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Q: Can not keep id serially of textbox using Javascript/Jquery I have an issue.I am adding multiple textbox using + button and deleting using - button. Here i am unable to keep each textbox's id serially. I am explaining my code below.

    <input type="text" style="width:85%;float:left;margin-bottom:5px;" class="form-control" id="introlabelname0" name="introlabelname" placeholder="Label Name" value="">
    <input type="button" class="btn btn-success btn-sm" name="plus" id="plus" value="+" style="font-size:21px; line-height:12px; border-radius:4px; margin:3px; margin-bottom:6px;" onclick="addMore(1);">

Here my problem is the id is increasing like introlabelname0,introlabelname1,introlabelname2..  this but while suppose deleting introlabelname1 textbox and adding again its coming introlabelname0,introlabelname2,introlabelname3 like this. Here i need suppose introlabelname1 deleting from introlabelname0,introlabelname1,introlabelname2.. it should introlabelname0,introlabelname1 and if adding again it should introlabelname0,introlabelname1,introlabelname2. Always all textbox id will remain serially from 0,1,2... and so on. Here is my full code. Please help me.

A: You can also do like this.

1.I added var i = $(".inputBox").length + 1; this line in addMore function it calculate the current input box count and add serialize number to new input box.
2.Also I include serialize() function it makes serialize your input box and button ids.
function addMore(i) {
        var i = $(".inputBox").length + 1;
        $("#plus").remove();
        $('#intro-box').append('
<input type="text" style="width:85%;float:left; margin-bottom:5px;" class="form-control inputBox" id="introlabelname' + i + '" name="introlabelname" placeholder="Label Name" value="">' +
        '<input type="button" onclick="removeThis(' + i + ');" class="btn btn-danger btn-sm" name="minus" id="minus' + i + '" value="-" style="font-size:21px; line-height:12px; border-radius:4px; margin:3px; margin-bottom:6px;">
' +
        '
 <input type="button" class="btn btn-success btn-sm" name="plus" id="plus" value="+" style="font-size:21px; line-height:12px; border-radius:4px; margin:3px; margin-bottom:6px;" onclick="addMore(' + (i++) + ');">
');
    }

    function removeThis(j) {
        $("#introlabelname" + j).remove();
        $("#minus" + j).remove();
        serialize();
    }

    function serialize(){
      var i=1;
      $(".inputBox").each(function(){
        $(this).attr("id", "introlabelname"+i);
        $(this).next().attr("id", "minus"+i);
        i++;
      });
    }

A: I think you just need to decrement the a variable when you remove a row:
function removeThis(j) {
    $("#introlabelname" + j).remove();
    $("#minus" + j).remove();
    a = a - 1;
}

A: The easy way is to loop over all the input box, and create the new ID(s) with index value. First of all give the text box class name :
class="form-control inputBox"

Then add this function :
function repopulate() {
  $( '.inputBox' ).each( function ( i, e) {
      $( this ).attr( 'id','introlabelname' + i );
      $( this ).next().attr( 'onClick', function (old,n) {
        return 'removeThis(' + i + ')';
      });
      $( this ).next().attr( 'id', function (old,n) {
        return 'minus' + i;
      });
  })
}

Last, for each function calling, call this function :
repopulate();

Here is updated DEMO
p/s : you should edit the HTML,it not properly structured

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Catarina Demony | Posted: June 26, 2021, 7:43 a.m. | Updated: June 26, 2021, 9:40 a.m. | 2 Min Read
By Catarina Demony
LISBON (Reuters) - Over 70% of coronavirus cases in the Lisbon area are from the more contagious Delta variant, which is quickly spreading to other parts of the country, a report said late on Friday, as authorities scramble to stop a worrying rise in infections.
The national health institute, Ricardo Jorge, said in its report that the Delta variant, first identified in India, represented 51% of cases in mainland Portugal, showing the variant is "spreading rapidly" as it happened in Britain.
New coronavirus cases rose by 1,604 on Friday, the biggest jump since February 19, when the country of just over 10 million people was still under lockdown. In total, Portugal has recorded 871,483 cases and 17,081 deaths since the pandemic began.
Although most new cases are still concentrated in the populous Lisbon region, the southern Algarve region, famous for its beaches and golf courses, has the highest COVID-19 reproduction "R" number of 1.34, the report said.
The jump in infections comes after tourism-dependent Portugal opened to visitors from the European Union and Britain in mid-May. Most businesses have reopened and, as the summer season kicks off, beaches are packed.
On Thursday, Portugal imposed stricter rules, including forcing restaurants to shut earlier over the weekend in Lisbon and in the Algarve tourism magnet Albufeira, a popular destination for British visitors.
Britain removed Portugal from its quarantine-free travel list earlier this month and Germany declared Portugal to be a "virus-variant zone" on Thursday, a measure that will trigger severe restrictions on travel to and from the country.
The number of people in need of hospital care in Portugal, which faced its toughest battle against the virus in January, has also increased. There are 71 COVID-19 patients in intensive care in Lisbon, occupying 86% of beds allocated to those infected by the virus.
To tackle the surge, Portugal is speeding up the vaccination of younger people at a time only around 30% of the population has been fully vaccinated so far.
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Thanks for the input on the Radio And Production Awards. Your letter nicely summarizes the many calls and letters we have received over the past month. Check out the box below for the latest scoop on the coming awards competition!
Great article last month on free-lancing from Dennis Daniel. It's the goal of every Production Director: Make our OWN money with our work.
I did have one objection to the client paying the producer for mondo production on his/her station. My station, WAFX/The Fox, Norfolk, hired me because I am "left-of-center" creative with nearly everything I'm handed, and it's MY JOB to be as creative as possible. The station is paying out good bucks for my talent so they can use my skills as a marketing tool. Don't you like it when a salesman tells a prospect, "We have the best voice/copy/production talent in the market. Come buy with us..."? This keeps the client returning for more mondo the next time he runs a schedule.
The only time I expect compensation is when the spot airs on another station. I discuss talent first with the sales rep, saying, "He wants my spot? He pays for it." After a while, I approach the client with, "How would you like me to be the market voice of SoundsGreat Stereo?" He says, "Yes," and I have a personal client whom I take care of entirely: copy, production, dubs sent out (which also helps YOUR sales rep), and I feel like I've hit the big time.
In a nutshell, the station pays me to be full-goose-bozo for their clients, who in turn, pay the station for that full-goose-bozo production, and we all know, it's the client's money that fills our paychecks.


