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Exchanging Italy's Longest Conveyer Belt
February 6, 2016 by May Conveyor Admin 0 Comments
For plant operators, exchanging a conveyor belt often means long downtimes and halting production as well as financial losses. But the Italian cement producer Buzzi Unicem Spa allowed just 17 days to change a steel cord belt in one of its conveyor systems. Thanks to their detailed action plan, the service team from the ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group was able to meet the deadline – and even finished ahead of schedule.
Buzzi Unicem Spa is the largest cement producer in Italy and operates a number of facilities across the country. For the past 100 years, one of these has been located in the community of Robilante, about 100 km southwest of Turin, not far from the border with France. In 1974, a tunnel about 5.8 km long was built straight through the mountain to transport limestone from the quarry to the cement plant for further processing. Inside the tunnel is a conveyor belt system that transports the raw material at speeds of up to 4 m/s. Able to convey about 1200 t in 24 minutes, the belt is 11.6 km long – the longest in the whole of Italy.
Since the system was built, the belt has been exchanged twice, so when it came to the next replacement, Buzzi Unicem Spa was especially keen to ensure the new belt would be durable. The contract for the new belt was awarded to the ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group, with the ContiTech steel cord ST1250 as the solution of choice. Measuring 850 mm across, this belt incorporates cover plates that are 5 mm thick on the carrying side and 4 mm on the running side. The ST1250 is especially well suited for transporting broken limestone over long distances of several kilometres. On request, steel cord conveyor belts by ContiTech can also be fitted with energy-efficient cover plates (EOB), which reduce the system's energy consumption by 20 – 25%
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Storm Ophelia Unearths Ancient Skeleton With Skin Still Attached After Waves Batter Irish Coast
Storm Ophelia has unearthed an ancient skeleton with parts of its skin still intact after waves battered a walkway on the west coast of Ireland.
The remains, which could be more than 1,000 years old, were discovered by a walker on a beach near Kilmore Quay, County Wexford.
Jim Moore, a local councillor, told the Irish Daily Mirror: "People out walking discovered the remains on Tuesday afternoon. The area has been sealed off since then.
"It appears to be a grave, so in other words it is not a body that was washed ashore."
Marie Cassidy, Ireland's state pathologist, arrived on Wednesday to carry out an examination, where it was established the remains were likely from the Iron Age, which ended in the country around 1,600 years ago.
The suspicion that it is part of an historic burial site raises the possibility of there being more, especially after the discovery at Forlorn Point comes just two years after a similar skeleton was found a short distance away at Ballyteigue Bay.
It will now be taken to the National Museum in Dublin for testing to try and determine its exact age.
A spokesperson for the Garda, the Irish police force, said: "At approximately 4.45pm on Tuesday people out walking at Forlorn Point, Kilmore Quay discovered skeletal remains.
"Gardai were called and the services of the State Pathologists Office and a Forensic anthropologist were sought.
"It was established that the remains were historical maybe from the iron age. The National Museum will take custody of the remains."
At least three people have died during the Storm Ophelia, including one woman whose car was hit by a falling tree.
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Welcome to the nutritional thiamine content in 2 different types of pomegranate, ranging from 0.067 mg to 0.015 mg per 100g. The basic type of pomegranate is Pomegranates, raw, where the amount of thiamine in 100g is 0.067 mg.
0.067 mg of thiamine per 100g, from Pomegranates, raw corresponds to % of the thiamine RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 pomegranate (4 dia) (or 282 g) the amount of Thiamine is 0.19 mg. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of %.
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Pomegranates, raw should be considered along with the thiamine content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Fruits and Fruit Juices.Other important and thiamine related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 83 kcal (4% RDA), the amount of Protein is 1.67 g (3% RDA), the amount of Fat is 1.17 g (2% RDA) and the amount of Carbohydrate is 18.7 g (14% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the thiamine levels in pomegranate.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Pomegranates, raw has a nutritional value score of 16 out of 100.
100 calories of pomegranates, raw is a serving size of 1.2 g, and the amount of Thiamine is 0.08 mg. Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 2.01 g (3.61% RDA), Fat 1.41 g (2.41% RDA), Carbohydrate 22.53 g (16.87% RDA). This is shown in the thiamine RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
For the food Pomegranates, raw the typical serving size is 1 pomegranate (4 dia) (or 282 g) which contains 0.19 mg of Thiamine. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 234.06 kcal, the Protein content is 4.71 g, the Fat content is 3.3 g and the Carbohydrate content is 52.73 g. The percentages are shown below in the thiamine chart, for the typical serving of thiamine and the related and important nutritional values.
This list of 2 types of pomegranate, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Pomegranates, raw through to Pomegranate juice, bottled where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional thiamine content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much thiamine in pomegranate.
The list below gives the total thiamine content in the 2 items from the general description 'pomegranate' each of which show the thiamine amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate.
The corresponding Calories for pomegranate ranked by the amount of thiamine per 100g is shown below in the pomegranate calories chart.
The level of thiamine can be affected by the method of storage for example canned or frozen and also by the method of preparation for example either raw, cooked or fried. The total food items which are raw is 1 item. The highest amount of thiamine from the 1 raw items is in Pomegranates, raw where the content is 0.067 mg per 100g.
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of thiamine contained in 100g of pomegranate, based on the list below of 2 different items under the general description of pomegranate, is 0.04 mg of thiamine. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 68.50 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 0.91 g, the average amount of Fat is 0.73 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g. For this serving the amount of Calories is 83 kcal, the amount of Protein is 1.67 g, the amount of Fat is 1.17 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 18.7 g.
Using the list below for the 2 different pomegranate nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of thiamine is found in Pomegranates, raw which contains 0.067 mg of thiamine per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 83 kcal, the Protein content is 1.67 g, the Fat content is 1.17 g, the Carbohydrate content is 18.7 g.
The lowest amount of thiamine in 100g is in Pomegranate juice, bottled which contains 0.015 mg. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 54 kcal, the amount of Protein is 0.15 g, the amount of Fat is 0.29 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 13.13 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a thiamine range of 0.052 mg per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 29 kcal for Calories, 1.52 g for Protein, 0.88 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high thiamine foods in your diet. For example 100g of Pomegranates, raw contains 0.067 mg of thiamine. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the thiamine nutritional content.
The food with the highest thiamine content per typical serving is Pomegranates, raw which contains 0.19 mg in 1 pomegranate (4 dia) (or 282 g). For this serving the Calories content is 234.06 kcal, the Protein content is 4.71 g, the Fat content is 3.3 g and the Carbohydrate content is 52.73 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing thiamine which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of thiamine rich foods.


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Palau president endorses Taiwan's bid for UN membership
Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen meet in Taipei on MArch 28, 2021 to discuss the travel bubble between the two nations. Photo courtesy of the Office of Palau President
By Mar-Vic Cagurangan
Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. has endorsed Taiwan's membership in the United Nations amid China's persistent campaign to block its renegade province's acceptance into the intergovernmental body.
"We encourage the UN system to accept Taiwan as a valuable contributor to our collective efforts and strongly advocate for Taiwan's participation in the UN system," Whipps said at the UN General Assembly's 76th Session.
Palau is among the 15 UN member-states that have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
In his remarks, Whipps highlighted Taiwan's contribution to the global response against Covid-19.
"Not only have they demonstrated consistent and effective management of the pandemic within their borders, but their leadership has also extended to Palau," Whipps said. "Taiwan's international response facilitated cooperation and implementation of an effective sterile travel corridor between Taiwan and Palau."
The travel bubble between Palau and Taiwan, which was forged during Whipps' visit to Taipei in March, went into effect last month.
"This sterile corridor has allowed Taiwan and Palau to resume medical and educational cooperation, and recoup economic engagement and other benefits of international travel," Whipps said.
Palau's diplomatic relations with Taiwan prompted China to ban state-run package tours from visiting the Pacific nation in 2017.
China was previously Palau's main source market. The travel ban, which resulted in a dramatic decline in Palau tourism, was viewed as Beijing's attempt to pressure the Pacific nation into ditching Taiwan and embracing a one-China policy.
Whipps has been open about his mistrust of China, vowing not to succumb to the communist nation's bullying.
In 1971, a UN resolution excluded Taiwan under the premise that China is "the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations."
Taiwan was a founding member of the UN in 1949 until it was replaced by China in 1971.
In 2007, the UN rejected Taiwan's bid to join the UN, maintaining that "Taiwan is part of China."
In this year's campaign for UN participation, Taiwan is seeking its allies' support in conveying to the international community the Taiwanese' aspiration to take part in the UN system, and "to show that Taiwan is ready, willing, and able to work jointly with the rest of the world and contribute to UN efforts toward recovery at this critical time," according to a statement from Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).
The Taiwanese government has asked diplomatic allies to speak up for Taiwan at the General Debate and to write to UN Secretary-General António Guterres urging him to uphold the principles set forth in the UN Charter and to address the issue of the long-term exclusion of Taiwan's 23.5 million people from the UN system. Taiwan is calling on the UN to 1) immediately address the "unjustified exclusion" of Taiwan's 23.5 million people from the UN system; 2) immediately rectify its discriminatory policy against Taiwanese passport holders; and 3) ensure that Taiwan is afforded the right to participate in an equal and dignified manner in meetings, mechanisms, and activities related to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and thus make greater contributions. "Gaining participation in the United Nations is a long-term undertaking. Despite formidable challenges, international support for Taiwan's bid has continued to gain momentum thanks to the combined efforts of the government and civil society over many years," MOFA said.
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Restrictions to Be Eased for Restaurants, Catered Events
Pandemic-related restrictions on restaurants, gyms, offices, casinos, and catered events, will be relaxed the coming weeks in New York, a direct result of improving Covid rates in the state, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday.
On Call: The Risks vs. the Benefits
Last week, the news broke that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Drug Administration here in the United States had called for a pause in administration of the single-dose Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine following reports of blood clots after administration of this vaccine.
Some Good News as Covid-19 Rates Dip Statewide
Covid-19 infection rates and hospitalizations statewide have returned to pre-holiday season levels, which means further steps toward reopening can take place.
Volunteers Needed for Saturday Vaccination Clinic in East Hampton
East Hampton Town is seeking additional volunteers to help staff a first-dose vaccination clinic on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at its Center for Humanities on Stephen Hand's Path. Those interested have been asked to call Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc's office on Friday.
The Epidemic Before the Pandemic
Before there was the Covid-19 pandemic, there was the drug epidemic — a health and social battle that was ongoing when the virus arrived — and experts say that Covid-19 has worsened the problem of substance abuse.
A Push to Help Older People Find Vaccines
For elderly residents still in need of a Covid-19 vaccination, including the homebound and those lacking the computer skills needed to schedule an appointment, East Hampton Town is offering help through the Human Services Department, and other organizations are also looking to help.
On Call: Rainy Days and Tornadoes
A desire to know something for certain is particularly evident in medicine. However, there is always that small opportunity for rainy days and tornadoes, in medicine as in everything else. Nothing is absolute.
State Expands Capacity for School Graduations
This year, high school seniors can expect graduation ceremonies that inch closer to the traditional norms of past years, thanks to new guidelines announced by New York's governor on Monday which expand capacity over 2020's limitations.
There's Good News for Single Moms
Single moms, who are among those hit hard by the pandemic, have a lot on their plates. To help them out, the organization There's Some Good News is donating wholesome meals from Honest Plate and providing individualized support to mothers under stress.
On Call: The Benefits of Gratitude
Several medical studies have shown the power of gratitude. I am grateful for every single nurse, certified nursing assistant, technician, sanitary worker, cafeteria worker, and staff member in the hospitals where I work who did not give an inch in this fight, who offered me weary smiles and kind words after long shifts.
In East Hampton Village, Outdoor Dining May Be Here to Stay
A proposal that would allow outdoor dining to become a post-pandemic fixture in East Hampton Village's commercial district and at its historic inns was introduced at a village board meeting on Thursday and will be the subject of a public hearing on Friday, April 16.
Staples Will Laminate Your Vaccination Cards for Free
For people who have been fully vaccinated for Covid-19, Staples is currently offering free lamination of vaccine identification cards.


