Tourism Month in Durban kicked off with the announcement of the first-ever Essence Festival Durban; a sister event to the annual Essence Festival New Orleans. The Essence Festival Durban will take place on the 8th to 13th November 2016 at two of the city's iconic attractions, the Durban ICC and the Moses Mabhida Stadium and will feature international performers, world renowned speakers and local artists. The Durban Business Fair is taking place simultaneously with the Essence Festival Durban which strives to connect local businesses globally.
The City of Durban has been blessed to have hosted some of the most iconic events on the continent in recent years.
Her Worship the Mayor of Durban, Cllr, Zandile Gumede said; "We are excited as the City of Durban to be hosting an event of this magnitude. The Festival will provide an opportunity for local exhibitors, visual artists and businesses to showcase their capabilities. Gumede said hosting such an historic and beneficial programme is part of the City's plans to create exchange programmes focusing on skills development, especially since the festival will focus mainly on the youth and women. We want every young person in Durban to be armed with a skill, a trade, a qualification and knowledge that they can apply to grow the economy of the city. Through partnering up with Essence in the Essence Festival Durban we want our city to showcase its cultural diversity, arts and heritage as well as its business acumen to South Africa and the rest of the world. Our vision is that Durban should be "Africa's most caring and liveable city by 2030", and this festival will not only help us to create a diverse economy but also make Durban a desirable place to live in," she added.
Phillip Sithole, Head of Durban Tourism confidently stated that, "hosting major international events, with high media impact has been a long term focus of our destination visitor marketing strategy. Essence Festival Durban enhances our destination image by creating global awareness and attracting tourism business to generate future inbound travel. We are hoping that through this partnership we can infiltrate the USA Market and the rest of the African continent to encourage visitor arrivals to our city. Special tour packages have already been formulated and marketed to the USA as we speak." concluded Mr Sithole.
Essence Festival Durban will fill you with inspiration. It will inform, entertain and change you. Amongst other things the festival will include; Beauty and Style-featuring designers from across the continent showcasing and selling their products, Lifestyle & Wellness Experience, a Music and Entertainment showcase as well as Money and Technology (which will include the Durban Business Fair). The Arts, Craft and Design pavilion will showcase some of the best visual arts South Africa and the African continent have, whilst foodies will also be treated to the different tastes Durban has to offer.
Some of the music talent on show will include South Africa's top artists such as Thandiswa Mazwai, Black Coffee, Big NuSz, Babes Wodumo, DJ Zinhle, featuring Wizkid from Nigeria and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Yolanda Adams from the USA (who will perform in the Gospel concert). Power and inspiration speakers include author and radio personality Steve Harvey, singer/songwriters Kelly Price, Estelle and distinguished civil rights activist, community leader and television/radio host Rev. Al Sharpton.
This live event is expected to draw massive crowds to the must attend gathering and prove to be a powerful economic engine for the City.


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The Convent of Las Descalzas Reales () is a royal monastery situated in Madrid, Spain, administered by the Patrimonio Nacional.

History

The Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, literally the "Monastery of the Royal Discalced", resides in the former palace of Emperor Charles V and Empress Isabel of Portugal. Their daughter, Joanna of Austria, founded this convent of nuns of the Poor Clare order in 1559. Throughout the remainder of the 16th century and into the 17th century, the convent attracted young widowed or spinster noblewomen.  Each woman brought with her a dowry.  The riches quickly piled up, and the convent became one of the richest convents in all of Europe. Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spain's finest Renaissance composer, worked at the convent from 1587 to the end of his life in 1611.

The demographics of the convent slowly changed over time, and by the 20th century, all of the sisters were in poverty. The convent maintained the riches of its past, but it was forbidden to auction any of the items off or spend any of the money it received from the dowries. The state intervened when it saw that the sisters were poor, and the pope granted a special dispensation to open the convent as a museum in 1960.

Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (died 1989) is buried in the Chapel of Saint John the Baptist next to his elder son Francisco de Asís (died 1984). Alfonso's younger brother Gonzalo (died 2000) is buried in the Chapel of Saint Sebastian.

Museum
While in the past, the treasures of the monastery were not visible, today the monastery houses only a few nuns, and the site is a well-visited national monument. The noblewomen's dowries were often invested into relics and their bejeweled exhibition pieces.  Among the many relics on display are putatively pieces from Christ's cross and the  bones of Saint Sebastian. Among the priceless art masterpieces are Titian's Caesar's Money, tapestries woven to designs by Rubens, and works by Hans de Beken and Brueghel the Elder.

The museum collection also includes such rarities as portraits of royal children of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from the late 16th century, referring to Polish–Spanish relations that inspired Calderón's La vida es sueño. Portraits of the son and daughter of King Sigismund of Poland were painted by Martin Kober in 1596 and were sent as a gift to King Philip III of Spain.

The Church
The original architect of the church was Antonio Sillero. The facade was designed by Juan Bautista de Toledo in 1559; who also helped in the roofing of the church. Parts of the  altar, choir, and sacristy, were designed by Juan Gómez de Mora in 1612. Gaspar Becerra in 1562 completed the main retablo of the altar, which was considered his master work. Unfortunately, this retablo was destroyed by fire in 1862, along with many of the paintings and frescoes by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz. In 1863 the altar was replaced by one commissioned in 1716 by Philip V of Spain to commemorate the beatification of the French Jesuit John Francis Regis, including canvases by Michel-Ange Houasse. It has a sculpted relief of the Apotheosis of Juan Francisco Régis, by Camillo Rusconi. The lateral panels were sculpted by Jose Bellver. The recumbent statue of the Jesuit was sculpted by Agostino Cornacchini. A chapel contains the marble statue of Joanna of Austria at prayer, by either Pompeo Leoni or Crescenci.

References

External links

  Convent of Las Descalzas Reales
 Frommer's - Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales

Descalzas Reales
1557 establishments in Spain
Religious organizations established in the 1550s
Franciscan nunneries
Christian monasteries established in the 16th century
Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in Madrid
Poor Clare monasteries
Convents in Spain

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Q: How to tell how much power I can pull from a DC power supply? I have an old TV with a power supply combined with an inverter for CCFL lamps and I'd like to convert it to use LED backlight with a 12v DC LED driver.
Now, inspecting the board, I've found where to pull 12v from for the external driver, but what I'd like to know beforehand is if the PSU part can handle the extra 3/4 amps@12v and no specs show up on Google if I look up the PSU model, all I've got is a schematic of a similar circuit (how similar? afaik they are all used as PSU + inverter for the same line of TVs) and can identify a few key components that afaik are used in PSUs like the transformer, rectifier, caps for stabilizing the output voltage etc. but still can't conclude anything useful (electronics course in uni starts next semester)
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*PCB as it looks like IRL:

*Schematic for the PSU part:

*Schematic for the inverter part (will probably cut the paths to the PSU part when I'll mount the LED driver):

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Ainsworth è una città degli Stati Uniti, situata nella Contea di Washington, nello Stato dell'Iowa.

Geografia fisica
Le coordinate geografiche della città sono:  (41.290175 -91.554283). Ainsworth ha una superficie di 1,0 km². Le città limitrofe sono:Conesville, Cotter, Crawfordsville, Fredonia, Olds, Washington e Wayland. Ainsworth è situata a 216 m s.l.m.

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Al censimento del 2000, Ainsworth contava 524 abitanti e 199 famiglie. La densità di popolazione era di 524 abitanti per chilometro quadrato. Le unità abitative erano 208, con una media di 208 per chilometro quadrato. La composizione razziale contava il 91,41% di bianchi, lo 0,38% di nativi americani e l'8,02% di altre razze. Gli ispanici e i latini erano il 15,65% della popolazione residente.

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This issue of Neon has everything, from Faye Moorhouse's beautiful graphic short story "The Cat Ladies Of Czechoslovakia" to Lynn Hoffman's poetic investigation into the post-literary lives of various fictional characters (just what did happen to that Potter kid after the magic dried up, anyway?). Stories range from hard sci-fi ("You used to be in the band; now you work on the asteroid," writes Robert N Lee in his story "98 Ianthe") to poetic meditations on stock photography (Juliet Kinder's "Empty Frames"). Other featured creators in this edition include Lucas Shepherd, Thea Hawlin, Stephen Devereux, Karina Evans, Kelly Muskat, Lydia Armstrong and Toby Penney. The cover image is by the award-winning young photographer Eleanor Leonne Bennett.
Neon is pay-what-you-want to read online, and costs just £4.00 for a physical copy. In its perfect-bound format each issue is around 70 pages, and is photo-illustrated in black and white.
Published summer 2016 (print and online).