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Debbie has 30 years experience working with dogs. She spent her early years working the summers in her family-run boarding kennels looking after 80 dogs on a daily basis. She has since worked in an animal sanctuary, as a kennel maid for 8 gundogs, and in a cattery.
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Since 2014 Ian has been travelling the world as a full-time global house sitter with his partner Vanessa. Together they have completed over 60 house sits, specializing in off-grid remote locations. Passionate about the house sitting lifestyle, Ian is also co-publisher of the free online community publication House Sitting Magazine, and developed and runs the house sitter meetup website, mapahub.com
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Jenny seeks unique sits ... from living off grid on the side of a volcano in Guatemala, overseeing a Pitaya plantation in the jungle of Belize, caring for a 300 year old Spanish Manor to looking after a herd of 26 horses rescued from death row.
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One day a visiting Australian friend talked about how she had been house sitting for a year in Perth, Australia, saving $50k Aussie dollars in rent! Suddenly, the penny dropped. Working together they found a way to open up house sitting opportunities for anyone to travel the world on a fixed budget. HouseSitMatch.com first went online in 2013.
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Working with her husband Tim, she administers the House Sitting World Facebook group, the world's largest house sitting discussion group. In the past four years, she's become a leading voice within the international house sitting community.
Michelle McDines
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Finding homeowners willing to accept another dog into their homes was a challenge at first but Michelle persevered and has been housesitting fulltime for two years - with Eddie always along for the ride. By introducing Eddie to new homes, new dogs and cats on a regular basis Michelle developed a keen interest in canine behaviour and she is currently studying towards a number of animal behaviour diplomas to add a new string to her bow.
Michelle has created a website selling fun apparel and accessories for housesitters. She also creates websites for small businesses, property owners and housesitters.
Naomi Peters
naomipeters.com - Naomi has been location independent since mid-2007 and full-time nomadic (housesitting full-time) since mid-2016. She works full-time, running 3 businesses, while traveling as a solo sitter internationally.
As a professional storyteller (acting & stunts) in theatre, film, & TV for over 2 decades, communication is at her core. So, when she started a new company in 2018 to focus on fun ideas (wabithra.com), the first project came from a marriage of her sitting lifestyle plus a love of easy & comprehensive communication. This will soon result in an app for sitters & homeowners called Book of the Home.
Naomi is a triple citizen of Australia, the UK, & the US, and is always voting or filing taxes somewhere.
Nat Smith & Jodie Burnham
TravelLifestylePlan.com - Full-time house sitters from Australia, Nat & Jodie, have been on the road enjoying back-to-back house sits all over the world since Feb 2013.
As the founders of the House Sitting Academy, Roaming Income Club and Travel Lifestyle Plan, over the years Nat and Jodie have helped thousands of people start and maintain their International House Sitting Travel Lifestyles with their ongoing mentoring, online courses, support and advice.
Singles, couples and families of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience have applied their proven system to land the best house sits worldwide ensuring the ethos of trust, mutual respect and exceptional service remain standard within the community.
Philippe Lalonde
TheAmazingStroll.com - Philippe, alongside his wife Sophie, is semi-retired since the tender age of 41 years old. Together, they embarked on a year of travels, alternating between backpacking and house sitting on three different continents. During that year of traveling and self-discovery, they realized that part-time house sitting was the right fit for them.
Now, Philippe and Sophie split their time between house sitting internationally and being at home in Canada, spending quality time with their she-devil of a cat Minette and doing local house sitting assignments. Philippe loves writing about house sitting and depicting life on the road with the help of illustrations, animations, and comic strips.
Embrace the journey!
Richard Brabbin
Richard is a 53 year old homeowner who lives with his husband Stuart and their 8 year old cat Marley in North Kent just outside of London. Richard works full time in local government whilst Stuart is now retired. Richard and Stuart both enjoy travelling. Marley doesn't!
They have been regular users of house sitting services since April 2016 when they came across an article on social media. Since acquiring Marley, house sitters have become a critical part of enabling their holidays to continue.
Using house sitters means they are able to enjoy holidays and still be reassured that their home and Marley are being well taken care of.
Sharon Fields
NomadicWidow.com - In September of 2011 Sharon lost her husband, the love of her life, to cancer. Having her life turned upside down and processing her grief she came to the realization that "all the stuff" in her life was not bringing her happiness and that what did bring her joy were the people and experiences in life!
Thus began the journey of "letting go" of everything that held her back from living a fulfilled life.
Sharon has now been house and pet sitting full time for 6+ years, a lifestyle full of purpose, mutual exchange, trust, respect and love! Being part of a community of like minded people giving her encouragement, love and happiness!
Simon Berry
Simon has been petsitting on and off for over 20 years. Through Kate, his wife, he revived his passion for the profession in 2017 and, when they're not at home, they're usually travelling the world petsitting together.
Simon spent most of his adult life working in the disaster recovery and property insurance claims sectors, after natural catastrophe incidents, at senior management level, when not knee deep in water.
After a career of training and mentoring others, he is now essentially retired. He has encountered a number of unusual calamities over the years, some of which he has had to manage as a petsitter.
Tracy Downing-McDermott
McNomads.com - Tracy is one half of an Australian/American duo who began housesitting in 2013 after an idea erupted while binging-watching House Hunters International. They wondered if they could travel on the same money they spent to live at home and decided to experiment on themselves to find out. Turns out, they spent less traveling than mouldering in a California retirement village.
They've zigged and zagged around the world ever since and house sitting has played a big role in their "why-stay-home-if-you-can-roam" lifestyle. Their goal is to encourage others to pursue their dreams. Tracy often says while it's true that none of us are getting any younger, by getting off the couch to try something new you'll feel like you are.
Vanessa Anderson
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Utilzing her passion for house and pet sitting, Vanessa has created valuable resources to help others achieve their own lifestyle transformation. She now co-publishes House Sitting Magazine, a free publication dedicated to the trust based house sitting community, and has developed a comprehensive online video course to help newcomers understand and sustain best practices.
She blogs regularly about house sitting, actively hosts one of the largest support and advice groups on Facebook, and loves a good cuddle with a furry animal or two!
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ZoomingAroundTheGlobe.com - In 2011, Yvonne and her husband Jim left their full time careers, sold their home in Toronto, and embarked on a 10-month zoom across Canada. Once their journey was complete, they tried to resume a normal life (living in one place) in Niagara Falls, Canada, and opened up a fitness gym/yoga studio.
It didn't take long for wanderlust to come calling once again. In 2015 they accepted their first house sitting assignment, and haven't looked back. They pride themselves on the long term relationships they've developed with many repeat clients. Yvonne is now a firm believer that "life is not meant to be lived in one place" and her dream of having many 'homes away from home' has become her new norm, as she continues zooming around the globe with her other half.
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However, this act inspires Herald to have a vision, in which he imagines that he is looking back on his African ancestors who were transported to America, where they were forced into slavery.
Identity is the central theme in Joe Turner's Come and Gone. This is true of most of the individual characters in the play, but it is also true on a larger scale. In the wake of emancipation, African Americans throughout the United States are struggling to find their identities as free citizens.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone, set in 1917, is the story of Harold Loomis who returns to Pittsburgh in search of his wife. He is haunted by the memory of bounty hunter Joe Turner, the man who had illegally enslaved him. Loomis is unable to fully embrace or release the past.
Title. The original working title of the play was Mill Hand's Lunch Bucket, the title of a painting by Romare Bearden. The title Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a line from the refrain of "Joe Turner", an early blues song.
have come and gone Literally, to have already arrived at and then left a particular place. Ed had to leave early today, so yeah, he's already come and gone, but I can take a message.
Having been enslaved by Joe Turner for seven years, Loomis has completely lost his way in life. An odd man that dons an overcoat and hat in mid-August, Loomis is 32 years old and a displaced slave searching for his wife. In the end he finds his song, an independent, self-sufficient song that he can sing proudly.
He says goodbye to Martha and leaves. Mattie follows. Bynum realizes Loomis has become a shiny man. 1 Herald and Zonia Loomis come to stay at the boardinghouse.
Blood make you clean?" At this, he runs the knife across his chest and rubs his own blood on his face.
When Bynum came out of his vision, he had the power of the Binding Song, and was able to bind people together so that if they became separated they would be able to find each other.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone, play in two acts by August Wilson, performed in 1986 and published in 1988. Set in 1911, it is the third in Wilson's projected series of plays depicting African American life in each decade of the 20th century.
Originally performed by Wilson himself, How I Learned What I Learned is a heartfelt theatrical memoir—charting one man's journey of self-discovery through adversity, and what it means to be a black artist in America. …
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The freshman year of high school can be a pivotal time for students—often with a move to a larger building, more demanding classes, and a new social scene.
Research shows if students can successfully transition into high school that first year, they are more likely to stay in school and graduate than those who struggle. To help support students in smaller, engaging learning environments, many districts have experimented with Ninth Grade Academies (NGAs).
Now, a study looking at efforts to roll out NGAs in the mid-2000s at high schools in southern Florida's Broward County has been released by MDRC, the nonprofit education and social-policy-research organization with offices in New York and California.
The review focuses on how well the 250,000-student district did in getting such a complicated reform in place, rather than assessing the effect of the new model. Researchers discovered the launching process was difficult.
Of the 18 high schools in the district that attempted to implement NGAs, only three achieved strong implementation. Another 10 met a threshold level of implementation, and five fell below the threshold.
The researchers had a rubric that considered if a school administrator was dedicated to the NGA, if there were faculty dedicated specifically to 9th grade, if an interdisciplinary team of 9th grade teachers was in place, and if the freshmen had a separate space in the building.
While district leadership was strong at the beginning of the model launch, the report says support was not sustained and there was substantial variation in the quality of NGA implementation across schools.
The MDRC researchers suggest that more training and resources are needed for teachers, as well as specific guidelines and on-site support to make this model more effective.
Other research on NGAs in 2005 by MDRC found that the model produced significant and substantial academic and attendance gains during students' first year of high school.
Next, researchers from MDRC and Johns Hopkins University will work together with Broward Country on an NGA Enhancement Development Project to test ways to improve NGAs.
Just today, The Washington Post reported that nine D.C. public high schools will open NGAs in the fall with the hope of providing extra support for first-time freshmen and insulating them from the influence of older classmate who have begun to disengage in school.


