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On this night, back then. . .
What do we know about her? She was just a kid really, no more than two years old, but she was cutting edge, a propeller-driven steamer built for the Great Lakes in Buffalo, NY, where thousands of European immigrants would be waiting to be transported out to the frontier of the American Midwest, all of them strangers in a strange land. Aboard was as much cargo as she could hold–coffee, molasses, and hardware, not to mention people, hundreds of them.
It was November of 1847, so when the Phoenix left Buffalo, bound for Wisconsin, the crew might well have been celebrative–after all, it was late in the year, and the owners had made clear this trip would be the last before old man winter would make things treacherous, Lake Michigan winter storminess not to be toyed with.
By weight alone, most of the cargo was Dutch–as many as 250 immigrants climbed on board for the last leg of their trip to a new home in a new country, to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, the place the leaders had decided upon, a land whose woodlands meant days and days of hard work if the soft and sandy soil were to be cleared for crops. They wanted to farm. Like all immigrant people, what they really wanted was a new chance.
Most, if not all, were "separatists," members of a religious sect some called "the Afscheiding," the rebel church, arch-conservatives who'd departed the state church of the Netherlands not that long before and whose persecution therefore by civil authorities opened their ears and hearts to the possibilities of immigration to a new land where they could be free. They were an American trope.
Historians claim Lake Erie was calm when they left Buffalo on November 11, the weather not at all as menacing as it might have been. But it turned nasty quickly. People took refuge where they could on board as the swells rose like the shoulders of giants and made everything on board roll. When they came through the straits at Mackinaw, Lake Michigan was no more fair a host, the storms went unabated
Then, slowly southward, the Phoenix moved along into calmer waters and entered the port at Manitowoc, just thirty miles from the dreams of so many aboard. Some cargo was put ashore, but when the captain noted the wind's return, he kept his ship in the harbor until the lake calmed. The crew went ashore. Some claimed they returned drunk.
At one a.m., the lake calm, the night awash with stars, the Phoenix left for the last leg of a trip I'm sure some had believed would never end, on their way to Sheboygan harbor. Maybe it was haste that lit the fire; some believed it was shoddy negligence fueled by drink. Whatever the cause, those boilers overheated and lit the timbers above them. Soon the Phoenix steamer ship went up in flames.
Soon enough, passengers late that night, November 21, 1847, were awakened to two choices: the flames behind them or the water beneath. Both meant death. As many as 250 died, many–most–of them Hollanders. But then, who was counting, really?–after all, they were only immigrants.
When I was a boy, a highway sign along old 141, the Sauk Trail, told the story. My parents didn't know much about it, never mentioned it as I remember. Mom's people were here before it happened; Grandpa Schaap and his family didn't arrive until ninety years after.
It was the highway sign that put the story into me, not only the tragic and horrifying death out there on the water, on the lake that was a playground when I was a boy; but it was also a story about "tribe" because somehow as a kid I understood–no one taught me as much–that those who died were by some force of nature my own people.
It was a quiet night, I guess. When the ship went up in flames, Sheboygan residents gathered on the beach because the fire was all-too-horribly visible. When the few lifeboats came to shore (only forty survived), I couldn't help but think that the people there on the beach had to have heard the screams.
I did–so much so that the very first story I ever wrote was about the Phoenix, about God's presence in darkness and other mystifying questions, about suffering and death, about life and hope.
Somehow, here in the vale of tears, I had in mind that this stark chapter of human sadness was part of a story, an immigrant story I carry, as so many of us do.
Phoenix disaster survivor's gravestone,
Gibbsville, WI

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We went to Wheel Stylish yesterday, the bike fashion show in Wellington, put together by the clever folks from Frocks on Bikes Wellington at the BNZ Harbour Quays Atrium. A nice concept: bring city bikes and sustainable fashion together and show cycling can be very stylish.
The better part of World Sweet World, Hannah, was taking part in it as a model, and happily showed off pieces by kowtow. The other labels were emma, starfish, voon and de nada, and there were some pieces from hunters and collectors, all presented by a number of other beautiful models, but the actual combinations of labels and models completely escaped me, having to juggle Otis and at the same time trying to aim at moving fashion targets.
We were stoked to get the chance to talk to Celia about dressing sustainably while still looking snappy as a Councillor. Especially in the lead-up to the Wellington Mayoral elections, it's great to see how an environmental conscience doesn't stop at the fashion gate (so to speak), and, at any time, it's refreshing to see politicians do what they preach. Celia, you got my vote!
What is your motivation behind making sustainable fashion decisions?
Getting ready for the Mayoral campaign has been a learning curve I've relished. As well as explaining new policy and good achievements like safer cycling, light rail, computer access for refugees, cleaner city harbour, ultrafast broadband, Fairtrade Capital and community gardens, now I have to dress to show I can lead the city, without sacrificing my values – or over-spending. Fortunately, choosing clothes can be fun and sustainable!
How do you go about finding the right stuff?
After a few colour tips from Samantha Hannah, I met some very sympathetic Wellington fashion designers and added to my op shop collections. A quick explore when I'm passing the Salvation Army in Rintoul St, Taranaki St or Tawa is usually worthwhile, even for basics like jeans. In more up-market spots in Cuba Street like the Recycle Boutique or, for something really special, Ziggurat, I often find a beautiful bargain. Jewelry is either a few well-loved pieces from my mother, made by myself or sourced from Trade Aid for a splash of colour.
What did you score in your latest quest?
I wanted smart pieces in cream so I enjoyed choosing a linen jacket from Untouched World, a silk shirt from Starfish and an end-of-line bargain from Voon. I'm sure these choices will last me for many years. Janet Dunn has set up ReDunn Fashions to up-cycle pre-loved clothing and I bought this amusing jacket at her first soirée. Natural fabrics, recycled gear and new ethical items make a happy combination -lovely clothes and good businesses.
Left: Full-length-jacket $17 from Salvation Army, Taranaki St. Suit from Secondo, Tinakori Rd. Beads from my mother. Shoes – I think I got married in these!
Right: This was at the Brooklyn Community Gardens last weekend, planting a tamarillo I took from my home garden. Andrea Moore top from the Brooklyn Frock Schwap. Scarf from mother. Trousers from some Salvation Army store.
Right: Jacket from the 6th Annual Preloved Fashion Sale. Silk blouse (feels fabulous!) from Starfish. Beads from Trade Aid.
A bit behind, but oh well, it's been a busy week.
Last weekend there was a workshop on Sustainable Style at the Southern Cross, organised by the 42collective. World Sweet World took part, showing people how to turn an old jersey into mittens and a scarf, based on the project received from Tara Robertson.
It was a lot of fun, with Emily Cotter showing how to mend/ hemm/ make something new from something old and Connie Nisbet sowing a dress out of a sheet.


Coverage of our Dying Matter's Week exhibition at: Young, C. 2018. Ancient cultures' rituals and traditions used to spark conversations about death. Telegraph and Argus (16th May 2018).
Büster, L. & Dayes, J. 2017. 'Can the Victorians Teach Us How to Talk About Death?', The 'I' (Thursday 17th August 2017), 31.


