Riley was living in farm country when he found a cool hangout in a friendly couples yard. They fed and loved on him for a while before realizing he would be a good candidate for rescue. He is a BIG boy. A solid lump of love. Riley has lived most of his life outside, to get comfortable he does need a little more patience and likely a forever home that will be on the quiet side.
Unfortunately, Riley has come up positive for FIV – Feline Immunodeficiency Virus. Although this virus does not have a cure, with good care and routine check ups, Riley should live a long, happy life and his adoption fee will reflect his special needs status.
FIV stands for feline immunodeficiency virus. FIV typically causes a weakening of the cat's immune system. It is the same class of virus as HIV (a lentivirus); however, only cats can get FIV. People and dogs cannot.
Cats who are infected with FIV may not show symptoms until years after the initial infection occurred. Although the virus is slow-acting, a cat's immune system is severely weakened once the disease takes hold. This makes the cat susceptible to various secondary infections. Infected cats who receive supportive medical care and are kept in a stress-free, indoor environment can live relatively comfortable lives for years before the disease reaches its chronic stages. FIV-positive cats commonly have severe dental disease, which often means it is necessary to remove all their teeth.
Many people confuse FIV with feline leukemia virus (FeLV). Although these diseases are in the same retrovirus family and cause many similar secondary conditions FeLV and FIV are different diseases.
There are no specific signs of FIV infection. FIV-positive cats have a weaker immune system, so they are more prone to getting infections, such as upper respiratory infections, ringworm and dental disease. Other than that, FIV-positive cats tend to live normal lives and have a normal length of life.
The most common route of infection is a deep bite wound from an FIV-positive cat to another cat. It can also be transmitted via blood, in utero and from the milk of an infected mother cat. It is very rare for cats to get FIV just from being around infected cats, sharing food bowls, or from a person touching an FIV-positive cat and then touching an FIV-negative cat. Many FIV-positive cats and FIV-negative cats live together in the same home for years without spreading the virus to the non-infected cats.
FIV cannot be transmitted from cat to human, only from cat to cat.
FIV infection is routinely diagnosed by blood testing. The FIV status of every cat should be known. The most common type of test looks for the presence of antibodies to the virus in the blood. No test is 100-percent accurate all of the time, and your veterinarian will interpret the test result and determine whether further testing is needed to confirm either a positive or negative test result. Once a cat is determined to be FIV-positive, that cat is capable of transmitting the disease to other cats.
Since it is possible for an infected mother cat to transfer FIV antibodies to her kittens, these kittens may test positive from their mother's antibodies until they have cleared them from their systems, which happens by six months of age. Therefore, kittens who test positive for FIV antibodies when they're younger than six months should undergo antibody tests again at a later date to see if they are infected.
Unfortunately, there is no specific antiviral treatment for FIV. Cats can carry the virus for a long time before symptoms appear. Therefore, treatment focuses mainly on extending the asymptomatic period or, if symptoms have set in, on easing the secondary effects of the virus.
Without proper treatment, the secondary infections that can occur as a consequence of FIV can progress to life-threatening conditions. Additionally, cats with FIV can develop various forms of cancer, blood diseases or kidney failure, which will ultimately claim the cat's life.
Keep your cat indoors. This will protect him from contact with disease-causing agents to which he may be susceptible. By bringing your cat indoors, you're also protecting the uninfected cats in your community. Watch for changes-even seemingly minor-in your cat's health and behavior. Immediately report any health concerns to your vet. Bring your cat to your vet at least twice per year for a wellness checkup, blood count and urine analysis. Feed your cat a nutritionally balanced food-no raw food diets, please, as bacteria and parasites in uncooked meat and eggs can be dangerous to immunocompromised pets. Be sure your cat is spayed or neutered.
FIV vaccines are available but may not protect all cats. In addition, these vaccines can interfere with testing for the virus. It is best to work with your cat's veterinarian to determine if FIV vaccination is the best option for your cat. Whether or not your cat is vaccinated, it is always important to prevent exposure to FIV. The best way to prevent your cat from contracting the virus is to keep him indoors, avoiding any chance of contact with infected felines. If you walk your cat, keep him on a leash when outdoors. And if your cat is going to be spending any time in a cattery or in a home with other felines, make sure all cats have tested negative for FIV.
Also, any recently adopted cat should be tested for FIV prior to entering your home.
Can cats with the virus have a good and long life?
Yes, FIV-positive cats can live normal lives, both in quality and duration. They just need to be monitored for infections and dental issues. But if they're well cared for, they can be healthy, happy, wonderful pets.


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25 years ago, Rwanda descended into mass murder on a scale that still shocks the world. A survivor, Anne-Marie Uwimana lost her four children and her husband to the genocide.
However, the most heartbreaking part was that she watched as her neighbour, Celestin killed two of her children, which included her eldest son, who was 11 years old at the time.
"On the day he (her son) died, as things got worse, he told a friend that he had a feeling that someone was going to cut his neck. When I remember that, I feel like my heart will break. This man, Celestin came in with the attackers and killed two of my children. They broke into the house. we tried to run away.
The attackers had clubs and machetes. Celestin pulled out his machete and he cut the necks of two of my children. I then manage to run away," Anne-Marie told BBC Africa.
Blaming bad ideology and leadership, Celestin, who served 10 years in jail for his crime, admitted to killing Anne-Marie's children.
"Those children suffered injustice and I'm filled with self-loathing," Celestin confesses.
Many years after the genocide, Anne-Marie would go into panic attacks whenever she saw Celestin. According to her, she always felt like he was going to harm her. Then one day, she decided to forgive him after being convinced by a Catholic priest.
"He said you hold the key to freeing Celestin from his guilt and Celestin also has the key to free you too. If you believe this, with the help of God, you will be healed."
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Nintendo Switch: All You Need to Know
Posted on January 13, 2017 by Ian Kim
Have Fun Looking into the Past!
Launching March 3rd, 2017.
I hate to start off with a large negative, but the Switch will have a paid online system. Multiplayer will be free up until the fall of 2017. After that? Monthly subscription fees kick in for those who want to play their beloved games online with friends.
Said service will act like their competitor's with the addition of voice chat, the choice of one SNES or NES title with online functions per month and discounts on other products. More details to come.
The console will have anywhere from 2.5 to 6.5 hours of battery life depending on what it's being used for. Not unexpected, but better than what I had predicted. (3-4 Hours.)
Region locking has been removed. This is a plus. Now one won't have to purchase a whole new console from another region in order to play an unlocalized game.
