclear when their results will be available to assist state and local election officials.
Comments: In December 2005, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) finalized the 2005 voluntary voting system guidelines, which improved certain aspects of its standards for voting system security and reliability. Subsequently, EAC began efforts to further develop the guidelines to incorporate additional security and reliability improvements. In August 2007, the Technical Guidelines Development Committee, with the help of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), delivered draft standards to the EAC. According to EAC, this draft represents a complete rewrite of the 2005 guidelines and contains new and expanded material for system security and reliability, among other topics. EAC also specified a four-phase approach to finalizing these standards, including two public comment periods. To date, EAC has obtained the first round of public comments on the draft standards and reviewed them in conjunction with NIST. Based in part on the comments submitted, EAC is planning to revise the 2005 guidelines to clarify ambiguities and improve testing processes, and has developed an implementation plan that includes specific tasks, discrete products, milestones, and contributing organizations. It plans to complete this latest revision of the 2005 guidelines by October 2009. The implementation plan provides similar detail for completing development of the draft 2007 guidelines, which are to be issued by May 2011.
Recommendation: To improve the potential for benefits to states and local election jurisdictions, the Election Assistance Commission should collaborate with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Technical Guidelines Development Committee to define specific tasks, measurable outcomes, milestones, and resource needs required to improve the voting system standards that affect security and reliability of voting systems.
Agency Affected: Election Assistance Commission
Comments: The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) adopted policies and procedures for interim certification of voting system modifications in July 2006. To support its certification efforts, EAC also began operating its national voting system testing laboratory accreditation program in August 2005, when it received the first laboratory applications. As of October 2008, the joint EAC-NIST accreditation program had resulted in national accreditation of five laboratories. In January 2007, EAC terminated the interim system certification program and issued policies and procedures for a full certification program, followed by issuance of a certification management guide for election officials in August 2007. We reported in September 2008 that EAC had made significant progress in implementing this full certification program. Specifically, it had registered 12 voting system manufacturers under the conditions of the program, accepted 9 system certification applications, approved 2 system test plans, and reviewed one test report. We also reported, however, that three areas of the program needed additional definition and implementation to achieve full operational capability -- voting system testing and certification review, the repository for certified systems, and tracking and resolution of problems for the certified systems. In November 2008, EAC described for us its plans for and progress in defining and implementing these remaining certification capabilities.
Recommendation: To improve the potential for benefits to states and local election jurisdictions, the Election Assistance Commission should expeditiously establish documented policies, criteria, and procedures for certifying voting systems that will be in effect until the national laboratory accreditation program for voting systems becomes fully operational, and define tasks and time frames for achieving the full operational capability of the national voting system certification program.
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: In 2005, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) designated the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) National Software Reference Library (NSRL) to act as the repository for federally-certified software. However, we reported in September 2008 that EAC decided not to use the NSRL repository and had not established another repository, nor had it defined minimum repository requirements. In addition, EAC officials stated at that time that the software repository was intended for its own internal use, thus calling into question what support, if any, the repository would provide to state and local election officials. Furthermore, EAC had not defined how it would ensure that manufacturers provide effective and efficient system identification tools and procedures, such as defining specific criteria for evaluating the tools, and it did not have plans or time frames for establishing either of the two components. As a result, we recommended in our September 2008 report that EAC prepare, approve and implement plans for an accessible and available software repository for testing laboratories to deposit certified versions of voting system software, as well as procedures and review criteria for evaluating related manufacturer-provided tools to support stakeholders in comparing their systems with this repository (GAO-08-814).
Recommendation: To improve the potential for benefits to states and local election jurisdictions, the Election Assistance Commission should improve management support to state and local election officials by collaborating with NIST to establish a process for continuously updating the National Software Reference Library for voting system software; take effective action to promote use of the library by state and local governments; identify and disseminate information on resources to assist state and local governments with using the library; and assess use of the library by states and local jurisdictions for the purpose of improving library services.
Comments: The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has developed and implemented three mechanisms to share information on the problems and vulnerabilities of voting systems, and has collaborated with the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in doing so. As of January 2009, EAC has established: (1) the federal voting system certification program, (2) a national voting system reports clearinghouse, and (3) federal voluntary voting system guidelines. First, the certification program includes provisions to track and resolve problems with EAC-certified voting systems and to share the information with election officials. Second, the voting system reports clearinghouse on EAC's website provides access to voting system reports and studies that have been submitted to EAC by a state or local governments?including studies conducted on systems not certified by EAC. To date, EAC has posted 7 submissions, and several of these identify problems and vulnerabilities with voting systems. Third, EAC, in collaboration with TGDC and NIST, has solicited input from a variety of interested parties in developing the voluntary voting system guidelines, including outreach to those with experience in the problems and vulnerabilities of voting systems, such as through the meetings and workshops conducted from March 2006 to March 2007.
Recommendation: To improve the potential for benefits to states and local election jurisdictions, the Election Assistance Commission should improve management support to state and local election officials by collaborating with the Technical Guidelines Development Committee and NIST to develop a process and associated time frames for sharing information on the problems and vulnerabilities of voting systems.
Comments: The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has taken three actions to satisfy this recommendation. First, EAC issued several publications that provide recommended practices related to security and reliability management throughout the system life cycle. These included (1) the 2005 voluntary voting system guidelines, which includes certification criteria for assessing security and reliability throughout the voting system life cycle; (2) the June 2006 Quick Start Management Guide for New Voting Systems which includes several security and reliability practices for election officials to use in the operations and maintenance phases of the voting system life cycle; and (3) the August 2007 Quick Start Management Guide for Voting System Certification which includes information on acceptance testing and security procedures. Second, EAC took steps to ensure that its guidelines incorporate practices that address the problems and vulnerabilities of voting systems. For example, in October 2005, NIST collaborated with EAC to host a threat analysis workshop to reach consensus within the election community on plausible threats to voting systems, and thus inform the development of security requirements for future iterations of the voluntary voting system guidelines. Third, EAC's draft Strategic Plan for 2009-2014 committed to compiling an inventory of potential research projects by July 2009 aimed at improving the administration of elections, which would include practices for managing the security and reliability of voting systems.
Recommendation: To improve the potential for benefits to states and local election jurisdictions, the Election Assistance Commission should improve management support to state and local election officials by establishing a process and schedule for periodically compiling and disseminating recommended practices related to security and reliability management throughout the system life cycle (including the recommended practices identified in this report) and ensuring that this process uses information on the problems and vulnerabilities of voting systems.


