Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a bake sheet with parchment or butter and flour it.
Thoroughly mix the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in the bowl of a mixer, food processor or mixing bowl. Cut up the butter into small pieces and blend it into the dry ingredients until the texture is granular.
Turn this mixture into a bowl and slowly incorporate the milk with a fork. Gather the dough into a ball and place it on a lightly floured work surface. Dust the dough lightly with flour and roll it out 1/2" thick. Use a cookie cutter or the rim of a glass to cut circles in the dough. Lift biscuits onto the bakesheet. Stir a few drops of milk into the egg yolk and coat the top of each scone with this wash.
Bake for 15 minutes, until the scones are fully risen and lightly browned. Cool on a rack.


SOUTH SUDAN proposed power sharing deal – BUT WHERE IS MUSEVENI'S NAME IN THIS THING?
RADIO TAMAZUJ – South Sudan government and the opposition were on Monday served with a peace proposal to share power in order to end the ongoing conflict in the country.
-In the transitional period, President Salva Kiir shall continue as President of South Sudan with five vice presidents. SPLM-IO leader Riek Machar will assume the position of first vice president.
-According to the proposal, apart from the first vice president there shall be no hierarchy among vice presidents.
-The Council of Ministers shall comprise of 35 ministers, and the ministerial positions shall be 20 ministers for incumbent TGoNU, SPLM-IO 10 ministers, SSOA 3 ministers, FDs 2 ministers, and OPP 1 ministers.
-According to the proposal, there shall be 10 deputy ministers during the transitional period. Incumbent TGoNU was given 5 deputy ministers, SPLM-IO 3 deputy ministers, SSOA 1 deputy minister and OPP 1 deputy minister.
-The proposal says no fewer than three of the deputy ministers shall be women. No assistant presidents, other ministers or deputy ministers shall be appointed during the transitional period.
-If more than two advisers to the president are appointed, the responsibility sharing ratio shall apply to their selection.
-The transitional national legislative assembly shall be dissolved and composed of 550 members. Incumbent TGoNU was given 332 members, SPLM-IO 128 members, SSOA 50 members, OPP 35, and FDs 5 members.
– The speaker of the national assembly shall be nominated by incumbent TGoNU. One deputy speaker shall be nominated by OPP and the other, who shall be a woman, shall be nominated by incumbent TGoNU.
-The Council of States shall be dissolved and composed of 50 members or the closest figure that can be shared evenly by the states as per the number that shall be recommended by the IBC. However, the minimum number for the representatives of every and each state shall be two.
-The membership of the Council of States shall be reconstituted as per the responsibility sharing ratio.
-The speaker of the Council of States shall be nominated by SPLM-IO and the deputy speaker shall be nominated by incumbent TGoNU.
-Within 30 days of the signing of the agreement, IGAD executive secretariat, shall appoint Independent Boundaries Commission (IBC) for South Sudan.
– Members of the IBC shall be five South Sudanese who shall be appointed by the parties, one each, two representatives of IGAD states that shall come from states with no boundaries with South Sudan, three representatives of the Troika states and five representatives of the African Union that shall be from the c5 states.
-The IBC shall be chaired by one of its non-South Sudanese members who shall be of recognized standing and integrity and who had occupied a senior judicial, executive or administrative position in his home country.
-The IBC shall complete its work within 90 days. In all cases, it shall make its recommendation on the number and boundaries of the states during the pre-transitional period.
-In the unlikely event of the IBC failing to make its recommendations before the end of the pre-transitional period, South Sudan shall have as regions the old three provinces, as per boundaries of January 1st 1956. This solution shall be adopted on temporary basis until the number and boundaries of the states are agreed.
-The level shall be 55% for incumbent TGoNU, SPLM-IO 25%, SSOA 10% and OPP 10%.
-State and local government shall be dissolved and reconstituted as per the responsibility sharing formula.
-The positions that shall be subject to responsibility sharing include: governors, speakers of state legislatures, state councils of ministers, state legislatures, county commissioners, county councils, mayors and city councils.
-In sharing states and local positions, parties shall take into account the relative prominence each party has in the respective state or Payam and effective administration of that unit.


I edited a gallery page in momentum to allow the images to be full screen with a image caption overlayed. I was able to do this, but now my slide transitions are gone. The gallery just moves immediately to the next picture without doing the slide. Also related, my gallery has stopped recognizing the focal points I have set for the images, and just center-aligns the image automatically.
Can anyone help out with these issues? Thanks.
If I delete the position: fixed code, or change to position: relative, the slide transitions are back but the image is no longer fullscreen (still white space to right of the image). Any ideas out there? I think I'm getting close but can't quite figure this one out.


