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Superintendent's Update on COVID-19
COVID-19 Protocols (Updated 1/4/22)
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Distance Learning FAQs
As we begin distance learning on April 6, please refer to these Frequently Asked Questions for assistance:
What do students need to do regarding distance learning?
Each program will have its own plan, so contact your instructor for guidance. Gordon Cooper Technology Center will assist in connectivity when possible.
When and how will students receive learning materials?
Students who are not able to access lessons electronically, will receive learning packets via mail or home delivery starting April 6 through the end of the semester.
When can students pick up personal items?
Students are not permitted in the building at this time. We will arrange to deliver students' personal items after April 6. We will revisit having students come on campus to pick up items from instructors in the parking lot by appointment only after April 15 and will reconsider allowing students access to the building after April 30.
How about postponed classes? Will I receive a refund?
We are working to reschedule and rework short-term classes. For questions or if you prefer a refund, please call (405) 273-7493 ext 2004.
What about next year's enrollment? Will I be contacted?
Students accepted into the 2020-2021 school year will be contact around April 15.
When can I test?
The testing centers at the main campus and the aviation campus are closed until further notice. We will reopen them as the situation dictates.
How can I get my Pell check?
All student Pell checks will be mailed to the student.
When will students be allowed on campus?
We do not know at this time. We plan to close all buildings to the public until at least April 30 and will reassess after that date.
When will we be able to do clinical learning and on the job training (OJT) again?
We do not know at this time. There is a good possibility we will not be able to do clinical learning or OJT the rest of this semester. If that is the case, we will allow adult students to conclude clinical-learning or OJT work at a later time.
If a secondary student was on OJT prior to March 13, can they continue after April 6?
Under current order, all in-person instruction for secondary students ceased for the remainder of the school year (recommended to end between May 8 –15). Where school personnel is required in-person to supervise/facilitate OJT/clinical the instruction must cease for the remainder of the school year (recommended to end between May 8 –15). Beginning April 6, instruction will be delivered via distance education until the end of the school year. Consideration for any OJT/clinical beyond the school year must follow all national, state, and local requirements as well as CDC guidelines pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic.
How is Gordon Cooper Technology Center getting information to students and other customers?
We will continue post statements and updates on the school's website at www.gctech.edu
Message from the office of the Superintendent (April 24, 2020 - 4 p.m.)
Governor Stitt outlined a plan this week to start reopening Oklahoma. As with everything else related to COVID-19, the situation is fluid and likely to change. We have exactly three more weeks until the end of this very unusual semester. Thanks for what you have done and hang in there.
I hope we are able to have some kind of end of year celebration for staff. It may be modified based on the current situation, but it will be nice to see you all again.
The reopening of Gordon Cooper Technology Center's campuses is contingent on direction from the Governor's office, federal officials, the Centers for Disease Control and the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
Reopening plans are subject to change based on conditions.
Phase 1: (April 27, 2020)
Campus closed. Staff can come on campus as long as they abide by social distancing guidelines.
Phase 2: (May 18, 2020)
Students remain off campus until May 15.
Common areas and cafeteria remain closed.
Teachers can have students on campus in small groups to administer skills tests, prep for certification, make-up shop time or other instruction. No more than five people in an area at one time.
Supervisors develop an on-site work schedule to keep proper social distancing parameters (no groups of more than 10 and 6 feet spacing between people). Supervisor can still rotate staffs' on-campus time and assign remote work.
Sanitize between groups/people.
No staff travel unless essential.
Off-site customized training can resume adhering to the social distancing guidelines.
Phase 3: (June 1, 2020)
All staff back to campus (per the Governor Stitt's plan, personnel who are members of a vulnerable population may have special work accommodations).
All summer camps and other events that would congregated people is groups of more than 20 will remain cancelled.
Resume short training and customized training on campus or at industry sites (no more than 10 people in a room at a time).
Common areas and cafeteria open, but remove some tables and chairs for social-distancing purposes.
Open south entrance for visitors.
Resume short training and customized training on campus or at industry.
All visitors sign in and out at south entrance.
Staff can enter at their preferred entrance.
Groups of less than 20 (as long as seating allows for six feet between participants) allowed on campus, sanitize between groups.
Minimal staff travel can resume, with a log kept of where they go and whom they visit.
Remote work for only those individuals at risk or with prior approval.
Message from the office of the Superintendent (March 27, 2020 - 4 p.m.)
Dear Gordon Cooper Technology Center Students:
The State Board of Education and the State Board of Career and Technology Education have closed campuses for the remainder 2019-2020 school year as our state continues to fight the spread of COVID-19. They have recommended schools develop a continuous learning plan allowing students to complete the school year at home.
Your instructors and staff at Gordon Cooper Technology Center are working now to develop instructional plans to begin April 6, 2020. Each program and each student within a program may have a different plan. This is unprecedented, but I have great confidence in our educators, our system, and in you the student to continue great learning and results for future success.
Your instructor will be contacting you to in the upcoming days to give you information that is more detailed. These are historic times and we will learn from them.
Please stay safe and we hope to see you again, soon. Keep checking www.gctech.edu for the latest updates related to campus news.
If you are like me, you're tired to countless updates. Saying that, I do have some information to share. Oklahoma State Superintendent, Joy Hofmeister, is recommending to the State Board of Education the closing of all campuses for the rest of this school year, and asking schools to develop remote learning opportunities.
This is actually some good news, since it gives us direction about how to finish the school year.
There are a lot of rumors and speculation about this situation. I will try to give you the best information I can coming through official channels.
The Gordon Cooper Technology Center campuses will be closed March 19-20 for our regular Spring Break closure. By the request of Governor Stitt and actions of the State Board of Education, all educational activities will be postponed until April 6 and the campus will be closed.
Beginning on March 23:
Only essential maintenance and business operations personnel will report for work.
Instructional staff does not need to report.
Other professional and support staff have been given work assignments to do at home, but will remain on-call.
Supervisors are requested to keep in daily contact with employees working from home.
Our switchboard will be moved offsite from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until April 6 and will be able to receive and transfer calls and answer questions.
We have been asked to close school and create as much social distancing as possible for the next few weeks. All full-time employees will stay employed during this time; however, we are asking as many as possible to work from home during this time.
Basic Guidelines
If possible, take work home and stay at home.
Stay in regular communication with your supervisor.
The campus will be closed to all visitors with the entrance doors locked. Patrons who need to access the campus should call their campus contact and make arrangements.
Staff will be permitted on campus during this time. Please stay in groups of less than 10 and maintain a 10-foot distance between people.
When staff members need to be on campus, we will have a limited number in any one building and maintain social distancing.
If you are sick, please stay away from others, and as you have heard many times, wash your hands regularly.
Supervisors will need to document their employees' work hours from home during this emergency closure.
As things change, and they will, I will do my best to keep you informed. In the meantime, rely on guidance from your supervisor. I will be in daily contact with them.
Message from the office of the Superintendent (March 16, 2020 - 4:30 p.m.)
After a conference call, the Governor and State Superintendent are recommending the extension
of Spring Break and will have the State Board of Education take that action this afternoon.
Therefore, Gordon Cooper Technology Center will close all instruction until April 6, 2020.
What this means:
Instructors and students will not have classes (including online instruction) until at least April 6.
If conditions warrant, we may experience a longer shutdown.
This continues to be a very fluid situation. I will try to put out regular statements so you will know the latest decisions. Thanks for your patience and be safe.
Message from the office of the Superintendent (March 16, 2020 - 11:30 a.m.)
There has been a lot going on this past week. It is highly likely we will be busy this week as we make some unprecedented decisions related to finishing this school year.
We will make our decisions based on information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Oklahoma State Health Department (OSDH), Pottawatomie County Health Department (PCHD), Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), Oklahoma Department of Career and Technical Education (ODCTE) and other official information.
On Sunday, the CDC recommended organizers cancel or postpone in-person events that consist of 50 people or more throughout the United States for the next eight weeks. The CDC goes on to say this does not include businesses or schools.
Until further notice, GCTC will be canceling all public events of more than 50 people in accordance with this guideline.
Staff on campus this week will be learning the best sanitizing techniques and remote meeting practices.
I will begin weekly, if not daily, updates from the superintendent office to update decisions and create an official channel of communications.


