During the year, 1940, The News Journal ran a series of articles called PIONEER REMINISCENCES compiled by Harry L. Leffel. The following has been gleaned from those columns.
Richard Helvey and James Abbott, Sr., had settled in 1834 and it is probable Peter Ogan had built his cabin some time in 1834 on the banks of Eel River. Simonton and his party arrived here October l, 1835. They came overland, using wagons and bringing all their possessions with them. In this party were Jacob Simonton and his family, oldest son of John, Sr., David Simonton, also married and John, Jr., and his wife. Robert Johnson Calhoun, father of young John's wife, and his family were also in the party.
land office two years earlier. The date of this entry was October l4, 1833, and the fifth entry of Chester township land. Whether Ogan saw this land before he entered it, or whether he actually went to Fort Wayne from Ohio to make the transaction is not known. This land is the southwest quarter of Section 26, Township 30, Range 7 East, and the Pleasant Grove church, or "Lower Union" as it was first known was located on it. Later owners were Frederick Naber and later a Peden family.
The younger Simontons wre not long in acquiring land of their own. Jacob entered 120 acres of the quarter east of his father's October l0, 1835. That was only the beginning. March 8, 1836 he obtained about 84 acres in the extreme east part of the township south of road 14. Other brothers gained land in a number of areas, mostly in Chester township with a few spots in Lagro township. Three Simonton brothers were early merchants in Liberty Mills, but continued to live on their farms and were essentially farmers. John, Jr was probably the first to carry mail regularly between Lagro and Liberty Mills. He followed a trail out of Lagro past the Catholic cemetery, and straight north to the plank road that John Comstock built from Liberty Mills to Huntington. That road was called the Mail Trace Road.
The Mill that Joseph Harter,Sr., erected in 1839 was succeeded by a better mill in 1843, and he operated this mill until 1851 when he retired and turned it to his sons, Jacob and Joseph H. Harter....The Harters sold the mill in 1864 to Peter King. During the next few years it passed through successive ownership until it was purchased by Daniel Strauss and Henry Arnold in 1872.
portion of the water flowed through the race. In fact had the race not been filled later on near the covered bridge, it is very likely the river would have cut a new channel directly across instead of the roundabout bend that is the present channel. Ogan had to build an earthen bank on the south side of the covered bridge to keep the water from flowing south to Pony Creek.
Mr. Lautzenhiser recalls that as a boy he swam in the river and race many times. He recalls a big thorn tree that stood near the river at the point where the mill race started and of how it probably saved the life of John Ballenger, father of William Ballenger.
Leonard Brothers operated a butcher shop, and had their slaughter house on the island, between the race and the river to the west. The slaughter house was on the highest ground and was built some distance above the ground. In time of high water hogs that were kept on the island were driven into the slaughter house. On this occasion had risen rapidly and John Ballenger started in a boat to rescue the hogs. His boat was caught in the current where it divided into the mill race and the main stream. Undoubtedly the boat would have capsized had not Ballenger grabbed the thorn tree.
As he clung to the branches the boat was swept away, and Ballenger was stranded. His cries for help were heard by Carter Wallace and William Ford, and they rescued him in another boat. According to Mr. Lautzenhiser the Ogan mill stood near the site of the gasoline station on South Mill street and he distinctively remembers the old building.
The island was also frequently used a a circus ground and since there was no bridge across the mill race, the circus equipment was taken across at the place it was the shallowest. Presumably the young gallants taking their best girls to the circus carried them across the mill race. The late C. C. Winebrenner when he obtained that land about 1920 allowed people to haul trash into the race and it became the town dump. When it was full Mr. Winebrenner hauled in dirt and made a level field out of the ground.
had formed a partnership in 1839 and operated a dry goods and grocery store on the site later occupied by the Landis drug store at the northwest corner of Main and Walnut street. Michael Knoop later became a partner and after a period of time Mr. Frame and Mr. Knoop retired. Thorn purchased as much stock as he could carry in a two horse wagon and took it to Iowa. A year year later he returned to North Manchester and again entered the mercantile business.
The Herbert L. Taylor Audubon Preserve contains the remaining acreage of a woods that was enjoyed by five generations of the Taylor family.
When George W. and Elizabeth Taylor and their son, Robert F. Taylor with wife Molly and eight children sold their small farm and truck patch respectively in Arcadia, OH. they bought 156 acres of land east of Liberty Mills, IN in 1903. More land was needed for the younger family would soon have a ninth child. The older Taylors moved to a home in Liberty Mills, and the younger family moved into a 5 room, story and a half, bungalow style house which was enlarged that year with a two story addition providing four more rooms and a partial basement for root storage. That improved house still stands about midway along the south edge of the farm.
The 156 acres was located in two counties and 4 separate quarter sections bounded on two sides by roads. The Eel River was the north boundary. There was 25 acres of woods on the farm. It is the history of the woods about which I write.
edge of Liberty Mills anyone was able to crawl through the fence and enter the woods. Thus in mushroom season most days would find several persons turning over leaves looking for morels or elephant ears. Others came to view wild flowers. This writer remembers meeting Rose Martin hunting mushrooms one spring day. She stopped to show him how to create whistles from the green limb of a pawpaw bush. She tapped the bark to loosen it; slipped off the bark and opened up a sound chamber. Then she slipped the bark back on and adjusted the length of the out end of the twig to change the pitch of the whistle.
Now and then a man or boy would trap fur bearing animals or fish along the banks of the river. Bert Cordier kept a row boat in the back water of the Liberty Mills Dam and frequently "pushed" his oars to tend traps or fish along the edge of the woods.
Many winters the Taylor families were kept in honey by watching "bee trees" that were cut on a morning when the temperature was 20 degrees or lower. The honey was taken to the house to be extracted. About 1950 Byron Taylor had spotted such a tree west of the drainage ditch near the river. I was home for the Thanksgiving break from college on a morning that was cold enough to stop normal activity in the hive. The family owned a two-man Mall chain saw like those developed by the Army Corp of Engineers for use during the Second World War. It had a 36 inch cut. I was operating the saw by holding handle bars projecting out from the engine like the handles of a wheel barrow. At the other end was a single handle held by brother Robert J. Taylor. We had started well below the opening used by the bees and were cutting off blocks of stove wood while watching for evidence of honey. Finally in the middle of a cut bees began to appear. They were sluggish enough to offer no trouble until my partner lifted up his end of the saw with a jerk. Several bees landed on my face which was warm enough to inspire them to go into the fight mode. After two days with swollen eyes I shared the joy of honey with the rest of the family.
wood lot was always important for fencing, gates, framing lumber and fuel.
When Byron Taylor moved to the farm in 1932 the woods took on added importance. As Robert F. Taylor grew older he had not actively pursued live stock husbandry. Soils were quite depleted and only a few acres could be pastured by live stock. White oaks were cut, taken to the mill, sawed and used for fence posts to carry lots of three-strand barb wire fences. White oak, although as dependable as any in the woods, still were bound to rot off at the ground level within approximately ten years. A variety of trees were also cut to create a crib approximately 16 x 20 by 7 foot high on which wheat and oats straw was blown at each threshing time to create a tramp shed and winter protection for cattle. The cattle tramped the straw during the winter and in the spring it was spread on the fields to provide fertilizer. Additional fences required gates, and these were created by taking logs to be sawed into rough lumber. The gates were heavy, but serviceable.