In the heart of Christchurch lies expansive Hagley Park. Established in 1855 by government decree, Hagley Park is one of the oldest and largest public spaces in New Zealand. Located in the heart of the South Island's largest city, Hagley Park has been a major attraction in Christchurch for years, especially since the onslaught of earthquakes have destroyed the Christchurch Cathedral and other tourist attractions in the city center.
Included within Hagley Park are the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, a world-class exhibit of flowers and trees from across the world, and the Canterbury Museum, a museum with permanent exhibits of the natural and human history of New Zealand, along with rotating exhibits. The Christchurch Botanic Gardens has a collection of most plants in New Zealand, including those from the North Island and the other outlying islands. The Canterbury Museum was built in the 1870s on the east end of the park. For the most part, the museum and its exhibits were surprisingly spared from the damage of the earthquake, except for a statue of MP William Rolleston that dismounted and face-planted into Rolleston Avenue.
In addition to numerous green spaces and fields, the park has a golf course, tennis courts, model yacht ponds, cricket fields (including an oval with a capacity for 18,000 spectators), and hosts circuses and concerts throughout the year. Parking lots are spread around the park, with the main ones being on the corner of Rolleston and Armagh near the city center and off of Riccarton Avenue near the Riccarton neighborhood. Its location is also conducive to simply walking to the park. Dogs are permitted in most of the park, but are not permitted in the botanical gardens.
Huge park with lots to see and do. Beautiful botanic gardens. Central location in Christchurch.