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Q: input amps for 10 amp power supply I am looking at installing some LED lighting which requires a 12v DC 10 amp power supply. The question which I cant seem to find an answer for is this...
I live in the UK which uses a nominal 240 v AC mains power, so what would the power draw be on the power supply? ie. what would the input amperage be at 240 v AC ?
The reason I need to know, is that I don't want to overload the domestic lighting circuit in the house but I can't find any definitive answer to the above. I understand that there's a direct relationship between volts, amps and watts but is it transferable from AC to DC?
Am I right in thinking that the power supply would supply around 120 watts (12v x 10A) so that would infer that the supply would be 120w / 240v, around 0.5A plus a bit for losses?

A: Generally, as a first approxomation, for any power supply you can asume that the power in (drawn from your 240V supply) will be equal to the power out to your load, plus some allowance for inefficiency, so your calculation is correct.

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Claude Rains est un acteur britannique, né le  à Clapham, Londres (Royaume-Uni), et mort le  à Laconia, dans le New Hampshire (États-Unis).

Biographie
Fils de l'acteur Fred Rains, à qui il doit sa passion de comédien, Claude Rains est issu d'une famille de douze enfants dont seuls trois survécurent. Gazé en novembre 1916, durant la Première Guerre mondiale à Vimy, il restera presque aveugle d'un œil.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, fondateur de l'Académie royale d'Art dramatique, reconnaît son talent d'acteur et lui paie des leçons afin de corriger son élocution (Rains était affublé d'un terrible accent cockney et était de plus incapable de prononcer le son « r »).

C'est pourtant grâce à sa voix riche et profonde qu'il se fait connaître à Hollywood dans un rôle où l'on ne découvre son visage qu'à la dernière scène, puisqu'il s'agit de L'Homme invisible de James Whale. À partir de 1936, engagé par la Warner, il se voit confier toute une série de personnages sombres. Il incarne un sénateur corrompu dans Monsieur Smith au Sénat (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) (1939), un policier français véreux dans le très célèbre Casablanca (1942), rôles dans lesquels il excelle (cet emploi lui vaudra quatre nominations aux Oscars).

Par la suite, les studios Universal lui confient le rôle-titre dans le remake de 1943 du Fantôme de l'Opéra, où il succède à une star du cinéma muet d'horreur, Lon Chaney, « l'homme aux mille visages » (il avait auparavant tourné avec le fils de ce dernier, Lon Chaney Jr., dans Le Loup-garou).

Bien sûr Rains est souvent au second plan, derrière des acteurs jugés plus sympathiques et/ou séduisants : Cary Grant, Fredric March, Errol Flynn, James Stewart, Paul Muni, Jean Gabin, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Rock Hudson, jusqu'à Richard Chamberlain en . Il s'illustre dans des classiques tels que le Robin des Bois de Curtiz ou Je suis un criminel de Berkeley. Mais il fut aussi un séducteur, comme son compatriote James Mason : Claude Rains tint des premiers rôles face à Kay Francis, Lana Turner, Vivien Leigh, Ann Todd et surtout Bette Davis, dont il était l'acteur préféré.

En 1946, dans Les Enchaînés, Alfred Hitchcock exploite parfaitement l'expressivité émotive de l'acteur, dont le visage parvient à traduire avec une grande subtilité toute une palette de sentiments contraires. Truffaut note à propos de son jeu dans Les Enchaînés : « C'est assez touchant, ce petit homme amoureux d'une grande femme. » Dans ce rôle de composition, qui lui vaut une nouvelle nomination aux Oscars, Rains passe avec aisance de l'expression de l'amoureux à celle de l'homme trahi par la même femme (Ingrid Bergman). Il doit alors dissimuler ses émotions et jouer l'homme machiavélique avant de devenir un homme traqué. Tout au long de ce film, ses micro-comportements et son regard passent du rayonnement du début (retrouvailles avec Alicia) à la haine la plus féroce (trahison et désir de vengeance) pour s'achever dans la peur.

