#David H. Pickering

[girlwithhat]

Oh, you know, just thinking about them:

And them:

And them:

And them:

And them:

Even them (just finished rereading all of ACD canon using the new annotated version):

Revisiting my love of these Victorian boyfriends/husbands/domestic partners/soulmates has helped me so much through these past few months 💖

Continuing on (slowly) to discover the other Holmes/Watson duos I haven't properly watched/listened to yet...

[chasseurdeloup]

A package arrives from Harry & David with a card inside for Kaden:

“Thanks for being cool about the mime stuff. Share this with your cousins.”

Along with the card is a list of the contents included in the box:

Creamy Coppinger cheese

Peppadew pepper white cheddar cheese

Aged yellow cheddar cheese

Blueberry Wensleydale cheese

Espresso pecorino cheese

Fig and rose goat milk cheese

Apple-smoked cheddar cheese

Ubriacone wine-bathed cheese

Blueberry vanilla goat milk cheese

Mobay cheese

Wasabi horseradish cheddar cheese

Moliterno al tartufo cheese (truffle-infused)

Maple bacon cheddar cheese

Black truffle salami

Peppered salami

Italian bresaola

Salami piccante

Dried strawberries

Turkish dried figs

Juicy apricots

Crystallized Thai ginger

Dried tangerines

Dried mango slices

Sun-dried tomatoes

Candied walnuts

Caramelized pecans

Pepperoncini

Sweet sesame almonds

Everything seasoned cashews

Dijon seasoned pistachios

Fig and orange marmalade

Tangerine- and chili-marinated green olives

Sparkling prosecco cordials

Chocolate espresso bean mix

Rosemary and olive oil crackers

Tart cherry and cacao crackers

Everything spice crackers

Bamboo cutlery kit (20 fork pickers, 2 mini spreaders, 2 mini spoons, 4 tongs)

Acacia wood serving board, 17 in L x 13 in W x 1.5 in H (43.1 cm x 19 cm x 3.8 cm)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.30

Beer Birthdays

Hamar Alfred Bass (1842)

Leopold Nathan (1864)

Tom Peters (1953)

Peter Cogan (1962)

Dr. Bill Sysak (1962)

Dean Biersch

Jim Jacobs (1963)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Kate Bush; English pop singer (1958)

Buddy Guy; blues guitarist, singer (1936)

Richard Linklater; film director (1960)

Jean Reno; Moroccan-French actor (1948)

Thorstein Veblen; economist (1857)

Famous Birthdays

Paul Anka; pop singer, songwriter (1941)

Duck Baker; guitarist (1949)

Simon Baker; Australian actor, director (1969)

Henry W. Bloch; H&R Block founder (1922)

Ron Block; singer-songwriter and banjo player (1964)

Peter Bogdanovich; film director (1939)

Marc Bolan; rock singer (1947)

Emily Bronte: English writer (1818)

Alton Brown; chef, television host (1962)

Delta Burke; actor (1956)

Smedley Butler; U.S. Marines major general (1881)

Princess Clémentine of Belgium (1872)

Frances de la Tour; English actress (1944)

Dean Edwards; comedian (1970)

Laurence Fishburne; actor (1961)

Henry Ford; car manufacturer (1863)

Kerry Fox; New Zealand actress (1966)

Vivica A. Fox; actor (1964)

Craig Gannon; English guitarist and songwriter (1966)

Tom Green; Canadian comedian and actor (1971)

Jeffrey Hammond; English bass player (1946)

Anita Hill; law professor, victim (1956)

Sid Krofft; Canadian-American puppeteer (1929)

Lisa Kudrow; actor (1963)

Soraida Martinez; painter (1956)

Christine McGuire; pop singer (1929)

Patrick Modiano; French novelist (1945)

Henry Moore; artist, sculptor (1898)

Sean Moore; Welsh drummer and songwriter (1968)

Chris Mullin; basketball player (1963)

Christopher Nolan; English-American film director (1970)

Salvador Novo; Mexican poet and playwright (1904)

Ken Olin; actor (1954)

Pollyanna Pickering; English environmentalist and painter (1942)

Jaime Pressly; actor (1977)

Samuel Rogers; English writer (1763)

David Sanborn; saxophonist (1945)

Rat Scabies, English drummer (1955)

Arnold Schwarzenegger; Austrian-born body builder, actor (1947)

Hope Solo; soccer player (1981)

Frank Stallone; singer-songwriter and actor 91950)

Stan Stennett; Welsh actor and trumpet player (1925)

Casey Stengel; baseball manager (1891)

Hilary Swank; actor (1974)

Otis Taylor; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)

Alexander Trocchi; Scottish author and poet (1925)

Giorgio Vasari; Italian painter (1511)

Dick "Mr. Whipple" Wilson; actor (1916)

Victor Wong; actor (1927)

[swashbuckler5e]

Peter Pan and Wendy

Peter Pan and Wendy is a 2023 American fantasy adventure film directed by David Lowery from a screenplay he co-wrote with Toby Halbrooks. Jim Whittaker served as a producer on Walt Disney Pictures' production of Walt Disney's live-action remake of the 1953 animated feature film Peter Pan, based on the 1904 play Peter Pan; Or, J.M. The Boy Who Didn't Grow Up (also known as Peter and Wendy) by Barry. The film stars Alexander Moloney (his film debut) and Ever Anderson in the title roles. Jude Law, Yara Shahidi, Alyssa Wapanatahak, Joshua Pickering, Jacoby Juppe, and Jim Gaffigan also appear in supporting roles. The story follows Peter Pan and Wendy, who travel to the magical world of Neverland with Wendy's brother and Peter's best friend, Tinker Bell. Along the way, Wendy embarks on adventures that will change her life and encounters Peter's nemesis, Captain Hook.

