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Adam Frederick Cullen (9 October 1965 – 28 July 2012)[2] was an Australian artist, most known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2000 with a portrait of actor David Wenham. He was also known for his controversial subjects or work. His style has at times been called by some critics[1] as simplistic, crude, adolescent or puerile, though he has been voted[by whom?] one of Australia's most collectible contemporary artists.[citation needed].
Adam Frederick Cullen
(1965-10-09)9 October 1965
28 July 2012(2012-07-28) (aged 46)
Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, Australia
City Art Institute
Archibald Prize
2000 Portrait of David Wenham
Patron(s)
Edmund Capon[1]
He is the subject of the acclaimed and award-winning feature film Acute Misfortune (2019).
Cullen's studio was located at Wentworth Falls, in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. He had stated that he had painted to the music of punk bands such as the Meat Puppets, Black Flag and the Butthole Surfers. Cullen painted such things as dead cats, 'bloodied' kangaroos, headless women and punk men, many of which represent what he termed "Loserville".[citation needed]
The artist used a highly personal visual language to address a broad range of topics including crime, masculinity and cowboy culture. He merged high and low cultural influences in works which are defined by their iridescent colours and bold gestural marks. His works combine irreverent humour with an astute sensitivity to society.[citation needed]
Adam Cullen was born in Sydney in 1965. He was a cousin of the actor and artist Max Cullen. He graduated from the City Art Institute (now UNSW Art & Design) with a Diploma of Professional Art in 1987 and received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales in 1999. He exhibited broadly in individual and group exhibitions both in Australia and overseas. In 2002 he represented Australia at the 25th São Paulo Art Biennial.He gained early fame at art school by dragging around a rotting pig's head chained to his ankle.[citation needed] Cullen was well established as a Sydney 'grunge' artist when he won the prestigious Archibald Prize for his portrait of actor David Wenham in 2000.[citation needed]
As well his painting his grunge style entered the world of printmaking at Whaling Road Studios producing his first suite of etchings printed by Diana Davidson and Mark Rowden.
Association with criminal figuresEdit
Cullen often employed the image of infamous and iconic Australian bushranger Ned Kelly in his artwork. He also portrayed the killers of 1986 murder victim Anita Cobby, and illustrated the underworld figure and convicted criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read's fairy tale book called Hooky the Cripple.
Archibald PrizeEdit
He entered the Archibald Prize at least 9 times, was hung at least 8 times, and won once in 2000. He was a finalist in 1997, 1999, 2001-2004, 2006 (with his painting Edmund, depicting gallery director and art historian Edmund Capon), in 2011 and 2012.
After winning the 2000 Prize, Cullen lodged a complaint with the ABC who had used his painting, Portrait of David Wenham, in a television commercial. Cullen argued that artists have the right to control how their images are used and asked that a fee of $67,500 be paid to him for them using it in this way, though it was negotiated that he would be paid $80 for it instead.[citation needed]
He was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary about the Archibald Prize called Loaded Brush.[citation needed]
Other prizes and honoursEdit
Cullen was exhibited in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize show of 2000-2001 with a portrait of comedian Mikey Robins. He was the winner of the Mosman Art Prize in 2005, having been a finalist in 2000.[citation needed]
In November 2009, the Cullen Hotel, named after the artist, opened in Melbourne.[citation needed]
Acute Misfortune, directed by Thomas Wright, a biopic on Cullen focussing on his volatile relationship with his biographer Erik Jensen was released in 2018.[3]
Later lifeEdit
In 2011 he was given a suspended jail sentence for drink driving and weapons offences. A psychiatric report recommended treatment for bipolar disorder as well as a long-term alcohol rehabilitation program.
^ a b Edmond, Martin (30 September 2014). "Declivities and eminences". Sydney Review of Books. Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
^ Frew, Wendy (29 July 2012). "Archibald winner Adam Cullen dies aged 47". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
^ "Acute Misfortune - Adelaide Film Festival". adelaidefilmfestival.org. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
The Cullen Hotel
The Maker: Adam Cullen
Euan MacLeod Archibald Prize
for Portrait of David Wenham Succeeded by
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Budapest Open Access Initiative
Participants at meeting in Budapest, December 1, 2001
A logo celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2012, featuring the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest.
The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature,[1] which was released to the public February 14, 2002.[2] It arose from a conference convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute on December 1–2, 2001 to promote open access – at the time also known as Free Online Scholarship.[3][4] This small gathering of individuals is recognised as one of the major defining events of the open access movement.[1] On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the initiative, it was reaffirmed in 2012 and supplemented with a set of concrete recommendations for achieving "the new goal that within the next ten years, OA will become the default method for distributing new peer-reviewed research in every field and country."[5][6]
InitiativeEdit
The opening sentence of the Budapest Open Access Initiative encapsulates what the open access movement is all about, and what its potential is:
An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds.
— Budapest Open Access Initiative[7]
Definition of open accessEdit
The document also contains one of the most widely used definitions of open access, which has subsequently been reaffirmed[5] as the definition of open access, 10 years after it was first published:
By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
SignatoriesEdit
The 16 original signatories of the Budapest Open Access Initiative included some of the world's early leaders in the open access movement: Leslie Chan of Bioline International; Darius Cuplinskas, Melissa Hagemann, Rima Kupryte and István Rév of Open Society Institute; Michael Eisen of the Public Library of Science; Fred Friend († April 23, 2014) of University College London; Yana Genova of Next Page Foundation; Jean-Claude Guédon of the Université de Montréal; Stevan Harnad of the University of Southampton/Université du Québec à Montréal; Rick Johnson of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC); Manfredi La Manna of the Electronic Society for Social Scientists; Monika Segbert, Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net) Project consultant; Sidnei de Souza, Informatics Director at CRIA, Bioline International; Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College and The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter; Jan Velterop of BioMed Central.[3][8]
On February 14, 2002, the BOAI was released in a version that could be signed by the public. As on 14th Feb. 2016, more than 5,932 individuals and 837 organizations have signed it.[9]
FundingEdit
The initiative was sponsored with a USD $3 million grant from the Open Society Institute.[10]
Cape Town Open Education Declaration
^ a b "Budapest Open Access Initiative, FAQ". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
^ "Budapest Open Access Initiative | Read the Budapest Open Access Initiative". www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
^ a b "Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data in China ..." Retrieved 11 February 2015.
^ "Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
^ a b "Ten years on from the Budapest Open Access Initiative: setting the default to open". September 11, 2012. Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
^ "BOAI". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
^ "Read the Budapest Open Access Initiative". www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
^ "Budapest Open Access Initiative - Budapest Open Access Initiative". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
^ "View Signatures". Budapest Open Access Initiative.
^ Noble, Ivan (14 February 2002). "Boost for research paper access". BBC News. London: BBC. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
Budapest Open Access Initiative FAQ
Open Access News by Peter Suber
Openarchives.eu – The European Guide to OAI-PMH Digital Repositories in the World
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Ekron
This article is about the Philistine city. For other uses, see Ekron (disambiguation).
The city of Ekron (Hebrew: עֶקְרוֹן ʿeqrōn), in the Hellenistic period known as Accaron (1 Maccabees 10:89),[1] was one of the five cities of the famed Philistine pentapolis, located in southwestern Canaan.
עקרון
Shown within Israel
Tel Miqne, Tel Mikne, Khirbet el-Muqanna
31°46′44″N 34°51′00″E / 31.778890°N 34.8499203°E / 31.778890; 34.8499203
Chalcolithic - Iron Age
Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin
Numerous locations have been suggested for Ekron, including Aqir, Qatra, Zikrin and Caesarea Maritima, but following the discovery in 1996 of the Ekron inscription, Ekron has been positively identified with the mound of Tel Miqne (Hebrew) or Khirbet el-Muqanna (Arabic). The tell lies 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Jerusalem, and 18 kilometres (11 mi) north of Tell es-Safi, the almost certain site of the Philistine city of Gath, on the grounds of Kibbutz Revadim on the eastern edge of Israel's coastal plain.
LocationEdit
Jerome wrote that Ekron was to the east of Azotus and Iamnia (consistent with the modern interpretation), however he also mentioned that some equated the city with Straton's Tower at Caesarea Maritima. This may be a reference to Rabbi Abbahu's identification of Ekron with Caesarea in Megillah (Talmud).
Robinson first identified the Arab village of Aqir as the site of Ekron in 1838,[2][3] and this was accepted until it was contested by Macalister in 1913, who suggested Khirbet Dikerin, and Albright in 1922, who suggested Qatra.[3]
The identification of Ekron as Tel Mikne/Khirbet el-Muqanna was suggested by Naveh and Kallai in 1957–1958,[4][5] a theory widely accepted in light of a royal dedication inscription found during the 1996 excavations.[6]
The site of Tel Miqne was lightly occupied beginning in the Chalcolithic period and up to the Early Bronze Age. After a 400-year gap when only the upper tel was occupied, the city underwent a major expansion c.1600 BCE, under the Canaanites.
1939 map showing surrounding region
The Canaanite city had shrunk in the years before its main public building burned in the 13th century BCE, during the Bronze Age collapse, a period of general devastation associated with the Sea Peoples. It was re-established by Philistines at the beginning of the Iron Age, c.12th century BCE. During the Iron Age, Ekron was a border city on the frontier contested between Philistia and the kingdom of Judah.
Records of the Neo-Assyrian Empire also refer to Ekron. The siege of Ekron in 712 BCE is depicted on one of Sargon II's wall reliefs in his palace at Khorsabad, which names the city. Ekron revolted against Sennacherib and expelled Padi, his governor, who was sent to Hezekiah, in Jerusalem, for safe-keeping. Sennacherib marched against Ekron and the Ekronites called upon the aid of the king of Mutsri from northwest Arabia.[7] Sennacherib turned aside to defeat this army, which he did at Eltekeh, and then returned and took the city by storm, put to death the leaders of the revolt and carried their adherents into captivity. This campaign led to the famous attack of Sennacherib on Hezekiah and Jerusalem, in which Sennacherib compelled Hezekiah to restore Padi, who was reinstated as governor at Ekron. Ashdod and Ekron survived to become powerful city-states dominated by Assyria in the 7th century BCE. The city was destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II in 604 BCE, and although it is mentioned, as "Accaron", as late as 1 Maccabees 10:89 (2nd century BCE), it was never resettled on a large scale (see "Archaeology" paragraph).[8]
An olive oil production center dating from the seventh century BCE discovered at Ekron has over one hundred large olive oil presses, and is the most complete olive oil production center from ancient times to be discovered. The discovery indicates that olive oil production was highly developed in ancient Palestine and that it was a major producer of olive oil for its residents as well as for other parts of the ancient Near East, such as Egypt and especially Mesopotamia.[9][10]
Biblical referencesEdit
In the Hebrew Bible, Ekron is mentioned initially in Joshua 13:2-3:
This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites from Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron.
Joshua 13:13 counts it the border city of the Philistines and seat of one of the five Philistine city lords, and Joshua 15:11 mentions Ekron's satellite towns and villages. The city was reassigned afterwards to the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:43), but came again into the full possession of the Philistines. It was the last place to which the Philistines carried the Ark of the Covenant before they sent it back to Israel (1 Samuel 5:10 and 1 Samuel 6:1-8), and the city lords returned here once they had seen that the Ark reached the Israelites in Beth Shemesh (1 Samuel 6:16).
There was a noted sanctuary of Baal at Ekron. The Baal who was worshipped was called Baal Zebub, which some scholars connect with Beelzebub, known from 2 Kings 1:2:
[King] Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber at Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers whom he instructed: "Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury." (JPS translation)
The prophet Elijah repeatedly condemned Ahaziah for turning to Baal-zebub for assurance:
Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.[11]
Ekron's destruction is prophesied in Zephaniah 2:4:
Ekron shall be rooted up.
ArchaeologyEdit
The Tel Miqne-Ekron excavations were conducted for 14 seasons between 1981 and 1996, sponsored by the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the direction of Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] The primary research focus was an interdisciplinary investigation of the interactions between the Philistines, Israelites, Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Egyptians during the Late Bronze Age II, Iron Age I and II.
Chronological developmentEdit
The ceramic evidence indicates a presence at the site in the Chalcolithic period and Early Bronze Age. A continuous stratigraphic profile, however, was found only in the upper city on the Northeast Acropolis (Field I), beginning in Stratum XI of the MB IIB and extending through the end of Stratum I of the Iron IIC. In the lower city (Fields II, III, IV, V, X), a 400-year occupational gap followed Stratum XI of the 17th–first half of the 16th century BCE until its resettlement in Stratum VII at the beginning of the Iron I, ca. 1175 BCE. Another occupational gap of ca. 270 years followed the end of Iron I Stratum IV, ca. 975 BCE, in the lower city (Fields II, III, IV, V, X), until it was again resettled in Stratum I of the 7th century BCE. The cities at Ekron were well planned in both the Iron I and Iron II, with four distinct zones of occupation: fortifications, industrial, domestic, and elite. The final Iron II occupation in the 7th/6th centuries BCE was represented by a single architectural unit in Field III in the lower city. A presence in the Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic periods was attested in Fields IV Upper and V.[19]
Chronological chartEdit
Middle Bronze AgeEdit
The tell was apparently shaped by fortifications that encompassed both the upper and lower cities in the Middle Bronze Age. Monumental platforms, part of the fortification ramparts, were excavated in Fields III and X. MB II ceramic evidence was found throughout the tell, as were fragmentary architectural remains and three infant jar burials excavated in Field IV Lower.
Ekron imagined in a medieval fresco illustrating 1 Samuel 5-6 (Cathedral crypt, Anagni, Italy, ca. 1255)
Late Bronze AgeEdit
The unfortified Strata X–VIII settlement was found only in the upper city in Field I on the Northeast Acropolis. It yielded Cypriot and Mycenaean imported pottery and Anatolian Grey burnished ware, attesting to international maritime trade. Egyptian influences are also evident, inter alia, in the burial containing a 19th Dynasty seal and scarab and in the 14th century BCE scarab bearing the name of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III and dedicated to the "Lady of the Sycamore Tree," usually associated with the foundations of Egyptian shrines, an heirloom found in a later Iron I phase. The last Canaanite city of Stratum VIII was destroyed in a violent conflagration, dramatically illustrated on the Summit by a severely-burnt storeroom complex that yielded jars containing carbonized grains, lentils, and figs.
Iron Age IEdit
Stratum VII is characterized by a new material culture with Aegean and Cypriot affinities introduced by the Philistines, one of the Sea Peoples featuring the locally-made Philistine 1 (previously designated Mycenaean IIIC:1) pottery. Such pottery is known as Cypriot Bichrome ware, and Philistine Bichrome ware.
In the Strata VI–V Philistine 2 (Bichrome) pottery with red and black decoration on white slip is a major part of the ceramic assemblage. The material culture of Stratum IV is characterized by Philistine 3 (debased) pottery and the influence of a ceramic tradition of predominantly red-slipped and burnished ware.
In the upper city features in Stratum VII, include a mudbrick city wall, megaron-type buildings, hearts, a limestone bathtub, and an industrial kiln area. In Strata VI–V, a major feature was the mudbrick glacis, a cultic room with an incised scapula similar to those found in the 12th and 11th century BCE shrines at Enkomi and Kition on Cyprus.
In the lower city, along the ridge of the southern slope of the tell, behind the Iron I mudbrick city wall of Stratum VI, were a number of architectural units and finds, which included a bull-shaped zoomorphic vessel, an incised ivory tube, and a bronze pin and needle. Stratum V monumental building was constructed on a similar scale as the one in the elite zone. The artifacts, many representing a continuation of Aegean traditions, include a rectangular bone plaque painted in blue and incised with the depiction of the rear of a horse, a Mycenaean-type female figurine, a gold spiral hair-ring, a conical stamp seal depicting two prancing gazelles, an iron knife with an ivory handle, two small pebbled hearths, and two goat skulls.
The domestic buildings continued in use in Stratum IV with no substantial change, and special finds included an incised scapula, similar to those found in the upper city.
Also in the lower city, in the elite zone, Stratum VII was represented by a number of installations, including rectangular hearths. In Stratum VI circular hearts were found in a large public structure, which also produced a round ivory pyxis lid decorated with scenes of animals in battle. In Stratum V, a megaron-type building contained superimposed pebbled hearths, three rooms with benches and bamot, and a monumental entrance hall with two mushroom-shaped stone pillar bases.[20]
One room yielded 20 spherical loom weights in the Aegean tradition. This building also produced three miniature bronze wheels from a cultic stand of a type known from Cyprus and reminiscent of the biblical description of the mechonot (laver stands) and a bronze Janus-faced linchpin from a chariot wheel. Another special find was an iron knife with a pierced spool-shaped ivory handle attached with three bronze nails. In Strata VI and V, the building complex contained a large stone bath, a monolith, two stone pillar bases, and several hearths. In Stratum IV the plan of the building complex was reused and its cultic function continued, as attested by the finds, including a cache of ivory, faience, and stone objects, among them decorated earplugs and a ring depicting the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet. The destruction and abandonment of the Stratum IV lower city during the first quarter of the 10th century marked the end of both the early Philistine city and of the Iron I in general at Ekron.
Iron Age IIEdit
Following the destruction of the Iron I Stratum IV city during the first quarter of the 10th century, the lower city was abandoned. Only the upper city was occupied in Strata III–II fortified with a mudbrick city wall and a 7 m wide mudbrick tower faced with Phoenician –type ashlar masonry in header-and-stretcher construction. Stratum III was continued in the monumental architecture of Stratum IIA–B, with the addition of a series of rooms, probably shops or market stalls, that opened onto the re-paved street, to which a stone-lined central drainage system was added in Stratum IIB.
Both the lower city and the upper city were reoccupied. In the lower city, new fortifications included a city wall and a three-entryway gate protected by a gatehouse, similar to those excavated at Timnah (Tel Batash), Gezer, Lachish, and Ashdod. To the east of the gate, an 80 m long row of stables or storehouses associated with a large public building was built between the city wall and an outer screening wall. The outstanding feature was the olive oil industrial zone, laid out in a belt extending throughout the lower city along the inner face of the city wall. Special finds include a cache of seven well-preserved large iron agricultural tools and nine four-horned limestone altars.
The 115 oil presses found at Ekron have a production capacity of 500–1,000 tons, making it the largest ancient industrial center for the production of olive oil thus far excavated. In Stratum IB of the last third of the 7th century, the diminution in olive oil production is associated with the end of Assyrian domination in Stratum IC and the expansion of the Egyptian sphere of influence to Philistia ca. 630 BCE.