The Joy-Cons have NFC for amiibo, a Capture Button, two internal triggers for use when disconnected, "HD Rumble" or a haptic feedback system to simulate real-life actions. Color variations will exist, and a wrist strap connection will be shipped as well. Also, an IR camera is on the front of the right Joy-Con. This thing can detect shapes and distance, although nothing showed it being used in a game. These could be used in rather interesting ways, but may fall by the wayside if not utilized well.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be releasing on 3/3/17 alongside the console on both Wii U and Switch.
Several new games were announced.
1! 2! Switch! seems to be this console's Wii Sports. Acting as a game using the Joy-Con's haptic feedback to simulate actions. It's a local Player-vs-player title, however the screen is optional. Launch Day Release.
Arms (Which I hope is a working title.) An Arena-boxing title except everyone has spring-loaded arms… Personally it reminds me of Punch Out!! This is a completely new Nintendo IP. "Spring" Launch. No pun intended, I hope.
Splatoon 2. New maps, weapons and possibly gamemodes. Other gameplay mechanics have been added, such as rolling. Summer, with additional updates as with the original.
Super Mario Odyssey is the next 3D Mario title, taking place in a fully explorable 3-D environment heavily inspired by some real-world locations while still having the bizarre Mario worlds we all know. Also Bowser's attempting to Marry Peach. Yep. Things got weird again. Launch during the upcoming Holiday Season.
Mario Kart 8 is getting a "Deluxe" edition. An actual battle mode will be added, along with new characters such as Splatoon's Inklings. Launching April 28th.
Several teasers were shown for other games, such as Xenoblade 2, Square-Enix's "Octopath Traveller" alongside Fire Emblem Warriors and another Shin Megami Tensei title. One title was completely lost on the English audience as the translator got lost. Details will come in time.
Skyrim, as shown in the teaser will be coming to the console.
EA Sports is promising a FIFA title as well.
80+ more titles are noted to be in development.
Now to the nitty-gritty. Miis are shown for a brief moment in one of the end trailers. The console will ship with the console, (duh) two Joy-Cons, a Dock, HDMI Cable, Joy-Con Grip, Wrist Straps and a single A/C Adapter. One can purchase the console with colored Joy-Cons or with the standard Grey Joy-Cons.
Apps are being released to have additional control/additions to the system. The only one that currently seems to be out is a Parental Control app, which is a severe improvement over past systems.
Comments? Questions? Opinions? The Comment Section Awaits! -Ian "The iKim" Kim
GFA: Cave Story
Posted on December 7, 2016 by Ian Kim
There's a story. You're in a cave. That's the game. It's good. I rate it 8/8.
Ian Kim, We're done here.
Oh, you wanted my usual review size. Well then:
Cave Story, released in 2004 as a freeware PC title. All developed by one man. It's a 2-D shooter platformer in which you're quickly dropped into Mimiga Village, populated by the rabbit-like Mimiga. Apparently, someone known only as "The Doctor" (who has no ties to the Time Lord, mind you) has been kidnapping Mimiga left and right for unknown reasons. Our amnesiac protagonist seems to be the only one with a chance at ending this.
I can't continue without spoiling anything. Do yourself a favor and Do. Not. Look. Up. The. Plotline. However, I will say it does have multiple endings depending on your actions.
The freeware version originally only shipped in Japanese. There was a translation patch made, which works, but does have a few grammatical issues here and there. This still doesn't detract from the occasional bit of humor and character moments you'll run into throughout this story.
Controls are as simple as it gets, as an NES controller would do just fine with this game. (Although you'd be hitting the inventory screen about as often as you would be in a Mega Man title.) Shoot with one key, jump with another. Shots can be directed and weapons can be swapped with a single button push. This is one of those easy-to-learn-hard-to-master kind of things.
You'll encounter a total of 26 bosses. 8 of these guys are 100% optional though, as they can only be found either by a dialogue choice or by going through the hardest of the endings. Dispatching of these baddies can be done through several weapons, ranging from a standard limited ammo Missile Launcher to a… Bubble Gun. It's more useful than you'd think once you level it up.
As seen noted above, Cave Story has a simple mechanic where you can Level Up weapons. This is based on EXP pickups that are scattered about or dropped by defeated enemies.
Taking damage, however, will cause you to lose EXP on your currently equipped weapon. The game keeps up a decent dance with danger, as losing too much health won't only bring you closer to death, but will also make your current weapon weaker.
The game is designed much like the 8-bit titles of old in visual, audio and gameplay style. Metroid is an easy comparison. However, unlike Metroid, you have a map, secrets aren't as hard to find, and the whole thing can be finished in about 5-7 hours depending on your level of completion.
The older 8-Bit titles were designed to be difficult for multiple reasons, and Cave Story does retain that difficulty in some ways. Boss fights may initiate when you least expect it, instant deathtraps exist all over a few areas and, later in the game, heal stations are much harder to come by. However, this isn't at Super Meat Boy levels of difficulty. By the time you've reached the Final area, you've been equipped with enough knowledge to beat the game.
Graphically, the game is surprisingly detailed. Small touches such as the face of a bat when it's attacking or character portraits really make this pixelated world feel alive, as cliche as that is, one can't deny the truth. Balrog, possibly the first boss you'll face, only gets half of his face in his dialogue portrait. Even then, his personality gets through.
The music is an absolute joy to listen to. With the main theme and Labyrinth Fight being my personal favorites. It's upbeat, somewhat goofy when needed, but not afraid to be serious.
In a more modern sense, Cave Story is to Metroid as Undertale is to Earthbound. It takes well-established mechanics and places them into a small, lovable package of retro joy.
Does this line ring a bell?
My one minor gripe with this game is the fact that the most satisfying ending is locked behind a set easily missed choices and a rather difficult end section that behaves exactly like a roguelike. Death in this last section boots you back to the start of it, no matter how far you were into it's multiple rooms of crazy.
I myself have been at it enough times over that I have lost count. The sign at the beginning of the area noting "Welcome to Hell!" should have been a major tip…
I'll finish it someday though… Regrettably with the help of a guide.
Other "secret" items hidden like this serve no purpose. Life upgrades can be found with some simple exploration though.
Cave Story gets a Good solid 9.5 out of 10 in my book. With strong callbacks to the golden age of games all wrapped up in a short, free package, one really can't go wrong. Unless they try to go for the hardest ending as frustration can easily settle in.
Now this is A Year to Remember.
Posted on November 3, 2016 by Ian Kim
108 years.
That's how long it took for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series again. Not being a baseball fan myself I can now understand why it's such a big deal. The tension can be enough for some grown men to lose their fingernails, and for others to sweat in the rain.
