8:30am - Our Nite Camp must be located in a wind corridor. There are a ton of wind generators here. Scampy was not bothered much by that wind. Perhaps remaining hooked up to Little Honda stabilized Scampy?
George is still learning about backing up a trailer. Took about 10 minutes to get Scampy turned around to head out from where we are in the pic above.
The dirt road from the highway to our Nite Camp has graded in bumps. Little Honda has to move slowly over such a road to keep Scampy from shaking to pieces! Baby Boid is very much disturbed by those bad bumps, and moves very close to George. Maybe for comfort support?
After leaving Nite Camp, we drove down the bumpy dirt road and came to the highway. That's when we saw the sign about Palm Springs. And, decided to head there.
Since we moved to Apple Valley, we had not done a Google Map exploration for cities and towns. We looked at Google Map only to see the forests. We are surprised to find Apple Valley 90 miles from Palm Springs. This camping trip has provided us with a much clearer perspective of where we are at Lone Wolf RV Park.
It was Breakfast at Denny's this morning. Their pancakes are sooooo good!
While at Denny's, we composed our Blog using Apple Notes. We have Blogged to you about that before. We are using notes because of AT&T data cost. If we composed using Blogger, we would have to be online and using expensive data. By having our Blog all ready prepared, when we go online we copy and paste and do a little formatting. Then publish! That's it.
a 1-gallon bottle of purified water was easy to do.
Water for Scampy, is a bit more tricky. Using Garmin GPS, we found a nearby park. We had to scout around the park for awhile. And then we found a hose bib with water near the restroom.
We never Blogged to you about our giant hose that we bought at Home Depot. It's extremely light weight and expands to 100 feet in length! Incredible find!
We have made an Afternoon Camp at Morongo Casino. Very likely, this will become our Nite Camp as well.
Morongo has a very strong Visitors Network. When we attempted to signon, a Google warning interrupted stating that the Morongo Network was not safe. "Get back to safety", Google advised. So, that's what we did!
With our method of preparing our Blog offline using Apple Notes, we really do not need much online time anyway. Unless we wanted to mess around online to browse.
PS: Where is this place?
I captured the image below on November 20, 2009. Can you guess where this place is located?
How does your Honda Fit feel while towing the Scamp on the highway? What was the total travel weight of your trailer? It looks like a nice combo.
FIT tows Scampy very well. Starting and stopping, fine. Increasing velocity on grade a little weak.
Does look good as a combo though. Thank you for that compliment!
sounds like you're having fun. We will be leaving Vegas on Thursday heading down through AZ on our way to MX. Won't cross the border until Nov 21st though.
Are you heading to Mazatlan? I miss Fat Fish!
George, wouldn't it be nice if that park had a dump station, too? Then, you could offset your new fresh water weight by disposing of your old waste water weight, no matter how small. Your Honda Fit would breathe a slight sigh of relief!
You may be right on with your weight thinking.
You can tell by my Blogging?
Don't forget that there are lots of forest service and Bureau of Land Management sites where you can camp legally for free or very, very cheaply. I do know that there are places right at the south entrance to Joshua Tree National Park for next time.
Very good information! Thank you.
Nice to see you and the team out on the road and in the wilds! ENJOY!!!
Very nice to be "out on the road!"
Morongo Indian Casino as being in the wilds.
I'm definitely going to give the bottom of the steering wheel a try!


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2016 was very generous to MENA's startups #Wamda2016
People on the internet aren't too sad to let go of 2016. Memes surrounding the US presidential elections, comedy sketches on the presidential elections, and some more memes reminding us of the US presidential elections, are still flooding newsfeeds.
On our side of the world, we have also had our fair share of sad news. But, as it is always the case in MENA, pockets of flourishing positive movements lie at the backdrop of what seems like a hopeless situation.
Entrepreneurship in MENA has grown beyond what was once considered just hype and into a booming ecosystem with tangible economic benefits. Startups have created thousands of employment opportunities, and are slowly changing cultural expectations on what a successful career should be. A handful of startups have even crossed the $500 million valuation mark, and rumors are that Souq.com and Careem are planning on going public.
Until that happens, governments, institutions, and entrepreneurship stakeholders will continue to support the larger ecosystem through investing money into events, mentorship, accelerators, incubators, and new venture funds.
So while netizens may shun the past year, 2016 was generous to MENA's startup ecosystem. In our latest roundup series, we've been highlighting the most notable developments in the startup world.
Because you'll most likely not read them all, we've prepared a roundup on the research roundups. Think of it as the SparkNotes of SparkNotes.
1. Wamda Research Lab continues to fill the data gap. We'll start with a shameless self promotion. In 2016, we published five reports diving into the health tech and clean tech industries, explored the strategies to scale that TA Telecom employed, the strategies and barriers to talent recruitment and retention, and a report that looks at the extent to which large corporations are strategically engaging with startups.
2. 15+ MENA accelerators were launched this year, bringing the total number of accelerators in MENA to 52. This is a big deal, especially because only eight new accelerators were launched the year prior. We're also seeing international players, like Amazon and Barclays, taking note of local startups and supported the creation of two accelerators.
3. Just one more event. In 2016, there were more than 200 events related to entrepreneurship, startups, technology, and innovation. That's an average of one event every two days, a 50 percent increase from 2015. The top three events in MENA in terms of attendee number were BDL Accelerate in Lebanon, Riseup Summit in Egypt and the Step Conference in UAE. Only two years ago the same three events were drawing crowds of 5,600 attendees. In 2016, they were able to gather almost 30,000 people.
4. Entrepreneurship could be worth $700 billion for MENA. I wasn't joking when I said startups are positively impacting the economy. The Global Entrepreneurship Index 2017 (GEI) puts it at dead center, and suggests that if the region made a 10 percent improvement in the conditions for entrepreneurship, the collective economic benefits would be worth $700 billion - a figure equivalent to the GDP of the region's largest economy, Saudi Arabia.
5. Almost a billion dollars was invested in MENA's startups. Well, that number is a bit of a stretch. It's more like $810 million. Appetite for venture investments has risen, and internal research conducted by the WRL shows a 40 percent year-on-year increase in investments (excluding the investment in Souq.com). A prominent feature of this year's funds is that the majority are looking to provide funding past the seed stage (only 4 out of the 11 are solely seed-focused); coupled with the fact that 40 percent of investments made in 2016 were Series A/B/C.
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Q: Add entity data model (edmx file) to .net core API I have .Net Core 5.0 API project contains another .Net Core Class Library.
Also I have exiting SQl Server Database.
How can create edmx using .net core project with my exiting databse?
C# and VS2019

A: EF Core do not support edmx. It uses attributes and Fluent API for defining schema and mapping.
Check this link how to work with existing database with EF Core.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/efcore-and-ef6/porting/port-edmx

A: You cannot create an EDMX file in .NET core but you can use an existing edmx file in .NET core project. I documented the procedure here and a code sample on github.
You can even generate more than entities, including an entire API

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Q: Multivariate Sample Variance and Covariance When calculating sample variances and covariances from the data matrix, When do we divide by n and when do we divide by n-1.

