#otto von ram

[dookins]

I uploaded a good chunk of chapters. 7 Actually, and the announcement of course. And these were some doodles I did that have been waiting in the wings. That comic was actually done way back in July. I don't want these hovering over me, so me posting them now means I don't have to look back at them until I'm ready. Hope you all manage to enjoy regardless. Another NSFW chapter posted as well, but it doesn't go very far. Thought I'd mention it just to be mindful.

[pinturas-gran-guerra-aire]

1917 08 Desperate maneuvers - Russell Smith

In the last week of August 1917 there was little aerial activity due to the bad weather. For this reason, Otto Fuchs made use of an afternoon free from rain and storm for an orientation flight in the area behind the front with the pilots newly transferred to the Staffel, Lt. Rudolf von der Horst and Lt. Kurt Katzenstein, during which he flew his "red F". He reported regarding this orientation flight:  When we had reached flight altitude it became more and more unpleasant. Heavy gusts of wind and an ever darkening sky heralded a strong summer storm. I became concerned about my two inexperienced pilots and decided to leave the altitude of about 3000 meters and to return to Phalempin in a descending flight. Suddenly the black layer of clouds tore open, rays of sunlight shortly appeared, and I spotted a group of English fighter planes above us, who were apparently likewise on the way home due to the storm. From their superior position the Englishmen immediately went over to the attack and dove down upon us. Since I was flying higher than the two novices as protection, I was the first to be attacked by two Englishmen, and immediately let myself spin down. While the bank of clouds approached threateningly, I was forced down lower and lower by my pursuers. I attempted to evade my pursuers while under constant fire, finally at the height of the tree tops. Again and again strong gusts of wind shifted my Albatros over several meters, so that I was afraid of ramming into a tree or a building. My machine had already been hit several times, when suddenly a hazy wall of rain appeared before me. This was my salvation: I flew right into the wall of rain and immediately pulled the stick upwards in order not to crash into a tower or a tree. In the heavy rain shower I spotted a meadow below me and began to land. While doing so, my Albatros was pretty well wrecked. When Otto Fuchs returned to Phalempin, soaked through and covered in mud, he discovered to his relief that his two comrades had also survived the air combat unharmed. Kurt Katzenstein had landed smoothly on the airfield with a few hits in his machine, while Rudolf von der Horst had been forced to make an emergency landing in his Albatros D.V with a shot-up engine. After this experience, Otto Fuchs decided never again to use a letter as his personal marking.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.21

537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius. 630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem. 717 – Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid. 1152 – Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. 1180 – Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan. 1556 – On the day of his execution in Oxford, former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine." 1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins. 1800 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché. 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis near Alexandria in Egypt. 1804 – Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law. 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube. 1821 – Greek War of Independence: Greek revolutionaries seize Kalavryta. 1844 – The Baháʼí calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baháʼí calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baháʼí Faith as the Baháʼí New Year or Náw-Rúz. 1861 – Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech. 1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire. 1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. 1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins. 1919 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. 1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism. 1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee. 1925 – Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. 1935 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran. 1937 – Ponce massacre: Nineteen unarmed civilians in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police in a terrorist attack ordered by the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship. 1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. 1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians. 1945 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes. 1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933. 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. 1960 – Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. 1963 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes. 1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO. 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco. 1970 – San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event. 1980 – Cold War: U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War. 1983 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic. 1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships 1989 – Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people. 1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. 1994 – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force. 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. 2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. 2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded. 2019 – The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others. 2022 – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people.

[miguelmarias]

TOP 2020

25/12/2020

 A)    Great movies made since 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Buoyancy(Freedom;Rodd Rathjen, 2019)

Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait(Emmanuel Mouret, 2020)

L’Île au trésor(Guillaume Brac, 2018)

Le Sel des larmes(Philippe Garrel, 2019/20)

Ghawre Bairey Aaj(Home and the World;Aparna Sen, 2019)

Undine(Christian Petzold, 2020)

Happī awā(Happy Hour;Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, 2015)

Netemo Sametemo(Asako I & II;Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, 2018)

Adolescentes(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2013-9/20)

Family Romance, LLC.(Werner Herzog, 2019)

Demain et tous les autres jours(Noémie Lvovsky, 2017)

Gamak Ghar(Achal Mishra, 2019)

Lunana:A Yak in the Classroom(Pawo Choyning Dorji, 2019)

Semina il vento(Sow the Wind;Danilo Caputo, 2020)

Objector(Molly Stuart, 2019)

La France contre les robots(Jean-Marie Straub, 2020)

Paris Calligrammes(Ulrike Ottinger, 2019/20)

Un film dramatique(Éric Baudelaire, 2019)

 B)    Great movies made before 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Là-Haut, un Roi au-dessus des nuages(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 2003)

Pangarap ng Puso(Demons/Whispers of the Demon/Hope of the Heart;Mario O’Hara, 2000)

Les Films rêvés(Eric Pauwels, 2009)

La vida en rojo(Andrés Linares, 2007/8)

Come Next Spring(R.G. Springsteen, 1955/6)

Song of Surrender(Mitchell Leisen, 1948/9)

Adventure in Manhattan(Edward Ludwig, 1936)

Strannaia zhenshchina(A Strange Woman;Iuli Raízman, 1978)

Chastnaia zhízn(Private Life;Iuli Raízman, 1982)

Málva(Vladimir Braun, 1956/7)

Zhila-byla devochka(Once There Was a Girl;Viktor Eisimont, 1944)

The Unknown Man(Richard Thorpe, 1951)

Aisai Monogatari(Story of a Beloved Wife;Shindō Kaneto, 1951)

Practically Yours(Mitchell Leisen, 1944)

A Summer Storm(Robert Wise, 1999/2000)

Lettre d’un cinéaste à sa fille(Eric Pauwels, 2000)

Sombra verde(Untouched;Roberto Gavaldón, 1954)

Fantasma d’amore(Dino Risi, 1981)

Adieu, Mascotte(Das Modell vom Montparnasse;Wilhelm Thiele, 1929)

Mori no kajiya(The Blacksmith of the Forest;Shimizu Hiroshi, 1928/9;fragment)

Zwischen Gestern und Morgen(Between Yesterday and Tomorrow;Harald Braun, 1947)

Last Holiday(Henry Cass, 1950)

Dialogue d’ombres(Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1954-2013)

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man(Jonas Mekas, 2012)

Nice Time(Claude Goretta & Alain Tanner, 1957)

Aloma of the South Seas(Alfred Santell, 1941)

A Feather in Her Hat(Alfred Santell, 1935)

La Danseuse Orchidée(Léonce Perret, 1928)

Underground(Vincent Sherman, 1941)

Time Out(in Twilight Zone-The Movie)(John Landis, 1983)

Lackawanna Blues(George C. Wolfe, 2005)

Janie(Michael Curtiz, 1944)

Dernier Amour(Léonce Perret, 2016)

Jeunes Filles en détresse(Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1939)

Kisapmata(Blink of an Eye;Mike De Leon, 1981)

La Dernière Lettre(Frederick Wiseman, 2002)

The Lady of the Dig-Out(W.S. Van Dyke II, 1918)

Their Own Desire(E.Mason Hopper, 1929)

 C)    Very good movies made since 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Zumiriki(Oskar Alegria, 2019)

Atlantique(Mati Diop, 2019)

J’accuse(An Officier and A Spy;Roman Polanski, 2019)

Richard Jewell(Clint Eastwood, 2019)

Alice et le Maire(Nicolas Pariser, 2019)

Contes de Juillet(July Tales;Guillaume Brac, 2017)

Dark Waters(Todd Haynes, 2019)

Ofrenda a la tormenta(Fernando González Molina, 2020)

Nomad:In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin(Werner Herzog, 2019)

Into the Inferno(Werner Herzog, 2016)

The Zookeeper’s Wife(Niki Caro, 2017)

Journal de septembre(Eric Pauwels, 2019)

La Deuxième Nuit(Eric Pauwels, 2016)

Kaze no denwa(Voices in the Wind;Suwa Nobuhiro, 2019/20)

Da 5 Bloods(Spike Lee, 2020)

Izaokas(Isaac;Jurgis Matulevičius, 2019)

A Metamorfose dos Pássaros(Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020)

Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari(To the Ends of the Earth;Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2019)

La Nuit d’avant(Pablo García Canga, 2019)

My Mexican Bretzel(Nuria Giménez, 2018-9)

Domangchin yeoja(The Woman Who Ran;Hong Sang-soo, 2019/20)

Öndög(Wang Quanan, 2019)

Hatsukoi(First Love;Miike Takashi, 1959)

Million raz pogivaet odin Cheloviek(One man dies a million times;Jessica Oreck, 2018/9)

The Two Popes(Fernando Meirelles, 2019)

Félicité(Alain Gomis, 2016/7)

Salt and Fire(Werner Herzog, 2016)

Ni de lian(Your Face;Tsai Ming-liang, 2018)

Qi qiu(Balloon;Pema Tseden, 2019)

River Silence(Rogério Soares, 2019)

Charlie’s Angels(Elizabeth Banks, 2019)

La boda de Rosa(Iciar Bollain, 2020)

Guerra(War;José Oliveira & Marta Ramos, 2020)

My Thoughts Are Silent/Moyi dumky tykhi(Antonio Lukich, 2019)

Namo(The Alien;Nader Saeivar;co-script-Jafar Panahi, 2020)

Los silencios(The Silences;Beatriz Seigner, 2018)

Terminal Sud(Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, 2019)

Tu mérites un amour(You Deserve a Lover;Hafsia Herzi, 2019)

Les Misérables(Ladj Ly, 2019)

Padre no hay más que uno(Santiago Segura, 2019)

