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Return of the Living Dead, 1985, Dan O'Bannon.
NIGHT VISIONS is where we offer up our capsule reviews of genre films as well as the occasional bad line reading, and bonkers death scene from the cinema boneyard. Be warned that these reviews are stream-of-consciousness and under the influence. While they are generally spoiler-free they are also often plot and rating free. As always, all respect due to the filmmakers and performers that have provided us with so many hours of cinematic bliss.
GNAW: Food of the Gods II
GNAW: FOOD OF THE GODS II (1989) Dir. Damian Lee. Written by Richard Bennet and Mike Werb. Starring: Paul Coufos, Lisa Schrage, Real Andrews. Directed by Damian Lee, Written by Richard Bennet and Mike Werb.
THE DEVIL'S RAIN
THE DEVIL'S RAIN (1975) Dir. Robert Fuest. Written by Gabe Essoe, James Ashton and Gerald Hopman. Starring: Ernest Borgnine, William Shatner, Ida Lupino, Keenan Wynn, Tom Skerritt, Eddie Albert, Joan Prather, John Travolta, and Anton Lavey.
Heaven help us all when the Devil's Rain!
The Devil's Rain could easily be considered, along with Race with the Devil, one of the more baroque opening shots of the Satanic Panic paranoia that started in the late 60's, flourished in the 70's and would eventually peter out in the 80's. While no…
SPLIT SECOND (1992) Dir. Tony Maylam. Written by Gary Scott Thompson. Starring: Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Alastair Duncan, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, and Michael J. Pollard.
He's seen the future. Now he has to kill it.
A flooded London is a great setting for a Sci-Fi Horror hybrid like this. Mix in some not too serious Rutger Hauer with a jones for chocolate, coffee, cigars and heavy artillery and you've got a fun diversion to help that six-pack i…
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BAD LINE READING #7: VIDEODROME
Videodrome is a masterpiece. I'm not here to argue the point, however I can admit there is at least one terrible line reading in the film and while I am inclined to believe the line reading is Cronenberg's intention and not James Woods' acting, it doesn't change my opinion that the scene would have been better delivered with a modicum of enthusiasm. Written as an obvious play on the superfluous See You in Hell! See You in Pittsburgh is delivered by James Woods as if an afterthought instead of the tongue-in-cheek one-liner it appears to be on the written page. Cronenberg's desire may very well have been to undermine the typical macho one-liner often delivered in action films after the dispatching of enemies, and if that's the case it works in so far as it robs the surreal murder of Harlan of any kind of visceral excitement, but at what cost?!
THE PUNISHER: WAR ZONE
THE PUNISHER: WAR ZONE (2008) Dir. Lexi Alexander. Written by Nick Santora, Art Marcum, & Matt Holloway. Starring: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz, Wayne Night, Doug Hutchison, and Dash Mihok.
Vengeance has a name.
The fact that we've had the best possible actor to play Wolverine actually playing Wolverine for more than a decade and the studios are just now deciding to let the filmmakers do it right with Logan—when Hugh Jackman is supposedly done with the character—gives me blu…
VAMP (1986) Dir. Richard Wenk. Written by Richard Wenk, based on a Story by Donald P. Borchers and Richard Wenk. Starring: Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace, Robert Rusler, Billy Drago, Gedde Watanabe, Deedee Pfeiffer, Sandy Baron, and Paunita Nichols.
Ever have one of those nights?
Look at Grace Jones, right here and now and submit to the baddest bitch of the eighties. A terrifyingly beautiful example of an utterly unique woman doing shit her way. It's always baffled me that the notoriously vanilla gatekeepers ever let her into the collect…
FULL ECLIPSE (1993) Dir. Anthony Hickox. Written by Richard Christian Matheson, and Michael Reeves. Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Patsy Kinsit, Bruce Payne, Jennifer Rubin, Jason Beghe, and Paula Marshall.
There's a new police force on the streets... and they only come out at night.
I've got a soft spot in my black heart for made for HBO movies, Patsy Kensit and Anthony Hickox as a director. Call it a side effect of coming of age during the heyday of all three. Full Eclipse then is a triple thr…
BAD LINE READING #6: TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE
While I have never been a big fan of Ryan O'Neil, I sure love this movie and a huge part of that love is because of how bad O'Neil is in it. If you don't believe me just take a look at this clip and behold the wonder of a one-time stars total disintegration in the shadow of Norman Mailer's fancy. The other reasons to love this movie unconditionally are Debra Sandland/Stipe as Patty Lareine, a gorgeous blonde with a terrible accent and a foul mouth, Isabella Rossellini as the forever put-upon ex-girlfriend, Laurence Tierney as the tough guy who doesn't dance, Wings "Ramrod" Hauser as the maniac Police Captain fond of chopping heads, Penn Jillette as a Swinging Preacher called Big Stoop, and Clarence Williams III as Patty Lareine's cryptically in the know chauffeur. Plus we get dialogue like this: "Are you trying to wake up all the ghosts in hell town? ", "You Yankees got tongues like tallywhackers," "I just deep-sixed two heads," and "My pussy hair used to be golden until I scorched it with the football team." The fact that Norman Mailer directed and Angelo Badalamenti scored is just icing on the weirdo cake. As a side note, I am pretty sure Lynch was intensely influenced by this film when he started down the rabbit hole of Twin Peaks.
TWO EVIL EYES
TWO EVIL EYES (1990) Dir. George A. Romero & Dario Argento. Written by Franco Ferrini, Peter Koper, George A. Romero, Dario Argento and based on Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Tom Atkins, and John
When I wake you . . . You'll be dead.
I'm never quite sure what to make of my fellow horror fan's taste. The casual, mainstream viewer with a taste for the macabre is easy enough to figure, but the seasoned ghoul down in the trenches with the rest of us can sometimes perplex me. They can ratt…
The Hard Way
THE HARD WAY (1991) Dir. John Badham. Written by Lem Hobbs and Daniel Pyne. Starring: James Woods, Michael J. Fox, Anabella Sciorra, Stephen Lang, Luis Guzman, LL Cool J, Delroy Lindo, Christina Ricci, and Penny Marshall.
There's only one way these two are going to get along... the Hard Way.
John Badham is one of those directors who never really seemed to be anything more than a competent craftsman with his ability tied directly to the quality of the script he was working with. From Saturday Night Fever and th…
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: SPACE SPACEY
Over the years, my cinematically saturated brain has made more than a few strange connections between actors and their inspirations, directors and their crib sheets, writers and their muses. For Your Consideration is not so much a place to expose homages and rip-offs, but more a space to raise questions about more abstract and potentially subconscious influences on the work of film artists in general. Rather than further explanation, I will demonstrate. For your consideration . . .
When I first saw Kevin Spacey in Seven:
My initial reaction was that he was channeling HAL from Kubrick's 2001:
I had been making this connection for years. How strange then that in 2009, Spacey decides to make his own foray into A.I. voices with Duncan Jones' Moon wherein he voices Gerty:
Mere Coincidence? Knowing homage? Spacey a robot? You decide.
THE AMBULANCE
THE AMBULANCE (1990) Dir. Larry Cohen. Written by Larry Cohen. Starring: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons, Janine Turner, and Stan Lee.
You'll be in perfect health . . . before you die.
Before my latest re-watch of this forgotten Larry Cohen gem my main memories of the film were of James Earl Jones laying in the middle of the street obsessively and loudly chewing gum - one of the weirdest death scenes in film - and an out o…
RUN (1991) Dir. Geoff Burrowes. Written by Dennis Shryack, and Michael Blodgett. Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Kelly Preston, and Ken Pogue.
Hunted By The Mafia And The Police, He's Running For His Life.
Smarmy law student/amateur card sharp, Charlie Farrow gets a job driving a Porsche down to Atlantic City, has some mechanical issues on the way, and lets his winning ways and running mouth get himself into big trouble at a little …
BAD LINE READING #5: SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT PART 2
I originally wanted to only feature bad line readings by known actors in Hollywood films, because really it's too easy to pick on the little guys, and who needs that kind of negativity? The older I get the more I enjoy what I enjoy and don't really care to read or hear snide comments on old favorites. Sure Eric Freeman's performance here is insane and if you're a horror fan then I am sure this clip is not a stranger to your twisted little heart, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be shared and shared again, because really who can watch this clip and not weep with laughter? It's a gift really and we should all thank Eric Freeman for his performance. If there was any justice in the world he would still be acting.
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (1991) Dir. Dan Aykroyd. Written by Dan Aykroyd based on a Story by Peter Aykroyd. Starring: Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, John Candy, Dan Akroyd, Taylor Negron, Brian Doyle-Murray, Daniel Baldwin, Digital Underground and Tupac Shakur.
All they wanted was a little getaway. All they got was nothing but trouble.
People far more connected than I have tried to get Aykroyd to talk about this little loved dark comedy and all have been met with total shutdown from brother Elroy. As soon as the movie is mentioned he hangs up or red…
ONE GOOD COP
ONE GOOD COP (1991) Dir. Heywood Gould. Written by Heywood Gould. Starring: Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Anthony Lapaglia, Benjamin Bratt, Rachel Ticotin, Kevin Conway, Tony Plana, and Victor Rivers.