A: When your sample is the population, divide by n. Otherwise, divide by n-1 because you are losing one degree of freedom in estimating mean from the same sample.
For large samples this should make hardly any difference.


In our 'Turning Towards Life' conversation of Sunday, 6th May 2018, Lizzie and I talked about what to do with the pain we experience in life. What does it take, we wondered, for us to work with all the ways we got wounded (inevitably) in a way that can be a gift to others and not a source of further wounding? And what does it take to accept how little control we have over life (and how much we want!) in a way that's not a kind of giving up?
We also explore what it is to be intimate with our own experience, and to take responsibility in a way that acknowledges that while we have very little power over many things, we still have enormous power to shape how we respond.
The source is for our conversation is from the Jesuit writer and teacher Fr. Richard Rohr.
Pain teaches a most counterintuitive thing: we must go down before we even know what up is. In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all must "die before they die." Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to both destabilize and reveal our arrogance, our separateness, and our lack of compassion. I define suffering very simply as "whenever you are not in control." Suffering is the most effective way whereby humans learn to trust, allow, and give up control to Another Source. I wish there were a different answer, but Jesus reveals on the cross both the path and the price of full transformation into the divine.
When religion cannot find a meaning for human suffering, human beings far too often become cynical, bitter, negative, and blaming. Healthy religion, almost without realizing it, shows us what to do with our pain, with the absurd, the tragic, the nonsensical, the unjust. If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it. If we cannot find a way to make our wounds into sacred wounds, we invariably give up on life and humanity. I am afraid there are bitter and blaming people everywhere, both inside and outside of the church. As they go through life, the hurts, disappointments, betrayals, abandonments, and the burden of their own sinfulness and brokenness all pile up, and they do not know how to deal with all this negativity. This is what we need to be "saved" from.
If there isn't some way to find some deeper meaning to our suffering, to find that God is somehow in it, and can even use it for good, we will normally close up and close down. The natural movement of the small self or ego is to protect itself so as not to be hurt again. Neuroscience now shows us that we attach to negativity "like Velcro" unless we intentionally develop another neural path like forgiveness or letting go".
Transforming Our Pain – by Richard Rohr (taken from the Centre for Action and Contemplation daily emails).
There are millions of books that you'll never read.
Millions of films you'll never see.
Places you'll never go to.
Do you chase after what's unattainable with resentment and frustration, raging against life's limits? Or open in gratitude at life's richness?
Here's George Steiner with a beautiful account of the move from fear to wonder on this very question, involving a fascinating story of the discovery and reburial of thousands of terracotta Chinese warriors.
What struck me most at Sunday's Yom Hashoah ceremony was the way in which each of the survivors who spoke had committed themselves to life.
One woman, who'd entered Auschwitz as a teenager, had dedicated herself in adulthood to teaching young people about the dangers that come with ignorance of one another. Now nearing her 90s, she was fiery and warm and loving and energetic. It was clear how passionately and completely she'd taken up both living and being of service to a life much bigger than her own.
Another speaker described how being exemplars of love and kindness had become central for her parents during the time after the genocide, when they'd chosen to raise a new family in the long shadow of those dark years, still unable to speak of their shattering personal experiences and their grief at the deportation and murder of their two-year old daughter.
A dear friend of mine told me recently that the artist Roman Halter, himself a survivor, used to say to her how important it is to trust life – to turn towards life's goodness and not lose ourselves in self-doubt and worry.
I write all of this in no judgement of the countless millions who lived and died in those times – and in other horrors – and were irreparably broken by the experience. Which of us could be sure we'd be any different? But I'm struck by our responsibility in the light of all this, and how easily we can confuse ourselves about the times we are living in.
This moment in the early 21st century is full of uncertainty and many dangers, yes. But however bad we fear things are, and however frightened we get about it, we can and must learn from those who found in themselves a way to live, and to turn towards life, in the midst of the most unimaginable horror and its aftermath.
That they were able to plant flowers that grew from the darkness leaves us, who right now live in not nearly such dark times, with the responsibility to find a way to do the same.
I have long loved the hopefulness of the Jewish tradition – the way it roots itself in the realness and responsibility of this moment, understanding that the life we are living is the only one we can be sure of, that it's vanishingly short, that there is much yet to do be done, and that each of us has the possibility of contributing.
And I appreciate very much how this hopefulness is informed by realism about what's possible.
'It is not your duty to complete the work [of improving the world]…', writes Rabbi Tarfon, a 2nd century sage, '…but neither are you free to desist from it'.
There it is. What needs doing in the world is so much bigger than any one of us can muster – a realisation that could so easily be a source of despair. But in Tarfon's hands it's a call to possibility and responsibility. We have to begin, even though we may not quite understand what we are beginning, even though the results of our labours may only benefit those who come long after us, who we will never know. And when we find ourselves in the darkness, when nothing seems possible, when we are overwhelmed by the magnitude of things and floored by our smallness – one step.
But at the same time, we can lay a trap for ourselves with hope, which the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus understands well. Hope, particularly in the form of desire, he says, can be a source of great suffering. It can leave us permanently dissatisfied with the life we're living, even when we have reason to be grateful.
What you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
We know how that goes. We imagine a new car will make us happy, only to find a few days into owning it that we have our eye on a newer model. We imagine that power, or position, or a house, or a new relationship, or a change of government, or more money in our pocket will be the answer, only to find ourselves with the same emptiness and longing transposed to a new situation.
We so easily find our lives consumed by an endless and insatiable comparison between what is and what we imagine could be.
Epicurus' own solution to this difficulty was a kind of radical simplicity and acceptance. He was an advocate of the virtues of living a life of obscurity – not trying to change too much, nor having dreams that are too big, so that we can appreciate and be genuinely grateful for what is already in front of us.
It seems to me that to be human is to inhabit the tension between Epicurus and Tarfon – learning to cherish the gifts we have, and at the same time hoping for and working towards something much better both for ourselves and for those around us. And it is, as far as I can tell from my own life, a genuine tension for many of us – pulled as we are between our deepest, most heartfelt unmet longings and our wish to feel happy or at least fulfilled right where we are.
It can be a confusing and painful place to be, particularly when we get caught up in the anguish of knowing we can't have the world be just the way we want it. Or when our hope and acceptance are extinguished and smothered by resentment, fear, and despair at our inability to control things.
Perhaps the work of a human life is to learn to inhabit the tension between is and could be or, more fully, to be a bridge that unites both poles. Here maybe we can learn the craft of living in the world as it is, knowing we don't have to save it, and at the same time being the ones who commit ourselves to the one next, hopeful, step.
How much of your energy do you devote to managing other people's impressions of you?
It's probably so much more than you think. It may even, invisibly, be the single biggest focus of your attention.
Kind. Devoted. Generous. Creative. Helpful. Courageous. Strong. Powerful. Important. Intelligent. Successful.
As well as managing other people's impressions you're also likely to be managing your impressions of yourself, which means that in one way or another there's always a part of you watching while other parts make sure what is watched-for is always being produced.
All those eyes on you. All those expectations you're upholding. All that work and attention devoted to making sure you never get seen in ways that don't fit your own self-image.
Perhaps you hardly even know you're doing this at all, so convinced have you become that an image you may have been holding for many years is you.
The irony here is that the more effort and vigilance you put into maintaining an image the less space you have to let your most genuine qualities come forward. Life-as-image-management is life lived looking down the wrong end of a telescope – only a tiny part of what there is to be seen ever gets to show up.
If you're going to lead, or create, or enter into deep relationships with others and with life, it pays to find a way to work with this. To, over time, gradually learn to let go.
This is, in many ways, a project big enough and difficult enough to occupy most of us for a lifetime.
And it's vital. Because a life of keeping up appearances is also a life in which so much of what you have to bring is held back before it has any chance of being seen.
That way I know I'm being of use.
That way I can feel good about myself.
That way I know I'm needed.
Am I helping the person in difficulty?
Helping myself, and not the other?
…One that actually does something?
For some fabulously clear advice on this question, read The Ring Theory of Helping. It's of value in all kinds of crises – medical, existential, organisational.
And it answers a most important question when we want to be of use – not whether, but who to help.