This sits as the sole game I have watched with complete interest, ranging from the opening Home-run to the final play in the bottom of the 10th. A well played game on both ends.
I really don't think we could have had a better game. Baseball fans are free to say what they wish.
Now, the real question is how on earth Back to the Future got so darn close to the actual year… Where's that Almanac?
The Good, the Fad and the Ugly: Distance
Posted on September 28, 2016 by Ian Kim
Writer's Note: This was written the week of 9/11/16. At this point the game was still in its Early Access format. Because of this, information below may or may not remain relevant in the future.
Saw blades, large cylindrical grinders, Pumpkins and Lasers. These may sound like standard sci-fi and horror film props, but would you be surprised to find them in a racing title?
In this GFA review, I present Refract Studio's Distance. A Survival Racer.
One that pits you against the hazards of the track in addition to the traditional clock. There are no laps, nor items. It's you, and the track. The aforementioned hazards are all standard obstacles that will stand in your way, minus Pumpkins. They're ready to slice, dice and completely destroy your car. However, you have the advantage of a rocket-boosting-self-repairing car. That last part can only be done at specific Checkpoint/regeneration rings however. As long as you have at least one wheel you can keep going. So, yes, driving half of a car (or even less) is a mechanic in this.
Did I mention this car has the ability to jump, and take flight as well?
The controls are simple and easy to grasp. Although, I can say from experience that Rocket League did somewhat mess me up. The Boost option is normally where Jump would be. Although remapping the controls is easy.
The HUD is, rather cleverly, displayed on the back of the car itself. Every now and then a trick notification will show up, but this is only for a moment. Boost and flight are tied together. The engine can, and will overheat if left to run for too long. Pulling off tricks, or going through rings will cool down your engine, keeping you from exploding.
In terms of the car itself, it handles incredibly well. Not just on the track, but in the air. This thing may as well be a spacecraft. With not just a rocket motor on the back, but rotational thrusters as well. They're not just for show though. The road at some points may quite literally flip out.
If you weren't already sold on this car, its colors can be customized as well.
As seen above, the game itself is set within a rather mysterious floating city. There's really no sign of human life other than large propaganda-esque signs reading things "Salvation in Science" or "Together We Progress."
Considering everyone seems to be gone though, this society obviously failed. Without God we would quite literally be nothing. However, self separation only leads to ruin. Something that Jonah, and this city learned the hard way.
Without giving away too much, whatever it was that caused everyone to leave appears to still be out there. One of the first things noted is that an "Anomaly" had been detected in Sector 11.
It's your job to find it.
You'll be travelling through a world with design inspiration from things like TRON. If the Wipeout games sound familiar, this visual and musical style should be of no surprise. It's electronic, but not harsh dubstep. It's more in the ballpark of the Rocket League soundtrack. The world will also illuminate and pulsate according to the music. All music is also able to be replaced with custom tracks.
So, I could be barrelling down a course to F-Zero's Mute City theme.
Currently the Adventure mode mentioned with the vague plotline above is incomplete. However, an extremely robust Level Editor and Automatic generator both exist to allow for completely new races. The community has created some excellent levels. Some are obviously better than others, but in my experience one has to work in order to find the more iffy levels.
There are also a few other additional modes. A One-Life run through a small course, a "Reverse Tag" that acts like keep-away and finally, Soccer. So, Rocket League without Boost and flips if you will. These are fun little additions, but they are just that. Additions.
Although, if you search "Horror Racing Game" an article about this game is the first result. The developers have noted that they do intend for it to be somewhat frightening. Mainly with this Tweet. Now, I'm no fan of the horror genre, unless you consider the Ghostbuster-esque title Luigi's Mansion a horror game. Either way I'm oddly excited for this.
In terms of non-horror Spooky things, the sole achievement available for this game is called "Pumpkin King." You have to smash every pumpkin on the Spooky Town Reverse Tag Map.
In its current state, Distance has a heavy focus on gameplay, rather than plotline. Because of this the rating itself will be given on the core gameplay and visual/audio design rather than level structure or plot.
Distance earns a Good rating, with a score of 9/10. Easy to grasp gameplay along with a great visual and audio style lead to something I desperately want to see brought to Arcades. The sole reason I can't give this a full 10 is due to it currently being in beta.
PS: Distance is the spiritual successor to Nitronic Rush. A free student-made game that set the foundation for this title. Some of the original developers are currently working on Distance as well! Check it out here.
I Tune, Do You?
iTunes. The software and store that killed the Record Star. Among several other things.
With the most recent update, I myself am not so certain as to how much longer I'll be using the program. I understand the purpose behind the shifts, but I do question how much thought went into these changes.
Some of my albums contain several dozen pieces, and now, instead of a multiple column list, I have a large, single column to scroll through.
Enough about my little gripes, my main concern is that my copy of iTunes is sentient, somewhat.
I'm not writing one of those crazed "Sweden doesn't exist" kind of things. It's just that more times than I can count, the shuffle feature has somehow managed to time music to real world, unpredictable events. Or I think about a piece and it begins to play.
Call it hidden Apple AI or (preferably) Divine Intervention of a rather humorous sort. Sometimes I get just what I need, or something completely opposite. Programs never cease to amaze me.
…now to get a second opinion.
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Describes the history of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) that was set up after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which was a medical research project, and not a place to actually treat hibakusha, much to many patients disappointment and confusion. Article describes the reactions of Dr. James Yamazaki, who was stationed at the Nagasaki ABCC, who administered treatment to patients, despite it not being in the mission of the ABCC. The ABCC was funded by the U.S. but did not incorporate treatment as a means in which to avoid looking like it had responsibility for the U.S. having dropped the atomic bombs.
Article describes the story of Sunao Tsuboi, chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, and his experiences surviving the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, his lifetime of endurance in the face of medical problems related to his exposure to nuclear radiation, and his experiences of discrimination due to being a hibakusha. Though his health precluded his ability to attend the recent NPT conference in New York, he continues to speak out against nuclear weapons.
Article describes a report of the Tokyo Federation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations describing how 60% of second generation hibakusha have concerns over the impacts of nuclear radiation exposure on their health. To this date, while there has been a survey on lifestyle-related diseases amongst the second generation of hibakusha descendants, this study did not cover cancer or mental conditions.
Discusses hibakusha Sumiteru Taniguchi, chairman of the Nagasaki Council of A-Bomb Sufferers, his experiences in surviving the bombing of Nagasaki, and his advocacy work, despite ailments of age, at the recent NPT Review Conference in New York. The article continues by discussing his opposition to the recently proposed security bills in Japan, and his anger that Nagasaki's Prefectural Assembly had passed a resolution in support of these bills.