How far will one man go to be a good father and stay...
One Good Cop has a lot of heart and its the rare character study outside of Clean & Sober where Keaton gets to show us what a damn fine actor he can be. It's great that he's made a comeback as of late, but he's still not getting the kind…
HAPPY HELL NIGHT
HAPPY HELL NIGHT (1992) Dir. Brian Owens. Written by Brian Owens and Michael Fitzpatrick. Starring: Sam Rockwell, Charles Cragin, and Darren McGavin.
Tonight The Party Animals Of Phi Delta Kappa Will Raise More Than Hell!
Well, what can be said about Happy Hell Night that could possibly make you want to see it? Sam Rockwell has a small part early on in both the film and his career. Kolchak himself, Darren McGavin plays Rockwell as an old m…
BAD LINE READING #4: THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW
The House on Sorority Row is such a good time it's on regular Halloween rotation around here, one of the few second tier 80's Slashers that has that honor, and it's for good reason. Decent acting, gory deaths, groovy dancing, a solid mystery and a satisfying ending all help to make this a pretty fun 90 minutes of slasher goodness. And as much as I dig Carrie Fisher in the remake, she's just not enough to make me forget about that pesky House Mother in the original. Is she really dead? Liz isn't quite so sure . . .
Later, Liz gets a surprise John Wayne Gacy Jack-in-the-Box that she is way too happy about and then gives us all a little something extra.
BLIND FURY (1989) Dir. Phillip Noyce. Written by Charles Robert Carner. Starring: Rutger Hauer, Meg Foster, Terry O'Quinn, Brandon Call, Lisa Blount, Noble Willingham, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, and Nick Cassavetes.
He's lucky he can't see what he's up against.
It's unfortunate that casting directors, agents and directors didn't know what to do with Rutger Hauer here in America. After Blade Runner, I think most us would have expected a different career path for the man who gave us Roy Batty and improvi…
UZUMAKI (2000) Dir. Higurchinsky. Written by Takao Nitta, Chika Yasuo, Kengo Kaji based on a Manga by Junji Ito. Starring: Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki, and Denden.
Based on Junji Ito's mindbending, gut-swirling manga of the same name, Uzumaki, the film, holds its place as one of the most unique films I've seen inside or outside of genre. The film's story and style is beyond strange even for Japanese Horror. Ultimately, we are bearing witness to a sma…
BAD LINE READING #3: THE HAPPENING
What can we say about Shyamalan's The Happening that hasn't been said before? How about this? I love the first half and think it's genuinely unsettling, and might have been a classic, but it's the ridiculous second half that earns the film its reputation and of course, this Wahlberg delivery - a classic among his many tone-deaf line deliveries. Still, I'll watch that first half whenever it's on so . . .
TRESPASS (1992) Dir. Walter Hill. Written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis. Starring: William Sadler, Bill Paxton, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Art Evans, Tommy Tiny Lister, Glenn Plummer, and De'voreaux White.
Two Arkansas Firemen, Don and Vince come into possession of a treasure map that promises a 50-year-old cache of stolen relics from a Catholic church. The catch is it's in an abandoned building in East St. Louis. Paxton is a bit of a naive idiot in this one - an interesting departure from his usu…
THE MANITOU
THE MANITOU (1977) Dir. William Girdler. Written by William Girdler based on a Novel by Graham Masterton. Starring: Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Michael Ansara, Burgess Meredith, Stella Stevens, and Ann Sothern.
You have to understand that when I first saw the Manitou, I had heard nothing about it. It didn't come as a recommendation from an in the know buddy, or an evil algorithm. I just came across it one night on an old VHS tape and buckled in. I wasn't aware it was directed by William Girdler (oh he …
BAD LINE READING #2: BATTLEFIELD EARTH
Sure, this is 100% Sci-Fi with nary a horror or crime element in it, but damn if it isn't amazing in its wrong-headedness. Enough has been said about this disaster elsewhere, so I'll keep it brief and only wonder aloud that this moment had to be the point at which Travolta knew the entire project was doomed. You can hear the futility of defeat in his delivery.
RICOCHET (1991) Dir. Russell Mulcahy. Written by Steven E. De Souza based on a story by Fred Dekker and Menno Meyjas. Starring: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Kevin Pollack, Ice-T, Victoria Dillard, Mary Ellen Trainor, John Amos, and Jesse Ventura.
John Lithgow seemed to be on a roll playing bad guys in the early 90's with this, Cliffhanger and Raising Cain apparently working out the kinks before he spent the next 10 years on 3rd Rock from the Sun. And as good as he is at playing the nice guy, he's even better at playing the baddie. Can …
DEEP COVER
DEEP COVER (1992) Dir. Bill Duke. Written by Michael Tolkin and Henry Bean. Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Paunita Nichols, Clarence Williams III, Charles Martin Smith, Roger Guenever Smith, and Sydney Lassick.
"The jungle creed says the strongest feed on any prey that it can. And I was branded beast at every feast before I ever became a man."
The story of John Hull's descent into deep cover as drug dealer for the DEA, eventual shunning of the DEA, and acceptance of his criminal nature is a sligh…
BAD LINE READING #1: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
Another easy target you might say, but I would argue that Keanu Reeves is not the terrible actor everyone believes him to be, he just really needs diction lessons and a voice coach like all the time, everywhere, not just on sets. That, and directors, who really should know better, need to stop casting him in roles he has no chance of pulling off. I couldn't find a clip of the "Blue Inferno" line by itself so you will have to suffer through this mix someone made of his greatest hits from Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.
PRIMAL RAGE (1988) Dir. Vittorio Rambaldi. Written by Umberto Lenzi and James Justice. Starring: Patrick Lowe, Cheryl Arutt, Sarah Buxton, Mitch Watson, Bo Svenson.
RACE WITH THE DEVIL
RACE WITH THE DEVIL (1975) Dir. Jack Starrett. Written by Les Frost and Wes Bishop. Starring: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker, R.G. Armstrong, Jack Starrett, Paul A. Partial, and R.C. Keene.
If you're going to race with the devil, you've got to be as fast as Hell!
Released the same year as The Devil's Rain and presenting a far less supernatural take on Satanism in the good old U.S. of A., Race with the Devil is equal parts stunt-crazy action and frightening horror. In fact, it ma…
CLASS OF 1999 (1990) Dir. Mark L. Lester. Written by C. Courtney Joyner and Mark L. Lester. Starring: Stacy Keach, Malcolm McDowell, Pam Grier, Bradlee Gregg, Traci Lind, Patrick Kilpatrick, John P. Ryan, and Joshua Miller.
There's Just One Subject at Kennedy High ... Survival!
I'll probably take some heat for this one, but I much prefer Class of 1999 to Lester's Class of 1984. 1984 is great fun, but it doesn't have anything on the quick pace, Sci-Fi facelift and nutty cast being way nutty in 1999. I mean, check…
Miami Blues
MIAMI BLUES (1990) Dir. George Armitage. Written by George Armitage based on a Novel by Charles Willeford. Starring: Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fred Ward, Nora Dunn, Paul Gleason Jack Napier, Obba Babatunde, and Shirley Stoler.
Real badge. Real gun. Fake cop.
1990 was a big year for Baldwin. With The Hunt for Red October and Miami Blues both released, he was on his way to becoming a household name, but still a year out from his romance with Kim Basinger and a couple of years out from his legendary performance in G…
ABSURD DEATHS #1
ABSURD DEATHS #6: DEADLY FRIEND
Wes Craven was definitely trawling the waters of B moviedom for that one of a kind idea after The Hills Have Eyes. With the Amish gender bender Deadly Blessing, the comic book adaptation Swamp Thing and TV movie weirdness like Invitation to Hell and Summer of Fear all getting the Craven treatment before he finally broke through to the mainstream with A Nightmare on Elm Street. What did he do, you may ask, after creating the iconic Freddy Krueger? He made Deadly Friend, a kind of After School Special riff on Frankenstein and Short Circuit with a robotic Kristy Swanson, a fun 80's vibe and one, count'em one, memorable death scene. To be fair to Craven, though, it's a doozy.
The Hitcher
THE HITCHER (1986) Dir. Robert Harmon. Written by Eric Red. Starring: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
The terror starts when he stops!
If ever a movie could lay claim to illustrating the perils of picking up strangers in the middle of the night to Generation X it's the first ten minutes of this movie. Penned by Eric Red in the midst of a run of ridiculous but excellent genre scripts, The Hitc…
RUNAWAY (1984) Dir. Michael Crichton. Written by Michael Crichton. Starring: Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley, Chris Mulkey, G.W. Bailey, and Stan Shaw.
It Is The Future. He fought the horror of robots programmed to kill.
Runaway is the kind of movie I am all for seeing remade . . . if we could keep the performances and the majority of the script. It simply needs a visual make-over and a defter hand than Michael Crichton to smooth over some …
ABSURD DEATHS #5: : SNAKE IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW
Jackie Chan learning that his Snake Fist is no match for the Eagle's Claw, takes inspiration from his house cat and perfects the Cat Claw executed flawlessly in the above gif. What more do you need to know? This was Woo-Ping Yuen's first film as a director and he would re-team with Jackie Chan directly afterwards for the much more well known Drunken Master.
FRAILITY
FRAILTY (2001) Dir. Bill Paxton. Written by Brent Hanley. Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter, Luke Askew, and Levi Kreis.
There are demons among us.