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Dual successes for Hammerschmidt for E.S. Ph.D. faculty member
Dr. Chad Hammerschmidt, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has received word that a proposal, entitled "Mercury Biogeochemistry on the Continental Shelf and Slope." will be funded by the National Science Foundation-Chemical Oceanography program.
E.S. Ph.D. faculty member, John Stireman, recently coauthored a paper that deals with a central issue in ecology
(L. A. Dyer, M. S. Singer, J. T. Lill, J. O. Stireman, G. L. Gentry, R. J. Marquis, R. E. Ricklefs, H. F. Greeney, D. L. Wagner, H. C. Morais, I. R. Diniz, T. A. Kursar, P. D. Coley. 2007. Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests. Nature 448, 696–699 (09 Aug 2007)
How many animal species are there and how are they distributed?
Recent studies of insect herbivore diversity and host range in tropical systems have suggested that early estimates of 50...
Student awarded fellowship from U.S. EPA
Christina Powell has been awarded a Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) fellowship from the United States EPA. These fellowships, which provde stipend, tuition, and research funds, are highly competitive.
Ms. Powell's topic is: Degradation of Potential of Chlorinated Ethenes in the Rhizosphere of Wetland Plants.
Gian Guzman-Verri Discovery
In 2007, then MS student Gian Guzman-Verri (now a PhD student at University of California, Riverside) discovered that a single-layer sheet of silicon can have so-called electronic Dirac cones, a property that has made graphene world-famous and led to the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. The flat sheet of silicon was named "silicene" in a paper published by Guzman-Verri and his advisor, Dr. Lew Yan Voon, in the...
Wright State environmental scientist receives $900,000 grant to help clean up polluted American harbors
Most of the harbors in America are in trouble. The culprit is pollution. These seaports have been described as the largest and most poorly regulated sources of urban pollution in the country.
One of the primary obstacles to correcting this problem is a lack of accurate and cost- effective ways to measure the pollution that is present to determine if clean-up is needed.
"The clean-up costs for these harbors and large rivers can be staggering, costing tens to hundreds of millions...
IDCAST Awarded a $28 million Third Frontier Wright Center of Innovation Grant
IDCAST, the Institute for Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology, was awarded a $28 million Third Frontier Wright Center of Innovation grant by the Ohio Board Of Regents. The team, led by University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), includes a team from the Physics Department as a partner. The physics team consists of Dr. Doug Petkie, with projects on terahertz applications, and Dr. Lok C. Lew Yan Voon with plans on setting up a computational lab for product...
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DNA & Intelligent Design
Date Tuesday - July 28, 2009
Guests Stephen Meyer, Daniel Durda
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Darwin Revisited
Evidence for Intelligent Design
Molecular Biology, Design, & Origins
A former geophysicist and college professor, Stephen C. Meyer argued for the existence of intelligent design (ID) based upon DNA, and scientific evidence from such fields as biology, physics, chemistry, and cosmology. These new discoveries have outstripped the Darwinian approach, which never addressed where first life came from, he said. The earliest cellular life that emerged 3.8 billion years ago, such as blue-green algae, wasn't simple at all according to molecular biology research. Rather, such cell life was a highly complex "factory" run on a DNA code that was akin to advanced technology, he detailed, and this DNA reflects the purposeful design of an intelligent force.
We don't necessarily need religion in the picture to conclude that ID is in effect, he said, but of the two theories of who the designer is-- extraterrestrials or a God being, Meyer favors the latter explanation. Evidence of design is in the very fabric of the universe itself, he commented.
Materialism is the view that everything in the universe can ultimately be explained in physical terms, yet matter is a bad candidate to be primordial reality, Meyer stated. Biological systems contain intricate informational structures and their origin cannot be explained by just physical forces, he said.
Jupiter's Impact
First hour guest, planetary scientist Dan Durda talked about the recent impact on Jupiter, and the likelihood of such an occurrence on Earth. Because of Jupiter's huge size (1,000 Earths could fit into its mass), it acts like a "cosmic vacuum cleaner," grabbing a lot of stray objects in the outer solar system that otherwise might come our way, he noted. Yet, events such as the 1908 impact over Tunguska might happen as often as every 300 years, he added.
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Acquisition and Funding Agreement for Two Primary Care Centres
Assura Group Limited ("Assura"), the leading primary care property investor and developer is pleased to announce that it has acquired the freehold of Leylands Medical Centre, Bradford and contracted to forward purchase a medical centre development in Danbury, Essex.
The property in Bradford has been acquired from the GPs who originally developed the 960 sq. metre medical centre, for £2.6 million. The property benefits from a passing rent of £162,000 and is let to the GP partners and Lloyds Pharmacy Limited, each on new 25 year lease terms.
In addition Assura has contracted to forward fund a new 1,200 sq. metre medical centre in Danbury, Essex for £3.2 million including costs. The development partner is a subsidiary of Ashley House plc and the building is due to complete towards the end of 2015. The property benefits from an agreement for lease with the GPs for 20 years, and was approved by the NHS prior to the changes to the primary care regime in April 2013.
Following the transactions Assura now owns 234 medical centres with a further five developments under construction. The total rent roll is now £48.9 million per annum. On completion of the five developments in progress this will increase by a further £1.4 million to £50.3 million.


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Growing up is a game.
The "Città dei bambini" is an educational play area for children from 2 to 13 years old, where is possible to play and to discover science and technology having fun.
In over 2000 m2 with 50 interactive multimedia exhibits, young visitors touch, observe and experiment different topics testing themselves to share a teaching experience in family.
In the weekend, on holidays and in some weekdays, are programmed laboratories, animations and theme paths dedicated to kids and children of all ages. Activities are included in the entry ticket.
Take a look at what's inside La città dei bambini e dei ragazzi – just click on "virtual tour" below.
For a full-screen vision click here.
It's never too early to learn. For this reason, children between 2 and 3 years have a dedicated area where they can discover the world playing.
There is a small enchanted forest where they can explore a cave, go into the house, climb a small bridge and cross the river. Of course in complete safety, an easy and fun way for children to interact to objects and their own body.
The discovery of the world however, awaits children between 3 and 5 years: in a real construction site, equipped with helmets, the kids play with small bricks, wheelbarrows, buckets and cranes.
The young scientific minds can test their skills with fun experiments with water and discover the wonder of the five senses through sensory experiences and sensopercettive.
In the area dedicated to kids aged 6 to 13, an extraordinary hive of ants, a pond with turtles and some examples of interactive games will touch the young visitors the wonders of the animal world. Can you make giant soap bubbles or even get inside a bubble? Of course you can … a fun way to understand how it is made a soap bubble! Did you know that physics can be fun? Come and see our games of lights and mirrors and a lot of optical illusions!
Finally in the area there's a space dedicated to energy and renewable sources and the new area Thinkering Lab where you can think, learn, and experience science through creativity, inquiry and exploration.
And if your children's dream is to become a journalist, we also have a real television studio, where you can find out all about WEportv, the new web TV made entirely by young people between 10 and 15 years !
There are so many things to do at the "Città dei Bambini" that one day is just not enough. For your full enjoyment different admission packages are available. You can buy a one day admission ticket or purchase for yourself or give as a gift the annual pass or the 5 admission ticket package.
Closed on Mondays except for special opening: every Monday of the months of April, May and August.
For hygienic reasons kids and children must wear non-slip socks (can be found for sale at the ticket booth for € 2,00).
Adults have to wear overshoe, made available for free from the facility. The access of adults without children is not allowed.


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Сте́фан Ша́пич (; ) — сербский футболист, защитник московского «Торпедо».

Биография
Родился в Белграде.

Воспитанник клуба «Чукарички».

27 марта 2016 года дебютировал в Суперлиге за «Чукарички» в матче против лучанской «Младости».

С августа 2016 года по февраль 2018 года, выступал на правах аренды за белградский «Синджелич».

8 сентября 2022 года подписал контракт с московским «Торпедо».

Статистика выступлений

Достижения
 «Чукарички»
 Бронзовый призёр чемпионата Сербии (3): 2015/16, , 2021/22

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Футболисты Сербии
Игроки ФК «Чукарички»
Игроки ФК «Синджелич» Белград
Игроки ФК «Торпедо» Москва

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En stor retrospektiv utstilling av Richard Avedons bilder åpner i International Center of Photography i New York (15. mai – 6. september). Avedon hadde «flair». Det må man ha for å bli en stor fotograf.
HE was keenly aware that beauty had an element of tragedy — it faded, for one thing, or it came at a terrible loss of self. Growing up, Avedon heard his mother say to his sister Louise, who would eventually die, at 42, in a mental institution, «You're so beautiful you don't have to open your mouth.» This notion that beauty can be intoxicating but, equally, impoverishing to the soul, Ms. Squiers said, tinged Avedon's early pictures with a feeling of compassion.
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Q: Formatting powershell output I am running the following PowerShell command, and am looking to only have the result for the C: drive returned. Nothing else.
Command:
gwmi win32_volume -Filter 'drivetype = 3' | select driveletter, @{Label="PercentFree";Expression= {"{0:N0}" -f ($_.freespace / $_.capacity)}}

Current Output:
driveletter                             PercentFree
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                                        41.95 %
C:                                      38.51 %

Desired Output:
C:                                      38.51 %

I can remove columns by say removing the "driveletter" from the command line. But I have no idea how to remove rows. Any ideas?

