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Religion appears in many episodes of Futurama, though they're all fictional, except for Vodou.
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Created from the merging of major 20th century religions - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism as well as agnosticism. Led by Father Changstein El-Gamal.
See Order of the Binary Singularity.
Is a minor robot religion in Chapek 9 that worships call (Creatrix) Mom the founder of Order of the Binary Singularity.
A mainstream religion, probably started by, or for, Oprah Winfrey.
Over Christmas (suggesting they mutated before the second coming of Jesus) and Easter the Sewer Mutants gather in church to worship an unexploded nuclear bomb.
A religion whose members are exclusively robots, Robotology has many customs. Sinners will be collected by the Robot Devil to spend eternity in Robot Hell, New Jersey. The religious text of Robotology is The Good Book 3.0.
Presumably a successor religion to Judaism. Little is known about the relations of Robot Judaism with other religions, but it is known that adherents of Robot Judaism believe that Robot Jesus was built and a very well programmed Robot, but not the Messiah. Followers are known to keep some level of kosher. Shellfish and pork may not be consumed (an anthropomophic pig and Zoidberg were denied entrance to a "Bot-Mitzvah"), though it is unknown if there are other dietary laws besides those mentioned. Keeping with Jewish practice, young Robots go through a rite of passage, which, instead of being called a "Bar" or "Bat Mitzvah", is the aptly named "Bot-Mitzvah".
In "Xmas Time Is Fear", as a part of the armed forces, they collect weapons to give to the defenceless so they can be safe on Xmas Eve. However in "Robot Santa's Little Helpers", they behave much like they do in the 21st Century, except that they get donations at gunpoint.
Led by the Space Pope. Nothing else known.
Believe that God exists somewhere in the depths of space. Built a powerful radio telescope in the Himalayas to try and find him. Fry managed to reach a being similar to this, who then sent Bender back to Earth. The Monks have been searching for 700 years. Strictly non-violent.
Vodou, the only non-fictional religion to appear in Futurama, has become a mainstream religion by the 31st century. This may have something to do with the increased number of zombies and may have been brought on by the birth of Zombie Jesus or popularized by the Chanukah Zombie. This religion originally started in West Africa and has spread throughout the world.
This was created by Yivo and many humans joined it, led by Fry.
The Order of the Binary Singularity seem to worship Mom as their creator deity and refer to her as the "Creatrix". They have her image engraved in their temple's stained glass windows.
Info: Zombie Jesus appears to be a zombie version of Jesus who exists separate from the original and seems to have a very different and odd origin. He has not been seen in the series, but is often mentioned by The Professor. He is featured in The Story of Xmas in the comics. Unlike the original, he seems to have been born as a zombie, with the birth having taken place in the future and at his birth a fembot and an alien octopus were present.
Quote - Fry: I feel like I was mauled by Jesus.
Info: The standard Christian version of Jesus exists alongside (but separate from) the zombie and robot versions. People in the future know enough about him that they recognize Zoidberg's Jesus costume as such (and don't call him "Zombie Jesus"). The second coming of Jesus apparently took place in 2443 and for some unknown reason several video tapes were destroyed during the event. It is unclear what role the figure of Regular Jesus plays in modern religion, such as Space Catholicism and the First Amalgamated Church.
Quote - Zoidberg (as Jesus): [Running away] I help those who help themselves!
Info: Apparently the central icon of religion in the sewers, and an obvious reference to Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Its followers are rather lax in their beliefs and mainly only worship on certain religious holidays (Christmas and Easter).
Quote Fry: Wow, you guys worship an unexploded nuclear bomb? Vyolet: It's mainly a christmas and easter thing.
The origin of the universe is a big part of most religions. It seems that Nibblonians had already existed for 17 years before the universe was created. Nibbler explained the creation of the universe to Leela (it was not revealed to viewers) and she responded with "Then the meaning of existence-- [Nibbler acknowledges.] So every religion is wrong!"
Xmas has lost all religious, and even popular, connotations since the 31st century. Everyone fears Robot Santa Claus.
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This month was World Mental Health Day, an important moment in time in mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma.
Taking a longer-term view however we spoke with Hayden Wano (Taranaki, Te Atiawa, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Awa), Chair of the newly established Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Aotearoa New Zealand.
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In September 2021 the New Zealand government released Kia Manawanui Aotearoa, the long-term pathway to mental wellbeing, which was welcomed by the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.
What about the plan has particular resonance for the Commission?
The Commission supports Kia Manawanui and Government's continued commitment to drive change and deliver on its obligation to He Ara Oranga.
Kia Manawanui sets out sequenced actions over a ten-year period and takes a holistic view of mental wellbeing. The pathway's approach is based on collaboration, sustained effort, and long-term investment to drive system change and to create new and different approaches to supporting mental wellbeing.
The Commission has been calling for a clear implementation plan for the direction set by He Ara Oranga and wants to see five critical areas prioritised:
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Kia Manawanui is an important step forward in transforming our mental health and addiction system and gives the Commission a benchmark from which we can monitor progress.
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Secondary Enrichment of Ferriferous Pre-Cambrian Quartzites by Meteorical Weathering in South Cameroon
Bidjo Emvoutou Gery Christian, Ndzie Mvondo Justin , Ngo Bidjeck Louise Marie, Ipan Antoinnette, Ntomb Yvan Demonstel, Ndong Bidzang Francois
Journal of Geosciences and Geomatics. 2020, 8(1), 1-8. DOI: 10.12691/jgg-8-1-1
Received November 18, 2019; Revised December 22, 2019; Accepted January 19, 2020
The meteoric weathering of Precambrian ferriferous quartzites from Meyomessi in southern Cameroon has led, in a humid tropical climate, to the formation of secondary oxidized ores. The weathering profile of the ferriferous quartzites shows from the base to the summit: the bedrock, the saprolites, the gravel horizon and a surface sandy clayey aggregate, ferriferous quartzite is a finely banded rock showing alternating quartz beds and iron oxide beds. The main features of the Meyomessi quartzite geochemistry show that the ferruginous facies are remarkably poor in any element other than Fe and Si. The alteration of the materials shows high Fe, Si, Al, Cr, Zr, Ba, Ga, Nb and Th. Rare earth elements levels are generally low compared to Ce, La and Nd, which are concentrated in upper gravel and sandy-clay levels. The rare earth elements spectrum indicates a positive anomaly in Ce and a negative anomaly in Eu. The results obtained from the calculated balances show a very high enrichment in Al, Ti and K in all the altered materials, low in Si and P in the higher levels and weak in iron in the weathered fragments and in the sandy clay loam level. The losses are total and moderate for all the trace elements, while the rare earths elements are enriched in the soft materials of the whole profile. The iron content in the bedrock (64.9%) versus 68% in the weathered rock fragments (ore), shows that the climatic alteration improves the quality of the ore in the ferruginous fragments by dissolution of the silica and relative concentration iron.