As you might have noticed, or will very soon, we are big fans of Bill Paxton around here, but who isn't you say? Well, I don't know and I don't wanna know. As good as he was as a character actor, from Chet in Weird Science to Hudson in Aliens, Severin in Near Dark a…
MIRACLE MILE (1988) Dir. Steve De Jarnatt. Written by Steve De Jarnatt. Starring: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Mykelti Williamson, Kelly Jo Minter, Kurt Fuller, Denise Crosby, Robert Doqui, Jeanette Goldstein, Eddie Bunker, and O-Lan Jones.
There are 70 minutes to the end of the world. Where can you hide?
I was lucky enough to catch Steve De Jarnatt at a screening of Miracle Mile a couple of years back at Northwest Film Forum here in Seattle. He was there promoting the Blu-Ray release of the film which has haunted my dreams of n…
DR. GIGGLES
DR. GIGGLES (1992) Dir. Manny Coto. Written by Manny Coto and Graeme Whifler. Starring: Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff De Young, Glenn Quinn, Keith Diamond, Richard Bradford, and Doug E. Doug.
The Doctor is out . . . of his mind.
Oh, what I wouldn't give to have a whole series of Dr. Giggles films. Of all the attempts at new franchise slashers made in the 90's, Dr. Giggles is the only one that ever really had a chance with me, beating out Brainscan's Trickster (who never really …
JACOB'S LADDER (1990) Dir. Adrian Lyne. Written by Bruce Joel Rubin. Starring: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Ving Rhames, Matt Craven, Jason Alexander, Eriq La Salle, and Macaulay Culkin.
The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.
Jacob's Ladder is a bit of an anomaly in Adrian Lyne's career. The director of such films as Flashdance, 9 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, Lolita, and Unfaithful wouldn't necessarily be…
ABSURD DEATHS #3, 4 & 5
ABSURD DEATHS #2, 3 & 4: HARD TICKET TO HAWAII
THE FIRST POWER
THE FIRST POWER (1990) Dir. Robert Renikoff. Written by Robert Renikoff. Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober, Mykelti Williamson, and David Gale.
Satan has created the perfect killer. One who cannot be stopped. Be warned.
I saw The First Power upon its release in theaters, and I'm pretty sure I took my Mother to see it for Mother's Day. Being probably know more than 12 at the time, I am totally sure this was a mere ploy on my part to…
JOHNNY HANDSOME
JOHNNY HANDSOME (1989) Dir. Walter Hill. Written by Ken Friedman based on a Novel by John Godey. Starring: Mickey Rourke, Lance Henrickson, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Forest Whitaker, Elizabeth McGovern, and Peter Jason.
Revenge has a new face.
Johnny Handsome is the kind of lean, mean and well-wrought Crime Drama that Hollywood doesn't make anymore mostly because they don't let Walter Hill direct movies much these days. There are no overreaching themes of redemption or philosophical meditations on the natu…
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: DEL TORO DIGS MONK
Benicia Del Toro initially made a name for himself as being the guy who demanded doing every role in some invented alien patois unintelligible to nearly everyone but himself and perhaps Pacino in Scarface; see his small role in Weir's Fearless as well as the following evidence - his most notorious:
Thelonious Monk made a name for himself for being a genius piano player and eccentric;
Enjoy the music then at 3:30 listen . . .
Del Toro a fan of Monk? Both simply mumble mouths suffering the occasional Tourette's outburst? Completely unrelated? You decide.
BODY PARTS (1991) Dir. Eric Red. Written by Eric Red and Norman Snider based on a Story by Patricia Herskovic and Joyce Taylor from a Novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Starring: Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney, and Brad Dourif.
A medical miracle has become a murderous nightmare.
Body Parts is the third of an unofficial 'written by Eric Red' trilogy of kickass horror movies made in the 80's and early 90's with The Hitcher and Near Dark being the other two. While Red wrote and directed other movies during this time an…
THE UNNAMABLE I & II
THE UNNAMABLE I & II (1988 & 1992) Dir. Jean-Paul Ouelette. Written by Jean-Paul Ouelette based on Stories by H.P. Lovecraft. Starring: Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Charles King, Laura Albert, John Rhys-Davies, David Warner, and Julie Strain.
From the depths of HELL.
With Dan O'Bannon's The Resurrected recently treated to a Blu-Ray special edition by Scream Factory, we can only hope The Unnameable films aren't far behind. It's hard to gauge how much of my own love for these films is rooted in nostalgia from seeing them upon releas…
GRAVEYARD SHIFT (1990) Dir. Ralph S. Singleton. Written by John Esposito based on a Story by Stephen King. Starring: David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht, Brad Dourif, Andrew Divoff, and Vic Polizos.
Stephen King took you to the edge with The Shining and Pet Sematary. This time......he pushes you over.
Another unfairly maligned screen adaptation of a King short story, Graveyard Shift delivers a solid bit of entertainment about a drifter taking a summer job at a textile mill and getting …
ABSURD DEATHS #1: HARD TARGET
What is there to say about Hard Target that the above image doesn't say for me? Well, it's John Woo's American debut and it's yet another take on the Most Dangerous Game story, this time with that ubiquitous 90's bad-ass Lance Henricksen as the villain with a capital V and . . . Yancey Butler in a movie not released by Full Moon! Oh, and there's some very bad Cajun nonsense delivered by none other than Wilfred Brimley so it's pretty much a viewing requirement for bad movie junkies. Get on it!
DISORGANIZED CRIME
DISORGANIZED CRIME (1989) Dir. Jim Kouf. Written by Jim Kouf. Starring: Corbin Bernsen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ruben Blades, Fred Gwynne, William Russ, Ed O'Neill, Daniel Roebuck, and Hoyt Axton.
Salazar, a not bald Corbin Bernsen - this was the L.A. Law days - cases a local bank in a podunk Montana town. Before the opening titles have ended he's busted by two New Jersey Detectives (Roebuck and O'Neill) who have been tracking him for the robbery of several banks back East. Enter the rest…
BRAINSCAN
BRAINSCAN (1994) Dir. John Flynn. Written by Andrew Kevin Walker based on a Story by Brian Owens. Starring: Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, and T. Ryder Smith
"Death, Death, Death . . . Part Two." So says Michael (Furlong) when questioned about his in-class viewing habits by the School Dean and if that doesn't win you over to this morbid little sonovabitch with a bum leg and even bummer back story then his Igor inspired answering service, love for Fan…
JUDGEMENT NIGHT
JUDGEMENT NIGHT (1993) Dir. Stephen Hopkins. Written by Lewis Colick based on a Story by Jere Cunningham. Starring: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven, Denis Leary, and Peter Greene.
A group of middle-class dudes out for a night on the town end up fighting for their lives in the inner city when their party RV breaks down and they witness Denis Leary murder a body. There's no more plot than that which is perhaps why the subtext is so apparent, well the attempt at subtext. I m…
STONE COLD (1991) Dir. Craig R. Baxley. Written by Walter Doniger. Starring: Brian Bosworth, Lance Henricksen, William Forsythe, and Sam McMurray.
Craig R. Baxley directed three movies between 1988 and 1991 and for my money, the ex-stuntman turned action director is one of the best when it comes to stunt-heavy, brain-dead over the top fun. From Action Jackson to I Come in Peace to this Biker bacchanalia of tattooed tits and heavy artiller…
POPCORN (1991) Dir. Mark Herrier, Alan Ormsby and Bob Clark (both uncredited.) Written by Alan Ormsby as Tod Hackett and based on a Story by Mitchell Smith. Starring: Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, Dee Wallace, Tony Roberts, Kelly Jo Minter, and Ray Walston.
Oh, Jill Schoelen, where did you go? Horror sorely needs another actress with Schoelen's easy charm. The perfect Final Girl, though she never quite played one unless you count this movie as a Slasher which I don't. Looking back at her roles in Horror, it's surprising how little she actually did …
ABSURD DEATHS #7: LIVE AND LET DIE
THE RESSURRECTED
THE RESURRECTED (1991) Dir. Dan O'Bannon. Written Brent V. Friedman based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft. Starring: Chris Sarandon, John Terry, Jane Sibbett, and Robert Romanus.
I'm one of those weirdos that has championed The Resurrected since catching it on cable in the 90's back to back with that other forgotten Chris Sarandon horror film, Whispers, and while I have never met anyone outside of a festival who has seen either, fans apparently exist. Enough so that Scre…
I COME IN PEACE
I COME IN PEACE aka DARK ANGEL (1990) Dir. Craig R. Baxley. Written by Jonathan Tydor, David Koepp as Leonard Maas Jr. Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley, Mathias Hues, Sherman Howard, and Michael J. Pollard.
Much has been made of the awesome impact the giant Intergalactic Drug Dealer of I Come in Peace made on genre fans in 1990 and he was certainly a stroke of genius in concept (early Koepp idea?) and realization. Often, the next point of praise falls to the killer CD-like weapon deployed by said a…
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This indulgent exotic spa ritual begins with a warm full body scrub infused with Canadian sea salts & essential oils to stimulate the circulation and gently exfoliate the skin. Then immerse yourself for 30 minutes in the hydrotherapy spa bath with aromatherapy oils & mineral salts, rich in magnesium to relax muscles. Your muscles are now ready to melt during the 45 minute aromatherapy & warm stone massage . You will feel a renewed sense of relaxation and calm. The ritual then concludes with a moisturising body wrap and mini facial incorporating a face and scalp massage leaving skin nourished and radiant. As a finishing touch, BABOR or Jane Iredale Mineral Makeup may be applied before leaving the Spa (optional).
This experience takes place in Darwin, NT.