Details attempts by Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) Director Robert Holmes to change ABCC policy to allow for the treatment of Hiroshima/Nagasaki hibakusha as a means in which to forestall any possibility of the USSR from using the hibakusha against the U.S. Despite his protestations, ABCC policy remained unchanged, and studies of the aftereffects of the nuclear bombing on the survivors of Hiroshima/Nagasaki continued to fail to include treatment.
Article describes the Runit Dome on Runit island in the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands which is a cement dome that covers some 110,000 cubic yards of radioactive waste (mostly plutonium) generated by 12 years of nuclear weapons testing by the U.S. The article describes how the dome is at sea level, and addresses concerns related to leakage of radioactive contamination, the manner in which the compact of free association between the Marshall Islands and the U.S. seemingly foreclosed claims by the Marshalese to responsibility for cleanup, notes how the Marshall Islands government lacks the fund and resources necessary for comprehensive cleanup, and how the Marshalese are pushing the U.S. government to take responsibility for cleanup procedures.
Describes the nuclear bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site which caused nuclear fallout that affected numerous "downwinder" communities in the U.S., including St. George, Utah. The article describes the high incidence of radiation related effects in the affected areas. The article also describes the use of the area as a film set for "The Conqueror," a movie starring John Wayne, the production of which may have exposed numerous case and crew to radiation poisoning, and which may have contributed to their deaths.


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Tonoloway Creek, also known as Great Tonoloway Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River in Maryland and Pennsylvania
Little Tonoloway Creek (Pennsylvania), a tributary of Tonoloway Creek in Pennsylvania
Little Tonoloway Creek (Maryland), a tributary of the Potomac River in Maryland
Tonoloway Ridge, a mountain ridge that runs southwest northeast through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia
Fort Tonoloway State Park, a Maryland state park in Washington County
Tonoloway Formation, a limestone bedrock unit in the Appalachian Mountains


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Here are a variety of scientific research papers, publications, and resources so can further your enthusiasm for red pandas.
Angela Glaston (edited by), Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda (1st edition). Academic Press. 2011.
A broad-based overview of the biology of the red panda, Ailurus fulgens. A carnivore that feeds almost entirely on vegetable material and is colored chestnut red, chocolate brown and cream rather than the expected black and white. This book gathers all the information that is available on the red panda both from the field and captivity as well as from cultural aspects, and attempts to answer that most fundamental of questions, "What is a red panda?" Scientists have long focused on the red panda's controversial taxonomy. Is it in fact an Old World procyonid, a very strange bear or simply a panda? All of these hypotheses are addressed in an attempt to classify a unique species and provide an in-depth look at the scientific and conservation-based issues urgently facing the red panda today.
Lama, Sony, Saroj Shrestha, Narayan Prasad Koju, Ang Phuri Sherpa, and Munmun Tamang. "Assessment of the Impacts ofLivestock Grazing on Endangered Red Panda(Ailurus fulgens) Habitat in eastern Nepal." Open Journal of Ecology 10, no. 3 (2020): 97-110.
Disturbances caused by livestock grazing are considered as a key attributable factor for the habitat loss of red panda. The present study was carried out in Eastern Nepal mainly focusing on the habitat preferences of red panda and impacts of livestock grazing on it.
Inskipp, Carol, Ang Phuri Sherpa, Damber Bista, Hem Sagar Baral, Martijn Bunskoek. "Conservation Value of upper Mai valley forestin Panchthar-Ilam-Taplejung (PIT) corridorof eastern Nepal for birds." The Himalayan Naturalist, 2(1). 11-25.
The national and global importance for birds of the upper Mai valley, far eastern Nepal has been documented and compiled in a checklist of the 209 bird species recorded here between 2008 and 2018. The checklist is annotated with species' status and distribution and highlights biome-restricted and globally and nationally threatened bird species. Although the proposed Red Panda Protected Forest is dedicated to the conservation of Red
Pandas, it will also help conserve birds in the area.
Damber Bista, "What is Driving the Increased Demand for Red Panda Pelts?" Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 17 Feb 2020.
Recent seizures of red panda pelts suggest an increasing illegal trade. Our study documents the socio-cultural perspectives affecting red panda conservation in Nepal in an attempt to determine what might be driving this increased trade. To do this, we interviewed local people; reviewed published and unpublished works, websites, and newspapers; and consulted experts. The majority of people living in red panda habitat seem familiar with this species, but it rarely has any medicinal, cultural, or religious significance. Currently, what is driving the demand for pelts is a mystery and cannot be explained by inherent negative perceptions about the animal's value to society or positive perceptions about its economic value within Nepal.
Sonam Tashi Lama, "First Photographic Record of Marbled Cat Pardofelis Marmorata Martin, 1837 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) in Nepal". Nature Communication 32:19-34.
The marbled cat Pardofelis marmorata is a Near Threatened small felid. The cat's presence in Nepal is based on an anecdote. A camera trap-based study to access diversity and abundance of terrestrial mammals in eastern Nepal accumulated 3,014 camera trap days and resulted in 5,176 photographs of 17 medium-large sized mammal species. Amongst them, a marbled cat was captured at a single camera trap station in January 2018.
Damber Bista, "Communities in Frontline in Red Panda Conservation, Eastern Nepal". Friends of Nature, The Himalayan Naturalist 2018 1(1), 11-12.
The national red panda Ailurus fulgens survey of 2016 shows that nearly 70% of the total red panda habitat in Nepal falls outside the protected areas (MoFSC 2016). Conservation interventions targeting this endangered species are minimal across most of its range which are either being managed by Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs), or directly by the District Forest Office and their field units.
Krishna Prasad Acharya, Saroj Shrestha, Prakash Kumar Paudel, Ang Phuri Sherpa, Shant Raj Jnawali, Sakshi Acharya, & Damber Bista, "Pervasive Human Disturbance on Habitats of Endangered Red Panda Ailurus fulgens in the Central Himalaya". Global Ecology and Conservation 15 (2018).
Red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) live in the dense forests of mid-hills of the Himalaya and feed almost exclusively on bamboo. They are vulnerable to extinction due to human induced disturbances. Habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation along with poaching are the most pressing anthropogenic threats to red panda conservation.
Damber Bista, "Distribution and Habitat use of Red Panda in the Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape of Nepal". PLOS One. October 17, 2017.