Twelve years after Nitish Katara was abducted and murdered, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of all the three accused persons in the case, and termed it an "honour killing" stemming from a deeply entrenched belief in the caste system.
The high court ruled that Katara had been murdered by Vikas Yadav, son of controversial UP politician D.P. Yadav; Vikas' cousin Vishal Yadav; and a third accomplice, Sukhdev Pehelwan.
On May 30, 2008, a Delhi fast-track court had held all the three guilty of the murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment. They had subsequently appealed against their conviction before the high court, which reserved its order on the same in April 2013.
Nitish Katara (left) was abducted by Vikas Yadav, his cousin and another accomplice from a wedding in Ghaziabad on Feb 16, 2002, and murdered for his relationship with Vikas' sister Bharti Yadav (right).
On Wednesday, pronouncing the verdict in a packed courtroom, a division bench comprising Justice Gita Mittal and Justice J.R. Midha dismissed the appeals of the convicts and held that the trial court Judge had "ably and efficiently discharged its statutory duty of completion of the trial" and that it found "no infirmity in the impugned judgments" by the trial court.
The high court held that Katara and his friend Bharti Yadav, the daughter of D.P. Yadav, were in a romantic relationship and that they had planned to get married. The relationship, however, was not acceptable to Bharti's brother, Vikas, because Katara belonged to a different caste and class. Hence, he got together with Vishal and Pehelwan and the trio killed Katara.
In its 1200 page verdict, the court said the chain of circumstances proved the role of convicts beyond any doubt.
"The broad features of the case established by the prosecution, the testimony of witnesses, the documentary evidence proved on record, the convincing array of facts …unerringly converge to only one conclusion that may be reasonably drawn, namely that the appellants are guilty.
"It therefore has to be held that the appellants shared a common intention to abduct the deceased Nitish Katara and commit his murder as well as to set aflame his body to cause disappearance of the evidence in order to screen themselves of the legal punishment of the said offences attached to the heinous crimes," the bench held.
The court junked the convicts' plea that the probe in the case was tainted and that they had been implicated. It also dismissed the convicts' argument that their confession was coerced by the investigators.
"The appellants had conducted themselves with an ingrained belief that they are above law and no matter what they do, nothing can touch them. This conduct also explains the reason why the appellants have actually made the disclosure statements attributed to them, as they have no respect at all for the law.
"One glaring fact must be noted is that this certainly is not a conduct of innocent persons who have been falsely implicated for commission of heinous crimes but that of persons who after committing the crimes, systematically set about destroying evidence and misleading the investigating officers as well as creating false defence pleas to defeat their prosecution," the court said.
Bharti Yadav, key witness and sister of Vikas Yadav, took over three years to depose before the fast track court. While she was directed to appear in 2003, she finally deposed in 2006. Her family had sent her to England and refused to divulge her address.
While she had earlier admitted to a love affair with Katara, in court she denied it while the prosecution indicated that she had turned hostile.
Delhi HC refused to differ with the findings of the trial court, which discarded her testimony that she was not in love with the victim. The High Court said her testimony, five years after the crime, in the trial court was under pressure.


What interests me currently is developing a way to construct art that evokes a visceral reaction, by representing the feeling I get from a particular subject. Currently, the body of work I am creating is focused on Painted Text Weavings, a technique I first devised in 2014 for my mural in Georgetown, Seattle. Along with numerous other expressions via bright graphic depictions of the U.S. flag, these works are frankly the most honest work I have done around my feelings of the current state of devolving politics and our culture while still utilizing techniques that draw me to the studio.
The Painted Text Weavings are layers of cursive text, brush painted in carefully selected colors to create not a legible text, but an abstract. I am inspired by Mark Tobey in particular and strive to take his efforts further with use of text as a way to generate a right-brain reaction to a left-brain concepts, and often use poetry, feminist tracts, and my own creative writing. One of my recent works contains the U.S. Constitution, the text hand-brushed in its entirety on a 24-ft. work (6 four-foot panels hung contiguously). For several of the most important Amendments, I chose to use encaustic (beeswax) & mixed media. The name I have given for my technique reflects the origins of and fuller meaning of the word "text." "Text" comes from the Latin verb "texere," which means to create 1) a body of written word, and 2) a textile weaving. I am intrigued by the idea of melding the two concepts together to make one original thing of them, meant to address both parts of us that respond to each of them.


MORONG, Bataan — The provincial office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Thursday reported the rescue of a wounded dolphin near the shore of a beach resort here.
Mila Ramirez, wildlife officer, said the adult dolphin is of the Risso's species, male and more than six feet long.
She said the dolphin suffered wounds in the tail that was apparently caused by a fishing hook and also in the body which were initially seen as shark bites.
"It was taken to the Ocean Adventure in the Subic Bay Freeport for treatment," she said.
The wounded dolphin was seen by guests of Playa La Caleta in Morong town, this province.
Ramirez said a lifeguard tried to bring it back to the sea but the mammal returned to the shore, seemingly tired.


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The 2008 German Figure Skating Championships () took place on January 3–6, 2008 at the Freiberger Arena in Dresden. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating on the senior, junior, and novice levels.

The first senior compulsory dance was the Yankee Polka and the second was the Argentine Tango. The first junior compulsory dance was the Cha-Cha Congelado and the second was the Blues.

Medalists

Senior results

Men

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Pairs

Ice dancing

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Men

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Ice dancing

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 2008 German Championships: Senior, junior, novice pairs, novice ice dancing, and novice synchronized results
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Lauri Elias Markkanen (Vantaa, ) es un baloncestista finlandés que pertenece a la plantilla de los Utah Jazz de la NBA. Con 2,11 metros de estatura, juega en la posición de pívot, aunque también puede hacerlo como ala-pívot.

Trayectoria deportiva

Universidad
Lauri Markkanen es un jugador que prefiere basar su juego en las lejanías del aro, moviéndose con la facilidad de un base, y armando el tiro con la rapidez de un alero, lo ubicamos en la posición de un 4, rápido y coordinado para su altura. Después de pasar por la liga nacional de su país, la segunda división finlandesa, causó gran impresión con su selección en verano de 2016 en el campeonato europeo Sub-20, donde con una media de 24,9 puntos fue nombrado como máximo anotador del torneo, a los que pudo sumar 8,6 rebotes por partido, unos créditos que le permitieron formar parte del mejor quinteto del torneo europeo.

Markkanen llegaba como novato a Tucson para jugar para los Wildcats de Arizona entrenados por Sean Miller, uno de los grandes favoritos a estar presente en la Final Four de Phoenix. El finés llegaba probablemente para ser reserva y un jugador secundario en su año de debut, pero llegaron los problemas para Arizona y gracias a la aportación del finés llegaron a conseguir hasta 15 victorias consecutivas.

En marzo de 2017, es inscrito para el Draft de la NBA, donde al jugador finlandés muchos ya le comparaban con Dirk Nowitzki.

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Profesional

En el Draft de la NBA de 2017, fue elegido en la posición número 7 por los Minnesota Timberwolves, y fue enviado a los Chicago Bulls la noche del draft junto con Zach LaVine y Kris Dunn a cambio de Jimmy Butler y Justin Patton.

Durante su segunda temporada con los Bulls, el 29 de enero de 2019 ante Brooklyn Nets captura 19 rebotes, y el 23 de febrero ante Boston Celtics anota 35 puntos, ambos máximos de su carrera.

Tras cuatro temporadas en Chicago, el 27 de agosto de 2021 es traspasado a Cleveland Cavaliers en un acuerdo a tres bandas, en el que los Chicago Bulls obtienen a Derrick Jones Jr., una futura primera ronda del Draft de los Blazers y una futura segunda ronda del Draft de los Cavaliers, y los Portland Trail Blazers consiguen a Larry Nance Jr. El 21 de enero de 2022, sufrió un fuerte esguince en el tobillo derecho durante la primera mitad del partido ante Oklahoma City Thunder, que le mantendría fuera de las pistas varis semanas.