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Cemetery:  Saint Kevin's Cemetery, Glendalough
Wicklow Index
File contributed by:  Anna Ryan annaryan001 at hotmail.com
SAINT KEVIN'S CEMETERY, GLENDALOUGH, COUNTY WICKLOW
Erected by, Thomas and Elizabeth Geoghegan, Waters Bridge.
In memory of their daughter, Anne Geoghegan, who died, 17th
June 1884, aged, 15 yrs. and of their uncle, James O'Toole,
died, 11th Feb. 1897, aged, 83 yrs. also the above,
Elizabeth, died, 23rd Oct. 1902, aged, 62 years, Thomas
Grghegan, who died, 1st Sept.  1911, aged, 67 years.
Of your charity, pray for the Souls of the Croney, Byrne
Family who lie beneath, Andrew Byrne, died, 29th May 1829
aged, 82 years, Laurence Byrne, died, 1826, aged 7 years,
Mary Byrne, died, 23rd March 1911, aged, 93 years, James
Byrne, died, 26th August 1923, aged, 52 years, Laurence
Byrne, died, 1940, aged, 67 years, Jane Byrne, died, 28th
August? aged 67 years, Frances Eliza Byrne, died, 1st Sept.
1957, aged, 7 months, Andrew William Byrne, died, March
1979, aged, 65 years, Rose Mary Byrne, died, Frances Byrne,
Laurence William Byrne, died,, 5th July 1898, aged, 50
years, Andrew William Byrne, born,  27th March 1849, died,
26th Jan.? Beatrice Mary Byrne, July 1926, aged, 33 years.
(old head stone and hard to read)
Erected in loving memory of, Patrick Maher, Knocafrompa, who
departed this life, 19th March 1899, aged, 83 years, and
also his beloved son, Patrick Maher, Camden Row, Dublin, who
departed this life, 10th June 1899, aged, 35 years.
Erected in memory of his brother, Denis Maher, Knockafrompa,
who departed this life, 2nd July 1903, aged, 40 years, also
his mother, Mary, who departed this life, 11th April 1913,
aged, 86 years.
Erected by, Hugh Keane. In memory of his beloved wife,
Elizabeth Keane, who dept. this life, 3rd June 1849, aged,
55 years, also his son, Patrick Keane, who depart. 27th
Sept. 1870, aged, 31 years, also the above, Hugh, who depat.
6th June 1875, aged, 73 years, also, Elizabeth, daughter of,
John and Margaret Keane, who depat. 4th August 1888, aged, 6
Of your charity, pray for the repose of the Souls of, John
Keane, of Roundwood, who died, 22nd Oct. 1849, aged, 68
years, and of his beloved wife, Elizabeth, who departed this
life, 3rd Feb. 1807, aged 22? Years, also their son, Thomas
Keane, who departed this life, 20th May 1884, aged, 56
years, also their loving son, John Kean, who died, 2nd June
1877, aged, 77 years.
Here Leith the body of, Luke Toolle, of Annamoe, who
departed this s life, August 1793, aged 63 yr. This stone
was erected by his widow, Mary O'Toole.
Erected by, John Kinsella. In loving memory of his father,
Edward Kinsella, who departed this fife, Sept. 18th 1894,
aged, 72 yr. also his mother, Margaret, who died, 17th June
1815, aged, 40 yr. also two of his children, Philip and
Erected by, Frances Byrne, Togrogney. In memory of Anne
Byre, who died, 13th Dec. 1875, aged, 74 years, Thomas
Byrne, died, in America, 15th  Nove. 1956. aged, 24 years,
and Judith Lin?s , died, 1st June 1855, aged, 71 years,
also, Catherine Kavanagh, who died, 7th September 1900,
aged, 71 years, Julia Anne Kilbride, who died in U.S.A. ,
10th Oct.  1898, aged, 61 years.
Erected by, Michael Healy. In memory of his beloved wife,
Mary Healy, who departed this life, 14th July 1822, aged, 48
years, also three of their children.
Erected by, John Salley, Knockraheen. In loving memory of
his father, Thomas who died, 23rd Nov. 1886, aged, 76 years,
also his mother, Ellen, who died, 9th June 1892, aged, 78
yrs. and his brother, Sylvester, who died, 28th Aug. 1906,
aged, 66 yrs. also his brother, Edward, who died, 4th June
1884, aged, 35 yrs. and his sister, Margaret, who died, 6th
April 1890, aged, 37 yrs. and his sister, Anne Brady, who
died, 9th June 1867, aged, 30 yrs. also his daughter, Ellen,
who died, 7th May 1901, aged, 8 yrs.
Erected by, Mary Higgins and? Healy. In memory of their
father, Michael Brady, who depat. This life, Sept. 12th
1896, also their mother, Elizabeth Brady, who departed this
life, Dec.27th 1857?, and their grand mother, Ellen?, who
dept. this life, March 2nd 1806, aged, 96 years, also
interred here, Patrick Nolan, died, 4th July 1905, aged, 49
yrs. his wife, Catherine, died, 21st May 1922,aged, 23yrs.
Joseph, died, 15th Feb. 1979, aged, 82 yrs.
Erected y, Eliza Byrne, Luggalaw, In memory of her husband,
James Byrne, who departed, May 19th 1881, aged, 43 years,
her daughter, Eliza, died, in April 1924, also her grand
daughter, Elizabet McCabe, (nee Higgins). Died, October 12tg
1996, aged, 86 yrs.
Here lieth the body of, Michael Kavanagh, who departed this
life, August 21st 1804, aged, 34 yrs. also his wife, Bridget
Kavanagh, who departed this life, Jan. the 30th 1809, aged,
35 yrs. Here lies the body of, Daniel Brady, departed, March
the 12th 1773, aged, 79 years.
Erected by, Hanoria Waldon. To the memory of her beloved
husband, John Waldron, who departed this life, 13th April
1851, aged, 653 years, also her daughter, Mary, who died,
11th Feb. 1900, aged, 68 years.
Erected by, John Waldron. In memory of his mother, Bridget
Waldron, who died, Feb. 1900? Aged, 57 years, also his
father, James Waldron, who died, 29th Dec. 1908, aged, 57
years, and his sister, Honoram, who died young.
Erected by, Laurence Keegan, Knockfudda, in loving memory of
his son, Laurence Keegan, who died, 7th Sept. 1878, aged, 21
years. also in loving memory of his beloved wife, Kate
Keegan, who died, 18th March 1891, aged 72 years, Michael
Keegan, who died, 24th Oct. 1899, aged, 49 years, James
Keegan, died, 12th Feb. 1900, aged, 38 years, also the
above, Laurence, died, 13th Nov. 1907, aged, 84 yrs.
Mary Rafferty, Lough Dan, died, 6th March 1893, and John
Rafferty, died, 24th May 1914.
Erected by, Nicolas Ward, Ballinabarney. In loving memory of
his father, Denis Ward, who died, 20th March 1881, aged, 74
yrs. also his mother, died,19th April 1878, aged, 71 years,
also his wife, died, April 1891, aged, 54 years, also his
sister, Eliza Ward, died, 7th Sept. 1879, aged, 34 years,
and his son, john Ward, died, 10th |Oct. 1901, aged, 29
Jesus have mercy on the Soul of, Michael McCausland, 110
Rathmines RD., Dublin. Died, 19th Dec. 1936, aged, 61 yrs.
also Elizabeth McCausland, died, 12th Feb. 1960, aged, 84
In loving memory of, Thomas Jenkinson, Derrybawn, died, 29th
March 1939, also Mary Noble, Derrybawn, died, 26th Feb.
In loving memory of, Matthew Hatton  Troopers town, who
died, 23rd April 1943, aged, 83 years, also his wife, Mary,
died 14th Oct. 1946, aged, 78 years, their son, Robert,
died, 15th July 1973, aged, 67 years. Erected by, their
loving family.
In loving memory of, Mary Lawlor, died, 12th Jan. 1942, John
Lawlor, died, 26th July 1955, Margaret Lawlor, died, 22nd
May 1957, also Anne Doran, died, 11th May 1955. Erected by,
Joseph Lawlor, late of Ballyteigoe. In loving memory of,
Joseph Lawlor, died, 29th April 1966, aged, 78 years, Maura
Byrne Lawlor, beloved wife and mother, died, 14th July 1975,
aged, 48 yrs, Laurence (Larry) Byrne, devoted husband and
father, died, 20th November 1984, aged, 74 years.
In loving memory of, Ellen McCabe, Roundwood, died, 1st May
1951, aged, 36 yrs. beloved wife of Edward McCabe, also
Margaret McCabe, died, 25th August 1941, aged, 61 yrs. also
the above, William, died, 11th Oct. 1977, and his wife,
Christina McCabe, died, 8thJan. 1998, aged, 80 yrs.
In loving memory of, John Manley, died, 28th April 1937,
aged, 56 yrs, his daughter, Martha, died, 2nd July 1942,
aged, 27 yrs. his wife, Catherine, died, 25th Dec. 1943,
aged, 85 years, his son, john, died, 8th June 1978. Erected
by, their loving family.
In loving memory of, Mary Jane Malone, Baltkahima, died,
13th April 1934, aged, 72 yrss. Her daughter, Mary Jane
Malone, died, 11th Dec. 1944, aged, 61 yrs. her sons, James
Malone, died, 2nd Nov. 1957, aged, 64 yrs. Bernard Malone,
died, 15th July 1937, aged, 75 yrs. Erected by, her
In loving memory of, Michael Bennett, Bolinass, Ashford, who
died, 26th June 1942, aged, 74 years, also his daughter,
Mary Bennett, who died, 20th Sept. 1944, aged, 36 years,
also his wife, Elizabeth Bennett, who died, 13th Feb. 1955,
aged, 80 years, and his son, John Bennett, who died, 25th
Jan. 1969, aged, 66 years, also his daughter, Teresa
Bennett, who died, 1st Jan. 1972, aged, 66 years, and his
daughter, Jane Gillespie, died, 31st Jan. 1984, aged, 55
years. Interred in Glasnevin.
Erected by, Ellen Waldron. In loving memory of, her husband,
Edward Waldron, who died, 1st Sept. 1948, aged, 75 years,
also her daughter, Mary, who died, 16th April 1949, aged  35
years, also her son James, who died, 9th August 1936, aged,
24, also her son, William, who died, 21st July 1921, aged,
13, Ellen Waldron, died, 30th Sept. 1950, Denis Waldron,
died, 24? 1963, aged 61 yrs.
Erected by the public, to the memory of, Thomas Waldron,
Ballysallagh, in recognition for his services to the course
of suffering humanity, who departed this life, 15th Jan.
1902, aged, 63 years, his son, Thomas, died, 3rd July 1912,
aged, 28 years. Erected by, Jas. Collins. In memory of,
Margaret Collins, who departed this life, 9th July 1817,
aged, 38 yrs. also John Collins, who departed this life,
Jan. 8th 1819, aged, 72.
Erected by, Patrick McCarthy (Carty), Bahanaclash. In memory
of his father, Andrew, died, 17th May 1864, aged, 78 years,
his, mother, Bridget, died, 15th Dec. 1879, aged, 94 years,
his daughter, Katie, died, 13th November 1898, aged,
fourteen and a half years, the above, Patrick McCarthy,
died, 30th September 1866, aged, 84 years, and his daughter
in law, Ellen, died, 1st March 1923, aged, 56 years, and his
wife, Catherine, died, 29th April 1928, aged, 91 years.
In loving memory of our dear mother. Eliza Merrigan,
Ballinabarney, Creebabe, who died, 14th March 1918, aged,
54, our dear father, James Merrigan, who died, 11th July
1925, aged, 73, also their son, John Merrigan, who died, 2nd
Dec. 1981, aged, 85 years. Erected by, their sorrowing
Erected by, Honoria Byrne. In loving memory of her husband,
Laurence Byrne, who dept. the 7th Jan. 1821, aged, 50 years.
Erected by, Thomas Hayde. In loving memory of his wife,
Mary, who died, 9th April 1890, aged, 46 years, also his
son, Thomas, who died, March 1880, aged, 12 years, also his
daughter, Sarah, died, 6th April 1907, aged, 28 years, the
above Thomas, died, 1st  March 1911, aged, 79 years.
Erected by, John Power, Ghasnamullen. In loving memory of
his father, John Power, died, 11th Feb. 1875, aged, 65
years, also his mother, Mary Power, died, 11th Nov. 1876,
aged, 55 years, also his dearly loved daughter, Emily Power,
died, 8th April 1914, aged, 18 years, and Hannah, died, 30th
Nov. 1926, aged, 26 years, also the above, John, died, 29th
June 1929, aged, 78 years, his wife, Cecilia Power, died,
16th Oct. 1938, aged, 77 years.
In loving memory of, George Power, Glassnamullen, died, 20th
August 1923, aged, 71 years, and his wife, Julia Power, who
died, 18th November 1933, aged, 70 years, and their
daughter, Elizabeth, who died, 3rd Nov. 1909, aged, 17
years, also their son, Robert Power, Carrigower, who died,
29th May 1927, aged, 79 years, and his loving wife, Annie
(Nancy ), who o died, 24th April 1991, aged, 90 years.
Erected by, John Power. In loving memory of his sister,
Julia Power, Glassnamullen, who died, 20th Feb. 1968. aged,
66 years, and his niece, Kate Taggart, who died, May 1942,
aged, 22 years, and the above John Power, who died, 8th July
1975,aged, 93 years, and his sister, Cecilia Power, 34 North
Circular Rd., Dublin, who died, 13th Sept. 1977, aged, 91
Erected by, George Power. In loving memory of his wife, Eva,
who died, 1st Nov. 1937, aged, 41 years, and the above,
George Power, died, 22nd March 1976, aged, 86 years, and his
grand son, Michael Power, died, 11th Sept. 1975, aged, 16
Erected by, Margaret Farrell. In loving memory of her
husband, George Farrell, who depat. This life, 4th July
1827, aged, 63 yrs, also her grand son, George, who depat,
December? (old head stone and hard to read)
In loving memory of my dear wife, Elizabeth Doyle, Lickeen,
died, 20th Oct. 1940, aged, 51 years. Sweet Jesus have mercy
on her Soul. In loving memory of, Andrew Doyle, who died,
14th Feb 1949, aged, 61 years, their son, Andrew Doyle,
died, 3rd Dec. 1964, aged, 36 yrs. also their daughter,
Queenie, died, 12th Oct. 1980, their daughter, Margaret
(Emma), died, 28th Sept. 1986, their son, John, died, 6th
Oct. 1990, aged, 66 years. Erected by her loving husband,
Andrew Doyle.
Erected by, Andrew Doyle, In loving memory of his beloved
wife,  Elizabeth Doyle, Lickeen, who died, 10th Oct. 1940,
aged, 51 years, also, Andrew Doyle, who died, 22nd Oct.
1940, aged, 51 years, also their son, Andrew Doyle, who
died, 3rd Feb. 1964, aged, 36 years, and their daughter,
(Gemma_ died, 29th Sept. 1986, also their son, John, died,
6th Oct. 1990, aged, 66 years.
Erected by, William Rochford, Annamoe,  In loving memory of
his wife, Christina, who departed this life, 16th Jan. 1961,
aged, 73 years, also his sister, Ellen, who departed, 5th
May 1956, and the above, William, departed this life, 3rd
July 1965, aged, 74 years.