A: If you only want the C: drive why not just use a filter for the C:
Get-WmiObject win32_volume -Filter 'DriveLetter = "C:"' | select driveletter, @{Label="PercentFree";Expression= {"{0:N0}" -f ($data.freespace / $data.capacity * 100)}}

I fixed the percentage logic since a 0. anything should be lost with :N0. I only get one return with this.
I think this is cheating but you could also just pipe the output into a where-Object
... | Where-Object{$_.DriveLetter}

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I thought you were wondering where the extra row was coming from. I overlooked you wanted to remove the headers. This would give you want you want
 Get-WmiObject win32_volume -Filter 'DriveLetter = "C:"' |
     select driveletter, @{Label="PercentFree";Expression= {"{0:N0}" -f ($data.freespace / $data.capacity * 100)}} |
     Format-Table -HideTableHeaders

Or how about just this then:
Get-WmiObject win32_volume -Filter 'DriveLetter = "C:"' |
    ForEach-Object{"{0} - {1}%" -f $_.driveletter,"{0:N2}" -f ($data.freespace / $data.capacity * 100)}

C: - 49.88%

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Academia team steps up NREN establishment initiative in Mauritius
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A dedicated team led by public university staff in Mauritius has stepped up efforts to establish a National Research and Education Network (NREN) of the island nation.
Mauritius is one of the 10 countries from the UbuntuNet Alliance region that are in process of establishing their NRENs and the UbuntuNet Alliance is keen to help the nation set up an NREN and eventually connect the NREN to the UbuntuNet Network.
Efforts to establish an NREN in Mauritius started over the past years and this year, the NREN champions have intensified efforts with a high level consultative meeting slated for November this year where a team from UbuntuNet Alliance will be in attendance.
The NREN Support Committee from Mauritius, led by Dr. Vandana Bassoo and Roshan Halkhoree from the University of Mauritius as well as Dr. Clarel Catherine from the University of Technology say that the team received a grant from AUF (l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie) to help with the ground work of establishing an NREN, adding that the team is set to ensure that the Mauritius NREN dream is finally turned into reality.
"The team is advancing its initiative to have an NREN and currently we would like to close in on the major aspects on the NREN realization which include the technical, financial and legal considerations. Our plan is to have the Government backing the set-up of a Mauritian NREN at the earliest so that implementation works start, maybe as early as 2020,' said Dr. Catherine.
On its part, UbuntuNet Alliance is excited to be involved in this process and CEO, Dr. Matthews Mtumbuka confirms the efforts from the team are in line with the strategic vision of the Alliance.
'"Mauritius is one of the countries we have been targeting to connect for the past few years because of its strategic importance. The fast paced technological development in the country need the contribution of researchers and students connected to a reliable, dedicated, high speed and affordable network like UbuntuNet. The Alliance is therefore excited to help in the setting up of the NREN in Mauritius by playing an advisory, capacity building and mentorship role," he said.
Other countries from the UbuntuNet Alliance region that are yet to have NRENs include Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, South Sudan, Comoros Island and Swaziland and the Alliance is putting efforts in establishing NRENs in these countries.


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Q: How can I prove an integral equation? I got stuck with this problem, while studying distributions and applications to differential equations, and cannot get out of it: if $r:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is the function $r(t)=e^{-3 \left|t\right|}$, how can I check that exists $u \in L^2 (\mathbb{R})$ solution of the equation $u(t)=r(t)+\int_{\mathbb{R}}u(x)r(t-x)dx$?
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Graduation from car seat to booster is a big step for your growing little one. As anxious as you may be to get rid of that mammoth of a car seat, don't take this step too soon. The five-point harness on car seats provides the best protection for your tot. Children younger than age 4 who weigh less than 40 pounds should be in a five-point harness; children younger than 2 should be in a rear-facing car seat, says the American Academy of Pediatrics. No matter how much your toddler insists he's a "big boy," don't transition until he's really outgrown his car seat.
No, you don't get to put the top down on this model, though car seat convertibles do have their advantages. This kind of car seat converts to a booster as your kiddo grows. Convertibles can save you the trouble of finding the best booster when your little guy gets bigger and outgrows the car seat. When he hits that magic 40-pound mark — or whatever the limit of your car seat is — easily turn his throne into a booster. Convertibles usually have the side protection that allows your toddler to doze off on the drive without having his head fall forward.
Boosters with high backs and side wings help protect your child's head in an accident and also give him a place to lean his head when he finally poops out. For a toddler, look for a booster with a five-point harness; these consist of two shoulder straps, two hip straps and a crotch strap. A booster with a back and a harness will provide the same protection as a car seat, but it will also take up just about the same amount of room, although boosters tend to be slightly narrower than full-size car seats.
Backless boosters aren't very comfortable if your road warrior still falls asleep in the car on a regular basis. Unlike traditional car seats, the backless booster provides no side support for his head, which will flop forward or to one side when he konks out. While this normally won't hurt him, it looks painful and could increase the risk of neck injury in a sudden stop. As long as your toddler's ears are below the top of the back seat, a backless booster is safe to use if he's outgrown the car seat, according to the website What to Expect.
Although not quite as frustrating as potty training, training your squirmy worm to sit properly in a booster also has its trying moments. If your little adventurer spends his time on the road leaning sideways playing with trucks or toy soldiers on the seat, the booster isn't going to do its job in an accident. This is one reason to keep him in a car seat with a harness as long as possible — it holds him in place better than the car seat belt does; if the belt isn't positioned correctly in a crash or sudden stop, it won't protect him properly. Don't let your toddler ride in a booster seat until he's able to sit up straight — and stay there — while you're driving.
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ABC Cancels 'Roseanne' Show over Racist Remark
Roseanne Barr arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Roseanne" on Friday, March 23, 2018 in Burbank, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
The American television network ABC has canceled its top-rated show, "Roseanne." The network made its decision shortly after the show's star, Roseanne Barr, published a racist tweet.
Early Tuesday, Barr wrote on Twitter, "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj."
"VJ" is Valerie Jarrett, who served as an adviser to former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle. She is African American. Barr's tweet suggested she was a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and the movie "Planet of the Apes."
Barr made note of Jarrett in answer to Twitter comments about conspiracy theories during Obama's presidency. Conservative Twitter users had brought up Jarrett as being connected to those conspiracies.
Social media users immediately criticized Barr's tweet. She later deleted it.
She also later apologized, tweeting, "I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me — my joke was in bad taste."
The president of ABC Entertainment, Channing Dungey, said Barr's comment was "abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel the show."
Disney chairman Bob Iger supported the decision. He wrote, "There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing." Disney is the parent company of ABC.
Congressman John Lewis is a well-known American civil rights leader. He wrote, "Thank you, @ABCNetwork. You did the right thing. There is not any room in our society for racism or bigotry."
While reporting on ABC's decision to cancel the show, Shep Smith of the Fox network said, "Racism is not funny and Roseanne Barr is a racist."
"Roseanne" is about a working-class family. The series first aired on ABC from 1988 to 1997. It was among the most-watched television shows in the United States during its nine seasons.
The latest season of the show was a surprising success. It was the highest-rated and the most-watched series among broadcast networks.
The revival had been especially popular with conservative viewers. Barr was the show's lead writer. She also played the lead character, who was a supporter of President Donald Trump.
I'm Ashley Thompson.
In this image released by ABC, Roseanne Barr, left, and John Goodman appear in a scene from the reboot of "Roseanne," premiering on Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST. (Adam Rose/ABC via AP)
Hai Do wrote this story for VOA Learning English with additional reporting from AP. Ashley Thompson was the editor.
Words in This Story
racist - adj. a belief that some races of people are better than others
ape - n. an animal closely related to monkeys and humans
conspiracy - n. a secret plan to do something that is harmful or illegal
abhorrent - adj. deserving strong dislike or hatred
repugnant - adj. causing a strong feeling of disgust
inconsistent - adj. not in agreement with something
bigotry - n. an act or belief of hate against members of a particular racial or religious group
revival - n. a new production of an old show
character - n. a person who appears in a show, movie, book, etc.
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A major trekking route from Yousmarg eads to a famous spot called Tosa Maidan, a large meadow used for cattle grasing by nomads. This area is connected through rough routes to places like Gulmarg and Poonch. The region is full of springs , the one at Khag is most famous for the curative properties. The natural slopes of Yousmarg offer skiing opportunities to experts. School camps and adventure lovers make a week to fortnights stay at Yousmarg for the thrilling trekking routes around.Day treks are mostly commenced by the visitors. Stay in personal tents is recommended for the visitors intending to stay for longer duration. The expeditions to the various peaks in the range can be organized through the Travel Inn Tour & Travels in Srinagar.
Local buses ply only upto Chrair e sharief, tourists are advised to hire a taxi from Srinagar or take the assistance of a Travel Inn. The road from chrar e sharief to Yousmarg remains closed during the winters.
Since Yousmarg is not so crowded like other tourist destinations, accommodation here is available only at JKTDC Tourist Bungalows & Hutments. The trekkers are advised to carry tents and other necessary food items for the stay. Travel Inn Tour & Travels assistance for organized all inclusive tours is recommended.


