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Pandemics From Homer To Stephen King: What We Can Learn From Literary History
Coronavirus | History
Earlier classic literature gives us an opportunity to consider how pandemics have been managed previously.
Chelsea Haith, DPhil Candidate in Contemporary English Literature, University of Oxford
From Homer's Iliad and Boccaccio's Decameron to Stephen King's The Stand and Ling Ma's Severance, stories about pandemics have – over the history of Western literature such as it is – offered much in the way of catharsis, ways of processing strong emotion, and political commentary on how human beings respond to public health crises.
Literature has a vital role to play in framing our responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is worth turning to some of these texts to better understand our reactions and how we might mitigate racism, xenophobia and ableism (discrimination against anyone with disabilities) in the narratives that surround the spread of this coronavirus.
Ranging from the classics to contemporary novels, this reading list of pandemic literature offers something in the way of an uncertain comfort, and a guide for what happens next.
Homer's Iliad, as the Cambridge classicist Mary Beard has reminded us, opens with a plague visited upon the Greek camp at Troy to punish the Greeks for Agamemnon's enslavement of Chryseis. US academic Daniel R Blickman has argued that the drama of Agamemnon and Achilles' quarrel "should not blind us to the role of the plague in setting the tone for what follows, nor, more importantly, in providing an ethical pattern which lies near the heart of the story". In other words, The Iliad presents a narrative framing device of disaster that results from ill-judged behaviour on the part of all of the characters involved.
Western literature begins with a plague: the Iliad. Wikimedia Commons
COVID-19 is certain to shake up economic systems and entrenched institutional processes, as we're seeing with the shift towards remote learning in universities around the world, to give just one example. These texts give us an opportunity to think through how similar crises have been managed previously, as well as ideas about how we might structure our societies more equitably in their aftermath.
The Decameron (1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio, set during the Black Death, reveals the vital role of storytelling in a time of disaster. Ten people self-isolate in a villa outside Florence for two weeks during the Black Death. In the course of their isolation, the characters take turns to tell stories of morality, love, sexual politics, trade and power.
In this collection of novellas, storytelling functions as a method of discussing social structures and interaction during the earliest days of the Renaissance. The stories offer the listeners (and Boccaccio's readers) ways through which to restructure their "normal" everyday lives, which have been suspended due to the epidemic.
Authority's failure to respond
The normality of everyday life is also the focus of Mary Shelley's apocalypse novel The Last Man (1826). Set in a futuristic Britain between the years 2070 and 2100, the novel – which was made into a movie in 2008 – details the life of Lionel Verney, who becomes the "last man" following a devastating global plague.
Shelley's novel dwells on the value of friendship, and concludes with Verney accompanied on his wanderings by a sheep dog (a reminder that pets may be a source of comfort and stability in times of crisis). The novel is particularly scathing on the topic of institutional responses to the plague. It satirises revolutionary utopianism and the in-fighting that breaks out among surviving groups, before these also succumb.
Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Masque of the Red Death (1842) also depicts the failures of authority figures to adequately and humanely respond to such a disaster. The Red Death causes fatal bleeding from the pores. In response, Prince Prospero gathers a thousand courtiers into a secluded but luxurious abbey, welds the gates closed and hosts a masked ball:
The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure.
Poe details the sumptuous festivities, concluding with the incorporeal arrival of the Red Death as a human-like guest at the ball. The plague personified takes the prince's life and then those of his courtiers:
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.
Modern and contemporary literature
In the 20th century, Albert Camus' The Plague (1942) and Stephen King's The Stand (1978) brought readers' attentions to the social implications of plague-like pandemics – particularly isolation and failures of the state to either contain the disease or moderate the ensuing panic. The self-isolation in Camus' novel creates an anxious awareness of the value of human contact and relationships in the citizens of the plague-stricken Algerian city of Oran:
This drastic, clean-cut deprivation and our complete ignorance of what the future held in store had taken us unawares; we were unable to react against the mute appeal of presences, still so near and already so far, which haunted us daylong.
In King's The Stand, a bioengineered superflu named "Project Blue" leaks out of an American military base. Pandemonium ensues. King recently stated on Twitter that COVID-19 is certainly not as serious as his fictional pandemic, urging the public to take reasonable precautions.
Similarly, in his 2016 novel Fever, South African author Deon Meyer details the apocalyptic fallout of a weaponised, bioengineered virus that results in enclaves of survivors besieging one another for resources.
In Severance (2018), Ling Ma provides a contemporary take on the zombie novel as the fictional "Shen Fever" renders people repetitive automatons until their deaths. In a thinly veiled metaphor for the capitalist cog-in-the-machine, the protagonist Candace drifts daily in to her place of work in a future New York that is slowly falling apart. She eventually joins a survival group, assimilating culturally and morally to their violent attitudes towards the zombies, "embodying the atomisation of late-capitalist humans in a society stripped to its bones", as reviewer Jiayang Fang suggests.
For some the end has already come
Consider also that "indigenous futurisms" – a term coined by First Nations cultural and race studies theorist Grace L Dillon to refer to speculative fictions by indigenous peoples and writers of colour such as NK Jemisin's Broken Earth series, Claire G. Coleman's Terra Nullius, and Carmen Maria Machado's short story Inventory – have long since treated colonialism and the diseases spread by the colonisers as the source of what is currently experienced as an ongoing apocalypse. For many people in formerly colonised places, the apocalypse has already come – pandemics (both literal and metaphorical) have already obliterated their populations.
The catharsis that some of the above-mentioned texts may offer is troubled by the realities of pandemic and apocalypse conditions depicted in much fiction by indigenous peoples. If we used our own likely forthcoming periods of self-isolation to theorise alternative social structures, to tell one another stories about how we live, what stories might we tell?
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Number: MMM1955
THE BLOB (CD)
Composed by: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Mario Nascimbene, Ralph Carmichael, Roger Roger
The Blob (song by Burt Bacharach & Mack David) 01
Violence (unused Main Title) 02
Approaching Monster 15
Birds In Flight 32
Celestial Wonder 45
The Blob (and other creepy sounds) features the complete original Ralph Carmichael soundtrack from the 1958 cult monster movie starring Steve McQueen. The CD features every cue from the movie as well as music not heard in the picture, totalling about 37 minutes -- all in original, gorgeous monophonic sound. Of particular note is the unused "Main Title," which was replaced by the Burt Bacharach/Mack David novelty song. The original orchestral cue is an outstanding piece that perfectly prepares you for the unfolding horror of the movie – as opposed to the humorous approach the song took. Both opening cues are included in this release.
The remainder of the CD is packed with almost 40 minutes of horror, suspense, and atmospheric cues from the Valentino Production Music Library, including pieces used in The Green Slime, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Terror From the Year 5000, as well as in the collectible album "Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space with Sounds." Film composers represented include such distinguished figures as Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Roger Roger, and Mario Nascimbene.
"THE BLOB" (1958) - Ralph Carmichael
1. The Blob (song by Burt Bacharach & Mack David) (2:39)
2. Violence (unused Main Title) (1:37)
3. Love Theme (Romantic Bridge) (0:17)
4. Shooting Star (3:06)
5. Violent Bridge (0:08)
6. Under Pressure (1:29)
7. Hidden Pressure (1:34)
8. Empty Crater (0:34)
9. House Of Trouble (1:03)
10. Weird Menace (1:51)
11. Horror Bridge (0:23)
12. Barren Acres (1:26)
13. Darkness (1:42)
14. Fireball (0:19)
15. Approaching Monster (1:16)
16. Twilight Reverie (1:28)
17. Closing The Trap (0:17)
18. Love Theme (1:09)
19. Stress And Strain (0:39)
20. Upheaval (1:56)
21. Dark Vigil (0:56)
22. Over The Edge (0:24)
23. End Of The Line (1:06)
24. High Tension (1:37)
25. Buildup (1:03)
26. In Your Arms (1:30)
27. Summer Garden (0:37)
28. Climactic Curtain (0:32)
Suspense cues from 'The Valentino Production Music Library' composed by Roger Roger, A. F. Lavagnino, Mario Nascimbene, etc.