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A skeleton of one of the largest species of brontotheres, an extinct rhino-like mammal related to horses, at the South Dakota School of Mines Geology Museum in Rapid City, South Dakota. This species, Megacerops coloradensis, grew to about the size of an African forest elephant. Photograph By Millard H. Sharp/Science Photo Library

Recyled plastics and other materials provide up to 56 million people in the world with an income. Called waste pickers, such workers keep untold amounts of plastic and other forms of trash out of landfills worldwide. Governments are beginning to recognize their value to society and give them the same rights as other kinds of workers. Photograph By David Guttenfelder, National Geographic Image Collection

Holding Court: Catherine II of Russia makes a grand entrance before her courtiers in a colorful lithograph by Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois from 1909. Album/Fine Art Images

Huzzah! This is the coronation portrait of the real Catherine the Great of Russia, not the actress on the Hulu series about the empress. She expanded Russia’s borders and brought about educational reforms—and didn’t hesitate to use harsh measures.

Mammoth 🦣 Ivory: When woolly mammoths roamed the Earth, ancient hunters tracked and killed them for their meat. Now, in Russia’s Arctic, people search high and low for these massive creatures' valuable tusks. (Above, a searcher removes a tusk from a frozen riverbed.) After being frozen for thousands of years in a Siberian riverbed, this pristine mammoth tusk is a financial boon to the hunter who found it.

[deepredradio]

Hunted - Waldsterben

Hunted – Waldsterben

Story: Eve flirtet in einer Bar mit einem charmanten Mann, der sich schnell als mörderischer Psychopath entpuppt. Gemeinsam mit einem Handlanger entführt er Eve. Doch nach einem Autounfall kann sie sich befreien und in ein Waldstück fliehen. Im Kampf um Leben und Tod geht Eve an ihre Grenzen und darüber hinaus. Der Wald ist auf ihrer Seite. Während die zwei Männer die Verfolgung aufnehmen, wird…

[catvaughnofthe318]

[winsonsaw2003]

I'm looking for descendants from Edward Presgrave (1795-1830) Of Bourne / Singapore

  Edward Presgrave (1795-1830) was Resident Councillor of Malacca & Singapore in 1820′S. son of Edward Presgrave of Bourne & Ann Clerk.He married Anne Cooper.His issue:- i) Edwina Anne Presgrave (1821-1886) married Charles Harison Drury. Their issue:- ai) Charles Garling Drury(1845-1874) married Agnes Louisa Claridge. His issue:- bi)Charles Arthur Walpole Drury(1874-1958) married Jessie Ellen Lamb. His issue:- ci) Violet Miriam Drury(1899-1984) married Selwyn Guise Cutler. Their issue:- di) Alan Cutler. cii) Shelley Walpole Drury(1900-1995) married Doris Kathleen Kitching. His issue:- di) Derek Shelley Drury(1929-2014) married Jeannette O Unsted. His issue:- ei)Neil T Drury married Lynda S Jones. eii)Linda M Drury married John D Hill. dii) Roger L Drury. ciii) Henry Charles Dru Drury(1901-1999) married Olive Bird White. aii)Edward George Drury(1847-1868). aiii) Edwina Mary Drury(1849-1927). aiv) Bessie Sophia Drury(1851-1933) married James Burn Pennngton. Her issue:- bi) Beryl Pennington(1873-1959). bii) Drury Pennington(1874-1960) married Harriett Fremlin Key. His issue:- ci) Beryl Mary Dora Pennington married Richard T Lawrence. cii) Harold Drury Pennington(1907-?) married Hermione Blackburn. ciii) John Drury Pennington(1910-?). biii) Cyril Burn Pennington(1878-1955). biv) Harold Evelyn Pennington(1880-1915). bv) Guy Drury Pennington(1882-1909). bvi) Gladys Pennington(1886-1887). av) Francis McDowell(Macdonald) Drury (1852-?) married Ida Mariguitte ?. His issue:- bi) Amy Hyacinth Drury(1893-1973) married Nelson Winslow Pickering. Their issue:- ci) Nancy Pickering(1915-1994) married William Jamieson Neidlinger. Their issue:- di) Nancy Neidlinger married Paul Henry Eitapence. Their issue:- ei) Mark Eitapence. eii) Michelle Eitapence. dii) William Jamieson Neidlinger Jr.(1942-2012) married 1stly , Patricia H ? & 2ndly,Elisabeth ?. His issue:- ei) Elizabeth Neidlinger. eii) William Jamieson Neidlinger III. diii) Anthony Winslow Neidlinger married Patricia A Hewett Hussein. cii) Natalie Pickering(1924-2012) married Dayton Béguelin. Their issue:- di) Robert Dayton Béguelin married Susanna Adams Jones. dii) Winslow Drury Béguelin married Sarah Steinkamp Pierce. bii) Enid Drury(1895-1972). avi) Agnes Drury (1854-?). avii) Ernest Thorpe Drury (1856-1880) married aviii) Maud Anna Drury(1858-1928). aix) Nina Lizzie Drury(1861-1942). ii) Edward Presgrave (1823-?) married Margaret Crane.His issue:- ai) Edward Robert John Presgrave (1855-1919) iii) Mary Presgrave(1824-?). iv) Duncan Clerk Presgrave (1826-1883) married Jane Sarah Caunter.His issue:- ai) Isabella Presgrave (1851-?) married Arthur Edward Clarke.Their issue:- bi) Denys Harcourt Clarke (1879-1930) married Emily Dorothy Drake. aii) Edward William Presgrave (1855-1930). aiii) Duncan George Presgrave (1857-1928) married Frances Mary Clare Passmore.His issue:- bi) Sydney Frances Vivien Presgrave (1885-1989) married Sir Reginald George Watson. Their issue:- ci) Clare Watson married Ben Hawes-Watson. cii) Patricia A Watson married Kenneth P Pool. Their issue:- di) Anthony Presgrave Pool married Julia Weil Bendiner. His issue:- ei) Suzanne Harriet Pool. eii) Ralph Sabato Pool. dii) Timothy Kenneth Pool married Felicity Frankham. His issue:- ei) Graham Edward Pool married Fiona M Maycock. His issue:- fi) Mary Elizabeth Pool. fii) Beatrice Emma Pool. diii) Jacqueline Mary Pool married David Morris Fitzgerald Scott. ciii) Betty Watson married Herbert J Payne. Their issue:- i) ? Payne. ii) Nigel Conrad Presgrave Payne married Elizabeth M Morris. His issue:- ai) Conrad Francis Charles Presgrave Payne married Juliet N.C. Charlton aiv)William Garling Presgrave (1859-?). av) Percy Clerk Presgrave (1860-1862). avi) Jessie Harriet Presgrave (1870-?). Please contact me at:- winsonsaw20032000@yahoo.com