Tras una temporada en Cleveland, el 1 de septiembre de 2022 es traspasado a Utah Jazz, junto a Collin Sexton y Ochai Agbaji a cambio de Donovan Mitchell. El 5 de enero de 2023, logró su récord personal con 49 puntos, a los que añadió ocho rebotes, en la victoria por 131-114 contra los Houston Rockets. El 2 de febrero se anunció su participación en el All-Star Game de Salt Lake City, siendo la primera nominación de su carrera. El 23 de febrero anota 43 puntos y captura 10 rebotes ante Oklahoma City Thunder.

Selección nacional
En el año 2017 representó a su país en el EuroBasket 2017 cuya sede final fue Turquía.

En septiembre de 2022 disputó con el combinado absoluto finlandés el EuroBasket 2022, finalizando en octava posición. Además, durante el torneo, anotó 43 puntos el 11 de septiembre ante Croacia.

Estadísticas de su carrera en la NBA

Temporada regular

Vida personal
Es hijo de los también baloncestistas Pekka y Riikka Markkanen (née Ellonen), y tiene dos hermanos, Miikka que juega al baloncesto y Eero que juega al fútbol.

En febrero de 2018, Lauri y su esposa Verna Aho, tuvieron a su primer hijo. En octubre de 2020, nacería el segundo.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Ficha en Arizona Wildcats

Ficha en realgm.com

Nacidos en Vantaa
Baloncestistas de Finlandia
Baloncestistas de la NBA
Baloncestistas finlandeses en la NBA
Baloncestistas de la selección de Finlandia
Baloncestistas de los Arizona Wildcats
Baloncestistas de los Chicago Bulls
Baloncestistas de los Cleveland Cavaliers
Baloncestistas de los Utah Jazz


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Humberto de la Cruz Núñez Cubillas (Asunción, Paraguay, 3 de mayo de 1945 - Dehesa de Campoamor, Orihuela, provincia de Alicante, España, 23 de julio de 2004) fue un futbolista y  técnico hispano-paraguayo. Jugó de guardameta, casi toda su trayectoria en el Hércules CF, donde fue un jugador de referencia y técnico de la casa. Falleció mientras dormía en la habitación del hotel de concentración donde el Hércules se hospedaba en la pretemporada de 2004.

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Humberto, conocido como El Nene, recaló en el club alicantino en 1969 recomendado por Ricardo González y Genaro Grande, futbolistas paraguayos que militaron en el Elche CF. Antes de llegar a España, Nuñez jugó en los equipos de Club River Plate, Olimpia de Asunción y Sol de América.

Defendió la meta herculana durante diez años, uno de ellos cedido al CD Málaga y vivió los ascensos de Tercera a Segunda (temporada 1969/70) y de Segunda a Primera División (temporada 1973-74), este último con Arsenio Iglesias como entrenador. Debutó en Primera División, en un Athletic-Hércules (2-2) el 6 de octubre de 1974.

Tras su retirada como futbolista, emprendió diferentes labores como técnico del Hércules CF. Realizó tareas en las categorías inferiores, secretaría técnica, segundo entrenador del primer equipo, y se dedicó principalmente a los entrenamientos de los porteros del primer equipo. En varias ocasiones fue entrenador del primer equipo de manera interina.

Interino en el banquillo del Hércules
Humberto, realizó a la perfección las labores de "técnico de la casa". Tras la destitución de un entrenador, ahí estaba Humberto para llevar las riendas del equipo durante uno o varios partidos hasta que llegaba un nuevo técnico.

 En la temporada 1994/95, con el equipo en Segunda División, sustituyó a Felipe Mesones, de quien era ayudante, en espera de que Manolo Jiménez se hiciera cargo definitivamente de la plantilla. Dirigió al equipo en las jornadas 16 (victoria ante al Athletic B por 1-0) y 17.
 Humberto con la ayuda de Charles, dirigió interinamente al Hércules del destituido Ivan Brzić en el partido Hércules-Zaragoza (1-1) disputado el 10 de noviembre de 1996. Brzić fue despedido el 7 de noviembre, después de que el equipo alicantino cayera derrotado (1-0) ante el Levante un día antes en partido de ida de la segunda ronda de la Copa del Rey. En ese momento, el Hércules ocupaba la última posición en la clasificación de Primera, con solo una victoria y un empate en once jornadas.
 Dirigió al Hércules en la jornada 9 de la temporada 1997/98 tras la destitución de Quique Hernández. En la jornada siguiente David Vidal se hizo cargo del equipo.
 En la temporada 1998/99 sustituyó a Sergio Egea tras la octava jornada. En el partido que estuvo al frente del Hércules CF el conjunto alicantino perdió por 1-0.

Fallecimiento
Humberto falleció el 23 de julio de 2004. Sufrió un infarto mientras dormía la siesta en su habitación, de un hotel situado en Dehesa de Campoamor (Orihuela), donde el Hércules realizaba la pretemporada.

Selección nacional
Fue internacional absoluto con la Selección de fútbol de Paraguay. Disputó el Campeonato Sudamericano 1967, donde jugó 4 encuentros del torneo.

Clubes

Como jugador

Reconocimientos
 Existe una peña de aficionados del Hércules CF con el nombre El Nene, en honor al exfutbolista.
 El futbolista Rubén Martínez, guardameta del Hércules en la temporada 2004/05, fue uno de los más afectados tras la muerte de Humberto. Tras el partido que jugó el Hércules contra el Alcalá, en el que el club herculano consiguió el ascenso a Segunda, Rubén abandonó el Estadio José Rico Pérez de rodillas, tal y como hizo años atrás humberto en el Estadio El Sadar tras conseguir el ascenso el Hércules.
 Desde 2006 se disputa el Trofeo Humberto Núñez, un trofeo de fútbol de veteranos, organizado por la Asociación Herculanos.

Referencias

Futbolistas de Asunción
Futbolistas nacionalizados en España
Futbolistas de la selección de fútbol de Paraguay en los años 1960
Futbolistas del Club River Plate

Futbolistas del Club Sol de América (Asunción)
Futbolistas del Club Olimpia
Futbolistas del Hércules Club de Fútbol en los años 1960
Futbolistas del Hércules Club de Fútbol en los años 1970
Futbolistas del Club Deportivo Málaga
Entrenadores del Hércules Club de Fútbol
Fallecidos por infarto agudo de miocardio
Guardametas de fútbol