29. Dreaming Awake (0:42)
30. Spell Of The Unknown (1:28)
31. Charms Of Space (1:07)
32. Birds In Flight (3:08)
33. New Threat (1:03)
34. Escape In The Night (1:09)
35. The Search Beyond (3:27)
36. Trapped (0:18)
37. Nemesis (3:18)
38. Nocturnal Adventure (1:45)
39. Aggression (0:39)
40. Toward Discovery (1:40)
41. Boy Meets Girl Background (1:01)
42. Mob Scene (1:14)
43. Martian's Patrol (1:54)
44. Spectre Castle (1:27)
45. Celestial Wonder (0:51)
46. Shadowy Night (0:26)
47. Moon Walk (1:27)
48. Shock Treatment (1:19)
49. Sliding Bridge (0:25)
50. Flame Out (0:42)
51. Gateway To Glory (2:00)
52. Whimsical Tale (3:05)
53. Holiday Excursion (3:15)
"THE BLOB" BONUS TRACKS - Ralph Carmichael
54. 46th Street Stomp (1:25)
55. Bar Fly (2:21)
56. Timpani & Cymbal (0:08)
57. Love Theme (Romantic Bridge) (alternate take)
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As the winner, Behnke will take home his choice of a new model from the full portfolio of John Deere small-, mid- and large-frame G-Series skid steers and compact track loaders (CTLs), with a WorkSite Pro™ attachment to help with his project, "Rising Above the Ashes." This project helps residents of Black Forest, Colorado, clear their land of dead, dangerous trees, resulting from the most destructive fire in Colorado's history. The June 11, 2013, fire spread across 14,000 acres in 10 days, destroying more than 500 homes, causing $85 million in damage and claiming two lives.
As a result of the overwhelming response to the contest, John Deere also announced that it will help the two runner-up finalists in completing their community projects with a yearlong lease on a skid steer or CTL from John Deere Financial. The runners-up are Kobus Appelgrijn of New Port Richey, Florida, and Anita Will of Ridgefield, Washington. Through West Pasco Habitat for Humanity, Appelgrijn's project, "Restoring Neighborhood Pride," uses the help of over 50 volunteers to revitalize 40 badly deteriorating homes to help create a thriving community. Will's project, "Trailblazing Outdoor Connections," is transforming Whipple Creek Regional Park from a dilapidated area into a community staple, with over 8,000 volunteer hours donated since restoration began in 2011, growing annual visits from 1,000 to 54,000.
John Deere launched their second annual "Small Machines. Big Impact." contest on Jan. 23, 2018, at World of Concrete. From Jan. 23 to March 16, individuals from the U.S. landscaping, agriculture, construction and rental industries were invited to submit an entry detailing what kind of impact they would make in their community with a G-Series machine.
This year, with over 370 entries, John Deere selected three finalists based on the potential impact of the project on their local community, how much the machine would be used to enhance the project and alignment with one of these John Deere Corporate Citizenship priorities: improve food security, education or community development.


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Somin Eunice Lee, Ph.D.
Professor Somin Eunice Lee received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley as a Siebel Scholar. She demonstrated optical gene silencing, and she showed that gene circuits in living cells can be precisely controlled using plasmonic nanoantennas. She then completed her postdoctoral studies at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, where she explored secreted single molecules within their local cellular microenvironment using plasmonic approaches. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and an affiliated Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department. She is also affiliated with the Solid State Electronics Laboratory, the Biointerfaces Institute and the Applied Physics Program. She is the recipient of the 2016 AFOSR YIP Award and the 2015 NSF CAREER Award. Her research interests lie in advancing innovations in nanoscale-dependent properties to enable unique spatial and temporal capabilities needed for quantification in bioscience and medicine.
Gary Guangjie Cui
Gary is currently a doctoral student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. He received his B.S. at Beijing Institute of Technology. His research interest lies in optical microscopy in turbid media.
Ancheng Da
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John Gregg
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Sarah Kang
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5.4 earthquake hits offshore El Salvador.
5.1 earthquake hits off the coast of southern Peru.
Australia – Days of torrential rain have spawned massive flooding in eastern Australia, forcing the evacuation of some 40,000 people. In the country's arid central section, it has sent waterfalls down the side of the country's majestic Uluru rocks. The floods, which have submerged houses, stranded cattle and cut off towns, have inundated vast areas along the east coast from roughly Mackay, about 600 miles north of Brisbane in Queensland, to Bega in New South Wales, some 260 miles south of Sydney. Two fatalities have been reported.
Millions of dead jellyfish are washing up around the world
The by-the-wind sailor jellyfish (Velella velella) spends its days drifting aimlessly through the open sea, gorging itself on an endless buffet of complementary morsels.
Every year, on beaches around the world, colonies of sailor jellies become stranded by the thousands. There, they dry up and die, becoming a "crunchy carpet" of dehydrated corpses covering the sand. Sailor jelly strandings are common when seasonal winds change course, but some — like a 2006 event on the west coast of New Zealand — are on another level entirely, with the jellyfish corpses numbering not in the thousands, but in the millions. During spring months from 2015 to 2019, dead jellyfish littered more than 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) of continuous coastline
These exceptional jellyfish die-offs coincided with a massive marine heat wave known as "the blob." Beginning in 2013, surface waters off the Pacific coast began heating up to levels never recorded before. The intense warming continued through 2016, tampering with every level of the marine food chain and resulting in mass die-offs of seabirds, baleen whales, sea lions and other creatures. According to a new study, it's likely that the blob drove the mass die-offs of by-the-wind sailor jellyfish reported during those years.
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A rare daytime fireball meteor triggered a loud sonic boom across parts of the United Kingdom and France over the weekend. The sonic boom occurred at 2:50 p.m. local time on Saturday (March 20) and was reportedly heard in southwest England, Wales and northern France. However, a handful of people said they had witnessed a bright flash of light across the sky at the same time, and thanks to satellite images, it was later confirmed to be a fireball meteor.
Roundup of Global Volcanic Activity – New Activity for the Week 17 March 2021 – 23 March 2021
Cleveland – Chuginadak Island (USA) : AVO reported that on 10 March an earthquake at Cleveland was large enough to be recorded by seismometers 100 km away on Umnak Island. On 17 March volcanic gas emissions increased and elevated surface temperatures were identified in satellite images. The Aviation colour Code was raised to Yellow and the Volcano Alert Level was raised to Advisory.
Etna – Sicily (Italy) : INGV reported continuing episodes of lava fountaining at Etna's Southeast Crater (SEC) on 15, 17, and 19 March, though weather conditions often prevented visual observations. Strombolian activity at SEC began at 2110 on 14 March and turned into lava fountaining at 0048 on 15 March. Lava traveled towards the Valle de Bove and an eruption plume drifted E. Lava fountaining ceased by 0343 and only weak Strombolian activity followed. The lava flows continued to advance. Weak Strombolian activity at SEC on 17 March began to intensify at 0155 and changed into lava fountaining at 0319. An eruption plume drifted SE and lava flow advanced. Fountaining activity ceased at 0717 and was followed by explosive activity. By 1859 the lava flows had reached 2,200 m elevation. Explosions at SEC and the lava flow in the Valle de Bove were visible at 2142 on 18 March when the weather conditions allowed for partial visibility of the summit. Explosive activity at SEC was visible at 0734 on 19 March. The activity intensified at 0915 and ash emissions were visible. Lava fountaining started at 0935 and an ash plume drifted ENE. Lava fountaining activity ceased at 1136 and changed to Strombolian activity which gradually decreased; by 1350 only sporadic explosions were visible along with minor ash emissions. Lava flows were noted late in the morning.