Honeyland(Tamara Kotovska & Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019)

Izbrisana(Erased;Miha Mazzini & Dusan Joksimovic, 2018)

This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection(Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019)

Primero Enero(Darío Mascambroni, 2016)

Lahi, Hayop(Pan, Genus/Genus Pan;Lav Diaz, 2020)

 D)    Very good movies made before 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Topaze(Marcel Pagnol, 1936)

The SIGN OF THE RAM(John Sturges, 1947/8)

Abandoned(Joseph M. Newman, 1949)

Bewitched(Arch Oboler, 1944/5)

La Femme du Bout du Monde((Jean Epstein, 1937)

The Outcast(William Witney, 1954)

Saadia(Albert Lewin, 1953)

Un monde sans femmes(Guillaume Brac, 2011)

Dishonored Lady(Robert Stevenson, 1947)

Always Goodbye(Signey Lanfield, 1938)

A Blueprint for Murder(Andrew L. Stone, 1953)

Bedevilled(Mitchell Leisen, 1955)

That Forsyte Woman(Compton Bennett, 1949)

The Miracle(Irving Rapper, 1959)

The Madonna’s Secret(Wilhelm Thiele, 1946)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown(Charles B. Pierce, 1976)

Grayeagle(Charles B. Pierce, 1977)

Barricade(Peter Godfrey, 1949/50)

Tomorrow is Forever(Irving Pichel, 1945/6)

David Harum(James Cruze, 1934)

The Vanquished(Edward Ludwig, 1953)

Keisatsukan(Uchida Tomu, 1933)

...Enfants des courants d’air(Édouard Luntz, 1959, short)

The Winds of Autumn(Charles B. Pierce, 1976)

Suddenly It’s Spring(Mitchell Leisen, 1946)

Uchūjin Tōkyō ni arawaru(Warning from Space;Shima Kōji, 1956)

Swiss Family Robinson(Edward Ludwig, 1940)

Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern(Wilhelm Dieterle, 1930)

Faithless(Harry Beaumont, 1932)

Botan-dorō(Peony Lanterns;Yamamoto Satsuo, 1968)

Ginza 24 chou(Tales of Ginza;Kawashima Yūzō, 1955)

Goodbye Again(Michael Curtiz, 1933)

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea(D.W. Griffith, 1909)

You Gotta Stay Happy(H.C. Potter, 1948)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams(Werner Herzog, 2010)

Riff-Raff(Ted Tetzlaff, 1947)

The Moon is Down(Irving Pichel, 1943)

The Bride Wore Boots(Irving Pichel, 1946)

Adventures in Silverado(Phil Karlson, 1948)

The Stolen Ranch(William Wyler, 1926)

Congo Maisie(H.C. Potter, 1940)

Marcides(Mercedes;Yousry Nasrallah, 1993)

Hell’s Five Hours(Jack L. Copeland, 1958)

Daniel(in Stimulantia;Ingmar Bergman, 1967)

Diên Biên Phú(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1992)

Canyon River(Cattle King;Harmon Jones, 1956)

Dos Basuras(Kurt Land, 1958)

Smart Girls Don’t Talk(Richard L. Bare, 1948)

The Big Shakedown(John Francis Dillon, 1933/4)

Corvette K-225(Richard Rosson;p.,collab.Howard Hawks, 1943)

The Gay Deception(William Wyler, 1935)

The Invisible Woman(A.Edward Sutherland, 1940)

Rage in Heaven(W.S. Van Dyke II;collab.Robert B. Sinclair,Richard Thorpe, 1941)

Wild Side(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2004)

I bambini e noi(Luigi Comencini, 1970//7)

The House Across The Street(Richard L. Bare, 1948/9)

The Doughgirls(James V. Kern, 1944)

The Love Trap(William Wyler, 1929)

Torch Song(Charles Walters, 1953)

The Meanest Man in the World(Sidney Lanfield, 1942/3)

Cole Younger, Gunfighter(R.G. Springsteen, 1958)

Ballerine(Gustav Machatý, 1936)

Via Mala(Josef von Báky, 1945//8)

Sky Giant(Lew Landers, 1938)

Les Invisibles(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2012)

Promène toi donc tout nu(Emmanuel Mouret, 1998)

A Story for the Modlins(Una historia para los Modlin;Sergio Oksman, 2012)

Something in the Wind(Irving Pichel, 1947)

Spoveď(Confession;Pavol Skýkova, 1968)

Guilty Hands(W.S. Van Dyke II;collab.Lionel Barrymore, 1931)

Atto di accusa(Giacomo Gentilomo, 1950)

Suspense(Frank Tuttle, 1956)

This Is The Night(Frank Tuttle, 1932)

Escape in the Fog(Oscar ‘Budd’ Boetticher,Jr., 1945)

The Price of Fear(Abner Biberman, 1956)

Happy People:A Year in the Taiga(Werner Herzog, 2010)

Urok(The Lesson;Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov, 2014)

Le Naufragé(Guillaume Brac, 2009)

Lili Marlen(Peter Mihálik;script.Dušan Hanák, 1970;short)

Deseo(Antonio Zavala Kugler, 2013)

  E)     Great movies that improved by new watchings: 

Shanghai Express(Josef von Sternberg, 1932)

The Best Years of Our Lives(William Wyler, 1946)

Till We Meet Again(Frank Borzage, 1944)

Man’s Favorite Sport?(Howard Hawks, 1963/4)

Along The Great Divide(Raoul Walsh, 1951)

Hondo(John V. Farrow, 1953)

Where The Sidewalk Ends(Otto Preminger, 1950)

Mrs. Miniver(William Wyler, 1942)

Driftwood(Allan Dwan, 1947)

‘Good-bye, My Lady’(William A. Wellman, 1956)

Touch of Evil(Preview version, 1975;not later ‘improvements’)(Orson Welles, 1958)

Le Crabe-Tambour(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1977)

Unfinished Business(Gregory LaCava, 1941)

Madigan(Don Siegel, 1968)

Big Business(James Wesley Horne;s.Leo McCarey, 1929)

Putting Pants on Philip(Clyde A. Bruckman;s.Leo McCarey, 1927)

The Runner Stumbles(Stanley Kramer, 1979)

Yushima no Shiraume(Romance at Yushima;Kinugasa Teinosukē, 1955)

David Harum(Allan Dwan, 1915)

The Virginian(Cecil B. DeMille, 1914)

Island in the Sky(William A. Wellman, 1953)

All About Eve(Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

L’Eclisse(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

The Roaring Twenties(Raoul Walsh, 1939)

The Plainsman(Cecil B. DeMille, 1936)

JLG/JLG-Autoportrait de décembre(Jean-Luc Godard, 1994)

‘Je vous salue, Marie’(Hail Mary;Jean-Luc Godard, 1984)

La Roue(Abel Gance, 1923)

They All Laughed(Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)

Innocent Blood(John Landis, 1992)

An American Werewolf in London(John Landis, 1981)

The Thing Called Love(Peter Bogdanovich, 1993)

Into the Night(John Landis, 1985)

The File On Thelma Jordon(Thelma Jordon;Robert Siodmak, 1949)

The Little American(Cecil B. DeMille, 1917)

In Our Time(Vincent Sherman, 1944)

The Hunters(Dick Powell, 1958)

Phase IV(Saul Bass, 1974)

L’Honneur d’un Capitaine(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1982)

Backfire(Vincent Sherman, 1948//50)

Five(Arch Oboler, 1951)

Somewhere in the Night(Joseph L. Mankiewiz, 1946)

A Man Alone(Ray Milland, 1955)

Die Geiger von Florez(Paul Czinner, 1926)

Living on Velvet(Frank Borzage, 1934/5)

La Recta provincia(Raúl Ruiz, 2007//15)

La Noche de enfrente(Raúl Ruiz, 2012)

Carrie(Sister Carrie;William Wyler, 1951/2)

The Spiral Staircase(Robert Siodmak, 1945/6)

The Paradine Case(Alfred Hitchcock, 1947)

L’Amore(Una voce umana+Il Miracolo)(Roberto Rossellini, 1947/8)

The Heiress(William Wyler, 1949)

 F)     Very good movies watched again 

Bluebeard’s 10 Honeymoons(W.Lee Wilder, 1960)

The Five Pennies(Melville Shavelson, 1958)

Take a Letter, Darling(Mitchell Leisen, 1942)

Escape(Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1948)

Appassionatamente(Giacomo Gentilomo, 1954)

Así como habían sido(Trío)(Andrés Linares, 1986/7)

San Antone(Joseph Kane, 1953)

The High and the Mighty(William A. Wellman, 1954)

Taki no Shiraito(The Water Magician;Mizoguchi Kenji, 1933)

The Web(Michael Gordon, 1947)

The Buccaneer(Anthony Quinn;s.Cecil B. DeMille, 1958)

The Buccaneer(Cecil B. DeMille, 1938)

Desire Me(uncredited:George Cukor/Jack Conway/Mervyn LeRoy/Victor Saville, 1946)

Flaxy Martin(Richard L. Bare, 1948/9)

Swing High, Swing Low(Mitchell Leien, 1937)

Death Takes A Holiday(Mitchell Leisen, 1934)

Irene(Herbert Wilcox, 1940)

Beloved Enemy(H.C. Potter, 1936)

The Cowboy and the Lady(H.C. Potter, 1938)

Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam(Paul Wegener, 1920)

Mia madre(Nanni Moretti, 2015)

Hell On Frisco Bay(Frank Tuttle, 1955)

Stormy Weather(Andrew L. Stone, 1943)

The Milky Way(Leo McCarey;w.Harold Lloyd, 1936)

Pietà per chi cade(Mario Costa, 1954)