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Q: in Euclidean space defined by multivariate normal distribution, what fraction of points falls within n-ball (centered at origin) tangent to point p? In a Euclidean space defined by the multivariate normal distribution, what fraction of all points falls within or are tangent to (as opposed to falling outside of) the n-sphere whose center is at the origin and which is tangent to the point p represented by Cartesian coordinates:
vector(θ) =(θ1, θ2, θ3, θ4 θ5, ... θn)
representing sigmas in the multivariate normal distribution in n dimensions?
This is a post-doctoral question and I could not find it in the literature.  I tried searches for the terms you see in the subject line.
p.s. in terms of the picture in the link, the question is: "what fraction of all the dots are in the green circle?" (where in this case the green circle is defined by an arbitrary point on its circumference.)
In terms of R-programming-language code I would like to give a vector and get back a number between 0 and 1.

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3 A Dependency Injection tasting menu You may have heard that making a sauce bearnaise is difficult. Even many people who cook regularly have never attempted to make one.... The pattern of dependency injection significantly reduces dependencies between classes in a piece of software, therefore making the software more maintainable.
DESCRIPTION Dependency Injection (DI) is a software design technique behind the wildly popular Spring tool in Java. .NET developers are only now discovering how DI can improve the quality and maintainability of their C# code.
The only sensible example I have found is the "Copy" program which can be found in Robert C. Martin's The Dependency Inversion Principle (PDF), and also described in Dependency Inversion Principle, IoC Container, and Dependency Injection at codeproject.com.
About the Technology. Dependency Injection is a great way to reduce tight coupling between software components. Instead of hard-coding dependencies, such as specifying a database driver, you inject a list of services that a component may need.
The pattern of dependency injection significantly reduces dependencies between classes in a piece of software, therefore making the software more maintainable.