Krysuvik-Trolladyngja – Iceland : IMO reported that a small eruption in the western part of the Krýsuvík-Trölladyngja volcanic system, close to Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes Peninsula, began at around 2045 on 19 March. The eruption was first visible in webcam images and confirmed by satellite data, and an orange glow in clouds on the horizon was seen from Reykjanesbaer and Grindavík (10 km SW). The Aviation colour Code was raised to Red. Reykjanesbraut, the main road from the capital region to Reykjanesbaer and the international airport at Keflavík, was closed. A fissure, 500-700 m long, had opened on a slope in the Geldingadalur valley about 4.7 km N of the coast and just off the SE flank of Fagradalsfjall mountain. Small lava fountains rose as high as 100 m above the fissure, and by 1110 on 20 March, the lava had covered an area less than 1 square kilometer and was approximately 500 m across. The extrusion rate was an estimated 5 cubic meters per second. The Aviation colour Code was lowered to Orange because there was little to no ash production that would affect aircraft. Reykjanesbraut reopened, but Sudurstrandarvegur, the road along the S coastline, was closed between Grindavík and Thorlakshofn. The eruption continued during 21-23 March with a consistent extrusion rate. About three cones had formed along the fissure; the tallest and widest was situated at the higher part of the fissure. Lava flows, mainly from the largest cone, fanned out to the NW, W, and SW, and also flowed S and fanned out to the E. Spatter was ejected above the cones. Video captured by visitors showed parts of the largest cone collapsing and rebuilding. The IMO periodically issued warnings about weather conditions that would cause high concentrations of volcanic gases to settle near the eruption site, causing hazardous conditions for visitors. IMO noted that through the night of 22-23 March night sulfur dioxide levels in Reykjavík had increased, though not to unsafe levels.
Pacaya – Guatemala : INSIVUMEH reported periods of intense activity at Pacaya's Mackenney Crater during 17-18 March. Explosions produced dense ash plumes that rose 500-1,000 m above the crater rim and drifted 25-30 km S, SW, W, NW, and N. Incandescent material was ejected 300-500 m above the crater and fell within a 600 m radius of the crater. Lava flows on the S flank were 1.5 km long and set fire to vegetation at the advancing edge. Two new lava flows were visible; one traveled 400 m E and the other traveled 500 m S. Ashfall was reported in El Rodeo (4 km WSW), Patrocinio (about 5 km W), El Cedro (9 km NNW), San Francisco de Sales (5 km N), Amatitlán (12 km N), and Villa Nueva (16 km N). Strong explosions during 21-23 March generated dense ash plumes that rose as high as 1.5 km above the summit. The plumes drifted 25-30 km NE, E, SE, and S, causing ashfall in Los Llanos, Los Pocitos (5 km S), Los Dolores (6 km SE), El Rodeo, Patrocinio, Mesías Alta and Mesías Baja, and Santa Elena Barillas (6 km ENE). Incandescent material was ejected 500 m above the crater and fell within 300-600 m of the crater. A lava flow on the SW flank was 1.5 km long, a flow on the S flank was 300 m long, and the E-flank lava flow had lengthened to 500 m. On 23 March ash plumes drifted 50 km NW, N, and NE, causing ashfall in Pepinal San Francisco de Sales, Los Pocitos, Los Dolores, Mesías Altas and Mesías Bajas, Santa Elena Barillas, Villa Nueva, and in the capital of Guatemala City (25-30 km NNE). Ash fell at Guatemala's international airport, Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora, 50 km N of Pacaya, causing the airport to close. Soldiers swept ash off of the runway and incoming flights were diverted to El Salvador.
San Cristobal – Nicaragua : The Washington VAAC reported that on 19 March a notable ash cloud from San Cristóbal rose at least to 12.2 km (40,500 ft) a.s.l. and drifted over 80 km ENE based on satellite data, ash dispersion models, and weather models.
Semisopochnoi – Aleutian Islands (USA) : AVO reported that satellite data showed minor ash deposits on Semisopochnoi's flanks and a possible gas cloud on 14 March. Two small explosions on 19 March, at 0350 and 0534, were recorded by regional infrasound sensors and prompted AVO to raise the Aviation colour Code and the Volcano Alert Level to Orange and Watch, respectively. A small explosion at 0230 on 21 March was followed by a series of smaller explosions. A volcanic gas cloud was visible in satellite data during the previous day. Three small explosions were detected during 22-23 March, though high weather cloud cover, at 9.1 km (30,000 ft) a.s.l., prevented satellite confirmation; no ash was visible above the cloud deck.
Taal – Luzon (Philippines) : PHIVOLCS reported that at Taal during 16-23 March there were 36-193 daily volcanic earthquakes and 27-156 daily periods of volcanic tremor with variable durations (1-15 minutes). Three hybrid earthquakes were recorded each day on 18 and 19 March. Diffuse steam plumes from fumarolic vents in Main Crater rose as high as 100 m. Daily measurements of sulfur dioxide emissions were 603-1,184 tonnes per day. The Alert Level remained at 2 (on a scale of 0-5). PHIVOLCS strongly recommended no entry onto the island, and access to the Main Crater and Daang Kastila fissure (along the walking trail) was strictly prohibited.
Veniaminof – United States : AVO reported that the eruption at Veniaminof continued during 17-23 March. Low surface temperatures were visible in satellite images along with steam-and-gas plumes. Low-level tremor was recorded in local seismic data. During the morning of 21 March small explosions were identified using seismic data and infrasound sensors in Chignik Lagoon. A volcanic gas cloud drifted SE at or below 1.5 km (5,000 ft) a.s.l. Small explosions were detected again during 21-23 March. Sulfur dioxide plumes were identified in satellite data. Minor ash emissions rose hundreds of meters and rapidly dissipated, though on 23 March a pilot saw an ash plume rise to 3 km (10,000 ft) a.s.l. Satellite data during 22-23 March showed highly elevated surface temperatures and subsidence of the glacial ice over the flank vent where lava was erupting. The Volcano Alert Level remained at Watch and the Aviation colour Code remained at Orange.


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The Zoological Gardens of Pistoia is a zoo, founded in 1970 by Raphael Galardini designed by Angelo Lombardi, in the village of Pieve a Celle Pistoia. One of the major structures in Italy, extending over 7 acres.
It currently houses about 600 animals including mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians; hosted specimens of rare species such as white rhino, crocodile, Cuba and the sloth bear. The fauna currently includes various species of lemurs from Madagascar, lions, tigers, jaguars, wolves, lynxes, Indian elephants, giraffes, zebras, and rare Markhor manul, as well as various species of monkeys and the Asian continent than American. Remarkable reptile. The flora was enriched with hundreds of exotic species. In recent years there has been extensive and natural systems to exhibit big cats, wolves and brown bears. In 2011 the park has opened a new department dedicated to replacing the penguins polar bears.
The park in its interior houses a theater with a didactic purpose, a reconstruction of a village in Lapland, more than twenty observatories and laboratories to explore nature. The zoo also offers an interactive tour of the Owls inside the aviary and the forest of the Lemurs.
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Deep in the Patagonian Andes of Argentina the Gauchos spend their days working hard in the mountains. In the evenings when they finally have time to feed their souls they will enjoy an asado of the local meat they raise, accompanied by some home-grown greens from the garden and potatoes from the rich Patagonian soil. The meat is typically cooked over open-flame and is generously drenched in a home-made Chimichurri. At CHE Chimichurri we respect these traditions with our Patagonian original, and as New Mexicans we added a little twist with our Habanero hot. Try them both as a marinade or apply it generously when it's on the grill.
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Jewels è un'organizzazione di arti marziali miste di proprietà di Marverous Japan Co. Giappone, diretto successore di Smackgirl  specializzata nella MMA femminile.