Repeat Performance(Alfred L. Werker, 1947)

Das indische Grabmal:1.Die Sendung des Yoghi,2.Der Tiger von Eschnapur(Joe May, 1921)

Julie(Andrew L. Stone, 1956)

The Member of the Wedding(Fred Zinnemann, 1953)

Winterset(Alfred Santell, 1936)

The Right to Romance(Alfred Santell, 1933)

As Young as You Feel(Harmon Jones, 1951)

You’ll Never Get Rich(Sidney Lanfield, 1941)

The Woman Accused(Paul Sloane, 1933)

Foma Gordeiev(Mark Donskoí, 1959)

The Parent Trap(David Swift, 1961)

High Wall(Curtis Bernhardt, 1947)

Mr. Lucky(H.C. Potter, 1943)

Un Marido de Ida y Vuelta(Luis Lucia, 1957)

The Safecracker(Ray Milland, 1957/8)

She’s Funny That Way(Peter Bogdanovich, 2014)

Oh...Rosalinda!!(Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1955)

Caribbean(Edward Ludwig, 1952)

Harper(The Moving Target;Jack Smight, 1966)

For You I Die(John Reinhardt, 1947)

Crashing Hollywood(Lew Landers, 1937/8)

Le Souvenir d’un avenir(Chris. Marker & Yannick Bellon, 2001)

Susan Slept Here(Frank Tashlin, 1954)

Bishkanyar Deshot(In the Land of Poison Women;Manju Borah, 2019)

Pollyanna(David Swift, 1960)

A Tale of Two Cities(Jack Conway;collab.Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur, 1935)

Café Society(Woody Allen, 2016)

Shadow on the Wall(Patrick Jackson, 1949/50)

Tonnerre(Guillaume Brac, 2013)

Le Jouet criminel(Adolfo G. Arrieta, 1969)

‘Once more, with feeling!’(Stanley Donen, 1959)

The Shopworn Angel(H.C. Potter, 1938)

The Absent Minded Professor(Robert Stevenson, 1961)

Gavaznha(The Deer;Masud Kimiai, 1974)

[gokinjeespot]

off the rack #1316

Monday, March 8, 2021

 Coming up on a year since the pandemic started. I hope you're all healthy and safe. I am hopeful that vaccines will be deployed widely and help us all feel less anxious. I am fortunate enough to be one of those people who is happy as a bug snug in a rug while self isolating. I do really miss my dear friends and family but hugs can wait until we're all vaccinated.

 My thanks to Doug for lending me these comic books to read.

 Batman Annual #5 - James Tynion IV (writer) James Stokoe (art) Clayton Cowles (letters). It's the origin of Clownhunter and it's not very original. If I had to pay $4.99 US I would have passed on this and lived with leaving a hole in my Batman collection. If you're not familiar with this new vigilante, he's an Asian teenager named Bao who decides he's going to kill the Joker and all of the villain's sycophants. The reason he becomes Clownhunter (and killer) is very mundane. I wish they could have come up with a new motivator. Maybe the philosophical discussion about what to do about the Joker might interest some fans but I found this story quite tedious. I also didn't like the way Bao and his parents were portrayed. Did they really have an Asian saying "Ah, so"? Yes they did on page 8. Shades of Charlie Chan, Batman. I was not offended, just disappointed.

 Batman/Catwoman #3 - Tom King (writer) Clay Mann (art) Tomeu Morey (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). I was thrilled to see the town of Port Orange, Florida mentioned on the first page. My pal Al lives there. It's also where Selina finally catches up with the Joker and does what Batman never did. I love this Black Label book taking familiar characters and treating them in a new and interesting way. Here's a future where Selina has survived her husband Bruce's death and their daughter Helena is the new Batwoman. Now I wait to see how mother and daughter deal with the Angel of Death.

 And now, more Future State books.

 Future State: Robin Eternal #2 - Meghan Fitzmartin (writer) Eddy Barrows (pencils) Eber Ferreira (inks) Adriano Lucas (colours) Pat Brosseau (letters). The consequence of Tim Drake/Robin being dunked in Lazarus resin is that now he's immortal. Whoop-dee-doo. Not only is this a boring Robin beats up bad guys issue but the art lacked any logical perspective. This issue takes place on a train but you would think it's in a huge building based on the art. I know it's comic books but I hate when one doesn't make visual sense. I think that's just laziness.

 Future State: Kara Zor-El Superwoman #1 & #2 - Marguerite Bennett (writer) Marguerite Sauvage (art) Wes Abbott (letters). This 2-issue fairy tale was not meant for old farts like me and Doug. With it's soft pastel colours these books should have included glitter and bubblegum flavoured lip gloss. Maybe young tween girls will like this. The moral of this story is "no one is born wise".

 Future State: Dark Detective #3 - Mariko Tamaki (writer) Dan Mora (art) Jordie Bellaire (colours) Aditya Bidikar (letters). There are not one but two Batmans in this issue. You've got Bruce in his new capeless costume but here he's wearing a trench coat to give that fluttering effect, and then there's the new guy in the Bat suit, cape and all. The "uh-oh" point of the story hits here when the bad guys discover where Bruce is hiding out. The Matthew Rosenberg (writer) Carmine Di Giandomenico (art) Antonio Fabela (colours) & AndWorld Design (letters) Grifter story concludes here too with a double cross and a whole lot more of Helena/Huntress. This is my favourite Future State book so far.

 Future State: Superman of Metropolis #1 & #2 - Sean Lewis (writer) John Timms (art) Gabe Eltaeb (colours) Dave Sharpe (letters). If you're wondering how a grown up Jonathan Kent takes over for his dad as Metropolis's protector then these two $5.99 US books will satisfy your curiosity. The villain of the story is an evolved Brainiac who is a big multi-mouthed ball now. Metropolis is shrunk ala the bottle city of Kandor, the citizens go nuts but Jon returns things back to normal in the end with the help of Kara/Supergirl. I don't know why Kara's a girl in this story and a woman elsewhere. Each issue has two back-ups so you get your money's worth. One features Mister Miracle and the other the Guardian. They are both dealing with bad things inside the bottled Metropolis. You won't miss much if you don't read them. The Mister Miracle story "The Metropolis Menagerie" is done my Brandon Easton (writer) Valentine De Landro (art) Marissa Louise (colours) Dave Sharpe (letters). The Guardian story is brought to you by Sean Lewis (writer) Cully Hamner & Michael Avon Oeming (art) Laura Martin (colours) AndWorld Design (letters). This one got me excited because a villain wants to throw Jimmy Olsen off of the Daily Planet building.

 Future State: Catwoman #2 - Ram V (writer) Otto Schmidt (art) Tom Napolitano (letters). Read this to find out if Catwoman saves the lives of the people on the train. You will also find out if Bruce is freed from the bad guys. Talia Al-Ghul appearing is the deus ex machina in this story. I like the new Cheshire and Onomatopoeia is always fun.

 Future State: Superman: Worlds of War #2 - Phillip Kennedy Johnson (writer) Mikel Janin (art) Jordie Bellaire (colours) & Dave Sharpe (letters). In "The Many Deaths of Superman" the Man of Steel fights in the arena of Warworld where Mongul resurrects him after every death match. It's the typical brutal battle scenes and super villain gloating. What's more compelling is an old newspaper story that Clark Kent wrote that inspired a young woman who travels to Smallville. I was totally confused by the three back-up stories featuring Mister Miracle, Midnighter and the Black Racer because they were not very good. I am a completist and have to finish what I start. I could have stopped reading after the $3.99 US main story in this bloated $7.99 US comic book  but my obsessive compulsive nature wouldn't let me. It's a character flaw I wish I could change.

 Future State: The Next Batman #1 - John Ridley (writer) Nick Derington (art) Tamra Bonvillain (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). All the teasers for this book hyped the fact that this Batman is black. You won't get the secret identity in this first issue but there are a bunch of likely candidates. Lucas Fox is a possibility but it's confusing because he's a bad guy in another Future State book. This is another $7.99 US book with back-ups. These are more coherent than the ones in Future State: Superman: Worlds of War.

Future State: Outsiders by Brandon Thomas (writer) Sumit Kumar (pencils) Sumit Kumar & Raul Fernandez (inks) Jordie Bellaire (colours) & Steve Wands (letters) gathers together some old Batman associates helping Gotham City citizens escape persecution by the Magistrates outside Gotham City's borders. Get it? It was nice seeing Katana in action.

Future State: Arkham Knights by Paul Jenkins (writer) Jack Herbert (art) Gabe Eltaeb (colours) & Rob Leigh (letters) gathers together some of Batman's rogues gallery to fight the oppressive Magistrate. Two-Face, Mr. Zsasz, Dr. Phosphorus, Killer Croc and other ex-inmates of Arkham Asylum are being lead by an armoured Astrid Arkham. It's super villains being super heroes.

 Future State: The Next Batman #2 - John Ridley (writer) Nick Derington (breakdowns) Laura Braga (art) Arif Prianto (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). We learn the secret identity of the new caped Batman in this issue. It's Lucas Fox's brother. He has a brother? This also has three new back-up stories.

"Batgirls" is by Vita Ayala (writer) Aneke (art) Trish Mulvihill (colours) & Becca Carey (letters). Batgirl/Orphan Cassandra Cain gets locked up in the Magistrate Detention Facility where both good guys/white hats and bad guys/black coats are incarcerated. She got caught on purpose because her mission is to find Oracle and Batman and free them. She gets help from Spoiler who is queen of the inmates. In this reality Cass is way more articulate than she used to be. I didn't like that. I also didn't like that in the other Future State stories the Magistrate foot soldiers have a shoot to kill order for any masks that they encounter. Why are all of these masks alive? Anyways, this part ends with the white hats and black coats forming an alliance so Cass can get on with her mission.