On le voit encore durant les années 1950 dans divers rôles de qualité où s'expriment toujours avec subtilité ses capacités de jeu d'acteur, qui n'excluent ni l'humour ni l'ironie ou la malice. Claude Rains, idole des cinéphiles, finit sa carrière dans le rôle du roi Hérode, après avoir incarné Jules César et Napoléon.

Il est inhumé au Red Hill Cemetery à Moultonborough, dans le New Hampshire.

Vie privée
Claude Rains se maria six fois :
 avec l'actrice Isabel Jeans de 1913 à 1915 (1891-1985) (divorcés) ;
 avec Marie Hemingway en 1920 (1892-1939) (divorcés la même année) ;
 avec Beatriz Thomas de 1924 à 1935 (1900-1986) (divorcés) ;
 avec Frances Propper de 1935 à 1956 (divorcés) ; une fille, l'actrice Jessica Rains née en 1938 ;
 avec  de 1959 à 1960 (divorcés) ;
 avec Rosemary Clark Schrode de 1960 à la mort de celle-ci en 1964.

Filmographie

 1920 :  de Fred Goodwins : Clarkis
 1933 : L'Homme invisible (The Invisible Man) de James Whale : l'homme invisible
 1934 :  (The Clairvoyant) de Maurice Elvey : Maximus
 1934 : Crime Without Passion de Ben Hecht et Charles MacArthur : Lee Gentry
 1934 : The Man Who Reclaimed His Head : Paul Verin
 1935 : The Mystery of Edwin Drood de Stuart Walker : John Jasper
 1935 : Intelligence Service (The Last Outpost) de Louis J. Gasnier et Charles Barton : John Stevenson
 1936 : Hearts Divided de Frank Borzage : Napoléon Bonaparte
 1936 : Anthony Adverse de Mervyn LeRoy : marquis Don Luis
 1937 : Stolen Holiday de Michael Curtiz : Stefan Orloff
 1937 : Le Prince et le Pauvre (The Prince and the Pauper) de William Keighley : Comte d'Hertford
 1937 : La ville gronde (They won't forget) de Mervyn LeRoy : District Attorney Andrew J. « Andy » Griffin
 1938 : La Femme errante (White Banners) d'Edmund Goulding : Paul Ward
 1938 : La Bataille de l'or (Gold Is Where You Find It) de Michael Curtiz : Colonel Christopher « Chris » Ferris
 1938 : Les Aventures de Robin des Bois (The Adventures of Robin Hood) de Michael Curtiz : Prince Jean
 1938 : Rêves de jeunesse (Four Daughters) de Michael Curtiz : Adam Lemp
 1939 : Je suis un criminel (They Made Me a Criminal) de Busby Berkeley : Détective Monty Phelan
 1939 : Juarez de William Dieterle : Empereur Napoléon III
 1939 : Les Fils de la Liberté (Sons of Liberty) (court-métrage) de Michael Curtiz : Haym Salomon
 1939 : Filles courageuses (Daughters Courageous) de Michael Curtiz : Jim Masters
 1939 : Monsieur Smith au Sénat (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) de Frank Capra : Sénateur Joseph Harrison Paine
 1939 : Four Wives de Michael Curtiz : Adam Lemp
 1940 : Saturday's Children : M. Henry Halevy
 1940 : L'Aigle des mers (The Sea Hawk) de Michael Curtiz : Don José Alvarez de Cordoba
 1940 :  de Curtis Bernhardt : David Belasco
 1941 : Femmes adorables (Four Mothers) de William Keighley : Adam Lemp
 1941 : Le Défunt récalcitrant (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) d'Alexander Hall : M. Jordan
 1941 : Le Loup-garou (The Wolf Man) de George Waggner : Sir John Talbot
 1942 : Crimes sans châtiment (Kings Row) de Sam Wood :  Alexander Tower
 1942 : La Péniche de l'amour (Moontide) d'Archie Mayo : Nutsy
 1942 : Une femme cherche son destin (Now, Voyager) de Irving Rapper :  Jaquith
 1942 : Casablanca de Michael Curtiz : Capitaine Renault
 1943 : Et la vie recommence (Forever and a Day) : Ambrose Pomfret
 1943 : Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (Phantom of the Opera) d'Arthur Lubin : Erique Claudin
 1944 : Passage pour Marseille (Passage to Marseille) de Michael Curtiz : Capitaine Freycinet
 1944 : Femme aimée est toujours jolie (Mr. Skeffington) de Vincent Sherman : Job Skeffington
 1945 : Strange Holiday : John Stevenson
 1945 : Notre cher amour (This Love of Ours) de William Dieterle : Joseph Targel
 1945 : César et Cléopâtre (Caesar and Cleopatra) de Gabriel Pascal : Jules César
 1946 : Les Enchaînés (Notorious) d'Alfred Hitchcock : Alexander Sebastian
 1946 : L'Évadé de l'enfer (Angel on My Shoulder) d'Archie Mayo : Nick
 1946 : Jalousie (Deception) de Irving Rapper : Alexander Hollenius
 1947 : Le crime était presque parfait (The Unsuspected) de Michael Curtiz : Victor Grandison
 1949 : Les Amants passionnés (The Passionate Friends) de David Lean : Howard Justin
 1949 : La Corde de sable (Rope of Sand) de William Dieterle : Arthur « Fred » Martingale
 1949 :  de Mitchell Leisen : Elisha Hunt
 1950 : La Tour blanche (The White Tower) de Ted Tetzlaff : Paul DeLambre
 1950 : Voyage sans retour (Where Danger Lives) de John Farrow : Frederick Lannington
 1951 : L'Équipage fantôme  () de Alfred L. Werker : capitaine Skalder
 1952 : L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains (The man who watched the trains go by) de Harold French : Kees Popinga
 1956 : L'Homme de Lisbonne (Lisbon) de Ray Milland : Aristides Mavros
 1957 :  (TV) de Bretaigne Windust : maire d'Hamelin
 1959 : Cette terre qui est mienne (This Earth is mine) de Henry King : Philippe Rambeau
 1959 : Once Upon a Christmas Tree (TV)
 1960 : Shangri-La (TV) : High Lama
 1960 : Le Monde perdu (The Lost World) d'Irwin Allen : professeur George Edward Challenger
 1961 : La Planète des hommes perdus (Il Pianeta degli uomini spenti) : professeur Benson
 1962 : Lawrence d'Arabie (Lawrence of Arabia) de David Lean : M. Dryden
 1963 : Le Motel du crime (Twilight of Honor) de Boris Sagal : Art Harper
 1965 : La Plus Grande Histoire jamais contée (The Greatest Story Ever Told) de George Stevens : Hérode