Storia
Dopo che la promozione MMA femminile Smackgirl ha affrontato gravi difficoltà finanziarie causate dall'inattesa perdita di importanti sponsor e accordi con reti televisive, un dirigente della società giapponese Archery Inc., Yuichi Ozono, ha costituito la società Marverous Japan e ha acquisito i beni e i diritti precedentemente appartenenti alla società madre di Smackgirl Kilgore. Poiché la reputazione di Smackgirl è stata offuscata da tutti i problemi che ha dovuto affrontare, è stato deciso di ricominciare da capo. Il 9 giugno 2012 è stato annunciato che Jewels ha stretto una partnership strategica con la promozione americana Invicta Fighting Championships per promuovere trasversalmente le migliori lottatrici femminili del mondo sulle rispettive categorie negli Stati Uniti e in Giappone.

Il 25 Maggio 2013 Jewels ha annunciato che avrebbe cessato l'attività come società indipendente, con a capo Yuichi Ozono, che si è dimesso e Shigeru Saeki precedentemente supervisore, è passato alla completa gestione trasferendo i fighter al nuovo marchio 'Deep Jewels''', gestito da 'Deep (arti marziali miste).''

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This week's selection of videos is full of light-hearted laughs and guilty pleasures, courtesy of Three UK, Shell and Go Compare. Enjoy!
This week's selection of videos is full of giggles and guilty pleasures, courtesy of the new AA TV ad. We've also got some crackers from ClearScore and TalkTalk. Enjoy!
AA – Singing Baby
This AA TV ad is all about how quickly AA can respond to breakdowns (in the time it takes to sing a song). It features a father driving to the airport; his extremely talented toddler is singing a full-throttle rendition of Tina Turner's "Proud Mary". Even when the car breaks down, she doesn't miss a beat. Finally, AA's mobile mechanic soon gets them "rollin'… rollin'… rollin'…" on their way to catch their flight.
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Awww, who doesn't love an animal featuring in an advert? We do! Charlie explains to Moose that the better your credit score, the better interest rates you'll get on credit cards, loans and mortgages. We don't really understand why he is telling the dog, but hey, it works for us!
Just as fun as the AA TV ad, ClearScore offers a lighthearted and universally appealing campaign.
TalkTalk – It Matters
TalkTalk's It Matters campaign installs Gogglebox-style cameras into ordinary homes to capture moments of family life. It is very raw footage with no real budget going behind it, but it makes this advert work. This musical advert features a couple toe-tapping and singing along to the Viola Wills song Gonna Get Along Without You Now from 1979.
They can stream their music through TalkTalk's fast fibre optic broadband, with no disruptions!
Again, like the ClearScore and AA TV ads, TalkTalk uses fun and familiarity to sell their product.
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Country Profile: Mozambique
Mozambique - November 2021 Mozambique - June 2021
Region: Eastern Africa
Penal Code, 2019
Ministerial Decree on abortion, 2017
From Health Regulation / Clinical Guidelines:
Clinical guidelines on abortion and post abortion care, 2017
Essential Medicines List, 2017
Gestational limit: 12
Penal Code, 2019 (page 21 )
Gestational limit
Ministerial Decree on abortion, 2017 (page 1111)
Laws or policies that impose time limits on the length of pregnancy may have negative consequences for women, including forcing them to seek clandestine abortions and suffer social inequities. Safe Abortion Guidelines, § 4.2.1.7.
Penal Code, 2019 (page 21)
Ministerial Decree on abortion, 2017 (page 1)
In case the foetus is not viable, abortion may take place at any point in gestation.
Ministerial Decree on abortion, 2017 (page 1 )
The 2018 Ministerial Decree on abortion defines abortion as the termination of pregnancy until 28 weeks of pregnancy. It also stipulates that the committee of the health unit should examine cases not stipulated in the law on a case-by-case basis to ensure that the pregnant woman's access and sexual and reproductive rights is guaranteed.
If it is recommended in the case of chronic-degenerative diseases.
Sexual violence, failure of a modern contraceptive method, the woman is infected with HIV/AIDS, the pregnancy is not wanted by a minor who is biologically, socially or psychologically unprepared.
The committee of the health unit should examine cases not stipulated in the law on a case-by-case basis to ensure that the pregnant woman's access and sexual and reproductive rights is guaranteed.
The gestational limit in case of sexual violence, failure of a modern contraceptive method, when the woman is infected with HIV/AIDS and when the pregnancy is not wanted by a minor who is biologically, socially or psychologically unprepared is 12 weeks. The committee of the health unit should examine cases not stipulated in the law on a case-by-case basis to ensure that the pregnant woman's access and sexual and reproductive rights is guaranteed.
The Penal Code states that two health professionals different from the one by whom or under whose direction the abortion will be undertaken must verify the circumstances that make the abortion not punishable in a medical certificate, written and signed before the intervention. By contrast, the 2018 Ministerial Decree on abortion states that the circumstances must be certified by a doctor or health professional qualified for this purpose.
Penal Code, 2019 (page 21 06-Mozambique-Ministerial-Decree-on-abortion-2017.pdf)
Can another adult consent in place of a parent?
According to the Penal Code, consent by a legal representative is not needed in case of an emergency but in such cases, whenever possible, the physician should seek the advice of one or more additional physicians. The 2018 Ministerial Decree on abortion stipulates that consent may be provided alternatively by the legal representative, or another person who is recognized as having legal custody of the pregnant woman, when the natural or legal guardian cannot be found or refuses to give his consent or even by another adult person without legal responsibility but acting as a confidant.
Age where consent not needed
Clinical guidelines on abortion and post abortion care, 2017 (page 11)
Wherever possible the woman should sign the consent form at least three days before the intervention.
The Clinical guideline on abortion and post-abortion care refers to HIV and syphilis tests as "complementary tests" but it is not stated that these are compulsory. The guidelines also state that the absence of certain laboratory tests should not be a reason for not offering the safe abortion service.
Yes, guidelines issued by the government
Yes (14 WEEKS)
Essential Medicines List 2017 (page 1)
Essential Medicines List 2017 (page 70)
Code of Medical Ethics
Official health establishment
Induced abortion for all women
Induced abortion for poor women only
Abortion complications
Private health coverage
Health professional, acting under direction of doctor Surgery technician, ESM licensee, Maternal and Child Nurse, General Medical Technician
Necessary basic equipment, instruments and consumables
Code of Medical Ethics (page 9 )
The right to conscientious objection may be exercised by any physician or health professional qualified to provide pregnancy termination services. There is no right to conscientious objection in cases where abortion s necessary to prevent the risk of death of the pregnant woman, to save the woman's life or prevent serious risks or damage to her health. It is the responsibility of the direction of the Sanitary Unit to indicate another doctor or health professional of Health to carry out the interruption of the pregnancy. If no other doctor or health professional is available, the patient must be transferred to another health unit, following the existing referral procedures. If the conscientious objector is a person responsible for authorizing the medical act of voluntary termination of pregnancy, he or she must be permanently replaced by another doctor or health professional qualified and designated as a substitute for this purpose.
"The Committee is concerned about multiple aspects of women's health needs, including the maternal mortality rate which, though decreasing, still remains high. It is also concerned at the high rate of teenage pregnancy and its linkage to the lack of information and prevention measures, illegal abortion and to maternal mortality. The Committee is further concerned about the obstacles that women still face in terms of access to health services, including reproductive health services, difficulties with regard to lack of information on sexual and reproductive health and difficulties linked to such factors as a lack of resources, deficient infrastructure and poor roads and transport."
