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All of the big stars like being a part of the big shows and movies, right? Being a part of the biggest show on television would certainly be a feather in the cap of any actor. But how about for a quirky actor who frequently wears fedoras with feathers? Unbeknownst to him probably, but Johnny Depp’s head has made an appearance on the show.
According to Greg Nicotero, Depp’s noggin was one of the heads featured when Rick and company were using parts of Walkers to prove their worth before setting out on their mission for Hilltop.
One of the first iconic images the series ever was the very first scene - Rick wandering around. From underneath a car, he sees a little girl holding her little teddy bear. But instead of her scared and looking for momma, she was looking for some brains.
Several years later, as the show celebrated the monumental 100th episode, we’d meet her again in a similar situation. Only this time it was Carl looking for gas in a pretty cool callback scene for those who noticed.
Sometimes, especially with some of the more plodding storylines, it’s seems like there is little to no character development on The Walking Dead. But then Rick straight up lies to and eliminates a bunch of would-be bandits, with Morgan helping him. That’s definitely not what the Rick of last seasons would have done.
In fact, Rick was staunchly against hurting the living, unless faced with threats from them. It would several years later that Rick would be held by a couple of guys. He promised them sanctuary. But when they agreed and let him and Morgan go, they quickly learned they were messing with the wrong guy.
The second season of the series is probably its most divisive season to date. With most of the season taking place all in one spot and listening to philosophical discussions between Dale, Rick, Hershel, and Shane; all the while searching for Sophia and licking their wounds was a little daunting to watch for some.
It’s a subtle callback but at one point Rick talks to Sophia near a tree. If you want to see a connection, Carol found Henry at a tree. But even more important – the kid that played Henry was played by Macsen Lintz. His older sister is Madison, who played Sophia.
As the current group of survivors threatening our heroes, the Whisperers are pretty out there. Deciding that trying to rebuild society as it once was is a bad plan, they instead cover themselves in Walker blood and masks to move freely through the world and survive.
Strangely enough, Morgan would speak of these villains years earlier. In the classic episode “Clear,” Rick reconnects with his old friend, who has gone completely insane. He’s mumbling and muttering about all kinds of things, but one of his inane musings was not as nuts as it seemed – “people wearing dead people’s faces.” Fans of the comic book knew exactly who he was talking about.
Every so often, the show would introduce a character from the comics and for whatever reason, not use them very well. Fans were a little divided on Tyreese and his portrayal on the show. Of course, when they finally started using the big man best, he got bit and started hallucinating.
The big lug was heading for that big good night when he started to hear news accounts of the Zombie Apocalypse taking place in the United Kingdom. The newscaster’s voice was actually the real-life voice of series star, Andrew Lincoln.
Besides Rick and Darryl, Glenn Rhee might’ve been the show’s most popular character. He was certainly the heart of the show as well. For many seasons, he was actually the only guy to have not killed any human beings. Even more than Rick, he’s usually the first person to try and accept new people into the group.
The guy’s demise is the most intense and heartbreaking scene on the show and a true showcase of how powerful Negan is. But his demise was also foreshadowed on the series when he took part on a raid at Sanctuary. Glenn ran afoul of polaroids of what looked like serious damage to people by what probably was Lucille.
Fandom is an awesome thing sometimes. It’s why articles like this one are great. Fandom also allows dedicated fans of any show to head right down the rabbit hole and find out all sorts of gnarly tidbits. Like the Reddit user who took the time to research the bible verses listed on the wall of Ezekial’s church.
Inspiration comes in all kinds of places. During the sixth season of the show, Morgan returned to the Grimes Gang and we got to see how he became a peace-loving pacifist. Thanks to a man he met along his path, Eastman, he became a master of Aikido.
Eastman is also the name of one-half of one of the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. While you might think that was just a coincidence. The shirt Eastman is wearing in “Here’s Not Here,” says “Save The Terrapins,” just to hammer the point home that TMNT helped to influence Morgan.