Keywords: meteorological weathering ferriferous quartzites Meyomessi enrichment
The ferriferous quartzites of the locality of Meyomessi belong to the tectonic unit of the Ntem complex, which corresponds to the northern margin of the Congo craton. In Cameroon, this Archean domain contains almost all the iron formations identified today 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. There are many iron deposits in the world and pre-Cambrian BIFs are the largest 6. Archean and Paleoproterozoic rocks are major reservoirs of mineral deposits in the world. In the Ntem complex, the mineral resources associated with Archean and Paleoproterozoic sites are represented by iron whose large reservoirs are banded hematite quartzites or ferruginous quartzites or itabirites 7. However, despite their abundance, BIFs are a poor iron ore. After their alteration, we can observe their enrichment leading to a rich iron ore, interesting for the industry. This paper aims to understand how the weathering of ferriferous quartzites under humid tropical conditions leads to the formation of secondary oxidized ores.
2. Geological Setting
The study area (Figure 1) belongs to a large litho-structural ensemble of Archean to Paleoproterozoic age 8, 9, 10. known as the Ntem complex 11. This complex corresponds to the northern margin of the Congo craton and is composed of three tectono-metamorphic units: the Ntem unit (3.1-2.1 Ga) 8, 12, the Nyong unit and the Ayina unit (2.4-1.8 Ga) 13. The Ntem unit is dominated by three major groups: a series of basic and ultrabasic rocks and the banded series (granulitic gneiss, leptynites, charnockites and enderbites); a complex of intrusive rocks (syenites, granites, granodiorites, tonalites and trondhjemites) and iron formations (basic rocks and quartzites more or less rich in magnetite) which are organized into different bundles or furrows larding the basement 4, 14, 15, 16, 17. The iron ore deposits currently known in the Ntem complex are in the form of bundles or furrows. The main beams are those of Mezesse, Mbalam, Nkout, Ngoa, Ayina, Ma'an, Abam, Oveng, Mewongo, Nkolbissok, Ngovayang, Eseka 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Despite the abundance of work on these iron formations in Cameroon, controversies exist as to their origin; Lake Superior for some and Algoma for others.
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Figure 1. Geological map of South Cameroon (Vicat, 1998)
In order to study iron ore enrichment processes, a series of wells averaging 85 cm were completed followed by a description of their alteration profile, from the bedrock to the surface. The samples taken were sent to Ireland for geochemical analyzes at the ALS laboratory in Lougrhea. For each sample, a 0.25 g powder is added to a solution of perchloric, nitric and hydrofluoric acid (HClO4, HNO3, and HF). The residue thus obtained is subsequently mixed with one volume of dilute hydrochloric acid (HCl) and the solution obtained is analyzed by ICP-AES (Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectroscopy) for the major elements and by ICP-MS (Inductively Couple Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy) for trace elements and rare earth elements. The limit of detection is 0.01% for major elements, between 0.05 and 10 ppm for traces and between 0.01 and 0.5 ppm for rare earth elements.
4.1. Weathering Profile
The weathering profile of the ferriferous quartzites can be divided into four, from the base to the top: the bedrock, the saprolite, the gravel horizon, and a sandy clayey aggregate (Figure 2). The bedrock is a ferriferous quartzite whose structures are bedded and folded (Figure 3). It presents an alternation of clear quartz beds and dark beds made up of ferromagnesian minerals. The thicknesses of these beds are very fine more or less differentiated. The rock has a whitish to yellowish gray color and is magnetized. Their mineralogy shows a richness in magnetite and quartz, a smaller amount of martite / hematite secondary minerals, goethite and traces of smectite and gibbsite 2. The saprolite shows a set of coarse, whitish gray materials with structures similar to those of the parent rock; a non-magnetized weathered material inside which are small bright grains, yellowish and brown spots; a ferruginous material of red color with yellowish spots, small glittery flakes and quartz crystals with friable texture and angular structure; a nodular material of rounded shape, with smooth contours and reddish yellowish color; quartz grouped in clusters, colorless and limpid with angular contours. The transition between these materials is diffuse because the elements are mixed. Also, all of these different materials are bathed in a matrix with a silty texture. The thickness of this horizon is 12 cm. The gravel horizon consists of small gravel, the size of which is less than one centimeter. Dark red in color, the matrix set illustrates a sandy-loamy texture as well as small, shiny white quartz grains. The thickness is 32 cm for this horizon. Dark sandy clay-sandy horizon due to the presence of organic matter. It has neither stain nor concretion and has a sandy-clay texture. The matrix consists of grass roots of varying diameter and size. It is fragile, loose and porous with a thickness of 20 cm (Figure 2).
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Figure 2. Weathering profile sketch of study area
Figure 3. Photograph of ferriferous quartzites of Nkolmvom showing macroscopics characters
Table 1. Major Element Contents (wt.%) in Weathering Profile. d. l.: detection limit
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Figure 4. Behaviour and geochemical trends of major elements along the loose materials of the profile
Figure 5. Major elements correlations
4.2. Geochemistry of the Ferriferous Quartzite and Its Weathering Mantle
4.2.1. Major Elements
The results of the geochemical analyzes contained in Table 1 make it possible to follow the evolution of the major elements along the alteration profile (Figure 4 a and b). The silica shows a content of 34.3% in the source rock. This content decreases considerably in the altered rock fragments, then increases and varies little along the profile. Alumina as it is in trace (0.4%) in the bedrock, it sees its content oscillate along the profile, is 14.5% in the matrix, 8.61% in the altered fragments and 18.85% in the sandy-clay horizon. Iron, on the other hand, has a content of 64.9% in the source rock and 68% in the rock fragments altered. Calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, manganese and phosphorus are in trace along the alteration profile and vary gradually but very little. On the other hand, titanium although being in trace shows contents a little higher than the other elements in this category. Its content is 0.01% in the source rock; it increases by 0.48% in the matrix, then decreases by 0.17% in the altered rock fragments and increases again by 0.72% on the horizon sandy clay. The correlation diagrams of the major elements of the alteration materials (Figure 5 a, b and c) show that the iron content increases when those of alumina, titanium and silica decrease. As a result, we can conclude that the correlations between iron and alumina, titanium and silica are essentially negative.