Stendhal Festival of Art has announced the second raft of musical acts which will take to the stage at Ballymully Cottage Farm, Limavady, on August 12 and 13.
Joining the likes of Badly Drawn Boy, Therapy?, DJ Yoda, Hayseed Dixie and Lynched are a Meteor Music Prize winner in Paddy Casey, the energetic and crowd pleasing Booka Brass Band and perhaps the finest exponent of Irish Americana currently on the scene in The Henry Girls.
Added to that are a galaxy of established and up and coming acts covering a multitude of genres including Errol Walsh and Ted Ponsonby, Monkey Bath, A Traditional Keady Clachan Session, Roe, Emmet Mcgongle, Great White lies, Lo Major, Ria McGuire, No oil paintings, Tokyo Empire, R51, Cup O' Joe, Lonesome George, Oracy, DSgrace, Northern Soles B-Boys, Militant Vinalyst, CM88 and Queen and Disco.
"Traditionally we have always looked to have one or two well-known or bigger names on our bill to complement some of the up and coming talent which we always promote, but this year we have six or seven acts that we would have happily had headline the festival in years gone by," Ross said.
Tickets are on sale now. See Stendhalfestival.com for details.


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Fun Friday Facts #19: Air Travel Edition
Ok, so firstly I owe y'all an apology because I missed last Friday's Fun Facts. I was in the middle of moving back to the U.S. from Europe, and these things are complicated, especially when you're trying to figure out how to fit everything you own into one suitcase. I was going to do it on Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Tuesday but I was still working on the suitcase thing. Eventually I gave up and packed three suitcases. Well, four, if you count the carry-on. I may be a genius, but I'm not a magician.
THIS GUY is a magician. ~ Piotrus
Of course, I know you'll accept my apology and forgive me, because that's what love means, dammit.
In honor of my journey (which involved bad weather, long flight delays and general hellishness), I've decided to make this Friday's Back-on-Track Fun Facts all about AIR TRAVEL. Yay, we love air travel, don't we? Yes, we do.
1) Like toilets and toilet paper, the history of aviation extends back much further than it has any business doing. The first toy plane (or "flying model" as the academics like to call it) was the work of Archytas, a Greek philosopher, in 400 BC.
Greek philosophers were thick on the ground in those days. ~ Marie-Lan Nguyen
The toy, called "The Pigeon," was shaped like a (you guessed it) pigeon and was probably steam-powered. It flew for about 656 feet (200 meters), which is further than most people are willing to run.
2) The Chinese invented hot air balloons a century later, but it's believed they were used for signalling purposes only. Jacques-Etienne and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier are credited with the first manned hot air balloon flight, which occurred on 15 October 1783. Jacques-Etienne's did briefly ascend in the balloon, he did not release it from its tether, because f*ck that crazy sh*t. The first men to ascend without the tether were Marquis François d'Arlandes and Pilâtre de Rozier, who did so on 21 November 1783.
And they didn't even die.
3) During the Middle Ages, various geniuses began pursuing the dream of flight via hang glider. Early inventors such as Elmer of Malmesbury managed to build gliders that took them as far as 656 feet (200 meters), because that, apparently, is the magic number of early flight experiments. Malmesbury accomplished this feat by jumping off the tower of Malmesbury Abbey. No one knows how tall the tower was back then, but it's believed that Elmer's flight would have lasted about 15 seconds and taken him over numerous structures. He sustained injuries upon landing, because he'd jumped off a f*cking tower.
But it was worth it, because he got this cool window. ~ Radicalrobbo
4) The first person to be killed in an aviation-related accident was Pilâtrede Rozier, the same guy from before. He designed his own balloon, the Rozière balloon, which combined hot air with gases such as helium or hydrogen in order to lift the balloon using less fuel. De Rozier wanted to cross the English channel, and the Montgolfier balloon (designed by that other guy from before) required too much fuel to make the trip.
On 15 June 1785, de Rozier and copilot Pierre Romain set out from Boulogne-sur-Mer on what was to be their final flight. Although they initially seemed to do well, a sudden change in the wind pushed them back to land, and their balloon deflated. They crash-landed near Wimereux, falling about 1500 feet (457 meters).
And they totally died. This is getting depressing.
4) Since we like feminists around here, the first woman to die in an aviation-related accident was Sophie Blanchard, wife of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, who was only the first professional aviator EVAR. While not the first female aviator, Sophie was pretty famous in her time. She was one of Napoleon's favorites, often entertaining him with ascents from the Champ de Mars in Paris, or commemorating such events as the birth of his son or his marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria. Sophie was famous throughout Europe, on one occasion crossing the Alps and, on another, flying from Rome to Naples in her balloon. More than once, Sophie ascended so far that she lost consciousness. She liked to fly at night, and would sometimes remain in the air until morning.
Sophie Blanchard's balloon was filled with hydrogen gas. Sophie's bi-weekly performances at the Tivoli Gardens in Paris included large fireworks displays. These fireworks were actually attached to the balloon itself. Sophie's final show was meant to use even more fireworks than usual. Fire and hydrogen gas do not mix well.
Not well at all.
Sophie had been repeatedly warned of the dangers involved here, and, on the night of her death, 6 July 1819, she is said to have hesitated to go up. Finally, Sophie decided to go through with the performance, although witnesses report that she swore it would be her final one.
She was right.
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FreeNAS is an operating method that can be installed on practically any hardware platform to share data more than a network. The make objectives here had been simple and the server would fulfill various roles (a) my physical vCenter box for my ESXi lab, (b) a SAN for the house, holding my 16TB+ media collection, (c) iSCSI targets for the ESXi lab and house computer systems, (d) a backup target for all lab VMs and residence computer systems, (e) storage for video from my outside and inside cameras, and (f) a Subsonic media streamer for when I'm away from the residence.
The EDS14 can operate in temperatures ranging from -20 to +50 degrees Celsius (-4 to 122 Fahrenheit), and truly shines when made use of as a network attached storage remedy for IP cameras that are tucked away in the corners of a developing or bus.
The choice of Windows was basically due to the fact of multi-use, rather than anything particularly geared to the OS. This box functions as SAN (iSCSI targets for the lab, the home, and also 13TB of media for the HTPCs in the property, vCenter server for the ESXi lab, Subsonic media streamer, and also a private WoW server).
My SAN functions as both the SAN, Media storage for the house, Subsonic Media Server, and a physical vCenter server. One of the objectives was that I wanted to gather collectively all my disparate storage into a single group. In other words, a NAS server allows you to share media files among quite a few computer systems and transportable entertainment devices. Storage Spaces are technically virtual drives that appear in File Explorer as regular nearby storage, and every storage space you generate can be significantly less, equal, or greater to the amount of the physical capacity out there in the storage pool.
ZFS contains two thrilling characteristics that drastically increase the overall performance of study operations. You can add external storage to your ownCloud with Dropbox, SWIFT, FTPs, Google Docs, S3, external WebDAV servers and more. If your storage desires develop, the potential to add capacity by basically plugging in another drive is handy.