Sodium Thiosulfate enhances the endogenous cyanide detoxification capacity of the body.
It is suitable to use alone in the treatment of mild to moderately severe cases of cyanide poisoning but should be used in conjunction with other antidotes such as hydroxocobalamin in severe cyanide toxicity.
Administer 12.5 g sodium thiosulfate (50 ml of 25% solution) IV over 10 minutes or 200 mg/kg IV over 10 minutes.
Repeat after 30 minutes if clinical features of cyanide toxicity persist.
Paediatric dose = 400 mg/kg (relatively higher than for adults).
Hall AH, Dart R, Bogdan G. Sodium thiosulfate or hydroxycobalamin for empiric treatment of cyanide poisoning? Annals of Emergency Medicine 2007; 49:806-813.
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Well, we didn't end up doing Japanese last night. There was a hole-in-the-wall restaurant-bar in the neighborhood, whose decorative scheme involved a chair rail with back-lit Superballs, that we decided to cast our lot with. Vaguely Italian, with good salad and rather nice chicken. (The wine, unfortunately, was apparently a throwback to the mid-90s here, when the red in all but a handful of very expensive places was vinegary and served ice-cold. Having been chastened by years of bad experience, I opted for white.) Not exactly traditional, but companionable and moving for me, since the friends I went out with were the couple who hosted the Thanksgiving dinner we had during my first year in Japan, when we were in language school.
The American element was supplied after dinner, when we decided to go to Starbucks. In 2005, it doesn't get much more all-American than a triple-shot latte and cranberry bliss bar, huh? Of course, it's not a holiday weekend here, so I'm back at the office today. (Later, I mean.) Hope everyone else had a great holiday.
Taiwanese self-defense
When discussing the possibility of an attack by the PRC on Taiwan, people don't seem to say a whole lot about Taiwan's own army. Usually, the discussion is framed in terms of whether the US or Japan would have to enter the fray and what that would mean. This (via Simon) isn't a blog I'm familiar with, but the writer seems to know what he's talking about, and what he discusses is, precisely, how ready is Taiwan to defend itself against the PRC? His conclusions ring true based on the societies he's describing. The PRC army is run the way you'd expect it to be: corruptly, nepotistically, back-scratchingly, and patronage-ly. The ROC army has morale problems because it's conscription-based and, apparently, plagued by a sense that it would lose in a war with the mainland:
The primary difference between the two forces is the quality of training. The training of the Chinese military has been described as ranging "from spotty to poor." Taiwan's forces, on the other hand, train to Western standards under a cadre of American educated and trained officers and NCOs. They are generally considered to be proficient at the application of military force with the exceptions noted above.
I wonder whether Taiwan has ever asked Israel for guidance on these things. Israelis serve mandatory IDF stints, and they're surrounded by enemies who think the land is rightfully theirs. Maybe commitment is better in Israel precisely because it is attacked regularly? In any case, MeiZhongTai (spelled 米中台, says the author, for obvious reasons) has provided an interesting read on the topic.
Hayabusa may yet land on asteroid
Posted by Sean at 23:36, November 23rd, 2005
Ooh! This is cool:
A Japanese space probe successfully landed and then departed from the surface of an asteroid 290 million kilometers (180 million miles) from Earth, despite an initial announcement that the attempt had failed, Japan's space agency said.
JAXA officials had said on Sunday that the Hayabusa probe, on a mission to briefly land on the asteroid Itokawa, collect material, and then bring it back to Earth, had failed to touch down after maneuvering within meters (yards) of the asteroid's surface.
However, on Wednesday JAXA said that data sent from Hayabusa confirmed that it had landed on the asteroid on Sunday for about half an hour. However, the probe failed to collect material, JAXA said.
The Hayabusa is making a go-round and will attempt a second landing.
Thanksgiving is one of those things I have a hard time explaining to Japanese people. Occasionally, someone here will very frankly say that he doesn't see how the United States can think of itself as a unified culture and country–we've only existed for two hundred years and are of mixed ethnicities. Only once, to a particularly obnoxious interlocutor, have I ever mischievously replied, "Well, your ancestors arrived here on boats at some point in the past, even if it was quite a bit longer ago. They were from Korea, by the way, weren't they? Ethnography is so fascinating, though I'm afraid I don't have the head for it."
Mostly, I just try to explain that America was a set of ideas about individuals before it was a country. (Japan has a lot of ideas about what it means to be Japanese, too, of course; but the sense of uniqueness springs from the genetic heritage.) How you can read things from the Bible, things people were writing in ancient Greece and Rome, and things people were writing later in Western Europe–and you can see the formation of the United States as picking up these threads of the ideals of personal liberty throughout Western history and weaving them together. How we're taught, from the time we're very young, that people risked death to get to the Americas, risked death to stay there and establish hard-scrabble settlements, and later risked death to separate themselves from a motherland that was mistreating them. We actually have their written records, often thin but still there. Nowadays, it's hard to drive around the East Coast and believe that anyone once thought it, of all things, impenetrable or uninhabitable. (If the first settlers could see New Jersey now, huh!) But that was before central air and GPS navigation.
Today, by the unexpected favor of the elements, I'm going to be able to have Thanksgiving dinner not only with other Americans but with Americans who are dear, long-time friends. We were in language school together a decade ago, and they returned to San Francisco in 2001 or so. They've just come back to Tokyo now. We haven't decided on a restaurant yet–this Thanksgiving may be light on turkey and cranberries and heavy on raw fish and shiso; but I plan to make something more conventional when Atsushi and I have our dinner on Saturday.
So I get two Thanksgiving celebrations, which is good because we have so many riches to think about. I'm thankful for our forebears' long-ago perseverance. I'm thankful for our soldiers' current perseverance. I'm thankful that the new Madonna album didn't suck. I'm thankful that my family's in good health. I'm thankful that, of the thousands of available men in Tokyo, I was the one Atsushi asked out five years ago.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
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Repercussions from the Aneha scandal are still being felt. Just about the only bright side here so far is that it's given rise to one of those super-long kanji compound strings that can be such fun: 耐震強度偽造問題 (taishin kyoudo gizou mondai: lit., "earthquake-resistance strength falsification scandal"). It's not a whole lot of comfort:
The Mie Transport (Sanco) Corporation (Tsu City) announced on 23 November that it was halting operation of two hotels managed by its Sanco Real Estate subsidiary, the Sanco Inn Kuwana Station (Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture) and the Sanco Inn Shizuoka (Shizuoka City), until their safety and earthquake resistance could be confirmed. The design office at Aneha had participated in planning the structures.
Additionally, the Nagoya Rail (Meitetsu) Group's Meitetsu Real Estate (Nagoya City) similarly halted operations of its Meitetsu Inn Kariya (Kariya City, Aichi Prefecture) because Aneha had handled calculations for its construction.
When Atsushi called from Kyushu yesterday, he related that one of the construction firms for whose buildings Aneha had produced the inspection reports known to be falsified, Kimura Construction (Yashiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture) has already essentially gone bankrupt. Yesterday morning, the shutters were closed over the windows and a note was posted in one of them stating that it was unable to pay its bills and was consulting with attorneys.
It's hard to explain just how chilling this is. It's not just that the Kanto Plain is an earthquake zone. In Tokyo, we're also right next to the ocean. Parts of the city are below sea level or built on filled-in creekbeds and such. Our houses are shoehorned in close together. We also have perceptible little tremors here every few weeks or so–constant reminders that the ground is unstable.
People don't sit around having morbid discussions about earthquakes all the time. At least, the people I know don't. But you do think about it when you're deciding how close you want that new bookcase to be to your sleeping head at night, or whether it's okay to have your emergency supplies several steps from the bed and the sofa where you spend the most time. Things like that. Word is that some of the buildings Aneha certified might collapse in earthquakes at a strong 5 on the JMA scale of surface vibration. That's strong, but a quake at that level isn't exactly unlikely to occur at some point soon, and the instruction that you get about earthquake preparation usually explicitly tells you to factor in the age and certified earthquake resistance of your building, for obvious reasons.
LDP at 50
Posted by Sean at 22:48, November 22nd, 2005
The Liberal Democratic Party celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding yesterday:
The Liberal Democratic Party marked the 50th anniversary of its founding Tuesday and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told a celebratory convention the party's mission now is to implement structural reforms on a par with the Meiji Restoration and the postwar economic miracle to cope with a changing world.
"In Japan's modern political history, two big reforms can be called 'miracles.' One was the Meiji Restoration of 1867-68, and the other is the reform that came 60 years ago after the defeat in World War II," said Koizumi, who is also LDP president, at the convention in Tokyo.
The Meiji Restoration marked the transfer of power from the feudalistic Tokugawa shogunate to a new central government, ushering in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) and forcing the country out of three centuries of isolation.
Koizumi noted that the two reforms were achieved after many people were killed.
"How can we, in a peaceful way, implement reforms to deal with ongoing change around the globe?" he asked. "That is the duty of this governing party as it marks the 50th anniversary of its founding."
The party also publicized some of its new platform, including one that's been both controversial and anticipated:
Secretary General Takebe officially unveiled the new party platform, the goals of which are a new ideology that embraces "contributing to the realization of world peace," "passage of constitutional revisions," "revision of fundamental education law," and "achieving small government."
Former Prime Minister Mori, chair of the party's drafting committee for constitutional revisions, announced proposed revisions that stipulate that Japan maintains a "self-defense army" and add new rights related to privacy and the environment.
I haven't seen anything about phrasing that would give Japan the right to participate in "collective defense" missions, which was the other big military matter under discussion in the drafting committee.
Chosen time
What I love most about Madonna as a lyricist is her inventiveness with language, the way she's constantly stretching her idiolect to accommodate new contours in her idiosyncratic inner world.
For example, this is the chorus to "I Love New York" from the new album:
Other cities always make me mad
Other places always make me sad
No other city ever made me glad
Except New York
It's like you're privy to her most private thoughts, huh?
Okay, enough with the deadpanning. WTF? I could have written that. In fact, I think I did write it–in first grade when Miss Cramer gave us an assignment that was, like, "Write a poem describing where you'll live after you grow up and decide you're too fabulous for the Lehigh Valley." Maybe Lourdes was helping Mommy at work that day?
Madonna's intelligence is generally, uh, of the non-verbal variety, and that's okay–she's a musician and dancer primarily. Her lyrics are almost never graceful–she likes clunky metaphors and lines that scan dicily–but when she's at her best, they're punchy and immediate. Frequently (as above), she's at both her best and her worst in the space of the same song. Of course, maddeningly enough, I love "I Love New York" to death. It's just, I swear I can feel that chorus making me dumber every time I hear it.
Sundew
To complete the set of contentious meetings this weekend, Prime Minister Koizumi met with Russia's President Vladimir Putin:
In summit talks Monday, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to expand their economic ties but broke no new ground on the Northern Territories dispute.
Japanese officials described the Tokyo talks as frank and thorough. Both sides seemed happier skirting the contentious territorial issue–apparently for fear of having to make drastic concessions that would not win public approval at home.
The two sides signed 12 agreements ranging from energy development and telecommunications to fighting terrorism and promoting tourism.
Analysts suggested that Moscow feels it has the upper hand right now because the Russian economy stands to benefit from high oil prices. In addition, a swell in nationalistic sentiment in Russia may make it more difficult for Putin to give ground on the dispute.
After nine years here, I have to wonder: When and where is nationalist sentiment ever not swelling in Asia and its environs?
The Nikkei editorial on the meeting this morning added uncharacteristically little. Besides the dispute over islands, the negotiations for a Siberian pipeline didn't produce an agreement as firm as Japan would have liked.
Posted by Sean at 08:23, November 21st, 2005
Joe e-mailed me a week or so ago to say that the local paper where I grew up, The Morning Call , was getting a new publisher. It didn't mean anything much to me–I no longer live in Emmaus, and it's doubtful that the publisher cast a Katherine Graham-like cultural shadow, in any case. I did go back to the Call's website, though. Among its blogs is one by a guy from the Poconos who's stationed in Iraq. As you may imagine, he doesn't get to post much, and he seems to be in a hurry when he does, but it's interesting:
Yes, there are women here and after talking only with guys it is nice sometimes to talk to a woman. Female soldiers are mainly at the brigade level and the medical field. Recently we actually requested one for a mission. It met with great resistance. See, bringing women along on the mission actually helps a lot. We, male soldier, don't interact with the women in Iraq because of their culture but often come across them when we go into homes. Having a female soldier there to do searches on the Iraqi women if necessary and to hlep out with information gathering. The women of Iraq are very shy, but when there are female soldiers around they seem very eager to talk. One incident the other day a 8 year old boy was crying when we went into the home and our female soldier put her arm around him at what seemed to be the perfect time and he instantly stopped crying and felt comforted. We believe that this helps extremely with getting to know the Iraqi people and help them see us not as an invading force but as real people trying to help.
That was posted on 11 September, BTW.
The Harrisburg correspondent runs one of the paper's other blogs. I'm not sure he's quite the wit he appears to think he is, but lamentably few of us are. In his favor, he comments on federal as well as state legislators, meaning that he keeps an eye on how Specter and Santorum are voting.
There's a post I've kind of been meaning to make for the last few months, and given the fraternal love electrifying the atmosphere in the US Congress and blogosphere, this seems like a good time to make it.
I've been getting an increasing number of hits from people looking for information about Japanese defense. Quite a few of them are from university and US military ISPs, but I assume even they are mostly from people who are just kind of curious about what's going on here.
There's always the possibility that someone doing Real Research is blundering into me, though. If so, I hope this is obvious, but just in case: I'm not a moron, but I'm also not a political scientist. Still less am I a military strategist. I tend to choose each story I post about for one of a couple of reasons.
One is that Prime Minister Koizumi, while hardly perfect, has taken real political risks in so firmly and ringingly allying himself with the Bush administration in the WOT. A lot of Americans–educated general readers like me–seem not to pay much attention to Japan now that its period of dizzying economic hypergrowth has been over for fifteen years, but the Pacific Rim is a region of extreme importance to US interests. Japan's loyalty to us as an ally and the evolution of its own military policy matter a great deal, and I think they deserve more notice.
Another factor I consider when posting is that the usual media line about studious, slave-to-tradition, unfailingly safe, enlightened-social-democratic, mysteries-of-Zen Japan is grossly reductive. I'm sure most foreign correspondents make a good-faith effort to report things accurately, but you don't have to live here long to realize that some of them simply don't know what they don't know and can't formulate the right questions. When a story shows a side of Japan that doesn't fit the usual pattern, I often find it worth calling attention to.
Finally, there's a ridiculous idea abroad in the world that Americans are provincial while everyone else is cosmopolitan and intellectual. That kind of crap is bad enough when it comes from Everyone Else; when I hear other Americans buying into it, it drives me crazy. Japan, despite an educational system that's the envy of much of the world, displays plenty of what we now call cultural insensitivity…and sometimes plain ignorance. I think it's helpful to remind people that that kind of thing is a human, not an American, problem.
I might also say a word or two about my sources. Japan's tabloidish news magazines are frequently the first to report major scandals and such. I don't cite them because it's generally necessary to wait to see whether the major dailies pick up on a story, anyway, to find out whether it has any substance or was just a sensational rumor. The dailies are a little slower, but if there's meat in there somewhere, it's in their interest to get to it eventually. And they're usually far ahead of Reuters or CNN. If a link goes to a Japanese story, the translation that appears here is my own. That means you have to trust me; but I have several readers, at least one of whom comments regularly, who also read Japanese fluently. If I'm parsing anything incorrectly, I have no doubt that it will be pointed out to me immediately and triumphantly. (Don't make that face at me, boys. You know it's true.)
One more thing for those reading from the military: We support you. There's a lot of jabber lately about polls and yanking people out of Iraq by next Friday and stuff, but the Americans (and a handful of English and Japanese people) I know believe what you're doing, whatever your individual assignments happen to be, is worthwhile and meaningful. If the President says you're not done, you're not done. Thanks for staying on the job. We all owe you. I don't say that nearly often enough.
Added on 22 November: From the Grandstand kindly links this post and adds a Thanksgiving-specific message for our military folks to my general one.
Added on 23 November: Thanks to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler for the link also. He adds his own thanks to our soldiers.
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This casual Mexican dinner menu is a cinch to whip up any night of the week.
Your friends and family will love this Mexican-themed dinner. Feeling a bit more festive? With nearly the same ingredients, you can whip up this Cinco de Mayo party instead.
Light the room with luminaria in the colors of the Mexican flag: With a paring knife, cut thin strips or shapes out of the sides of red and green bell peppers, then cut off the tops and scoop out the seeds. Place a tea light at the bottom of each pepper.
Decorate the table with a chile pepper "plant": Place 2 or 3 large bunches of fresh cilantro in a vase. Cut wooden skewers to just below the height of the cilantro and slide chile peppers onto the tips of the skewers; arrange the peppers in the cilantro.
1. Decorate with bright colors and plenty of flowers. Traditionally, they're placed on the table and front door as a tribute to the departed. Try reusable, handmade Mexican paper ones ($14 for 6, directfrommexico.com).
2. Go from sweet to spicy. Celebrators believe the strong flavors and aromas entice spirits. Nibble on cooked chiles between bites of dinner: Squeeze a lime and some salt on a fresh poblano and grill it whole.
3. Invite guests over for a big, family-style dinner with lots of different courses. Setting time aside to celebrate is an honorary gesture to those who have passed.


