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By Kenneth Turan
For as long as images have flickered on a screen, romance has been the ever-beating heart of the filmgoing experience, and audiences never seem to tire of seeing lovers in each other's arms. Yet when it comes to the most concentrated form of passion, the all-consuming amour fou, movies tend to be much more skittish.
Damage, however, doesn't shrink from taking on this kind of love with all its incendiary qualities intact. Damage's soul may seem to have more in common with Jackie Collins than Jane Austen, but an impressive creative team has turned out high-class cinema that is carefully controlled, beautifully mounted.
Damage is set at the top of Britain's social pyramid and, in fact, began as a prestigiously published first novel by British writer Josephine Hart. It became a best seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and drew into its orbit director Louis Malle, playwright/director David Hare as screenwriter and an excellent cast headed by Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, and Miranda Richardson.
Hare and Malle may initially seem unlikely bedfellows. Hare is a polished writer (best known for the Meryl Streep vehicle Plenty) who knows England inside-out. The French-born Malle has always been fascinated with the extremes of human behavior. From The Fire Within's mental breakdown to Murmur of the Heart's scrutiny of incest, to the eccentric love affairs of Pretty Baby and Atlantic City, Malle has rarely strayed far from his obsession with obsession. But as disparate as Malle and hare appear, they seem to have understood exactly the kind of project this was and worked with what feels remarkably like a single mind.
Jeremy Irons stars as Stephen Fleming, M.P. first glimpsed smoothly at his ease among the movers and shakers of Britain's Parliament, he is a favorite of the Prime Minister and seems absolutely assured of greater things to come. A man who does things well and knows it, he has two children and what seems to be a still-vibrant relationship with his wife, Ingrid (Richardson). Yet there are moments, underlined by Zbigniew Preisner's haunting, disturbing score, when the look on his face tells you it is all somehow not enough.
Then, almost instantaneously, everything changes. Stephen stays for one extra drink at a boring diplomatic reception and into the room walks Anna Barton (Juliette Binoche). With her severe haircut and dark silk suit contrasting with an overwhelming air of sensuality, she immediately exchanges a look with Stephen that makes the words they speak well beside the point. But Anna, it turns out, is not just standard issue Other Woman material; she is, Stephen finds out at once, the brand new girlfriend of his son, Martyn (Rupert Graves).
Do either Stephen or Anna care? No, they do not. Caught in the grasp of an unblinking attraction, they waste almost no time in going at it, engaging in frenzied wordless coupling on the bedroom floor, the kitchen sink, and even once making use of the doorway of a convenient church. Living this kind of triple life, deceiving both his wife and his son and having to endure, as Martyn and Anna get inexplicably closer, excruciatingly duplicitous family outings, is as hard as it sounds on Stephen. A man whose tasteful, well-appointed existence has never encountered this kind of out-of-control emotion before, he longs for some kind of structured way to deal with a woman who is simultaneously his dream and his nightmare.
Anna, however, does not want things tidied up. She tells Stephen about a devastating episode in her past and reminds him that "damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." Just how dangerous damaged people are is part of what Damage is all about.
Though Jeremy Irons is rather making a career out of playing men tormented by their lives, his anguish and helpless fervor are exceptionally well done, and his face grows increasingly haggard as his situation worsens. And as the wife who distrusts Anna without knowing why, Miranda Richardson was good enough to an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, largely due to a brace of lacerating scenes near the film's close.
But the engine that drives this film is Juliette Binoche. Best known for a very different role in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Binoche is exactly right as an unfathomable woman whose gaze and actions flinch from nothing A creature of almost pure emotion, with a distant unattainable quality that never leaves her, Anna not only doesn't flee from chaos, she find in it the comfort that normalcy has never been able to provide. This director's cut of Damage was rated NC-17, and though there is no lack of unclothed flesh here, the film's erotic charge comes more from the looks on faces than the positions of bodies. The involvement the actors bring to the scenes, the expressiveness of those looks, makes all the difference. Melodramatic as this story tends to be, the principals manage to play it with unwavering conviction, and their reality remains at the core of all of Damage's artifice, drawing us in and making us believe.
Kenneth Turan is film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio's Morning Edition, as well as the director of the Times Book Prizes. His latest books are Never Coming to a Theater Near You and Now in Theaters Everywhere.


A special committee charged with drafting an action plan for backcountry airstrips presented its results to the Idaho Transportation Board during its monthly meeting this week (July 19, 20) in Coeur d'Alene. The Division of Aeronautics established the steering committee last year to review, analyze, and determine the best steps to take in preserving the state's backcountry airports and draft a plan to preserve the unique access.
A cement shortage began dotting the U.S. in late 2003 and into last year, primarily impacting construction on the East Coast. Supply limitations are beginning to show up in the western states where building is booming. And it's been blamed, perhaps unjustly, for delaying a highway project south of Lewiston for about six weeks.
In a competition where being close (without contact) means everything, a slim 37-point margin separated first and second place in the annual ITD truck roadeo held at the Athol Maintenance gravel site north of Coeur d'Alene. When the dust settled, Marc Johnson of Coeur d'Alene's South and East Maintenance Section claimed his first state championship, scoring 3,375 points.
ITD employees in Coeur d'Alene and Boise took advantage of national Ride Your Bike to Work Day to exercise their Hogs, Hondas, Suzukis and other motorcycles Wednesday. At Headquarters, more than a dozen riders lined their motorcycles in a specially designated parking area early in the morning and then reassembled for a noon picnic before heading out on a rumble around the main building.
The sizzling days of summer, longed for during Idaho's protracted wet, cool spring, finally arrived this week, sending temperatures into triple digits and children to community swimming pools. There is little relief, however, for children left unattended in enclosed vehicles.
Effective immediately, public employees participating in the 457 Nationwide Retirement Solution plan (also known as PEBSCO or deferred comp) can designate the percentage of their pay that is set aside for retirement. Participants can indicate on the NRS enrollment form whether they would like the deduction amount to be a percentage of their salary or a fixed dollar amount, according to Human Resource Services.
That purple flower now in bloom along Idaho ditches, rivers, wetlands and ponds may look pretty to the eye but looks can be terribly deceiving. Because chances are it is actually an invasive noxious weed that poses a devastating threat to Idaho's future, officials with the Idaho Weed Awareness Campaign are warning.


