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Jazz brings Pakistan's first-ever Drive-in Concert to Islamabad
Showbiz PakistanJazz brings Pakistan's first-ever Drive-in Concert to Islamabad
Showbiz Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Jazz, Pakistan's number one 4G operator and the largest internet and broadband service provider, is partnering with Active Media to bring Pakistan's first-ever drive-in concert to Islamabad on December 11, 2021 at Park View City.
Being touted as this year's biggest musical event, Jazz is looking to set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDTM for the Most Cars in a Music Drive-In Concert.
The major attractions include a star-studded artist lineup which includes Atif Aslam, Ali Azmat, and Bilal Khan, and one of the grandest fireworks show ever witnessed in the country.
Apart from enthralling the audience with electrifying performances, next-level stage production and fireworks, the Jazz Drive-in Concert, will give the residents of Islamabad a chance to participate in a momentous event.
"The Jazz Drive-in Concert will be the first-of-its-kind music concert in Pakistan and is inspired by the success of our drive-in cinemas. These initiatives are a testament to Jazz being a lifestyle brand offering customers an entertaining experience, driven by innovation. I request families to come and enjoy this new way of witnessing a concert and support us as we aim to make the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDTM," said Asif Aziz, Jazz CCO.
Tickets for the event can be bought through Bookitnow.pk. If concertgoers pay via JazzCash at the venue or at the manifold ticket-selling sites, they can avail cashback offers.
Concertgoers will be provided space to park their vehicles in an orderly manner, so they can enjoy the concert from the comfort and safety of their vehicles.
Food stalls will also be set up and concert-goers can avail 25% discount paying via JazzCash QR Code.
The event will be implementing all the standard COVID-19 protocols, as the physical wellbeing of concert-goers is a priority for the organizers.
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Should You Patent, Copyright, or Trademark Your Logo Design?
Every few weeks we come across someone who needs more information about how to legally protect their logo design but isn't sure what to do.
Making matters worse, when they ask what they should do in an online forum, the advice they get is often completely wrong. We recently read a question from a new business owner who wanted to protect his logo. The advice he got was to print out the logo, put it in a sealed envelope, mail it to himself, then keep the sealed envelope so he could dramatically open the envelope in the middle of a future court case and reveal that the logo was his!
And if that's been your strategy so far, it won't work.
To protect your logo, you need a trademark or service mark (trademarks are generally used for products, while service marks are usually applied to services).
You should not copyright or patent a logo design. Patents are for inventions, copyrights are for artistic works like books, paintings, and architectural blueprints. Neither is appropriate for a logo used in commerce.
As soon as you have your logo, you can start using a small TM or SM symbol next to your logo everywhere you use your logo (most companies use the TM). This indicates that the logo design belongs exclusively to your business and that you intend to register a trademark in the future. Using the TM gives you some common law protections for your logo. There is no limit on how long you can use the TM or SM symbols before you have to register your trademark, and some small companies simply use this low-level of protection for their logo forever.
Others prefer to file for a registered trademark, which is sometimes called a circle R and looks like this: ®. This gives your logo design additional protections under the law. You can not use this symbol unless the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted you a registered trademark for your logo design.
Looking to trademark your logo in order to protect your brand? Start using the TM immediately then consider whether your budget and plans for the future justify registering a trademark for your logo design.


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Tag: Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For
Believe it or not, there is one good thing about Sin City
On September 11, 2014 September 11, 2014 By Michael KirkeIn Culture Matters, Faith Matters1 Comment
Robert Rodriguez's Sin City 2 has been a commercial and a critical flop. That, probably, is no bad thing. It brings Frank Miller's noir-ish, ultra-violent graphic novels to the big screen for a second time. The first Sin City was a huge box-office hit; now, nine years on, we must roll up our sleeves, snap on our suspender belts, and return to that titillating place of permanent midnight, where men are men and women are mostly prostitutes, said Kevin Maher in The (London) Times. For another critic, what kills it is its repetitive and unengaging plot. For a film that tries very hard to shock with its "cartoonish sex and violence", Sin City 2 is remarkably "dull", and endurance test, he said.
But at least it has one good thing going for it, even if it is only its lurid billboard advertising we see. It is a reminder to us of what we like to forget. Sin is behovely, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well – but only so long as we don't forget that sin exists.
The world is divided by sin – not between sinners and non-sinners. We are all, each in our own way, sinners. The great divide now is between those who know that sin exists and those who deny its existence. Sin is behovely because the sense of sin is an essential part of our living the good life. It is nothing less than our sense of reality, part of our sense of the existence of God.
It is the modern age's defining characteristic that it has lost the sense of sin – and it has lost this because it has lost its sense of reality, its sense of God. In little more than one generation – my generation – the rot began in earnest. It was there before, indeed the history of thought shows that it was always there, but in embryonic form. It has had a long gestation but with its birth we have been presented with a true monster.
I know parents of my generation, good people who firmly believe in God and who practice their religion devoutly and publicly. Their children, now adults, are also good people and a credit to their parents, their country. They have all the refinements – kindness, generosity, a sense of responsibility – engendered in them by the civilization we have the privilege of being part of. But there is a difference between them and their parents. They do not believe.
Does it matter? Will they be any less good, kind, generous and responsible than their parents for all that? Possibly not. Indeed, by all accounts they may be more so. Their parents were good parents and gave them the milk on which they were nurtured, milk filled with the vitamins of their own faith and vision of man's origin and destiny. But the one thing which many in this generation did not take from that nourishing milk was faith and a belief in God, their creator. The milk with which they nourished their own children in some way failed to be transmitted – on a scale not seen between any two generations in recorded history. If this is an exaggeration please cite chapter and verse to disprove it. Nor is it an exaggeration to predict some dire consequences of this failure.
No society that we know of in history has had the kind of flourishing which the societies marked by Christian civilization have had. It is in these societies and in this civilization that our ideas of the qualities of justice, equality, kindness, mercy and a sense of the unique value of a human life have evolved. They have evolved out of a living source, even when the reality of that source itself has been doubted. That source is the Judaeo-Christian religion.
The big question however, is how long can this flourshing last beyond the outright rejection of the source from which it springs. The result of the cultural chasm which has now opened up in the West is the unravelling of the entire fabric of societities founded on those values. What we call the "triumph of the West" is under threat. It is under threat because its source and the ultimate vision which sustained it seems to have died in the minds hearts of those who have inherited it.
Has any civilization in history outlasted the force which gave it life? In the majority of cases those forces were undoubtedly physical and brutal. Walter Benjamin observed that there is "no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism." He is right in most cases but to lay this charge against Christian civilization is to ignore what is at the heart of this culture. Where brutality and barbarism accompanied the spread of Christian civilization it did so in contravention of its very essence. Invariably the barbarisms which afflicted Christian societies were eventually tamed by the beauty and power the Christian message, leaving us with the jewels we have in expressions of faith – in art, music and literature – and flowing out from those, the treasures of human expression in all those forms as well.
Will all this now survive the loss of faith, the loss of vision which was at their heart? The signs are not propitious. Art has become banal at best – think of those sickening banners we see hanging in churches – and at worst, nihilistic. Music, for the most part, has become incomprehensible and is a weak caricature of what it was. Literature, for the most part, speaks of little more than destruction, pessimism and death without redemption – when it is not wallowing in lust which it tries to pass off as love.
If these artefacts are the manifestations of contemporary civilization, what does it augur for the future human agents who will live, breathe and look for nourishment in that civilization? What happens when those who look out from within a culture see nothing beyond the vision presented in these artefacts? Do we really think that the human spirit can flourish in this desert? Will each generation which follows the last not slide further and further into the abyss, as the residue of goodness which they have inherited becomes fainter and fainter?