"Gotham City Sirens: Ladies' Night Out" is by Paula Sevenbergen (writer) Rob Haynes (breakdowns) Emanuela Lupacchino (pencils) Wade von Grawbadger (inks) John Kalisz (colours) Becca Carey (letters). Catwoman and Poison Ivy spring a domestic droid named Dee Dee (get it?) from servitude and they have a night on the town at a bar. The bar is run by Sam Bradley and both super heroes and villains can imbibe in peace. Fans of Sex and the City may like this. Not a lot of drama until the last page when the joint is raided by Magistrate goons and major characters are shot.

 Future State: The Next Batman #3 - John Ridley (writer) Nick Derington (breakdowns) Laura Braga (art) Arif Prianto (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). This is the "uh-oh" moment in the story where the hero is felled by the villain. A wounded Batman is attacked by the murderer he's trying to bring to justice. I saw that coming.

I like the change with Black Lightning in the Outsiders back-up.

I like the art in the Arkham Knights back-up even though the dialogue is eye roll inducing.

 Future State: The Next Batman #4 - Jace/Batman lives, as if that was in any doubt. This story would have been a lot more interesting if Bruce/Batman was really dead. Even if the Future State line of comics dies out this Next Batman is a cop out. The Batgirls story ends with Cassandra/Orphan saving Barbara/Oracle and the Resistance gaining ground on the Magistrates. The Gotham City Sirens story ends with Catwoman and Poison Ivy helping the Resistance get an advantage in their war with the Cybers thanks to Dee Dee.

 I admit that I was sucked in by the hype for this mini. The Next Batman being black intrigued me. The story itself was meh and I would not have missed anything by not reading it. I was not engaged as a mature reader but I think someone in their teens might like all the stories in these four issues.

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Me and @enigmacomics interrupt our scheduled chapter update to bring you a CHARACTER Q & A! With none other than Ram and P03!! We both collabed on this comic together and it actually came out pretty well! You can interact by either asking questions here on tumblr to both me and Enigma, OR right on A03 in this link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48362074/chapters/129561229 Maybe we'll doodle out their responses to your questions! ;3

Thank ya'll kindly!!

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1917 08 Desperate maneuvers - Russell Smith

In the last week of August 1917 there was little aerial activity due to the bad weather. For this reason, Otto Fuchs made use of an afternoon free from rain and storm for an orientation flight in the area behind the front with the pilots newly transferred to the Staffel, Lt. Rudolf von der Horst and Lt. Kurt Katzenstein, during which he flew his "red F". He reported regarding this orientation flight: When we had reached flight altitude it became more and more unpleasant. Heavy gusts of wind and an ever darkening sky heralded a strong summer storm. I became concerned about my two inexperienced pilots and decided to leave the altitude of about 3000 meters and to return to Phalempin in a descending flight. Suddenly the black layer of clouds tore open, rays of sunlight shortly appeared, and I spotted a group of English fighter planes above us, who were apparently likewise on the way home due to the storm. From their superior position the Englishmen immediately went over to the attack and dove down upon us. Since I was flying higher than the two novices as protection, I was the first to be attacked by two Englishmen, and immediately let myself spin down. While the bank of clouds approached threateningly, I was forced down lower and lower by my pursuers. I attempted to evade my pursuers while under constant fire, finally at the height of the tree tops. Again and again strong gusts of wind shifted my Albatros over several meters, so that I was afraid of ramming into a tree or a building. My machine had already been hit several times, when suddenly a hazy wall of rain appeared before me. This was my salvation: I flew right into the wall of rain and immediately pulled the stick upwards in order not to crash into a tower or a tree. In the heavy rain shower I spotted a meadow below me and began to land. While doing so, my Albatros was pretty well wrecked.When Otto Fuchs returned to Phalempin, soaked through and covered in mud, he discovered to his relief that his two comrades had also survived the air combat unharmed. Kurt Katzenstein had landed smoothly on the airfield with a few hits in his machine, while Rudolf von der Horst had been forced to make an emergency landing in his Albatros D.V with a shot-up engine. After this experience, Otto Fuchs decided never again to use a letter as his personal marking.

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Events 3.21

537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius. 630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem. 717 – Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid. 1152 – Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. 1188 – Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan. 1556 – On the day of his execution in Oxford, former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine." 1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins. 1800 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché. 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis near Alexandria in Egypt. 1804 – Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law. 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube. 1844 – The Baháʼí calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baháʼí calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baháʼí Faith as the Baháʼí New Year or Náw-Rúz. 1861 – Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech. 1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire. 1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. 1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins. 1919 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. 1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism. 1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee. 1925 – Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. 1935 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran. 1937 – Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship. 1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. 1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians. 1945 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes. 1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933. 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. 1960 – Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. 1963 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes. 1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO. 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco. 1970 – San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event. 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War. 1983 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic. 1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships 1989 – Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people. 1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. 1994 – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force. 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. 2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. 2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded. 2019 – The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others.

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Episode 283

April Solicits

Comic Reviews:

Batman/Catwoman 2 & Rorschach 4

Future State: Catwoman 1 by Ram V, Otto Schmidt

Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman 1 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Jen Bartel, L.L. McKinney, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, Emilio Lopez

Future State: Nightwing 1 by Andrew Constant, Nicola Scott, Ivan Plascencia

Future State: Shazam 1 by Tim Sheridan, Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira, Marcelo Maiolo

Future State: Superman: Worlds of War 1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Mikel Janin, Jordie Bellaire, Brandon Easton, Valentine De Landro, Marissa Louise, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Gleb Melnikov, Jordie Bellaire

Future State: The Next Batman 2 by John Ridley, Laura Braga, Nick Derington, Arif Prianto, Vita Ayala, Aneke, Trish Mulvihill, Paula Sevenbergen, Rob Hayes, Emanuela Lupacchino, Wade Von Grawbadger, John Kalisz

Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon 1 by Larry Hama, David Wachter, Neeraj Menon

King in Black 3 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin

Maestro: War and Pax 1 by Peter David, Javier Pina, Jesus Aburtov

Rain Like Hammers 1 by Brandon Graham

Crimson Flower 1 by Matt Kindt, Matt Lesniewski, Bill Crabtree

Abbott 1973 1 by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivela, Mattia Iacono

I Breathed a Body 1 by Zac Thompson, Andy MacDonald, Triona Farrell

Lemonade Code OGN by Jarod Pratt, Jey Odin

Additional Reviews: Little Fires Everywhere, Clown in a Cornfield, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous s2, Carmen Sandiego final season, Batman by BKV, The Victim, WandaVision ep3

News: BTAS sequel on HBO Max, Heroes Reborn from Marvel, Black Widow delayed, delays for Bond and Morbius, Nolan leaves WB, Aquaman: Earth One cancelled, Dusk movie announced

Trailers: Superman and Lois

Comics Countdown:

Rorschach 4 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart

Barbalien: Red Planet 3 by Tate Brombal, Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Walta, Jordie Bellaire

Stillwater 5 by Chip Zdarsky, Ramon Perez, Mike Spicer

Once & Future 15 by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain

Batman/Catwoman 2 by Tom King, Clay Mann, Tomeu Morey

King in Black 3 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin

Seven to Eternity 16 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth

Future State: Superman: Worlds of War 1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Mikel Janin, Jordie Bellaire, Brandon Easton, Valentine De Landro, Marissa Louise, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Gleb Melnikov, Jordie Bellaire

DCeased: Dead Planet 7 by Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, Gigi Baldasini, Stefano Gaudiano, Rain Beredo

Avengers 41 by Jason Aaron, Javier Garron, David Curiel

Check out this episode!

[uruguru]

Ein kleiner Linux Vergleich!

Kubuntu gegen Fedora.

Hallo aus Uruguay, vor einigen Tagen erzählte ich hier von dem Malheur welches mir nach einen plötzlichen Stromausfall mit meinem PC passierte. Nicht ging mehr und eine Neuinstallation war wohl der einfachste Weg. Und genau das habe ich getan. Ich habe mir ein neues und frisches Linux aufgesetzt. Dieses Mal aber bin ich von Kubuntu weg gegangen und habe mir Fedora installiert. Nach einigen Tagen nun an denen ich mit Fedora arbeite muss ich sagen es war eine gute Entscheidung.

3 Monitore mit der Core I7 CPU. Fedora macht insgesamt einen irgendwie einfacheren Eindruck als Kubuntu. Ding bei denen ich mir in Kubuntu schwer getan habe gehen unter Fedora recht einfach. Im Aussehen allerdings gibt es keine großen Unterschiede, denn das Aussehen des Dektop kann man sich aj individuell einrichten. Die Schritte sind bei beiden Systeme dazu die gleichen. Der größte Unterschied, bei dem na sich auch umgewöhnen muss, sind die Befehle auf der Kommandozeilen Ebene, als dem Terminal Fenster oder für die Windowsuser auf der CMD Ebene welche dem guten alten DOS Fenster entspricht. Unterschiede deshalb, weil Kubuntu ein Debian System und Fedora ein Red Hat System ist. Allerdings sind diese Unterschiede recht klein und betreffen nur die Installationsbefehle für die Programme welche man benötigt.  So nennen sich die Pakete unter Debian ".dep" und bei Fedora ".rpm". Auch wenn offensichtlich im Ergebnis Beides gleich ist funktioniert das Eine nicht beim Anderen. Bei Kubuntu kann man mit "apt install" installieren was bei Fedora dann wieder "yum install" heißt. Was mir allerdings am meisten aufgefallen ist, und das ist wahrscheinlich der Vorteil von Ubuntu/Kubuntu, ist die überaus gute Dokumentation. Für alles findet man bei diesem System eine Hilfe, das deutsch sprachige Forum ist über die Jahre hinweg überaus umfangreich und man findet wirklich für alles eine Lösung. Dem hinkt Fedora hinterher. Dennoch ist im Fedora Einiges einfacher gelöst. Otto Normaluser kann eigentlich mit eine neu installierten Umgebung direkt anfangen. da fehlt nichts und auch alles wird direkt eingebunden. Hier muss man keine Datei bearbeiten wenn man eine 2. oder gar 3. Festplatte eingebaut hat. Die findet Fedora von alleine und bindet die nach einer eventuellen Passworteingabe auch selbständig ein. Die Hardwareanforderungen sind auch für ältere Computer geeignet. Die Speicherverwaltung des Systems, Kubuntu bracht mich immer an der Rand der Speicherauslastung und das trotz eingebauten 16 Gigabyte RAM und ausreichend großer Auslagerungsdatei (Swap). In Fedora bei gleicher Nutzung, ja mein Verhalten ändert sich eben nicht, geht der Rechner so gut wie nie in die Auslagerungsdatei. Der eingebaute RAM wird gerade mal mit weniger als 50% genutzt. Das finde ich erstaunlich.