can be used as a single source food indefinitely because it's based on fat and dried raw meat which means all vitamins are preserved.
Disease because of malnutrition typically takes a few years. The canary is usually bad dental health.
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Let's not have a "flame war" again. You know my views and I know yours. And I've noticed many people have strong feelings attached to diets. I guess it's no coincidence most religions contain dietary restrictions. But to answer your questions raw or cooked doesn't matter if you have a reasonably varied diet.
Sorry to inform you, but that question is of the utmost importance, hence my reason for asking. There's a world of difference between raw and cooked. I do have to address this at another time though due to my current time constraint.
I asked a specific question, and I received a non-specific answer. What number of years do you think would prove the worth of a certain way of living?
HonestlyNow » December 6th, 2017, 8:20 pm wrote: I asked a specific question, and I received a non-specific answer. What number of years do you think would prove the worth of a certain way of living?
Mmm, I understand perfectly well that people get upset by Flat Earthers, but an upside with them is that they at least cannot cause any physical damage with their delusions.
patrix » December 6th, 2017, 2:05 pm wrote: Let's not have a "flame war" again.
a lengthy exchange of angry or abusive messages between users of an online forum or other discussion area.
I conducted a search on this site for my posts in Engineering Disease. My search indicates that I made 23 posts in this thread. Not even one of those posts is either abusive nor of an attacking or angry nature. Search Link. The flame war, my dear patrix, is in your imagination.
The flame war, my dear patrix, is in your imagination.
Flame war might be a bad choice of words, but it's besides the point. The point is that people like you pisses me off for a very good reason, and that is that you promote malnutrition because of your ignorance. You feel you are morally in the right to promote avoidance of animal products against better knowledge and actively tries to question and discredit anyone that says otherwise. You are like a Flat Earther but with the important difference that anyone exposed and convinced by your delusions risk health problems.
You ask me silly questions and argue like I'm in some kind of obligation to answer them. Does it make me less credible if I choose not to?
Lets turn this around. Lets do Jeopardy instead. Here's an answer I want the question for and if you don't know it without google you are obliged to put your delusions about nutrition where the sun don't shine.
patrix » December 7th, 2017, 7:59 am wrote: You feel you are morally in the right to promote avoidance of animal products against better knowledge and actively tries to question and discredit anyone that says otherwise.
What I have seen to be the truth of the matter in regards to the health of the homo sapien, is that we are a frugivore species, and that the cooking of our food has proven to be the downfall of mankind.
Well then grab some eggs and butter and get your brain and serotonin levels up to a working condition again.
We've all been fooled in some way. The important thing is to be honest enough with yourself to see that.
The vego-/vegetarian psyop/social engineering has a long history. Disney has made animals children's soulmates. Before Donald, duck fat was one of the most commonly used fats in American homes. Then we have all kinds of hoaxes after that like Cowspiracy, Mad cow disease, the list goes on.
First we ridicule it, then we fight it, then we proclaim – That is what I've always said.
patrix » December 7th, 2017, 8:26 am wrote: Well then grab some eggs and butter and get your brain and serotonin levels up to a working condition again.
You're making the assumption there's a problem with my brain and serotonin levels. I've made no such claim here, and it's also not the case that I'm having that problem. Thank you, anyway.
patrix wrote: We've all been fooled in some way. The important thing is to be honest enough with yourself to see that.
Again, agreed. You and I differ on how we are being fooled.
patrix wrote: Disney . . .
As I've mentioned during our last exchange months ago, I've no interest in Disney, and he/it is not in any way the guiding force upon the knowledge I have gained on this subject.
Which makes me sad, because I do care.
Is this guy somewhat stressed in the conference? He doesn't breathe normally. Maybe because he is speaking nonsense?
I wouldn't have much confidence in someone speaking on health matters, who doesn't know how to breathe and who wears glasses. All the health gurus should know that a fast magically empowers the sight and hearing!
dblitz, that's an important question, because everybody presumes that the body extracts energy from the food, whereas the food only gives the material that the body uses. The body uses energy from the atmosphere, and has repositories of energy, but it doesn't transform fats or sugars into energy. This is proved during fasts, as the body becomes stronger and healthier, without consuming any calories from food.
No kind of aliment can carry life force into the system, or by any action, severally or jointly, create it within the body.
neither exercise nor eating adds a particle of vitality to the stock in store, but diminishes it.
Jennings was the inventor of the term "orthopathy", or right action, which considers disease as a state of feeble vitality.
His system is so good that we can throw modern medicine and all those quack's youtube videos to the dustbin.
Gee I don't know. Maybe he's a bit emphatic about the fact that he's researched cancer for 20 years and showed with controlled experiments that the ruling genome theory, that current cancer therapy is based on, is simply wrong. But despite that he's received practically no attention for his research.
Human cells use simple sugars or monosaccharides as their major fuel component. Monosaccharides are the most fundamental units of all sugars and cannot be further hydrolyzed or broken down into simpler compounds. Fructose is a monosaccharides which is found in fruits can pass through the lining of the mouth and stomach, as well as small intestines, just as it is and provides fuel directly to cells. All other sugars, disaccharides and polysaccharides, must be broken down first, meaning they must go through the digestive process and converted into monosaccharides before cells can absorb them for fuel and so must undergo the digestive process. Disaccharides and polysaccharides are broken down into glucose, which is a monosaccharide. Glucose, unlike fructose or fruit sugar, needs a carrier unit, insulin, to transport them into the cell but fruit sugars or fructose needs nothing.
Modern biology would agree with the above paragraph so it is not in dispute.
The fact that fruit sugars don't need to be broken down, don't need a carrier unit and can be readily absorbed into the blood stream as soon as one starts chewing is significant. This means when fruit is eaten the body does not have to spend valuable resources on the complicated digestive process and can instead work on repairing and regenerating the body.
Modern medicine does a real good job of ignoring how easily absorbable are fruit sugars and assuming that many other sources of sugars are needed as found in the disaccharide and polysaccharide groups so that the body gets all its chemicals as needed by the human body. What modern medicine is also ignoring is the fact that the liver is an amazing chemical factory and does this job all by itself using the carbon, oxygen and hydrogen from fructose and a few other elements found in fruits to supply the human body with all the chemicals it needs, generally speaking.
Seyfried was asked in an interview what he would do if he got cancer and he said he would immediately go on a long term fast (water only). So I presume he does know about fasting. He's just a more vocal part of a growing movement in many research institutes in Europe and US, continuing from the point where Otto Warburg was abandoned.
Long term fasts do have an amazing record of clearing up many chronic complaints but I've not seen much about sight. Shelton said he had experienced sight recovery in some of his patients but I'll read those two books you linked to.
Kham humans can burn suger or fat. Fat burning is cleaner - no lactic acidosis which over the long term causes all our problems. The duel fuel ability provides resilience but it seems obvious now that fat burning was intended to be the main source. Long term fasts and ketogenic diets both achieve fat burning, respectively from the body or the diet.
Edit: Because sugar is in almost all processed foods, and because modern bread has the same effect (long chain glucose, an even higher GI than the sucrose baseline), most Americans can spend their lives in sugar burning mode. And die of heart/artery or cancer because of it. Solution is simple: give up all carbs except in fruit and veg. Go easy on fruit but now and again have more. We want to give the body a rest from chronically high insulin, give the pancreas and insulin receptors a rest, but we don't want to completely negate the sugar-insulin response. Pure ketogenic for years appears not to be healthy.
Interesingly modern fruit, hybridized for high sugar content, is quite different from fruit of even a few hundred years ago. There's a renaissance painting of a split water melon which shows its inside to be quite different, albeit red. Modern bananas are not grown from the seed as they have none. Wild bananas are packed with hard seeds.
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Jennifer Dahlgren Fitzner (born 21 April 1984) is an Argentine hammer thrower. Having spent much of her life in the United States, she competed as an amateur for the University of Georgia. She set the US collegiate hammer record and was the NCAA Outdoor champion in both 2006 and 2007. She is a three-time gold medallist at the South American Championships and won the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games.

Dahlgren has represented Argentina at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as having competed at the World Championships in Athletics on three occasions. She first broke the South American record in the discipline in 2004 and has raised it several metres to her current best of 73.74 m. She is one of the continent's top performers in the event, in which South American athletes are historically weak. In 2010 she won the Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the five best Athletes from the last decade in Argentina.

Career
Dahlgren's first major tournament was the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but she did not make the final, finishing 11th in the qualifying stages. She finished fourth at the 2001 World Youth Championships, but won the South American Junior Championships and took second at the Pan American Junior Championships that year. Dahlgren took fifth at the World Junior Championships in Athletics the following year and again topped the podium in the 2002 South American Junior Championships in Athletics. The 2003 season proved to be a breakthrough year: she set the South American junior record in the discipline and won at the Pan American Junior Championships.

Dahlgren reached the championship podium three times in 2004, finishing third at the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship for the University of Georgia with a South American record of 66.12 m, taking the gold at the South American U23 Championships in Athletics and winning a bronze medal at the 2004 Ibero-American Championships. However, she did not fare as well at the 2004 Summer Olympics, managing a throw of only 59.52 m. In 2005, she improved her record to 67.07 m and bettered her previous performance at the NCAA Championships with a second-place finish. She set a championship record of 65.05 m to win the 2005 South American Championships in Athletics – her first senior title. She did not continue her momentum into the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and she threw three fouls to be eliminated in the qualifying round.

In 2006, she won the NCAA Indoor Weight throw title and set a new US collegiate record in the hammer with a throw of 71.78 m at the SEC Championships – the fourth time she had improved her South American record that year. She went on to win her first outdoor NCAA hammer throw title a few months later. Dahlgren improved her championship record to 69.07 m to take a second continental gold at the 2006 South American Championships in Athletics. She also won at the 2006 South American Games, which acted as the South American Under-23 Athletics Championships that year.