[mmel]

books read in 2019

january

1.The Little Mermaid — Hans Christian Andersen (1837) (audio) 

2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922) (audio)

3. Jungle River — Howard Pease (1938) 

4. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 

5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence — Robert M. Pirsig (1974) 

6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) 

7. Crome Yellow — Aldous Huxley (1921) 

8. The Story of the Eye — George Bataille (1921) 

february

9. The Immoralist — Andre Gide (1902) 

10. 1984 — George Orwell (1949) (audio) (2nd time) 

11. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger (1951) (audio) (2nd time) 

12. Animal Farm — George Orwell (1945) (audio) (2nd time) 

13. The Woodlanders — Thomas Hardy (1877) 

14. Descartes in 90 Minutes — Paul Strathern (1996) 

15. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847) 

march

16. Discourse on the Method (1637) (in Heffernan) & 16.5 The Search After Truth by the Light of Nature — René Descartes 

17. Bilingual “Discourse on the Method” & Essays — Descartes & George Heffernan (1994) 

18. Autobiography — John Stuart Mill (1873) 

19. Méditations — René Descartes (1641) 

20. Discourse on Method and Related Writings — René Descartes (Penguin Classics) incl. le monde et les règles 

21. Meno — Plato (385 BC) (audio) 

22. Crito — Plato (audio) 

23. Poetics — Aristotle (audio) 

24. The Apology — Plato (audio) 

25. Phaedo — Plato (audio) 

26. Five Dialogues — Plato (euthyphro, apology, crito, meno, phaedo) (2nd time except euthyphro) 

27. Ion - Plato 

28. The Art of Loving — Erich Fromm (1956) 

29. On Liberty — J.S. Mill (1859) 

april

30. A History of Knowledge — Charles Van Doren (1991) 

31. Why I am So Wise — Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin abridged Ecce Homo) (1908) 

32. The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James (1902) 

33. Pragmatism — William James (1907) 

34. Candide — Voltaire (1759) 

35. Short stories by Voltaire — Zadig, Micromegas, The World as it Is, Memnon, Bababec, Scarmentados Travels, Plato’s Dream, Jesuit Berthier, Good Brahman, Jeannot and Colin, An Indian Adventure, Ingenuous, One-Eyed Porter, Memory’s Adventure, Chaplain Goudman (1747-1775) 

36. The Great Conversation — Robert M. Hutchins (1952) 

may

37. Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy & Prometheus Bound (458 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965) 

38. Sophocles’ Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes (~400 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965) 

39. Euripides’ Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchae (~430 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965) 

40. Mythology — Edith Hamilton (1940) 

41. Erewhon — Samuel Butler (1872) 

42. The Iliad — Homer (850 BC) 

43. The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint Exupery (1943) 

44. Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (2nd time), The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians (Penguin Classics) 

45. Teaching From the Balance Point — Edward Kreitman (Suzuki guide — 1998) 

june

46. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (2nd time), Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (2nd time) (Penguin Classics) 

47. The Odyssey — Homer (850 BC) 

48. The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) 

49. Coraline — Neil Gaiman (2002) 

50. The Lost Art of Reading — David Ulin (2010) 

51. Sophocles’ Ajax, Electra (2nd time), Women of Trachis, Philoctetes (2nd time) (Penguin Classics) 

52. The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) 

53. The Awakening — Kate Chopin (1899) (audio) 

54. Straight is the Gate — André Gide (1924) 

55. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (1847) 

56. Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne (1864) (audio) 

57. East of Eden — John Steinbeck (1952) 

58. Sons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence (1913) 

59. Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck (1939) (audio) 

july 

60. Attached — Amir Levine (2010) (audio) 

61. The Prophet — Khalil Gibran (1923) (audio) 

62. The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz (1997) (audio) (2nd time) 

63. The Transparent Self — Sidney Jourard (1964) 

64. The Return of the Native — Thomas Hardy (1878) 

65. The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B Du Bois (1903) (audio) 

66. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) (audio) 

67. The Call of the Wild — Jack London (1903) (audio) 

68. The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde (1895) (audio) (2nd time) 

69. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum (1900) (audio) 

70. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890) (audio) 

71. Justine — Marquis de Sade (1791) 

72. Love and Will — Rollo May (1969) 

73. Nine Stories — J.D. Salinger (1953) 

74. The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution — P.D. Ouspensky (1950) 

75. The Good Earth — Pearl S. Buck (1931) (audio) 

76. The Symposium — Plato (385-370 BC) 

77. Children’s Stories by Oscar Wilde (1888) 

august 

78. Plato’s Apology (3rd time), Crito (3rd time) ; Laches, Gorgias (audio) 

79. Plato’s Greater Hippias, Phaedrus (audio) 

80. The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) (audio) 

81. Plato’s Phaedo (3rd time), Euthyphro (3rd time); Charmides 

82. Eyeless in Gaza — Aldous Huxley (1936) 

83. A Little History of the World — E. F. Gombrich (1936) (audio) 

84. Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett (1953) 

85. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1877) 

86. A Little History of Literature — John Southerland (2013) 

87. Sartor Resartus — Thomas Carlyle (1831) 

88. Macbeth — Shakespeare (1606) 

september

89. An Apology for Idlers — Robert Louis Stevenson (Penguin Great Ideas collection of essays) (1877) 

90. The Cloister and the Hearth — Charles Reade (1861) 

91. How to Read a Book — Mortimer Adler & Charles van Doren (1972) (audio) 

92. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe (1719) (audio) 

93. The Story of Art — E. H. Gombrich (1950) 

94. The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins (1868) 

95. Emma — Jane Austen (1816) 

96. Daughters & Mothers: Mothers & Daughters — Signe Hammer (1975) 

97. Looking Back — Edward Bellamy (1888) 

98. Franny & Zooey — J.D. Salinger (1955) 

99. Persuasion — Jane Austen (1817)

100. Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen (1811) (audio and 2011 Annotated edition!!!) 