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/**
 * TBulletin.java	2010/11/26
 */

package com.ycsoft.beans.system;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;

import com.ycsoft.commons.constants.DictKey;
import com.ycsoft.commons.store.MemoryDict;
import com.ycsoft.daos.config.POJO;

/**
 * SBulletin -> S_BULLETIN mapping
 */
@POJO(
	tn="S_BULLETIN_WORKTASK",
	sn="",
	pk="DEPT_ID")
public class SBulletinWorktask implements Serializable {

	// TBulletin all properties

	private String dept_id;
	private String bulletin_id ;
	private String bulletin_worktask_type;
	private String remark;

	/**
	 * default empty constructor
	 */
	public SBulletinWorktask() {}

	public String getDept_id() {
		return dept_id;
	}

	public void setDept_id(String dept_id) {
		this.dept_id = dept_id;
	}

	public String getBulletin_id() {
		return bulletin_id;
	}

	public void setBulletin_id(String bulletin_id) {
		this.bulletin_id = bulletin_id;
	}

	public String getBulletin_worktask_type() {
		return bulletin_worktask_type;
	}

	public void setBulletin_worktask_type(String bulletin_worktask_type) {
		this.bulletin_worktask_type = bulletin_worktask_type;
	}

	public String getRemark() {
		return remark;
	}

	public void setRemark(String remark) {
		this.remark = remark;
	}

}

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Battleground is a PVP system which you and other players will team up with one of the two leaders, General Guillaume (blue side) or Prince Croix (red side). Playing battlegrounds can be rewarding with battleground exclusive gears, consumables, and even donation gears.
Go into the Battle Room by clicking Battle Recruiter in Caspen or type @go bg for shortcut.
Click on Battle Recruiter or type @joinbg to automatically join the queue.
You must wait in any city for the queue.
6 players are the minimum requirement to start the round otherwise the battle won't start.
Each round can have a maximum of 60 players, being 30/30 on each sides.
Capture flags, destroy Emperium, or kill enemy players to win.
There will be 9 battlegrounds arenas and each round will start at random arena.
Win or lose, players will still be rewarded.
Battleground only open at certain time and last for 1 hour.
Each round of battlegrounds will have a time limit.
When you die, you will be warp to a special room until you re-spawn to the arena again.
The special room will also contain an NPC to heal, access storage or repair any broken equipment.
Playing battleground can reward you with war badge, silvervine fruit, and victory badge.
Each battleground arenas will have different objectives.
Battleground follows WoE mechanics by which some skills can't be used in battlegrounds.
Stand still for more than 10 seconds without doing anything will trigger AFK message to everyone but once you move, the AFK indicator will go away otherwise you will be kicked out of the round and have 8-10 minutes penalty before joining another round.
Score 3 points by capturing the enemy flag and bring it to your base flag.
If the enemy capture your flag, you can kill the flag carrier and return your flag to your base.
Each sides will be given 50 lives.
Kill the enemy players until their lives reach 0 to win.
There will be 6 stones in the middle of battlefield.
Capture as many stones as possible and bring them to your base to earn points.
While you carry the stones, you will not be able to heal, use skills and will drain your HP overtime.
There will be "HELP" sign above the character who pick up the stone and it is advisable to tell your team to protect you while carrying the stone or kill the enemy players.
First team that reach 100 points wins the game.
There will be two bases that you can control on the battlefield.
Stay within the base area to dominate it.
Score points overtime for each base you capture.
Increase points overtime by capturing both bases.
Earn extra points by capturing the flag in the middle and bring it to your base.
Attack enemy base and destroy each MVP guardian to earn points.
You must capture Balance Flag in the middle to do damage to the guardian.
First team that reach 5 points wins the game.
There will be three bases that you can control on the battlefield.
Dominate as many bases as you can to earn points.
There will be three teams, your team and the other two are enemies.
Collect enemy/teammate skulls and bring them to sacrifice totem to earn points.
If you are killed while carrying skulls, all the skulls will be dropped.
First team that reach 80 points wins the game.
If you are the attacker, destroy enemy defenses and its flag.
If you are the defender, defend your flag until time runs out.
Fight to capture the castle and organize your team to defend it.
If you fail on the first capture, kill the defender and destroy the Emperium to win.


Malu Trevejo is a famous Cuban-American social media sensation who initially rose to fame as an avid Instagram user before attending a huge audience on her malutrevejoo123 account. She started to gain success across social media in 2015.
Malu Trevejo was born on 15 October 2002 and is 16 years old as of early 2019. She was born in Havana, Cuba. She is from Cuba and is of Latin descent.
Now Malu is living with her mother in South Florida, USA. After starting the musical career, she is enrolled in a home school program.
Malu Trevejo is of Cuban nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity.
Malu is a famous Cuban internet personality who came to the fame for her social media accounts like Instagram and musical.ly.
Trevejo is a Cuban musical.ly is best known for her musical.ly profile, which she closed in 2016.
In musical.Ly, she had more than 810,000 fan followers. She used to post dancing videos and won thousands of hearts every day which paved her way towards fame. On July 12, 2017, Trevejo started her own YouTube Channel, which has 989,748 subscribers and 9.6 million views as of early 2019.
Trevejo released her debut single Luna Llena in 2017. The single was produced by the Filptones. The Filptones are multi-platinum American record producers and songwriters that consists of Chaz Mishan and David Delazy. Luna Llena peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart.
Malu Trevejo has earned 1.6 million followers at the age of 14 with her belly dancing ability. She also likes singing in her free time.
There is no official information available about Malu Trevejo's net worth. However, if some sources are to be believed, her net worth is around $1 million. She earns a handsome figure of earnings.
Malu is currently living in South Florida, the USA with her mother.
She has a stunning figure and beautiful body which she flaunts in the bikini in her Instagram account.
Trevejo is dating a boyfriend which she revealed through a video on her YouTube channel. Though Malu has not disclosed anything about her boyfriend, he holds an account with NBA YoungBoy.
Malu Trevejo was born on 2002, October 15. She is from Cuba and is of Latin descent. Now she is living with her mother in South Florida, USA. She is single and very young. She has a huge fan followers on her Instagram profile.
Malu Trevejo is one of the hot topics in the online industry. She has a huge fame due to her Instagram account. She is a Cuban musical.ly star. She started to gain success across social media in 2015. In her ly profile, she has over 810,000 followers.
Malu stands 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs around 48 kg.


I am pleased to announce that a new Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) for Tasmania has started work after an extensive national recruitment process.
Dr Kevin de Witte was appointed by the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment to fill this important role. Dr de Witte comes to Tasmania with a wide range of knowledge and skills, having 35 years' experience in the animal health and welfare industry, most recently as the Northern Territory's CVO.
The CVO position provides independent specialist and strategic advice on matters relating to livestock and wildlife disease and welfare management, and represents Tasmania's position in national animal biosecurity and animal welfare policy making forums.
I would like to wish Dr de Witte all the best in his new role.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing CVO Rod Andrewartha, who retired from this position in 2018, for his significant contribution over the last 19 years.