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Google is bringing loyalty points to Android Pay, starting with Coca-Cola vending machines
Michael de Waal-Montgomery@michaeldwm
Image Credit: Shutterstock / Rob Wilson
Google wants to make its six-week-old mobile payments service sticky, but to do so it has to find ways to incentivize users to keep returning to the app rather than using a competing offering — or simply reverting to more traditional methods, such as credit card or cash.
Android Pay, launched in early September in the U.S. to take on Apple Pay, will soon include new loyalty programs for brands like Coca-Cola. That's according to comments made by Google's SVP of ads and commerce, Sridhar Ramaswamy, at the Money20/20 event in Las Vegas on Monday (via Re/code).
Apple introduced the ability to store loyalty cards in Apple Pay at WWDC 2015 back in June, and the offering now includes popular retailers like JC Penney, Kohl's, Walgreens, and Dunkin' Donuts. (In fact, Android Pay has offered the option for users to store loyalty cards since it launched — "Android Pay also stores your gift cards, loyalty cards, and special offers right on your phone," Google said in a release note at the time.)
But that's slightly different from the Coca-Cola partnership being suggested here.
The way Android Pay is initially expected to work with Coca-Cola purchases is through the brand's NFC-enabled vending machines, which allow users to tap their smartphone to the payment point and accumulate loyalty points in the process — earning them the privilege of redeeming a free coke at some future point. Yipee.
Obviously this is a baby step for Google, but what it could become further down the line with more partners on board is the more interesting take-away here. Specifics of how this program will be implemented with Coca-Cola within the app are still not clear.
There hasn't been an official announcement from Google, as such, about the loyalty program, but comments coming from Ramaswamy at a major fintech conference are not to be lightly discarded. This is definitely close to being rolled out.
Google still hasn't said how many users have linked their credit cards to Android Pay since its launch last month, but Ramaswamy did say it was in the "millions." Yes, that's basically a vague and useless number. By comparison, some 200 million users in China have now linked their credit cards up to WeChat's mobile payments service, as of the latest numbers.
In any case, Google is clearly getting more aggressive with its push to see Android Pay widely adopted following its pivot from Google Wallet, which has been reduced to a peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payments app.


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Leo Baeck Institute London
Feelings about Jews. Morality and Emotions in German Film, 1914-2014
Innovation and Acculturation: the Émigré Art Historians and Britain
Networks of Knowledge: The Leo Baeck Institute Library
The Diary of Anne Frank on TV and Cinema Screens
Discovering and Documenting England's Lost Jews
Research Network Gender in Anti-Semitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism
Jews in German-speaking Academia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Mosse's Europe
Exhibition: Networks of Knowledge
Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series 2019/20
The Biennial Leo Baeck Institute Lecture
On the Eve of Departure: Art and Exile
Jews and Jewish Religion in Western Postwar Fiction Film
Emotions and Experiences: Photography and Visual German-Jewish History, 1910-1950
Cosmopolitanism – Jewish and Postcolonial Perspectives
The Legacy of the Left and Israel: 1967-2017
Mein Kampf Today – Ideology, Memory and the Question of Censorship
Judenmord. Art and the Holocaust in Post-war Germany
Arno Paucker – Scholar and Friend
The LBI Year Book
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2018
Essay Prize
German Jewish Cultures
Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme
John A. S. Grenville PhD Studentship in Modern Jewish History and Culture
Leo Baeck Institute London Appeal
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Our Director, Dr Daniel Wildmann, takes part in "The Diaries of Anne Frank" project of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg and the Fritz Bauer Institute.
Seventy years after the end of the Second World War our knowledge about the war and the Holocaust is based upon a wide variety of sources and a rich range of historiographies. Amongst the first sources to be published, and quickly acquiring a rather unique status, were the diary notes of Anne Frank. Around the world many children and teenagers have read and are still reading editions of Anne´s diaries – either at school or in private. In the biography of many readers as well as in national commemorative cultures the engagement with the war and the Holocaust began with the diary of Anne Frank. It became a symbol.
Meanwhile Anne Frank's notes have been aligned with a wide range of moral debates – on refugees, on asylum, on human rights. From a historian's perspective this is not without problems. Historical dimensions such as the particular political circumstances of the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, Anne Frank's family history in Germany, her emigration, which she shared with many German Jews, the situation of other teenagers persecuted by the National Socialists – to mention only a few dimensions – have played a somewhat secondary role in the worldwide reception of the diaries. Moreover, over the decades countless publications, oral histories and autobiographies relating to the Holocaust have become available, enabling us to read and study Anne Frank's diaries in the context of these sources.
So far much research has focused on important issues such as the authenticity of the diaries – a key topic of the debates of the 1970s and 1980s, on aspects of Anne Frank's family history and on the issue of who was responsible for the betrayal of the inhabitants of the Secret Annex.
The project aims to open up a range of additional and new perspectives, exploring the history of Anne Frank and her diaries within the framework of more comparative European, if not global cultural, intellectual, literary and political history.
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The Last Squad (Tunnel Rats ou 1968 Tunnel Rats) est un film canadien réalisé par Uwe Boll, sorti en 2008.

Synopsis
Pendant la guerre du Viêt Nam, des soldats américains explorent les tunnels de Củ Chi.