In Nepal, the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) has been sparsely studied, although its range covers a wide area. The present study was carried out in the previously untapped Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape (CHAL) situated in central Nepal with an aim to explore current distributional status and identify key habitat use. Extensive field surveys conducted in 10 red panda range districts were used to estimate species distribution by presence-absence occupancy modeling and to predict distribution by presence-only modeling.
Sonam Tashi Lama, Rinzin Phunjok Lama , Ganga Ram Regmi & Tirth Raj Ghimire, "Prevalence of Intestinal Parasitic Infections in Free-ranging Red Panda Ailurus fulgens Cuvier, 1825 (Mammalia: Carnivora: Ailuridae) in Nepal". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 26 June, 2015. 7(8): 7460–7464.
The Red Panda Ailurus fulgens is a small carnivore that is adapted to a mainly herbivorous diet. The present study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of parasitic infections in a free-ranging population of Red Pandas in a community forest in Nepal. A total of 23 faecal samples were collected and examined. Protozoa infections were the most common and cestode infections occurred the least.
Saroj Shrestha, Karan Bahadur Shah, Damber Bista, Hem Sagar Bara, "Photographic Identification of Individual Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens Cuvier, 1825)". Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2015, Vol. 3, No. 1, 11-15.
This study was carried out to identify individual red panda (Ailurus fulgens) through photographs and develop a protocol for their identification from pelage patterns. Manual observation method for photo-identification was applied for matching natural markings and statistical tools like Kruskal-Wallis tests and Sensitivity and Specificity tests were used during the analysis.
Damber Bista, Saroj Shrestha, Ajaya Jang Kunwar, Sakshi Acharya, Shant Raj Jnawali and Krishna Prasad Acharya,"Status of Gastrointestinal Parasites in Red Panda of Nepal". PeerJ. 6 September, 2017.
Red pandas are known to be highly susceptible to endoparasites, which can have a prominent impact on the population dynamics of this endangered species. There are very limited published reports on prevalence and risk of parasites in wild populations of red panda, especially localized reports.
Brian Williams, "Red Panda in Eastern Nepal: How do They Fit into Ecoregional Conservation of the Eastern Himalaya". Conservation Biology in Asia (2006). Published by the Society for Conservation Biology Asia Section and Resources Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal. Chapter 16. Pages 236-251.
Ecoregion-based conservation (ERBC) is the crux of the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) global landscape-level biodiversity conservation vision. An ecoregion transcends national borders and, instead, focuses on meaningful biological boundaries that support distinct, major ecological and evolutionary processes which create and maintain biodiversity.
Brian H. Williams, Bhagawan R. Dahal and Tulsi R. Subedi, "Red Panda Biology and Conservation of the First Panda: Chapter 22 – Project Punde Kundo: Community-based Monitoring of a Red Panda Population in Eastern Nepal." Pages 236-251.
Project Punde Kundo specifically focuses on the Singhalila range that separates Nepal from India. This area, also referred to as the Panchthar Ilam Taplejung (PIT) Corridor, is recognized as a region of international importance for biodiversity conservation due to its species richness and diversity and transboundary connectivity between Kanchenjunga Conservation Area in Nepal and Singhalila National Park and Parsey Rhodendron Sanctuary in India.
Brian Williams, "The Status of the Red Panda in Jamuna and Mabu Villages of Eastern Nepal". A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Environmental Studies San José State University. May, 2004.
Protecting the red panda is important to both the preservation of Nepal's natural heritage and global biodiversity because it is a monotypic and indicator species with specialized food habits. It is unique in the animal world because it has no close living relatives and its family, Ailuridae, has only one genus, Ailurus.
Manoj Bhatta, Karan Bahadur Shah, Bhupendra Devkota, Rajiv Paudel, Saroj Panthi, "Distribution and Habitat Preference of Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens fulgens) in Jumla District, Nepal" Open Journal of Ecology, 2014, 4, 989-1001.
Reliable and sufficient information regarding status, distribution and habitat preference of red panda (Ailurus fulgens fulgens) is lacking in Nepal. The research activities on red panda in the mid-western Nepal are very limited, so the status of red panda in the region is quite unknown. The study conducted during May, 2013 in three Village Development Committees (VDCs) namely Godhemahadev, Malikathata and Tamti of Jumla district was an important step for providing vital information including distribution and habitat preference of this species.
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Magazines & News
Field Guide To Red Pandas. Wild Travel Magazine, April 2013. By Dirk Kloss p 46-5.
RPN EcoTrips Nominated as One of Five Trips to Take Right Now. Wild Travel Magazine, Jan 2013.
Red Pandas are Adorable and in Trouble. New York Times, Aug 2015.
Red Panda Databases & Research Sites
Redpandafinder.com by Justin Fairchild
A site that tracks family trees of red pandas, as well as re-sharing high-quality panda photos from Instagram for a wider audience. Data is currently for Japanese styani pandas, and will be expanding to other zoos worldwide.
Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute - Red Panda
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission hosts a Red List of Endangered Species providing taxonomic, conservation status, and distribution information on endangered species.
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Red Panda Network is committed to the conservation of wild red pandas and their habitat through the education and empowerment of local communities.
Red Panda Network envisions secure, viable populations of wild red panda thriving throughout their historic range. Preservation of this species and its habitat benefits the region, and, as a result, it is valued and protected by all.
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Enter the Dragon (1973, Robert Clouse)
October 14, 2021 by Brandon·Comments Off on Enter the Dragon (1973, Robert Clouse)
The audio and dialogue in this movie is so shitty, it should bring shame on the families of everyone involved. The zooms are cool. I looked up the director to make fun of him, but he was deaf, so I'm gonna credit Clouse with all the cool zooms and blame Warner Bros for the sound. Bruce is in this as much as The Big Boss, there's much time wasted on the corny ensemble cast (I can't help but compare this to the closest-to-1973 ensemble film I've seen lately, Cotton Comes to Harlem, which was 100x more convincing). Overall a sad Hollywood attempt at a Hong Kong movie. Bruce Lee innocent, and his delightfully unusual voice speaking English is a secondary highlight after the justly-acclaimed mirror/claw finale.
Han (Sek Kin, the Chinese Timothy Dalton but with iron fists) lures fighters to his island, including Lee, charismatic gambler John Saxon, and Jim Kelly (who would go on to star in/as Black Belt Jones and Black Samurai). Kelly is introduced beating up racist cops and stealing their car, so we know he's a good guy – wonder if that was as clear in 1973. Muscley Bolo is Han's protector, would go on to fight Jean-Claude Van Damme. There's a female operative on the island, and Bruce's secret mission is to avenge the death of his sister, but mainly it's a man's movie, baby.