If the vision of reality contained in these words of Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, written nearly 2000 years ago, shortly after the dawn of Christianity, is now not just ignored but vehemently denied and its adherents persecuted for believing it, the consequences cannot but be other than apocalyptic.
It was not angels, therefore, who made us, nor who formed us, neither had angels power to make an image of God, nor anyone else, except the Word of the Lord, nor any Power remotely distant from the Father of all things. For God did not stand in need of these beings, in order to the accomplishing of what he had himself determined with himself beforehand should be done, as if he did not possess his own hands!
For with him were always present the Word and Wisdom, the Son and the Spirit by whom and in whom, freely, he made all things, to whom also he speaks, saying, Let us make man after our image and likeness (Genesis 1:26), he taking from himself the substance of the creatures, and the pattern of things made, and the type of all the adornments in the world.
Deny this vision, reject this truth, live life according to that denial and surely things will fall apart, the centre cannot hold. Without this vision all we are left with is the misery of Sin City – and without even knowing that we should call it what it is.
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This blog post comes to you live from ad:tech Chicago 2009. On September 1, my Razorfish colleague Patrick Moorhead discusses integrating mobility and advertising with Kim Luegers of DraftFCB and Michael Chang of Greystripe. The session is moderated by Zaw Thet, 4INFO.
The session begins with panelists discussing their agencies' work and perspectives on mobile.
Michael Chang discusses how Greystripe integrates rich media ads into mobile applications. "We're trying to deliver something as exciting as an advergame on the iPhone." For Axe Unilever, Greystripe helped promote the Axe Dirty Night Detailer product (a loufa for guys). Greystripe created a playful advertisement that demonstrates how the Detailer works — made expressly for the iPhone. The application ran from 21 December 2008 to 5 January 2009. The ad ran as an interstitial for people as they download applications from the iPhone application store. Engagement: 1.77 percent click-through rate. More about that here. Michael goes on to recommend that it costs anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 to get a small mobile campaign launched.
Kim Luegers indicates that she's part of a special DraftFCB MC Media, a unit established to service MillerCoors under DraftFCB. Kim discusses a project her company did for beer brand Keystone Light. In setting up her case study, she says that her challenge is injecting emerging media into well established media (TV). "Keystone is a good example of activing traditional media with mobile," she asserts. The work itself consisted of a Keystone Light ad appearing on Fox Sports Net, which promoted a Keystone sweepstakes prize by asking consumers to respond with an SMS from their mobile devices. (Here's a bit more detail about the promotion itself.) What she learned from the experience: first, a website remains the preferred mode of entering a sweepstakes. Second, 7 out of 10 initial SMS replies converted to successful sweepstakes entries — in particular, a successful opt-in rate for a beer marketer, according to Kim. Finally, about half the mobile entries originated from the TV ads, which demonstrates the power of the TV/mobile integration.
Patrick Moorhead introduces Razorfish as a digital agency that aspires to deliver transformational business ideas. Patrick discusses Razorfish client work as spanning Fortune 500 brands ranging from banks to retailers. The self-described contrarian of the group, Patrick discusses the iPhone in his opening remarks. "The iPhone has changed the game — there is no doubt about that," says Patrick. "But the Keystone Sweepstakes by DraftFCB has nothing to do with an iPhone. It has everything to do with giving consumers a reason to interact with a brand." Patrick goes on to credit the iPhone for making it easier for marketing executives to understand the possible ways to make mobile marketing work. But despite rapid growth, the iPhone audience remains limited. "Many companies are chasing after a very, very small sliver of an audience. The paradox is this: iPhone has made mobile accessible, but its users represent a very small share of voice." He adds that there are 62,000 applications available for about 6 million available hand sets.
Michael counters Patrick's opinion by stressing the growth rate of the iPhone market.
Speaking out in support of the iPhone, an audience member points out that audience consumption and usage are as important as handset devices, which Patrick and Kim concede as as a valid point.
An audience member surveys everyone in the room: how many of us own iPhones? Interestingly, about half the audience says they own them. The question arises: are we doing too much navel gazing and not enough asking about how consumers are using iPhones?
Adds Zaw Thet, "The iPhone does not have to mean an application." Building off Zaw's point, Patrick points out that creating a new app might not the answer — but advertising on a successful application might be.
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Wow that much to have a small marketing campaign? That\'s a lot of money now a days.


We are proud and grateful for the opportunity to provide our undersea walks, thanks in no small part to the work and contribution of the Board and management team from Busselton Jetty Environment and Conservation Association (BJECA). Sharing the income from the Busselton Jetty Undersea Walks enables us to make an active and ongoing contribution to the management and upkeep of the iconic Busselton Jetty, one of Western Australia's most beloved tourist destinations.
SeaTREK is the world-leader in helmet diving and undersea walks. Dive Busselton Jetty chooses to use the global leading SeaTREK helmet dive system because it is the safest, most enjoyable way to enable non-divers to experience our underwater world for themselves, up very close and personal. Whilst a SeaTREK helmet is not cheap ($20,000USD each), the quality of SeaTREK's systems, technology and support enables us to deliver tours that consistently delight our customers..
Our guests make what we want to do possible. Trip Advisor, the world-leading travel review website, awarded our related organisation, Ningaloo Whaleshark Swim, with a 2016 Certificate of Excellence for consistently delighting guests on tour. Dive Busselton Jetty is working towards our own Certificate of Excellence just as soon as possible!
One of our proudest moments for Dive Busselton Jetty's Owner / Manager was jointly winning the Gold Medal for Best Adventure Tour in WA at the Western Australian Tourism Awards for Ningaloo Whaleshark Swim's whaleshark tours.
Actively supporting the local Busselton and Exmouth communities in which we operate will always be a priority for our organisation. To date, our related organisation in Exmouth has donated over $100,000 to not for profit and industry organisations, and done hundreds of hours of volunteer work. Why? Because its the right thing to do. Simple.
Our related business in Exmouth continues to work closely with the local indigenous corporations and communities in the region, and Dive Busselton Jetty will be doing our bit too to advance the social, physical, financial and emotional wellbeing of Australia's indigenous Aboriginals.
Our CEO recently "retired" as Chair of the Exmouth Visitors Centre on a high, with the Centre winning Gold Medal for Best Visitor Centre in WA one week after he left. He has also previously served as a Board Member for Relationships Australia.
We support research that protects our natural environment and guides good policy and decisions. Through partnering with researchers, cash donations, providing our assets and crew as required, and our own research projects, we are committed to making a real difference.


Here we find an even more severe overgrowth of K. oxytoca. Note that the assay is able to keep on counting target genomes over many orders of magnitude. Here the oxytoca is present at 1.48 x 109 /gm, and this child also shows concurrent extremely high levels of Rhodotorula sp. Incidence of Rhodotorula in our results is higher that from culture techniques, probably because it is identified microscopically, but grows poorly in usual culture media.
Plenty of metabolic activity is shown by the abundant SCFA and balanced percentages. Note the normal level of Lactoferrin, showing lack of inflammatory involvement currently in this patient with very active IBS due to profound microbial overgrowth. The immune barrier is weakened as shown by low sIgA.
Poor mood, poor sleep, possible anxiety secondary to dysbiosis-related failure of tryptophan to be synthesized to serotonin and serotonin to melatonin. 80-95% of serotonin are produced in the gut. Dysbiosis affects gut conversion of tyrosine to dopamine.
And replenishment and repopulation of SBO commensals/fermented foods, basically the 7-Steps to cure intestinal permeability and SIBO/SIFO, small intestine bacterial and fungal overgrowth.