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Oliver Stone : Top Five Films
September 14, 2015 / michael mccaffrey
Today, September 15, 2015 is director Oliver Stone's 69th birthday. The ever opinionated, and often controversial Stone has been both lauded and loathed, celebrated and denigrated during his thirty plus year career as a writer and director. After nearly two decades of artistic and box-office mis-steps, it is easy to forget that at one point in time, from 1986 to 1995, Oliver Stone was arguably the most powerful force creatively, politically and financially in both Hollywood and the culture. It is also easy to forget that Oliver Stone is one of the most important filmmakers in the history of American cinema.
To celebrate Oliver Stone's birthday, let's take a look at his meteoric, tumultuous and often-times brilliant career. Here are what I consider his top five films of all time.
OLIVER STONE'S TOP 5 FILMS
. THE DOORS (1991)
Oliver Stone, like many of his fellow baby boomers, excavated some of his most glorious inspirational treasures by going back to his formative years in the turbulent 1960's. In 1991 Stone went back to his, and my, favorite rock band, The Doors, and their iconic lead singer Jim Morrison.
Years ago I watched the dvd extras for The Doors which had a series of interviews with Stone and the actors talking about the process of making the film. It was pretty standard dvd-extra fare, until the very end of an interview with Stone. In it he talks about what Jim Morrison meant to him, both as a young man and as an artist, and Stone speaks eloquently about what Morrison represented, what he symbolized, and then he says, rather poignantly, with his voice breaking, "I miss him". It was a strangely moving, oddly touching and intimate glimpse into Stone, who is often portrayed in the media as a hyper-masculine, misogynistic boor. What that interview reveals is that The Doors was not just a bio-pic of Morrison, but also a deeply personal film for Oliver Stone and his artistic soul. That is what makes it both very good to some people (Me and John Densmore) and very bad to others (Ray Manzarek and Robby Kreiger).
The Doors is a remarkably hypnotic film with Val Kilmer's magnetic performance as its center. The concert scenes are among the most vibrant and realistic ever captured on film. While the film is less a bio-pic of the band and Morrison than it is an exercise in cultural myth making and personal/psychological exploration, it still has a seductive and fascinating dark energy to it…not unlike its main character and its director.
4. NIXON (1995)
In 1995 Oliver Stone once again went back to the 1960's well and made a sprawling and peculiarly sentimental bio-pic about disgraced former president Richard Nixon. Shakespearean in its scope and execution, Nixon is a testament to Stone's skill as both writer and director. As a writer Stone is able to coherently and dramatically weave countless historical events amid intimate personal motivations all the while spanning multiple decades. As director, Stone coaxes a uniquely powerful and fantastically courageous performance from Anthony Hopkins in the lead, and Joan Allen as Pat Nixon. The supporting cast is terrific across the board, with James Woods and Paul Sorvino doing especially great work.
Nixon is a staggeringly ambitious film that only Oliver Stone would have made, could have made, or should have made. Nixon may be the last great film Oliver Stone ever makes, but even if it is, it is a worthy testament to his artistry and skill.
3. PLATOON (1986)/ BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989)
When Platoon came out in 1986, I went and saw it and like most everyone else, I was blown away by it. The four time Oscar winning film, including Best Picture and Best Director, was an original and unique perspective on the daily grind of the regular soldier toiling away in the morass of the Vietnam war. Ten years later I caught the film again when it was on tv somewhere and was terribly underwhelmed by it, the film simply did not hold up to the test of time at all. The main problem was that visually, the film looked flat and washed out. I came away thinking the film was, like another Stone film from that period, Wall Street, a superb script, but unlike his early 90's films , JFK, The Doors, Nixon and Natural Born Killers, a rather cinematically sluggish film. I was more than happy to share my self declared brilliance with anyone who would be foolish enough to listen to my insufferable ravings on the visual failings of Platoon versus Father Time. Now of course, I am unable to rave too loudly as my throat is stuffed with crow. Why the change of heart you ask? Well, I recently saw a restored version of the film, and boy oh boy, it looks really magnificent. Stone's longtime cinematographer, the brilliant Robert Richardson, creates a subtly vibrant and layered look to the film that shows an incredibly deft and masterful hand on his part.
The film also boasts powerful performances from a wide array of actors, including Charlie Sheen, of all people, in the lead. Stone is such a great director that he makes Charlie Sheen seem like he could be the next big thing in acting. Sheen would have been wise to keep his wagon hitched to the Oliver Stone band wagon rather than venturer off into the land of Young Guns, ahhh…what could have been. Willem Dafoe and Tom Beringer also give standout performances as the ying and yang of the American psyche in regards to the Vietnam conflict and the conflict over Vietnam.
The one thing that does hurt Platoon in retrospect is that it is compared to other films of the same Vietnam War genre. In 1987, one year after Platoon came out, Stanley Kubrick's vastly superior Full Metal Jacket hit theaters. Oliver Stone joins a long list of other great directors, in fact, every other director, who has failed in comparison to the singular genius of Stanley Kubrick. Platoon is, without a doubt, a truly great film, probably the third greatest Vietnam War film ever made, behind Full Metal Jacket and Francis Ford Coppola's iconic masterpiece Apocalypse Now.
In keeping with the Vietnam War genre, Stone's second foray into that most personal of wars (he was a Veteran of the war and Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient), was 1989's Born on the Fourth of July. The film is the story of Ron Kovics, a Long Island born and raised, flag waving patriotic son of America, who enthusiastically enlists in the Marine Corps to go fight in Vietnam.
Born on the Fourth of July won Stone his second Best Director Oscar, and for good reason. The film is a remarkable piece of work for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that it is easily the best performance of Tom Cruise's long career. As good as Cruise is in the film, and he is in nearly every scene, it is an indication of Oliver Stone's power as an artist that you never feel like you are watching a Tom Cruise picture, but rather an Oliver Stone picture.
Like many of Stone's films, Born on the Fourth of July covers a staggeringly vast amount of history, and it is also able to personalize that historical struggle by poignantly showing the gut wrenchingly emotional struggle of its main character Kovics.
The film is really a love story, with the love being between a man and his country. The man, Kovics, discovers that his lifelong love, America, has betrayed him by not living up to it's values, the war in Vietnam. This is wonderfully portrayed in a secondary narrative of unrequited love between Cruise's Kovics and his high school sweetheart played by the luminous Kyra Sedgwick. The film is at once heartbreaking and invigorating, and only Oliver Stone, with his deeply intimate relationship with Vietnam and America could have made the it.
2. NATURAL BORN KILLERS
Yes, I know, Natural Born Killers at number two? Many people, maybe even most people, would more consider Natural Born Killers AS a number two rather than AT number two. I realize I am in the minority, but I don't mind. I think Stone's frantic, ultra-violent assault on the media and the culture is a genuine and daring masterpiece prescient in it's foresight.
The film precedes and perfectly captures the vile cable news era and the odious reality tv era. Remarkably the film came out a mere month after O.J. Simpson's wife was murdered and well before the sickening media and cultural circus of his trial. (As an aside, I hope you join me in praying that they find the real killers!!).
Critics thought the film was a bombastic and vacant orgy of sex and violence. Of course, what makes the film so genius is that it is a satire of American culture, which is a bombastic and vacant orgy of sex and violence. If you don't believe me, turn on any cable news channel at any time of the day, a reality show or a prime time network sitcom. In fact, one of the most inspired parts of the film is when it wonderfully eviscerates the vapid and insipid sitcom which had become the staple of the American tv diet at the time.
What Stone did with Natural Born Killers was show how hyper, frenzied and frenetic our culture had become and how toxic that was to our collective and personal psyche. Of course, since 1994 our culture has only become more frenetic and frenzied. Our thirst for violence and our hunger for the salacious has increased infinitely since Stone showed us our true and more base impulses gyrating up on silver screens in cineplexes across America in the fall of 1994.
Once again the brilliant Robert Richardson does masterful work with the camera and gives the film a muscularly vivid visual style. There are also some great performances from some surprising places, most notably Rodney Dangerfield, (who you may remember previously "got no respect") who deserved not only respect for his performance, but a Best Supporting Actor trophy for his work as a disgustingly repugnant sitcom dad, sadly he didn't get nominated. Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore and Robert Downey Jr. all give inspired and memorable performances as well.
You may hate Natural Born Killers, and you wouldn't be alone, but the reality is that Stone accurately depicted the rot at the heart of the American culture, and that rot has only grown more aggressive and malignant as the decades have passed.
1. JFK (1991)
JFK is Oliver Stone's masterpiece. It is also the film that garnered him the most criticism and made him a marked man of both the Washington and media establishment. With JFK, Stone did the near impossible, he made a uniquely original, intensely captivating, coherent, heart pounding suspenseful drama of President Kennedy's assassination, all the while challenging the establishment narrative in the form of the Warren Commission and it's lapdogs in the media with his own self described "counter-myth". He also forced the movie going public to actually sit down and watch the Zapruder film, over, and over, and over again, making sure there was no doubt there now dead President's head snapped "back and to the left".
Stone wasn't saying that JFK was the absolute truth about what happened on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, what he was saying was that his film, an acknowledged piece of fiction, is as close to the truth as the Warren Commission, a supposed work of investigative non-fiction.
The best way to know that Oliver Stone was on to something with JFK, was in seeing the reaction of the establishment to it's release. The Washington and New York chattering classes went absolutely apeshit. Stone was attacked across the board, from those on the left, the right and the center. "Serious" people from "serious" news organizations told us that Stone was a mere "conspiracy theorist", so anyone who wanted to be taken seriously on any other subject, had to show their bona fides by knocking Stone as an unserious person and attacking the the film. This sort of thing has become old hat for the establishment. It is also a sure fire sign that the person they are attacking is cutting them close to the bone. If Stone were such an unserious kook, then ignoring him would have sufficed, but he wasn't and isn't, so the knives had to come out.
As a result of the success of JFK and of Stone's tireless public work on the subject, Congress was persuaded to release some of the files relating to the JFK assassination. At the time it seemed like things might be changing, that all of the files might be released. That was over twenty years ago and still nothing has changed. The JFK assassination was over fifty years ago, yet we have barely gotten a glimpse of the vast seas of paperwork that remains classified on the subject.
As far as the film goes, Stone's script was, once again, Shakespearean in it's epic scope. His brilliant use of newsreel footage mixed with dramatic footage created an intense immediacy that brought the viewer ever closer to the edge of their seat. JFK was also cinematographer Robert Richardson's masterpiece as well. His use of multiple film stock was as vital a reason for JFK's dramatic edge as anything else, as was his impeccable camera work and framing. Editor Pietro Scalia also was a key figure in bringing this dramatic beast under control. Both Richardson and Scalia won Oscars for their work.
The acting was stellar across the board. Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald was particularly brilliant. Tommy Lee Jones was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work as one of the alleged conspirators Clay Shaw.
In many ways, all of Oliver Stone's other films, including his Oscar winning pictures, pale in comparison to JFK. JFK was a cinematic, artistic and cultural bellwether. It is one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all-time, and it is a towering monument to the legacy of Oliver Stone.
(For more on the JFK assassination, the media and Oliver Stone, check out this article from my archive. JFK AND THE BIG LIE )
In many ways, Oliver Stone reminds me of Francis Ford Coppola. Both men won Oscars for screenplays, Coppola for Patton, Stone for Midnight Express, before they had tremendous runs of artistic and financial success as Oscar winning directors. Then both men, for reasons that I can't quite explain, fell off a cliff creatively and never recovered. Coppola of course, had his incredible run in the seventies with both Godfather films, Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, while Stone had his from '86 to '95 with the films listed above (among others).
I think it is a great loss for filmmaking that Oliver Stone has lost his cultural relevance. Cinema, and the culture, were much more interesting when he was at the top of his game and relevant. His willingness to stand for what he believes and to challenge the culture that bred him, are traits sorely lacking in todays Hollywood. My birthday wish for Oliver Stone, is that his next film, Snowden, lives up to his stellar previous work, and is as worthy a film as the subject at its center.
I tip my cap to you Oliver for your brilliance!! Happy Birthday!!
I received a few emails regarding this post. One from a reader named "Captain Big Guy" and another from a reader named "Johnny Steamroller".
Capt. Big Guy wrote " In each of the 4 movies leading up to the 5th (#1), you described your thoughts on the lead actor - which I really enjoyed - BUT WHY NO MENTION OF COSTNER IN JFK?" In keeping with that thought Johnny Steamroller wrote, " Dude, you got me sooooooo interested in what you were going to say about Costner in JFK, your #1 movie!! Seriously, I kept reading. You do mention Gary Oldman and Tommy Lee Jones by name but zero mention of the lead actor in "Oliver Stone's masterpiece"?? Arggggghhhhhh!!!"
Both the good Captain and the esteemed Mr. Steamroller make an excellent point. In my haste to post this piece I overlooked Kevin Costner's performance in JFK . It was an egregious oversight. Maybe not as egregious as Waterworld, but egregious none the less.
So without further adieu…my thoughts on Costner in JFK .
Let's be clear, Costner isn't Marlon Brando. With that said, he didn't need to be Marlon Brando in JFK. What makes Costner effective in JFK is the fact that he was maybe the biggest movie star in the world at the time of the films release. In addition his persona was that of an all-American, squeaky clean guy. His image and persona were a key part of why he works in JFK and why he was cast. Casting Costner accomplished two things for Oliver Stone in his most ambitious film. 1. In terms of the business, it got the movie made. I am sure the studio was much more at ease making this rather challenging film with the biggest movie star in the world, at the height of his fame and popularity, on top of the marquee. 2. In terms of creatively, casting Costner made Stone's challenging the establishment, and the public, much more effective with the persona of the all-American good guy making the case to the public for Stone. It was a very wise move on Stone's part to use Costner and all of the good will he had accrued with the public through his earlier work.
Remember, just two years before JFK, Costner had starred in Field of Dreams, which is as mythically and archetypal an American film as has ever been made. And the year before JFK was released, Costner had won Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for Dances With Wolves. In many ways, not the least of which was symbolically, by the time JFK came out Costner had become the modern day Jimmy Stewart.
Costner's acting in the film is pretty paint-by-numbers, leading man stuff. As in all of Costner's work, he doesn't have too much range or depth. But because of the intangible traits and very particular image Costner the movie star (as opposed to Costner the actor) brought to the film, I believe he ends up being very much a net positive for the film, and a very wise and shrewd casting choice by Oliver Stone.
So thanks to Captain Big Guy and Johnny Steamroller for the emails!! Hope my answer was satisfactory.
September 14, 2015 / michael mccaffrey/ Comment
Oliver Stone, JFK, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, The Doors, Jim Morrison, Val Kilmer, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Rodney Dangerfield, Vietnam