Han shows Saxon his claw museum:
Bolo is unimpressed by Bruce until it's too late:
Jim Kelly rockin' out:
The White Meadows (2009, Mohammad Rasoulof)
April 25, 2021 by Brandon·Comments Off on The White Meadows (2009, Mohammad Rasoulof)
I got Naked Island flashbacks, people transporting water to different islands. Rahmat is a tear collector, witnessing dramas on each island he visits. He gains a stowaway named Nassim who tries to steal from him, they meet a blind man scavenging dead birds, a woman is sent screaming into the burning sea… death at every stop of the boat. Besides the tear bottle there's a bag where people discard their sorrows, and a series of jars where they whisper their secrets. A rogue painter is tortured and forced to declare that the sea is blue, then sent away with the tear collector so his nonconformist views won't spread. Another girl is sent away for being too beautiful.
I watched an old DVD of a then-recent film, for some reason transferred from a used print. I had to rewind when I saw lightning during a conversation about how it never rains – just a jagged film scratch. In the end, Rahmat bathes the feet of a government man who only asks "if everyone's well."
Michael Sicinski in Cinema Scope:
In a bold move that is quite the opposite of what we see from too many concerned filmmakers on the left, Rasoulof joined his increased anger and frustration not with greater literalism or artlessness, but with a shift into the allegorical, mythic register. While the bitterness and protest underlying The White Meadows are crystal clear, the film explores the state of Ahmadinejad's Iran through a series of absurdist horror vignettes, staged against an unforgiving Lake Orumieh, and witnessed by a man condemned to merely observe and chronicle, but helpless to intervene … Rasoulof weaves this tale of interlocking allegories through visual as well as dramaturgical means. This is a strikingly beautiful film, simultaneously lush and austere, characterized by expansive, elemental landscapes and seascapes. Within these broad fields, human forms are enveloped, knocked hither and thither, struggling to maintain balance and dignity.
The Naked Island (1960, Kaneto Shindo)
March 27, 2021 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Naked Island (1960, Kaneto Shindo)
Hardworking family lives on hostile island with no water, so they ferry buckets across the sea from the next island. Life just sucks, is hard and unforgiving, then their oldest son dies, but they have to keep going to survive. Beautiful looking movie with really good music, flutey themes that the Criterion calls "modernist," so I am sure I don't know what that word means. The first non-ghost story I've seen by Shindo, although the Criterion essay calls it a ghost tale out of habit.
The Wild Boys (2017, Bertrand Mandico)
December 25, 2018 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Wild Boys (2017, Bertrand Mandico)
Switches between sharp black and white, and hazy 16mm color – stylishly artificial looking, almost Maddinesque. Five bad kids try to impress their lit teacher, finally sexually assult and murder her, blaming it on the icon of their evil selves, TREVOR.
TREVOR:
A sea captain claims he can make the boys obedient, takes them on his ship to a pleasure island with living plants, where they eat hairy fruit that turns them into girls.
The captain (Sam Louwyck of Ex Drummer) reconnects with his associate Dr. Séverine (Elina Löwensohn, who I watched yesterday in Let The Corpses Tan), is then murdered by the kids when he tries to remove them from the island.
Mandico is obviously a talent, and has a bunch of shorts I should dig up.
Nick Pinkerton in Reverse Shot:
The Wild Boys0 is a supremely assured piece of craftsmanship, evincing an active creative engagement and ample imagination in every minute of its nearly two-hour runtime … A maximalist to the core, Mandico has a natural enmity towards both an inactive camera and empty screen space, and when he isn't stuffing the frame to bursting with whorls of fog, fleecy feathers, thickets of exotic foliage, bits of rigging, and the glisten of paillettes, seawater spray, or paralyzing sap, he takes pleasure in setting images within images: a fist glittering with jewelry clenching a revolver, for example, framed by the outline of the mountainous Île des Robes.
The Red Turtle (2016, Michael Dudok de Wit)
April 14, 2017 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Red Turtle (2016, Michael Dudok de Wit)
Kind of a Crane Wife / Tales from the Darkside gargoyle variant with a turtle twist. Man washes up on a bamboo forest island, and is thwarted by a giant red turtle whenever he tries to build an escape boat. One day the turtle waddles ashore and the angry man flips it over. Then it becomes a human woman, they have a kid together, avoid natural disasters, the kid grows up and goes off into the ocean, the man gets old and dies, and finally she turns back into a turtle and leaves. Turtle/human spawning / cycle-of-life business, done with very attractive (wordless) animation. Some cute sand crabs, too. I also rewatched Father and Daughter and The Monk and the Fish with Katy, finally available in HD.
Chuck Bowen:
The man's one murderous impulse begets a life of empathy — of balance. A heartbreaking, astonishingly poetic ending further challenges our human-centric absorption, suggesting that this rhapsodic life of paradise wasn't the man's dream, but the turtle's.
Isabel Stevens in BFI:
Pictures are the film's currency and they are, without exaggeration, sublime … The attention to detail shown to the sky (its magic-hour glow tinging the whole island), water (grey and angry one moment, an azure palimpsest the next), even the sand (at times you can see the grains in what looks like a smudge of charcoal) is quite extraordinary. The film is a masterclass in chiaroscuro: shadows are just as intricately sketched as the life forms that cause them. Even from a distance, a bottle washed up on the beach has a lighter shadow than a human's. A lot of digital animation, with its blocks of colour, can feel flat. But the depth and texture on show here – conjured from a surge of pencil marks and watercolour washes – is remarkable.
The Tempest (2010, Julie Taymor)
September 7, 2016 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Tempest (2010, Julie Taymor)
Sometimes a movie feels less like a cohesive work to be taken on its own merit than something to be picked apart. As a version of Shakespeare's The Tempest it's pretty okay, not as consistent or intelligible as the version we saw at the fountain in Piedmont Park, but more intelligible than Prospero's Books was on VHS. Helen Mirren is wonderful as Prospera, the set design is marvelous and the rest is hit or miss. Too much flailing about before green screens, and I could've done without the song. Personnel in decreasing order of goodness:
– Tom Conti as the Richard Jenkins-looking companion of the king
– Alan Cumming and Chris Cooper (I kept thinking he was Sean Bean or some other lord of the rings) as the king's men, incompetently plotting against him.
– Alfred Molina as the king's drunken butler
– Ben Whishaw as the sprite Ariel
– Djimon "Digimon" Hounsou as the monster Caliban
– David Strathairn as Shipwrecked King Alonso
– Felicity Jones and Reeve Carney as the Young Lovers (the king's son and Prospera's daughter)
– the extras in the shipwreck scene
– Russell Brand as Molina's companion – he was tolerable for a long time, longer than one would expect, but finally doesn't belong in this movie or anywhere else.