A gravel pit was dug along side the drainage ditch in the woods to provide gravel for improvement of the drives and lanes. A variety of Indian artifacts were uncovered as many loads of gravel were used.
The river was the summer bath tub for the males of the family. Until professional trash removal became a reality the river bank was the depository for broken dishes, tin cans, discarded fencing and Fords, as the relic on the west end of the woods still attests. Black raspberries and blackberries were plentiful enough along the east edge of the woods to provide for eating and canning. Walnuts and butternuts were available in the fall of most years.
The sugar camp was opened in 1905 by Robert Taylor. He borrowed $65.00 from his oldest son, Grover, and with other resources purchased an evaporator, pails, spiles and constructed a building in which to carry on the operation. From 1932 until 1939 during the author's contact with the sugar camp about 650 pails were hung. Syrup was made each year from the smallest quantity on a poor year of l50 gallons to the most prosperous year when 515 gallons of syrup were made.
Lack of fuel became an issue, since 40 gallons of maple sap had to be evaporated to create one 12-pound gallon of syrup. The adjacent railroad was so poorly maintained during the depression era that it provided few discarded railroad ties suitable for fueling the evaporator. The Erie Railroad had a very aggressive maintenance program each summer but ties were supposed to be stacked and burned. Section bosses, however, were quite cooperative. With the gift of a couple of gallons of syrup, they let the Taylor crew "steal" discarded ties left near the fence a day or so before burning. The family during the August lull in farming boarded a team adjacent to the track section being improved, acquired access and trucked the discarded ties back to the farm. Once the process was established the goal was to dry them for 18 months. By cutting a 16-inch block out of the center the two ends were the proper length for the fire box of the evaporator. In later years those two cuts on each tie were made with a special heavy duty saw blade. After 50 cuts the first blade was removed and a second one installed. While the crew ate lunch the sawyer, usually Roy Taylor, sharpened both saw blades for another 50 cuts each. The properly cut ties were split in about six to eight pieces during December and January and placed in the attached woodshed of the sugar house.
Making syrup was a very labor intensive procedure. The holding cistern, evaporator, pans, pails and all had to be scrubbed at the beginning of the season. Only hard maple trees were tapped. Trees were drilled for one to four spiles depending on the size of the tree.
Extensive rain or thaws required pails to be removed, and rehung if/or when proper sap-producing weather returned. In the author's memory there were times the evaporator ran 24 hours a day except on Sunday for two weeks at a time. In 24 hours approximately three batches of eight gallons each would be finished off, strained and sealed in gallon cans.
A kerosene lantern was the only illumination in the early years.
With the cloud of steam always rising from the process this left much to be desired at night. During the last few years of operation lighting was much improved with a Maytag washing machine, two cycle engine belted to a six volt auto generator and storage battery to provide power for two bare bulbs. A lantern was still required as a back-up for the wood shed or in case the mechanical apparatus failed.
These descriptions may make the operation sound like a dreary time of drudgery. A great deal of socializing took place during the syrup season. Evenings and week ends saw a fairly constant flow of visitors to watch the evaporation process and visit. Sunday school classes came to watch. Friends would come by car and on foot to watch, chat and sample hot maple syrup. Since samples were free from a common dipper the unsuspecting person was usually warned that fresh, warm, maple syrup didn't always proceed through the digestive system in an orderly fashion.
In the strict religious home only "Old Maid" and "Flinch" were allowed as card games to be played in the farm house. At the sugar camp when the younger Taylors were giving their dad a break a wider variety of card games were only interrupted to stoke the fire and skim off the foam and pump up sap from the cistern. Inquisitive visitors even seemed to enjoy working the cistern pump to bring sap up to the tank from which it automatically flowed into the evaporator pans.
Much of the marketing was to local customers. Some kept a running order for the "first run," because they wanted light colored, mild flavored syrup. Others didn't mind later runs which were a darker color with more intense flavoring. Occasionally larger quantities of syrup were wholesaled or sold by family members in distant locations. This was an important cash crop during a period when cash was scarce. Rex Lukenbill, Elkhart, who often spent time helping his grandparents remembers hearing his grandma, Mrs. Robert R. Taylor tell that in 1918 the syrup run was so good, and so much syrup was sold at $1.50 per gallon that the farm was required to pay income tax for the first time.
with the woods to Minear Lumber Co., Warsaw who especially wanted the maple and other hardwoods. That sale cleared the rest of the farm indebtedness.
The sugaring house was no longer needed and was razed. The south half of the woods was so decimated that it was returned to farm land.
When Byron and Hazel Taylor needed care the farm was exchanged for life care at The Peabody Home in 1971. The woods and certain areas in Kosciusko County were not needed by the new owner, Dean Buyers, who then offered two parcels for sale. He encouraged a member of the Taylor Family to buy the land. Herbert Taylor cherished the woods and purchased it and the easement to access it.
As Herbert became increasingly incapacitated he donated the woods to the Tippecanoe Audubon Society. Once again it is being increasingly used as a woods where young people learn about the environment and where people of every age can find inspiration and enjoyment.
He then returned to Bracken, Ind., and resumed his practice for a short time, then moved to Liberty Mills, in the county of Wabash, which he made his location for several years, meeting with good success in the meantime. From the above town the Doctor went to Elkhart County and located at Wakarusa. Here he again resumed his practice and remained until 1873, then removed to Bracken, Huntington County, where he resided until 1881 , then moved to North Manchester, Wabash County.
On locating in this city, Dr. Shaffer at once forged to the front as a successful practitioner and has ever since sustained that reputation, as is attested by the extensive business he built up and the high esteem in which he is held by the people in a large area of territory.
brought him to the favorable notice of the leading medical men throughout the northern part of the state. While a long time in the practice and remarkably busy in responding to the numerous calls upon him for professional service, the Doctor has never permitted himself to fall behind the onward march of professional thought, and he stands today among the progressive physicians in a county noted for the high order of its medical talent. He was long a member of the medical societies of Huntington, Elkhart and Wabash counties, not a nominal member merely, but an active participant in their deliberations.
Believing that a physician should not be too closely tied to his profession, that is, to the exclusion of other matters of importance, the Doctor has long been a man of public spirit, deeply interested in the progress of the country and a factor in promoting the prosperity of the city of his residence. In politics he long ago manifested more than passing interest and voted with the Republican party from its organization in 1894. Not agreeing with its attitude on certain great questions, he repudiated it in that year and has since affiliated with the party of the opposition, though by no means a partisan in the sense of aspiring to official honors at the hands of his fellow citizens.
In matters religious he entertains decided views with the courage to express them when he finds it necessary so to do. He believes in being Christian only, consequently rejects all man-made creeds and statements of faith and worships with the Christian church, with which he has long been identified.
Dr. Shaffer was joined in marriage the first time in Huntington county to Miss Mary Ann Smith, who died in North Manchester on the 24th day of April, 1896, at the age of sixty years. The children born to this union are as follows: Michael; Lydia E. wife of Martin V. Kesler; William H; and one that died in infancy. The Doctor's second marriage occurred on the lst of July, 1897, when Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott, widow of the late Rev. George Abbott, of North Manchester, became his wife.
breath of suspicion has ever attached to his character, nor has the rectitude of his intentions ever been called in question by captious critic or chronic fault-finder. His life has been read to his fellow men, and it is a more appropriate epitaph than cherished inscription on marble shaft or granite obelisk.
