John was enjoying the sun so much at the outdoor café today that he didn't even notice that he was the model. Because of his sunglasses I couldn't tell if he was having a snooze or looking right at me. When I showed him the drawing he told me that he had been painted before and the painting was in a gallery nearby, but I never made it over there to see it. Sketched on the street in Burlington, Vermont, in a handbook journal with a Tombow water-soluble marker and a Koi waterbrush.
The problem with working in a big sketchbook is that sometimes you can get overly ambitious. My original intention was to paint a one-page sketch of the sunlight crossing the boats on the right in front of the building, but then I noticed the wave movement of the trees and my sketch just kept going and going, right across the page towards the left, until I ended up with a double-page spread that is 17″ across. After it was done I realized that this might also work well as a painting, so I may go back there on a nice morning when the light is like today and paint it on a quarter sheet of good watercolour paper. Or I may do this in studio like I did with the Lobster Pool a few days ago.
Some flowers gathered in the fading light, plunked in a plastic cup and painted in about 30 minutes… There's not much more to say about these gracefully arching beauties except that they needed to be painted freshly and quickly.
With cold and grey weather outside I thought it might be a good idea to catch up on some indoor stuff. I started by doing a long overdue cleanup of my studio and then moved on to a project that has been on my to-do list for some time. Last year I did a sketch of Ken (see below), the owner of the Rockport Lobster Pool, waiting outside his shop for a shipment of fish to come in. The colour scheme was influenced in great part by the yellow lobster traps and the colour of his apron, and it was created as a practice for my workshop at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Barcelona. I showed the sketch to Ken before I travelled home, but couldn't leave it with him since it was in one of my sketchbooks. I left Rockport with a promise to return in 2014, painting in hand.
Here's the final painting. I used the same triad of colours as I did in the sketch (Azo yellow, Alizarin Crimson and French Ultramarine) and tried to keep yellow as the dominant colour. I also wanted to maintain the strong pattern of repeating shapes (triangles, squares) contrasted with the strong verticals of the utility poles. This was painted wet-in-wet on a sheet of Saunders Waterford CP, 260 lb, 10″ x 12″.
Almost exactly a year ago I sketched this same scene at the yacht club. Looking at the previous sketch, I see that it was the same kind of day — overcast, chance of showers — but maybe not as cold as today. Last year Bill (in the yellow slicker) was on the deck of his boat but this year I only caught a glimpse of him as he disappeared down into the cabin, no doubt to get out of the cold. I can't say I blame him since I painted this from my car studio.
Apparently there are over 100 tree species at the Mount Royal Cemetery, and if I had taken the time to pick up a map at their office I would be able to tell you what the name of this white flowering tree is. But the cemetery takes up 165 acres on the slopes of the mountain, and that would have been quite a hike with my painting gear. As with many other areas of Montreal, I continue to discover treasures in my city by seeking out sketching spots, and this place certainly is a treasure, especially in the spring when it is all abloom. If you have any idea what this tree might be, I would love to hear. If not, I guess I'll make the hike to get the tree map at the cemetery office.
There's no shortage of places to paint on the mountain but the classic view is from the lookout at the top, and it seems like all of Montreal was up there today. It was a perfect day in every way — spectacular spring weather, our best ever turnout for USk Montreal (I counted over 30 sketchers!) and all the trees in bloom. The view over the city was cloaked in haze. I tried to sketch it in pencil and watercolour but it was too mushy and soft in the moleskine sketchbook so I added some pen for structure. Thicker Sharpie lines for the foreground and finer Micron lines for the distant view.


Earlier this month, a San Antonio couple was visiting relatives in Iowa when they were tragically killed in an accident with a large commercial truck. The cause of the accident is still being investigated by the Iowa state highway authorities. For a variety of reasons, large commercial trucks are involved in disproportionate number of serious accidents. On average, 350 people are killed each year in trucking accidents in the state of Texas. Losing a loved one in an accident is devastating, especially when the accident was caused by the preventable negligence of another party.
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If you've ever taken the time to have a little browse through the Tried & Tested section of my blog, you may have noticed that I'm a fairly big fan of Jamie Oliver cookbooks. I own a fair few myself but brought Save With Jamie for The Boyfriend lat year and have finally had the chance to steal it from him so I can try some of the recipes out myself.
I was cooking a nice family dinner for my Dad's birthday and I fancied doing something a bit different. His birthday is 4 days before Christmas so I try to avoid the traditional roast but often I'll do a nice big pie or do a Greek style roast lamb with lots of Mediterranean bits as a sort of mezze. As much as he loves these I thought doing something new would be a bit more special/thoughtful and that's when I decided to do a side of salmon.
During the build up to Christmas I'd seen loads of recipes for a side of salmon and numerous things to do with it and had been wanting to cook with one for a while as I had only ever cooked salmon fillets before this. I remembered seeing Jamie cook this recipe on the Save With Jamie series and promptly dug it out to give it a go.
I thought this recipe made a great alternative to a roast dinner. It has the same sort of impressive impact when you present the roast side of fish as it would putting a roast joint of beef in the middle of the table and with a selection of yummy sides it appears to be just as much of a feast.
The potato salad (using yoghurt rather than mayonnaise) alongside the salad, may sound like unexciting side dishes at first but with the addition of some really tasty dressings and the crumbled feta that Jamie uses they transform into something really exciting. I did add to the recipe slightly and roasted some fennel alongside the salmon as I had some in the fridge and it seemed like it would accompany the rest of the dish perfectly.
The salmon itself was so easy to cook and much less time consuming and labour intensive than a more traditional roast joint of meat but just as flavoursome and delicious. I loved the idea of removing the skin and returning it to the oven to crisp up to be used as a garnish as the skin packs so much flavor but is often discarded when not cooked properly. Let's face it, no one likes horrible slimey fish skin, but when you manage to get it really nice and crispy it's one of the best bits.
This dish made a really nice change for my family as it's really different from the usual type of thing we'd all sit down to eat together on an occasion but it went down so well. It was lighter than doing a normal roast dinner and much quicker and easier. I'll definitely be buying a side of salmon to use more often in future as it's more economical than buying individual salmon fillets which can be quite pricey. It's also the sort of thing you can get a really good price on if you keep your eyes peeled for a deal in the supermarket.