4.2.2. Trace Elements and Rare Earth Elements
The geochemical data contained in Table 2 made it possible to follow the evolution of the trace elements along the alteration profile Figure 6 (a, b and c). Chromium has a content of 240 ppm in ferriferous quartzite. This content is almost constant from the bedrock to the gravel horizon, then decreases by 10 ppm in the sandy-clay horizon. Zirconium, meanwhile, has a content of 287 ppm in the bedrock; which content decreases considerably along the profile until reaching 2 ppm at the sandy-clay horizon. Gallium, niobium and rubidium have respective contents of 27.8 ppm; 26.9 ppm and 26.2 ppm in the bedrock, which gradually decrease along the profile. Barium and thorium have respective contents of 46.5 ppm and 46.9 ppm in the bedrock. These levels decrease in the altered rock fragments and increase respectively by 30.7 ppm and 40.2 ppm in the gravel horizon. On the sandy-clay horizon, while the barium has a high content (58.7 ppm) the thorium is in trace (0.64 ppm). Vanadium reveals a content of 80 ppm in ferriferous quartzite. This content gradually decreases along the profile to reach a value of 6 ppm in the sandy-clay horizon. Cs, Hf, Sn, Sr and Ta have the same evolution. Their respective contents of 2.18 ppm, 7.4 ppm, 9 ppm, 19.6 ppm and 1.1 ppm in the ferriferous quartzite decreases progressively from the base to the saprolite, then increases on the gravel horizon to reduce again to the sandy-clay horizon until reaching a value lower than that of the limit of detection. Despite its low grade, uranium gradually increases from ferriferous quartzite to saprolite, and decreases by 0.47 ppm in the sandy-clay horizon. Rare earth elements (Table 3) generally follow the same behavior. Their high levels in ferriferous quartzite decrease in the altered rock fragments, and progressively increase to the sandy-clay horizon (Figure 7 a and Figure 7b). We also note that the highest values are on the gravel horizon and the sandy-clay horizon. The rare earth elements normalization of the alteration materials is carried out with respect to the ferriferous quartzites (parent rock: RMME): Their spectra (Figure 8) show a profile that gradually increases from lanthanum to lutetium with a positive Ce anomaly and a negative Eu anomaly. Many studies show that in a supergene environment under an equatorial climate, several elements are considered immobile and therefore more resistant to redistribution of elements due to weathering phenomena 18, 19. This work proposes several methods for the evaluation of element redistributions such as: Al, Ti, Zr, Nb, Hf, Ta, Th and Y which have often been used for the calculation of the balances. For the evaluation of the gains and losses in each element during the weathering of the Meyomessi ferriferous quartzite, the results obtained from the calculated balances show a very high enrichment in Al, Ti and K in all materials weathered, low in Si and P in the upper and lower levels of iron in the weathered fragments and in the loose sandy-clay level (Table 4); (Figure 9). Losses are moderate to total for all trace elements except uranium (U), which is weakly accumulated in weathered fragments (Table 5); (Figure 10); while rare earth elements are enriched in the loose materials of the whole profile (Table 6); (Figure 11). The weathered fragments are depleted in light rare earth elements except Samarium (Sm) but enriched in heavy rare earth elements except Gadnium (Gd).
Table 2. Content in ppm of Trace Elements in Weathering Materials
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Figure 6. Behaviour and geochemical trends of trace elements along the loose materials of the profile
Figure 7. Behaviour and geochemical trends of REE along the loose materials of the profile
Figure 8. Parent rock normalized for REEs of weathering materials
Figure 9. Gains and looses diagram of major elements along weathering profile
Table 3. Content in ppm of REE in Weathering Materials
Table 4. Gains and Looses Percentage of Major Elements
Figure 10. Gains and looses diagram of trace elements along weathering profile
Table 5. Gains and looses percentage of trace éléments
Table 6. Gains and looses percentage of REE
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Figure 11. Gains and looses diagram of REE along weathering profile
The geochemical study of Meyomessi ferriferous quartzites shows a high concentration of Si and Fe, respectively 40% and 68%. As for the rare earth elements, the contents are weak with the exception of Cerium, lanthanum and neodymium which present significant contents. The rare earth element spectrum of chondrite normalized ferriferous quartzite has rare earth elements fractionated and enriched in LREE with respect to HREE. These results are consistent with those obtained for the iron-bearing quartzites of the rest of the Ntem complex 1, 2, 3, 4. The rare earth elements spectra show a positive anomaly in Ce and a negative anomaly in Eu; the opposite is true in the ferriferous quartzites of Njweng 20. Thus, the negative Eu anomaly in the Meyomessi samples is due as Reference 21 demonstrates to Abiété-Yendjock, to the absence of plagioclase in the genesis of these rocks. The weathering material developed at the expense of Meyomessi ferriferous quartzites is ferralitic, yellowish brown to reddish in color and not very thick. Reference 21 shows that the weathering profiles developed on basic and ultrabasic rocks at Abiété-Yendjock are of low thickness. They have a reduced number of weathering levels and in particular the absence of a ferruginous cuirass level. At Abiété-Yendjock, the weathering is a ball, it is cortical, centripetal and early whereas that which affects the basic rocks of the Ntem group, to which the study area belongs, is slab or fragments which gradually and slowly reduce to the upper horizons. These fragments are no longer magnetized like the original rock, which reveals that the magnetite contained in the ferriferous quartzite would have been oxidized into hematite known as non-magnetized iron ore. According to Reference 22, kaolinite is formed directly and immediately on very rich quartz materials such as sandstones and alkaline granites 23. The neoformation of kaolinite is inhibited by a low availability of Si which is either evacuated by excellent lateral and vertical drainage, or precipitates as free silica. The excess of alumina present in the soil then crystallizes in the form of gibbsite. This low availability of Si, which slows the neoformation of kaolinite, also favors the presence of iron oxyhydroxides which have a high nickel retention capacity in the soil 24, 25. The high levels of SiO2, Al2O3 and Fe2O3 testify to the neoformation of clay minerals by recombination of silica and alumina by the monosilitization process; and the neoformation of iron oxyhydroxides by the ferrallitization process. Several authors have shown that rare earth elements are fractionated during the weathering process, residual products are enriched in LREE and poor in HREE 26, 27. Cerium is the most abundant of REEs in weathering materials, followed by lanthanum and neodymium. They are concentrated in all levels of the weathering profile. The positive anomalies observed in cerium are systematic and often located at the top of the saprolite, below the iron oxide accumulation zone 28. The cerium appears in the solutions in the form of Ce3 + and then of Ce4 + under the oxidation conditions in which it precipitates in the form of insoluble CeO2 29, 30. It is either absorbed in iron oxides in association with phosphates 31, either incorporated in ferro-manganese chippings 32, or absorbed at the clay exchange sites 33, 34. The negative Eu anomaly may be due to oxidation conditions in an environment and / or in the absence of sulphides and plagioclases 35. Levels of Fe (68%), P (0.19%) and U (7.24 ppm) are higher in weathered fragments that have low concentrations of Al, Si and other elements at the same time. The precipitation of secondary phosphate minerals is known to play an important role in the immobilization of trace elements within developed and water-saturated alteration profiles 36. Phosphates are also known as absorption immobilizers of uranium 37 or as precipitators of phosphate minerals carrying uranium 38.
This article has shown how tropical climate meteorological action enhances iron richness in oxidized rock fragments from the weathering of ferriferous quartzites. The results obtained in the Meyomessi Precambrian ferriferous Quartzite Well Disturbance profiles in southern Cameroon clearly show that during weathering, the weathering materials are enriched in Fe, Si, Al, Cr, Zr. , Ba, Ga, Nb and Th. The Fe, P and U contents are higher in the weathered fragments which have low concentrations of Al, Si and other elements at the same time and which constitute the main iron ore.
The authors thank the Lougrhea laboratory of the ALS group for the quality of the analyzes and the reviewers who contributed to the improvement of this article.
