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Sometimes it is a quote deemed #Inspirational and other times it is just something you overhear on the train that can really refocus your thoughts on something. There can be times when those quotes or statements are the last thing you want to encounter, in many ways you want to carry on trudging through the […]

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Back in February I decided it was time to try and make life a little bit easier by giving Hello Fresh a try. My hope was that it would take away the need to think up meals off the top of my head, write down a shopping list and then go and get those ingredients; […]

Starting Up Hello Fresh

Hello Fresh is something that I had seen around for a long time through adverts and social media but until recently I had not encountered anybody in person that actually used them. There are people on social media, including one of my favourite lifestyle/beauty YouTubers, that get sponsored to cook Hello Fresh on their channel […]

Wonderful Chinese Takeaway, Croydon

With a name like Wonderful this Chinese takeaway is setting the bar right on up there. You expect everything to be brilliant, super tasty and great value for money. Given the reviews dotted around various takeaway apps it seemed that perhaps the name was rather fitting for once. My partner and I are not too […]

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I feel like I have let you all down. I disappeared without a trace for months on end and honestly have no good reason for it at all. I have gone to restaurants, tried out new recipes and discovered a collection of new brands, flavours and ingredients. A stand out is a South African pub […]

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Bulmers Crushed Red Berries and Lime

Just a couple of days ago I was chatting about how I do not drink very much and with that part of me expected the other bottle of cider to sit in the fridge for a couple of weeks or until my partner got bored and decided to drink it himself. But after a couple of stressful […]

Bulmers Wild Blueberry And Lime

It is very rare that alcohol is something that I drink anymore and when I do I want freshness, something fruity and smooth without bitterness or really heavy ending. But on Friday night I asked my partner to get some cider for the evening and the weekend. In fact I asked for it to be […]

Running by Ronnie O’Sullivan

This books might not seem to fit in eith my usual posts but hang on with me as it makes me think about lifestyle and mental health quite a lot. There is something about snooker that fascinates me. I cannot play snooker or pool for the life of me as my hand just struggles to […]

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So far, it has been possible to stave off really serious consequences for the world economy and the international financial system since the developing-country debt crisis started in 1982. Yet for many developing countries, external debt problems and the underlying economic crisis are as pressing as ever. The following article identifies five central elements of a general orientation framework for dealing with the debt crisis which has been inspired by the basic idea of the concept of corporate compositions found in commercial law

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Early Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain

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Differential diagnosis of abdominal pain is vitally important in sorting out those patients who should be sent for immediate surgery and those who can be treated at home, or observed for a period. Careful history and examination are mandatory, since the patient may find the pain difficult to describe and the signs may be minimal

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Energetic Responses Are Triggered by Caudal Brainstem Melanocortin Receptor Stimulation and Mediated by Local Sympathetic Effector Circuits

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The central melanocortin system is a critical contributor to energy balance control. Melanocortin receptors (MC-Rs) are widely distributed throughout forebrain and caudal brainstem nuclei. To assess the contribution of hindbrain MC-Rs to the control of energy expenditure, the MC3/4R agonist melanotan II (MTII) was delivered to either the fourth ventricle or medullary raphe of neurologically intact rats and chronic decerebrate (CD) rats, and interscapular brown adipose tissue (IBAT) temperature (TIBAT), core temperature (TC), heart rate (HR), and spontaneous activity were recorded. Fourth ventricular MTII (0.1, 1.0 nmol) significantly increased TIBAT, TC, and HR in intact rats (TC: +0.33 ± 0.08, +0.41 ± 0.09 C; HR: +40.84 ± 7.29, +69.04 ± 6.83 beats per minute) and in CDs (TC: +1.39 ± 0.67, +1.52 ± 0.37 C; HR: +83.21 ± 19.2, +107.38 ± 17.65 beats per minute). Response magnitude was greater in CD rats than in neurologically intact rats. TIBAT, TC, and HR were significantly increased after 10 pmol MTII delivery to the medullary raphe of intact rats, and here too, the response magnitude was greater in decerebrate rats. The hyperthermia, IBAT thermogenesis, and tachycardia observed in CD rats after fourth ventricular and hindbrain parenchymal MTII injections support the hypothesis that hindbrain MC-R stimulation engages endemic circuits that link sympathetic outflows to thermogenic and cardiac effectors, and that forebrain processing and forebrain-caudal brainstem communication are not required for response production

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Mergers and Acquisitions Defined:

The term “mergers and acquisitions” (commonly labeled as simply M&A) refers to a fundamental aspect of corporate management, finance and overall strategy, where companies partake in the buying, selling and combining of different companies to aid, finance or increase growth in a specific sector. Rather than having to create another business entity or completely overhaul an already existing model, the process of mergers and acquisitions enables companies to increase market presence, economies of scale, and diversification through one maneuver.

Difference between Mergers and Acquisitions:

Although the terms are commonly linked together, a merger and an acquisition are two separate maneuvers. An acquisition takes place when one company purchases another; the buying company assumes or swallows the purchased company for a price. The purchased company no longer has its own stock and transfers over all control to the purchasing company. Dissimilar to this maneuver, mergers are a form of consolidation, where two companies combine together to form a new company. In a merger, the participating company’s shares transform into one all-inclusive stock. The management and resources of the company are pooled together; that being said, a merger of equals, given the differences in size, market share and capital, is unlikely. As a result, a present-day merger typically occurs when one company buys another, but utilizes the purchased company’s resources and human capital. In essence, the purchased company still has a presence, but the majority of control is transferred to the buying company.