In the elite zone of the lower city, in Stratum I, the Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription, one of the most important finds of the 20th century in Israel, was found in the holy of holies, or cella, a room in the sanctuary of the Temple Complex 650.
The sanctuary reflects a Phoenician design, paralleled in Astarte Temple 1 at Kition on Cyprus. The Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription incised on a rectangular-shaped limestone block has five-lines and mentions Ekron, thus confirming the identification of the site, as well as five of its rulers, including Ikausu (Achish), son of Padi, who built the sanctuary to Ptgyh, his lady. Padi and Ikausu are known as kings of Ekron from the 7th century Neo-Assyrian Royal Annals. The language and form of writing of the Ekron inscription show a significant Phoenician influence, and the name Ikausu is understood as "the Achaean" or "the Greek" and Ptgyh has been interpreted as a Greek goddess.
Other special finds come from the side-rooms of the sanctuary, which yielded a treasure trove of gold, silver, and bronze objects, including a gold cobra (a ureaus), and a unique assemblage of ivories with cultic connotations. The ivories include a depiction of a woman, perhaps a royal personage; a knob bearing the cartouche of the 12th century Pharaoh Ramses VIII; a large head, probably from the top of a harp; and a large object with a male figure on the front, the image of a royal female personage on the side, and a cartouche of the 13th century Pharaoh Merneptah on the back.
The buildings of the elite zone also produced 16 short inscriptions including kdš l’šrt ("dedicated to [the goddess] Asherat"), lmqm ("for the shrine"), and the letter tet with three horizontal lines below it (probably indicating 30 units of produce set aside for tithing), and silver hoards.
The entire Iron II city was destroyed in a violent conflagration during the 604 BCE campaign of the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II, after which the site was only partially and briefly resettled in the first quarter of the 6th century. A well-preserved Assyrian courtyard-type building was the only remaining architectural evidence for Stratum IA. Thereafter, Ekron was abandoned until the Roman period.
Roman to Islamic periodsEdit
There is but fragmentary evidence from the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods found only in Fields IV Upper and V.
Cities of the ancient Near East
Achish
Lachish
Archaeology of Israel
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The Ekron inscription
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Tel Miqne-Ekron Excavation and Publication Project
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Ethan A. Hitchcock (general)
For the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, see Ethan A. Hitchcock (Interior)
Ethan Allen Hitchcock (May 18, 1798 – August 5, 1870) was a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department assignments in Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War, in which he served as a major general.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Vergennes, Vermont
August 5, 1870(1870-08-05) (aged 72)
Sparta, Georgia
West Point Cemetery
Union Army
Fort Stansbury
2nd Infantry Regiment
Department of the Pacific
Seminole Wars
Mexican–American War
Hitchcock was born in Vergennes, Vermont. His father was Samuel Hitchcock (1755-1813), a lawyer who served as United States District Judge for Vermont, and his mother was Lucy Caroline Allen (1768-1842), the daughter of American Revolutionary War hero General Ethan Allen; though no likeness from life of the revolutionary is extant, Lucy said that he strongly resembled Ethan Allen Hitchcock.[1] Hitchcock's siblings included Henry Hitchcock, a Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Henry's son Ethan Hitchcock served as United States Secretary of the Interior under William McKinley. Another of Henry's sons, Henry Hitchcock, was a prominent attorney in St. Louis.
Ethan A. Hitchcock graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1817 (17th out of 19) and was commissioned a third lieutenant of Field Artillery.
He was promoted to captain in 1824. From 1829 to 1833, he served as commandant of cadets at West Point and was promoted to major in 1838. By 1842 he achieved the rank of the lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Infantry Regiment, in command of Fort Stansbury.[2]
He served in the Seminole War in Florida, in the Pacific Northwest, and in the Mexican–American War, where he served as Gen. Winfield Scott's inspector general in the march on Mexico City. He received a brevet promotion to colonel for Contreras and Churubusco and to brigadier general for Molino del Rey.
In 1851 became the colonel of the 2nd Infantry. From 1851 to 1854 he commanded the Pacific Division and then the Department of the Pacific.
In October, 1855, he resigned from the Army following a refusal by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis to extend a four-month leave of absence that he had requested for reasons of health. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and began a presumed retirement, occupying himself with writing and studies of general literature and philosophy.
Hitchcock was a diarist, and his journal entries from this time have served as a crucial source of evidence for Howard Zinn's reinterpretation of United States history, Voices of A People's History of the United States.
Civil WarEdit
After the start of the Civil War, Hitchcock applied to return to the service, but was rejected. It was only after the intervention of Winfield Scott that he was commissioned a major general in February, 1862 and became special adviser to the Secretary of War. From March 17 to July 23, 1862, he served as the chairman of the War Board, the organization that assisted President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in the management of the War Department and the command of the Union armies during the period in which there was no general-in-chief. (Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan had been relieved of his responsibilities as general-in-chief and Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck had not yet replaced him.)
Hitchcock sat on the court-martial of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter which convicted the general of disobedience and cowardice. From November 1862 through the end of the war, he served as Commissioner for Prisoner of War Exchange, and then Commissary-General of Prisoners.
Postbellum lifeEdit
Hitchcock was mustered out in 1867 and moved to Charleston, South Carolina, then to Sparta, Georgia. He died at Glen Mary Plantation in Sparta in 1870 and is buried in West Point National Cemetery, New York.
Contributions to alchemy studiesEdit
By the time of his death, Hitchcock had amassed a large private library, including over 250 volumes on the subject of alchemy. This collection was widely regarded as one of the finest private holdings of rare alchemical works and is preserved by St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Through Remarks upon Alchemy and the Alchemists and other writings, Hitchcock argued that the alchemists were actually religious philosophers writing in symbolism. In Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism, the Viennese psychologist Herbert Silberer credited Hitchcock with helping to open the way for his explorations of the psychological content of alchemy.
A manuscript from the Hitchcock collection
Musical collectionEdit
Hitchcock also played the flute and amassed a sizable collection of flute music. In the 1960s, almost one hundred years after his death, part of Hitchcock's personal music collection was discovered in Sparta, Georgia. This collection, which consists of 73 bound volumes and approximately 200 loose manuscripts, currently resides in the Warren D. Allen Music Library at Florida State University.[3] Included in this collection are works by some of the general's contemporaries, music manuscripts handwritten by Hitchcock himself, and items of personal correspondence. The library's acquisition of these materials was celebrated in 1989 by a recital given by F.S.U. flute students and attended by several of Hitchcock's descendants.
Remarks upon Alchemy and Alchemists (published in 1857)
Swedenborg a Hermetic Philosopher (1858)
Christ the Spirit (1861)
The Story of the Red Book of Appin (1863)
Spenser's Poem (1865)
Notes on the Vita Nuova of Dante (1866)
Remarks on the Sonnets of Shakespeare (1867)
Fifty Years in Camp and Field (posthumous, 1909)
A Traveler in Indian Territory: The Journal of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Late Major-General in the United States Army (posthumous, 1930)
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^ Stewart Holbrook (1940), Ethan Allen, New York: Macmillan, p. 264. ISBN 1-121-69376-8
^ Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, Croffut, William Augustus, Fifty years in camp and field: diary of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S.A., G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.
^ "Ethan Allen Hitchcock Flute Music Collection". Florida State University. 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964. ISBN 0-8071-0822-7.
Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, American soldier" . Encyclopedia Americana.
Military biography of Hitchcock from the Cullum biographies
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Hitchcock, Ethan Allen
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The International Medical University (IMU) is a private, English language, health sciences university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Malaysia's leading private medical and healthcare university. It was established in 1992, and is active in research and teaching within medicine and healthcare with a strong international orientation. IMU is a wholly owned subsidiary of Asia's largest private healthcare group IHH Healthcare, which is majority-owned by the Malaysian government's sovereign wealth fund, Khazanah. The current CEO of IMU is Abdul Aziz Baba.[2]
Former names
International Medical College (1992)
Parent institution
IHH Healthcare
YBhg Dato’ Dr Gan Ee Kiang
Abdul Aziz Baba
APUCEN
www.imu.edu.my
IMU was the first private higher education institution in Malaysia that received the right to confer academic degrees,[3] and it was granted full university status by the government in 1999.[4] It cooperates with universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and China.
The main campus of IMU is located in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.[5] As of November 2018, the university has 716 employees and 3,786 students.
The university offers programmes in medical and other health sciences as well as MSc and PhD programmes.[6]
OwnershipEdit
IMU is a wholly owned subsidiary of IHH Healthcare, Asia's largest private healthcare group. The majority shareholder of IHH Healthcare is Khazanah Nasional, the sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Malaysia, followed by Mitsui and Citigroup as minority shareholders.
Principal officers and managementEdit
The ceremonial head of the university is the Chancellor. Mohamed Zahir Ismail served as the first Chancellor (1999–2004), followed by Sulaiman Daud (2005–2010), T. Devaraj (2010–2014), Amir Abbas (2014 - 2018) and Gan Ee Kiang (since 2018).
The university's effective head and chief executive officer is the Vice-Chancellor, known as President before 2016. The first Vice-Chancellor was Kamal Salih (1992–2001), followed by Abu Bakar Suleiman (2001–2015) and Abdul Aziz Baba (since 2016).
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor is Peter Pook Chuen Keat. Victor Lim is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Advancement, Vishna Devi A/P Nadarajah, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Education, Prof Datuk Lokman Hakim Sulaiman is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Toh Chooi Gait is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Strategic Development and International.
IMU's former Vice-Chancellor Abu Bakar Suleiman is Chairman of IMU Group and co-founder, Dr Mei Ling Young is advisor to the Group.
Notable academicsEdit
Full list of academics with Wikipedia biographies
Abdul Aziz Baba, Professor and Vice-Chancellor
Abu Bakar Suleiman, President
Kew Siang Tong, Professor
Ong Kok Hai, Professor
Victor Lim, Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor
Academic ranksEdit
The International Medical University uses the following main academic ranks
ProgrammesEdit
Pre-universityEdit
Pre-university programme at the International Medical University was launched in January 2014 with its first cohort graduating in December 2014. The course equips students with core knowledge and skills required for the undergraduate programmes.
Undergraduate/graduateEdit
The International Medical University offers a wide range of undergraduate programmes in core and complementary healthcare disciplines.
Dietetics with Nutrition
PostgraduateEdit
Postgraduate programmes at the International Medical University are research-based as well as coursework-based (with dissertation), encompassing disciplines such as clinical research, biomedical science and public health.
MSc in Analytical & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
MSc in Molecular Medicine
Master of Pharmacy Practice
MSc in Public Health
MSc in Acupuncture
MBA in Healthcare Management
Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Management
Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Management
Postgraduate Diploma in Implant Dentistry
Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Management and Education
Master in Health Professions Education
MSc & PhD in Medical Sciences (Research)
Partner universitiesEdit
IMU has co-operation programmes with more than 30 partner medical schools (as of 2015) around the world, mainly in the United Kingdom and Australia, but also in New Zealand, Ireland, Canada and China. Its partner universities include the University of Edinburgh, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Manchester, the Australian National University, and the University of New South Wales.
AlumniEdit
Alumni Association Committee (AAC)
IMU Alumni Association Committee was established in 2002 where the elected committee members would serve for two years. The Association aims to be a place to support IMU alumni and for the alumni to socialize and network with one another.
Alumni Relations Office (ARO)
IMU Alumni Relations Office (ARO) was established in early 2016 with the aim to develop an international network of IMU graduates and to engage alumni through the exchange of knowledge, academic ideas and professional development. The Alumni Relations Office (ARO) serves as the point of contact for IMU alumni. The office is located at the Student Services Hub, IMU Bukit Jalil Campus.
^ a b Annual Report 2016
^ New Year Ushers in New Management for IMU, IMU News, 1 January 2016
^ Towards Coherent Policy Frameworks, p. 164, United Nations Publications, 2007
^ Internationalisation and Trade in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges, OECD, p. 181, 2004, ISBN 9264015043
^ Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur
^ "International Medical University (IMU): an Introduction". campusmalaysia. Campus Malaysia Online. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
International Medical College
IMU Healthcare
الطبية الدولية في ماليزيا imu
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Jonathan Larson
Not to be confused with Jonathan Z. Larsen.
Jonathan David Larson (1960–1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for exploring the social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes are found in his works Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom! He received three posthumous Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the rock musical Rent.
Jonathan David Larson
(1960-02-04)February 4, 1960
White Plains, New York, U.S.
January 25, 1996(1996-01-25) (aged 35)
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Tick, Tick... Boom! (2001)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1996) for Rent
Tony Award for Best Musical (1996) for Rent
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (1996) for Rent
Tony Award for Best Original Score (1996) for Rent
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical (1996) for Rent
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical (1996) for Rent
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics (1996) for Rent
Early yearsEdit
Larson was born to Jewish parents, Allan and Nanette Larson, in White Plains, New York, on February 4,[1] 1960.[2] He was exposed to the performing arts, especially music and theatre, from an early age, as he played the trumpet, tuba, sang in his school's choir, and took formal piano lessons. His early musical influences were his favorite rock musicians such as Elton John, The Beatles, The Doors, The Who, and Billy Joel, as well as the classic composers of musical theatre, especially Stephen Sondheim. Larson was also involved in acting in high school, performing in lead roles in various productions at White Plains High School.[3]
Larson attended Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, with a four-year scholarship as an acting major, in addition to performing in numerous plays and musical theatre. During his college years, he began music composition, composing music first for small student productions, called cabarets, and later the score to a musical entitled Libro de Buen Amor, written by the department head, Jacques Burdick. Burdick functioned as Larson's mentor during his college education. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Larson participated in a summer stock theatre program at The Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan as a piano player, which resulted in his earning an Equity Card for membership in the Actors' Equity Association.
Larson moved to a loft with no heat on the fifth floor of a building at the corner of Greenwich Street and Spring Street in Lower Manhattan where he lived with various roommates, among them Greg Beals, a journalist for Newsweek magazine and the brother of actress Jennifer Beals, and James Clunie, now a creative director at advertising agency BBDO. For 9 and a half years Larson worked as a waiter at the Moondance Diner during weekends, and worked on composing and writing musicals during the weekdays. At the diner Larson later met Jesse L. Martin, who was his waiting trainee and later would perform the role of Tom Collins in the original cast of Larson's Rent. Larson and his roommates lived in harsh conditions with little money or property.
Before composing and writing the musical Rent, his most popular work, Jonathan Larson wrote a variety of early theatrical pieces, with varying degrees of success and production.
Among his early creative works is Sacrimmoralinority, his first musical which was co-written with David Glenn Armstrong, and originally staged at his alma mater Adelphi University in the winter of 1981. Following Jonathan and David's graduation in 1982, and retitled Saved! - An Immoral Musical on the Moral Majority, the Brechtian-themed musical cabaret played a four-week showcase run at Rusty's Storefront Blitz, a small theatre on 42nd Street in Manhattan, and won both authors a writing award from ASCAP.
Between 1983 and 1990, Larson wrote Superbia, originally intended as a futuristic rock retelling of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, though the Orwell estate denied him permission to adapt the novel itself. Superbia won the Richard Rodgers Production Award and the Richard Rodgers Development Grant.[3] However, despite performances at Playwrights Horizons and a rock concert version produced by Larson's close friend and producer Victoria Leacock at the Village Gate in September 1989, Superbia was not fully produced, leading to disappointment for Larson.
His next work, completed in 1991, was an autobiographical "rock monologue" entitled 30/90, which was later renamed Boho Days and finally titled tick, tick... BOOM!. This piece, written for only Larson with a piano and rock band, was intended to be a response to his feelings of rejection caused by the disappointment of Superbia. The show was performed off-Broadway at the Village Gate in Greenwich Village, as well as at the Second Stage Theater, then on the Upper West Side. Both of these productions were produced by Victoria Leacock. The producer Jeffrey Seller saw a reading of Boho Days and expressed interest in producing Larson's musicals. After Larson's death, the work was reworked into a stage musical by playwright David Auburn and arranger and musical director Stephen Oremus. The stage version premiered off-Broadway in 2001, and has since also been produced on the West End.
In 1992, Larson collaborated with fellow composer/lyricists Rusty Magee, Bob Golden, Paul Scott Goodman and Jeremy Roberts on Sacred Cows, which was devised and pitched to television networks as a weekly anthology with each episode taking a different Biblical or mythological story and giving it a '90s celebrity twist. The project was shelved due to scheduling conflicts among the five composers but resurfaced over 20 years later in a six-page Playbill.com article. The demo for Sacred Cows was released on iTunes.[4]
While in college, Larson came into contact with his strongest musical theatre influence, Stephen Sondheim, to whom he occasionally submitted his work for review. One tick, tick... BOOM! song called "Sunday" is a homage to Sondheim, who supported Larson, staying close to the melody and lyrics of Sondheim's own song of the same title but turning it from a manifesto about art into a waiter's lament. Sondheim would often write letters of recommendation for Larson to various producers. Larson later won the Stephen Sondheim Award.
In addition to his three larger theatrical pieces written before Rent, Larson also wrote music for J.P. Morgan Saves the Nation;[5] numerous individual numbers; music for Sesame Street; music for the children's book cassettes of An American Tail and The Land Before Time; music for Rolling Stone magazine publisher Jann Wenner; a musical called Mowgli; and four songs for the children's video Away We Go!, which he also conceived with collaborator and composer Bob Golden and directed. He also performed in John Gray's musical Billy Bishop Goes to War, which starred his close friend actor Roger Bart (Desperate Housewives). For his early works, Larson won a grant and award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and the Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation's Commendation Award.[6]
RentEdit
Playwright Billy Aronson came up with the idea to write a musical update of La Bohème in 1988. He wanted to create "a musical inspired by Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, in which the luscious splendor of Puccini's world would be replaced with the coarseness and noise of modern New York".[7]
In 1989, Aronson called Ira Weitzman with his idea, asking for ideas for collaborators, and Weitzman put Larson together with Aronson to collaborate on the new project. Larson came up with the title and suggested moving the setting from the Upper West Side to downtown, where Larson and his roommates lived in a rundown apartment.[8] For a while, he and his roommates kept an illegal wood-burning stove because of lack of heat in their building, and he also dated a dancer for four years who sometimes left him for other men and eventually left him for a woman. These experiences would influence the autobiographical aspects of Rent. Larson wanted to write about his own experience, and in 1991, he asked Billy if he could use the original concept they collaborated on and make Rent his own.[7] They made an agreement that if the show went to Broadway, Aronson would share in the proceeds. Eventually they decided on setting the musical not in SoHo, where Larson lived, but rather in Alphabet City in the East Village.