Let me start with a bit of English self-deprecation. An old friend of mine once remarked, in connection with another opera company, but it applies here, that with opera one should never lose one's nerve. My nerves were immediately tested because George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's new opera Lessons in Love and Violence breaks my first rule of opera production, to make it look on stage at least roughly appropriate for the plot line. The other obstacles to overcome are: don't write operas in English because it isn't a good singing language, and lastly, don't write operas and be a living composer and librettist because the best operas are by dead people. All of which adds to my delight at this brilliant work. I am so glad that Benjamin and Crimp pay no attention to any of the above because they have given us a gripping sung drama which must surely place them in the vanguard - though I think, after Written on Skin, they are already there.
Lessons in Love and Violence derives its plot from Marlowe's Edward II, an early history play written in 1593 and first published under the title The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer. Martin Crimp's text could be similarly described in outline but it has a modern setting and it focuses on the king's relationship with Gaveston and with Queen Isabel. It is packed with subtle understanding of both these destructive relationships and its effect on the Prince and Princess, "Boy" and "Girl". In the accompanying booklet interviews, Crimp notes the significance of his opening line: "It's nothing to do with loving a man, it's love full stop that is poison." The lessons are for the characters, not the audience. We just watch in growing horror as the corruption spreads until, at the end, the new young king shows the grim results of his learning.
The dramatic impact is enhanced by the regular use of shots from a camera vertically over the stage. The audience could not have enjoyed these views of course but on film they are always dramatically informative and it looks as if the stage direction was partially planned with these moments in mind. Even without the aerial shots the staging is never dull. The rooms in a modern palace are minimally decorated, often have chairs, tables and beds, and much use is made of a large fish tank as a giant backdrop against which the effects of the love and violence on the children are reflected in their personal interactions. These are presumably the work of the Movement Director Joseph Alford who also uses slow-motion effects with his live cast to great effect. The extent of the integration of staging, filming and choreography is impressive and greatly enhances the impact of this truly awful tale.
None of this would matter much if Benjamin's music were not so good. He achieves with a large orchestra an ebb and flow of tension and a mixture of lyricism and dramatic effect. It would be good to say that his music is like someone else's so as to prepare a new listener, but I cannot think of another composer who writes like this. The music is definitely modern, it is often beautiful and frequently dramatic. It manages to entice one into the story with intriguing sounds and a lot of musical eventfulness to keep one listening. The score fascinates the ear, much like Ravel's for L'heure espagnole and L'enfant et les sortilèges but never sounding remotely like the Frenchman.
The cast is absolutely superb. Barbara Hannigan floats many high passages with her usual, but nonetheless remarkable, skill. The three important male protagonists have beautifully clear voices. The chorus, in several different guises, contribute much to the excellence. The orchestra, conducted by the composer, are marvellous; totally at home with this complex score. All this is captured with great clarity of both sound and video. The engineering team have all performed their roles with the highest professionalism. Still more remarkably - this was the world premiere performance! A triumph for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.


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Airbus CEO: Transatlantic flights, Europe travel will grow post-Covid despite Ukraine-Russia tensions
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As if the airline industry needs yet another hurdle to overcome after two of the worst years it has ever experienced, carriers are now wondering what will happen to travel in Europe given the war in Ukraine.
The CEO of Airbus, which is based in Toulouse, France, believes an expected surge in travel this summer is still likely.
"I don't think it impacts the internal European markets," Guillaume Faury told CNBC while visiting New York for meetings late last week. Faury admits travel in Eastern Europe near Ukraine may come under pressure, but overall he is optimistic air travel will surge in the months ahead.
"I would tend to say yes, it's very likely that the majority of the travel in the world will recover as we're expecting by the end of the pandemic."
Faury's optimism is matched by almost every airline CEO who has pointed to 2022 as a big year in rebuilding travel lost during the pandemic.
At one point transatlantic flights were down more than 75%. By early this year it had improved but was still down 36% according to Jefferies.
In a research note outlining the risk of transatlantic travel falling due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu wrote, "The vast majority of European air traffic is driven by Western Europe, which should remain relatively unaffected unless Russia conducts a further offensive into NATO territory."
For Airbus, as well as its competitor Boeing, Russia's attack on Ukraine raises the question of what impact sanctions may have on their plans to ramp up aircraft production this year.
So far, the sanctions have not targeted Russia's ability to export aluminum, steel or titanium, crucial to the production of airplanes.
Separately, Faury says Airbus has little exposure to supply chain pressure that may develop in Eastern Europe. "The security of supply is guaranteed independently from sourcing that could be challenged from Russia," he said.
Guaranteeing the supply chain will be critical for Airbus as it ramps up production this year both in Europe and in the U.S. thanks to strong demand for the A320 and A220, both built at the company's plant in Mobile, Alabama.
Faury expects production rates for both planes to grow by at least twenty percent annually over the next three years. "There are not many parts of the aviation ecosystem which are ramping up at 20% a year," said Faury. "That's what we have in Alabama."
Longer term Airbus is investing heavily to develop of hydrogen-powered aircraft that would have dramatically lower emissions.
Last week it announced plans to work with CFM International, the joint venture owned by GE and Safran, on hydrogen powered planes. "We think we can enter into service the first hydrogen by 2035," said Faury.
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Having been around and in the army during the Vietnam War (again, I was never in Vietnam, I was in the Army in Korea), I remember how stupidly that war was fought because President Johnson tried to conduct the war from the Oval Office. Aside from the fact that we got it wrong from the start in Vietnam, I didn't think the Vietnamese would put up with the Chinese running their country anymore than the Americans. So, in the end, what did we accomplish?
Afghanistan is a very different story, and while I have my doubts about how much nation building we can do there, I would like to think the General on the ground knows more than the administration in Washington that has one eye on the political situation in the states, and the other eye on public opinion polls about the popularity of the war.
The Afghan people know that the Americans are at some point going home. They knew that at some point the Russians were going home too. So, why are we there? We are in Afghanistan to destroy terrorists from having a base from which to attack us. If we can do that in a convincing way, perhaps we can gain some creditability with the afghan people.
But paying off the Taliban is no way to win in Afghanistan in my opinion. The mission originally was to destroy the Taliban not to bribe them into being our partners in the war on terror! We are wasting a lot of money bribing these Taliban and I don't think we are getting anything but trouble for it. We have the military power to take out the Taliban and that is what we should do, or stop wasting American lives and get out.
I agree with your viewpoint. A "war" is meant to win. We are not in a war in the Middle East nor were we in Vietnam. We need to get out. Secondly, any terrorist must be erradicated immediately, anywhere we catch them. These "scirmishes" are too costly, both in dollars and in young American lifes.