The process of mergers and acquisitions may be executed with private or public companies, depending on whether the acquiree is or isn’t listed on a public exchange. Furthermore, the process of mergers and acquisitions may be executed in either a friendly or hostile manner. In contrast to an acquisition, mergers occur when two firms agree to move forward as a single, newly-formed company—as oppose to two separately owned and operated companies. This process typically occurs with companies that are similar in size, market presence and capital. In a merger, both companies’ stocks are surrendered and a new stock is issued to the public in its place. A famous example of a merger took place in 1999, when GlaxoWellcome and SmithKline Beecham agreed to agglomerate their resources and form a new company, GlaxoSmithKline.

In practice, mergers of equals don’t happen often; companies are rarely the same size. In most mergers, one company will buy another and, as part of the terms and conditions expressed in the mergers contract, allow the acquired company to proclaim that the deal is a merger of equals. That being said, being bought by another company typically carries negative connotations; therefore, by stating the deal was a merger, top executives and managers at the bought firm can view the takeover as more palatable. Similar in structure, a purchase deal may also be referred to as a merger; this transaction occurs when both CEOs agree that combining resources is in the best interest of each individual company.

Benefits of Mergers and Acquisitions:

The basic rationale used to explain mergers is that the acquiring company seeks to improve their financial performance. The following reasons provide brief explanations as to why a company would partake in a merger:

Economies of Scale: The combined company can reduce its fixed costs by removing duplicate operations or departments; by lowering the costs of the companies, relative to a fixed revenue stream, the companies will enjoy increased profit margins

Increased Revenue and Market Share: The buyer in a merger absorbs a competitor and thus increases its market power

Taxation: A profitable business may buy a defunct company to use the acquired firm’s losses to their advantage by reducing their tax liability.

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Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation.

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MARLBORO COUNTY, S.C. -- (WMBF) -- A spokesperson for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says the agency is investigating after two officers with the Clio police department shot a man who was driving toward them on a lawnmower and fired shots at them in the 500 block of South Main Street/Hwy 9.

Two Clio police officers and a Marlboro County deputy were investigating another in a string of overnight breaking and entering calls when they encountered a man approaching them on a riding lawnmower.

The man fired at the officers, missing them but striking the deputy's car. The two Clio officers fired back at the man, striking him. He was transported to a hospital in Dillon where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries and was taken into police custody.

Camelin Demetrius Mcrae, 25, of Clio, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and one count each of possession of a weapon during a violent crime and malicious injury to real property. Mcrae is also charged with a burglary that occurred at the Tiger Mart convenience store in Clio shortly before the shooting, according to authorities. He faces counts of second-degree burglary, malicious injury to real property, and petit larceny.

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On Saturday 29 October we’ll be embarking on a 2-day trek to Blue Gum Forest, considered the spiritual home of bushwalking in NSW.  This is open to anyone who wants to come, including family and friends who are not members of GEO.

This is considered one of the most beautiful walks in Australia.  The views are spectacular and we will be walking through numerous natural landscapes along the way.  There is quite a lot of descending and ascending so a moderate level of fitness is required, but you will all be more than capable.

The plan is to meet at Blackheath (about 1.45 hrs from Sydney) on Saturday morning and grab a cuppa and something to eat.  Then we’ll drive down the road to Govetts Leap lookout and begin the trek.  The trek is about 20kms all up.  We’ll cover about 9k’s on the first day, camp at Acacia Flat, and then walk the remaining 11 k’s on the second day.

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Sail Date: October 01, 2012

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I had high hopes being my first cruise but found the entertainment lacking and activities/music set for a young crowd, I did like Motown tho. The staff were wonderful and ready to help at the drop of a hat.

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April 6, 2010

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Might be best thing that’s come out of Disney since The Lion King.

Waking Sleeping Beauty is a documentary about the Disney animation studio in 1984 and how over the course of ten years it went from being an unsuccessful money pit that was churning out movies no one was seeing to being the most profitable arm of Hollywood that changed the face of animation in every way imaginable.

Now, I can’t remember the last time I went to see a Disney movie in theaters and the last time I probably watched one otherwise was ages ago on a VHS copy while babysitting my little cousins. And while I still have great memories of growing up on them as a kid, it’s been a long time since I’ve felt that Disney magic.

I blame puberty.

So then this movie comes along and my good buddy Fred, the Disney fanboy that he is, suggests we make a night out of it. Naturally, I was skeptical, but ever since that fateful night, the magic has returned tenfold.

The entire movie is comprised of archive footage of the animators working their asses off, the countless sketches that made it into the final cut, the countless sketches that didn’t and the people that made it all possible at the height of their creativity. It’s all narrated by the very same people it’s about and considering how high up on the corporate ladder some of these folks are, it’s pretty impressive how candid and honest they are about all the highs and lows that happened over the course of ten long years.

And that’s the most surprising about all this, that it’s the corporate aspect of the movie and the ever-changing relationship between Disney’s head honchos – Roy Disney, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg – that makes for the most interesting dynamic of the whole documentary. Since I was only eight by the time things really came to a head for these guys in ’94, I knew next to nothing about the very public rise and fall of these these three fellas in their struggle to become the next Walt Disney. By the end, it’s hard to say who was the good, the bad and the ugly of the trio, but that’s also what makes their success story so bittersweet. Never ceases to amaze me how easily power changes some people.

But after all is said and done, it really is about the movies that made these ten years so significant, and the movies really are something else. This was the decade of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King – the four movies that pretty much changed the game and gave the world of animation a whole new degree of credibility. Even if you’ve never seen them or are like me and haven’t seen them since grade school, believe me, you’ll want to see them again.