Rent started as a staged reading in 1993 at the New York Theatre Workshop, followed by a studio production that played a three-week run a year later. However, the version that is now known worldwide, the result of a three-year-long collaborative and editing process between Larson and the producers and director, was not publicly performed before Larson's death. The show premiered Off Broadway on schedule. Larson's parents (who were flying in for the show anyway) gave their blessing to open the show. Due to Larson's death the day before the first preview performance, the cast agreed that they would premiere the show by simply singing it through, all the while sitting at three prop tables lined up on stage. But by the time the show got to its high energy "La Vie Boheme", the cast could no longer contain themselves and did the rest of the show as it was meant to be, minus costumes, to the crowd and the Larson family's approval. Once the show was over, there was a long applause followed by silence which was eventually broken when an audience member shouted out "Thank you, Jonathan Larson."
Rent played through its planned engagement to sold-out crowds and was continually extended. The decision was finally made to move the show to Broadway, and it opened at the Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996.[9] In addition to the New York Theatre Workshop, Rent was and is produced by Jeffrey Seller, who was introduced to Larson's work when attending an off-Broadway performance of Boho Days, and two of his producer friends who also wished to support the work, Kevin McCollum and Allan S. Gordon.
For his work on Rent, Larson was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama,[6] the Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score; the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics;[10] the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical; the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical in the Off-Broadway category; and three Obie Awards for Outstanding Book, Outstanding Lyrics and Outstanding Music.
DeathEdit
Larson died unexpectedly the morning of Rent's first preview performance Off Broadway. He suffered an aortic dissection, believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, in the early morning on January 25, 1996.[11][12] New York State medical investigators concluded that if the aortic dissection had been properly diagnosed and treated, Larson would have lived.[13]
He had been suffering severe chest pains, dizziness, and shortness of breath for several days prior to his death, but doctors at Cabrini Medical Center and St. Vincent's Hospital could not find signs of an aortic aneurysm even after doing a chest X-ray and electrocardiogram so they misdiagnosed it either as flu or stress.[11]
Rent played on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre from its debut in April 1996 until it closed on September 7, 2008.[14] It is the 11th longest running show in Broadway history.[15] In addition, it has toured throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, China, Singapore, Philippines, Mexico, Germany, Poland, and throughout Europe, as well as in other locations. A film version was released in 2005.
After his death, Larson's family and friends started the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation to provide monetary grants to artists, especially musical theatre composers and writers, to support their creative work. The Jonathan Larson Grants are now administered by the American Theatre Wing, thanks to an endowment funded by the Foundation and the Larson Family.[16]
Jonathan's work was given to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in December 2003. The Jonathan Larson Collection is a new addition to its major holdings in the area of musical theater. The collection documents Larson's surprisingly prolific output, including numerous musicals, revues, cabarets, pop songs, dance and video projects – both produced and unproduced.
Less than three years after Rent closed on Broadway it was revived Off-Broadway at Stage 1 of New World Stages just outside the Theater District. The show was directed by Michael Greif who directed the original productions. The show went into previews on July 14, 2011, and opened August 11, 2011.
From October 9th to 14th, 2018, Feinstein's/54 Below presented The Jonathan Larson Project, a concert of several previously unheard songs by Larson. The show was conceived and directed by Jennifer Ashley Tepper. It starred George Salazar, Lauren Marcus, Andy Mientus, Krysta Rodriguez, and Nick Blaemire. A CD of the show was released by Ghostlight Records in April 2019.[17][18]
Jonathan Larson GrantsEdit
In memoriam of Jonathan Larson, in 1996,[19] the Larson family along with the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation put together an award honoring emerging musical theater writers and composers.[20] In 2008, the American Theatre Wing adopted and continued on the legacy through the Jonathan Larson Grants, an unrestricted cash gift to aid in the creative endeavors of the writers and promote their work.[21]
Previous winners include:[22]
Selection Panelists
Winning Writers and Teams
2018[23] Patti Lupone, Kristen Marting, Scott Sanders Jay Adana
Andrew R. Butler & Andrew Farmer
Emily Kaczmarek & Zoe Sarnak
Mark Sonnenblick
2017[24] Jason Eagan, Jill Furman, Jason Michael Webb, David Zippel Ben Bonnema
Maggie-Kate Coleman & Erato A. Kremmyda
Ty Defoe & Tidtaya Sinutoke
Michael R. Jackson
2016[25] Dave Malloy, Kristin Caskey, Kristin Marting César Alvarez
Nikko Benson
Carson Kreitzer
Sam Salmond
2015[26] Amanda Green, Steven Lutvak, Ted Chaplin Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne
Sam Willmott
Max Vernon
2014[27] Nell Benjamin, Maria Goyanes, Peter Schnieder Sara Cooper and Zach Redler
Shaina Taub
2013[28] Bernard Telsey, Michael Korie, Matthew Sklar Kamala Sankaram
Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham
2012[29] Mark Hollmann, Robert Lopez Julianne Wick Davis and Dan Collins
2011[30] Maria Goyanes, Amanda Green, David Yazbek Joshua Cohen and Marisa Michelson
Michele Elliot and Danny Larsen
Jack Lechner, Andy Monroe and Michael Zam
2010[31] Robyn Goodman, Tom Kitt, Kathleen Marshall, Stephen Schwartz Peter Lerman
Daniel Maté
Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond
2009[32] Mark Hollmann, Kevin McCollum, John Rando, Tim Weil Mark Allen
Dave Malloy
Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore
Ryan Scott Oliver
2008[33] Joe Calarco, Michael John LaChiusa, David Loud, Stephen Schwartz Gaby Alter
Susan DiLallo
Joel New
Jason Rhyne
Jeff Thomson and Jordan Mann
2007[34] Tina Landau, David Loud, Stephen Schwartz, Tim Weil Matt Gould
Melissa Li and Abe Rybeck
Robert Maddock
J. Oconer Navarro
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Mike Pettry
St. Ann's Warehouse
2006[35] Jim Calarco, Barry Ryan, Stephen Schwartz, Tim Weil Andrew Gerle and Eddie Sugarman
Lance Horne
Joe Iconis
Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk
Alison Loeb
Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda
New York Shakespeare Festival
2005[36] Kirsten Childs, David Loud, Joe Mantello, Stephen Schwartz Neil Bartram
Nathan Christensen and Scott Murphy
Michael Cooper and Hyeyoung Kim
Steven Lutvak
Glenn Slater and Stephen Weiner
Lark Play Development Center
2004[37] Stephen Schwartz, Barbara Pasternack, Barry Singer, Tim Weil Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer
Mark Campbell
Amanda Green
Cynthia Hopkins
Gihieh Lee
Raw Impressions Theatre
Village Theatre
2003 N/A Nell Benjamin
John Didrichsen
Jeffrey Stock
Nathan Tysen and Chris Miller
New Georges Theatre
Vineyard Theatre
2002[38] Nancy Diekmann, Kevin McCollum, Jesse L. Martin Debra Barsha
Michael Korie
Peter Mills
Lark Theatre Company
P73 Productions
Signature Theatre Company
2001[39] Mary Rodgers Guettel, Joe Mantello, Stephen Schwartz, Barry Singer John Bucchino
Mindi Dickstein and Daniel Messe
Laurence O’Keefe
Robert and Willie Reale
Scott Davenport Richards
Amanda Yesnowitz
Children's Theatre Company
Theatreworks/USA
2000[40] N/A Beth Blatt and Jenny Giering
Chad Beguelin and Matt Sklar
Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel
David Kirshenbaum
David Simpatico
John Mercurio
Adobe Theatre Company
American Music Center
O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference
Musical Theatre Works
1999 N/A Kirsten Childs
Peter Foley
Ricky Ian Gordon
San Diego Repertory Theatre
Seattle Children's Theatre
West Coast Ensemble Theatre
1998 N/A Paul Scott Goodman
Jeffrey Lunden and Arthur Perlman
Adirondack Theatre Festival
1997 N/A 52nd Street Project Theatre
Awards and nominationsEdit
1996 Pulitzer Prize Drama Rent Won
Tony Award Best Book of a Musical Won
Best Musical Won
Best Original Score Won
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Book of a Musical Won
Outstanding Music Won
Outstanding Lyrics Won
New York Drama Critics' Circle Best Musical Won
2002 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Book of a Musical Tick, Tick... Boom! Nominated
Outstanding Music Nominated
Outstanding Lyrics Nominated
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^ Kirk, Fiona J. (July 26, 2011). "Syndrome survival: New drugs offer promise for often-fatal Marfan tissue disorder". The Daily. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
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^ Kenneth Jones (2008-03-26). "Rent Extension: Hit Show Will Close Sept. 7". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2008-07-17.
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^ Julie Bloom, “Footnotes”, The New York Times, September 16th, 2008.
^ American Theatre Wing, “Jonathan Larson Grants”
^ American Theatre Wing, “2018 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients Announced” February 15th, 2018.
^ Robert Vigas “2016 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients Announced”, Playbill, March 4th, 2016.
^ BWW News Desk, “American Theatre Wing 2015 Jonathan Larson Grants Awarded This Evening”, BroadwayWorld, March 23rd, 2015.
^ Adam Hetrick, “Sara Cooper, Zach Redler and Shaina Taub Are 2014 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients”, Playbill, March 14th, 2014.
^ David Lehman, “American Theatre Wing Announces 2013 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients” Backstage.com, February 14th, 2013.
^ Andy Snyder, “American Theatre Wing’s 2012 Jonathan Larson Grant to be Presented to Writers of ‘Southern Comfort’”
^ Jason Cocovinis, “American Theatre Wing 2011 Jonathan Larson Grant Will Be Presented To Writing Teams Behind CLOAKED, TAMAR AND THE RIVER, & THE KID - March 29th”, Music Theatre International, March 28th, 2011.
^ BWW News Desk, “American Theatre Wing Names 2010 Jonathan Larson Award Winners”, BroadwayWorld, February 1st, 2010.
^ BWW News Desk “2009 Jonathan Larson Grant Winners Announced”, BroadwayWorld, 2009.
^ Andrew Gans, “Jonathan Larson Award Winners Announced; Rapp, Testa and Harris to Perform at Ceremony” Playbill, February 14th, 2008.
^ Zachary Pincus-Roth, “Jonathan Larson Award Winners Announced”, Playbill, February 16th, 2007.
^ Kenneth Jones, "Striking 12 Writers Among Winners of 2006 Larson Awards for New Musical Writing", Playbill, February 16, 2006.
^ Robert Simonson, “Winners of Jonathan Larson Foundation Awards Announced”, Playbill, February 10th, 2005.
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^ Leonard Jacobs, “Larson Foundation Grants Announced”, Backstage, February 26th, 2002.
^ Mike Salinas, “2001 Larson Awards Announced”, Backstage, February 20th, 2001.
^ “Larson Awards Given to Musical Theatre Writers and Organizations” Playbill, March 13th, 2000.
Jonathan Larson at the Internet Broadway Database
Jonathan Larson at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
Jonathan Larson on IMDb
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List of monarchs of Brazil
The Monarchs of Brazil were the rulers of Brazil from the time of the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500 until 1889. There are three main stages in the dynastical history of Brazil: Colonial Brazil as part of the Kingdom of Portugal (1500–1815), the Kingdom of Brazil (1815–1822) united with Portugal, and the independent Empire of Brazil (1822–1889).
Monarchy of Brazil
Imperial Coat of arms
Pedro II
His/Her Majesty
First monarch
(as King)
Last monarch
(as Emperor)
Abolition
Pretender(s)
Disputed:
Prince Pedro Carlos
(Petrópolis Branch)
Prince Luís
(Vassouras Branch)
The Portuguese officially arrived in Brazil on 22 April 1500 and based on the Treaty of Tordesilhas, it became a possession of Portugal. The Kings of Portugal then were the Monarchs over Brazil until the invading army of Napoleon I forced the Portuguese government to flee to Brazil in 1807. On 16 December 1815 the prince regent John, the future king John VI raised Brazil to the status of a kingdom, thus making his mother, Maria I, the reigning Queen, the first Monarch of Brazil. Having proclaimed independence from Portugal in 1822, Pedro I, son of John VI, was crowned Emperor of Brazil on 1 December 1822.
Colonial Brazil (1500–1815)Edit
House of Aviz-Beja (1500–1580)Edit
Monarch From
Monarch Until
Relationship with Predecessor(s)
Manuel I 22 April 1500 13 December 1521 • N/A
John III 13 December 1521 11 June 1557 • Son of Manuel I
Sebastian I 11 June 1557 4 August 1578 • Great-grandson of Manuel I
• Grandson of John III
Henry 4 August 1578 31 January 1580 • Son of Manuel I
• Brother of John III
• Grand-uncle of Sebastian I
House of Habsburg (1581–1640)Edit
Philip I 1581 13 September 1598 • Grandson of Manuel I
Philip II 13 September 1598 31 March 1621 • Great-grandson of Manuel I
• Son of Philip I
Philip III 31 March 1621 1 December 1640 • Great-great-grandson of Manuel I
• Grandson of Philip I
• Son of Philip II
House of Braganza (1640–1815)Edit
John IV 1 December 1640 6 November 1656 • Illegitimate descendant in the male-line from João I (founder of the House of Aviz) • Great-great-grandson of Manuel I
Afonso VI 6 November 1656 12 September 1683 • Son of John IV
Peter II 6 November 1683 9 December 1706 • Son of John IV
• Brother of Afonso VI
John V 9 December 1706 31 July 1750 • Grandson of John IV
• Nephew of Afonso VI
• Son of Peter II
Joseph I 31 July 1750 24 February 1777 • Great-grandson of John IV
• Great-nephew of Afonso VI
• Grandson of Peter II
• Son of John V
Maria I 24 February 1777 16 December 1815 • Great-great-granddaughter of John IV
• Great-great-niece of Afonso VI
• Great-granddaughter of Peter II
• Daughter of Joseph I
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1822)Edit
Maria I 16 December 1815 20 March 1816 • Great-great-granddaughter of John IV
John VI 20 March 1816 7 September 1822 • Great-great-great-grandson of John IV
• Great-great-great-nephew of Afonso VI
• Great-great-grandson of Peter II
• Grandson of Joseph I
• Son of Maria I
Empire of Brazil (1822–1889)Edit
House of Orléans-Braganza (1822–1889)Edit
Pedro I 12 October 1822 7 April 1831 • Grandson of Maria I
• Son of John VI
Pedro II 7 April 1831 15 November 1889 • Great-grandson of Maria I
• Grandson of John VI
• Son of Pedro I
Claimants to the throne of Brazil (1889–present)Edit
Main article: Line of succession to the Brazilian throne
History of Portugal
List of Presidents of Brazil
List of Brazilian consorts
List of Portuguese monarchs
Monarchs of Brazil (1815–1889)
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Medicine Hat Blue Jays
The Medicine Hat Blue Jays were a Rookie League affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, playing in the Pioneer League and located in the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. They played a total of 25 seasons; 1978 through 2002. Their home field was Athletic Park.
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Class-level
Minor league affiliations
Previous leagues
Major league affiliations
Toronto Blue Jays (1978–2002)
Minor league titles
League titles (1)
Team data
Previous parks
Athletic Park
Over the years, the Medicine Hat club generally struggled on the field and with attendance, but the Jays did have some noteworthy seasons. In 1982, they captured their only championship. They reached the championship series again in 1995 but lost the title to the Helena Brewers. The Blue Jays only reached the playoffs one other time, losing to the Great Falls Dodgers in 2000.
The team arrived in Medicine Hat in 1977, playing as the Medicine Hat A's, affiliated with the Oakland A's. The team had relocated from Boise, Idaho, where they had played two seasons as the Boise A's in the Northwest League.[1] After the 2002 season, Toronto ended their affiliation with the club (switching to the Pulaski Blue Jays), and the Pioneer League left Medicine Hat.
Notable alumniEdit
Over the years, some of the most notable players to wear a Medicine Hat uniform included:
Lloyd Moseby
Fred Manrique
John Cerutti
Gustavo Chacín
Randy Knorr
Pat Borders
Mark Eichhorn
Mike Timlin
Jay Gibbons (won the league's Triple Crown in 1998)[2]
Greg Morrison (won the league's Triple Crown in 1997)
Morrison, a native of Medicine Hat, played for the Medicine Hat Blue Jays in 1997. That season, he won the Pioneer League's Triple Crown by recording a .448 batting average, 23 home runs, and 88 runs batted in.[3] He also won league MVP and his 23 home runs set a league record for the most in a single season. This accomplishment remains the Pioneer League single season record.[4][5] Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1994, Morrison played in Great Falls and Savannah within the Dodgers system in 1995 and 1996. After his stint with the Medicine Hat Blue Jays in 1997, he played in Hagerstown and Dunedin in 1998 and 1999 within the Blue Jays system.[4] From 2000 to 2006 Morrison played for a number of teams in the independent Northern League.[6] Morrison is currently the owner and general manager of the Medicine Hat Mavericks of the Western Major Baseball League.[7]
Medicine Hat Blue Jays players
^ Spokane Daily Chronicle – Teams added for Pioneer – 1976-10-14 - p.34
^ http://wildrosebaseball.tumblr.com/image/130236324001
^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=morris002gre
^ a b "The Greg Morrison Story". Western Major Baseball League. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-01-13.
^ "Individual Batting – Pioneer League". Minor League Baseball. Retrieved 2011-01-13.
^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=morris002gre
^ http://www.themavericks.ca/about-us
baseball-reference.com – Medicine Hat minor league teams
Pioneer League baseball
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This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Fernandes and the second or paternal family name is Bastos.
Michel Fernandes Bastos (born 2 August 1983) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for América Mineiro. Mainly plays as a left winger.
Bastos in 2013
(1983-08-02) 2 August 1983 (age 35)
Pelotas, Brazil
Left winger / Left back
Youth career
Pelotas 0 (0)
Feyenoord 0 (0)
→ Excelsior (loan) 28 (0)
Atlético Paranaense 10 (0)
→ Grêmio (loan) 19 (4)
→ Figueirense (loan) 35 (10)
Lille 113 (29)
Lyon 142 (40)
→ Schalke 04 (loan) 16 (5)
Al Ain 19 (6)
→ Roma (loan) 17 (1)
São Paulo 64 (8)
Palmeiras 17 (0)
→ Sport (loan) 23 (4)
América Mineiro 1 (0)
Brazil 10 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 July 2019 22:52 (UTC)
Bastos started his career at hometown club Pelotas before moving to the Netherlands, where he played for Feyenoord and Excelsior. He then returned to Brazil, where he played for Atlético Paranaense, Grêmio and Figueirense. He moved to French club Lille in 2006 before transferring to Lyon in 2009. After unsuccessful spells at Schalke 04, Al Ain and Roma, he moved back to Brazil to play for São Paulo in 2014.