The Doctor has always been very kind to the poor in his profession doing much charity practice for the worthy poor, of which he never exacted a dollar, and also having been imposed on to a large sum by professional deadbeats. While he is not a wealthy man, the Doctor has accumulated a sufficient amount of this world's goods to place him in easy and comfortable circumstances the remainder of his life.
The following is a list of the business firms of the town whom we can recommend to you.
Store.; Ademar Rufle Jeweler and Optometrist.; J. Lavey & Son Jewelers.; S. Burkett Real Estate and Farm Loans.; Clevinger & King All Kinds of Insurance.; L. D. WrightReal Estate and Insurance.; Isenberger & Fleming Law and Real Estate.; A.B. Thomas Real Estate and Insurance.; Gump Bros. & Paulus Furniture Funeral Directors.; Geo. N. Bender Funiture Dealer Funeral Director.; S.P. Swank Modern Shoe Repairing.; Your money brings the most in School Supplies, Drugs and Music at Burdge's(Okeh Records, Famous Sonora}.; A.F. Sala Drugs Rexall Store.; J.B. Williams Drugs, Toilet Articles.; Naftzger & Co. Hardware, Bicycles, Aluminum and Cutlery.; Frames' Quality Hardware.; O.H. Bollinger & Co. Implements, Hardware and Harness.; J.B. Lockwood Furnaces, Sheet Metal Work.; Dr. Pinney, Osteopath, Walnut Street, just off Main.; F. W. Walters, D.C., West Main; E. L. Lautzenhiser, Chiropractor, 610 Walnut.; Dr. G. E. Wright, Dentist; C. F. Kraning, Dentist Modern Methods, X-Ray Service.; Dr. Ralph E. Cottrell, Eye Specialist.; Dr. Emma Holloway, Office West Main.; C. H. Risser, Dentist and X-Ray Service, Office West Main.; G. D. Balsbaugh, M. D., West Main Street.; Earl J. Cripe. B. E., M.D., Physician and Surgeon.; The R. L. Dollings Co. Investment Bankers Represented by G. L. Allen,; Office Dr. Risser Building.; Hotel Young, West Main.; Hotel Sheller, Walnut Street.; Ohlinger & Warvel, FORD Cars, Fordson Tractors.; Nichols City Transfer Wabash Line 2 trips daily.; The Auto Tire Shop, Second Street.; O. G. Haupert Auto Livery, Accessories.; Conner & Fleck Garage, Walnut Street.; Eel River Valley Creamery Co. Buyers of Cream.; J. W. Strauss & Son Coal, Flour, Feed,; Farmer's Elevator Co.; Acme Grain Co. Flour, Feed, Coal.; Blick's Barber Shop.; V. S. Huffman Bank Barber Shop.; Ulery Tyler Lumber Co.; Frantz Lumber Co.; Manchester Lumber Co.; Peabody School Furniture Co.; The North Manchester Foundry.; S.S. Cox Showcase Co.; Baldwin Tool Works.; The North Manchester Concrete Co. Silos.; C.E. Ruppel Electrical Work.; "The Syracuse Line," Cedar Chests; Harry White Greenhouses Market Street.; Blickenstaff's Studio, 107 Main Street.; Rice's Studio, Walnut Street.


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Bryan Coker '95 Appointed Vice President and Dean of Students at Goucher College
Rhodes alumnus Bryan Coker assumed duties this month as Goucher College's new vice president and dean of students.
Prof. Gail Murray To Give Talk on Brooks Museum's "Angels and Tomboys" Exhibition
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Professor Nelson Among Scholars Participating in Presidents' Day Event
In an event centered on the publications of his book The Elections of 2012, Michael Nelson, the Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes, will lead a roundtable discussion.
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Civil War Series Led By Professor Huebner Continues Through March
Rhodes History Professor Dr. Timothy Huebner is leading discussions on "Making Sense of the American Civil War" as part of a five-part series at the Benjamin Hooks Central Library.
Alumna To Present Paper Written While at Rhodes at Early Modern English Conference
A paper by Rhodes English alumna Kathryn Johnson '11 will be presented at the Early Modern Colloquium's "Violence in the Early Modern Period" interdisciplinary conference.
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Fan Bingbing's (范冰冰) tax evasion scandal turned the entire Chinese entertainment industry upside down, and while the scandal has ended—with Fan needing to pay 883 million yuan to Chinese tax authorities, China's probe on its celebrities is far from over.
According to a leaked document from Hengdian World Studios, the State Administration of Taxation has been in contact with at least 17 Chinese celebrities over the past three days in regard to their tax filings.
Zhejiang Province's local government has already been in communication with these 17 celebrities, and has ordered them to pay all of their overdue taxes by December 15, 2018. Such "overdue taxes" include the 20 percent of total revenue earned through their respective production studios.
The government did not reveal the list of celebrities being probed, but according to rumors, Yang Mi (杨幂), Zanilia Zhao (赵丽颖), and Hu Yitian (胡一天) are among the 17.


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Sword Devil (剣鬼, Kenji Misumi, 1965)
Posted on July 24, 2021 by Hayley Scanlon
An orphaned son's attempts to overcome his cursed destiny are poisoned by the duplicities of the samurai society in third part of Kenji Misumi's loose "Sword Trilogy", Sword Devil (剣鬼, Kenki). Perhaps unfairly dismissed by some as a mere genre craftsmen, Misumi was also an intense visual stylist, a quality very much on show in this vibrant drama which pits the beauty of the natural world against the samurai order but eventually finds its hero succumbing to cruelties of his age unable to outrun himself or his destiny.
In the prologue which opens the film, shot in an arty theatrical style, a young peasant woman formerly a maid to the late Lady Makino gives birth to a "stranger's" child after having been promoted and given a place in the women's quarters as a reward for her loyalty in continuing to serve her mistress in the depths of her "madness". Lady Makino claims that Kin's kindness brought her back to reality and is keen to ensure she continues to be taken care of after her death, but also asks her to take charge of her precious pooch hoping that she will treat it "as herself". This is perhaps why it is rumoured that the child, given the name "Hanpei" which ironically is in part inspired by the dog-like "Spot" coupled with a suffix which implies a lowly rank, is in fact the product of a taboo union between the maid and the dog (rather than admit he is almost certainly the illegitimate son of Lord Masanobu). For some reason this bizarre rumour persists throughout the boy's life, cast out as he is from the palace and raised in an ordinary village as the son of a low-ranking samurai who appears to be kind and loving, worried enough about Hanpei's (Raizo Ichikawa) future to advise him to find a special skill that will allow him to support himself and perhaps overcome some of the persistent prejudice against him after the old man's death.