Saar Drimer and myself have shown that the Chip & PIN system, used for card payments in the UK, is vulnerable to a new kind of fraud. By "relaying" information from a genuine card, a Chip & PIN terminal in another shop, can be made to accept a counterfeit card. We previously discussed this possibility in "Chip & Spin" but it was not until now that we implemented and tested the attack.
A fraudster sets up a fake terminal in a busy shop or restaurant. When a genuine customer inserts their card into this terminal, the fraudster's accomplice, in another shop, inserts their counterfeit card into the merchant's terminal. The fake terminal reads details from the genuine card, and relays them to the counterfeit card, so that it will be accepted. The PIN is recorded by the fake terminal and sent to the accomplice for them to enter, and they can then walk off with the goods. To the victim, everything was normal, but when their statement arrives, they will find that they have been defrauded.
From the banks' perspective, there will be nothing unusual about this transaction. To them, it will seem as if the real card was used, with a chip and along with the correct PIN. Banks have previously claimed that if a fraudulent Chip & PIN transaction was placed, then the customer must have been negligent in protecting their card and PIN, and so must be liable. This work shows that despite customers taking all due care in using their card, they can still be the victim of fraud.
For more information, we have a summary of the technique and FAQ. This attack will be featured on Watchdog, tonight (6 February) at 19:00 GMT on BBC One. The programme will show how we successfully sent details between two shops in the same street, but it should work equally well, via mobile phone, to the other side of the world.
It is unlikely that criminals are currently using techniques such as this, as there are less sophisticated attacks which Chip & PIN remains vulnerable to. However, as security is improved, the relay attack may become a significant source of fraud. Therefore, it is important that defences against this attack are deployed sooner rather than later. We discuss defences in our draft academic paper, submitted for review at a peer reviewed conference.
Update (2007-01-10): The segment of Watchdog featuring our contribution has been posted to YouTube.
Interestingly, the fundamental flaw (the lack of a card holder trusted / trustable display of the transaction details) is also one of the main (technical as opposed to economic) reasons why roll-out of cryptographically strong authentication for online banking is taking so long in the UK.
In the online banking case, the challenge (from bank to customer browser) needs to be a human parsable subset of the transaction details, containing enough information to validate both value and the 2nd party, as well as enough random data to prevent protocol level attacks. This is actually quite hard to do in a consumer-usable manner, especially given the restrictions around disability discrimination issues.
The solution: Limit the use of the PIN to high value transactions. EMV already has this option, the banks have only to decide to use it.
Any use of the PIN entails a risk of exposure, by various means – those described, shoulder surfing, hidden cameras or whatever. This risk, multiplied by the average damage of a revealed PIN, is indicative of the limit below which the use of the PIN is economically unjustified.
I have long complained that the 'swipe' C&P tills as used Marks&Spencer and Tesco among others, present a security risk, in that the customer's card is swiped on one terminal next to the screen (and hence the magstripe can be read) while the actual PIN is entered on the small numeric terminal.
This then potentially allows the shop to have read the card magstripe (cloneable and useable in an ATM) and the PIN from the keypad.
The Chip and PIN initiative should have emphasised that the card reader and PIN entry *must be on the same physical device* . These composite tills undermine customer safeguards.
When are bank ATMs going to go all-chipcard ?!
Great and you don't seem to be nearly ugly enough to keep in infosec as a profession (ask Richard :).
2. How many of those were due to the tech and how many to the luvvies?
We were on location for about 7 hours on Friday, but they didn't get all the shots they needed so came back on Monday for about 5 hours. The problem was that they only had one camera, so on Friday, they had the real terminal on the same table as the fake one. This meant they could film it all in one shot, but after talking to their editorial policy folks, they realised they weren't able to show the restaurant scenario.
So on Monday they came back, but by that time Saar had left for Germany so I had to rope Robert into letting me borrow his laptop and help me set everything up. This was especially problematic since Saar built pretty much all of the hardware, and I didn't have much experience in using it. However, we successfully performed the relay attack, through two shops, so they could use the footage of the restaurant.
How many of those were due to the tech and how many to the luvvies?
Actually our kit successfully performed the transaction first time, on both occasions, which is a credit to Saar's engineering. It took a bit of tweaking for it to pass the self test, but once it did, the real transaction went through smoothly.
What took most of the time was the working through the explanation of what happened, as each shot had to be done several different times, for each of several different camera angles. The street outside the shop is pretty busy, so it was also hard to find a time when there were no people doing anything too silly in the shot (the crew took a while to get rid of a drunk who was fascinated with the proceedings).
How does the challenge/response get from the hacked card to Carol's laptop?
We used a wire (see the photo), but it would be plausible for an attacker to create a wireless version. As we only wanted a proof of concept, doing it wired was adequate. Still, in the run up to the programme, we tried holding onto our card during normal transactions, as if there was a wire, and nobody was bothered.
Guys, you do excellent work and the piece for Watchdog was a great public service.
I have visited your site many times since retiring (early) from a bank. I'm sure you can check my visits from this comment. I might be grey and balding but I've stayed current. 12 years with a PC and 9 of those with an online connection have made me aware of the nasties "computers" bring with them. Sadly, Government and commerce only see what they want to and need to.
The world is changing. Banking is changing.
Challenging business values is not a popular concept in sales cultures. My closing 18 months or so involved me in more contact with electronic fraud and identity theft than the entire preceeding 32 years.
Your knowledge, expertise and integrity is to be highly commended.
The Royal Bank of Scotland had a good system for all it's cards, including visa, for a few years. Your photo was on the back and this, as well as your signature, was excellent proof of your ownership. However, many shop staff did not seem aware of this at all and I found myself training them to check the back of the card for the photo as well as the signature. Sometimes they didn't even check the back of the card for the signature. If all banks had had the photo system then shop assistants would have remembered to check.
My concern now is the extra 3 digits on the back of the card. Why are these of any use? If a criminal has the card then they will have the three digits as well!
I've been using my 'Thumbprint' in lieu of my signature with my Chip & Signature Cards for over a year now. I've used this method of cardholder verification at over 120 retailers thoroughout the country and once abroad. Retailers have welcomed this, saying it's safer than using a PIN. It is easier to visually check my print against that on the cards signature strip, than it would be a written signature. In a face to face scenario you can't forge, forget, loose or compromise your print. This method acts as a deterrent, while unlike a PIN if there ever was a disputed transaction on my account, not only could I prove it wasn't my print, but the offenders print can be given to the law enforcement agencies.
The system can easily be adapted for deterring theft when purchasing goods via the Internet, mail order, fax or by phone.
Together we can beat fraud, well we certainly can reduce it.


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VW T-Roc R is available for order
Volkswagen has begun taking orders in Europe for the facelifted T-Roc R compact crossover.
Recall that a restyled version of the Volkswagen T-Roc R crossover was shown back in November last year. Now the German automaker has named the cost of the car and opened the order. The main change to the exterior design is a Taos-style LED strip on the grille, and a 9.2-inch display has been added to the options list.
There are no technical changes. Under the hood of the crossover, there is still a 2.0-liter TSI turbo four with 300 hp. (400 Nm). The motor is paired with a 7-speed DSG "robot" and an all-wheel drive system. The Volkswagen T-Roc R can accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in just 4.9 seconds.
You can also distinguish the restyled T-Roc R by the rear bumpers with a black insert and the letter R instead of the model name on the trunk lid.
From older crossovers, the T-Roc R received IQ.Light matrix LED headlights, adaptive cruise control with lane control and the We Connect telematics system. The R-version of the model also received a new multifunction steering wheel with touch switches.
After the update, the starting price of the T-Roc R has risen to 48,445 euros. Akrapovic exhaust system, leather upholstery and 19-inch wheels are offered for a surcharge.
The company's representative office does not report the timing of the appearance of the updated T-Roc R at official dealers. Is it worth waiting for it in Ukraine? Probably not.
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Penrose Awarded Editor's Choice by MP1st
Audeze may produce headsets that are well within the luxury pricing, but they do so knowing that they are producing some of the best on the market. And for console players out there, the Penrose is one of the bests that you won't regret buying.
Eurogamer Names Penrose X a Best XBOX Series X Headset
"The Audeze Penrose X is the best premium wireless headset we've tested yet, with planar magnetic drivers that allow for excellent sound quality at the expense of bulk. The Penrose is defined by excellent clarity and separation, making it easy to pick out details even in chaotic soundscapes, with a slightly warm sound overall. Combined with a good low latency audio connection via a 2.4GHz wireless dongle and a good microphone, and you get one of the best-sounding headsets for Series X. The headset also offers Bluetooth and 3.5mm connectivity, allowing use with a wide range of other devices."
"One high-quality piece of tech," Says GeekDad of Audeze Mobius
"The Audeze Mobius is an amazing piece of gear and I am hard-pressed to name a better gaming headset at this point. The $399.00 price point may scare a lot of people away but I cannot emphasize more that this is a Ferrari and not a Corvette. The Audeze Mobius has so many amazing features packed into it that you will not feel like you left anything behind. If you want high-end fabulous sound and construction look no further."
IGN Features Penrose X on their YouTube Showcase of Best XBOX Series X Headphones
Welcome to IGN's Budget to Best series! We're dropping recommendations on some of the best Xbox Series X & S headsets you can get your hands on, regardless what your budget is. If you've already had your eyes on the official Xbox Wireless Headset, here are three other options you can take a look at. In this episode, we check out the SteelSeries 1, the SteelSeries 7X, and the Audeze Penrose X. No matter which headset recommendation you choose, each of these will maximize your in-game audio and give you the best experience for your budget. Whether it be spatial audio, a great mic, or simply something that'd feel comfortable on your head without sacrificing function, we're here to make sure you find what you're looking for.
"the ultimate audio experience for gamers," Says GameTyrant of Mobius
"With Mobius, Audeze has proven to me that they're offering the ultimate audio experience for gamers. I've never been so immersed in a game to the point where I feel like I'm literally there being shot at. It sounds cliche but you have to try it for yourself to believe it. At $399.99, you cannot go wrong with the Mobius. It's an investment and it's one that pays off within the first few minutes of the game you start. If you're someone that wants to take their gaming experience beyond the norm, you owe it to yourself to give them a try. Gaming will never be the same again."
Mobius Makes HiConsumption's Best Gaming Headset List
"A decade ago, Audeze is the kind of audio brand that might've scoffed at the idea of building a gaming-focused headset. But, since then, this high-end brand has come around to our side of things and, in spectacular fashion, ended up releasing one of the best video game 'phones of all time."
Audeze Penrose Named "Simply The Best" Gaming Headset for Every System by WIRED
"The Audeze Penrose employs planar drivers, which means sound is filtered through a super-thin layer of conductive film, and that film is suspended between two permanent magnetic fields. Just floating in there! It's super cool. Technical details aside, what does that mean for sound? It means the Audeze Penrose produces unbelievably clear, detailed, rich sound. For gaming, that means an all-new level of immersion. Seriously. On top of all that, they work wired, wireless, and with Bluetooth—and the included (removable) boom mic sounds great."
"I'm impressed with the nearly unrivaled versatility" Says Tech Up Your Life of Audeze Mobius
"The price may be a bit steep for casual users at around $399. Battery life at around 4 hours is decent but not spectacular. While there are wireless modes, you lose out on any of the advanced gaming features. Onboard controls are convenient for switching modes and profiles, though it may become confusing which mode you're in. Luckily, the headphones announce clearly what settings you've just changed, and the Audeze HQ app for PCs offers a visualization. Ultimately, the audiophile-quality performance and innovative spatial audio technology chisel the Mobius out as the best gaming headset that money can buy."
Audeze Penrose Makes Techradar's List of Best Wireless Gaming Headsets
"If comfort is your top priority, you're going to want to break these gaming headsets in, as they are notorious for clamping on users' heads tight enough to trigger headaches. That's certainly disappointing considering its exorbitant price tag. However, if you want the best of the best when it comes to sound, soundstage and mic performance, all of which definitely matter in gaming, it's more than worth the effort.""If comfort is your top priority, you're going to want to break these gaming headsets in, as they are notorious for clamping on users' heads tight enough to trigger headaches. That's certainly disappointing considering its exorbitant price tag. However, if you want the best of the best when it comes to sound, soundstage and mic performance, all of which definitely matter in gaming, it's more than worth the effort."
"The best gaming headset I have ever had the opportunity to own and review" says IGC of Audeze Mobius
"Should you buy an Audeze Mobius, good question, it is by far the best gaming headset I have ever had the opportunity to own and review. Offers head-tracking, the best audio experience, the biggest set of drivers and software to personally customise. Now here comes the headsets that I feel may not offer up all the bells and whistles but are good, Razer BlackShark V2, EPOS GPS 601 or 670, SteelSeries Arctis Range, each of these is great and cheaper. The HyperX Cloud Orbit S is a cheaper option, but you do lose Bluetooth connectivity, and I have no idea how it sounds. For console users, you might want to check out the Audeze Penrose, or any official headset from Sony and Microso
Audeze Penrose X Scores Editor's Choice Badge from CG Magazine
"The microphone, however, is not always as phenomenal. So, it attaches easily and intuitively as one would hope, however I found myself needing to do a great deal of fiddling with its position and volume settings to really get the sort of quality I was hoping for. Small changes can make big differences as far as quality and volume here. You certainly can get some high quality recording out of it, but it will take some patience, some practice, and a whole lot of fiddling."
"A very good headphone, but overshadowed by its bigger sibling!" Says Headfonia of Audeze Penrose
"The Audeze Penrose gives me perplex feelings. It's a brilliant headphone, with superb presentation and the deep bass every planar lover craves, that you can virtually connect to any modern device, thanks to the wireless dongle. But, on the other hand, the sound signature doesn't suit my taste, even more since I own the Mobius, which gives me that extra layer of definition I missed with the Penrose. On a daily basis, plugged into my console, the difference is negligible, but once you focus your attention, the Penrose feels like a cut-off version of the Mobius. A very good headphone, but overshadowed by its bigger sibling!"
Audeze Penrose Named Best Premium Gaming Headset by Eurogamer
"Overall, the Penrose's excellent audio and wide cross-compatibility means it's still easy to recommend."