Bastos has won 10 caps and scored 1 goal for the Brazilian national team. He was a starter at the 2010 World Cup, playing as a left back.[1][2][3]
Club careerEdit
Bastos was born in the Brazilian city of Pelotas and began his career playing for hometown club Esporte Clube Pelotas. In 2001, he moved to the Netherlands joining Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam playing for the Jong Feyenoord, the club's reserve section. Following a loan stint at nearby Excelsior Rotterdam, he returned to Brazil joining Atlético Paranaense. Bastos later played for Grêmio and Figueirense (loan)[4] before deciding to return to Europe.
LilleEdit
Bastos joined French club Lille OSC in July 2006[5] and made his league debut in the club's opening match of the 2006–07 season against Rennes playing 65 minutes before taken off. Lille won the match 2–1.[6] Bastos scored his first goal for the club against Lens in the annual Derby du Nord and finished the season with a total of three goals. Over the next two seasons, his goal tally quickly increased. He scored eight league goals during the 2007–08 season, including goals against Rennes, Lyon, and Lorient to help Lille finish in a respectable seventh place. During this season, Bastos began alternating between the left back and left winger position.
For the 2008–09 season, he was installed in the left winger role permanently. He scored his first goal in just the second match of the season in a 1–3 loss to Le Mans.[7] Two weeks later, he scored in the club's 2–1 win over Bordeaux and, a week later, scored again, this time in a 1–1 draw with Sochaux.[7][8] He also scored in a 2–2 draw against Lyon.[9] With the match tied 1–1, Lille had a free kick from a strange angle from 30 meters out. Bastos took the free kick with his powerful left foot delivering it with such power and fear, Lyon keeper Hugo Lloris could not grasp it.[10]
From 11 November 2008 onwards, Bastos scored in five straight matches. He scored goals against Marseille, Lorient, Toulouse, Nice, and Le Havre.[11][12][13][14][15] Lille accumulated two wins and three draws in that span. Several weeks later, he began another streak scoring a goal in six straight matches. With Lille winning all of those matches, they moved into the European places in the standings and eventually finished fifth earning a UEFA Cup spot on the final day of the season. In total that season, Michel appeared in 41 matches and scored 16 goals, 14 in the league and also assisted on nine goals, which led Ligue 1.[16] He was awarded the Trophée du Meilleur Passeur and became the only player in Ligue 1 history to appear in the top five of both the goalscorers' table and the assists' table since the creation of the assists' table for the 2007–08 season.[citation needed] He was also nominated for the Ligue 1 Player of the Year Award and named to the league's Team of the Year.[17][18]
LyonEdit
Bastos with Olympique Lyon
On 15 July 2009, Lille president Michel Seydoux revealed that the club had accepted an €18 million[19] offer from Lyon.[20] On 16 July, Bastos successfully passed his medical and agreed to a four-year contract making him Lyon's second signing of the summer following Argentine Lisandro López.[21] He was presented to the media, along with fellow new signing Aly Cissokho, on 20 July and was assigned the number 7 shirt.[22] Michel scored his first goal for Lyon in the first leg of the club's playoff round match against Anderlecht in the UEFA Champions League. In the club's 5–1 victory, he scored the third goal, coming in from the right side and unleashing a left-footed strike into the top left corner.[23] On 21 February 2010, Bastos scored a 21-minute hat-trick against Sochaux, as Lyon won the match 4–0 to move into the Champions League spots.[24]
Despite constant speculation linking Bastos with clubs around Europe, he remained an integral part of Lyon's first team, featuring regularly in Champions League, Coupe de France and Ligue 1 fixtures. He netted the only goal of the game against local rivals Saint-Étienne on 9 December 2012, smashing in a 25-yard free-kick, to keep Lyon at the top of Ligue 1 with a five-point gap over PSG.[25]
Loan to Schalke 04Edit
On 29 January 2013, Bastos joined German side Schalke 04 on loan until the end of the 2013-2014 season, with option to sign him outright.[26] He was given the number 9 shirt.[27] Bastos made his Schalke debut on 2 February against Greuther Fürth and opened the scoring two minutes after half-time, but Schalke fell to a 2–1 defeat.[28] In his third game in the 2012–13 Bundesliga, Bastos bagged a brace as Schalke twice came from behind to secure a 2–2 draw with Mainz on 16 February.[29]
Al AinEdit
Schalke did not exercise the option to sign Bastos on a permanent basis, and on 5 August 2013 Bastos was sold to a UAE club Al Ain for €4 million.[30]
Loan to RomaEdit
On 20 January 2014, Italian side Roma announced that Bastos had signed a loan contract until the end of the season for a fee of €1.1 million, with the option of buying the full rights at the beginning of the 2014–15 season, for €3.5 million.[31]
São PauloEdit
On 13 August 2014, Bastos returned to his homeland and signed a one-and-a-half-year deal with Brasileirão club São Paulo.[32]
On 28 December 2016, Bastos and São Paulo, under a mutual agreement, cancel the contract, that would run until December 2017.[33]
PalmeirasEdit
On 31 December 2016, Bastos and Palmeiras signed a contract until 2018, with a one more year option. Bastos is the fifth signing of Verdão to 2017 season.[34]
Loan to Sport RecifeEdit
On 30 April 2018, Sport Recife announced that Bastos had signed a loan contract until the end of the season.[35]
América MinerioEdit
On 27 May 2019, América Mineiro announced the signing of Bastos until the end of the season.[36]
International careerEdit
Prior to joining Lyon, Bastos had never been called up to the Seleção. Bastos cited his move to Lyon as an important factor in attempting to earn a spot on Brazil's 2010 FIFA World Cup team.[37] On 27 October 2009, Bastos was selected, for the very first time, by the national team for friendly matches against England and Oman.[38] He made his national team debut in the England match starting in the left back position. Bastos later started in the same position in Brazil's next two friendly matches against Oman and the Republic of Ireland in February 2010 and, on 11 May 2010, was subsequently named to the 23-man squad to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[39][40]
International goalsEdit
1. 2 June 2010 National Sports Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe 0–3 Win Friendly
Career statisticsEdit
ClubEdit
(Correct as of 30 October 2014) [41][42]
Cup[nb 1]
Europe[nb 2]
South America[nb 3]
Feyenoord 2001–02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 0 0
Excelsior 2002–03 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 28 0 0
2003 2 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 0 0 2 0 0
Grêmio 2005 19 4 0 0 0 0 – 0 0 0 19 4 0
Figueirense 2005 34 10 0 0 0 0 – 0 0 0 34 10 0
2006–07 25 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 – 28 3 0
2008–09 37 14 9 4 2 2 0 0 0 – 41 16 11
Lyon 2009–10 32 10 1 4 2 1 11 3 2 – 47 15 4
2011–12 26 6 8 9 1 2 8 0 1 – 43 7 11
Schalke 04 2012–13 14 4 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 – 17 5 1
Al Ain 2013–14 12 4 0 7 2 0 – – 19 6 0
Roma 2013–14 16 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 – 17 1 0
São Paulo 2014 13 1 5 0 0 0 – 5 3 1 18 4 6
HonoursEdit
Coupe de France: 2011–12[43]
Trophée des Champions: 2012
^ Includes Copa do Brasil, Coupe de France, Coupe de la Ligue, Trophée des Champions, UAE Arabian Gulf Cup, UAE President's Cup, Arabian Gulf Super Cup, Coppa Italia
^ Includes UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Supercup
^ Includes Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, Recopa Sudamericana
^ Hawkey, Ian. "Michel Bastos – A lethal weapon with a dead ball". The National. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
^ "Sir Alex Ferguson moves for Lyon's Michel Bastos as replacement for Patrice Evra". Daily Mail. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
^ "Scouting Report: Did Roma Pull off Another Transfer Coup in Michel Bastos?". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
^ "BID Acumulativo Série A /2005". CBF (in Portuguese). 8 November 2005. Archived from the original on 29 May 2006. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
^ "RELATÓRIO DE TRANSFERÊNCIAS INTERNACIONAIS EM 2006". CBF (in Portuguese). 22 January 2007. Archived from the original on 20 April 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
^ "Rennes v. Lille" (in French). Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 16 March 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ a b "Lille v. Bordeaux Match Report" (in French). Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 25 April 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Sochaux v. Lille Match Report" (in French). Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 23 April 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Lyon v. Lille Match Report" (in French). Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 17 October 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Lyon 2 – 2 Lille : La vidéo des buts (Chedjou, Grosso, Rami et Michel Bastos)" (in French). Fourfourtwo.free.fr. 24 March 2010. Archived from the original on 16 August 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Marseille v. Lille Match Report" (in French). Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 19 August 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Lille v. Lorient Match Report" (in French). Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Toulouse v. Lille Match Report" (in French). Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Nice v. Lille Match Report" (in French). Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 20 April 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Lille v. Le Havre Match Report" (in French). Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 14 April 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Classement saison 2008/2009" (in French). Lfp.fr. Retrieved 14 September 2011. [dead link]
^ "Les nommés pour les Trophées" (in French). Lequipe.fr. Archived from the original on 14 June 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Le palmarès 2009 complet" (in French). Lequipe.fr. 24 May 2009. Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "BASTOS POISED FOR £14m LYON SWITCH". Sportinglife.com. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Accord avec Lille pour le transfert de Michel BASTOS" (in French). Olweb.fr. 15 July 2009. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
^ "Présentation de M.Bastos et A.Cissokho" (in French). Olweb.fr. 15 July 2009. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
^ OL4everdu88. "Michel Bastos goal against Anderlecht". Dailymotion.com. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Bastos hat-trick lifts Lyon up to third". FourFourTwo. 21 February 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
^ "Lyon maintains 5-point lead over PSG". ESPN FC. 9 December 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
^ "Schalke take Michel Bastos on loan". Bundesliga. 29 January 2013. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
^ "S04 leiht Michel Bastos von Olympique Lyon aus" (in German). Schalke 04 Official Website. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
^ "Schalke 04 1-2 SpVgg Greuther Furth". ESPN FC. 2 February 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
^ "Mainz 2-2 Schalke 04". ESPN FC. 16 February 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
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^ Em rescisão consensual com o SP, Michel Bastos abre mão de R$ 4,2 milhões
^ Palmeiras anuncia contratação de Michel Bastos, ex-São Paulo
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^ https://www.lance.com.br/america-mineiro/america-confirma-contratacao-michel-bastos-para-serie.html
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^ "Lyon win French Cup final to deny historic attempt by amateurs Quevilly". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
Michel Bastos at National-Football-Teams.com
Michel Bastos at L'Équipe Football (in French)
"OL Profile". Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
Michel Bastos at Soccerway
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Monotyping
(Redirected from Monotype)
"Monotype" and "Monotypes" redirect here. For the musical group, see The Monotypes. For the type foundry, see Monotype Imaging. For other uses, see Monotype (disambiguation).
Mythological scene with Apollo, Fame, and the Muses by Antoon Sallaert
Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass. The image is then transferred onto a sheet of paper by pressing the two together, usually using a printing-press. Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, e.g. creating lights from a field of opaque colour. The inks used may be oil based or water based. With oil based inks, the paper may be dry, in which case the image has more contrast, or the paper may be damp, in which case the image has a 10 percent greater range of tones.
Monotyping produces a unique print, or monotype; most of the ink is removed during the initial pressing. Although subsequent reprintings are sometimes possible, they differ greatly from the first print and are generally considered inferior. These prints from the original plate are called "ghost prints." A print made by pressing a new print onto another surface, effectively making the print into a plate, is called a "cognate". Stencils, watercolor, solvents, brushes, and other tools are often used to embellish a monotype print. Monotypes can be spontaneously executed and with no previous sketch.
Monotype by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, probably a second impression
There is still no certainty as to who was the inventor of the monotype process. The Italian artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–64) is often credited as being the first artist to produce monotypes. He made brushed sketches intended as finished and final works of art.[1] He began to make monotypes in the mid 1640s, normally working from black to white, and produced over twenty surviving ones, over half of which are set at night. It is believed that the Flemish artist Antoon Sallaert created his first monotypes in the early 1640s and is therefore to be regarded as the inventor of this printing process. Both artists used the new technique in different ways. Castiglione created most of his monotypes as black-field images by wiping away ink on a prepared plate thus producing white and grey lines. Sallaert, on the other hand, brushed bold, tapering lines onto the printing surface with meticulous precision. It is likely that Sallaert's monotype style was influenced by the chiaroscuro woodcuts of the Dutch engraver Hendrik Goltzius. Sallaert found in the monotype a technique which was the closest to drawing and oil sketching. His monotypes and drawings are characterised by swelling lines and tapering ends. He often added by hand white highlights to his monotypes.[2][3] Sallaert clearly appreciated in the monotype technique the freedom to design on a plate before printing it on paper.[4]
Visions of the Daughters of Albion, a combination by Blake of relief etching for the lines and monotype for the colour
William Blake developed a different technique, painting on millboard in egg tempera to produce both new works and coloured impressions of his prints and book illustrations, including his Pity. Each impression was usually then worked over by hand, using ink and watercolour. Few other artists used the technique until Degas, who made several, often working on them further after printing (Beside the Sea, 1876-7); Pissarro also made several. Paul Gauguin used a variant technique involving tracing, later taken up by Paul Klee. In the twentieth century the technique became more popular, such as the extraordinary colorful monotypes created by Marc Chagall in the 1960s.[5]
Comparing monotypes to monoprintsEdit
Historically, the terms monotype and monoprint were often used interchangeably.[6] More recently, however, they have come to refer to two different, though similar, types of printmaking. Both involve the transfer of ink from a plate to the paper, canvas, or other surface that will ultimately hold the work of art. In the case of monotypes, the plate is a featureless plate. It contains no features that will impart any definition to successive prints. The most common feature would be the etched or engraved line on a metal plate. In the absence of any permanent features on the surface of the plate, all articulation of imagery is dependent on one unique inking, resulting in one unique print. Additionally, the term monotype is often used for an image made by inking a non-absorbent surface with a solid colour, laying over it a piece of paper and drawing onto the back of the paper. When the paper is pulled off the resulting print consists of the line surrounded by ink picked up from the inked plate. The result has a chance element, often random and irregular which gives the print a certain charm, a technique famously used by British artist Tracey Emin, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, where the practice of monoprinting in general was regarded as "fake painting".
Monoprints, on the other hand, now refers to the results of plates that have permanent features on them. Monoprints can be thought of as variations on a theme, with the theme resulting from some permanent features being found on the plate—lines, textures—that persist from print to print. Variations are confined to those resulting from how the plate is inked prior to each print. The variations are endless, but certain permanent features on the plate will tend to persist from one print to the next.
Monoprinting
Digiglyph
^ Prints and Printmaking, Antony Griffiths, British Museum Press (in UK), 2nd ed., 1996 ISBN 0-7141-2608-X
^ Todd D. Weyman, Two Early Monotypes by Sallaert, in: Print Quarterly Vol. 12, No. 2 (JUNE 1995), p. 164-169
^ M. Royalton Kisch, A Monotype by Sallaert, in: Print Quarterly, 1988, V, n. 1, p. 60-61
^ Kelley Notaro, An Exhibition of the Finest Monotypes from the Cleveland Museum of Art's Collection at The Cleveland Museum of Art site
^ Marc Chagall Monotypes, Gerald Cramer, Editor, Geneva 1966
^ Singular impressions: the monotype in America. Joann Moser. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Reed, Sue Welsh & Wallace, Richard, Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1989,pp 262–5,ISBN 0-87846-306-2 or 304-4 (pb)
Media related to Monotypes at Wikimedia Commons
Video explaining the monotype process
Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on monotyping
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Samye
Samye (Tibetan: བསམ་ཡས་, Wylie: bsam yas, Chinese: 桑耶寺) was the first gompa (Buddhist monastery) built in Tibet. It was probably first constructed between 775-9[1] under the patronage of King Trisong Detsen of Tibet who sought to revitalize Buddhism, which had declined since its introduction by King Songtsen Gampo in the 7th century. The monastery is in Dranang, Lhoka. It was supposedly modeled on the design of Odantapuri in what is now Bihar, India.[2]
བསམ་ཡས
The main building of the Samye Monastery (there is a 3D model available in Google Earth)
gompa
Lhasa Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Shown within Tibet
29°19′31.80″N 91°30′13.32″E / 29.3255000°N 91.5037000°E / 29.3255000; 91.5037000Coordinates: 29°19′31.80″N 91°30′13.32″E / 29.3255000°N 91.5037000°E / 29.3255000; 91.5037000
The 18th century Puning Temple built by the Qianlong Emperor of Qing China in Chengde, Hebei was modeled after Samye.
According to tradition, the Indian monk Śāntarakṣita made the first attempt to construct the monastery while promoting his sutra-centric version of Buddhism. Finding the Samye site auspicious, he set about to build a structure there. However, the building would always collapse after reaching a certain stage. Terrified, the construction workers believed that there was a demon or obstructive tulku in a nearby river making trouble.
When Shantarakshita's contemporary Padmasambhava arrived from northern India, he was able to subdue the energetic problems obstructing the building of Samye. According to the 5th Dalai Lama,[3] Padmasambhava performed the Vajrakilaya dance and enacted the rite of namkha to assist Trisong Detsen and Śāntarakṣita clear away obscurations and hindrances in the building of Samye:
The great religious master Padmasambhava performed this dance in order to prepare the ground for the Samye Monastery and to pacify the malice of the lha [local mountain god spirits] and srin [malevolent spirits] in order to create the most perfect conditions."[4] He went on to say that after Padmasambhava consecrated the ground he erected a thread-cross — a web colored thread woven around two sticks — to catch evil. Then the purifying energy of his dance forced the malevolent spirits into a skull mounted on top of a pyramid of dough. His tantric dance cleared away all the obstacles, enabling the monastery to be built in 767. The dance was memorialized by the construction of Vajrakilaya stupas — monuments honoring the ritual kilya (purba) daggers — at the cardinal points of the monastery, where they would prevent demonic forces from entering the sacred grounds.[5])
The abovementioned quotation makes reference to the relationship of the kīla to the stupa and mentions torma and namkha. Moreover, the building of Samye marked the foundation of the original school of Tibetan Buddhism, the Nyingma. This helps explain how Padmasambhava's Tantra-centric version of Buddhism gained ascendence over the sutra-based teaching of Śāntarakṣita.