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Surreal Horror
...the hell?
As much as they might scare some people, at least monsters, serial killers, and Primal Fears are scary in a comprehensible way. Menstruating chickens, giant spermatazoa, and a crying baby that looks like a cross between a giant penis and a cow fetus, on the other hand...
This is where Surreal Horror comes in. It's not just nightmare-inducing, it's nightmarish in a literal way, by being surreal, disjointed, dreamlike, and filled with bizarre imagery, usually saying goodbye to all logic and sanity in the process. In some cases, though, it might not always work.
This is likely the main reason clowns are scary.
It might be worth noting that not all Surreal Horror works are considered "horror" in the genre sense, but they're horrifying all the same.
Often overlaps with Through the Eyes of Madness, Silence Is Golden, Mind Screw, Freud Was Right, Deranged Animation, Uncanny Valley, Body Horror.
See also Surreal Humor, Nothing Is Scarier.
Examples of Surreal Horror include:
1 Anime and Manga
2 Classic Art
4 Films -- Live-Action
5 Literature
6 Live-Action TV
8 Newspaper Comics
9 Tabletop Roleplaying Games
10 Video Games
11 Web Original
12 Western Animation
Anime and Manga[edit | hide | hide all]
End of Evangelion: The second half, especially when the mass-production Evas become covered in bubbling, multiplying Rei-faces. The spectacle will likely leave you with the same look on your face as Shinji. There is a taste of it as early in the second episode, when Shinji sees the reflection of his Eva after a battle, half its skull showing through broken armor. A giant eyeball regenerates in the socket while he's watching, then it focuses on him. He passes out screaming. The reaction is understandable.
Cat Soup is this combined with Grotesque Cute.
The Eclipse (which took place in a nightmare realm called the Nexus) and The Qlippoth in Berserk.
Serial Experiments Lain, especially episode 5.
Mononoke has some very surreal moments.
Paprika, especially later on in the movie.
Also Paranoia Agent, from the same director of Paprika
The series version of Vampire Princess Miyu has several episodes that easily fall into the surreal horror category, but as for the last story arc, two words: Chicken. Heads. And it is terrifying.
Devilman has some moments of Surreal Horror. Like when a demon disguises itself as the water in Miki's bathtub, and attempts to drown her.
Tsukishima of Bleach has abilities where he can manipulate the memories of anyone he wants. He does this to by inserting himself into Ichigo's life and brainwashing his sisters and friends to think he is their cousin/long-time friend. When Ichigo freaks out and attacks Tsukishima, they think Ichigo is the one who's the bad guy. He does this all without physically attacking or raising a hand against Ichigo.
The Midnight Parasites, a 1972 Japanese animated short based on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch with a weird psychedelic rock soundtrack.
Pretty much every manga by Umezu Kazuo, notably The Drifting Classroom in which an entire elementary school is transported to a nightmarish After the End world, and Fourteen, in which a humanoid chicken (named George) is leading Nature's revenge against the industrialized humanity.
The works of Junji Ito. Uzumaki and Gyo are what happens when he crosses it with Body Horror.
The Witches' labyrinths in Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Most of which look like getting attacked by a cross between a Salvador Dali painting and the opening theme song to Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei.
Mr. Arashis Amazing Freak Show and all of the works of Suehiro Maruo practically define this trope.
Classic Art[edit | hide]
Hieronymus Bosch, who might be the founder of Body Horror.
A lot of Medieval depictions of hell could go under here too. Bosch's is definitely the strangest, but there's other ones too.
Francis Bacon.
Zdzislaw Beksinski's "Fantastic Period" between the '60s and '80s. He said he wanted his work to look like photographs of dreams, not necessarily anything horrific.
H. R. Giger.
Francisco Goya's "Black Period".
Alfred Kubin (pre-Great War).
For some reason, almost all art created by schizophrenics.
Louis Wain, near the end of his life, he suffered from severe schizophrenia, so his comical drawings of cats in human situations transformed into disturbing pictures that hardly resembled cats at all.
Comics[edit | hide]
Sandman: The Corinthian has shades of this, where this trope meets the more reasonable horror trope of the Serial Killer. Guy who strips teenage boys to their underwear, ties them up, then cuts out their eyes to eat them? Freaky but not too out of place in a realistic setting. Immortal literal nightmare who's been doing this for about forty years running for his own amusement? Freakier. (And, of course, he has More Teeth Than the Osmond Family in his eye sockets in lieu of eyes. Yet he can still see. And he can eat things with them, like people's fingers if they try to take his shades. And if he eats someone's eyes that way he can see things they've seen.)
The Grave-Robber's Daughter., and many of Richard Sala's other works.
Every conversation about Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron will bring up David Lynch.
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. Throw Goth, Surreal Humor, Black Comedy and Surreal Horror in a blender and you get this. ...And Jhonen Vasquez's brain.
Films -- Live-Action[edit | hide]
Un Chien Andalou. Watch out for razors. It also contains elements of Surreal Humour, which arguably makes the atmosphere even more unsettling.
The content of the video tape in The Ring is clearly a homage to this.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: One of the main reasons this founding work is so creepy. The plot itself generally makes sense, but the set designs, costumes, and overall mood are very dreamlike and strange, even for a silent movie.
As noted above, Eraserhead is absolute epitome of this trope. Also, Inland Empire. Other David Lynch movies (especially Lost Highway) also show signs of this. A few scenes in Mulholland Drive as well, particularly the Winkies scene and the scenes involving the old people. And practically all of Fire Walk With Me. This is pretty much the David Lynch trope.
Carnival of Souls is another classic example.
Jacob's Ladder, which turns out to be the protagonist's Dying Dream, slams back and forth between terrifying weirdness and mundane drama with the abruptness of getting hit over the back of the head with a brick.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is this combined with Body Horror.
Begotten, a silent, black-and-white experimental film that opens with God disembowelling Himself. It just gets weirder from there.
Several scenes from Angel Heart veer into this territory, most notably the infamous sex scene.
David Cronenberg has been known to dabble in this, particularly with Videodrome and eXistenZ.
The ending to the film Society. An incredibly bizarre exercise in Body Horror.
In the Mouth of Madness.
Antichrist. Those animals?
Finnish director AJ Annila's Sauna. Its main antagonist is the titular piece of Sinister Architecture that feels far more sentient and malevolent than an immobile building rightfully should.
The Beyond.
Hausu. It's referred to by some as the Japanese Zardoz, for the utter Mind Screw.
Pi. The entire movie is a Mind Screw.
Donnie Darko starts with the protagonist waking up on a golf course, and it just gets weirder from there. Like, when a translucent worm thingy comes out of his chest, or when a movie screen implodes.
And then there's Frank, a creepy guy dressed as a Hair-Raising Hare who saves Donnie from being killed, then proceeds to cryptically order him around.
Altered States. Guy combines psychedelic drugs with sensory deprivation, and ends up turning into some weird creature from the beginning of the universe.
Most of Dario Argento's films would qualify.
Suspiria is somewhat like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in that the unsettling tone of the film owes much to its characters going about their business in some pretty bizarre interiors… apparently without ever noticing anything unusual. Suspiria's actual plot details are a little weirder, though.
All the films of Jan Svankmajer (Alice, Little Otik and Sileni, among others) may classify in this trope.
The boat ride (click at your own risk) in Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. "There's no earthly way of knowing...which direction we are going..." Even the cast didn't know Gene Wilder would be singing.
Black Swan.
The 1981 porno Nightdreams was an attempt to make porn that worked as legitimate art. Along the way, something went horribly wrong, and the final product was a bizarre, nightmarish, sick movie that is very disturbing and not the slightest bit arousing. Totally worth checking out.
Event Horizon went in that direction, since it is about the thin line between our world and a dimension made entirely out of Chaotic Evil.
The Shining. Are they ghosts, or hallucinations?
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is a strange arthouse-horror-sexploitation movie about a demon possessed bed that eats people by melting them with a pee-like substance. It gets way weirder, nonsensical, and trippier from there. And there's a guy who lives behind a painting that constantly talks to the bed with no response. A must see!
Repulsion enters this territory once Carol's rape fantasies start.
Hellraiser mixes this with ungodly amounts of Gorn and Body Horror.
Cube.
The Woman Who Powders Herself, an insane black and white short from the 70s that features lots of animation effects and disfigurements.
Possession.
Ken Russell's Gothic.
The works of Shozin Fukui, such as 964 Pinocchio (1991) and Rubber's Lover (1996) depict surreal horror in a manner similar to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
Literature[edit | hide]
This is the reason some people find Alice in Wonderland to be nightmarish rather than amusing.
Tim Waggoner does this a lot. Picking Up Courtney is a good short-form example.
Again Alfred Kubin with his The Other Side.
Thomas Ligotti.
Stephen King's From a Buick 8 has as the theme that there are some things you just can't understand and sometimes you'll never have answers. Also, the things that come out of the Buick's trunk make you feel like you're being raped. They're not even malicious, but their bizarre nature horrifies everyone who sees them.
The Third Policeman is a nightmarishly surreal novel by Irish author Flann O'Brien (think James Stephens meets House of Leaves while being dictated to by Salvador Dali) and after reading you'll probably never look at a bicycle in the same way again...
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Various scenes from Twin Peaks (again by David Lynch), including the dream at the end of episode 2, the Black Lodge scenes in the finale, and every scene with Killer BOB.
The Danish TV series The Kingdom (Riget), which is set in a hospital and involves such things as the birth of a fully-grown man with way too long legs, and a doctor having the cancerous liver of another man transplanted into his own body For Science! and as a trophy.
The British series Sapphire and Steel, while nominally SF, is also deeply unsettling in the fashion of a good ghost story—little or nothing is explained in any detail, which tends to enhance the dream-logic feel of the show.
The Prisoner.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace has some comically absurd horrors, like Skipper the Eyechild.
American Horror Story.
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Neutral Milk Hotel's lyrics fall here pretty often. Especially "A Baby for Pree" and "Two-Headed Boy".
A lot of Tom Waits' stuff.
Revolution #9 by The Beatles has this effect on some people.
As do some of Pink Floyd's early instrumentals, particularly "A Saucerful Of Secrets", "Main Theme", and "Sysyphus".
You can definitely count also Careful With That Axe, Eugene.
Rush's "Cygnus X-1", which also overlaps with Cosmic Horror.
The Residents. Oh dear god the Residents. An avant-garde music group formed in the 1960's who have managed to stay anonymous throughout their whole career. Here's a taste.
The Eagles' Hotel California. It sounds really cheery, until you listen carefully to the lyrics. Listening carefully, you'll realize that the Hotel California is supposed to be a very bad place, but exactly what it is has led to guesses from a mental hospital to a house of heroin addicts to Hell. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Newspaper Comics[edit | hide]
Lio often resembles a Victorian morality fable, but more random. Go fishing? The fish are fighting back, and ready to eat you! Ignore the warning not to go sledding on a particular hill? There's a monster hiding under the snow at the bottom! Naturally, the emphasis here tends to be on the brutal death awaiting those who make the wrong choice.
The week-long Garfield Story Arc where he wakes up one morning and finds his home inexplicably empty and decrepit, as though no one has lived there for years, and images of the people he knows fade away into nothingness as he approaches them. Yeah, Jim Davis was really going for Something Completely Different in those strips.
Tabletop Roleplaying Games[edit | hide]
The game Normality embodies this trope, as it lacks a dice mechanic and largely consists of furious ranting at a world gone wrong.
In Deadlands, players may have to run through a session or two of this if they die and come back harrowed or travel through the Hunting Grounds.
Changeling: The Lost has Arcadia, domains of The Others. The other Dark Worlds in the New World of Darkness pale compared to it, simply due to its sheer variety and absurdity.
Exalted: The entirety of the Wyld. Mortals entering it will be unmade, but the Exalts might have a slight chance of surviving with both their mind and body intact.
In JAGS Wonderland, Chessboard One has elements of this. The Chessboards below it are this.
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Rule of Rose
The Silent Hill series sometimes drifts into this, particularly the nightmare hospital from 3 and its infamous mirror room... Silent Hill 4 also has an infamous hospital room.
Pyramid Head's appearance is also a visual example of Surreal Horror. Hell, most of the monsters are, but Pyramid Head takes it the furthest.
American McGee's Alice
Yume Nikki. Sure, it's a dream, and dreams are weird, but how many people have whole worlds in their head full of bloody eyeballs?
The fan sequels, such as Dot Flow and Yume 2 kki.
In Eternal Darkness the Surreal Horror angle runs rampant, especially once your sanity meter runs low. The whole thing is just one big screwed up wide awake nightmare.
Mondo Medicals and its sequel, Mondo Agency, could be seen as more benign (or not) examples of this trope.
While much of EarthBound is surreal and trippy, its endgame heads straight into this trope. Mother 3's famous removed unused enemy backgrounds even more so.
The Orz from Star Control 2 are your friendly neighborhood aliens, who look a bit like large parrotfish, and, due to their language being too alien for the Translator Microbes to manage, they also speak in Engrish. And remember: never, EVER ask them what happened to the Androsynth.
When it isn't a tactical shooter, F.E.A.R. goes for this. One of the highlights of the first game was an extended sequence where you couldn't be sure if the man taunting you was a hallucination or in the room with you, and doors you were trying to flee through seemed to move away from you. It ended with a dive into a pool of blood that left you standing beneath a gore-soaked ceiling. In the first expansion to F.E.A.R, there was a very memorable sequence where the player tries to open a door at the end of a hallway. Finding it locked, you turn around to see that the hallway you had just came down had transformed into the entrance way to an asylum.
Entering one room and finding it empty, save for an operating chair and a door on the end. Go through that, and find TWO operating chairs. Repeat until blood starts appearing and the increasingly large volume of chairs start getting attached to the walls and the ceiling, as the walls start to progressively cave in. Hmm.