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MaryC's Holiday Gift Report: The Pleasure Chest Edition
Oh, God. A plush toy which sounds like it's singing through one of those electronic voice boxes, and sporting a mouth that looks like a Today Contraceptive Sponge. So if you ever wondered what the Chipmunks would sound like it they all had throat cancer, well...Merry Christmas!
(I'm not taking the fall for this one. You can blame thank Bill S.)
Posted by maryclev at 12:33 AM
Labels: War on Christmas, World O' Crap Wish Book
Anntichrist S. Coulter said...
Bil, Bill, Bill.
First of all, they look like used Today Contraceptive Sponges, as the protective center ("catcher's mitt") has been PLUMB WORN THROUGH!!!!!!
Secondly, oh holy fuck on a sugar cookie, I am SOOOOO glad to be FREE OF MIDI TOYS!!!!!! And if ONE MORE well-meaning, kind-hearted friend sends me ONE MORE fucking e-card with a fucking MIDI THEME SONG, BLOOD WILL *FLOW*!!!!!!
Preferably Darth Cheney's blood, but I doubt if Santa is gonna bring me THAT wish-list item this year, either!
(Yeah, I'm an obnoxious atheist, but who's gonna snub free prezzies?!?!? Considering the shitty xmases of my "childhood" and the shit that I've literally busted my ass to do since, THE FAT BOY OWES ME.)
Just please promise me that you were neither afflicted with said Mattel offal nor that you ever inflicted any unwitting ankle-biters with these same creepy-as-fuck, hand-job-in-a-mini-van-looking "toys.," kay Bill & Mary?
P.S. Extra points for the Pleasure Chest reference.
Nope, never been to L.A. or the P.C., but DID get a LOVERLY souvenir from there as a prezzie for house and dog-sitting one year...
Bill S said...
No, I discovered them just a few weeks ago. Our store has a display set of in one area selling toys and gift wrap, and there was a display stand, WAAAY off in one corner for them. I picked one up to see what it did.
What the ads don't tell you is that they only produce a SINGLE NOTE AT A TIME. You have to press its tummy over and over to get a sequence of notes. And hearing that single, creepy note really does make you cringe. They do sound demonic.
Connecticut Man1 said...
The best of it is that there is certain to be cartoon infotainment ad to follow in irregular episodic nightmares on a craptastic cable channel near you. Perhaps they could cover this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSykiBcRV14
pajzilla said...
In unison they sound like a demented air-raid warning. Perhaps DHS ought to pick them up for their Emergency Broadcast System test-tone.
Oh, and Antti, I am Keith but leave comments with this "handle" because I sign in through Google. And, as to your request from a previous column, I did speak to Betty B. Dr. "Pam" cut off her Ativan supply and so she's making do with sub-standard generic Klonapin tabs (0.5 mg) this holiday season. She was very agitated. I can certainly understand why.
Aw man, Keith, give Betty my best murmurings of commiseration. Klonapin instead of lorazepam?!?!?!? WHAT. THA. FUCK. ?!?!??!!? That's just inhuman and insanely cruel. Klonapin doesn't even help the E.R. nurses deal with the D.U.I. suspects @ 4A, how the fuck is it going to help BETTY FUCKIN' BOWERS?!?!?
I mean, yeah, I could sure as fuck use an Ativan/lorazepam myself, not a fan of these manufactured/hypocritical "holidays" or their marketing bullshit about "family," esp. since I no longer HAVE ONE, except for my nearest & dearest friends here & elsewhere --- but I've got enough valiums to get through the weekend.
Sounds like "Doctor" (HA!) Pam needs a knee-capping with a four-way tire tool for such cruelty and malfeasance. Everybody keeps telling these bullshit lies that the DEA & FBI & FDA are "limiting" how many pain meds/muscle relaxers/anxiety meds that they are "ALLOWED" to buy and then resell, it's even been on a recent Law & Order, I think, SOME pro-cop show...
Guess what, kids? IT'S CALLED C.I.A.-GENERATED FUCKING *LIES*!!!!!! Just like GHWBush is still on the board of Eli Lilly even as the CIA-induced chemical "Alzheimer's" is kicking-in (yup, just like Ronnie Ray-Gun; Clinton already got HIS dosage when he had the heart surgery, the whipped little BITCH), EVERY TIME THAT YOU HEAR ABOUT A "DRUG SHORTAGE," IT'S AS FLAMINGLY FUCKING *FAKE* AS EVERY MOTHERFUCKING *OIL* SO-CALLED "SHORTAGE" IN THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE!!!!!!
It's just like the 4X-6X fake inflation of food prices over the past four years, the gas prices that make the '70s look EASY --- FUCK THE POOR PEOPLE FIRST!!! If Betty, you or I or anyone else here were wealthy and had the "good" doctors and "pharmacists" who can ALWAYS keep THE GOOD SHIT IN STOCK --- we'd never even HEAR about these fucking "shortages," and of course, if we were rich republicunts, we'd shrug and whine, "What are these filthy hippies bitching about NOW?"
Okay, so WE wouldn't, but THEY do. As I said, give Betty my best, and if I had the lorazepams, I'd send 'em Betty's way in a heartbeat!
Now Bill, Bill, Billllll... please, baby baby PLEASE tell me that you are fucking KIDDING ME about these "toys" being "NEW" and still on the market!!!!!!! Did Mattel pull these out of the test-market-failures warehouse in a desperate lunge at last-minute impulse-shopping idiots who cannot possibly conceive of what horrific aural INSTRUMENTS OF SADISTIC CHENEYESQUE ***TORTURE*** THAT THEY ARE?!?!?!?!?
These rejects from The Land Of Misfit Clusterfucks cannot POSSIBLY be "new" in ANY sense --- they had better sound chips than this in the FIRST MUSICAL GREETING CARDS IN 1993!!!!!!
(And yes, we ripped them apart and re-programmed the record buttons on the little bastards to make our own vile & vicious pranks @ that first radio station... heh heh heh...)
And yes, Keith, I knew what your online nic was, dood, I do READ these comments, y'know. Pfft.
BTW, what is the fucking profit margin about digging-up Natalie Wood 30 fucking yeas later? If RJ did it, he's too old to go to prison, if the creepy "captain" did it, well, he's a broke nobody anyway, and if Walken did it --- oh holy fuck, who wants to IMAGINE that?!?!?!
The shriveled-up old shrew who claims to have heard Natalie "screaming" whilst drowning --- who the fuck is she and what's HER profit margin???
Horrible timing for last night's "NCIS" episode, for damned sure...
And FUCK NO, I am in NO shape to deal with THAT PESTILENCE that is still sitting atop my TV, holding-back all of the GOOD flicks on my Netflix queue!!! You'll get your "Pretty Prostie" hissy-fit when I can fucking DEAL with that stupidity. Trying as hard as I can.
I have no idea how "new" they are, I'm just saying I never saw them before this year. Perhaps I was lucky enough to have missed them until now.
Do you remember a story back in the '80's about a line of talking dolls called "Baby Darling", that got pulled from the shelves because someone got a hold of a few of them and tampered with the voice boxes so they uttered the phrase "Kill Mommy"? There are some sick people in the world.
Which, btw, is the only explanation I can come up with for wanting to re-open the case of Natalie Wood's death.
BTW, what is the fucking profit margin about digging-up Natalie Wood 30 fucking yeas later?
Annti, these revelations are the same revelations he's been trying to sell in a book he's been trying to get published for thirty years. They are recent only in the sense that somebody asked him the other day about it.
Natalie Wood got drunk and fell off a boat. It happens all the time, and you'll just have to trust me on this one, it happens more often than you'd think in the harbors offered by Catalina Island. Why, I remember one time where a marijuana exchange between one boat and another went awry and--
Uh, Look you, I used to live on Catalina, and I know the stuff.
Okay, here's a wicked insight.
Backstory first: Natalie Wood died of drowning in Isthmus Cove, Catalina Island. She was, at the time, working on the film "Brainstorm" with Christopher Walken, who was also on the boat with Robert Wagner and his wife Natalie that night.
If you think I'm going to suggest some sort of Walkenesque skullduggery, you're outta luck.
What I am going to say is that the 2002 film "Suicide Kings" in which Walken plays a made man who is kidnapped and held for ransom, has a final scene in which Walken catches up with the perps in the Isthmus Cove of Catalina Island, so help me.
I wonder what Walken must have thought (actually I don't, he's a pro). I really wonder what the Director must have thought.
I listened again to the "Sing-a-ma-Jigs" and am left somewhat disturbed.
Why do they sound the way they are programmed? This requires a bit of analysis. It also requires a Tektronics oscilloscope, plus H-P vintage digital spectrum analyzer.
It didn't take much to get the H-P going. We didn't even have to connect the cables, because once the little plush figures got going the screen lit up like fireflies on a balmy summer evening. They sound like MIDI, but they emit more than just you average sound waves.
Infant children cry in the +/-1,500 khz range and that is why we wake up to care for them. It is an annoyance but one that has evolved through survival. Human hearing is most sensitive in this range of frequency.
On the H-P, we observed a spectral signature well above and below the 1,500 khz register. In addition we observed "third-order harmonics" that are unusual with these devices, as they are not equipped with the amplification to saturate them in any significant case.
The Tek showed no unusual voltages until the belly buttons of the plush figures were pressed. We did not experience electrocution, but there was a slight tingling sensation. I still have a slight cramp in my hand.
Please do not consume these creatures for any reason. Your safety, and that of your loved ones, may be at risk.
Keith, 1500 kHz is 1.5 million cycles per second, well outside the range of human hearing.
And incidentally, "MIDI" isn't a sound per se, it's merely a protocol for digital transmission of musical information (saying something sounds like "MIDI" is like saying that sheet music makes a sound).
You wanna try again?
Bill, honey --- if you don't see the innate and down-to-the-DNA basic humor of programming baby dolls to say, "KILL MOMMY!" then I'm very very worried that we might be losing you to the "Eat, Pray, Love" and/or "Chicken Soup For The Lemming's Soul" Stepford Wives. That shit was BRILLIANT.
Vosburg, as someone who hasn't been able to indulge in teh herbal cigarettes, so to speak, since NINETEEN NINETY-EIGHT, I reeeeaalllyyyyy don't wanna hear you bragging about picking-up a few dozen bales, kay?
The bug-eyed old vulture who keeps saying that she "heard" screams for "help", etc. ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE FUCKING COVE --- I don't buy it. Who the fuck would HEAR that?!?!? One who is aspirating water into her lungs really doesn't have the projection power to ricochet a good holler all the way to the other side of the damned bay. And if she and RJ were having a knock-down, drag-out bitch fight over Walken, I seriously doubt that any of Natalie's dialogue was in the "help! save me!" line. Everything I've ever heard or read about her puts her in the Elizabeth Taylor category of bitch-fighters. Yeah, she'll stick with a guy who may not be the best in the world for her, but she'll still RAISE HELL ALL THE FUCKING WAY. She couldn't have clocked a 250-lb.+ man onto his ass in one swing like Big Mama Thornton, but she would not have gone quietly or meekly, if someone were TRYING to throw her off of the fucking boat, throttle her, or otherwise disappear her very valuable ass. And let's face it, she could probably kick Bob's ass.
Walken, though -- much as I adore that freak, I would NEVER put a murder past him. Hell, a multi-billion-dollar counterfeiting operation wouldn't be beyond Christopher Walken. But I don't see him as the sort to knock-off a woman, whether he lusted after her in his heart or not. At least not without a REALLY big incentive, in small, non-sequential bills.