How does this occur? After a round of gastroenteritis or antibiotics, the commensal organisms and fungi that safeguard our gut domain are reduced in number. The pathogenic strains emerge without these. Soon yeasts, fungi and aggressive bacterial take root in places that are normally kept clear. The small intestines are a frail target -- only one cell layer thick. Full of moisture, oxygen, intermittently constant food, and a rich blood supply. Once fungi or bacterial take hold, food can no longer be digested well. The GI barrier becomes broken down.
For the host, bloating or brain fog are frequent symptoms.
(c) Severe (failure to thrive, weight loss, weight gain, rashes, mood swings, infertility, migraines, bloody stools, bipolar, psychiatric disorders, alcoholism, cancer, autoimmune diseases, T1DM, celiac, rheumatoid arthritis).
In autism and other spectrum conditions, the gut-brain axis is broken. In many cases, autism is reversed once the gut is fixed and no longer spilling out undigested food particles (gluten, casein) which resemble body proteins and other proteins of microbial origins. In this case, like many spectrum cases, both bacterial and fungal overgrowths are present and the absent of commensals such as Clostridia. The problem in this C-IBS (constipation dominant IBS) case is not insufficient butyrate, but actually food fermenting excessively in the small intestines by 'regular/good' bacteria in the inappropriate place. Once a commensal grows aggressively, it can switch to a pathobiont status, exploring and invading an ecological niche.
One of the benefits of the 7-Steps to cure SIBO/SIFO that it is aligned to our ancestral heritage and tight association with the soil and abundant earth. The earth not only feeds us with crops and herds but is the 'horticulture' that also provide wonderful organisms that serve to maintain the 'lawn of our gut' by weeding, weeding and weeding [hat tip: Brent Pottenger and here is his stellar gut GDX GI FX testing].
I'd like to add a success story here. Last August, just a week after starting graduate school, I came down with an intense bout of IBS-D (to keep it clean). Not unusual, as I've had the flu before. But this 'flu' did not stop, and stranger things began to happen. I developed tinnitus, neuropathy, dizziness, fatigue, muscle twitches and my sleep was terrible. 6 weeks later, I had lost 25 pounds (that I didn't need to lose) and I was barely able to get out of bed. A colonoscopy, endoscopy, stool examination, countless blood tests and specialists later and still no answers. I took a medical leave from my program, and had to return to my home in California because I was no longer able to take care of myself.
It was around this time that I began experimenting with SCD and GAPS style diets. They did prove to help with some symptoms, but not all, and not with much speed. In fact, I would say that I got worse on these diets, as my sleep became a struggle, and that set everything back. Supplements like Vitamin C, Colostrum and DGL helped but were definitely not the answer, either. It was late December, and I had to make the call whether or not I was going back to school. I decided to go back out of desperation for wanting to be better, without really having made any progress. Not a wise decision, but I got lucky.
It was just two weeks ago, just at the start of the semester, that I began to follow the advice of Dr. BG over at Animal Pharm blog on correcting SIBO, as well as the advice here about resistant starch. I am so, so glad to say that I am 90% back to normal. My tinnitus is almost gone, my muscle twitching is nearly gone, my sleep is incredibly better. I can finally go back to teaching and researching without fears of passing out in the middle of class. The two biggest factors in my success was the inclusion of properly prepared starches (in Perfect Health Diet amounts) and supplementing with potato starch and psyllium husk twice a day.
I can't speak for all the other successes and failures when it comes to variable carb intakes, potato starch supplementation and general paleo-style eating, but it worked for me. So thank you Tim, Rich, Grace and everyone else who's been posting about this stuff. I'm not shitting you (har har) when I say that you saved my young life.
Have you had success with the 7-Steps?
Are you seeing improvements and optimization of gut/brain/muscle/genitalia??
By the spring of 1862, a year into the American Civil War, Major General Ulysses S. Grant had pushed deep into Confederate territory along the Tennessee River. In early April, he was camped at Pittsburg Landing, near Shiloh, Tennessee, waiting for Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's army to meet up with him.
On the morning of April 6, Confederate troops based out of nearby Corinth, Mississippi, launched a surprise offensive against Grant's troops, hoping to defeat them before the second army arrived. Grant's men, augmented by the first arrivals from the Ohio, managed to hold some ground, though, and establish a battle line anchored with artillery. Fighting continued until after dark, and by the next morning, the full force of the Ohio had arrived and the Union outnumbered the Confederates by more than 10,000.
The Union troops began forcing the Confederates back, and while a counterattack stopped their advance it did not break their line. Eventually, the Southern commanders realized they could not win and fell back to Corinth until another offensive in August (for a more detailed explanation of the battle, see this animated history).
All told, the fighting at the Battle of Shiloh left more than 16,000 soldiers wounded and more 3,000 dead, and neither federal or Confederate medics were prepared for the carnage.
The bullet and bayonet wounds were bad enough on their own, but soldiers of the era were also prone to infections. Wounds contaminated by shrapnel or dirt became warm, moist refuges for bacteria, which could feast on a buffet of damaged tissue. After months marching and eating field rations on the battlefront, many soldiers' immune systems were weakened and couldn't fight off infection on their own. Even the army doctors couldn't do much; microorganisms weren't well understood and the germ theory of disease and antibiotics were still a few years away. Many soldiers died from infections that modern medicine would be able to nip in the bud.
In 2001, almost one hundred and forty years after the battle, seventeen-year-old Bill Martin was visiting the Shiloh battlefield with his family. When he heard about the glowing wounds, he asked his mom - a microbiologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service who had studied luminescent bacteria that lived in soil - about it.
And that's just what Bill did.
He and his friend, Jon Curtis, did some research on both the bacteria and the conditions during the Battle of Shiloh. They learned that Photorhabdus luminescens, the bacteria that Bill's mom studied and the one he thought might have something to do with the glowing wounds, live in the guts of parasitic worms called nematodes, and the two share a strange lifecycle. Nematodes hunt down insect larvae in the soil or on plant surfaces, burrow into their bodies, and take up residence in their blood vessels. There, they puke up the P. luminescens bacteria living inside them. Upon their release, the bacteria, which are bioluminescent and glow a soft blue, begin producing a number of chemicals that kill the insect host and suppress and kill all the other microorganisms already inside it. This leaves P. luminescens and their nematode partner to feed, grow and multiply without interruptions.
As the worms and the bacteria eat and eat and the insect corpse is more or less hollowed out, the nematode eats the bacteria. This isn't a double cross, but part of the move to greener pastures. The bacteria re-colonize the nematode's guts so they can hitch a ride as it bursts forth from the corpse in search of a new host.
The next meal shouldn't be hard to find either, since P. luminescens already sent them an invitation to the party. Just before they got got back in their nematode taxi, P. luminescens were at critical mass in the insect corpse, and scientists think that that many glowing bacteria attract other insects to the body and make the nematode's transition to a new host much easier.
Looking at historical records of the battle, Bill and Jon figured out that the weather and soil conditions were right for both P. luminescens and their nematode partners. Their lab experiments with the bacteria, however, showed that they couldn't live at human body temperature, making the soldiers' wounds an inhospitable environment. Then they realized what some country music fans already knew: Tennessee in the spring is green and cool. Nighttime temperatures in early April would have been low enough for the soldiers who were out there in the rain for two days to get hypothermia, lowering their body temperature and giving P. luminescens a good home.
Based on the evidence for P. luminescens's presence at Shiloh and the reports of the strange glow, the boys concluded that the bacteria, along with the nematodes, got into the soldiers' wounds from the soil. This not only turned their wounds into night lights, but may have saved their lives. The chemical cocktail that P. luminescens uses to clear out its competition probably helped kill off other pathogens that might have infected the soldiers' wounds. Since neither P. luminescens nor its associated nematode species are very infectious to humans, they would have soon been cleaned out by the immune system themselves (which is not to say you should be self-medicating with bacteria; P. luminescens infections can occur, and can result in some nasty ulcers). The soldiers shouldn't have been thanking the angels so much as the microorganisms.