November 24, 2018, the 1st Chinese Opera Competition in Hebei held in Hebei University of Science and Technology. Over 120 foreign students and teachers from more than 20 countries of 13 colleges and universities in Hebei Province took part in the competition. This is the first time for HGU to participate in such competitions of foreign students and teachers. The International Education and Exchange Center selected 8 foreign students. After about 4 months training, the two performances we prepared got 4 awards: two honorable awards, one excellent organization award and one excellent guide teacher award.
In order to encourage the students, our Vice-President Zhang Xiaoping attended the reporting performance on November 25.


The Royal New South Wales Lancers were formed as the New South Wales Cavalry Reserves in 1885, designated the New South Wales Lancers in 1894, and created Royal in 1935, the Regiment sent a squadron to fight as mounted lancers in the South African War, takes the traditions of the 1st Light Horse formed from its peacetime members to fight in the First World War at Gallipoli and Palestine, and fought as a Tank Regiment in World War II in New Guinea and Borneo. The Regiment with 21 Honours is Australia's most decorated unit, it is currently an Light Cavalry Regiment in the Australian Army Reserve.
Lancer Barracks were built in Parramatta, now a suburb of Sydney between 1818 and 1820 to house the British troops who garrisoned the then colony of New South Wales. The Governor, Lachlan Macquarie recognised he was building the infrastructure for a future nation and had them built to last, eventually they were occupied by the New South Wales Lancers, becoming an integral part of Australia's Military history, and the history of the Parramatta Community.
This website was established by those former Lancers who operate the Museum within Lancer Barracks dedicated to preserving the heritage of the Regiment and the Barracks. All of the material is copyright, if it is used in any publication, please obtain permission from the webmaster and credit the source. A recent study of collection's significance (by Tierney and Mason) emphasises its substantial place in our nation's heritage. CLICK HERE to view the report (7 mb .pdf file). This report covers the scope of the collection identifying it as a major Boer War research tool, including original poems by AB (Banjo) Patterson.
This site uses pdf files, a reader can be downloaded from www.adobe.com.
Lancer Barracks and Museum are open for inspection next sunday, Sunday 28 April 2019 10:00 - 16:00 hrs. We are open almost every Sunday.
Tour groups of 5+ (with fewer, premium pricing applies) catered for on any day with a prior booking (please allow a week to process).


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Francesco Saverio kardinal de Zelada, italijanski rimskokatoliški duhovnik, škof in kardinal, * 27. avgust 1717, Rim, † 19. december 1801.

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23. oktobra 1740 je prejel duhovniško posvečenje.

23. decembra 1766 je bil imenovan za naslovnega nadškofa Petre v Palestini; 28. decembra istega leta je prejel škofovsko posvečenje.

26. aprila 1773 je bil povzdignjen v kardinala.

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Rojeni leta 1717
Umrli leta 1801
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One of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian photography, Giuseppe Cavalli (1904-1961) is surprisingly little known outside his native country. Reacting against the rhetorical and overblown imagery of the Fascist era, Cavalli's work is imbued with the intimate poetry of daily life. Best known for his subtle studies of reclining nudes and everyday objects such as bottles, glasses and candlesticks, Cavalli in fact steadfastly subscribed to the principle that 'the subject has no importance at all' in the work of art – and indeed such elements were simply vehicles for his true subject: light. This exhibition of delicate and timeless images from the Prelz Oltramonti Collection spanned the artist's brief career, which ended prematurely with his death at the age of only fifty-seven.
This exhibition offered a rare opportunity to admire and explore an outstanding private archive of photographs by the most important modern and contemporary Italian masters, selected from the Prelz Oltramonti Collection.


As required by our bylaws, the caretaking council will conduct a very, very brief annual meeting after sitting and walking meditation on Monday, February 13. If you have would like to put anything on the agenda, please reply to this email or talk to a member of the caretaking council.
The caretaking council would like the Sangha's thoughts on the following question: since we are now offering only one retreat yearly, in the form of two days of mindfulness, shall we consider holding the retreat at another time of the year, perhaps when the weather will more likely permit us to enjoy walking meditation outside?
Start 2017 by stopping, calming and connecting to yourself and to what truly matters to you. Now that the holidays have passed, give yourself a gift, one of care for yourself, those you love and the Earth.
RSVP now for our January 20 - 21, 2017 days of mindfulness with Dharma Teacher Fern Dorresteyn. Fern is a co-founder of MorningSun Mindfulness Center, with her husband Dharma Teacher Michael Ciborski. Both lived at Thich Nhat Hanh's practice center in France, Plum Village, for nine years, seven of them as monastics. They are now married with three children.
Fern hopes to help us experience the joy of connecting deeply with ourselves and the earth and taste the transformation that arises from that. Fern is a gentle being who expresses her creativity and love of the practice through her teaching. She will transmit the Five Mindfulness Trainings on Saturday. These two days of mindfulness are not to be missed.


