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Die Trübler ist eine Schweizer Sorte der Birne (Pyrus communis).

Synonyme
Synonyme für die Trübler sind Schutzibirne, Bienenbirne, Immenbirne, Kugelbirne und Kugelibirne (Chugelibire). Die Sorte hat den Namen Trübler, weil die kleinen Früchte in Trauben (Dialekt: Truube, dim. Trüübli) zusammenhängen.

Herkunft und Verbreitung
Die Sorte ist hauptsächlich verbreitet in den höheren Lagen der Schweizer Kantone Zürich, Thurgau, St. Gallen und Appenzell, aber auch in Liechtenstein. Die ältesten Bäume der Trübler findet man im Sarganserland (Kanton St. Gallen). Weiter gibt es verstreute Vorkommen am linken Zürichseeufer, wo sie auch Kugelibire genannt wird (Achtung: Kugelibire ist ein Sammelbegriff und wird insbesondere auch für die Schweizer Bratbirne verwendet.)

Baum

Die Sorte ist als Hochstamm geeignet und wächst mittel bis stark. Sie wächst aufrecht und bildet ein dichtes Gewirr dicker Äste. Der Baum beginnt erst sehr spät zu treiben. Er blüht viele Tage bevor die Blätter sichtbar werden. Da alle umgebenden Bäume schon völlig grün sind, wirkt der Baum deshalb jeden Frühling wie abgestorben. Die Blüte ist spektakulär. Sobald sie einsetzt, verwandelt sich der Baum in einen Sternenhimmel mit schwarzem Grund. Der Baum ist in den ersten Jahren ausserordentlich tragfaul.

Frucht
Die Birne ist klein, kugelig, hat einen kurzen Stiel und eine raue Haut. Das untere Drittel der Frucht ist vollkommen berostet, was sie bei Vollreife im Sonnenlicht ockerfarben scheinen lässt. Die Grundfarbe ist weissgrün bis gelbgrün, die Lentizellen treten deutlich hervor. Das Fleisch ist gelblich, fest, grobkörnig, saftig und hat einen süsslich-aromatischen Geschmack.

Nutzung
Aufgrund ihrer geringen Grösse eignet sich die Birne vor allem für Spezialitäten. Sie kann vielfältig verwendet werden. Früher wurde sie vielerorts zur Herstellung von Birnendicksaft verwendet. Sie ergibt ein hervorragendes Destillat. Geschält kann sie als ganze Frucht in Gläsern eingemacht werden. Zuerst geschält, dann mit dem Stiel in Schnaps eingelegt und anschliessend mit einem Überzug aus dunkler Schokolade versehen ergibt die kleine Frucht eine seltene Delikatesse. Obwohl sie eher das Aussehen einer Mostbirne hat, kann die Birne auch gut so gegessen werden.

Erntezeit und Lagerung
Die Früchte werden Ende September bis Anfang Dezember geerntet. Sie werden rasch teigig.

Krankheiten
Die Trübler ist eine äusserst robuste Sorte. sie ist wenig schorfanfällig und kaum feuerbrandanfällig.

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 J. Michael Kohler: Aufzählung und Beschreibung der wichtigsten Kern-Obstsorten des Kantons Zürich, veranstaltet durch den Züricher Verein für Landwirthschaft, redigirt mit Benutzung der von verschiedenen landw. Gemeindsvereinen mitgetheilten Materialien. Druck von Schiller & Comp., Zürich 1864, S. 97.
 David Szalatnay, Markus Kellerhals, Martin Frei, Urs Müller: Früchte, Beeren, Nüsse. Die Vielfalt der Sorten – 800 Porträts. Haupt, Bern u. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-258-07194-7, S. 581.
 Caspar Tobias Zollikofer: Pomologische Studien des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts. Aufgezeichnet in den Jahren 1831–1834. Fructus-Verlag, Wädenswil 2005, ISBN 3-9523047-0-0, S. 218, 219, 357.

Weblinks
 Trübler in der Datenbank der  Schweizerische Kommission für die Erhaltung von Kulturpflanzen (SKEK)

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Despite being sandwiched between South American juggernauts Argentina and Brazil, the country of Uruguay has somehow stayed off the beaten path of travellers—much to the benefit of those who choose to make the trip to Montevideo. Travellers who've explored the continent's other major cities may find themselves surprised by how laid-back the capital is: instead of honking horns and traffic jams, Montevideo's well-paved roadways are quiet and smooth, and the causeway into the city centre looks like a scene from the French Riviera thanks to its boardwalks lined with palm trees and beautiful historic buildings.
With under 1.4 million inhabitants it's one of the smaller capitals, and considered to be one of the safest. Many travellers come to explore its well-preserved old town, or use the city as a jumping-off point to head to touristy spots like UNESCO-protected Colonia or the beach town of Punta del Este which is a favourite party spot for Argentinians. Here are five things travellers love about exploring the city, and the best things to do in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ciudad Vieja is somewhat of a juxtaposition. While it's home to the city's most historic, preserved sites making for a tranquil place to stroll during the day, the old town is also where most of the fun nightlife is found which makes it a popular place for Montevideo sightseeing. Visitors love exploring the pedestrian-only walkways which wind past boutiques, outdoor patios, cafes and markets, stopping to admire the sculptures and street art framed by palm trees jutting out of the pavement.
With building facades painted every colour under the rainbow, wrought-iron railings that look down on the streetscape and vines that hang from rooftops, Ciudad Vieja is a fun spot for photographers angling for great shots of the city. Those who time their visits well might come across tango dancing in the street, or happen across a violinist busking on a corner. While not quite as charming as other parts of the old town, the grandiose Plaza Independencia is not to be missed as it's home to important landmarks such as the Solis Theatre and serves as the divider between Ciudad Vieja and the more modern downtown area.
Montevideo was built to maximize waterfront real estate, with many homes, hotels and restaurants overlooking the Rio de Plata which is the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers. Sunny days lure residents to the Montevideo beaches for kite surfing, beach volleyball, and cycling or walking along the Rambla of Montevideo, a promenade which traces the shoreline. However, visitors thinking about walking the whole distance of the pathway should be warned; La Rambla happens to be the world's longest continuous sidewalk, stretching nearly 14 miles. A good place to start for a more leisurely stroll is at the Montevideo sign near Avenidas Luis Alberto de Herrera to snap a token tourist shot, then head towards the old town.
Montevideo's laneways come to life thanks to the vibrant art installations found near spots like Parque Rodo, Cordon and Ciudad Vieja. From mythical creatures to raven-haired women looking out seductively from what would otherwise be just a wall bordering an anonymous plot of pavement, talented artists have turned the city into somewhat of a living canvas for visitors to admire. It turns out even plain-old graffiti can look chic in the right kind of setting.
Meat lovers will be in heaven when dining out in Montevideo—particularly those who love steak. To sample some of the best, visitors head into the covered Port Market found between Ciudad Vieja and the port, which is one of the top Montevideo attractions. Dating back to the 1800s, it doesn't feel like much has changed about the building in the centuries since, thanks to the dark, arched timber ceilings and intricate iron pillars which make for an impressive backdrop. Artful culinary displays line the stalls below, where merchants entice hungry travellers with specialites like juicy steaks, matambres (stuffed meat rolls) and pamplonas (grilled and stuffed meat) as smoke rises up from the overworked grills.
The perfect pairing for all that steak is wine made from the rare Tannat grape, which is Uruguay's signature varietal and produces full-bodied reds. Traditionally paired with beef and lamb, it goes down smooth and is one of the country's culinary treasures.
While things like food and wine set visitors back more than in other South American countries like Peru or Bolivia, there are still plenty of savings to be had. Buses are a budget-friendly, convenient and comfortable way to get to popular spots like Punta del Este or Colonia del Sacramento, and most nice hotels in the city centre cost well below $100 USD per night. And there's another way to save money that comes as a pleasant surprise; car hires and hospitality services like restaurants and bars actually offer a discount to people who pay with foreign credit cards, to the tune of 22 per cent thanks to a government program designed to curtail tax evasion.
Montevideo sounds fabulous! The palm-lined boardwalks, historic buildings, and colourful Ciudad Vieja sound wonderful. I loved reading about the discount for foreign credit car users. As a Canadian, we pay often pay so much exchange – a discount is such a treat!
Agree about the exchange rates- who doesn't love saving money?!
South America is one of the continents we have not yet explored. Uruguay was not on the top of the list to stop but I may need to reconsider that. The water and beaches look dreamy. I would love to be wandering the streets and stop to watch tango or a violin player. Maybe I could find dance lessons for my husband 😀 Thanks for adding Montevideo to my mind.
Something that will draw my husband to Montevideo is the full-bodied red from tannat grapes. The colorful and beachfront homes, street art, plaza and the savings we can find elsewhere, but that kind of wine will probably not be available widely.
So true about the wine- and it was delicious!
You are right that Uruguay is easy to forget when considering travel to Argentina, Brazil, Peru… South America is so large, I guess we focus on what we have heard most about. So it's good to read a post about attractions of Uruguay. Montevideo looks like the kind of capital city I'd really enjoy visiting, with a historical old town, the impressive waterfront, and of course that fantastic food. I am craving matambres and pamplonas now!
Yes, and I love that you really only need a few days there to get a feel for the place, unlike some of the larger South American countries.
I love your pictures, can I ask, which camera do you use? I cannot believe I haven't as yet made it to South America. That is one whole continent left unexplored by me! Uruguay will certainly be in the list when I am able to plan a trip and Montevideo looks perfect. I especially love the street art!
Thanks! I use a Canon Rebel t3i that I've had for years- the trick is a wide-angle lens.
Montevideo sounds like a really cool place to visit, especially due to the fact that is not as busy as other capitals in South America. I would love to take a photo of that cute Montevideo sign and explore Plaza Independencia.
The Montevideo sign is definitely a popular spot!
Great article and so glad to have come across it. When I visited Montevideo in 2016, I really enjoyed it tremendously. The food, the delicious Tannat wines and the general vibe. The best part is the discount for paying with a credit card 🙂 It's truly a great city to explore. Gorgeous photos!
Honestly, Uruguay was never on our list earlier, but Montevideo looks amazing. Ciudad Vieja is so instagrammable and wandering around these streets, watching the Tango will be lovely. Food too sounds quite interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I don't read that many articles on Uruguay so I guess it's still one of those places that have tons of potential. I would love to visit Montevideo, especially for the street art, just wandering around and do some people watching 🙂 And I guess I wouldn't mind trying the food either 🙂 Were there a lot of tourists when you were there?
Those beachfront homes are calling me! Montevideo looks super cool and now I am already making my way to google to search more about it. How many days ideally should one be spending here?
If time is an issue, two days should be plenty 🙂 There are also some great day trips around there!
We're going to Montevideo in March, on a cruise with NCL. Love the stories and pictures.
Thanks for reading Gamma, enjoy Uruguay!
Loved loved loved Montevideo, we were there last month, (December 2018). The art style, the food, the people were friendly and we would love to go back. Fantastic photographic opportunities, great beaches and long walks, beautiful parks, lovely tree lined streets. Just Gorgeous.
So great to hear you loved it too!
My brother and I are considering going to Uruguay sometime next year. Where are the places to go for nightclubs and pretty much the party scene?