Survival Crisis Z looks like a standard Zombie Apocalypse at first, but the observant player will notice something... odd about these undead. (For instance, they giggle as they attack.) The farther you get, the crazier it gets.
The Penumbra series. Starts off as a fairly normal horror scenario of the PC going into a abandoned mine full of savage wildlife to find his father, then you end up in the Elaborate Underground Base of a ancient conspiracy, dodging sentient virus infected zombies, and in the final game you're solving puzzles in a weird mash of all the locations in the first two games, while the PA system begs you not to finish the game so that she won't be alone, and dead supporting characters rant inanely at you.
Killer7, a technicolor acid nightmare of a video game.
Drakengard sneaks up on the player, beginning as a dark Medieval European Fantasy that just happens to have weird references to "the Watchers" sprinkled in. The standard ending mostly avoids the trope, but each unlockable alternate ending gets successively more unhinged, till by the fourth there are giant demonic babies falling from the sky.
Catherine. Never have the consequences of infidelity looked quite so nightmarish.
The game Eversion is a very happy example of this.
All of Our Friends Are Dead is a particularly hellish example of this.
Shadows of the Damned drifts toward this frequently, with content that's as disturbing as it is nonsensical. Somewhere between goats being a source of light and finding out strawberries are made of ground-up tongues, you either learn to just roll with it, or give up.
Sentinel Returns has been described as "the most terrifying E-rated game ever made". It is set in a surreal, dark, chequered landscape where you play as a robot with the mission to absorb monstrous creatures of flesh and metal called Sentinels before they absorb you, by teleporting to gradually higher altitudes. The landscapes feature trees that look like spermatozoa and breathing boulders with a sphincter on the top. This is the introduction. And the soundtrack has been composed by John Carpenter. By the way, if you're expecting explanation for anything about the game to come from anywhere, you're going to be disappointed.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
The Binding of Isaac, a deranged tale of a little boy, whose brutally abusive mother intends to sacrifice him to God. Filled with Body Horror, Big Creepy-Crawlies, disturbingly Freudian imagery, and Toilet Humor.
Maxis's User Created Content game Spore has a subculture among the creators known as UBD, which lives for Surreal and Body Horror, making bizarre, twisted versions of just about any animal, plant, body part (no, not that one), or object you can imagine, as well as a few you thankfully can't imagine. The morbid puns they use for names don't help. Neither does the fact that all of SPORE's hardcoded character animations are goofily exaggerated.
LSD Dream Emulator is a cult Playstation game in which you explore colorful and quirky dreams, with a lot of randomly generated content. The more dreams you play through, the stranger and more deranged things get.
The Half-Life mod Cry of Fear features this to some extent throughout but a few "nightmare sequences" use this to even greater effect, the start of one is signified by Alien Geometries and/or hallways and rooms coated in blood.
In the subway behind the brick wall is an excellent example, after some hallways using Alien Geometry you drop down into a maze covered in blood and full of impossibly tall people bound up in bags with twitching heads that look like they've had their grey-matter squeezed out. All of them are hanging from the ceiling like cattle in a butcher factory and constantly moving around. Touching one results in instant death and the soundtrack does not make things any more pleasant.
Ao Oni is a distinctly Japanese example of this.
The white chamber is filled with surreal horror and sudden shifts to a Dark World.
The Chzo Mythos is particularly noted for its heavy surreal horror.
Web Original[edit | hide]
David Firth often uses this trope, particularly in Salad Fingers and Spoilsbury Toast Boy.
CassieIsWatching (an infamous Lonelygirl15 fan created ARG.)
Marble Hornets, especially the videos made by totheark. A lot of Slendy stories, actually, especially once Sanity Slippage sets in. After all, it's a freaking terrifying meme/artificial Urban Legend where the primary figure is... a tall guy in a suit with no face.
Cyriak's animations apply a power drill to the Mind Screw.
Almost everything made by "Somebody" of Newgrounds. Especially his animations "Puppy Whirl" & "Ghost Eater".
Western Animation[edit | hide]
The animated sequences in Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Superjail. A good portion of Adult Swim shows in general could probably qualify.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It's usually Surreal Humor but occasionally it crosses the line into whacked out nightmares.
Some episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog feature this. Nothing gives you nightmares quite like watching a distorted trumpet with a creepy adult's face whisper "you're not perfect."
RETUUUUURN THE SLAAAAB!
Not a farmer...
Thankfully, the show also includes enough Nightmare Retardant to keep you laughing.
Yellow Submarine at least borders on this trope.
Fantastic Planet, especially the animals - like the one that traps prey in a cage-like appendage and violently shakes it to death.
In the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "Nightmares and Daydreams", most of Aang's nightmares (and later, hallucinations) are merely funny. However, his last nightmare before he decides to avoid sleep altogether (leading to the hallucinations) is downright terrifying, even making Momo (the funny sidekick) creepy.
Zuko's Nightmare Sequence in the episode "The Earth King."
Dumbo's "Pink Elephants On Parade" sequence could be argued this: giant, colorful elephants with holes for eyes stomping each other and turning into dozens of smaller elephants.
The paraphernalia wagon sequence from Halloween Is Grinch Night. Starts about 2 minutes in. Have fun.
The Forest of Still Life in We Are the Strange. Toys and strange machines are scattered haphazardly all around, and then, we're introduced to a rather unnerving stopmotion Creepy Child with a doll's head.
Svetlonos (The Torchbearer). Made by Václav Svankmajer, the son of the surrealist Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer. It combines Greek Mythology and Steampunk with a Nightmarish dose of LSD...
The collective animation project Hopital Brut (French for "Gross Hospital") has something to do with horrific experiments at the eponymous hospital, including lobotomies that entail the complete obliteration of the rest of the head. It's best not viewed by the faint of heart or the sound of mind.
Coonskin is a really trippy blaxploitation satire from the man who brought you Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic. Highlights include demons ripping out a man's eyeballs, among other things. Truly worth checking out.
Adventure Time drifts into this sometimes, particularly the episode "No One Can Hear You" where a deer is depicted with human hands.
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Manuel Chang, 63, was arrested at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport on December 29 over alleged involvement in $2 billion (1.76 billion euros) of fraudulent loans to Mozambican state firms.
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Research & Reviews: Journal of Medicinal & Organic Chemistry
Synoptic Note on Principles and Platforms of Nanoparticle Drug Delivery System
Samuel Richard*
Department of Pharmacy, University Health Sciences and Pharmacy, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Received date:03-Oct-2022, Manuscript No. JOMC-22-79589; Editor assigned: 06-Oct-2022, Pre QC No. JOMC-22-79589 (PQ); Reviewed: 20-Oct-2022, QC No. JOMC-22-79589; Revised: 27-Oct-2022, Manuscript No. JOMC-22-79589(R); Published: 04-Nov-2022, DOI: 10.4172/J Med.Orgnichem.9.4.001
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Nanoparticle drug delivery systems are designed technologies that use nanoparticles to deliver therapeutic drugs in a targeted and regulated manner. A modern medicine delivery system should reduce both dosage and dosage frequency while minimising negative effects. Nanoparticles have increasingly achieved attention due to their potential application in effective medicine delivery. Nanomaterials have distinct chemical and physical properties, and also biological consequences, than their larger-scale equivalents, which can be advantageous for drug delivery systems. The high surface-area-to-volume ratio, chemical and geometric tunability, and ability to interact with biomolecules to enhance absorption through the cell membrane are all significant advantages of nanoparticles. The enormous surface area also has a high affinity for medicines and tiny molecules, such as ligands or antibodies, allowing targeted and controlled release.
The goal of nanoparticle medication delivery is to maximise pharmacological efficacy while reducing cytotoxicity. The following issues must be addressed while fine-tuning nanoparticle characteristics for optimal medication delivery. To allow for increased ligand binding to the surface, the surface-area-to-volume ratio of nanoparticles can be changed. Increasing ligand binding efficiency can reduce dosage while also reducing nanoparticle toxicity. Minimizing dosage or frequency reduces the mass of nanoparticles per mass of medication, resulting in improved efficiency. Metal nanoparticles, such as gold nanoparticles, offer optical properties that enable for less invasive imaging techniques (also detailed in nanomaterials). In addition, the photothermal response of nanoparticles to optical stimulation can be used directly for tumour therapy.
Current nanoparticle drug delivery systems can be cataloged based on their platform composition into several groups: polymeric nanoparticles, inorganic nanoparticles, viral nanoparticles, lipid-based nanoparticles, and nanoparticle albumin-bound (nab) technology. Each family has its unique characteristics.
Polymeric nanoparticles:
Polymeric nanoparticles are synthetic polymers ranging in size from 10 to 100 nm. Polyacrylamide, polyacrylate, and chitosan are examples of commonly used synthetic polymeric nanoparticles. Drug molecules might be added before or after the polymerization process. The medication can be covalently bonded, enclosed in a hydrophobic core, or conjugated electrostatically, depending on the polymerization chemistry. Microfluidic methods, electro dropping, high pressure homogenization, and emulsion-based interfacial polymerization are examples of common synthetic processes for polymeric nanoparticles.
Dendrimers: Dendrimers are one-of-a-kind hyper-branched synthetic polymers with a monodispersed size, well-defined structure, and a highly functionalized terminal surface. They are normally made up of amino acids, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates, whether synthetic or natural. Therapeutics can be easily loaded into the inside of dendrimers or the terminal surface of branches via electrostatic contact, hydrophobic interactions, hydrogen bonds, chemical connections, or covalent conjugation. Drug-dendrimer conjugation can extend drug half-life.
Inorganic nanoparticles and nanocrystals: Due to their well-defined and highly adjustable features such as size, shape, and surface functionalization, inorganic nanoparticles have emerged as very desirable functional building blocks for drug delivery systems. Inorganic nanoparticles have found widespread application in biological and medical applications spanning from imaging and diagnostics to medication delivery. Inorganic nanoparticles are typically formed of inert metals such as gold and titanium that form nanospheres; however, iron oxide nanoparticles have emerged as a viable alternative.
Organic nanocrystals: Organic nanocrystals are made up of pure pharmaceuticals as well as surface active substances that aid in stabilization. They are classified as carrier-free submicron colloidal drug delivery systems containing nanometer-sized particles. The fundamental benefit of medication formulation into nanocrystals is increased particle surface area in contact with the dissolution medium, which increases bioavailability. There are several medication products on the market that were created in this manner.
Lipid-based nanoparticles: Liposomes are spherical vesicles made up of synthetic or natural phospholipids that self-assemble in aqueous solution and range in size from tens of nanometers to micrometers. For therapeutic applications, the resulting vesicle, which has an aqueous core surrounded by a hydrophobic membrane, can be loaded with a wide range of hydrophobic or hydrophilic compounds.
Viral nanoparticles: Viruses can be used to deliver genes for genetic engineering or gene therapy. Adenoviruses, retroviruses, and different bacteriophages are all normally employed viruses. To improve targeting, the surface of the viral particle can be changed with ligands. While viral vectors can be employed effectively, one issue is that they may generate off-target effects because to their innate tropism. This usually entails replacing the proteins that cause virus-cell interactions with chimeric proteins. In addition to viruses, medicinal molecules can be contained in protein particles produced from viral capsids or virus-like particles.
Nanoparticle albumin-bound (Nab) technology: Through noncovalent binding, nanoparticle albumin-bound technology uses the protein albumin as a carrier for hydrophobic chemotherapeutic medicines. Because albumin is already a natural carrier of hydrophobic particles and has the ability to transcytose molecules bonded to itself, albumin-based nanoparticles have proven to be a useful technique in clinical research for the treatment of a variety of disorders.
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Mind-Muscle Connection – What & Why It Matters?
You must have heard at least one of these rants in the gym. Body builders like you and I look for an answer everywhere but we never realize that it is inside us. It's called the Mind-Muscle connection.
Mind muscle connection occurs at the point called "Neuromuscular junction". It occurs when your body releases a neurotransmitter known as "Acetylcholine" to communicate with the muscle fibers in your body. Contractions and retractions both occur when our mind commands our muscles to do so. If you have a weak mind muscle connection, you will not be able to recruit a large number of muscle fibers while lifting. And if muscles are not involved, they won't break and you won't grow. As simple as that.
A good mind to muscle connection can give you gifts like strength and growth.
How can you improve your mind to muscle connection?
1. Lighter weights: A note for beginners- always start with lighter weights. Give your body as well as your mind some time to adjust to the lifting routine. Pros and veteran lifters are very much aware of the importance of starting with lighter weights and how it helps your mind to connect with the body and ultimately conditioning your muscles for lifting heavy weights.
2. Flexing: This cannot be emphasized much. Flexing strengthens and stretches the muscle involved. Contract a particular muscle in front of the mirror, for example, flex your biceps for 2 weeks. You"ll notice in your workouts that you naturally have better form and now you can feel a better pump.
3. Breathing: A lot of people who work out don't really care about their breathing patterns. Focusing on when to inhale and when to exhale can connect the mind and the body. This is what yoga tells us. Breathing not only strengthens your mind to muscle connection, it also helps in releasing tension and being more focused.
Guys focus is the key to doing anything. When you are in the gym, be there both mentally and physically. Stop thinking about that chick or that flick that you want to catch.
I expertise in personal training, natural bodybuilding contest preparation, fat loss, sports nutrition, general well - being and body transformation. I believe in overall fitness i.e. how good you feel, how well you function and how good you look, which is a by function of the first two.