The skill he perfects, however, continues to set him apart from his fellow men in that he chooses the cultivation of flowers. A particularly snotty neighbour describes Hanpei's art as "annoying", though others are impressed enough by his skill to marvel that they have such a man in their clan while also pointing out that in these times of peace becoming a samurai florist might be much more useful than perfecting the art of the sword. Ironically, however, it drags him back towards the court and intrigue when he's invited to craft a flower garden to cheer up the present young lord who seems to be succumbing to the same "madness" as his mother. The trouble starts when the garden is completed to the lord's satisfaction but marred by the sudden and apparently unexpected arrival of a bumblebee which damages the lord's tranquility and provokes a violent outburst in which he begins to hack at the flowers hoping to punish the one which "rudely" invited the bee to the garden. Hiding behind a tree, Hanpei perfectly aims a rock at the lord's head to prevent him destroying his precious work and is spotted by his chief retainer, Kanbei (Kei Sato), who earmarks him for future use in his nascent conspiracy.
Hanpei finds himself at the centre of intrigue, increasingly seduced by promises of advancement that he might be "titleless" no more and perhaps in fact escape his lowly position as the son of a dog. He ingratiates himself by, like his mother, being one of the few servants willing to bear the lord's violent rages in volunteering to accompany his horse even though he has none of his own and has to run along behind thereby demonstrating his slightly supernatural athletic ability that gives further credence to his canine origins. In similar fashion he learns by observation, captivated rather than appalled on witnessing an old ronin practicing his sword technique by cutting in half a butterfly in the forest. Preoccupied by his lowly status and consequent lack of sword skills, Hanpei is reassured by the man's explanation that there's nothing more to it than draw, strike, and sheath but takes yet another step towards the samurai dark side in accepting the gift of a sword. Later he breaks it, meaning to break with the cruel path on which fate has set him, only to pick up another, supposedly cursed sword to which he was attracted because of its "evil spirit".
Osaki (Michiko Sugata), a kind and innocent woman seemingly attracted to Hanpei because of his difference in his gentle sensitivity in contrast to the rough men around her, refuses to believe the rumours he has become an assassin working for Kanbei because no one who loves flowers like he does could be a coldblooded killer. This is in fact what he has become, sent, like a dog, after Kanbei's enemies killing without even knowing who it is who must die only to be remorseful on discovering he has killed someone known to him. There is division and sedition within the court caused by the lord's madness, Kanbei and his associates keen to rule in his stead while keeping his mania secret from the shogun while others, a small group of lower samurai rebels, prefer to depose him in favour of his adopted heir. Hanpei is once again a pawn, taking no side in this debate but unthinkingly doing Kanbei's dirty work in the service of his sword. He hopes that by taking the "evil" instrument in his hands he might double his bad luck to overcome his unhappy destiny, gazing at his distorted face in its reflection, but discovers himself merely outcast once again as the villagers begin to realise he is an obstacle to their rebellion and responsible for the assassinations of their loved ones.
The ironic conclusion finds the hero's planned flower garden, a shared endeavour with love interest Osaki, rendered a bloody graveyard, men cut down like weeds as Hanpei's quick draw philosophy makes a mockery of their fancy samurai fencing. The poisonous samurai legacy, infected with madnesses literal and figural, destroys everything, all beauty and grace falling under Hanpei's "evil" sword as he finds himself, quite literally, chased out of town like a stray dog condemned to wander exiled from human society.
Tagged 1960s, 1965, Akihisa Toda, Asao Uchida, Chikashi Makiura, Gen Kimura, Goro Mutsumi, Hajime Kaburagi, Hideo Kuroki, Ichiro Takakura, Japan, Japanese, Jin'ichiro Ando, Jun Fujikawa, Jun Katsumura, Kazue Tamaki, Kazuo Obayashi, Kei Sato, Kenji Misumi, Kentaro Kudo, Kimiko Tachibana, Kiyoshi Kasuga, Koichi Mizuhara, Michiko Sugata, Raizo Ichikawa, Rokko Toura, Ryosuke Kagawa, Ryutaro Gomi, Ryuzo Shimada, Saburo Date, Seishichiro Hiraizumi, Shimpachi Miyama, Shosaku Sugiyama, Shuji Sakai, Shuzo Sakai, Takeshi Yabuuchi, Tamotsu Fujiharu, Yoshitaka Ito, Yuji Hamada, Yukiko Komura, Yutaro Ban
The Third Shadow Warrior (第三の影武者, Umetsugu Inoue, 1963)
Posted on May 28, 2021 by Hayley Scanlon
"In this world the weak are playthings of the strong" according to the hidden villain concealing himself slightly to the side in Umetsugu Inoue's dark identity drama The Third Shadow Warrior (第三の影武者, Daisan no Kagemusha). Adapting a novel by Norio Nanjo, Inoue, most closely associated with sophisticated musicals, shoots in the manner of a ghost story adapting the trappings of a minor parable on the consequences of selling one's soul for advancement in complicity with an inherently broken feudal order.
Opening in 1564, the film wastes no time reminding us that the samurai were cruel and duplicitous, a troop of them riding through the contested mountain territory of Hida bearing the severed heads of their enemies casually insulting peasants as they go. Young farmer Kyonosuke (Raizo Ichikawa), however, can't help but think that they're heroic and dashing, longing like many young men as the voiceover explains to make his fortune as a samurai in this the age of war. Kyonosuke gets his wish when retainer Shinomura (Nobuo Kaneko) turns up and offers him a job at the castle, only it's not quite what he expected. Bearing a striking similarity to lord Yasutaka, he has been hired as his third "shadow", a decoy intended to shield the lord from harm.
Sitting down with his two new brothers, Kyonosuke remarks how ironic it is that he's here to escape the land but Kuwano (Katsuhiko Kobayashi) is patiently saving up his pay with the intention of using it to buy a farm and settle down with a beautiful wife. His is the most dangerous of doubling roles as the lord's battlefield stand-in, while Ishihara (Yuji Hamada), a former actor apparently not much good with the sword, takes his place behind closed walls. Kyonosuke is quite taken with the world of the samurai, but Ishihara cautions that he'll soon tire of this "phoney life". In accepting this devil's bargain, Kyonosuke has in essence consented to his own murder. A shadow man, he can no longer call himself Kyonosuke, but nor can he say he is Yasutaka. He has no fixed identity and is merely in waiting for a veil. Worse still as Ishihara has begun to suspect, they no longer have bodily autonomy because their physicality must match that of the lord. When he is blinded in a battlefield mishap with an arrow, so must they be. Deciding he'd rather not lose an arm, Kyonosuke finds himself in an altercation with his other self which leads to his demise. He intends to make a life for himself under his own name with another clan, but is forced to permanently assume Yasutaka's identity after being cornered by Shinomura intent on manipulating him for his own ends.
"I'm no puppet, I no longer need a puppeteer" Kyonosuke exclaims drawing strength from embracing his new identity as a samurai lord, but perhaps overreaches himself in ambitious desire failing to see the various ways he is still merely a pawn in a bigger game as Yasutaka himself once was because the lord is only ever an empty vessel and far more expendable than might be assumed. Princess Teru (Hizuru Takachiho), Yasutaka's conquest bride, declares that she is "just a doll, the strongest will win me" but is of course playing a role herself, one which she does not desire but has been thrust upon her while her cousin, Sadamitsu (Shigeru Amachi), is engaged in a much more active piece of long form role play. Only the lord's concubine (Masayo Banri) sees through him, falling for the gentle peasant after the rough lord who toyed with her, but their complicated love eventually seals his fate even as he believes it offers him victory. Kyonosuke became a samurai to escape his lack of agency but is arguably much less free than he ever was, driven slowly out of his mind by his fractured sense of identity and realising that in killing the only man who knew who he "really" was, he also killed himself.