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The Best Moments from Episode 1
Welcome to Season 3 of Poldark! It's time for all-new episodes with fresh faces, old flames, and the familiar Cornish cliffs. Before the next episode, relive the best moments from the Season 3 premiere. Spoilers below!
1. Dwight & Caroline Find Wedded Bliss
It's the wedding of the season! Dwight and Caroline secretly marry in a country church, then share an adorable moment together before he leaves for the Navy. We present for the first time: Mr. and Mrs. Enys!
2. George & Ross Make a Deal
In a rare show of self-control, Ross pays a visit to George to ensure his relations are safe in the new Trenwith. We never thought we'd see the day! Is this the dawn of a new era?
3. Poldarks, and Carnes, and Chynoweths—Oh My!
Meet the new faces in Season 3! Demelza's handsome younger brothers (Drake and Sam), Elizabeth's well-intentioned cousin (Morwenna), and an old swashbuckler from Ross' past (Tholly Tregirls)–all converge in Cornwall.
4. It's a Boy!
When George starts asking questions about the timing of Elizabeth's pregnancy, she goes to desperate measures. A broken vase and fake fall down the stairs explain the "early" birth baby Valentine.
Does this mean the suspicion surrounding him is banished once and for all?
5. Demelza is Expecting (Unexpectedly)
Demelza breaks some big news to Ross: She's with child again! Will this new addition inspire some positive change for a couple on the rocks?
6. Trip to Tahiti?
No, our rough-and-ready hero is not shipping off to a tropical paradise. "Tehidy" is the house of local politician Sir Francis Basset, who is eager to harness Ross' clout with the people of Cornwall. Ross is offered a magistrate position (by Reverend Halse, no less!) but he declines; he just couldn't bring himself to judge his fellow men.
7. …Bliss Over!
Just as quickly as Dwight and Caroline find happiness, it's taken away! Dwight's naval career is quickly cut short when he is ambushed by French forces. Is he still alive? Is he being held prisoner? Poor Caroline is left to hope for the best. Unfortunately, this also pains the Poldarks: Ross is now heading to France, determined to find his best friend.
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Q: Include node_modules while packaging Electron desktop app? I am trying out a simple Hello World Electron app in Linux. I want to package it and install it on Windows as well to test if it runs fine there.
When I did 'npm install', it created a node_modules folder of ~112 MB. I don't have anything yet that even makes use of these modules, and the sample starts fine if I delete this folder too.
The package.json file has 'electron-prebuilt' as the only item in devDependencies so I assume the node_modules folder was for that.
So my doubt is should this folder  be included in the final package if I want it to run on Windows?
I checked the documentation here but it just has the 3 files and no dependencies so I was not sure of what to do in cases where you explicitly have some.

A: Short answer:
You do need node_modules folder in your final distribution if you install additional libraries via npm and then reference them from your code.
Long answer:
I'm not sure, but you are probably confused because you installed electron-prebuilt, which is also an npm package, but this one is special, since it's required for development and packaging, and doesn't serve as a simple library for your app. I'd recommend using a two-package structure for your application to separate development and application packages. Here's an example of a folder structure for my electron app (let's call it MyApp):

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*MyApp: solution root folder, for a simple app this would map onto your repository root folder

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*gulpfile.js - build configuration if you use gulp

*package.json - dev package metadata. Dev package is not your application, but rather a wrapper around it.

*other files, like .hgignore, README.md, whatever else.

*node_modules : all dev dependencies, this will contain packages, which you need for development, like gulp, electron-prebuilt, gulp plugins, etc. exluded from repo

*dist : distribution folder, this is where my gulp tasks are to put packaged app distribution when it goes to production. excluded from repo

*src : all app sources. Now this is your application. All contents of this folder get packed into a distribution.

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*bower.json - bower manifest, in case you're using it

*package.json - app package metadata

*node_modules: all npm app dependencies (like sqlite, angular,  d3, etc.); excluded from repo

*bower_modules : all bower app dependencies excluded from repo

*app.js - your app entry point

So, when I need to install a package, which helps me in development (usually a gulp plugin) I navigate to /MyApp and execute npm install -D [package] there. When I need to install a library for my app to use, like a front-end framework, I navigate to /MyApp/src and execute npm install -S [package] there.
When I need to quickly run electron app in development I feed /MyApp/src folder to gulp-run-electron plugin. Alternatively, if you installed electron-prebuilt for you dev package, you can navigate to /MyApp and run /MyApp/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/electron[.exe] ./src. You can also install electron-prebuilt globally with npm i -g electron-prebuilt and just run electron ./src.
When I need to package my app for the release or testing I use gulp-electron plugin for gulp to produce a distribution. There are other ways to do this, like using electron-packager or one of its wrappers for a build system of your choice, or doing the whole thing manually.
Edit: Since you're concerned about the size, yeah prebuilt electron itself will take quite a lot of space, but the installer can be shrunk effectively with some archiver, like 7z.

A: electron-packager is a light-weight abstraction that takes some of the tedium out of building Electron applications for every platform.
It will go through your applications and create a executable for each of the operating systems that you specify. It will take care of bundling your application. You don't have to worry about specifying that node_modules be in the final build.
Generally speaking, it's not recommended to even check node_modules into version control.


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Protein profile expression of Clarias gariepinus, Heterobranchus bidorsalis and their reciprocal hybrids in South-West Nigeria
OT Agbebi, SO Sofela, O Olowofeso
Artificially propagated juveniles (comprising four samples from each mating combinations) reared for sixteen weeks were analyzed electrophoretically using 12% Sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (1D SDS-PAGE). The relative concentrations of individual protein bands in relation to their molecular weights were analyzed using Total Lab™ 1D software. Electrophoregram were scored and subjected to cluster analysis. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th bands were detected across all mating combinations. The 5th band with molecular weight (78.58 KDa) distinguished C.gariepinus from H. bidorsalis while the 6th band with molecular weight (54.41 KDa) distinct reciprocal hyrids Clariabranchus from Heteroclarias. The 7th and 12th bands distinguished the pure breeds from the hybrids. The 7th band was present in both hybrids- Clariabranchus (49.50 KDa) and Heteroclarias (49.77 KDa) species but absent in the pure breeds while 12th bands was present in the pure breeds- C.gariepinus (19.92 KDa) and H. bidorsalis (20.29 KDa). The distinguishing 6th, 7th, and 12th bands were identified (using talgdent tool via Uniprot data base) corresponded to desmin, dystonin and myosin light chain II respectively. The study revealed the efficiency of protein profile in species identification over the widely used morphormetric tools.
Key Words: Pure clariid breeds, protein pattern, electrophoregram, Clariabranchus, Heteroclarias
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Best places to catch in NJ?
Partial Bridge Collapse at Little Ferry?
Syracuse Lackawanna Station next to Susquehanna Station?
When was NYSW 3634 painted?
NJ Bridge trespasser goes for swim.
Utica Street Running.....best time to catch it?
F.X. Matt Brewery in Utica, N.Y.
Tracks along 11 south of Binghamton.
Is 160.485, CTCSS 173.8 still active in NJ?
NYSW serviced Nepera on CR back in the 1980s?
CSX office train on NYS&W Rochelle Park??
Susquehanna/Erie diesels together - where would this happen?
Who did the scrapping of NYSW S-2 and RS-1's ?
Walter Rich owned the TP&W?
Penn Central expressed interest in purchasing NYSW?
The WS trains (WS-5, 6, etc.) - how do they work?
Maywood Chemical Co. Superfund site to get $17 M Clean-up!
Possible new siding near Maywood Station?


Eighteen volunteers arrived in the kitchen at 3:00pm with all the supplies needed to make dinner. The group made a delicious Italian meal that included a tossed salad, Italian sausage, Italian beef and Italian meatball sandwiches, spaghetti with meatballs, garlic bread, an assortment of cupcakes, dulcle de leche cakes and fresh ice tea and lemonade.
The team met some of the families as they served them the meal. Several families and in particular a grandfather of a ten year old boy staying at Lurie Children's Hospital told us this was the best meal he had in a while and that he wished his grandson could have had this homemade meal because it was a delicious Italian meal! Special thanks to our Chef, Rafael, who organized Alyssa's team and provided the leadership to make this Dinner Meal a fun and successful event. The volunteers said it was a lot of fun and they enjoyed serving the guests at the Ronald McDonald House in Chicago.
We also had the opportunity to serve one of our gift recipients' Mom, Jen. It was so nice to see her and check in on Lexi's art. It was exciting to hear that Lexi continues to draw while she is going through her treatments at Lurie Children's Hospital!
The next Meal Prep (brunch) event will be on Sunday, December 6 at the Ronald McDonald House in downtown Chicago. Please visit our Get Involved page to sign up and to find more ways to get involved!


