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More genre viewing – late Fall 2018
Posted on December 12, 2018 December 9, 2018 by Kenneth George Godwin
Old guys' action: Richard Harris, Richard Burton, Jack Watson, Roger Moore in Andrew V. McLaglen's The Wild Geese
I have to accept that I'll never get caught up writing just once a week. I also have to face the fact that cinematic art is losing out to pulp by a factor of at least ten-to-one these days. If I stop to think about it, I might start to get worried about mental decline – though when I do get around to watching something more substantial, I still feel exhilarated (like discovering Fassbinder's Eight Hours Don't Make a Day a few weeks back).
But this week, once again, I present another round-up of recent genre viewing.
Kino Lorber has emerged as an almost ridiculously prolific distributor with a seemingly random remit which covers B-movies, classics, television productions (especially appreciated for their Blu-ray releases of the original Outer Limits, which looks wonderful in hi-def). Their mission seems a lot like Olive Films, but on a larger scale – and like Olive, they have gradually moved beyond their original bare-bones treatment of most titles, adding commentaries and other supplements.
My most recent Kino purchases are all made-for-TV movies, two of which were old favourites, the third being completely unknown to me until this release.
Darren McGavin as reporter Carl Kolchak in John Llewellyn Moxey's The Night Stalker (1972)
The Night Stalker (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1972)
I'm old enough to have seen John Llewellyn Moxey's The Night Stalker when it first aired in 1972, one of the most highly touted of that decade's made-for-TV horrors. Although this genre looks pretty tame now, back in the day network television was one of the best places to get a horror fix. Certainly, corporate standards kept a lid on anything too disturbing, but talented people did manage to inject a creepy atmosphere and occasionally transgressive notes into sometimes familiar stories. No doubt it's the influence of nostalgia to some degree, but I still have a soft spot for movies I saw back then in my late teens and early twenties. (For all its big budget and slick effects, the 2010 remake of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark couldn't match the chills of John Newland's 1973 original.)
In some ways, The Night Stalker was even more successful than Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) in bringing a classic vampire to modern America, partly because it set the story in the trashy heart of a nation where money and entertainment had supplanted virtually all other values. Barry Atwater's Janos Skorzeny is a feral beast preying on casino workers and prostitutes in the shadowy alleys off the Strip in Las Vegas, leaving bodies drained of blood and authorities more concerned about the negative impact on the tourist industry than the possibility that a real monster is stalking the city.
Kolchak faces genuine vampire Janos Skorzeny (Barry Atwater)
Abrasive newspaperman Carl Kolchak, looking for a big story to get him back to New York, is much quicker than the police department in putting the clues together – even though he initially proposes a serial killer who just thinks he's a vampire before eventually figuring out that the killer is the real deal. Structurally, the movie prefigures Jaws; the escalating attacks, the conflict between those willing to face the truth and authorities who want to remain willfully blind to it for commercial reasons.
It's been years since I last saw The Night Stalker and while I still appreciate the atmosphere Moxey draws from Richard Matheson's script (adapted from an at-the-time unpublished novel by Jeff Rice), I have to admit that this time I found Darren McGavin's Kolchak kind of annoying – as a version of the classic reporter digging beneath the official story to uncover problematic truths, he's pushed to such an extreme that he too often comes across as an obnoxious jerk. In scene after scene he's yelling at someone – the Sheriff (Claude Akins) and Police Chief (Charles McGraw), the District Attorney (Kent Smith), and mostly his editor (Simon Oakland) – and eventually his cocky cynicism undermines the horror, although Skorzeny remains a menacing figure right up to the downbeat twist ending.
John Carradine as Kolchak'c newspaper-owning boss in Dan Curtis' The Night Strangler (1973)
The Night Strangler (Dan Curtis, 1973)
The Night Stalker was such an unexpected hit with viewers that it was inevitable the network would want a follow-up and one year later almost to the day, The Night Strangler aired. An original script by Matheson, it contrived to move both Kolchak and his editor to Seattle where yet another supernatural killer is at work. This time, the movie was directed by producer Dan Curtis, who repeats the abrasiveness and yelling, but has a more heavy-handed style than Moxey, making it more plodding than breezy.
The most interesting aspect of the movie is its use of Seattle's "Underground City", fragments of the 19th Century preserved beneath the modern streets (much expanded for the movie, naturally). This is the lair for an immortal killer, a Civil War doctor who discovered the secret of eternal life which requires him to kill a certain number of people over an eighteen-day period every twenty-one years to create his elixir. Kolchak uncovers all the backstory with the help of the man who maintains the newspaper's archive (Wally Cox), but naturally faces the skepticism of his editor, the police and his aging publisher (John Carradine), not least because he believes that the doctor is actually even older, in fact may be the 18th Century alchemist Comte de Saint-Germain.
Kolchak confronts an immortal killer beneath Seattle's streets
Despite my ambivalence about the films' protagonist now, they still stand as two of the best '70s made-for-TV horror movies and Kino have released them both in impressive packages, with multiple new and archival interviews and a commentary from Tim Lucas on each disk. Strangely, Lucas doesn't mention the similarity of The Night Strangler to Hammer's The Man Who Could Cheat Death (Terence Fisher, 1959), in which a French sculptor (Anton Diffring) prolongs his life by killing people and using their glands to renew himself.
Rational investigator Nelson Orion (Martin Landau) and his modernist house in Joseph Stefano's The Haunted (1964)
The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre/The Haunted (Joseph Stefano, 1964)
The third, more obscure Kino release is The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre. This disk contains a pilot for a supernatural series created by Joseph Stefano, a creative force behind The Outer Limits second only to Leslie Stevens, and the man who adapted Robert Bloch's novel for Hitchcock's Psycho. The show wasn't picked up and fell into obscurity, but thanks to some collectors it has survived in two forms – the original pilot, titled The Haunted, and a feature-length movie. There are some significant differences between the two, particularly in their endings; the feature, though, feels like a rough cut with some shots and scenes lingering long after they should have been trimmed – either unfinished, or very obviously padded to bring up the running time.
The concept is not unfamiliar: a rational man spends his time investigating supernatural phenomena, looking for proof but no doubt often finding fakery. (Is the title a deliberate nod to Robert Wise's The Haunting, released just a year earlier?) In this inaugural episode, he gets both. Architect Nelson Orion (Martin Landau), a kind of serious proto-Kolchak, is called in to investigate an apparent haunting. Blind Henry Mandore's mother, afraid of premature burial, had a phone installed in her tomb and now her neurotic son is receiving calls on the line. His wife (Diane Baker) wants Orion to get to the bottom of it and he does with tragic results.
The calls do turn out to be fake, made by ominous housekeeper Paulina (Dame Judith Anderson reprising her famous role as Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca). But there's also a real ghost, one linked to a past case in which Orion was involved.