Quite literally imprisoned, Kyonosuke finds himself a shadow once again neither one man nor another, denied an identity and forever a puppet of duplicitous game players better versed in the realities of the samurai existence. "How ugly fighting over this transient kingdom" the princess disdainfully remarks while herself engaging this apparently meaningless foolishness, reminded by her cousin that a princess may hold the keys to a castle or even a nation even if he implies she is little more than his tool, a puppet to be manipulated if knowingly. Shooting with deep, expressionist shadows, chiaroscuro lighting, and a melancholy voiceover Inoue frames his tale as a parabolic caution against selling one's soul for gold but also a crushing indictment of the inequalities of the feudal order built on wilful hypocrisy and cynical exploitation.
Tagged 1960s, 1963, Akiko Inoue, Akira Kominami, Akira Shiga, Daiei, Eigoro Onoe, Gakuya Morita, Gen Kimura, Hizuru Takachiho, Japan, Japanese, Jun Fujikawa, Jun Fuwa, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Kazuo Obayashi, Kiyoshi Kasuga, Kiyoshi Nakano, Kuniichi Takami, Masayo Banri, Masayoshi Kikuno, Nobuo Kaneko, Raizo Ichikawa, Rieko Sumi, Ryuzo Shimada, Saburo Date, Shigeru Amachi, Shinjiro Asano, Shinobu Araki, Shintaro Nanjo, Shozo Nanbu, Takeo Inoue, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Umetsugu Inoue, Yasuzo Sengoku, Yuji Hamada, Yukio Horikita
The Snow Woman (怪談雪女郎, Tokuzo Tanaka, 1968)
Posted on July 24, 2016 December 1, 2016 by Hayley ScanlonLeave a comment
The Snow Woman is one of the most popular figures of Japanese folklore. Though the legend begins as a terrifying tale of an evil spirit casting dominion over the snow lands and freezing to death any men she happens to find intruding on her territory, the tale suddenly changes track and far from celebrating human victory over supernatural malevolence, ultimately forces us to reconsider everything we know and see the Snow Woman as the final victim in her own story. Previously brought the screen by Masaki Kobayashi as part of his Kwaidan omnibus movie, Tokuzo Tanaka's expanded look at the classic tale (怪談雪女郎, Kaidan Yukijoro) is one of extreme beauty contrasting human cruelty with supernatural inevitability and the endless quest for compassion.
As in the original folktale, the film begins with two sculptors venturing into snow filled forests looking for the perfect tree to carve a statue of the Buddhist goddess of mercy, Kanon, for the local temple. Having finally located the longed for tree, the pair spend the night in a cabin only to receive a visit from the Snow Woman herself who freezes the older man but is taken by the younger one's beauty and spares his life, instructing him never to speak of these events.
Yosaku is taken back to the village followed not long after by the tree trunk. In tribute to his master, the head of the temple asks him to complete the statue himself despite his relative lack of experience. Later, a beautiful yet mysterious woman takes shelter from the intense rain under Yosaku's roof and is taken in by his adoptive mother and wife of his former master. Eventually, Yosaku and "Yuki" fall in love and marry but the two quickly come to the notice of the higher samurai orders who seem determined to ruin their happy union.
Inspired by Lafcadio Hearn's version of the story, this retelling adds a layer of social commentary with the constant interference of the higher echelons who exist solely to plague those below them with their petty games of subjugation. We first meet the local bailiff Jito when he rides into town trailing a massive entourage and immediately stars beating some of the local children who were playing with piles of wood. When Yosaku's adoptive mother pleads with them to stop, he beats her too for having the temerity to speak to a samurai. Unfortunately, he has it in for Yosaku because he has another master sculptor he wants to use for the statue, and now he's also taken a liking to the beautiful Yuki and will stop at nothing to have his wicked way with her. He is in for quite a nasty shock but even so, the higher orders remain the higher orders and those below them are left with no recourse but simply to follow suit.
The real villain of the film is this enforced class system which allows or even encourages those at its summit to run rampant over those below. The samurai will have their way and the people have nothing to oppose them with save their sense of personal integrity. The Snow Woman then becomes the film's unlikely heroine. By the time we reach the film's emotionally devastating finale, Yuki claims that she learned human compassion in her life with Yosaku and their child and ultimately sacrifices her own happiness to preserve that of her husband and son. Yosaku finds himself in competition with the other sculptor who manages to complete a beautiful statue but the temple priest finds it wanting, its expression is soulless and devoid of the sense of compassion he was looking for in the face of a goddess of mercy. Yosaku finds the very look he needs in his wife's face, exhausted from lending her supernatural strength to save the life of a small child and her husband's freedom, and in her eyes as she prepares to bid goodbye to him.
The Snow Woman is only obeying her own nature and cannot be blamed for merely being what she is, but the human cruelty and selfishness inherent in the feudal world is a matter of choice. Jito is an evil man, doubtless his world has also made him cruel and selfish but the choice always remains for him not to be – a choice which he is incapable of making. Men like Yosaku toil away endlessly and honestly but their rewards are fragile, personal things rarely recognised by the world at large. Only the Snow Woman, a cold creature, possesses the necessary warmth to breath life into a monument to mercy built solely by a pair of sincere hands.
Tanaka creates a stunning visual world using mostly simple effects and optical trickery to bring the Snow Woman's icy domain into the ordinary feudal environment. The Snow Woman glides eerily through impressively layered snow scenes, dissolving from one world only to reappear in another. Beautifully filmed and filled with warmth and compassion despite its frozen aesthetic, The Snow Woman is deeply moving plea for empathy in a cruel world which successfully makes a tragic heroine out of its supernatural protagonist.
Tagged 1960s, 1968, Akira Ifukube, Akira Ishihama, Daiei, Daiei Horror, Eijiro Yamaoka, Fuji Yahiro, Fujio Suga, Hajime Koshikawa, Japan, Japanese, Jun Fujikawa, Jutaro Kitashiro, Ken'ichiro Imura, Kiyoshi Kasuga, Machiko Hasegawa, Masao Shimizu, Mizuho Suzuki, Sachiko Murase, Sen Hara, Shiho Fujimura, Shin'ya Saito, Taketoshi Naito, Tatsuo Hanabu, Tokio Oki, Tokuzo Tanaka, Yoshiro Kitahara, Yuki Onna, Yukio Horikita
The Haunted Castle (秘録怪猫伝, Tokuzo Tanaka, 1969)
Posted on May 15, 2016 December 1, 2016 by Hayley ScanlonLeave a comment
These days, cats may have almost become a cute character cliche in Japanese pop culture, but back in the olden days they weren't always so well regarded. An often overlooked subset of the classic Japanese horror movie is the ghost cat film in which a demonic, shapeshifting cat spirit takes a beautiful female form to wreak havoc on the weak and venal human race. The most well known example is Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko though the genre runs through everything from ridiculous schlock to high grade art film.