101. The Aspern Papers — Henry James (1888) 

october

102. Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller (1949) 

103. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (1932) (audio) 

104. Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delaney (1974) 

105. Mansfield Park — Jane Austen (1814) 

106. Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen (1817) 

107. Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier (1938) 

108. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813) (second time) (audio) 

109. The American — Henry James (1877) 

110. Washington Square — Henry James (1880) 

111. The Europeans — Henry James (1878) 

112. Watch and Ward — Henry James (1871) 

113. Roderick Hudson — Henry James (1875) 

114. Confidence — Henry James (1879)

115. Portrait of a Lady — Henry James (1881)

116. I’ll Never Be French — Marc Greenside (2008)

117. The Bostonians -- Henry James (1886)

118. Henry James short stories Vol. I 1864-1874 -- A Tragedy of Error; The Story of a Year; A Landscape Painter; A Day of Days; My Friend Bingham; Poor Richard, The Story of a Masterpiece; The Romance of Certain Old Clothes; A Most Extraordinary Case; A Problem; De Grey: A Romance; Osbourne’s Revenge, A Light Man, Gabrielle de Bergerac, Travelling Companions, A Passionate Pilgrim, At Isella, Master Eustace, Guest’s Confession, The Madonna of the Future, The Sweetheart of M. Briseaux, The Last of the Valerii, Madame de Mauves, Adina

119. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul -- Douglas Adams (1988)

120. French Children Don’t Throw Food -- Pamela Druckerman (2012)

121. Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French -- Asselin & Mastron (2001)

122. Henry James: The Young Master -- Sheldon Novick (1997)

123. Henry James short stories Vol. II 1875-1884 Professor Fargo, Eugene Pickering, Benvolio, Crawford’s Consistency, The Ghostly Rental, Four Meetings, Rose-Agathe, Daisy Miller, Longstaff’s Marriage, An International Episode, The Pension Beaurepas, The Diary of a Man of Fifty, A Bundle of Letters, The Point of View, The Siege of London, The Impressions of a Cousin, Lady Barberina, The Author of Beltraffio, Pandora

124. The Trail of the Serpent -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1860)

125. The Silent Language -- Edward T. Hall (1959)

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 18, 2019

Top-down inputs drive neuronal network rewiring and context-enhanced sensory processing in olfaction. Adams, W., Graham, J. N., Han, X., & Riecke, H. (2019). PLOS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006611.

A Gestalt inference model for auditory scene segregation. Chakrabarty, D., & Elhilali, M. (2019). PLOS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006711.

Inhibitory effect of ultrasonic stimulation on the voltage-dependent potassium currents in rat hippocampal CA1 neurons. Cui, K., Zhang, S., Sun, J., Zhang, X., Ding, C., & Xu, G. (2019). BMC Neuroscience, 20(1), 3.

Dopamine type 1- and 2-like signaling in the modulation of spatial reference learning and memory. Daba Feyissa, D., Sialana, F. J., Keimpema, E., Kalaba, P., Paunkov, A., Engidawork, E., … Korz, V. (2019). Behavioural Brain Research, 362, 173–180.

Binocular Modulation of Monocular V1 Neurons. Dougherty, K., Cox, M. A., Westerberg, J. A., & Maier, A. (2019). Current Biology, 29(3), 381–391.e4.

Attention reorganizes as structure is detected in dynamic action. Hard, B. M., Meyer, M., & Baldwin, D. (2019). Memory & Cognition, 47(1), 17–32.

Interneuronal gap junctions increase synchrony and robustness of hippocampal ripple oscillations. Holzbecher, A., & Kempter, R. (2018). European Journal of Neuroscience, 48(12), 3446–3465.

Interacting neural ensembles in orbitofrontal cortex for social and feeding behaviour. Jennings, J. H., Kim, C. K., Marshel, J. H., Raffiee, M., Ye, L., Quirin, S., … Deisseroth, K. (2019). Nature, 565(7741), 645–649.

Astrocyte-induced positive integrated information in neuron-astrocyte ensembles. Kanakov, O., Gordleeva, S., Ermolaeva, A., Jalan, S., & Zaikin, A. (2019). Physical Review E, 99(1), 012418.

Predicting change: Approximate inference under explicit representation of temporal structure in changing environments. Marković, D., Reiter, A. M. F., & Kiebel, S. J. (2019). PLOS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006707.

Spatial synchronization codes from coupled rate-phase neurons. Monaco, J. D., De Guzman, R. M., Blair, H. T., & Zhang, K. (2019). PLOS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006741.

Hippocampal place cell encoding of sloping terrain. Porter, B. S., Schmidt, R., & Bilkey, D. K. (2018). Hippocampus, 28(11), 767–782.

Physical brain connectomics. Robinson, P. A. (2019). Physical Review E, 99(1), 012421.

Locus Coeruleus tracking of prediction errors optimises cognitive flexibility: An Active Inference model. Sales, A. C., Friston, K. J., Jones, M. W., Pickering, A. E., & Moran, R. J. (2019). PLOS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006267.

Short-term synaptic depression can increase the rate of information transfer at a release site. Salmasi, M., Loebel, A., Glasauer, S., & Stemmler, M. (2019). PLOS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006666.

Intense threat switches dorsal raphe serotonin neurons to a paradoxical operational mode. Seo, C., Guru, A., Jin, M., Ito, B., Sleezer, B. J., Ho, Y.-Y., … Warden, M. R. (2019). Science, 363(6426), 538–542.

STRFs in primary auditory cortex emerge from masking-based statistics of natural sounds. Sheikh, A.-S., Harper, N. S., Drefs, J., Singer, Y., Dai, Z., Turner, R. E., & Lücke, J. (2019). PLOS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006595.

Sensory coding is impaired in rat absence epilepsy. Studer, F., Laghouati, E., Jarre, G., David, O., Pouyatos, B., & Depaulis, A. (2018). Journal of Physiology, 597(3), JP277297.