Fiche technique
 Titre : The Last Squad
 Titre original : Tunnel Rats
 Réalisation : Uwe Boll
 Scénario : Dan Clarke et Uwe Boll
 Musique : Jessica de Rooij
 Photographie : Mathias Neumann
 Montage : Karen Porter
 Production : Uwe Boll, Dan Clarke et Chris Roland
 Société de production : Boll, Horst Hermann Medienproduktion, Tunnel Rats Productions et ZenHQ Films
 Société de distribution : Kinostar Filmverleih (Allemgane)
 Pays :  et
 Genre : Action, drame et guerre
 Durée : 96 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
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Distribution
 Michael Paré  :  le sergent Vic Hollowborn
 Wilson Bethel  : le caporal Dan Green
 Mitch Eakins  : le soldat Peter Harris
 Erik Eidem : le soldat Carl Johnson
 Brandon Fobbs  : le soldat Samuel Graybridge
 Jane Le : Vo Mai
 Scott Ly : Huy Tran
 Rocky Marquette  : le soldat Terence Verano
 Garikayi Mutambirwa : le soldat Jonathan Porterson
 Nate Parker : le soldat Jim Lidford
 Brad Schmidt : le sergent Mike Heaney
 Jeffrey Christopher Todd : le soldat Bob Miller
 John Wynn : Chien Nguyen
 Adrian Collins  : le soldat Dean Garraty
 Scot Cooper : le soldat Joseph Walderson

Distinctions
Razzie Awards : Pire réalisateur

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film canadien sorti en 2008
Film allemand sorti en 2008
Film d'action canadien
Film d'action allemand
Film dramatique canadien
Film dramatique allemand
Film de guerre canadien
Film de guerre allemand
Film sur la guerre du Viêt Nam
Film nommé aux Razzie Awards
Film réalisé par Uwe Boll

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Q: Meaning of 'Gift from the Storm God' achievement in Civilization 6 In Civilization VI, you can receive an achievement called 'Gift from the Storm God' if you receive a strategic resource from the City-State of Hattusa. I've learned that Hattusa was the capital of the ancient Hittite Empire in modern-day Turkey, but still don't understand the allusion. Does anyone know what the achievement title is referring to?
Anecdotally, the city (as it's thought to have looked) was pretty awesome in real life:

A: Hattusa
Hattusa was a city in Anatolia (name for the region known today as central Turkey). The city was destroyed and rebuilt a few times, for example the city was destroyed by the king Anitta in 18th century B.C. who claimed it was accursed and then it was later rebuilt by one of the first Hittite kings. As such I find it surprising we know so much about the city, apparently other civilizations such as the Assyrians kept records on the city.
Its Temple(s)
"Gift of the Storm God" references the fact that in the "Lower City" of Hattusa there was enormous temple referred to as the "Temple of the Storm God". Apparently the city had many temples (31 stated in this reference) but this temple towered over all of them.
I suggest reading more of this reference, I found it to be very interesting and considering you've asked this question I think you would find it interesting as well (assuming you don't already know it of course).

A: I only have anecdotal evidence to this claim, but it may be a reference to the Japanese manga, Red River.
According to Wikipedia:

Red River is about a fifteen-year-old Japanese girl named Yuri Suzuki, who is magically transported to Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia. She was summoned by Queen Nakia who means to use Yuri as a human sacrifice. Yuri's blood is the key element needed in placing a curse upon the princes of the land so that they will perish, leaving Nakia's son as the sole heir to the throne.

And according to this web blog, the storm god was to be the recipient of the sacrifice:

The queen Nakia is trying to kill Yuri for her son succession to the
  throne making him the next emperor of the Hittites, by using Yuri
  blood for a curse by sacrifice it the god Teshub (the god of the
  storm).

Not sure how that connects to a strategic resource (although I guess it could be 'Yuri blood' since placing her son on the throne is certainly a strategic action), but it at least connects Hattusa and the 'Storm God'.