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Q: PHP setlocale/gettext and intl extension working together? I have the php intl extension installed for normalizing strings and to retrieve language names and country names for the selected language. I have 2 select boxes, one to select a country where the person currently is and to select a language for the site. Now I have used the function _() to translate the site.
Now when I do ./locale -a to see all supported languages and when I match this with the locales supported by the intl extension (intlcal_get_available_locales()) there are a lot of differences. I have tried to map these and this kinda works, but I can't believe that this is the preferred method to do this.
I am struggling with this for a very long time. How can I best solve this. What am I doing wrong? Is there a best way to do localization and translation.
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There are a few things in life I chase, things I crave which are important to me. A good sleep. I forever search for the best sleep and I try to perfect it like an art.
The true self is another thing I strive for. I have written about this several times now.
Calmness, within and without is another of my goals. A destination I journey towards. I am interested in the effects a calm mind has on my life and my personality and the opposite also, for instance, I find I am quick to grind my teeth when I become angry. The effect of this simple act is amazing and lasting. Even as I write this I feel the urge to grit my teeth together and press. Even the thoughts of this act suggest anger in my mind.
"Facial feedback response," Darwin called it. Your brains reaction to your facial expression.
On a more positive note, the opposite is also true. As you read, smile broadly, Bring the smile into your eye muscles also. Keep it there. It doesn't matter if it is fake or forced, do it anyway……….Hold it……..Now relax.
Your brain, through Darwins facial feedback has recognized that you are smiling and boosted your endorphins (happy chemicals) and reduced your cortozol (stress chemicals). You feel better. It is the cheapest therapy available and as a Yoga teacher it is probably one of the easiest but most beneficial poses I could teach. I intend to bring smiling into my classes and will keep you updated.
Thich Nhat Hanh said "Sometimes the joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." Force the smile. Grin and bear it.
Why shouldn't we smile? For one thing we are alive. A quarter of a million people die every day. Sadhguru tells us, everytime we look at our watch and check the time we should be grateful we are alive as our lives are ticking away. If a quarter of a million people die every day then two or three million people loose a loved one every day. If this hasn't happened today, then smile.
Research has shown that a smile can stimulate us as much as 2,000 bars of chocolate. It reduces stress and blood ressure, enhaces our good mood and according to Penn State University, allows us to be perceived by others as being more competent.
Smiles are free. If you don't have change to give the homeless man outside Wholefoods or even if you don't want to part with your hard earned cash, a smile is free and easy. It helps, it is contageious and there is a limitless supply.
So the next time you are in a bad mood or stuck in traffic or having a difficult day, fake it till you make it. Plaster a big fake smile on your face, getting right into the eye muscles and hold it as long as you can.