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Le pigeonnier de Vaujoyeux est un colombier de Planguenoual, en France.

Généralités
Le pigeonnier de Vaujoyeux est érigé à  à l'ouest du centre de Planguenoual, dans les Côtes-d'Armor, près du lieu-dit de Vaujoyeux.

Il s'agit d'un édifice quadrilobe : le colombier central est flanqué de quatre tours formant des absidioles. Chacune des tours est couverte en cul-de-four.

Historique
La première mention du pigeonnier date du début du , par un acte de vente de 1510. Dépendant alors du manoir de Vaujoyeux, dont il est l'unique élément ayant survécu à l'époque contemporaine, il partage encore son architecture avec plusieurs colombiers voisins au . Au , il est toutefois l'unique édifice subsistant de ce genre.

Le pigeonnier de Vaujoyeux est classé monument historique le .

Annexes

Liens internes
 Liste des monuments historiques des Côtes-d'Armor (P-Z)
 Colombier (édifice)
 Quatre-feuilles

Références

Monument historique dans les Côtes-d'Armor
Monument historique classé en 1982
Vaujoyeux
Vaujoyeux


Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, has rebuked TalkTalk for following its 4.2 million customers around the web without telling them.
He also told the firm he was disappointed it kept the trials of its forthcoming anti-malware system quiet at a recent meeting, citing the controversy when BT's similarly unpublicised trials of Phorm's targeted advertising technology were exposed.
In letter to TalkTalk at the end of July, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Graham said: "I am concerned that the trial was undertaken without first informing those affected that it was taking place.
"You will be aware that compliance with one of the underlying principles of data protection legislation relies on providing individuals with information about how and why their information will be used. You will also be aware that these principles are not suspended simply because the information is being used for the purposes of a trial."
He asked TalkTalk to provide documents to support its public claims that the technology and the trials comply with privacy laws.
The system - provided by the Chinese vendor Hauwei - works by harvesting every URL visited by every TalkTalk customer. It then follows them to each web page and scans for threats, creating a master blacklist and a whitelist of dangerous and safe URLs.
When the full system launches later this year, customers who opt to use the anti-malware service will be stopped from visiting blacklisted web pages. URLs visited by customers who don't want to use it will continue to be logged and scanned.
The Register first reported the trial had begun in July, apparently catching the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) off-guard.
"In light of the public reaction to BT's trial of the proposed Webwise [Phorm] service I am disappointed to note that this particular trial was not mentioned to my officials during the latest of our liaison meetings," Graham wrote.
"I appreciate that your analysis may have led to the conclusion that it was not necessary to provide us with this information but we would be in a much better position to respond to the enquiries we have received on this matter if we had the chance to review and discuss the trial with you."
The ICO is responsible for enforcing compliance with the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). In response to public concern over the trial, TalkTalk technology chief Clive Dorsman wrote the firm's "use of the anti-malware system is compliant" with both pieces of legislation, without providing details.
In a briefing (pdf) drawn up in preparation for a meeting with the ICO, also released under the Freedom of Information Act, TalkTalk explains its claims.
It insists "the individual cannot be identified from the data itself nor from the data together with any other information in our possession". Therefore, TalkTalk argues, the system is not processing personal data, and so complies with the DPA.
The firm uses a similar argument to claim it complies with section 7 of PECR, which restricts processing of traffic data relating to individuals.
The anti-malware system also complies with the confidentiality section of PECR, TalkTalk says, because it "does not store information, or gain access to information stored, in the terminal equipment of a customer".
Opponents charge that URLs are in fact stored in customers' computers. By harvesting web addresses from its network without telling users, they argue, TalkTalk falls foul of provisions of PECR requiring that they are "provided with clear and comprehensive information about the purposes of the storage of, or access to, that information" and "given the opportunity to refuse the storage of or access to that information".