As for Bill and Jon, their study earned them first place in team competition at the 2001 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
Worms need microbes too: microbiota, health and aging in Caenorhabditis elegans.
EMBO Mol Med. 2013 Sep;5(9):1300-10.
Humans are one of the highest form of eukaryotes and worms, the simplest, most elegant. C. elegans nematodes have nearly the full suite of homolog nuclear receptors, IGF, insulin, and AMPK pathways. They have a gut microbiota as well and mutualistic health of the microbiota mirrors their longevity. Careiro and Gems discuss in the above article how bacterial proliferation of the nematode gut highly correlates with reduced immunity and aging. While the relationship is mutualistic, both microbes and host benefit. The microbes have a happy home, warmth and food. For the worm host, the gains are immeasurable -- happy immunity, vitamins/minerals and longevity. One of the best growth media for C elegans is B subtilis, the soil based organism I talk a lot about. When growth media are switched out to bacteria which are less mutualistic (like pure E. coli), the nematodes have a very short life. Blockages of the lumen occur; worm constipation and something analogous to mammalian SIFO/SIBO. When the media has a natural SBO like B subtilis, the nematodes thrive, have no signs of aging or bacterial proliferation and demonstrate notable worm longevity. Any intervention in fact that prevents bacterial proliferation (SIFO/SIBO) extends lifespans they reveal. Makes sense, no?
Two of my favorite probiotics contain B subtilis (Prescript Assist and AMD Syntol). Foods that contain B subtilis include any ancestrally prepared and fermented foods that include both protein and starch: gochujang, natto, fermented black bean sauce, Thai shrimp sauces, etc.
Gut microbiota as a candidate for lifespan extension: an ecological/evolutionary perspective targeted on living organisms as metaorganisms.Ottaviani E, Ventura N, Mandrioli M, Candela M, Franchini A, Franceschi C.
The second article discusses how in the Neolithic only 10,000 years ago, humans were faced with even more pathogens than ever by living in close quarters with both other humans and livestock. Without a resilient immune system and evolving gene polymorphisms, we could not have survived. "With the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry, food resources became more abundant and constant and, for the first time in human history, the population size dramatically increased." The authors theorize that if it were not for improved immunity via the gut microbiota humans would not have been able to the endure the high antigenic and pathogen load. I think this is true. The lectins and phytates from dietary sources were one challenge and the pathogens like worms, malaria, plague, mites, and other fun things were yet another hurdle. Hemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis, increased salivary alpha-amylases might have been some of the adaptations that survived.
"Furthermore, symbiont intestinal microorganisms provided a strategic fitness advantage for the human beings living the Neolithic agricultural revolution by protecting the host from pathogen colonization and enhancing the plasticity of the immune system. Finally, dietary change in the Neolithic agricultural societies due to agricultural practice likely induced a substantial re-adaptation of GM [gut microbiota], favouring microbial communities capable to ferment these new complex polysaccharides to short chain fatty acids (Hehemann et al. 2010)."
Who are your symbionts? Are they extinct? Do you respect them? Are you doing things that favor their growth? Have you weeded? Seeded your gut microbiota? Feeding and breeding your symbionts in luxury and abundance?
I'm grateful for Tim and Richard at FTA for starting the conversations on gut ecosystems, fiber and health optimization. Thanks for directing people over here to the 7-Steps To Cure SIBO/SIFO.
Happy New Year to my kind readers~!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories. I love U and love hearing them all.
Anonymous was taking 3 months of PS but no changes until SBO probiotics were taken. In only 3 weeks with taking Primal Defense and Prescript Assist three times per day, she reported her autoimmune Sjogren's disease to be completely 100% 'cured'. Three noxious auto-antibodies (SSB-LA, Chromatin, ANA) normalized or returned to near normal.
"My fingernails are clear and my cold fingers are gone. Oh, I didn't want to tell you this just yet. But my Sjogren's antibody (SSB-LA) turned negative last week! That's after being on the RS/Probiotics regimen for only 3 weeks! I was on RS since August, however. Also, one of the incipient lupus antibody that I tested positive (Chromatin) turned negative this time! My ANA is positive but with very low titer (1:40). That's the lowest I ever tested and even normal people test at that level. My rheumatologist will be confused!
If this holds up, and I'm hoping it does, I have cured an autoimmune disease. No symptoms and no antibody: that's a 100% cure. Not just remission. Being antibody-negative is not supposed to be possible, right? Whither molecular mimicry and eternal damnation, I mean, eternal autoimmune tissue attack? You mean, that's contolled by the microbiome, too? So much for Dr. Fassano and leaky gut (which I now realize seem to have been a foil ... it happens but the underlying condition seems to be gut dysbiosis and bacteria).
Wow, I gotta try this on my aunt who also has Sjogren's and my cousin who has Lupus. Thanks so much guys. This is not what modern medicine says is possible!"
"Just thought I'd add to the noise here- I've had a set of health problems that differs from most people using RS on this site, namely persistent and intense anxiety, as well as adrenal and sleep problems due to going VLC for a few months. I've also had fibromyalgia for the past year now, and I could not get it to go away for the longest time. After reading Richard's and Tim's posts here, I added RS to my diet (which already included fermented foods, good meats, and lots of vegetables), and my symptoms have started to improve for the first time since I started feeling the pain.
A note to anyone who may be reading this in hopes of helping their fibromyalgia- it took me a solid month of having dr bg.'s bionic RS and straight potato starch (total 8 TSP potato starch a day) to finally feel the pain subside, and I would guess it could take some people many months to get the same relief I got, depending on the state of their gut.
So don't give up if this doesn't work within a month, and make sure to include the things that I consumed before I added the potato starch- dulse (for iodine), vitamin d and K supplements, as well as N-acetylcysteine , sauerkraut, kimchi, gochujang, variety of greens and other veggies, sweet potatoes and potatoes, magnesium and zinc supplements, prescription assist, and fish oil pills."


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It's natural to wonder the reasons you didn't get an interview – or perhaps make it to the second round – for a job you thought was a perfect fit. Related: 5 Tips To Ace The In-Person Interview While I always feel it's best to ask the hiring manager what went wrong, do a little self-analysis first. Didn't get a call back for the job?
Smile. Relax. Take a breath. These sound simple—but many people can't seem to do them in an interview! A hiring manager wants to get to know you, the real you. Although you still need to be professional, don't be afraid to act naturally and be relatable. What else would you add to this list? Have you done one of these and it cost you the job? This post was originally published on an earlier date.


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I only need five hours sleep, says Boris Johnson
Mayor of London reveals that, like Baroness Thatcher, he thrives on far less sleep than the rest of us
Boris Johnson only sleeps for five hours each night Photo: EPA
By Gordon Rayner and Gaby Wood
11:00AM BST 11 Oct 2014
The ideal number of hours sleep per night, as the old saying goes, is six for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.
But Boris Johnson says he needs just five hours' sleep each night, despite, or perhaps because of, his jam-packed working life.
Speaking to The Telegraph, the Mayor of London says his working day is "super-chargé" and: "I get up every day at 5.40, 5.44. I tend to have lights out by midnight, but I don't need any more than that."
Baroness Thatcher famously slept for just four hours each night, while the US businessman Donald Trump sleeps for just three hours, or four if he has a lie-in.
Tom Ford, the fashion designer, also gets by with just three hours sleep, as did the inventor Thomas Edison.