The John 10. Of the shepherd, and the hireling, and the thief.
1. Your faith, dearly beloved, is not ignorant, and I know that ye have so learnt by the teaching of that Master from heaven, in whom ye have placed your hope, that our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath now suffered for us and risen again, is the Head of the Church, and the Church is His Body, and that in His Body the unity of the members and the bond of charity is, as it were, its sound health. But whosoever groweth cold in charity, is become enfeebled in the Body of Christ. But He who hath already exalted our Head, is able also to make even the feeble members whole; provided, that is, that they be not cut off by excessive impiety, but adhere to the Body until they be made whole. For whatsoever yet adhereth to the body, is not beyond hope of healing; whereas that which hath been cut off, can neither be in process of curing, nor be healed. Since then He is the Head of the Church, and the Church is His Body, Whole Christ is both the Head and the Body. He hath already risen again. We have therefore the Head in heaven. Our Head intercedeth for us. Our Head without sin and without death, now propitiateth God for our sins; that we too at the end rising again, and changed into heavenly glory, may follow our Head. For where the Head is, there are the rest of the members also. But whilst we are here, we are members; let us not despair, for we shall follow our Head.
3. When our Lord then was speaking on this occasion, He said, that He is "the Shepherd," He said also that He is "the Door." You find them both in that place, both "I am the Door" and "I am the Shepherd." 4073 In the Head He is the Door, the Shepherd in the Body. For He saith to Peter, in whom singly He formeth the Church; "Peter, lovest thou Me?" He answered, "Lord, I do love Thee." "Feed My sheep." And a third time, "Peter, lovest thou Me?" 4074 "Peter was grieved because He asked him the third time;" as though He who saw the conscience of the denier, saw not the confessor's faith. He had known him always, had known him even when Peter had not known himself. For he did not know himself at that time when he said, "I will be with Thee even unto death;" 4075 and how infirm he was he knew not. Just as it constantly happens in fact to invalids, that the sick man knows not what is going on within him, but the physician knows; when yet the former is suffering from the very sickness, and the physician is not. The physician can better tell what is going on in another, than he who is sick what is going on in himself. Peter then was at that time the invalid, and the Lord the Physician. The former declared that he had strength, when he had not; but the Lord touching the pulse of his heart, declared that he should deny Him thrice. And so it came to pass, as the Physician foretold, not as the sick presumed. Therefore, after His resurrection the Lord questioned him, not as being ignorant with what a heart he would confess the love of Christ, but that he might by a threefold confession of love, efface the threefold denial of fear.
4. Therefore doth the Lord require this of Peter, "Peter, lovest thou Me?" As though, "What wilt thou give Me, what wilt thou do for Me, seeing that thou lovest Me?" What was Peter to do for his Lord risen again, and going into heaven, and sitting on the right hand of the Father? As if He had said, "This shalt thou give Me, this shalt thou do for Me, if thou lovest Me, feed My sheep; enter in by the Door, not go up by another way." Ye heard when the Gospel was being read, "He that entereth in by Door, is the shepherd; but he that goeth up another way, is a thief and a robber; and he seeketh to disperse, and to scatter, and to spoil." 4076 Who is he that entereth in by the Door? He that entereth in by Christ. Who is he? He who imitateth the Passion of Christ, who acknowledgeth the Humility of Christ; that whereas God was made Man for us, man may acknowledge himself to be, not God, but man. For whoso wisheth to appear God, when he is man, doth not imitate Him, who, being God, was made Man. But to thee it is not said, Be anything less than thou art; but acknowledge what thou art. Acknowledge thyself feeble, acknowledge thyself man, acknowledge thyself a sinner; acknowledge that it is He That justifieth, acknowledge that thou art full of stains. Let the stain of thine heart appear in thy confession, and thou shalt belong to Christ's flock. For the confession of sins invites the physician's healing; as in sickness, he that says, "I am well," seeketh not the physician. Did not the Pharisee and the Publican go up to the temple? 4077 The one boasted of his sound estate, the other showed his wounds to the Physician. For the Pharisee said, "I thank Thee, O God, that I am not as this publican." 4078 He gloried over the other. So then if that publican had been whole, the Pharisee would have grudged it him; for that he would not have had any one over whom to extol himself. In what state then had he come, who had this envious spirit? Surely he was not whole; and whereas he called himself whole, he went not down cured. But the other casting his eyes down to the ground, and not daring to lift them up unto heaven, smote his breast, saying, "God be merciful to me a sinner." 4079 And what saith the Lord? "Verily I say unto you, that the publican went down from the temple justified rather than the Pharisee. For every one that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." 4080 They then who exalt themselves, would go up into the sheepfold by another way; but they who humble themselves, enter in by the Door into the sheepfold. Therefore said He of the one, "he entereth in;" of the other, "he goeth up." He that goeth up, you see, who seeks exaltation, does not enter in, but falls. Whereas he that abases himself, that he may enter in by the Door, falls not, but is the shepherd.
5. But the Lord mentioned three characters, 4081 and our duty is to search them out in the Gospel, that of the shepherd, the hireling, and the thief. I suppose you took notice when the lesson was being read, that He marked out the shepherd, the hireling, and the thief. "The Shepherd," p. 519 said He, "layeth down His life for the sheep," 4082 and entereth in by the door. 4083 The thief and the robber, said He, go up by another way. 4084 "The hireling," He said, if he seeth a wolf or even a thief, "fleeth; because he careth not for the sheep;" 4085 for he is an hireling, not a shepherd. The one entereth in by the door, because he is the shepherd; the second goeth up another way, because he is a thief; the third seeing them who wish to spoil the sheep feareth and fleeth, because he is an hireling, because he careth not for the sheep; for he is an hireling. If we shall find these three characters, ye have found, holy brethren, both those whom ye should love, and those whom ye should tolerate, and those of whom ye must beware. The Shepherd is to be loved, the hireling is to be tolerated, of the robber must we beware. There are men in the Church of whom the Apostle speaks, who preach the Gospel by occasion, seeking of men their own advantage, whether of money, or of honour, or human praise. 4086 They preach the Gospel, wishing to receive rewards in whatsoever way they can, and seek not so much his salvation to whom they preach, as their own advantage. But he who heareth the word of salvation from him who hath not salvation, if he believe Him whom he preacheth, and put not his hope in him, by whom salvation is preached to him; he that preacheth shall have loss; he to whom he preacheth shall have gain.
7. When wicked clerics hear this which is said against them, they would pervert it. For I have heard that some do wish to pervert this sentence. Would they not, if they might, efface it from the Gospel? But because they cannot efface it, they go about to pervert it. But the grace and mercy of the Lord is present, and allows them not to do so; for He hath hedged round all His declarations 4096 with His truth, and in such wise balanced them; that if any one would wish to cut off anything from them, or to introduce anything by a bad reading or interpretation, any right hearted man may join to the Scripture what has been cut off from the Scripture, and read what went above or below, and he will find the sense which the other wished to interpret wrongly. What p. 520 then, think ye, do they say of whom it is said, "Do what they say"? That it is (and in truth it is so) addressed to laymen. For what does the layman who wishes to live well say to himself, when he takes notice of a wicked cleric? "The Lord said, 'What they say, do; what they do, do not.' Let me walk in the way of the Lord, not follow this man's conversation. Let me hear from him not his words, but God's. I will follow God, let him follow his own lust. For if I should wish to defend myself in such wise before God as to say, 'Lord, I saw that thy cleric living evilly, and therefore I lived evilly;' would He not say to me, 'Thou wicked servant, hadst thou not heard from Me, "What they say, do, but what they do, do not"?' But a wicked layman, an unbeliever, who belongs not to Christ's flock, who belongs not to Christ's wheat, who as chaff is only borne with in the floor, what does he say to himself when the word of God begins to reprove him? "Away; why talkest thou to me? The very Bishops and Clergy do not do it, and dost thou force me to do it?" Thus he seeks for himself not a patron for his bad cause, but a companion for punishment. For will that wicked one whosoever he be that he has chosen to imitate, will he ever defend him in the day of judgment? For as with all whom the devil seduces, he seduces them not to be partakers of a kingdom, but of his damnation; so all who follow the wicked, seek companions for themselves to hell, not protection unto the kingdom of heaven.
8. How then do they pervert this declaration when it is said to them in their wicked lives, "With good reason was it said by the Lord ,'What they say, do; what they do, do not'"? "It was well said," say they. "For it was said to you, that ye should do what we say; but that ye should not do what we do. For we offer sacrifice, you may not." See the cunning craftiness of these men; what shall I call them? hirelings. For if they were shepherds, they would not say such things. Therefore the Lord, that He might shut their mouths, went on, and said, "They sit in Moses' seat; what they say, do; but what they do, do not; for they say, and do not." 4097 What is it then, Brethren? If He had spoken of offering sacrifice; would He have said, "For they say, and do not"? For they do offer 4098 sacrifice, they do offer unto God. What is it that they say, and do not? Hear what follows; "For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, and they themselves will not touch them with one of their fingers." 4099 So openly did He rebuke, describe, and point them out. But those men when they thus wish to pervert the passage, show plainly that they seek nothing in the Church but their own advantage; and that they have not read the Gospel; for had they known but this very page, and read the whole, they would never have dared to say this.
9. But attend to a more clear proof that the Church hath such as these. Lest any one should say to us, "He spake entirely of the Pharisees, He spake of the Scribes, He spake of the Jews; for the Church hath none such." Who then are they of whom the Lord saith, "Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven"? 4100 And He added, "Many shall say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy Name, and in Thy Name done many mighty 4101 works, 4102 and in Thy Name have eaten and drunken?" What! do the Jews do these things in Christ's name? Assuredly it is manifest, that He speaks of them who have the Name of Christ. But what follows? "Then will I say to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, all ye that work iniquity." 4103 Hear the Apostle sighing concerning such as these. He says that some preach the Gospel "through charity," others "by occasion;" of whom he says, "They do not preach the Gospel rightly." 4104 A right thing, but themselves not right. What they preach is right; but they who preach it are not right. Why is he not right? Because he seeketh something else in the Church, seeketh not God. If he sought God, he would be chaste; for the soul hath in God her lawful husband. Whosoever seeketh from God ought besides God, doth not seek God chastely. Consider, Brethren; if a wife love her husband because he is rich, she is not chaste. For she loves not her husband, but her husband's gold. Whereas if she love her husband, she loves him both in nakedness and poverty. For if she love him because he is rich; what if (as human chances are) he be 4105 outlawed and all on a sudden be reduced to need? She gives him up, mayhap; because what she loved was not her husband, but his property. But if she love her husband indeed, she loves him even more when poor; for that she loves with pity too.