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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), Power, and Politics: A Socio-Historical Analysis
Hans Erik Næss
As commercial actors in the Formula 1 world championship have become political influencers in countries hosting F1 Grand Prix (races) the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), like other Global Sporting Governing Bodies (GSGBs) 1 such as the International Federation of Football
In Sport History Review Volume 49 (2018): Issue 2 (Nov 2018)
The Gerald R. Ford Administration and the Olympic Movement: Political Games
Erin E. Redihan
Given the recent geopolitical implications attached to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, there are times when it seems as though politics should be a medal event at the Games. The politics surrounding the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi offer another recent example where the bureaucratic moguls
In Sport History Review Volume 50 (2019): Issue 1 (May 2019)
A Case Study on Message-Board and Media Framing of Gay Male Athletes on a Politically Liberal Web Site
Edward M. Kian
In 2013–14, Jason Collins and Michael Sam became the first 2 athletes from the 4 most popular professional leagues in the United States to publicly come out as gay during their playing careers. U.S. men's pro team sports have historically been arenas where hegemonic masculinity flourishes and open homosexuality is nearly nonexistent. However, these athletes came out during a period when sexual minorities had won numerous civil rights and were gaining acceptance by a majority of Americans, particularly those who self-identify as politically liberal. A textual analysis examined framing of Collins's and Sam's coming out in articles published on the liberal political Web site MSNBC.com. Focus was placed on how these athletes, homosexuality, and masculinity were framed in the corresponding message-board comments posted in response to these articles. Five primary themes emerged from the data, showing that acceptable forms of masculinities and homosexuality in sport remain contested terrains, even on liberal message boards.
In International Journal of Sport Communication Volume 8 (2015): Issue 4 (Jan 2015)
Green is the Colour: Saskatchewan, Political Despair, and the Affective Politics of the Rider Nation
Justin Leifso
legislative majorities. Wall's popularity, however, was nothing new. For much of his tenure, Wall occupied the position of Canada's most popular premier and the subject of speculation surrounding possible national political aspirations (e.g., Maclean's, 2016 ). I argue that Wall's popularity from his
In Sociology of Sport Journal Volume 36 (2019): Issue 1 (Mar 2019)
Performing Sport Political Legitimacy: A Cultural Sociology Perspective on Sport Politics
Trygve B. Broch and Eivind Å. Skille
This article highlights legitimacy as contingent upon actors' ongoing maneuvering of meaning structures. Cultural sociology allows an alternative perspective on power struggles in modernity ( Alexander, 2011 , 2017 ) by centering our attention on the performance aspects of sport politics. We show
In Sociology of Sport Journal Volume 36 (2019): Issue 2 (Jun 2019)
Understanding Disability: Biopsychology, Biopolitics, and an In-Between-All Politics
Dan Goodley
condition: the biopsychological, the biopolitical, and, what I term, an in-between-all politics. It is my view that disability categories intervene in the world in some complex and often contradictory ways. It is up to us to work out how we live with these contradictions. The Biopsychological Let me start
In Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Volume 35 (2018): Issue 3 (Jul 2018)
Managing Fear and Fantasy: Cultural Politics and Gameplay Governance in the National Basketball Association, 1990–2006
Steve Booth Marston
article addresses the racial politics of sport management through a discourse study of NBA gameplay governance. I focus on the 1990–2006 period, during which officials instituted a series of policies that narrowed permissible bodily contact and increased penalties for violations. The rule changes occurred
In Sociology of Sport Journal Ahead of Print
Eco-Modernist Environmental Politics and Counter-Activism Around the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games
Kyoung-yim Kim and Heejoon Chung
Scholarly debate is divided when it comes to sport mega-events like the Olympics. One camp argues that they open up a unique political opportunity for actors to exercise power in pursuit of their goals (e.g., Cottrell & Nelson, 2010 ). The other argues that these mega-events empower the state to
Indigenous Gender Reformations: Physical Culture, Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Containment
Moss E. Norman, Michael Hart and LeAnne Petherick
Cultural genocide is the destruction of those structures and practices that allow the group to continue as a group. States that engage in cultural genocide set out to destroy the political and social institutions of the targeted groups, land is seized, and populations are forcibly transferred and
History and Individual Memory: The Story of Eva Dawes
M. Ann Hall and Bruce Kidd
Eva Dawes Spinks (1912–2009) was an outstanding Canadian high jumper in the 1930s. The present paper traces her early life, successful athletic career, and her decision in 1935 to join a group of athletes on a goodwill tour of the Soviet Union organized by the Workers' Sports Association of Canada. Upon her return, Dawes was suspended by the Women's Amateur Athletic Union of Canada. She retired from competition and became involved in the Canadian campaign to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Much later, Dawes adamantly denied any political involvement. The purpose of this paper is to examine and possibly explain the incongruity between the historical evidence and Dawes's later denials. More broadly, it is a discussion about the relationship between history and individual memory.