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ST. George's Church
Tombs in St George Church
Extraordinary State Funeral 26 May 2013
King Peter's House
Biography of the Church Founder – King Peter I
Vineyard Keeper's House
King's Winery
History of the construction
Immediately upon assuming his royal duties in 1903, His Majesty King Peter I acted swiftly to fulfil his parents' legacy, and utilizing the atmosphere of national enthusiasm and his personal funds he built the dynastic crypt on the model of many similar royal mausoleums in Europe, but also following Orthodox tradition. The King chose a spot 337 metres on the top of Mali Oplenac hill, which almost imposed itself as the ideal location of the future church. The location was measured by land surveyors, so the altar would face east according to Orthodox tradition, and all necessary technical details were ready for the public tender. On 1 December, 1903, the national tender was made, for the construction of the church and the crypt. There was an appropriate ceremony on the occasion, and the tender specifically demanded the monumentality of the Serbian-Byzantine style. Just as with many other capital projects in Serbia, so it was this followed by long and fierce polemics and discontent with the awarded work. Little is known about the course and the results of the first tender for the Oplenac church, except that it had caused huge public controversy. Among 18 submitted entries, the winning prize for the tender was given to architect Nikola Nestorović, a famous architect and university professor. After a long and animated expert discussion and public polemics, on September 27, 1907, the cornerstone was laid, and the Charter dedicated to St. George was placed in the foundation, and the future site of St. George church in Oplenac was consecrated.
Due to the King's own displeasure with the proposed solution, another tender in 1909 was launched. The committee was made up with basically the same previous members. The committee awarded first prize to the young architect Kosta J. Jovanović. Although rather young, he readily and studiously approached the construction, as a testified expert on Serbian medieval architecture. His inventive and splendid solution with five cupolas and cross shaped base impressed the King and met the strict criteria of the committee. On 1 May, 1910 construction started following the Kosta J. Jovanović's plan. By the end of the year, the church was already under the dome. During the construction it was decided that the façade of the church would be made of white marble, which came from nearby Venčac Mountain, known even today for its exceptionally white beautiful marble. The Serbian Archbishop Dimitrije consecrated the church on 23 September, 1912. Because of the difficult political situation, it was considerably more modest than it had been planned. Just a few days later, King Peter was on the battlefields of the First Balkan War. During pauses of the 1912-1913 Balkan Wars and the First World War, there was also a pause in the construction of the church. When Austria-Hungary occupied Serbia in the winter of 1915, the church was looted – the copper cover was removed from the dome, roof and portals. The lighting conductor was also removed as well as the bells. Many windows were broken including little marble pillars and ornaments. Using the excuse that important records might be hidden the occupiers desecrated the graves in the crypt.
Returning to the liberated homeland and to the historical creation of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Peter I was not able to see the completion of his foundation. The king died 16 August, 1921, and his successor His Majesty Alexander I took over its completion. He modified the original plan. Alongside with the clearing of the western slope, intended for vineyards, the planting of trees also began, and their thick crowns very soon highlighted the whiteness of the temple in perfect contrast. After the reconstruction of the crypt, by Kosta J. Jovanović, this was followed by the iconostasis, the lightning conductor, then a new copper roof with golden edges on the dome. The bells were made by Frères Piccard from Annecy le Vieux, France, and the mosaics were made by Puhl & Wagner from Berlin, Germany. The bronze chandelier was made by Luks, Zagreb, Croatia. All the details of the sumptuous decoration of the temple were supervised by Nikola Petrovič Krasnov, a former Russian imperial architect and leading architect of King Alexander.
The church was once again consecrated on 8 September, 1930 by Patriarch Varnava, in the presence of the King and members of the Royal Family, and then Karadjordje's remains were re-buried from the old Topola church into the Royal Mausoleum.
Because of its exceptional qualities, the temple of St. George in Oplenac was added to the Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance list in 1979, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia.
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People are More Likely to Get Help in Emergency Situations
by Bidita Debnath on October 3, 2016 at 11:55 PM
You are more likely to get help from others in emergency situation than in harmless everyday condition as extreme conditions bring out the best in people, especially those who are altruistic and pro-social, suggests a study.
"Emergency situations seem to amplify people's natural tendency to cooperate," said one of the researchers Mehdi Moussaid from Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.
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'Emergency situations seem to amplify people's natural tendency to cooperate.'
In the study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers showed that readiness to help depends heavily on personality.
The experiments showed that pro-social and altruistic people in particular often helped others even more in an emergency situation than in a relaxed and non-threatening situation, whereas selfish participants became less cooperative.
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The researchers invited 104 individuals to participate in a computer game that was developed specifically for the experiment.
In this "help-or-escape dilemma game," participants under time and monetary pressure had to decide whether they were willing to risk taking time to help others before reaching their goal or saving themselves in two different situations ? one everyday and one emergency situation.
After the game, the researchers measured participants' social value orientation -- that is, their concern for others -- and categorised them as having a pro-social or individualistic profile.
The researchers found that many of those categorised as pro-social were more helpful in the emergency situation -- 44 percent of them were more ready to help in the emergency than in the everyday situation.
The opposite was true of participants categorised as individualistic, 52 percent of whom reduced their cooperative behaviour in the emergency situation.
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"Bang!" In one strike, Liu Yue had finished off the sixth hall master.
His clothes exploded and fresh blood seeped out of his body.
Coldly smiling, she turned away from the sixth hall master. She turned towards the other assassins and signaled something to them.
"Brothers, Let's go. The entire army is coming." Yun Zhao who went to chase Chen Fei suddenly retreated and whispered to Liu Yue.
Yun Zhao had almost caught up to Chen Fei, but he didn't think that the ministers who escaped would bring the entire army to deal with them.
Even if he caught up to Chen Fei and killed them, he wouldn't be able to escape the thirty thousand strong imperial army. He would be killed immediately. Chen Fei's life was not worth his own.
Carrying her zither, she killed a path of retreat for them.
When the zither sounded, the people in front of her fell immediately.
The sixth and seventh hall masters were dead, the people who were left were not even able to stop Liu Yue for a single second.
The assassins who were pretending to be actors gathered behind Liu Yue and rushed out with her.
Liu Yue and Yun Zhao left the general mansion, got on their horses and left the vicinity very quickly while the assassins integrated themselves with the commoners, erasing all traces of their existence.
"Chase them!" With the protection of the army, Chen Fei was not scared anymore. He commanded the army to attack the mansion can caught sight of Liu Yue leaving with Yun Zhao.
The imperial army immediately chased after them.
Chen Fei gritted his teeth and he cursed Liu Yue.
On horse, Liu Yue sped towards the outskirts of the city with Yun Zhao quickly following behind him.
The army did not give up and continued to pursue. The galloping of horses sounded throughout the empire and shook everything that it passed.
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Nicolai Hartmann, Moeglichkeit und Wirklichkeit, p. 29: . . . denn das Zufaellige ist immerhim wirklich, und nur die Notwendigkeit negiert. Hartmann is saying in effect that everything contingent is actual, and that the contingent and the necessary are polar opposites: what is contingent is not necessary, and what is not necessary is contingent.
I beg to differ. First of all, not everything contingent is actual. My being asleep now and my being awake (= not asleep) now are both possible states of affairs. The second is actual, the first is not. But both are contingent. So not everything contingent is actual. The imagery of possible worlds ought to make this graphic for the modally challenged. A contingent state of affairs is one that obtains in some but not all possible worlds. Now my being asleep now obtains in some but not all possible worlds. Therefore, my being asleep now is contingent though not actual. So not everything contingent is actual.
Second, it is not the case that x is contingent if and only if x is not necessary. For there are states of affairs that are not necessary but also not contingent. My being both awake and not awake now is an impossible state of affairs. It is neither necessary nor contingent. Not necessary, because it does not obtain in every possible world. Not contingent, because it it does not obtain in some (but not all) possible worlds.
The necessary: that which exists/obtains in all possible worlds. The contingent: that which exists/obtains in some but not all possible worlds. The impossible: that which exists/obtains in no possible world.
You say you are uncomfortable with the patois of possible worlds? The distinctions can be sliced without this jargon. The necessary is that which cannot not be. The contingent is that which is possible to be and possible not to be. The impossible is that which cannot be.
And that's all she wrote, modally speaking.


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If he is at odds with Coach Self and does not want to come back, his best option is the G League or overseas. I really believe a transfer is out of the question…but I could be wrong.


Soak tamarind and salt in water and extract the juice. Add enough water and make 3 cups of tamarind water.
Chop big onion and tomato finely. Slit the green chillies lengthwise.
In a kadai put the fenugreek and rice separately and dry fry till it changes its colour to light brown. Remove, cool it and powder it.
Same kadai put a teaspoon of oil and add coconut gratings, sambar onion, slit green chillies. Fry till nice aroma comes out. Add red chilli powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder and mix well and fry for few more seconds. Remove, cool it and grind it to a fine paste.
In a thick bottomed kadai, put the oil. When it is hot add mustard. When it starts pops up add fenugreek. Fry till it become light brown. Add chopped onion and fry till it become transparent. Add tomato pieces and fry till it mashed well. Add tamarind water. Stir well and allow to boil. When it starts boiling, add the coconut paste and stir well. Add curry leaves. If required add little water and again allow to boil. When the kuzhambu starts boiling well, reduce the heat ad sprinkle fenugreek powder. Mix well and remove from stove.
Note: Instead of chilli/coriander powders, you can fry 5 to 6 red chillies and a tablespoon of coriander in a teaspoon of oil and grind it along with coconut and add.
I learnt this recipe from our relative who is residing at Colachel/Nagercoil. In Thanjavur and other districts, vendhaya kuzhambu is prepared in different way. But at Nagercoil, it is prepared in the above way and hence I named it Nanjil Naattu Kuzhambu.
Wow..good to hear..Nagercoil samayal is entirely different from others with a unique speciality..
I tried this recipe Kamala! it was very different and awesome.
Thank you Nandhini for your feedback.
I am exploring your dishes for the first time in this site. how many servings are these dishes for ? is it for 2 people or 4 people?
I have given "Number of serving" on top of the Recipes. It is for 6 people.
This recipe looks delicious and I want to try.
Unfortunately we don't have "samba onion" here in Japan. Do you think if I can substitute with regular onion or shallots, maybe?
Thank you for this recipe and website!!
Yes. You can substitute with regular onion or shallots also.