10. And yet, Brethren, our God never can be poor. He is rich, He made all things, heaven and earth, the sea and Angels. In the heaven, whatsoever we see, whatsoever we see not, He made it. But notwithstanding, we ought not to love these riches, but Him who made them. For He hath promised thee nothing but Himself. Find anything more precious, and He will give thee this. Beauteous is the earth, the heaven, and the Angels; but more beauteous is He who made them. They then who preach God, as loving God; who preach God, for God's p. 521 sake, feed the sheep, and are no hirelings. This chastity did our Lord Jesus Christ require of the soul, when He said to Peter, "Peter, lovest thou Me"? 4106 What is "Lovest thou Me"? Art thou chaste? Is not thine heart adulterous? Dost thou seek not thine own things in the Church, but Mine? If then thou be such an one, and lovest Me, "feed My sheep." For thou shalt be no hireling, but thou shalt be a shepherd.
11. But they did not preach chastely, concerning whom the Apostle sighs. But what doth he say? "What then? Notwithstanding every way, whether by occasion or in truth, Christ is preached." 4107 He suffers then that hirelings there should be. The shepherd preacheth Christ in truth, the hireling by occasion preacheth Christ, seeking something else. Notwithstanding, both the one and the other preacheth Christ. Hear the voice of the shepherd Paul; "Whether by occasion or in truth, Christ is preached." Himself a shepherd, he was pleased to have the hireling. For they act where they are able, they are useful as far as they are able. But when the Apostle for other uses sought for those whose ways the weak ones might imitate; he saith, "I have sent unto you Timotheus, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways." 4108 And what doth he say? "I have sent unto you a shepherd, to bring you into remembrance of my ways;" that is, who himself also walketh as I walk. And in sending this shepherd, what doth he say? "For I have no one so likeminded, who with sincere affection is anxious for you." Were there not many with him? But what follows? "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's;" 4109 that is, "I have wished to send unto you a shepherd; for there are many hirelings; but it were not meet for an hireling to be sent." An hireling is sent for the transaction of other affairs and business; but for those which Paul then desired, a shepherd was necessary. And he scarcely found one shepherd among many hirelings; for the shepherds are few, the hirelings many. But what is said of the hirelings? "Verily I say unto you, they have received their reward." 4110 Of the shepherd, what saith the Apostle? "But whosoever shall cleanse himself from such as these shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and useful to the Lord, prepared always unto every good work." 4111 Not unto certain things prepared, and unto certain not prepared, but "unto every good work prepared." So much have I said, concerning the shepherds.
12. But we will now speak of the hirelings. "The hireling when he seeth the wolf lying in wait for the sheep, fleeth." This the Lord said. Why? "Because he careth not for the sheep." 4112 So long then is the hireling of use, as he seeth not the wolf coming, as he seeth not the thief and the robber; but when he seeth them, he fleeth. And who is there of the hirelings, who fleeth not from the Church, when he seeth the wolf and the robber? And wolves and robbers abound. They are they who go up by another way. Who are these who go up? They who of Donatus' way 4113 wish to make havoc of Christ's sheep, they go up by another way. They do not enter in by Christ, because they are not humble. Because they are proud, they go up. What is, "they go up"? They are lifted up. Whereby do they go up? By another way: whence they wish to be named from their way. They who are not in unity are of another way, and by this way they go up, that is, are lifted up, and wish to spoil the sheep. Now mark how they go up. "It is we," they say, "who sanctify, we justify, we make righteous." See whither they have got up. "But he that exalteth himself, shall be abased." 4114 Our Lord God is able to abase them. Now the wolf is the devil, he lieth in wait to deceive, and they that follow him; for it is said that "they are clothed indeed with the skins of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." 4115 If the hireling observe anyone indulging in wicked talking, or in sentiments to the deadly hurt of his soul, or doing ought that is abominable and unclean, and notwithstanding that he seems to bear a character of some importance in the Church (from which if he hopes for advantage he is an hireling); says nothing, and when he sees the man perishing in his sin, sees the wolf following him, sees his throat dragged by his teeth to punishment; says not to him, "Thou sinnest;" does not chide him, lest he lose his own advantage. This I say is, "When he seeth the wolf, he fleeth;" he does not say to him, "Thou art doing wickedly." This is no flight of the body, but of the soul. He whom thou seest standing still in body flies in heart, when he sees a sinner, and does not say to him, "Thou sinnest;" yea when he even is in concert with him.
13. My Brethren, does ever either Presbyter or Bishop come up here, and say anything from this higher place, but that the property of others must not be plundered, that there must be no fraud committed, no wickedness done? They cannot say ought else who sit in Moses' seat, 4116 and it is it that speaks by them, not they themselves. What then is, "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" and, "Every tree is known by his fruit"? 4117 Can a Pharisee speak good things? A Pharisee is a thorn; how from p. 522 a thorn do I gather grapes? Because Thou, Lord, hast said, "What they say, do; but what they do, do not." 4118 Dost Thou bid me gather grapes of thorns when Thou sayest, "Do men gather grapes of thorns"? The Lord answereth thee, "I have not bidden thee gather grapes of thorns: but look, mark well, if haply, as is often the case, the vine when it trails all along upon the ground, be not entangled in thorns." For we sometimes find this, my Brethren, a vine planted over sedge, how it has there a thorny hedge, and throws out its branches, and entangles them in the thorny hedge, and the grape hangs among the thorns; and he that sees it plucks the grape, yet not from the thorns, but from the vine which is entangled in the thorns. In like manner then the Pharisees are thorny; but by sitting in Moses' seat, the vine wraps them round, and grapes, that is, good words, good precepts, hang from them. Do thou pick the grape, the thorn will not prick thee, when thou readest, "What they say, do; but what they do, do not." But the thorn will prick thee, if thou do what they do. So then that thou mayest gather the grape, and not be caught in the thorns, "What they say, do; but what they do, do not." Their deeds are the thorns, their words are the grapes, but from the vine, that is, from Moses' seat.
14. These then flee, when they see the wolf, when they see the robber. Now this it was that I had began to say, that from this higher place they can say nothing, but, "Do well," "do not forswear yourselves," "defraud not," "cheat not any." But sometimes men's lives are so bad, that counsel is asked of a Bishop on the taking away of another man's estate, and from him is such counsel sought. It has sometimes happened to ourselves, we speak from experience: for we should not have believed it. Many men require from us evil counsels, counsels of lying, of fraud; thinking that they please us thereby. But by the Name of Christ, if what we are saying is pleasing to the Lord, no such man has tempted us, and found what he wished in us. For with the good pleasure of Him who hath called us, we are shepherds, not hirelings. But as saith the Apostle, "But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's day; yea, I judge not even mine own self. For I am conscious of nothing by myself, but I am not hereby justified. But He That judgeth me is the Lord." 4119 My conscience is not therefore good, because ye praise it. For how praise ye what ye do not see? Let Him praise, who seeth; yea let Him correct, if He seeth ought there which offendeth His Eyes. For I too do not say that I am perfectly whole; but I beat my breast, and say to God, "Be merciful, that I sin not." Yet I do think, for I speak in His Presence, that I seek nothing from you, but your salvation; and constantly do I groan over the sins of my brethren, and I suffer distress, 4120 and am tormented in mind, and often do I reprove them; yea, I never cease reproving them. All who remember what I say are witnesses, how often my brethren who sin have been reproved, and earnestly reproved, by me.
15. I am now treating of my counsel with you, holy Brethren. In Christ's Name ye are the people of God, ye are a Catholic people, ye are members of Christ; ye are not divided from unity. Ye are in communion with the members of the Apostles, ye are in communion with the memories of the Holy Martyrs, who are spread over the whole world, and ye belong to my cure, that I may render a good account of you. Now my whole account, what it is ye know. "Lord, Thou knowest that I have spoken, Thou knowest that I have not kept silence, Thou knowest in what spirit I have spoken, Thou knowest that I have wept before Thee, when I spake, and was not heard." This I imagine is my whole account. For the Holy Spirit by the prophet Ezekiel hath given me sure hope. Ye know this passage concerning the watchman; "O son of man," saith He, "I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; if when I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt die the death, thou dost not speak;" that is (for I speak to thee that thou mayest speak), "if thou dost not announce it, and the sword," that is, what I have threatened on the sinner, "come, and take him away; that wicked man indeed shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand." 4121 Why? Because he did not speak. "But if the watchman see the sword coming, and blow the trumpet," that he may fly, and he took not to himself, that is, amend not himself, that it find him not in the punishment which God threateneth, and "the sword shall come and take any one away; that wicked man indeed shall die in his iniquity; but thou," saith He, "hast delivered thine own soul." And in that place of the Gospel, what else saith He to the servant? when he said, "Lord, I knew Thee to be a" difficult 4122 or "hard Man, in that Thou reapest where Thou hast not sowed, and gatherest where Thou hast not strawed; and I was afraid, and went and hid Thy talent in the earth, lo, Thou hast that is Thine." And He said, "'Thou wicked and slothful servant,' because thou knewest Me to be a difficult and hard Man, to reap where I have not sown, and to gather where I have not strawed, My very covetousness ought the more to teach thee, that I look for profit from My money. 'Thou oughtest p. 523 therefore to have given My money to the exchangers, and at My coming I should have required Mine own with usury.'" 4123 Did He say, "Thou oughtest to give, and require"? It is we then, Brethren, who give, He will come to require. Pray ye, that He may find us prepared.
Matt. 25:24, Luke 19:21, etc.