We live in a digital world where business management software has helped businesses become more successful by reducing workload and centralizing business information, by taking the digital world and digital representations and gathering them in an easily usable, searchable and retrievable space.
We live in a digital world where efficiency is tantamount to business success. Business management software gives salons and medical spas the capability to maximize efficiency when employees need to schedule appointments, provide services, manage inventory, and control other business operations. Therefore, the operational management of an entire business can be run from one place, one computer, one set of digitized queries. Software unifies business management data into a dashboard, an easily understandable and navigable platform to control day-to-day activities. This simplification changes tasks that were typically time consuming, and renders them down to easily manageable responsibilities. Business management software provides owners and employees with an immense amount of information in an accessible place: marketing, scheduling, inventory, appointments, payroll ... everything. Software creates organization within the digital world and makes businesses more profitable by centralizing the workload.
We live in a digital world dusted with electronic parcels of information, and having every piece of relevant information in one location allows businesses to operate more effectively. Accessing digital information is a far cry from thumbing through catalogued paperwork, sifting through client cards and pictures, and trying to remember every detail about previous appointments and sales. A few simple keystrokes will deliver the same detailed material in the matter of seconds. The world is moving to digital realms of information, and software helps gather those realms in one place. Information that is desired is parsed out as needed, and the remainder is stored safely out of sight until it is required. This abundance of electronic information has all but eliminated the need for paperwork.
We live in a digital world that alleviates the pressure of holding on to needless paperwork. Software, computers, cloud-based backups, and external hard drives help store, organize and manage important business documentation. The formidable task of filing form after form in proper order has given way to creating client specific digital files and arranging them as needed. Gone are the days of looking through binders and manila folders for that one document that someone swears they saw a few weeks ago. Complex search engines and Boolean modifiers can find keywords or a specific document with ease. We live in a digital world and technology is an investment and an insurance policy for information. Documentation and files can be digitized, stored, encrypted and uploaded to prevent damage or loss. Software helps collect and connect electronic information and client information in digitized harmony.
We live in a digital world where digital clones are our electronic equivalents. Reliable software allows complete client records to be compiled and stored as easily searchable files. Every purchase and visit can be recorded as a digital event and used to better tailor future customer experiences. Software allows the digital world and the customer service world to intersect at a point that defines the client experience. Salons and spas are able to utilize the client functionality of software to record no-shows and routinely problematic clients, premium member clients, discounts, rewards, referrals, marketing information, and a whole host of client specific items. Utilizing software to compile digital information helps create unique customer experiences for each customer; experiences that will help define the business and place it at the top. Software creates the transitional bridge between customer service interactions and marketing research. It allows you to understand buying trends and client specifics, and market directly to client needs.
We live in a digital world, and viral marketing spreads through the digital realm with infectious power. Technology has given advertising power to businesses, and print ads are no longer the only way to reach potential clients. Affordable software provides businesses with the ability to design newsletters, coupons, e-mail and text message marketing campaigns. There is no longer a need for businesses to outsource advertising duties. Businesses have the ability to gather client data and market directly to specific needs: holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, et cetera. Any specific marketing concept can be utilized as a way of building business. Marketing, especially for smaller businesses, used to be a time consuming process, but software has greatly reduced the time it takes to accomplish these duties.
We live in a digital world where the concept of tasks has been rendered inconsequential. The more time spent on tasks means that less time is spent dealing with increasing revenue through customer service and appointments. Efficient use of time equates to an efficient use of payroll, and an efficient use of payroll means that revenue is not being wasted. Business management software gives users control over incoming revenue and outgoing costs, and business reporting compiles relevant digital information into comprehensive statistical data that can be used to evaluate efficiency. Software allows business owners to review the products, services, marketing and employees that are working best to bring in income, and to analyze the variables that are costing the business money.
We live in a digital world, and complications, distractions, and other costly variables have measurable scope. The things that detract from business growth can be easily controlled and monitored with software. Reliable business management software will provide performance metrics for every aspect of running a successful business. Business reporting allows for tracking the entire scope of products and services: sales statistics, which employee is selling what, and detailed return figures. Technology has led to software that can compile statistics on client no shows, employee time off, and rebooked appointments. Every minute detail of business tracking and management can be measured with business management software; general ledger capabilities can be used to fully analyze profit and loss measurements and inventory tracking tools fully support invoicing and receiving.
We live in a digital world where inventory is handled with electronic grace and circumstance. The days of handwritten invoices and going through catalogues of product for ordering are long gone. Business management software gives users control over how they manage inventory, from product ordering that e-mails invoices directly to suppliers, to monitoring incoming and outgoing product. Software allows users to keep track of wholesale pricing, products that are no longer carried by suppliers, and products that change names but have the same SKU. Great business management software will combine point of sale functionality with inventory management. By doing this, a business can ring up product sales and inventory will immediately update to reflect the new stock count. Software allows businesses to monitor inventory effectively and easily.
We live in a digital world that demands complexity wrapped in an easy to use software package. The concept of user friendly software has evolved over the years. The idea of learning how to fully utilize software began as a daunting task, but software and technology have come extremely far. The explosive growth of the digital and technological world coupled with the expanding market that develops and utilizes technology has forced usability to be a widely recognized factor in production. If software is too difficult to use, then it will naturally be eliminated from the market as more usable products emerge. Proper business management software should be powerful enough to manage an entire business, but easy enough to learn in a few of hours. Software assists a business in operations and growth, and it should reduce time spent on backend duties, not increase it.
We live in a digital world, and creating a digital atmosphere in your business greatly reduces the overall workload. Technology and software help employees accomplish tasks quickly, and reducing employee workload means that a business can direct the employee's focus to growth. Software and technology promote business growth by letting the employee focus on the factors that help businesses prosper: client retention, customer service, building relationships, further education, and brand recognition. One of the most powerful tools of marketing and brand recognition is word of mouth. Business management software frees up employees to create positive customer experiences. Positive experiences translate to word of mouth, which in today's world of social media spreads instantly. The fact is technology has changed how word travels, be it positive or negative. Creating positive customer experiences creates business growth.
Software and technology modified the way businesses operate in incredible ways. What used to take hours and numerous employees now takes seconds and can often be automated. The digital element has delivered the ability for rapid business growth and expansion through processes previously outsourced to other companies. Communication is instantaneous, and word of mouth spreads like wildfire through social media sites. We live in a digital world and because of this the ordinarily time consuming business, processes have become minute operations simplified into digital notions. With efficiency and business management handled by software, employees have more time to spend with what really matters in this digital world: the non-digital aspects – the customers.