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Q: VxWorks compiling error I have a problem when I compile a little program in WindWriver Workbench 3.3. I'm making the first tutorial, HelloWorld, but when I launch the compiler, it return the next error:
C:\Windows\Temp\make45206.sh: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
C:\Windows\Temp\make45206.sh: C:\Windows\Temp\make45206.sh: line 1:
`if [ ! -d "`dirname "HelloWorld_partialImage/Debug/HelloWorld_partialImage.o"`" ];
then mkdir -p "`dirname "HelloWorld_partialImage/Debug/HelloWorld_partialImage.o"`";
fi;
echo "building HelloWorld_partialImage/Debug/HelloWorld_partialImage.o";
dld -tX86LH:vxworks69 -X -r5 -f 0x90,1,1  -o "HelloWorld_partialImage/Debug/HelloWorld_partialImage.o" HelloWorld_partialImage/Debug/Objects/HelloWorld/main.o   C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Archivos de programa\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB;C:\Archivos de programa\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\LIB;    && if [ "0" = "1" ];
then plink "HelloWorld_partialImage/Debug/HelloWorld_partialImage.o";
fi'
C:\WindRiver\utilities-1.0\x86-win32\bin\make.exe: *** [HelloWorld_partialImage/Debug/HelloWorld_partialImage.o] Error 2

I checked the Makefile but I don't see any error. Could you help me?

A: What is the contents of your Makefile?
I think the ; separators on the pile of long pathnames here might be the issue:
\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\LIB;    && if [ "0" = "1" ];

sh will interpret the ; as multiple commands to execute:
$ echo hello;echo hi
hello
hi
$

the ; && in this is going to confuse the shell, because both ; and && serve as command separators:
$ echo hello ; && echo hi
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&&'
$

Try replacing the ; characters with : in whatever piece of the Makefile leads to those pathnames. (Or maybe spaces.)

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Covenanters, Ireland, Presbyterians in USA, Scotland
The Effects of the Covenanters' Struggle Outside Scotland
What of the 'success' of the Covenanting Movement? Such a concept is extremely difficult to quantify. Their struggle lasted for over fifty years; their movement was at times almost wiped out by bitter persecution and death, and diluted by division and indulgences. Yet they persevered right through to the end, and their struggle played a large part in the social revolution that brought William to the throne and secured the civil and religious liberties, which we enjoy today. In the Diaspora that the persecution of the Covenanters brought about, their influence was brought to bear on other nations, and in this context we must consider two other issues:
In England Separatism and Independency took heart from Scotland's struggle. Presbyterianism never became a major force among the English Churches, but the Calvinism upon which Presbyterianism is founded found expression among the Particular Baptists, and among some Congregationalists. The contribution of the Covenanters to the removal of the Stuart dynasty, and the establishment of William III on the throne is without dispute. Under the united rule of William and the settlement that his reign brought, the English Calvinists gained the peace and toleration that were needed to develop and grow.
Ireland had its own persecution of Presbyterians, and it had its own killing time. It suffered under Laud, as did Scotland. The Solemn League and Covenant was written with the purpose of bring religious conformity, under Presbyterianism, to Ireland, as well as to England and Scotland.
Between the two nations there was a continual movement of population, as Christians fled the persecutions in each of the territories. Peden was just one example of this. He spend time in Antrim on more than one occasion when fleeing from the persecutors. The Presbyterian Church in Ireland was in existence in Bangor, Templepatrick and Holywood from shortly after the beginning of the seventeenth century, under Ussher, but more formally as a Presbyterian denomination from after the signing of the Solemn league and Covenant, which was brought to Ireland to be signed and subscribed. The earliest congregations were in the Carrickfergus area, and ministers were trained in Scotland. Under this influence, the (later) State of Northern Ireland became, and is until this day the most God – fearing part of the United Kingdom.
Jock Purves points out that Ulster is a Covenanting triumph. Puritans and Covenanters settled in Ulster in their thousands, and it was right that Covenanters and Puritans in Ulster should strike the last crushing blows against Stuart Romanism at Londonderry, Enniskillen and the Boyne. "It is not political partition only that is in Ireland. It is that between people and people; people with the open Bible and pure evangelical faith and a power that would draw them back again into a dense darkness from which there has been a merciful deliverance."
West Indies & America
Many of the imprisoned Covenanters were deported to the New World, to the West Indies, Barbados and Southern Carolina, where they were sold as slaves, to labour in the tobacco plantations. Those who were fortunate enough to make their way to a Quaker settlement were instantly freed, for to their eternal credit, the Quakers never used slave labour.
From these Quakers, and from Godly Puritans, the slaves from Africa would have heard the gospel. However the main influence toward salvation in Christ, from the human standpoint would have been from their fellow sufferers and fellow prisoners. The Scottish Psalm-singers took to the new world their faith in Christ, and witnessed fervently to their fellow captives, many of who accepted the Lord as their Saviour. In the native Africa of these black slaves there was no tradition of Gospel Singing, comparable with the Negro Spirituals of the southern American states. Yet perhaps in their words and their metres, there is a slight similarity to the metrical psalms of Scotland. Who can say, but perhaps from this faithful Scottish influence developed a whole culture of Gospel music and singing, and perhaps even the deeply embedded faith of the Southern black population.
To the mainland of America many Covenanters and Presbyterians travelled as emigrants, both from Scotland and from Northern Ireland. These 'Ulster Scotch' folk became the backbone of modern America. They worked the land, conquered the West and became some of the most influential people in the land. Presbyterian congregations flourished, ministers were appointed and theological seminaries built.
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Find it impossible to settle into work that is meaningful, supportive, steady?
Reach for relationship but can't really embrace anyone?
Have a persistent sense of wrongness or a lack of belonging?
Then I begin to wonder: How are things with you and your ancestors?
In our busy, modern world, many of us are immigrants, disconnected from our ancestral lands and relations. Others are disconnected because of a tremendous ancestral trauma their forebears' experienced. In either case, trying to live our lives fully is like trying to run our car on lingering gas fumes in the tank: without a proper connection to the energy of our ancestral sources, we don't have enough gas to get anywhere.
I grew up in a very homogeneous suburb north of New York City, in a town my parents had moved to a few years earlier. Colorado, Chicago, Quebec—some of the places my ancestors lived—were very far away, not to mention Germany, France and England, where my immigrant forebears came from many centuries earlier. I was vaguely embarrassed of my ancestors: upstanding, apparently unimaginative people who were clergy, merchants, and politicians. Go far back enough, we probably have slave traders somewhere in the tree. For much of my life, I tried very hard to be something different and have a new family, one I could choose and that would be more the way I wanted family to be.
Talk about running on fumes! These were the people who had given me life, and I was trying to concoct a life that pretended they'd never existed.
We all have complicated ancestors. We all have ancestors who have been noble, honest, kind and creative. We all have ancestors who have been dishonorable, cruel and small minded. We all have ancestors who have thrived, and we all have ancestors who have suffered more than our minds can imagine. And each one was exactly where they needed to be to bring us into the world.
Energetically, there is no disconnecting ourselves from our ancestors, and deep down we don't really want to (even for those of us with very, very cruel ancestors). The life they send down the line to their descendents is a present energy that continues to flow in us, and without it each one of us would immediately stop breathing. This is as true, by the way, for adoptees and orphans who do not know their ancestors, as it is for those of us who have inherited detailed family trees.
For many of my clients, the conscious or unconscious protest against being the descendent of their particular ancestors has limited their lives tremendously. So the first step is to consent to these people being our ancestors. Acknowledge them, see them, notice their difficulties and all it took for them to bring us into the world.
When I work with my clients we get very specific about the particular lives and challenges of their ancestors: the Irish Potato Famine, the Cherokee Walk of Tears, a great aunt that barely survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, a great grandmother abandoned by her parents in Kansas. These stories carry great weight through the centuries, and arrive in our hearts still powerful and unresolved.