Pearlman succinctly charts the origin of the institution of the Nechung Oracle:
When Padmasambhava consecrated Samye Monastery with the Vajrakilaya dance, he tamed the local spirit protector, Pehar Gyalpo, and bound him by oath to become the head of the entire hierarchy of Buddhist protective spirits. Pehar, later known as Dorje Drakden, became the principal protector of the Dalai Lamas, manifesting through the Nechung Oracle.[6]
The original buildings have long disappeared. They have been badly damaged several times — by civil war in the 11th century[citation needed], fires in the mid 17th century[citation needed] and in 1826[citation needed], an earthquake in 1816[citation needed], and in the 20th century, particularly during the Cultural Revolution. As late as the late 1980s pigs and other farm animals were allowed to wander through the sacred buildings[citation needed]. Heinrich Harrer quoted his own words he said to the 14th Dalai Lama of what he saw in 1982 from his airplane en route to Lhasa,
"On our approach, in the Brahmaputra valley, the first terrible sight we saw confirmed all the bad news about Tibet's oldest monastery, Samye; it was totally destroyed. One can still make out the outer wall, but none of the temples or stupas survives."[7]
Each time it has been rebuilt, and today, largely due to the efforts of Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama from 1986 onward, it is again an active monastery and important pilgrimage and tourist destination.[8]
Debate at Samye or the Council of LhasaEdit
Main article: Samye Debate
Adamek (2007: p. 288) provides a circa five-year range when Moheyan of the East Mountain Teaching of Chan Buddhism and Kamalaśīla may have debated at Samye in Tibet:
As is well known, the fate of Chan in Tibet was said to have been decided in a debate at the Samye monastery near Lhasa in c.792-797.[9]
Broughton identifies the Chinese and Tibetan nomenclature of Moheyan's teachings and identifies them principally with the East Mountain Teaching:
Mo-ho-yen's teaching in Tibet as the famed proponent of the all-at-once gate can be summarized as "gazing-at-mind" ([Chinese:] k'an-hsin... [...] [Tibetan:] sems la bltas) and "no examining" ([Chinese:] pu-kuan [...] [Tibetan:] myi rtog pa) or "no-thought no-examining" ([Chinese:] pu-ssu pu-kuan... [...] [Tibetan:] myi bsam myi rtog). "Gazing-at-mind" is an original Northern (or East Mountain Dharma Gate) teaching. As will become clear, Poa-t'ang and the Northern Ch'an dovetail in the Tibetan sources. Mo-ho-yen's teaching seems typical of late Northern Ch'an. Mo-ho-yen arrived on the central Tibetan scene somewhat late in comparison to the Ch'an transmissions from Szechwan.[10]
The great debate of the Council of Lhasa between the two principal debators or dialecticians, Moheyan and Kamalaśīla is narrated and depicted in a specific cham dance once held annually at Kumbum Monastery in Qinghai.[11]
GalleryEdit
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Prayer wheels at Samye
A view of Samye from above
The protective wall of Samye
View of Samye in 1938
Stupa at Samye, 1938
Samye Monastery in 1936
Samye Doring (obelisk) taken by Hugh Richardson in 1949
The monasteryEdit
Samye Monastery is laid out on the shape of a giant mandala, with the main temple representing the legendary Mount Meru in the centre. Other buildings stand at the corners and cardinal points of the main temple, representing continents and other features of tantric Buddhist cosmology.
In corners are 4 chörtens - white, red, green (or blue) and black. There are 8 main temples:
Dajor ling བརྡ་སྦྱོར་གླིང་ (brda sbyor gling)
Dragyar ling སྒྲ་བསྒྱར་གླིང་ (sgra bsgyar gling)
Bétsa ling བེ་ཙ་གླིང་ (be tsa gling)
Jampa ling བྱམས་པ་གླིང་ (byams pa gling)
Samten ling བསམ་གཏན་གླིང་ (bsam gtan gling)
Natsok ling སྣ་ཚོགས་གླིང་ (sna tshogs gling)
Düdül ling བདུད་འདུལ་གླིང་ (bdud 'dul gling)
Tamdrin ling རྟ་མགྲིན་གླིང་ (rta mgrin gling)
The main temple is full of Tibetan religious art in mural and statue forms, as well as some important relics. Many Tibetan Buddhists come on pilgrimage to Samye, some taking weeks to make the journey.
Cham dance
^ Dorje (1999) p. 172.
^ Yeshe Tsogyal (2004). The Lotus-born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava. Rangjung Yeshe Publications. p. 290. ISBN 978-962-7341-55-0.
^ Pearlman, 2002: p.18
^ Rene de Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Tibetan Religious Dances (The Hague:Mouton, 1976) p.113
^ Yeshe Tsogyel, The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava, 2 vols., trans. Kenneth Douglas and Gwendolyn Bays (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, (1978) p.384
^ Pearlman, Ellen (2002). Tibetan Sacred Dance: a journey into the religious and folk traditions. Rochester, Vermont, USA: Inner Traditions. ISBN 0-89281-918-9, p.94
^ 1912-2006., Harrer, Heinrich, (1985) [1984]. Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140077742. OCLC 13856937. On our approach, in the Brahmaputra valley, the first terrible sight we saw confirmed all the bad news about Tibet's oldest monastery, Samye; it was totally destroyed. One can still make out the outer wall, but none of the temples or stupas survives.
^ Dorje (1999), p. 173.
^ Adamek, Wendi Leigh (2007). The mystique of transmission: on an early Chan history and its contexts. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-13664-1, ISBN 978-0-231-13664-8. Source: [1] (accessed: Saturday April 17, 2010), p.288
^ Jeffrey Broughton (1983). Gimello, Robert M; Gregory, Peter N (eds.). Studies in Chʻan and Hua-yen (3. print. ed.). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8248-0835-8. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
^ Roccasalvo, Joseph F (October 1980). "The debate at bsam yas: religious contrast and correspondence". Philosophy East and West. The University of Press of Hawaii. 30 (4): 505–520. doi:10.2307/1398975. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
Dorje, Gyurme. (1999). Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan. 2nd Edition. Footprint Handbooks Ltd. ISBN 0-8442-2190-2.
Dowman, Keith. (1988) The Power-places of Central Tibet. Routledge & Kegan Paul. London & New York. ISBN 0-7102-1370-0.
Rene de Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Tibetan Religious Dances (The Hague:Mouton, 1976)
Yeshe Tsogyel, The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava, 2 vols., trans. Kenneth Douglas and Gwendolyn Bays (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1978)
Pearlman, Ellen (2002). Tibetan Sacred Dance: a journey into the religious and folk traditions. Rochester, Vermont, USA: Inner Traditions. ISBN 0-89281-918-9
Luke Wagner and Ben Deitle (2007). Samyé
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Sigrid Gurie
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Sigrid Gurie (born Sigrid Gurie Haukelid, May 18, 1911 – August 14, 1969) was a Norwegian American motion picture actress from the late 1930s to early 1940s.[1]
Sigrid Gurie in Algiers (1938)
Sigrid Gurie Haukelid
New York City, U.S.
August 14, 1969(1969-08-14) (aged 58)
Thomas Stewart (1935–c. 1938) (divorced)
Dr. Lawrence Spangard (1939–1948) (divorced)
Lynn Abbott (1958–1961) (divorced)
Knut Haukelid brother
Gurie was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her father was a civil engineer who worked for the New York City Subway from 1902 to 1912. Since Sigrid Gurie and her twin brother Knut Haukelid were born in America, the twins held dual Norwegian-American citizenship. In 1914 the family returned to Norway. Sigrid Gurie subsequently grew up in Oslo and was educated in Norway, Sweden, and Belgium.[2] In 1935 Gurie married Thomas Stewart of California; she filed for divorce in 1938.[3] Her brother became a noted member of the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II.[4]
In 1936, Gurie arrived in Hollywood. Film magnate Sam Goldwyn reportedly took credit for discovering her, promoting his discovery as "the new Garbo" and billed her as "the siren of the fjords". When the press discovered Gurie's birth in Flatbush, Goldwyn then claimed "the greatest hoax in movie history." She starred as Kokashin, daughter of Kublai Khan, in the 1938 production of The Adventures of Marco Polo,[3] and went on to give worthwhile performances in such films as Algiers (1938), Three Faces West (1940) and Voice in the Wind (1944). She had a minor role in the classic Norwegian film Kampen om tungtvannet (1948). The movie was based principally on the book Skis Against the Atom which was written by her brother[5] , Knut Haukelid, a noted saboteur and member of the Norwegian resistance against German occupation in World War 2.
In the late 1940s she attended the Kann Art Institute, operated in West Hollywood by abstract artist Frederick I. Kann (1886–1965). She studied oils and portraiture. Among her works were landscapes, portraits and pen and ink sketches.
From 1961 to 1969 she lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she continued painting, and was also designing jewelry for Royal Copenhagen in Denmark. She entered the hospital in Mexico City on an emergency basis for a recurring kidney problem, then developed a blood clot that passed through her lungs, which led to her death.
1937 The Road Back Soldier's wife Uncredited
1938 Algiers Ines
1938 The Adventures of Marco Polo Princess Kukachin
1939 The Forgotten Woman Anne Kennedy
1939 Rio Irene Reynard
1940 Three Faces West Leni "Lenchen" Braun
1940 Dark Streets of Cairo Ellen Stephens
1944 Voice in the Wind Marya
1944 Enemy of Women Magda Quandt
1948 Kampen om tungtvannet
(released internationally as Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water)
1948 Sword of the Avenger Maria Louisa
1948 Sofia Linda Carlsen
1950 The Du Pont Story Sophie du Pont
^ "Sigrid Gurie". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
^ "Sigrid Gurie: Norwegian American Actress". lawzone.com. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
^ a b ""The Flower of Flatbush" Makes Good: Sigrid Gurie loves Gary Cooper in "Marco Polo"". Life. 1938-04-18. p. 29. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
^ "WW II 'Hero of Telemark' Knut Haukelid dead at 82". Santa Cruz Sentinel. California, Santa Cruz. Associated Press. March 11, 1994. p. D - 6. Retrieved October 21, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Knut Haukelid". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
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Sprint 2
Sprint 2 is a 2 player overhead-view arcade racer released in 1976 by Kee Games,[1] a wholly owned subsidiary of Atari. It was the first auto racing arcade game to use a CPU to control part of the game.[2]
Kee Games
Dennis Koble & Lyle Rains
Programmer(s)
Dennis Koble
Lyle Rains
NA: November 2, 1976
One-player or Two-player game
Raster (black and white), standard resolution
TechnologyEdit
Sprint 2 evolved from Gran Trak 10 and Gran Trak 20, but included a microprocessor (the 6502), a first for racing games. This allowed Sprint 2 to include two computer-controlled cars, better graphics, and more tracks. Unlike Gran Trak, this machine did not have brake pedals, but the players could still make their cars "fishtail" by turning their steering wheels abruptly.
Sprint 2 was the first in a long series of games, some of which bore its name into the 1980s.
Sprint 4 and Sprint 8, a 4 player and 8 player version respectively, were released in 1977. Both were full color raster versions of the game.
Sprint 1 was released in 1978. The "1" and "2" designations reflect the number of players, rather than indicating it was a prequel.
Super Sprint, a 3 player version with updated graphics, was released by Atari Games in 1986.
Championship Sprint, a 2 player version of Super Sprint, was released by Atari Games in 1986.
Badlands, a 2 player post-apocalyptic setting update of Championship Sprint, was released in 1989.
Sprint 2 was also believed to be the first Atari product to feature the well-known 'Atari arcade font'.[3]
In 2016 a reverse engineered version to JavaScript became available.[4]
^ "Sprint 2 Killer List of Video Games Entry". Retrieved 2007-08-21.
^ "Atari: From Boom to Bust and Back Again". Next Generation. Imagine Media (4): 37. April 1995.
^ Arcade-history.com - Sprint 2
^ Forty-Year-Old Arcade Game Reveals Secrets of Robot Path Planning on hackaday.com by Dan Maloney (April 28, 2016)
Commentary from GameSpy
Commentary from Phosphor Dot Fossils
Sprint 2 at the Killer List of Videogames
Entry at the Arcade Flyer Archive
Sprint 2[permanent dead link] at ArcadeStuff
Sprint 2 at GameFAQs
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The Kitchen (2019 film)
The Kitchen is an upcoming 2019 American crime thriller film written and directed by Andrea Berloff, in her directorial debut. The film is based on the Vertigo comic book miniseries of the same name by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. The film stars Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss as the wives of Irish mobsters who take over organized crime operations in the 1970s in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood after the FBI arrests their husbands. The film also features Domhnall Gleeson, James Badge Dale, Brian d'Arcy James, with Margo Martindale, Common, and Bill Camp in supporting roles.
Andrea Berloff
Marcus Viscidi
Ollie Masters
Ming Doyle
James Badge Dale
Brian d'Arcy James
Margo Martindale
Maryse Alberti
Christopher Tellefsen
DC Films
BRON Creative
Creative Wealth Media Finance
August 9, 2019 (2019-08-09) (United States)
Produced by New Line Cinema, the film is set to be released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 9, 2019.
PremiseEdit
Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the film stars Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss as three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives whose mobster husbands are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands--proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition... literally.
— Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema
CastEdit
Melissa McCarthy as Kathy Brennan, Jimmy’s wife and a devoted mother of two whose initial reluctance to enter the criminal domain is eventually diminished by her deft abilities.[1]
Tiffany Haddish as Ruby O'Carroll, Kevin’s wife and an outsider in an Irish community who seeks self-sufficiency once her husband is not around to protect her.
Elisabeth Moss as Claire Walsh, Rob's wife who falls in love with the violence of her new life.
Domhnall Gleeson as Gabriel O'Malley, an intense Vietnam vet who worked for the neighborhood gangsters as a hitman before skipping town to avoid the police. He returns to settle scores when the wives take over and ends up falling for Claire.
Bill Camp as Alfonso Coretti, Maria’s husband and the boss of a Brooklyn Italian crime family.[2]
Margo Martindale as "a woman who runs the Irish mob behind the scenes."[2]
Common as Gary Silvers, an FBI agent.
Brian d'Arcy James as Jimmy Brennan, the husband of Kathy.
James Badge Dale as Kevin O'Carroll, the husband of Ruby.
Jeremy Bobb as Rob Walsh, the husband of Claire.
Alicia Coppola as Maria Coretti, the wife of Alfonso.
E.J. Bonilla as Gonzalo Martinez
James Ciccone as Joe Goon, hitman for the Coretti crime family
John Sharian as Duffy
Stephen Singer as Herb Kanfer
Brandon Uranowitz as Shmuli Chudakoff
DevelopmentEdit
In February 2017, Andrea Berloff signed on to helm an adaptation of The Kitchen, a Vertigo comic book miniseries by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. Berloff had already been commissioned to write the screenplay for the film adaptation, but she impressed executives at New Line Cinema, the film's production company, with her "edgy and subversive" perspective.[3]
CastingEdit
In November 2017, Tiffany Haddish, coming off of a breakthrough performance in Girls Trip, signed on to costar in the film as one of its three main female characters.[4] In February 2018, Melissa McCarthy signed on to costar in the film.[5] In March 2018, Elisabeth Moss joined the cast as the last of the three leads, while Margo Martindale, Bill Camp, and Brian d'Arcy James were also cast in the film.[1][2] In April 2018, Domhnall Gleeson, Common, James Badge Dale, Jeremy Bobb, Myk Watford, and Alicia Coppola joined the cast.[6][7][8] In May 2018, James Ciccone joined the cast.[9]
FilmingEdit
Principal photography began on May 7, 2018,[10] in New York City, and wrapped in September 2018.[11]
The Kitchen will be released on August 9, 2019, by Warner Bros.[12]
^ a b Mia Galuppo; Borys Kitt (March 19, 2018). "Elisabeth Moss Joins Tiffany Haddish in Mob Drama The Kitchen (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
^ a b c "Margo Martindale Joins Melissa McCarthy in New Line Crime Drama 'The Kitchen' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
^ "New Line's Female-Driven Mob Story 'The Kitchen' Finds Director (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
^ Kroll, Justin (2017-11-15). "Girls Trip Breakout Tiffany Haddish Sets Two Movies With New Line and Universal (Exclusive)". Variety. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
^ Fleming Jr., Mike (2018-02-13). "Melissa McCarthy To Star With Tiffany Haddish In New Line's The Kitchen". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
^ "Domhnall Gleeson in Talks to Join Elisabeth Moss in New Line Crime Drama 'The Kitchen' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
^ N'Duka, Amanda (2018-04-18). "Common in Negotiations & James Badge Dale Set to Join Melissa McCarthy & Tiffany Haddish in The Kitchen". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
^ N'Duka, Amanda (2018-04-27). "Alicia Coppola Cast in DC Film The Kitchen; Devon Bostick Joins Words On Bathroom Walls". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
^ https://fullaccessnyc.com/2018/05/20/upcoming-mob-flick-features-talented-actor-james-ciccone/
^ "Tiffany Haddish's Comic Book Flick 'The Kitchen' Starts Shooting This May In NYC - Omega Underground". omegaunderground.com. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
^ "New Line's Comic Book Crime Flick The Kitchen Wraps at the End of September". omegaunderground. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (February 26, 2018). "Warner Bros. Moves 'The Kitchen' Release Date". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
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The Magic Mountain
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The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.
First German edition (1924)
Der Zauberberg
Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter
German, with some French
Bildungsroman
S. Fischer Verlag, Alfred A. Knopf
Published in English
Mann started writing what was to become The Magic Mountain in 1912. It began as a much shorter narrative which revisited in a comic manner aspects of Death in Venice, a novella that he was preparing for publication. The newer work reflected his experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from a lung complaint, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessen's Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland for several months. In May and June 1912, Mann visited her and became acquainted with the team of doctors and patients in this cosmopolitan institution. According to Mann, in the afterword that was later included in the English translation of his novel, this stay inspired his opening chapter ("Arrival").
The outbreak of World War I interrupted his work on the book. The savage conflict and its aftermath led the author to undertake a major re-examination of European bourgeois society. He explored the sources of the destructiveness displayed by much of civilised humanity. He was also drawn to speculate about more general questions related to personal attitudes to life, health, illness, sexuality and mortality. Given this, Mann felt compelled to radically revise and expand the pre-war text before completing it in 1924. Der Zauberberg was eventually published in two volumes by S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin.