Gute Ram Verwaltung Auch die Aktualisierungen des System an sich von Fedora her funktionieren besser und regelmäßiger als unter Kubuntu. Ebenso wir standardmäßig neuere Software angeboten. So zum beispiel Gimp in der neusten 2.10 Version welche ich bei Kubuntu niemals angeboten und schon garnicht anständig zum Laufen brachte nachdem ich sie mir mühevoll installiert hatte.  So blieb es bei der 2.08 Version zum arbeiten. Mein Fazit. Es wurde wohl mal Zeit für einen Wechsel. Bereut habe ich es bisher noch nicht. Müsste ich nochmals zwischen den beiden Systemen wählen, ich würde wieder zu Fedora greifen. Zumal dieses auch noch von zu Hause aus mit einer Firewall ausgestattet ist die man unter Ubuntu/Kubuntu suchen muss. Da wie man mir sagte, Ubuntu/Kubuntu mittlerweile auch wie Windows mit einer Phone Home Funktion ausgestattet sein soll darf es sich auch nicht mehr zu 100% Linux nennen. Während Fedora immer noch ein reinrassiges Linuxsytem ist. Liebe Grüße aus Uruguay Peter Read the full article

[rootindiahealthcare]

When Medical Line Becomes a Business Who Do Look First: "Patient or Revenue" ?

Since Healthcare Becomes a Business Who Do We look First: Patient or Revenue? The answer should be simple, but it is not, and it becomes more and more difficult as the medical industry continues to flourish. Everybody knows healthcare is more costly. And as science and technology continue to develop advancement, medical devices and treatments are becoming more complicated and absolutely more expensive. Even more, the costs are openly and artificially increasing in order to satisfy not only the medical service per se but also medical literacy, research, pharmaceutical industry earnings, luxurious hospital infrastructure, etc. The latest addition to the medical expense is the insurance industry profits. Globally, healthcare spending is growing but the rate is very much distinct and not necessarily exhibited in the quality of care or community health status.

For the relation between patient and specialist to even exist, few more additions are essential e.g. nurses, laboratory, drugstore and supplemental services, such as sanitation, laundry, catering, harmless/protection, IT, maintenance, etc. When Healthcare Becomes a Business Game, Who Do We Defend First: Patient or Income? The more complicated the arrangements are, the larger the professionals/managerial team, including Humen Resources, Sales & Marketing, quality control, and so on and so ahead, will be. All these are built and nurtured by patient-doctor binomial. From the commercial point of view, a healthcare actuality can be categorized as either non-profit (usually administered by a government) or profit-making (typically private). While the non-profit sanitariums largely accept and treat all arrays of age/social/diagnostics and diversity of patients, the profit-making hospitals have the inclination to treat selected community groups.

While the non-profit infirmaries – under the umbrella of national plans – concentrate to reduce charges and maximize people health, the profit-making hospitals focus on decreasing costs and maximizing profits. Even so, the diversity in the strategic targets should not affect the quality of clinical care. In many European countries, stringent laws and regulations assure that profit healthcare organizations are not a fulmination for medical ethics, traditional purpose, and values of healthcare, and the freedom and prototypes of the medical profession. So, Who Is Paying? There are over 200 nations on our planet and each strife with its own healthcare problems and detriment cover. In some countries, the burden is shared between the patient and the state government in different layers of participation. In others, the patients cover all treatment expenses through lifetime installments paid by taxes or insurance companies, or ad-hoc at the time of service.

Generally, there are four regularities which are applied with some confined variations: The Beveridge Model It is called after William Beveridge, the social reformer who produced Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). In this system, healthcare is administered and financed by the government through tax payments, just like the police organization. Many, but not all, hospitals are declared as owned by the government or government enterprise subsidiaries. If you talk about in India there are various government hospitals such as AIIMS, Safdarjung, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya, and other state govt. hospital with the name of Gandhi's, Nehrus. You find some hospitals that known as a traditional name like Shivaji, Deen Dayal, or so on. In Britain, you never perceive a doctor’s bill. These systems manage to beget low costs per capita, because of the government. As the sole payer constrains what doctors can do and what they can impose. Countries using the Beveridge scheme or alterations of it include Great Britain, Spain, most of Scandinavia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Cuba represents the ultimate application of the Beveridge approach; it is probably the world’s purest model of total government administration to control. The Bismarck Model It is nominated after Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who invented the welfare state as the hero of the alliance of Germany in the 19th century. This system works with an insurance system – the insurers are called “sickness funds” – customarily financed jointly by companies and their employees through payroll concluding. Bismarck-type health insurance policies have to cover everybody, and they don’t make earnings. Doctors and hospitals perform to be private, but strong regulation proffers the government much of the cost-control clout comparable to the single-payer Beveridge Model. The Bismarck model is obtained in Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, and, to an extent, in Latin America. The National Health Insurance Model (NHI) This practice has components of both Beveridge and Bismarck. It uses private-sector healthcare providers, but payment originates from a government-run insurance programme that every citizen participates to pay into. Since there’s no requirement for marketing, no financial motive to refuse claims and no profit, these worldly insurance programmes tend to be cheaper and much easier administratively than American-style for-profit insurance policies. The individual payer tends to have the considerable syndicate power to negotiate for lower prices. The classic NHI system is attained in Canada, with variants in Taiwan and South Korea. The Out-of-Pocket Model Only the developed, industrialized nations – reasonably 40 of the world’s 200 nations – have discovered healthcare systems. This model applies to most of the countries that are too weak and too disorganized to implement any kind of mass medical care. The fundamental rule in such peoples is that the rich get medical care; the poor stay sick, die, or have some medical care depending on urgency and capacity to afford. Where Does The Doctor Stand? The intellectual, emotional and psychological hurdles a doctor faces day-by-day are extremely complicated. Medical decision is one of the most serious brain processes, involving memory, situational analysis, observations, emotions and sometimes abilities, not to mention that this practice is done multiple times in a day in an anticipated empathic way. There is an extension to education, teaching, coaching and leading/managerial exercises. New applied technologies challenge one of the fastest professional adaptation.

This is a field where quality is necessitated to the highest and there is no place for error or second chance. Historically, the doctor-patient relationship was built on equal trust and demand. A doctor had a large grade of autonomy and his/her name or reputation was mostly based on clinical outcomes, ethical behavior, and social recognition. As societies developed, the health methods changed gradually to an extent where the doctor becomes a crushed zone between the patients and the medical industries. While the sufferer is interested to have the best feasible care provided at the lowest possible cost, the institution is interested to have the lowest possible costs for the unit of care. Even a non-profit corporation wants to be on an accurate financial balance. When the hospital is a profit-making industry, the financial requirement is significantly higher. The doctor is confronted with the predicament of being a patient advocate but at the corresponding time needing to respect and represent the sanitarium interests. Although intermediary compositions were designed to ease medical describing and deal with the revenue, they are rarely appropriately and competently staffed or have sufficient expertise. They usually have limited judgment making authority and ultimately refer all problematical cases back to doctors. To make things serious, financial inducements often challenge the ethical balance. Performance incentives influence (mostly volumes without quality), covert kickbacks from suppliers, research temptations etc., become daily perils to medical ethics and morality. How Is A Patient Protected? Over time, several mechanisms were designed to safeguard the patient during the tenure of medical care. They are all oriented towards medical units directed by doctors. Each hospital, each national policy-maker or administrator, generate an impressive amount of quality controls and indicators to protect the patient once medical care has been admitted. Failure of health due to medical error is amply scrutinized, and ultimately, guilty or not, doctors normally suffer the blame. There is no mechanism to evaluate or ensure the quality of medical care when there is no actual treatment suggested. This means nobody can protect the patient against obstacles and barriers in accessing medical relief. Unaffordable medical care or denial of treatment from insurance companies make far more sacrifices to victims than medical errors, and no one quantifies aforementioned. How Are Hospitals Assuring Revenue Protection? Both non-profit and profit, hospitals aim for a convinced financial balance. Multiple services, internal or commissioned, were put in the position to ensure this task. The more sophisticated and accountable the service, the higher costs for operation. Mind that this operational amount is paid by the doctor’s service, which the doctor will eventually be scrutinized on for productivity. Positive and negative stimuli were created in order to stimulate doctors to work laboriously. Enforcing volumes before quality typically encourages income but is detrimental to clinical accuracy and evidence-based best mode. Whenever a profit insurance company is co-operating with a profit hospital and either of them has extraordinarily high revenue, there will be a large element of suspension, mistrust, and distrust. Who Is Protecting The Doctors? Interestingly, in spite of having least or no quantitative scapegoats for doctors in public sector and self-imposed plans in private division, the majority of European nations grant own the most developed health systems (WHO Report 2000, 21 amid first 25 are European). The U.S., where the productivity fascination applies, maintains the 37th position worldwide while having the largest spending. In the preponderance of European countries, there are professional groups (physician colleges or councils) that are commissioned to judge medical errors. They are self-governing, and their expert verdict cannot be overruled by individual hospitals, Ministry of Health or even any court. Unless the intentional crime is confirmed, a doctor cannot be assessed under criminal laws.