Soft, coastal, rustic vibes are what I am going for in our Master Bedroom at the Lake House. Coastal translates different ways to each person but for me when I think coastal I think soft blues and grey mixed with lots of creams, whites and woods with gorgeous light streaming everywhere. I find those colors soothing and peaceful.
This is what we used and how we did it.
I knew I wanted a "whitewashed" shabby chic feel for the wall. I found the left over paint samples we had from various projects and the colors were perfect. I poured paint into cups and added water until it was the desired consistancy and simply wiped it on using a rag.
We used all the old paint samples left over from choosing wall colors (which as a bonus ties the colors throughout the house).
Once the boards were dry I lined them up against the garage wall the way I wanted them on the bedroom wall. It made it so much easier when we went to install them and allowed for me to play around with them a bit.
We used a pneumatic nailer to attach the boards directly to the wall. I wanted to run the boards vertically to draw attention the the 12 ft ceilings.
Sorry about the poor lighting it was getting late.
The very last board needed to put cut smaller to fit. Other than that due to some careful planning by my Engineer husband the wall required very few cuts.
Last board needed to be cut to fit the space.
Here is the final result! We love the texture and warmth it give to the space.
Updating the kitchen in our rental property for less than $500.00.


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Make a Difference Day is one of the largest national Days of Service that United Way takes part in. Thanks to our amazing volunteers, the past economic impact of Make A Difference Day was valued to be over $19,000! The independent sector values the volunteer time of New Yorkers at a rate of $28.73 per hour.
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Redshirt senior outside hitter David Wieczorek's career-high .737 hitting percentage led national No. 5 Pepperdine Men's Volleyball to their second sweep of a Top 10 opponent in three days.
The Waves beat No. 9 Stanford on Friday by set scores of 25-21, 25-22 and 25-21 to open Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) play with another victory, following their sweep of No. 7 Brigham Young Feb. 6.
Wieczorek, a fourth-year starter, amassed 14 kills on only 19 swings with no errors. Seniors Michael Wexter and Kaleb Denmark also contributed double-digit kills (with 12 and 10, respectively), while redshirt sophomore setter Robert Mullahey added 34 assists and seven digs.
"Big players make big plays, and [Wieczorek] makes a lot of them," second-year Head Coach David Hunt said.
The Cardinal led by as many as three points in each of the first two sets before the Waves battled back, but the third set was a wire-to-wire victory for Pepperdine. Middle blocker Kevin Vaz made perhaps the biggest play of the night, registering a solo block to end the match and earn a roar of approval from the crowd at Firestone Fieldhouse.
Stanford was coming off three losses, having been swept twice by No. 2 Hawaii and narrowly losing a five-set match at the hands of No. 4 UCLA.
However, Pepperdine was also hungry. Following a difficult loss at No. 3 UC Irvine Jan. 27, the team was ready for the return to the friendly confines of Firestone Fieldhouse.
With the three consecutive wins against No. 12 Cal State Northridge, BYU and Stanford, the Waves remain undefeated with a 6-0 record at home. Their next eight matches will all be away from Malibu.
"It's going to be a challenging road, and we know conference play is not going to be easy, so defending our home court is definitely one of the biggest things we take pride in," Vaz said.
Stanford gained an advantage early on the Waves' home court, leading 15-12 in the first set behind strong play from senior outside hitter Jordan Ewert, but Denmark keyed an 8-1 Pepperdine run with a kill, block and ace.
Ewert finished with 11 kills to lead the Cardinal, but Stanford only hit .284 as a team, while the Waves finished with a .370 hitting percentage as a team.
Wexter closed each of the first two sets for Pepperdine with clutch kills, but it was timely plays by Wieczorek that caused Stanford to take two timeouts in a tight second set.
Senior Max Chamberlain got in on the action with a tip kill and an ace early in the third set, and the Waves never relinquished their hold on the match, leading by as much as 13-7 in the closing set.
"Anytime you get a win is good, whether it's in three, four or five," Hunt said.
Despite tough losses at Loyola-Chicago and Irvine and the long upcoming road stretch, Hunt said he is proud of his team. The Waves now sit at 8-2 overall and 2-0 in conference play.
"We were figuring ourselves out early in the year, and now we're starting to hit our stride," Hunt said.
The road stretch will be critical, as it includes four MPSF matchups, including one with No. 4 UCLA, and a tournament in Honolulu that includes a date with No. 2 Hawaii.
"I think we feel like after 10 days, 12 days, however long it was that we've been home, I think we feel like we left in a better spot than when we got here, and that's a good feeling," Hunt said.