Mann's vast composition is erudite, subtle, ambitious, but, most of all, ambiguous; since its original publication it has been subject to a variety of critical assessments. For example, the book blends a scrupulous realism with deeper symbolic undertones. Given this complexity, each reader is obliged to interpret the significance of the pattern of events in the narrative, a task made more difficult by the author's irony. Mann was well aware of his book's elusiveness, but offered few clues about approaches to the text. He later compared it to a symphonic work orchestrated with a number of themes. In a playful commentary on the problems of interpretation, he recommended that those who wished to understand it should read it through twice.[citation needed]
Plot summaryEdit
Mountain scenery at Davos, the novel's Alpine setting
The narrative opens in the decade before World War I. It introduces the protagonist, Hans Castorp, the only child of a Hamburg merchant family. Following the early death of his parents, Castorp has been brought up by his grandfather and later, by a maternal uncle named James Tienappel. Castorp is in his early 20s, about to take up a shipbuilding career in Hamburg, his home town. Before beginning work, he undertakes a journey to visit his tubercular cousin, Joachim Ziemssen, who is seeking a cure in a sanatorium in Davos, high up in the Swiss Alps. In the opening chapter, Castorp leaves his familiar life and obligations, in what he later learns to call "the flatlands", to visit the rarefied mountain air and introspective small world of the sanatorium.
Castorp's departure from the sanatorium is repeatedly delayed by his failing health. What at first appears to be a minor bronchial infection with slight fever is diagnosed by the sanatorium's chief doctor and director, Hofrat[nb 1] Behrens, as symptoms of tuberculosis. Castorp is persuaded by Behrens to stay until his health improves.
During his extended stay, Castorp meets a variety of characters, who represent a microcosm of pre-war Europe. These include Lodovico Settembrini (an Italian secular humanist and encyclopedist, a student of Giosuè Carducci); Leo Naphta, Jew-turned-Jesuit who favors totalitarianism; Mynheer Peeperkorn, a dionysian Dutchman; and his romantic interest, Madame Clawdia Chauchat.
Castorp eventually resides at the sanatorium for seven years. At the conclusion of the novel, the war begins, and Castorp volunteers for the military. His possible, or probable, demise upon the battlefield is portended.
Literary significance and criticismEdit
The Magic Mountain can be read both as a classic example of the European Bildungsroman – a "novel of education" or "novel of formation" – and as a sly parody of this genre. Many formal elements of this type of fiction are present: like the protagonist of a typical Bildungsroman, the immature Castorp leaves his home and learns about art, culture, politics, human frailty and love. Also embedded within this vast novel are extended reflections on the experience of time, music, nationalism, sociological issues and changes in the natural world. Castorp’s stay in the rarefied air of The Magic Mountain provides him with a panoramic view of pre-war European civilization and its discontents.
Mann describes the subjective experience of serious illness and the gradual process of medical institutionalization. He also alludes to the irrational forces within the human psyche, at a time when Freudian psychoanalysis was becoming a prominent type of treatment. These themes relate to the development of Castorp's character over the time span covered by the novel. In his discussion of the work, written in English and published in the Atlantic in 1953, Mann states that "what [Hans] came to understand is that one must go through the deep experience of sickness and death to arrive at a higher sanity and health . . . ."[citation needed]
Mann acknowledged his debt to the skeptical insights of Friedrich Nietzsche concerning modern humanity, and he drew from these in creating discussion between the characters. Throughout the book the author employs the discussion with and between Settembrini, Naphta and the medical staff to introduce the young Castorp to a wide spectrum of competing ideologies about responses to the Age of Enlightenment. However, whereas the classical Bildungsroman would conclude by Castorp having formed into a mature member of society, with his own world view and greater self-knowledge, The Magic Mountain ends with Castorp becoming an anonymous conscript, one of millions, under fire on some battlefield of World War I.
Major themesEdit
Mann in 1926
Connection to Death in VeniceEdit
According to the author, he originally planned The Magic Mountain as a novella, a humorous, ironic, satirical (and satyric) follow-up to Death in Venice, which he had completed in 1912. The atmosphere was to derive from the "mixture of death and amusement" that Mann had encountered whilst visiting his wife in a Swiss sanatorium. He intended to transfer to a comedic plane the fascination with death and triumph of ecstatic disorder over a life devoted to order, which he had explored in Death in Venice.
The Magic Mountain contains many contrasts and parallels with the earlier novel. Gustav von Aschenbach, an established author, is matched to a young, callow engineer at the start of a regular career. The erotic allure of the beautiful Polish boy Tadzio corresponds to the Asiatic-flabby ("asiatisch-schlaff") Russian Madame Chauchat. The setting was shifted both geographically and symbolically. The lowlands of the Italian coastlands are contrasted to an alpine resort famed for its health-giving properties.
Illness and deathEdit
The Berghof patients suffer from some form of tuberculosis, which rules the daily routines, thoughts, and conversations of the "Half lung club". The disease ends fatally for many of the patients, such as the Catholic girl Barbara Hujus whose fear of death is heightened in a harrowing Viaticum scene, and cousin Ziemssen who leaves this world like an ancient hero. The dialogues between Settembrini and Naphta discuss the theme of life and death from a metaphysical perspective. Besides the deaths from fatal illness, two characters commit suicide, and finally Castorp goes off to fight in World War I, and it is implied that he will be killed on the battlefield.
In the above-mentioned comment Mann writes:
What Castorp learns to fathom is that all higher health must have passed through illness and death. [...]. As Hans Castorp once says to Madame Chauchat, there are two ways to life: One is the common, direct, and brave. The other is bad, leading through death, and that is the genius way. This concept of illness and death, as a necessary passage to knowledge, health, and life, makes The Magic Mountain into a novel of initiation.
TimeEdit
Closely connected to the themes of life and death is the subjective nature of time, a leitmotif that recurs throughout the book—here the influence of Henri Bergson is evident. Thus Chapter VII, entitled "By the Ocean of Time", opens with the narrator asking rhetorically, "Can one tell – that is to say, narrate – time, time itself, as such, for its own sake?" Mann's authorial (and ironic) response to the question posed is, "That would surely be an absurd undertaking...", before going on to compare storytelling to the act of music making, with both described as being alike in that they can," ...only present themselves as a flowing, as a succession in time, as one thing after another..." .
The Magic Mountain, in essence, embodies the author's meditations on the tempo of experience.
The narrative is ordered chronologically but it accelerates throughout the novel, so that the first five chapters relate only the first of Castorp’s seven years at the sanatorium in great detail; the remaining six years, marked by monotony and routine, are described in the last two chapters. This asymmetry corresponds to Castorp’s own skewed perception of the passage of time.
This structure reflects the protagonists’ thoughts. Throughout the book, they discuss the philosophy of time, and debate whether "interest and novelty dispel or shorten the content of time, while monotony and emptiness hinder its passage". The characters also reflect on the problems of narration and time, about the correspondence between the length of a narrative and the duration of the events it describes.
Mann also meditates upon the interrelationship between the experience of time and space; of time seeming to pass more slowly when one doesn't move in space. This aspect of the novel mirrors contemporary philosophical and scientific debates which are embodied in Heidegger's writings and Einstein's theory of relativity, in which space and time are inseparable. In essence, Castorp's subtly transformed perspective on the "flat-lands" corresponds to a movement in time.
Magic and mountainsEdit
"Berghotel Sanatorium Schatzalp", referred to in the novel
The titular reference to mountain reappears in many layers. The Berghof sanatorium is located on a mountain, both geographically and figuratively, a separate world. The mountain also represents the opposite of Castorp's home, the sober, business-like "flatland."
The first part of the novel culminates and ends in the sanatorium's Carnival feast. There, in a grotesque scene named after Walpurgis Night, the setting is transformed into the Blocksberg, where according to German tradition, witches and wizards meet in obscene revelry. This is also described in Goethe's Faust I. At this event, Castorp woos Madame Chauchat; their subtle conversation is carried on almost wholly in French.
Another topos of German literature is the Venus Mountain (Venusberg), which is referred to in Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser. This mountain is a "hellish paradise," a place of lust and abandon, where Time flows differently: the visitor loses all sense of time. Castorp, who planned to stay at the sanatorium for three weeks, does not leave the Berghof for seven years.
In general, the inhabitants of the Berghof spend their days in a mythical, distant atmosphere. The x-ray laboratory in the cellar represents the Hades of Greek mythology, where Medical Director Behrens acts as the judge and punisher Rhadamanthys and where Castorp is a fleeting visitor, like Odysseus. Behrens compares the cousins to Castor and Pollux; Settembrini compares himself to Prometheus. Frau Stöhr mentions Sisyphus and Tantalus, albeit confusedly.
The culmination of the second part of the novel is perhaps the – still "episodic" – chapter of Castorp's blizzard dream (in the novel simply called "Snow"). The protagonist gets into a sudden blizzard, beginning a death-bound sleep, dreaming at first of beautiful meadows with blossoms and of lovable young people at a southern seaside; then of a scene reminiscent of a grotesque event in Goethe's Faust I ("the witches' kitchen", again in Goethe's "Blocksberg chapter"); and finally ending with a dream of extreme cruelty – the slaughtering of a child by two witches, priests of a classic temple. According to Mann, this represents the original and deathly destructive force of nature itself.
Castorp awakens in due time, escapes from the blizzard, and returns to the "Berghof". But rethinking his dreams, he concludes that "because of charity and love, man should never allow death to rule one's thoughts." Castorp soon forgets this sentence, so for him the blizzard event remains an interlude. This is the only sentence in the novel that Mann highlighted by italics.
There are frequent references to Grimm's Fairy Tales, based on European myths. The opulent meals are compared to the magically self-laying table of "Table, Donkey, and Stick", Frau Engelhardt's quest to learn the first name of Madame Chauchat mirrors that of the queen in "Rumpelstiltskin". Castorp's given name is the same as "Clever Hans". Although the ending is not explicit, it is possible that Castorp dies on the battlefield. Mann leaves his fate unresolved.
Mann makes use of the number seven, often believed to have magical qualities: Castorp was seven when his parents died; he stays seven years at the Berghof;, the central Walpurgis Night scene happens after seven months, both cousins have seven letters in their last name, the dining hall has seven tables, the digits of Castorp's room number (34) add up to seven, Settembrini's name includes seven in Italian, Joachim keeps a thermometer in his mouth for seven minutes, and Mynheer Peeperkorn announces his suicide in a group of seven. Joachim dies at seven o'clock.
Hans Castorp loved music from his heart; it worked upon him much the same way as did his breakfast porter, with deeply soothing, narcotic effect, tempting him to doze.
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. (Herr Settembrini, ch. 4)
Mann gives a central role to music in this novel. People at the Berghof listen to "Der Lindenbaum" from the Winterreise played on a gramophone. These two pieces are full of mourning in the view of death; the latter hints an invitation to suicide. In the book's final scene, Castorp, now an ordinary soldier on Germany's western front in World War I, hums the last-mentioned song of Franz Schubert to himself as his unit advances in battle.
Allegorical charactersEdit
Mann uses the novel's main characters to introduce Castorp to the ideas and ideologies of his time. The author observed that the characters are all "exponents, representatives, and messengers of intellectual districts, principles, and worlds," hoping that he had not made them mere wandering allegories.
CastorpEdit
Parzival: knights ascend to the Grail Castle
According to the author, the protagonist is a questing knight, the "pure fool" looking for the Holy Grail in the tradition of Parzival. However, he remains pale and mediocre, representing a German bourgeois that is torn between conflicting influences – capable of the highest humanistic ideals, yet at the same time prone to both stubborn philistinism and radical ideologies. As usual, Mann chooses his protagonist's name carefully: Hans is a generic German first name, almost anonymous, but also refers to the fairy tale figure of Hans im Glück and the apostle St. John (Johannes in German), the favourite disciple of Jesus, who beholds the Revelation (Offenbarung des Johannes in German). Castorp is the name of a prominent historic figure, Hinrich Castorp of Mann's hometown, Lübeck. The "torp" is Danish, not unexpected on the German north coast.
In a way, Hans Castorp can be seen as the incorporation of the young Weimar Republic: Both humanism and radicalism, represented by Settembrini and Naphta, try to win his favour, but Castorp is unable to decide. His body temperature is a subtle metaphor for his lack of clarity: Following Schiller’s theory of fever, Castorp’s temperature is 37.6°C, which is neither healthy nor ill, but an intermediate point. Furthermore the outside temperature in Castorp's residence is out of balance: it is either too warm or too cold and tends to extremes (e.g. snow in August), but never normal.
Settembrini: HumanismEdit
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Settembrini represents the active and positive ideal of the Enlightenment, of Humanism, democracy, tolerance and human rights. He often finds Castorp literally in the dark and switches on the light before their conversations. He compares himself to Prometheus of Greek mythology, who brought of fire and enlightenment to Man. His own mentor Giosuè Carducci has even written a hymn to another lightbringer: to Lucifer, "la forza vindice della ragione." His ethics are those of bourgeois values and labor. He tries to counter Castorp's morbid fascination with death and disease, warns him against the ill Madame Chauchat, and tries to demonstrate a positive outlook on life.
His antagonist Naphta describes him as "Zivilisationsliterat". Mann originally constructed Settembrini as a caricature of the liberal-democratic novelist, represented for example by his own brother Heinrich Mann. However, while the novel was written, Mann himself became an outspoken supporter of the Weimar Republic, which may explain why Settembrini, especially in the later chapters, becomes the authorial voice.
Settembrini's physical characteristics are reminiscent of the Italian composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo.
Naphta: RadicalismEdit
George Lukács's Hegelian Marxism and Communist zealotry inspired the fanatical Jesuit Naphta, who was also a Hegelian communist.
Settembrini's antagonist Naphta was born a Jew but joined the Jesuits and became a Hegelian Marxist. The character was a parody of the philosopher George Lukács, who "plainly has not recognized himself in Naphta", wrote Mann in a 1949 letter.[1]
Chauchat: Love and temptationEdit
Clawdia Chauchat represents erotic temptation, lust, and love, all in a degenerate, morbid, "Asiatic-flabby" form. She is one of the major reasons for Castorp's extended stay on the magic mountain. The female promise of sensual pleasure as hindrance to male zest for action imitates the themes from the Circe mythos and in the nymphs in Wagner's Venus Mountain. Chauchat's feline characteristics are noted often, her last name is derived from the French chaud chat (Eng., hot cat), and her first name includes the English claw. (Her name may also be a reference to the Chauchat machine gun, a French weapon that saw significant use by the French and American forces during World War I.) ChaudChat could also be a play on words with Chaud (hot) and Chatte (female genitalia) in French slang.
Clawdia Chauchat leaves the Berghof for some time, but she returns with an impressive companion, Mynheer Peeperkorn, who suffers from a tropical disease.
Peeperkorn: The Dionysian principleEdit
Gerhart Hauptmann
Mynheer Peeperkorn, Clawdia Chauchat's new lover, enters the Berghof scenery rather late; but he is certainly one of the most-dominating persons of the novel. His behavior and personality, with its flavour of importance, combined with obvious awkwardness and the strange inability ever to complete a statement, is reminiscent of certain figures in former novellas of the author (e.g., Herr Klöterjahn in Tristan) – figures, which are, on the one hand, admired because of their vital energy, and, on the other hand, condemned because of their naïveté. In total, this person represents the grotesqueness of a Dionysian character. The Greek god Dionysus is also important in Nietzschean philosophy, whose The Birth of Tragedy is the source of the title The Magic Mountain.[2]
Peeperkorn ends by suicide, also performed in a strange manner.
By Mynheer Peeperkorn the author of the novel simultaneously personalizes his rival, the influential German poet Gerhart Hauptmann, and even certain properties of Goethe (with whom Hauptmann often was compared).
Ziemssen: DutyEdit
Joachim Ziemssen, Hans Castorp's cousin, is described as a young person representing the ideals of loyalty and faithfulness as an officer. As already mentioned, Dr. Behrens alludes to the pair as "Castor(p) and Pollux", the twin brothers of the Greek mythology. And in fact, there is some affinity between the two cousins, both in their love to Russian women (Clawdia Chauchat in the case of Hans Castorp, the female co-patient "Marusja" in the case of Joachim Ziemssen), and also in their ideals. But, in contrast to Hans Castorp, who is an assertive person on the Berghof scene, Joachim Ziemssen is rather shy, known to stand somehow outside of the community. He tries to escape from what he, unspokenly, feels to be a morbid atmosphere. After long discussions with his cousin, and in spite of being warned by Dr. Behrens, he returns to the "flatlands", where he fulfills his military duties for some time. But after a while, forced by deterioration of his lungs, he returns to the Berghof. It is, however, too late for a successful treatment of his illness, and he dies in the sanitarium. His death is described in a moving chapter of the novel, with the title "As a soldier, and a good one" ["(Ich sterbe) als Soldat und brav"], again a well-known citation from Goethe's Faust.
^ Hofrat (literally, court advisor) is an honorific title given by monarchs or, as in this case, their family members to people of merits. It is not his title as director of the sanatorium, which is Director. However, the novel mirrors the then German custom to call Hofräte by their honorific rather than their functional title. The most recent English translator of Magic Mountain, Woods, uses Director as a translation.
^ MacIntyre (1971, p. 60): MacIntyre, Alasdair (1971) [April 1965]. "Chapter 8: Marxist mask and romantic face: Lukács on Thomas Mann". In MacIntyre, Alasdair (ed.). Against the self-images of the age: Essays on ideology and philosophy (reprint of Encounter article ed.). Duckworth. pp. 60–69. ISBN 0715605763.
^ Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy. Trans. Douglas Smith. Oxford University Press, 2008: pp. xxxii, 28, 109, 140. ISBN 978-0-19-954014-3
Translations into EnglishEdit
The Magic Mountain, translated into English by H T Lowe-Porter with an afterword by the author, 1927, Secker and Warburg, SBN 436-27237-2
The Magic Mountain, a new translation into English by John E. Woods,1996, ISBN 0-679-77287-1. This won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 1996.
Literary criticismEdit
Dowden, Stephen (2002) A Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Camden House, ISBN 1-57113-248-1
Bloom, Harold, ed. (1986) The Magic Mountain: Modern Critical Interpretations, Chelsea House, ISBN 0-87754-902-8
Heller, Erich (1958) The Ironic German: A Study of Thomas Mann, Boston and Toronto, Little, Brown and Co.
Jesi, Furio (1979), "Venusberg – Hexenberg – Zauberberg", in Materiali mitologici. Mito e antropologia nella cultura mitteleuropea, Einaudi, Torino 2001 (pp. 224–52)
Lukács, Georg (1965) Essays on Thomas Mann, Translated by Stanley Mitchell, New York, Grosset and Dunlap
Reed, T. J. (1974) Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition, Oxford University Press
Robertson, Ritchie (2001) The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (Cambridge Companions to Literature Series), Cambridge University Press
Sontag, Susan (1978) Illness as Metaphor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Travers, Martin (1992) Thomas Mann, Modern Novelists Series, Macmillan
Weigand, Hermann J. (1971) Thomas Mann's Novel Der Zauberberg: A Study, New York, AMS Press
A review of the novel from a medical perspective (Retrieved via the Internet Archive.)