You can't rely on City Hall to replace your birth certificate after a flood or a hurricane. Chances are good that their originals will be just as waterlogged as yours are.
Just ask the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
After their vital documents were destroyed in the hurricane, many homeowners returned and went straight to the county recorder, bank, or schools to grab copies of their lost documents. Unfortunately, many institutions and offices were destroyed too, along with all of their records. It's up to you to ensure that you have the copies of the documents that you and your family need, whenever and wherever you need them.
When you think about it, vital documents are more valuable to you, your finances and your family than they are to some local government official. And if that's the case, you're the one who has to make sure that you know where your vital documents are and that you have instant access to them at all times.
After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and more recently with the tornadoes in Oklahoma and Illinois, residents returned to their homes to find them destroyed. Once they began to piece their lives back together, they realized they would need school transcripts and birth certificates or benefit determination letters. So they went to their schools or state and city offices for help, only to find them under water or destroyed – along with all of the paper based records that had not yet been digitized. You can't count on your city to replace your records when they have just as good a chance of having their own copies destroyed in the same regional disaster. And even federal buildings have had problems. Fires in government buildings during the twentieth century destroyed many state censuses and at least one complete United States Census, wiping out the names, dates, and data of entire families.
And even when you can apply for a replacement copy of a birth, marriage or death certificate, don't count on getting an exact copy of the original. We were very surprised to find that out when we went to get an additional original copy of our birth certificates and those of my mother and grandmother. Theirs were the same as the originals, but mine was completely different. Gone were the details of my birth, the signatures, my parents' middle names and occupations.
The new copy is simply the child's name, parents' first and last names, hospital, county and birth date. The clerk told us that they've decided to streamline birth and marriage certificates, getting rid of all those old "useless" details and replacing them only with what "matters". Why? To save space, along with the money that it would take to transcribe all that data. But along with it, go all the details that add history and uniqueness to people's lives – the story of their birth. We're huge proponents of knowing your family history and working to preserve it and can't fathom the fact that cities and states across America are deleting all of those clues people need to find out where they come from. Wow! There's a case for having several backup copies of those originals if I ever heard one!
We suggest people keep copies of their vital documents in at least three different places. Scan or copy the originals of each paper document.
1) Put the originals in a waterproof safe or bin or locking file cabinet in your home.
2) Once you've scanned the originals, place them on a flash or portable hard drive and put that flash or hard drive in a safe deposit box in your own city. If you can't scan them just make copies and place those copies in the safe deposit box.
3) Place the third set of scans/copies in a safe deposit box outside of your city, in your family's evacuation location. Wherever you and your family will relocate during an area-wide evacuation.
Why do we advocate scanning? Scanning allows you to have an exact, electronic copy of that original document, both on your computer and on a flash drive or portable hard drive. Not only can you secure it, you can even email it to someone else for safekeeping. And with a scan, if that original is ever damaged or destroyed, you will be able to reprint it to create a clear, perfect original. On the other hand, if you don't scan a document and simply make another paper copy, it's just as likely to be harmed or to fade and decay with age. If you don't have access to a scanner, go ahead and make copies. Just make sure that you put them in different locations to minimize the danger of loss or destruction.
This leads me to my last point on vital documents. If it's so much better to have documents scanned and saved electronically, why do we advocate keeping paper copies as well? For the same reason we advocate keeping prints of your cherished photos, even though you have them saved to your computer or on a CD. For safe keeping! As wonderful and trustworthy as electronic storage is, do you really want to trust the ONLY copies of your vital documents to a computer or an online file or photo archive? We sure don't!


Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay ("Selma") says mainstream leaders must embrace diversity, and that women and people of color need equality in getting second chances. Here's how she challenges conventions.
Sometimes, team members need or want favors—to come in late, leave early, pass on an assignment, get a deadline extended, etc. But how do you accommodate such requests without leaving other team members grumbling?
Becoming a boss for the first time has serious consequences for both the individual and the organization.
James McCann pounced on a deal without thoroughly investigating the seller or analyzing the financial details of the transaction. Soon after completing the purchase, he realized his mistake.
While there's no guarantee Gavin Patterson would have uncovered the extent of his company's accounting fraud if he had spent more time there, his lack of involvement didn't help.
"Work hard" is one of the cardinal rules of success. For what that means, listen to big-time columnist Jimmy Breslin.
What keeps Elon Musk up at night is not futuristic at all. It's the overstuffed parking lot outside his office window.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp has been Lego's "master builder" of the company's turnaround since 2004. At the time, Lego was losing $1 million a day. Now it's the world's most profitable toy company.
In 2006, Greg Satell confronted a big problem. He helped run a Ukraine-based company whose main product, a popular magazine called Afisha, was in decline.
Catastrophic failures aren't usually caused by one or two big mess-ups but by a series of cascading errors. So it was at this year's Academy Awards, where a number of factors contributed to the wrong movie being announced as Best Picture.
In 2008, Jim Whitehurst took a big risk. And it backfired. From it he learned that as powerful as a CEO's accessibility is, nothing builds engagement more than being accountable.
When an employee tells you she's pregnant, it may bring on mixed emotions for supervisors. While you're happy for the employee, you're anxious about the impact on scheduling, productivity—and whether she will quit after the birth.
As a leader, your words carry immense weight. Even a seemingly minor comment can unexpectedly make a major impact.
More than your employees, more than your vendors and investors, and more than your customers, you and your behavior on social media are the online embodiment of your company's brand.


Abomber jacket that costs almost £1,000? Hard sell. Yes, it's from Vetements, the most talked-about label of the season, and, yep, it's palindromically reversible (bear with), in that there's a zip on the back as well as the front, but who has £915? No one, that's who. You can borrow the idea though, because half the shtick is in the styling – on its models, Vetements had both zips undone and let it hang off-shoulder. Logically, this is also the best way to wear any thick, padded, winter MA1-style jacket into spring (and back into winter again – padded jackets were on the autumn/winter catwalks at Demna Gvasalia's Balenciaga debut and Stella McCartney).
Topshop MA1 Zip Bomber Jacket, £55.00.
It will feel a bit (very) odd at first. Try wearing it with a T-shirt in a contrasting colour or a polo neck until the weather behaves. It's really the opposite ofshoulder-robing – winter's nattiest trick of wearing your coat or jacket on your shoulders: arms-free, like Superman, just with better reviews.