Why do McDonald's employees deserve $15 an hr?
I am a delivery driver for waitr and we depend on tips. My job is also more dangerous than a cashier at McDonald's. Why do they fuss about making 7.25 an hr?
Best Answer: Because saying "Welcome to McDonalds how may I help you." Is to hard for some so they believe that they need more money to be a normal human.
"Deserve" has nothing to do with it.
Raising the minimum wage to $15 would help a lot of people. Still isn't much to some people, but to the people that need it most, it's a lot.
Nothing screams failure than a job in McDonald's at anyone over the age of 30.
wages should be driven entirely be market forces.
Min wage jobs used to be temp or "pin money" jobs, But with good jobs going away, low-skilled people are needing these jobs to barely survive. When they were temp / spare money jobs, parents or a husband paid the overhead for the worker. Today, we subsidize ER's for medical probs, we subsidized city buses and we provide food stamps.
You don't handle boiling oil or grills. Why do you deserve any tips? I sure won't give you any with that attitude.
The minimum wage has not kept up with inflation.
Because such jobs are sadly no longer "starter" or "ender" jobs; people from 20 to 65 have them as their primary source of income. And before you say "well, why don't they get a college education?" or something like that, are YOU going to pay for it?
I know it's the base pay, and they prob. should get a little more. But I work as a receptionist, and sure don't make $15hr.
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60's Counterculture, Behind the Music, Documentary, Rock 'n' Roll
I saw a film today: A top fab 14 list
Here's a Fab Four fun fact: The original U.K. and U.S. releases of the Beatles LPs prior to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band did not contain all the same songs (even when the album titles were the same). This was due to the fact that the U.K. versions had 14 tracks, and the U.S. versions had 12. That's my perfect excuse to offer up picks for the Top 14 Beatles films.
I don't really want to stop the show, but I thought that you might like to know: In addition to documentaries and films where the lads essentially played "themselves", my criteria includes films where band members worked as actors or composers, and biopics. As per usual, my list is in alphabetical order:
The Beatles Anthology-Admittedly, this opus is more of a turn-on for obsessive types, but there is certainly very little mystery left once you've taken this magical 600 minute tour through the Beatles film archives. Originally presented as a mini-series event on TV, it's a comprehensive compilation of performance footage, movie clips and interviews (vintage and contemporary).
What makes it unique is that the producers (the surviving Beatles themselves) took the "in their own words" approach, eschewing the usual droning narrator. Nicely done, and a must-see for fans.
The Compleat Beatles– Prior to the Anthology, this theatrically released documentary stood as the definitive overview of the band's career. What I like most about director Patrick Montgomery's approach, is that he delves into the musicology (roots and influences), which the majority of Beatles docs tend to skimp on. George Martin's candid anecdotes regarding the creativity and innovation that fueled the studio sessions are enlightening.
It still stands as a great compilation of performance clips and interviews. Malcolm McDowell narrates. Although you'd think it would be on DVD, it's still VHS only (I've seen laser discs at secondhand stores).
Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years– As a Beatle freak who has seen just about every bit of Fab Four documentary/concert footage extant, I approached Ron Howard's 2016 film with a bit of trepidation (especially with all the pre-release hype about "previously unseen" footage and such) but was nonetheless pleased (if not necessarily enlightened).
The title pretty much says it all; this is not their entire story, but rather a retrospective of the Beatles' career from the Hamburg days through their final tour in 1966. As I inferred, you likely won't learn anything new (this is a well-trod path), but the performance clips are enhanced by newly restored footage and remixed audio. Despite the familiar material, it's beautifully assembled, and Howard makes the nostalgic wallow feel fresh and fun.
A Hard Day's Night– This 1964 masterpiece has been often copied, but never equaled. Shot in a semi-documentary style, the film follows a "day in the life" of John, Paul, George and Ringo at the height of their youthful exuberance and charismatic powers. Thanks to the wonderfully inventive direction of Richard Lester and Alun Owen's cleverly tailored script, the essence of what made the Beatles "the Beatles" has been captured for posterity.
Although it's meticulously constructed, Lester's film has a loose, improvisational feel; and it feels just as fresh and innovative as it was when it first hit theaters all those years ago. To this day I catch subtle gags that surprise me (ever notice John snorting the Coke bottle?). Musical highlights: "I Should Have Known Better", "All My Loving", "Don't Bother Me", "Can't Buy Me Love", and the fab title song.
Help! – Compared to its predecessor (see above), this is a much fluffier affair, from a narrative standpoint (Ringo is being chased by a religious cult who wish to offer him up as a human sacrifice to their god; hilarity ensues). But still, it's a lot of fun, if you're in the mood for it. Luckily, the Beatles themselves exude enough goofy energy and effervescent charm to make up for the wafer-thin plot line.
Marc Behm and Charles Wood's script has a few good zingers; but the biggest delights come from director Richard Lester's flair for visual invention. The main reason to watch this film is for the musical sequences, which are imaginative, artful, and light years ahead of their time (pretty much the blueprint for MTV).
And of course, the Beatles' music was evolving in leaps and bounds by 1965. It has a killer soundtrack; in addition to the classic title song, you've got "Ticket to Ride", "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", "The Night Before" and "I Need You", to name a few. Don't miss the clever end credits!
I Wanna Hold Your Hand-This was the feature film debut for director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale, the creative tag team who would later deliver Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Sort of a cross between American Graffiti and The Bellboy, the film concerns an eventful "day in the life" of six New Jersey teenagers. Three of them (Nancy Allen, Theresa Saldana and Wendy Jo Sperber) are rabid Beatles fans, the other three (Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure and Susan Kendall Newman) not so much.
They all end up together in a caper to "meet the Beatles" by sneaking into their NYC hotel suite (the story is set on the day the band makes their 1964 debut on The Ed Sullivan Show). Zany misadventures ensue. Zemeckis overindulges on door-slamming screwball slapstick, but the energetic young cast and Gale's breezy script keeps this entertaining romp moving along.
Let it Be– By 1969, the Beatles had probably done enough "living" to suit several normal lifetimes, and did so with the whole world looking in. It's almost unfathomable how they could have achieved as much as they did, and at the end of all, still be only in their twenties.
Are there any other recording artists who have ever matched the creative growth that transpired over the scant six years that it took to evolve from the simplicity of Meet the Beatles to the sophistication of Abbey Road ? So, with hindsight being 20/20, should we really be so shocked to see the four haggard and sullen "old guys" who mope through this 1970 documentary?
Filmed in 1969, the movie was intended to document the "making of" the eponymous album (although interestingly, there is also footage of the band working on several songs that ended up appearing on Abbey Road). There's also footage of the band rehearsing on the sound stage at Twickenham Film Studios, and hanging out at the Apple offices.
Sadly, the film has developed a rep as hard evidence of the band's disintegration. There is some on-camera bickering (most famously, in a scene where George reaches the end of his rope with Paul's fussiness). Still, there is that classic mini-concert on the roof, and if you look closely, the boys are actually having a grand old time jamming out; it's almost as if they know this is the last hurrah, and what the hell, it's only rock 'n' roll, after all. I hope this film finally finds its way to a legit DVD release someday (beware of bootlegs).