Close your eyes, and imagine in front of you a big set of bleachers. Your parents are standing on the first level of the bleachers. Behind them are their parents on the next level. And behind them their parents, and on and on. Notice in about ten lines you have over a thousand in a line. This is your tribe, from whom your life comes. Notice the sad ones and the happy ones. The wise ones and the fools. The crazy ones and the sane ones. Just look at them all with respect.
Many of them have suffered, but they survived long enough to send life on to the next generation, eventually reaching you. You could not be alive without them. From your place, down the line, you can do nothing to assist the older ones, up the line. Their fate is theirs; it is part of their dignity to have suffered it and in their own way, endure. It is not your fate.
Now, in your mind's eye, bow to them and say "I honor the dignity of your fate." Hold the bow for a bit, feel that in your body, let the commitment to help them release, maybe just a little, maybe quite a lot. Instead of holding something for them, let them bless you and the life that is in you. Accept life and blessing from them.
Having done that, take a few breaths, feel your whole body, allow the image of your ancestors to disperse, and come back to here and now.
With humility, we can allow our ancestors to have their own suffering and their own choices; we can ask for their blessing as we choose to fully embrace the life they have given us. Then we commit to living a life that reflects the very best of their accomplishments and dreams, which becomes the precious inheritance we've been looking for all along.
Leslie Nipps is a Master Neuro-Linguistics Programming (NLP) and Family Constellations practitioner with twenty years of experiencing helping people do deep change work. Visit her website, www.leslienipps.com, to schedule a free Ancestors Inquiry session. She's also on Facebook…stop by, connect and say hi!


Daat Research Corporation has added multiple processor capabilities to boost the calculating speed of its Coolit CFD thermal and flow analysis software.
When installed into a multiple processor system, Coolit automatically recognises the number of processors and parallelises the computation accordingly. The result is a speed increase that ranges from a minimum of 1.5 times to almost double for dual processors.
Coolit v. 4.50 also adds new shapes to the component library. Tetrahedron, pyramid and spherical cap components join the previously released triangular prism components to make possible more complex shapes and more accurate geometries.
Other changes in the new release included greater editing flexibility, a wider range of component characteristics, and customisable projections in panel views. Coolit v. 4.5 also implements a new advanced model for porous media. The new model is a significant improvement over the standard Brinkman model, which is used in most commercial CFD programs.


Yesterday an ex-student forwarded me an apparently widely diffused email against the boycott from my friend Michael Fisher. Echoing an argument central to the debate, Michael thinks the boycott is likely to have a deleterious effect on Israeli anthropologists critical of the Israeli state and that it goes against the principle of academic freedom. These are tough issues which everyone I know supporting the boycott takes very seriously.
I myself don't see why the boycott as defined should hinder critical work by Israeli anthropologists and some have come out in favor of the boycott anyway. I wish to support them as much as I can.
In two weeks, the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) nearly 10,000 members will begin voting on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. It might just pass, if judging by preliminary voting at last November's AAA business meeting is any clue. Scanning the large hall, in which some 1500 hundred members attended, well beyond capacity, it was impossible for us not to feel victorious over the explicit support for Palestinian liberation and self-determination and to feel that there was a major changing of the tide within anthropology, and within academia at large. Not only was this the largest turnout in recent memory; it was also a massive shift in demographics. The meeting made clear that the AAA is far more diverse than it was even just a few decades ago; that recent generations of young scholars and graduate students are far more willing to participate in conversations regarding social justice than ever before; and that women anthropologists continue to lead some of the most urgent conversations of our times. Yet what is not clear, despite the unprecedented turnout of that business meeting, is exactly how many AAA members will vote on the actual resolution starting April 15. While academic association voting percentages are often dismally low, some might wonder whether voting matters at all and whether an academic boycott has any relevance to the Palestinian condition.
We have learned that medical anthropologists are currently under-represented, as compared to other sub-fields, in their support for the AAA academic boycott resolution. We write to ask you to seriously consider joining us in signing on. Let us explain why we see this as an issue over which medical anthropologists should be concerned. Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza face tremendous health challenges that are directly attributable to Israel's occupation regime. These include permanent disabilities secondary to political violence, high rates of malnutrition, anemia, stunted growth, and acute post-traumatic stress disorder. The systematic demolition of homes and infrastructure has severely impeded access to potable water, sanitation, fuel supplies, and electricity. Amid regular violence, the Israeli separation wall and the checkpoints impede access by patients and caregivers to work, family, sites of worship, and health-care facilities. Poverty rates are high, and almost half of Palestinians are now dependent on food aid, and the operation of basic health services are significantly compromised. A 2012 study published in the Lancet on the Global Burden of Disease demonstrates the health discrepancy for Israelis and Palestinians: Israeli men ranked 9th and Israeli women ranked 12th in the world for life expectancies, while Palestinians ranked 86th for men and 97th for women. A report published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in September 2015 warns that Gaza could become "uninhabitable" by 2020, if current economic trends persist.These conditions constitute a public health emergency.
Lila Abu-Lughod: Should We Act on Israel/Palestine, or Not?
I hope people will read the Task Force Report on Israel/Palestine. It represents hundreds of hours of labor by our colleagues. It reflects what is special about our discipline and why most of us are proud to be anthropologists. Based on close listening, careful observation, wide reading, and a search to find the right analytical framework, it fairly presents the situation about which we all now must make a decision. The comparative perspective these anthropologists brought to the task and their acknowledgment of both anthropology's historic complicity and courage with regard to past and present colonial and neocolonial injustices, shape the report. Those who want to know more should consult the ethnographic work of so many colleagues who have done fieldwork in Palestinian communities (e.g. Lori Allen 2013; Amahl Bishara 2012; Ilana Feldman2008; Rhoda Kanaaneh 2008; Nicola Perugini 2015; Julie Peteet 2005; Susan Slyomovics 1998; and work surveyed by Khaled Furani and Dan Rabinowitz 2011).


Before Black Friday, there's Crack Thursday.
Birthday wish, meet death wish.
This isn't the type of passenger who should get a ride with you.
Perhaps he should try the "whoever smelt it dealt it" defense.
This will make your head spin.
America runs (from crime) on Dunkin'.
Woman Arrested for Drunk Driving…A Horse?!
It's gonna be awhile before this woman is back in the saddle.
Don't do the crime(s) if you can't do the time.
He's gone from one cooler to another.
It's just another part of living in New York City.
Deep down, this killer clown is a romantic.
This dad is a workaholic.
This guy is creepy and ridiculous.
This guy is feeling the burn.
This guy *may* have a drinking problem.
Be thankful you can't smell this.
Wonder if this team will be playing with blue balls.
We all strive to be good people, but we all fall short, to some degree.
If this doesn't sound like a Lifetime movie, we don't know what does.
A man arrested for drunk driving was certainly dressed for the occasion.


Tadweer oversees waste management and pest control work in Abu Dhabi [representational image].
Published: 21 January 2019 - 11 a.m.
Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center (Tadweer) signed five contracts cumulatively worth more than $1bn (AED272m) at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi last week, which facilitated deals worth billions of dollars.