Daiei's 1969 genre effort The Haunted Castle (秘録怪猫伝, Hiroku Kaibyoden) sits towards the high art end but remains firmly within the realm of entertainment. Displaying the high production values the studio was known for, the film paints its 18th century tale with a plush opulence and makes fantastic use of the nighttime gloom to evoke a gothic, supernatural atmosphere which is at least extremely unsettling even if it stops short of actual terror.
As for the story, it's another take on the classic Japanese supernatural tale The Vampire Cat of Nabeshima. Events are set in motion when blind monk Mataichirou and his sister Sayo run into their lord whilst out walking one day. Lord Tangonokami Nabeshima takes a liking to Sayo and wants to add her to his collection of concubines. He despatches an underling to ask Mataichirou about it, but Mataichirou understandably refuses, offering the excuse that Sayo is "too awkward" and the the lord wouldn't find her very good company anyway. Nabeshima is angry at this affront to his authority and summons Mataichirou for their regular round of Go where Mataichirou once more resolutely refuses to surrender his sister. When Mataichirou realises Nabeshima and his aid are cheating, the pair argue and Nabeshima loses his temper and kills him.
This is a big problem for several reasons so they pretend not to know anything about it and dump the body in a well. Fearing discovery, they also banish the sister, Sayo, but she opts to commit harakiri and begs the weird cat that had been attached to her brother to drink her blood and become a demon to enact their revenge! Soon enough, two maids are dead in the Nabeshima household and the lord's favourite mistress is refusing to take baths and has developed a liking for fish which she previously could not stand….
Ghost cats mostly come at night (mostly) so the majority of the film takes place in the intense darkness of the pre-electric world. The cat begins to stalk its prey quietly with only the tinkling of its ghostly bell and then tiny, bloody paw prints left as evidence of a supernatural killing. Tanaka opts for a floating, dreamlike shooting style weaving a degree of hypnotic confusion into the proceedings which also manage to keep up a high level of tension as the demonic cat spirit goes about its bloody business.
Of course, the moral of the tale is to live your life in a more altruistic manner – stop trying to take things which aren't yours, respect the views of others, and don't lose your temper and rashly kill people for no reason at all. All good advice there. The "hero" of the story is the more sympathetic vassal, Komori, who is trying to broker a satisfactory outcome of this complex situation right from the start, but finds himself frustrated as the servant of an unreasonable lord whose will cannot be restrained. Komori can't avoid the supernatural retribution but manages to ride the waves well enough to ensure a morally satisfying ending where corruption is exposed and the land returned to its rightful owners rather than remaining in the hands of a lascivious usurper. It's an old story, but a good one, and is presented with such a degree of sophistication to make The Haunted Castle one of the better horror offerings of the late '60s.
Tagged 1960s, 1969, Akane Kawasaki, Akihisa Toda, Chiaki Shirakawa, Daiei, Daiei Horror, Eigoro Onoe, Gen Kuroki, ghost cat, Hiroshi Imai, horror, Ikuko Mori, Japan, Japanese, Jun Fujikawa, Katsura Wada, Kazue Tamaki, Kiyoshi Kasuga, Koichi Uenoyama, Kojiro Hongo, Kyoko Miwa, Michiaki Watanabe, Mitsuyo Kamei, Naomi Kobayashi, Natsuko Oka, Rokko Toura, Seishiro Hara, Shintaro Nanjo, Shosaku Sugiyama, Shozaburo Asai, Shozo Nanbu, supernatural, Tadashi Iwata, Teruyo Higashiyama, vampire cat of Nabeshima, Yoko Atsuta, Yorie Santo, Yukio Horikita, Yusaku Terashima, Yutaro Ban


This tiny blue is found in Greece, Turkey and eastwards into India, where the above photograph was taken. It is described as rare and local in its European outposts. The upperside of both sexes is brown, with orange on the hindwing in the same place as on the underside. It is one of those butterflies that reveals stunning beauty when you get really close up to it but which can appear quite insignificant and even dull from a distance.


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#Healthcare#Technology#Energy#Sustainability#Digital Transformation#Insurance#Insurtech
Year in review: Microsoft, driving digital transformation
Brittany Hill
|Dec 19| 13 min read
As we countdown the final days to 2020, Business Chief takes a look at how Microsoft has driven innovation within energy, insurance and healthcare industries.
2015 saw 195 of the world governments sign the Paris agreement. The agreement was established to drive the reduction of the global temperature increase keeping it below 3.6°F, with efforts to limit global warming to 2.7°F.
In its efforts to lower carbon emissions and promote others to do the same, Microsoft - in 2019 - partnered with the likes of ENGIE, Baker Hughes and C3.ai to combat climate change.
September 2019: Microsoft and ENGIE partnered on a joint initiative to provide a long-term solar and wind energy power purchase agreement (PPA) for 24/7 supply to the United States.
"Procuring more renewable energy helps transform our operations, but when we pair that with Microsoft's leading cloud and AI tools, we can transform the world," said Carlo Purassanta, area vice president, Microsoft France. "This agreement with ENGIE is an exciting step toward a low-carbon future, driven by capital investments and enabled by data."
November 2019: Microsoft partnered with Baker Hughes and C3.ai to accelerate digital transformation within the energy industry. The companies will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft Azure Cloud and Baker Hughes' experience in energy tech to achieve a safe, clean and efficient industry.
November 2019: Microsoft partnered with Allianz to digitally transform the insurance industry to provide a better and easier experience. Allianz will move its core sections of its global insurance platform to Microsoft Azure Cloud, in addition to open sourcing parts to improve and expand its capabilities.
Pushing sustainability in the apparel industry
How Plymouth Rock leverages digital transformation to compete in the evolving insurance industry
Tivity Health: Digitally transforming healthcare solutions
Read the latest issue of Business Chief, USA, here
"Allianz is setting the standard for insurance solutions globally," said Jean-Philippe Courtois, EVP and president, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing & Operations. "Together, Microsoft and Allianz are offering a solution that combines Allianz's deep knowledge of the insurance sector with Microsoft's trusted Azure cloud platform. By delivering an open-source, cloud-based insurance platform and software application marketplace, we will support innovation and transformation across this sector."
January 2019: Microsoft established a strategic partnership with Walgreens Boots Alliance to develop new health care delivery models.
"Improving health outcomes while lowering the cost of care is a complex challenge that requires broad collaboration and strong partnership between the health care and tech industries," said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. "Together with Walgreens Boots Alliance, we aim to deliver on this promise by putting people at the center of their health and wellness, combining the power of the Azure cloud and AI technology and Microsoft 365 with Walgreens Boots Alliance's deep expertise and commitment to helping communities around the world lead healthier and happier lives."
October 2019: Microsoft and Humana established a seven year strategic partnership to develop modern healthcare solutions.
"We're excited to combine Humana's industry expertise with Microsoft's Azure cloud, Azure AI and voice capabilities to remove barriers, promote healthcare data interoperability, and create solutions to ensure this growing population gets the right preventative, acute and long-term care for the best health outcomes." said Greg Moore, M.D., Ph.D., corporate vice president of Health Technology and Alliances at Microsoft.
For more information on business topics in the United States, please take a look at the latest edition of Business Chief USA.
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Q: Как экспортировать javaFX проект в jar файл Я написал программу на kotlin с использованием javaFX в IntelliJ IDEA.