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Personally, I suspect that alcoholic-idiot "boat captain." He just strikes me as the creepy/nasty/ditch-weed kinda guy who'd HIT ON somebody like Natalie Wood, KNOWING that he'd be shot-down, with or without Bob in attendance, because he'd figure that his "nautical skills" would make him seem "sexy," or, failing that (as it obviously always did), he could motor the boat far enough away from land to attempt to assault her where she might not be able to escape.
Much-brighter people have done way dumber shit, after all.
Not that he would've gotten within a mile of landing Natalie in ANY circumstances, but he COULD have been in pursuit of such, frustrated, and become even more violent, leading to a knock on the head and a body in the water.
No idea what in the FUCK either might've been thinking for Walken to shoot a climactic scene for a flick in that cove, though it reminds me a LOT of the last "photo shoot" series of pix that Barry Cowsill took, the last time that he was in California before Katrina. Creepy. Especially since he couldn't fucking SWIM.
Keith, you almost had me suckered-in until Vosburg busted you on the frequency (which I read at exactly the same time that I accidentally busted a huge burn-bubble on my arm --- GROSS. Now it's gonna leave ANOTHER fucking SCAR! Despite multiple band-aids and copious amounts of neosporin, I am STILL screwed!), which I would've gotten to eventually, but Chris got here first. I was almost envious of whatever wicked basement-full-of-production-equipment that you or your friends might possess, but now I wonder if you've ever even had your hands on a microphone.
And we ALL know that stoopid shit about how women's ears are attuned to hear high-pitched squeals from infants, even in deep REM sleep, so that the species' progeny don't starve or get eaten by (most) dingoes. Thankfully, I've never been afflicted by that handicap.
C'mon, Keith, come up with something REAL on these Killer Clown-Cervical-Sponges From Outer Space, wouldja please?!?! And maybe start a class-action suit against Mattel for causing widespread pain, panic & eye-gouging migraines amongst those of us who've had to HEAR those things!!!
Well, err, had some extra wine for Thanksgiving. Should have been 1500 Hz. I'm terribly sorry. Thanks for your comment.
Aw, hell. And here I was all ready for a mud-wrestling catfight, except between audio engineers, and what do I get instead? The self-correcting blogosphere.
Okay, forget it -- all bet's are off.
I'm only saying it isn't funny to pull shit like that on a 5 year old.
Depends on the 5-year-old, Bill. Some of 'em hit "evil" REEEEALLLLL EARLY, like satanic savants.
And Scott, honey, by the time that I got to Keith's bragging about audio equipment that I haven't seen collected by anybody since "The Lone Gunmen,, Vosburg had already burst the bubble, so the opportunity for pudding rasslin' was long gone. I was never an engineer, anyway, just a radio geek who could pull a few neat stunts in an air studio and some truly wicked shit in the first digital production room in all of Louisiana. Our poor (actually, REALLY well-compensated to be on-call!) beleaguered engineers only showed-up when our 1968 mixing board (in the ORIGINAL production room, mind you) or other similarly-Jurassic-era equipment threw a bitch-fit. They *were* enviously patient human beings, though they did grow to not like ME so much, as I was the only one IN the production room @ 2A, doing 65 fucking dubs until the 1970 IRS reel-to-reel pitched a bitch. They were kind and usually quiet-spoken, but they did NOT like those phone calls at that time of the morning. Hey, if the shit wasn't working for ME, what in the FUCK were they gonna do when it was time for the STERN FEED to come down from 'XRK @ 4A???
Shit a houseful of bricks and try to hide behind the 72-volume behemoth known as the Stern-syndication contract, should the C&D orders start screaming-in like kamikaze pilots. If ya don't do it right, and I mean, JUST fucking RIGHT, ya can't DO IT. Period. Yeah, he lovvves Sirius or XM or whatever the fuck satellite he's on now, and I'm sure that he is shickled-titless to never have to do ANOTHER fucking redeye-flight fucking APPEARANCE when his agents got him into another medium-to-large market, but he wouldn't be the billionaire that he is today if it weren't for us real radio geeks.
And Jackie fucking Martling still owes me a gawdlessdamned t-shirt AND a fucking coffee mug, the tightwad motherfucker! I not only STUMPED "The Joke Man," I made him fall off of his in-studio barstool. Granted, he started drinking ON THE PLANE *TO* New Orleans, approx. NINE A.M., and he was on-air before the "stand-up comedy gig" (REALLY depends on how you define "comedy" AND "gig"!!!) at around THREE P.M., loaded and giggling like his bitchy-hausfrau wife-manager SHOULD have been giggling, if she'd looked into a mirror to see what her fake tits REALLY looked like.
Annnnyyyywaaaayyyyyy... Mebbe Keith really DOES have a basement fulla cool toys, who the fuck knows. Vosburg, I got no idea either. He coulda googled, he could just be another vast repository of mostly-useless trivia like myself. But most of all, Bill, sweetheart, my friend, my brutha-in-snark, that shit with the killer baby dolls was FUNNY AS ALL FUCK. Any 5-year-old who cried and claimed PTSD over that was just an attention-seeking Kelly Ripa type with a hungry lawyer. Now, if you're talking about your evil busted-Today-Contraceptive-Sponge MIDI-sounding blowjob dolls, NOBODY, short of Darth Cheney and that idiotic twunt Michelle O'Bachmann should *EVER* have to hear THAT "extraordinary rendition" shit!!!!!!
Maybe you'da have to have grown up in MY house to see why I find the killer babydolls so fucking funny, Bill. I wanted a science/chemistry/geology set, I got fucking babydolls. I wanted Tonka trucks, I got to learn how to make grilled cheese & hot tea for teh Fallen Uterus as her HANDMAIDEN, ON A GAS RANGE, at 5 years old. I wanted piano lessons (her COUSIN had one that she NEVER fucking used!!), I wanted braces for my knock knees and crooked teeth, and I got YARD-SALE TOY-KITCHEN APPLIANCES. See where I'm going with this? It's not unfamiliar territory, is it. She plays a good "aging rapidly and suddenly SO fucking "helpless" little old widow" bit, but she still makes Joan Crawford look like a RANK FUCKING AMATEUR.
Wanna trade Mommies?
Scott writes: And here I was all ready for a mud-wrestling catfight, except between audio engineers
Theremins at Dawn!
Doooood, I would SO dig a fucking Theremin!!!
It would also be a fine source of aural revenge on the drunkards next door... heh heh heh... the bedroom walls are uninsulated and connected, and I could keep it in the corner closest to that wall, on the other side of the bed, just to drive those assholes into GOING DRY!!!
Plus, it'd make a really neat toy to have. If you'd seen the antique radios that I used to have, ohhhhh, how it makes my heart ache to remember... *sigh*
But, um, as dueling instruments, don'tcha think that Theremins would take a while on the warm-up? What about megaphones? Better yet, dueling MAARTIs!!! You don't have a pacemaker, do ya?
Annti, you're in luck, sort of, because although I can't give you a theremin of your very own to torture your neighbors and ruin the score of mid-fifties sci-fi movies with (I'm looking at you, Forbidden Planet), I can give you a link to one of many downloadable "theremin simulators" available on the web, which allow you to drive your computer's sound chip as a simple oscillator pair-- with HOT MOUSE ACTION!
Great graphic display, and especially impressive if output into a serious sound system, you'll find with a little experimentation that you have full control over frequency range among other things, so you can rattle the fucking foundations or make dogs' eyes bleed-- it's up to you.
You seem like a girl that can handle a soldering iron, so you might also be interested in the many links to theremin kits and schematics there as well.
Anyway, here ya go. Just Download, Run, Hit the Start button, and start running the mouse around the scale (with left button pressed). Take that, neighbors!
Incidentally, I can't help but note that I've grown to hate Annti's neighbors nearly as much as she does [laughing], and I can't stop laughing, imagining a young Annti on a Department Store Santa's lap, being asked, "ho, ho ho! And how would you like a nice Easy Bake Oven for Christmas, little girl," and rattling Santa's cage with "No! I want a theremin, dammit, you useless fucking old troll!"
Sorry to puncture yer balloon, honey, but I never got to sit on Santa's lap, but I *did* have an Easy-Bake oven... into which the action figures from "EMERGENCY!", which *I* had wanted with the fire truck and the EMT truck, but guess who DID get 'em... I still feel bad about what happened to Roy and that desk, but it was VERY cathartic... Just couldn't make myself put Johnny/Randolph Mantooth into the Easy-Bake, though, I already had a crush on him back then.
Dunno why I'm the only one of four ill-gotten spawn to never have met a pissy old drunk in a fun-fur suit and a fleece beard, but that's the way that the 1-day AA chip crumbles, I guess. I don't recall having abused any store personnel or any elves or such, so I don't think that the STORE banned me. One hopes. And I didn't know what a theremin was back then, sad to say, though I remember wondering, having seen the inside of that tiny local radio station (my grandfather's sermons were taped & played every Sunday morning there), I really could NOT figure out how in the HELL they got the ENTIRE AUDIENCE *and* all of those PERFORMERS into that tiny station when The Grand Ole Opry came on, every Saturday night!!! The physics just didn't line-up for me back around age 6...
Back to toys/theremins... I did, however, break into the Fallen Uterus & Her Dick's record collection around age 5, and had a BLAST listening to that one Bill Cosby album so many times that you can't even PLAY the 14-minute piece about Seattle anymore... Bobo the Gorilla, in the Seattle Zoo... Heh. The only other comedy album was Brother Dave Gardner, but she had a SWEET collection of Motown/rock & roll singles, if the LPs left a bit to be desired (Ricky Nelson, that little redheaded midget "Rockin' Around The Xmas Tree," and Joey Dee @ The Peppermint Lounge, re-making "The Twist"!)... I dunno WHY I felt the urge to get a crayon and give Elvis a black eye on the cover of "G.I. Blues," but it's still there. and hell, the record still plays! Though anything after the army got ahold of him, dyed his hair black and made him wear white-buck shoes & belt... kinda all downhill from there... bordering on Pat Boone territory! -- Such a waste!! Tsk, tsk, tsk... taking The Original Hell-Raising Rebel and turning him into "FAMILY-FRIENDLY," like he was a fucking OSMOND or some DISNEY-SPAWN like Frankie & Annette!!! --- that's just an unforgivable sin and a shame!!
"Ray Charles Plays Contemporary Country & Western Hits," though, is ALWAYS an interesting listen!
BTW, did anybody look at their Walgreen's Sunday circular this weekend? Oh, how I wish that I could scan & post pictures into these comments!! These hideous fucking things were a SPECIAL SALE ITEM!!!!!! I shit y'all not...
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**Efficacy of AST-VAC2 will be assessed by 2-year overall survival, time to relapse and measurement of immune response.
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Klasztor Sióstr Niepokalanek w Szymanowie – klasztor i Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Jazłowieckiej w Szymanowie w województwie mazowieckim.