She started 2007 by winning the NCAA championships with a mark of 70.72 m (her final amateur title) and throwing a new South American record of 72.01 m soon afterwards in Greensboro, North Carolina. She scored her first major championship medal at the 2007 Pan American Games, taking the bronze with a throw of 68.37 m behind Cubans Yipsi Moreno and Arasay Thondike. Representing Argentina at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, she threw 65.64 m in the qualifying round but this was not enough to progress to the final.

She suffered a foot injury in 2008, which affected her performances early in the season. She recovered somewhat in time for the 2008 Ibero-American Championships and was the silver medallist behind Rosa Rodríguez. She had a best mark of 66.35 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics, leaving her as the best South American performer but in 29th place overall. She had a below par performance at the 2009 South American Championships in Athletics, throwing 63.81 m for the bronze medal. Despite this, she was also the best South American performer in the hammer at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, where her throw of 68.90 m was good enough for 17th, but not enough to make the final round.

She came under the tutelage of fellow Argentine Marcelo Pugliese, a former Olympic hammer thrower. At the start of the 2010 season, Dahlgren set another best of 73.74 m in Buenos Aires.

Personal life
Dahlgren frequently moved with her family in her youth, which meant that she spent much time living in the United States. She returned to Argentina at the age of 13, but took time to feel comfortable with the language and settle into her school. However, after settling she was once again uprooted as her family moved to Texas. Her mother Irene Fitzner competed for Argentina as a sprint athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Dahlgren's younger brother, Paul, attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Dahlgren's great-grandfather was Swedish, hence her Swedish surname.

Personal bests

All information taken from IAAF profile.

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Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, recently welcomed Joe Ide, the author of IQ, back to host another debut author. Melissa Scrivner Love is the author of Lola.
Here's the description of Lola.
The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia . . . but what no one has figured out is that the gang's real leader (and secret weapon) is Garcia's girlfriend, a brilliant young woman named Lola. Lola has mastered playing the role of submissive girlfriend, and in the man's world she inhabits she is consistently underestimated. But in truth she is much, much smarter–and in many ways tougher and more ruthless–than any of the men around her, and as the gang is increasingly sucked into a world of high-stakes betrayal and brutal violence, her skills and leadership become their only hope of survival.
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Tall el-Hammam
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Sifting through the Sands of Sodom
Tall el-Hammam, located eight miles northeast of the mouth of the Jordan River as it enters the Dead Sea, was one the largest Bronze Age cities in the S Levant during the Bronze Age. It anchored a major city-state that is likely identified in the Bible as the Cities of the Plain (referred to as Kikkar in Genesis 13-19). Hammam is a perfect match for Sodom itself (see the March/April 2013 issue of BAR). Along with its extensive megalithic field of stone circles, menhirs, and dolmens, the landscape of Tall el-Hammam has also been identified as Abel Mizraim (Genesis 50:11) of Joseph's era, and Abel Shittim, the final camping sites of Moses and the Israelites before they crossed into Canaan (Numbers 33:49).
The past eight seasons have revealed a vast history of continuous occupation beginning from the Neolithic Period and extending well into the Middle Bronze Age. An Iron Age II walled town was later built on the upper tall, including monumental towers and gateway. Previous work on both the upper and lower tall has exposed impressive architecture including an immense Middle Bronze rampart system constructed entirely of mudbricks, an Early Bronze III blocked gate, a sacred precinct area, and an emerging Middle Bronze gateway and tower complex. Our goals for season nine are to continue work on the Middle Bronze gateway and gatehouse, resume efforts in the temple administrative and domestic areas, and continue a new area begun in season eight that has revealed Neolithic through Iron II material and architecture.
Located in a scenic spot in the southern Levant, Tall el-Hammam is a strategically located site set 500 feet below sea level. Volunteers stay at the new Best Western Grand Hotel in Madaba, located 39 minutes from the site.
14km NE of the Dead Sea, Jordan
Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, Intermediate Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Iron Age II, Roman/Byzantine
2 credits per 2 dig weeks offered by Trinity Southwest University and Veritas International University
Olive Tree Hotel, Amman, Jordan. Double and Single rooms. All amenities. Breakfast and dinner daily. $59 for a double $89 for a single per person/per night. Not included in dig cost.
$925 for 2 weeks. Airfare, room and board not included.
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The Games Dreams
Last night's dreams were sooo long and involved, but they all featured two central themes: I was playing games, and I was winning.
At one point in one dream, I'd won some huge prize. I'm on a stage, being cheered. People are crowding around to congratulate me. Ecstatic and incredulous, I kept saying, "I can't believe I won."
Later, I was playing another game, and winning, but said, "Why am I playing this game?"
"Who cares?" a man said. "You're winning."
I said, "But I don't like this game."
He said, "Are you kidding? It's your dream."
The moment's duality caught me. It was my dream, and I was dreaming it, but it wasn't my dream to play games.
After that, it all made sense.
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Amazon Alexa users have become used to barking commands at compatible devices, like the Amazon Echo or Dot. And for now, Alexa is just a voice that talks back to you. However, Rohit Prasad, head scientist of Amazon's Alexa artificial intelligence group, made comments that have led some to believe that she may one day be unleashed as a robot. Prasad, while discussing the reasons for the limitations that users find with Alexa, noted that "The only way to make smart assistants really smart is to give it eyes and let it explore the world." According to MIT Technology Review, Prasad didn't comment further on rumors that Amazon is building a home robot. The scientist's comments could just be an offhand observation or a hint at what may be coming, but for now, it's all pure speculation, noted The Daily Mail.
As popularity of Alexa increases, it also comes with stories of malfunctions along with "creepy" comments. According to CNBC, the assistant once told someone to "Kill your foster parents," which was reportedly a result of a $500,000 contest among computer science students to generate "more impressive" chatbots, noted The Sun. In addition, there was a short period of time when users heard a "creepy" and seemingly random laughter from their Alexa devices, reported CNBC.
With all that being said, many have long imagined a future with robot assistants. Rosie from The Jetsons is a good example, and Roomba vacuums have been a hit among some folks after its debut in 2002. And while the potential of Alexa one day being integrated into a robot body is still speculation, it would certainly be a major step in the world of robotics.
But Alexa's road to success hasn't been perfect. In April 2018, Forbes noted that Alexa was hacked by Checkmarx to record everything it hears without the users' knowledge. A month later, USA Today released a way for consumers to check all of the recordings being housed in their Alexa-enabled devices.


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Un nombre premier circulaire est un nombre premier avec la propriété que le nombre généré à chaque étape intermédiaire lors d'une permutation circulaire de ses chiffres (en base dix) soit premier.

Par exemple, 1193 est un premier circulaire, car 1931, 9311 et 3119 sont aussi des nombres premiers. Un premier circulaire avec au moins deux chiffres ne peut qu'être constitué de combinaisons des chiffres 1, 3, 7 ou 9, parce qu'ayant 0, 2, 4, 6 ou 8, le dernier chiffre rend le nombre divisible par 2, et avoir 0 ou 5 comme dernier chiffre rend le nombre divisible par 5.

La liste complète représentant les plus petits nombres premiers circulaires (les nombres premiers à un seul chiffre et les répunits sont les seuls membres de leurs cycles respectifs) est 2, 3, 5, 7, R2, 13, 17, 37, 79, 113, 197, 199, 337, 1193, 3779, 11939, 19937, 193939, 199933, R19, R23, R317, R1031, R49081, R86453, R109297, et R270343, où Rn est un premier répunit avec n chiffres. Il a été montré en 2019 qu'il n'y a pas d'autres nombres premiers circulaires au-delà de 1023. Un type de nombre premier lié aux nombres premiers circulaires sont les nombres premiers permutables, et sont un sous-ensemble des nombres premiers circulaires (tous les premiers permutables sont aussi des premiers circulaires, mais pas nécessairement inversement).

Il est conjecturé qu'en dehors des nombres répunits, les seuls nombres premiers circulaires sont inférieurs à .