Waking Sleeping Beauty is a little bit of everything and it’s also what makes Disney so great. Like the studio itself, it starts out a little slow but before long becomes a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the ungodly amount of time, the eccentric personalities and grueling efforts that went into making these movies. It’s compelled me to dig up my old VCR and raid all my cousins’ movie collections. It made me feel like a kid again and as much as I love Pixar nowadays, there’s truly nothing like rediscovering that Disney magic.

As much as you may believe that Disney movies are for just for kids or that a movie like Beauty and the Beast is just for girls, sorry to break it to ya’, but you too have become a victim of puberty, my friend. I wasn’t expecting to like this movie as much as I did and it is high time we all took a trip back to the good ol’ days when animators still got carpal tunnel and we still knew the chorus to “Be Our Guest”.

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  1. April 6, 2010 4:55 am

    I’ve read a lot about this and everything I’ve read looks extremely positive. Sounds very interesting, looking forward to seeing it in the UK sometime soon!

    • April 6, 2010 9:06 pm

      Yeah, it’s really good. Just came out here in the States and is playing very limited, but worth seeking out all the same. Hope you dig it, man.

  2. April 6, 2010 1:06 pm

    Is this in theaters?

    I’m assuming the doc didn’t touch on the hidden sexual images found in the Disney movies…

    • April 6, 2010 9:10 pm

      Haha, yeah, they seemed to skip over that bit.

      Saw it two weeks ago, opened up in one theater in NYC. Not sure if and when it’s gonna make its way to a wide release, but here’s to hoping.

  3. April 6, 2010 3:01 pm

    Disney is evil.

    Disneyland is evil.

    I like to go to Disneyland and I try to watch most of Disney’s cartoons, yet I fell terrible for doing so..

  4. April 6, 2010 6:36 pm

    Beauty and the Beast is still a great film after all these years. I was kind of surprised.

    • Darren permalink
      April 6, 2010 6:48 pm

      I actually love a great portion of the Disney animate canon, even after all these years and with my bitter cynicism. Beauty and the Beast is a classic, but the Lion King is and always will my favourite conventionally animated film.

    • April 6, 2010 7:29 pm

      Yeah, just saw it this past weekend for the first time since I was a kid, couldn’t believe how much I liked it. That Gaston song was freakin’ hilarious, man. Should have the review up shortly.

  5. April 11, 2010 1:47 pm

    Sounds like a good film, I’ll be looking at this for sure given that I actually grew up with a lot of the films that the studio made during this period.

    And Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite films. No way is that film just for girls.

    I think it’s like you say, puberty often ruins people’s interest in animated films and that’s a shame because there are so many great ones.

    I make it a point to keep up with animated films because there’s still so many great ones being made out there. Last year, in particular, was a fantastic year for animated films.

    • April 11, 2010 1:49 pm

      Yeah, last year was great. Up was my favorite movie of ’09. Still waiting for Fantastic Mr. Fox to arrive from Netflix, heard that was great though.

  6. April 16, 2010 2:49 am

    I want to see this movie SO bad but after reading your review, I want to see it even more. I’ll probably just look for it online because it isn’t playing anyway near where I live. :\

    • April 16, 2010 10:03 am

      Bummer, then again, it’s hardly playing in NYC either. Worth seeking out on the internets though.

  7. Ryan permalink
    July 24, 2013 11:27 am

    Finally watched this last night. Pretty interesting stuff, and the behind the scenes footage was cool to see, especially of the animators slaving away.
    The only thing I didn’t like was the ending. All of a sudden the documentary just sort of ended with no real conclusion to the story.
    Felt it was incredibly bizarre they didn’t go into Lasseter and Pixar more, or at the very least mention that after Katzenberg left, he started Dreamworks.

    But the documentary definitely made me want to watch all the old Disney movies again.

    • July 24, 2013 3:08 pm

      Glad you dug it, homey! Is it on Netflix Instant? Totally went on an early ’90s Disney binge after seeing this, completely forgot how great that era was. Can’t say I remember the ending, three years of cocaine for breakfast will do that to you, but good point, seems like a natural transition. Was this one Deirdre’s choice or yours?

      • Ryan permalink
        July 24, 2013 3:13 pm

        It had been lingering on our netflix queue for like 2 years. Remembered you liking it, just took time for it to move up the queue.
        It was a mutual choice.

      • July 24, 2013 3:17 pm

        That’s a beautiful thing, brotha’. Glad you two dug it. You’re now free to bump Weekend at Bernies back to the top.

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Month: March 2017

SoyNut Butter Manufacturer Shut Down Over Filthy Conditions

SoyNut Butter was recalled on March 7 after an outbreak of E. coli. The current case count stands at 29 illnesses in twelve states, with 83% of the victims under 18 years old.

/ March 31, 2017
IVC Filter Surgery Side Effect Lawsuit

Lawsuit Filed Over IVC Filter Retrieval Complications

A man from Greece has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of a blood clot filter for downplaying side effects, especially the challenges of removing filters when complications occur. He required two retrieval procedures after the filter tilted and became...

/ March 31, 2017

Ford Recalls 570,000 Vehicles for Fire Risk, Door Latch Problems

Ford Motor Co. is recalling more than 570,000 vehicles in North America and Europe to fix separate problems that can cause engine fires and doors to fly open unexpectedly.

/ March 31, 2017

Baby Bathtubs Linked to 31 Deaths, Hundreds of Injuries

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is strengthening safety standards on baby bathtubs after 31 deaths and hundreds of injuries from drowning, allergic reactions to mold, burns, lacerations, and falls.

/ March 30, 2017
IV Filter Injury Lawsuit

Defective IV Filter Lawsuit Filed in Florida

A lawsuit was filed by a man who has a short-term IVC filter in his body forever because it tilted and became embedded in his vein. He suffered three unsuccessful retrieval procedures.