Source document: CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2, para 36 (11/6/2007)
"The Committee commends the State party on its adoption of a national plan for the development of health human resources, covering the period 2016–2025, and a health sector strategic plan, covering the period 2014–2019, to ensure maternal and infant health. Nevertheless, the Committee notes with concern:
(a) The high prevalence of HIV among women, the efforts made under the national strategic plan to combat HIV/AIDS notwithstanding;
(b) The persistently high rate of maternal mortality and limited access to safe and legal abortion in the State party, the shortage of trained health professionals, including midwives, in rural areas and the lack of confidentiality in relation to abortion;
(c) The low use of modern contraceptive methods, especially in rural areas, and the limited information on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including on women's sexual autonomy;
(d) The absence of information on women's access to complaint mechanisms in case of involuntary medical treatment in psychiatric hospitals;
(e) The high prevalence of communicable diseases, including cholera and tuberculosis, among women and girls.
The Committee recommends that the State party, in line with the Committee's general recommendation No. 24 (1999) on women and health and targets 3.1 and 3.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the aim of which are to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio and ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services:
(a) Intensify the implementation of the national strategic plan to combat HIV/AIDS and ensure access to prevention and early detection programmes for women and girls at risk of HIV, including women and girls with disabilities and with albinism;
(b) Strengthen efforts to increase the number of health facilities and trained health personnel in rural areas, including through the implementation of the national plan for the development of health human resources, covering the period 2016–2025, and ensure that women have confidential access to safe abortion and post-abortion services;
(c) Ensure that women and girls have affordable access to modern forms of contraception, including in rural areas, and intensify efforts to raise awareness of contraceptive use and sexual and reproductive health and rights, targeting both women and men;
(d) Ensure that all medical procedures are carried out only with the free and informed consent of those concerned, in accordance with international standards, and improve access by women to complaint mechanisms in case of involuntary medical treatment in psychiatric hospitals and provide adequate support to them; (e) Raise awareness among women and girls of how to prevent communicable diseases and strengthen multisectoral cooperation to reduce their incidence, including by improving hygiene and sanitation, especially in rural areas."
Source document: CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/3-5, para 35 and 36 (30/07/2019)
"While the Committee commends the establishment of Youth Friendly Health Services, it remains concerned at the high rate of teenage pregnancies which derives from, among other things, a lack of information and prevention measures and results in illegal abortions and maternal mortality. The Committee shares the views expressed by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2, para. 36) on the importance of including adequate sex education in school curricula. The Committee urges the State party to take all the necessary measures to reduce teenage pregnancies and, to this end, improve knowledge and the availability of family planning services, further develop education programmes on adolescent reproductive health, and raise awareness about and access to safe contraception methods. The Committee also urges the State party to review its legislation concerning abortion, with a view notably to guaranteeing the best interests of pregnant teenagers."
Source document: CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2, para 63-64 (4/11/2009)
"The Committee is deeply concerned that: (a) Health service coverage is still insufficient in terms of infrastructure, personnel and accessibility for the general population; (b) Infant and under-5 mortality rates are extremely high; (c) Maternal mortality is very high, owing in part to insufficient prenatal care and assistance at birth and to the large number of clandestine abortions and the poor conditions in which they are carried out; (...) ..the Committee urgently recommends that the State party: (a) Continue to improve access for all children and their families to primary health care; (b) Give urgent attention to and design practical measures for reducing infant, under-5 and maternal mortality rates, addressing malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and respiratory infections, and ensuring that abortions can be conducted with all due attention to minimum standards of health safety; (c) Make every effort to improve public knowledge of basic health‑care measures, including in the areas of prevention and reproductive health, and provide for the availability of affordable contraception in order to ensure that unwanted pregnancies do not occur. (d) Seek technical assistance from UNICEF and WHO in this regard."
Source document: CRC/C/15/Add.172, para 46-47 and 50-51 (3/4/2008)
"Expressing deep concern about the high teenage pregnancy rate, very low levels of contraceptive use and limited access to safe abortion services, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Provide free, confidential and adolescent-responsive sexual and reproductive health services, information and education aimed in particular at preventing early pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections; (b) Ensure girls' access to family planning services, affordable contraceptives and safe abortion and post-abortion care services, and ensure that their views are always heard and given due consideration in abortion decisions; (c) Introduce sexual and reproductive health education into the mandatory school curriculum for adolescent girls and boys, focusing on non-discrimination, sexual and reproductive rights, healthy sexuality and the prevention of high-risk sexual behaviour and sexually transmitted diseases."
Source document: CRC/C/MOZ/CO/3-4 para 35 (27/11/2019)
166(2) - A woman who consents to and makes use of the means provided, or who voluntarily seeks an abortion herself, is punishable with up to 2 years imprisonment.
1. Whoever, on purpose, aborts a pregnant woman, using violence or drink, or medicine, or any other means for this purpose, if the act is committed without the woman's consent, is sentenced to imprisonment from 3 months to 2 years old; if it is with the woman's consent, he is punished with up to 1 year imprisonment.
2. A woman who consents to and makes use of the means provided, or who voluntarily seeks an abortion herself, is punishable with up to 2 years imprisonment.
3. The doctor, pharmacist, nurse or any other health professional who, abusing their profession, has voluntarily participated in the execution of the abortion, indicating or providing the means, incurs the penalty of imprisonment for up to 2 years.
167 - When the abortion or the means used results in serious physical harm or the death of the pregnant woman, as a direct and necessary consequence, the penalty applicable to the person who had the abortion is imprisonment from 8 to 12 years, depending on the seriousness of the results.
3.1.1 Maternal mortality ratio289 (2017)
3.7.2 Adolescent birth rate (aged 10-14 years; aged 15-19 years) per 1,000 women in that age group135.2 (2015-2020)
Percentage of married women with unmet need for family planning23.1 (2015)
Percentage of women aged 20-24 who gave birth before age 1840 (2009-2013)
Gender Inequalities Index (Rank)138 (2017)


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Could you add 'ncurses5-compat-libs' as a dependency?
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Q: Traffic_Conflict_Prediction I am trying to find out the traffic confilct. My code is:
I am trying to find out the traffic confilct. My code is:
import os
import math
fileset=os.listdir('C:\Users\Tawkir\Desktop\Lab Work')
for file in fileset:
    num=file.split('.')[0].split('-')[0]
    filename=r'C:\Users\Tawkir\Desktop\Lab Work +file'
    data=pd.read_csv(filename)
    data=data.loc[data['lane_id']<10]
    a=(data.groupby(['track_id'])['lane_id'].max()-data.groupby(['track_id'])['lane_id'].min()).reset_index().rename(columns={'lane_id':'delta'})
    b=data.groupby(['track_id'])['lane_id'].max().astype(int).reset_index().rename(columns={'lane_id':'new'})
    c=data.groupby(['track_id']).lane_id.nth(0).reset_index().rename(columns={'lane_id':'first'})
    d=data.groupby(['track_id']).lane_id.nth(-1).reset_index().rename(columns={'lane_id':'last'})
    data=pd.merge(data,a)
    del(a)
    data=pd.merge(data,b)
    del(b)
    data=pd.merge(data,c)
    del(c)
    data=pd.merge(data,d)
    del(d)
    data.loc[(data['delta']==0.5)&(data['first']!=data['first'].astype(int))&(data['last']!=data['last'].astype(int)),
    'lane_id']=data.loc[(data['delta']==0.5)&(data['first']!=data['first'].astype(int))&(data['last']!=data['last'].astype(int)),'new']
    data=data.iloc[:,0:13]
    data['speed']=data['speed']/3.6
    excel_file='./data_geo/'+num+'_geo.xlsx'
    map_data=pd.read_excel(excel_file)
    a2=-0.1301
    ttc_data=ttc(data,map_data,a2)
    ttc_data=ttc_data.sort_values(by=['track_id1','track_id2','ttc'])
    ttc_data.to_csv("ttc_data3.csv", index=False)
    ttc_data.drop_duplicates(subset=['track_id1','track_id2'],inplace=True)
    ttc_data.to_csv("ttc_data2.csv", index=False)
    ttc_data=ttc_data.loc[ttc_data['ttc']<=20]
    ttc_data.to_csv("ttc_data.csv",index=False)
    del(ttc_data)
    del(data)

Plese help me to solve the issue.