Autres bases

La liste complète des plus petits nombres premiers représentants de tous les cycles connus de nombres premiers circulaires en base douze est (en utilisant le deux et le trois inversé pour dix et onze, respectivement)

 2, 3, 5, 7, Ɛ, R2, 15, 57, 5Ɛ, R3, 117, 11Ɛ, 175, 1Ɛ7, 157Ɛ, 555Ɛ, R5, 115Ɛ77, R17, R81, R91, R225, R255, R4ᘔ5, R5777, R879Ɛ, R198Ɛ1, R23175, et R311407.

où Rn est un nombre premier répunit en base 12 avec n chiffres. Il n'y a pas d'autres nombres premiers circulaires en base douze au-delà de 128.

En base 2, seuls les nombres premiers de Mersenne peuvent être des nombres premiers circulaires.

Notes et références

Liens externes
 Premier circulaire sur The Prime Glossary
 Premier circulaireircular prime sur World of Numbers
 A068652 une séquence apparentée (les nombres premiers circulaires sont une sous-séquence de celle-ci)

Nombre premier


Downed trees, fallen power lines and blocked roadways were among some of the hazards around the University of Miami campus Tuesday afternoon as TMH reporters surveyed the damage from Hurricane Irma.
Fallen branches litter the lawn near the main entrance to UM's campus. Much of the damage visible around the perimeter of campus consisted of fallen trees.
Students and faculty who parked their cars in the Pavia, Merrick and Mahoney/Pearson garages for the storm were allowed to retrieve them beginning Tuesday morning. No one else was permitted to access the Coral Gables campus.
Much of the UM campus and surrounding neighborhoods were without power and working traffic lights Tuesday afternoon, but power was restored to some of the area by Tuesday night.
San Amaro drive is blocked by a UMPD officer, who said the road was closed because it was blocked by debris. The road reopened by Tuesday evening.
A damaged traffic light dangles above the street, blocking one lane of traffic at the intersection of Ponce De Leon Boulevard and San Amaro Drive.
Granada Boulevard, adjacent to the Coral Gables campus, is blocked by a downed tree Tuesday afternoon. Cars were able to get around the tree by driving on the grass and sidewalk before the tree was cleared.
The Red Lot near the School of Communication and Panhellenic building remains closed, blocked by debris from fallen trees.
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science campus on Key Biscayne sustained some flooding damage, according to a security officer, but he said the damage was not as severe as administrators feared it could have been.
A fallen palm tree was the only damage to the RSMAS campus visible from the outside, but a security officer says the campus experienced additional damage inside.


This entry was posted in Conservation, Plumbing and tagged home improvement, saving money on July 24, 2014 by .
Water isn't free, just check your bi-monthly water usage bill. The average water bill in San Diego can range from $75 to over $200 every two months depending on how large your family is. There are generally about $50 of water service related fees and the rest of the bill is based on usage. What if you could take that water usage cost and cut it in half without changing anything about your daily routine? You'd be looking at savings of between $150 and $300 a year.
We'll look at your bathrooms first. This is where about 75% of all indoor water usage happens. The toilet is the major culprit in most homes. If you have the original toilets that were installed when your home was built, they could be using between 3.5 and 5 gallons of water per flush. For the average family of four, that's up to 60 gallons a day or 1800 gallons per month. Installing low flow toilets can cut this usage to 1.1 to 1.6 gallons per flush. That's more than 50% less water use. Low flow toilets can cost as little as $79 at the home-improvement store.
The next place to look is at your showerhead. Older showers use 5 to 7 gallons of water per minute. Switching out these heads with new, WaterSense approved shower heads that flow at 2.5 gallons per minute eliminates at least half of your water use in the shower. You could shower for twice as long or keep your showers shorter and bank the savings. A family of four taking 15-minute showers every day will save 130 gallons of water per day – 3900 gallons per month.
Kitchen and sink faucets also waste up to a gallon of water per minute they are in use. Installing aerators on each of them could save up to 30 gallons of water every day in the typical home. That's another 900 gallons of saved water every month.
The Water Usage Savings Are In…..
In total, the average family will use 6600 fewer gallons of water every month. In terms of your bill, it would break down like this. Water bills are measured in HCFs (hundred cubic feet). 1 HCF = 748 gallons. The average family saves 6600/748 or 8.8 HCF.
0 – 8 HCF used are billed at $3.64 per HCF.
9 – 24 HCF used are billed at $4.08 per HCF.
25 – 36 HCF used are billed at $5.82 per HCF.
Each HCF used after the initial 36 HCF is billed at $8.19 per HCF.
The savings on the average family bill could then range anywhere from $30 to $40 per month or $60 to $80 per billing cycle. If you make all the suggested changes to your home, the initial cost should be recovered in less than two years.