Director Stefano remembers some of Hitchcock's tricks from Psycho
Like the anomalous Outer Limits episode The Forms of Things Unknown, The Haunted was an attempt by Stefano to branch out and create a series of his own. But while the former could be incorporated into The Outer Limits, the latter couldn't be disguised as science fiction and had nowhere to go when it wasn't picked up by the network. Nonetheless, its technical qualities reflect the participation of OL regulars, including cinematographer Conrad Hall (who shares a credit here with William A. Fraker). Shot in velvety black-and-white, largely on soundstages, with some location work on the coast, it has an interesting mix of design elements – the Gothic crypt in stark contrast with Orion's modernist clifftop house. As in his Outer Limits scripts, Stefano here writes dialogue which is quite stylized, allowing for philosophical exchanges about the nature of reality and the problem of knowing anything with any certainty. It should also be noted that this was Stefano's sole directing credit; he took over when original director Robert Stevens became ill.
In both its versions, this is an interesting curiosity, but I remain unconvinced that it's some kind of lost masterpiece despite the enthusiasm expressed by commenters David J. Schow (on the long version) and film historian and collector Eric Grayson (whose personal print of The Haunted was used for the transfer of the pilot). Although I found it less interesting than some of Stefano's other work, it's exciting that a film like this can be rediscovered and resurrected, on Blu-ray no less, by people willing to invest the time and effort (and money) in something which surely has only a niche audience.
I still haven't watched all the Severin disks I mentioned back in September, and recently acquired more (and just placed an order for several new releases during their Black Friday sale). The new items include Gerard De Leon and Eddie Romero's Blood Island Collection (HD upgrades from Image Entertainment's DVDs, porting over many of the Image extras and adding a few new ones) and Richard Franklin's Patrick. The new order will bring Sergio Martino's All the Colors of the Dark along with a collection of more than a hundred giallo trailers, and a set of four mondo features from the '60s by Lee Frost and Bob Cresse.
I've just watched two of the new arrivals, plus a few from the backlog.
White heroes fighting Black corruption in Africa: Hardy Kruger and Richard Burton in The Wild Geese (1978)
The Wild Geese (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1978)
The Wild Geese (1978) is an old-guy action movie produced by Euan Lloyd, who also produced Who Dares Wins (1982), an anti-terrorist thriller which problematically endorses domestic spying by the police and the subversion of political rights in the name of "security". The Wild Geese, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, is also problematic – it belongs to the genre of colonialist adventure movies focused on the fates of white Europeans involved in underdeveloped or developing countries which are seen as deeply corrupt. However, while it doesn't acknowledge that corruption as a legacy of colonialism, it does at least register the corruption of the developed world as well.
Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger), a wealthy British businessman hoping to regain control of the copper supply in an African country, commissions a group of mercenaries to parachute in and rescue the country's former president, Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona), deposed in a military coup and believed dead for the past few years, but actually held in a remote prison. Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton) tracks down his former comrades to enlist them in the plan, using both money and an argument for "doing the right thing" to convince them to come out of retirement. There's divorced father Captain Rafer Janders (Richard Harris), who just wants to be a good dad to his young son; Lieutenant Shawn Flynn (Roger Moore), reduced to working for criminals and becoming disgusted with himself; Lieutenant Pieter Coetzee (Hardy Kruger), a former South African security officer with deeply held racist views; and a mixture of fighting men led by Regimental Sergeant Major Sandy Young (Jack Watson), who has to whip everyone including the officers into shape in short order.
Helpless African leader Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona) in need of White rescue
Despite carrying out the rescue mission with precision, the unit suddenly find themselves trapped in hostile territory when Matherson makes a deal with the military government and no longer needs to resurrect the beloved former president. As they fight their way across country, losing more and more men, everyone learns something about themselves – the most squirmingly awkward moment comes when President Limbani manages to convince Coetzee that Blacks and Whites need to work together towards a better future. The argument is so powerful that Coetzee eventually sacrifices himself willingly to save Limbani.
McLaglen was an efficient but uninspired director, managing the logistics and allowing his aging stars to get on with their job of breathing some kind of life into stereotypical characters. The Wild Geese is like a favourite snack food – not actually nutritious, perhaps a little toxic, but you enjoy the taste of it anyway and soon forget that you were eating it.
The disk includes a doc about producer Lloyd which was also on Arrow's Who Dares Wins Blu-ray, plus a commentary with Lloyd, Moore and second unit director and editor John Glen, who three years later would go on to direct a string of James Bond movies. There are also interviews with director McLaglen and military advisor Mike Hoare, plus a couple of archival clips about the production.
The haunted portrait in the attic in Eddy Matalon's crazy Cathy's Curse (1976)
Cathy's Curse (Eddy Matalon, 1976)
Made for far less money and without stars, Eddy Matalon's Cathy's Curse (1976) is in some ways more enjoyable, though not as conventionally well-made. Matalon was a French writer, producer and sometime director, who a year after producing Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) found himself living in Montreal and making a low-budget tax shelter horror movie (which he co-wrote with Myra Clément and Alain Sens-Cazenave). Not what you'd call a good movie, though it does have its fans, Cathy's Curse belongs to that post-Exorcist trend of stories about possession and/or kids-with-psychic-powers. There's even a little precursor to Annabelle, in that the possession of Cathy comes through a creepy doll which once belonged to her aunt Laura (Linda Koot), who died in a fiery car crash back in the '50s, as her angry father took her in pursuit of her mother who'd run away with her brother George.
Years later, George (Alan Scarfe) returns to the old family home with his own family – wife Vivian (Beverly Murray), recovering from a breakdown following the loss of their second child, and young Cathy (Randi Allen). The malign influence of Laura begins even before they get inside the house, but really kicks in when Cathy finds the doll in the attic – with its eyes sewn shut for some reason. Both the housekeeper and the handyman at some point try to get the doll away from her to destroy it (how they know it's a channel for Laura, who is apparently furious about her premature death, is never clear), and pay a heavy price for their efforts.
Cathy and her doll drive the housekeeper to her death
Vivian knows there's something wrong with Cathy, but busy dad George attributes this to his wife's fragile mental state and, as always, realizes the truth way too late. Everything in the movie is kind of random – Cathy reenacts the fatal car crash in the garden with the neighbour kids and then almost blinds the little neighbour girl with a nail; she terrorizes the housekeeper with the doll, forcing her to jump to her death from a bedroom window; a decidedly eccentric medium drops in for coffee and senses great danger; when Vivian is readmitted to hospital, busy George leaves Cathy in the charge of alcoholic handyman Paul (Roy Witham), in whom she triggers some serious DTs.
The acting is all over the place, with eleven-year-old Randi Allen quite good as the creepy kid, while Scarfe is rather stilted (showing his stage origins) and Murray occasionally effective as the fragile mother, though she tips into hysteria a bit too frequently. The stand-outs are Mary Morter as the medium and Witham as Paul, both of whom are over-the-top and so eccentric that you could strain a muscle trying to figure out what they might think they're doing.