The Magic Christian– The original posters for this 1969 romp proclaimed it to be "antiestablishmentarian, antibellum (sic), antitrust, antiseptic, antibiotic, antisocial and antipasto". Rich and heir-less eccentric Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) stumbles upon a young homeless man sleeping in a public park (Ringo Starr) and decides to adopt him as his son ("Youngman Grand"), and the rest of the film pretty much follows in that same spirit of spontaneity.
Sir Guy sets about imparting a nugget of wisdom to his newly appointed heir: People will do anything for money. Basically, it's an episodic series of elaborate pranks, setting hooks into the stiff upper lips of the stuffy English aristocracy. Like similar broad counterculture-fueled satires of the 60s (Candy, Skidoo, Casino Royale) it's a bit of a psychedelic train wreck, but it's very funny.
Highlights include Laurence Harvey doing a striptease whilst reciting the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet, a pheasant hunt with field artillery, and well-attired businessmen wading waist-deep into a huge vat full of slaughterhouse offal, using their bowlers to scoop up as much "free money" as they can (accompanied by Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air").
Badfinger performs the majority of the songs on the soundtrack, including their Paul McCartney-penned hit, "Come and Get It". Director Joseph McGrath co-wrote with Sellers, Terry Southern, and Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese.
Magical Mystery Tour– According to a majority of critics (and puzzled Beatles fans), the Fabs were ringing out the old year on a somewhat sour note with this self-produced project, originally presented as a holiday special on BBC-TV in December of 1967. By the conventions of television fare at the time, the 53-minute film was judged as a self-indulgent and pointlessly obtuse affair; a real psychedelic train wreck. Over the years, it's probably weathered more continuous drubbing than Ishtar and Heaven's Gate combined.
Granted, upon reappraisal, it remains unencumbered by anything resembling a "plot", but in certain respects, it has held up remarkably well. Borrowing a page from Ken Kesey, the Beatles gather up a group of friends (actors and non-actors alike), load them all on a bus, and take them on a "mystery tour" across the English countryside.
They basically filmed whatever happened, then sorted it all out in the editing suite. It's the musical sequences that make the restored version released on Blu-ray several years ago worth the investment. In hindsight, sequences like "Blue Jay Way", "Fool on the Hill" and "I Am the Walrus" play like harbingers of MTV, which was still well over a decade away.
Some of the interstitial vignettes uncannily anticipate Monty Python's idiosyncratic comic sensibilities; not a stretch when you consider that George Harrison's future production company HandMade Films was formed to help finance Life of Brian. Magical Mystery Tour is far from a work of art, but when taken for what it is (a long-form music video and colorful time capsule of 60s pop culture)-it's lots of fun. Roll up!
Nowhere Boy– This gem from U.K. director Sam Taylor-Wood made the toppermost of the poppermost on my list of 2010 Seattle International Film Festival faves. Aaron Johnson gives a terrific, James Dean-worthy performance as a teen-aged John Lennon. The story zeroes in on a crucially formative period of the musical icon's life beginning just prior to his meet-up with Paul McCartney, and ending on the eve of the "Hamburg period".
The story is not so much about the Fabs, as it is about the complex and mercurial dynamic of the relationship between John, his Aunt Mimi (Kirstin Scott Thomas) and his mother Julia (Anne-Marie Duff). The entire cast is excellent, but Scott Thomas handily walks away with the film as the woman who raised John from childhood.
Produced by George Martin– While no one can deny the inherent musical genius of the Beatles, it's worth speculating whether they would have reached the same dizzying heights of creativity and artistic growth (and over the same 7-year period) had the lads never crossed paths with Sir George Martin. It's a testament to the unique symbiosis between the Fabs and their gifted producer that one can't think of one without also thinking of the other. Yet there is much more to Martin than this celebrated collaboration.
Martin is profiled in an engaging and beautifully crafted 2011 BBC documentary called (funnily enough) Produced by George Martin . The film traces his career from the early 50s to present day. His early days at EMI are particularly fascinating; a generous portion of the film focuses on his work there producing classical and comedy recordings.
Disparate as Martin's early work appears to be from the rock 'n' roll milieu, I think it prepped him for his future collaboration with the Fabs, on a personal and professional level. His experience with comics likely helped the relatively reserved producer acclimate to the Beatles' irreverent sense of humor, and Martin's classical training and gift for arrangement certainly helped to guide their creativity to a higher level of sophistication.
81 at the time of filming, Martin (who passed away in 2016) is spry, full of great anecdotes and a class act all the way. He provides some candid moments; there is visible emotion from the usually unflappable Martin when he admits how hurt and betrayed he felt when John Lennon curtly informed him at the 11th hour that his "services would not be needed" for the Let it Be sessions (the band went with the mercurial Phil Spector, who famously overproduced the album). Insightful interviews with artists who have worked with Martin (and admiring peers) round things off nicely.
The Rutles: All You Need is Cash– Everything you ever wanted to know about the "Prefab Four" is right here, in this cheeky and hilarious 1978 mockumentary, originally presented as a TV special. It's the story of four lads from Liverpool: Dirk McQuickly (Eric Idle), Ron Nasty (Neil Innes), Stig O'Hara (Rikki Fataar) and Barry Womble (John Halsey). Any resemblance to the Beatles, of course, is purely intentional.
Idle wrote the script and co-directed with Gary Weis (who made a number of memorable short films that aired on the first few seasons of Saturday Night Live). Innes (frequent Monty Python collaborator and one of the madmen behind the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) composed the soundtrack, clever mash-ups of near-Beatles songs that are actually quite listenable on their own.
Mick Jagger, Paul Simon and other music luminaries appear as themselves, "reminiscing" about the band. There are also some funny bits that feature members of the original "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" (including John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd). Look fast for a cameo from George Harrison, as a reporter. Undoubtedly, the format of this piece provided some inspiration for This is Spinal Tap.
That'll Be the Day-Set in late 50s England, Claude Whatham's 1973 film (written by Ray Connolly) is a character study in the tradition of the "kitchen sink" dramas that flourished in 60s UK cinema.
David Essex (best-known for his music career, and hit, "Rock On") plays Jim MacLaine, an intelligent, angst-ridden young man who drops out of school to go the Kerouac route (to Mum's chagrin). While he's figuring out what to do with his life, Jim supports himself working at a "funfair" at the Isle of Wight, where he gets a crash course in how to fleece customers and "pull birds" from a seasoned carny (Ringo Starr) who befriends him.
Early 60s English rocker Billy Fury performs some songs as "Stormy Tempest" (likely a reference to Rory Storm, who Ringo was drumming for when the Beatles enlisted him in 1962) Also look for Keith Moon (who gets a bit more screen time in the 1974 sequel, Stardust).
Yellow Submarine– Despite being a die-hard Beatles fan, over the years I've felt somewhat ambivalent about this 1968 animated feature "starring" the Fab Four; or rather, their cartoon avatars, voiced over by other actors. While I adored the music soundtrack, I never quite "got" all the fuss over the "innovative" visuals (which could be partially attributable to the fact that I never caught it in a theater, just on TV and in various fuzzy home video formats).
But, being the obsessive-compulsive completest that I am, I snapped up a copy of Capitol's restored version a few years ago, and found it to be a revelation. The 2012 transfer was touched-up by hand, frame-by frame (an unusually artisan choice for this digital age), and the results are jaw-dropping. The visuals are stunning.
The audio remix is superb; I never fully appreciated the clever wordplay in the script (by Lee Minoff, Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal) until now. The story itself remains silly, but it's the knockout music sequences ("Eleanor Rigby" being one standout) that make this one worth the price of admission.
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