A study guide for the novel (Retrieved via the Internet Archive.)
The 'Zauberberg' in Davos still exists (The sanatorium was converted into a hotel in 1954.)
Magic Mountain Map
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Vivi Janiss
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Vivi Janiss (born Vivian Audrey Jacobsen; May 29, 1911 – September 7, 1988) was an American actress, known for such films as The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955), Man on the Prowl (1957), and First, You Cry (1978).
Vivian Audrey Jacobsen
September 7, 1988(1988-09-07) (aged 77)
(m. 1935; div. 1943)
John Larch
(m. 19??
A native of Nebraska, she was the second wife of actor and comedian Bob Cummings, to whom she was wed from 1935 to 1943. The couple met while performing in 1934 in the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway.[1] She was also the voice of Walt Disney's Daisy Duck and appeared on both the Gunsmoke radio and television series.
From 1952 to 1955, Janiss appeared in five episodes of Jack Webb's original version of the Dragnet police drama television series. From 1953 to 1957, she was cast in four episodes of the Schlitz Playhouse of Stars anthology series. From 1954 to 1959, Janiss appeared as Myrtle Davis in 11 episodes of Robert Young's Father Knows Best situation comedy series, which aired on NBC and then CBS. From 1959 to 1962, she was cast in six episodes, none in the starring role, of the NBC Western series Wagon Train with Ward Bond and John McIntire.[2]
In 1955, she played the historical Mary Todd Lincoln in "How Chance Made Lincoln President" in the anthology series TV Reader's Digest. Richard Gaines was cast as Abraham Lincoln; Ken Hardison as Robert Todd Lincoln.[2]
In 1957, Janiss joined Frank Ferguson as guest stars in the roles of Mabel and Frank Cliff in the episode "No Blaze of Glory" of Rod Cameron's syndicated series State Trooper, a story of a presumed arson case with a surprise ending set in Goldfield, Nevada.[3] In 1959, Janiss was cast the role of Ella Westover in a second State Trooper episode, "Excitement at Milltown," along with Dayton Lummis and Suzanne Lloyd, a story about mysterious accidents at a remote lumber mill.[4] On December 4, 1959, Janiss was cast in the CBS anthology series Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, hosted by Desi Arnaz in the episode "The Hanging Judge" in which James Whitmore portrays a judge intent on bringing about vengeance of the killer of the judge's daughter. Others cast in the episode were John McIntire, as Janiss' husband, Jean Hagen, Buddy Ebsen, and Warren Berlinger.[5]
In its first season on the air, Janiss was cast with Everett Sloane in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone episode "The Fever".[2] Then on October 7, 1960, cast as Edna Castle, she joined Luther Adler in the role of her husband, pawnbroker Arthur Castle, in "The Man in the Bottle" episode of The Twilight Zone. In the story line, a genie grants four wishes to the couple, all of which lead to unhappiness.[2] Years later in 1977, Janiss played a minor role as a pawnshop proprietor in the episode "Second Chance" of James Garner's NBC detective series The Rockford Files.[6]
Janiss appeared in many other series, too, three times on The F.B.I., starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and twice each on The Virginian and Ben Casey. She was cast once on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Lawman, Trackdown, Cimarron City, Route 66, Have Gun – Will Travel, Follow the Sun, Hennesey, Outlaws, Laramie, 87th Precinct, Perry Mason, Mannix, and The Streets of San Francisco.[2]
After Cummings and she divorced, Janiss wed the actor John Larch, who was cast as the police chief in 1971 in the first of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry films. She was married to Larch until her death. The couple appeared together on four television series, including the series premiere, "No Fat Cops", on October 3, 1961, of ABC's The New Breed, starring Leslie Nielson. In this episode, Larch and Janiss were cast as John and Mary Clark. Earlier, the two had co-starred on November 23, 1959, as Johnny and Elsie in the episode "End of an Era" of NBC's Western seriesTales of Wells Fargo, starring Dale Robertson, and on May 23, 1960, as Isaiah and Rebecca Macabee in the episode "The Proud Earth" of the half-hour NBC anthology series Goodyear Theatre. On November 9, 1960, Larch and Janiss appeared as Ben and Sarah Harness in the episode "The Cathy Eckhart Story" of Wagon Train, with Susan Oliver in the starring role. Later, on December 19, 1968, the couple appeared again together in the 10th episode "Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born" of Jack Lord's CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O.[2]
Janiss' last roles were in the 1978 CBS television film First, You Cry, a story about breast cancer starring Mary Tyler Moore, and in two 1979 CBS series appearances on Barnaby Jones with Buddy Ebsen (Janiss and Bob Cummings had appeared together with Ebsen 45 years earlier in the Ziegfeld Follies), and House Calls, starring Wayne Rogers.[2]
1952 Kansas City Confidential Mrs. Rogers Uncredited
1953 99 River Street Edna - Taxi Dispatcher Uncredited
1955 The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues Ethel Hall, Dr. King's Secretary
1956 The Fastest Gun Alive Mabel Brown Uncredited
1957 Spring Reunion Grace
1957 Man on the Prowl Mrs. Gerhardt
1978 First, You Cry Martha TV movie
^ "Vivi Janiss Biography". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
^ a b c d e f g "How Chance Made Lincoln President". Internet Movie Data Base. February 7, 1955. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
^ "No Blaze of Glory on State Trooper". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ "Excitement at Milltown on State Trooper". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ "The Hanging Judge on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
^ "Second Chance on The Rockford Files". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
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Willie Bobo
Willie Bobo was the stage name of William Correa (February 28, 1934 – September 15, 1983),[1] a Latin and jazz percussionist of Puerto Rican ancestry.
William Correa
(1934-02-28)February 28, 1934
September 15, 1983(1983-09-15) (aged 49)
Afro-Cuban Jazz, Boogaloo
Timbales, conga, various percussion instruments
William Correa grew up in Spanish Harlem, New York City. He made his name in Latin Jazz, specifically Afro-Cuban jazz, in the 1960s and 1970s, with the timbales becoming his favoured instrument. He met Mongo Santamaría shortly after his arrival in New York and studied with him while acting as his translator, and later at the age of 19 joined Tito Puente for four years.
The nickname Bobo is said to have been bestowed by the jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams in the early 1950s.[1]
His first major exposure was when he joined George Shearing's band on the album The Shearing Spell. After leaving Shearing, Cal Tjader asked Bobo and Santamaría to become part of the Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet, who released several albums as the mambo craze reached fever pitch in the late '50s. Reuniting with his mentor Santamaría in 1960, the pair released the album Sabroso! for the Fantasy label. Bobo later formed his own group, releasing Do That Thing/Guajira with Tico and Bobo's Beat and Let's Go Bobo for Roulette, without achieving huge penetration.[1]
After the runaway success of Tjader's Soul Sauce, in which he was heavily involved, Bobo formed a new band with the backing of Verve Records, releasing Spanish Grease, the title track being perhaps his most well known tune. Highly successful at this attempt, Bobo released a further six albums with Verve.[1]
In the early 1970s, he moved out to Los Angeles. He again met up with his long-time friend Richard Sanchez Sr. and his son Richard Jr. and began recording in the studio. Bobo then worked as a session musician for Carlos Santana among others, as well as being a regular in the band for Bill Cosby's variety show Cos. Santana covered Willie Bobo's latin song "Evil Ways" in early 70s[2]. In the late '70s, Bobo recorded albums for Blue Note and Columbia Records.[1]
After a period of ill health, he died at the age of 49, succumbing to cancer.[3]
His youngest son, Eric Bobo (Eric Correa), is a percussionist with crew Cypress Hill. He also performed on the Beastie Boys' 1994 album Ill Communication, as well as doing the 1994 Lollapalooza tour with the group.[1]
His grandson William Valen Correa, son of Bobo's first son William Gill Correa, is Co-Founder of the music-based non-profit organization HNDP Los Angeles.
DiscographyEdit
As leaderEdit
Do That Thing/Guajira (Tico, 1963)
Bobo's Beat (Roulette, 1964)
Let's Go Bobo! (Roulette, 1964)
Spanish Grease (Verve, 1965)
Uno Dos Tres 1•2•3 (Verve, 1966)
Feelin' So Good (Verve, 1966)
Juicy (Verve, 1967)
Bobo Motion (Verve, 1967)
Spanish Blues Band (Verve, 1968)
A New Dimension (Verve, 1969)
Do What You Want to Do (Sussex, 1971)
The Drum Session (Philips Records, 1975) with Louie Bellson, Shelly Manne & Paul Humphrey
Tomorrow Is Here (Blue Note, 1977)
Hell Of An Act To Follow (Columbia, 1978)
Bobo (Columbia, 1979)
Lost & Found (Concord Picante, 2006)
Dig My Feeling (Nacional Records 2016)
As sidemanEdit
With Nat Adderley
Autobiography (Atlantic, 1965)
With Dorothy Ashby
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby (Atlantic, 1965)
With Bob Brookmeyer
Trombone Jazz Samba (Verve, 1962)
With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Goin' to the Meeting (Prestige, 1962)
With Miles Davis
Quiet Nights (Columbia, 1964)
Sorcerer (Columbia, 1967)
With Victor Feldman
Latinsville! (Contemporary, 1960)
With José Feliciano
Angela (Private Stock, 1976)
With Benny Golson
Killer Joe (Columbia, 1977)
With Dexter Gordon
Landslide (Blue Note, 1962 [1980])
With Grant Green
The Latin Bit (Blue Note, 1962)
With Chico Hamilton
Chic Chic Chico (Impulse!, 1965)
El Chico (Impulse!, 1965)
The Further Adventures of El Chico (Impulse!, 1966)
With Slide Hampton
Explosion! The Sound of Slide Hampton (Atlantic, 1962)
With Herbie Hancock
Inventions and Dimensions (Blue Note, 1964)
With Eddie Harris
Bad Luck Is All I Have (Atlantic, 1975)
With Bobby Hutcherson
Montara (Blue Note, 1975)
With Herbie Mann
Right Now (Atlantic, 1962)
Brazil, Bossa Nova & Blues (United Artists, 1962)
Herbie Mann Live at Newport (Atlantic, 1963)
My Kinda Groove (Atlantic, 1965)
Latin Mann (Columbia, 1965)
Our Mann Flute (Atlantic, 1966)
The Beat Goes On (Atlantic, 1967)
With Les McCann
McCanna (Pacific Jazz, 1964)
Much Les (Atlantic, 1968)
With Gary McFarland
Soft Samba (Verve, 1963)
With Buddy Miles
Chapter VII (Columbia, 1973)
With Wes Montgomery
Movin' Wes (Verve, 1964)
With Oliver Nelson
Skull Session (Flying Dutchman, 1975)
With Dave Pike
Limbo Carnival (New Jazz, 1962)
Manhattan Latin (Decca, 1964)
With Tito Puente
Cuban Carnival (RCA Victor, 1956)
With Ike Quebec
Soul Samba (Blue Note, 1962)
With Terry Reid
River (Atlantic, 1973)
With Dannie Richmond
"In" Jazz for the Culture Set (Impulse!, 1965)
With Charlie Rouse
Bossa Nova Bacchanal (Blue Note, 1963)
With A. K. Salim
Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (Prestige, 1965)
With Mongo Santamaria
Mighty Mongo (Fantasy, 1962)
Viva Mongo! (Fantasy, 1962)
With Doc Severinsen
Rhapsody For Now! (RCA, 1973)
With Sonny Stitt
Stitt Goes Latin (Roost, 1963)
With Gábor Szabó
Spellbinder (Impulse!, 1966)
With Clark Terry
Mumbles (Mainstream, 1966)
With Cal Tjader
Latino (Fantasy, 1958)
Cal Tjader's Concert by the Sea (Fantasy, 1959)
Cal Tjader's Latin Concert (Fantasy, 1959)
West Side Story (Fantasy, 1960)
Plays Harold Arlen (Fantasy, 1961)
Live and Direct (Fantasy, 1962)
Breeze from the East (Verve, 1964)
Soul Sauce (Verve, 1965)
With Don Wilkerson
Elder Don (Blue Note, 1962)
2008 Willie Bobo: King Conga
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^ "Willie Bobo, Drummer Who Led Latin Bands". The New York Times. 1983-09-16. Retrieved 2007-01-23.
Eric Bobo video interview
Willie Bobo on IMDb
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← Everybody’s Library Questions: Newspaper copyrights, notices, and renewals
Posted on July 10, 2019 by John Mark Ockerbloom
My previous post answered a reader question about how to determine whether a newspaper (or other serial issue) was under copyright or not. (More details about the process can be found in our guide “Determining copyright status of serial issues”.) Some people still wonder about the ads, though. Here are some questions about those from Nena Ceg of Project Mindshare. (Steve Jones also asked similar questions):
“Where can I find copyright information about illustrations from magazine ads (pre-1964)? Are illustrations in those ads in the public domain? They required a copyright notice from the illustrator, or the illustrator´s signature was enough?”
The short answer: Yes, ads, and the illustrations in them, can have their own copyrights, just like issue contributions and illustrations can have their own copyright. But very few pre-1964 US ads still have active copyright; and research and library digitization projects often don’t have to worry about them. Those wanting to use magazine ads commercially might need to take more care, not just for copyright reasons but also for trademark reasons. For reliable legal guidance, you should talk to your lawyer (and I’m not one).
Here’s a longer answer with more details:
Finding ad-related copyrights
Copyrights for ads that appear in serials might be registered and renewed in one of three categories: in Contributions to Periodicals (which is where stories and articles in serials would also be registered and renewed); in Artwork (for advertising illustrations); or possibly in Commercial Prints and Labels. The Catalog of Copyright Entries (which runs up to 1978, covering renewals for publications through 1950) published different sections for each category, and the sections can be examined and searched online. (The link above goes to a page with more details.) All categories in the Copyright Office’s online database (which runs from 1978 onward, covering renewals for publications from 1950 and later) can be searched at once. (Note that copyrights from 1964 and later either automatically renewed or didn’t have to be renewed, which is why we’re discussing pre-1964 ads here.)
There are a few ads renewed as contributions to periodicals, but not many that I’ve found so far. In our copyright information page for the New York Post, where we’ve filled in details for early renewed contributions, you’ll see some ads for Schenley Distillers among the renewals. (The first one is dated May 15, 1936.) Some ads featuring the electric utility mascot Reddy Kilowatt were also renewed as periodical contributions– the earliest ones I’ve found ran in the Philadelphia Public Ledger in 1934. I have a hard time recalling any other ad series before 1950 that had significant numbers of renewals. Since we list the first contribution renewals for serials in our copyright inventory, though, if an ad was renewed as a contribution to a periodical appearing in that inventory, the periodical should be shown with a first-renewal date for contributions on or before the date of the ad. (And in some cases, as with the New York Post, we also list contribution renewals after the first one, so you can look for a renewal for the ad in that list if it says it includes all active renewals up to the ad’s date.)
It’s also possible that images in the ads (or of the ads) may have renewed copyrights. But, as with other images in periodicals, that’s pretty rare, and in our decision guide, we consider it highly unlikely unless they have a copyright notice of their own (as some did). We describe in Appendix C of our copyright determination guide how to search for copyrights of images. You will find a few ad-related images in the sources listed there, including the original cartoon image of Reddy Kilowatt, copyrighted in 1926 and renewed in 1954. Search for “Reddy” in Project Gutenberg’s transcription of artwork renewals from 1951 to 1959, and he comes right up.
Some other well-known cartoon characters that made their debut after 1923 also may have active copyrights, either from artwork renewals or from copyright renewals of the publications or films in which they first appeared. (Many of the best-known characters, franchises, and syndicates with active copyrights are mentioned in Appendix D of our guide.) But beyond Reddy Kilowatt, active renewed copyrights in characters specifically created for advertising appear to be rare, at least in the renewals I’ve looked at (primarily for publications up to 1950).
Advertising matter also could get copyrighted in the “Commercial Prints and Labels” category. Unlike with contributions and artwork, no one that I know of has yet produced searchable files or databases for commercial prints renewals in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. (They are in the Copyright Office’s searchable registered works database when that picks up in 1978.) But there aren’t that many commercial prints renewals, so it could be convenient and not too hard to produce searchable files for the early active ones, like Project Gutenberg has done for other artwork renewals. You can still look through them online through the Catalog of Copyright Entries scans, but for now you’ll have to look at the page images of the scans. I’ve looked over many of the Commercial Prints renewals pages, and have found a number of labels and what appear to be standalone posters, but have had a hard time finding anything in this category that appears to be a magazine or newspaper ad. (If you find any, though, let me know.)
Copyright, fair use, and trademark
I’m inclined myself not to worry about searching for ad copyright renewals unless I find a copyright notice for the ad. (An artist signature by itself is not a copyright notice, though it can provide a useful name to search on if you’re inclined to do so.) I’m not particularly worried both because copyright renewals for ads are rare in my experience (as noted above), and also because even if there are active copyrights in some of the advertising matter, a good case for fair use can be made for the sort of uses we tend to make of them in libraries and universities. Our digitization is noncommercial; it’s typically for purposes of study, research, or commentary; the ads are generally not the primary focus of interest for the content we’re digitizing; and there is usually little or no market now for the ads themselves (as opposed to the products the ads were designed to sell). Appendix E of our copyright determination guide has more notes on the use of materials that might still be under copyright.
If I were contemplating more commercial use of an ad, though, such as selling prints or T-shirts, or including them in promotions, I’d want to be more careful both to check the copyrights, and also to ensure that I wasn’t using trademarks improperly. Although copyrights expire after a set time period, trademarks (including brand names, slogans, logos, and other distinctive imagery associated with a brand) can last indefinitely as long as their owner keeps them in use, with some still going strong after more than a century.
It’s not against the law to simply reproduce a trademark, but it can be illegal to present it in a manner that creates confusion or misleads a consumer. For instance, if I reproduced a public domain ad for Coca-Cola in a newspaper that I scanned and put online, readers would not normally think that my scan was sponsored by Coca-Cola, or indeed had any direct connection with the company. But if I placed that same ad prominently on a vending machine that dispensed bottles of Pepsi, thirsty customers might think they were buying a soda different from the one they actually got. That could lead to legal troubles that I wouldn’t have from simply reproducing the newspaper.