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The Murder of Ali Fahmy At The Savoy Hotel
"What have I done, my dear! What have I done!"
Marguerite Fahmy
The two court cases were over seventy years apart and the LA suburb of Brentwood is a long way from the relative sophistication of London's Savoy Hotel in the 1920s but when OJ Simpson was infamously acquitted in 1995, despite seemingly overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the shocked reaction around the world would not have been dissimilar to when Marguerite Fahmy was sensationally found 'not guilty' of the internationally reported murder of her Egyptian playboy husband at the hotel in 1923.
The Savoy Hotel in 1923
The Savoy Hotel had opened in 1889, and had been no stranger to scandal – it was at Oscar Wilde's infamous trial where it came to light that he had entertained a succession of rent-boys at the hotel's room 361. After Wilde had been arrested for gross indecency the presiding magistrate said "I know nothing about the Savoy, but I must say that in my view chicken and salad for two at sixteen shillings is very high. I am afraid I shall never supper there myself."
However it was still the place to stay for celebrities and royalty visiting London. In 1923 the hotel was still seen as one of the finest in the world and in that year, amongst others, Walter Hagen, Fred and Adele Astaire and the opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini (as in chicken) had all stayed there.
Walter Hagen on the roof of the Savoy
Fred and Adele Astaire
A typical dismal drizzly April in London that year had only been brightened by the wedding of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon to the Duke of York, Prince Albert – known as 'Bertie' to his family and close friends. The house band at the Savoy Hotel – The Savoy Havana Band – made its debut on the BBC on 13th April 1923, not least because the BBC at the time was next door and shared its generator with the hotel.
A few weeks later on the morning of Sunday 1 July 1923 a limousine drove into Savoy Court and the Hotel doorman helped out a couple who were known to the hotel as the Prince and Princess Fahmy. They were accompanied by the Prince's private secretary, Mr Said Enani. Accurately Prince Fahmy wasn't really a prince but he did little to discourage the use of the title when away from Egypt.
Savoy Court – the only road in Britain where drivers are required to drive on the right.
The 22 year Egyptian had met his bride to be, a woman ten years his senior, in Paris the year before -incidentally the year that Egypt was granted independence, if not overall control, by the British Government. To many people Marguerite was seen, at best, as a flirtatious gold-digger and more in love with his not inconsiderable fortune than the man himself. They had married in Egypt, first by a civil ceremony on 26th December and then followed by a Muslim wedding in January 1923 where Madame Fahmy, modestly veiled, proclaimed in Arabic 'There is one God and Mohammed is His Prophet'.
Mr and Mrs Fahmy in Egypt
After a few days in London, which was experiencing a heatwave, Marguerite Fahmy summoned the Savoy's doctor – she was suffering badly from external haemorrhoids. She alleged to Dr Gordon, while he was treating her, that her husband had 'torn her by unnatural intercourse' and was 'always pestering her' for this kind of sex. Already thinking about possible future divorce proceedings she repeatedly asked the doctor for 'a certificate as to her physical condition to negative the suggestion of her husband that she had made up a story'. The doctor, although respectful, ignored her request.
On the 9th July the couple went to Daly's Theatre on Cranbourne Street off Leicester Square (where the Vue West End cinema now stands) to see, with hindsight the darkly ironic 'The Merry Widow'. It had been an incredibly hot day and you can only imagine how uncomfortably warm the theatre must have been in those pre-air-conditioned days (although as far as a lot of the West End is concerned we're still in those days). Not the ideal conditions for someone suffering from piles I would imagine. The main performers in Lehar's popular operetta were the 22 year old Evelyn Laye and the Danish matinee idol Carl Brisson.
Carl Brisson
The beautiful Evelyn Laye
Daly's Theatre
The couple returned to the Savoy after the theatre for a late supper, however the meal was disrupted by a huge argument which had recently become almost a daily occurrence. Ali had even appeared in public with scratches on his face and Marguerite had been seen with dark bruises on her face ill-disguised with powder and makeup. The row this time degenerated to such an extent that Marguerite picked up a wine bottle and shouted in French 'You shut up or I'll smash this over your head.' Ali replied 'If you do, I'll do the same to you.' They eventually calmed down, not without the help of the head-waiter, and went to the ballroom to listen to the Savoy Havana Band. The house band no doubt would have been playing at one point Yes, We Have No Bananas or perhaps Ain't We Got Fun both big hits that year. It wasn't long before Marguerite, after refusing the offer of a dance with her husband, retired to her room.
Mr Said Enani, as a witness in court a few weeks later, said that Mr Fahmy, in full evening dress, had decided to take a cab in the direction of Piccadilly even though the hot balmy weather had now turned into one of the worse thunderstorms in living memory. When asked the reason why he went, he said he did not know. Although we can perhaps presume that Ali was either visiting an unlicensed nightclub or on the search for either a male or female prostitute both of which frequented the area in high numbers around that part of the West End.
At around 2.00am the hotel's night porter passed the door to the Fahmy's suite but heard a low whistle and looking back saw Ali Fahmy bending down apparently whistling for Marguerite's little dog that had been following the night porter down the corridor. After continuing on his way for just three yards he suddenly heard three shots fired in quick succession.
He ran back and saw Marguerite throw down a black handgun and also saw Ali slumped against the wall bleeding profusely from a wound on his temple from which splinger of bone and brain tissue protruded. 'Qu'est-ce que j'ai fait, mon cher?' (what have I done, my dear?') Marguerite kept saying over and over again.
Sir Edward Marshall Hall - The Great Defender
Marshall Hall was almost 65 at the time of Marguerite's trial and was a household name. He was six feet three, handsome for his age, and a commanding presence in the courtroom. He was commonly known, after being responsible for several famous acquittals, as 'The Great Defender'. Marshall Hall's final speech to the jury in defence of Marguerite, or Madame Fahmy as the press were now calling her, slowly became a character assassination of her dead husband. he portrayed him as a monster of Eastern amoral bisexual depravity. (Not too) subtly Hall accused both Prince Fahmy and his private secretary of being homosexuals.
Ali Fahmy
The public gallery consisted of many young women some of whom were noted to be barely eighteen. Marshall Hall looked up to the gallery saying 'if women choose to come here to hear this case, they must take the consequences'. None of them left. Meanwhile he turned the attack on Ali to sodomy. Fahmy, said Hall, 'developed abnormal tendencies and he never treated Madame normally' Asking them to disregard the fact that the victim was younger than his wife. 'Yes, he was only 23 years old,' he told them. 'But he was given to a life of debauchery and was obsessed with his sexual prowess.' He went on to remind them that, as an Oriental man, his wife to him was no more than a belonging and that however much he may have acquired the outward signs of urbanity and sophistication, he was forever an Oriental under the skin.
When Marguerite took the stand, she was encouraged by the Great Defender to describe her life as a Muslim bride and to a lot of observers this was when the case turned her way. She testified at one point how she had been sitting 'in a state of undress in which her modesty would have forbidden her facing even her maid', she had noticed a strange noise and she pulled aside the hangings that screened an alcove and 'saw crouching there, where he could see every move she made, one of her husband's numerous ugly, black, half-civilized manservants, who obeyed like slaves his every word'. She screamed for help, but when her husband, appeared from an adjoining room he only, laughed, saying that "He is nobody. He does not count. But he has the right to come here or anywhere you may go and tell me what you are doing."
It was like a scene from Rudolph Valentino's The Sheik, the extraordinarily popular film released the year before, and the women in the gallery were treating it as such.
Before he summed up, the judge, referring to the public gallery said, 'These things are horrible; they are disgusting. How anyone could listen to these things who is not bound to listen to them passes comprehension.' However he had been swayed by Marshall Hall's defence, that pandered to the prejudices of the tie, and during the summing up endorsed Marshall Hall by saying 'We in this country put our women on a pedestal: in Egypt they have not the same views…'
The jury, after less than an hour's consideration, announced 'not guilty' to both the charges of murder and of manslaughter, and Madame Fahmy was discharged and was now a free woman.
The prosecution was refused by the judge, seemingly in awe as much as anyone else to the Great Defender, to cross-examine Marguerite 'as to whether or not she had lived an immoral life', to show that she was 'a woman of the world, well able to look after herself'.
If she had been cross-examined properly the jury would have found out that not only had Marguerite been a teenage common prostitute in Bordeaux and in Paris and had an illegitimate daughter when she was just fifteen, but she had also become a trained high-class courtesan (it was said that she always spoke in a rather stilted French because of elocution lessons). Not only that but Marguerite's husband was not alone in having inclinations towards the same sex: it was found out by a private detective hired by the prosecution that it was well known in Paris that Madame Fahmy "is addicted, or was addicted, to committing certain offences with other women and it would seem that there is nothing that goes on in such surroundings as she has been moving in Paris that she would not be quite well acquainted with…"
The world's press reported the case with undisguised glee, mostly portraying Mardame Fahmy as less than innocent in more ways than one. The French newspapers concentrated on the fact that the jury considered the case as if a crime passionnel defence was allowed in English law.
Marguerite Fahmy after the trial
After the verdict Marguerite soon left for Paris where she found out that she had no claim to her late husband's fortune as he had left no will. After a failed, and slightly ludicrous plot where she pretended that she had been pregnant and subsequently borne a son (who would have been entitled to his father's fortune). She was now almost a laughing stock in Parisian society and became relatively a recluse. She died on 2 January 1971 in Paris. She never remarried.
A big debt to this post is Andrew Rose's excellent book about the notorious murder entitled Scandal at the Savoy originally published in 1991. The author has copies still available and can be contacted at andrewroseauthor@googlemail.com.
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This release is primarily about bringing KeyTable up to par with newer jQuery releases and harmonisation between this and the other extensions for DataTales in terms of naming and access consistency.
Fix: Scrolling didn't always follow the movement of the focus ring due to the clientheight calculation being browser sensistive.
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Q: incomplete read error returned in sqlite in pandas notebook I am connecting to a website, I have created two tables to store the data and I am trying to collect the data after a certain date, and I am returned an error. I dont know if I need to add code to my handler section, but my code for collecting the data is shown below:
record_cnt = 0
for link in data_list_post:
    data = pd.read_table(link, sep=',')
    print('%s:%s rows %s columns' % (link[-10:-4],data.shape[0], data.shape[1]))
    record_cnt += data.shape[0]
    data.to_sql(name='post', con=conPost, flavor='sqlite', if_exists='append')