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Swiping at Pictures
By Christopher Y. Lew
This essay is one of a series of online-only texts commissioned to accompany Aperture's Spring 2013 issue, "Hello, Photography," which examines the state of the medium in a time of great change.
Trisha Baga, installation view of The Biggest Circle at Greene Naftali, New York, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. Photograph: Martha Fleming-Ives.
As smartphones and tablets become enmeshed in our daily activities and everything from the flat-screen TV to the kitchen fridge becomes connected to the cloud, our relationship to technology and to the Internet has changed dramatically. It is no longer a matter of yes or no, Luddite or first adopter, online or off. Rather, life entails a range of interactions that combine direct encounters with information that is pulled from the ether. Everyday experience is a triangulation of three points: first, what is physically in the world; second, what is on the touch screen in one's hand; and third, how the mind processes it all. It is as common as meeting a friend over coffee while texting another and then checking which celebrity has been spotted where by the Daily Mail. These types of interactions have changed—in big and small ways—how we engage with one another, how we process images and information, and how we regard the world at large.
I do not propose that technology alone has radically reshaped contemporary life, but rather that recent innovations have facilitated tendencies that began with the rise of advertising and media culture in the first half of the twentieth century and continued through the explosion of images in the 1970s and '80s. Art has always attempted to bring new meaning to the rapid changes caused by technology. Pop Art, which emerged in the late 1950s, and the Pictures Generation of the '70s and '80s examined and made use of images that held currency in their respective times. A new generation of artists is now utilizing early-twenty-first-century images and exploring what they mean. Unlike in previous decades, today's pictures circulate in an increasingly interactive and participatory manner, and the distinction between original and copy has been rendered more and more inconsequential.
Helen Marten fully acknowledges the circuitous life of images. In a 2011 interview with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, she says, "There is a viral mentality that borrows from a mass of known imagery, from accessible and generous vocabularies, but does so understanding that it will become dispersed, boot-legged, pirated." Her sculptures and videos are populated with logos and brands—known forms that she draws together, alluding to rebus-like meanings—and yet comprise a shorthand that frustrates direct communication. By featuring BMW logos, bottles of Campari, and Oakley sunglasses, Marten takes advantage of the status and desirability companies have tried to impart to their products. Tracing the history of modern advertising in his 2002 BBC documentary The Century of the Self, Adam Curtis notes of this phenomenon, "irrelevant objects could become powerful emotional symbols of how you want to be seen by others."
Michele Abeles, Publicity Photograph, Artist Michele Abeles, Rob Pruitt 2010 Art Awards, 2011. Courtesy Roger Kirsby.
The circulation of images and a sense of visual literacy is made explicit in the work of Michele Abeles and Lucas Blalock, two artists who are steeped in photographic tradition and attuned to image dissemination. In her recent photographs, Abeles has incorporated details of previous compositions, making explicit the meme-like replication and development of images. In a performative mode, Abeles had actress Paz de la Huerta take her place at Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards, for which the photographer was nominated as New Artist of the Year. The hot downtown actress stood in for the emerging artist like one stock photo swapped for another. Blalock riffs on commercial images, still lifes, and architectural shots in humorous photographs made with a large-format camera and a computer. He takes pictures of ordinary objects like erasers, fabrics, and drinking glasses to create an archive of images that he later manipulates in Photoshop. One image may be layered onto another, or sections of a picture can be duplicated or erased; each manipulation is blunt and visible, as if the images had gone awry. Adept at moving between various styles of photography—a skill that goes beyond mimicry—his works make apparent the highly constructed nature of images and, at times, offer backhanded compliments to other artists mining similar ground.
Lucas Blalock, installation view of xyz, Ramiken Crucible, New York, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Ramiken Crucible, New York.
Margaret Lee, installation view of New Pictures of Common Objects, MoMA PS1, New York, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Hanley Gallery. Photograph: Joerg Lohse.
Margaret Lee creates lifelike sculptures of fruits and vegetables by casting them in plaster and then hand-painting them with acrylic. Lee aspires for the perfect fruit, one that never rots and appeals both to the eye and camera. Composed like ads, the photographs she takes of these objects often include hand models or decorative elements like ferns and furniture. In exhibitions the photographs may be presented with the sculptures they depict, as well as with furniture and objects reminiscent of those in the images. This is not to suggest a photo shoot, but rather to bring closer together the object and its image. The photograph—through the language of advertising—creates a context for the object that is related to, but different from, the sculpture in the same space. The eggplant's marble base may differ from the one depicted in the image. The plant in the gallery does not match the photograph. And yet the work and its image seem to serve the same aims, in particular to narrow the gap between objects and images, a divide that is currently bridged by fingertips and touch screens.
Describing an attempt to sculpt clay, artist Mark Leckey says, "it was as if my body, the instinctual part of it, couldn't grasp why I couldn't just copy, paste, and flip the other half [of the material]." We are all babies learning when it is appropriate to pinch and swipe. A sense of this familiar but strange space, in which it is difficult to distinguish between the physical world and video images, is evoked in Trisha Baga's installations. Her works bring together video projections, found objects, paintings, and other elements created by the artist. Video footage—a combination of material she shot herself and culled from pop-culture sources—is projected onto a field of objects to produce an array of shadows that nest themselves within the video images. For Baga, the shadows represent the space between the physical object and video—a gradient of light and dark she taps to treat unwieldy topics like American history.
Another artist who points towards future ways of making is Josh Kline, who has utilized 3-D scanners and printers to create sculptures of the hands and feet of creative workers. By scanning footwear designers wearing their own creations and the hands of tastemakers—writers, artists, and designers—holding bottled drinks of their choice, Kline has made fragmentary portraits that double as product displays. Presented on metal shelves with custom lighting, the metonymic works evoke the seemingly limitless supply of a convenience store; they become a shop that holds the promise of copies tailored for each customer. Additionally, Kline's titles explicitly identify by name and profession the individuals whose feet and hands were scanned. By doing so he metaphorically point towards the social networks that connect us professionally and personally. Kline has taken the visual language of advertising and commercial display—a language in which he says we are not only literate but fluent—and uses it to do something other than push products.
Similarly playing against expectations, Darren Bader has been known to include the work of other artists, and even non-artists, in his solo exhibitions. Exhibited without attribution or marks of differentiation, Bader fosters a space of equivalence. A framed movie poster can be regarded alongside a French horn filled with guacamole or a live snake improbably accompanied by mittens and a dildo. How Bader's work is presented in publications is just as surprising. He generally prefers that his images to run without captions; one is never sure if the images he submits are of another artist's work or sourced elsewhere. Bader does not aim to trick the viewer. Instead, his published images suggest a placeholder or stand-in, an acknowledgement that these have been and will continue to be subjected to what Marten calls acts of dispersion, bootlegging, and piracy.
Within Pop Art, Hal Foster sees a politics "centered on its commitment to what is held in common, including our shared image world understood (perhaps perversely) as a newfangled commons." The Internet has made manifest our shared image world. Despite the fact that much of it is colonized by corporations, it serves as a digital commons that exerts a force of equivalence. Minority voices like conspiracy theorists and Holocaust deniers are as easy to find as traditional sources of journalistic information. Because you can Google it does not make it true. In his essay on the role of journalism today, Der Spiegel reporter Ullrich Fichtner writes, "In the ever-chatting grinder of the web, facts can look like just opinions; and opinions can wander around like facts." Such commingling of fact and fiction allows for notions untethered to reality to grow in popularity and furthers a frame of mind that blends news and entertainment—as seen on twenty-four-hour news channels. It also gives rise to the bizarre scenes in which acting and real life are nearly indistinguishable. How does one parse Sarah Palin's bid to be vice president from her showdown with her Saturday Night Live impersonator, or Charlie Sheen's "winning" meltdown and his role on Two and a Half Men? On their own, such incidents may not seem of consequence, but in times of climate change and political upheaval the difference between fact and fiction is one we cannot fail to see.
Christopher Y. Lew is assistant curator at MoMA PS1. He joined the museum in 2006 and has organized numerous exhibitions, including Clifford Owens: Anthology, Nancy Grossman: Heads, and New Pictures of Common Objects, on which this essay is loosely based.
Josh Kline, Tastemaker's Choice, 2012. Courtesy the artist and 47 Canal. Photograph: Joerg Lohse.
Helen Marten, installation view of Plank Salad, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2012. Courtesy of the artist, Johann König, Berlin, and T293, Rome and Naples.
This essay is one of a series of online-only texts commissioned to accompany Aperture's Spring 2013 issue.
For the Camera
Black Lives, Silver Screen: Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young in Conversation
The Photographer's Hand in a Digital World


The wives and/or neighbors are complaining?.. Add an aluminized resonated centerpipe to your existing Techtonics exhaust. Such produces the quietest sport system available. Because of the straight thru design, horsepower loss is negligible below 6000 RPM. Please confirm in order notes what diameter exhaust you bought and the catalytic converter outlet size.


This process applies to the xNAV550 and xNAV250 only.
There are two stages to this upgrade, one for the xNAV firmware and one for the GPS card firmware. This process should take up to 40 minutes.
NOTE: If the software has been sent in a zip file, the extension might have been changed to .piz so that it is not rejected by email security systems. If so, change it to .zip, then unzip the file.
The RJ45 Ethernet connector on xNAV can be plugged in to a network hub. To connect it directly to a laptop a crossover must be used. The xNAV is supplied with a suitable cable for connection to a laptop computer. The IP address of the laptop must be in the same subnet as the xNAV, in other words the IP address should begin 195.0.0. (by default) and end with a number lower than 255 that is different from the xNAV.
Use Windows Explorer to connect to the xNAV.
In the address box ftp to the IP address of the xNAV, for example ftp://195.0.0.m where m is the last two digits of the serial number, as shown in the screenshot below. Please note, if you have changed the IP address of your unit, you should use the address you set instead.
Explorer will list all the raw data files that are stored in the xNAV. If you are able to view this then skip to step 4.
If Internet Explorer automatically opens when you try to connect over FTP, open the Internet Options, Advanced tab and tick the setting to enable FTP folder view outside of Internet Explorer (see below).
Before updating the firmware, back-up any RD files you may need.
Do not delete the files that start with mobile. These are your configuration files and should only be changed using the NAVconfig. (The file mobile.rd can be deleted, but the system will put it back).
You should first check that you have no commands in the advance commands section of the configuration relating to the serial port as seen in the screen shot below.
The files must be unzipped before they are applied to the unit. The firmware must be transferred as binary data, with the file name unchanged.
First apply xbns, drag-and-drop it in the Explorer window of the unit.
Run NAVdisplay and connect to the xNAV as normal. In NAVconnect the firmware id is displayed, as shown below.
This should be 190324x1. The name of the zipped file containing the firmware will tell you the version of the rtbns firmware. Once this is applied you may not be able to see or use satellites until you update the GPS card firmware.
The files must be unzipped before they are applied to the unit. The firmware must be transferred as binary data, with the file name unchanged. Do not connect GPS antennas during this process.
To copy the .to1 file drag-and-drop it in the Explorer window of the unit.
Uploading this firmware may take up to 20 minutes. During this time the unit may not be visible in NAVdisplay and if it is it will show no satellites being tracked. When the update is complete the unit should start tracking satellites again. After this, check the FTP for the unit and make sure the .to1 file has disappeared. If the file is still there power cycle to try the process again.
For the secondary card, repeat step 8 but with the .to2 file.
Now you can connect the antennas, run NAVdisplay and connect to the xNAV as normal. You should be able to see satellites and be in a position mode.