 Distinctions
Oscars
 1939 : nommé au titre du meilleur second rôle masculin pour le rôle du Sénateur Joseph Paine dans Monsieur Smith au Sénat (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) de Frank Capra.
 1943 : nommé au titre du meilleur second rôle masculin pour le rôle du capitaine Louis Renault dans Casablanca de Michael Curtiz.
 1944 : nommé au titre du meilleur second rôle masculin pour le rôle de Job Skeffington dans Femme aimée est toujours jolie (Mr. Skeffington) de Vincent Sherman.
 1946 : nommé au titre du meilleur second rôle masculin pour le rôle de Alexander Sebastian dans Les Enchaînés (Notorious) d'Alfred Hitchcock.

 Hommage
Dans la série Heroes'', un personnage appelé Claude Rains a la capacité de devenir invisible, en hommage à l'acteur du même nom et au film qui le rendit célèbre.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

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Acteur anglais
Naissance en novembre 1889
Décès en mai 1967
Naissance à Clapham
Décès au New Hampshire
Décès à 77 ans
Élève de la Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Acteur ayant incarné Jules César
Acteur ayant incarné Napoléon Bonaparte
Acteur ayant incarné Napoléon III
Personnel de l'armée de terre britannique pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
Lauréat du Tony Award
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Professeur à la Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Acteur ayant incarné Jean sans Terre