При запуске программы через IDEA все работает, но когда пытаюсь создать артефакт
То при создании javaFX application выдает ошибку can't build artifact fx:deploy is not available in this jdk
А при создании JAR файла он создается, но при попытке запустить в командной строке выдает javafx runtime components are missing, and are required to run this application
При настройки создания артефакта я добавлял в сборку javaFX библиотеки. Я перепробовал ве варианты что нашел на просторах интернета, но ничего не помогло пока что

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Ground heat exchangers – what for ?
In the very cold winter, ventilation units with highly efficient heat recovery can cool down the outgoing warm air well below the freezing point. Doing this, its water vapour can condense out not only but can also freeze. Thus, the heat exchanger might become clogged and damaged.
To prevent this, the incoming fresh air must be warmed at -1 to -4 degrees Celsius, depending on the efficiency of the heat recovery unit. A netec brine to air heat exchanger uses for this alone the warmth of the ground, that has in a depth of 1,5 to 2,5 m in the winter a temperature of +5 to +8 degrees Celsius.
To win the heat from the earth, a brine pipe is installed in the ground and a special brine-to-air heat exchanger is installed in the outdoor air intake line, which transmits the heat of the brine to the incoming air. In the brine line, a small circulation pump is installed. To control the whole there is a special temperature-controlled variable brine pump controler.
Such pre-heating of the incoming fresh air is also necessary if the ventilation-unit is fitted with an so-called "integrated frost protection" if this operates only by slowing down or even stopping the incoming airflow. Such stopping indeed can warm up the unit with the outgoing air's heat. However, in whole or in part, lacks the fresh air supply and heat recovery. The house creates a vacuum and the lack of fresh air is drawn in through cracks and joints of the building envelope. This is undesirable in the cold winter. Only pre-heating the incoming air to just-above zero will particularly in winter guarantee a well-balanced and full efficient heat recovery.
In hot summers, a cool house is pleasant. But how do you prevent excessive indoor heat? First of all, keep heat out by applying a good heat insulation to the house and shading windows against direct sunlight – easiest with outer shutters. And then, don't let doors and windows open for too long in the ground floor, lest the cool air cannot escape. Windows in the upper floors may remain open. If this is insufficient, and if you have a ventilation system, you can use it to bring in cool fresh air and thus expel hot air. An air conditioner devours a lot of electricity, so best is to utilise the coolness of the earth. In summer, the ground temperature in a depth of some 1,5 to 3 metres below surface is much cooler than the outdoor air. It therefore can cool air by taking up excess heat.
A netec ground-to-air heat exchanger transports the coolness of the ground into the fresh air only by a small brine-circulation pump very effectively. Only 15 watt pumps power can generate up to 2 kilowatt cooling effect.
netec brine-to-air heat exchanger pre-warm frosty air in winter and pre-cool hot air in summer. So, in winter, it reduces energy consumption and protects the ventilation system from damage through frost whilst in summer it makes your home more comfortable. This is why it is being built into many passive houses and other buildings that have highly efficient ventilation systems.
Alternatives? Are there any simpler solutions?
Dug-in air channels need to be some 40 metres/yards long (once around the house will do), should be dug some two metres (80 inches) deep into the ground and have a diameter of some 20 cm (8 inches). For planning and calculating, PH-Luft software from the Darmstadt Passivhaus-Institut may be used. – For easy heat exchange, pipes should be of thin wall thickness but must be safe from damage and leakage through later earth and traffic loads. At the lowest point, drainage with a backflow stop must be installed to let condensing water out without allowing rain water to leak in. The pipes should therefore be laid just a bit down-graded to allow condensing water to collect at the drainage tap. The pipes must be accessible for cleaning and maintenance and must not have bends or branch pipes that cleaning machinery cannot pass – see mistakes shown in the picture.
Dug-in air channels have often been installed in the past. Their pipework was often of cheap produce, the drainage was rather improvised and the earthwork expenditures miscalculated. In some cases, pipes broke in the course of subsequent surface weights or were flooded (see picture 2). Besides unprofessional varieties, complete systems have been offered (see Rehau). Whilst the functionality of dry dug-in air channel systems is undoubted, there are doubts concerning hygiene. Air is our most important comestible. A dug-in air channel with poor access for cleaning can with time develop some unidentifiable inside biology of its own which to breathe can turn out to become harmful. This was the reason to start the development of brine-based earth heat exchangers.
Electric heaters are simple to build in, but when including overheat protection and airflow supervision, are not cheap to obtain. Electricity is the most expensive energy source, and many heaters have inaccurate control, which can result in occasionally too hot air. This increases power waste and reduces the effect of th heat recirculation system behind, particularly if the control just switches on and off. Their hot wires can cause the smell of burnt dust as is well-known from electric fires. Naturally, cooling in summer is impossible.
Water-to-air heat exchangers taking their heat from the central heating system are harder work to install. Gas as energy carrier is cheaper than electricity. Controlling is done with an antifreeze thermostat valve in the air pipe. These work fairly inaccurately, so again there is risk of the incoming air getting too hot and heat recirculation being poor. Also, there is a risk of complicated interference with the existing boiler and pump system, when warm water has to be obtained also when the heating is set low at night or at times when loading hot water boilers only. The worst problem is that in case of a boiler failure the outdoor heat exchanger can freeze and burst draining and thus paralysing the entire heating system. This to hinder a separate water cicuit with antifreeze additive is very elaborate to install. Also, again, cooling of hot fresh air in summer is impossible with a hot water based system.
At least the brine-to-air ground heat exchanger system, like netec offers, seems to us to be the best solution for the winter air pre-heating and the summer air pre-cooling with low hygienical risks and energy needs..


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Facebook is hiding a report that could negatively affect it
Facebook has canceled a report for the first quarter of 2021 that could have negatively impacted the social media giant for dealing with disinformation about the coronavirus on its platform.
The New York Times, which received a copy of the report, said the most viewed link in the first quarter contained a headline that could increase people's reluctance to get a coronavirus vaccine. The company canceled the report for fear of public outcry.
Earlier this month, the company released a report on the most viewed content by US users over the past quarter.
This is the first time such a report has been published. However, according to the New York Times, the company is preparing a similar report for the first quarter of 2021 but decided not to share it because it could hurt him.
The most viewed link in the first three months has a headline: Doctor was healthy two weeks after coronavirus vaccination, CDC investigating cause.
According to the New York Times, this article was published by the South Florida Sun Sentinel and republished in the Chicago Tribune.
The company is working hard to publish this report. But executives, including Alex Schultz, the company's chief marketing officer and vice president of analysis, are clearly questioning whether the report caused public relations problems. This depends on internal emails.
They eventually decided not to publish. "We are considering publishing this report very early," Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said in a statement. But as we've seen this week, we know he's getting attention. The system repair to be carried out by us has been completed.
Stone also clarified Schultz's views on whether the company should issue a report, and said Schultz requested one.
Facebook canceled the report due to concerns about public protests
This week, the company released the first report of the most viewed content on the US News Feed.
The company said the report paints the full picture and provides the most complete details people see on its platform. He added that he publishes a high-level content report every three months. From the United States, including other international data.