Geneza
Fundacja sióstr niepokalanek w Szymanowie była ostatnią placówką jaka powstała za życia bł. Marceliny Darowskiej.
Plany fundacji powstały w 1906 roku, kiedy to Maria Ciechanowska obiecała załatwić siostrom potrzebne formalności u carskich władz w Królestwie Polskim, co też w niedługim czasie uczyniła.
Pierwsze siostry w liczbie dwóch – siostra Maria Waleria Amelia Kopernicka i siostra Maria Imelda Karolina Dzieduszycka, wyjechały do Królestwa w 1907 roku, aby rozejrzeć się za miejscem na klasztor. Wybór padł na Szymanów i na pałac będący własnością książąt Lubomirskich.

Pałac-klasztor
Pałac szymanowski został rozbudowany na polecenie Konstantego Lubomirskiego w latach 1898-1902 według projektu Konstantego Wojciechowskiego.
Pałac jest dwukondygnacyjną budowlą wykonaną w stylu neoklasycznym. Ściany zewnętrzne są boniowane na poziomie pierwszej kondygnacji. Ganek obudowany jest kolumnadą wspierającą okazały balkon. Wnętrze pałacu wykończone zostało w tym samym stylu, choć kilkakrotnie je przebudowywano aby dostosować do funkcji jakim obiekt służył.

Zespół pałacowy został w 1957 roku wpisany pod numerem 92/17/57 do rejestru zabytków. Wpisu doczekał się także otaczający pałac park, który wpisano w 1978 roku pod numerem 14.

Powstanie klasztoru i lata 1907-1918
Pałac, ze względów religijno-politycznych, został fikcyjnie zakupiony 18 września 1907 roku na panią Marię Ciechanowską, lecz jego faktycznym właścicielem było Zgromadzenie. Formalne przepisanie na własność Zgromadzenia Sióstr Niepokalanek nastąpiło dopiero w 1921 roku.
Pierwsze siostry przyjechały do Królestwa na stałe w 1907 roku. W tym miejscu warto wspomnieć, że siostry przekroczyły granicę otwarcie i w habitach, co było rzeczą niezwykłą w tamtym nieprzychylnym Kościołowi okresie. Pierwszą przełożoną placówki została mianowana Maria Ludwika Morstin. Początkowo siostry zamieszkały w Komorowie koło Błonia, gdzie w wynajętej obszernej willi spędziły rok. Już tam otworzyły szkołę powszechną dla wiejskich dzieci. Komorów był tylko tymczasową fundacją, dlatego że siostry czekały na opróżnienie pałacu w Szymanowie, który na rok zajmował wcześniejszy dzierżawca – ksiądz Jan Gralewski (1868-1924) i założony przez niego prywatny zakład dla chłopców.

W dniu 15 lipca 1908 roku pierwsze trzy siostry niepokalanki – siostra Maria Waleria Amelia Kopernicka, siostra bł. Maria Marta Kazimiera Wołowska i siostra Maria Cherubina Pelagia Szymańska stanęły na szymanowskiej ziemi i od tego momentu niepokalanki zostały na niej na stałe. Siostry przyjechały z Komorowa i z pomocą tamtejszej ludności przeprowadziły się do Szymanowa. W następnych dniach przybywały kolejne siostry tak, że przed rozpoczęciem roku szkolnego do pracy było gotowych prawie 30 niepokalanek.
W połowie lipca 1908 roku siostry przeniosły się już do Szymanowa całkowicie i urządziły nawet prowizoryczną kaplicę. Dnia 26 lipca tego samego roku ksiądz Aleksander Dmochowski – pierwszy kapelan sióstr odprawił pierwszą mszę.

Dnia 15 września 1908 roku miało miejsce poświęcenie domu, umieszczenie w tymczasowej kaplicy Najświętszego Sakramentu i rozpoczęcie roku szkolnego. Był to także dzień śmierci pierwszej przełożonej nowego domu. Jej następczynią została Maria Karola Rościszewska.

Dnia 4 listopada 1908 roku odbyło się poświęcenie budynku szkółki elementarnej dla 250 dzieci zwany "Szymanówkiem", której budowę rozpoczęto po zakupieniu posesji, gdy siostry były jeszcze w Komorowie.

Kamień węgielny pod szkołę kładła sama matka Darowska w sierpniu 1908 roku, a także kładła kamień węgielny 2 kwietnia 1909 roku pod nowe skrzydło domu głównego, tak aby szkoła mogła pomieścić 80 dzieci.

Tymczasem dla sióstr i uczennic nastał czas ucisku. Władze carskie nękały siostry różnymi nakazami. Narzucono siostrom program nauczania i podręczniki, zarządzono likwidację kaplicy i zniesienie zakonnego trybu życia. Została ograniczona nawet ilość sióstr. Mimo tych wszystkich przeciwności szkoła a razem z nią siostry pozostały w Szymanowie. Siostry postawione w trudnej sytuacji bardzo dobrze się do niej przygotowały, m.in. przez prowadzenie tajnego nauczania. Miały bowiem dwa programy nauczania. Pierwszy oficjalny był faktycznie fikcyjny i wyciągany tylko w czasie wizytacji, oraz drugi realny, czyli zgodny z duchem patriotyzmu, którego uczono. Nacisk władz zelżał nieco dopiero po wybuchu I wojny światowej.

Początkowo siostry prowadziły gimnazjum, szkołę ludową, ochronkę dla małych dzieci oraz szkołę kroju, szycia i gospodarstwa domowego dla starszych wiejskich dziewcząt.

I wojna światowa
Po wybuchu I wojny światowej szkółka została przeznaczona na szpital, a siostry pracowały w niej jako pielęgniarki. Szpital istniał do sierpnia 1915 roku, następnie powróciła do niego szkółka. Pod patronatem Polskiego Czerwonego Krzyża siostry prowadziły w tym czasie także i herbaciarnię.
Na skutek działań wojennych tylko w roku szkolnym 1914/1915 nie odbywały się zajęcia. W następnym roku praca pedagogiczna ruszyła pełną parą, choć na skutek wojny była nieco utrudniona.

Polska niepodległa
W 1918 roku siostry otrzymały od władz oświatowych koncesję na prowadzenie ośmioklasowego gimnazjum żeńskiego. Mimo to przez dwanaście lat istnienia w wolnej Polsce szkoła miała niepełne prawa państwowe, które zdobyła w 1932 roku. W 1928 roku szkoła otrzymała oficjalną nazwę Gimnazjum Żeńskie pod wezwaniem Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej Zgromadzenia Sióstr Niepokalanego Poczęcia N.M.P. w Szymanowie.