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Such was precisely the reaction that the Pistons wanted their players to have on this trip.
The Pistons and Chicago Bulls are facing off in Paris on Thursday night, though this journey — across six time zones for the Pistons, seven for the Bulls — is about much more than basketball. It's been a midseason immersion into French cuisine, wine and culture, a bit of nightlife, a bit of fashion, even a bit of business. Everybody saw the Eiffel Tower, everybody saw the Champs-Élysées, but both teams decided they couldn't come to Paris and not make every effort to enjoy the opportunity.
And fans in Paris, which is revving up for the Olympics in the summer of 2024, turned up wherever the Bulls and Pistons were going.
"I can't understand what they're talking about," Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. "But there seems to be huddles and crowds of people."
There were requisite trips to the Eiffel Tower for both teams, along with a basketball clinic for about 50 school-age French girls on Wednesday.
"These kids don't have a chance to see us as much in person, so it's great for them and great for us," Bulls center Nikola Vucevic said. "It means a lot to them and we try to give back as much as we can, spend the time when we can."
There were events built around the unveiling of murals depicting both teams, as well as a trip for some to an event at Roland-Garros — site of tennis' French Open. A visit to the U.S. Embassy awaited some members of the Bulls delegation on Tuesday, some members of the Pistons' group on Wednesday. And the Pistons decided they wanted a private party filled with some of the best of Paris like art, ballet, food, drink and opera.
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"I think in general, whether it's business or basketball, bringing families together is most important to us," Gores said as guests took in the sights of the art and sounds of the music. "For us as a culture, that's what means the most."
A simple sign on the fence outside the opera house Tuesday read "Fermeture Exceptionnelle," which translates to "exceptional closure." It didn't say why. A few passers-by along the sidewalk on a cold night wondered who was inside the fleet of buses that carried the well-dressed group of people into the event – especially those who were perhaps slightly taller than the usual opera crowd.
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There were sounds of a violin and a cello, an opera singer appearing on the grand marble staircase with her sound filling the entire space shortly after the event started, ballet dancers inside the gold-covered foyer with artwork dating back to the 1800s, more opera singers there and then finally a closing tribute to "The Phantom of the Opera" — written more than 100 years ago and set inside what the Parisians and aficionados the world over call the Palais Garnier.
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The view she got Tuesday was perhaps a bit more spectacular than the one she could have had 25 years ago.
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The available SAAA records for the championship for this period is scanty but we will put up what we have and if/when more information comes to hand, it will be added. Over this period the relay was run at the SAAA Championships which had instituted a Friday evening session consisting mainly of heats of the sprint events. In this context it maybe made sense for them to run the medley final since all the sprinters were already at the venue. It meant that having run no finals the runners would be fairly fresh. They could hardly be expected to run a relay between heat and final, and if it were held after the final then the athletes would be rather tired and in any case the relay would not be their main event of the afternoon. But that's reading a lot into a little information! The point is that they were held during the evening session on Friday.
As it turned out, the other clubs should maybe have taken a closer look at the Springburn squad because on Friday, 21st June at Hampden Park, they were the ones who won the SAAA Medley Relay title in 3:40.8. This was the first time that the Friday evening session had taken place and it was voted a great success.
The Friday night experiment was voted a great success and was repeated at the SAAA Championships held on 26th June. However at the Queen's Park FC Sports of 6th June, there was a medley relay in which Glasgow with a team of CF Campbell, DA Brownlee, DM Pearson and C France, defeated Edinburgh (JC Stothard, RR Wylde, R Forman, GD Malcolm in 3 min 46.4. Campbell and Brownlee were both Springburn Harriers with Campbell having contested a hard fought half mile against Stothard earlier in the afternoon, being beaten only by one and a half yards.
Only two weeks later, on 20th June, the Glasgow Police Sports were held at Ibrox and of course the programme contained a medley relay. It was the only event of the afternoon that produced a record. The report read: "There was one performance of the gathering demanding minute reference and that was the win of Bellahouston Harriers in the one mile medley relay race, which they won in the new Scottish record time of 3:34.2, 0.2 faster than the time put up by Glasgow University at the same sports four years ago. It was half miler Jack Gifford who really did much to help Bellahouston achieve this performance. He went round the half-mile at the heels of Robert Graham, always appearing to have an abundance of pace, while it seemed that the joint mile record holder (whose record was broken by SC Wooderson in Saturday's Southern Championships), was in front trying hard to get clear of Gifford, but the latter refused to be shaken off and became the challenger-in-chief, with the result that Bellahouston enjoyed the slight advantage of a change-over so close was the struggle; and the time for the half was 1:58.2, the sign of a record in the making. " The remainder of the team – G Young, J Bone and Charlie France – all did their bit and the race was won and a record set at 3.34.2. Maryhill was second and Springburn third with the winning margin being 20 yards with a further 20 yards between second and third.
A week later at the opening Friday night meeting, held on 24th June. of the SAAA championships was a very similar event with Bellahouston Harriers emerging triumphant in a time of 3:41.2 The time was a full eight seconds slower than at the Police Sports but the medals were the thing at the championships and so began a marvellous spell of SAAA titles for the Glasgow club.
It is not clear to me how such a decision on its success could be made after only one race. However, Bellahouston won in a record time with a team of Gifford, Murdoch, Smith and France, from Glasgow University and Edinburgh University. It as wn by three yards with ten yards separating the two University teams.
Successful as the Herald reporter felt the divorce between the race and the national championships had been, came 1939 they were run at the SAAA Championships on 24th June. The Monkland Sports at Coatbridge on 27th May saw Maryhill win the event there. "Maryhill, who included R Graham and RTH Littlejohns, the respective Scottish mile and half-mile champions, won the mile medley relay after a thrilling tussle with Springburn. Even after Littlejohns had given his mates a useful lead at the end of the first 'leg' , Graham was unable to hold Campbell (Springburn) on the third leg, and it was only a magnificent finish by RR Mahlanghele which won the event for Maryhill." Result: 1. Maryhill (Littlejohns, Little Graham, Mahlanghele) 2. Springburn Harriers. Time: 3 min 35.2.
Glasgow University (McGlone, Rankin, Sutherland and Wright).
It had been a superb run by Bellahouston – four championships and two Scottish records – but let's not forget the excellent Springburn Harriers team which contested every relay and every championship with only one set of gold medals to show for it. How would they do after the War? The coming team was Victoria Park from Scotstoun, Maryhill had been a good competitive team for decades and the Universities were always liable to be a threat depending on who was 'comin up' to the Varsity in any particular year.


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ACTING AS MISSIONARIES:THE RELIGIOUS SELF IN INTERCULTURAL PRACTICE: AN APPROACH FROM ACTION THEORY AND CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
Authors: Jürgen Straub and Maik Arnold
In: Autobiography and the Psychological Study of Religious Lives
Aspects in Contexts
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Series: International Series in the Psychology of Religion, Volume: 9
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Psychology of religion has been enjoying considerable attention of late; the number of publications and people involved in the field is rapidly increasing. It is, however, one of the oldest branches within psychology in general, and one of the few in which an interdisciplinary approach has been kept alive and fostered. The fate of the field has been quite varied in the countries where psychology of religion has been initiated and developed during the 20th century. In this volume, some aspects of this international history are examined. Coming from six different Western countries, each of the contributors has a record in the historiography of psychology and profound knowledge of psychology of religion. Their approaches combine elements from the history of mentalities, the social history of science and biographical studies.
The volume contains in-depth treatments of such topics as the growth of the field as reflected in university politics, developments within international organizations, and the personal involvement of contributors to the field. A wealth of information is provided on the background of the work of well known psychologists of religion like James Henry Leuba, Oskar Pfister, Gordon Allport, Werner Gruehn, Antoine Vergote and others.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PSYCHIC FUNCTIONING AND MENTAL HEALTH: THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN PERSONAL LIFE
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Belief and Unbelief
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Proceedings of the third symposium on the psychology of religion in Europe
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Early Psychoanalytic Religious Writings presents, in one edited volume, many of the foundational writings in the psychoanalytic study of religion. These translated works by Abraham, Fromm, Pfister, and others, complement Freud's seminal contributions and provide a unique window into the origins of psychoanalytic thinking. The volume includes the Freud-Pfister correspondence, with a brief introduction, which reveals the rich back story of friendship, mutual respect, and intellectual debate. These essays are anchored in Freud's early theory-building and prefigure and are linked to later developments in psychoanalytic thought. The issues raised in these essays are of relevance still today – how is religions thinking shaped by unconscious processes reflecting primary relationships and drives?


Fire rated interior doors are special protective structures designed to prevent the spread of fire in case of fire. Fire doors are part of the fire barrier (eg fire wall or fire walls), and in the case of fire danger localize the source of fire in one room, protecting nearby.
In addition to protection against the spread of fire between rooms, fire rated double doors protect neighboring areas from high temperatures, allowing to produce through them the evacuation.
Fire rated sliding doors fire resistance is achieved through the use of special linings, use of fire-resistant materials and accessories.
Fire rated steel doors are the most common type of fire doors. These doors are installed in residential, industrial and office buildings, shopping and business complexes, medical and educational institutions.
Fire rated wood doors are common in medical facilities, catering establishments (cafes, restaurants), and hotels.
Wooden fire door going on a "sandwich": a filler, and piping support is coated with a durable material – fireboard of high density (HDF). Outside it's laminated with plastic cover. The filler used fire doors fireproof mineral plate. All components are glued, pressed, treated on the perimeter and prepared under accessories.
Fire rated glass doors are used to prevent the spread of fire in case of fire in places where large translucent provided the opportunity. As a rule, there are shopping malls, office buildings.