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Howling at Home: Monster Mash-Ups in House of Frankenstein (1944) and House of Dracula (1945)
Posted by Lee Gambin | Mar 29, 2017 | Feature Articles, Slider | 0
By the time House of Frankenstein opened in 1944, horror stars Lon Chaney Jr. and Boris Karloff were massive draw cards at the box office and actors to look out for – therefore it makes sense that by the time of this film their credits preceded the title. Opening on a rainy night with a travelling show business carriage trekking it through the wet plains, the film is the first in a smorgasbord of movie monsters that Universal Studios were so proud of (and rightfully so, as these creatures and everyone associated with them, built the studio and made it what it is today). This curtain raiser is a perfect summary of what the film doesn't shy away from being – a carnival of monstrosities and a showcase of freaks. In House of Frankenstein, the monsters are presented as distinct outsiders longing for acceptance, while in The Howling, the monsters are secretive and reluctant to be outed as outsiders. In fact, the major comparative filmic element shared between House of Frankenstein and The Howling is the inability to remain innocuous and the failure of responding to the ordinary cries of the pedestrian.
In this film, Boris Karloff plays Gustav Neimann, a scientist imprisoned for indecency who is maniacally obsessed with the deceased Dr. Frankenstein (who is of course now long dead but who's ghost hovers over the entirety of the film). Neimann has Frankenstein's notes (given to him by his brother who worked with the infamous doctor) and has a tumultuous relationship with Daniel (J. Carrol Naish) a hunchback, who he promises a perfect body – eventually. Hunchbacks will become a major horror movie archetype during this period and almost always serve as servant to oppressive and more intellectual dictators. The film is a product of World War II and the Hitler regime with the Nazi obsession with good health, plays within the subtext in regards to the characterization of Daniel and his desire to be "perfected". In The Howling (1981) – a modern take on the werewolf mythology – good health and radiance is associated with Christopher Stone's character of Bill Neill ("I own a few health clubs…") and in Gary Bradner's novel, Karen and her husband are resented by the rapist because of their good looks and health – for the most part, physical abnormalities are usually associated with the monstrous or the poor unfortunate misunderstood (Erle Kenton and his twisted body and Dr. Waggner with his bad leg et al), however physical prowess can also be akin to supernatural monsters such as Marsha Quist with her athletic physique and her brother T.C. who is described as "part bloodhound". In House of Frankenstein, physical perfection is ultimately summed up in the character of Ilonka (Elena Verdugo) who Daniel the hunchback falls in love with. Ilonka is a gypsy girl rendering her also one of the "unfavourable" as far as the Nazi regime went, and therefore her physical beauty and athleticism enforces her difference much like the werewolves of the Colony.
After an electrical storm frees Neimann and Daniel (the lightning that is now so closely associated with the Frankenstein mythology releasing the unnatural order), this duo of evil doings come across Professor Lampini (George Zucco) who was seen in the opening shot of the film. Lampini has the skeleton of Count Dracula, and once this is noted he is killed by Daniel and the dutiful hunchback and the demented Neimann take charge the carriage.
What then unfolds is a busy and highly charged film that is ultimately made up in two parts – the interaction of Dracula (John Carradine) and Rita Hussman (Anne Gwynne) and then Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot, coping with his endless lycanthropy that he wishes to cure. Much like Karen White and Terry Fisher in The Howling, Anne Gwynne is the personification of the new American woman as Rita Hussman, and she is presented as a determined and strong leader. She insists that the men in her life do as she says for the benefit of culture (she is also excited by horror and by the supernatural); while her European husband throws out lines that reference the idea of "keeping the wife under control". This ideology is nicely paralleled in the first half of the movie with Larry Talbot's lycanthropy later in the second – the idea that this sophisticated happy go lucky woman is too "socially free" for the stoic patriarchy of European men is inexplicably linked to the animal urges of a depressed Larry Talbot. When Neimann intercepts and presents Dracula's skeleton, he is shunned, and then in order to enact vengeance on the people who initially imprisoned him (all related to Rita Hussman) he removes the stake from Dracula's chest cavity and resurrects the immortal bloodsucker – old monsters are reborn and new society will pay. This is a theme thoroughly explored in The Howling – werewolves are from folkloric legend (in Bradner's novel, the opening suggests old European heritage) infiltrating a contemporary society and finding a home in New Age philosophies. The carnival showcase that Karloff's Neimann presents is a place generally associated with culturally significant oddities such as Jo Jo the Dog Boy and other famous wolf and dog children and adults that would be on exhibit post-Darwinism. As well as the dissolve metamorphosis from Chaney Jr. to a werewolf, John Carradine's materialisation from skeleton to fully fleshed out Dracula is a great visual, however Carradine's Dracula is nowhere near as menacing or as commanding as he should be.
Directed by Erle Kenton (who of course is the namesake of John Carradine's werewolf character in The Howling) the first half of the film deals with Dracula and his attempts at seducing Rita Hussman, with his desire for her to become a vampire. The two parts of the film systematically read like the first moments of The Howling – in that the opening plays out like an urban thriller and then post-catalyst we enter new terrain at the Colony where cityscape makes way for earthy forestry. House of Frankenstein also responds to endearing and telling soliloquies and offers the biggest one to Rita Hussman who recounts her experiences with Count Dracula. This is similar to Karen White's retelling of her night at the porno shop where she encountered Eddie Quist – however, Rita's plays out erotically charged while Karen's is part catharsis and part neurosis and post-trauma bloodletting. Rita's image silhouetted in darkness and then stepping into the soft glow of a lamp shade, all the while in her dreamlike state is mesmerizing. The way she talks about the darkness and being in the throes of becoming one of Dracula's kind – slipping into death and preparing to reawaken as a vampire – is delivered with a great sense of sensuality and lust, whereas Karen's group therapy moment in The Howling is a revelation of a different kind – the fear of accepting sexual assault, and the uncharted desire to repress memory. As aforementioned, John Carradine's Dracula is not as menacing as Lon Chaney Jr.'s in Son of Dracula (1943) who really does play the role with a gruffness, authority and quiet rage, instead Carradine's performance of the count is played out like an impish magician. The film makes a lot of use of Dracula transforming into a bat through animation and with the use of a puppet bat, plus it introduces some great images such as the bat lunging at a victim's throat in shadow form. After Dracula is exposed to the rising sun, he returns to his skeletal state and Rita is freed from his treacherous grip, while Neimann and Daniel move on to the village of Vasaria (which will become the noted go-to place for some of Universal's monster outings to come).
The second half of the film is the Talbot section and here we get a sense of this poor werewolf's desire to either be cured or die. He is also loved by Ilonka the gypsy girl (a fellow outsider), and therefore, a chance for redemption is perhaps of the cards. House of Frankenstein would be the first monster mash-up outside of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and Return of the Vampire, in that it is a host to multiple monsters and outsider fringe dwellers – Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Frankenstein monster, a hunchback, a mad scientist, a potential vampire in Rita Hussman and a gypsy girl. In that regard, the multi-monster dynamic of House of Frankenstein pays tribute to each distinct character whereas in The Howling, another film which is dedicated to the multiple threat of many monsters, gives it's menace a mask: civility (except for perhaps the Quist siblings).
Hypnotised by Ilonka's beauty during her gypsy dance, Daniel the hunchback is enraptured by the vigorous musical moment; and the film pays tribute to the dance of Esmerelda in the big spectacle box office smash The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Here, the beautiful outsider and her connection to the disfigured outsider is made in one magical scene, and this is something that The Howling employs on a squeamish level: when Eddie tells Karen that she is "different" and that "she could never be like them", he is ultimately saying that he understands her through her intelligence, beauty, determination and strength as well as her vulnerability and reluctance to letting go (being able to scream). This is something that he has also instilled upon Karen – drawing comparisons to himself and this news anchor; marking them both as "outsiders" simply because of their desires (her desire for the truth and to report such truths and his desire for the carnal and the celebration of the bestial). Unlike Daniel's lust for Ilonka (and Eddie's lust for Karen), the gypsy girl is deeply attracted to Larry Talbot's loneliness, and through that dedication to his wellbeing, she helps him to restrain his monstrous werewolf self. The famous werewolf poem is once again altered for this film and is quoted as:
"Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers at night may become a werewolf when the wolfsbane blooms…"
House of Frankenstein also happily leans into a love triangle and makes it's connection to Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man – with the two monsters frozen in ice since the dam busted open – with swift precision, and much like The Howling it does successful go full circle and catch up with itself in regards to franchise while Joe Dante's werewolf offering snatches onto it's own tail by ending the film back in the "civilized" world and outside of "experimental living".
The fun of House of Frankenstein is that is continually engaging and right to the point – possibly the most energetic, kinetic and fast moving of the Universal horror movies. Some wonderful set pieces pop up and entertain: lapse dissolves of fire burning brightly and the two heavyweights of horror the Frankenstein monster and the Wolf Man emerge from their icy graves, the Wolf Man's musical theme – those incredible three notes that bark out this cinematic lycanthropic terror, Chaney Jr.'s poignant performance as a man angry that he has been rescued and deeply depressed and longing to die ("I wanted to die" being something that he says very early on in his first appearance) and the sharp exposition that ties the film up to Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man – all of these elements make up for one swift ride. Also, being generous to cinematic lycanthropes, it's as if the Larry Talbot story is the major narrative tie between Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein and then House of Dracula (1945).
In hopes of curing Talbot's lycanthropy, Neimann promises to build him a new brain: "I'll lift this curse from you forever". Here the notion that Talbot's lycanthropy is something neurological shares some significant similarity with the werewolves in The Howling who are all in therapy – and also, Eddie Quist's comical spit: "I want to give you a piece of my mind". Much like Robert Picardo's gleefully grotesque Eddie, Glenn Strange as the Frankenstein monster is towering and monstrous, and is permitted to be terrifying; he is completely not what Boris Karloff did with the character with his sensitive pathos delivered in Ghost of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein. Nor does Strange have any relations with sympathetic characters such as little Janet Ann Gallow (Ghost) or lifelong companions like Bela Lugosi as Ygor (in Son, which is the Hungarian's finest role).
Talbot's first conversation with Ilonka is strained and he remains distant, un-chatty and careful not to let himself get too involved. She says: "You haven't smiled once" and follows that quickly with: "Don't start barking at me" – the film plays with lines that are double entendre (references to dogs and wolves) and issues of sadness and despair – "Why are you always so sad?" Larry Talbot's loneliness and isolation as a werewolf is much more akin to Erle's from The Colony in The Howling then any of the other werewolves – however, Dr. Waggner's "Thank God" (a man of science sighing out a praise to an entity that lives outside of science) suggests a deep longing to rid this curse (which he initially refers to as a "gift"). In House of Frankenstein, the doctor is Neimann who is also just as morally corrupt as Waggner, and just as self-serving with selfish motives. He abandons his promises to Larry and Daniel while the moon's powerful influence on Larry put all of Neimann's work to shame – there is no control over the supernatural, not even in the realm of science. Waggner sees this in The Howling take shape in the form of political resistance and rebellion from Marsha who leads the pack of werewolves against the repressive Waggner regime, while in House of Frankenstein narrative facets such as Daniel's admiration of Larry's physical prowess ("Mr. Talbot is big and strong…"), Neimann's plans to give his oppressors the brains of the Wolf Man and the Frankenstein monster and Ilonka being told that Larry is a werewolf all make up for a socially revolution in the markings of a monster movie mash-up. The film delivers its most touching moment where Larry confesses killing someone in his werewolf state and that he wanted to kill and knew he was doing it. The suggestion of Larry now starting to enjoy the kill is on par with the bloodthirsty rage of Eddie Quist. Larry says: "I want forgetfulness, peace…" jars the romance and desire, as the sadness of Larry who can't help himself but has now the added worry of enjoying the kill hits overdrive. It also hits the main point with the line: "Only death can bring us peace of mind. And a werewolf doesn't just die, he must be killed." Once again, silver bullets are the answer and "Fired by the hand of one who loves him enough to understand."
In House of Dracula, John Carradine returns as a non-threatening Dracula and he longs for a cure for his vampirism. Nina (Jane Adams), a hunchback nurse (carrying on the tradition of the deformed assistant) is the assistant to Dr. Edelmann (Onslow Stevens) who could have such a cure for the desperate Count, while the beautiful and physically healthy Nurse Morelle (Martha O'Driscoll) catches Dracula's eye. He is instantly attracted to Edelmanm's lovely assistant and the film pits the two nurses at polar opposites – the beautiful and the deformed. Radiance and health are in opposition to torment and martyrdom, and in The Howling this is also the case with some of the werewolves happily existing in their lycanthropic state while others struggle. Finding a cure for monstrosity is something that permeates the fabric of House of Dracula and is something that is commonplace in monster movies where the featured monster fears their own abnormality – it is interesting to note that werewolves more so than vampires follow this narrative type. Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr. of course) is also in this film, wanting a cure for his lycanthropy (this time with a pencil thin moustache). Nurse Morelle says of Larry: "There was something tragic about him, he had the look of a man tormented by fear". Once again, women are completely attracted to sorrowful Larry thanks to his pitiful demeanour which is something bought up by the nurse Alex (Jenny Agutter) in An American Werewolf in London but not found in The Howling, where romantic and sexual attraction is limited to pure lust (Marsha's seduction of Bill through a bite and so forth).
An image of Larry behind bars presented like a freak on exhibition, pleading to get a cure is a striking visual in a relatively subdued outing (much more relaxed and quiet than it's predecessor House of Frankenstein). The culture of Vasaria is the most interesting additive, where this world of monsters, the dark world, angry villagers, gypsies and scientists all co-exist and in a sense Vasaria is like an ancient variant on The Colony in relation to the accepted factor that werewolves live in a woodland community complete with a tennis court.
The full moon causing Larry his dramatic and fast transitions into a werewolf is benchmarked here in House of Dracula in that it is the first of his transformations to feature a cut away to other characters who see him change in front of their eyes which is a precursor to a sped up and less gruesome variant on Eddie's transition in front of Karen in The Howling. Nurse Morelle's desperate plea to the Edlemann to do something for Larry cements her romantic interest in him (also a testament to Larry's depressive state being something that has the women smitten, as opposed to Eddie Quist who lusts after women who find him repulsive). Here, the rapist and serial killer that is Eddie as opposed to the tormented Larry Talbot bring both iconic werewolves at polar opposites in the rationale and reasoning sitting behind the world of unspeakable horrors. Larry here is angrier, more desperate – falling into despair at points in time also, and while the film brings back in the idea of botany as a cure to lycanthropy – which was a major factor in Werewolf of London – the film is sadly not the best of the Universal cannon. The film does feature some haunting imagery such as nurses sitting out on a Cliffside lit by the full moon contemplating the fate of Larry, but is then followed up by rushed and slightly silly sequences such as Edelmann lowered into a cavern.
Thankfully, this sequence is then rescued by a great attack from Larry in his werewolf state. The Wolf Man in this film has some nice aggressive moments and some of the freeze frames in the dissolves are excellent in that you get a moment's time to see some of the varied make-ups used. But the movie introduces another uncredited movie monster in that Edelmann becomes a Jekyll and Hyde deal, and the mad scientist of dual personality is born compete with a monstrous transformation which sparks an onslaught of angry villagers (something that will come to bring peace and order in all of these monster movies). It also says something about working women – Nina the hunchbacked nurse and Nurse Morelle, the resourceful heroine of the piece. These women of science are set up as different, but in essence both sacrificial characters – Nina puts off her own operation to fix her back in order to give way to Larry's salvation, while Miss Morelle compromises her own career to help the tormented Larry. Miss Morelle becomes torn between two monsters as Dracula wants to birth her into darkness as a vampire, while Larry who initially is so preoccupied with his own despair doesn't even notice her eventually feels something for this statuesque beauty. Here Larry is over the idea of dying because he feels and fears that he can't, so he spends the entire movie wishing for a cure. Larry's condition is fixed apparently, through an operation (in The Howling the werewolves are given therapy; group therapy with the deleted scene being the most revealing), and in this curing of his werewolvism Larry is permitted a somewhat happy ending. Larry's lycanthropy is outed by the time we get to the House of movies, and here the rational Edelmann becomes the tormented character – a baton exchange of a character accursed with torment, however, the scariest character in the film is the instigator of the angry mob played by Skeleton Knaggs with his creepy voice, scarred face and the bug eyes. After his operation, Larry can stand in the glowing full moon and not transform, while the crazed Edelmann resurrects the Frankenstein monster after having a frenzied dream which is a beautifully conceived surreal moment in the film. Larry turns into a heroic character who is forced to kill the psychotic scientist (who incidentally frees Larry from his lycanthropy) and in the only film that doesn't feature the Wolf Man's musical sting, Glenn Strange – a fantastic monster – is wasted in a tiny bit role that comes way too late. The final image has Larry leaving the burning manor with Miss Morelle in hand – a werewolf is cured and transformed into a heroic gentleman who has saved the townsfolk from a manmade monster. Burning ends the film – which is something that is revisited come The Howling. Lawrence (Larry) Talbot won't turn up until the 2000s in a big budget reimagining of the original The Wolf Man.
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Lee Gambin is a writer, author and film historian. He writes for Fangoria, Shock Till You Drop, Delirium, Warner Bros. and Scream Magazine. He has written the books Massacred By Mother Nature: Exploring the Natural Horror Film, We Can Be Who We Are: Movie Musicals of the 1970s and the soon to be released The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film. He runs Melbourne based film society Cinemaniacs and lectures on cinema studies, currently working on a lecture series called "Can You Dig It?: Tortured Young Men in Film from 1976-1986 while working on two new books - one on the Stephen King adaptation "Cujo" entitled Nope, Nothing Wrong Here: The Making of Cujo and another book with collaborator Cris Wilson called Tonight, On A Very Special Episode: A History of Sitcoms that Sometimes Got Serious.
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These weights mount on to the exterior of any chassis or stock that is M-Lok compatible. They mount using standard hardware and M-LOK T-nuts, meaning that you can install and remove them as necessary on your system. A pair of weights and hardware will add 0.78 lb to your chassis/stock.
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Malawi's iconic rapper Renegade returns from a break from music with a single entitled Ineyo ndi Ineyo which officially drops today.
The song will be made available for download later today before it premieres in Made On Monday programme on MBC Radio 2 tonight.
Renegade made the revelation about the release to Malawi24 on Friday.
He added that a video project for the track will follow a week later.
Renegade his fresh project will be out today.
"I'm finally releasing the song this coming Monday. It will be premiered on Radio 2 FM by Joy Nathu on his show Made on Monday, It will also be available for download on Malawi music the same day after which a video shoot will commence the week after," he said.
Ineyo ndi Ineyo will continue to premiere on different local radio stations throughout the week.
The single is a silence breaker that marks the return of Renegade. After this, it will be one track after the other.
Iiiii amalawi kuzipopa ndindani azayamikeleko nzake kodi?


MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence has a project called ClimateColab, which attempts to crowdsource solutions to climate change via an annual contest. I just made finalist with a proposal I call Climatecoin.
Climate change is a public goods problem, which is generally thought near-impossible to solve on a purely voluntary basis. But here's another public good, which we do provide at large scale on a purely voluntary basis: cryptocurrency consensus. Satoshi figured out he could pay for all the required work by inflating the money supply.
So my basic idea is to make a currency on Ethereum which is "mined" by offsetting carbon. There are already organizations that let you pay for voluntary carbon offsets, with third-party auditing and certification. We simply get them to publish addresses for ether donations, and mint new coins to anyone who donates ether to the offsetters via our contract. Then, like any coin, we encourage merchants to accept them as payment, starting with the sort of merchants interested in showing off their "green" credentials.
A tricky part is maintaining the list of approved offsetters. A central adminstrator could do it, but that'd require a lot of trust; a corrupt adminstrator could approve his own address and mint climatecoins for free. A set of admins in a multisig, if they're well-trusted climate experts, might be viable.
But can we decentralize the decision? This is a tricky problem; it's similar to the problem of making a friendly AI with a stable goal system; i.e. if we make a superintelligent AI and give it a value system that makes it want to keep humans happy, but it's able to modify its own value system, how do we know it will keep placing a high value on human happiness?
One answer is just to observe that if you were able to modify your own brain to turn yourself into a serial killer, you probably wouldn't do that, because under your current value system you don't like the idea of being a serial killer. Similarly, in Climatecoin if we start with a set of voters who place a high value on a healthy climate, then we can have some confidence that they'll keep voting accordingly.
To seed our climate-friendly voters we can use admins at first, who select reputable offsetters, and award votes based on the number of actual tons carbon people pay to offset. The voters presumably include lots of people who care enough about the climate to bother offsetting (although there's also some purely speculative interest). Once there's enough accumulated tonnage to prevent cheap attack, turn it over to the voters.
It might be a good idea to weight recent offsets more heavily. An easy method is to simply increase votesPerTon over time, the same way we decrease coinsPerTon. Unlike coins, the votes are not transferable; decisions are made by people who actually offset carbon. With luck, though our collective intelligence will have the ability to change its value system, it won't want to; it'll be like a stable-value FriendlyAI.
In the following code, an offsetter's status can change when a quorum votes with a 2/3 majority.
We probably want the users to be able to change their votes. To do that we'll need to store the vote per user, so we can see how many votes to remove when we store the new vote.
We have a couple backstops in case voting fails to maintain legitimate offsetters. For one, donors can choose the offsetter when they donate; this helps but doesn't completely defend the overall legitimacy of Climatecoin. For extreme cases, another option is to fork the contract. Simply copy all the data to a new contract, but remove the bad offsetters and the voting power of everyone who voted for them. Then the market can determine which is more valuable. If Climatecoin is used by merchants to signal their "green credentials," the merchants are likely to switch to the more reputable fork.
It would be nice if a purely voluntary solution like this could completely solve climate change. Unfortunately, it would have to be absurdly successful to accomplish that. Even if Climatecoin attained a market cap of $1 trillion, and inflated 10% per year, it would only be spending $100 billion annually on carbon offsets. Carbon offsets are currently selling at $12 per ton CO2, so that'd be under 10 billion tons offset. Our current emissions are over 30 billion tons annually. And that price is on the low side because of low demand in the voluntary market. At scale, the cost could be significantly higher (depending on what sort of innovations people come up with). The offsets which are least vulnerable to manipulation are those that directly absorb CO2 from the atmosphere in measurable ways; at least some of those are relatively expensive.
This way, we could reach a maximum number of Climatecoins, and only issue new coins when we dip below the maximum because people burned coins. Our total offsets would no longer be limited by inflation.
If we assume this is the endgame, and that its prospect is a major source of climatecoin value, then there's another voting method we could try: let people vote on offsetters by locking up their coins for some period of time, as suggested by /u/avsa for the DAO fork debate, and mentioned by Vitalik for more general use. The more coins and the longer the time, the more weight for the vote. The more reputable the offsetters, the more likely that governments will accept climatecoins; hence people will have more confidence in Climatecoin's long-term value if the offsetters are reputable.
Therefore, we could have users vote by vaulting their coins. We weight the votes and set the offsetter's active bits accordingly. The users' coins are locked only if the vote goes their way.
In this case we can easily let users change their votes; it's automatic whenever they unvault their funds.
This voting system doesn't give any particular weight to people who actually offset carbon, rather than just buying coins on the open market; it simply assumes that reliable offsetters will be thought best for coin value (due to potential government recognition). If we're not confident in that assumption, we could make a hybrid voting system, by changing the calculateVote function to also take the voters' accumulated tonnage into account.