and the error I am returned is:
IncompleteRead: IncompleteRead(8437886 bytes read)

Full error traceback:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\http\client.py in _get_chunk_left(self)
    540             try:
--> 541                 chunk_left = self._read_next_chunk_size()
    542             except ValueError:

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\http\client.py in _read_next_chunk_size(self)
    507         try:
--> 508             return int(line, 16)
    509         except ValueError:

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 16: b'00004000\r00:00,REGULAR,0000262144,0000327687                                                  \n'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

IncompleteRead                            Traceback (most recent call last)
C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\http\client.py in _readall_chunked(self)
    557             while True:
--> 558                 chunk_left = self._get_chunk_left()
    559                 if chunk_left is None:

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\http\client.py in _get_chunk_left(self)
    542             except ValueError:
--> 543                 raise IncompleteRead(b'')
    544             if chunk_left == 0:

IncompleteRead: IncompleteRead(0 bytes read)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

IncompleteRead                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-13-e9dcb24183ff> in <module>()
      1 record_cnt = 0
      2 for link in data_list_post:
----> 3     data = pd.read_table(link, sep=',')
      4     print('%s:%s rows %s columns' % (link[-10:-4],data.shape[0], data.shape[1])) #printing out values makes me feel safe....
      5     record_cnt += data.shape[0]

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in parser_f(filepath_or_buffer, sep, delimiter, header, names, index_col, usecols, squeeze, prefix, mangle_dupe_cols, dtype, engine, converters, true_values, false_values, skipinitialspace, skiprows, skipfooter, nrows, na_values, keep_default_na, na_filter, verbose, skip_blank_lines, parse_dates, infer_datetime_format, keep_date_col, date_parser, dayfirst, iterator, chunksize, compression, thousands, decimal, lineterminator, quotechar, quoting, escapechar, comment, encoding, dialect, tupleize_cols, error_bad_lines, warn_bad_lines, skip_footer, doublequote, delim_whitespace, as_recarray, compact_ints, use_unsigned, low_memory, buffer_lines, memory_map, float_precision)
    560                     skip_blank_lines=skip_blank_lines)
    561
--> 562         return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
    563
    564     parser_f.__name__ = name

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
    299     filepath_or_buffer, _, compression = get_filepath_or_buffer(
    300         filepath_or_buffer, encoding,
--> 301         compression=kwds.get('compression', None))
    302     kwds['compression'] = (inferred_compression if compression == 'infer'
    303                            else compression)

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\common.py in get_filepath_or_buffer(filepath_or_buffer, encoding, compression)
    315         # cat on the compression to the tuple returned by the function
    316         to_return = (list(maybe_read_encoded_stream(req, encoding,
--> 317                                                     compression)) +
    318                      [compression])
    319         return tuple(to_return)

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\common.py in maybe_read_encoded_stream(reader, encoding, compression)
    235             reader = BytesIO(reader.read())
    236         else:
--> 237             reader = StringIO(reader.read().decode(encoding, errors))
    238     else:
    239         if compression == 'gzip':

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\http\client.py in read(self, amt)
    453
    454             if self.chunked:
--> 455                 return self._readall_chunked()
    456
    457             if self.length is None:

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\http\client.py in _readall_chunked(self)
    563             return b''.join(value)
    564         except IncompleteRead:
--> 565             raise IncompleteRead(b''.join(value))
    566
    567     def _readinto_chunked(self, b):

IncompleteRead: IncompleteRead(8437886 bytes read)

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Q: How to let pyspark display the whole query plan instead of ... if there are many fields? Spark v2.4
spark = SparkSession \
    .builder \
    .master('local[15]') \
    .appName('Notebook') \
    .config('spark.sql.debug.maxToStringFields', 2000) \
    .config('spark.sql.maxPlanStringLength', 2000) \
    .config('spark.debug.maxToStringFields', 2000) \
    .getOrCreate()

df = spark.createDataFrame(spark.range(1000).rdd.map(lambda x: range(100)))
df.repartition(1).write.mode('overwrite').parquet('test.parquet')

df = spark.read.parquet('test.parquet')
df.select('*').explain()

== Physical Plan ==

 ReadSchema: struct<_1:bigint,_2:bigint,_3:bigint,_4:bigint,_5:bigint,_6:bigint,_7:bigint,_8:bigint,_9:bigint,...

Note: spark.debug.maxToStringFields helped a bit by expanding FileScan parquet [_1#302L,_2#303L,... 76 more fields], but not the schema part.
Note2: I am not only interested in the ReadSchema, but also PartitionFilters, PushedFilters ... which are all truncated.
Update
Spark 3.0 introduced explain('formatted') which layouts the information differently and no truncation is applied.

A: Spark 3.0 introduced explain('formatted') which layouts the information differently and no truncation is applied.

A: I am afraid there is no easy way
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v2.4.2/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/DataSourceScanExec.scala#L57
It is hard coded to be no more than 100 chars
  override def simpleString: String = {
    val metadataEntries = metadata.toSeq.sorted.map {
      case (key, value) =>
        key + ": " + StringUtils.abbreviate(redact(value), 100)
    }

In the end I have been using
def full_file_meta(f: FileSourceScanExec) = {
    val metadataEntries = f.metadata.toSeq.sorted.flatMap {
      case (key, value) if Set(
          "Location", "PartitionCount",
          "PartitionFilters", "PushedFilters"
      ).contains(key) =>
        Some(key + ": " + value.toString)
      case other => None
    }

    val metadataStr = metadataEntries.mkString("[\n  ", ",\n  ", "\n]")
    s"${f.nodeNamePrefix}${f.nodeName}$metadataStr"

}

val ep = data.queryExecution.executedPlan

print(ep.flatMap {
    case f: FileSourceScanExec => full_file_meta(f)::Nil
    case other => Nil
}.mkString(",\n"))

It is a hack and better than nothing.

A: In PySpark, all you have to do is explain with extended mode:
df.select('*').explain(True)

This calls the non-simpleString implementation - see the DataFrame#explain docs for more info.