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Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat Returns for Seventh Year — High School Juniors Invited to Participate in Summer Writing Workshop
Best-selling author Alice Hoffman and Adelphi University Ruth S.Ammon School of Education are collaborating for the seventh year to offer 30 high school students participation in an intensive summer creative writing workshop.
Garden City, NY, May 14, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Adelphi University Ruth S. Ammon School of Education is partnering for the seventh year with best-selling author Alice Hoffman to offer the 2011 Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat to high school juniors in the area. The Retreat will run from Monday, July 25 to Friday, July 29, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day in Adelphi's Alumni House. High schools are encouraged to nominate one exemplary high school junior for the program. All admitted students will receive full scholarship to the program which includes tuition, materials, and daily lunch.
The Retreat offers approximately 30 high school juniors the opportunity to work hands-on with English Education graduate students, Adelphi faculty, and distinguished artists and writers in an intensive creative writing workshop. Participating students will be able to discuss, workshop, and receive individual feedback about their own pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Writing workshops will include activities that connect visual arts with writing, as well as written topics such as social justice and travel.
Alice Hoffman '73 published her first novel, Property Of, while studying under a Mirrellees Fellowship at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center. She received her M.A. in Creative Writing in 1974 and since then has gone on to publish a total of 18 novels, two books of short fiction, and eight books for children and young adults.
Her work has been published in over 20 translations and more than 100 foreign editions. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by the New York Times, and others. Her short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe Magazine, and other prestigious magazines. In addition, her teen novel, Aquamarine, was recently made into a major motion picture starring Emma Roberts. Ms. Hoffman also worked as a screenwriter and is the author of the original screenplay Independence Day, a film starring Kathleen Quinlan and Diane Wiest.
Ms. Hoffman currently lives in Boston, and is a visiting research associate at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She remains active within the community as an advocate for women's and youth issues.
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Coronavirus Relief Bill Provides Free Testing, Emergency Paid Leave
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AFGE applauds Congress' swift passage of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which President Trump signed into law March 18.
This legislation includes important provisions that will help federal employees and all Americans who are confronting this pandemic, including free coronavirus testing for anyone who needs it and 14 days of paid emergency sick leave for workers – including federal employees – who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and those taking care of individuals who have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
"The American people desperately need our elected leaders to work together and move with all deliberate speed to address this quickly evolving health crisis, and I hope that the quick bipartisan passage of this legislation is a sign of things to come," said AFGE National President Everett Kelley.
Working to Protect You
From the start of this rapidly emerging health crisis, AFGE has been pushing for immediate action to help protect our members and the public we serve:
Maximizing Telework: On March 6, President Kelley sent a letter to the head of the Office of Personnel Management requesting that OPM immediately allow all federal employees to telework if able. After taking piecemeal steps, the Office of Management and Budget on March 17 finally issued a direct call for all agencies to maximize telework across the nation and to ensure steps are in place to restrict access to federal facilities.
Protections: AFGE was successful in persuading OPM to ask the insurance companies that cover participants in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to relax refill eligibility dates and requirements in light of the Coronavirus pandemic. We also called for the most effective personal protective equipment, full health care coverage, and hazardous duty pay. We called for federal agencies to enact continuity of operations plans.
Emergency paid sick leave: AFGE made sure federal employees are entitled to emergency paid sick leave that was included in the Families First Act. This emergency paid sick leave is on top of the normal paid sick leave federal employees already get. We are still working for paid family and medical leave.
Bargaining Guidance: AFGE has issued bargaining guidance for our units to use when negotiating with agencies over the effects of the coronavirus on the workforce. It addresses topics including personal protective equipment (PPE), telework, travel, and leave. This guidance is being updated frequently to reflect changing circumstances. Visit www.afge.org/coronavirus for the latest guidance.
Workers' Comp Claims: AFGE has issued an updated fact sheet and guidance on filing workers' compensation claims related to the coronavirus. Click here to view the latest document.
Surveying Members: We created a survey so you can let us know what steps are and are not being taken to protect you at your worksite. Click here to take the survey.
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Fortunately for the die-hard fans, 'Unplugged' was so much more than just Kiss playing some of their biggest hits on acoustic guitars.
The two-night stand that made up the Allman Brothers Band's 'At Fillmore East' began on March 12, 1971.
This wasn't the first time Paul McCartney received high recognition from his homeland.