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

A: Replace this line 3 to below line
fileset=os.listdir(r'C:\Users\Tawkir\Desktop\Lab Work')

we added prefix with r to say python it is a raw string

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Bandana è il secondo album collaborativo tra il rapper statunitense Freddie Gibbs e il rapper e produttore hip hop connazionale Madlib, pubblicato il 28 giugno 2019.

Su AnyDecentMusic? ottiene 81/100, mentre su Metacritic 87/100, voto basato su 22 recensioni. Elogiato dalla critica all'unanimità, ha avuto un buon successo commerciale internazionalmente.

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Review	by Julie
11th Oct 19
Book of the year or not?
Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, was published a few weeks ago. The dystopian The Handmaid's Tale was a game-changer when it came out in 1985, painting a terrifying picture of a totalitarian society in which women had been reduced to birthing machines. The arrival of Trump and religious extremism propelled the book back on the best-seller lists and inspired Atwood to write a sequel. Any follow-up to a brilliantly conceived, ground-breaking creation is a tall order and as much as I found this book an interesting, page-turner (always the case with Atwood, in my opinion), it also feels like a slightly paler version of The Handmaid's Tale.
20th May 19
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
A nail-biting literary joyride
Two pages into The Porpoise by Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Night Time) I was utterly hooked and only emerged bleary-eyed a day later after what felt like a roller-coaster ride. The book interweaves a contemporary story with one from antiquity, and whereas that might turn some of you off, it really shouldn't. The Porpoise is first class, breakneck paced storytelling. A sort of literary Mission Impossible.
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
An engrossing murder mystery unlike any you've ever read before.
Set in a crumbling gothic mansion at the edge of a forest on the night of a glittering ball, a beautiful young woman is about to be murdered. Using established tropes from 1920s murder mysteries, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2018, is a very modern take on the genre. It's an intricately plotted, disorientating, dark and immersive read that will keep you guessing right until the end.
3rd Mar 19
The Shardlake Series by CJ Sansom
Page-turning series featuring a 16th century detective
Set in Tudor England, The Shardlake Series by CJ Sansom is a series of (currently) 7 books featuring the lawyer Matthew Shardlake and a cast of both real and fictional characters. Packed with mystery, murder and intrigue and a wealth of fascinating historical insights, I admit I have become a bit obsessed. Forget taxing literary fiction, here is your new guilty pleasure.
9th Feb 19
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
A peek into the dark corners of Silicon Valley
Twenty-one-year-old Stanford drop-out Elizabeth Holmes had a game changing idea for the health care industry, a steely determination and seductive powers of persuasion; she also had an execution problem and questionable ethics. In Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, an investigative journalist at The Wall Street Journal, we get the shocking story of Theranos, the largest health care start-up fraud in recent history. A page turning real-life thriller.
22nd Nov 18
The Comoran Strike Series by Robert Galbraith
Looking for the perfect audio book?
I find audio books only work for me if they are not too taxing. I want something I don't need to flick back and forward, something that doesn't require reading a paragraph over a few times to absorb the point, check one character's relationship to another, or admire the imagery. So when I'm gardening slash driving slash ironing, literary fiction or challenging non-fiction is not on the menu. Instead it's got to be an audio book that is suspenseful and absorbing enough to make whatever I'm doing pass quickly but nothing so deep that I have to concentrate too much – and of course narrated brilliantly. All hail, therefore, the fabulous detective novels in the Comoran Strike Series by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling) and read by Robert Glenister.
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Unputdownable, Kafkaesque real-life thriller
At one point, Bill Browder ran the most successful investment fund in Russia. Backed by prominent financiers, Browder's $4.5 billion fund Hermitage Capital Management achieved gobsmacking returns for its investors. Red Notice is the astonishing true story of Browder's journey from high-flying banker to impassioned human rights activist. A journey that landed him on the very top of Vladimir Putin's list of enemies. A frightening yet absolutely riveting read.
Review	by Meg
Lullaby by Leila Slimani
A psychological thriller about the Mary Poppins from hell
'The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds.' The chilling opening line of this hugely hyped thriller about a killer nanny leaves you in no doubt about its horrific ending. And this horrible premise certainly doesn't make for an easy read. Touted as the next Gone Girl, the first of Leila Slimani's novels to be translated into English and winner of the prestigious French literary prize, The Prix Goncourt, does Lullaby (American title – The Perfect Nanny) deserve the hype?
16th Nov 17
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
A chilling true-life murder mystery
Hot on the heals of a successful TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale comes a Netfilx adaptation of Alias Grace, another of Atwood's best-selling novels. I'd take any excuse to re-read this excellent book, which is still as good today as it was in 1996. It's based on the true story of Canadian domestic servant Grace Marks who in 1843, at the age of 16, was convicted of murdering her employer Mr Kinnear and fellow housekeeper Nancy Montgomery. Atwood's interest in the case go beyond the murder, of course, and into the dark depths of women's, particularly poor women's, standing in society; the prejudices held against them, the sexual abuse and innuendo, the back-street abortions and the assumption that they are all liars. An absolutely riveting read.
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The North Water by Ian McGuire
Behold this book!
Once in a while I come across a book that I simply cannot stop reading; that I walk around with while I cook or brush my teeth and keep reading late into the night. The North Water is such a book. An absolutely riveting read, an unputdownable book. The novel, set in 1859, tells the story of 27-year-old surgeon Patrick Sumner, who joins an ill-fated whaling expedition to the Artic. It's an extraordinarily violent and brutal book, so if you mind graphic sex and violence, don't even think about reading it. If you don't, you're in for a nail-biting thriller, which will keep you on your toes to the very last page.


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World War II: The Movie
When the U.S. Army Air Forces needed 100,000 men to volunteer, General Hap Arnold recruited Hollywood.
The First Motion Picture Unit made hundreds of G.I. training films, as well as movies to boost homefront morale. (Margaret Herrick Library/Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences)
By Mark Betancourt
On a Sunday morning in march 1942, the commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces was sitting in his Washington, D.C. office with Jack Warner, vice president of Warner Bros. Studios. The United States had entered World War II the previous December, and Lieutenant General Henry "Hap" Arnold had spent the past four months shaping his air force into one of the most formidable in the world. Anticipating an air war on two fronts on opposite sides of the globe, the service was rolling out tens of thousands of new airplanes. Arnold needed men to fly them.
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In the closing days of World War II, military cameramen got an unexpected chance to film German Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring following his capture. Video: David Sewell/Motion Video Inc.
Video: Directing Goering
A 1944 training film teaching airmen what to expect if they were captured by the Nazis. Video: Internet Archive
Video: Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Cameramen assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit explain how they positioned themselves in aircraft to get the best footage, in this excerpt from filmmaker David Sewell's as-yet unreleased documentary, "Special Film Project 186." Video: David Sewell/Motion Video Inc.
Video: Cameras Instead of Guns
Scores of writers, directors, editors, animators, artists (painting scenery,) and composers applied to work with the First Motion Picture Unit. (Margaret Herrick Library/Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences)
After Clark Gable had completed five combat missions, MGM studio executives asked that their star be transferred to the motion picture unit. (National Archives And Records Administration)
Photo editors worked 16- hour days to get time-sensitive training films out. (Margaret Herrick Library/Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences)
Movie and future television star Lloyd Nolan (center) narrated the Oscar nominated film Resisting Enemy Interrogation. (Margaret Herrick Library/Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences)
"A training film had never been made quite like Learn and Live," said Owen Crump. The movie, meant to teach fliers how to avoid fatal mistakes, features St. Peter listening to the mistakes that brought novice pilots to the gates of "Pilot's Heaven." (Margaret Herrick Library/Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences)
B-29s and film crews became a frequent sight in Culver City, California. (Margaret Herrick Library/Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences)
The well-liked Captain Ronald Reagan was initially the unit's personnel officer. He would appear in and narrate many of the unit's films. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
Arnold wanted 100,000 pilots, and he told Warner he needed a powerful recruitment movie. After that, he'd need effective training films to get all those recruits flying and fighting as soon as possible. To make all these movies, he proposed building a USAAF motion picture unit, staffed entirely with recruits from Hollywood.