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A number of children learning the Catechism in Gibraltar's 15th century Loreto Convent were seriously injured by blast and flying glass when 500 tons of explosives blew up in......
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New defence post Sir Basil Embry, who has been appointed Air Officer Commandingin-Chief, Fighter Command. for the defence of the United Kingdom in the event of war, is a......
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REBEL COMES TO THE CABINET By Douglas Hyde M R. Attlee's Cabinet room lost a rebel when Mr. Aneurin Bevan resigned. It has gained another with the appointment of 54 year-old Mr.......
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HUNGARY'S Bishops are once again under attack by the Communist press and radio. This time they are charged with "opposing peace" and "break ing the Church-State agreement "......
Anti-clerical Campaign In Italy
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On every 31st of December, I always like to show you a recopilation of looks of the entire year. It's more dynamic and you can see all of them together just scrolling down and clicking on every photo to go to the specific outfit post. Now that I can see all of them together I feel like I haven't showed you look as much as I would have liked it, the thing is that due to my studies I can't invest more time on the blog. But, this year, one of the things which I have proposed myself is to update the blog even more, to bring you new content and to bring you new surprises. I always try to change myself every year in several respects, like shame (the worst thing I gotta in my life). Do you have any purposes for this new year? 2015, a new book with blank pages. Let's write a bestseller. A simply thanks to everybody who has been reading day per day my blog and with all the brands I have worked with this year. Cada 31 de diciembre siempre os traigo este post recopilando todos los looks del año y hoy no era menos, Es más dinámico y podéis ver todos los outfits juntos solo con ir bajando el cursor y dando click en la foto que queráis ver y os llevará al outfit post concreto. Ahora que me pongo a ver este post siento que nos os he enseñado todos los looks que me hubiera gustado enseñaros, pero por mis estudios me falta tiempo. Algo que me he propuesto para este nuevo año que entra es invertir un poco mas de tiempo en el blog con contenido muy diferente y alguna que otra sorpresa, Siempre intento cambiar algún aspecto de mi y este año le toca a la 'vergüenza' (algo que llevo muy mal). ¿Tenéis algún propósito para este año? 2015, un nuevo libro en blanco. ¿Y si escribimos un bestseller? Un gracias muy grande a todos aquellos que me leen día por día y a todas las marcas con las que he tenido el placer de trabajar este año.
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R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683: SPECIMEN COLLECTION CENTRES
under Laboratory and Specimen Collection Centre Licensing Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. L.1
current March 3, 2021 – (e-Laws currency date)
January 22, 2021 – March 2, 2021
September 18, 2020 – November 19, 2020
November 18, 2016 – September 17, 2020
June 19, 2015 – June 30, 2015
March 20, 2014 – June 18, 2015
February 3, 2014 – March 19, 2014
January 31, 2014 – February 2, 2014
February 1, 2003 – January 30, 2014
Laboratory and Specimen Collection Centre Licensing Act
R.R.O. 1990, REGULATION 683
SPECIMEN COLLECTION CENTRES
Consolidation Period: From March 3, 2021 to the e-Laws currency date.
Last amendment: 156/21.
Legislative History: 403/91, 472/91, 608/91, 361/92, 418/93, 796/93, 47/98, 353/98, 449/98, 552/99, 18/01, 414/01, 359/02, 14/14, 66/14, 170/15, 362/16, 518/20, 652/20, 23/21 (as am. by 156/21), 156/21.
This is the English version of a bilingual regulation.
0.1 In this Regulation,
"COVID-19 point-of-care testing" means testing that employs a COVID-19 medical device authorized by the Minister of Health (Canada) for point-of-care use. O. Reg. 156/21, s. 1.
1. (1) An application for a licence or a provisional licence to establish, operate or maintain a specimen collection centre or renewal thereof shall be submitted to the Director. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683, s. 1 (1).
(2) A licence, provisional licence or renewal thereof to establish, operate or maintain a specimen collection centre shall be in the form provided by the Ministry. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683, s. 1 (2); O. Reg. 449/98, s. 1 (1).
(3) The fee for the issuance or renewal of a licence is $572. O. Reg. 359/02, s. 1.
(4) The fee for the issuance or renewal of a provisional licence is $286. O. Reg. 359/02, s. 1.
(5) The owner of every licensed specimen collection centre shall ensure that the licence is posted in a conspicuous place in the specimen collection centre. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683, s. 1 (5); O. Reg. 449/98, s. 1 (2).
(6) The owner of every licensed specimen collection centre shall ensure that the accreditation certificate issued by the agency that has been designated to carry out a quality management program is posted in a conspicuous place in the specimen collection centre. O. Reg. 362/16, s. 1.
2. An applicant for a licence to establish, operate or maintain a specimen collection centre shall have,
(a) staff who are certified in the manner required in section 3 as qualified to take and collect specimens from the human body; and
(b) the equipment and furnishings specified in section 4. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683, s. 2.
3. No person shall be employed by the owner or operator of a specimen collection centre for the purpose of taking or collecting specimens from the human body unless a legally qualified medical practitioner has certified in writing to the owner or operator, as the case may be, of the centre that the person has,
(a) competence in the techniques of taking and collecting specimens from the human body;
(b) the ability to manage and care for patients; and
(c) a high standard of personal cleanliness. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683, s. 3; O. Reg. 796/93, s. 1; O. Reg. 14/14, s. 2.
4. (1) Every owner and operator of a specimen collection centre shall ensure that the centre has,
(a) a chair to accommodate patients for the purpose of taking blood specimens;
(b) a couch or other furnishing to accommodate patients in case of illness;
(c) a refrigerator;
(d) a centrifuge;
(e) clean storage space for storing supplies and instruments;
(f) at least one clean and covered container for skin cleansing swabs;
(g) a self-closing waste disposal container;
(h) a waiting room for patients;
(i) a private room for taking specimens; and
(j) toilet and washroom facilities for patients. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683, s. 4 (1).
(2) Every owner and operator of a specimen collection centre shall ensure that a record is kept indicating,
(a) the names of the patients attending the centre;
(b) the names of any of the following persons who requested the taking and collecting of specimens:
(i) a legally qualified medical practitioner,
(ii) a dentist,
(iii) a midwife,
(iv) a registered nurse who holds an extended certificate of registration under the Nursing Act, 1991,
(v) a member of the College of Naturopaths of Ontario;
(c) the specimen or specimens taken and collected from each patient;
(d) the date and time of submission of the specimens to a licensed laboratory; and
(e) the name and address of the laboratory to which the specimens are sent. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683, s. 4 (2); O. Reg. 796/93, s. 2; O. Reg. 47/98, s. 1; O. Reg. 170/15, s. 1.
5. (1) Every licence that is issued to establish and operate or maintain a specimen collection centre is subject to the conditions that,
(a) the person or persons named in the licence as owner or owners of the centre are in fact the owner or owners of the centre and are also the owner or owners of a laboratory licensed under the Act;
(b) the centre maintains staff certified under section 3 to take and collect specimens from patients;
(c) the centre remains at the address shown on its licence;
(d) specimens are taken or collected from a patient only at the request of,
(iv) a registered nurse who holds an extended certificate of registration under the Nursing Act, 1991, or
(v) a member of the College of Naturopaths of Ontario, for the purposes of performing a test set out in Appendix A;
(e) the specimens taken or collected from a patient are submitted only to a laboratory licensed under the Act or to a laboratory operated by the Ministry or of the Crown in right of Ontario;
(f) no laboratory tests are carried out in the centre, other than,
(i) fasting urine glucose dipstick tests performed in relation to glucose tolerance tests that are to be performed in a laboratory,
(ii) Revoked: O. Reg. 156/21, s. 2.
(g) no payment or consideration of any kind is provided or offered to any donor of blood or blood constituents in return for the donation, whether directly or indirectly;
(h) no compensation for any expenditure of any kind or for time, travel or commitment is made to any donor of blood or blood constituents, whether directly or indirectly;
(i) the operation of the centre meets the requirements of a quality management program; and
(j) the owner and the operator of the centre permit the agency that has been designated to carry out a quality management program to carry out such a program. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683, s. 5; O. Reg. 796/93, s. 3; O. Reg. 47/98, s. 2; O. Reg. 449/98, s. 2; O. Reg. 14/14, s. 3; O. Reg. 66/14, s. 1; O. Reg. 170/15, s. 2; O. Reg. 362/16, s. 2; O. Reg. 652/20, s. 1 (1); O. Reg. 156/21, s. 2.
(2) Revoked: O. Reg. 23/21, s. 2.
6. No person other than the owner of a laboratory licensed under the Act shall have any proprietary interest in a specimen collection centre. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 683, s. 6; O. Reg. 14/14, s. 4.
7. (1) In this section,
"temporary specimen collection centre" means a specimen collection centre that is established, operated or maintained at a temporary, mobile or portable location. O. Reg. 14/14, s. 5.
(2) Despite subsection 9 (3) of the Act, a licence is not required to establish, operate or maintain a temporary specimen collection centre if it is established, operated or maintained by the owner and operator of a specimen collection centre that is licensed under the Act. O. Reg. 14/14, s. 5.
(3) Where subsection (2) applies, any conditions or restrictions to which the specimen collection centre's licence is subject apply with necessary modifications with respect to the temporary specimen collection centre. O. Reg. 14/14, s. 5.