/ March 30, 2017

Toyota Recalling Nearly 3 Million Vehicles for Exploding Airbags Linked to 16 Deaths

Toyota Motor Co. announced Thursday that it is recalling 2.9 million Corolla Axio sedans and RAV4 SUV crossovers in Japan, China, Oceania and other regions over potentially defective Takata airbag inflators.

/ March 30, 2017

Is Roundup Safe? Over 700 Lawsuits Question Cancer Risk

Monsanto is facing over 700 Roundup lawsuits from people with lymphoma. Now a St. Louis-based ad agency is accused of helping Monsanto downplay the risk of cancer. Researchers are demanding a new safety assessment.

/ March 29, 2017
Weight Loss Surgery Blood Clot Filter Lawsuit

IVC Blood Clot Filter Lawsuit Filed in New York

A lawsuit has been filed by a woman who was injured when her Option™ IVC filter tilted, embedded itself, and punctured her kidney vein. The hook broke off in her body when doctors tried to pull it out.

/ March 29, 2017
Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo to Pay $110 Million to Settle Fake Accounts Lawsuit

Wells Fargo will pay $110 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that the bank signed thousands of customers up for accounts and other services they didn’t consent to.

/ March 29, 2017
Pet Food Recalls for Thyroid Hormones

FDA: Thyroid Hormones in Dog Food Can Kill Your Pet

Some commercial pet foods are made with livestock gullets (throat meat) and dangerous thyroid hormones that can make your dog or cat very sick, hyperactive, or cause death.

/ March 28, 2017


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“Jagged edges”

Dear President Trump,

The sermon on Sunday was delivered by one of our associate ministers, a woman in her late 60s or early 70s who went to divinity school just a few years ago after her husband died. The title of her sermon was “Fully Human: Our Jagged Edges.” The premise of the message was that we all have jagged edges in so far as we are all imperfect and it is when we are honest with each other about those imperfections that we can truly meet one another and not feel so alone. The analogies of fingers interlacing and puzzle pieces interlocking were used to illustrate the idea and it seems to me that the analogy of marbles glancing off one another could have been used to illustrate what happens when we so hyper-manage our public personas that we have sanded down all the interesting edges or folded them down flat.

We sometimes have a “congregational conversation” after the sermon and there was one this past week. These are almost always challenging times for me as I usually have something pretty jaggy to say that I have to figure out how to present in a not too jaggy way. So anyway, I’m not exactly sure how I did it, but I managed to politely articulate how as much as I like feeling right at home meeting someone else’s complementary and validating jaggy edges with my jaggy edges, I think we have to be careful not to get too comfy cozy lest we take up residence in an echo chamber. What I didn’t think to say at the time that occurred to me later is that 1) the other danger of just hanging out with like-minded jags is that we risk honing ours into razor sharp foils, and 2) when my jags do not meet up well with your jags it can be so uncomfortable I’d just as soon avoid you or scream at you from a safe distance.

A few minutes later someone else told the story of her new next door neighbors putting a “Trump” sign in their front yard. She spoke of the assumptions she made about them and how on edge and on guard she felt until it came to pass that their dog got really sick. Then they became people who were worried about their beloved dog and she could relate to them and care about them; much better than screaming at them from a safe distance. I almost always learn a lot at church.

May we be safe to be our jaggy selves.
May we be happy to find even tiny places our jaggy selves can meet other jaggy selves.
May we keep an eye on how sharp we let our jags get.
May we be open to opportunities to love even our neighbors we might mistake for enemies.

Tracy Simpson

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Episode 377: Speed Dating

“I don’t know who she was. But your love was wrong, terribly wrong.”

You know, people talk about breaking new ground in the arts, but then you go and make an episode of afternoon television that ends with a woman holding the bloody stump of another woman’s demon-possessed arm, and all of a sudden everyone gets all weird about it.

They say, Where’s the romance? because apparently people think that soap operas should be about characters falling in love with each other. Personally, I don’t see what the big deal is. If you’ve got voodoo dolls, time travel, tarot cards and marionette bats, then who has time for all that sappy girl stuff?

But fine, whatever. Today — just for you — Dark Shadows is all about the love.

377 dark shadows jeremiah naomi dream

More specifically, it’s about love that’s wrong, terribly wrong, but cut them some slack; the episode just started.

Last night, Naomi had a nightmare that her brother-in-law Jeremiah was making out with a woman who had the devil’s mark on her hand. The sequence ended with Naomi clutching the woman’s bloody arm-stump, and that’s not the kind of dream you can shake off easily.

Naomi:  There was something terribly evil in the dream. I was trying to stop you from doing something; I don’t know what. Can you tell me what?

This is one of those conversations that people only have on Dark Shadows, where you have to explain to grown-ups that you’re not responsible for what you do in other people’s dreams.

377 dark shadows jeremiah naomi leaves

But let me direct your attention to Jeremiah’s outfit, which is a striking innovation in the field of what the hell is on your jacket. Those are embroidered leaves, stitched in arbitrary places. I think some fashion designer took the idea of a “fall line” too literally.

377 dark shadows josette nathan steal

Downstairs, the romance is just heating up, courtesy of the handsome and charming Lt. Nathan Forbes.

Nathan kisses Josette’s hand, sighing. “Oh, how I envy Barnabas,” he says. “If we weren’t friends, I’d steal you away.”

“Come, sir, you flatter me too much,” Josette smiles. “Have you met Miss Collins?”

He hasn’t, yet. Somebody’s life is about to get more interesting.