Boris Johnson: The day Churchill saved Britain from the Nazis
Boris Johnson: voters don't care about my extra-marital affairs
Tony Blair 'copied Adolf Hitler's oration techniques' says Boris Johnson
Sir Winston Churchill may have had 'short man syndrome', suggests Boris Johnson
Winston Churchill: Brushed with greatness
Winston Churchill treasures to be sold at Sotheby's
Mr Johnson was speaking to promote his new book about Sir Winston Churchill, The Churchill Factor, and he shares the wartime leader's ability to juggle politics, journalism and book-writing.
Unlike Mr Johnson, however, Churchill would work until the early hours of the morning but usually slept late, sometimes saying in bed until 11am. He would often work from his bed and even expected secretaries to take dictation when he was in the bath.
Mr Johnson rejected comparisons between himself and Churchill, saying: "I'm a toenail. I think it would be impertinent for any modern politician to invite comparison with Churchill, let alone me.
"I'm explicitly disinviting the comparison, because it would be absurd."
Gordon Rayner »


From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
Play through Spore's five evolutionary stages: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each stage has its own unique style, challenges, and goals. You can play how you choose — start in Cell and nurture one species from humble tidepool organism to intergalactic traveler, or jump straight in and build tribes or civilizations on new planets. What you do with your universe is up to you.
Spore gives you a variety of powerful yet easy-to-use creation tools so you can create every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even starships. While Spore is a single-player game, your creations are automatically shared with other players providing a limitless number of worlds to explore and play.
CREATE Your Universe from Microscopic to Macrocosmic — From tide pool amoebas to thriving civilizations to intergalactic starships, everything is in your hands.
EVOLVE Your Creature through Five Stages — It's survival of the funnest as your choices reverberate through generations and ultimately decide the fate of your civilization.
EXPLORE Other Players' Galaxies — Will your creature rule the universe, or will your beloved planet be blasted to smithereens by a superior alien race?
SHARE with the World — Everything you make is shared with other players and vice versa, providing tons of cool creatures to meet and cool places to visit.
Multiplayer is now definitely unavailable !
This extension, which requires the base game.
Will the world of tomorrow be a utopia powered by clean energy or an industrial society consumed by mass commercialism?" said Patrick Buechner, General Manager, Maxis Emeryville. "With SimCity Cities of Tomorrow, players can build the future as they imagine it. Transport your Sims on MagLev, power your cities with fusion reactors or tidal wave generators, manufacture a legion of drones to serve your Sims and build massive MegaTowers that dwarf modern skyscrapers. We're giving you plausible technologies to take your cities onto a journey 50 years into the future. What will you create?
In a city where information is heavily monitored, agile couriers called Runners transport sensitive data away from prying eyes. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, your sister has been framed and now you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith — and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.
Mirror's Edge™ delivers you straight into the shoes of this unique heroine as she traverses the vertigo-inducing cityscape, engaging in intense combat and fast paced chases. With a never before seen sense of movement and perspective, you will be drawn into Faith's world. A world that is visceral, immediate, and very dangerous.
Live or die? Soar or plummet? One thing is certain, in this city you will learn how to run. From the makers of the groundbreaking Battlefield franchise, Mirror's Edge is an action-adventure experience unlike any other.
Immerse yourself: In first person every breath, every collision, every impact is acutely felt. Heights create real vertigo, movements flow naturally, collisions and bullet impacts create genuine fear and adrenaline.
Free yourself: Runner vision allows you to see the city as they do. See the flow. Rooftops become pathways and conduits, opportunities and escape routes. The flow is what keeps you running — what keeps you alive.
Poke, prod, tinker, and destroy a visually engaging world unlike anything you've ever seen! Unleash your creativity and design your city with new zoning and design tools. Customize buildings to reveal additional functionality and unlock gameplay benefits.
In SimCity every Sim, every car, every building has a purpose - What you see is what we sim! Use our new data layer technology to visualize the simulation in easy-to-read ways, giving you the power to make choices that will shape your city and change the lives of the Sims within it.
With Multi-city play you can interact and influence an entire region of cities - alone or with friends! Sims actually travel between cities, players can share services and resources, working together to build Great Works projects benefiting all cities in the region.
Choose your strategy then specialise your city. If you desire more Sims in your city, build a casino resort and watch as your city becomes a major tourist attraction. If your city has large coal deposits, specialize in power and fuel the cities in your region.
Operating directly under the National Command Authority, a relatively unknown entity of handpicked warfighters are called on when the mission must not fail. They are the Tier 1 Operators. They are real, living, breathing, precision instruments of war. They are experts in the application of violence. And they exist on an international level for various nations around the globe. In the U.S., their exact numbers, while classified, hover in the low hundreds.
The new Medal of Honor Warfighter game is inspired by and has been developed with Tier 1 Operators from this elite, international community. This personal story was written by actual Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas. In it, players will step into the boots of these elite warfighters and apply their unique skill sets to track down a real global threat, in real international locations, sponsored by real enemies. It doesn't get any more authentic then Medal of Honor Warfighter, coming October 26, 2012.
Explore two new maps (Chitral Compound & Darra Gun Market), 10 map/mode combinations, 6 new weapon configurations and 14 new weapon camos!
This new Syndicate, this is the story of a disillusion in two stages, raised in extremis by a real pleasant surprise. The first disappointment will affect fans of the original title: The EA FPS never draws on the rich heritage of the original one. Another despair, the solo campaign is not this inventive adventure rich in dramatic springs that the pedigree of its Starbreeze developer left us hope. Then comes the surprise: to the opposite of this humdrum solo, far from the narrative peaks of Butcher Bay and The Darkness, it is paradoxically the coop mode, dynamic and well balanced, which saves the fall and made the game design on their feet.
The new Medal of Honor Warfighter game is inspired by and has been developed with Tier 1 Operators from this elite, international community. This personal story was written by actual Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas. In it, players will step into the boots of these elite warfighters and apply their unique skill sets to track down a real global threat, in real international locations, sponsored by real enemies. It doesn't get any more authentic then Medal of Honor Warfighter, coming October 22, 2010.
Behold disciples of Nod, for the end is soon upon us. Electronic Arts' award-winning and best-selling Tiberium saga is coming to a powerful conclusion with Command & Conquer 4, which will introduce a multitude of innovations to the classic fast and fluid Command & Conquer gameplay, while retaining the core compulsions that fans have come to love over the series' history.
It is the year 2062 and humanity is at the brink of extinction. Tiberium, the mysterious, alien crystalline structure that has infested Earth for decades and served as the primary reason for years of relentless conflict between the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and the Brotherhood of Nod, is close to rendering the planet uninhabitable. Mankind is on the verge of extinction when Kane, Nod's prophetic leader, emerges from seclusion to deliver GDI the message that he has developed a system that could control Tiberium and harness its power. But he cannot build this "Tiberium Control Network" without GDI's cooperation. Thus, the two opposing factions – GDI and Nod – inevitably find themselves in desperation for the same cause: to stop Tiberium from extinguishing mankind.
After 15 years, the network is nearly complete, Tiberium is under strict control and our revitalized, newly terraformed planet is on the cusp of a new age of prosperity and progress. It is then that the world's citizens begin to seriously ponder why Kane chose to help, and what will he want in return. These questions and more lead to the dramatic final act of the Tiberium saga.
With a multitude of innovative new features to the fast and fluid C&C gameplay, Command & Conquer 4 offers players an entirely new way to play C&C. An all-in-one mobile base, persistent player progression across all game modes that is constantly updated in a real-time online profile, a 3-class system for each of the two factions, co-operative play, and a 5v5 objective-based multiplayer mode that promotes teamwork and social interaction, make Command & Conquer 4 unlike any other C&C experience.