(4) Every owner and operator of a temporary specimen collection centre to which subsection (2) applies shall ensure that no specimen taking or collecting is carried out in the centre other than specimen taking or collecting authorized by the specimen collection centre's licence, and no person employed in the temporary specimen collection centre shall knowingly participate in such specimen taking or collecting. O. Reg. 14/14, s. 5.
(5) Subsection 4 (1) does not apply with respect to a temporary specimen collection centre to which subsection (2) applies, but every owner and operator of such a centre shall ensure that the centre has the equipment and furnishings necessary to ensure the integrity of the specimens and the safety and privacy of patients, taking into consideration the list of items set out in that subsection. O. Reg. 14/14, s. 5.
8. A member of the College of Naturopaths of Ontario is exempt from sections 5 to 16 of the Act and from the provisions of this Regulation with respect to performing the following acts in the following places set out in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3:
1. Taking blood from his or her own patient in his or her own office for the purposes of performing one or more of the following naturopathic examinations in his or her own office:
i. Blood Group – ABO and RhD.
ii. BTA Bioterrain Assessment.
iii. Fatty acids, free.
iv. Glucose.
v. Hemoglobin – A1C.
vi. Live blood cell analysis.
vii. Mononuclear Heterophile Antibodies (monospot).
2. Taking or collecting specimens other than blood from his or her own patient in his or her own office for the purposes of performing one or more of the following tests in his or her own office:
i. Ascorbic acid (ascorbate) Vitamin C.
iii. Human Chorionic Gonadotropin – pregnancy test.
iv. Indican.
v. Koenisberg.
vi. Oxidative testing.
vii. Rapid Strep Test.
viii. Routine urinalysis by dipstick.
ix. Sulkowitch.
x. Vaginal pH.
3. Taking or collecting specimens other than blood from his or her own patient in his or her own office for the purposes of ordering one or more of the tests set out in Appendix B from a laboratory licensed under the Act. O. Reg. 170/15, s. 3.
9. (1) The following persons are exempt from sections 5 to 16 of the Act and from the provisions of this Regulation with respect to collecting specimens for a test performed in relation to COVID-19:
1. A legally qualified medical practitioner.
2. A registered practical nurse or registered nurse, including a registered nurse who holds an extended certificate of registration under the Nursing Act, 1991.
3. A person registered as a dentist under the Dentistry Act, 1991.
4. A person registered as a pharmacist under the Pharmacy Act,1991.
5. A paramedic in the course of their employment with an ambulance service operator that is certified under the Ambulance Act.
6. A person who provides services as part of a community paramedicine program approved by either the Ministry of Health or Ministry of Long-Term Care, and who is a paramedic within the meaning of the Ambulance Act. O. Reg. 652/20, s. 2.
(2) Nothing in this section limits or replaces the application of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 or the Ambulance Act with respect to controlled acts or any other matter. O. Reg. 652/20, s. 2.
10. A person who collects specimens for COVID-19 point-of-care testing is exempt from sections 5 to 16 of the Act and from the provisions of this Regulation. O. Reg. 156/21, s. 3.
Tests for which a Naturopath may Request Specimen Collection
Tests Performed on Blood
1. 17-OH-Progesterone.
2. 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT).
3. Adrenocorticotropic Hormone ACTH.
4. Alanine Transaminase (ALT, SGPT).
5. Albumin, qualitative.
6. Aldosterone.
7. Allergen Specific IgG Antibody.
8. Allergy testing (ELISA).
9. Allergy testing (IgE specific, RAST).
10. Alpha tocopherol – Vitamin E.
11. Amino Acids – Total Fractionation.
12. Ammonia.
13. Amylase.
14. Androstenedione.
15. Antibody Screening Food IgG.
16. Antibody Screening IgA.
17. Antibody Screening IgM.
18. Antigen Leukocyte Antibody.
19. Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH).
20. Anti-Nuclear Antibody.
21. Anti-Parietal Cell Antibody.
22. Anti-Reticulin Antibodies.
23. Apolipoprotein A1.
24. Apolipoprotein B.
25. Ascorbic Acid (ascorbate) Vitamin C.
26. Aspartate Transaminase.
27. Beta-Carotene (Carotene).
28. Bilirubin (total, total conjugated, unconjugated, direct and indirect).
29. Blood Group ABO and RhD.
30. Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN).
31. Bun / Creatinine Ratio.
32. CA125.
33. CA15-3.
34. Calcium, Calcium ionized.
35. Candida Antibodies (IgM, IgG, IgA).
36. Carbon Dioxide Bicarbonate.
37. Carcinoembryonic Antigen.
38. Ceruloplasmin.
39. Chloride.
40. Cholinesterase, pseudo or true.
41. Coenzyme Q10.
42. Complement proteins – C3 (B1C) and Complement proteins – C4 (B1E).
43. Complete Blood Count.
44. Copper.
45. Cortisol – bound and unbound, no differentiation.
46. C-peptide immunoreactivity.
47. C-Reactive Protein (CRP).
48. C-Reactive Protein – High Sensitivity.
49. Creatine Phosphokinase.
50. Creatinine.
51. Creatinine Clearance.
52. Cystathionine.
53. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS).
54. Digitalis purpurea (digoxin).
55. Electrophoresis – including total protein.
56. Endomysial Antibody.
57. Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) (Sedimentation Rate).
58. Estradiol.
59. Estriol.
60. Estrogen.
61. Estrone.
62. Fatty acids, free.
63. Ferritin.
64. Fibrinogen semi-quantitative and quantitative.
65. Folate.
66. FSH.
67. Galectin 3.
68. Gamma-glutamyl Transferase (GGT) / GG transpeptidase (GGTP).
69. Gliadin Antibodies (IgG, IgA).
70. Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR).
71. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G-6-PD).
72. Glucose, quantitative.
73. Glucose Tolerance Test.
74. Glutathione.
75. Hemoglobin – A1C.
76. Homocysteine.
77. Histocompatibility Testing – HLA 27 typing.
78. Immunoglobulin (globulin).
79. Insulin, Fasting and Non-fasting.
80. Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1.
81. Intrinsic Factor Blocking Antibody.
82. Iron, total – with iron binding capacity and per cent saturation.
83. Islet Cell Cytoplasmic Autoantibody.
84. Lactate dehydrogenase.
85. Lactate, Lactic Acid.
86. Lead.
87. Leptin.
88. Lipase.
89. Luteinizing Hormone.
90. Lyme Disease Antibodies.
91. Magnesium.
92. Memory Lymphocyte Immuno-Stimulation Assay (MELISA Test).
93. Mercury.
94. Mononuclear Heterophile Antibodies (Monospot).
95. Natriuretic Peptide – Brain (BNP).
96. Parathyroid hormone.
97. PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls).
98. Phosphatase, alkaline.
99. Phosphorus (inorganic phosphate).
100. Potassium.
101. Pregnenolone.
102. Progesterone.
103. Prolactin.
104. Protein, Total (albumin / globulin ratio).
105. Prothrombin time and International Normalized Ratio (INR).
106. PSA, Ratio.
107. Reticulocyte count.
108. Retinol, Vitamin A.
109. Reverse T3.
110. Rheumatoid factor.
111. S-adenosylhomocysteine.
112. S-adenosyl methionine.
113. Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG).
114. Sodium.
115. Testosterone.
116. Testosterone, free.
117. Thyroglobulin.
118. Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody.
119. Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulin (TSI).
120. Thyroxine Free (FT4).
121. Total Cholesterol panel – HDL / LDL / lipoprotein phenotyping (includes sample appearance, cholesterol, triglycerides, Lipopro VLDL cholesterol [calculated estimate]).
122. Trace Minerals.
123. Transferrin.
124. Transglutaminase IgA Antibody.
125. Trichlorobenzene.
126. Triiodothyronine Free (T3).
127. TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone).
128. Uric Acid (Urate).
129. Vitamin B (all tests).
130. Vitamin D 1,25-dihydroxy.
131. Vitamin D, 25-hydroxy.
132. Volatile solvents.
133. Zinc.
Tests Performed on Stool
134. Bacteria / yeast (microbiology profile).
135. Calprotectin Fecal.
136. Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis.
137. Elastase.
138. Fecal Fat.
139. Occult Blood.
140. Parasites and Ova.
Tests Performed on Urine
141. 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT).
142. Aldosterone.
143. Bilirubin (total, total conjugated, unconjugated, direct and indirect).
144. Bisphenol A.
145. Calcium, Calcium ionized.
146. Chlorinated pesticides.
147. Cortisol – bound and unbound, no differentiation.
148. Cortisol / Cortisone.
149. Creatinine Clearance.
150. Cultures – urine, screening, actual culture without identification.
151. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS).
152. Estradiol.
153. Estriol.
154. Estrogen.
155. Estrone.
156. Human Growth Hormone.
157. Luteinizing Hormone.
158. Melatonin.
159. Oxytocin.
160. Porphyrins, screen.
162. Routine Urinalysis (glucose, blood, ketone, leukocytes, etc.)
165. Thyroid hormones.
166. Toxic Metals.
168. Urinary Organic Acid Test.
Tests Performed on Saliva
169. 17-OH-Progesterone.
172. Androstenedione.
175. Esterol.
Tests Performed on Hair
184. Heavy Metal – hair element analysis.
Tests Performed on Tissue/Discharge/Sputum
185. Culture – throat swab for streptococcus screen only.
186. Culture and sensitivities (other swabs or pus – culture and smear [includes screening]).
187. Culture and sensitivities (sputum – culture and smear).
188. Nail and skin cultures.
189. Nasal swabs (other swabs or pus – culture and smear [includes screening]).
190. Pap smear (smear only, gram or Papanicolaou stain as sole procedure).
191. Seminal fluid examination (complete).
Tests Performed on Breath
192. Hydrogen breath test.
193. Intestinal permeability test.
194. Urea breath test for H. pylori.
O. Reg. 170/15, s. 4.
Tests for which a Naturopath may Take or Collect Specimens
1. Bacteria / yeast (microbiology profile).
2. Calprotectin Fecal.
3. Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis.
4. Elastase.
5. Fecal Fat.
6. Occult Blood.
7. Parasites and Ova.
11. Bisphenol A.
13. Chlorinated pesticides.
15. Cortisol/Cortisone.
17. Cultures – urine, screening, actual culture without identification.
23. Human Growth Hormone.
25. Melatonin.
26. Oxytocin.
27. Porphyrins, screen.
28. Progesterone.
29. Routine Urinalysis (glucose, blood, ketone, leukocytes, etc.)
30. Testosterone.
31. Testosterone, free.
32. Thyroid hormones.
33. Toxic Metals.
34. Uric acid (urate).
35. Urinary Organic Acid Test.
36. 17-OH-Progesterone.
37. 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT).
38. Aldosterone.
42. Esterol.
51. Heavy Metal – Hair element analysis.
52. Culture – throat swab for streptococcus screen only.
53. Culture and sensitivities (other swabs or pus – culture and smear [includes screening]).
54. Culture and sensitivities (sputum – culture and smear).
55. Nail and skin cultures.
56. Nasal swabs (other swabs or pus – culture and smear [includes screening]).
57. Pap smear (smear only, gram or Papanicolaou stain as sole procedure).
58. Seminal fluid examination (complete).
59. Hydrogen breath test.
60. Intestinal permeability test.
61. Urea breath test for H. pylori.
Form 1 Revoked: O. Reg. 449/98, s. 3.