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Tea & Tisanes
Tea Finds Its Hard Side
March 16, 2014 Jeanette Hurt
A gin and tonic is a classic drink that's as straightforward as it gets: gin, tonic water, and lime juice. The lime and the tonic bring out the notes of juniper and other botanicals in the gin. If bartenders want to improve the drink, they will most often simply use artisanal gins, which feature more or different botanicals, or perhaps they'll add a few drops of bitters or a tincture (a one-note bitter) to accentuate the juniper or lime.
Still, whether you add bitters or use a better quality gin, the drink still tastes basically the same. Not so when you add tea to the mix. At Eat Street Social in Minneapolis, mixologists Nick Kosevich and Ira Koplowitz add tea to a G 'n' T and transform it to a T 'n' T. "We've used a green apple fig tea, chai tea, smoked Earl Grey tea, and sugarplum tea," says Kosevich. He and Koplowitz own Bittercube, an artisan bitters maker and mixology consulting company.
"Adding tea to a cocktail program opens up so many doors to different flavor profiles," Kosevich says. "We've been using teas for a long time at Bittercube. It's really a simple way of changing the flavor profile of your drinks. You can make the same cocktail 100 different ways by using different teas."
Teas, like wines, have complex aromas and these completely alter a drink. In the case of the T 'n' T, the different teas push forward different flavors and aromas in the gin. In a sense, adding different teas to a cocktail is like adding different spices to a cookie—the same recipe, except for one variation, creates a distinct flavor. A cookie laced with lemongrass has citrus notes, but it becomes a spiced delight if you add cinnamon.
Little John toddy with chai, spiced rum, and Frangelico from Camellia Lounge in Portland. At top, a pumpkin spice chai warmer with bourbon and Disaronno from the Hazel Room, also in Portland (Photos: Cory Eldridge.)
"Putting tea in cocktails used to not be that big of a deal," says Katie Potter as she steeps and mixes behind the bar of her tea, brunch, and cocktail house, The Hazel Room, in Portland. She ticks off a short list of tea-based cocktails: hot toddy, pirate's tea, tea and sympathy, and she could go on and on. Historically, tea cocktails were made hot with black tea, the only tea option. Potter's concoctions are based on older cocktails but show the advance of US tea culture with chai and herbaceous toddies and a tea and sympathy with Yunnan hong cha.
"There's this wonderful, blossoming effect of tea in the United States," says Julie Matson, owner of Bingleys Teas. "Cocktails can get a little tired. Tea brings this exotic element to a cocktail and it really plays well with liqueurs, with gins, and with vodkas."
Adding tea to a cocktail also doesn't require a lot explanation for customers, says Matt Tunnell, the tasting room mixologist at Great Lakes Distillery. "People already have their head around a whiskey sour as a cocktail, and they already understand what tea is so a whiskey sour made with some tea is something they will understand," Tunnell says, explaining that he adds Rishi's coconut oolong tea leaves into the shaker to bring out the coconut notes in the distillery's Kinnickinnic whiskey to create a coconutty whiskey sour.
There's no expensive equipment or intensive training necessary for a bartending staff, either, says Tunnell. "All you need is a fine mesh strainer."
Tea is mixed into cocktails in one of four ways: brewed and poured straight to a hot toddy or an iced tea cocktail; turned into ice cubes for a cocktail; infused into the liquor; or brewed and reduced into a sugar-tea syrup.
If you're brewing hot tea for a cocktail, make sure the tea is more concentrated than for a plain cup of tea. Kosevich advises using only one and a half ounces of spirits instead of the typical two ounces for a drink. "Because it's hot, the alcohol will evaporate so you use less spirit than in a chilled cocktail," he says. As alcohol evaporates, it makes a drink smell and taste more boozy.
"With iced tea cocktails, an easy way to add tea is to mix matcha powder with lemonade and a spirit like vodka or gin," Tunnel says. "The nice thing about matcha is it's already ground up and ready to go, so you can do some really interesting stuff with it," Tunnell says. Tea-flavored lemonades don't even need alcohol to make an exotic summer drink, he adds.
White rose with gin and silver needle white tea from the Hazel Room.
Tea ice cubes can add a nice touch to a cocktail. A hibiscus rooibos, for example, makes stunning ice cubes for a sangria, says Jeffrey Champeau from Rishi Tea. "It adds this vivid, bright red color," he says. "And as it melts, it adds more flavor and complexity to the drink." Sticking with low-alcohol drinks, Champeau also mulls tea with cider and wine, even adding it to wassail spice mélanges.
Tea infusions and syrups take a bit more cocktail know-how, but they provide unique touches, Kosevich says. To make an infusion, you simply steep tea leaves directly in a spirit. "One of the reasons tea works so well is because the extraction process happens very quickly," Kosevich says.
For a 750-mililiter bottle, you might measure two to four tablespoons of tea and let it steep in the spirit between fifteen to thirty minutes. (Potter, from The Hazel Room, steeps hers for hours or even days depending on the tea.) Strain out the tea leaves, and you have a tea-infused spirit. "If you're doing a citrus or botanical infusion, it can take a few days or weeks whereas the tea infusion happens a lot faster," Kosevich says. "The exact amounts of tea and time for infusing do not have an exact rule. The main concern is to discard the tea leaves through a coffee filter to remove even the smallest particles, otherwise, the tea will continue to infuse the spirit, and that can add bitterness."
Many classic cocktails have a three-part recipe—spirit, citrus juice, and simple syrup, which is equal parts water and sugar. For a gimlet, it's either vodka or gin and lime juice; for a daiquiri, it's rum and lime juice; and for a whiskey sour, it's whiskey and lemon juice. All then add simple syrup. Instead of using plain water, making the syrup with tea provides another level of complexity to a cocktail. The drink changes as the aromas and nuances of the tea bring out different notes in the spirits. A lapsang souchong elicits notes of smoke; jasmine tea brings floral aromas to the forefront; and an herbal tisane accentuates the botanicals of a spirit. "By using different teas and either infusing them in the simple syrups or the spirits, those simple cocktails now have complex flavors, and they're going to taste wildly different," Kosevich says.
Tea-based cocktails can be added to a café menu, or they can simply be incorporated as recipe cards and suggestions for tea patrons. Tea-infused simple syrups can be mixed into non-alcoholic drinks. "There's no reason why non-alcoholic drinks like Italian sodas can't be jazzed up with homemade syrups made from tea," says Matson. "And syrups really are so easy to make. I've even used tea syrups to flavor desserts. I recently boiled down some honey with ginseng oolong, and I spooned a little bit of that syrup over a pumpkin ginger tart I had made. The pumpkin tart was beautiful on its own, but the syrup gave this extra elegant moment to that dessert."
For café owners, if you don't have a liquor license for your establishment, that's the first requirement when bringing tea cocktails to your menu. Depending on your location, the costs and regulations alone could determine the benefit of adding alcohol to your menu.
The second concern is marketing that you offer cocktails, tea or otherwise. "We've been open for nineteen and a half years, and we've served alcohol for seventeen of those years," says Melissa Honkamp, owner of Rochambo Tea House in Milwaukee. "I still have people who have been customers for two or three years suddenly look up at the menu and say, 'Oh, I never knew you served alcohol.'"
Before you start serving drinks, Honkamp suggests studying the market for tea and other cocktails, and then looking into the marketing required for such a program in your café. "The nice thing, if you are a tea or coffeehouse, is that the cocktails you're going to come up with are going to be unique," she says. "Nobody's going to be able to replicate your drinks because they might not be able to get your special tea blend."
Almost any liqueur or spirit can work with tea, but vodka and gin tend to be the most popular, followed by rum and whiskey. Champagne and tea also pair nicely. Linda Appel Lipsius, owner of Teatulia, served a green tea and champagne cocktail at a pre-show Grammy party. "My favorite thing about tea cocktails is we really are on this mission to get people to look at tea in a different way," Lipsius says. "Cocktails get people to look at tea twice and say 'Wow. It never occurred to me that tea is something I'd have on a big night out.' For tea shops and coffee shops looking to do cocktails, there's nothing but an upside to it."
—Jeanette Hurt is a food and travel writer, and author of five books.
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Q: How do i pass parameters from Jenkins to Ant scripts? For some GUI testing I'm creating a Jenkins task for each GUI module to be tested.
Once created I'm using Ant to build these tests, but I'm not aware of how to actually pass parameters from Jenkins to Ant build file? Basically how do I do variable substitution in Ant?
I'm using the Sahi framework to test GUI components, so the flow goes like this...
Jenkins → Ant build script → Sahi file to execute
Can anyone please take a look at it?

A: Click Advance under configure section of your job in jenkins and use "Properties" section to pass parameter value to Ant script.
e.g
jenkins.param=10
ant.prop=$jenkins.param where jenkins.param is the parameter defined in the jenkins job .
Now in your ant build script ,you can get the value by using ${ant.prop}.

A: "Using ant -Dname=value lets you define values for properties on the Ant command line." http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#passing-cli-args
To use a jenkins parameter as a variable when you call any use ${variablename}
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Parameterized+Build

A: From Jenkins to SAHI Pro via ANT.
In the ant target that you call from Jenkins, give the following within sahi tag.
  <customfield key="variable_name" value=" variable _value"/>

Now, such values from Jenkins will be available in SAHI Pro through the ant target. To retrieve them in SAHI, you should set them in "CUSTOM_FIELDS" of testrunner file.
For example:
SET CUSTOM_FIELDS= -variable_name jenkinsToSahiVariable
Where -variable_name should be same key that you set in ant target. And second string will contain the value you set from Jenkins. To get this in a sahi file, use sahiSuite API like following.
  $jenkinsValues = _suiteInfo();
  $sahiVariable = $ jenkinsValues ["jenkinsToSahiVariable"];

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Artemus Ward "Nick" Allen (September 14, 1888 – October 16, 1939) was a catcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Buffalo Buffeds/Blues, Chicago Cubs, and Cincinnati Reds. Allen became a minor league baseball manager after his playing career was over and earned the nickname "Roarin' Nick" for his altercations with umpires. He stood at 6' 0" and weighed 180 lbs.

Career
Allen was born in Norton, Kansas. He started his professional baseball career in 1910 in the Kansas State League. He batted .188 in 105 games that year and then moved on to the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League, American Association, and Northern League, each for just one season.