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Bill Clinton Bringing Bud Heavies To The Team USA Locker Room After Landon Donovan's Miracle Goal At The 2010 World Cup Is My Favorite Soccer Story Ever
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[The Athletic] - The best story is that after I played 87 minutes with half a tongue, I'm now in the locker room getting my tongue stitched up — five or six stitches, perpendicular to the length of my tongue — and Bill Clinton comes in with a cooler full of Budweiser. Bill starts passing them out to the boys, so there I am and I can't even talk. I'm drinking Budweiser with a swollen tongue, slamming beers with Bill with my shirt off.
I'm not gonna lie - these oral histories are starting to become a bit overdone and we're getting an oral history for every sort of thing. That said, I will read any and everything involving the Landon Donovan goal against Algeria in 2010. It's not the Miracle on Ice, but it's the closest our generation has gotten to it. By that I mean it's the moment everyone actually remembered where they were watching a sport that isn't football or basketball. People get invested in the World Cup and rightfully so. It's a blast, you have parties, the bars are insane. And then this happens.
I'll never forget being so fucking pissed at Algeria during this game. The story tells it too but in case you don't remember, all 4 teams in the group had a chance to advance heading into this last day. Algeria had the slimmest chance though, especially when England scored (going on at the same time) early. They played this conservative game which made no fucking sense. It's like they were trying to fuck the US and let Slovenia and England advance.
I could talk for hours about this specific goal. Everything from the throw by Howard to the first touch by Donovan to the way the lanes are filled, etc. But no, no, no. This is all about Bill Clinton bringing in a cooler of Bud Heavy's to celebrate with the boys. That's my favorite soccer story ever now - topping Gary Lineker from England literally shitting himself on the field during the 1990 World Cup.
This quote from Jay DeMerit is my favorite thing in the world
I was mumble talking and trying my best, but definitely enjoying the moment. For a kid from Wisconsin, drinkin' Budweiser with the president with his shirt off is so Wisconsin. I couldn't have been more proud.
Here's the thing. People weren't allowed in the locker room back in 2010. It was just the team. But that goal, man it was special. Also love how Reggie Bush was in there. What a goddamn crew. Clinton, Bush and the USMNT. That's a fucking party. I wouldn't have pegged Bill as a Bud Heavy guy either.
PS: I still get chills watching the celebration video