Considering the stress of living in the Zombie Apocalypse, it’s surprising that only two main in characters take the edge off by having a smoke or two when they can find them. Darryl was super happy to found a carton of Morley’s. Carol even found the flavor in Menthol.
For fans of both The Walking Dead and The X-Files, you’ll know that Morley’s we’re the preferred brand of the Smoking Man, the proverbial man behind the curtain. The CSG behind both the alien and zombie invasions would make for a crazy crossover.
Johnny Depp’s head might have cameoed on the show, but what if the Zombie Apocalypse was caused by Anthrax? Scott Ian, the lead singer of the thrash band, Anthrax, is also a huge fan of The Walking Dead. Like any good celebrity fan, he used his stroke to nab a guest spot on the show.
Its one of the very rare instances of humor about all of the decaying madness happening on the show, there is a long-held fan thought that a strange noise was heard when Rick ended his first Walker, one of his old sheriff buddies.
The sound effect of this shot happens to sound eerily like the “Achievement Unlocked” noise that happens when playing any games on the X-Box. A lot of fans have speculated that Rick never woke up from his coma, the achievement noise could be proof.
10 Rick’s A Good Leader?
Rick Grimes has made a ton of decisions along the group’s path towards survival. Some decisions good, some bad, mostly terrible. Even he knows that he’s not a great leader. That’s why he was planting tulips at the prison instead of taking charge. He doesn’t want to be the only one leading and it’s good that he tries to defer that leadership to all sorts of committees.
Yet, the group follow him and seldom question his means or methods. It has only been recently since he decided by himself to leave Negan alive that a schism between the groups started.
Using a gun to eliminate a Walker or two attracts a whole lot more. Every so often though, the Grimes gang has no choice but unload a ton of ammunition on a horde of Walkers; the Governor and his henchmen; the Saviors; whoever.
One would think that behind-the-scenes, at least the main actors would be trained to look firing weapons. If you’re in the know, then you’ll realize that there is no kickback to any of the guns firing and barely anyone is wincing at flashes and bangs.
The world of The Walking Dead is a giant decaying landscape. The entire world is seemingly a wasteland with nothing left except Walkers and those who are just trying to survive long enough to maybe reestablish some kind of civilization.
Every season, that decay is shown through the show’s great effects team. The Walkers look more and more disturbing. Even some of the people look more and more world-weary. Most areas are overgrown until characters clean it out. Even the show’s title card has gotten more frayed and dirty over time. Chronologically speaking, Fear The Walking Dead’s title card from season one is actually the cleanest.
With its origins based in Haiti and Brazil, the term Zombie dates back over 200 years. In literature, since the early 20th century. George Romero brought the term to the mainstream moviegoing public with Night Of The Living Dead. The word Zombie wasn’t used in that movie though. Fans coined the term.
Perhaps, in similar fashion or in praise of, The Walking Dead has never mentioned the word either. They’re Walkers, Biters, Creepers, Dead Ones, Geeks, but they’re never Zombies.
In the early days of the show, there was Rick’s point of view, Shane’s, and then Dale’s. Dale thought Shane was a hothead, Rick wanted to help rebuild communities, and Dale was the groups’ moral compass. He had a speech during the first season’s “Vatos,” that was again referenced in the episode titles of season five.
“...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it. For a moment, now and then, and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.’” While most people might not pay attention to episode titles, but for whatever the reason Scott Gimple used Dale’s speech here.
5 Did Beth Find Lucille?
It took a while, but Beth finally became at least a little liked by fans of the series. But that didn’t help curtail her fate. In the interim, she had some decent moments that didn’t involve any singing. Most were when she was partnered up with Darryl. As she bolted from the prison she came across some bodies and a baseball bat wrapped in barb wire.
While this clearly wasn’t the work Of Negan (he would never leave Lucille behind), it was a pretty cool Easter Egg for comic book fans to inform their non-comic book fan friends that about the problems awaiting our heroes.