It's all more than Cathy's Mom can bear
Severin's disk offers two cuts – the full-length original (91 minutes) and the shorter U.S. theatrical version (82 minutes). The latter is a real hatchet job, which has apparently contributed to fans' appreciation of the movie as an absurdist delight. Rather than trimming it coherently, the U.S. distributor simply hacked chunks out, occasionally leaving a fragment of a scene which no longer makes sense, dropping bits of expository dialogue which explain some narrative point. The longer version makes more sense to some degree, though admittedly that doesn't necessarily make it better. But for fans of low-budget exploitation and horror, Cathy's Curse in either version has a strange charm.
There were a lot of movies made during the tax shelter years (1975 to 1982) and, while some of them were very good (Daryl Duke's The Silent Partner, Peter Medak's The Changeling, Louis Malle's Atlantic City), many seemed to be designed to lose money so that investors could write them off. A lot of them tried to disguise themselves as American, while some were quite happy to be overtly Canadian – David Cronenberg's Shivers, Rabid and The Brood stand out. With a French writer-director, Canadian cast and crew, and Montreal locations, Cathy's Curse seems oddly placeless. It could be set in any city, making little use of local colour – although a couple of minor characters have French accents, it's a completely Anglophone movie. That was a typical tax shelter choice, the aim always being for a sale south of the border.
The disk includes an interview with director Matalon in which he talks cheerfully about the project, and another with star Allen and her mother (who worked in the costume department to be close to her daughter); Allen expresses surprise that anyone shows any interest in the movie today, but obviously had a good time making it – though she had no interest in pursuing an acting career once it was done; it's her sole credit. There's also a commentary on the U.S. cut with critic Brian Collins and filmmaker Simon Barrett.
To be continued …
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Garth says:
I like Kino Lorber, I find I have picked up a good number of their discs, especially recently. They certainly do have an eclectic mix of product and some of it's right up my alley. They also seem to turn up used at Half Price Books on a regular basis. I already had the two Kolchak movies and it's a good reminder to watch them again. And the series too.
I'd buy more if they weren't so expensive. In local stores, new disks run from $32.99 to $38.99 on average. I've come across a few used ones, but they tend to still be priced around $24.99. I can buy Arrow disks directly from England for a lot less.


Do You Know How To Find The Perfect Wedding Venue?
When it comes to a wedding, there's one thing that tends to loom large in most people's minds above all else: the venue. After all, if you're going to get married, then you need somewhere actually to do it. If you're going for a traditional church wedding, then the venue for the ceremony is going to be pretty obvious, but the reception is likely to be a little more complicated. Similarly, if you're not getting married in a church, then you'll need to find the perfect place to have both the ceremony and the reception. With all of these choices, it can be difficult to figure out what's right for you. To help you avoid feeling confused or overwhelmed, here are some tips for choosing the perfect wedding venue.
What's the theme of your wedding? Are you having something elegant and traditional? Or maybe something more modern with a bit of vintage flair? There's really no limit to the theme you can have for your wedding other than your personality and what you really want. Because of that, you're going to want to find a venue that matches that theme as much as possible. In fact, the venue can often dictate the entire atmosphere of your wedding, so you'll want to choose pretty carefully. Do some research into the kind of buildings and architecture that fits best with the kind of theme that you want for your wedding, that way you're not going to find yourself struggling to make something look a certain way while the venue is fighting against you.
It's pretty likely that you're going to want to capture your wedding day and preserve it forever, which means that you're going to need a wedding photographer. A lot of people treat the photographer as something of an afterthought, but that's a mistake. The best thing that you can do is to actually bring them along when you're looking at venues. That way they can discuss with you what the best way to shoot any given space is going to be. That way you'll know whether or not a venue is right for capturing all of the moments of your wedding perfectly.
This might be the most important thing to remember; it's not just your wedding. Your partner should be involved in all of the decision-making, especially when it comes to the venue. Talk to them, figure out what they want out of a wedding venue and try to find the balance between what you both want. Marriage is about compromise so finding somewhere that you both really like is a good step towards getting ready for that kind of dynamic. You don't want one of you feeling less excited about your big day because they don't like the venue. Find somewhere that you can both fall in love with. That way you can pretty much guarantee that you've found the perfect place to spend the first day of the rest of your lives.


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Fresh Clashes Erupt in Iraq, Ayatollah Sistani Calls for Calm
BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – Fresh clashes between Iraqi security forces and anti-government protesters have broken out in Baghdad as authorities grapple with the country's biggest crisis in years.
Security forces fired tear gas and threw stun grenades into crowds of protesters wearing helmets and makeshift body armor on a main road in the middle of the Iraqi capital, sending demonstrators scattering, some wounded.
Protesters in Iraq have directed their rage at a class of elite leaders, whom they accuse of pillaging the oil-rich country's wealth while the population grows poorer.
The protests, which began more than a month ago, have often turned violent, with security forces opening fire and protesters torching government buildings.
Iraq's most prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called on security forces to avoid using excessive force in the wake of anti-government protests that have entered their third week.
In a statement read out by his representative Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalaei during a sermon in the holy city of Karbala on Friday, Ayatollah Sistani held security forces accountable for any violent escalation, and urged the Baghdad government to respond as quickly as possible to demonstrators' demands.
"Peacefulness of protests in their various forms should be paid a great attention. The biggest responsibility is on the security forces. They must avoid using excessive force with peaceful protesters," the revered cleric said.
Ayatollah Sistani also said there should be "no more procrastination."
"The political apparatus has a unique opportunity to respond to citizens' demands with an agreed roadmap," he said in the sermon read out by his representative.
Last week, President Barham Salih said Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi was willing to resign once political leaders agreed on a replacement. He also called for a new election law and said he would approve early parliamentary polls once it was enacted.
But as the protest movement has dragged on, top leaders meeting in Baghdad, the holy city of Najaf and Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, appear to have reached a consensus over the premier staying in power.
Senior cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who had been supporting the protests and had demanded the government resign, has gone silent as well.
On Thursday, state-run al-Iraqiya television network aired a recorded address by Abdel Mahdi to cabinet ministers in which he discussed the 2020 budget.
The embattled Iraqi prime minister has proposed a series of reforms to appease protesters, including hiring new civil servants, raising welfare and launching infrastructure projects.
Iraqi security forces confront demonstrators on Martyrs' Bridge in the capital Baghdad on November 7, 2019.
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For the second year in a row, Vancouver was ranked the fifth best place to live in the world by Mercer's Quality of Living Rankings.
The annual study ranks 230 cities globally based on 10 criteria, including the political and social environment, socio-cultural factors, housing and natural environment.
Vancouver's fifth overall ranking means it was also deemed the number one city to live in North America followed by three other Canadian cities.
Mercer conducts the study every year to help multinational companies compensate employees when they're given international assignments. But before Vancouver residents get too comfortable with their position over other Canadian metros, they might want to recall that it was only two months ago when global consulting firm ECA International released a ranking of the world's "most livable cities" in which Toronto came it an number one and Vancouver and Ottawa were part of a four-way tie for third place.


This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows. The vulnerability could allow spoofing if an attacker who is logged on to a domain-joined system runs a specially crafted application that could establish a connection with other domain-joined systems as the impersonated user or system. The attacker must be logged on to a domain-joined system and be able to monitor network traffic.