Helsinki, Finland, 19 August 2009 -- Metso will start personnel negotiations regarding permanent employee reductions and temporary lay-offs in the Finnish operations of Metso's Automation business line. The negotiations affect the entire personnel of the Flow Control business unit, which manufactures industrial valves, and Automation business line's shared administration and support functions. In the Process Automation Systems business unit the negotiations primarily target the personnel working in the paper and pulp industry function in Finland. The negotiations affect a total of about 1400 blue-collar and white-collar employees and are estimated to result in the reduction of a total of some 120-160 permanent positions.
Additionally, the temporary lay-off negotiations targeting the Flow Control business unit and the shared functions of Automation, are estimated to affect 90-150 people.
The primary reason for the adjustment is reduced demand resulting from the permanent structural change in the paper and pulp industry and the delayed investments by energy industry customers in virtually every market area as a result of the global economic crisis. Strong order backlog has kept the workload in the Flow Control business unit relatively good until this summer, but the weak level of new orders during the first half of the year has decreased the workload to a lower level. Customers' decision-making affects on the unit's workload from 9 to 12 months afterwards. The personnel negotiations aim to adjust operations to meet the needs of our customer industries.
Possible alternatives to decrease the number of reductions will be examined in the negotiations. Operations also will be adjusted to correspond to the decreased demand by reducing the use of temporary and leased labor. The extent to which the adjustment measures target the different personnel groups will be clarified during the negotiations.
The goal is to ensure that the level of customer service remains high despite the negotiations. Metso's Automation business line employs more than 1500 people in Finland in 21 locations; its biggest sites are located in Helsinki and Tampere. It has about 760 employees in Helsinki and about 560 in Tampere. The Automation business line employs a total of about 3700 people globally and has operations in close to 40 countries.
Metso (www.metso.com) is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for mining, construction, power generation, automation, recycling and the pulp and paper industries. The company has about 28,000 employees in more than 50 countries.


1. I NEVER DID LIKE TIME CHANGES! Your body gets used to a certain schedule & your body clocks are all set for that schedule' & suddenly twice a year they go changing the time on you, cheating on time, either moving it up or back or whatever & get your body all confused! It's like cheating!
2. YOU KNOW, ROOSEVELT WAS THE FIRST ONE TO DO THAT! He was such a dictator & changed so many other things that there were some fanatical fundamentalist Christians who accused him of being the Antichrist because he sought to change times & seasons! (Dan.7:25.) Well' he was kind of a prototype of the Antichrist in many ways.
3. HE WAS SOCIALISTIC, HE DIVIDE THE SPOIL WITH THE POOR, he brought a false peace & then plunged us into the worst war the World ever had! He ruled the United States longer than any other President until he was virtually a dictator & they worshipped him. He changed a lot of things, including the date for Thanksgiving, & probably would have changed Christmas if he thought he could get away with it!
4. HE WAS THE ONE THAT STARTED THE NEW TIME CHANGES IN SPRING & FALL which the United States calls Daylight-Saving Time, & was supposedly made for the benefit of the workers so that they could knock off work earlier & there'd be more daylight left for them to play in.
5. BUT OF COURSE IT ALSO KIND OF SQUEEZED THEM ON THE OTHER END OF THE DAY so they had to get up earlier, actually, & sometimes in some places in the dark. They've also claimed it's a safety measure so that the driving of most workers will be in daylight, which is why they shifted back to the later hour in the Winter so they won't have to get up before dark.
6. I DON'T THINK I LIKE THOSE TIME CHANGES! I remember when they were first introduced. A lot of old-fashioned farmer folk & Christians etc. scoffed at the time change & some of them even refused to change their clocks & called it "Roosevelt's Time", & the old time they called "God's Time". And if you asked them what time it was' they asked, "Do you want to know God's Time or Roosevelt's Time?"—And I think they were about right!
7. BUT BECAUSE THE U.S. DID IT, IT LED THE WHOLE WORLD INTO FOLLOWING SUIT, particularly since the U.S. came out of the war as the winner & the World leader, so everybody was following the United States, & even the World economy was dictated by "dollar diplomacy". The U.S. genuinely ruled the World until Russia got the atom bomb sold to them by two Jews, the Rosenbergs—who were subsequently executed for it—but which, of course, won't help the millions, who are going to die as a result!—For which Truman can also take a lot of credit!
8. I DON'T THINK I LIKE ROOSEVELT'S TIME OR WHAT THEY CALL DAYLIGHT-SAVING TIME or the new Summer Time. In the States the Summer Daylight-Saving Time was also nicknamed "fast time" because you set your clocks an hour ahead & you got there quicker! Winter time was called "slow time", the old-fashioned Greenwich Mean Time by which the Greenwich Observatory in London still operates, as well as BBC, as well as astrologers when they're figuring your horoscope!
9. SO WHY SHOULD WE CHANGE OUR NATURAL NORMAL SCHEDULE TO WHICH WE'RE ACCUSTOMED & all the children are used to so that they normally get hungry at a certain time or sleepy at a certain time or wake up at a certain time? Why should we force them to change this by one hour backward or forward twice a year? It's really confusing! I really think it's of the Devil!
10. IT WOULD BE JUST LIKE THE ANTICHRIST SYSTEM TO CHANGE TIMES & SEASONS! They've managed to change the times, I don't know how they're going to change the seasons. Maybe they're going to change the names or something like they've changed the names of so many countries since the two World Wars that you can hardly recognise the countries on the World map today. There must be at least a hundred new countries & a hundred new names for old ones.
11. THE DEVIL REALLY LIKES TO KEEP CHANGING THINGS & GETTING YOU ALL MIXED UP because he's the author of confusion (1Cor.14:33), & it certainly confuses me to change time just because the government time tells me it's an hour later! I don't think that's going to help me wake up a bit earlier or get hungry earlier or sleepy earlier. Neither do I think that in the Fall when they change it back again that I'm going to wake up any later in the Winter or my stomach's going to wait for dinner or I'm going to be able to stay awake any longer!
12. I REALLY DON'T LIKE THESE GOVERNMENTAL TIME CHANGES ORDAINED BY MAN! I prefer the original times set by the natural elements, one second being one beat of the heart, one minute being sixty beats, which makes approximately 12 hours a day & 12 hours a night!
13. IN THE TROPICAL REGIONS CLOSER TO THE EQUATOR THERE'S NOT SO MUCH DIFFERENCE, there's not so much difference between night & day things are more natural & normal & not extreme as they are in the far North where the days & nights sometimes last for months & the sun stays up all day & all night or it's dark all day & all night for months.
14. THIS IS NOT NATURAL OR NORMAL & GOD DIDN'T INTEND FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE IN SUCH HORRIBLE PLACES & CLIMATES where this kind of condition held sway, & in fact, I believe that perhaps the Earth's axis was not even tilted in the beginning before the Fall or before the Flood or before the Cataclysm which divided the Earth in the days of Peleg & sank Atlantis. (Gen.10:25) Perhaps in the beginning everybody's days were about the same & nights as well.
15. BUT AT LEAST WE KNOW THERE WAS NOT A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE WAS NOT A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE IN THE MIDEAST, the Fertile Crescent from the Arabian Gulf to Egypt. This is the ancient area where man began & where life & time & climate & living conditions were fairly normal & what could have been considered reasonable & easily survivable, still much like the Garden of Eden.
16. I BELIEVE THAT BOTH THE FLOOD & THE CATACLYSMIC DIVISION OF THE EARTH & the disappearance of the waters above the firmament which shielded us from lethal cosmic rays have made a drastic & dramatic difference in the climate, weather, soil & living conditions of man throughout the Earth, particularly in the colder areas & desert regions.
17. WHEREAS THE RAIN FORESTS OF THE TROPICAL BELT ARE PROBABLY STILL MUCH AS THEY WERE IN THE BEGINNING OF CREATION when God made the Earth a Paradise in which to live, like the Garden of Eden, when the climate was so mild man didn't even need clothes' & food was so abundant he could pick it off the trees, & the weather so pleasant he didn't need shelter!
18. MAN'S BASIC NEEDS OF TODAY FOR FOOD, CLOTHING & SHELTER FOR SURVIVAL WERE PERFECTLY SATISFIED IN THAT DAY with plenty of food & no need for clothing or shelter & no rain, no cold, no storms, but with sufficient humidity to water the surface of the Earth with a gentle mist.—There were no deserts & perhaps not even the severe mountains of today which could have been thrown up by the Cataclysm of the division of the Earth when Atlantis sank, or carved out by the draining off of the waters of the Flood, & when there was not nearly as much sea.
19. FOR WE KNOW THAT GOD'S IDEAL FOR THE FUTURE OF THE EARTH IS GOING TO BE A VAST LAND AREA WITH NO MORE SEAS! God's Word says so specifically, "And the high mountains shall be made low." (Isa.40:4, Rev.21:1.) And I'm sure the climate will be perfect & heavenly & the surface of the Earth like the Garden of Eden, because the Bible says so & I've been there!
20. I'VE SEEN IT & I KNOW IT'S BEAUTIFUL & IT ALREADY EXISTS THAT WAY in what we call the future' but which God calls the New Heaven & the New Earth "when time shall be no more"! (Rev.10:6.) It already exists in another dimension which I have visited in dreams & visions, & it's glorious & beautiful & marvellous & wonderful' & man can't change the time any more because there won't be any!—Only God's great Eternal Now & Forever & "time shall be no more"! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! In Jesus' name' amen!