Sour grapes and sweet victories: How actions shape preferences. Vinckier, F., Rigoux, L., Kurniawan, I. T., Hu, C., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Daunizeau, J., & Pessiglione, M. (2019). PLOS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006499.

Meta-Research Bonus Paper:

Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding competitions. Gross, K., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2019). PLOS Biology, 17(1), e3000065.

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Home Soil, TNG, 1988

Ties Of Blood And Water, DS9, 1997

Star Trek, 2009

Measure Of A Man, TNG, 1989

Star Trek Into Darkness, 2013

The Devil In The Dark, TOS, 1967

A Time To Stand, DS9, 1997

In A Mirror darkly, ENT, 2005

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Trailer Footage

Data’s Day, TNG, 1991

Blaze Of Glory, DS9, 1997

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991

Projections, VOY, 1995

Rohingya Muslim Refugees Flee Ethnic Cleansing In Myanmar, NBC News, published Oct. 8, 2017, accessed in 2018 via: https://bit.ly/2CY5mHg

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, TOS, 1969

Balance Of Terror, TOS, 1966

Stigma, ENT, 2003

The Ensigns Of Command, TNG, 1989

Prototype, VOY, 1996

The Butcher’s Knife cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry, DIS, 2017

I, Mudd, TOS 1967

The Offspring, TNG, 1990

Encounter At Farpoint, TNG, 1987

Datalore, TNG, 1988

Birthright part 1, TNG, 1993

Best Of Both Worlds Part 2, TNG, 1990

Where No One Has Gone Before, TNG, 1987

Data’s Day, TNG, 1991

Evolution, TNG, 1989

Who Watches The Watchers, TNG, 1989

The Quality Of Life, TNG, 1992

Emergence, TNG, 1994

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 1979

Message In A Bottle, VOY, 1998

Ship In A Bottle, TNG, 1993

Doctor Bashir, I Presume, DS9, 1997

Life Line, VOY, 2000

Eye Of The Needle, VOY, 1995

Caretaker, VOY, 1995

Latent Image, VOY, 1999

Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy, VOY, 1999

Virtuoso, VOY, 2000

Author, Author, VOY, 2001

Flesh And Blood, VOY, 2000

Nightingale, VOY, 2000

Images

The Cotton Planter And His Pickers, H. Tees, West Point, Mississippi

The Discovery Of The Mississippi by William Henry Powell, 1853, uploaded by Davepape, 2007

James Hopkinson’s Plantation Slaves Planting Sweet Potatoes, by Henry P. Moore, 1862-63, uploaded by Hohum, 2013

Cotton Field In Mississippi, Popular Science Monthly, Volume 54, 1898

The Nazi Hierarchy, US National Archives And Records Administration, 1933 or 1934, uploaded by Alonso de Mendoza, 2017

Macaca Nigra Self-Portrait Full Body, taken by a female Celebus Crested Macaque using photographer David Slater’s camera, 2008, uploaded by Sandstein, 2011

Macaca Nigra Self-Portrait, taken by a female Celebus Crested Macaque using photographer David Slater’s camera, 2008, uploaded by Crisco 1492, 2015

Am I Not A Man Emblem, Josiah Wedgwood, William Hackwood et Henry Webber, 1787, uploaded by Logan, 2011

Hanging, Burning, & Clubbing Of Indians By Spanish Soldiers, by Joos van Winghe & Theodor de Bry, 1664, via the Peace Palace Library, uploaded by Hansmuller, 2014

Polish Jews Captured By Germans During The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, possibly taken by Franz Conrad, 1943, uploaded by Durova, 2008

Skulls From The Nyamata Memorial Site in Rhwanda, taken by Fanny Schertzer, 2007, uploaded by Inisheer, 2007

Arrest Of Rosa Parks, by Associated Press, 1956, uploaded by Adam Cuerden, 2016

Music

Walk Break 1 by Gavin Luke

Intriguing Developments 4 by Gavin Luke

Seeking Justice 4 by Peter Sandberg

Italian Winter Rain 2 by Peter Sandberg

Pause For Concern 1 by Gavin Luke

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.30

Beer Birthdays

Hamar Alfred Bass (1842)

Leopold Nathan (1864)

Tom Peters (1953)

Peter Cogan (1962)

Dr. Bill Sysak (1962)

Dean Biersch

Jim Jacobs (1963)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Kate Bush; English pop singer (1958)

Buddy Guy; blues guitarist, singer (1936)

Richard Linklater; film director (1960)

Jean Reno; Moroccan-French actor (1948)

Thorstein Veblen; economist (1857)

Famous Birthdays

Paul Anka; pop singer, songwriter (1941)

Duck Baker; guitarist (1949)

Simon Baker; Australian actor, director (1969)

Henry W. Bloch; H&R Block founder (1922)

Ron Block; singer-songwriter and banjo player (1964)

Peter Bogdanovich; film director (1939)

Marc Bolan; rock singer (1947)

Emily Bronte: English writer (1818)

Alton Brown; chef, television host (1962)

Delta Burke; actor (1956)

Smedley Butler; U.S. Marines major general (1881)

Princess Clémentine of Belgium (1872)

Frances de la Tour; English actress (1944)

Dean Edwards; comedian (1970)

Laurence Fishburne; actor (1961)

Henry Ford; car manufacturer (1863)

Kerry Fox; New Zealand actress (1966)

Vivica A. Fox; actor (1964)

Craig Gannon; English guitarist and songwriter (1966)

Tom Green; Canadian comedian and actor (1971)

Jeffrey Hammond; English bass player (1946)

Anita Hill; law professor, victim (1956)

Sid Krofft; Canadian-American puppeteer (1929)

Lisa Kudrow; actor (1963)

Soraida Martinez; painter (1956)

Christine McGuire; pop singer (1929)

Patrick Modiano; French novelist (1945)

Henry Moore; artist, sculptor (1898)

Sean Moore; Welsh drummer and songwriter (1968)

Chris Mullin; basketball player (1963)

Christopher Nolan; English-American film director (1970)

Salvador Novo; Mexican poet and playwright (1904)

Ken Olin; actor (1954)

Pollyanna Pickering; English environmentalist and painter (1942)

Jaime Pressly; actor (1977)

Samuel Rogers; English writer (1763)

David Sanborn; saxophonist (1945)

Rat Scabies, English drummer (1955)

Arnold Schwarzenegger; Austrian-born body builder, actor (1947)

Hope Solo; soccer player (1981)

Frank Stallone; singer-songwriter and actor 91950)

Stan Stennett; Welsh actor and trumpet player (1925)

Casey Stengel; baseball manager (1891)

Hilary Swank; actor (1974)

Otis Taylor; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)

Alexander Trocchi; Scottish author and poet (1925)

Giorgio Vasari; Italian painter (1511)

Dick "Mr. Whipple" Wilson; actor (1916)

Victor Wong; actor (1927)

[46ten]

Beloved Matthew Clarkson, part 2

EH to Matthew Clarkson, 17Sept1804. 