These are further countries where physicians feel common secure and protected. In the U.S., in case of a medical claim, the hospital’s argument strategy may or may not include a doctor, depending on the commercial loss. Reloading the primary question, the answer should be mild, but it is not. It is consequently fair to say that every system has and may exercise enough tools to promote and protect doctors in making the right determination. References free available on appeal. Read the full article

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Bücherliste

Wohnen+ : von Schwellen, Übergangsräumen und Transparenzen Ulrike WietzorrekBasel u.a. : Birkhäuser, 2014

60s fashion : vintage fashion and beauty ads Jim Heimann [Herausgeber] Hong Kong ; Köln ; London ; Los Angeles ; Madrid ; Paris ; Tokyo : Taschen, 2007

Erschließungsräume : Treppen, Rampen, Aufzüge ; Wegeführung ; Entwurfsgrundlagen Christian Schittich1. Aufl., München : Ed. Detail - Inst. für Internat. Architektur-Dokumentation, 2013

Schnittmuster-Strategie : eine dialogische Entwurfslehre Dagmar Jäger 1. Aufl., Berlin : Reimer, 2008

Szenosphäre & Szenotopie : künstlerische Forschungen zur Raumwahrnehmung und -struktur der Szenografie Ruth Prangen Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2016

Datenbanken : Grundlagen und Design Frank Geisler 4., aktualisierte und erw. Aufl., Heidelberg u.a. : mitp, 2011

Architektur und Atmosphäre Gernot Böhme 2., korr. Auflage, Paderborn : Fink, 2013

The language of space Bryan Lawson Repr., Amsterdam u.a. : Architectural Press, 2003

Konstruktion, Design, Ästhetik : allgemeine mathematische Methode zur objektiven Beschreibung ästhetischer Zustände im analytischen Prozeß und zur generativen Gestaltung im synthetischen Prozeß von Design-Objekten Rolf Garnich 2. Auflage, Esslingen : Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1968 

Mode, zeichnen & entwerfen Hannelore Eberle ; Tuula Salo ; Hannes Döllel 3. Aufl., Haan-Gruiten : Verl. Europa-Lehrmittel Nourney, Vollmer, 2001

Accessoires der Mode : Entwurf, Herstellung, Marketing Olivier Gerval München : Stiebner, 2010

In Material gedacht : Material im Prozess des architektonischen Entwerfens = Thinking through material: material in the process of architectural design and conception Uta Graff [Herausgeber] München : Detail Business Information GmbH, 2018

Graphic anatomy Atelier Bow-Wow. 2 2014

In den Himmel bauen : Hochhausprojekte von Otto Kohtz (1880 - 1956) Wolfgang Schäche ; Brigitte Jacob ; David Pessier ; Otto Kohtz [Illustrator] Berlin : Jovis, 2014

Gedanken über Architektur Otto Kohtz Berlin : Baumgärtel, 1909

Nicht-Orte  Marc Augé Orig.-Ausg., 3. Aufl., München : Beck, 2012

Lernen von Las Vegas : zur Ikonographie und Architektursymbolik der Geschäftsstadt Robert Venturi ; Denise Scott Brown ; Steven Izenour 2. Aufl., unveränd. Nachdr. [der Ausg. Braunschweig, Wiesbaden, Vieweg], 1997, Gütersloh ; Berlin : Bauverl., 2007

Das Bild der Stadt Kevin Lynch 2. Aufl., 6. unveränd. Nachdr., Basel u.a. : Birkhäuser, 2010

Finnland : Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert ; [anläßlich der gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Ausstellungszentrum der Wiener Städtischen Allgemeinen Versicherung AG in Wien, ...6.12.2000 - 19.1.2001] Adolph Stiller ; Wiener Städtische Allgemeine Versicherung Aktiengesellschaft Salzburg ; München : Pustet, 2000

Mies van der Rohe - Das kunstlose Wort : Gedanken zur Baukunst Fritz Neumeyer ; Ludwig Mies Berlin : Siedler, 1986, Hartmann, Nadine Nicole - Design und Designdiskurse der Moderne - U_Hartmann

Mies van der Rohe im Diskurs : Innovationen - Haltungen - Werke ; aktuelle Positionen ; [Dokumentation des Symposiums, das 2011 anlässlich des 125jährigen Geburtstages Mies van der Rohes von der Hochschule Niederrhein, Fachbereich Design ... initiiert wurde: "Mies125 - Kulturspeicher und Imagefaktor"] Kerstin Plüm [Herausgeber] ; Kerstin Meincke ; Hochschule Niederrhein Bielefeld : transcript, 2013

Konzentrat der Moderne : das Landhaus Lemke von Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Wita Noack München ; Berlin : Dt. Kunstverl., 2008

Dachräume : Entwerfen, Konstruieren, Bewohnen Thomas Jocher ; Ulrike Wietzorrek [Verfasser] ; Deutsches Dach-Zentrum Erste Auflage, München : Edition DETAIL, 2018

Urbanes Wohnen : = Urban housing Christian Schittich [Herausgeber] ; Institut für Internationale Architektur-Dokumentation

Architektur mit dem Computer Gerhard N Schmitt ; Nathanea Elte Braunschweig u.a. : Vieweg, 1996

Modellbau für Architekten : Handbuch und Planungshilfe Ansgar Oswald Berlin : DOM publ., 2011

Builders in the sun : five Mexican architects ; [Mario Pani, Mathias Goeritz, Felix Candela; Luis Barragan, Juan O'Gorman] Clive Bamford SmithNew York : Architectural Book Publ., 1967

Mathias Goeritz : e. dt. Künstler in Mexiko Elke Werry ; Mathias Goeritz Marburg : Jonas-Verl., 1987

Mathias Goeritz, El Eco : 1915 - 1990 ; Bilder, Skulpturen, Modelle ; 13.9. - 13.12.92 Akademie der Künste Mathias Goeritz ; Christian Schneegass ; Akademie der Künste Berlin, 1992

André Werner, Frank M. Zeidler : Klang, Bild, Architektur 5/VII ; eco art 1 ; Mathias Goeritz ; el eco Akademie der Künste Berlin : Akademie der Künste, 1992

Simplexity Fernando Romero 1. Aufl., Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2010

Ferdinand von Rayski und die Kunst des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts Mathias Goeritz Berlin : Hugo, 1942

Herausforderung Erdgeschoss : = Ground floor interface Doris Zoller ; Wüstenrot Stiftung Berlin : Jovis, 2014

Rammed earth : Martin Rauch = Lehm und Architektur = Terra cruda Otto Kapfinger ; Martin Rauch Basel u.a. : Birkhäuser, 2001

Exactitudes® Ari Versluis ; Ellie Uyttenbroek [Fotograf] ; Jason Coburn Sixth revised edition, Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, 2014

Einführung in die Stadt- und Raumsoziologie Martina Löw ; Silke Steets ; Sergej Stoetzer 2., aktualisierte Aufl., Opladen ; Farmington Hills : Budrich, 2008

Vom Raum aus die Stadt denken : Grundlagen einer raumtheoretischen Stadtsoziologie Martina Löw Bielefeld : transcript, 2018

Raumsoziologie Martina Löw 7. Aufl., Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2012

W.I. Lenin Was tun? https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/lenin/1902/wastun/

Über Trotzki https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/trotzki/

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I’ve been wanting to dedicate a commentary to one of the first ladies of horror since I saw her on the big screen last year at the Landmark Loew’s in Jersey City. Starring Gloria Holden as Countess Marya Zaleska, Lambert Hillyer‘s Dracula’s Daughter is the lesser-known sequel to Universal Pictures’ influential Dracula (1931) directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi in his signature role. It’s somewhat of a head-scratcher that despite the Countess’ impressive pedigree she barely gets a mention as compared to her father, Frankenstein’s Monster or any of the other big boys of classic horror, but she should. Both Dracula’s Daughter the movie and the character are worthy members of Universal’s illustrious monster legacy… because they give you that weird feeling!

While the daughter followed five years after the father in real time her story begins just as the stake is rammed into the Count’s heart in Tod Browning’s eternal classic. Right off the bat you have to overlook the fact that Dracula was set in the 19th century and his daughter’s story takes place in the 1930s, but that’s ok. You also have to overlook the spoilers that lie ahead if you want to keep reading.

When Dracula’s Daughter opens we see Count Dracula’s corpse with the stake through its heart. Professor Von Helsing, who’d done the ugly deed, is proclaiming his innocence for killing the monster. Edward Van Sloan repeats his performance as Von Helsing in this – the only actor from the original to do so – and is as dedicated to the role as he is in the predecessor. Despite the performance, however, Scotland Yard is not buying his story. They are yelling bloody murder. I mean, even a respected man must pay for such a gruesome crime. The thing is that Scotland Yard doesn’t know the victim was already dead when Von Helsing killed him. In fact, he’d been dead for centuries.