Running the code in the question results in the following output with df.select('*').explain(extended=True):
== Parsed Logical Plan ==
'Project [*]
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<BLANKLINE>
== Analyzed Logical Plan ==
_1: bigint, _2: bigint, _3: bigint, _4: bigint, _5: bigint, _6: bigint, _7: bigint, _8: bigint, _9: bigint, _10: bigint, _11: bigint, _12: bigint, _13: bigint, _14: bigint, _15: bigint, _16: bigint, _17: bigint, _18: bigint, _19: bigint, _20: bigint, _21: bigint, _22: bigint, _23: bigint, _24: bigint, _25: bigint, _26: bigint, _27: bigint, _28: bigint, _29: bigint, _30: bigint, _31: bigint, _32: bigint, _33: bigint, _34: bigint, _35: bigint, _36: bigint, _37: bigint, _38: bigint, _39: bigint, _40: bigint, _41: bigint, _42: bigint, _43: bigint, _44: bigint, _45: bigint, _46: bigint, _47: bigint, _48: bigint, _49: bigint, _50: bigint, _51: bigint, _52: bigint, _53: bigint, _54: bigint, _55: bigint, _56: bigint, _57: bigint, _58: bigint, _59: bigint, _60: bigint, _61: bigint, _62: bigint, _63: bigint, _64: bigint, _65: bigint, _66: bigint, _67: bigint, _68: bigint, _69: bigint, _70: bigint, _71: bigint, _72: bigint, _73: bigint, _74: bigint, _75: bigint, _76: bigint, _77: bigint, _78: bigint, _79: bigint, _80: bigint, _81: bigint, _82: bigint, _83: bigint, _84: bigint, _85: bigint, _86: bigint, _87: bigint, _88: bigint, _89: bigint, _90: bigint, _91: bigint, _92: bigint, _93: bigint, _94: bigint, _95: bigint, _96: bigint, _97: bigint, _98: bigint, _99: bigint, _100: bigint
Project [_1#304L, _2#305L, _3#306L, _4#307L, _5#308L, _6#309L, _7#310L, _8#311L, _9#312L, _10#313L, _11#314L, _12#315L, _13#316L, _14#317L, _15#318L, _16#319L, _17#320L, _18#321L, _19#322L, _20#323L, _21#324L, _22#325L, _23#326L, _24#327L, _25#328L, _26#329L, _27#330L, _28#331L, _29#332L, _30#333L, _31#334L, _32#335L, _33#336L, _34#337L, _35#338L, _36#339L, _37#340L, _38#341L, _39#342L, _40#343L, _41#344L, _42#345L, _43#346L, _44#347L, _45#348L, _46#349L, _47#350L, _48#351L, _49#352L, _50#353L, _51#354L, _52#355L, _53#356L, _54#357L, _55#358L, _56#359L, _57#360L, _58#361L, _59#362L, _60#363L, _61#364L, _62#365L, _63#366L, _64#367L, _65#368L, _66#369L, _67#370L, _68#371L, _69#372L, _70#373L, _71#374L, _72#375L, _73#376L, _74#377L, _75#378L, _76#379L, _77#380L, _78#381L, _79#382L, _80#383L, _81#384L, _82#385L, _83#386L, _84#387L, _85#388L, _86#389L, _87#390L, _88#391L, _89#392L, _90#393L, _91#394L, _92#395L, _93#396L, _94#397L, _95#398L, _96#399L, _97#400L, _98#401L, _99#402L, _100#403L]
+- Relation[_1#304L,_2#305L,_3#306L,_4#307L,_5#308L,_6#309L,_7#310L,_8#311L,_9#312L,_10#313L,_11#314L,_12#315L,_13#316L,_14#317L,_15#318L,_16#319L,_17#320L,_18#321L,_19#322L,_20#323L,_21#324L,_22#325L,_23#326L,_24#327L,_25#328L,_26#329L,_27#330L,_28#331L,_29#332L,_30#333L,_31#334L,_32#335L,_33#336L,_34#337L,_35#338L,_36#339L,_37#340L,_38#341L,_39#342L,_40#343L,_41#344L,_42#345L,_43#346L,_44#347L,_45#348L,_46#349L,_47#350L,_48#351L,_49#352L,_50#353L,_51#354L,_52#355L,_53#356L,_54#357L,_55#358L,_56#359L,_57#360L,_58#361L,_59#362L,_60#363L,_61#364L,_62#365L,_63#366L,_64#367L,_65#368L,_66#369L,_67#370L,_68#371L,_69#372L,_70#373L,_71#374L,_72#375L,_73#376L,_74#377L,_75#378L,_76#379L,_77#380L,_78#381L,_79#382L,_80#383L,_81#384L,_82#385L,_83#386L,_84#387L,_85#388L,_86#389L,_87#390L,_88#391L,_89#392L,_90#393L,_91#394L,_92#395L,_93#396L,_94#397L,_95#398L,_96#399L,_97#400L,_98#401L,_99#402L,_100#403L] parquet
<BLANKLINE>
== Optimized Logical Plan ==
Relation[_1#304L,_2#305L,_3#306L,_4#307L,_5#308L,_6#309L,_7#310L,_8#311L,_9#312L,_10#313L,_11#314L,_12#315L,_13#316L,_14#317L,_15#318L,_16#319L,_17#320L,_18#321L,_19#322L,_20#323L,_21#324L,_22#325L,_23#326L,_24#327L,_25#328L,_26#329L,_27#330L,_28#331L,_29#332L,_30#333L,_31#334L,_32#335L,_33#336L,_34#337L,_35#338L,_36#339L,_37#340L,_38#341L,_39#342L,_40#343L,_41#344L,_42#345L,_43#346L,_44#347L,_45#348L,_46#349L,_47#350L,_48#351L,_49#352L,_50#353L,_51#354L,_52#355L,_53#356L,_54#357L,_55#358L,_56#359L,_57#360L,_58#361L,_59#362L,_60#363L,_61#364L,_62#365L,_63#366L,_64#367L,_65#368L,_66#369L,_67#370L,_68#371L,_69#372L,_70#373L,_71#374L,_72#375L,_73#376L,_74#377L,_75#378L,_76#379L,_77#380L,_78#381L,_79#382L,_80#383L,_81#384L,_82#385L,_83#386L,_84#387L,_85#388L,_86#389L,_87#390L,_88#391L,_89#392L,_90#393L,_91#394L,_92#395L,_93#396L,_94#397L,_95#398L,_96#399L,_97#400L,_98#401L,_99#402L,_100#403L] parquet
<BLANKLINE>
== Physical Plan ==
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For some reason the ReadSchema property is always truncated while all other components accept the spark.debug.maxToStringFields setting appropriately.