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Lesson learned: Google's self-driving car responsible in minor crash
A self-driving Lexus RX450h made a lane change to get around a pile of sandbags in a curb land and veered into the side of a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) bus
A minor collision with a city bus in California marks the first time Google's self-driving car appears to have been at fault in an accident.
It's the first time the internet search and software developer has admitted one of its autonomous hybrid test vehicles bares "some responsibility" for a collision during the project's six years history.
The Feb. 14 accident occurred when a self-driving Lexus RX450h made a lane change to get around a pile of sandbags in a curb land and veered into the side of a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) bus in Mountain View, California, where Google's headquarters is located.
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The tech giant has since filed a report with state regulators and updated the vehicle's software to avoid similar accidents in the future.
"We clearly bear some responsibility," Google announced in a statement this week, "Because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a collision."
"That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that."
The statement claims the Google car was traveling less than 2 miles per hour and the bus was going about 15 mph at the time.
No one was injured in the accident after the stopped car and its test driver estimated it had time to turn right into the adjacent centre lane after waiting for several vehicles to pass.
Google's statement said the car and driver had assumed the approaching bus driver would have slowed down to allow the car move into the lane.
The Google car's left front fender, front wheel and a sensor were damaged when it hit the side of the bus.
After reviewing the incident in repeated simulations of similar traffic scenarios and making software adjustments Google feels its self-driving cars have learned from this mistake.
"From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses (and other large vehicles) are less likely to yield to us than other types of vehicles, and we hope to handle situations like this more gracefully in the future," Google said in its statement.
There was no police report filed following the accident and therefore no official determination of fault has been made.
Last fall Google announced its test AVs have been involved but not at fault in 17 minor non-injury collisions over the course of the project that has logged more than two million miles of combined autonomous and manual driving.
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A-listers flock to Google summit in private jets, mega yachts to talk climate change
The world's rich and famous have flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth — but they sure are punishing her in the process. The billionaire creators of Google have invited a who's who of A-list names— including former President Barack Obama, Prince Harry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Katy Perry — to the Sicilian seaside for a mega-party they've dubbed Google Camp. The three-day event will focus on fighting climate change — though it's unknown how much time the attendees will spend discussing their own effect on the environment, such as the scores of private jets they arrived in and the mega yachts many have been staying on. "Everything is about global warming, that is the major topic this year," a source told The Post. Their three-day summer camp will cost the tech giant some $20 million, sources said. Source
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Clarks protest. Photo: Bristol SP (Click to enlarge)
Tom Baldwin, South West Socialist Party
After two months on strike Clarks workers have defeated the shoe firm's plans to fire and rehire them on considerably reduced wages. The company had been trying to impose a 15% pay cut, reducing hourly pay to just £9.50, along with a whole raft of other attacks. It came up against determined resistance from members of the Community trade union who began all-out strike action in October.
Clarks has now backed down from the plans to fire workers at the Westway distribution centre in Street, Somerset, to force them to sign up to the new terms. The existing pay of £11.16 an hour has been protected, and newer staff will have their pay raised to this level, in line with their workmates.
Full details of the deal have not yet been made public and may include some concessions by workers as well as management. Nonetheless, beating fire and rehire is a victory, and staff have voted to accept the deal and end the strike.
The deal between the firm and the union was struck at Acas, the third party mediation service. However, it was only possible due to concerted struggle pushing the company back. They had only agreed to mediation after the strike had already been in place for over a month and they'd already had to improve their offer to £10.03 an hour.
Strikers had kept up well-organised pickets covering every shift for two months. Support from other trade unionists was shown through donations to the strike fund, large numbers joining the picket lines for solidarity days, and the hundreds-strong demonstration which was applauded at every turn as it marched through the village of Street.
The successful fight by this relatively small group of workers will have much wider repercussions. Other employers will have been watching the outcome and may now think again before attempting to inflict similar attacks on their workforce.
Likewise, all workers will need to learn from this example, that struggle and solidarity are vital to defending their interests.
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ZeptoLab Celebrates Om Nom's 10th Birthday
ZeptoLab is inviting fans to join the anniversary celebrations for the 10th birthday of the adorable, emotive and world-renowned Om Nom, who first appeared in the popular puzzle game Cut the Rope in October 2010.
Cut the Rope has amassed 1.6 billion installs to date, as the cute green monster with a toothy grin won the hearts and took the fancy of fans all over the world over the years. Zeptolab was soon inundated with requests for a backstory. Always looking for more fun stuff to create, the studio decided to oblige the fans with a series of short cartoons featuring Om Nom. The initial 30 x 1'30" episodes first appeared in the games and the official YouTube channel. The funny and original adventures soon attracted even more fans as well as the interest of TV and VOD channels. Episode after episode and season after season ever since, viewers have been able to explore this world through Om Nom Stories.