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Some interesting films on US television, June 19-25
By Marty Jonas (MJ) and David Walsh (DW)
Video pick of the week-find it in your video store
Indochine (1992)—A fine film that sets its overwrought love story in the context of the developing revolution in Indochina. It spans the period from the birth of the Indochinese Communist Party to the defeat of the brutal French colonialists and the division of Vietnam at the 1954 Geneva Conference. Catherine Deneuve gives a remarkable performance as the owner of a rubber plantation. With Vincent Perez. Directed by Regis Wargnier. (MJ)
Asterisk indicates a film of exceptional interest. All times are EDT.
A&E=Arts & Entertainment, AMC=American Movie Classics, FXM=Fox Movie Channel, HBOF=HBO Family, HBOP=HBO Plus, HBOS=HBO Signature, IFC=Independent Film Channel, TCM=Turner Classic Movies, TMC=The Movie Channel, TNT=Turner Network Television
6:00 a.m. (TCM)— Act of Violence (1949)—Fred Zinnemann directed this well-meaning effort. Robert Ryan is a crippled, former soldier in pursuit of a former officer who betrayed his men while a prisoner. With Van Heflin, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor. (DW)
*8:00 a.m. (HBO)— Last Action Hero (1993)—Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle that proves to be a delight. A boy goes to a movie theater and meets his idol—an action hero—who steps out of the screen and takes him back in. A good action film that spoofs the genre and plays with the tension between movies and reality. It also includes hilarious send-ups of Olivier's Hamlet and Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Directed by John McTiernan. (MJ)
12:00 p.m. (TNT)— Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)—A lightweight film, but some lively performances by a remarkable group of young actors: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Romanus, Phoebe Cates, Forest Whitaker, Anthony Edwards, Nicholas Cage. (DW)
*1:00 p.m. (TCM)— Bringing Up Baby (1938)—Classic screwball comedy, with Katharine Hepburn as bedazzling, eccentric heiress and Cary Grant as the sedate zoologist whose life she turns upside down. Howard Hawks directed this comedy of sex and morals. (DW)
2:00 p.m. (HBO)— Contact (1997)—An intelligent, refreshingly non-xenophobic film on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Jodie Foster plays the single-minded astrophysicist in this adaptation from the novel by the late Carl Sagan. Unfortunately, toward the end the film becomes mushy-minded and tries to make its peace with religion. (MJ)
4:15 p.m. (AMC)— River of No Return (1954)—Otto Preminger directed this interesting, relatively somber story. Robert Mitchum rescues a man (Rory Calhoun) and a woman (Marilyn Monroe) from drowning. Calhoun promptly steals his horse and takes off. Vengeful Mitchum, with his young son, and Monroe pursue him by raft. (DW)
6:00 p.m. (TNT)— National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)—Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo star in this often hilarious low comedy about a quintessentially middle-class family's cross-country trip to the Wally Land theme park. The sequences with Imogene Coca are especially funny. Directed by Harold Ramis. (MJ)
*6:45 p.m. (HBO)— Last Action Hero (1993)—See 8:00 a.m.
8:00 p.m. (TCM)— West Side Story (1961)—Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins co-directed this screen version of the remarkable Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim musical. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer are dull, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn and George Chakiris are memorable. Romeo and Juliet set in New York City of the 1950s. (DW)
3:55 a.m. (Encore)— Endless Love (1981)—Franco Zeffirelli made a very bad film out of Scott Spencer's very good novel. With Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight and Richard Kiley. (MJ)
4:15 a.m. (TCM)— The Hospital (1971)—Exposé of the workings of a big city hospital. George C. Scott as a doctor on the verge of cracking up. Arthur Hiller directed, Paddy Chayevsky wrote the long-winded script. (DW)
6:00 a.m. (TCM)— Northwest Passage (1940)—King Vidor's vivid film about Rogers' Rangers, an elite corps opening up territory in pre-Revolutionary America. Spencer Tracy is Rogers, with Robert Young and Walter Brennan. (DW)
8:15 a.m. (Cinemax)— Heaven Can Wait (1978)—Warren Beatty stars as a football player who dies before his time and returns to earth in another body, that of a millionaire businessman. Julie Christie is a social activist who awakens his conscience. With Jack Warden. Directed by Beatty and Buck Henry. Good-natured, but not extraordinarily insightful. (DW)
10:00 a.m. (TCM)— Mildred Pierce (1945)—Powerful melodrama, directed by Michael Curtiz, about a woman (Joan Crawford) who goes from rags to riches and her ungrateful daughter. Based on the novel by James M. Cain. (DW)
*11:30 a.m. (IFC)— I Shot Jesse James (1949)—Samuel Fuller's remarkable film—done mostly in close-ups—about the shooting of Jesse James by Robert Ford, "that dirty little coward." With Reed Hadley and John Ireland. (MJ)
*2:30 p.m. (TNT)— Rain Man (1988)—Barry Levinson's anti-Reaganite work, with Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man and Tom Cruise, a 1980s Babbitt, as his yuppie hustler brother. (DW)
4:30 p.m. (HBOP)— Breakdown (1997)—Suspenseful thriller in which the wife of a meek computer programmer (played by Kurt Russell) disappears during a cross-country trip. One of the last performances by the late, great character actor J.T. Walsh. (MJ)
6:00 p.m. (TCM)— Father of the Bride (1950)—Spencer Tracy is the father and Elizabeth Taylor the bride in Vincente Minnelli's look at the American marriage ritual. Amusing, and sometimes pointed. With Joan Bennett. (DW)
8:00 p.m. (FXM)— Gentlemen's Agreement (1947)—Gregory Peck is a writer who pretends to be Jewish to gauge anti-Semitism. Moss Hart wrote the relatively tame script; Elia Kazan directed. (DW)
8:00 p.m. (TCM)— Friendly Persuasion (1956)—William Wyler directed this film about a family of Quakers and, therefore, pacifists, trying to survive with dignity during the Civil War. With Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire and Anthony Perkins. (DW)
9:30 p.m. (Bravo)— A Midnight Clear (1992)—Strong anti-war film about a squad of US soldiers in France near the end of World War II. Ethan Hawke, Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Gary Sinise starred. Directed by Keith Gordon, from William Wharton's novel. (DW)
10:30 p.m. (TCM)— The Champ (1931)—Wallace Beery is an over-the-hill boxer and Jackie Cooper his adoring son in this sentimental, but very moving work, directed by King Vidor. (DW)
*11:45 p.m. (Encore)— The Name of the Rose (1986)—A murder mystery set in a medieval monastery (the MacGuffin is a lost book by Aristotle). Though lacking much of the rich detail of Umberto Eco's fine novel, the film stands well on its own. Sean Connery is perfect as the monk-detective, John of Baskerville. With Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham and William Hickey. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. (MJ)
*11:55 p.m. (HBO)— Last Action Hero (1993)—See Saturday at 8:00 a.m.
3:30 a.m. (Bravo)— A Midnight Clear (1992)—See 9:30 p.m.
6:00 a.m. (TCM)— His Kind of Woman (1951)—A lively tale, as Robert Mitchum heads off to Mexico for a routine pay-off and finds out a gangster boss (Raymond Burr) has plans to kill him and take his identity. Jane Russell is in top form and Vincent Price is amusing as a ham actor. Directed by John Farrow. (DW)
*11:45 a.m. (Encore)— Touch of Evil (1958)—One of Orson Welles's greatest films. He plays a corrupt police chief in a border town who plants evidence to convict the "guilty"—in this instance a hapless young Mexican. A tale of moral, physical, and political corruption that is rich in every way. With Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia and Akim Tamiroff, and uncredited cameos by Joseph Cotten, Marlene Dietrich and Mercedes McCambridge. (MJ)
*12:00 p.m. (FXM)— The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972)—An unjustly forgotten film about a naive young man joining up with a cattle drive. Grittily realistic depictions of the daily working life of cowboys—the kind of detail rarely shown in Westerns. A gem. With Gary Grimes, Billy "Green" Bush and Geoffrey Lewis. Directed by Dick Richards. (MJ)
12:30 p.m. (Bravo)— A Midnight Clear (1992)—See Sunday at 9:30 p.m.
5:30 p.m. (AMC)— Heaven Can Wait (1943)—Don Ameche stars as a dead man seeking entry to hell, who recounts in flash back what he thinks has been a life full of sin. With Gene Tierney and Charles Coburn. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. (DW)
*7:00 p.m. (Encore)— Reconstructing Evil (1998)—Excellent documentary on the making of Orson Welles's great Touch of Evil and the recent reconstruction of the film as Welles had wanted it. With Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Peter Bogdanovich. (MJ)
*8:00 p.m. (Encore)— Touch of Evil (1958)—See 11:45 a.m.
*2:00 a.m. (FXM)— The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972)—See 12:00 p.m.
*6:30 a.m. (Showtime)— Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)—Sergio Leone's drawn-out classic anti-Western, with Claudia Cardinale as the owner of land made valuable by the impending arrival of the railroad. Henry Fonda is a cold-blooded killer. With Jason Robards and Charles Bronson. Memorable score by Ennio Morricone. (DW)
8:00 a.m. (AMC)— On the Riviera (1951)—Danny Kaye does his one-of-a-kind humor and plays a dual role in this farce about mistaken identities. Directed by Walter Lang. (MJ)
12:00 p.m. (TCM)— The Citadel (1938)—King Vidor's moving and insightful adaptation of the A. J. Cronin novel about an idealistic doctor who experiences a few disappointments in a mining village and opts to treat the wealthy and hypochondriacal instead. With Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell. (DW)
12:00 p.m. (AMC)— Heaven Can Wait (1943)—See Monday at 5:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m. (TBS)— Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)—Sissy Spacek, who did her own singing, is excellent in this slightly sanitized biography of country singer Loretta Lynn, born in poverty in Kentucky. Tommy Lee Jones as her husband, Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline and Levon Helm as her coal-miner father also stand out. Directed by Michael Apted. (DW)
6:30 p.m. (IFC)— What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)—Woody Allen's first film is actually a hilarious redubbing of an atrocious Japanese spy thriller. With music by the Lovin' Spoonful and the voices of Allen and Louise Lasser. (MJ)
9:30 p.m. (Cinemax)— The Devil's Advocate (1997)—Satan (portrayed in an over-the-top performance by Al Pacino) runs a white-shoe law firm in New York City. Keanu Reeves, as an ambitious young lawyer, makes a Faustian bargain and suffers for it. A very funny horror film that trades on the public's distrust of the legal profession. (MJ)
*1:45 a.m. (TCM)— A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)—Famed German theater director Max Reinhardt oversaw this oddity, with James Cagney as Bottom and Mickey Rooney as Puck in Shakespeare's magical play. (DW)
4:15 a.m. (TCM)— Ah, Wilderness! (1935)—Based on the relatively lighthearted Eugene O'Neill play about turn-of-the-century small-town life. Directed by Clarence Brown, with Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. (DW)
7:30 a.m. (AMC)— Dallas (1950)—A story set in post-Civil War Dallas, with Gary Cooper seeking revenge on those who wronged him. Ruth Roman and Steve Cochran co-star. Directed by Stuart Heisler. (DW)
7:45 a.m. (Showtime)— Rebecca (1940)—Alfred Hitchcock's first US-made film, with Joan Fontaine as the second wife of nobleman Laurence Olivier. The first wife's presence hovers over the place. Judith Anderson is memorable as the sinister housekeeper, loyal to the first wife. (DW)
10:00 a.m. (History)— A Walk in the Sun (1945)—Earnest Lewis Milestone directed, from a screenplay by earnest Robert Rossen, this study of American soldiers attacking a Nazi entrenchment in Italy. (DW)
1:30 p.m. (Encore)— The Hustler (1961)—Basically a boxing film, but set among serious pool sharks. Robert Rossen's movie is beautifully shot and capably acted, but the dialogue is full of stagey, pseudo-profound, high-proletarian language. With Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott and Jackie Gleason. (MJ)
1:35 p.m. (IFC)— What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)—See Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m. (TBS)— Two Rode Together (1961)—James Stewart and Richard Widmark are an army officer and a marshal negotiating with Comanches about the return of some prisoners. John Ford directed. (DW)
3:00 p.m. (History)— A Walk in the Sun (1945)—See 10:00 a.m.
4:30 p.m. (Cinemax)— Gattaca (1997)—In this future capitalist society, your place in the productive process is determined by your genetic makeup—which is mapped at birth and stays with you as your main ID for life. One man rebels against the system. Andrew Niccol wrote and directed this intelligent film, highly derivative of the fiction of Philip K. Dick. (MJ)
8:00 p.m. (TCM)— Elmer Gantry (1960)—Burt Lancaster is the salesman who becomes a fire-and-brimstone preacher, joining evangelist Jean Simmons' crusade, in this critical look at fundamentalism and fakery in 1920s America. Richard Brooks directed, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis. (DW)
8:00 p.m. (IFC)— Riff Raff (1991)—A Ken Loach film. The trials and tribulations of building workers in London, with Robert Carlyle (of Full Monty). Some moving moments and performances. (DW)
8:00 p.m. (Encore)— All That Jazz (1979)—Choreographer/director Bob Fosse's overwrought autobiographical film about his mental and physical crackup. Not strictly speaking a musical, but it is filled with musical numbers—including a bizarre one occurring during the main character's open-heart surgery. With Roy Scheider and Ben Vereen. (MJ)
*11:20 p.m. (Starz)— Deconstructing Harry (1997)—Woody Allen's film is mean-spirited, misanthropic, bitter, cynical, crude, and foul-mouthed, but it is deliberately provocative, often funny, and one of his best films of recent years. A writer (Allen) confronts the friends and family members that he has cruelly featured in his novels, as well as their fictional representations. Also, Allen and his character confront their horror at growing old. Compare this film with the one preceding it, the light-hearted romantic musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996), which this film seems to rebut. (MJ)
1:15 a.m. (IFC)— Riff Raff (1991)—See 8:00 p.m.
2:30 a.m. (Starz)— Frantic (1988)—Roman Polanski's failed attempt to make a Hitchcock-type suspense film. With Harrison Ford. (MJ)
*3:45 a.m. (HBO)— Chinatown (1974)—The best example of modern film noir. A convoluted tale of incest, corruption, and the fight over access to southern California water. Jack Nicholson plays the private detective. With Faye Dunaway, John Huston. Directed by Roman Polanski. (MJ)
3:50 a.m. (Encore)— The Rain People (1969)—One of Francis Ford Coppola's first efforts: an unhappy housewife takes off and picks up a football player on the road. With Shirley Knight, James Caan and Robert Duvall. (DW)
4:00 a.m. (TCM)— Sylvia Scarlett (1935)—Disconcerting, interesting film about a father (Edmund Gwenn) and daughter (Katharine Hepburn), who take to the road with a touring show, which later includes Cary Grant. Hepburn disguises herself as a boy, which turns all sorts of social and sexual relationships upside down. George Cukor directed. (DW)
*10:00 a.m. (TCM)— Murder, My Sweet (1944)—Worthy, hardboiled adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely, with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe. Directed by future HUAC informer Edward Dmytryk. (DW)
*10:35 a.m. (IFC)— Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)—Luis Bunuel shows, perhaps too elliptically, the rise of fascism in 1930s France; at the same time, he skewers the bourgeoisie, its foibles and perversions. Jeanne Moreau plays a chambermaid in a French rural estate, during which time a child is brutally murdered by an overseer who is a leader of Action Francaise. Well done, but the motivations are vague and it is too diffuse to be powerful. (MJ)
*11:00 a.m. (Cinemax)— The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)—Overlooked film by Bob Rafelson about the American dream and those who foolishly pursue it. Jack Nicholson atypically plays an introvert. With Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn and Scatman Crothers. (MJ)
11:15 a.m. (Showtime)— Detective Story (1951)—William Wyler's somewhat dated film about the activities inside a New York City police station. Kirk Douglas is a bitter cop, Eleanor Parker his wife, William Bendix another detective. The good cast also includes Horace McMahon, Lee Grant and Joseph Wiseman. (DW)
1:30 p.m. (AMC)— Finian's Rainbow (1968)—Petula Clark sings beautifully, Fred Astaire is miscast as her dreamy dad, and Tommy Steele quickly wears out his welcome as the broad-smiling, hyperactive leprechaun in Francis Copplola's flat version of the hit populist Broadway musical. In the course of this unrelentingly upbeat film, a tobacco-growing commune struggles for survival and a bigoted Southern senator is turned into an African-American. However, the songs by E.Y. Harburg retain their charm. (MJ)
2:00 p.m. (TBS)— Coogan's Bluff (1968)—A good action film, directed by veteran Don Siegel, concerning an Arizona lawman (Clint Eastwood) who comes to New York City to pick up a prisoner (Don Stroud); complications ensue. (DW)
*4:00 p.m. (TCM)— Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)—Vincente Minnelli's adaptation of Irwin Shaw's novel about the making of a film in Rome. A "garish drama" with Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, George Hamilton. (DW)
4:45 p.m. (Showtime)— At Long Last Love (1975)—Burt Reynolds and Sybill Shepherd can neither sing nor dance—they are definitely not Astaire and Rogers. Still, it's fun to watch them mangle Cole Porter's beautiful music and lyrics. Peter Bogdanovich's glitzy, expensive film proves that a warm affection for 1930's film musicals is not enough. One of the great bombs. With Madeline Kahn (often funny, despite her material) and John Hillerman. (MJ)
6:15 p.m. (AMC)— Jane Eyre (1944)—Robert Stevenson directed this version of the Charlotte Bronte classic about a poor governess thrown into a mysterious household. Joan Fontaine is Jane and Orson Welles an unforgettable Rochester. (DW)
1:00 a.m. (AMC)— Jane Eyre (1944)—See 6:15 p.m.
*6:00 a.m. (IFC)— Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)—See Thursday at 10:35 a.m.
8:00 a.m. (TCM)— Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)—The last film made by famed musical extravaganza director Busby Berkeley. A relatively restrained work about a baseball team, with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly as its stars, taken over by Esther Williams. (DW)
*9:45 a.m. (AMC)— The Court Jester (1956)—Classic Danny Kaye farce of confused identities in the Middle Ages. Lots of witty verbal humor. Directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. (MJ)
1:30 p.m. (AMC)— People Will Talk (1951)—Odd film, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with Cary Grant as a philosophizing doctor, married to Jeanne Crain. He is accused of malpractice and has to defend himself. (DW)
3:30 p.m. (AMC)— Gypsy (1962)—Unfortunate film adaptation of the great Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents musical. Rosalind Russell does not have the necessary fire in her belly for the role of Mama Rose. Worth seeing for the music, but look for the recent, far better, made-for-TV version with Bette Midler. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Also starring Natalie Wood and Karl Malden. (MJ)
*8:00 p.m. (TCM)— Ride the High Country (1962)—Sam Peckinpah directed this anti-Western, with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, as two aging gunfighters guarding a gold shipment shipped from a remote mining town. (DW)
8:00 p.m. (Encore)— Young Frankenstein (1974)—One of Mel Brooks' funnier and more successful parodies, this time of the classic horror film by James Whale. Particularly effective because it uses many of the original sets. With Peter Boyle (as the monster) and Gene Wilder (as Dr. Frankenstein). (MJ)
8:00 p.m. (HBO)— Breakdown (1997)—See Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
*10:00 p.m. (TCM)— Winchester '73 (1950)—Remarkable Western, directed by Anthony Mann, about a man (James Stewart, in the first of his films with Mann) tracking down a stolen Winchester rifle and the man who took it. The gun is the connection between the different episodes. With Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea and Stephen McNally. Script by Robert L. Richards and Borden Chase. (DW)
11:00 p.m. (Cinemax)— A Place in the Sun (1951)—A George Stevens film based on Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Not very faithful to the book, but valuable in its own right. Elizabeth Taylor is extraordinary as Montgomery Clift's dream girl. (DW)
*1:50 a.m. (Encore)— A Clockwork Orange (1971)—Stanley Kubrick's brilliant but thoroughly nasty film about a sadistic young street thug (Malcolm McDowell) in the near future turned into a passive, spiritless citizen by means of a cruel form of aversion therapy. In the process, he also loses his ability to enjoy Beethoven. Kubrick adapted this from the novel by Anthony Burgess, and Burgess always hated the result. (MJ)
*2:00 a.m. (TCM)— The Seventh Seal (1957)—This is the film, much-parodied, in which Max von Sydow, a knight returning from the Crusades, plays Death in a chess game. Somewhat ridiculous, but still fascinating. Directed, of course, by Ingmar Bergman. (DW)
I'm Your Woman: The problem of films not genuinely drawn from life
Disney's Soul in Denmark: New York Times disapproves of a white actor dubbing a black actor's voice
Conductor Riccardo Muti expresses solidarity with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra musicians
Louis van Beethoven: A German film biography of the great composer
British government rejected visa-free EU touring for musicians to bolster hostile immigration policy