The delegation and Lili'uokalani met Senator George Hoar, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the following day, and on December 9, with the delegates present, Senator Hoar read the text of the petition to the Senate. It was formally accepted. The next day the delegates met with Secretary of State John Sherman and submitted a formal statement protesting the annexation to him. In the following days, the delegates met with many senators, voicing opposition to the annexation. By the time the delegates left Washington on February 27, 1898, there were only 46 senators willing to vote for annexation. The treaty was defeated in the Senate.


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Q: Profiling C++ in the presence of aggressive inlining? I am trying to figure out where my C++ program is spending its time, using gprof.  Here's my dilemma:  if I compile with the same optimization settings I use for my release build, pretty much everything gets inlined, and gprof tells me, unhelpfully, that 90% of my time is spent in a core routine, where everything was inlined.  On the other hand, if I compile with inlining disabled, the program runs an order of magnitude slower.
I want to find out how much time procedures called from my core routine are taking, when my program is compiled with inlining enabled.
I am running 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04 on a quad-core Intel machine.  I looked into google-perftools, but that doesn't seem to work well on x86_64.  Running on a 32-bit machine is not an option.
Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can more effectively profile my application, when inlining is enabled?
Edit: Here is some clarification of my problem.  I apologize if it was not clear initially.
I want to find where the time was being spent in my application.  Profiling my optimized build resulted in gprof telling me that ~90% of the time is spent in main, where everything was inlined.  I already knew that before profiling!
What I want to find out is how much time the inlined functions are taking, preferably, without disabling optimization or inlining in my build options.  The application is something like an order of magnitude slower when profiling with inlining disabled.  This difference in execution time is a convenience issue, but also, I am not confident that the performance profile of the program built with inlining disabled will strongly correspond to the performance profile of the program built with inlining enabled.
In short:  is there a way to get useful profiling information on a C++ program without disabling optimization or inlining?