Tadweer awarded contracts for solid waste collection and transportation, street cleaning, and other related city services. The contracted work will be carried out in parts of Abu Dhabi and Al Dhafra.
West Coast Saubermacher Environmental Services was awarded a $194m (AED713m) waste collection and transportation contract, while Lavajet Al Ain won a $104m (AED385m) cleaning services package, according to Construction Week's sister title facilities management Middle East.
Tadweer's five contracts awarded at the World Future Energy Summit took the total value of deals agreed at the four-day Abu Dhabi event to $10.5bn (AED38.5bn).
A consortium led by Masdar and French energy giant EDF struck one of the landmark deals at the summit, after winning a tender to build a $500m (SAR1.9bn) wind farm in Saudi Arabia.
The Dumat Al Jandal wind power plant in Al Jouf, located in the north of the kingdom, will produce 400 MW of power, generating energy for approximately 70,000 homes in Saudi Arabia, with its construction expected to create 1,000 jobs.
The power plant is part of a concerted effort in Saudi Arabia to diversify its energy mix and significantly increase the production of renewable energy sources.


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I believe a good source for you all would be any mid-size city has a decent aized newspaper and they usually have a library department that manages the clippings and or photo archives.  These folks have been dealing with these issues for years and would be a good resource also.
Special Libraries Association could also be a good resource as this is the Association the Newspaper Librarians usually belong to.
This is a "me too" request, plus another request. Susan, if people respond to you directly, would you mind summarizing for the list? Or, alternatively, people could respond to the list.
As well, I am wondering if anyone could recommend a way to manage newspaper clippings. Our Public Relations Department has newspaper clippings from many years past in paper format. We need an imaging solution and a way to search the content - same idea as Susan's request, but for newspaper clippings instead of photos.


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Biografia
Detentore dei record nazionali di salto in alto, Naiko è stato attivo nelle maggiori competizioni internazionali a partire dal 1990. Nel corso della sua carriera ha riscosso numerosi successi in ambito continentale e regionale, con medaglia conquistate ai Campionati africani e ai Giochi delle isole dell'Oceano Indiano. In ambito mondiale ha partecipato a diverse edizioni dei Mondiali ma soprattutto a due edizioni consecutive dei Giochi olimpici a  e ad  (occasione in cui è stato portabandiera della delegazione nel corso della cerimonia d'apertura).

Nel 2003, Naiko si è sposato con la collega marocchina Hind Bounouail.

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October 25, 2014 03:27 PM PDT
Well here it is. As threatened. For one night only. Yes, this will be offline by tomorrow. No, not really! Oliver and James report for duty after three years to talk about the return of Dad's Army to the big screen! So put the kettle on, make sure your rations of hundreds and thousands are within reach and listen the boys as they try hard not to talk about Doctor Who.
Get in touch with us by tweeting us @ijamesrox and @OliverCrocker.
Well, we did promise...!
Just a little teaser for you to show that we were serious about bringing back the show. And to help this old bank clerk remember how to actually get an episode online after three years. Hopefully I won't need the help of that butcher from across the road......
Stand by, Episode 68 is just around the corner....
Your attention please.....
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October 13, 2014 05:44 AM PDT
As you will undoubtedly be aware, the BBC issued a telegram last week announcing the cast of the new Dad's Army film. To this platoon at least, this was the point where the rumours about the film finally transitioned into hard fact. So, Dad's Army is coming back!! Permission to get worried/excited/interested (delete as applicable) is granted.
Given this monumental development, Oliver and I have decided to give the podcast one more airing so we can bend your ear a final time. So, keep an eye out on the webpage over the coming weeks when, nearly three years after the last podcast, Episode 68 will be online.
We would love to hear from you - are you looking forward to the film? Is it a good idea? What do you think of the casting? Should the surviving series regulars be given a cameo? And is there a place in "Dads Army" for a leading lady in the form of Catherine Zeta Jones?
Email us your thoughts over the next few days and we will read through the mailbag once again - james@dadsarmypodcast.com or oliver@dadsarmypodcast.com. Or you can tweet us - @JamesattheDWP or @olivercrocker.
We will also be paying a short tribute to the legends of "Dads Army" who have passed away whilst we have been off the air - RIP Clive Dunn, Bill Pertwee and Phillip Madoc.
Thank you for your attention. Dismissed.
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March 11, 2012 01:02 PM PDT
In case you're wondering where episode 68 is, and many of you are bless you - this is to report the Dad's Army podcast has gone AWOL! Temporarily, anyway. This year has not been a good one so far, I (James) have been ill for most of it and work has hit a new level of busy-ness for both Oliver and I. Is busy-ness a word? I doubt it somehow. I'll have to ask Jones....
We will be back fairly soon - probably in April when we'll cover the latest news, talk a little about Philip Madoc, and have a chat about Battle School. We may even include a commentary too to compensate you for the long wait without any information.
To be completely open and honest, it is likely that I will wind the podcast up. Five years is a long time and in today's world, the spare time I used to have is just not there any longer. I've yet to decide precisely what the future holds for the podcast, but we will make an annoucement in episode 68 when it materialises.
Thanks to everyone for your support, and no matter what direction the podcast goes in, its been a grand five years.
James and Oliver
December 20, 2011 12:00 PM PST
Welcome to another edition of the podcast and Merry Christmas to all our listeners!
This time around we have a special episode to share with you – a commentary with the director of the highly regarded series 3 episode, Branded. Harold Snoad joins Oliver to talk about what might just be the most dramatic Dad's Army episode ever made.
As always, send us your feedback to james@dadsarmypodcast.com or oliver@dadsarmypodcast.com or follow us on twitter at twitter.com/dadsarmypodcast or twitter.com/oliver.crocker.
Have a great festive period and we'll be back with a regular episode in the new year.
November 17, 2011 12:09 PM PST
Join James and Oliver in this edition of the Dad's Army podcast as we talk about the classic episode, 'Keep Young and Beautiful' which of course Oliver and I do as a matter of course. Ahem. We also have a chat about what Ian Lavender, Bill Pertwee and Frank Williams have been getting up over the last month or so. All that, and of course the usual silliness.
As always we'd love to hear from you, and you can get in touch with us by emailing james@dadsarmypodcast.com or oliver@dadsarmypodcast.com or you can follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/dadsarmypodcast or www.twitter.com/olivercrocker.
Enjoy the show.
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Its another episode of the Dad's Army podcast! This time we shine the spotlight on Don't Forget the Diver, one of eight episodes directed by Mr Harold Snoad. Oliver was able to catch up with Harold recently and talked about the exciting times Harold spent on the show. In addition, Paul makes a welcome return to the show and shares some of his memories with James about David Croft.
As always, you can contact us by sending an email to us at james@dadsarmypodcast.com or oliver@dadsarmypodcast.com. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/dadsarmypodcast or twitter.com/olivercrocker.
A tribute to David Croft
As most of you will know by now, David Croft, co-writer, co-creator and producer of Dad's Army, has died at the age of 89. He died at his holiday home in Portugal on the 27th September. His family called him a "truly great man" in a statement.