In addition to publishing reports on the most viewed posts. The company also has to deal with amended antitrust complaints issued by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Gaggers- Rip You Apart LP ~REISSUE!
Gaggers- Rip You Apart LP. This is a reissue of the classic Gaggers debut LP originally released on Dead Beat Records. London rippers the Gaggers burst on the scene with a gaggle of singles that went in and out of print in a heartbeat and followed it up with this LP that just smokes. Channeling the same ragged, dysfunctional spit as the Pagans, early GG, the Lewd, Weirdos and the Germs; the Gaggers fully embrace their sloppy, shambolic ineptitude to puke out a dozen spastic two-minute blasts of nihilistic three-chord brilliance. Gutter-chic stupidity at it's absolute finest here. Import from Germany on Wanda Records.


Current job: - UK Astronomy Technology Centre (2002 to present); Howdens Compressors; Precision Actuation Systems; Cooper Oil Tool; Motorola Semiconductors; Barr and Stroud Optical Engineers; Rolls Royce.
I'm a mechanical engineer working in astronomy technology design.
I'm a mechanical design engineer, currently working in astronomy technology. I've got almost forty years of experience in engineering since graduating from the University of Strathclyde and I've worked within a number of different industries mainly in the field of mechanical design and development. I have a grown up family and my hobbies are running and cycling. I'm looking to get involved in athletics/running coaching over the next year or two.
I am current working with other engineers in the UK and across Europe on the design of an instrument for the world's largest telescope! I am also starting to get really excited about the launch of the James Webb Space telescope scheduled for 2019. I worked on the design of an instrument for the telescope and it will be a real thrill when we watch the launch, knowing that part of the telescope was designed and built here in Edinburgh! Although I am a mechanical engineer, I get to work with lots of other engineering disciplines on these astronomy projects, which makes the work really interesting.
The James Webb Space Telescope!
Based at my desk in Edinburgh I work with engineers, scientists and managers locally and across Europe.
I am currently working on the design of an instrument for the world's largest telescope. This involves co-operation with teams across Europe. Just the other week we had a 'workshop' in Tenerife (the base of one of the teams). Here is a typical day in preparation for that visit and including other work: – Firstly I did some work on a document, which would help discussions at the Tenerife meeting. I 'uploaded' a draft of this document to a central database, so that the other engineers could view it, prior to the meeting (it was to do with how we would use electronics and software to monitor and control my module). I then made some notes before attending a 'coffee' meeting with some other engineers and our public outreach officer, with a view to organising something at our site for a national event called the 'Year of Engineering'. I then prepared some 'powerpoint' slides for the Tenerife meeting. These were just to summarise my 'task list' after we had a big design review last October and to suggest some things for another meeting (to do with interface connections) in Lyon, France in March. I had done a lot of design work (using Computer Aided Design software) last year for our big design review, so I made sure that there was a 3D model loaded up onto my laptop in case we wanted to have some design discussions in Tenerife. I also replied to some e-mails connected to the Tenerife meeting and made sure that all my internet connections (e.g. e-mail; document database access) on the laptop were working ok for the meeting.
I'd use the publicity of winning the prize money to try and persuade my employer to help fund a public engagement project.
Although the money is a useful amount, I'd like to use the publicity gained from winning the prize to raise even more money (perhaps from my employer). I'd then get together with some other engineers that I work with and come up with ideas for some resources which we could develop for use at public engagement events or that could be used by individual engineers on school visits. We've done this successfully before to develop a 'Robots in Astronomy' resource although it would be great to develop some more resources which are fun to use and promote a theme like 'Engineering matters'.
Being involved with a space project!
Can't think of anyone when I was at school, but I'm now very much an admirer of James Dyson!
At secondary in third year - 'applied mechanics'.
Maybe an athletics or cycling coach.
Cycled a mountain stage of the Tour de France - it was hard!
Stay healthy and well; always have a challenge in front of me; get some home projects finished.
A penguin walks into a bar. He says to the barman 'have you seen my brother in here recently'. The barman replies, 'what does he look like'.
What is your favourite telescope?
Imagine you could meet a famous engineer/scientist who would it be?
do you think we should stay on this planet in the future?


It's been a hard days slog but I'm really on top of things at present with all the recent films edited to DVD and covers made, all our recent releases are on all shops, this site of course and also Amazon and Ebay plus an EBay sale at £10 each starts just after midnight. The van is loaded ready for Boyle St Manchester next Saturday. All I've got to do is update the rally stock with releases since December, the list is in the office ready to go through. We are taking from box 60 upwards to Manchester, we have 105 boxes for the complete stock, what that means if you want us to bring anything early in our range ask and we'll fetch it, remember we are only there Saturday this time.
We have now booked the stand in for several rallies including Alton, Lathalmond, Gaydon truck event, Kelsall to name but a few. I've also dealt with a lot of other subjects such as St Oswalds access arrangements with a quote in from The Ramp People. Tomorrow I intend being at church early to look at the LED light issue and how many bulbs we need to get the place brightened for safety and comfort, when I'm on go mode there is no stopping! I must just check the flights to Lviv in August for our Ukraine trip as our super new friend Andreii is sorting out a programme for us, well I've got a programme he's making it work. We really do have a great circle of transport friends around the world, we even bumped into a friend at Preston, and that's as exotic as you can get these days. Tonights slide show is of Preston on Friday. Next week's weather look a bit dire, we have Mon Tues and Thurs free so I will scan the charts for locations which match. The list is pretty well on schedule at present so no panic.
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Living as we modern Orthodox Jews do, in two worlds, the world of Torah and the world of modern culture, we adopt the value of moderation in order to allow the two worlds to coalesce in a comfortable fashion. We intuit that being extreme in Torah, or in secular culture, would undermine the synthesis or coexistence that we desire to achieve. The price we pay for this strategy is blandness in our religious lives - the absence of that degree of piety and passion that is generally the product of absolute clarity of faith and of conviction in the correctness of one's path.
Form a special commission to study the question of how both piety and passion can be enhanced in your Day School. Examine closely the way in which Tefillah is conducted, whether in the classroom or in assembly. Is Tefillah conducted slowly, with meaning, feeling and Kavannah, explained in a manner appropriate to the age of the students, or are speed and accuracy of recitation of Hebrew the prime goals? Is melody used only to pace, or to enhance inwardness?
Study the ways in which piety is exemplified. Are models of piety projected based only on externals - distinctive dress, isolation from the culture, ascetic withdrawal from pleasure, and engagement in the performance of ritual Mitzvot? Explore the possibility of integrating into the curriculum alternative models of piety - persons who achieve Kiddush HaShem in their engagement in the real world; people who dress like us and are integrated into modern culture, but whose exceptional sensitivity in matters of interpersonal relationships and in their commercial activities, as part of their total Avodat HaShem, set them apart as models of righteousness.
Evaluate the criteria for selection of teachers - make religious passion a positive element in the search process. Examine whether the school provides moments when the spiritual passion of teachers and other models can be experienced by students, in study, in prayer, in battling for the safety of other Jews, in struggles for the rights of other persons, or in manifestations of love and tolerance of Jews with differing convictions. Piety and passion must become an identifying hallmark of modern Orthodox youth.


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The minimum separation distance for head and body-worn testing was 5 mm (about two-tenths of an inch).
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