While the professor is trying his best to convince people of his innocence the body of Dracula is left guarded by one policeman who fails at his duty almost as soon as he’s left to it. But who can blame him when the mysterious Countess Marya Zaleska shows up at the Yard. Zaleska is there to make sure Dracula’s really dead and harmonizes the policeman to get access to the body. Knowing those of her ilk well, the Countess steals the body to dispose of it properly by way of a freeing ritual, which she hopes will free her of the vampirism spell. To be honest I’m not sure why she thinks it’s a spell, rather than a curse you can’t escape from as we’ve seen in countless other vampire tales, but it makes sense that destroying the source would free her of the monstrous affliction. Zaleska longs to live like a normal woman without the dark desires that plague her existence.

The Countess destroys her father’s remains in a freeing ritual

Countess Zaleska’s dramatic ritual manages to get rid of her father’s body for good, but her desires still rage. Her manservant Sandor (Irving Pichel) knows it too as he sees nothing but death in her eyes. Sandor is a creepy man who does the Countess’ bidding with his primary focus being hiding her hideous secret and finding available victims. Anyway, the Countess resumes her hunting, but not without suffering the effects of her uncontrollable urges. That is, until she attends a party and meets Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger), a psychiatrist who believes in mind control. Garth suggests Zaleska can learn to control her impulses. Of course, he doesn’t know what her impulses are, but Zaleska is convinced that Garth makes sense. Surely the strength of a human mind can defeat the power of darkness. If she confronts her demons, sort to speak, she can will the cravings away. Excited about the possibility of her new-found power of the mind, Zaleska asks Sandor to bring her a new model she can paint, but it takes no time at all for the Countess’ nature to get the better of her. The pretty, young vagrant named Lily (Nan Grey) doesn’t stand a chance when Zaleska turns her hypnotizing ring and all manner of urges toward her, if you know what I mean.

  The scene during which the Countess attacks Lily and a later scene where her love for the young woman is apparent are the only inklings left in the film of Zaleska’s lesbian tendencies. These work  in the context of the film, which remains effectively moody, but knowing we could have gotten a deeper understanding of the Countess’ obsessions is disappointing. The Production Code, which was in full swing in 1936, left little hope for anything “suggestive” to make it into a movie. This film’s sexual theme didn’t stand a chance and it was written and rewritten until it passed muster. Following his massive hit with The Bride of Frankenstein in 1935, James Whale was originally hired by Universal to write a treatment for Dracula’s Daughter with the likelihood that he would also direct the movie, but when Whale showed up with a plan for a serious film that would reunite the original cast of Dracula – including Lugosi – Universal balked. What the studio wanted was a cheap movie by lesser writers and a no name cast and that’s what they got. Or, did they? Dracula’s Daughter could no doubt have been great, but there is some irony in the fact that it has to settle for memorable, garnering a cult following for being a rare film of its era to even suggest homosexuality by what was eventually left in the movie.

And yes, you guessed it. Universal’s biggest crime with that $50 budget was no Bela Lugosi in Dracula’s Daughter. How does that even make sense? It hurts to imagine how great he would have been opposite Gloria Holden who kills it in her first starring role as Countess Marya Zaleska despite word that she didn’t want to play the part. Holden manages to add a quiet dignity to the monster making Zaleska a layered character despite the lack of heft in her story. As for Lugosi, he appeared in publicity photos for the movie and the Dracula corpse that appears ever so briefly at the beginning of the movie is a waxwork in Lugosi’s likeness – and you can tell, but we never get the scene with the impressive-looking daughter lamenting the legacy to the father who relishes his damnation. Damn! And it’s not like Lugosi was done with playing vampires either. He played a Dracula-like character in the ill-conceived, but fun Mark of the Vampire in 1935 and reprised his Dracula in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in 1948. His appearance in Dracula’s Daughter, to my mind, was essential.

Lugosi visiting Holden on set of Dracula’s Daughter

It’s over eight decades after the fact, but I can’t help but continue to advocate for this movie to Universal as if they’d somehow agree to rerelease it with additional, extraordinary footage. By the way I saw Dracula’s Daughter for the first time as an adult unlike the other Universal horror classics I grew up watching, but I have an affection for it. Dracula’s Daughter came over to television along with a truckload of other movies in about 1957, but for some reason I don’t remember it airing. Anyway, there are a few other reasons why it would have been important for Universal to pay serious attention to Dracula’s Daughter so let me just remind them in case there’s a chance someone from eighty years ago is reading this. First, without Countess Zaleska Universal would have been sans a Dracula on the big screen for a dozen years after 1931. The next outing for the legendary character was in 1943 when Lon Chaney plays him in Son of Dracula and that was followed by John Carradine as the Count in House of Frankenstein in 1945 and House of Dracula in 1946.

The second reason this was a major misstep for Universal is the fact that it’s so darn good despite the studio’s lack of interest. For instance, they were not considered A-listers, but I enjoy the cast immensely. Aside from Holden’s memorable Zaleska, Otto Kruger is a worthy intellectual opponent to her force of evil and for good fun you get Hedda Hopper as a party guest. More importantly, how fantastic would it have been for Universal to allow a major effort be given to a female vampire to follow The Bride? But it wasn’t to be. The final blunder worth noting is that Dracula’s Daughter turned out to be the last movie the studio made under the leadership of Carl Laemmle. The man who’d built the studio was soon ousted and it would have been great for Mr. Laemmle to have had a decent final bow.

Holden, Kruger and Pichel make an unlikely trio

The ending of Dracula’s Daughter is not as compelling as the possibility of its middle as it sells out in Universal form. Or perhaps I should say in future Universal form. To this point in 1936 the studio had made a few clunkers, but nothing compared to the now beloved clunkers they’d make in the 1940s. Still, Dracula’s Daughter shines despite its flaws as Dr. Garth finds out the truth about Zaleska, but by that point the Countess is set on making the psychiatrist her mate for life. After all, if a girl has to resign herself to eternal damnation she might as well have a psychiatrist by her side. Zaleska lures Garth to Transylvania by kidnapping Garth’s love, Janet (Marguerite Churchill), but the entire thing backfires and Countess Marya Zaleska is destroyed – albeit in a manner worthy of horror royalty.

  The posters and lobby cards are stunning.

  DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936) Shines Despite Universal’s Failure I've been wanting to dedicate a commentary to one of the first ladies of horror since I saw her on the big screen last year at the…

[dookins]

This is it.... the final, last chapter for Bots Bounties and Babes. The Epilogue: Not Alone. Thank you all so much who have read all the way to the end.  This was my longest public project ever to date, and I’ve made so many friends in the Inscryption fandom from this story.  I’ve been in it for a bit over a year now, and in a lot of ways the people I’ve met have become like a little family to me.  I want to thank all of them for being there for me.  Inspiring me.  Encouraging me.  And accepting me.  Prior to me falling into this fandom, I’d been burnt out for a long time.  And every laugh, chat, or cry we’ve shared together has brought so much color back into my world.  They…  all of you, make me wanna keep trying my best and not give up on my dreams, despite my age, anxieties, and fears. Thank you…  Thank all of you from the bottom, middle, and top of my heart.  If I could express it more in any other way I would.  But you’ve done so much for me.  More than you could ever know.  Thank you <3 And for those who are sad to see this story finally come to an end, I do have some news. I’ve said numerous times, this had intended to be much longer.  But without the co-author, it just didn’t feel right to carry it on without them.  So I’m rebooting all of this into a webcomic series of my very own. With a different cast of characters!  This way I can continue the story as I see fit, and not give up on the world that was built.  So after a lot of trial and error, I’m very happy to bring you the two lead characters of the story.  Please give a warm welcome to DAL-S and Aiken Hopper!!! 

Some of the similarities are easy to draw out.  But one thing was going to be for sure.  I intend to keep P03’s little pointy lip as an homage to him.  If you’re curious about progress on the comic, please follow me on my tumblr to check in on the progress of the story.  I still have a couple of titles in the works, but will make the cover once I’ve decided on it.  Also there are only 10 prints left of Cowboy P03 up for sale in my shop!  However there might be another appearing in the near future ;). Thank you again so much.  To those who read, gave kudos, made art, reblogged, commented, supported, and never left me behind.  I hope I can keep making you all happy with my work for a long time to come.  It’s my dream to.  So once more, thank you. With the Utmost Sincerity, Yoshi

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Abruptum Absidia Actus Aendria