A statement on Croft's website read: 'The family of comedy legend David Croft OBE are sad to report that David died peacefully in his sleep at his house in Portugal earlier today. He was a truly great man, who will be missed by all who had the great fortune of knowing and loving him'.
This is our brief tribute to David.
You can get in touch with us at james@dadsarmypodcast.com or oliver@dadsarmypodcast.com.
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September 07, 2011 12:00 PM PDT
Welcome to another episode of the Dad's Army podcast. This time out, we take a look at A Man of Action, an episode broadcast in late 1974. With Mainwaring imposing martial law on Walmington after a bomb severs vital communications, the residents pull together and respond by acquiescing to a string of measures put in place to keep the community going. Looters are threatened with being shot! Join James and Oliver as they look at this episode in the light of the unrest seen across the UK a few weeks ago and compare how communities separated by fifty years respond differently to hardship. And how precisely did Pike get his head out of the park gate?! These, and other burning issue are discussed in this month's episode!
Send your feedback to james@dadsarmypodcast.com or oliver@dadsarmypodcast.com – follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/dadsarmypodcast or www.twitter.com/olivercrocker
July 28, 2011 01:00 PM PDT
Join James and Oliver and they take a nostalgic look back at one of the most highly regarded episodes of Dad's Army - the season 4 epic, Mum's Army. Was Mrs Grey a warm, kind hearted lady who fell in love with our beloved Captain, or a manipulative harlot who acted in a way responsible for Mainwaring taking his eye off the ball?! Join us as we find out!
We also read through a couple of messages you kind listeners have sent us, and review some suggestions made as to what Oliver should entitle his new documentary about our favourite Vicar, Mr Frank Williams. You'll be surprised by some of the titles pitched to us.....
As alsways, enjoy the show and send your feedback to us at james@dadsarmypodcast.com or oliver@dadsarmypodcast.com. Follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/dadsarmypodcast or www.twitter.com/olivercrocker.
Podcast Summary
This is a podcast dedicated to the classic British comedy, Dad's Army. James, Oliver and other members of the podcast team air
their views about the characters, episodes and current Dad's Army news. Please get in touch with them at james@dadsarmypodcast.com.
You can follow James on twitter @iJamesRox and Oliver @olivercrocker.
About Dads Army
James and Oliver have been fans of the British comedy Dad's Army for years. It just took a while for the right forum to be invented for us to share our views with the rest of the world! This podcast is for you to make your views known about the series - send us an e-mail and your comments may well be read out during a future episode. Get in touch with us at james@dadsarmypodcast.com
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Good evening, class.
Hopefully you enjoyed European Film 101.
This week, we're mostly back in the states, although we'll come back to the French New Wave for a minute, as we cover your grandmother's favorite genres: musicals.
But these aren't all your grandmother's musicals. Some of them, in fact, very much are not.
This week was Black Friday week at the shop, so we're going to skip the overall introduction. And also this is posting very, very late. Sorry.
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this week's films
There's more to musicals than the traditional entries and there's lots of films that have expanded on the template, often as an improvement.
[1952 | Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly]
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Silent film stars Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) are in the midst of production of their latest film when the invention of the talkie forces the film to shut down and the stars are enrolled in classes to learn articulation and how to adapt to this new medium. Lockwood, with his background in Vaudeville, has no trouble, but Lamont's nasally tone does not translate even a little. In a moment of despair they hit on the idea of having Lockwood's new girlfriend Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) dub over Lamont's dialogue and songs. The film is saved, but Lamont, feeling the pressure of losing her career, threatens to sue if Selden doesn't continue to supply her voice.
Ask anyone anywhere what they know about Singin' in the Rain and they will invariably mention the title sequence with Gene Kelly stomping through puddles and twirling around the post of a streetlight. There's something inherently romantic about being so head-over-heels in love that you walk home in the rain with no regard for how foolish you look. Kelly captures that childlike joy so completely that it is the type of number that can melt the heart of the harshest cynic. The image of Kelly hanging from the pole is so iconic that the temptation to mimic it surfaces nearly every time I walk down the street, especially in the rain.
Donald O'Connor's Cosmo Brown carries the responsibility of supplying the film's comic touch, and he does so in a memorable performance. There's a scene early in the film when Kelly is feeling low and O'Connor tries to cheer him up with a song. He launches into "Make them Laugh", punctuating the song with a procession of physical gags that culminates with him running up the wall and doing a backflip. He spends most of the song, which was filmed in one continuous take, throwing himself around the room with abandon in a manner more in line with a stunt double than a song and dance man. And it's definitely him the whole time, no question about it. Actually, O'Connor's character is really the brains behind the whole operation. O'Connor comes up with the impromptu songs, O'Connor comes up with the idea to turn the film into a musical, and O'Connor thinks to have Hagen's voice dubbed.
And what a voice it is, only it doesn't belong to Debbie Reynolds. Ironically, the singing voice they used to dub the awful voice of Jean Hagen was actually dubbed by Betty Noyes. Reynolds does all her own acting, though, and a fine job at that.
The dilemma shown here, of the silent film industry struggling with the move to talkies, was a real one. Many stars, including none other than Buster Keaton, lost their careers when the public found out that they couldn't make the switch. Either they had annoying voices or they weren't articulate or perhaps they were just dumb (or in the case of Lina Lamont, all of the above), but people just didn't want to watch them any more. So I'm sure it was a natural reaction for stars to go the route of Lamont and examine their contracts for any bit of leverage to keep their jobs. Remember that film stars, while well paid back then, didn't make nearly the amount they do now, so most of them didn't have piles of money laying around. If they couldn't manage to keep their style the way Charlie Chaplin did, they had to resort to other means. Dubbing was one method. Veiled threats were another.
But no one watches Singin' in the Rain to learn about the history of the film industry; we watch for the music, for Gene Kelly in the rain, for the dancing, for the chemistry between the trifecta of Kelly, O'Connor, and Reynolds. We watch for a vibrant use of technicolor, where the images seem to jump of the screen. But let's be honest, we watch to see Gene Kelly hanging from that lamppost. And to our surprise, the rest of the film is a thoroughly enjoyable, expertly made musical. You can't ask for much more than that.
[1979 | Bob Fosse]
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You can't do a section on musicals without mentioning Bob Fosse. He started on the stage, where he directed a number of iconic productions like How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Damn Yankees. Then he came to Hollywood, directing 5 films before his death in 1987. Three of them were nominated for Best Picture. Often compared to 8 1/2, because like Fellini's film, All That Jazz is based on Fosse's life.
"All That Jazz" even looks like a Fellini film — especially "Juliet of the Spirits" — having been photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno, Fellini's favorite cameraman. But looks and autobiographical details are, I think, deceiving."All That Jazz" is much less an "8 ½" than it is the most forthrightly candid variation ever worked out on Peter Pan and all other middle-aged boys who have refused to grow up. The film, which opens today at the Cinema I, is an uproarious display of brilliance, nerve, dance, maudlin confessions, inside jokes and, especially, ego. It's a little bit as if Mr. Fosse had invited us to attend his funeral — the wildest show-business sendoff a fellow ever designed for himself — and then appeared at the door to sell tickets and count the house; after all, funerals are only wasted on the dead. (Vincent Camby)
Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule—mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie by night—and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk. Fosse burrows into Gideon's (and his own) mind, rendering his interior world as phantasmagoric spectacle. Assembled with visionary editing that makes dance come alive on-screen as never before, and overflowing with sublime footwork by the likes of Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, and Ben Vereen, All That Jazz pushes the musical genre to personal depths and virtuosic aesthetic heights. (Criterion)
All That Jazz was nominated for 9 Oscars, including Best Picture. It was another 12 years before a musical was nominated for cinema's ultimate prize. Fosse won Best Director in 1973 for Cabaret. In fact, that year he became the only person to win a Tony, Emmy, and Oscar in the same year.