Part 1 here. 

I haven’t been able to get much further with the Clarkson-AH relationship specifically, but thanks to @runawayforthesummer I do have more information about Clarkson after AH’s death, including his assistance to the Hamiltons. 

Gouverneur Morris wrote in his journal [transcribed by runawayforthesummer]: 

Mr. Hammond, who dined with us, desired me to think of some means to provide for poor Hamilton's family. Mr. Gracie and Mr. Wolcott called for the same purpose. I had already mentioned the matter to Mr. Low, who seems to think a subscription will not go down well, because the children have a rich grandfather. Mr. Hammond mentions certain engagements in bank, indorsed by Ludlow and David Ogden. The same thing probably exists as to him, Gracie, and Wolcott. Be motives what they may, I will use the occasion and freely pay my quota. Clarkson will unquestionably do as much. David Ogden says he, Clarkson, will do more than he ought. He is a worthy fellow, as, indeed, he always was, and is extremely wounded. He said to me on Thursday, just after our friend had expired: “If we were truly brave we should not accept a challenge; but we are all cowards.” The tears rolling down his face gave strong effect to the voice and manner with which he pronounced this sentence. There is no braver man living, and yet I doubt whether he would so far brave the public opinion as to refuse a challenge. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol 2. pg 458

A rumor circulated that Rufus King had said that Clarkson had said that the duel between AH and Burr was “unavoidable”, with the implication that Clarkson approved of this duel; Clarkson wrote to King about it and provided his own feelings about the duel:

New York

August 20th, 1804

My Dear Sir

Since the late melancholy event that deprived us of our friend Hamilton, a report has reached me, that yourself in conjunction with Mr. Pendleton and myself had given it as an opinion that a duel was unavoidable; a report of this nature (as I abhor the practice) has occasioned me great uneasiness, and as I was only a hearer of what you related to me and had no other agency in the business, you will much oblige me by a line to this effect. I promise you that no other use shall be made of the letter but only to show it to two persons from whom I received the information-whom I am very solicitous should be rightly informed on the subject. Previous to the fatal event the silence you imposed on me was most scrupulously attended to; but which agitated my mind exceedingly; immediately upon my hearing of its having taken place I directly went to our friend, who I found had already requested that I be sent for. The scene which I witnessed has almost been too much for me, and the idea now suggested has not contributed to my repose. Let me request, my dear sir, to hear from you as soon as possible. 

P.S. We are endeavouring to obtain by subscription some property for the children of our friend; is anything of a similar nature likely to be done in Boston?  -  Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, Vol 4, pg 399

King responded to Clarkson:

Waltham near Boston

August 24, 1804

My dear Sir

I lose no time in replying to your letter of the 20th which I received last evening considering the reserve I have observed upon this subject of national affliction. I am truly surprised that any such rumor, as that you mention, should have got into circulation upon my authority: No person can be justified by any observation that you ever made to me, or that I ever made to another, in reporting that you had given an opinion that a Duel between our lamented friend and Col Burr was unavoidable.  

It was not until the challenge had been given and accepted that I mentioned the affair to you, and then under injunction of secrecy – [insert] knowing our friend’s determination to be positive [end insert] my mind was agitated with strong forebodings of what had happened; and though the correspondence was closed by the agreement of the Parties to meet each other, I nevertheless mentioned the subject to you, and asked if you would perceive any mode of interference; your answer, expressive of much sorrow, was in the negative -; I did not however infer from this answer that in your opinion our friend might not have declined a meeting with Col Burr, but merely, by the acceptance of his adversary’s challenge, that the interference of third persons was precluded.

P.S. You are absolutely to make any use of the above that you may deem proper.

There exists in this quarter a difficulty that may disappoint our hopes of pecuniary succor for the family of our lamented friend – I allude to the misunderstandings that existed between him and Mr. Adams. Should we fail in procuring money, I understand that certain persons who purchased a tract of land in Pennsylvania of Col. Pickering, and for which they paid him $25,000 will be disposed to convey the lands to the family of the deceased. This will be a valuable property at a Distant Day, but cash only will pay Debts- *

original letter here, also found in Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, Vol 4

King follows up with another letter to Clarkson less than a week later: 

Boston

August 29, 1804

Dear Sir

Mrs. Hamilton having written to Mr. Cabot to endeavor to procure for Alexander a situation in a reputable commercial house, Mr. Higginson has readily consented to take him, and until a suitable family can be found to take Alexander in as a boarder, Mr. Higginson will receive him into his own family. This will give to the young man an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the respectable persons of the town, and with such young men as are of the best reputation-

In my answer to your letter of the 20th I omitted to say anything concerning either Mr. Pendleton or myself in regard to the Report to which your letter alludes. I have no recollection that Mr. Pendleton ever expressed to me any opinion whether General H. could, or ought to, decline a meeting with Col Burr; though I very well remember that he soberly agreed with me in opinion of the inconsistency of the General’s determination to receive the fire of his adversary, and to throw away his own –

No person can view with deeper abhorrence than I do the practice of dueling, and our lamented friend was not unacquainted with my opinion upon this Subject. 