377 dark shadows nathan millicent giddy

Cousin Millicent, who’s come to Collinsport for Barnabas and Josette’s wedding, is a nervous, giddy flake. Nathan turns on the charm, just for the practice.

Nathan:  Where have you been hiding, Miss Collins?

Millicent:  Why, in New York, of course.

Nathan:  Oh, no wonder. Of all the cities —

Millicent:  Now, don’t you criticize my home. I shall take it personally if you do. I, for one, would find it far more distasteful to be on the sea. But then, I am susceptible to all of those maladies which may be caused by constant motion.

377 dark shadows nathan symbolism

Nathan says, “A pity, Miss Collins,” because what are you supposed to say. So it’s kind of a relief when Naomi interrupts, sparing him from one of the world’s more tedious conversations.

Nathan’s actually here to go over some specifications with Jeremiah, so he excuses himself and goes upstairs.

377 dark shadows josette brand

Then there’s a sequence where all the girls have tea, because today’s episode is for the ladies. As Naomi is handed a cup, she notices that there’s a pitchfork brand on Josette’s hand.

Josette is disturbed by this, and I can’t say that I blame her; it’s not every day that the Devil gives you an involuntary temporary tattoo. This is apparently part of the spell that a jealous Angelique is casting to destroy Josette’s relationship with Barnabas, but it’s a new symptom that we haven’t heard of before.

As of just a couple days ago, Angelique wouldn’t dream of pulling a new stunt like this without telling Ben (and the audience) all about her plan, in detail. But then there was Naomi’s dream yesterday, which may or may not have been a vision sent by Angelique, and now there’s this pitchfork mark.

This is actually the most amazing thing about this whole 1795 flashback — it’s opened up so many new story possibilities that they don’t have time to explain them all. It wasn’t that long ago that I spent entire blog posts complaining about the vast amounts of recap in each episode. Now they’re springing new plot points on us in the last five seconds of a dream sequence.

377 dark shadows angelique josette rub

Josette goes upstairs to her room to try to wash the mark off her hand. Angelique pretends to be sympathetic, saying that she found a strange crescent brand on her hand when they arrived here. She says that rubbing the mark with Josette’s rose water made it go away, and suggests they try it.

That does remove the mark, but Angelique’s put a potion in the rose water, which brings on the fugue state that makes Josette think that she’s in love with her fiancee’s uncle.

Still, I suppose this diabolical brand is better than a teardrop tattoo, or an anchor, or some Chinese characters that don’t actually mean what the guy at the tattoo parlor said they mean.

377 dark shadows jeremiah nathan plans

So let’s get back to Nathan, who’s brought Jeremiah some plans. I’m not totally clear on what Nathan does for a living. He’s got a naval uniform, and everyone calls him Lieutenant, but he appears to be working on ship-building plans with Joshua and Jeremiah, who are squarely private enterprise.

Of course, Nathan’s true goal in life is finding a woman with money, and Jeremiah clues him in on a new target.

Nathan:  How is Miss Winters this morning?

Jeremiah:  Working, I imagine, in the nursery. Tell me, would you take Miss Millicent Collins as a substitute?

Nathan:  She gets seasick.

Jeremiah:  She can afford to.

Nathan:  Really?

377 dark shadows nathan attention 2

There we go, now we’ve got his attention. Jeremiah says that Millicent owns a lot of real estate in New York, and with her mother and father both dead, she’s a very rich young woman.

377 dark shadows millicent nathan prejudice

Moments later, Nathan has raced back downstairs; there’s no way he’s going to let this girl out of his sight. He takes her arm, and walks her from the foyer to the drawing room. Millicent giggles constantly.

377 dark shadows nathan millicent bankers

Millicent:  Oh, you’re wicked!

Nathan:  Yes!

Millicent:  You admit it? I’ve never heard a man be honest before.

Nathan:  Well, what men have you been talking to?

Millicent:  My lawyer — well, he’s honest about my trusts, of course.

Nathan:  Yeah, and who else?

Millicent:  My broker — he’s completely dependable about my monies.

Nathan:  He should be.

Millicent:  And my banker, of course. But they never talk about themselves.

377 dark shadows millicent nathan afraid

Nathan:  They’re afraid to.

Millicent: Why should they be?

Nathan:  I don’t know, but they must be.

He leans over her, and closes the deal.

Nathan:  Because you made me honest.

377 dark shadows millicent nathan wickham

So here’s where you can see the other literary influence that Nathan embodies. This episode’s writer, Sam Hall, loves creating these narrative collisions — introducing characters from other stories, and creating a huge, interconnected mash-up of story ideas.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the influence Tom Jones  — both the 1794 novel, and the 1963 film adaptation — had on inspiring Nathan’s roguish charm.

But there’s another story thrown into the mix as well, which explains the naval uniform — Nathan is Mr. Wickham, from Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Wickham is a Lieutenant in the militia who’s sold his birthright and then frittered away the money, and he blames Mr. Darcy for his troubles.

Wickham spends the beginning of the book trying to charm Elizabeth, and then he elopes with Lydia, the youngest and silliest sister of the Bennet family. Mr. Darcy needs to hunt Wickham down, and shame him into marrying the innocent young girl that he’s ruined.

So that’s where Millicent comes from; she’s a hypochondriac Lydia, and she likes a man in uniform. Nathan conducts a whirlwind of flattery, which leaves her breathless. If he hadn’t been interrupted by Jeremiah, he might actually have stood a chance of getting her to say “I do” before she even knew what was going on.

We’ll come back to this Pride and Prejudice theme again before this storyline is over; there’s more to come.