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Q: Approximation of derivative - Order of accuracy The derivative of a function $f$ can be approximated by using the following second-order method
$$
f'(x) \approx \frac{1}{h}(e^{hD}-1-\frac{1}{2}(e^{hD}-1)^2)f(x).
$$
The error of this approximation is $\frac{1}{3h}(e^{hD}-1)^3f(x)$.
How can one show that this in fact is a second-order approximation? That is, how do I show that
$$
\frac{1}{3h}(e^{hD}-1)^3f(x) = -\frac{h^2}{3}f'''(x) ?
$$
$D$ is the differential operator.

A: Using a forward third order finite difference we get that
$
f'''(x)\\
\approx\frac{1}{3h^3}(f(x+3h)-3f(x+2h)+3f(x+h)-f(x))\\
=\frac{1}{3h^3}(e^{3hD}f(x)-3e^{2hD}f(x)+3e^{hD}f(x)-f(x))\\
=\frac{1}{3h^3}(e^{3hD}-3e^{2hD}+3e^{hD}-1)f(x)\\
\frac{1}{3h^3}(e^{hD}-1)^3f(x)\\
$

A: I had kind of a hard time understanding what this post meant, but my conclusion is that
$$e^{hD}f(x)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac1{n!}h^h\frac{d^n}{dx^n}f(x)=f(x+h)$$
Just an expression of the Taylor series with a linear differential operator. Similarly, $\left(e^{hD}\right)^kf(x)=f(x+kh)$. So then
$$\begin{align}f^{\prime}(x)&=Df(x)=\frac1h(hD)f(x)=\frac1h\ln(e^{hD})f(x)=\frac1h\ln\left(1+(e^{hD}-1)\right)f(x)\\
&=\frac1h\left((e^{hD}-1)-\frac12(e^{hD}-1)^2+\frac13(e^{hD}-1)^3\right)f(x)+O(h^4)\end{align}$$
And then
$$\begin{align}(e^{hD}-1)^3f(x)&=\left(1+hD+O(h^2)-1\right)^3f(x)\\
&=(h^3D^3+O(h^4))f(x)=h^3f^{\prime\prime\prime}(x)+O(h^4)\end{align}$$
So that would mean
$$\begin{align}f^{\prime}(x)-\frac{-f(x+2h)+4f(x_h)-3f(x)}{2h}&=\frac{f(x+3h)-3f(+2h)+3f(x_h)-f(x)}{3h}+O(h^3)\\
&=\frac{h^2}3f^{\prime\prime\prime}(x)+O(h^3)\end{align}$$
But formal manipulation fo operator arithmetic like this isn't usually considered proof, so let's start with
$$\begin{align}f(x+h)-f(x)&=\int_x^{x+h}f^{\prime}(t)dt=\left.-(x+h-t)f^{\prime}(t)\right|_x^{x+h}+\int_x^{x+h}(x+h-t)f^{\prime\prime}(t)dt\\
&=hf^{\prime}(x)-\left.\frac12(x+h-t)^2f^{\prime\prime}(t)\right|_x^{x+h}+\frac12\int_x^{x+h}(x+h-t)^2f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt\\
&=hf^{\prime}(x)+\frac12h^2f^{\prime\prime}(x)+\frac12\int_x^{x+h}(x+h-t)^2f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt\end{align}$$
Also
$$\begin{align}f(x+2h)-f(x)&=2hf^{\prime}(x)+2h^2f^{\prime\prime}(x)+\frac12\int_x^{x+2h}(x+2h-t)^2f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt\\
f(x+3h)-f(x)&=3hf^{\prime}(x)+\frac92h^2f^{\prime\prime}(x)+\frac12\int_x^{x+3h}(x+3h-t)^2f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt\end{align}$$
Then we can add up
$$\begin{align}f(x+3h)-3f(x+2h)+3f(x+h)-f(x)&=(1-3+3-1)f(x)+(3-6+3)hf^{\prime}(x)\\
&\quad+\left(\frac92-6+\frac32\right)h^2f^{\prime\prime}(x)+\int_x^{x+3h}K_3(t)f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt\\
&=\int_x^{x+3h}K_3(t)f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt\end{align}$$
Where the Peano kernel
$$K_3(t)=\begin{cases}\frac12(t-x)^2&x\le t\le x+h\\
-x^2-\frac32h^2-t^2-3xh+2xt+3ht&x+h\le t\le x+2h\\
\frac12(x+3h-t)^2&x+2h\le t\le x+3h\end{cases}$$
Since $K_3(t)\ge0$ for $x\le t\le x+3h$ we can see that
$$\min_{t\in[x,x+3h]}f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)\int_x^{x+3h}K_3(t)dt\le\int_x^{x+3h}K_3(t)f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt\le\max_{t\in[x,x+3h]}f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)\int_x^{x+3h}K_3(t)dt$$
By the intermediate value theorem we can conclude
$$\begin{align}\int_x^{x+3h}K_3(t)f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt&=f^{\prime\prime\prime}(\xi_3)\int_x^{x+3h}K_3(t)dt=h^3f^{\prime\prime\prime}(\xi_3)\end{align}$$
For some $\xi_3\in(x,x+3h)$ which means
$$\frac{f(x+3h)-3f(x+2h)+3f(x+h)-f(x)}{3h}=\frac{h^2}3f^{\prime\prime\prime}(\xi_3)$$
Also we find
$$\begin{align}-f(x+2h)+4f(x+h)-3f(x)&=(-1+4-3)f(x)+(-2+4)hf^{\prime}(x)\\
&\quad+(-2+2)h^2f^{\prime\prime}(x)+\int_x^{x+2h}K_2(t)f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt\\
&=2hf^{\prime}(x)+\int_x^{x+2h}K_2(t)f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt\end{align}$$
Where this Peano kernel is
$$K_2(t)=\begin{cases}\frac32x^2+\frac32t^2+2xh-3xt-2ht&x\le t\le x+h\\
-\frac12(x+2h-t)^2&x+h\le t\le x+2h\end{cases}$$
Since $K_2(t)\le0$ for $x\le t\le x+2h$ the intermediate value theorem will again be applicable so
$$\int_x^{x+2h}K_2(t)f^{\prime\prime\prime}(t)dt=f^{\prime\prime\prime}(\xi_2)\int_x^{x+2h}K_2(t)dt=-\frac23h^2f^{\prime\prime\prime}(\xi_2)$$
For some $\xi_2\in(x,x+2h)$ and so
$$f^{\prime}(x)-\frac{-f(x+2h)+4f(x+h)-3f(f)}{2h}=\frac{h^2}3f^{\prime\prime\prime}(\xi_2)$$