-original letter here, also found in Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, Vol 4

So King told Clarkson about the planned duel to see if he could do something about it; Clarkson said he could not interfere at that point, but someone thought Clarkson was saying that AH was right to accept Burr’s challenge, while all of these men expressly disapprove of dueling, of course. 

By the way, King left NYC and was in Boston at the time of the duel. Washington Morton, “a young man of strong passions” (whose “conduct, as usual, is preposterous” haha) spoke “indignantly of the conduct of King, giving the impression that such was the feeling of his wife’s family” (pg 391-392).  Pendleton supposedly said at a dinner party that King’s behavior could be construed to show, “great coldness of heart,” although he didn’t hold it against King. More ammunition for James A. and JCH to sue King 20 years later.

Back to the Alexander Jr. situation and Clarkson...

In addition to the letter from Elizabeth Hamilton above, transcribed by runawayforthesummer here, and by aswithasunbeam with photo of original letter here, there’s the following letter (see this post for more context): 

EH to General Matthew Clarkson (in NY) 

Albany, September 29th, 1804

With thanks permit me to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter. The advantages my friend of placing my son [Alexander] in Boston are great, but they are all with respect to acquirements in the knowledge of making property. And his Moral and Religious Character must be entirely depending upon himself and how few are there at his age that do not want a watchfull parents care to guard them, and even there they are Hazarded by a short absence. The present day has evils of every sort assailing a young mind, that has but just stepped from the studies of a college class. The advantages of having a home, ware [where], he will meet with tenderness, to make[?] him domesticated, books that will be suited to him and see a tender virtuous father’s Bust that will press on his mind, that goodness, and Religion must be his Chief support.

With respect to myself how little am I fitted to bear the anxiety for an abscent child, the alarms for his health will be many and fears I shall constantly have, I have several children let the pain of separation be a little protracted and the eldest remain to give me some consolation and by prayers for his prosperity attentions on my part endeavor to make up any loss he may attain by a different situation.

With Esteem, E. Hamilton

This is all very sad. Clarkson does seem to have been regarded as “the bravest man,” who will do more than he “ought,” who could teach a young man about Religion and other subjects that “marked his character.” AH asked for him while dying, and Clarkson seemed heartbroken by AH’s death. All around, a good man and friend. 

*If one wants to read more about this property, check out pages 405-411 of the Rufus King volume linked above.

[art-of-manliness]