377 dark shadows josette jeremiah monkey lips

Meanwhile, Josette and Jeremiah are spellbound again. They’re trying to resist the mysterious programming that draws them together, but to be honest, they don’t try very hard. Jeremiah sticks his face on her, and starts making weird kissing motions.

377 dark shadows josette jeremiah traditional

She’s supposed to be magnetically drawn to him, but the weird side-kissing is throwing her off. The whole sequence is actually pretty upsetting to watch. It’s worth checking out on Hulu; it’s a real watershed moment in awkward affection.

377 dark shadows josette jeremiah balance

When he stops kissing her, he just rests his big monkey lips on her cheekbone. She’s kind of twisting away from him, and there’s a good chance that she’ll end up losing her balance and toppling over before they finish the scene.

It’s like Anthony George never kissed a woman before, and given what I’ve heard about him, it’s possible that he never did.

377 dark shadows josette jeremiah upsetting 2

So this is really all I can do for the rest of this blog entry, just post screenshots of this weird display of affection, because it’s fascinating and horrible and I can’t look away from it.

377 dark shadows josette jeremiah stop

Gah, stop it! Just stop doing that, it’s really upsetting. Maybe focusing on romance wasn’t such a great idea after all. Come back tomorrow, Angelique’s going to come back with a brand new magic spell that takes us further into Crazytown than we’ve ever been before.

Tomorrow: Resistance is Useful.

Dark Shadows bloopers to watch out for:

When Naomi tells Jeremiah that he was in her dream, he laughs: “Naomi, your dream’s not some party I had a part about — attending.”

Naomi gets irritated by Jeremiah’s levity:

Naomi:  You won’t take me seriously, will you?

Jeremiah:  I do!

Naomi:  Well, then, act as if you do — sound as if you do!

Naomi tells Jeremiah that the brand she saw on Josette’s hand is in the same place as it was in the dream. Actually, the girl in the dream had the mark on her left hand, and it’s on Josette’s right hand.

When Angelique pours rose water on a sponge to wash Josette’s hand, the bottle clanks against a large water jug sitting on the table.

Millicent asks Jeremiah to get some cough syrup for her from the apothecary. Cough medicine was actually invented in 1827, when scientists first isolated codeine and morphine.

This one’s actually fixing a blooper. Last week, we saw Josette’s portrait hanging in her room, but in the story, it hasn’t been painted yet. Today, they’ve replaced it with another portrait. Josette’s portrait will arrive in episode 406.

Tomorrow: Resistance is Useful.

377 dark shadows josette jeremiah crazytown

Dark Shadows episode guide

— Danny Horn

14 thoughts on “Episode 377: Speed Dating

  1. I always saw the Millicent/Nathan ‘romance’ as a riff on “The Heiress.” Millicent’s naivete is so much in line with Olivia de Havilland’s initial innocence. And JC is a pleasant substitute for Monty Clift.

    As for all the sideways affection, DS’ quirky blocking always has people talking to each other’s sides – or their backs. Rarely do you get an actual face-to-face conversation, unless, of course, someone is getting ready to bite your neck.

  2. Well, it is soap OPERA, and this is a position that opera singers favor as it allows them to sing without obstruction. Of course, watching too much opera leads you to believe that’s how truly show how passionate you are.

  3. I tried to look for any references related to branding with a pitchfork as used in witchcraft practices and only came up with the process that cattle ranchers use to brand their particular herds. There was actually one or more ranches that use the pitchfork as their branding symbol. This may somehow symbolize Angeliques’s use of ‘marking’ those she considers as having no other purpose but to provide a means to satisfy her needs. Its as good an explanation as any for some of the things they do on this show.

  4. I’ve always adored “Pride and Prejudice,” but if I was going to steal characters from it it wouldn’t be Lydia and Wickham. Even Charlotte would be more interesting.

  5. It’s was very good that they didn’t recap the cliffhanger – IMO the ending was effective because of the surprise value (even if it is obvious it was a mannequin arm after it was pulled), but wouldn’t have worked well a second time.

    And yeah, Millicent’s giggling is annoying. Much worse than fake French accents would have been.

  6. I guess they had a lot of leftover beauty marks in the costume dept because everyone is sporting one, even Naomi with her Ace Frehly star in the opening scene.

    Millicent may giggle a little too much but what a difference in a scene when 2 competent actors are exchanging lines, like she and Nathan, compared to Natalie and Sam, or whatever his name is now.

    Biggest laugh was when Josette says “I’m confused” right after Jeremiah shakes the hell out of her during their love me, no I can’t exchange. It’s also nice to finally see some cleavage on Josette. I thought all those dresses back then came with bustiers.

  7. Nathan seems to be telling Jeremiah what kind of ship the U.S. Navy wants built. In other words, the Collins family has government as well as commercial shipbuilding contracts. This seems to have been the practice then as now.

    The whole business of who is responsible for the elements of Naomi’s dream in the previous episode is indecipherable. How did Angelique know about the tarot card reading Natalie gave Naomi, and how did she get Grayson Hall to narrate Naomi’s dream?

    It should have been a clue to somebody that Angelique is suspect when Angelique could rub the pitchfork off of Josette’s hand with the rosewater, but Josette could not rub the tat off of Jeremiah’s hand with the same stuff.

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Romantic Getaways in Southern California

Southern California, with its beautiful beaches, exotic landscaping and over-the-top architecture, has been a romance destination since its beginnings. Movie stars and everyday folks flock to the many secluded, romantic and unique hotels and hideaways that are scattered throughout the balmy (mostly) southland.

Southern California is home to a myriad of romantic hideways.Southern California is home to a myriad of romantic hideways.