Om Nom Stories is now on its 17th season with seven hours of original content distributed in eight regions, on 86 YouTube channels, 12 TV channels and 40 VOD channels, with notable regional partners in Latin America, Russia, China, Europe, Australia and too many other regions and countries to mention. Worldwide, the series have been watched more than 20 billion times including over 5 billion times in China. These backstory shorts have turned into a story of their own!
People around the world found they could relate to these non-dialog animated adventures. Om Nom is a charming, kind and brave monster that sincerely believes that a kind heart and a passion to help those in need can make this world better. He truly is a friend that everyone wants to have, the one that attracts adventures like a magnet and turns every challenge into a fun game.
More than 7 million fans follow Om Nom on social media. To satisfy fans' requests, ZeptoLab and partners produce and distribute a wide range of merchandise, toys, books and audiobooks. Over 10 years, there have been numerous successful collaborations with partners such as McDonald's, Burger King, Mattel, Hasbro, Bershka, Vivid and others.
Om Nom has been keeping busy in games as well! Two new titles, Om Nom Merge and Om Nom Run, appeared on all major platforms in 2019 and 2020, with ongoing plans to release several new games each & every year. In addition to this, ZeptoLab is keen to explore other formats and sides of Om Nom in a spin-off series. Plenty more new and exciting ways to have fun with Om Nom are right around the corner, so stay tuned!
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Your 10-year-old car is a wreck. It's time for new wheels. At the dealership, you find the model and color you want. You then look for the sticker price, but there isn't one.
Instead, a salesman hands you a binder about five inches thick, filled with thousands of pages of microscopic print. It's an endless list of parts and prices: alternators, brake pads, floor mats, tailpipes, sunroofs, catalytic converters, tires, mufflers and more.
Which ones do you need? Which are even in the car you're buying?
How is this working for you? Are you feeling like an informed buyer? Is this any way to run a marketplace?
This scenario would never be allowed in the auto industry but it's precisely what's playing out, countless times a day, in health care. Since 2015, hospitals across the U.S. have been releasing their list prices under the direction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The professed goal: to inform consumers about the costs of their care so they can be smart purchasers and bring competition to health-care markets.
This year, in an effort to push the competition agenda, CMS updated its guidelines. As of January, hospitals are required to make public a list of their standard charges via the internet in a machine-readable format, and to update this information at least annually, or more often as appropriate. The idea is that patients expecting something like a hip or knee replacement can go online, check prices and shop around for the best deal.
While the guidelines may give patients more information, that information may be more confusing than clarifying, as the car analogy suggests. For starters, patients may not be familiar with many of the thousands of items on the list of charges. If they are, they may not know what portion of the price they are responsible for (their copay), or how much they must pay before insurance kicks in (their deductible). They likely won't know what prices their insurer (if they have one) may have negotiated, which will be different from the list price. They may not know which services they need for their care, or how many of any one service their condition requires. Even if they have a sense of what they might need, they have no idea what unexpected events, requiring unexpected services, may occur in a particular case. Their doctors likely don't know either.
For believers in consumer empowerment and choice, and for advocates of the free market, this new reality should be profoundly troubling. Consumers have the right to know what their care will cost. And for competition between hospitals to thrive–which would, in turn, help consumers make comparisons and push hospitals to lower prices–they absolutely need to know.
The challenge is that sharing meaningful price information is actually quite complex.
The work has to start with defining units of care. A hospital admission? An episode of care? An elective procedure? All care for a patient provided in a period of time?
Next is defining the makeup of that unit. What elements go into it on average? What about for people with particular co-existing conditions? With or without complications? Where multiple institutions share in the care, how are their separate prices lists combined? What about combining inpatient and outpatient care? What about when people are transferred in the middle of their treatment from one place to another?
Getting consumers the information they need to be smart purchasers of health care will likely prove a multiyear project, which, CMS realizes. Their new rule sought suggestions from the public on how to overcome barriers to make price information meaningful, and broadly outlined the challenge ahead.
By my measure, the first step in the project should probably concentrate on the small set of services and procedures that experts consider "shoppable." These are well-defined, common, completely elective, and unlikely to result in complications, such as hip and knee replacements, hernia repairs, non-urgent cardiac surgeries or placement of insulin pumps for diabetics. These services are also planned well in advance so patients have a chance–if they are so inclined–to collect pricing data and try to figure them out.
And don't forget that pricing information is only half the picture. Consumers need to know the quality of each service as well. It's the equivalent of knowing whether that smart-looking car on the lot is preowned or not, and if it is, how many miles it has on the odometer and whether it's been in a crash.
Markets are great in theory, but complex in practice—perhaps no market more so than health care. Right now, we lack even the most basic requirements for flourishing competition in the health-care sector. For real, effective competition, consumers need well-defined products, and clear, simple prices. Like that new car with a sticker price.
Dr. David Blumenthal (@DavidBlumenthal) is the president of the Commonwealth Fund, a national health-care philanthropy based in New York.