The Epic Conclusion of the Saga - Kane returns in the thrilling conclusion to one of gaming's longest running storylines, told through gritty live-action cinematics. Choose to take on the campaign solo or team up with a friend and play cooperatively!
Choose Your Class - Choose from three unique classes from both GDI and Nod, each with its own specialized units and powers, for more strategic and combative options that match your play style of choice! Offense, Defense, or Support classes—which will you pick?
Always on the Move - For the first time ever in the C&C series: a massive, mobile, all-in-one base, The Crawler, lets you pack up and move your base with your army for a new layer of strategic depth. Build units as you move across the field, and deploy whenever and wherever you choose!
Persistent Player Progression - The more enemy units you destroy, the more experience points you earn to progress your player profile! Level up to unlock new units, powers, and upgrades to make your army more powerful!
Team Up and Take the Battle Online - Join your fellow commanders online and tackle your opponents in the biggest C&C multiplayer to date, featuring 5 vs 5 objective-based battles! Choose your favorite class and take online strategy action to the next level as you conquer objectives while pummeling your enemies. The all-new party system lets you move with your party of friends from one online battle to the next.
PERSISTENT INTERNET CONNECTION, EA ACCOUNT, REGISTRATION WITH ENCLOSED SERIAL CODE AND ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY. SOFTWARE REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO ONE EA ACCOUNT PER SERIAL CODE AND IS NON-TRANSFERABLE. YOU MUST BE 13+ TO REGISTER FOR AN EA ACCOUNT. EULA, EA ONLINE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND FEATURE UPDATES CAN BE FOUND AT WWW.EA.COM. EA MAY PROVIDE CERTAIN INCREMENTAL CONTENT AND/OR UPDATES FOR NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE, IF AND WHEN AVAILABLE. EA MAY RETIRE ONLINE FEATURES AFTER 30 DAYS NOTICE POSTED ON WWW.EA.COM.
The new Medal of Honor Warfighter game is inspired by and has been developed with Tier 1 Operators from this elite, international community. This personal story was written by actual Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas. In it, players will step into the boots of these elite warfighters and apply their unique skill sets to track down a real global threat, in real international locations, sponsored by real enemies. It doesn't get any more authentic then Medal of Honor Warfighter, coming 2012.
Assume the role of Prophet in a campaign to save mankind against human and alien forces in the challenging environments of the NYC Liberty Dome. Hunt with your Nanosuit Online in 8 Multiplayer Modes including the new, thrilling Hunter and fan favorite, Crash Site modes.
A dangerous new world demands fearsome weapons like the new, Predator Bow or the deadly Typhoon Projectile Minigun. If human technology doesn't suit you, go for high-tech alien weaponry including the devastating Ceph Plasma Destroyer or the merciless Reaper Cannon.
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Understanding Female Athlete Triad Syndrome
Sports can be so competitive. Many athletes go to extreme ways to get that perfect body, the image sports judges appreciate. Do you wonder why a lot of female gymnasts, for instance, have smaller to even flat chests even for 16-year-olds?
Although there may be a chosen few who are "blessed" to have a body of a gymnast, some girls who have developed breasts would exert more effort to lose body fat up to the point that it is not healthy anymore.
Such tedious and obsessive approach to fitness among women has developed a series of symptoms health experts have called the Female Athlete Triad Syndrome.
More and more women participate in organized sports over the decades. In the United States, the passing of the Educational Assistance Act of 1972, which entitled school to provide equal athletic opportunities and funding to girls, has sparked an increase of female athlete participation by as much as 600%.
The health benefits seen in women are significant, with thinner bodies and toned muscles. However, this has also brought several medical disorders associated with obsessive behavior to become thin. These have led the American College of Sports Medicine to create the term "female athlete triad" in 1992.
Sign and symptoms
The female athlete triad syndrome is a disorder involving three conditions, which health experts associate with the consequences of calorie restriction and over-exercising: eating disorders, lack of menstruation or secondary amenorrhea, and osteoporosis or the thinning of bones.
Aside form the main disorders, females suffering from this disorder may also have psychological problems like low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. Patients may also exhibit emotional problems such as mood changes or a decreased ability to concentrate.
Other physical signs of the female athlete triad include dry skin, hair loss, increased rate of injury with slow healing times, and stress fractures.
Meanwhile, long-term effects include nutrient deficiencies, which can lead to fluid and electrolyte imbalance, as well as growth and mental impairment. Patients can also suffer from loss of reproductive function, dehydration, and starvation.
Like any other eating disorder, women who exhibit symptoms of female athlete triad should be treated with extreme care and immediacy. Help in the form of intervention by a doctor, behavior therapist, and or dietician is essential.
The first aim in treating this syndrome is to reduce energy spent while increasing the amount of energy available. The intensity of exercise is reduced, dietary restrictions are lifted, estrogen replacement therapy is prescribed to adult women, and a daily calcium intake of 1200 to 1500 milligrams a day is provided. Meanwhile, resistance training is enforced to strengthen skeletal muscles while protecting against soft tissue injury.
A group of health care experts should come together in treating the patient. A physician treats her amenorrhea and bone mineral density loss, a registered dietitian helps with her disordered eating, and a mental health practitioner treats her feelings and mindset associated with eating disorders. All of them work alongside athletic trainers, coaches, parents, and other family members.


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Q: Routing between two Cisco CSR1000v instances on AWS I'm building a lab in AWS with Cisco CSR1000v virtual routers. I've tried both the below options.

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*In option 1, there's no way to force the traffic from linux1 or 2 to the respective CSR routers since it's all in the same VPC, so it didn't work. I was able to share routers between the routers to the Linux subnets with RIP but not OSPF (since it uses multicast addressing - not allowed in VPC) Option1 diagram

*In option 2, I can route traffic from linux through CSR but the CSRs can't share routes over peered VPC, elastic IP or transit gateway... Option2 diagram - I've followed this lab to achieve this.

Has anyone been able to pull this off? I just need a small lab like this to run some tests.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

A: for the next person stumbling on this, I've found a solution! CSR is a full blown virtual router, so it's a really good way to learn Cisco technology and networking in general.
Because I was deploying in AWS, to get routing protocols working, I had to create a IPSec tunnel first between the two routers and then run EIGRP through them. This is captured well in the video here. If more routes need to be added, a hub/spoke model can also be used - see here.
Hope it helps!

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The Bad Movie Bible: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Movies That Are So Bad They're Good, Rob Hill (Art of Publishing 2017)
(This is a guest-review by Pablo Magono)
There are good movies and bad movies. Among the latter, there are "movies so bad that you might think Adam Sandler was responsible for them, but so funny it won't be for long." That's the simple premise behind The Bad Movie Bible. It's easy to read, very funny, and full of information, posters, interesting screen-grabs, prize quotes, and sizzling starlets flashing flesh.
And as if that weren't enough, the icing on the cake is that The Bad Movie Bible is itself mildly infected by Bad-Movie-itis. There are repeated references to a mysterious "right of passage" and the publisher's address is given as "Bloosmbury". Is this part of the joke? No, I don't think so. It's just a reminder that to err is human. But to err as badly as some of the movies here might be superhuman. Literally so, because Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is one of the entries in the "Science Fiction & Fantasy" section.
Elsewhere there are sections for "Action" and "Horror", plus a grab-bag section called "The Rest" that collects everything from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and The Room (2003) to Empire of the Ants (1977) and Double Down (2005). All movies get ratings out of 10 for five essential filmographic categories: "Cheese", "Acting", "Excess", "Ineptitude" and "What?" ("reflecting the movie's propensity to offer up moments of baffling wonder"). The higher the mark, the badder-better that aspect of the movie. Then there's an overall "BMB Rating", again out of 10, which doesn't necessarily reflect the average score on the other categories. Some movies are more than the sum of their parts, some are less.