In February 1914, Allen signed with the Federal League's Buffalo Buffeds. He made his major league debut on May 1, 1914 but various injuries shortened his rookie season. In 1915, he returned and played in an MLB career-high 84 games. He committed 21 errors and batted .205.

The Federal League folded after 1915, and Allen was sold to the Chicago Cubs. He played 5 games for Chicago, going 1 for 16 at the plate. He then returned to the minors for 1916 and 1917. The Cincinnati Reds bought his contract in 1917, and he was a backup catcher on the major league squad from 1918 to 1920. In 1919, he batted .320 (in 15 games), and the Reds won the National League pennant and World Series.

Allen was traded to the American Association's St. Paul Saints before the 1921 season. He batted .317 in 128 games during his first campaign in St. Paul. He then served as the team's manager from 1924 to 1928, winning one pennant. In mid-1929, he took over as manager for the Tulsa Oilers of the Western League and guided that team to a pennant, as well.

Allen was a manager and scout for various teams in the 1930s. Known as "Roarin' Nick" because of his "umpire baiting" on the field, Allen claimed that his actions were done solely to increase attendance at the ballpark.

Allen was hospitalized in February 1939 for cancer, and he died on October 16, 1939.

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FAQ: What the SOPA soap opera is all about
Jaikumar Vijayan
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Published: November 18th, 2011
The recently introduced Stop Online Piracy Act has ignited a firestorm of protest from numerous quarters. Many of those opposed to the bill see in it a cynical attempt by the entertainment industry to impose a sort of Internet censorship regime. Supporters downplay that criticism and say the bill is needed to counter the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of U.S. IP annually. Here's what the big fight is all about.
What is SOPA? SOPA is an acronym for the Stop Online Piracy Act ( H.R. 3261 ). It is a bill designed to make it much harder for rogue offshore sites to sell counterfeit U.S. goods, including fake prescription drugs and copyrighted movies and music. Such sites are believed to be causing tens of billions of dollars in losses annually to U.S. companies.
If stopping rogue offshore websites is a good thing, why are so many people upset ? Because they believe the proposed cure is worse than the illness. Many fear that SOPA will give content owners and IP owners too much power to go after websites that they deem are dedicated to or contributing to copyright theft or sale of counterfeit goods.
Why do they feel that way? Primarily because of Section 103 of the bill, which deals with a market-based system designed to prevent U.S. funding of sites seen as dedicated to the theft of U.S. property.
Try that again. Basically, Sec. 103 will give the owner of any intellectual property the right to pursue private action against Web sites that they deem are infringing their rights. Under SOPA, IP rights holders will be able to ask payment providers such as MasterCard and PayPal to shut off services to allegedly infringing sites. They would also be able to ask Internet advertising networks to stop providing ads to the websites.
Don't IP owners need some a court order before they ask ISPs and the others to do this? Not really. ISPs will get five days to use all "technical feasible and reasonable" measures to voluntarily comply with the request. Those that do will get full immunity from any liability. Those that don't can be forced to do so under court order.
Is this the only concern with the bill? SOPA also would allow the government to ask ISPs to use DNS blocking, filtering and other "feasible and reasonable" methods to cut off access to foreign infringing websites from the U.S. It would let the government order search engine companies like Google to disable links to infringing sites in search engine results and ask payment providers to stop services to targeted sites. Foreign sites subject to such actions are those that would have been liable for criminal prosecution in the U.S if the site were based in the U.S.
Really, isn't this the most effective way to deal with rogue offshore sites? Since most are outside the reach of U.S. law enforcement, it may well be. But the problem, according to critics, is that SOPA is worded in a way that leaves U.S. companies wide open to similar actions from content owners. The bill refers to "U.S.-directed" websites. That term can apply to any and every site that can be accessed by a U.S.-based user. So, in theory, at least, a YouTube or a Flickr or an EBay could be targeted by content owners for carrying copyrighted content.
But doesn't the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) grant immunity to Web site owners for content posted by users? Yes, it does. The DMCA offers website owners a Safe Harbor for content posted on their site by users. So, YouTube for instance cannot be held responsible if one of its users posts copyright infringing material on its site. DMCA allows content owners to ask the YouTubes of the world to take down infringing material. But they cannot sue the site itself unless it refuses.
So U.S. websites are protected from SOPA then? Not really. Critics contend that SOPA will let content owners do an end-run around DMCA. With SOPA, content owners need not bother with takedown notices. They can target an entire Web site if they choose to.
That's just FUD, isn't it? Supporters of the bill insist that SOPA is targeted mainly at the worst of the worst offshore rogue Web sites. The bill describes such sites as those that are "primarily designed or operated" for the purpose of offering infringing and counterfeit goods and services and little else. That definition would seem to exclude sites that may occasionally carry an infringing item or two, but are not dedicated to copyright theft and counterfeiting.
What recourse do targeted Web sites have? The law will offer targeted Web sites between five and seven days to explain why they should not be subject to the prescribed action. Relief for targeted Web sites will be available in accordance with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. But the operators of such foreign sites will first have to agree to be subject to U.S. laws.
What other protections do accused sites have? The bill would require content owners to provide ISPs, payment providers and others with detailed written explanations, supported by proof, of why they are seeking action against the sites.
Who's behind SOPA? SOPA was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Lamar Smith (R-Va.). It is co-sponsored by John Conyers (D-Mich.), Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and several other lawmakers. The bill enjoys support from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and predictable quarters such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America. It also has garnered wide support from a majority of state attorneys-general, law enforcement officials, hundreds of trade unions and industry groups, and even a few companies such as Pfizer.
So who, then, is really opposed to it? Lots of people, including free speech and rights advocacy groups, industry associations, academicians, lawyers and some of the largest web companies, including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others.
What's this Protect IP Act I keep hearing of? That's the somewhat tamer Senate version of SOPA.
So what happens to SOPA next? The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on it on Wednesday, and it's expected to go to legislative "mark-up" by the end of the year. Exactly when it comes to a vote is unclear.
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Beautifully handcrafted, high cocoa dark chocolate floral creams, with a soft fondant centre. Each chocolate is mixed, dipped and finished by hand meaning each box has its own unique charm. The rose and violet creams were a winner of the famous great taste gold award and are complemented by the addition of lavender and geranium creams.
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Although these chocolates will no doubt appeal to new users, for me they are a reminder of older times, they are excellent chocolates, much too moooorish and sit in my fridge calling to me every time I open it. I have tried a few of this range from Friars and all have been excellent quality.
Excellent. I was interested to try the unusual geranium and lavender as I really enjoy scented creams, but I found the flavours less distinctive than hoped.
Rose and violet still my favourites. Thank you.
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Brian Johnson is an environmental education and program evaluation specialist with more than 20 years of experience in the field. He is currently a Senior Research Associate with PEER Associates Inc., where he manages evaluation and research projects for informal science institutions such as zoos, aquariums, and science centers. Until August 2017, he served as the Director of Educational Research and Evaluation at the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he established a research and evaluation unit at the WCS zoos and aquarium in New York City. Additionally, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Lancashire Global Education Centre in Preston, UK. He has also served as Education Officer for Botanic Gardens Conservation International, where he directed the organization's plant conservation education programs in the United States. Brian has also directed environmental education programs at the nation's first urban Audubon center in New York City, and served for five years as Senior Faculty with the Audubon Expedition Institute at Lesley University.
Brian holds a Ph.D. in environmental studies from Antioch University New England, an M.S. in environmental education from Lesley University, and a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. His Ph.D. research focused on the relationship between environmental education and improvements in environmental quality. In other words, can environmental education be an effective response to poor environmental quality? (To download a copy of Brian's Ph.D. dissertation, visit http://tinyurl.com/bjohnsonphd) His current research focuses on identifying and measuring the long-term effects of informal science learning at zoos and aquariums. He has been the PI/Co-PI for two research grants from the National Science Foundation. His research has been published in Environmental Education Research, the Journal of College Science Teaching, and Convergence: International Journal of Adult Education. Brian is also a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Environmental Education.


Palestine is the county seat of Anderson County. Located in the central part of East Texas, 108 miles southeast of Dallas, 150 miles north of Houston, 99 miles northeast of Waco and 180 miles northeast of Austin.
Home of the annual Hot Pepper Festival and Chuck Wagon Races, Palestine was named one of Texas's top travel destinations and known as the foodie epicenter offering some of the best restaurants in east Texas and a year round steam train excursions through the Piney Woods of East Texas.