After you install this security update, you cannot access data on EMC Isilon clusters.
SMB/SMB2/SMB3 clients may experience logon failures to an EMC Isilon cluster when they authenticate by using the NTLMSSP (NT LAN Manager Security Support Provider) provider. Data that resides on EMC Isilon clusters is unavailable to SMB/SMB2/SMB3 clients. This results in data unavailable (DU) failures. Authentication failures may also affect clients that try to access data through HTTP-based protocols such as RAN.
This issue occurs when Microsoft security update MS15-027 is installed on an Active Directory server that authenticates users and services that access an EMC Isilon cluster and when NTLM is used to authenticate these Active Directory domain users and services.
Note Authentication to an EMC Isilon cluster that uses the Kerberos protocol is not affected by this issue.
To work around this issue, use the Kerberos protocol to authenticate Active Directory domain users.
For the latest status of this issue on EMC Isilon OneFS, see Technical and Security Advisories for Isilon OneFS.
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This Is The Sexiest Word In The English Language
By Michelle Dempsey
I have a fascination with words. I'm verbose. I use all sorts of words to get my point across. I talk with my hands and I'm expressive to my core.
I'm a writer and a speaker. That's my thing.
But for years and years, there's one word that intimidated me to no end. I couldn't say it freely, let alone think of the using the word without breaking into an anxiety-induced pool of sweat.
It made my heart beat fast and my ears flush all sorts of hot. And not in a good way.
The word with so much power? The word my mouth held tight to as if it would cause me to unravel once letting go?
"No" makes you strong, and strong makes you sexy.
Two letters. So simple—yet so damn hard.
So, what the hell was the big deal? What was so difficult about saying the word NO when the need arose?
Well for me, for almost 30 years of my life—it was everything about the word.
Being raised in a broken home that required people-pleasing at all times didn't help. Neither did the fact that I was a product of this broken home, riddled with daddy issues and dying for acceptance at all costs. Suffering from an inner self-hatred so strong it caused me to do all sorts of things most young girls would balk at.
I'll spare you the details.
But then, somewhere down the line, I had a daughter. I had a little girl that I fell in love with so deeply, I became somewhat obsessed with making sure she could never feel the lack of self-confidence I suffered from my entire life. I became determined to build a strength within myself so that I could emulate all those strong female qualities I lacked for so long.
I became a peaceful warrior of female empowerment. And ironically, it all started with the word NO.
This word became my armor and shield, protecting me from anything that dared tread on my ability to live how I wanted to live. It became my guard against having to partake in anything I didn't believe in or that didn't bring me joy. It made me feel accomplished, self-assured, and sexy.
Sexy in that "I have full control of my happiness" kind of way.
So how can you adopt this word into your daily repertoire to help you feel sexier and more empowered?
Here are three scenarios in which those two little letters can make all the difference:
1. In business:
Whether you're in business for yourself or working for the (wo)man, I know you've said yes to a bunch of requests when you really felt like saying no. We're taught to comply, respect authority, and in the process, chip away at the strength we've built as adult beings. Maybe it was when you lowered your price just to snag that client. Or maybe it was when you got asked to cover more work on a group project than anyone else. This is when saying no will save you from losing time, money, a whole lot of sleep over a decision that impedes your ability to succeed and love what you do.
You know that saying, "No good deed goes unpunished"? You'll really understand it if you don't learn to say no—even to your boss.
2. In friendships:
This was a hard one for me. With friendships, I always found myself saying yes as a means to please, even if I was dying to scream NO at the top of my lungs. Being an empath, though, I knew how hard the word could sting, so I avoided using it in order to avoid conflict. I never wanted to be left out or thought of as the "difficult one." Because of this, I always ended up betraying myself and wasting hours of time when I would have been much happier doing anything else, even for the simplest of reasons.
Stop saying yes to plans because of a bad case of FOMO. Don't agree to dinner at a restaurant you hate. Don't agree to run an errand that will take you out of your way and cause you to miss something important in your own day. Your friends will respect you more for this, I promise. No one respects a doormat.
3. In love:
This was the most important area of my life to learn to say NO in. With all matters of the heart, it's only natural that we're torn between how we feel and what we know is right. Imagine how skewed this was for me, a broken girl desperate for love. I said yes to dates with men that I knew had bad intentions. I let myself get taken advantage of for the simple reason that I was scared to be left alone. This cost me time, innocence, money, and damaged what little self-confidence I had.
For goodness sakes, say no when it doesn't feel right. Say no when you feel uncomfortable or pressured. Say no to save yourself pain. Some men are like drugs—just say no.
And with all of the above, if you ever run into a situation where your heart is telling you no but you just can't muster up the courage to say it, take a look in the mirror. Remind yourself who matters most. Say the word "no" to yourself and watch the transformation. "No" makes you strong, and strong makes you sexy.
#empowerment #goal setting #happiness #personal growth
Michelle Dempsey
A writer, a dreamer, an entrepreneur, and above all things, a mother, Michelle Dempsey recently turned a passionate hobby into a thriving career. Internationally published and known for...
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Downtown Los Angeles was my first destination upon arrival. Right then and there, my tour had started. Here's my tour of Downtown LA in pictures.
Following the local time zone is advised to avoid or help reduce jetlag. As such, despite being in flight for almost an entire day and my body telling me it's already late at night, I had to stay up and defer sleeping. But there's one thing you can't defer—eating! My first snack upon arrival wasn't really interesting to talk about. But the sights of Downtown LA is!
Don't you just love wide sidewalks?
Meanwhile, our hotel also offered an interesting breakfast option: make your own waffle!


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The generation gap and the cost of renting
Tuesday 03 January 2017
Home ownership amongst 25-year-olds has plummeted by more than half in the last 20 years, and the cost of renting is preventing people from purchasing, according to new analysis for the Local Government Association (LGA) conducted by Savills.
On average, private renters now spend 34 per cent of their total household income on rent and social and affordable renters pay 29 per cent. In comparison, homeowners pay an average of 18 per cent of their total household income on their mortgage.
Average house prices are now at 7.9 times average earnings. The average size of a deposit needed to get a mortgage is 62 per cent of annual incomes; in London, it is 131 per cent.
With access to housing to buy increasingly limited to future generations, the LGA insists homes for affordable or social rent are vital to help more families afford to save up for a deposit to buy a home.
Only 6,550 social rented homes were built in 2015/16. This is a drop of 88 per cent from 20 years ago when 56,950 were built in 1995/96.
The LGA, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, warns a drop in social and affordable rented homes is combining with rents rising above incomes to make it more and more difficult for people to get on the housing ladder.
As a result, the proportion of total homeowners of all ages across the country has fallen by 4.4 per cent since 2008 while private renters increased by 5.1 per cent.
Alongside building more social rented homes to boost home ownership and a renewed effort to increase the incomes of those in need of affordable homes, council leaders say there is also an urgent need to better provide housing for older people.