The best of the baddest are also accompanied by interviews with stars, stuntmen or those who rescued them from oblivion. For fetid fans of scuzz-cinema, this book should provide many happy hours first of reading, then of watching its recommendations. But could anything ever live up to the promise of a title like Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)? Or Kung Fu Cannibals (1982)? In the latter case, apparently it could: the movie, better-known as Raw Force, gets a BMB Rating of 10, despite an average rating of 8.4 on the other categories (only "What?" is 10/10). The horror movie Things (1989) also gets a BMB Rating of 10, but its average score on the sub-categories is 9.6 – it gets 10/10 for "Acting", "Excess", "Ineptitude" and "What?", but "Cheese" is 8/10.
That makes Things the baddest-bestest in the book. For Rob Hill, anyway. It's not his favourite movie in the book, mind, but he knows what he's talking about. He has a lot of knowledge, with enthusiasm and wit to match:
Miami Connection is an extremely positive movie that preaches tolerance and the need to accept people from all walks of life. Unless they're drug-dealing motorcycle ninjas. (Miami Connection, 1987) … Writer / director Amir Shervan doesn't stumble around the fringes of incompetence: he jumps right into the middle of it and does a jig. (Samurai Cop, 1991) … During the following night the sword is blown out of Christie's closet on fishing wire by a wind machine. (Ninja III: The Domination, 1984) … Just like its star, Deadly Prey has been honed, buffed and oiled to within an inch of its life, then stripped virtually naked and released into the wild. (Deadly Prey, 1987) … The best teenagers-get-eaten-by-radioactive-plankton-fed-mutant-human-hybrid-flying-fish movie ever made. (Creatures from the Abyss, aka Plankton, 1994) … The apparent lack of any traditional cinematic luxuries (posh stuff like a tripod to keep the camera steady) makes this hard to watch at times. … But there's something about it. If we're honest, that something might just be a sexually promiscuous doll. It's hard to say. (Black Devil Doll from Hell, 1984) … Ben & Arthur is a personal and heartfelt glimpse into the world of writer / director / star Sam Mraovich. His world is batshit crazy. (Ben & Arthur, 2002) … It must be hard for a man surrounded by Bee Gees to look like the smug one. Peter Frampton has a real talent for it. (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1978)
Hill also has space for some "deliberately cheesy" movies like The Ice Pirates (1984) and Traxx (1988). He includes them because he thinks they're not as knowing as they wanted to be: "Just because there are deliberate attempts to ape schlock, it doesn't mean there can't be inadvertent schlock, too." Movies like this are "good-good, bad-bad and good-bad all at the same time." But most of the book is given over to movies that are genuinely so-bad-they're-good. With possible exceptions like the following, which might be so-bad-it-should-have-been-burned:
La Notte del Necrofilo / Night of the Necrophile (Italy / Romania 1986)
After watching an ordinary scuzzy movie, you may well be left wishing you could bleach your eyeballs. After watching Night of the Necrophile, you may well be left wishing that eyeballs had never been invented. This movie doesn't merely plumb unprecedented depths of depravity, bad taste and offensiveness: it finds depths below the depths, and then depths below those. The ineptitude and amateurishness merely add an extra shot of slime to the whole fetid cocktail.
But the ineptitude doesn't extend far enough. You can't take refuge in an incoherent or non-existent plot, because the noxious narrative is all too appallingly evident and easy to follow. Gypsy criminals Gran Voio (played by a cackling Eric Napolito) and his dwarvish cousin Piccolo Psico (Samuel Tegolare) are hired by the black-clad, mask-wearing Doktor Nekro (Victor Queresco), a Nazi scientist / war-criminal who's been hiding out in the badlands of southern Italy since the end of the war. He needs their help to collect a fresh batch of young female corpses for his perverted experiments in reanimation. The toxic trio set off in a refrigerated truck, committing brazen street-murders to source their stock or sneaking into municipal mortuaries and loading the freshest and most attractive corpses into their necro-wagon.
Then, just as night falls and news comes over the radio of a heat-wave the following day, the truck breaks down on the winding mountain road that leads back to Doktor Nekro's well-hidden lair. The refrigeration fails and the three depraved criminals are left with a stash of stolen stiffs that aren't going to keep… I'd describe what happens next, but I'm worried that my keyboard would report me to the authorities. Suffice it to say that Doktor Nekro begins to commit medical infractions that the framers of the Hippocratic oath could never have anticipated – indeed, could never have imagined possible. […]
The mysterious and probably pseudonymous director is rumoured to have died shortly after completing the movie, possibly of shame, his body being shipped back to Romania for burial. In his absence, Night of the Necrophile was hastily edited and rush-released in a desperate attempt to stave off Sanguecine's looming – and well-deserved – bankruptcy. Be warned. And then warned again. This is a movie that makes Things seem like Citizen Kane and The Gore Gore Girls seem like Bambi. Approach with extreme caution.
That's not a typical movie here, but it helps make The Bad Movie Bible as varied as the real Bible. It's "Bad to the Bon"!
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Treasure Island (1883) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson
These two books contain two of the greatest stories ever written. But they're curiously different in style, despite the brief time that separates them. Treasure Island has deep pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has shallow ones – paper-thin, you might say. In the former, the prose vividly evokes the sounds, sights and smells of the eighteenth century: there's a three-dimensional world beneath the words and you read almost as though you're looking into an aquarium. When you've finished the story, you feel as though you've lived it, as though you've really met the characters who moved through it, really had the adventures that Jim Hawkins describes. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde isn't like that. I read it, I don't live it, because the words don't transcend language and I don't forget the printed page as I do in Treasure Island. The closest the story comes to conjuring a moment of reality is perhaps here:
They mounted the stair in silence, and still with an occasional awe-struck glance at the dead body, proceeded more thoroughly to examine the contents of the cabinet. At one table, there were traces of chemical work, various measured heaps of some white salt being laid on glass saucers, as though for an experiment in which the unhappy man had been prevented.
"That is the same drug that I was always bringing him," said Poole; and even as he spoke, the kettle with a startling noise boiled over.
This brought them to the fireside, where the easy-chair was drawn cosily up, and the tea-things stood ready to the sitter's elbow, the very sugar in the cup. (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, "The Last Night")
It's a clever domestic touch amid the horror that has gone before and the horror that is to come. But Treasure Island is full of touches like that, bringing the world of the story before the mind's eye or ear or nose: the notch in the "big signboard of Admiral Benbow", left by Bill's cutlass as he aims a blow at Black Dog; the "five or six curious West Indian shells" in Bill's sea-trunk and the "piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end" in his pocket; the "smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks" at the Hispaniola's first anchorage; the death-shriek that sends marsh-birds whirring aloft when a loyal sailor is murdered; O'Brien's red cap floating on the surface and the baldness of his bare head beneath the rippling water; Long John Silver's parrot's "pecking at a piece of bark" in the dark; the "wood ash" on the black spot handed to Silver, which soils Jim's fingers; the "heavy-scented broom and many flowering shrubs" on Spy-glass Hill; the grass sprouting on the bottom of the "great excavation" where Flint's treasure had been; the "strange Oriental" coins "stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web"; and many more.
The characterization is excellent too. Treasure Island is full of memorable figures, cleverly seen from (mostly) a boy's perspective: Bill, Blind Pew, the Squire, Ben Gunn, Israel Hands and, most memorable of all, Long John Silver, the charming backstabber and affable rogue. They're good, evil, pathetic, frightening, cunning, stupid, murderous, brave and more. Hands' mind and motives are captured in a single line: "I want their pickles and wines, and that." And here's Ben Gunn's long exile evoked in tragicomic dialogue: "Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese — toasted, mostly — and woke up again, and here I were."