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UK's 100 ml liquid airport rule to be scrapped
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London: Some security rules in UK on liquids and items such as laptops in airport hand luggage will be scrapped in 2024, media reports said.
The government has set a deadline of June 2024 for most UK airports to install new high-tech 3D scanners, that show more detailed images of baggage, the BBC reported.
The changes will see the 100ml liquid rule increased to two litres and mean passengers won't need to remove electrical items from bags at security, it said.
A previous installation deadline was pushed back due to the pandemic.
Passengers are currently required to remove items such as tablets, laptops, and liquids from their hand luggage while going through security checks at airports.
Liquids, such as sun cream, shampoo or toothpaste are required to be 100ml and must be in a clear plastic bag, BBC reported.
The limits have been in place since November 2006 and their introduction marked the end of a ban on liquids in the cabin imposed three months earlier, when British police said they had foiled a plot to blow up as many as 10 planes using explosives hidden in drinks bottles.
The government said its requirement for airports to upgrade screening equipment to the type similar to CT scanners used in hospitals, will mean eventually the rules on electrical items can be lifted and the liquid limit can be extended to two litres, BBC reported.
With the legislation being phased in across the country over the next two years, current rules will still apply at airports not using the technology. Passengers are advised to check this before travelling.
Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the new technology would reduce queue times to improve the "passenger experience, and most importantly detecting potential threats".
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Year-End Movie Catchup Edition
So. we're coming up on New Years, and I have, surprisingly not been watching movies constantly. My wife's had some health issues that have required my hovering helplessly over her while she tries to shoo me away, so let's just say I haven't really been in the mood lately.
That hasn't really stopped me, just slowed me down somewhat. Once I realized the only thing keeping me glued to The List was me, I calmed down considerably. I'm probably going to miss the self-imposed year's end deadline by one movie, and if that causes the world to end, well, I'll be giving the Mayans hell in Xibalba. "One movie? Really?"
This also hasn't stopped me from devising next year's list. I'll post that after New Year's. I'm looking forward to it.
So what did I manage to accomplish?
Major Dundee is a problematic movie, apparently as much to make as it is to watch. This was supposed to be Sam Peckinpah's first big-budget movie, but new studio management cut his budget and his production time, so it's likely a minor miracle that Peckinpah didn't leave bullet holes in office walls. He and star Charlton Heston clashed mightily (though Heston at least once interceded on the director's behalf) and the movie was eventually taken away and recut from two and a half hours down to a more manageable two. What I saw was a restored 136 minute version.
Heston is the title character, a Union soldier chafing under his assignment to run a prisoner of war compound. The possibility of more action is offered by the rampage of a murderous renegade, Sierra Charriba (Michael Pate) and his band of Apaches. The only problem is, to form a regiment large enough to pursue and engage the enemy, he has to recruit a number of his Confederate prisoners, who are led by an old friend, Captain Tyreen (Richard Harris). He also has a number of outsiders and general sketchy types, such as Slim Pickens and R.G. Armstrong as a two-fisted clergyman with a hate on for the Injun who decimated his flock. Not to mention James Coburn as a one-armed scout. And a number of black Union soldiers who want to prove they're just as good as the white soldiers.
This is a hell of a setup for an action movie, a ragtag bunch who'd just as soon shoot each other as the enemy. You already know that there's going to be some internal skirmishes, some respect is going to be garnered, some unlikely friendships are going to be formed.
Well, forget all this, this is a revisionist Western, and we have no time for it. In fact, Peckinpah made a damned good start on the revisionist western with his first feature, Ride The Wild Country, and there had certainly been others, but Dundee is Peckinpah's put-up-or-shut-up to the others. He had been shopping around a movie about George Custer, but decided Dundee hit the same points his Custer project intended to, and accepted the job. Our mob follows Charriba through Texas and into Mexico, and after a nighttime engagement that goes poorly, Dundee and troops head into a nearby village, where they engage instead the occupying French army, gaining the admiration of the much put-upon village but garnering a new formidable enemy.
Once they decide to head to this village, Charriba is going to vanish from the proceedings for the next hour or more. The conflict becomes more between Dundee and Tyreen, especially when Senta Berger crops up as a German woman helping the unfortunates in the village. Dundee gets wounded while dallying with her, is smuggled into another village for treatment, falls into an alcoholic fugue until Tyreen and men sweep back in to extract him, and then we are – finally! – back into the movie we started.
No wonder this was cut. The first 45 minutes and the last 15 serve up a fairly coherent story. The other hour and fifteen serves to give us a pencil sketch of the rest of Peckinpah's movie career – echoes of the far superior The Wild Bunch abound – but prove to be a slog, especially Dundee's Lost Weekend segment. It is to Heston's credit that Dundee is a pretty unsympathetic character, especially for a title character, and plays him as such – which probably gave the studio suits more than a little stomach acid on top of the other ulcers the movie was giving them.
For me, the best part of the movie is watching what would become Peckinpah's stock company – Slim Pickens, R.G. Armstrong, L.Q. Jones, Ben Johnson, and especially Warren Oates – as backup singers in the troop, and wishing they had been given more screen time. Which would also have been ruthlessly cut out, anyway.
Problematic in another way is Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which is a spiritual (at least) follow-up to Abel Ferrara's 1992 movie starring Harvey Keitel. This one stars Nicolas Cage. I do like Cage a lot – he plays crazy and obsessed like few actors, but he needs a good director for guidance, or the result is simply bad cinema. But if there is one director who knows how to handle crazy, it's Werner Herzog, and Bad Lieutenant is one of Cage's better outings as an actor in some years.
Cage is Terence McDonagh, a New Orleans detective who saves a prisoner from a flooding cell just after Hurricane Katrina, injuring his back in the process. Prescribed vicodin for the pain, McDonagh is, six months later, a high-functioning junkie, but the high-functioning part is starting to get dubious. When his contact at the Evidence Room cuts him off, McDonagh starts looking desperately for other drug sources, even as he gets deeper into a drug-related multiple homicide investigation. Finally he screws up big time and he finds himself allied with the man he was hunting down: drug lord Big Fate (Xzibit) after which things get even worse.
The central question of "Did Bad Lieutenant even need a sequel?" is one that's never really answered. There's a general try to match the earlier movie's visceral punch, but it never quite succeeds. Even with hallucinations of iguanas and Eva Mendes as Cage's hooker girlfriend, it generally looks and feels like an HBO drama gone slightly off the rails. Worth seeing, but not life or game-changing.
Continuing my twisted anti-hero run was Drive, which everyone was exclaiming about earlier this year. Ryan Gosling earns his movie star stripes as Driver, a mechanic who works Hollywood auto stunts when he can, and moonlights as wheelman for crimes when he can't. Driver is a prodigy on wheels, amply proven in a tense getaway sequence at the very beginning of the movie. More or less by accident, he meets his neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan), who has a young son. They hit it off, Driver finds himself falling in love with her… and then her husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac) gets out of prison.
Standard owes some shady types protection money from when he was inside, and they want him to pull a pawn shop robbery to clear his debt. When Irene and her son are threatened, Driver offers to be the wheelman for the job. But there is a deeper double cross going on, and Driver finds himself in possession of a million dollars and two dead associates. The path from there gets tangled, but it all comes down to two minor-league gangsters, played by Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks, and Driver goes on the offensive to save the woman he loves.
Drive is an impressive-looking movie, with an often beautiful synthesis between image and sound, and a beautifully modern soundtrack; this is the best Michael Mann movie that wasn't made by Michael Mann. Though I find myself more than willing to credit Driver's ability behind the wheel, I find myself wondering just how the hell he became savvy enough to take out three professional hit men. Then again (shrug), it's an action movie, sort of. When has that ever stopped me enjoying one? Ron Perlman is good as usual, but the real revelation is Albert Brooks, playing a fairly normal businessman capable of turning into a vicious thug at a moment's notice. He's very good at the quiet menace thing, and he was up for several best supporting acting awards, although not the all-important Academy Award.
Director Nicolas Winding Refn has a nice filmography behind him, and is apparently now developing the movie version of The Equalizer. I loved that show, and Drive proves him a very good fit for the material.
Speaking of material – and I used the word flawed a little earlier – I finally watched Sucker Punch before the year was out, and found why I was able to buy the two-disc Blu-ray edition for three bucks and change.
I don't know where to start, so I'm not going to. Ugly, muddled story in an ugly, muddled world. The "Fantasy Realms" stuff was gorgeous, and makes me wonder why Zack Snyder didn't just make a live-action anime if that was the intention. What I found myself sitting through was Zack Snyder first attempting to make a Baz Luhrmann movie, then deciding that Tarsem Singh fella had some good ideas, too. This is one destined for the SwapaDVD pile, and they likely already have a dozen or so on file.
Also, Carla Gugino, honey. What gypsy did you piss off that you keep being in movies like this? Do I need to call someone?
Though I've a couple of others, Johnny Firecloud is the last movie I'm going to jam into this post, as it fits the twisted anti-hero motif that seems to have spontaneously generated itself. This is on a Something Weird double feature disc with Bummer!, another David F. Friedman-produced flick, and it actually proved itself to have some surprises in store.
The first surprise was the 20th Century Fox logo at the start. The second was that the movie was shot in Panavision. This was not the grimy revenge flick I had been led to expect by the trailer and exploitation movie books. This was intended to be released to hardtops, not drive-ins.
This is Friedman's most expensive movie, to be sure. Apparently he put aside his usual animosity toward investors and actually put together a SAG shoot, with a commensurate uptick in quality, both in production value and talent.
The title character, Johnny Firecloud (Victor Mohica) is an American Indian who returns from Vietnam to find his home town more than ever under the thumb of rancher Colby (Ralph Meeker), and things worse than ever on the reservation. Colby has it in for Johnny, mainly because he got the rancher's daughter pregnant before shipping out (though this is something Johnny doesn't know). The town Sheriff, played by David Canary, is the unwilling tool by which Johnny is hassled, until things rather come to a head when Johnny's grandfather is lynched, and the Indian schoolmarm gang-raped by Colby's goon squad. Then Johnny, who once sneered at his grandfather's "traditions" goes on the warpath and offs the good squad in bloody traditional ways, like scalping, tomahawks to the head, being buried up to the neck and left for the buzzards, you know. The usual.
Firecloud tries to take the high road when it can. It takes nearly an hour to get to the warpath segment, an hour of racism, character work, and a general tour of Asshole Town. The trailer, of course, concentrates on the bloody revenge aspect, but as i said – that's all in the last half-hour. The reason why Sheriff Jessie bends the knee to Colby is rather startling for '75 – turns out that while he was in the Army, Jessie was raped and then dishonorably discharged as a homosexual! Colby's daughter, played by Christina Hart, also gets some more dimension as the story progresses. Hell, the movie's end – which ends on an unfinished note, though the pieces are in place for Colby's final comeuppance – even takes the high road.
Ralph Meeker was really a good actor who got stuck playing rotten bad guys because he was so good at it. He wanted to play the Sheriff, to get a sympathetic role for the first time since, probably, Paths of Glory, but nope. You got the villain role, man. David Canary usually gets singled out as the one thing that almost salvages Johnny Firecloud, and that is the truth. Canary has five daytime Emmys for his work on All My Children, and they ain't just for show. His turn as the tormented Jessie is about as three-dimensional as anybody gets in this movie, and the cinema's loss was definitely TV's gain.
I guess we can't go without mentioning the movie's stunt casting, and that's Sacheen Littlefeather as the doomed schoolmarm, Nenya. Littlefeather is most famous as the woman who appeared for Marlon Brando at the '72 Oscars to turn down the Best Actor Award for Godfather and deliver a short manifesto on the mistreatment on Indians. (No matter your politics, you have to admit that took guts on the lady's behalf. I still remember the boos from the audience.) Of course, at this cynical remove, we can also reflect that her birth name was Maria Cruz, and she was only half-Indian – but then, that's probably more than Frank DeKova, who played the grandfather, Chief White Eagle. Hell, even the star, Victor Mohica, was really Puerto Rican.
Johnny Firecloud comes that close to being a good movie, but it didn't make a choice. It tried to be Billy Jack crossed with Walking Tall – and that's a concept that gets a movie made, but to what end? The cast of characters of a decent morality play is there, but the execution of the revenge portion seems rushed, and when Jessie's deputy mentions all they have to do is stake out Johnny's dwindling list of victims, he speaks for the audience.
Then again, you're listening to someone who expected a gritty, nasty little revenge flick and got – well, Billy Jack crossed with Walking Tall. And I actually didn't like either of those, anyway.
So there we are. Lookie there, it's New Year's Eve and I only have one movie left to watch. See you on the other side, where I'll blither about that.
Categories: Movies That Do Not Suck, The Wonderful World of Crap . Tags: bad lieutenant port of call new orleans, david f. friedman, drive, johnny firecloud, las cage, major dundee, nicolas cage, nicolas winding refn, ryan gosling, sam peckinpah, sucker punch, wener herzog, zack snyder . Author: drfreex . Comments: Leave a comment