Treasure Island (1985, Raoul Ruiz)
June 16, 2016 by Brandon·Comments Off on Treasure Island (1985, Raoul Ruiz)
Ruiz made a series of films in the mid-1980's involving sailors, pirates, children, islands, treasure and magic. There's an explicit Treasure Island reference in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983), and in between the similarly-themed City of Pirates and Manuel on the Island of Wonders, he made the movie Treasure Island, and wrote a book called In Search of Treasure Island.
As I learned from The Golden Boat, I'm not a big fan of Ruiz's English-language films (actually Klimt was good). Treasure Island is full of fascinating work, especially when the plot comes together at the end, but while watching all I can think of are the language problems. Most actors (not Martin Landau or Anna Karina) are badly dubbed. Dialogue is imperfectly translated and conveyed, and performance styles are inconsisent – I tried to overlook it, but it's too clunky to ignore. Little things make me think Ruiz wasn't at the dubbing sessions (paella is pronounced "pai-YELL-ah"). And it's cool that Jean-Pierre Leaud was cast, but distracting to hear him speak with no trace of French accent.
Ruiz's Treasure Island isn't an adaptation of the novel… not exactly, anyway. After a while it starts to follow the story when young Jonathan's father dies while his seaside home is being visited by Landau (who asks to be called The Captain), then after Jonathan runs off he's picked up by a sailing shoe salesman named Silver.
Some mutinies and mercenaries later, it comes out that this is an annual reenactment LARP, performed with a different Jim Hawkins every time. Captain Silver is the professor who invented the game, an "expert on game theory" (maybe not coincidence: when Silver gave his real name I wrote it as Omar Amiralay, which is also the name of a Syrian filmmaker who was active at the time). Jim/Jonathan sees through the ruse when he realizes during a gun battle that the fighting is fake, so he goes off alone, commandeering the ship with only Israel Hands (who soon dies) aboard. I start to lose track of the characters as the roles shift (The Dead Father returns as the ship's doctor, for instance) – shades of the re-enactment identity-blending of The Territory. Even the narrator, who we assumed all along to be Jim/Jonathan, is revealed to be another character, who kills J/J offscreen at the end.
Jim and Helen:
Martin Landau, who dies, comes back to life, declares Jim is his son during an earthquake, and jumps out a window:
It's fun to analyze the movie afterwards, to go through the screen shots and read reviews – maybe a less painfully-dubbed version exists in another country and will come out someday (argh, a restored print played Paris last month – the poor dubbing remains, and the movie has lost 15 minutes). Anna Karina is very good as J/J's mom, anyway.
Karina and Helen:
Don't think I got all the characters straight. Multiple possible captains – besides Landau we've got Silver (Vic Tayback of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), the French Captain (Yves Afonso, who appeared with Karina and Leaud in Made In USA), and Mr. Mendoza (Pedro Armendariz Jr. of Walker in a Yankees hat). Mendoza is obsessed with a different ship-mutiny novel, Benito Cereno by Herman Melville. There's the doctor / Dead Father (Lou Castel, Bruno Ganz's driver in The American Friend) and J/J's aunt Helen (singer Sheila). Crabb (Michel Ferber) imprisons J/J, Ben Gunn shoots diamonds from a slingshot. That leaves Israel Hands (Jean-Francois Stévenin, the immortal Max in Le Pont du Nord), Squire Tim Moretti (Jeffrey Kime, the doomed Jim in The Territory), and back on shore before the adventure began, Leaud as a writer (and possibly the narrator), and the creepy Blind Man (Charles Schmitt). Jim/Jonathan himself is regular Ruiz star Melvil Poupaud, returning from City of Pirates.
The island scenes (second half of the movie) were filmed on the coast of Senegal, where Katy is now.
Back on land, The Blind Man with Karina:
Played in Cannes in 1991 alongside Yumeji, Boyz n the Hood, Hearts of Darkness, and three African films. Rumor is that Chris Marker assisted Ruiz in some way. A four-hour cut was planned, but I don't think it was completed (nobody claims to have seen it).
Ruiz in conversation with J. Rosenbaum:
Treasure Island was a complete misunderstanding, because the money was there at the beginning and then suddenly the money was gone [not there anymore]. So I had to reduce the budget, and do it like a kind of B movie. This movie starts very strangely, with a good atmosphere, and then suddenly we are in a typical TV serial, because it was shot in continuity, so you can see the point at which the money starts to vanish.
From Michael Goddard's book:
As [the film's introductory] television transmission is interrupted by a power cut, we are informed that its tale of a coup d'etat, diamonds and treachery continued in Jim's head. In other words while we may be aware that stories originate elsewhere and come to us from the outside it is we who continue them as they take possession of our imaginations; so before even introducing any of the elements of Treasure Island, the key theme of possession by prior stories that make up not only Ruiz's film but in a more implicit way the original novel itself is already established.
As in the cartographic game in Zig-Zag this is a game played in real spaces with real lives and deaths but it is no less fictional than the novel on which it is based, while the latter is increasingly read not as fiction but rather as an instruction manual for how to operate successfully in the Treasure Island game.
JW McCormack:
For one thing, the pirates don't look much like pirates, more like guerillas, revolutionaries. Jim's friends the Doctor and the Squire appear without much fanfare. Other characters, like participatory academic Aunt Helen, are without an analogue in the book. The Oedipal strains of the Disney version have gone haywire, as everybody claims to be Jim's father and nobody seems terribly concerned with treasure. But as Jim says — or, rather, as Jean-Pierre Léaud says, since we learn three quarters of the way through that he has literally run away with the script and has been telling the story from Jim's point of view — "I didn't see why we couldn't just carry on without the treasure. It was an adventure anyway."
But alas, no reconstruction is perfect: in perhaps the funniest joke in the movie, Silver, disappointed that the action has fallen so far from the book, echoes the sentiments of any reader who has ever been outraged by a movie straying from its source: he fires a machine gun into the air while shouting "It was not written! It was not written!"
Ruiz interviewed by D. Ehrenstein:
When I reread Treasure Island recently I discovered that the structure was stronger than the material. The way Stevenson tells the story is so remarkable that it could be about anything – pirates, kidnappers, whatever. We are surrounded by stories that are like houses we can enter. We play amidst these stories, sometimes being involved in two or three of them at once. In one you're the hero, in another you're a secondary character. These scripts are the society in which we live – if you want to be a sociologist. It's a notion I feel more and more. This has been expressed in many ways – by Stevenson, by Orson Welles, Borges, and many others – this notion that certain stories have the structure of dreams. For those stories it's as if the cinema had already been invented.