A show like The Walking Dead, by design, has no choice but start out pretty bleak and just get nastier, grittier, and a whole lot darker. Moments of humor are pretty fleeting, but when they come; if you notice them, they’re pretty hysterical.
One of those moments came when we were learning about the backstory of the Governor. Tara and her family had taken the Governor in. When they found him, he was laying on a pillow with a parrot on it. Between the patch and the bird, for a brief moment, the Governor was a pirate.
Prior to the Walker outbreak that started the entire series, Darryl and his brother, Merle didn’t exactly hang out with the most honest law-abiding crowds. They seemingly ran with a certain meth head turned partner to the kingpin of the Southwest.
According to Darryl, he and Merle used to buy substances from a scrawny white kid with an affinity for using a certain word a whole lot. While it was never explicitly stated, that sounds a lot like Jesse Pinkman, doesn’t it?
In 1968, Night Of The Living Dead shocked and stirred audiences into a frenzy. The modern zombie, as many of us know it was born (unborn?) with this game-changing horror film by George A. Romero. If you’re doing anything involving zombies, you have to homage to The Godfather Of The Dead.
Which is exactly what The Walking Dead has done. On several occasions, a few of the Walkers on the show look eerily similar to characters from Romero’s flicks. Besides that, the first episode of season 8 was dedicated to visionary.
In the world of zombie survival video game series, Resident Evil, the Zombie Apocalypse was wrought upon the world by the nefarious Umbrella Corporation, and they’ve been trying to cover up their tracks ever since. The show has never stated what, if anything, caused the outbreak, but they still found a way to pay a little homage to the popular video game series.
In one episode of season five, in a close-up Of Michonne, there is a crafted octagon that looks very similar to the Umbrella Corps’ iconic logo.
The lawsuits are piling up after the death of Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown. On February 4th, Brown’s estate administrator, Bedelia Hargrove, issued a lawsuit against the late music scion's grandmother Cissy Houston and aunt Pat Houston for “breach of trust” after refusing to pay the cost of operating the estate. As co-trustees, the Houston’s are supposed to sign off on any money coming in or out.
This is the second lawsuit the estate has filed since Bobbi Brown’s death on July 26, 2015. Hargrove and the estate are also suing Brown's then-boyfriend Nick Gordon for “wrongful death” in the case of Bobbi Kristina being found unconscious in her bathtub; which eventually led to her untimely death. As far as we can tell, the lawsuit has gone nowhere — and perhaps Hargrove's legal fees are what the Houston's don't want to pay?
The Houstons have not responded to the lawsuit.
FORMER Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-Sung says new signing Memphis Depay has echoes of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Park played with Depay during his second spell at PSV Eindhoven last season and believes he shares many qualities with the Real Madrid man.
He said: "He’s still a young player – only 21 years old – but I played with him and he has so much potential: he has strength, passing ability and skill.
"Some people say he’s like Cristiano Ronaldo and I can imagine that – he really has the desire to be the best player and United can help him achieve that.
"It’s a really good signing for both him and the club, and I’m sure he’ll show his quality for us."
And Park hopes the acquisition of Depay and other players this summer will help United kick-on especially after securing Champions League football.
He added: "It was our first aim to finish in the top four after the disappointment of last season and we’ve done that.
"We’ve performed very well in some games this season, so hopefully we can build on that."
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sent an email to her campaign chairman John Podesta in 2014, who was then-counselor to President Barack Obama, that said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are both giving financial and logistical support to the Islamic State and other extremist Sunni groups, according to a recent Wikileaks release.
Clinton sent the email on August 17, 2014 to Podesta. It was an eight-point plan to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Clinton’s email said that the United States should support Kurdish forces on the ground with U.S. military advisers and avoid the use of a conventional ground operation.
“While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region,” Clinton wrote.
The email from Clinton to Podesta contains a similar format of previous intelligence reports Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal would send to the former secretary of state. The Daily Caller has previously reported how Clinton had asked aides to remove markings showing Blumenthal wrote the reports before sending them to White House officials.