I had neglected my dog for a few too many months, sorry bubba. Kimberly took care of him. So happy with the results.
Needed my puppy to get cleaned up and Kim took care of it in a pinch, Amazing how easy she made it look. How she got his coat so white is amazing.
My dog has never been so we kept, been bringing my babies here for a few years for grooming and I've never not been happy with their service. For the price and quality of the work, and customer service, this place gets my 5 stars. Kim is always on point and makes sure Heisenberg goes in regularly. Kim is a master groomer, it's the best work I've seen on my dog and she remembers his issues, ailments. Heisenberg always gets compliments on his cut. You could tell they really care about the dog. Anyway, price, quality, customer service, this is a great place. Over Look the other reviews as the norm, remember most people on review when mad, not when satisfied and as busy as it was I am sure they are great over all.
The groomer is very rude. Brought my puppy here, 1 1/2 years, after I use to bring my old dog here. The reason I actually have not come here with my new dog is because the last appointment I made with my old dog there, they forgot to call me to tell me they moved (I made the appointment right before they moved) so I went to the establishment and it was closed, no notice of new place and they didn't even call me when I did not show up!
But anyway, I decided to give it another try because they never did a bad job. Well I was told to simply come in one hour and she will be done, okay that is perfect. I returned in one hour to only find a surprise... THEY DID NOT CUT MY DOGS HAIR! The groomer had the nerve to tell me my dog was harmful/a danger to herself and will get herself killed, she was too scared to go to her with scissors... YOU ARE A GROOMER AND SHE IS 13 POUNDS! Come on already, that is ridiculous. What is worse, they did not have the decency to call me to tell me they were not going to be able to groom her, I had to arrive to the surprise. The groomer decided to take it upon herself to bath her and charge me $25.00 for a bath... I could have bathed her at home for free. If the groomer called me, I would have picked up my puppy and went elsewhere, what a CROOK!
This place is the worst! The groomer doesn't have a personality and is extremely nasty. My dog came home with blood on the paw and she never said that anything had happened. I can't understand how you can own a business that deals with the public on a daily basis and have no people skills. This lady has no sense of professionalism and should not be in business.