The characters in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde don't live on the page like that: Hyde is described as evil, but he isn't frightening like Blind Pew. Hyde is words on a page; Pew wrenches arms and skips nimbly from the parlour of the Admiral Benbow. His stick goes "tap-tapping" on a "frozen road". He lives, and dies, before the mind's eye. But one thing the characters of the two books have in common is that they're almost all male. There's a cook and a housemaid in Jekyll and Hyde, Jim's mother and Silver's "old Negress" in Treasure Island, and that's it, unless you count the Hispaniola, Silver's parrot and the sea.
This paucity of female characters links Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) and Herman Melville's Billy Budd (1924). Those two books also have shallow pages. Billy Budd, in fact, is the shallowest book I've ever come across. All I found in it was words conjuring nothing: there were no sounds, sights or smells to the story:
The lieutenants and other commissioned gentlemen forming Captain Vere's staff it is not necessary here to particularize, nor needs it to make any mention of any of the warrant-officers. But among the petty-officers was one who having much to do with the story, may as well be forthwith introduced. His portrait I essay, but shall never hit it. This was John Claggart, the Master-at-arms. But that sea-title may to landsmen seem somewhat equivocal. Originally, doubtless, that petty-officer's function was the instruction of the men in the use of arms, sword or cutlas. But very long ago, owing to the advance in gunnery making hand-to-hand encounters less frequent and giving to nitre and sulphur the preeminence over steel, that function ceased; the Master-at-arms of a great war-ship becoming a sort of Chief of Police, charged among other matters with the duty of preserving order on the populous lower gun decks. (Billy Budd, chapter 8)
I found the book boring and a chore to read. That's not true of Stevenson's and Wilde's stories, which are both about temptation and damnation. But the reality conjured by those two authors is almost a theatrical one, as though the characters are on a stage surrounded by props and special effects:
It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and a flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture. The wind made talking difficult, and flecked the blood into the face. It seemed to have swept the streets unusually bare of passengers, besides; for Mr. Utterson thought he had never seen that part of London so deserted. (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, "The Last Night")
The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac-blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming. […] "How horribly unjust of you!" cried Lord Henry, tilting his hat back and looking up at the little clouds that, like ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky. […] There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows. (The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 1)
Lord Henry ponders the "subtle magic" of language and asks himself: "Was there anything so real as words?" Yes, I would say, and things more real too, but the attempted paradox is a reminder that Wilde is not striving for realism. I don't think he could have achieved it as Stevenson could and often did. Stevenson was a better writer, but The Picture of Dorian Gray is a more fully realized book. It's longer, after all. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is as short as the dream or nightmare it resembles: it offers the ingredients for horror, but you have to cook some of them for yourself. Treasure Island isn't a dream: it's an aquarium or a magic mirror. All three are books to return to again and again over a lifetime, but for me Stevenson's literary stature seems to grow, Wilde's to shrink, each time I do so.


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Polish Club: Alright Already, Let's Just Have Some Fun
An interview with our new fave Aussie rock'n'roll duo, celebrating the release of their debut LP.
Posted By Troy Mutton 3 years ago
At a time when the Australian rock scene feels dominated by grungey, stoner punks like Violent Soho, Dune Rats, The Smith Street Band, Skegss et al, Sydney duo Polish Club feel like a breath of fresh air. Brandishing an energetic, soulful, bluesy take on rock'n'roll, it's less head-banging, more feet-tapping. And over the last year-and-a-bit the proof has been in the pudding, with the duo of singer/guitarist Novak and drummer John-Henry rollicking around venues all over the country amidst the release of bustling singles like The Beat Up and Come Party.
And now we have the duo's debut album release, Alright Already, which dropped last Friday 31 March. We had the fortune of catching up with Novak a couple of weeks back, in fact right on the eve of their excellent triple j Like A Version, where they tackled Flume's Never Be Like You with aplomb. So chuck on the album below, and find out a little more about your new favourite rock'n'roll band:
On how long it took to make Alright Already:
It's always gonna be a long process, but John and I don't like to dwell on things. So we did it in eight days, and the weeks and months before that were very long. We whittled down 14 ideas from a list of around a hundred things to go off. It's always gonna be a long process, but it's good to have it finally done. The actual recording and mixing was super quick, not because we rushed it, we were just that ready.
On the vibe of Alright Already:
I think we had a balance we were trying to strike. We didn't it all to be hard and fast and two minute songs like all of our singles have been. There's a flow to it, that was something we wanted, but not something we forced. It just so happened the songs that made the cut were a balance of mid-tempo and fast songs. I just wanted to make sure the more slow jam, relaxed vibe of it was taken care of and shown there. Because we haven't really done too much of that so far, but it's a huge part of our set live. We love doing those kinds of songs. I think we were conscious about keeping it balanced, and chugging along you know. When you listen to it you don't wanna know you're listening to that many songs, you just want it to breeze by.
Live versus recordings:
I think the rule is that we try not to add too much recorded that people will miss live. Inevitably there's going to be stuff that we can't do live as a two piece, and right now we very much want to keep it as a two piece. It's more fun that way, it's easier to tour, and people enjoy just seeing a couple of idiots on stage struggle to finish a one hour set because it's just them [laughs]. But that's the fun of it for John and I. And I think in the songwriting we always just write it with drums and a guitar and one vocal, and as long as the song stands up in those first sessions, anything we add after that can't be something that changes the fundamentals of the song.
On their position in the Australian rock scene:
I think when everyone else is having fun that's when John and I have fun. It's a mutual thing and the only way we can get there is with people enjoying what we're doing. I do enjoy the more gruff bands like Bad//Dreems and what not, but it is pretty fundamentally different from what we're doing. And I guess because I view it first as I enjoy singing, I like writing a sweet melody... And our circumstances, because there's only two of us, it just makes it a bit more ballsy, and we find that happy medium between that gruffness and sweet, melodic music. It was never a purposeful thing; we were never going for that soulful, blues vibe, but I think that's just our comfort zone and it's a good place to start and we'll see where we go next.
It's just fun, we don't think about it that much, we do what comes easiest and what's fun. And fortunately that's what most of the other people come to see us find fun as well.
On how they met:
John's been in a shitload of bands, although not to this level. He's always been playing around the traps. I never really did. I dunno why, I just saw it as a bit of a pipe dream. Which I guess it kinda is because we're sure as shit not making any money. He's been around, I've been around, we're no spring chickens. We know what it's all about. Also at the same time we're super new to this, and we're discovering things as we go. And we're lucky enough to get this far and be in a band and be able to do this shit and have people care about it. It's weird, almost wrong [laughs].
On getting "match fit" before touring:
The preparation is cutting terrible things that we do to ourselves out. So stop eating burgers, stop drinking, stop shouting at each other. I dunno I think we're getting better just by virtue of playing more, and you build up this weird match fitness. I mean I do vocal warmups and all that bullshit but it's boring. And John tries not to get shit-faced the night before, and we don't eat Chinese or Mexican before a gig, we've learnt that the hard way [laughs]. Just the little things. When there's only two of you, it can go unbelievably wrong if one of us isn't feeling right. We're at a place where we know our limits. And we know how to prepare for a gig, but it's super boring stuff, like keep hydrated and don't be a dick.
On what's coming up for the rest of 2017:
I think we wanna go overseas at some point, but that's out of our hands and we're leaving that to the people that do the planning. And just play more shows. I think John's really keen to follow this release up with more new music ASAP.
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