Hotel del Coronado

Coronado Island can only be reached by boat, ferry or the high, sweeping bridge.

The Victorian splendor of the Hotel del Coronado was the setting for "Stuntman" with Peter O'Toole as well as Marilyn Monroe's "Some Like It Hot," and USA Today named it as one of the top ten resorts in the world. Separated from San Diego by an impressive two mile elevated bridge, the tiny town of Coronado is home to this elegant beachfront resort that has been treasured by movie stars and newlyweds since the 1920s. Built in 1888, the Del has been lovingly maintained and technically updated so that although you may feel you are back in time, you will still have great plumbing and wi-fi. The Romance Package ($470 per night in 2010) includes a dozen roses, champagne, chocolate strawberries, breakfast for two and valet parking. The Some Like It Hot package ($325) includes a collector's DVD of the movie and a $25 credit, as well as the chance to walk in Monroe's footsteps on the beach. Prices for these packages will be higher for ocean view rooms or suites.

Hotel del Coronado 1500 Orange Ave Coronado, CA 92118 (800) 468 3533

Casa del Mar

Casa del Mar is just a short stroll down the beach from the Santa Monica pier.

Just a short walk down the beach from the Santa Monica Pier, the sweeping front window of Casa del Mar Hotel immediately catches the eye. With all areas carefully restored to the look of the hotel's glory days when Clark Gable and Carole Lombard cavorted there, the ambiance of luxury and romance remains intact. Enter the lobby and bask in the glamor of the 1920s design of architect Charles F. Plummer, and then amble over to the beachfront champagne bar. Beach-facing rooms start at $425 (2010) and feature a marble bathroom with a deep Jacuzzi tub enclosed by glass French doors that open out over your bedroom to the ocean view beyond. Four-poster beds, down duvets, Italian linens, lush bathrobes and fringed period furniture add to the romance.

Casa del Mar 1920 Ocean Way Santa Monica, CA 90405 (310) 581-5533

San Ysidro Ranch

Enjoy a gourmet picnic in a local vineyard as part of San Ysidro Ranch's romanic package.

It's the same romantic retreat where Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh were married and where Jack and Jackie Kennedy spent their honeymoon: San Ysidro Ranch, in the hills of Santa Barbara, is known for its beauty, luxury and seclusion. The top of the line romance package includes a two night stay in a junior suite with a private outdoor rain shower and a hot tub, champagne, breakfast daily and a VIP winery tour with a gourmet picnic for two. A massage for two in your room may be substituted for the wine tour. The rate is $1250 (2010) per night, with a two-night minimum stay. Sailing and horseback riding are also offered for an additional fee.

San Ysidro Ranch 900 San Ysidro Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 565-1700

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Raechel Donahue is an author, journalist and former features editor of the Brentwood News. Her specialties include travel, food and film. She performs a weekend show on, runs a travel website and has written, produced and directed several PBS documentaries. A native Californian, Donahue currently lives in France.

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Leap Motion workshop at Southville JS Bristol

What do you get when you mix a few Leap Motion devices, a few eager developers and space invaders?

We found out at the recent Southville JS Workshop in Bristol. I have been excited about getting involved and I think we had a great workshop to finish the weekend off with some light-hearted fun.

Here are some of the key aspects we went through to program a simple Space Invaders controller using the Leap Motion.

Leap with JS

Leap Motion JavaScript support has two main components.

  1. WebSocket server (JSON-formatted messages)
  2. JavaScript client library, Leap.js

Coordinate System

The Leap’s coordinate system provides X,Y,Z axis which is known as a Cartesian coordinate system.

The units that are given to you through the api are in real-world millimetres.

Frame Loop

In a minute we’ll go through some of the information you get from the leap when you hook in to it’s api. To give you a little context lets first look at what code you might write to access the data.

First you will need the leap.js script in your page.

<script src="//js.leapmotion.com/0.2.0/leap.min.js"></script>

You can use it directly from the Leap Motion site or include it in your own project. The library hides a lot of the complexity of connecting to the web socket server and provides you with a frame loop you can hook in to. The frame loop will run up to 60 frames per second but can vary depending on the machine.

Here is an example of providing a callback function which gets the frame data.

    // frame.hands
    // frame.fingers
    // frame.tools

The frame data provides arrays of object types which could be present during that frame.

Gestures and Taps

The Leap also provides helpful gesture recognition which you need to turn on. For each gesture observed, the Leap adds a Gesture object to the frame. You can get these Gesture objects from the Frame gestures list.

Leap.loop({ enableGestures: true }, function(frame){
    // frame.gestures
  • Circle — A single finger tracing a circle.
  • Swipe — A linear movement of the hand.
  • Key Tap — A tapping movement by a finger as if tapping a keyboard key.
  • Screen Tap — A tapping movement by the finger as if tapping a vertical computer screen.

Hand Sphere

The leap data provides some hidden gems. One of those details an the size of an invisible ball should it fit in the palm of the hand. It’s worth having a dig through the documentation and the frame object the comes back in dev-tools.

hand sphere

  • sphereCenter — The center of a sphere fit to the curvature of the hand (as if it were holding a ball).
  • sphereRadius — The radius of a sphere fit to the curvature of the hand. The radius changes with the shape of the hand.

A Simple Controller

We built a very simple controller for my multiplayer Space Invaders game. The rules were simple:

  • If the hand is more than 40mm to the left we move the ship left
  • If the hand is more than 40mm to the right we move the ship right
  • If there is 2 or more fingers in view then we tell the ship to shoot

Let’s first look at the function which would output that logic given the right parameters. The game’s web-socket server is expecting a space separated string like "left space" or "right". So our getCurrentKeys function could look like this.

function getCurrentKeys(xPos, fingers){
    var k = [];

    // if our hand is over 40mm to the left
    if (xPos < -40){

    // if our hand is over 40mm to the right
    if (xPos > 40){

    // if our hand has more than 1 finger visible
    if (fingers > 1){

    // return space separated current keys
    return k.join(' ');

OK, so how do we get the xPos to pass in to this function?