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Maricopa Update: External Drives for Servers Were Removed Nightly to an "Undisclosed Location" for "Safety" During Election
by daniel 2 years ago 2 years ago
"External devices" with up-to-date totals of the 2020 presidential election were taken off site to an "undisclosed location" every night during the election.
"For safety reasons."
This is one of the biggest revelations so far to come from the Maricopa county audit.
The external drives were moved by either Maricopa County officials or Dominion employees.
Who moved the devices in unclear.
What is particularly alarming is that there is no transparency.
Even during the audit, the "undisclosed location" remains… well, undisclosed.
We have no idea who and where these drives were taken.
Without knowledge of who took them and where they were taken, how can we ensure election integrity?!
Now, keep in mind that the Maricopa audit is still ongoing.
With all the people involved, there have hardly been any leaks.
This suggests that something BIG will be revealed soon.
This latest update about the external hard drives was not a leak.
It was by the GOP chairwoman herself.
See what Dr. Kelli Ward revealed to the public:
These are the servers for Maricopa Co elections. The external drives that were loaded w/ nightly early vote totals are circled. Scott Jarrett said they were taken to an offsite "undisclosed location" nightly "for safety" by an employee or a Dominion contractor working for MC. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/cfufiCJD09
— Dr. Kelli Ward 🇺🇸 (@kelliwardaz) May 6, 2021
BREAKING: 'External Devices' With Up-to-Date Vote Totals Were Taken Offsite Nightly During the Election by Maricopa County or Dominion Employees https://t.co/XNkizk03Oz via @gatewaypundit
— Lex✍ 'TweetRomantic' (@lex31555) May 6, 2021
So much for safeguarding the vote…
How can we possibly trust the election results with no transparency?
If the drives were taken off site… by some mysterious figure we don't know… how do we know that the results weren't tampered with?
That's what the audit is trying to get to the bottom of.
The National File has a few more details regarding the mysterious hard drives:
Orange "external devices," appearing to be portable hard drives, were removed from the vote tabulating area every night during the election by either election officials in Maricopa County, Arizona or Dominion Voting Systems employees, per Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward.
In a tweet accompanied by an image showing the orange external drives, Ward wrote, "These are the servers for Maricopa Co elections. The external drives that were loaded with nightly early vote totals are circled. Scott Jarrett said they were taken to an offsite 'undisclosed location' nightly 'for safety' by an employee or a Dominion contractor working for MC."
According to Scott Jarrett's LinkedIn profile, first reported by The Gateway Pundit, Jarrett says he previously worked as a Senior Auditor in Maricopa County for over 7 years. Jarrett also says he has certifications to be a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Internal Auditor, and Certified Government Auditing Professional, which do not expire.
"Having the CIA, Jarrett would surely see that it was not alright moving any devices like the ones identified in the picture above from an onsite location. Also, the entire fact that these devices were included in an election is also suspect," reported The Gateway Pundit.
This comes after Maricopa County officials admitted that they do not have access to the passwords used to access administrator features of the voting machines used in November. The officials were asked to provide the passwords to the firm conducting the audit, and ultimately confessed that they do not have access to the passwords, and did not have access during the November election.
"If you think of it like your computer, you know, a lot of people can log in as users, but very few people can log in as administrators. So when the auditors were examining the machines, they were examining it as a user," explained Christina Bobb on OAN. "And then they reached the point where they needed the administrative password, and when they reached back out to the county, the county was forced to acknowledge that they did not have the password. Which means they didn't have it for the election. Which means they did not have any control over the machines for the election."
Again, if Democrats have nothing to hide, then they should want this audit to continue.
Because if Joe Biden actually won fair and square, then this audit will prove it.
However, Democrats and leaders in Maricopa County have been fighting the audit every step of the way.
And this is just the latest revelation to be made public.
We don't know about you, but it looks pretty damning to us!
Full America's Audit Update coming soon…
Maricopa County election audit facing Department of Justice interference as Feds and Democrats conspire to stop audit. Where was DOJ last November?#AmericasAudit #FinishTheAudit #StopTheFeds
— Arizona Republican Party (@AZGOP) May 6, 2021
BREAKING: Maricopa County withholding subpoenaed hardware from election audit, citing alleged 'security risk' | Just The News https://t.co/dphKCkOhQS
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) May 6, 2021
Even now, Maricopa appears to be fighting against integrity.
They are refusing to deliver hardware to the auditors.
They are required to do this due to a subpoena.
Yet they are claiming a "security risk" if they hand over the material.
But answer us this: how can there be a risk if the election happened over half a year ago?
Just the News has more details:
Officials in Arizona's Maricopa County are withholding materials subpoenaed by the state legislature as part of its audit of the county's 2020 election, claiming that surrendering them would constitute a security risk for both law enforcement and federal agencies.
A Monday letter sent from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office to Ken Bennett, the former Arizona secretary of state and the liaison between the state Senate and the auditors, said the county had elected not to turn over "several routers" requested by the legislature due to an alleged "significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office as well as numerous federal agencies."
"We had previously believed that the risk would be eliminated by redacting the law enforcement data on the routers and not producing it," the letter states. "But we were informed that redaction did not eliminate the risk."
Bennett told Just the News that the state Senate's subpoena had requested "access or control of all routers and tabulators … used in connection with the administration of the 2020 election" as well as "the public IP of the [routers]."
"I don't know why the routers in a tabulation and election center have anything to do with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office or numerous federal agencies," Bennett said, noting that "the sheriff's department and the Maricopa County tabulation and election center aren't even in the same building."
Maricopa County spokesman Fields Moseley on Thursday afternoon said the county had "determined the information contained in Maricopa County's routers can be used as blueprints to intercept sensitive county data."
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"Maricopa County has more than 50 different county departments, and the routers the Senate subpoena commanded the County produce support all of these departments, not just elections operations," Moseley said. "This includes critical law enforcement data that, by law, cannot be disclosed, as well as Maricopa County residents' protected health information and full social security numbers."
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DAY FOUR of The William Castle Blogathon & Favourite Five Series: WILLIAM CASTLE
Posted in Favourite Five Series, horror, movies, USA, William Castle Blogathon with tags Barbara Stanwyck, carol ohmart, Carolyn Craig, Cindy Eilbacher, Don Calfa, Elisha Cook Jr., eugenie leontovich, Favourite Five Series, glenn corbett, Hayden Rorke, homicidal, horror, House on Haunted Hill, jean arless, joan marshall, judith evelyn, Larry Bishop, Marcel Marceau, patricia breslin, philip coolidge, richard long, richard rust, Robert Taylor, Shanks, The Night Walker, The TIngler, Tsilla Chelton, vincent price, william castle on August 1, 2013 by goregirl
Welcome to DAY FOUR of The William Castle Blogathon! I really can not thank the talented folks who have contributed to this event enough! Your entertaining features and your enthusiastic participation has made co-hosting this event an absolute pleasure! Hot Damn! You people rock! And the Castle mayhem continues! We have a jammed-packed day of events for you so step right up! Let's take a gander…
"Nobody Draws Faster Than Masterson of Kansas" My Kind of Story is ready to draw with his Masterson Of Kansas (1954) Image Gallery!
"Fate dials the number…terror answers the phone!"
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear reviews I Saw What You Did (1965)!
She Blogged by Night swam through a pool of sharks to bring you their review for Let's Kill Uncle (1966)!
Mercy? Or no mercy? Anti-Film School reviews Mr. Sardonicus (1961)!
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TOP: Macabre, House on Haunted Hill, Homicidal, 13 Ghosts, The Tingler
BOTTOM: Mr. Sardonicus, 13 Frightened Girls, Strait-Jacket, I Saw What You Did, Zotz
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***Favourite Five Series: WILLIAM CASTLE***
This is the second entry in my Favourite Five Series; a post I intend on making a regular feature. William Castle has 63 director credits listed on IMDB. Castle was under contract with Columbia and directed several of their films through the 1940s and 50s. He earned a reputation through the period of being a director who could produce a competent film; do it quickly, and under budget. Castle grew tired of the contract work and was determined to make his own film. Castle mortgaged his house and made Macabre. Macabre was the first of his gimmick flicks; he gave out life insurance policies from Lloyd's of London in case patrons should die of fright while watching the film. This is the period of Castle's career that has been my focus. I have seen all seventeen films from Macabre onward directed by Castle. Six of the seventeen were first time watches for this feature and two of those first time watches made this list!
Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jr., Julie Mitchum, Leona Anderson, Howard Hoffman
Vincent Price made two films with William Castle in 1959; The Tingler and House on Haunted Hill. I am a huge fan of both films and a huge fan of Vincent Price. Vincent Price is one of my all time favourite actors who I have loved ever since I was a child. Vincent Price was all over the place when I was a kid. He was a regular on the game show Hollywood Squares (which my parents watched religiously), The Hilarious House of Frankenstein and Batman but it was all about his movies for me. I love all his 60s Corman flicks, The Last Man on Earth, Witchfinder General and especially my two very favourite Price flicks The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Theater of Blood. But before all those came House of Wax, The Fly, The Bat and of course William Castle's The Tingler and House on Haunted Hill.