Between 2008 and 2039, 74 per cent of projected household growth will be made up of households with someone aged 65 or older. An increase in age-friendly housing will becrucial to helping older people stay healthy and happy for longer, and reducing demand on NHS and care services.
Cllr Martin Tett, LGA housing spokesman, said:
"Our figures show just how wide the generational home ownership gap is in this country. A shortage of houses is a top concern for people as homes are too often unavailable, unaffordable and not appropriate for the different needs in our communities."
"...The Government's Housing White Paper is an opportunity to boost housing supply and affordability. It must recognise that a renaissance in housebuilding by councils will be crucial to helping ensure the mix of homes to rent and buy that are affordable for those people that need them."
"This means powers and funding given to councils to replace sold homes and reinvest in building more of the genuinely affordable homes our communities desperately need.
"But our focus is beyond just bricks and mortar. The Housing Commission sets out how council housebuilding can help deliver homes but also help families boost their household incomes, create prosperous and successful places, and improve the health and quality of life for our ageing population."
Lib Dems hit out
In a similar vain, following the release of data by the Department for Work and Pensions about social housing lettings which illustrated that 21,859 social rented properties have been lost in the last two years and a further 12,363 council social rented properties, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron hit out at the Government saying:
"The Government's housing reforms have made things much worse for those who are living in social housing and this is just further evidence of that.
"There will be fewer affordable homes for rent and fewer places to turn for those needing a secure home where they can rebuild their lives."
Commission's recommendations
The LGA's Housing Commission have heard from over 100 partners and received submissions from a range of organisations. Over 30 recommendations have been put forward to central government within the LGA's final Housing Commission final report, 'Building our homes, communities and future', these include:
Freeing councils from restrictions on their borrowing to build more affordable homes - the number of affordable homes built in 2015/16 fell by 52 per cent and was the lowest number in 24 years.
Pilot ways to financially reward housing providers who successfully support tenants into work and increase their earnings - 48 per cent of working age tenants are in work (compared to 72 per cent nationally) while 33 per cent have no qualifications (compared to 15 per cent nationally).
Giving councils powers making it easier to compulsory purchase land that has planning permission for homes but which is not being built out – previous research for the LGA found there are up to 475,000 homes with planning permission but are yet to be built.
Local discretion on the number of Starter Homes required in new developments - discounted Starter Homes prices will be out of reach for all people in need of affordable housing in 220 council areas (67 per cent).
Allowing councils to set planning fees locally to cover costs - councils are approving nine in 10 planning applications but local taxpayers have been forced to spend in excess of £450 million covering a third of the cost of all planning applications in the past three years.
Give councils tools to ensure effective land markets and to capture increases in land values to fund infrastructure - OECD found that UK infrastructure has suffered from under-investment compared with some competitor countries since the 1980s.
Ensure funding is available to enable older people to modify their own homes– only 7 per cent of current homes in England include the four basic accessibility features (level access to entrance, a flush threshold, sufficiently wide doors and a toilet at entrance level).
Build more new homes that support healthy ageing and reduce costs pressures on health and social care - housing specifically for older people accounts for just 6 per cent of existing stock and of just 7,000 of the 155,000 homes built in 2014/15.
All of this comes in advance of the Government's Housing White Paper which is due this month. The LGA are hoping that the recommendations will help local and national government work together to solve the nation's housing challenges.


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Psychotherapist Explains: How To Follow Through With New Yea...| MENAFN.COM
Psychotherapist Explains: How To Follow Through With New Year's Resolutions
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January, the Monday of the year, offers humanity a fresh slate to start anew and make a positive change until the earth rotates around the sun once again.
And while the custom as old as 2000 B.C. is still widely honored to this day, the trends are shifting.
Forbes reports that in 2023, up to 45% of Americans chose to prioritize their mental health. In comparison, the most common resolution in 2010 was body-focused – Stanford University reported that most goals were exercising or going on a new diet.
While making resolutions is common to many, little is talked about why.
One of the founders of sensa , Dainius Jakucionis, M.D., aims to explain the underlying reasons for making and keeping up with New Year's resolutions.
The psychology behind resolutions
Today, everything requires time, dedication, and attention. Focusing on career goals, relationships, and daily activities becomes a tedious routine instead of an aspiration.
In a way, life starts running on an automated cycle.
According to Jakucionis, New Year's resolutions come in handy when you need to stop and think about what you actually want in life:"The new year comes, and goal-setting along with it. The start of something new helps you reflect and decide what you want to achieve."
The psychotherapist agrees that resolutions for the upcoming year are beneficial while working through daily chores and errands. It allows people to perceive life on a larger scale without being interrupted by tedious routines.
"It helps to dream about your future and who you want to become as a person," says Jakucionis.
He also points out that there's no need to set resolutions just because everyone else does:"It makes no difference if you set goals on New Year's Eve or a random Tuesday. Setting them is what makes them work, not the timing."
Dainius Jakucionis
Why do people fail to achieve New Year goals
Deciding to begin a self-improvement journey is an excellent start to the new year. However, most are already familiar with the struggle of following through with the plan.
According to a 2016 Society for Personality and Social Psychology report, only 9% of the 41% of Americans who made resolutions felt that they were successful in keeping them, which means that only around 1 in 5 people who had resolutions were successful in working toward them.
Jakucionis says that there are 3 main reasons for failed resolutions:
Failing to remember what goals were set
Goals are too complex, vague, or there aren't enough resources to achieve them
Not developing a system for consistent working toward the goal
According to the psychotherapist, it's not enough to say,"I will become healthier," as it gives no accountability. He points out that making your goals clear, having a system, and tracking your progress make the most significant difference.
How to stick with resolutions
To make the goals stick, the mental health specialist at Sensa suggests making them habitual:"Do something for your goals every day. This way, it will become a part of your life."
For example, crossing out a day in the calendar for each nicotine-free day could be a daily activity for a resolution to quit smoking.
"Be creative and find ways to implement your resolution to your routine," says Jakucionis.
Those among the 45% of people who chose to improve their mental health this year could start therapy or use self-help apps as a long-term commitment to the resolution.
The psychotherapist points out that by spending 15–25 minutes learning and working daily, people can make lifelong changes by making caring for their well-being a habit.
"For example, the idea behind Sensa is that it helps you make self-improvement a habit. Taking a few minutes every day to learn and practically apply your knowledge can make a massive difference in just a couple of months," says Jakucionis.
He also notes that it's normal to experience setbacks and go slow:"Motivation fluctuates – that's perfectly normal. Some days, just writing down how you feel or taking a mindful walk can be a step toward the right direction."
According to Jakucionis, the key to achieving resolutions is sticking to the plan, tracking progress, and celebrating small victories along the way.
Making mental health a priority
sensa is based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), one of the most commonly used and proven techniques to improve multiple mental health conditions. CBT treatment's primary goal is to change a person's thought process. After all, these tendencies are why negative emotions and behavioral patterns occur.
Sensa is part of kilo health , a leading digital health and wellness company with +4 million customers worldwide. As of 2022, it's the second fastest-growing company in Europe on the ft 1,000 ranking .