The Leap’s coordinate system gives us an Array with values for [X,Y,Z] and once we know there is a hand in view we can get it’s palmPosition.

        // ... other game functionality
        // check if there are any hands in view
        if (frame.hands.length){
            // save the current xPos now that we know
            // we have a hand in view
            xPos = frame.hands[0].palmPosition[0];
        // ... other game functionality

And how might we get the number of fingers?

        // ... other game functionality
        // our dummy controller tells the game to
        // shoot if there is more than 1 finger visible
        var fingers = frame.fingers.length;
        // ... other game functionality

You can take a look at the full controller code.

Here are some helpful links to get you going:

Leap Motion

Simple Space Invaders Game

I have set up a simple space invaders game which includes a multiplayer version and a simple leap controller using leap.js

ps. thanks Katja Durrani for letting me use the space invaders pic


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A Bright Day in the Woods…..

In the Shade of the Beech….and No it isn’t Autumn!

The colours in the woodland today could well be mistaken for late autumn, but no it is March 29th …nearly April.

The day did not get off to the most brilliant of starts, dark clouds suggested more of the rains we have had for a few days now, but to our surprise the sun was bold enough to break through the clouds and give us a warm Spring like day with dark shadows in the woods.

But the spring like clues were limited to the warmth from the sun that brought out that distinctive smell of Spring, that heady mix of decaying leaves from last year and new growth for the new season.  Not that you could detect much new growth apart that is from the green leaves of Bluebells breaking cover and a bid for daylight….so it cannot be long before we are graced with the blue carpets of flowers that really does tell us Spring is here.

There was even a glow to the Old Man of Calke….a very special and venerable tree that has by all accounts seen well over a 1000 springs….gnarled it might be but its tentacle like branches still reach for the stars..

May be it is now safe to say Good Bye to Winter

29th March

(C) David Oakes 2016

Will it Ever Be Summer…….?

Start Bay, Devon

I know it is still only March (just) but with the recent storms one does wonder IF Summer ever will return…..Oh! for a warm day on the beach with nothing to do

28th March

(C) David Oakes 2016


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A list of all guitar tunings used by David, in alphabetical order:

71210388 DADGAD Capo 2nd fret
Among the Greenery Standard Capo 2nd fret
An Unsatisfactory Conclusion CFCGCD Capo 5th fret
And So It Goes DADGAD
Boulder Burnt CGDGGD
Chevrons Apart DADF#AD
Dust, You and Me DADGAD
Follow My Footsteps CGDGBC
In Sabina (Portland Strubel) DADGBE
Katy, Again DADGAD Capo 8th fret across strings 1-5 only. (Exit section: drop 6th string down & up in semitone steps, then down to low D one further octave down for end note).
Long Overdue CFCGCD Capo 5th fret
Mono No Aware CGDGGD
Mutster Standard Capo 2nd fret
Pieces Of Me CGDGGD
Plate Glass Shiver CGDGBC
Radio Friendly DADGAD
Samahita CGDGGD
Sea Shapes Standard
Sun Spirit Standard
Technomantra DADGAD Capo 5th fret across strings 1-5 only
To Catch A Star DADF#AD
Troisième AADGBD
Where Memories Go CGDGCD
Wrong Wong Wrong Standard


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Picture post 5 of 7 – Kids Crawl trip

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Classroom Events Wrap Up- picture post 1 of 7

The next few picture posts will be my final send off to the grade 4 class of 2017-2018. We had a great year. Hopefully the photos will show that. I look forward to seeing you in the halls soon. Good luck to those of you moving schools.

Learning about sound impact from Garrett’s dad and aunt- thanks for sharing your experiences at work!

Learning about some of Canada’s indigenous culture from our guest speaker.

Classroom fun and learning.

How does the bat light work?

More learning in sound and light today. We spent lots of time in the dark today!

We learned that light travels in a straight line. We also learned that light can be stopped (ABSORBED) by some materials. I.e. the bat symbol

We also learned that light can reflect off shiny surfaces and pass through some surfaces.

We used prisms to learn that light is made up of many colours!

Multiplying and Dividing Math

Over the last little while in math we have been working on multiplication. We first worked on strategies for multiplying single digits by single digits (e.g. 7×9). Last week, we worked a lot on various strategies for multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number (e.g. 34 x 6).

Many students today have not mastered memorizing multiplication facts, so until they do, they need some strategies to help.

We learned about many strategies including, but not limited to:
Multiplying is really repeated addition (3×6 is 6+6+6)
Multiplying is skip counting (6, 12, 18)
Stacking (what most of our moms and dads do when multiplying)
Decomposing (34 can be 30 AND 4)
Friendly TENS numbers (take away the zero, add the zero when multiplying by numbers like 40)
NEAR friendly numbers (e.g. when multiplying 39 x 7, do 40 x 7, then subtract one group of 7)
Doubling (if multiplying by 4, you can multiply by 2 first, then double it)
Finger trick for multiplying by 9
Array model

Today we began talking about division. We looked at this picture first to help us understand WHAT division is and how it is connected to multiplication.

You can help your child at home by practicing their multiplication facts until they know them by heart.

Also, help them see that division is about equal groups. We have 20 pieces of potato for dinner. If we give each of our 4 family members an equal amount, how many pieces will each person get?