The recent explosion in ballroom dancing has led to the formation of dozens of new schools in the area. Carmel ballroom dance lessons can be a great way to not only learn a new type of dancing but to get in touch with one's body and really explore the nuances of physical movement. The best part is that learning ballroom dance allows dancers the opportunity to learn a variety of dances and dancing styles, which in turn helps develop their strengths as a performer.


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Ninja Theory Announces Hellblade For PS4
By Ryan Winslett
Ninja Theory has been teasing a new game for weeks now and, during this morning's Gamescom PlayStation press event, the team finally pulled back the curtain on its new gritty action game, Hellblade.
From Heavenly Sword to Enslaved to DMC: Devil May Cry, Ninja Theory has always been about making games that boast high flying action and over-the-top combat. Their latest game, Hellblade, seems to be blending a little bit of everything they've done in the past into a single new game for PlayStation. Based on the handful of screenshots we've seen so far, as well as the reveal trailer, it looks like Hellblade will boast a lead character and settings more in line with Heavenly Sword and Enslaved, with a darker, bloodier edge reminiscent of DMC.
I'm just going to go ahead and say it: That lady looks like a grown-up version of Kai from Heavenly Sword and, maybe it's just wishful thinking, but how rad would it be if this is actually a sequel to that early PlayStation 3 action romp? Heavenly Sword was a bit on the short side, but I really enjoyed its mix of combat, beautiful environments and lore. It also had an amazing cast of bizarre characters.
I'm probably reading way too much into this short trailer, but not only does the main character look like Kai, physically, but she has the paint smeared across her eyes (black insead of red this time), and a couple of angles make it look like she even has smaller versions of those cat ears on her bandana. Again, it's entirely possible that I'm just seeing what I want to see here, but even the name, Hellblade, seems like a perfect name for a Heavenly Sword sequel.
Ninja Theory Communications Manager, Dominic Matthews, had a bit more to say about the enigmatic game over on the PlayStation Blog this morning.
"Over the course of the last 14 years we've developed three key strengths that define our games: ninja-class combat, strong character stories, and a unique art vision," he said. "In our new digital game, Hellblade, we want to take these three key strengths to the next level. Hellblade will be an experience focused on delivering a deep character in a twisted world, with brutal, uncomprimising combat."
Dominic Matthews goes on to explain that Hellblade is being self-published to allow for complete creative freedom. As such, he said to expect a AAA experience, but in a more concise package and at a smaller price point.
Unfortunately, Matthews also states that Hellblade is being show off very early in development, as the team wants to include the community in the process. Translation: It's probably going to be a good long while before we can actually play this.
Ryan Winslett
Staff Writer for CinemaBlend.
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p21 inhibits cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) activity and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)-dependent DNA replication by binding to CDK/cyclin complexes and to PCNA through distinct domains. The human papillomavirus (HPV)-16 E7 oncoprotein (16E7) abrogated a DNA damage-induced cell cycle arrest in vivo, despite high levels of p21. Using cell lysates and purified proteins we show that 16E7 prevented p21 both from inhibiting CDK2/cyclin E activity and PCNA-dependent DNA replication, whereas the nononcogenic HPV-6 E7 had reduced effects. Inactivation of both inhibitory functions of p21 was attained through binding between 16E7 and sequences in the carboxy-terminal end of p21 that overlap with the PCNA-binding site and the second p21 cyclin-binding motif. These data imply that the carboxyl terminus of p21 simultaneously modulates both CDK activity and PCNA-dependent DNA replication and that a single protein, 16E7, can override this modulation to disrupt normal cell cycle control.