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While an emergency is unfolding, or throughout recovery from a serious illness or accident, ongoing diagnostic and therapeutic care and constant monitoring of your pet's condition may be required. Many emergency and critical care facilities offer 24-hour supervision of critically ill pets and, just as in human hospitals, may have dedicated Intensive Care and Critical Care Units (ICU/CCU). Such facilities are equipped to provide oxygen therapy, cardiac monitoring, blood transfusions, and nutritional support. Such facilities also typically have advanced diagnostic capabilities onsite, such as ultrasound and echocardiography.
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The presence of chemicals that likely cause cancer has prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to announce another recall of the blood pressure medication Valsartan. In response, U.S. PIRG Consumer Watchdog Adam Garber released the following statement.
The FDA investigation reinforces that our food isn't nearly as safe as it should be. This time, more than 60 people got sick from salads, probably because a company failed to sanitize the water used to grow its romaine lettuce.
The amount of money Americans owe on their cars is now at an all-time high -- up 75 percent since the end of 2009. Americans' rising indebtedness for cars raises concerns about the financial future of millions of households as lenders extend credit to more and more Americans without the ability to repay, according to a new U.S. PIRG report.
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Cosmos » COVID » Do COVID vaccines affect male fertility?
20 October 2021 /
Do COVID vaccines affect male fertility?
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Vaccines do have side effects, but there are some social-media users peddling myths that COVID-19 vaccines cause male infertility and sexual dysfunction.
This is not the case – there is no established link between COVID vaccines and male fertility, though falling ill with COVID-19 may pose a risk of sexual dysfunction.
Do vaccines cause infertility in males?
Currently there is no evidence that sperm count, semen volume and sperm motility are negatively affected by a vaccine. In fact, there is no evidence that any vaccine at all causes infertility in either males or females.
One preprint study, submitted in May 2021, found no difference in sperm characteristics of 43 men before and after vaccination with Pfizer. The volunteers came from a pool of men receiving IVF services, and 32% of the participants already had ineffective sperm.
Another study published in JAMA quantified sperm volume of 45 men before and after two doses of an mRNA vaccine (either Pfizer or Moderna) and saw no decrease in sperm count 70 days – the life cycle of a sperm – following the second dose. In fact, it found that semen volume, sperm count and sperm motility all significantly increased.
Eight of the men had low sperm count prior to vaccination, but this increased to normal levels after.
"Because the vaccines contain mRNA and not the live virus, it is unlikely that the vaccine would affect sperm parameters," the authors point out in the paper.
In 2017, about seven in 1000 men of reproductive age were affected by male infertility. With 2.8 billion people fully vaccinated globally, we would expect to see a significant and large increase in reported male infertility in 2021 – except we haven't seen this reported.
The International Federation of Fertility Societies, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the British Fertility Society and the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists have all released statements that there is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility.
There were no Therapeutic Goods Administration reports of infertility or fertility issues following the administration of 28.7 million vaccine doses in Australia, but there were six mentions of penile discomfort. There was no established link, however, between the vaccine and the discomfort.
Regardless, public concern does remind us that research about COVID-19, vaccines and male fertility is crucial.
Why do people claim there is a link between vaccines and infertility?
The nature of vaccine hesitancy is complex. Sometimes, rumours can circulate because a question was asked that became misconstrued over time as a statement.
Other times, a fact may be taken out of context.
The Society for Male Reproduction and Urology (SMRU) and the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction (SSMR) issued a joint statement with this example: "It should be noted that about 16% of men in the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial experienced fever after the second dose. Fevers can cause temporary declines in sperm production. Thus, if a man experiences fever as the result of the COVID-19 vaccine, he may experience a temporary decline in sperm production, but that would be similar to or less than if the individual experienced fever from developing COVID-19 or for other reasons."
Since the life cycle of a sperm is only 70 days, future sperm production is unlikely to be affected by a fever.
In another instance, a circulating video involving Dr Roger Hodkinson stated that ACE2 receptor "is present in the testes" and "it's actually on the cells that produce spermatozoa". The video was accompanied by rhetoric claiming that this showed vaccines were unsafe.
However, many facts were omitted.
First of all, this information was based on a paper published in Biology of Reproduction. In the study, researchers found that the ACE2 receptor, which is found on the cell membrane of some organs, was high in the testes and interacted with SARS-CoV-2. Because of this, the researchers suggested there should be further research into the association between male reproductive health and male COVID patients.
The key here is that this study was not about vaccines – it was about the coronavirus itself.
The researchers told FactCheck that the paper "is a hypothetical article about the potential effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on male reproductive health, not about the impact of COVID-19 vaccine on male reproductive health".
Ironically, the paper didn't prove that SARS-CoV-2 influenced male fertility, either.
But it did prompt further research.
Does COVID cause infertility?
There isn't an established link between COVID-19 and sperm count, but there is evidence that the virus is present in the testes and penis.
An autopsy of six men who died of COVID showed that three of them had a lower sperm count than expected, although this is a small sample and may not represent all survivors.
Likewise, the biopsy of another patient who recovered from COVID showed that the virus was still present in the testes three months later.
The same team also found that coronavirus affected the penis, with the virus still present in the penile tissue of two men seven and nine months after their diagnosis. Both men had developed erectile dysfunction, potentially because the infection reduced blood flow.
This trend is consistent with studies on the 2006 SARS outbreak, which is a close cousin of COVID.
A meta-analysis published in March suggested that there hadn't been enough time to assess the long-term effects of COVID-19 on sperm count and quality, but there is definite evidence of an effect on testes and penile tissue, including inflammation and testicular discomfort in up to 19% of male patients.
While the effect of COVID-19 on sperm count is inconclusive at this stage, it is still highly unlikely that COVID vaccines can cause male infertility.
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Bernard Bloch, Detroit, Mich., appellant, in pro. per.
John N. Stull, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Elmer J. Kelsey, Lee A. Jackson, Charles B. E. Freeman, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee.
Before HEALY, BONE and ORR, Circuit Judges.
Deficiencies in income taxes were assessed against appellant by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the years 1947, 1948, 1952 and 1953. At the time the assessments were made and notice thereof given, appellant was an inmate of Terminal Island Federal Penitentiary.
Appellant prepared petitions for a redetermination of the deficiencies and filed them with the Tax Court. The petitions were dismissed for the reason that they were not filed within the 90-day period required by sections 6213(a) and 7502(a) of the 1954 Code, 26 U.S.C.A. §§ 6213(a), 7502(a); and that therefore the Tax Court lacked jurisdiction to entertain them.