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Elias Reusner (* 8. September 1555 in Löwenberg, Herzogtum Schweidnitz-Jauer; † 1. Oktober 1612 in Jena) war ein deutscher Historiker.

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Reusner war ein Sohn des Franz Reusner und dessen Frau Barbara Fritschner. Er war ein Bruder von Nikolaus und Jeremias Reusner (* 1. November 1557; † 18. Januar 1594), einem Rat eines Grafen von Salm. Im Juli 1578 immatrikulierte sich Reusner an der Universität Wittenberg. Seine Studien setzte er an der Universität Straßburg und an der Universität Basel fort. 1591 wurde er Professor für Geschichte und Poesie an der Universität Jena und erwarb sich dort am 12. August 1591 das Lizentiat der Medizin. Als Hochschullehrer der Salana beteiligte er sich auch an den organisatorischen Aufgaben. So war er einige Male Dekan der philosophischen Fakultät und in den Sommersemestern 1599, 1611 Rektor der Alma Mater. Reusner trat vor allem auf dem historischen Gebiet der Genealogie von Adligen in Erscheinung. Er starb in der Jena grassierenden Pest und man errichtete ihm ein Grabstein in der St. Michaeliskirche.

Werke (Auswahl)
 Genealogikon Romanum. Frankfurt 1589 (books.google.de).
 Ephemeris, siue Diarivm Historicvm : In Quo Est Epitome Omnium Fastorum & Annalium tam Sacrorum, quam Profanorum ; Accedit Vetus Calendarium. Frankfurt 1590 (reader.digitale-sammlungen.de). mit seinem Bruder
 Basilikon - Opus genealogicum catholicum. Jena 1592 (books.google.de).
 Theses de historia eiusque dextro oculo, chronologia. Jena 1592 (reader.digitale-sammlungen.de).
 Genealogia sive Enucleatio inclyti stemmatis Witichindei : ab ima radice cum suis pullulis stirpibus et ramis iuculente deducti ... Jena 1597 (reader.digitale-sammlungen.de).
 Commentariolum de vera annorum mundi ad natum Christum supputatione. Jena 1600 (books.google.de).
 Septem illustrium quaestionum historicarum enucleatio. Jena 1609 (books.google.de).
 Isagoges historicae libri duo. Quorum unus Ecclesiasticam, alter Politicam continet historiam. Jena 1609 (reader.digitale-sammlungen.de).
 Isagoges historicae appendix. Commentariolum continens de vera annorum mundi ad natum Chriistum supputatione. Jena 1609 ([Online])
 Brevis & dilucida Duarum Qvaestionum Chronologicarum controversarum enodatio. Jena 1610 (books.google.de).
 Genealogiae regum, Electorum, ducum, principum, atq[ue] Comitum, qui origines suas. Jena 1610 (books.google.de).
 Threnologia in exequiis Serenissimi ac Potentissimi Principis ac Domini D. Christiani II. ducis Saxoniae ... Jena 1611 (reader.digitale-sammlungen.de).
 Historici summi, hortulus historico-politicus. Herborn 1618 (books.google.de).

Literatur
 Elias Revsnervs. In: Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christoph Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena 1711, S. 53–56 (Philosophen, books.google.de).

Einzelnachweise

Historiker
Hochschullehrer (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Rektor (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Geboren 1555
Gestorben 1612
Deutscher
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Daughter of ex-Thai PM Thaksin extends pre-election poll lead
ANN/THE STAR – The youngest daughter of billionaire former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra remains Thailand's top choice to become its next leader, according to an opinion poll, with more than double the score of rival Prayuth Chan-ocha.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 36, whose father Thaksin and aunt Yingluck both led popularly elected governments toppled in coups, was the top choice for 34 per cent of respondents in a survey by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA).
The youngest daughter of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Paetongtarn Shinawatra attends a PheuThai Party campaign event in Bangkok. PHOTO: AFP
Paetongtarn's support rose sharply from 21.6 per cent in a September poll when the majority surveyed were undecided. NIDA polled 2,000 voting-age people between December 17 and 22.
Thailand must hold an election by May next year, according to its election commission, but no date has yet been set.
Best known by her nickname, "Ung Ing", Paetongtarn is an executive in the Pheu Thai party, which has yet to name her as its prime minister candidate.
The Shinawatra name has proven to be a huge election draw since 2001, with populist policies that won Thaksin, Yingluck and their allies tens of millions of votes from the rural poor and urban working classes ballots.


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Jag trodde änglarna fanns är en sång som 1999 spelades in i duett av den svenska sångerskan Kikki Danielsson och det norska dansbandet Ole Ivars och som blev en jättestor hitlåt i Norge. Den är skriven av William Kristoffersen.

Den låg ursprungligen bland annat på Kikki Danielssons samlingsalbum I mitt hjärta  och på Ole Ivars studioalbum Ole Ivars i 2000, också det 1999. Den släpptes i Norge 1999 även som B-sida till Ole Ivars singel I mitt hjärta brinner lågan, även A-sidan en Kikki Danielsson-duett.

2011 gjorde Kikki Danielsson en nyinspelning av låten på albumet Första dagen på resten av mitt liv.

Sångtexten beskriver ett kärleksmöte, troligtvis mellan en svensk och en norsk då andra versen börjar med orden "Over grensa måtte je". Den ena personen anar först att änglar bara finns i himmelen, men då denne möter sin kärlek, tycker denne det känns som att träffa en ängel.

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"Jag trodde änglarna fanns" har även spelats in av bland andra Claes Lövgrens 2002 på albumet Rosor från himlen. och Matz Bladhs 2006. Den spelades även in av Bengt Hennings på albumet Låt kärleken slå till 2009. År 2013 blev låten gjord på nytt  av Ole Ivars med countrysångerskan Lynn Anderson som duettpartner. Låtskrivaren, William Kristoffersen, gav låten  titeln, "You Are the Light of My Life", i denna inspelningen på engelska.
I maj 2017 fick låten ett nytt liv i ny musikalisk modernare tappning, då norska Kamferdrops  den 12 maj samma år gav ut låten i Norge och Sverige. Med sin topp 20-Spotify-listplacering nådde låten en ny publik. Kamferdrops gjorde sitt debutframträdande med låten i TV4:s Sommarkrysset den 10 juni det året.

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