What city is this event located?
What are the distances of this event?
The swim portion of the race is 800m (1/2 mile).
The bike portion of the race is 20 miles.
Is this an USAT sanctioned event?
Yes, This race is being sanctioned with USAT.


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The cowardly acts of arson where five (5) homes and two (2) vehicles were gutted last night and approximately nine (9) persons treated at the local hospital after violent protests erupted at Bathurst near Port Alfred have been condemned in the strongest terms by Eastern Cape Police Senior Management.
It is alleged that the incidents started at about 5pm on [February] 10, when local political party agents took part in a motorcade. During the motorcade, groups of community members started throwing stones at vehicles and attacked other members of the community. At the same time, reports were received of a house that was set alight. A short while later three more reports were received of homes being burnt in separate locations. Reports of vehicles that were also apparently burnt were received.
Several cases including arson, malicious damage to property and assault have been opened and are under investigation. Five (5) suspects, aged between 20 and 55 have been arrested and more arrests are imminent. The suspects will appear in the Port Alfred Magistrates Court soon.
Eastern Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lt Gen Liziwe Ntshinga strongly condemned the coward acts of arson.
"We cannot allow people to burn or torch other peoples' houses or property despite any disagreements or reasons. The 72-hour Activation Plan has been implemented to investigate, track, arrest and bring to justice those suspected and responsible for such violent acts within this community," she said earlier today.
I guess they mean February 10th; not Jan.
This is so unneccessary! Such a beautiful town!


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