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BAFTA Backlash ~ Alicia Vikander v.Kate Winslet
The most shocking upset of the BAFTA night was Alicia Vikander losing Best Supporting Actress to Kate Winslet! Of all people! It was thought that Alicia's main competition was Rooney Mara in "Carol", but lo and behold, it's turning out to be Kate Winslet for playing what amounts to a Slavic doormat-to-end-all-doormats from the flop "Steve Jobs." Her role was based on a real person, Joanna Hoffman, marketing executive for Apple and NeXT and Jobs' confidant in the film. It's one of those ugly-up roles that actors and actresses use to show their range, as the wonderful Winslet certainly did in this awful film.
Winslet has now won TWO major awards for this slovenly lady. A Golden Globe and now a BAFTA. So her Oscar chances must now be taken seriously. Or do they?
It is interesting as I noted yesterday that both these awards for Winslet were from foreign press and industry, the Golden Globes and now the BAFTAs. And she was playing a Polish woman succeeding in America, a woman who was known as the only one who could stand up to Steve Jobs.
However in neither of those awards races was she up against Alicia Vikander for "The Danish Girl." In both the Golden Globes and the BAFTA, Vikander was competing in the leading actress race. And Vikander's role as the long-suffering painter wife of a man Einer Vegener, who was going through a sex change, was in the lead in those races.
Vikander WON over Winslet at the SAG awards, when they were both in the Supporting Actress category and again at the Broadcast Film Critics. Both those wins were for "The Danish Girl" in Supporting Actress as she is nominated at the Oscars. As is Winslet for "Steve Jobs."
At the BAFTAs last night, Winslet was competing with Alicia in Supporting, but it was for Alicia's role as the Eva the robot in "Ex Machina."
"Ex Machina" won nothing last night at the BAFTAs. Neither did "Carol." Nothing. Nada. Zip.
As happy as I am to watch Winslet career trajectory move heavily forward as she progresses in age, I do have to point out that she has already WON an Oscar. For "The Reader, " in which she was brilliant, and again doing a German accent. Her German accent was better than her Polish, which kept slipping in "Steve Jobs."
It's also interesting to note that both Winslet and Vikander were playing parts that are based on real people, something Oscar always loves, and Rooney Mara was playing a fictional character from the Patricia Highsmith lesbian love story, the '50s novel "The Price of Salt" on which "Carol" is based.
So don't worry, Dear Readers, Dear Cineastes, my conclusion is this. As she did at SAG and the BCFCA, Alicia Vikander will win her first Oscar for her shattering portrayal in "The Danish Girl.", in the Supporting Actress category, whether she's a lead or not.
More on the Preferential Ballot, shortly.
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And now, here come the BAFTAS! What will they tell us?
And now, this Sunday night in London, here comes what I feel is the most predictive awards show of all the BAFTAs. The British Oscars. And what do they have to do with OUR own Oscars, coming up on Feb.28? Well, I think they are the most influential accolade of all. Especially in the Acting Races. Where, if there's a five way, undecided sort-of year, which this isn't really, in the Acting Awards, they can tip the scales in one actor's or actress's favor.
As they did famously in the year that Tilda Swinton won for "Michael Clayton", surprising many, but not me. Tilda won the BAFTA then she went right on to win her first Oscar. Interesting piece of Oscar trivia, Tilda, who could just not bear to have all these awards around her house, gave her British Oscar, her BAFTA to her British agent and her American Oscar to her American agent Brian Swardstrom. I bet they were glad to get them. NOTHING like that ever happens to actors' agents, No wonder Tilda has never stopped working since!
You win the Oscar and you never stop working, so the story goes…True or not, it's a nice thing to look forward to. For a moment. That year marked another BAFTA/Oscar milestone when the unknown French actress Marion Cotillard who was playing Edith Piaf to beat the band in "La Vie En Rose" went on to trounce Brit Julie Christie for Best Actress. Mlle. Marion was acting in her own language, you see, and it was considered IMPOSSIBLE for a foreign actress to win. But I knew she would, her perfomance as Edith Piaf at all different ages was so incredible.
And so did Daniel Day-Lewis, who got up and made a speech when he won at the BAFTAs extolling Marion's superlative performance. He won the BAFTA that year, too, for "There Will Be Blood.". People, or rather Oscar voters, listened. I think the word he used was" transcendant."
And this year? Well it seems almost all the Acting categories are locked. But wait a tic! There could be surprises. Leonardo Di Caprio in "The Revenant" has been winning EVERYTHING in sight this year and could win the Oscar. But will he win the BAFTA for Best Actor?
Don't be surprised, Leo, if BAFTA does what it usually does and award a deserving, beloved Brit, Eddie Redmayne in "The Danish Girl." And also watch out Brie Larson! She, who likewise is winning everything imaginable for "Room".At BAFTA, she's up against the It Girl of the Hour, Alicia Vikander for "The Danish Girl" who is up for Best Actress. Whereas at the Oscars, Alicia's up for Best Supporting Actress for "The Danish Girl." Her role as Gerde Vegener, who is a Danish painter married to a man who is going through the first known transgender transition is indelible, powerful.
Alicia could win the Best Actress BAFTA as "The Danish Girl" is a British Film and also Alicia, though Swedish, speaks English with a British accent. OR it could be Saoirse Ronan, who is Irish as Irish can be in "Brooklyn" an Irish film. And Brie Larson's "Room" isn't as popular over there as it has been here. It only has only other nomination Best Adapted Screenplay.
And the astonishing Alicia Vikander is having such a big year, that she's nominated also in BAFTA in Supporting Actress for "Ex Machina." Yes, Alicia winning either of these awards, would almost certainly assure her an Oscar win over Rooney Mara, the girl who wasn't there, in "Carol", her nearest competitor for Supporting Actress at the Oscars. Rooney is running as a Supporting Actress at BAFTA, as she is at the Oscars, but this time, she's up against Alicia as the sexiest robot of all time in "Ex Machina." Could Rooney win here and split the Vikander vote? "Carol" got a slew of nominations here, including Best Picture, although it didn't in the US. Alicia could win in both categories. That's right! She could win TWO BAFTAs! OR of course, she could lose twice, too.
As far as Best Supporting Actor at BAFTA, it will most likely go to one of the nominated Brits. Idris Elba, yeah, him again, for "Beasts of No Nation," I think he has this over fellow Brit and UK stage legend Mark Rylance for "Bridge of Spies." He hasn't been campaigning and has even skipped the BFCC and the SAG. Christian Bale is British, too, although he hardly ever mentions it. And he's nominated for "The Big Short." Watch this early-announced award. Who it goes to will tell us pretty clearly what will win Best Picture.
,And finally there's the Best Picture race itself which pits people think "Spotlight" v. "The Revenant" v. "The Big Short". And many, including myself, think that whatever film wins Best Film here could also go on to win the Oscar, too. Although wait another tic! Last year, the Brits picked "Boyhood" and Richard Linklater, and not "Birdman" and Alexander Gonzalez Inarittu who won the Oscars.
So there is a divide. What do I think is going to win Best Picture? Bet on the Brits voting for Brits, which could lead to "Carol" or "The Bridge of Spies" being a surprise win here, although "Spotlight" set in Boston and involving Irish Catholic pedophile priests might be something they could relate to over the Wall St. story "The Big Short" or the Western "The Revenant". Have the EVER given a BAFTA to a Western? I think not. (more…)
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Oscars ~ Where Are We Now?
With so much controversy flying every which way this year, where exactly are we? Well, the safest best bet is to watch for the Producers Guild to announce their winner this weekend. And I'm guessing it will be "Spotlight." Low wattage, reserved, and quietly, subtlely powerful as it is, its' distinction, like "12 Years a Slave"s before it, can't be denied.
They're sweeping changes a foot. Everybody is discussing Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs' VERY controversial announcement in a form of a press release. I'll leave it to others who have more time than I do, busy Oscarologist that I am at this time of year, to parse just what all this means. But suffice it to say, for this year, it means NOTHING!
The Oscars 2016 will roll along exactly as they were previous to this two years of #Oscarssowhite maelstrom. Nothing at all is going to change any time soon.
But if it WERE to effect this year's race, you might see Idris Elba win a deserved supporting actor trophy two weeks from Sunday for "Beasts of No Nation." I hope he does. This is for a SAG award, which they call, "The Actor", NOT the Oscar.
It really riles me that he was excluded and seemingly replaced by Sylvester Stallone, whose performance in "Creed" is nothing but a stream of unintelligible shrugs and mumbles. Stallone is not nominated for the SAG award. The Actors of SAG did the right thing in nominating Elba. So if you want to look for who to blame for this #Oscarssowhite trouble, look below the line. Anne Thompson's infamous "steakeaters."
It seems pre-ordained now that Leonardo Di Caprio is going to win Best Actor for the revolting "Revenant." But if he DOESN'T win the SAG Award for Best Actor two weeks from Sunday and it's Bryan Cranston, or even Eddie Redmayne, LOOK OUT! Things are not as clear in the blogospheres' crystal balls as they seem to be.
Brie Larson, a relative unknown, is about to be crowned Oscar's new Queen,and deservedly so, for "Room." Such a powerful, complex, intelligent performance by an actress we almost never see on screen.. Operating against her is "Room"s teeny, tiny distributor A24, who has never been THIS near an Oscar campaign for a performance before.
And Alicia Vikander seems to be rising and rising. She SEEMS to have the momentum in Supporting Actress for "The Danish Girl" even though it's hardly a supporting performance at all. Again the SAGS will tell the tale and also the BAFTAs. She's also in film after film after film. All big studios. And that means Hollywood already has a steak(stake?) in her future. Her moving, eloquent speech at the Broadcast Film Critics Awards on Sunday helped her immensely too. She was instantly unforgettable.
What happened to "Carol"? That's the 64 Dollar question. *sigh* I guess it just wasn't good enough. And WHY wasn't it good enough? I'd say it was the Big Zero of a performance at its' center from Rooney Mara. Don't get me wrong. I liked her playing the bisexual Lisbeth Salander in "Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" which I've seen multiple times, liking her more and more each time. But she was a void at the center of"Carol" to me. It was like Cate Blanchett was acting all by herself in that film.
Whereas in "The Danish Girl" Alicia Vikander is VERY much present in her interactions, her love of her husband, even as he turns into a woman, even encouraging him as painful as it is for her, in his transition. And she's playing a real woman, artist Gerde Wegener. , Whereas Mara is playing fictional character who is a blank, at best. Therese Belivet, the character's name is intriguing, but the part and the performance were not. I've known a lot of lesbians in my gay life, and one thing they are not, is boring. "Carol" was boring.
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There's Something Missing from "Carol" & I Think It's Rooney Mara
I was disappointed in my response to "Carol" the highly touted lesbian love story derived from one of my favorite lesbian authors Patricia Highsmith. I felt not swept away by the film as a whole, which I should've been. Being out and gay myself all my life, THIS seemed to be a movie meant for me, it's target audience.
But yet…
It didn't play at Toronto, which tipped me off that something was up.And the Weinstein Co. kept me, a major Oscarologist, away from this Oscar-seeking film.
Rooney Mara won Best Actress at Cannes.
Something was obviously wrong.
What was missing? I think it was Rooney Mara's performance. Playing a young, innocent (?)"from another planet" as Carol describes her, she seems cold, asexual. The Sapphic sensibility is just not there.The film was directed by a man. Maybe that's the problem.