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René Descartes' Error
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I was born in Bury, Lancashire, in the north west of England, and grew up in Altrincham, Cheshire, which is on the southern edge of Greater Manchester. I currently live in Brunswick Heads near Byron Bay in northern New South Wales, Australia, with my partner Sera.
I became a Buddhist when I was living in Manchester in my early twenties, and lived at the Manchester Buddhist Centre for several years, before moving to the London area. The years living (and working) in semi-monastic 'Western Buddhist' communities gave me a profound spiritual and cultural education that I have drawn on all my life. My writing in this website is, in part, a distillation of the best of what I learned during those years, filtered through, and processed in the course of three decades of life experience and further spiritual study.
Finding myself somewhat culturally adrift after my Buddhist years in my twenties, I was fortunate enough to find and embrace English Quakerism for ten years in my 30s and early 40s, and was a warden of the Quaker Meeting House in Hampstead, North London, for much of that time. Originally a Christian tradition, the English Quakers have been an intensely practical and effective force for good in the world since the mid-17th Century. The inspiration for their relentless campaigns for peace and social justice over three and half centuries, has come from a meditative and mystical approach to worship. The English Quakers still sit in silence and open to the presence of the Divine – and they have no creed or required beliefs. Although I have not maintained my connection with the Quaker tradition since moving to Australia, it is still a source of inspiration, and looking back I recognise with great gratitude that Quaker meetings provided me with a very deep experience of a spiritual community – one whose history continues to fascinate me.
Although I am no longer working in that profession, much of my time in London was spent working as an Occupational Therapist – running therapeutic programs, and doing counselling, coaching and support work in mental health services. I loved that work, and I dearly loved the staff and patients that I worked with in those contexts, and I loved the humanistic psychological framework of that work, but found myself predominantly drawing on spiritual understandings, and on the depth psychology of Carl Jung (whose work I had studied during my Buddhist years) and other psychological approaches that were incongruous with the standard psychiatric understandings of mind and behaviour. I was also especially deeply affected by the work of philosopher and psychotherapist, Eugene Gendlin – whose wonderful 'Focusing' practice I studied in depth, and practised regularly for many years.
Gendlin's 'Focusing' is a self-empathy / self-inquiry / psycho-therapeutic innerwork practice, that is very little known. I practiced Focusing in the context of a wonderful circle of fellow student practitioners who became my dearest friends. That experience of practising Focusing on a weekly basis with a close circle of friends, was the strongest experience of spiritual community in my life – even deeper in some ways, than my experience of residential Buddhist communities in my twenties, or any other spiritual community that I have come across since. Although Focusing is usually presented, and understood, in humanistic terms, it is, in my view, a profoundly soulful and spiritual practice, and I came to see it as a practice that is closely aligned with Carl Jung's archetypal psychology, which I continued to study at the same time. In my experience, the practice of Focusing consistently raises us far above a merely humanistic world-view. Our innerwork processes in that practice group frequently led us not only to psychological healing, but to profound spiritual insights and spiritual comfort.
An important part of my journey in the last two decades, has been a period of seriously debilitating metabolic illness. I now recognise that these patterns of ill health have been with me since my twenties, but have worsened as I got older. This process has forced me into an understanding of health and mental health that is truly holistic. I find myself enormously grateful to several of the doctors in general practice in my local area, who practice various forms of more broad-based functional medicine that incorporates, or works alongside, nutritional, naturopathic, and complementary approaches.
What has lifted my level of well-being most effectively; and what has supported me in living with my limitations most profoundly; and what has prompted me to create this website, has been my return to regular meditation practice in 2016. The approach that I have found is a synthesis of understandings from many sources, and I would dearly like to share it with others.
My approach to meditation is a Buddhist one – it springs primarily from Buddhist sources of inspiration and understanding. Its foundation is in the Buddha's teachings, and in the Five Wisdoms teachings of Indian Mahayana Buddhism. I think of myself as a Buddhist Universalist however – by which I mean that I do not believe that Buddhism is the only source of valid spiritual truths. There are many other teachers, and several other traditions that have supported my understanding. I was very effected for example, by the work of Eugene Gendlin, which I mentioned above; by the Nonviolent Communication model of Marshall Rosenberg; by the very simple and direct advaita vedanta teachings of 'Sailor Bob' Adamson, who was a student of Nisagadatta Maharaj (and also of Dzogchen); by the exercises developed by Douglas Harding (who was a student Zen); and by the work of Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff (who have collaborated to create a brilliant and convincing hypotheses to explain the 'hard problem' of Consciousness – via the quantum mechanical functioning of the molecular micro-tubules in the nerve-cells of the brain).
I have also greatly valued the non-duality teachings of Candice O'Denver, and the global community that she has created. Although Candice O'Denver personally feels an affinity with the Dzogchen teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, and has in recent years been adopted by one of the Tibetan lineages, her approach to spiritual practice strips Dzogchen back to its culture-free essence. While I hesitate to attempt to sum up these profound teachings, this essence might be characterised as an invitation to recognise Consciousness repeatedly, if only for short moments, in the midst of life – and to gratefully acknowledge its beneficial and profoundly supportive qualities. Candice O'Denver's 'Balanced View' network of teachers and students appear to have broken new ground with this approach – and with their innovative use of both telephone conferencing and internet-based video-conferencing technologies, to create a global spiritual study community.
While I have been drawn to Candice O'Denver's teachings, and to her ultra-simple and ultra-direct approach, my own path, and the path that I find myself advocating in my articles on this website is more culturally Buddhist one – with systematic self-enquiry and meditation practice. My advocacy of a meditative engagement with the complexities of the bodies and chakras is based on my studies and meditative explorations of Tibetan Buddhism in my twenties, but with a very precious and very crucial piece of additional information from Rahasya (Dr Fritjof Kraft) – a local non-duality teacher in the Byron Bay area – who teaches about the alternating polarity of the subtle bodies and chakras, and about how these alternating polarities are opposite in women and men.
I need also to acknowledge the intimate and kind support that I have experienced from Issac Shapiro, a non-duality teacher in the Byron Bay area. Although I have only attended his satsang meetings very infrequently, they have profoundly affected me. It is precious to live in a corner of the world where you never know when you might bump into a bodhisattva at the local farmer's market.
The road of my spiritual life has taken yet another turn in the last few years. When I began writing on this website, I did not think of myself as a Buddhist and I had no Buddhist friends. Because of the eclectic nature of my spiritual journey, I thought of myself only as someone with a great love of the Buddha and of the Buddhist tradition, and as someone whose formative years of spiritual education were in the context of Buddhist community and Buddhist meditation retreats. I was a solitary spiritual practitioner with no affiliations within any particular spiritual community.
In 2020, I have noticed a choice taking place in me. I have noticed myself longing for community – for Sangha – for a communal context for my life and for my spiritual aspirations. This has led me to reconnect with old friends and associates from my twenties, and I have found myself wholehearted embracing Buddhism again – recovering a connection with the particular cultural inspiration and network of spiritual friendships that set me on the spiritual journey back in my twenties. My love of the Bodhisattva ideal and my recognition of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha (the 'Three Jewels' of Buddhist tradition) as the guiding principles of my life, has led me back to the Triratna Buddhist Community, which was founded in the 1967 by an English Buddhist called Sangaharakshita (26 August 1925 – 30 October 2018). I have even reconnected with the Buddhist Centre where I lived and worked in the 1980s, when I was in my twenties.
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Since then, Chinese women have organized at least 70 open letters to universities and have posted some of their stories of sexual harassment on social media, with the #MeToo hashtag attracting over 4.5 million hits on Weibo.  The government has tried to suppress some of this, blocking the #MeToo hashtag and deleting posts, and China's social media movement has had difficulty moving "offline," as it has outside of China.  Nonetheless, some Chinese officials have acknowledged that sexual harassment is a problem and are discussing how universities and government agencies should respond.  Hong Kong women have similarly been taking to social media to air their grievances.
China amended its Women's Protection Law in 2005 to outlaw sexual harassment and permit victims to sue in court.  In 2012, a national regulation protecting female workers obligated employers to prohibit and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. But these provisions are vague, providing little guidance to courts or lawyers on questions such as: How much harassment gives rise to legal liability? If the harassment is by a coworker, when is the employer liable? If there is harassment, what remedies are available?
Facing this opacity, few victims have sued employers for sexual harassment. Where they have, the results are not encouraging. In what is often considered China's first sexual harassment case, a woman complained that her boss repeatedly touched her body while promising her a better job, invited her to his hotel room, and withheld her bonus when she complained.  court dismissed the claim, citing a lack of direct evidence and difficulty confirming her allegations.
Even in cases where the plaintiff wins, compensation is paltry. In the earliest known successful case, in which the victim's supervisor kissed and molested her without consent and then repeatedly sent inappropriate text messages, the court awarded an apology and 2,000 renminbi (under $300) for emotional distress.  A Hainan court ordered compensation of 1 renminbi to three men who were fondled and kissed by an advisor to their employer.  In an unusual instance where the court awarded over 100,000 renminbi ($15,000), the unwelcome sexual advances were found to be the cause of the victim's schizophrenia.
The cases highlight the many obstacles that dissuade victims from suing. One manager lobbied a female employee to withdraw her complaint to the police about a coworker repeatedly ejaculating into her teacup. Not surprisingly, retaliation against complaining victims is also common, including forced resignations, dismissals, or retaliatory harassment.  When a lawsuit is filed, employers have brought countersuits alleging defamation or requested a court-ordered psychological evaluation of the victim.
In the United States, many believe that litigation has failed to provide victims with a meaningful remedy, but the #MeToo movement may inspire some changes to the laws governing sexual harassment.  Similarly, in China, there is hope that #MeToo will provide the political push for the government to adopt measures that make litigation a more meaningful mechanism for remedying sexual harassment.
The notion that "women hold up half the sky" was promoted more than 50 years ago, over 50 percent of students in universities are female, and China's female labor force participation rate is around 60 percent.  However, the reality tells a different story. The pay gap between men and women is still huge, discrimination in jobs is everywhere, and the glass ceiling still exists, especially in corporate executive and leadership positions.  Looking at the all-male line-up of the Politburo Standing Committee, the fact is clear: men will usher China into the so-called new era.
On the one hand, LGBTQ people in China are experiencing sexual harassment just as are heterosexual or cisgender people, and possibly even worse. But, the LGBTQ invisibility in China's public space is deep-seated. According to UNDP and the Beijing LGBT Center's national survey in 2018, only around 5 percent of LGBTQ people in China choose to come out at work, at school, or within their religious communities.   In all these campaigns, queer women were at the front lines. Similarly, there were three queer activists amongst the Feminist Five, a group of women detained in 2015 for planning to distribute anti-sexual harassment stickers.
It is said that Dr. Luo, who complained to her university about what she suffered as a student, had initially consulted with a lawyer and considered litigation; but, she chose an alternate approach. Indeed, lawyers did not play a significant role in what developed into a movement involving thousands of young people requesting that their universities establish mechanisms to prevent sexual harassment. It was only one month after Luo's report, when the joint letter actions were drawing to a close, that 13 lawyers issued a statement against sexual harassment and stated their willingness to provide legal aid for victims.  This is quite different than the role played by lawyers on this issue in earlier years.
In 2012, a collective action of lawyers on sexual harassment was prompted when the Shanghai Metro's official Weibo account issued a post requiring women to dress appropriately in order to avoid sexual harassment. Starting in Shanghai, many lawyers used "open government information" provisions to request disclosures of measures the public transport authorities took to prevent sexual harassment and later jointly proposed the establishment of a mechanism to prevent sexual harassment. Also in 2012, public interest lawyers were part of a broader advocacy campaign that resulted in the amendment of a national regulation on the protection of women that made employers responsible for preventing sexual harassment.  So why in the #MeToo movement have lawyers played a less active role?
This is related to the setbacks suffered by all of civil society in recent years. Some legal advocacy NGOs have been forced to close, and taking joint actions on public issues has become more sensitive. Further, in November 2016, the Ministry of Justice restricted lawyers from engaging in "public participation" or signing onto joint letters.  Lawyers who coordinate or provide a platform for such public actions will face particularly significant legal risks.
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 Aaron Halegua is a practicing lawyer, consultant, and research fellow at the New York University School of Law's U.S.-Asia Law Institute and its Center for Labor and Employment Law.
 Sophia Huang Xueqin is a freelance journalist, an Asia Journalism Fellow, and a feminist activist. She previously worked for national news agencies and newspapers in China. Last October, she started a WeChat public account called ATSH (Anti-Sexual Harassment) to conduct national online surveys on workplace sexual harassment, to share her findings, and to publish essays on women's stories and other human right issues.
 Di Wang is a feminist researcher and advocate from China. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin−Madison, and the Scholar in Residence of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York. She has worked on projects that evaluate the impact of law on women's and LGBTQ rights in China and in the U.S. with organizations such as PILnet, Gender Equality Advocacy and Action Network (GEAAN), and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
 Yizhi Huang is a Chinese public interest lawyer who focuses on anti-discrimination issues. She graduated from the Tsinghua University School of Law in 2007 and obtained her Master's degree in international human rights law from the University of Hong Kong in 2015. She has worked at a rights advocacy NGO and litigated many public interest cases, including impact cases on hepatitis B discrimination, the first case on genetic discrimination in China, and China's first case on gender-based employment discrimination.