A Peek at The Strenuous Life: October 2018

Last year we launched The Strenuous Life: an online/offline platform that’s like a scouting program for grown men. Each month, members receive The Strenuous Life Bugle, a newsletter that highlights what’s been going on at TSL. We thought AoM readers might enjoy a peek at it every now and then. If you’re interested in becoming a member yourself, sign up for updates here; the next enrollment opens in January. Congratulations to Those Who Completed 52/52 Agons! With another cohort of Classes passing the year mark of their membership, a select group of elite men have again succeeded in doing every single Agon for an entire year. Congratulations to the following members for this supremely strenuous accomplishment (I’ve included some members of Class 001 who were not included the last time this list was announced): * Jon F., Class 001 * Zachary S., Class 001 * DJ H., Class 001 * Mike W., Class 001 * Zachary L., Class 001 * David H., Class 004 * Justin H., Class 004 * Dan D., Class 005 * Jared M., Class 005 * pirate4hire, Class 005 * Ray B., Class 005 * Matthew A., Class 005 * John D., Class 006 * JJ G., Class 006 * Lachlan M., Class 006 * Michael P., Class 006 * Tyler M., Class 006 * Chad M., Class 006 * Brandon D., Class 006 * Richard H., Class 006 * Shane T., Class 006 * Bill B., Class 007 * Neil T., Class 007 * Alex J., Class 008 * Hobie F., Class 008 * Thomas J., Class 008 * Adan M., Class 010 * Sidney K., Class 011 * Stephen H., Class 011 * Steven C., Class 011 * Matthew W., Class 011 Geographic Group Meet-Ups Here’s a look at some of the meet-ups that happened on September’s Strenuous Saturday (the third Saturday of every month): New Jersey Meet-Up @tapcall and @rwpatterson met up to perform a fireman’s carry conditioning event that @tapcall hatched himself. It consisted of: * Warmup, short jog * 40yd fireman’s carry – 3x each * 3 min rest * 40yd fireman’s carry – 3x each * 4 min rest * 40yd fireman’s carry – 3x each * 6 min rest * 50yd fireman’s carry – 1x each * 100yd 100lb sandbag carry – 1x each The men also practiced the ranger roll (a way of getting an unconscious or immobile person into a fireman’s carry) from a prone position, and got fairly decent at it. After their activities in the park they headed to a local burger joint for some tasty grub, refreshing seltzer, and engaging conversation. Love the strenuosity of this meet-up, fellas! (And, @rwpatterson, that is a truly good-looking mustache.) Denver, CO Meet-Up Denver members @taylor, @amalgam, @dan32, and @samuraiiamori hiked 7 miles at the North Table Mountain in Golden. Sacramento, CA Meet-Up The TSL men of Sactown met up at the Hop Gardens tap room to enjoy some beers and work on the Knotsmanship Badge. They were able to work through all of the knot requirements during their 3.5 hour meet-up. Props to @standaman7 who’s shown great leadership in planning meet-ups and welcoming new Sacramento members both online and off. Springfield, MO Meet-Up Missourian members @jutt_jones, @thomasmurphy, @aj-lee2277, and @kadesandlin rucked/hiked a 5-mile loop at Busiek State Wilderness Park. The men spotted plenty of wildlife: snake, coyote, rabbit, lizard, and dozens of spiders blocking the trail. When their own four-legged companion got spooked in making a water crossing, she was carried across. The men also picked up trash and cleared debris along the way. After the hike, the men practiced picking locks together, ticking off requirements for the Lock Picker Badge. Austin, TX Meet-Up Austin, TX TSL-ers planned and executed an awesome, epic Strenuous Saturday. @themarkus, @prometheus, @pnewman7, and @jason-wilkes met at Weber’s Guns in Troy to shoot some skeet in the morning. Jason, who is on active duty in the Army, showed the others how to shoot, helping them complete many of the requirements for the Sharpshooter Badge. Later that day, the men cut down and bucked trees with both axes and chainsaws, felling some requirements for the Lumberjack Badge. After 3+ hours of lumberjacking, the men had built up a powerful thirst and hunger and grilled some steaks, which Jason’s wife Karlyn generously accompanied with some sides and suds. With their bellies full, the men retired to the back porch for some Old Fashioned cocktails and conversation, digging into military history and discussing whether the Spartans were truly a great military power, social hierarchies in East Asian cultures, and how historian Victor Davis Hanson’s The Western Way of War is codified in the military doctrine of Mission Command. @themarkus writes: “Everyone came away glad for the opportunity to do badgework and spend some great time with like-minded men.” Badge Work Here’s a look at some of what our TSL members have been up to: For the Community Service Badge, Belgian member @nassimj volunteered with the Red Cross, and @ahussain served as Camp Leader for his Scout group’s weekend-long camp. @rontrenum completed an online class in digital art for the Art Badge (for which he made this cool Hemingway portrait), and @blursch treaded water for 20 minutes with his clothes on for the Frogman Badge. @batmangelo made a workbench (with this AoM instructional) for the Craftsman Badge. For the Music Badge, @jeff-more dusted off the banjo, an instrument he had been decent at playing, but had dropped 16 years ago: “After 10+ years of guilting myself to dust it off and start back up, TSL finally got me going.” For the Fighter Badge, @billphillips260 competed in a jiu-jitsu tournament; he’s been practicing jiu-jitsu for less than a year, is 55, figured he was one of the oldest guys there, and, had an absolute blast; @rphillier completed the Fighter Badge, saying: “Such a great experience completing this badge. It’s given me a lot of confidence and I learned a lot too about defending myself and how to strike if the need ever arises. Thanks @brettmckay for putting this badge together. I would never have done this kind of thing otherwise. Of all the badges this is definitely one of the most challenging, stretching, and humbling.” Great work, Rich — congrats! @kyledavis43 practiced holding his pen properly for the Penmanship Badge. For the Fire Builder Badge, @bedsheetghost made his own char cloth (while doing some related reading) and then used it to make a fire for his family. For the Gearhead Badge, @brianseattle changed all 8 spark plugs on his 1990 Silverado and said it was unexpectedly fun: “I never thought I would do this. Thanks TSL.” @trapshooter made homemade pizza (with 3 different homemade sauces) for the Kiss the Chef Badge. @joe-zimmerman whipped and fused frayed rope ends for the Knotsmanship Badge, @grimbart not only walked 50 miles in 20 hours, but did 62 miles (100km) in less than 24(!) for the Rough Rider Badge, and @bbryhall held a family meeting once a week for 8 weeks for the Pater Familias Badge; he reports on the experience: “Just finished our 8th weekly family meeting. I am so glad for these meetings and coming across the idea while working on this Badge. I have three kids ages 10, 9, and almost 2. Our meetings are usually Sunday night prior to starting the week. It helps us all come together as a family prior to starting our busy week. During this 8-week process (that we will definitely continue weekly), we have had really good meetings and some that really required a lot of me. We have kids at different stages and I’m sure if someone was watching us would think it was comical trying to go over important information while trying to keep our 2-year-old out of everything and keeping my 9-year-old son with ADHD focused. I am seeing how important these meetings are for our family culture.” For the Satoralist Badge, @raymondfeliciano put together a sharp-as-heck outfit for a classical quartet benefit concert gala, @skooks shined all his shoes, and @franz had a garment tailored, making this report: “On the left, a sad, dejected excuse for a man swimming in enough corduroy to earn the Frogman Badge. On the right, a gentleman who had a tailor bring the waist in, narrow the sleeves, and make him look like he knows what he’s doing. This coat was a gift from a few Christmases ago, and it sat in the back of my closet. I had never had something tailored before, and this experience was so beneficial that I think I will gradually have my suits altered as well.” Finally, a shoutout to @rahorst81 who likes to track his badge progress — as well as his weekly Agons — offline in a bullet/dot-grid-style journal; just some nice looking pages there. Class Callouts Class 027 finalized its motto/logo, designed by @rontrenum: @chaserchap, a member of Class 027, is working on the Penmanship Badge. Since the badge requires sending 3 handwritten letters to 3 friends/loved ones, he organized a Class pen-pal collective, pairing up the almost 20 guys who wanted to participate with two other members with whom to exchange letters. A really fun idea! Nothing better than getting some snail mail. If you don’t already, follow The Strenuous Life (@strenuous.life) on Instagram; you may see your badge work or meet-ups featured there! Keep on living strenuously, everyone! “Now let each man here look back in his life and think what it is that he is proud of in it — what part of it he is glad to hand on as a memory to his sons and daughters. Is it his hours of ease? No, not a bit. It is the memory of his success, of his triumph, and the triumph and the success could only come through effort. Is that not true? Let each one think for himself. Look back in your career, and if you have not got it in you to feel most proud of the time when you worked, I think but little of you.” —Theodore Roosevelt The post A Peek at The Strenuous Life: October 2018 appeared first on The Art of Manliness. http://dlvr.it/QmxCTs

[cooncel]

[Review] ‘Hunted’ Infuses Fairy Tale Retelling with Modern Realism

[Review] ‘Hunted’ Infuses Fairy Tale Retelling with Modern Realism

Director Vincent Paronnaud, who co-wrote the script with Léa Pernollet and David H. Pickering, embeds folkloric mysticism deep within an intense fight for survival. The longer Eve’s battle to live rages on, the more it seems that nature intervenes when necessary and coaches her into harnessing primal power and fury. Continue reading

[moviesandmania]

Hunted (2020) reviews of allegorical psycho-in-the-woods film

‘Two maniac killers. The woods. Eve.’

Hunted is a 2020 Belgian-French-Irish horror thriller about a young woman pursued by a psycho in the woods until she fights back.

Directed by Vincent Paronnaud (Asylum: Twisted Horror and Fantasy Tales; Persepolis) from a screenplay co-written with Léa Pernollet and English dialogue by David H. Pickering, the movie stars Lucie Debay, Arieh Worthalter and…