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Current Practice
Since 2001 Mr. Solak has continued his practice, with a primary focus on trial and appeal work in the areas of motor vehicle law, DUI/DWI, traffic offenses, criminal defense, vehicle accidents, and related civil cases. Due to his past experience and training, he is a lawyer involved in many cases involving matters of scientific evidence and forensic issues.
Attorney Solak ordinarily handles cases in the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, from Winchester north to Martinsburg, West Virginia, east to Leesburg, south to Harrisonburg, and west to Romney, West Virginia, but he is also available for consultation on cases in other areas throughout Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.
Mr. Solak has received training in Gas Chromatography, Forensic Chromatography, High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Forensic Drug Analysis and Mass Spectrometry. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Association for Clinical Chemistry, and the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
He has received a certificate of proficiency for his participation in the Intoximeter EC/IRII Operators Training Course. The ECIRII is the breath test instrument presently used by the Commonwealth of Virginia for DWI investigations.
Most recently, Attorney Solak was invited to attend a 5-day conference on Forensic Science Error Management presented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at Crystal City, Virginia. Presenters, panels and instructors addressed ways to detect, measure and mitigate forensic science errors in death investigations, arson,and drug cases, criminalistics, digital evidence, quality assurance and laboratory management.
Today the defense of criminal, DWI, and traffic offenses frequently involves many issues and questions of forensic science. To appropriately address such forensic science issues, Attorney Solak has devoted substantial study of key areas of forensic science. Mr. Solak has received laboratory training in Gas Chromatography, Forensic Chromatography and Spectroscopy, High Performance Liquid Chromatography, and Mass Spectrometry.
Mr. Solak has previously held offices in the Warren County Bar Association, and he served as President of the Clarke County Bar Association from 1992-1997.
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"That Kid" from all the Horror Films was cursed by Nosferatu for upstaging him during the filming of the 1922 classic. He is forever doomed to appear in cheap horror movies and their endless remakes, for all time, never growing old, never dying.
Horror films can be divided into two distinct categories: those that lack quality, and those that are not very good. Well that mainly goes to the remakes that are recently coming out. Horror films should not be confused with thrillers, where a character is simply acting paranoid due to an overprotective serial killer boyfriend.
4 Alternative Viewpoints
5 Genre Standards
6 Real-life horror guidelines
7 Famous Horror Films
8 Famous directors and titles
Synopsis[edit]
Three backpackers go on a trip to place where no one can hear their screams. Up on hill they find an abandoned farmhouse coincidentally built over an Indian burial ground. Inside the farmhouse (where you will never come back alive) is inhabited by the ghost of a girl with really long black hair that hangs over her face. She used to live at the farmhouse but was soon after sentenced to life in a mental hospital. Long-haired girl was the daughter of a mysterious demonic figure who had both of his hands cut off in a fight with some sailors. He had no choice but to replace both his hands with a rusty hook (left) and a rusty spoon that he used to scoop up rusty souls. Two of the backpackers were put into something of what looks like a rusty reverse bear trap. Only one of the backpackers survived after being chased by a stampede of evil zombie clown with their hands cut off replaced with rusty chainsaws still with high battery power. The third backpacker lived to tell the tale in his great great grandchildren's dreams where he soon destroys them seconds after.
The history of horror movies is commonly thought to begin in the early 20th century with films such as 1910's 'Frankenstein' and 1922's 'Nosferatu'. Recent scholarly work suggests that the horror movie goes back further. Examples include:
'Beowulf'. The original Old English epic poem focused on Grendel stalking a group of scantily clad Scandinavian teenagers left alone at a Viking summer camp. The poem ends with the plucky heroine, Stacy Beowulf, slaying Grendel. However, the poem leaves room for a sequel: "So did Stacy Beowulf, skimpy clothes bestained with gore/ watch wounded Grendel, kin of Cain, sink into the misty lake of Camp Heorot to drown./ But wait: after she walks away, from the icy water does the hand of Grendel suddenly burst!"
'Oedipus Rex'. In the original 'Oedipus', King Laius stops at the Oedipus Motel, where he is savagely murdered in the shower by his son Oedipus, who then marries his mother, Queen Jocasta.
'The Book of Exodus', originally titled, "The Day After Pharaoh Pissed off God." The chapter focused on a group of young Egyptians trying to escape after Egypt comes under attack. Egypt is first visited by a plague of frogs, then a plague of locusts, and in the final plague: a giant scaly monster from the sea that had been awakened by a nuclear blast.
Horror films are actually quite popular with both sexes, but for different reasons. While the "official" reason is that they can induce high emotional states that later cause heated nights of passion among dating couples, there is a great dividing line between what one appreciates in such films.
From the female perspective, the horror film demonstrates a sense of drama and urgency, much like an argument between boyfriends, only much more intense, as this boyfriend is an unstoppable cyborg zombie killing machine with a twelve foot long machete.
It should be noted that the machete is always a phallic metaphor, which the female secretly enjoys. The impending arrival of the long spiky object through a woman's rib cage invokes subconscious imagery of the mating act. The suspense lies in who will get penetrated next, while the viewer watches in eager anticipation. Just so you know, the female subconscious is really messed up.
From the male perspective, everyone should get gutted, beheaded, torn apart, and chopped in half at least twice in the course of the film, otherwise it's a complete waste of time. The male viewer doesn't watch such films for suspense, as he knows most everyone will die anyway, and furthermore feels no reason why the annoying brats who populate such films should deserve to live anywhere, in any place.
So with this expectation in mind, the male viewer will shout "Dude that was awesome!" at each subsequent killing, as long as it demonstrates more detail and creativity than the last killing. And unlike the female viewer who won't stop screaming at the top of her lungs feels startled by such acts, the male viewer will often think about performing them on any number of passersby- that guy who sold you the movie tickets, the bank teller, the hot dog vendor who wears those funny hats, the guy who holds signs on the sidewalk and rotates them when he's bored, the guy who wears a bird suit at Red Robin, the guy who asks how you're doing today, the guy who bumped in to you accidentally, the guy who's driving in front of you, etc.
Although it should be said that the occasional female finds amusement in dragging timid friends to horror movies and then imitating the villain later just to freak them out. This is generally as payment for the popcorn the timid friend threw at them during the scariest bits (ie when she killed that poor little kittie...)
Alternative Viewpoints[edit]
To some sensitive viewers, the question "How could you watch something so horrible" comes to mind. The same could be said of chick flicks.
The fact is that a good slasher film is by and large mindless, violent entertainment. You can turn off your brain, "veg out", and not miss a beat. Our own murderous nature is allowed to exist publicly, hearkening back to the days when nomadic tribes of roving proto-humans would scour the land looking for animals and rivals to beat to death, and then eat. These primal urges, largely repressed in today's society, still exist within us, and such grotesque cinematics provide an outlet for these urges to be recognized and dealt with.
Genre Standards[edit]
Things with reflective surfaces are always trouble.
As horror movies progressed through the ages we seen changes in what humanity was scared of. First there were ugly people, then there were gigantic monsters. Now its anything politically incorrect. The following paragraph will outline telltale signs that most modern horror films exhibit.
Horror films often exhibit the theory that if left alone, adolescents will form into cliques of psychopaths and lemming victims. In these horror films, adults are seen as dangerously skeptical fools, jaded by their own several experiences with psychotic peers.
Horror films often exploit the dangerously slippery path into damnation modern youth exhibits; Having intercourse, preparing to have intercourse, kissing, experimenting with herbs, taking part in interracial activities (such as dancing), being mean to others, etc...