Aesma daeva Aeternitas After forever Agathodaimon Age of heaven Aghast Aglarond Aion Alien sex fiend All about eve Amber asylum Amorphis Anathema Anchorage Ancient Angels of venice Angina pectoris Anonymous 4 Anorexia nervosa Anthemon Antichrisis Antimatter Apocalyptica Arcane art Area Artrosis ASP Asgaard Ashes you leave Ataraxia Atrocity Aurora Ausgang Autumn Autumn clan Avrigus Batalion D'amour Bauhaus Bay laurel Bessech Betray my secrets Beyond dawn Black atmosphere Black heaven Black rose Black tape for a blue girl Blackmore's night Blackshine Blazing eternity Bleeding like mine Blind passangers Bloodflowerz Bluteangel Breath of life Brighter death now Cadaveria Caledonian Camereta mediolanense Canvasser Carpice Casket Castrum Catherines cathedral Catholicon Cayne Cemetary Cemetery of scream Century Chandeen Changes Charon Chassalla Christian death Clan of xymox Closterkeller Cocteau twins Collection D'arnell andrea Corona borealis Corpus delicti Corvus corax Cradle of filth Creaming Jesus Crematory Crownhead Crown of autumn Cultus sanguine Current'93 Cybele D'arcadia Dakrua Dalmerot's kingdom Danielle dax Danse macabre Danse society Dark Dark land Dark lunacy Dark reality Dark sanctuary Darklands Darkseed Darkwell Darzamat Dawn of dreams Dawn of oblivion Daylight torn Delvision Dead can dance Dead souls rising Death in june Death sentence December's fire Decoryan Deep inside myself Deep red Deine lakaien Delerium Delight Depeche mode Derriere le miroir Desecration Desire Deutsch nepal Devlin Diabolique Diaokhi Die form Die laughing Die Verbanten Kinder Eva's Diary Of Dreams Diluvium Divercia Dominium Dreadful Shadows Dreams Of Sanity Dunwich Dying passion E Nomine Edenbridg Edera Eisheiling Elbereth Elend Elven Shadows Elijah's mantle Elis Elusive Embraza En Garde End Of Green Endless Endraum Engelstaub Entwine Epica Eros hecropsique Estampie Estatic Fear Eternal Eternal mourning Eterneal travel Even song Ewigkeit Faith And The muse Farewell Fata Morgana Fields of the nephilim Fire & Ice Flowing tears For my pain Forest of souls Forgive me not Forgotten silence Forgotten sunrise Forthcoming fire Fragile hollow Freiburger spielleyt Garden of delight Ghosting Giants causeway Gitane demone Golgotha Gothminister Green Carnation Haggard Hardware Human drama Ikon Iidfrost Illuminate Image transmission In gowan ring In my rosary In the nursery Inchor Inkubus sukkubus Into the abyss Joy division Katatonia Killing Joke L'ame immortalle La Floa maldita La orchestre noir Lacrimosa Lacuna coil Lake of tears Lavra Leave's eyes London after midnight Love is colder then death Love lies bleeding Love like blood Love spirals downwards Lucyfire Lustmord Lycia Macbeth Madder mortem Maniac P Mar de grises March violets Marionetts Mediaeval baebs Mellonta touta Mephisto waltz Merlons Of Nehemian Mizantropia Moonchild Moonlight Moonspell Mordor Morthound Mortiis Mortus Myriads Natacha atlas Nazgul Nefilim Nightingale Nightwish Nocturne Nosferatu Odes of ecstasy Ordo Equilibrio Ordo Equitum Solis Otto Dix Otyg Paradise Lost Paradise Age Passion Noire Pazuzu Penitent Penumbra Phallus Dei Play Dead Prachers Of Neverland Primordia Qntal Raison D'entre Rakoth Ram–zet Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Ronan Quays Rosetta Stone Sacrirersum Saints Of Edan Saltatio Mortis Samsas Traum Sanctum Sand Sanguis et cinis Sarband Saturnus Second Skin Sentenced Sex Gang Children Shadow Project Shadow caster Shape of despair Shinjuku thief Siva in exile Siebenburger Siechtum Silence Gift Silentium Siouxsie & the banshees Sirenia Skeletal family Sleep walk Sol invictus Sons of neverland Sophya Sopor aeternus Sorg Sorrow Soul cages Soul whirling Somewhere Soulgrind Southern death cult Speaking silence Specimen Stoa Stoneman Storm Stream Of Passion Stun Sundown Sunshine blind Switchblade Symphony Syria The 3rd and The mortal The 69 eyes The black league The damnable The deep red The dream side The faces of sarah The gallery The gathering The gothic voices The heretic The last dance The merlons The mission The moon lay hidden beneath a could The process The shround The soil bleeds black The sisters of mercy The virgin prunes The wake Theatre of hate Theatre of tragedy Theatres des vampires This empty flow This mortal coil To die for Trail of tears Tristania Twilight ophera Two witches Uk decay Umbra et imago Undish Vampiria Vendemmian Von thronstahl Vordven Vox Weihan Weltenbrand wish within temptation X-mal Deutschland Yorick

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Dockt man die magnetisch haftende Tastatur-Schutzhülle ab, wechselt Windows 10 in den Tablet-Modus. Als Tablet benutzt, bläst Windows 10 das Startmenü auf Vollbild auf und blendet den Desktop aus. Windows 10 ist spätestens seit dem neusten Creators Update gut für die Bedienung mit Fingern und insbesondere Digital-Stift optimiert, aber iOS und Android sind allein schon wegen der weit besseren App-Auswahl die besseren Betriebssysteme für Tablets.

Umgekehrt ist das Surface Pro mit Windows 10 und allen notwendigen Anschlüssen für den Bürobetrieb jedem Tablet als Arbeitsgerät meilenweit überlegen. Wer mit dem Surface vor allem arbeiten möchte – ob unterwegs oder im Büro – und es nur gelegentlich als Tablet nutzt, kann bedenkenlos zugreifen.

Der digitale Zeichenstift war beim Surface Pro 4 noch dabei, beim neuen Modell muss er separat gekauft werden. Der leicht überarbeite Pen schlägt mit rund 110 Franken zu Buche. Das fast gleich gute Vorgänger-Modell bekommt man nun ab etwa 60 Franken.

Der Aufpreis lohnt sich nur für professionelle Anwender. Diese können den neuen Pen zum Beispiel neigen, um Zeichnungen wie mit einem Graphitstift zu schattieren. Andere Funktionen wie austauschbare Stiftspitzen (Fineliner) oder radieren mit dem Stift-ende bietet auch der günstigere Pen.

Ehrlich gesagt bin ich erstaunt, wie gut man auf dem dünnen Type Cover schreiben kann. Tippen fühlt sich von Anfang an genauso komfortabel an wie bei einem Laptop. Unabhängige Tester attestieren Microsoft immer wieder, mit dem Type Cover die beste Tastatur für 2-in-1-Geräte zu haben. Mangels Erfahrung mit Alternativen kann ich dies weder bestätigen noch dementieren, aber angenehm, leise und treffsicher schreiben lässt sich darauf auf jeden Fall. Mit der Hintergrundbeleuchtung kann auch im Dunkeln bequem getippt werden.

Persönlich konnte ich keinen (signifikanten) Unterschied zum bisherigen Type Cover ausmachen – was eine gute Nachricht ist. Microsofts Kombination aus Schutzhülle und Tastatur ist nach fünf Jahren stetiger Optimierung nahezu perfekt. Sie ist dünn, leicht, trotzdem stabil und lässt sich dank Magneten rasch an- und abheften.

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Privat habe ich viele Jahre ein MacBook benutzt, weil Apples Touchpad einfach besser war als bei den meisten Windows-Laptops. Das kleine Touchpad der älteren Surface-Geräte war dann auch ein Grund, warum ich nie ein Surface Pro gekauft habe. Auch dieses Manko hat Microsoft inzwischen ausgemerzt.

Seit dem Surface Pro 4 von 2015 ist das Touchpad vernünftig gross und erkennt Wischgesten mit mehreren Fingern schnell und präzise. Daran hat sich zum Glück nichts geändert. Das Touchpad ist nach wie vor etwas kleiner als bei einem MacBook oder Surface Book, scrollen mit zwei Fingern und andere Wischgesten mit mehreren Fingern funktionieren aber genau so geschmeidig wie bei grösseren Laptops.

Wo viel Licht ist, ist auch Schatten. Und wenn das Surface Pro eine Achillesferse hat, dann ist es der Akku. Beim Vorgängermodell war er je nach Nutzungsverhalten nach 6 bis 7 Stunden erschöpft, beim neuen Surface Pro hält er 1,5 bis 2 Stunden länger. Dies dürfte primär an der neuen Prozessor-Generation (Intel-Kaby-Lake) liegen, die offenbar etwas weniger Energie benötigt.

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Im Alltagstest des Schweizer Computer-Magazins PCTipp geht dem Surface nach 8:43 Stunden die Energie aus. Im Ausdauertest des auf Laptoptests spezialisierten Magazins LaptopMag macht das Surface nach 7:30 Stunden schlapp. Für ein so dünnes Gerät ist das ok, aber kein Vergleich zu den 9 bis 14 Stunden, die der ebenfalls neue Surface Laptop liefert.

Ich habe das Modell mit i7-Prozessor, 16 GB RAM und 512 GB Speicher (SSD) getestet, das ohne Cover-Tastatur und Stift direkt bei Microsoft 2449 Franken kostet. Für Otto Normalverbraucher mit dem nötigen Kleingeld ist das i5-Modell mit 8 GB Arbeitsspeicher für knapp 1500 Franken mehr als genug schnell.

Wer das Surface Pro lediglich für Programme wie Microsoft Office oder den Webbrowser nutzt, sollte sich zwischen den beiden günstigsten Modellen entscheiden. Die teuren i7-Modelle sind für professionelle Nutzer gedacht.

Wer das Surface Pro vor allem unterwegs nutzen möchte, sollte allenfalls mit dem Kauf noch etwas zuwarten. Microsoft hat eine LTE-Version angekündigt, mit der man auch über das Mobilfunknetz ins Internet kann.

Mit Preisen zwischen 949 und 3099 Franken ist das Surface Pro kein Schnäppchen, zumal die fast unverzichtbare Cover-Tastatur je nach Ausführung 110 bis 180 Franken extra kostet. Ein Surface Pen, den allerdings längst nicht jeder braucht, erhöht den Gesamtpreis nochmals um 60 bis 110 Franken. Die gute Nachricht: Wer bereits ein Surface Pro 3 oder 4 hat, kann Tastatur, Stift oder Docking Station auch mit dem neuen Modell verwenden. Im Handel wird es das Surface Pro vermutlich auch als Set mit Type Cover und Pen zu attraktiveren Preisen geben. Zudem gibt es Rabatte für Studenten.

Wie immer gilt: Microsofts Surface-Geräte sind allgemein auf der teuren Seite, der Kunde profitiert aber auch von mehreren Vorteilen: Gute Verarbeitungsqualität, attraktives Design, schnelle Updates und keine vorinstallierte Bloatware. Dafür zahlt man auch etwas mehr als bei der Konkurrenz.