Also in the room during that meeting was Owen Crump, a scriptwriter with a reputation, developed during a career in radio, for speed and accuracy. Since before Pearl Harbor, he and Warner had been making propaganda films for the military, intended to promote the armed forces to an American public reluctant to enter the war in Europe. Crump, who died in 1998, recalled the meeting in an interview recorded during 1991 and 1992 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He remembered that after Warner agreed to throw his studio's weight behind the idea, Arnold turned to Crump and said, "You're in this too"; he promised both men officers' commissions on the spot.
On the airplane back to Hollywood, Crump wrote the script for Winning Your Wings, the recruitment film Arnold had commissioned; within days, it was in production. John Huston, who had recently made The Maltese Falcon, was brought on to direct it. Actor Jimmy Stewart, an accomplished pilot who had enlisted the previous year, was given orders to star as the film's on-camera narrator. Stewart took his service in the Air Forces seriously, and thinking the studio had pulled him away for a publicity stunt, he arrived on set irate. Crump took Stewart across the street to a café and explained what he and Warner were up to. Stewart apologized for the blow-up, knocked out his scenes in a few days, and flew back to his post.
Winning Your Wings opens with Stewart flying aerobatics in a BT-13 Valiant trainer, which he then lands and taxis up to the camera. He radiates cool in his leather jacket and aviator sunglasses, and he waxes poetic about the importance of winning the war. The scene cuts to a young actress ditching her ground-bound Army date for a boy with wings on his jacket, as Stewart's voice-over claims that flyboys always get the girl.
The film played in theaters all over the country—and more than 150,000 men signed up to join the Air Forces.
Requests from Washington for more recruitment movies started to pile up, and Warner and Crump realized the studio wouldn't be able to satisfy its military obligations on top of its normal production schedule. They decided Crump would put together a separate studio devoted to serving the Air Forces. Warner gave Crump the idle Vitagraph Studios lot, where silent films had been made in the 1910s, and Crump set out to turn it into a military post.
Crump began recruiting from the Hollywood studios. A few other notable filmmakers, like director Frank Capra, had already joined the service (Capra was in the Army Signal Corps, which also made training and propaganda films), and Crump didn't want all the good talent to enlist before he got his unit off the ground. He put an ad in the trade papers, and by the next day his office was flooded with applications from writers, directors, editors, animators, and composers, many of whom were established professionals willing to take a sizable pay cut to join the war effort. Future best-selling novelist Irving Wallace wrote scripts. Artist Wayne Thiebaud painted sets. Larry Ornstein, a trumpet player for the big bands, recorded the reveille that played each morning on the post public address system.
Several movie stars joined the unit as well: Clark Gable, Lee J. Cobb, William Holden, Arthur Kennedy, Van Heflin, Joseph Cotten, DeForest Kelley, Alan Ladd, and others. Westerns star George Montgomery drove the bus from the barracks to the post. Actor and future president Ronald Reagan, who was already a second lieutenant in the Cavalry Reserve, transferred to the Air Forces to join Crump's outfit. He was well liked in the movie industry, so Crump made him the unit's personnel officer and put him in charge of processing incoming recruits.
On July 1, 1942, the outfit was officially named the Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit. But Vitagraph was underequipped for full production, and Crump struggled at first just to supply the post with the basics. Luckily, his men were used to improvising. "Motion picture fellows, a lot of them, are very, very good at that," said Crump, remembering how the men brought whatever was needed from their own homes. "These are the things I'm so proud of, the way the thing got started."
But the unit still needed a proper studio. As Crump drove past Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, where the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang films were made, he noticed the lot was out of use (Roach had been conscripted into the Signal Corps in Astoria, New York, forcing him to put his studio's lineup on hold). The studio had everything the motion picture unit needed: six warehouse-size sound stages, prop rooms, editing bays, costume and makeup departments, even an outdoor set made to look like a city street. Crump called Arnold, and within 11 days the Air Forces had leased the studio and made production manager Sidney Van Keuren a major. Jack Warner, feeling he'd done his part getting the outfit off the ground, went back to running Warner Brothers.
Crump moved his unit from Vitagraph to Hal Roach Studios, which they dubbed Fort Roach. The lot comprised 14 acres and dozens of buildings, most of them windowless to provide the controlled-lighting environments necessary for filming. The exception was a long, narrow two-story building in the front of the lot that contained the post's production department. Crump moved into Hal Roach's old office, which was decorated with chandeliers, dark wood paneling, and ornate molding and which, in the studio's early days, had contained a polar bear pelt.
Aside from the military motor pool in the back of the lot and the fact that everyone was in uniform, Fort Roach looked and functioned like a conventional movie studio. The only thing it didn't have was a mess hall, so the Army built one. The barracks, which housed the men who didn't have homes in Los Angeles, were located two miles away, at Page Military Academy.
In addition to their filmmaking work, the men shared KP duty in the mess hall and took turns guarding the studio's front gate. Each morning they would march in groups down Washington Boulevard to perform calisthenics in the parking lot of the Casa Mañana nightclub. People began to call them the Hollywood Commandos, and the men adopted the motto "We kill 'em with fil'm."
The unit's first official project was a training film called Learn and Live. It is set in "Pilot's Heaven," where uniformed fliers wearing white angel wings mill around in the afterlife while their instructor tells St. Peter what flying errors they made to end up there.
Not all of the unit's work was so fanciful. Many of its projects demanded the distillation of complicated details so they could be learned quickly, like the movies the unit made on how to identify enemy aircraft. This training was among the most vital that American airmen received.
In the Pacific, American pilots couldn't tell the difference between a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero and a U.S. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, and were shooting down their wingmen. An intact Zero was finally captured in Alaska, and was immediately loaded into a cargo plane and flown to Los Angeles, where unit cameramen were waiting. Within hours the Zero was doing maneuvers over the Californian desert as camera planes filmed it from every angle. The animation department worked through the night to develop a simple way of illustrating the Zero's distinguishing characteristics. A finished film on how to identify the enemy airplane—complete with a cartoon comparing the fuselage to a cigar—was shipped out to air bases all over the Pacific theater the next day.
Howard Landres and Eugene Marks, now in their late 80s, are among the few alumni of the unit still living. They were childhood friends in Los Angeles, and they were only 19 when they joined the Air Forces as filmmakers. Both were going to college and working part time, Marks as an engineer at a recording studio and Landres in the reading room at MGM. Having heard that the Air Forces had formed a film unit close to home, they jumped at the chance to join. Landres showed up to interview with Lieutenant Reagan on a Thursday (his day off at MGM), and Reagan asked if he would be ready to join the Air Forces the next day.
"I said, 'Tomorrow's Friday! I have a date,' " Landres remembers. Reagan suggested the following Tuesday, and they had a deal. Marks also asked that his induction be postponed a few days, as he had tickets to a football game.
"You got to remember, this was a Hollywood unit," says Landres. "Nobody really saluted as an officer passed. I mean, it was so not the military." Many members of the unit lived at home and commuted to Fort Roach. The men addressed one another by first names, and in their free time they played badminton or volleyball on empty sound stages. All unit recruits were required to go through basic training before reporting to the post, says Landres, "but it wasn't the basic-basic."
"It was like, marching up and down the street for 20 minutes," says Marks.
"How we won the war was not through this unit," jokes producer Arthur Gardner. "If any real Army officer had come and spent a week there, he'd have been out of his mind." Gardner, now 101 years old, had been an actor in the 1930 movie All Quiet on the Western Front, and already had an established producing career when he joined.