Horror movies effectively signify that the overpopulation of police are really useless and the underpopulation of virgins are the most useful.
The typical killer in horror is an expression of the dangers of a bad childhood, including spending too much time with relatives, being pushed around by even bigger psychopaths, or having a conservative Christian upbringing.
Often, horror movie villains will live in a totally secluded environment. This is not necessarily to provide a cheap way to explain away absence of authorities, but to heighten the fear of the killer, who doesn't even need food to survive all on his own.
Fear of the unknown and forbidden is employed in horror films. When characters stay on the ground floor of a place, things are usually all right. However when going upstairs or downstairs, danger is ever present. Bad things also occur in forbidden rooms such as the bedroom, bathroom, or kitchen.
Horror uses a sense of hypochondria to toy with the viewer. Knowing a pencil in the side can instantly kill, being whacked into a tree will split your skull open, or that tripping and falling can cause a broken leg, brings a sense of sheer terror to the viewer that more realistic wounds cannot.
Horror films exemplify the real dangers of those ugly, filthy people who live alone. Hillbillies are never good, taken to rape and incest because they can't get any chicks to fuck like normal civilized beings, taken to cannibalism because hunting is a lost art, and taken to witchcraft for revenge because they are all stupid and cannot understand forgiveness or the right to a fair trial.
Horror films show that all technology is evil; cars never start the first time, and weapons are useless. Not to mention the fact that even more evil technologies such as computers, televisions, and washing machines are all instruments of the devil. In some cases the killer is even seen as a sort of Luddite messiah, delivering humanity from the evils of technology. The killer never uses wicked things such as guns to kill people like a real serial killer. As they lurch faster than anyone else can run, just imagine how much quicker they'd be killing people on a bicycle! Also ever since the invention of commercial cellphones slashers can seemingly generate EMP fields in a 5 mile radius around them and are invisible to satellites and aerial photography.
The villain of a horror movie never really dies, they just live on farm upstate called Hell until the sequel.
A sense of foreshadowing may be used with characterization.
People who are too attractive die.
People who are too ugly die.
Those who are too interesting, and have gimmicks that set them apart from the main characters die.
Those who have few lines are more likely to die.
People of Asian descent (Including Russians) are more likely to die.
People of African descent are likely to... live, just to surprise the audience.
Cute animals and babies never die in horror movies, so make sure to shield yourself with them.
Those who are cowardly and run from danger are more prone to death than brave idiots who walk willingly into traps.
Those who use humor to try and lighten the mood are more likely to die than those hysterical and paralyzed with fear...except for Bruce Campbell.
The older a character is, the more likely they are to die (Thankfully this is perfectly fair, as older people are more likely to die anyhow!); and unlike fantasy anyone supernaturally old is automatically evil.
No one ever dies in church, so just become a monk or nun and live in a convent, unless you're fighting science monsters in which case become a professor of monsterology and narrate like your life depends on it.
Real-life horror guidelines[edit]
Although we may see horror movies filmed on a movie set and fictional, they are actually very real. Unfortunately in human nature we find the need to capture every thing that happens in picture. There are some people who specialize in retrieval of such material. These are people who don't have lives and hang out in libraries and read newspapers to find hot spots where it has been reported that something supernatural or immensely grotesque. Although you may find this wrong, but when you watch a horror movie it is actually real. Due to most of these occurrences being due to communists trying to take the rest of the world down, by slowly but surely killing off the nation by taking out small groups of people at a time, the governments are hiding it and letting the horror hunters use this footage as movies.
Prior to putting this material on this website, it has been brought to my attention that it would be wise to give people a rough guideline as to how to survive when confronted by a soviet purifier (the name given to those who murder people for the greater good of the soviet empire)
If by chance you are black and reading this, do not under any circumstances agree to go on a camping trip with a group of white kids, they will get lost, they will find it a good idea to walk off. Once this happens local "purifiers" may categorize you as a criminal and thus an enemy of the communist system. You will be killed first.
When you are using a map, stick to it, it is geographically correct. All short cuts you see on the way to your destination that are not on the map are not on it for a reason, the government has already banished a killer there and taken that road off of the map so that only those likely to spy where they don't belong will go there.
Do not go upstairs, the Communists train the killers to do so. If by accident you do go upstairs, don't jump out the window, just hide somewhere until the killer leaves. Once he does, do not risk going down the stairs after him to escape somewhere else, just wait there a few days until he dies, as they are trained to.
When hiding, do not whimper. You may think they won't hear you, but they will. It is a known fact that any and all sound you make will be heard.
Don't be blonde, if you are, you will be killed for reminding the Soviets of the foolish Nazis.
Do not make love unless you are both virgins and plan on staying celibate together long after your ordeal is over, excess population is too costly for the Soviets to provide for.
When you get some sort of projectile weapon, and hit the killer in the head with it, DO NOT leave it on the ground beside them, as soon as you turn your back they will pick it up and you will be anally raped with it, as is procedure in the Purifiers' manual.
If you do manage to out-maneuver a highly-trained Purifier and put them on the ground, lift the most convenient thing to you and smash their face with it, if you don't it's only a matter of time before they get up.
If you hear strange noises or someone calling your name, don't go towards the sound or ask questions, the killers are clever enough to learn their intended victims' names. The best course of action if you hear your name being spoken is to just get the hell outta there!
In order to avoid the Purifiers' basic-stalking techniques: Do not go into the cellar.
I repeat, Do NOT go into the cellar. The cellar is a popular home base for n00b Purifiers.
Likewise: Don't stand at the back.
Likewise: Don't stand at the front.
Famous Horror Films[edit]
The Bone Yard
A collection of the sex scenes of Ann Coulter
Return of the Nose of Dr Verlucci - Gary Larson, 1985
Terrifying and Suspenseful
Gremlins - 1986
A blood filled gore-fest, featuring more dismembered breasts than a Rob Zombie Video
Dracula - Ed Wood - 1951
Classic cult horror in lame B/W footage. Great dialogue though.
Notable for promoting slavery, drug use, and child cannibalism all at the same time.
Reptar! - Nickelodeon - 1991
HOW..WAS...THIS..IN...A...KIDS...SHOW...
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler - 1999
The first horror film (along with Columbine Horrors which is based on true events. Based on the book of the same name.
Columbine Horrors - 2000
Another of the earliest horror films based on true events.
The Evil Dead - Captain Obvious - 1981
No matter how many times you kill them, they will always be dead. Hey, wait a second...
High School Musical - 2006
Need we say more?
Grand Theft Auto - 2001
If you've been watching your friends play GTA for more than two hours than you've no doubt seen them kill more innocent people than Freddy or Jason ever did.
Famous directors and titles[edit]
Alfred Hitchcock - The master of suspense
Wes Craven - The master of terror
Mr. TwatCunt - FUCKING master of the NIGGER racism and terror of tourettes
Uwe Boll - The mastr opf eror, new Ed Wood, and nuts...
Tom Neyman - The master, is gone, but he is with us always!!
Dario Argento - The master of jacking off to people bleeding
Bruce Campbell - Yes he is directing now, and yes he owns the much overrated Humphrey Bogart
Eli Roth - From Hostel bay
Blitz Smith - He is also known as the master of racist horrors... nigga
Walt Disney - A furry with terrors of the story and the hypnotism to let them watch Hannah Montana everyday
Tex Avery - Pioneer of ultraviolence. He started with horny wolves, and his successors would move on to horny teens.
Spike Milligan - The master of British thrillers
Whore and Gore
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Dracula | Halloween | Passion of the Christ | Frankenstein | Scream | Tales from the Crypt | The Twilight Zone
Bogeyman | John Carpenter | Chucky| Cthulhu | Dracula | GOP | Grue | Michael Jackson | JigSaw | Freddy Krueger | Hannibal Lecter | Old McDonald | Dexter Morgan | Mike Myers | Sweeney Todd | Jason Voorhees | Xenomorph
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