A: Develop a few macros using the high performance timing mechanism of your CPU (e.g., x86) -- the routines that don't rely on system calls, and bind a single thread running your core loop to a specific CPU (set the affinity). You would need to implement the following macro's.
PROF_INIT //allocate any variables -- probably a const char
PROF_START("name") // start a timer
PROF_STOP() // end a timer and calculate the difference --
            // which you write out using a async fd

I had something like this that I placed in every function I was interested in, I made sure the macro's placed the timing calls into the context of the call tree -- this is possibly the most accurate way to profile.
Note:
This method is driven by your code -- and does not rely on an external tool to snoop your code in any way. Snooping, Sampling and interrupt driven profiling is inaccurate when it comes to small sections of code. Besides, you want to control where and when the timing data is collected -- like at specific constructs in your code, like loops, the beginning of a recursive call-chain or mass memory allocations.
-- edit --
You might be interested in the link from this answer to one of my questions.

A: You can use a more powerful profiler, such as Intel's VTune, which can give you assembly line level of performance detail.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-vtune/
It's for Windows and Linux, but does cost money...

A: Would valgrind be any more helpful?
Combined with KCachegrind GUI it offers a free and easy way of browsing annotated code suitable for inlined code.
Here you have pretty a straightforward instruction: http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs107/guide_callgrind.html

A: I assume what you want to do is find out which lines of code are costing you enough to be worth optimizing. That is very different from timing functions. You can do better than gprof.
Here's a fairly complete explanation of how to do it.
You can do it by hand, or use one of the profilers that can provide the same information, such as oprofile, and RotateRight/Zoom.
BTW, inlining is of significant value only if the routines being inlined are small and don't call functions themselves, and if the lines where they are being called are active enough of the time to be significant.
As for the order of magnitude performance ratio between debug and release build, it may be due to a number of things, maybe or maybe not the inlining. You can use the stackshot method mentioned above to find out for certain just what's going on in either case. I've found that debug builds can be slow for other reasons, like recursive data structure validation, for example.

A: You can use gcov to give you line-by-line execution counts.  This should at least tell you which inlined functions are the bottleneck.

A: It doesn't matter that the code is running slower (your convenience aside, of course) - the profiler will still tell you the correct proportion of time spent in each function.

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The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests
Walter P. Falcon, Rosamond L. Naylor
Over the last two decades global production of soybean and palm oil seeds have increased enormously.
A global perspective on food systems
Rosamond Naylor
Land institutions and supply chain configurations as determinants of soybean planted area and yields in Brazil
Rachael Garrett, Eric Lambin, Rosamond Naylor
Soybean production has become a significant force for economic development in Brazil.
Tropical Oil Crops - a More Sustainable Future?
An interview with authors of the "The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution" predicts the future of soy and palm oil booms by examining the past and present.
Joann de Zegher selected as SAWIT Challenge Finalist
FSE is excited to announce that graduate student, Joann de Zegher, is one of the nine innovators chosen in the SAWIT Challenge to pitch her solution to help independent smallholder farmers produce...
Roz Naylor gives opening talk at Global Food Security Conference
FSE director Roz Naylor will give the opening plenary lecture at the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security on October 12, 2015 at Cornell University.
Vector-borne disease in a changing world: Insights from ecology across scales
Abstract: Globally, infectious diseases are emerging at an increasing rate. Vector-borne diseases in particular present one of the biggest threats to public health globally.
Corruption in Food Delivery: When are Vulnerable Populations Most Affected?
Abstract: In developing countries, the efficacy of subsidized food delivery systems is particularly challenged by corruption that can disproportionately affect less powerful areas or less powerful...
Energy Working Group Talk: Suzi Kerr on Designing More Effective International Policy to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation
Visiting Professor Suzi Kerr will be presenting a paper she wrote with Arthur van Benthem, a graduate student at Stanford's Economics department.
Oil palm development in Indonesia: Demand, trade, and land use
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Second and Third Generation Rights in Africa
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Pamela Matson Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, FSE Affiliated Faculty Professor, Earth Sciences, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute
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Partners Capital strengthens its global management team with the appointment of a senior executive in Asia-Pacific
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"We are delighted to welcome Emmanuel to Partners Capital at a time when client demand for investment services and solutions across Asia has never been greater, "said Raghavan, who founded and ran the company Asia company in 2011 until becoming CEO of July 2020. "Emmanuel's extensive network of senior relations with investors, asset managers and financial institutions Asia Pacific (APAC) enhances our ability to globally serve our global customers. "
Pitsilis brings over 25 years of experience in the APAC region as an investor and leader in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Partners Capital, he was an entrepreneur and venture capitalist at Asia B2B SaaS and FinTech sectors. Over the past seven years, he has co-founded two technology companies and built a portfolio of successful companies. In addition, he spent over 20 years at McKinsey & Company, mainly in Hong Kong, where he was a senior partner in the financial services practice focused on creating the Asian practice. At McKinsey, his clients included global investment banks, regional financial institutions and leading policy makers such as governments, central banks or securities regulators.
"I am delighted to join Partners Capital at a time when Asia is at the forefront of global investment opportunities and investment innovation, "said Pitsilis." After meeting Arjun, Adam and Dominik, it was clear to me that the company had unparalleled potential given of its deep intellectual capital and global investment talents. The company's disciplined approach to all facets of investing, including research, highly sophisticated risk management and portfolio construction, combined with access to leading managers and compelling investment ideas, and an ability to incorporate sustainability is truly distinctive. We are well positioned to help Asian investors – institutions and a growing number of family offices – navigate global markets and help global investors understand and invest in Asia. "
Pitsilis holds a Master's degree from the École Polytechnique with specialization in Pure Mathematics and Quantum Physics, a Master's degree in Engineering from the École des Mines de Paris and an MBA from INSEAD.
About Partners Capital
Founded in 2001, Partners Capital is a fully independent Outsourced Investment Office (OCIO) that primarily serves sophisticated institutions and professionals Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. With offices in Boston, new York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco and Paris, the company is one of the few truly global OCIOs, employing 230 people worldwide and covering all major asset classes. The firm oversees assets exceeding $ 38 billion.1 Additional information on Partners Capital is available at http://www.partners-cap.com
Prosek on behalf of Partners Capital
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