My wife has organized a wonderful family trip to South Africa for the last six weeks of 2008. With the high cost of airfare, it's difficult for us to make this trip–the last time she had been able to visit was in October 2002, when Charlie was only a toddler and she was still pregnant with Suzie. This time, Charlie is 8 and Suzie is 5 and I'm able to join them, although I've had to work full-time while here. Still, it's nice having the ability to travel with the family and see them every day while we're here.
Now, I've been to South Africa twice before, once in 1996 and again in 1998. When asked what I think of South Africa, my opinion hasn't changed since my first visit: it is very possibly the best country on Earth to visit. This seems to surprise people, but I suspect that's because the world at large's opinion is based on the scare-mongering that you get from expatriate South Africans who have fled in fear. Just remember, for a country of some 47-million-plus people, the few South Africans you meet here and there in America aren't necessarily a fair sample.
As you can see, the dates are color-coded to make it easier to tell where we are and when at a glance. We're covering a lot of ground and it's hard to keep track, otherwise.
We left New Jersey on November 19, departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York and arriving at OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20. The flight is approximately 18 hours long including a brief one hour ground stop in Dakar, Senegal. Apparently, South African Airways will introduce a non-stop flight from JFK to JNB in May 2009, which from what I can figure, will shorten the flight to around 15 hours. Whatever the case, it's a long time to go without a cigarette! Non-smoking international flights are a bit cruel, to say the least.
As we travel around the country, we are using my in-laws, Cynthia and Graham's, place in Victory Park, Johannesburg, as our hub. It's a convenient distance from the airport, less than an hour drive. This is where we "come home" to throughout our trip.
Cynthia and Graham generously arranged for all of us to spend a week at Kwa Maritane in Pilanesburg. Although there was a terrible fire that destroyed a significant portion of the lodge back in August, we still had a fantastic stay.
The week was filled with lots of fun game drives through the park where we saw a wide range of animals: warthogs, zebras, giraffes, buffalo, wildebeast, springbok, kudu, impala, hyena, white rhino, elephant and lion. Unlike a zoo, where these animals are conveniently displayed in exhibits, a game drive is just like it sounds, where you're driving in your car throughout the park, keeping a keen eye out for whatever wildlife you might be able to spot. What you actually see or whether you see anything at all depends on whether you can spot them in the bush. I think the kids had a great time and they're both excellent spotters, already.
Both of the girls love the water and Kwa Maritane has quite a nice pool with quite a long slide into it. The kids spent a good amount of time at the pool, enjoying the wonderful weather we had.
One night, Sam and I went out for dinner to Sun City, the casino that Sol Kerzner is famous for. We decided to give the sushi at Fishmongers a try, only to discover that South African "sushi" when it comes to the actual raw fish means "salmon or tuna." That's it. No, I'm not kidding. It's the culinary equivalent of putting "pasta" on the menu and actually serving Spaghetti-O's. Now, I'm sure it's a matter of demand, but really? Still, we had a nice time and the food was fine.
After dinner, we waddled over to the actual casino area, which I almost find hard to call a casino–it's just banks of video slot machine games. Again, having American expectations of what a "casino" should be, this isn't it. Gambling should be somewhat social, where people play together at the same table. Simply mashing buttons on a computer, iterating the pseudo-random number generator, trying to produce a desired outcome … that's not gambling, that's work! Still, I managed to earn us a ten-fold return on our investment playing Fairy's Fortune–a really fun game, I have to admit. All told, it paid for our dinner, a bunch of beers and will continue to pay for my cigarettes throughout this trip.
We returned to Johannesburg–or, "Jo'burg"–for a week. This gave us the opportunity to take the kids to a few places nearby.
One day, we all went to the Cradle of Humankind and took the tour through Maropeng. It's a really nicely done tour and exhibit set, but the uber-liberal eco-faggy bent to it was a little disappointing. The excessive propaganda cheapens any actual historical or factual evidence being presented, which is a shame. The girls also went in to check out the Sterkfontein Caves, which I opted to skip–if you've seen one hole in the dirt, you've seen 'em all.
Another day, we took the kids to see the South African Lipizzaners in Kyalami. Since both of the girls love horseback riding–they've had weekly riding lessons since they were 4 years old–seeing the Lipizzaners was great! The riders are all so friendly and chatted to us before and after the show, telling us about the various horses they have as well as answering our questions. The show explains the history of these horses and how they happened to come to South Africa from Austria, as well as the rigor of training for both the horse and the rider. The kids also had great fun feeding the horses carrots after the show, running between stables feeding their favorites.
We also found time one day to visit the theme park at Gold Reef City. We saw a demonstration of traditional South African dance, both tribal and mine-worker style. Samantha wanted to take the kids on the gold mine tour, but apparently there's some strange law–or so we were told–about not allowing children under 6 (Suzie's only 5) under ground, so we skipped it. I would have liked to check out the Apartheid Museum, since my first experience of South Africa in 1996 was already after Mandela's election in 1994, to see how things had been, but we opted to skip it. Maybe we can come back to check it out before we return to America.
Sam's godfather and his wife, Neil and Penny, had generously offered to let us stay with them for a week at their home in Pringle Bay, which is situated right on the beach an hour outside of Cape Town along the coast.
Pringle Bay is just gorgeous. It reminds me of northern California, but much, much windier. I mean, the winds are so strong that when we took the kids to the beach, the sandblasting was so painful they said, "We don't like the beach!" I really didn't like it much, either–I mean, every time the wind blew, you either had to turn away from it, or end up with a faceful of sand.
So, the next day, Neil and Penny took us to Lake Pippple-Popple, where the water was a deep red like Coca-Cola. The water runs down from the mountain where some plants' roots contribute this red color to the water. It's fresh and crystal clear, but tinted dark red. The kids enjoyed splashing around in it because it was far less windy there.
One day, we travelled into Cape Town to visit Kips and Fiona and their boys. Samantha and Penny took the girls and the two older boys to the aquarium while I stayed behind to work with Kips. When they returned from the aquarium, the girls had great fun swinging on ropes hung from a very old tree in the yard. Suzie spent most of her time carrying around little Johnny–it was so very cute to see them together.
Throughout the week, even dinner was fun. We collected wood from around the house for the fires that we would braai with. One night, we were treated to a chicken potjie, cooked right in the fireplace at the house. We also had a taste of fresh rock lobster caught by some kids on the beach! On the night before we left Cape Town, we had dinner at a restaurant named @365 in Pringle that was absolutely fantastic, too. Given that I "vacation with my stomach" because I love to eat, this was the first week that I truly felt like I was on holiday.
Coming back to Jo'burg from the Cape, we decided to just stay around the house and take it easy. Shortly before we left for the Cape, the girls were introduced to a young boy named Joshua who lives in the same complex as Cynthia and Graham. So, when we came back, the kids all played together while we were back.
Samantha and I hadn't gotten to introducing ourselves to his mother, Janice, until now. It's actually fortunate that we finally have, because it's officially turned this into a business consulting trip for me. Janice owns a company named Wellness Project Management that produces and publishes health and safety information materials. She has various IT projects that she needs done and I'll be able to help her with them remotely, once I'm back in the US. But, while I'm here, I can see what she currently has and how she does things and make some short-term recommendations and explain some long-term plans for meeting her goals.
I still need to find out how I can officially form a business here in South Africa, but for now I've at least secured the panoptic.co.za domain name. I'll try to open a bank account for the business and file the appropriate paperwork to register it before we leave. It would be really nice to be able to make this trip to South Africa more often and it be a business trip with respect to tax treatment.
We're spending Christmas with Samantha's uncle Derrick and his family in Paddock which is about two hours outside of Durban. As our Christmas gift, Cynthia paid for us to take the Premier Classe train from Johannesburg to Durban overnight, where Derrick would pick us up and drive us the rest of the way to Paddock the following morning.
As far as trains go, this one was deluxe. The passenger compartments were roomy and the seating was very comfortable. We shared two compartments between the four of us, which worked out really nicely. There's a train car set up as a bar for smokers to go to while the rest of the train was non-smoking. There were two dining cars on the train where dinner and breakfast were served. It's a really comfortable way to travel compared to driving or flying.
Our only real complaint about the train trip is that it's clearly geared towards what I'll refer to as "fancy old people," because the dinner meal consisted of five courses and only started at 7:00 PM! When you have two young kids with you who are usually in bed and asleep by 7:00 PM, you can see why this was an issue. Clearly, the long meal is designed to kill time on the train as there really isn't much else to do other than eat or sleep, but it would be wise for the train operators to offer a meal option to accomodate children passengers. Our girls were falling asleep at the table by 9:00 PM and we hadn't even been served the main entree course, yet. Still, this was only a minor detail as the trip overall was truly relaxing and enjoyable.
So, that sums up what has happened so far, which, if it sounds like a lot, just realize that I've also been putting in full 8+ hour work days while here. Oh, did I not mention that? Yes, I'm taking advantage of the time zone difference, currently a 7 hour difference between US/Eastern (UTC-5) and SAST (UTC+2), which means working from 3pm to midnight here corresponding to 8am-5pm back in NJ. I'm sure most people think this is crazy, but I subscribe to the "work hard, play hard, no excuses" philosophy. You have to make time–find ways to make time–to do the things that matter to you. It might not be easy, but it's certainly worth it.
I'll try to post more updates as the trip continues. If you read this far, thanks–I hope you've enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed writing it!
I haven't posted anything to my blog in the last 3.5 weeks. If I said "we've been busy" it would be an extreme understatement.
Apparently, South African Airways runs some kind of Linux for their in-flight entertainment system.
Of course, on the leg of the trip from New York to Senegal, the flight staff kept rebooting the system trying to get it to work, with very little luck. Most of the time we just stared at the Linux boot process hanging, trying to talk to the NFS server. Fortunately, they got it working for the Senegal to South Africa leg of the trip.
Just a quick post with a few speed tests captured at Cresta Shopping Center in Johannesburg and at Sun City near Pilanesburg.
This morning I stopped into the Vodacom store in Cresta Shopping Center, where I picked up a Huawei Mobile Connect E172 USB adapter for around R2,400 (roughly USD $240) without a contract. I purchased a SIM card for another R12, and signed up for a 5GB/mo data bundle for R980.
First impression: If this is 3G, then 3G just isn't that impressive. Right from the shopping center, my speed tests were showing 82 ms pings (nice!) but only 1,075 kb/s down and 324 kb/s up. It's very usable, but nowhere close to the "7.2 mbit/s" sales pitch of 3G. Still, the low latency makes it suitable for VoIP calling which is great.
What does impress me is the fact that right now I am sitting in Pilanesburg at Kwa Maritane and I'm able to get a GPRS connection, 539 ms ping with 47 kb/s down and 28 kb/s up. I'm practically "in the middle of nowhere" and I can still get GPRS. Back in America, this would almost certainly be a dead spot with no reception at all.
I'll be here for the week, trying to survive on this slow connection–it's okay for pushing and pulling emails without attachments and simpler web pages, but it's going to make doing most of my work really challenging. I might have to pop down to Sun City to see if I can get better speeds to work with.
Arrived in South Africa safe and sound as well as all our luggage. The kids were freaking awesome–they're really cut out to be world travellers. I even survived the 18 hour stretch without a cigarette, without being all cranky and stuff.
Tomorrow, we head into Cresta Shopping Center so I can pick up a HSPDA/3G card for my MacBook Pro and a few SIM cards for our BlackBerry phones so we can make local calls.
I'm being called downstairs for dinner, but I'll try to fill in some more details when I get a chance.
I haven't blogged about this yet, but tonight, we leave for South Africa for six weeks. We're taking the kids with us, and they're going to miss a few weeks of school in exchange for what will hopefully be an invaluable learning experience.
We will be visiting my spouse's fairly large family all over the place. There will be places to go and people to see. We'll be there through the holidays, returning in the new year.
I will be online as much as I can be through various connectivity methods–it'll be interesting to see where and how I can get connected around the country.
If there are any South Africans reading this blog, feel free to share any tips or suggestions you might have. Thanks.