[1944 | Vincente Minnelli]
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A grand old MGM musical, Meet Me In St. Louis is best known for its rousing musical numbers, vivid use of Technicolor, and one of Judy Garland's better performances. She plays Esther Smith, who would very much like to be on better terms with her new neighbor John Truett (Tom Drake). Her older sister Rose (Lucille Bremer) is likewise hoping for a proposal, but their father is threatening to ruin everything by moving the family to New York City. It all looks hopeless.
As is expected from musicals of this era, the plot and dialogue are just minor annoyances that bridge the gap from one musical number to the next. I don't pretend to know which songs are original to the film and which are recycled, but "the Trolley Song" ("Clang! Clang! Clang! Goes the trolley!") was nominated for an Oscar and is clearly the star of the show.
The Technicolor musicals are kind of the peak of what we think of as the "Hollywood musical" and and several of them were directed by Vincente Minnelli, Oscar winner for Gigi and father of Liza Minnelli.
Minnelli's reputation is an interesting one. He's often ignored by historians as someone who "just" did musicals and the film he won his Oscar for is not only considered one of his weakest films, but one of the worst Best Picture winners. It's not the sort of combination that helps your reputation going forward.
But he undoubtedly had talent. What he did, he did very, very well.
Cahiers du Cinéma (remember them?) called him "an artist who could give substance to the world of dreams."
There's more.
[1964 | Jacques Demy]
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Last week we talked about the French New Wave, so it's only fitting that this week we include a French New Wave musical: Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
To start, this was the first major film of the legendary actress Catherine Deneuve.
When she made "Umbrellas" for the French director Jacques Demy, Deneuve was 20, and her work in this film was a flowering that introduced one of the great stars of modern French cinema. The film itself was a curious experiment in which all of the words were sung; Michel Legrand wrote the wall-to-wall score, which includes not only the famous main theme and other songs, but also Demy's sung dialogue, in the style of the lines used to link passages in opera. This style would seem to suggest a work of featherweight romanticism, but "Umbrellas" is unexpectedly sad and wise, a bittersweet reflection on the way true love sometimes does not (and perhaps should not) conquer all. (Roger Ebert)
Umbrellas was nominated for 5 Academy Awards (but across 2 years) and is probably best described as a French New Wave twist on a classic Hollywood musical. So, of course, it's a little quirky. To expand on Ebert's point, they don't randomly break out into song. All the dialogue is a song. Every. Single. Line.
The colors are ridiculously gorgeous.
It's also ridiculously good.
[1967 | Mel Brooks]
Watch: Amazon (rental)
While Mel Brooks' The Producers isn't technically a musical, it is about the making of a musical and contains a musical, so we're going to cheat and include it.
The plot is simple. Zero Mostel hires Gene Wilder to go over his books. Mostel is a former big player on Broadway who is hanging on by seducing old ladies into financing his plays, most of which flop. Wilder discovers that if a producer were unethical enough, he could raise more money than he needed by selling more than 100% of the play, but only if he was absolutely sure the play would flop.
So they go about trying to make the worst play Broadway has ever seen.
They find one written by this guy.
They go about making the worst decision at every opportunity. They hire a terrible director. They cast a 60's hippie as Hitler. They have this musical number to open the show.
It's all going so well!
And then Hitler speaks and it all goes to hell.
Mel Brooks is one of the great comedians in film history. Not many people would think to make a comedy about Hitler and if you want to argue this was an influence on JoJo Rabbit, I won't argue with you.
His genius, though, is not for ancient one-liners or for nostalgia. His genius is for such ambitious forms as the all-encompassing comedy routine and the genre-quoting and genre-annihilating epic movie, including Blazing Saddles (1974), a Jewish Western with a black hero; Young Frankenstein (1974), a film that expands the metaphysical ambitions of horror; History of the World: Part I (1981), a lewd corrective to historical piety; and Spaceballs (1987), a slapstick mock-out of the alleged profundities of the Star Wars series. (The Atlantic)
Oh, and he won an Oscar for this.
Of course, The Producers found a second life on Broadway, where it was a smash hit with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane. It ran forever and ever, with different productions in different cities, and eventually settled, in a season-long storyline of Curb Your Enthusiasm, on Larry David.
Larry ruins everything in ways only Larry David can, which was Mel Brooks' plan all along. He wanted the worst possible actor, to finally bring The Producers to an end.
And then Larry David freelances and it all goes to hell.
[2001 | Baz Luhrmann]
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To call Moulin Rouge! "bombastic" and "over-the-top" is to undersell it.
Set in Paris in 1900, Moulin Rouge! is a simple love story told in the biggest way possible. Ewan McGregor plays a writer who moves to Montmarte to become a bohemian. He meets some like-minded souls, helps them out of a writing jam, and then finds himself at the Moulin Rouge.
It goes a little something like this.
Kids, that is a Nirvana song. Ask your parents.
You'll sometimes hear this called a "jukebox musical", but it's more accurately a mash-up musical, as only one of the musical numbers are done unedited. There are at least 35 songs, mostly pop songs, littered throughout the film. It took them nearly 2 years to clear all the rights.
There's more than 12 in this scene alone.
Moulin Rouge! was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Not surprisingly, it won for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Costume Design, but it also should get credit for an assist. Jim Broadbent, who played Harold Zidler (the ringleader with the top hat), won Best Supporting Actor that year for his very different performance in Iris. It's hard to imagine that his performance here didn't win him a lot of votes.
It's easy to think of the film as all bombast and it really does play best in a movie theater, where it can just wash over you, but there's a method to Baz Luhrmann's madness.
In a world where every big-budget movie aims to be a spectacle EVENT, Moulin Rouge! is one of the very few that both grounds it in real emotions and sticks the landing.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
[1999 | Trey Parker]
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I know what you're thinking: The South Park movie? The gleefully offensive one that broke the record for the most profanity in an animated film?
People don't tend to think of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut as a musical, but Mike D'Angelo (The AV Club, Los Vegas Weekly) called it "one of the finest musicals of the past 20 years." It features 12 songs, including "Blame Canada", which was nominated for Best Original Song (very likely because it has the least cursing).
Although this is probably my favorite (very NSFW).
Within all the fart jokes, middle fingers at the MPAA rating system, and the desire to offend as many people as possible, is a deep love of musicals and all their conventions.
For example, this song later in the film that ties together a number of musical themes from earlier songs.
Of course, if you watch the TV show, this isn't a surprise, as musical sequences are common throughout the show's run.
It also wouldn't have been a surprise when Trey Parker and Matt Stone won 9 Tony Awards for The Book of Mormon.
This is also this, which my friends in college were obsessed with.
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