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Picture of the month: November 2019
November 2019: The Finding of Moses
A vast, dramatic painting telling the story of a mother's love
Pharoah has decreed that all new-born Hebrew baby boys must be killed.
Desperate to save her child, a mother hides her baby in a basket, among the bulrushes.
That baby is Moses. His sister, Miriam, watches on.
The Finding of Moses
Image: Orazio Gentileschi, 'The Finding of Moses', early 1630s. © Pyms Gallery, London
Pharoah's daughter comes to the Nile to bathe accompanied by her ladies-in-waiting. She finds a baby, takes pity on it, and wants to take it back to the palace to look after it.
Miriam offers to help find someone to nurse the baby. That someone is her mother… Moses's mother.
Gentileschi has chosen the most dramatic moment in this Old Testament story. Pharoah's daughter, in a sumptuous golden silk dress, points to the baby she has just discovered, while two of her finely dressed attendants point to the spot where he was found. Miriam, in a much simpler green toga, kneels, offering her suggestion of help. Behind her, with a hand gently on her shoulder, stands her mother, who will soon be reunited with Moses as his nursemaid.
Gentileschi may not be as widely known today as his daughter Artemisia, whose Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria hangs in the Gallery, but he is one of the most interesting figures of the Italian Baroque. He had an international career, counting aristocrats and monarchs among his patrons. Together with Van Dyck and Rubens, he was one of the leading international painters who came to work in London for King Charles I.
Charles commissioned this painting in the 1630s as a gift for his wife, Queen Henrietta Maria, probably to celebrate the birth of their son, the future Charles II. It was made to decorate the Great Hall, one of Inigo Jones's most beautiful buildings at the Queen's House in Greenwich.
The painting is like a frozen tableau of choreographed movement; each character acts their part with stylised gestures. The focus of all their attention (and ours) is the baby; placed not in the centre of the picture, but at a point where the kneeling bather's shoulder and bent arm frame the basket.
Outstretched arms and pointing fingers lead the eye around the painting; the many diagonals intersecting to form upright and inverted triangles. This structure 'locks' the figures into place while leaving Gentileschi enough freedom to vary the women's poses, gestures, and expressions. Looking at these ancient figures dressed in contemporary 17th-century fashion, it's not hard for us to imagine the ladies of Charles and Henrietta's court, in their equally luxurious dresses, forming a similar tableau as entertainment.
Help save this masterpiece for the nation
'The Finding of Moses' has been on loan to the Gallery since 2002 where it has been at the heart of our Italian Baroque display. We have just three weeks to raise the final £2 million to purchase this masterpiece and keep it on free display, for everyone, forever.