The August 2014 email that pointed the finger at Saudi Arabia and Qatar does not contain any information linking it to Blumenthal in particular and is sent from one of Clinton’s personal emails. The batch of Wikileaks emails has not been independently verified by TheDC. However, Clinton and her spokesman Brian Fallon did not dispute the legitimacy of leaked speech transcripts released by Wikileaks at Sunday’s debate.
TheDC reached out to the Clinton campaign and asked if they dispute the legitimacy of the email, but they have not responded. The Daily Caller also emailed Blumenthal asking if he authored the memo, and he also did not respond.
The Clinton campaign has not replied to a Daily Caller inquiry about whether the Clinton Foundation will return donations from these two nations that, according to Hillary Clinton, fund ISIS.
In 2010, Clinton’s top aide said that the up to $60 billion weapons transfer of fighter jets and helicopters to Saudi Arabia was a “top priority.” The Clinton campaign did not give comment when The Daily Caller asked if Hillary was elected would she cede military support to Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Council taxpayers will have to pay more for policing.
West Yorkshire Police has announced it is increasing its precept by 1.99 per cent, around four pence a week for each household.
And Mark Burns-Williamson, West Yorkshire police and crime commissioner, who proposed the precept rise, said it would pay for an extra 80 new police officers.
The budget proposal was agreed by the West Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel and will help the force recruit officers after it was hit with £163m in budget cuts by the government.
Mr Burns-Williamson said: “I continue to raise wherever possible with the Home Secretary and others, the damage these severe cuts will cause to our communities.
The crime commissioner also said government funding will have been cut by 40 per cent between now and 2016-17.
The precept rise was agreed today by the West Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel.
Join Haaretz for a trip down memory lane, on a journey of 100 pictures that goes from the way we were, through the things that we are, to the road signs of where we are going.
Haaretz’s supplement “Israel in Camera” is, in many ways, a case in point. It is our collection of pictures that not only record some of the many memorable moments of Israel’s 65 years, but also recreate them, in ways that only a good photo can.
This is a telling of our history, frozen in time but preserved for posterity, in pictures that are often worth much more than a thousand words. In an era when entire photo departments are uprooted in one fell swoop by cost-cutting news organizations, it may be worthwhile to remember that these are the pictures that allow you to see for yourself, to imagine you were there.
So join us for a trip down memory lane, on a journey of 100 pictures that goes from the way we were, through the things that we are, to the road signs of where we are going. This is our Israel: from the miraculous to the mundane, from the religious to the profane, from the truly inspiring to the deeply troubling, from the ridiculous to the sublime. This is Israel, seen through the discerning eyes of Haaretz photographers, sometimes in the thick of things, often far from the beaten track, portraits of main protagonists but also of ordinary people, caught in the whirlwind of history.
Here, in the black and white photos of the 1940s and 1950s, one can still sense the wonder at the rebirth of the Jewish state, darkened by the shadows of Holocaust, challenged by tremendous tasks that lay ahead, threatened by mistakes about to be made.
Here are the first of a seemingly endless list of firsts: the first elections, the first Mother’s Day, the first Miss Universe, the first – of many – Nobel prizes, the first nuclear reactor, the first Tel Aviv skyscraper, the first Oscar nomination, the first miraculous salvation of a Jewish community in distress, the first riots by the underprivileged, the first of many open wounds that may never be closed.
Here is the contrived pose of Nazi war criminal Eichmann, the wounded gaze of accused collaborator Kastner, the divisive debate over David Ben-Gurion’s Reparations Agreement with Germany, a harbinger of decades of confrontation between pragmatic Mapai, now Labor, and ideological Herut, now Likud.
And here are iconic heroes like Moshe Dayan and Ariel Sharon, sculptors of Israel’s military persona and painters of its own self-image, for better but, as it later turned out, for worse as well. And “Exodus,” the movie, with its idyllic glorification that so many American Jews cling to and often prefer over its troubling manifestations in reality: Golda, without the Yom Kippur War; Begin, without Sabra and Shatila.