In order to clearly distinguish the two petitions under consideration, we will refer to them by the numbers endorsed thereon in this Court. No. 15,728 refers to the assessment for the years 1952 and 1953, notice of which was mailed to appellant on November 6, 1956. It is established without contradiction that appellant prepared a petition to the Tax Court asking a redetermination of the assessment and on the first day of February 1957, the 87th day after the issuance of the notice of deficiency, placed it in the hands of a prison official known as a "case worker" who had the duty to censor mail sent out by appellant. The petition was mailed in a franked envelope and no postmark appears thereon, but the date of mailing, the 91st day, is learned from a covering letter accompanying the petition. A letter from the Warden addressed to the Tax Court during the time the motion to dismiss was pending states, "* * * but it was not possible to get the cover letter dictated and typed until February 5, 1957 [the 91st day]." In addition the letter from the Warden to the Tax Court further explained, "As you no doubt know, our inmates cannot go to the Post Office to mail letters. I sincerely hope that Bloch has not lost his case simply because of our method of handling such matters."
In Case No. 15,731, notice of a deficiency for the years 1947 and 1948 was mailed by the Commissioner to Bloch on January 8, 1957. Bloch prepared a petition for redetermination and delivered it to his case worker with mailing fees on March 25, 1957, the 75th day. This petition was notarized by the case worker on April 2, 1957, the 84th day. There was a typed-in date on the jurat of March 25th, but a line was drawn through that date and April 2nd substituted. The postmark on the registered letter containing this petition was dated April 9, 1957, the 91st day; a letter enclosed with this petition in the record and signed by the Chief, Classification and Parole, at the prison stated that "* * * five (5) copies of a paper titled `Petition' were forwarded to you [sic] Court on March 25, 19571 and five (5) copies of a petition were forwarded to you April 8, 1957 [the 90th day]. We do not know whether either of these refer to docket number 66692 [Case No. 15,731] but, sincerely hope that the petition will not be denied simply because of the delay in getting them out of this institution."
In 1954 Congress added section 7502, which provides: "If any * * * document * * * required to be filed within a prescribed period * * * under authority of any provision of the internal revenue laws is, after such period * * delivered by United States mail to the agency, officer, or office with which such * * * document is required to be filed, the date of the United States postmark stamped on the cover in which such * * * document is mailed shall be deemed to be the date of delivery. This subsection shall apply only if the postmark date falls within the prescribed period * * * for the filing of the * * * document, determined with regard to any extension granted for such filing, and only if the * * * document was, within the prescribed time, deposited in the mail in the United States in an envelope or other appropriate wrapper, postage prepaid, properly addressed to the agency, office, or officer with which the * * * document is required to be filed." 26 U.S.C.A. § 7502(a). Section 7502(c) further provides that "If any such * * * document is sent by United States registered mail, * * * the date of registration shall be deemed the postmark date." 26 U.S.C.A. § 7502 (c).
The taxpayer, confined as he was in a penal institution, had his every action circumscribed and controlled by strict prison rules. After preparing his petition for review, he was forced to place it in the hands of a prison case worker for transmission to the Tax Court. The taxpayer could not go to the mailing room and mail his petition. Prison rules required that he deliver it to his case worker. Bloch did so, but the case worker failed to timely carry out the request. It is interesting to note that each of the petitions, although filed at different times, were each processed through the prison mailing room on the 91st day after the date of the notice from the Internal Revenue Service.
It would appear that the case worker must have been ignorant of the 90 day requirement. Otherwise the task of getting the petitions into the mailing room would not have been difficult. The great weight of authority is to the effect that the 90-day requirement is jurisdictional. Jorgensen v. Com'r, 9 Cir., 1957, 246 F.2d 536; DiProspero v. Com'r, 9 Cir., 1949, 176 F.2d 76; Galvin v. Com'r, 2 Cir., 1956, 239 F.2d 166; Drouin v. Com'r, 3 Cir., 1953, 203 F.2d 953.
Prior to the 1954 amendment the statute required that the petition for redetermination actually be filed with the Tax Court. During the years, situations arose wherein a strict adherence to the wording of the statute would work harsh inequities. The Congress in 1954 made provision to meet such circumstances by providing that the postmark on an envelope containing a petition, if dated within the 90 days, would suffice. The hardships found in the statute sought to be corrected in the 1954 amendment were those occasioned by the failure of the United States mails to function normally. We find no such situation here. In order to so find, it would be necessary to hold that Block in placing his petition in the hands of the case worker thereby performed an act equivalent to posting the letter. It does not appear that the case worker had anything to do with the postmarking and dispatch of the mails. He was not a representative of the Post Office Department. True, he was an employee of the United States Government, but that employment was not such as would connect him with the prison mailing department.
Rich v. Com'r, 5 Cir., 1957, 250 F.2d 170, 172, was a case dealing with a situation similar to that before us. The taxpayer in that case signed and executed a petition and turned it over to the official in charge of the prison mail room properly addressed, with the request that the petition be mailed to the Tax Court by registered mail, and paid the official the necessary postage fee. The warden of that prison informed the Tax Court after the ninetieth day "that a check of the mail records of his office disclosed that the petition was placed in the institutional mail room on May 3, 1956, `and inadvertently held until today.'" Rich v. Com'r presents a much closer compliance with mailing regulations, but on these facts the Fifth Circuit held the 90 day requirement to be jurisdictional and affirmed the dismissal by the Tax Court.
Section 6213, in effect before the enactment of section 7502 in 1954, then required a petition for redetermination to be filed with the Tax Court within 90 days after notice of deficiency, and while strict compliance as to time was held to be jurisdictional, certain situations arose wherein the courts held a late filing, but timely mailing, would suffice.
In the case of Arkansas Motor Coaches v. Com'r, 8 Cir., 1952, 198 F.2d 189, it was held that where a petitioner acted in good faith in having entrusted his petition to the United States mails for transportation in ample time to be filed within the 90 days, his act of mailing created a strong presumption that the petition had been received in time. The judgment of dismissal was therefore reversed. In Central Paper Co. v. Com'r, 6 Cir., 1952, 199 F.2d 902, it was also held that the presumption of timely receipt after timely mailing would be indulged and the judgment of dismissal was reversed. The case of Detroit Automotive Products Corp. v. Com'r, 6 Cir., 1953, 203 F.2d 785, was to the same effect.
These decisions are mentioned because it is probable that they bore a direct relation in motivating Congress to enact amendments which now appear in § 7502 making provision that the date of the postmark stamped on the cover in which such claim is mailed shall be deemed to be the date of delivery. This amendment was designed to alleviate hardships which had theretofore resulted from failure of the mails to function.
As to the petition in Case No. 15,731, the date of filing is deemed to be the date of the postmark stamped on the cover, the 91st day. In Case No. 15,728 there is no postmark, so other evidence was resorted to in order to determine the date of mailing. The date of the covering letter and the statement of the case worker that he was unable to get it written until the 91st day were the evidence upon which reliance was had in finding that said petition was not filed in time.
From the undisputed evidence it is clear that each petition was one day late. There are no presumptions which we can indulge in appellant's behalf and, unfortunate as it may be for him, we face the legal and factual requirement of affirming the judgment of dismissal entered by the Tax Court.