In House on Haunted Hill Vincent Price plays Frederick Loren; an eccentric millionaire who invites five people to a haunted house in honor of his wife Annabelle's birthday. He offers each one $10,000 if they will stay the night. They only have a short time to decide because at midnight the doors are locked, and no one will be allowed to leave until the caretakers return in the morning. Vincent Price is not House on Haunted Hill's only highlight. If you missed my Tuesday post The Women of Castle, Carol Ohmart was one of six women featured. Ohmart was inspiringly cast and is the perfect duelling partner for Mr. Price. Annabelle despises her husband through and through and they have some very entertaining and spirited conversations. Elisha Cook Jr. who plays the nervous Watson Pritchard is also a highlight. Pritchard spends the entire film wringing his hands and talking incessantly about murder and ghosts. House on Haunted Hill has a simple but compelling plot with a neat double cross/twist in the finale. Castle makes the most of the big rambling house and its many rooms and creates some nice atmosphere. The film is not without its suspense; it is not without its hokey elements either. Hokey or not; how can you not love that caretaker couple and that walking skeleton?! I'm loving the pit of acid in the basement; it is something every great villain should have equipped in their basement! And who doesn't love party favors? Especially when they come in little coffin-shaped boxes! Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart's performances are a massive highlight of House on Haunted Hill but it is also just a ton of fun! "Don't stay up thinking of ways to get rid of me, it makes wrinkles."
SHANKS (1974)
Starring: Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher, Helena Kallianiotes, Larry Bishop, Don Calfa, Biff Manard, Mondo
I was unable to find a trailer or clip for Shanks. As a matter of fact, I was unable to find much of anything on Shanks period. I am surprised they bothered to do lobby cards for the film. Pictured on the lobby card above is Marcel Marceau who plays Malcolm Shanks and Tsilla Chelton who plays Mrs. Barton (and was featured in my The Woman of Castle post). A shame this lobby card is black and white; I thought the film's coloring was very appealing. Mrs. Barton's striking red hair and lime green dress was a vision! As a matter of fact all of Mrs. Barton's ensembles were a sight to see; like a twisted Holly Hobbie doll! It is a wonderful little touch to make her wardrobe something a doll might wear. I will explain that significance momentarily. Before the film begins we are told it is a "Grim Fairy Tale". The film begins and ends with central character Malcolm Shanks putting on a puppet show. Shanks is a fantasy that twists the idea of reanimation into something very unique; twisting it into something that suits the talents of its star Marcel Marceau. In this fairy tale mute puppeteer Malcolm Shanks performs a puppet show for a group of kids. The group of joyful patrons includes Old Walker and Celia. Shanks and Celia are friends and he has promised to perform a puppet show for her birthday. Shanks lives with Mrs. Barton, the wife of his dead brother and pays rent as a tenant. Mrs. Barton is re-married to a drunk with a bad temper; the couple are not kind to Shanks. Shanks gets work with wealthy eccentric inventor Old Walker. Walker dies suddenly leaving behind his latest invention that can animate the inanimate. I shall not spoil how (Mr. Barton's death is especially great) but the Barton's meet their demise relatively early in the film. Mr. and Mrs. Barton spend the balance of the story as corpses controlled by puppeteer Malcolm Shanks. Celia learns of Shanks remote-controlled corpses and is initially horrified but relents to the idea cautiously. Celia celebrates her birthday with Shanks and is served cake by the Bartons which is when Shanks takes a dark turn. The chapter title reads "The Outside World of Evil": which segues into a shot of a gang of bikers. One of the bikers is killed and the gang ends up bringing the body into Old Walker's mansion where they are presently celebrating Celia's birthday.
Shanks is unlike anything else on Castle's resume. I think it is such a unique and appealing entry. This was definitely a collaborative effort between Marcel Marceau and William Castle. Marceau apparently contributed significantly to every aspect of the film. Marceau's speciality is mime and Shanks incorporates a lot of that type of body work in its plot. Corpses are controlled like puppets! Marceau plays dual roles in the film; Malcolm Shanks and Old Walker. As Old Walker he gets to do his thing and it is truly magic! Shanks has some difficulty getting accustomed to the re-animator's controls and attempts to get Old Walker's corpse from a horizontal position into an armchair. Like every scene in the film that features the re-animated characters it is a huge treat! Marceau is immensely talented! Giving him a run for his miming money is Tsilla Chelton a former member of his troupe in Paris and she is simply superb as Mrs. Barton. Revisiting Mrs. Barton's wardrobe it seemed like a fitting detail to put her in doll-like dresses being that she was manipulated like one. Philippe Clay who plays Mr. Barton does some pretty great mime work also. Cindy Eilbacher was well-cast as Celia; she is sweet and likable but not at all sugary. The bikers have names like Genghis Kahn, Einstein and Goliath. Shanks features biker flick veteran Larry Bishop (The Savage Seven, Angel Unchained, Chrome and Hot Leather) who plays Napoleon and Don Calfa (Return of the Living Dead) who plays Einstein. The film is presented in chapters with these wonderful imaginative chapter titles. I wasn't entirely happy with the way this GIF turned out so I did not include it in my Fun With GIFs post; for the sake of illustrating the chapters for you it works well enough.
Shanks is a fairy tale with a theatrical vibe…I could see it translating perfectly into a stage play. It is also not without its Grand-Guignol elements. Shanks is funny, surprising, clever, beautiful, well-acted, occasionally violent and it has Marcel Marceau and bikers! Shanks is a genuine one-of-a-kind entry from the 70s worth its weight in gold!
HOMICIDAL (1961)
Starring: Joan Marshall (as Jean Arless), Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce, Richard Rust, James Westerfield, Gilbert Green
The trailers and promotional spots for William Castle flicks are such a delicious treat! I can not recommend more highly watching the above charming promotional bit for Castle's 1961 film Homicidal. William Castle gets on-the-spot audience reactions to Homicidal. I particularly enjoyed the serious young man who shook Castle's hand and told him "I think Alfred Hitchcock is going to have to go a long way to try to top something like this." He surely went into sales when he got older. Castle gave out money back guarantees for those too frightened to see Homicidal's shocking finale. You could leave the theatre during the fright break and get a refund but you had to stand in the Coward's Corner until the audience was let out. When you paid .70 cents to see a William Castle movie you got your .70 cents worth! Castle went the distance to give audiences a special experience; but an evening with Homicidal's Emily is well worth the price of admission on its own. Apparently my favourite William Castle films also feature my favourite female performances. Joan Marshall is another actress featured in my Women of Castle piece. Marshall is deviously delightful in Homicidal. Joan Marshall IS Homicidal. An attractive blond woman checks into a hotel under the name Miriam Webster. She offers a bellhop $2000 to marry her assuring him the marriage would be annulled immediately after. They drive to the home of a justice of the peace who Miriam stabs to death. We learn that she is the caretaker for a mute wheelchair-bound woman named Helga. The plot thickens when we meet the real Miriam Webster. We learn our former Miriam is actually Emily who is employed by Miriam's half-brother Warren. We also learn Warren is about to come into a large fortune. Homicidal's story is surprisingly dark and includes themes of child abuse and sexuality. It is a spoiler for me to divulge the sexual nature of the film; but I think most people will figure it out pretty quickly. Despite knowing the reveal/twist it did not spoil my enjoyment of Homicidal at all.
The film drew comparisons to Psycho when it was released. Castle apparently held focus groups through his fan clubs asking members if they had seen and enjoyed Psycho and if they would go see a similar film. There is no denying a few similarities but Homicidal is uniquely William Castle and a fine thriller in its own right. Castle's meaty opening sequence hooked me right away. Emily stabs the justice of the peace multiple times and the scene is surprisingly violent particularly for a film from 1961. Homicidal is an efficient little thriller with a lively pace and little unnecessary dialog. The highlight here as aforementioned is Emily. This callous, catty, confused, conniving, and cold-blooded murderess is in a class all her own. The attractive blond in her conservative gingham print dress threatening Helga her mute wheel-chair bound charge with her newly sharpened surgical knife is just one of copious "moments" for Emily. Emily has dozens of them and every freaking last one of them is a gem of unrestrained emotion! Angry, pouty, fretful, sad, irritated and homicidal; Emily emotes and emotes and emotes some more! Joan Marshall completely lets loose in the role of Emily and I really couldn't imagine any one else in this role. It is too much fun watching her terrorize Helga; who evidently is no innocent party in this story. Actress Eugenie Leontovich is quite good as Helga despite not speaking a word. I enjoy this film more with every viewing. Homicidal is a good horror-thriller but it is Joan Marshall's entertaining and memorable performance that makes it special.
THE NIGHT WALKER (1964)
Starring: Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Judi Meredith, Hayden Rorke, Rochelle Hudson, Jess Barker, Marjorie Bennett, Lloyd Bochner, Tetsu Komai