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NYSE:HES - Hess Stock Price, Forecast & News
Adding Hess Corp.
Hess Corporation, an exploration and production company, explores for, develops, produces, purchases, transports, and sells crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and natural gas. It operates through two segments, Exploration and Production, and Midstream. The company conducts production operations primarily in the United States, Denmark, the Malaysia/Thailand Joint Development Area, and Malaysia; and exploration activities primarily offshore Guyana, Suriname, Canada, and in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More…
Industry Petroleum refining
Sub-IndustryIntegrated Oil & Gas
SectorOils/Energy
Current SymbolNYSE:HES
CUSIP42809H10
CIK4447
Webhttp://www.hess.com/
Net Income$-282,000,000.00
Return on Equity-1.62%
Return on Assets-0.79%
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Hess (NYSE:HES) Frequently Asked Questions
What is Hess' stock symbol?
Hess trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HES."
How often does Hess pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Hess?
Hess announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, December 6th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Tuesday, December 31st. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.43%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 13th. View Hess' Dividend History.
How will Hess' stock buyback program work?
Hess declared that its board has approved a stock repurchase program on Thursday, March 8th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.
How were Hess' earnings last quarter?
Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 30th. The oil and gas producer reported ($0.32) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.32). The oil and gas producer had revenue of $1.52 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.52 billion. Hess had a negative net margin of 2.82% and a negative return on equity of 1.62%. Hess's revenue was down 17.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.38 earnings per share. View Hess' Earnings History.
When is Hess' next earnings date?
Hess is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Hess.
How can I listen to Hess' earnings call?
Hess will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.
What price target have analysts set for HES?
15 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Hess' shares. Their forecasts range from $61.00 to $93.00. On average, they anticipate Hess' share price to reach $73.40 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 5.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Hess.
What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Hess?
15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hess in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Hess.
Has Hess been receiving favorable news coverage?
News headlines about HES stock have trended negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Hess earned a media sentiment score of -2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the oil and gas producer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Hess.
Are investors shorting Hess?
Hess saw a decrease in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 11,970,000 shares, a decrease of 8.5% from the December 15th total of 13,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,240,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.3 days. Currently, 4.4% of the company's stock are sold short. View Hess' Current Options Chain.
Who are some of Hess' key competitors?
Some companies that are related to Hess include China Petroleum & Chemical (SNP), ConocoPhillips (COP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Suncor Energy (SU), Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Repsol (REPYY), HollyFrontier (HFC), YPF (YPF), CVR Energy (CVI), PBF Energy (PBF), Delek US (DK), Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P (CLMT) and Trecora Resources (TREC).
What other stocks do shareholders of Hess own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Hess investors own include Puma Biotechnology (PBYI), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Medivation (MDVN), Incyte (INCY), Intrexon (XON), First Solar (FSLR), Schlumberger (SLB), Boeing (BA), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).
Who are Hess' key executives?
Hess' management team includes the folowing people:
Mr. John B. Hess, CEO & Director (Age 65)
Mr. John P. Rielly, Sr. VP & CFO (Age 57)
Mr. Gregory P. Hill, COO, Exec. VP and Pres of Worldwide Exploration & Production (Age 58)
Mr. Timothy B. Goodell, Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel & Corp. Sec. (Age 62)
Mr. Michael R. Turner, Sr. VP of Global Production (Age 60)
Who are Hess' major shareholders?
Hess' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.26%), Trinity Street Asset Management LLP (0.19%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.14%), Arvest Bank Trust Division (0.06%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.05%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.05%). Company insiders that own Hess stock include Andrew P Slentz, Barbara J Lowery-Yilmaz, Gregory P Hill, John B Hess, John P Rielly, Kevin Omar Meyers, Michael R Turner, Richard D Lynch, Risa J Lavizzo-Mourey and Timothy B Goodell. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Hess.
Which major investors are selling Hess stock?
HES stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Arvest Bank Trust Division, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, DNB Asset Management AS, CenturyLink Investment Management Co and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold Hess company stock in the last year include Andrew P Slentz, Barbara J Lowery-Yilmaz, Gregory P Hill, John B Hess, John P Rielly, Michael R Turner, Richard D Lynch and Timothy B Goodell. View Insider Buying and Selling for Hess.
Which major investors are buying Hess stock?
HES stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Calamos Advisors LLC, Trinity Street Asset Management LLP, Harvest Investment Services LLC, Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC, First Hawaiian Bank, Coastline Trust Co, Calamos Wealth Management LLC and Huntington National Bank. Company insiders that have bought Hess stock in the last two years include Kevin Omar Meyers and Risa J Lavizzo-Mourey. View Insider Buying and Selling for Hess.
How do I buy shares of Hess?
Shares of HES can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
What is Hess' stock price today?
One share of HES stock can currently be purchased for approximately $69.90.
How big of a company is Hess?
Hess has a market capitalization of $21.30 billion and generates $6.47 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas producer earns $-282,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.74) on an earnings per share basis. Hess employs 1,708 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Hess.
What is Hess' official website?
The official website for Hess is http://www.hess.com/.
How can I contact Hess?
Hess' mailing address is 1185 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY, 10036. The oil and gas producer can be reached via phone at 212-997-8500 or via email at [email protected]
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Simon Raymonde's Record Box
In this record box, Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins takes us on a personal journey back into some of the most vital as well as overlooked records of the 1980's.
Simon Raymonde explores John Peel's records
The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher 4AD 1980
Friend Catcher
Simon Raymonde
The Birthday Party came to London from Melbourne because of their love for bands like The Pop Group, but they were searching for a scene that didn't really exist, except inside their own vast imagination. Whilst in London they played several wild shows and released some of the most intense music of the period, described by Simon Reynolds as "three dimensionally vivid and visual", they took the existing ideas of post punk even further towards their limits. "The Friend Catcher" was recorded whilst still in Melbourne and was a favourite of Ivo Watts-Russell, the head of 4AD at the time, who signed the band the moment he realised he could release it. As he recalls in Martin Aston's book "Facing The Other Way", "The band came into the shop with the tapes and a grainy black and white photo of a cake they'd bought with a candle in, and that was the artwork".
Cabaret Voltaire - Seconds Too Late Rough Trade 1980
Seconds Too Late
Cabaret Voltaire were an experimental trio who pioneered the use of samples from TV and Film, inspired by Brian Eno's approach to music as a "non musician", their innovative performance art became integral to the development of industrial music and is considered widely influential within electronic music as a whole. "Second's Too Late" was released on Rough Trade in 1980 and it was received well, which exemplifies the effect that punk had on alternative culture at the time, as performances before punk broke were greeted with hostility and even violence.
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sueperman's Big Sister Stiff Records 1980
Sueperman's Big Sister
Ian Dury
"Sueperman's Big Sister" was released as a single to promote Ian Dury and the Blockheads second studio album "Laughter", and deliberately spelt superman wrong to avoid any legal issues. Notably, it was the 100th single to be released by the highly influential label Stiff Records. Dury wrote the song with Wilko Johnson, the strings were written and arranged by Ivor Raymonde who wrote for Dusty Springfield and The Walker Brothers amongst others.
Dif Juz - Huremics 4AD 1981
Dif Juz
Heset
Dif Juz were an instrumental post punk band formed by brothers Dave and Alan Curtis, along with Gary Bromley and Richie Thomas, although genre boundaries didn't really apply to them. "Huremics" was the first of two EP's to be released in 1981 on 4AD Records, it was recorded at Spaceworld Studios in Cambridge and although they didn't achieve commercial success, they became highly influential within the stable of bands on 4AD.
Dif Juz - Vibrating Air 4AD 1981
"Vibrating Air" was recorded at Blackwing studios with John Fryer, who engineered many 4AD releases, and along with Huremics which was released earlier in 1981, it was considered to be vastly "ahead of it's time" and Dif Juz were one of the most underrated bands of the era. Combining rock, dub, ambient and post punk music the group laid the innovative foundations for what would eventually become post rock. The band also became Lee "Scratch" Perry's backing band for a time, recording an unreleased album with him, such was their unclassifiable skill.
The Associates - White Car Situation 2 1981
White Car In Germany
Despite having the songs and the star power of singer Billy Mackenzie, The Associates ended up becoming the "also rans" of early 80's pop. "White Car In Germany" is widely regarded as a high point of their career and was one of a string of six singles they released in 1981. The band's plan was simple and it worked, they took money from interested record companies to record demos, then they recorded cheaply, working at night at Morgan Studios. They gave old songs to the paying party, sold the new songs to Situation 2, and lived a relatively lavish lifestyle. It was a scam of sorts, but it was legal, and those drug fuelled sessions resulted in music that redefined boundaries with it's extravagance and experimentation.
The Drowning Craze - Storage Case Situation 2 1982
The Drowning Craze
Storage Craze
Released on Situation 2 in June of 1981, "Storage Case" was the band's debut single and only release to feature singer Angela Jaeger, it was made single of the week in the NME and Sounds. The band released three singles before disbanding, with bass player Simon Raymonde going on to join Cocteau Twins.
A Certain Ratio - The Double Factory 1981