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Pinter, on the other hand, avoids such extensive visual symbolism except, perhaps, in Landscape and Silence, but his earlier plays do make use of stage properties and visible images for their representational value; the dumbwaiter in the play of that name, for example, the toy drum and blackout of The Birthday Party, or the mound of miscellaneous refuse in The Caretaker. Otherwise setting and action are wholly representational and calculated to produce a reasonable illusion of everyday reality. On the other hand Pinter is a past master of tableaux, much in the tradition of Yeats and Maeterlinck. The visual grouping of characters, especially in the early plays, make eloquent yet silent statements, as in Homecoming, where both Joey and Max kneel at Ruth's feet. Oddly enough the notion of the Yeatsian dance play is often present in the static and symbolic scenes Pinter devises, as also in those of Beckett. Pinter is, above all, ingenious in transforming everyday occurrences, such as lights going on or off, insistent telephones ringing, and doors opening for unexpected arrivals, into modes of harassment which penetrate established façades and expose personal weaknesses.
Music is another extra-literary device which Pinter often employs; but perhaps one should speak of rhythmic accentuation, as in the tapping out of erotic messages on a bongo drum in The Lovers or in Stanley's breakdown as signaled by his frenzied drumming in The Birthday Party. Yeats was equally given to the accentuation of action through drum beats in his dance plays, and Eliot accommodated the technique to scenes of modern life, not only in terms of musical accompaniment, but also those of prose rhythms. Another strategy employed by Pinter is unnaturally long pauses, not to mention the immobilization of characters in Landscape or the blank stage of Silence (three bar stools on a raked stage with reflecting mirrors in the original production). Rather than suggesting a cosmic void, such silences measure the shallows and shoals of human intercourse, as well as prompting the imagination of the audience to engage itself. Both tension and expectation are generated, not to mention analysis and comment.
Exploitation of Language
The creation of expressive dialogue is equally central to the plays of all four dramatists. Eliot admired Yeats's development and control of dramatic verse, his manipulation of poetic style as a means of characterizing and illuminating action. One of Yeats's great successes was the use of contrapuntal styles as both a structural and expressive device. In The Only Jealousy of Emer, for example, a heightened intensity was achieved through the irregularly rhymed octasyllabic couplets which distinguish the dialogue of the play-within-the-play from the freely varied pentameters of the basic dramatic action and also from the irregular and lyrical verse of the musicians which frames the whole and sets it off from the familiar world of the audience. In The Words upon the Window-Pane there is a formal contrast between the rhymed decasyllabic couplets and Eighteenth century diction with the mundane prose patterns and contemporary speech of the séance room, while the satire is further extended by songs from The Irish Church Hymnal and the bathos of Lulu's baby-talk. Perhaps the most imaginative usage occurs in The Death of Cuchulain where the opening chorus or prologue is delivered in the rambling prose of a very old man and set in contrast to the irregular verse form of the heroic dialogue which follows. At the end of that play Emer's solemn dance of Cuchulain's death in body and rebirth in spirit is broken in upon by the electrifying contrast of a vulgar and modern, street song. Such juxtaposition of styles, moods and song represent the degradation of the present. Yeats also "encompassed in The Herne's Egg and Purgatory some of the clipped rhythm and intentionally awkward syntax which Auden had made available for confiscation". | 11 | A modern poetic idiom was being naturalized for both the idealized world of heroic action and a symbolic universe of contemporary reality.
11 | Richard Ellmann, Eminent Domain, New York 1967, p.5.
Above all Eliot admired Yeats for his subordination of poetry to dramatic statement.
But another, and important, cause of improvement is the gradual purging out of Poetical ornament. This is perhaps the most painful part of the labour, so far as the versification goes of the modern poet who tries to write a play in verse. The course of improvement is towards a greater and greater starkness. The beautiful line for it's own sake is a luxury dangerous even for the poet who made a himself a virtuoso of the techniques of the theatre. What is necessary is a beauty which shall not be in the line or the isolable passage, but woven into the dramatic texture itself; so that you can hardly say whether the lines give grandeur to the drama, or whether it is the drama which turns the words into Poetry. | 12 |
12 | On Poetry and Poets, London 1957, pp. 259-260
The issue here is the distinction between the rational appeal of discursive drama which also employs dramatic verse as a means of arousing further emotion and a directly emotional response to presentational drama which functions as a lyric poem. Ronald Gaskell defines poetic form in drama as "an action which convinces not so much by its resemblance to our life outside the theatre as by the unity and expressiveness of its design". | 13 | Such lyric or poetic drama could not have come into existence without a way of suggesting meaning which is outside, or beyond, the explicit statements of the verbal text. In the final analysis there is only one way of indicating unstated meaning or inner feeling and that is through a conscious discrepancy between speech and context; the patterning of speech, gesture, and situation. Subtext is not the sole property of what was called the Theatre of the Absurd, both Yeats and Eliot contributed to its development. Yeats relied heavily on visual symbols and dance in addition to counterpointing literary styles and registers of language, but it was Eliot who really broke new ground in exploiting the possibilities of language alone.
13 | Drama and Reality: The European Theatre Since Ibsen, London 1972, p. 60.
Each play in succession is, among other things, a conscious choice from consciously stored 'possibilities': for "Sweeney Agonistes", the speech heard in the streets and pubs of London, but assimilated through the rhythm of jazz, the music hall, and 'archaeologically' reconstructed phallic-Aristophanic chorus; for Murder in the Cathedral, the versification of Everyman and some doggerel, in a framework of the inwardly conceived and Christianised Dionysiac chorus, with a prose sermon to explain a moment of illumination, and prose parody to implicate and 'alienate' the audience; and in the four plays that followed we see the struggle to find the point of intersection between liturgy and approximate naturalism, between speech out-of-time ('the musical order' and the unsayable) and the speech of our time ('the dialect of the tribe'). | 14 |
14 | Andrew K. Kennedy, Six Dramatists in Search of a Language. Studies in Dramatic Language, London 1975, p. 89.
At first Eliot sought an antithetical substitute for the language of imitation, for the presentation of events through dialogue which was faithful to the stylistic precepts of the day, and he created an alternative to Yeats's interweaving of expressive verse forms. In the work of both. Essential relationships are revealed on the level of language itself and the counterpoint of speech constitutes the action of the plays. Beyond this giant step in modernist technique, however, Eliot exploits the suppression of inner feelings where Yeats introduces symbolic objects and movement in order to express them. After Murder in the Cathedral Eliot abandoned language as a means of illuminating his characters and situations directly, in order to explore the negative capability of concealment and inarticulateness in suggesting dramatic truth. His main characters tend to hide their real feelings and desires beneath a mask of banality and conventionally accepted sentiments which belie their obvious predicaments. As in everyday life, the audience apprehends the significance of both character and circumstance through the concealment of decorous speech, even through the hesitations and inarticulateness of the speakers. | 15 | In the plays that followed The Family Reunion, Eliot continued to create a surface language of sufficient mimetic imitation to be immediately recognizable, yet stylized enough to suggest a universal truth, to suggest an ultimate recognition as in the case of Lord Clarenton (The Elder Statesman) talking to his daughter about the past which has returned to confront him.
15 | See Kennedy, pp. 111 and 113.
Your mother knew noting about them. And I know
That I never knew your mother, as she never knew me.
I thought that she would never understand
Or that she would be jealous of the ghosts who haunted me.
And I'm still of that opinion. How open one's heart
When one is sure of the wrong response?
How make a confession with no hope of absolution?
It was not her fault. We never understood each other.
And so we lived, with a deep silence between us,
And she died silently. She had nothing to say to me. | 16 |
16 | The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot, London 1969, p. 570.
Rather than a falling away of creative power, Eliot's last plays can be seen as a logical extension of his on-going experimentation with dramatic language. The dialogue of the last plays is perhaps more conventionally realistic than that of The Family Reunion or The Cocktail Party, but is no less successful.


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Codomo Dragon has some wonderful news for their fans. The band has announced that they will be releasing a new live DVD!
The new live DVD is titled "「Victim of SODOM」〜2015.01.18 TSUTAYA O-EAST〜" and is set to be released on May 5th, 2015 and will cost 6200yen. The DVD will include scenes from their one-man live tour "Victim of SODOM" final at TSUTAYA O-East on January 18th, 2015.