This was my first viewing of The Night Walker; William Castle's 1964 horror-thriller written by Robert Bloch. The Night Walker stars Barbara Stanwyck as Irene Trent; it would be Stanwyck's final feature film. Stanwyck stars opposite Robert Taylor whom she was married to from 1939 to 1951. The Night Walker was one of the last black and white films released by Universal and it is definitely a gem. Irene is in a bitterly unhappy marriage to blind millionaire inventor Howard Trent. Irene's paranoid husband has been recording her and believes she is having an affair. Irene does indeed have a lover…in her dreams. Irene is talking sweet nothings in her sleep which is only increasing Howard's paranoia. Irene is suddenly freed from her oppressive relationship when Howard dies in an explosion in his laboratory. Barbara decides to move out of the huge house and into a small apartment in the back of a beauty salon she owns. She begins to have increasingly vivid dreams that take on a decidedly nightmarish quality. The dreams are so vivid she feels certain they are not dreams at all. The Night Walker opens with the questions; What are dreams? What do they mean? What do you know about the secret world you visit when you sleep?" I desperately wanted to know! The visuals in the opening sequence of The Night Walker were absolutely fantastic! A trippy series of images, blinking eyeballs, flying women! The dream sequences through the entire film are all beautifully done. Particularly brilliant is a scene where Irene is swept away by her dream lover to a nightmare wedding attended and officiated over by mannequins! Unforgettable! I wish there had been more dream sequences! The effects are also well done. The melted face and dead white eyes of Howard Trent are quite haunting!
The Night Walker has an intriguing plot that kept me invested and Barbara Stanwyck is really fantastic in her role. She is empathetic and likable but never wishy-washy. Barbara Stanwyck is not only a talented actress she is one hell of a screamer! Bloody hell that woman can scream! She has a few pretty brilliant scenes where she shouts, screams and shakes her fists at the sky! "I cant wake up!" "I can't wake up!" "I CAN'T WAKE UP!" Robert Taylor plays Barry Moreland; Howard's lawyer, and the only person allowed inside the estate. I found Barry a little on the stiff side personally but apparently he was very attractive to woman. Irene is attracted to Barry but they don't dwell on this, it is more of a passing observation. The chemistry between Barry and Irene was comfortable enough but not particularly endearing. I enjoyed Taylor in the role nonetheless. The neat little soundtrack by Vic Mizzy is a nice compliment to the film. I posted a piece of music from the The Night Walker yesterday. The Night Walker is one of Castle's strongest stories and is a great little horror thriller with a perfect mood and atmosphere and excellent performances well worth seeing just to get an earful of Barbara Stanwyck screaming.
THE TINGLER (1959)
Starring: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, Philip Coolidge
The Tingler is a favourite from childhood. I was born long after The Tingler came out in theatres but I watched a lot of classic horror as a kid thanks to my father who was a huge fan. The Tingler would have been a pretty fabulous film-going experience though. Castle presented The Tingler in Percepto. Percepto allowed certain "more sensitive" audience members to feel what the characters on-screen allegedly feel. Buzzers were tucked under random seats in the theatre to buzz butts at appropriate moments. Add some planted audience members who pretend to faint and are carried out by doctors and you get so much more than just a movie! What a hoot! The only way to stop The Tingler is to scream! "Don't forget…screaming will save your life!" Pathologist Dr. Warren Chapin believes that a powerful creature created by fear manifests itself on the spine leaving it cracked. He nicknames the phenomena The Tingler and is desperate to prove his theory true. He gets a chance to do so after meeting Ollie Higgins and his mute wife Martha. If screaming can paralyze the creature and effectively kill it, what would happen if a person could not scream? That is an outrageous premise; almost as outrageous as The Tingler itself. The Tingler looks like a fat spinal cord with legs and two big antennae….it also looks a lot like a silverfish actually. I enjoy the hell out of The Tingler but that may be one of the most un-frightening creatures ever created. I would almost go so far as to say cute. In fact, i would probably buy a Tingler plush! Don't get me wrong, The Tingler is very much part of The Tingler's charm! All the scenes featuring The Tingler are superbly fun; especially the movie theatre scene!
You also get to see Vincent Price having an acid trip! Dr. Chapin is seen reading "Fright Effects Induced By Injection Of Lysergic Acid LSD25 – A Preliminary Report." The Tingler was allegedly the first film to feature the use of acid as a drug. Price's trip is too great! Price of course is super fantastic as Dr. Chapin. I could watch Vincent Price making paper airplanes for 90 minutes. Although brief, I enjoyed the banter between Dr. Chapin and his wife Isabel played by Patricia Cutts. Isabel enjoys reminding her husband that without her he would have nothing. All the cast are good but Judith Evelyn who plays Martha Higgins is a real standout. Martha of course does not utter a word the entire film. Martha and her husband Ollie own a repertoire theatre that plays silent films. The intense and animated Martha seems as though she may be a star of the silent screen herself. Evelyn does a wonderful job. The Tingler has some neat visuals that quite impressed me. A splash of color in a black and white film is going to catch your eye; and the blood-filled bathtub in The Tingler is certainly a dazzler! The Tingler is camplicious entertainment and it is camp that boasts solid performances, some well-executed effects and a lot of creativity!
THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER: A Review in Four Parts
Posted in movies with tags Aleister Crowley, Anaïs Nin, Andre Soubeyran, Cabalistic, Claude Revenant, columbine, Curtis Harrington, harlequin, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Katy Kadell, kenneth anger, Leos Janacek, Marcel Marceau, Marjorie Cameron, Nadine Valence, Oleg Tourjansky, Paul Mathison, pierrot, Rabbit's Moon, Renate Druks, Sampson De Brier, Thelema on June 10, 2013 by goregirl
I specifically paired up Rabbit's Moon and Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome because they were my two favourite films from the first volume of The Films of Kenneth Anger. All of Anger's films are visually enticing but I think the imagery in these two is particularly imaginative.
RABBIT'S MOON (1950/1979)
Rabbit's Moon was filmed in Les Films du Panthéon in 1950 but was not completed until 1970 after Anger retrieved the footage from the Cinémathèque Française. A sixteen minute version of the film was released in 1971 and featured a soundtrack that included The Capris, Mary Wells, The Dells, The Flamingos and The El Dorados. There was a second shorter version released in 1979 that looped A Raincoat's It Came In The Night. For your viewing pleasure I have included the 1979 version with A Raincoat's awesome song that will not leave my head!
RABBIT'S MOON a film by Anger
Anger was inspired by a Japanese fairytale. What appears to us in North America as a man's face looks more like the silhouette of a rabbit from the Japanese perspective. They have built an elaborate fairytale around the rabbit who lives in the moon; when the moon is full children leave rice cakes out for the critter. Anger incorporates into the story the well-known French characters Pierrot, Harlequin and Columbine.
Anger was given four weeks to work in Les Films du Panthéon. In that time he had to write the story, build the sets, make the costumes and find the right performers. The films actors Andre Soubeyran, Claude Revenant and Nadine Valence came from the Marcel Marceau School of Mime. All the leaves scattered about the set were hand cut of crystal paper.
The Rabbit.
The Moon. Pierrot longs for the moon.
The two child characters were played by cameraman Oleg Tourjansky's children.
Harlequin the mischief-maker.
The eye image corresponded with the song Anger chose; I Only Have Eyes for You by The Flamingos. Pierrot the sad lover instantly falls for Columbine and offers her the moon.
Pierrot follows a rabbit into another realm. The shredded silver used in the other realm was inspired by Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress.
The blue filter gives the film a dreamy and magical appearance and repeats and overlaps are used to amp up the other-worldliness. Kenneth Anger's Rabbit's Moon is an exquisite fairytale. I prefer the original sixteen minute version but either version is a resplendent amazing experience.
INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME (1954)
I mentioned in part one of this feature that Kenneth Anger follows Aleister Crowley's religion/philosophy Thelema. Anger's 1954 film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome was the first I watched from the set that included a healthy dose of Aleister Crowley inspired images. Cabalistic symbols are shown throughout and a picture of Crowley smoking a pipe is flashed. Anger mentioned Crowley several times in the commentary. A variety of historical, mythological, religious and fictional characters are inaugurated into the Pleasure Dome. Anger includes the character Cesare from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Cesare is played by director Curtis Harrington whose films Night Tide and Queen of Blood made my top ten lists for 1961 and 1966 respectively. The inspiration for the film came after Anger attended a 'Come as Your Madness' themed Halloween party. Author Anaïs Nin wore a birdcage on her head to the party which her character Astarte wears in the film. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome's name is from the poem Kubla Khan written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome's soundtrack is a complete performance of Czech composer Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is an epic thirty-eight minutes; the costumes, the colors, the creation of another world superbly surreal, mysterious and wondrous! A masterpiece!
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome's titles were painted by Paul Mathison who plays Pan in the film.
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome was filmed in the home of Samson De Brier who also plays several roles in the film; Lord Shiva, Osiris, Nero and The Great Beast.
Samson De Brier as The Great Beast.
Marjorie Cameron as The Scarlet Woman.
Painter Renate Druks as Lilith; The Female Demon of Discontent.
Samson De Brier as Emperor Nero
Katy Kadell as Isis.
Artist Paul Mathison as Pan.
Author Anaïs Nin as Astarte; Goddess of the Moon.
Samson De Brier as Lord Shiva.
Joan Whitney as Aphrodite.
Kenneth Anger as Hecate.
The pace becomes psychotic in the film's finale. A continually changing barrage of overlapping images made for a trippy finale. Anger includes snippets from his earlier film Puce Moment as well as footage from the silent film L'Inferno.
Inaguration of the Pleasure Dome's visuals are truly inspired. It is a hypnotic, beautiful and unique film and in my opinion is one of the best in the collection.


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