A Certain Ratio were likened to Joy Division by many, and were somewhat infamously labelled as being "shit" by Ian Curtis himself, but for a time they were seen as Factory Records biggest hope of making an impact. This double 12" produced by Martin Hammet, shows the band adding the looser elements of funk and dance to their trademark post punk sound, which set them apart from the crowd but ultimately didn't bring them the commercial success they craved.
Scritti Politti - Faithless Rough Trade 1982
"Faithless" reached number 56 in the UK charts in 1982, it was the second single from Scritti Politti's debut album "Songs To Remember" following the success of previous single The Sweetest Girl. It was the beginning of the band's move away from leftist post punk to attempt, and briefly succeed, at mainstream pop success.
Singers & Players - Revenge of the Underdog Situation 2 1982
Singers and Players
"Revenge Of The Underdog" was the second album by On-U Sound's reggae collective The Singers and Players, who were brought together by label owner Adrian Sherwood to promote the individual artists, but also to increase the profile of the label. They were considered to be a dub supergroup, releasing five albums during the 80's with an ever changing cast. This album features amongst others, Prince Far I and Bim Sherman, alongside musicians from the Slits, PIL, and Roots Radics.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message Sugar Hill 1982
Although it has Grandmaster Flash's name on the sleeve, neither Flash or most of his furious five had that much to do with what became one of their biggest hits. "The Message" was created by Duke Bootee and Melle Mel, although the whole group did perform the skit at the end of the song. At the time rap music really only served to soundtrack house parties and downtown nightclubs in New York, so when the rest of the group heard the song they thought the downtempo beat lacked energy, and more importantly, that people went to parties to forget about the subjects Mel rapped about in the song. However, "The Message" changed all that, transforming the genre into a vehicle for social change, providing an outlet and a voice to those who were previously voiceless. Which resulted in moving the MC to the centre of it all, the success of "The Message" meant that it was no longer enough just to speak, now you had to say something, allowing musicians the opportunity to energise crowds with their words as well as their beats. It was only the fifth rap single to become a gold record and its influence is ubiquitous, not just in hip hop, but across American popular culture.
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding Rough Trade 1983
Written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer, sung by Robert Wyatt, "Shipbuilding" is a poignant and powerful song about the human effects of war that uses small examples to discuss big ideas. It's the story of a community allowed to thrive by the shipbuilding industry, but the ships they built are used to go off to war, and they take with them the sons of those kept in work, sons who don't come back home. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest political songs of that era, Wyatt's delicate voice combining with Costello's lyrics to embody the melancholic struggle of the powerless.
New Order - Blue Monday Factory 1983
The seeds for "Blue Monday" began some twelve months before it's release with the song "Prime 586", the result of the band's experiments following a trip to New York, and the band's desire to negate the need for an encore by leaving programmed music playing as they left the stage. It was further fuelled by their growing obsession with the likes of Giorgio Moroder, and switching their drug of choice from weed to acid. The single marked the culture shift that was happening, a line in the sand that came to represent the infectious sense of hedonism that crept into the Manchester scene, that provided the spark to start the Hacienda and the next decade of music that would emerge from the city. "Blue Monday" sold over one million copies and is still the all time top selling 12". Although infamously the first pressing actually cost the band money, such was the production cost of Peter Saville's die cut sleeve design, which were delivered straight to the printer without anyone from the band or label approving them.
Special AKA - In The Studio With Two Tone 1984
Special AKA
The third album by The Specials took over two years to make, which is where the title "In The Studio" came from, and was finally released in 1984. It was received comparatively poorly, failing to capitalise on the success of the "Free Nelson Mandela" single, which made the UK's top ten. The album was more overtly political than their previous material, with songs like "War Crimes" and "Racist Friend" typically uncompromising, not long after it's release Jerry Dammers split up the band to devote himself to political activism.
The Sugarcubes - Birthday One Little Indian 1987
The Sugarcubes
"Birthday" was number one in John's festive fifty in 1987, it was originally released in Iceland the year before as "Ammaeli" but the band re-recorded it in English for their debut album "Life's Too Short". The album sold over a million copies, propelled by this single, putting Iceland on the musical map for fans across the globe. Although these days The Sugarcubes are probably best known for launching the career of their singer, Bjork.
Public Enemy - Fight The Power Motown 1989
Spike Lee approached Public Enemy, fresh from their second album "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back", and asked them to record an anthem for his forthcoming movie "Do The Right Thing", but even he was probably surprised by the venomous power of the anthem they presented him with. "Fight The Power" went on to sell over half a million copies and helped inspire a generation with it's rallying call. It became the epitome of Public Enemy's ideology and approach to sound, discordant layered samples over heavy beats, with Chuck D tearing down the icons of white America with his powerful poetry.
The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums Silvertone 1989
She Bangs The Drums
"She Bangs The Drum" was a top 40 hit in 1989 but as time has passed it has become regarded as one of the top indie anthems of all time. Produced by John Leckie, the song exemplified the overriding feeling of the age, full of optimism for the start of the 90's, or at least hopeful for the end of Thatcher's 80's. Ian Brown set the tone, singing "The past was yours but the future's mine", kickstarting the decade of Britpop which followed it. A decade which the band themselves, aside from a few key events, would largely miss out taking part in due to internal wrangling and legal battles.
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Boudu Saved from Drowning
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, as
Priape Boudu
Charles Granval, as
Edouard Lestingois
Marcelle Hainia, as
Emma Lestingois
Severine Lerczinska, as
Chloe Anne Marie
Jean Gehret, as
Max Dalban, as
Jean Daste, as
Jacques Becker as
Poet on park bench
Reviewed on: January 20th, 2010
Michel Simon as the suicidal tramp Boudu.
Boudu Saved from Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux) was just the 4th movie from French director (and son of the Impressionist painter Auguste) Jean Renoir to have sound. It is a comedy that was adapted from the play of the same name by René Fauchois. Like most of Renoir's films it deals in social commentary. It would be remade in Hollywood more than 50 years later under the title Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Nick Nolte recreated the tramp character originally played by Michel Simon, a well-known character actor in France, who continued making movies up until his death in 1975.
A wealthy Parisian bookseller witnesses a tramp attempting suicide off a bridge over the River Seine. He rescues the tramp, brings him home and welcomes him into his household with farcical results. Michel Simon steals the movie as the deranged tramp, Boudu. His facial expressions are priceless. He is rude, uncouth and disgusting in his personal habits. Before long he is having an affair with his benefactor's wife and trying to seduce one of his maids (the same maid the man himself is sleeping with).
There are quite a few laughs that also poke fun at social class. Early in the movie Boudu is sitting on a park bench. A wealthy woman instructs her young daughter to give some money to him as he is underprivileged. The tramp asks her what the money is for and the girl tells him it is to buy bread. Cut to a wealthy looking man sitting in his expensive looking automobile. Boudu approaches him and the rich guy searches in his pockets ostensibly looking for money for the tramp. The tramp then gives the money the little girl gave to him to the rich guy. The rich guys asks if he is being made fun of. Boudu tells him the money is to buy bread. I realize this doesn't "read" funny but the way Renoir shoots it and the way Simon delivers the line, trust me it is. In another scene the bookseller discovers that Boudu has spit into one of his books. He says in disgust, "The man who spits in Balzac's 'Physiology of Marriage' is less than nothing to me."
The black & White cinematography and the camera work are quite sophisticated for 1931 when this movie was shot. It is also historically fascinating as a glimpse of Paris nearly a century ago. The ending is satisfying if somewhat predictable. Boudu Saved from Drowning is a cinematic gem from France showing the early work of one of that countries most celebrated directors.
Reviewed on: February 21st, 2015
Michel Simon and Severine Lerczinska in Boudu Saved from Drowning
I am not sure if Groucho Marx was referring to Boudu Saved from Drowning specifically in Love Happy (1949) but he easily could have been. In it, Groucho frisks a beautiful girl starting low and working his way up, stopping with both his hands near her breasts. He then looks at the camera and says, "If this were a French picture I could do it." One of the first scenes here is of the elderly book seller holding the maid with one arm while his other hand caresses her arm, the side of her chest and her upper chest, coming extremely close to caressing her breast.
He talks to her of them having sex later but first there is work to be done. She runs off to clean and make soup, telling him she is thinking about tonight. He responds, "Expectation is an indispensable seasoning for the dreariness of useful chores." He then goes into his study and laments being old. "My pipes are worn out, and soon some shepherd will lure her away with his new flute." The use of a double entendre for a laugh is clearly nothing new.
Patrick mentioned that this film pokes fun at social class. One of my favorite commentaries is when Boudu asks a "cop" if he has seen his dog. The cop gives him the brush off. However, when a beautiful well-dressed attractive young woman asks the same cop to help her find her lost dog seconds later, he immediately ask for assistance from two other policemen and they begin the search. A passing man in a car also offers her assistance. Okay, that may be as much of a commentary on sex as social class but it is still a good scene none-the-less.
Although he saved Boudu's life, Boudu causes the book seller problems such as sexual frustration by halting the book seller's nightly visits to the maid's room. The film has many funny moments. I enjoyed the salt absorption conversation Boudu has with the book seller's wife as well as the book seller instructing Boudu on handkerchief use. When Boudu and the book seller's wife first have sex the scene switches to a parade and then back to the grinning couple in the afterglow.
Although the sexual innuendos are obvious it was Boudu's antisocial behavior that so outraged French audiences that police had to be called to restore order in several theaters. Some French theaters simply stopped showing it. It was not until 1967 that it was released in the United States and supposedly so angered New York Times critic Bosley Crowther that he walked out of a showing.
Although any controversy it may have generated has long passed, it remains a very humorous and entertaining viewing.
Photos © Copyright Pathe (1932)
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)