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U.S. News & World Report: UWL tops among UW System peers; moves to No. 3 among Midwestern public universities.
U.S. News & World Report: UWL tops among UW System peers; moves to No. 3 among Midwestern public universities
UW-La Crosse remains Wisconsin's top-ranked public university among its peers according to U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges listing. The popular magazine also lists UW-La Crosse as the No. 3 public university among Best Regional Universities in the Midwest — up from No. 4 a year ago.
It's the 19th year in a row that UWL has remained the state's top-ranked comprehensive campus in the UW System and among the top 4 in the Midwest.
US News also named UWL a Best Value School and kept it on the list among "A-Plus Schools for B Students," which identifies "where non-superstars have a decent shot at being accepted and thriving" and where spirit and hard work make a difference. UWL also made the magazine's first listing of "Top Performers on Social Mobility," a new category identifying how schools assisted students with Pell Grants through college to graduation.
"We're fortunate to be moving up in these prestigious rankings," says Chancellor Joe Gow. "We are particularly pleased to see our reputation rising among comparable universities. Our faculty, staff and students do great things each day and it's wonderful to see that being acknowledged by US News & World Report."
Corey Sjoquist, director of UWL Admissions, agrees that the ranking confirms the excellent opportunities on campus, along with the incredible talents of students, faculty and staff. He says the U.S. News awareness draws attention throughout the state and even internationally.
UWL moved to the No. 3 ranking after being No. 4 five years in a row, continuing UWL's record of being ranked among the Midwest's top four public universities for the past 19 years. Truman State University in Missouri remained on top. The University of Northern Iowa was No. 2. Last year's No. 3, Grand Valley State University in Michigan, is now ranked among national universities.
Among all private and public Midwestern universities, UWL was No. 28 — up from No. 32 a year ago — tied with Capital University in Ohio. The regional category includes institutions providing a full range of undergraduate majors and master's programs.
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One of the truly haunting images about the Orlando shooting was of the police officers who entered Pulse nightclub and were met with the lights and sounds of cellphones ringing with no one to answer and tell the loved one on the other end everything was OK. It is an image that should remind us all that in times of tragedy, we are all human and we are all in this together.
The shooter's Asian American and Islamic backgrounds and the fact that many victims were gay Latino men highlight the continued need to talk about intersectionality at the national level. Especially at time when identity and politics are much more nuanced, we have an obligation to break down the walls that continue to divide us.
We need to stop operating in silos and discuss what it means to be marginalized at the intersections of who we are. This is especially important as mass criminalization disproportionately affects both people of color – including those who are Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) – as well as people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
As the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA)'s first openly gay executive director and the executive director of the labor LGBTQ constituency group, Pride at Work, we admit that we were deeply affected by the Orlando shooting – so much that we didn't want to attend the Capital Pride Festival here in Washington, DC. However, the support of our friends and family reminded us how much more important it was to proudly work, live, and love at the intersections of who we are every single day.
Tragedies like Orlando and San Bernardino can easily lead to policy discussions that standardize profiling and the surveillance of certain communities of color – communities that already feel the effects of mass criminalization. We must not allow that to happen.
The number of AAPIs in the criminal justice system increased by 250% in the 1990s and represent a population often overlooked. Along with the rise of mass incarceration of AAPIs came the rise of immigration detention and deportation of our community. Southeast Asian Americans, in particular, are three to four times more likely for old convictions, compared to other immigrant communities. Formerly incarcerated AAPIs also face barriers to reentry, including discrimination in hiring processes, obstacles to regaining voting rights, and difficulties in accessing adequate healthcare.
And as Immigrant Heritage Month comes to end, we remember immigrant youth and their families, who are living through the school-to-prison-to-deportation pipeline, especially in light of the recent Supreme Court's decision on the DACA+ and DAPA programs.
Similar to the AAPI community, the LGBTQ community, are also disproportionately impacted by mass criminalization. Gender nonconforming students are targeted for harassment and discipline, which can shuttle them into the school-to-prison pipeline. Transgender women of color are often forced into the margins of society, where abuse and contact with authorities is common. And people living with HIV/AIDS are subject to draconian laws that make the act of having a relationship with someone a potentially criminal act.


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