Po reformie oświaty powstało w Szymanowie czteroklasowe gimnazjum i dwuletnie liceum ogólnokształcące typu humanistycznego pod nazwą Prywatne Liceum Żeńskie pod wezwaniem Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej w Szymanowie. Pełne prawa państwowe zdobyły one w 1937 roku.

Przez cały okres od uzyskania w 1918 roku przez Polskę niepodległości funkcjonowała przy klasztorze szkoła powszechna, która w 1937 roku otrzymała pełne prawa państwowe, a do której uczęszczało około 200 dziewczynek z okolicy.

W 1933 roku do Szymanowa został przeniesiony z Jazłowca dom generalny zgromadzenia, a pierwszą rezydującą była Maria Zenona Dobrowolska (1933-1953), która była piątą generałką zakonu.

II wojna światowa
Okres II wojny światowej był niełatwym dla sióstr oraz klasztoru. Już we wrześniu 1939 część klasztoru została zajęta przez niemieckie wojsko. Liceum i gimnazjum zostały zamknięte, a internat rozwiązany. Mimo to od września 1940 roku ruszyły kursy krawieckie, szkołę handlową i kursy przygotowawcze do szkoły zawodowej drugiego stopnia. Od 1942 roku miejsce handlówki zajęła dwuletnia szkoła gospodarcza. Szkoły te były jednak tylko kamuflażem, aby ukryć tajne nauczanie i to zarówno na poziomie gimnazjum, jak i liceum. W czasie wojennym siostry wydały 177 świadectw dojrzałości i 178 tzw. małych matur.

Poza tajnym nauczaniem klasztor powiązany był z akcją podziemną, odbijano na powielaczu konspiracyjne gazetki, wspomagano partyzantów, ukrywano Żydów i prowadzono liczne dzieła charytatywne. Do szczególnie wartych wspomnienia należy wymienić wielką akcję pomocy ludności cywilnej Warszawy po upadku powstania w 1944 roku. Siostry nie zgadzały się jednak na żadne zaangażowanie się dziewcząt w działalność konspiracyjną czy zakładanie nielegalnych organizacji, ale aprobowały ich działalność charytatywną.

W 1942 roku do "Szymanówka", czyli szkółki przeniesiono sierociniec który znajdował się tam do 1946 roku. Dnia 27 sierpnia 1944 roku naziści zajęli połowę klasztoru, spychając siostry, uczennice i przyjętych uciekinierów do dalszych pomieszczeń. We wrześniu powstał w Szymanowie szpital, który przetrwał do 1945 roku, a siostry pełniły w nim obowiązki pielęgniarek.

Okres powojenny
Od 25 stycznia 1945 roku w Prywatnym Gimnazjum i Liceum Sióstr Niepokalanek w Szymanowie zaczęła się normalna praca szkolna, ruszył internat, a nawet nauka religii w wiejskiej szkole podstawowej. W 1945 roku na niedługi okres uruchomiono tzw. Uniwersytet Ludowy dla dorosłych, ale próba ta się nie powiodła. W marcu 1945 roku kuratorium zatwierdziło gimnazjum i liceum. Jednak lata powojenne nie były pozbawione licznych trudności. Mimo to szkoła ciągle się rozwijała i stopniowo rosła także liczba uczennic. Władze komunistyczne usiłowały narzucić szkole swój charakter, jednak siostry pozostały wierne wychowaniu dziewcząt poprzez wpajanie chrześcijańskich wartości, stąd też po raz kolejny musiały wprowadzić "podwójne nauczanie". Kontakty z władzą układały się różnie, ale przeważnie nie najlepiej. Dopiero po 1989 roku nastąpił czas prawdziwej swobody nauczania i kultu. W 80. i 90. latach siostry wybudowały na potrzeby szkoły nową salę gimnastyczną, wyremontowały i zmodernizowały internat oraz unowocześniły liczne pracownie w tym komputerową wprowadzając szkołę w XXI wiek. W wyniku przeprowadzonej reformy edukacji w 1999 roku reaktywowano zlikwidowane po II wojnie gimnazjum. Dziś siostry prowadzą więc w szymanowskim klasztorze liceum i gimnazjum.
Bardzo ważnym wydarzeniem było przybycie do Szymanowa w dniu 24 czerwca 1946 roku cudownego posągu Matki Bożej Jazłowieckiej, który od razu został umieszczony w kaplicy. Warto także wspomnieć, że 22 listopada 1945 roku wygnane ze Słonimia siostry przywiozły ze sobą cudowny krucyfiks, który do dziś wisi na klasztornym parterze.

Przełożone klasztoru
1. Maria Ludwika od Świętej Rodziny Ludwika Morsztyn 1907-1908
2. Maria Karola od Słowa Wcielonego Karola Rościszewska 1908-1922
3. Maria Antonia od Woli Bożej Honorata Niezabitowska 1922-1923
4. Maria Felicja od Jezusa Ewa Wielowieyska 1923-1928
5. Maria Świętosława od Jezusa Cecylia Mniszech 1928-1929
6. Maria Angelina od Przenajświętszego Sakramentu Anna Wielowieyska 1929-1935
7. Maria Krystyna od Krzyża Joanna Kossecka 1935-1943
8. Maria Assumpta od Jezusa Maria Sapieha 1943-1945
9. Maria Krystyna od Krzyża Joanna Kossecka 1945-1952
10. Maria Assumpta od Jezusa Maria Sapieha 1952-1953
11. Maria Wanda od Woli Bożej Wanda Garczyńska 1953-1954
12. Maria Alma od Niepokalanego Poczęcia N. M. P. Maria Sołtan 1954-1959
13. Maria Magdalena od Chrystusa Króla Józefa Regulska 1959-1962
14. Maria Hieronima od Krzyża Irena Dajewska 1962-1966
15. Maria Anuncjata od Trójcy Świętej Anna Strasburger 1966-1972
16. Maria Grażyna od Wszechpośrednictwa N. M. P. Anna Jordan 1972-1975
17. Maria Hieronima od Krzyża Irena Dajewska 1975-1977
18. Maria Anuncjata od Trójcy Świętej Anna Strasburger 1977-1983
19. Maria Lucyna od Najświętszego Sakramentu Zofia Jelinek 1983-1989
20. Maria Ewa od Miłosierdzia Bożego Ewa Domaszewska 1989-1993
21. Maria Michaela od Najświętszej Panny Jazłowieckiej Kazimiera Pintscher 1993-1996
22. Maria Bohdana od Zbawiciela Danuta Górska 1996-2003
23. Maria Ksawera od Królowej Polski Emilia Mocarska od 2003

Kapelani
 1907–1910 ksiądz Aleksander Dmochowski
 1910–1912 ksiądz Więckowski
 1912–1913 ksiądz Józef Tomaszczyk
 1912–1913 ksiądz Kubski
 1912–1913 ksiądz Mieczysław Lewicki
 1913 ksiądz Józef Kulesza
 1914–1917 ksiądz Bolesław Wyszyński
 1914–1915 ksiądz Feliks Tacikowski
 1917–1918 ksiądz Antoni Kaczyński
 1918–1919 ksiądz Witold Czeczott
 1918–1919 ksiądz Leon Jackowski
 1919–1920 ksiądz Ludwik Kleczyński
 1920–1923 ksiądz Jan Makowski
 1923–1924 ksiądz Józef Skokowski
 1924–1925 ksiądz Józef Grochocki
 1925–1926 ksiądz Lucjan Chwiećko
 1926–1931 ksiądz Zygmunt Sajna
 1931 ksiądz Władysław Pamulak
 1931–1933 ksiądz Henryk Kleczyński
 1933–1934 ksiądz Władysław Kwiatkowski
 1934–1937 ksiądz Wacław Szelenbaum
 1937–1938 ksiądz Marian Budny
 1938–1942 ksiądz Tadeusz Romaniuk
 1940–1944 ksiądz Franciszek Skalski
 1942–1943 ksiądz Zygmunt Chmielewski
 1942–1946 ksiądz Jan Massalski
 1944 ojciec Jan Rostworowski SJ
 1944–1945 ksiądz Bronisław Ussas
 1944–1945 ojciec Bruno Pawelczyk SJ
 1946 ksiądz Marian Bączek
 1946–1984 ksiądz Stanisław Deskowski
 1984–1985 ksiądz Stanisław Lech
 1985–1990 ksiądz Jan Lubaczewski
 1989–1991 ksiądz Lucjan Jerzy Musielak
 1991–1992 ksiądz Janusz Maciej Kakietek
 1992-2011 ksiądz Tadeusz Kraszewski
od 2011 ksiądz Paweł Kozakowski

Zobacz też
 Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Sióstr Niepokalanek w Jazłowcu
 Klasztor Sióstr Niepokalanek w Jarosławiu
 Zgromadzenia Sióstr Niepokalanego Poczęcia NMP (niepokalanki)
 Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Jazłowieckiej

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Janecki Łukasz, Dzieje parafii pod wezwaniem Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Szymanowie, Szymanów 2009
 Kieryłowicz Radosław, Sanktuaria i kościoły na szlaku Warszawskiej Akademickiej Pielgrzymki Metropolitalnej, Warszawa 1995
 Kosińska Maria, Liceum Ogólnokształcące Sióstr niepokalanek w Szymanowie w latach 1918-1997, Warszawa 1998
 Kosyra-Cieślak Hanna, Szymczak Romana, Siostry Niepokalanki, Poszłam siać do Polski... i wzeszło, tom II, Szymanów 2005
 Martynuska Maria Janina, Spis kapelanów w Szymanowie, Szymanów 2006
 Martynuska Maria Janina, Spis przełożonych klasztoru, Szymanów 2006
 Sołtan Maria Alma, Szymanów, Szymanów 1979

Linki zewnętrzne
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Szymanów
Niepokalanki
Obiekty sakralne w Szymanowie (powiat sochaczewski)