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Did Germany lose World War II when/because "kill ratios" started moving "against" her?
In the first major action between the Germans and Americans, at the battle of Kasserine Pass , the Germans inflicted casualties against (mostly) the inexperienced Americans at the rate of about 5 to 1. Fortunately, the Americans were able to improve substantially on this ratio in the days and weeks ahead.
The early American experience was by no means atypical; the Poles suffered physical casualties of between 3 and 4 to 1 in 1939, with this rising to about 15 to 1 counting prisoners. Allied to German casualty rates in France 1940 were similarly lopsided.
In the first few months of the 1941 campaign, the Soviets suffered casualties at six or seven times the German rate.
With the notable exception of Kasserine Pass, where American artillery held the day, the massive German kill ratios (in Poland in 1939, in France in 1940, and in the Soviet Union in 1941) were accompanied by massive territorial gains.
This ratio fell steadily in 1942, with the Soviet to German casualty ratio of roughly 2 to 1, in line with their respectively populations, at the "turning point" campaign of Stalingrad. Diminishing kill ratios accompanied "diminishing returns" for the Germans in 1942.
In a war between 80 million (ethnic) Germans on one side, 130 million Americans, 170 million Soviets, and 50 million Britishers on the other, the Germans would have won if they could inflict casualties at the rate of 5 to 1 (or "better") on the Allies throughout the war, the latter' superiority in manpower and material notwithstanding. The Soviets, British, and Americans won because they were able to bring their loss ratios below their overall numerical preponderance.
Have any historical accounts tied Germany's early successes to the their massive early "kill ratios," and their subsequent lack of success to the fact that their "kill ratios" fell below their overall numerical disadvantage?
One shouldn't confuse a statistical measure of success or failure with a cause of that success or failure. – mgkrebbs Jul 13 '13 at 7:15
That's kind of like saying your sports team lost because they started scoring less points than the other team. It's not the cause of losing, it's an effect. – Schwern Jan 11 '17 at 22:17
@Schwern: The idea is more like asking if your football team lost because they advanced fewer yards. It's possible to win with fewer yards (turnovers, penalties kicks, etc.) Greater yards usually means greater score, but not always. As in my answer below, the "score" is determined by the exploitation sequences, not kill ratios. Your answer is a good one, though. – Tom Au Jan 12 '17 at 1:03
Have any historical accounts attributed Germany's early successes to the their massive early "kill ratios," and their subsequent lack of success to the fact that their "kill ratios" fell below their overall numerical disadvantage?
Professional historians would never attribute something as complex as the development and unfolding of the Second World War in Europe to 'kill ratios'. That's history in a vacuum since you're leaving out all other aspects of the war and concentrating on pure ratios and math, thus leaving out context. 'Kill ratios' are in effect a reflection and form part of the result(s) of what historians study, research, and write about, they are not the main theme or area of concentration.
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The only time "kill ratios" really matter all that much is when using attrition warfare.
While important in World War I, to the best of my knowledge, this strategy was never employed in a large scale on the fronts Germany was involved in.* The Germans themselves went out of their way to avoid this kind of warfare, instead preferring fast exploitation of front breakthroughs to cut the communications (and force the surrender) of large numbers of enemy units.
The Germans' basic problem was that they had less resources (in both men and material) than their opponents, so in the long run any serious losses on their side, regardless of ratios, would doom them. Russia could have afforded to operate at a deficit in losses the entire war, and still could have won, as long as they could make it up more than the Germans could.
Eventually the Germans stretched themselves too thin on the Russian front, and the Russians were able to gather enough forces to start achieving their own breakthroughs. If you keep track of "ratios", perhaps things started to swing in the UN's favor at this point, but the underlying issue was that the German forces couldn't replace their losses on anywhere near the scale that the Russians could. Any changes in loss ratios you may see at that point are a symptom, not the cause.
* - The one big exception I can think of is the Battle of Stalingrad. However, you could argue that this was almost more of a siege than a battle of attrition. – T.E.D.♦ Jul 12 '13 at 23:43
"swing in the UN's favor " Did you mean in the Soviets' favor? The USSR was more than just Russians. Also, "fewer" not "less" resources :/ – Eugene Seidel Jul 13 '13 at 7:20
@EugeneSeidel english.stackexchange.com/q/495/1420 – Andrew Grimm Jul 13 '13 at 8:23
@EugeneSeidel United Nations (UN) was normal terminology for what we now call "the Allies" at the time. Not used to much now to avoid confusion with the postwar organization. – DJClayworth Jul 15 '13 at 16:40
Actually, Kasserine Pass was the "exception" to the rule, because the Germans didn't achieve their objectives despite the 5- to -1 kill ratio. But in the other examples cited, the Germans' massive kill ratios were accompanied by massive territorial gains. These gains(in e.g., the Soviet Union) decelerated as the kill ratios decelerated. – Tom Au Jul 15 '13 at 17:14
Kill ratios are a tactical consideration - the Allies were more interested in beating Germany from a strategic position: deprive it of resources and manufacturing capability, and overwhelm it with mass production and superior logistics. It's fortunate that Monty, Patton and Zhukov were excellent tacticians, but it was Eisenhower and Shaposhnikov, with the support of civilian political leadership, who truly understood how to beat the Germans with logistical supremacy in support of an aggressive offense.
This was also U.S. Grant's strategy during the end phase of the Civil War, and the kill ratios strongly favored the South (nota bene: Cold Harbor).
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If you take the campaign as a whole, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, the combined kill ratio of Union to Confederates was about 1.9:1, in line with the strengths of the respective armies. But the Union had moved 60 miles closer to Richmond, achieving their strategic objective, and the kill ratios soon came down. – Tom Au Sep 6 '13 at 14:17
Alfred Young in "Lee's Army During the Overland Campaign" went to new sources for losses and showed that Lee's losses have been understated considerably and several sources of reinforcements he obtained have been ignored. – Oldcat Jun 9 '14 at 23:11
In a battle or campaign, there are several stages; the attack, the killing, and the exploitation of the advantages gained by the battle and resulting killing.
In the invasion of Poland, for example, the Germans began by inflicting physical casualties at the rate of two or three to one on four Polish armies (out of seven), defending the northeastern, northwestern, southwestern, and southern parts of the country. This led to Polish prisoner captures of 10 times or more the German physical casualties in the exploitation sequences following the initial breakthroughs, and the destruction of the Polish armies. The end result was that the four German columns could "gang up" on the single Polish army defending Warsaw (the other two were in the Soviet zone).
In the invasion of France, the penetration of the Allied lines via a thrust through the Ardennes resulted in the splitting of the Allied forces, north and south. The Germans then destroyed the northern force (except for the survivors of Dunkirk), then overwhelmed the now outnumbered and outgunned southern force.
In Russia, the ratio of physical casualties was something like two Soviets for one German, but German armored thrusts exploited the resulting breakthroughs and the captures of large "bags" of Soviet prisoners at Smolensk, Kiev, and elsewhere, that caused the disproportionate Soviet losses of both manpower and land. In 1942, the ratio of physical casualties remained at about 2 to 1 for most of the year, but the Soviets had "wised" up and lost far fewer prisoners. And point of the defense of Stalingrad (before the November counterattack), was that city fighting would prevent an exploitation sequence such as a German thrust down the Volga to Astrakhan, and the reinforcement of the southern Caucasus thrust. By late fall, the onset of winter and the weakening of German armored forces allowed the Soviets to counterattack, and enjoy their own exploitation sequence by surrounding Stalingrad.
Although the Germans initially inflicted physical casualties of five to one, on the Americans at Kasserine Pass during the early going, a heavy artillery bombardment and German supply shortages prevented any exploitation sequence, so the early favorable results (for the Germans) became meaningless.
Bottom line, kill ratios can be important, but only to the extent that they set up the exploitation sequences like the ones discussed above. Absent such exploitation sequences, their importance is limited.
As mentioned by many here, kill ratios are only really significant if you're talking attrition warfare or at a basic tactical level. Otherwise they're an effect of losing the war, not a cause.
The underlying question of why those kill ratios turned against Germany is a very complicated one, but one important aspect is that the Germans had invented a new kind of mobile warfare and the Allies had to play catch up.
People often fail to appreciate just how much tactics and technology changed from 1939 to 1945. In the air, all-metal, monoplane military aircraft had only just replaced the biplane in front-line service (and in some cases, such as the Fairey Swordfish, it hadn't). On the ground, radios were bulky and expensive, and communication was still a laborious process often done by runners or cable. Tactically, many units and vehicles still lacked radios limiting the sophistication of their maneuvers and tactics; you can only get so fancy with flags and flares. At sea, the aircraft carrier was still untried, and the submarine still unconquered.
The Germans exploited this technological change by increasing the pace of warfare dramatically. They introduced radios at the tactical level, in individual tanks and aircraft. They trained their air, infantry, artillery, and armor to work in concert. They imbued local commanders with the know-how and ability to adapt to the local situation and make local decisions without waiting for orders form higher command. They added paratroopers to overcome strategic obstacles, and tactical air strikes to support deep penetrations.
The situation was now liable to change in hours rather than days. This is a pace the Allies were not prepared for. It's a pace that allowed the German army to find gaps and exploit them before the Allies could react. At this pace, the Allies could never be quite sure of where the Germans were. Superior Allied forces were surrounded and cut off as they raced to defend positions that had already been overrun. Faced with this chaotic situation, the Allies often retreated if they were unsure of their flanks.
The Germans ran rampant with this new style of warfare from 1939 to 1941, but the remaining undefeated Allies were learning. The Soviets and British learned through facing the Germans, being defeated, and having to rebuild their armies. The Americans were also building an army, but they had the luxury of doing it in peacetime, observing what was going on in Europe, and learning from it. The North African campaign let the US Army learn some hard lessons at a relatively small cost through defeats like Kasserine.
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What you describe in your fourth paragraph is called "mission-type tactics" (as opposed to "command-type tactics"). – DevSolar Sep 6 '17 at 7:19
What kill ratio would Nazi Germany need in 1945 to win?
Was the battle of Stalingrad "unique" in the annals of history?
Did the Germans use a "Verdun"-like strategy at Stalingrad?
Given their reputation for fighting to the last man in the Pacific, why did 700,000 Japanese troops surrender in Manchuria?
Was von Manstein's Lack of Success at Leningrad (and later Stalingrad) due to the failure of German military intelligence?
Why did the German air force lose experienced pilots faster than the Allies, even though they were defending their home airspace?
Why didn't the discrepancy in the Kursk casualty ratio work against the Soviets?
Who was the most successful German spy against Great Britain in WWII, from the contemporary German perspective?
How did Red Army achieve to manipulate German Army in 1942 and 1943?


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10030 Philkeenan è un asteroide della fascia principale. Scoperto nel 1981, presenta un'orbita caratterizzata da un semiasse maggiore pari a 3,0703025 UA e da un'eccentricità di 0,1797064, inclinata di 1,17047° rispetto all'eclittica.

L'asteroide è dedicato all'astronomo statunitense Philip Keenan.

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