But it IS there in the performance of Sarah Paulson (ab0ve) as Carol's ex-lover. You get an astounding sense of past history and love lost between the two women, that you never get from Cate the Great and Mara.
And Cate IS great in this movie! She's just magnificence personified. 1950s movie star to the max, she seems to just REEK of sexuality and sensuousness and glamour. It is a stunning performance, maybe Blanchett's best. She just floored me.
And Rooney Mara just well, didn't.
The great Ed Lachmann's amazing cinematography swept me away, in a way the Mara's Therese Belivant, didn't. Filmed in, of all things, 16 mm. and in CINCINATTI(!) the period style is exactly right down to the tiniest detail, and Blanchett's costumes by the great Sandy Powell, and her golden, perfectly coiffed hair and make-up are swoon-worthy. She just radiates a heat that makes men AND women fall in love with her. She's beyond brilliant in this film.
And she's the one in dire trouble. She's married, you see, and it's 1952 and her husband wants to take her beloved little daughter away from her because she's "abnormal." So that part of the film is totally believable and fine. And disturbing. And true.
But don't get me wrong. I loved Rooney Mara before. She was very exciting in both "Social Network" and the American version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" for which she rightly garnered an Oscar nomination.
So I was rooting for Rooney, and god knows, I was rooting for "Carol" to be a lesbian "Brokeback Mountain." But it isn't. And I'm not a gay woman so perhaps I can't say that. But I am.
Expectations were so high for this film, and the raves out of Cannes where so great, I guess I was bound to be disappointed. A "Brokeback Mountain," it's not. "Carol" is just strangely hollow. Cate is great, the cinematograpy, set design and costumes are off the charts. But the LOVE is missing.They have no heat, no chemistry.
It's not even gay, particularly, except when the superb Sarah Paulson shows up. SHE should get nominated for Best Supporting Actress. THERE I've said it.
But the Tom Toms are beating for Rooney, and probably both she and Blanchett will end up in the Best Actress races that are upon us.
Cate Blanchett is just a genius of an actress.
But Rooney Mara is well, just OK. And in something as sumptuous and important a gay film, as "Carol", well, she should-be better.
The picture at the top of this article says it all, I think.(see above} Cate as Carol is front and center and Rooney Mara, well, we see the back of her head. Which in "Carol" is as expressive as the front of her head.
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Oscar Mystery ~ Why Isn't "Carol" at TIFF?
Oscar questions answered and unanswered at TIFF. Like why isn't the Cannes lesbian sensation "Carol" playing TIFF? It's conspicuous by its' absence, seems to me. A natural fit for TIFF, you'd THINK. But no "Carol" here. It'll be seen next month at the NYFF, but not here. Are they, the savvy Weinstein Co., hiding it? There are over 1000 journalists at TIFF. And Oscar hopefuls "The Danish Girl" and "Brooklyn" and "Black Mass" are all playing here. But no "Carol"…. And "Carol" which WILL show up at the NYFF is not in the coveted Opening Night or Closing Night or Centrepiece slots.
Is what seemed a sure-fire Oscar front-runner now suffering Awards fatigue already? Me, I'm DYING to see it.
And there's the sticky situation of "Carol" having TWO leading ladies. Two time Oscar Winner Cate Blanchett in the title role, and Rooney Mara. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is now the girl with a Cannes award for Best Actress. And the Weinsteins are campaigning Cate Blanchett for Leading Actress and putting Rooney Mara, who is said to have the larger and better part(and the Best Actress Cannes award) is being put in Supporting.
I wonder what they Academy will think of that distinction? They may do a "Kate Winslet" and put Rooney AND Cate in lead. Where they could possibly cancel each other out? As many have done before, unfortunately.
But there's no question that the Weinstein Co. is low-balling Cannes favourite "Carol." Something's up.
OR something's not up. With "Carol." Hmmmm……
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Oscars on the Horizon,Rooney & Cate, "Carol" & Cannes
So a few days ago, I posited that Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara would split the Best Actress Award at Cannes. That didn't happen. Rooney won and split it with an obscure French actress that no one has ever heard of (nor probably will again), but Cate the great got nothing! Well, nothing but career-best reviews, as the title role and heroine of Todd Haynes' lesbian love story "Carol."
Based on the late Patricia Highsmith's story "The Price of Salt", it is set in the 1950's and according to all reports magnificently photographed by Haynes' great cinematographer Ed Lachman.
Cate can NOT and WILL not be ignored by the Academy if you want to know. Both she and Rooney Mara WILL be nominated for what evidently is being considered a tour-de-force by all and sundry.
But who will go in which category? And does it really matter? Especially at this (very) early point in the Oscar race? I'm assuming "Carol" will go the tried and true Festival route. Telluride in August, Toronto in Sept. with New York's Film Fest immediately following.
And who's deciding all this? Why its' legendary Oscar Whisperer Producer Harvey Weinstein that's who. And he's slated the opening for Dec.18. So "Carol" and Cate and Rooney and Harvey, too, have a long row to hoe before "Carol" opens, and as we all know, some Cannes' favorites can run out of steam by the time the actual Oscars role around. Witness last year's "Foxcatcher" barely making it to the Big Night and coming up with No Wins.
Guessing I would say that Rooney will be in the Supporting category and she could very well win there. Even if she is a co-lead with Cate.
Witness Patricia Arquette's co-lead(she was the Mom) in "Boyhood" and won in Supporting though she could've been campaigned in lead. But her immediate switch to Supporting got her the gold, though the film won nothing else.
I think the same will be true for Rooney Mara in "Carol." Harvey is NOT putting Cate Blanchett in the Supporting category if he ever wants to work with her again. Blanchett I don't think would stand for it. And neither would Academy voters.
And what does the Cannes Best Actress Award and the Oscars have to do with each other anyway? Well, last year Julianne Moore won for "Maps to the Stars" in Cannes, but on Oscar night it was in "Still Alice" that gave Moore the gold, finally, after four tries.
Cate has two Oscars, Rooney has none, and the Academy is Rooney-friendly, nominating her for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" a few years back.
And Harvey, as usual, has another Best Actress contender in the 19-year-old Saoirse Ronan for "Brooklyn", also coming up this fall. And putting all three Weinstein women in Best Actress would be a big much of a much-ness. Wouldn't it?
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"Wallander 3" World-Weary & Wonderful on MHz
I have to confess that I am coming late to the Wallander party. Wallander, the character, the novels, the many, many TV films in Swedish and also in BBC English with Kenneth Branagh, no less, is more than a cottage industry. It's pretty much a world-wide phenomenon. After the early, tragic death of Swedish author Steig Larsson of the Millennium Trilogy, another Swedish crime novel author has emerged on the Swedish crime stage and has survived and thrived to 66 . He is Henning Mankell and he has written a mountainous number of books, on Wallander and many other topics, and is more than taking his place, in Sweden and in the world.
The super-quaint, little medieval town of Ystaad, where Wallander is set and shot, has become a tourist destination! And Kurt Wallander, his world-weary, potato-like, sad sack of a Swedish detective, is underplayed in this series quite brilliantly by Krister Hendrickson, and is almost as famous as a Swedish fictional character as Larsson's Lisbeth Salander, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" anti-heroine to end all anti-heroines.
Wallander (pronouced Val'-en-da) couldn't be more different. He's so every day, so every man, so ordinary, he's almost invisible. But he has also taken hold of the world's imagination, and its' thirst for all things Swedish. That gloomy morose desire to suffer in the cold and ice was mightily filled in his lifetime by legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
To my dismay, the younger generation does not take to Bergman or even know his work. If they know anything of Swedish note today, besides Ikea, it is Lisbeth Salander, and the American version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." And also, right behind her is Kurt Wallander.
Larson was said to have devoured Swedish crime novels and one of the authors he was most influenced by was the prolific Henning Mankell. Who wrote more Wallander books and many other books, than Larsson ever did in his brief life-time.
Larsson, and the "Girl' movies and books have whetted the public's appetite seemingly for Swedish noir crime. In fact, I was shocked when I went to the main library in Manhattan and found out the nothing of Wallander, DVD, film or novel was in. All were checked out, but one, which I hungrily grabbed.
The female librarian said to me "Wallander is VERY popular." The Vox Populi! The people have spoken.
In Mankell's "The Man Who Laughed," there is this passage that jumped out at me.
A solitary man, presumably Wallander himself, is driving down a lonely Swedish road at night, and feels a bump. He has hit a rabbit.
"He stopped and got out. The hare was lying on the road, its' back legs kicking. But its' eyes stared at him….He had never forgotten those eyes and the wildly kicking legs. The memory kept coming back again and again , usually at the most unexpected times…"
That's a very good metaphor indeed. With a kind of awful poetry that Steig Larsson's "just the facts" Milleninum writings eschews.
I think it's this richness of the source material, Mankell's writing, that lifts Wallander out of the realm of the ordinary procedural, though police crime drama is what it is.
The Swedish TV series, now available in the US on MHz DVDS, is produced by the same company that produced the "Dragon Tattoo" movies. And it shows. Those films and the Wallander TV series echo each other, not just in their topics, human trafficking, arson, pedophilia, and of course, drugs, but in their doomy Swedish atmospheres.
Wallander is the essence of the plodding policeman, who doesn't always get it write, in the opening episode, he gets so drunk, he leaves his police gun at a bar, and is suspended, until the Ystad police find out they can't solve a crime without him.
The terrific Krister Hendrickson makes him so endearing a chap, I can't imagine anyone else playing him. Especially not Kenneth ham-is-my-middle-name Branagh. But we'll see.
And sometimes this season hits it right out of the ballpark in terms of impact. One episode "The Arsonist" particularly got to me. So well done and well acted and well shot by all parties. It was gripping and the ending chilling. Bravo to Episode 5! Wallander's pen-ultimate case.
And you better enjoy Hendrickson's Wallander while you can, because in the last episode, #6 in this series, "A Troubled Man," he gets Alzheimer's. What American series would risk that? The central figure losing it to a disease that no one ever seems to suffer from on American series television. Hendrickson becomes increasingly forgetful and lost. He gets suspended (Again!) by the Ystaad crime unit.
His daughter, Linda, a cop herself, and also a devoted mother, with a small daughter who Wallander dotes on, is marvelously played with degrees and shadings of sympathy and strength and frustrated horror by Carlotta Johnson, as she begins to notice that Kurt, her father, is getting absent-minded and gradually slipping away.
As early as episode one, "The Troubled Man"(like for instance the forgetting the gun in the bar) and culminates with him wandering the streets of picturesque small town Ystaad with his shoes untied, not knowing where he is, in "The Man Who Wept," who is ironically is the melancholy Wallander himself. And yes, in a climatic moment, Wallander cries. The series has built so carefully to this, it's shattering.
Shakespeare explored this same disease in "King Lear," which I found myself seeing right in the middle of my Wallander binge-watching.
Dementia has always been with us as a disease and a topic and continues to be the unnerving presence that turns into an absence as we watch the sun sadly set on Kurt Wallender.
Don't miss this Swedish series! You'll find it hard to forget, and you'll be hooked on all of Henning Mankell's work, too! Just like Steig Larsson was, and half the world it seems is!
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