But there was serious business going on at Fort Roach. Several of the unit's films were top secret, and during filming and editing, parts of the post were restricted. Marks remembers being issued a sidearm and ordered to accompany a batch of celluloid from the lot to a nearby processing facility. Later he learned the film was part of a briefing on the atomic bomb missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"We were pretty serious there," says Landres. "I mean…we were still kids, but it was still a big war. The training films really were important, and they're pretty well done. Because before that, there was really nothing stimulating when you saw an Army movie for training."
An example of Fort Roach's improvement to the military training experience was Resisting Enemy Interrogation, a feature-length thriller about a downed aircrew captured by the Nazis. The script is based on the experiences of two American airmen who had been held and interrogated at a chateau in southern Germany; set designers modeled the interiors of the chateau after the airmen's memories of the real thing, and took detailed notes on the Germans' tactics. The set builders even enlarged a postcard of the chateau to use as a backdrop for the opening scene.
Owen Crump remembered that when the film was first assigned, it had a palpable buzz. "Kind of like in a regular motion picture studio," he said, "sometimes you get involved with a film that everybody, the cameramen, electricians and the gaffers, the cutters, everybody, and the actors, know they got one. Everybody feels it and gets excited."
The film's purpose is to show airmen-in-training how wily interrogators can be, and how catastrophic the consequences of talking. It's riveting to watch. The dialogue, acting, cinematography, and music are all cranked up to Hollywood blockbuster-levels, a quality reflected by the film's nomination for an Academy Award in 1945 in the category of Best Documentary Feature.
While many of the unit's early films featured its famous actors onscreen, celebrities like Reagan were eventually used only for voice-over, so as not to distract trainees. Instead, most members of the unit served as actors at one time or another. Crump remembers when a visiting colonel unwittingly saluted an electrician dressed as a one-star general for a scene being shot nearby.
To train bomber crews going to Japan, the art department built a 90- by 60-foot scale model of Japan's coast. The model was made out of paperboard, paint, plaster, dirt, and fabric; forests were made out of foam that had been put through a grinder. During filming, the camera would "fly" over the model to simulate the exact route of the bomb runs. Pilots returning from Japan said the model was incredibly accurate, even down to the varying colors of the seawater along the shore.
One of the crucial functions of the unit was to train combat cameramen in the use of motion picture cameras on the battlefield. Some of the trainees were Hollywood cinematographers; some were high school kids who had taken photography classes. All had to be taught how to load their own film and, if the need arose, how to develop it in the field. From Culver City, the cameramen would ship out all over the world to record the war. In some cases, footage from the front was sent to Fort Roach for use in its films. The men of the Combat Camera Units saw every type of action—they even trained to use machine guns in case a gunner was hit on a bombing run—and they were just as likely to be killed or wounded as their fighting comrades. Much of the aerial footage of World War II was shot by crews trained at Fort Roach.
While filming the documentary Memphis Belle, Oscar-winning director William Wyler and his camera crew flew in bombers over Europe and saw flak and machine-gun fire up close. Wyler wrote home about the challenges of shooting film at 29,000 feet in an unpressurized, unheated cabin. They had to hug their cameras to keep them from freezing up, and getting a good shot was difficult with the oxygen tanks they had to drag from window to window—while under enemy fire.
Most of the film professionals at Fort Roach never saw that side of the war, though occasionally they came close. Writer/director Stan Rubin, now 94, was sent to the Pacific island of Saipan to document the first B-29 mission to bomb Tokyo. While Rubin waited for the Superfortresses to leave, the Japanese bombed Saipan night after night. No bombs directly threatened the foxhole where he took shelter, but it was the closest he ever came to combat. He remembered his relative safety when interacting with regular servicemen who had seen the fighting first hand. "They were appreciative to a certain extent of what we were doing," he says. "But it would never live up to those who had been in combat or were about to go into combat."
According to Crump, the Surgeon General of the Air Forces claimed that a 10-minute film made by the unit could teach his men more about caring for the wounded than he could teach them in a month. In his memoirs, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel wrote of the American military, "Our major miscalculation was in underestimating their quick and complete mastery of film education." Partly as a result of the training in which the First Motion Picture Unit played such an essential role, more bombers and fighters were in the air over Europe faster than the Germans could organize to repel them.
When the war ended, the unit was disbanded, and Hal Roach Studios was returned to its owner with several million dollars' worth of improvements, courtesy of the Army Air Forces. The studio went back to making commercial films, but eventually closed. In 1963, it was demolished. Gene Marks became a music editor, and worked on such varied films as The Exorcist and Spaceballs. Donald Meyer, a writer for the unit, went on to pen hundreds of songs, including the Billie Holiday hit "For Heaven's Sake." A few of Fort Roach's filmmakers stayed in the military, and some went on to film the many nuclear bomb tests conducted by the United States throughout the cold war.
When the Germans surrendered in May 1945, General Arnold gave Crump one last task: to travel throughout Europe shooting color film of the impact Arnold's air force had had. Crump and his crew traveled from city to city, including Berlin, filming the damage done by years of bombing. They recorded the interrogations of top Nazi officials captured after V-E Day. They shot footage of the Nazi concentration camps Ohrdruf and Buchenwald as Allied forces liberated the camps.
Back in California, Ronald Reagan and Technical Sergeant Malvin Wald, a scriptwriter, were among the few people to see the developed film of the camps. "Even though it was a summer day, Reagan came out shivering—we all did," Wald recalled in a 2002 interview. "We'd never seen anything like that." Arnold was ultimately unable to procure enough funding from Congress to create a documentary using Crump's footage, and the unused raw film was interred in archives.
After the war, Crump was asked to stay on to command a new film facility being set up in Florida. The Air Forces brass had been so impressed with the job he'd done at Fort Roach that they offered him the rank of general. But Crump retired his commission and went back to work for Jack Warner.
Crump remembered being on the Warner Brothers lot shooting a civilian movie when two Air Forces officers showed up. They had seen Resisting Enemy Interrogation in training. Overseas, they were shot down and captured in Germany. After the downed airmen had been taken in a very familiar truck, through a very familiar gate, they looked at each other in disbelief. There was the exact same chateau from the movie. "We'd die laughing," Crump recalled them saying, "because it was just like the movies. We all felt like we were in the movies."
Crump told them how the film was made, the tricks they'd used, and all the expertise and talent that had gone into it.
When they asked him how he knew so much about it, he didn't tell them that he'd built the First Motion Picture Unit from scratch, or that he had produced the film that helped them through their captivity. Crump replied only, "Oh, I was in the Air Force too."
Mark Betancourt is a writer and filmmaker living in Washington, D.C. Owen Crump was interviewed by Douglas Bell, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Program, 1994.
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OK, well it's time–time to make resolutions. Of course, some of us think resolutions are silly in that they set us up for failure. Others make them and don't keep them after say, a day or two. But, there is a third group that integrates the resolution into their lives and finds real success. Why does the third group make resolutions work? Do they have more willpower? Maybe. Do they have more resource at hand? Maybe, but probably not. Are they smarter? Doubt it. What makes the difference?
Whether people in the third group do it consciously or not, they "anchor" their resolutions to specific actions. They "goal out" their resolution into smaller, attainable steps that can be measured and celebrated.There are a few of us that can naturally just do the anchoring without much thought, but for most of us, we need to spend intentional time on the specifics. It's at this point, a lot of resolutions fail.
Resolutions are usually born out of some desire to change. Perfect. We all have those areas we want to change. Maybe we need to lose 10 pounds, be more kind, or pay more attention to our family and friends. Whatever it might be, resolutions are a representation of a more ideal state. It's like imagining an upgraded picture of yourself. The upgraded picture comes with desire, but not directions. Those, directions, we must craft. That's where goals come in.