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now here's steve kmetko for news at the local front. it has been confirmed that jacklyn jose will not be appearing in benjamin padero's film. sources have said she found it too violent and that she doesnt see herself in the role. however, she has recommended another colleague of hers, who in turn is right for the role. susan , the actress who plays the poor mother of mara in the former hit soap opera, mara clara, has agreed to play the role of mother to anton, SALAMIN's quasi-protagonist. although she has expressed interest, the filmmaker however will only meet her on the actual shooting date.
in other news, benjamin padero has also issued a statement that his webpage is now featuring new photographs of his nephew, lucas maximus, born to his sister tina and her husband clapton. lucas maximus was born july 13 and will be turning 3 months in two weeks time. you may check out his pictures at our website, http://www.geocities.com/paderewski and click on mi familia.
now, we take a look at the weather. today, the sun is brightly shining, moving around it are the planets. it is a medium-sized star and presently, because of the sun, the day is very hot. good time to do your month-long overdue laundry. thus, some people out there, of which i have confirmed with, are in fact doing just that. professional student and wannabe film maker benjamin diaz padero is currently rinsing his whites and blacks afterwhich he'll do his denims and khakis, then his underwear. he confessed he had no choice but to do his laundry today on the account that despite his numerous pairs of underwear he is actually running out of clean ones. he says that he might have to do his browns, blues, reds and greens in another session since it might not be possible to finish everything today, he's got a party to go to later, he says. for the record, benjamin uses pride laundry soap, which will keep his clothes smelling fresh even in rainy conditions. currently the sky has darkened and the prevailing clouds spell another storm coming. it is too early to tell and our lines with the pag-asa has just been cut off. we are now relying on lick-finger-stick-up-to-the-air method of checking wind traffic and speed. an ocular inspection of the stratosphere coincide with the wind report and indeed, it might actually rain today. if my knees start to get painful, youll definitely be seeing some cats and dogs. if you dont want to get wet and multiply, dont risk going out to quezon circle today.
and that's the news for you at this hour. stay tuned for more news on studio 23 primetime. im benjamin padero.
it's very late now, it's almost morning (that makes it very early also) and im still up and about. i was just working on the revisions in the screenplay of the short film my group and i are doing. it's been a pretty exciting weekend. i remember when i was just whining to my friend ces about pen medina not being able to text back. by friday last week, i received a text from my professor that ricky davao has called him to say that yes, he'd like to work in our film! i was alone in the jeepney that afternoon and so i let out a huge hurrah (more of a wooh!). unfortunately chaka kaayu akong fone na gigamit wala koy text out capabilities (i could only receive text). so i couldnt share the news, and not until i got to the college of mass communications where i met old classmate berns that i could relieve myself of this news. we believe it's a great opportunity to be working with a real actor, and it's such a blessing that we actually got him (or he got us). God is good. a few hours later i was texting my friends gem ron macb ces and faisal, and my family tatay, mamati, ta an, toots, ta tems. it's just fun, and i was so excited about it that i almost got into a fever! talk about pure excitement! anyhow im fine now, and quite adjusted. im actually tense that im still dealing with jaclyn jose's manager. she has yet to read the script and make a decision. i will be contacting the manager again later at noon. i hope and pray she says yes too. that would be really really incredible.
ps. got news pics of lucas maximus but i will be posting them as soon as i can afford the time. peace! in the meantime check out the old pics again, click mi familia!
it's 3:49 in the morning and i couldnt sleep. i was in bed since 12 and ive been turning and twisting all night. i eventually decided to come downstairs and surf. i think i had too much Coke tonight, although that never happened before (not being able to sleep, i mean). then again, it's been a long time since i had that much coke. and i mean, the softdrink kind!
my org in fine arts, cinema as art movement (or CAM) recently screened darren aronofsky's "requiem for a dream." ive seen the film before, i was able to find a pirated copy in philcoa sold for only PhP40. i was watching it off a computer monitor and, though it lessened the possible effect the film would have on me, i nevertheless enjoyed it. it was a painful movie about 4 people on a downward spiral to self-destruction (how else would you explain the downward spiralling effect anyway?). the imagery was indeed haunting and very, very interesting. what i didnt realize until now was that viewing it on the computer hindered what could have possibly been such a heart-wrenching experience.
yesterday afternoon as i watched the film again on a huge tv, in a dark auditorium, and playing off a DVD player i was transported to brooklyn and into the very lives of those 4 people. i could have died in that screening, i wanted to cry. this powerful film was just so painful to watch (i cant find any other word to describe it). i suffered, looking at them succumb to horrible ends and terminating what could have been a beautiful life. they had dreams and they lost it. the score, led by a string quartet, kept beating and torturing us viewers as it played endlessly to the deaths of their dreams. requiem for a dream. aagghhhh! jared leto and the luminescent jennifer connelly played lovers who wanted the perfect american life. ellen burstyn, if i am correct, was nominated in the oscars for this performance as a supporting actress. she's jared leto's lonely mother whose wish to be on television was really all about being remembered and loved. damon wayans is the fourth player in this quartet of doom. painful and hauntingly beautiful, this is one film you should not miss.
ive just finished a lot of my assignments for the week thus i can afford to write a little something for this page. it's such a guilt trip to be doing so much extra-curricular work to write for other stuff when what youre supposed to really do is not yet done. im not making sense. ill start over.
im also getting pretty busy with preparations for this film project we have to do for our electronic media class. my group mates mike, jojo, marco and b3 and i are still working out a lot of kinks in pre-prod. i made a script and did the story treatment out of jojo's concept and i think it's coming out pretty well. one problem though, it's hard to whip up dialogue. especially since it has to be in filipino! i never thought it could be that hard. anyway, we're still trying to get pen medina to play the tatay role for this film. i actually texted him yesterday but up to now, he hasnt replied back. bad sign? im just hoping he ran out of credit. we will still have to consult with my professor but if in two day's time we dont find him, i go to next actor on the list: gammy viray. him i know may be well in reach and might actually work with us. his wife is ama quiambao and is my first choice for playing nanay in the film. at least this way, we get them both in a film, and i guess that's cool. are we being too ambitious in this project? i do think that you reach for the stars but keep your feet planted on the ground. if i dont get all these great actors then perhaps i can move on to lesser players. unfortunately i still dont have a plan B. what happens if i dont get them good actors? i dont want to think about it.
in the meantime let me share some poems i did years back. the math poem i did while sitting out a calculus exam (probably) that i flunked (expectedly). you see, since i couldnt find a way to answer them problems, i was thinking what i waste of space it is if i pass in an almost empty blue book. solution? write. i wrote a lot of poems and short essays in math exams. unfortunately these are all i kept. so here it is, the math poem (click on the link down below)! the other poem is one i did while trying out the typewriter i brought here from home. wanting to feel more of a writer, i lugged around that heavy piece of machinery on the boat and through the journey to katipunan. years later since i never really got to use it, it started to rust and i was actually saddened by that. anyhu i wrote some interesting pieces with it and here's one of them. i hope i could put in the other stuff i wrote with that. actually that period of my life was when i was most angsty. this poem, staring into you, is the non-angsty thing i did when i was 'angsty.' i guess im using the term too much but just for kicks, here's another coming your way: angsty! read on!


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