And throughout it all, the indefatigable Shimon Peres, player and witness, last of the titans, his trials and triumphs echoing the ups and downs of the country he now heads, on his 90th birthday.
This is Israel, as it is, warts and all: a formidable military power, an economic wonder, a startup nation, but also a country of rampant corruption and religious intolerance, an exemplary democracy that nonetheless keeps millions of people disenfranchised, under military occupation, yearning for their freedom.
It is an inspiring but disturbing voyage, truly unlike any other. This is the Israel that Haaretz covers, cherishes, criticizes and often castigates, uniquely dedicated as it is to an unvarnished truth that is making of a true newspaper and the underpinning of a real democracy. These are our moments in time, Israel through our cameras, before your very eyes.
As received 1100-O aluminum was cold rolled (CR) to 30%, 70%, and 80% reduction, respectively, to study the effects of microstructural evolution on the spall response using plate impact experiments. Previous results show a sharp increase in pullback velocity for 1100-O aluminum with increase in peak shock stress between 4.0 and 8.3 GPa due to hardening, followed by a decrease for peak shock stresses up to 12.0 GPa possibly due to softening. This maximum was not observed for the 30% CR, which showed only an increase in pullback velocity over the shock stress range of 4.012.0 GPa due to hardening (net increase in dislocation density). For the 70% CR aluminum, no change was observed in the pullback velocity over the range tested (4.011.0 GPa) probably due to saturation in dislocation density. Similar observations were made for the 80% CR, that is, no change was observed in the spall response between 4.0 GPa and 11.0 GPa. However, variations were observed in the spall response for the 80% CR, and these variations are attributed to material inhomogeneity possibly caused by increased cold rolling beyond saturation. The results also show a significant increase in Hugoniot Elastic Limit with increase in percent cold rolling.
Water chiefs may lift the cryptosporidium scare in some parts of Lancashire, while others remain on red alert.
United Utilities is considering a phased return to normal service as work goes on to clear the remaining traces of the parasite from key troublespots around the network.
Gary Dixon, the company’s customer services director, has revealed an all-clear could be declared in some parts of the affected area, while the boil water advice remains in force in others.
But, as the scare entered its 17th day today, there was still no news on exactly when the first neighbourhoods would be back to normal, or which parts of the county they will be in.
The news comes after the first three ultra-violet rigs were installed at Warbreck near Blackpool yesterday to eliminate lingering bugs in the supply network.
Five more will go into service early next week at Weeton, Westby, Haighton, Hoghton and White Bull service reservoirs, all vast storage chambers which hold the water before it is piped to local homes.
Ultra-violet rays are effective in killing off the crypto bug and the eight rigs, brought in from other parts of the UK and on the Continent, are being deployed at strategic points where the parasite is proving hard to wipe out.
United Utilities has come under fire for the length of time it is taking to clean out the water supply to Preston, South Ribble, Chorley and the Fylde Coast.
Gary Dixon added: “The use of these UV rigs will help us speed up the process of destroying the last traces of cryptosporidium in the water.
Costa Mesa has promoted a city engineer to public services director.
Ernesto Munoz, 55, will head the department, which has 163 employees and a budget of $17.3 million and more than $400 million in city assets, city spokesman Bill Lobdell said in a statement.
Munoz served as interim public services director for five months prior to his appointment Tuesday and has worked for the city for the past 18 years.
Among the projects Munoz oversaw before his appointment were the restoration of the Fairview Park wetlands, Volcom Skatepark and the Jack R. Hammett Sports Complex.
Just over 10 years ago, the biggest success story in Ivory Coast was its economy.
A thriving centre of relative political stability, the country was an example to its West African neighbours. Except that is when it came to football.
Football was one thing Ivory Coast was not very good at. How times have changed.
Now the country has become defined by civil war and division, while the football team has made it to the World Cup. That the side has to be successful is one of the few issues on which there is still a consensus.
To see the players relaxing by the swimming pool in a five star hotel, it is easy to forget about the less than luxurious state of the country they represent.

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