A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino)
June 13, 2016 by Brandon·Comments Off on A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino)
Rock goddess Tilda Swinton is relaxing at a Mediterranean island paradise with boyfriend photographer Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone) when her ex, music producer Ralph Fiennes (an overpowering, charismatic performance) shows up with his newly-discovered daughter Dakota Johnson (Black Mass). Sexual and other tensions get extremely high, and the movie, which has an otherwise excellent soundtrack, tries in vain to get me to appreciate the Rolling Stones song "Emotional Rescue."
I was disappointed when the story twists into murder-investigation territory after Matthias drowns a belligerent drunk Ralph in the pool, but this ends up justified. After initial interviews the chief investigator reveals himself to be a trembling Tilda superfan, gets her autograph and lets them all go. Tilda had previously, not at all convincingly, suggested to him that one of the immigrants flooding onto the island (many dying at sea) could have snuck onto the property, drowned Ralph, stolen nothing and run off. We didn't realize that Tilda or her friends, in their wealthy bubble, even noticed the immigration crisis in the background noise around them – until it becomes useful to get themselves out of trouble.
Based on a story previously filmed by Jacques Deray with Alain Delon, and by Francois Ozon with Charlotte Rampling. Played in Venice with Anomalisa, Francofonia, Blood of My Blood and 11 Minutes. I finally warmed up to "Emotional Rescue" during the St. Vincent cover over the closing credits.
D. Ehrlich:
There are few better metaphors for the myopia of hedonism than a swimming pool on an island paradise surrounded by the sea … In lesser hands, this could've been a Woody Allen movie, but Guadagnino — always with his chef's hat on — takes the ingredients for a sunbaked creampuff and slowly stirs them into a three-course meal. Working with regular cinematographer Yorick Le Saux, Guadagnino shoots in a sensual register where every shot feels just a hair too perfect to exist anywhere outside the movies. Snap zooms playfully focus on emotions that burst like firecrackers, rhythmic cuts throw you back on style whenever things risk becoming too realistic, and Marianne's aviator shades reflect every character against their true intentions. Best of all, the soundtrack is wild and true, running the gamut from Harry Nilsson to Popol Vuh.
Life of Pi (2012, Ang Lee)
December 29, 2012 by Brandon·Comments Off on Life of Pi (2012, Ang Lee)
Irrfan Khan is Pi, having a quiet day at home when an annoyingly Richard Dreyfuss-looking writer (Rafe Spall, one of the Andys in Hot Fuzz) shows up demanding to be told a story. So Pi starts at the beginning – he is named after a French swimming pool and lives with brother and parents (Tabu, who played Khan's wife in The Namesake, is his mom) at a zoo, and is interested in religion.
One day the family packs up their zoo and heads off in a ship, which sinks in stormy waters, presumably killing Pi's whole family. He finds himself on a lifeboat with an injured zebra, an orangutan, a rat, a hyena and a bengal tiger named Richard Parker, but the animals soon eat each other until it's just Pi and the tiger. He fashions a raft so he can sleep without getting killed, but loses all his food and water due to a leaping whale. Formerly vegetarian, Pi learns to catch and eat fish. Boy and tiger stop on a "carnivorous island," then get the hell out of there after loading up on edible roots. Finally, land and rescue, though Pi is sad that he never managed to connect with the tiger.
Rafe Spall thinks the whole thing is pretty far-fetched, so Pi gives another version of the story (told, not shown), where the lifeboat survivors were people, including Pi's mother and a sadistic cook from the boat (Gerard Depardieu), then asks Rafe which story he prefers. The center of the film is just perfect – more colorful and awe-inspiring than a shipwreck story has any right to be.
G. Kenny:
But the frame story, in which an older Pi, a happily settled vegetarian living in Canada, tells his tale to a white male writer who in the credits is called "The Writer" is both a little cloying and forced and smacks a bit of, dare I say it, colonialist thought. I know that it's a faithful adaptation from the book, and I know the book's author is a white male writer, but I personally am just a wee bit tired of the convention in which a representative of The Other relates a tale of profundity to a white dude. Changing it up a little can't hurt. Hell, a white woman would be less boring. I understand that second-guessing the artist is poor critical practice. But that fact remains that this convention, which was always pretty patronizing to begin with, has ossified into cliché, and the movie suffers for it.


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Lens | Stranded on a Not-So-Strange Land
Credit Jiri Makovec
Stranded on a Not-So-Strange Land
By Corey Kilgannon Apr. 28, 2012 Apr. 28, 2012
For five years, Jiri Makovec, 35, a Czech photographer, stranded himself on an island.
"For me, New York City is like an island apart from the rest of the U.S.," he said. "Anytime I've been somewhere else in this country, I felt it was very different from New York."
He never left the city from 2004 to 2009. He supported himself by cleaning and painting and taking on other jobs while biking New York with his Hasselblad and plenty of film. Mr. Makovec combined 58 of his favorite shots into a collection, "From the Island." The pictures have a surreal character, as if conceived as a strange art project and then painstakingly posed and lighted.
Actually, all were captured as is.
Unlike a typical journalist, Mr. Makovec often stayed at a distance from his subject. His shot of a cab engulfed in flames on an empty street near the Plaza Hotel could have been your basic spot news shot. But the wide angle, with sidewalk sculptures in the foreground, makes the burning cab off in the distance seem almost incidental. A cab is burning — does the city care? Mr. Makovec was not trying to get to the bottom of what was happening on a literal level. At a crime scene strangely canopied by cherry trees in full bloom, he never even got off his bicycle — as in most of these pictures.
"When I saw something interesting and striking, I snapped it," he said. "If you start to ask questions first, the picture is ruined."
He has a point. That man kneeling on the sidewalk, wearing red clothes and makeup: Does it enhance the viewing to know he was an artist conducting a tea ceremony on Rivington Street, or does it deflate it?
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Correction: May 3, 2012
A caption in an earlier version of this slide show mislabeled the location in Slide 6. The photo was taken in Manhattan, not in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
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KILMARNOCK forward Dean Shiels has been urged to take his club form on to the international stage after joining Michael O'Neill's first Northern Ireland squad.
Shiels, who has only totted up nine caps since making his debut in 2005, goes into tomorrow's friendly against Norway in Belfast on the back of some impressive displays at Rugby Park this season.
And new Northern Ireland boss O'Neill is keen for the 27-year-old to shine for his country.
He said: "Dean has had an impressive season and there's never been any question in my mind about what he's capable of.