Similar problems could result if I sold T-shirts or posters with a company logo or other trademark that customers thought was created or endorsed by that company. For this reason, Disney may retain control over clothing featuring Disney characters even after copyrights for the older characters start expiring a few years from now. They can’t use their character trademarks to stop all reproductions or creative uses of copyright-expired characters, but since they’ve registered trademarks for the use of many of those characters in branded clothing, and continue to sell character-themed clothes, they’d have good arguments that, say, many unlicensed Mickey Mouse-themed hats or T-shirts would be confused for approved Disney products.
In summary, then, I believe serial digitization projects can clear copyrights for ads in periodicals pretty much the same way that they clear copyrights for other material in periodicals. The instructions we have in our copyright determination guide should work for them, as far as I’m aware. Remember, though, that I am not a lawyer, and certainly not your lawyer, and you’re best off consulting one if you want more assurance about the legal soundness of your reproducing or otherwise using other people’s ads. I also have not had as much experience myself with digitization of serials as others have. Comments are open below (for now), and I’d be very happy to hear from people with more expertise or relevant experience.
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1 Response to Everybody’s Library Questions: Copyright and advertisements
Project Mindsense says:
Amazing article, John, much appreciated :)
So, if I understood right, images from ads in periodicals are not tied to the periodical´s copyright, but had to be renewed separately?
For example: if a certain magazine is in the public domain, the images inside can be copyrighted separately, and vice-versa, images from inside a copyrighted magazine can be in the public domain because their individual copyrights weren´t renewed.
Is that right?
In short, the images and ads inside a periodical are separate entities and have to renew their copyrights on their own?
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Christina Aguilera talks about topping the charts
The former ''Mickey Mouse Club'' star tells EW Online what her fans can expect in the future
By Chris Willman
October 11, 1999 at 04:00 AM EDT
Stephen Trupp/Star Max
This genie is definitely out of the bottle: Christina Aguilera can SING, unlike some of her teen-pop contemporaries. Listening to her self-titled debut album, you’d be hard-pressed to guess her age (18) or small stature (see below). But don’t worry — she’s not too preternaturally mature for her age. In person, she comes off as just your everyday teenager who happened to hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts with her first single and album. Aguilera recently retraced her short trajectory to the top with EW Online.
A lot of people who’ve heard you before they’ve had a chance to see you are probably surprised that you’re not either older or bigger than you are.
Yeah. It’s sort of my hook: It’s still the ”little girl with the big voice” thing I had when I was a kid. Because I am a petite person, and when I open my mouth, people are surprised by what comes out. But don’t underestimate — big things come in small packages!
How tall are you, anyway?
5’2”? I don’t know, I haven’t measured myself. I should go do that after we’re done!
On the ”Mickey Mouse Club” you shared a dressing room with Britney Spears, and two of the guys from N’Sync were on the series then, as was Keri Russell of ”Felicity.” You’ve said you thought then that you would all make it big someday. But really, what were the odds of that happening?
I know. It’s weird that we all came out around the same time too. When you think about it, ”Mickey Mouse Club” is only a few years ago for us. We were 12 and 13, but I’m a year older than Britney, so she was 11 and 12. Still, I’m not surprised. They were all really hard-working and driven. So it’s good to see them out there. But I really couldn’t wait till it was MY turn, finally. Because I’d be recording my album and whatnot, and I would watch Britney and the N’Sync guys on ”TRL” [”Total Request Live] and I’d feel proud of them, but also, part of me was like ”Okay, when am I finally gonna come out?”
Is it hard talking about yourself all the time?
[laughs] I’m a deep thinker, and a lot of times all I really do want to do is think to myself, and that can sort of make me seem quiet sometimes. But really, no matter what I’m doing, I always have this need to be in the spotlight. I AM an outgoing person, and I’ll always have something to say here or there. I’m really hammish. I always want to be the center of attention.
It’s unusual that you got signed to sing ”Reflection,” the theme from ”Mulan,” based on a recommendation from RCA before you even had a recording contract with them.
Yeah, it’s so cheesy how I got it, but it was really cool. My manager gives me a random phone call out of the clear blue one day while I’m just hanging out in my hometown of Pittsburgh. He’s like, ”Can you belt the high E above middle C?” And now this is known as the note that changed my life, because basically I had to prove that I could belt this note — like, full-on belt it — by Fed-Exxing out, overnight, a karaoke tape of [singing over] Whitney Houston’s ”I Want to Run to You,” which has that note, just like ”Reflection.” And I had to sing this in my bathroom for the acoustics, and I had to do it into a tape recorder like yours. How much is that tape recorder?
This Radio Shack special? Probably 35, 40 bucks.
It was cheaper than that, then. [laughs] Mine was like 15, 20 bucks. But it worked, because I got a phone call the next day asking me to immediately fly out to Los Angeles. I did, and I got the job right on the spot. And I got the RCA Records contract deal within the next two days. So I was signing contracts right and left that week.
I heard you had to cut a special version of ”Genie in a Bottle” for the Radio Disney network to allay their fears about how suggestive it is.
Yeah. [laughs] They totally perceived it, like a lot of people do, as a sexual song, because of its lyrical content — ”You’ve gotta rub me the right way.” But it’s wordplay, and you don’t have to take it as literally as it sounds. It’s about ”treat me the right way,” really; the ”rub me the right way” just because I’m singing about being genie — it just makes sense, it’s a cute twist. But it’s a song about self-respect. It’s almost like a female-empowerment song, but still keeping it fun, though, and not like in your face. It’s all about just waiting and playing hard to get, which I think is a great message for girls.
You’re being viewed as a ”teen pop” artist, but I know you want to be taken for a more sophisticated singer. RCA sees you as being more of a Whitney or Mariah, but they don’t want you to be so adult that kids aren’t into you right now.
Yeah, and that was a little bit frustrating, because I grew up listening to Mariah, and I sort of wanted to come out with a song that really showcased what I could do vocally, like a ”Vision of Love.” And at first I didn’t want to even put out ”Genie in a Bottle” as a first single, because I thought it fit in TOO well with everything that’s going on in music right now. I’m sort of disappointed sometimes in the way music is right now, and this phase it seems to be going through, because it’s all about the melody, the hook, not really the emotion or real feeling anymore. Which is why I’m a big fan of Lauryn Hill, because I think she maintains that so well throughout every one of her songs, and she really sings…..
But ”Genie” hasn’t been a bad way to launch your career.
It’s got a memorable hook, that whole radio-compressed sort of sound that we put on my voice for the little speaking parts, which was actually my idea. I mean, it’s a great song, it was No. 1 for weeks, so I’m not complaining. No regrets. But I can’t wait to get [my first] ballad out there!
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Kid Rock: The Next Generation
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New Kids' New Concert
Meghan Trainor details her engagement to 'the kid' from Spy Kids: 'I blacked out'
New Kids
The Diamond Club
Miley Cyrus reflects on Hannah Montana: 'That's a lot to put on a kid'
Singles Club
Boy George cancels Culture Club reunion tour
Backpack kid says Katy Perry 'not cocky and mean like other famous people'
No Kidding
Dwayne Johnson Joins the SNL Five-Timers Club — See Who Else Is a Member
Janet Jackson and Ciara hit the rides at Disneyland, Mickey ears and all
In the club with Timbaland and Timberlake
Taylor Swift treats Arizona foster kids to private concert, pizza party
Taylor Swift's 'Gorgeous': Who is the kid? An investigation
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F5 Networks Forms Alliance With Network Appliance
The two companies join forces to deliver industry-leading enterprise content delivery and networking solutions to F5 customers
F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the leading provider of Internet Traffic Management (ITM) products, today announced that it has formed an alliance with Network Appliance, a leading provider of network storage solutions, to provide customers with feature-rich enterprise content delivery network (ECDN) solutions.
By deploying NetApp® content delivery solutions with F5's intelligent traffic management products, customers can increase the efficiency and reduce the costs associated with the distribution of information across their network. The joint solution ensures that customers' business content is fresh, synchronized, and distributed to the right audience in a secure and timely fashion.
The key element of the F5 and Network Appliance alliance is a special, limited time, trade-in program for current F5 EDGE-FX cache customers to replace existing EDGE-FX caches with Network Appliance™ NetCache® appliances. Program details will be presented directly to qualified customers by F5 and Network Appliance sales representatives and channel partners.
"We are pleased to have a market leader like F5 Networks working so closely with us to deliver flagship ECDN solutions," said Amit Pandey, senior director of marketing and strategic alliances for content delivery solutions at Network Appliance. "Our close collaboration will benefit customers by offering them access to a powerful solution from two proven industry leaders. Both companies' products are highly complementary - F5 offers advanced local and wide-area traffic management solutions, and Network Appliance delivers industry-leading ECDN solutions. Together, we give customers the performance, management, high availability and scalability that they require for deploying next-generation Web services and applications."
"We're pleased to be working with Network Appliance where, together, we can provide enterprises with a robust, scaleable, and secure ECDN for accelerated and intelligent content delivery," said Jim Ritchings, vice president of business development at F5 Networks. "Our alliance with Network Appliance is an outcome of our recent content management strategy announcement where F5 stated that it would provide ECDN solutions through partnerships with best-of-breed content delivery and data management companies. In addition, F5's unique iControl API offers an opportunity for customers to add further value by allowing IP-based applications to monitor and control network functions across the ECDN, without human intervention."
F5 Networks is the leader in Internet Traffic Management (ITM) and delivers application aware networks through its open Internet Control Architecture. F5 features the industry's leading set of integrated products and services that manage, control and optimize Internet traffic and content. Our solutions automatically and intelligently deliver the best possible Internet performance and availability for service providers, enterprises and e-businesses. Our products remove bandwidth congestion and optimize the availability and speed of mission-critical Internet servers and applications, including web publishing, content delivery, e-commerce, caching, firewalls and more. Our solutions are widely deployed in large enterprises, the top service providers, financial institutions, government agencies, healthcare, and portals throughout the world. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and has offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. F5 Networks is located on the web at www.f5.com.
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Ozone and Plant Health
Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life
Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign
What is a genome? A genome contains all of the information that a cell needs to develop, function, and reproduce itself, and all the information needed for those cells to come together to form a person, plant, or animal. Genomes contain an organism’s complete set of genes, and also the even tinier genetic structures that help regulate when and how those genes are used. The ability to regrow a torn ligament, the clues that might predict the onset of mental illness, the nutritional potential of crops, and even the history of life itself, are all encoded in genomes. By taking this course, you will discover how scientists are deciphering the language of genomes to learn how to develop sustainable food and fuel supplies, improve disease treatment and prevention, and protect our environment. Professor Robinson is the main instructor for this course. In addition, each module features several guest instructors. These guest instructors come from diverse fields of study—biology, physics, computer science, and many others—and pursue diverse research goals, yet they share a common interest in genomic approaches and technologies. The guest instructors include: - Elizabeth (Lisa) Ainsworth, Associate Professor of Plant Biology - Mark Band, Director of the Functional Genomics Facility - Alison Bell, Associate Professor of Animal Biology - Jenny Drnevich, Functional Genomics Bioinformatics Specialist with High-Performance Biological Computing - Christopher Fields, Associate Director of High-Performance Biological Computing - Bruce Fouke, Director of the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center - Glenn Fried, Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Core Facilities - Nigel Goldenfeld, Professor of Physics - Brendan Harley, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - Alvaro Hernandez, Director of the High-Throughput Sequencing and Genotyping Facility - Victor Jongeneel, former NCSA Director of Bioinformatics and former Director of High-Performance Biological Computing - Kingsley Boateng, Senior Research Specialist with the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Core Facilities - Stephen Long, Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences - Ruby Mendenhall, Associate Professor of African American Studies - William Metcalf, Professor of Microbiology - Karen Sears, Assistant Professor of Animal Biology - Saurabh Sinha, Associate Professor of Computer Science - Lisa Stubbs, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology - Rachel Whitaker, Associate Professor of Microbiology - Derek Wildman, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology - Peter Yau, Director of the Protein Sciences Facility
Quite informative and useful course... I just love it...
So far l just love the course and the instructors...
What Can Genomes Tell Us About How to Grow New Organs or New Crops?
If all the cells in all the tissues and organs of our bodies have the same genome, how is it that they can look so different? How does a hair cell, a white blood cell, or a brain cell know what to do or where to go? The answer can be found by looking beyond the structure of the genome, into the timing of its activities. Recognizing how the information stored in the genome can be used in flexible ways shows us how living things can develop and change over time.
Adaptation & Evolution4:22
What Is a Genetically Modified Organism?4:49
Ozone and Plant Health5:39
Preparing Crops for Climate Change3:43
Dr. Gene E. Robinson
Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Swanlund Chair; Center for Advanced Study Professor of Entomology and Neuroscience
SoyFACE is an experiment that was started about 15 years ago by
Professor Steve Long.
So he came here from the University of Essex and he started a lab, and he and
Don Orton, Evan DeLucia, started a field experiment where you can manipulate
the concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the open air.
And so ozone in the atmosphere, usually when we think about ozone,
we think of ozone in the stratosphere.
So that's the upper atmosphere,
that's up about ten kilometers from where we're sitting right now.
And there, the ozone layer protects us from UV radiation, so
it's a good thing up there.
But on the ground level where we're breathing, we don't want ozone.
It's a reactive oxygen species, and people who have sensitive respiratory systems or
other conditions, can be damaged from ozone.
And so, it's one of the pollutants that the Environmental Protection Agency
monitors.
And so if there's a bad air day, they will tell people not to go outside.
And ozone is one of those reasons.
And so it's a reactive oxygen species, which means that it's reactive.
So it can cause damage to proteins, it can cause damage to membranes.
It can cause the production of other molecules that also damage membranes,
and proteins, and DNA.
And so, for humans, if we live in polluted areas, and
there are many polluted areas where ozone concentrations are high.
We can put filters on the air intake systems, and so we can scrub out the ozone
that might come in, or other pollutants that might come in.
We can stay inside, as I had mentioned.
We can decrease our activities so we're not breathing in quite as much pollution.
We can wear masks over our faces when we have to go outside.
And so, those are things that we commonly do.
But plants are outside all of the time,
and they can't walk away, they can't go anywhere, they're rooted to the ground.
And so they have to grow in an environment that has air pollution in them, in it.
So ozone comes in to plants through the pores on the leaves called stomata.
That's the same pathway that CO2 comes in and water leaves plants.
And so it does damage there.
And so very high concentrations of
ozone cause death to the cells that are around the stomata.
One of the things that reactive oxygen species do In all biology,
is cause aging, and so they accelerate the process of senescence.
And so that's why we're told to drink a lot of cranberry juice, or
kai berry juice, or whatever the latest high anti-oxidant juice is.
And so, oxidants cause aging, and oxidants cause aging in plants,
as well, and so there you see sort of a stippled effect on the leaf surface.
And so in something like lettuce, that can be bad.
People don't want to eat lettuce that has dead cells in it that you can see.
Elevated ozone concentrations induce senescence in plants,
and so identifying, so some of the pathways that
make plants less susceptible to ozone and other reactive oxygen species,
are pathways that create antioxidant molecules.
So in plants, ascorbate is the most abundant small antioxidant molecule.
And so in some varieties of plants,
a higher concentration of ascorbate can help plants tolerate more ozone.
Glutathione's another small molecule that can quench reactive oxygen species.
And in other species,
higher concentrations of glutathione are associated with ozone tolerance.
There's other secondary compounds that plants produce.
They produce many secondary compounds that can quench these reactive oxygen species,
and are associated with increased tolerance to ozone.
So that's one of the things we developed in my lab,
was an assay to look at the total antioxidant capacity of the leaf extract.
So we do a lot of grinding of leaves, and
then looking at how much antioxidant capacity there is in that extract.
And this was an assay that we sort of took the methods from food science,
because they were looking at the antioxidant capacity of red wine and
juice, and other things that we like to drink and eat for health benefits.
And so, I think it's important to study that,
just because plants can't move, they can't tolerate it.
The other reason it's important, is because ozone is a dynamic pollutant.
And so what that means, is that its concentration is changing all the time.
And so when we have heat waves in the United States,
that's often associated with periods of high ozone pollution.
But then if it rains, ozone concentrations go down.
And so it's a dynamic pollutant, and it's very hard to predict
when it's going to be high, versus when it's going to be low.
And so that means that your management options for
doing something about it, are more limited.
And so I think then, having genotypes that are tolerant to ozone,
is probably the better solution.
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“The Rock” faces backlash after having Army tank named after him
Posted on March 17, 2019 by DCG | 6 comments
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Some people go out of their way to find butt hurt.
From Yahoo: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s popularity has landed him a new recognition that he’s pretty pumped about. Many of his fans, however, are upset.
Over the weekend the actor shared the news that a tank in the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss has been named after him. According to the local El Paso Times, the name was selected by soldiers for the Blackhawk Squadron, who last year named another tank “Dropped as a Baby.”
News of the new tank’s moniker got back to Johnson, who shared his “salute of respect and gratitude” over the honor.
The proud and “grateful to the bone” star had nothing but good things to say about the tank, which he called “heavy-duty, bad-a**, sexy AF and built to take care of business.”
And while plenty of his followers were equally impressed, some didn’t think it was an honor worth celebrating.
“Having a death machine named after [you] seems cool until it’s used against beings that don’t truly deserve it,” read one comment. “I think they should name a few nukes after you and really get you excited. Maybe they will make a new gun modeled and named after you that can one day be used against innocents. Or maybe just the bullets. Gosh, so many death machines out there, you must be stoked.”
“Wow … getting your name on a kill machine,” another person wrote.
“Those poor people in some random oil-rich country ain’t gonna know what’s hit ’em,” added a commenter. “You’re obviously not stupid to know what you are representing or what this machine would do and to who — unfollow!” a disappointed follower chastised the star.
“How are you OK with people getting killed with your name?” a critic asked, while another wrote, “Not sure having a destructive weapon named after you is such a great honor.”
“You were one of my favorite actors,” a fan added. “So disappointed now seeing this. We keep making [these] machines to kill people and you are proud one of them has your name … wow.”
Some commenters also found the post to be in bad taste following Friday’s terrorist attack at two New Zealand mosques (which has WHAT exactly to do with an Army tank?), in which 49 people were killed.
Johnson hasn’t responded to the backlash. In the meantime, the 1st Armored Division has issued an invite for him to visit Texas and personally ride in his namesake tank.
I’m sure Johnson isn’t losing sleep over this “backlash.”
To those spending their time admonishing Johnson, I offer this salute to their efforts into shaming him:
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The best way combat Colombian guerrilla fighters? Soap operas!
Posted on May 30, 2013 by DCG | Leave a comment
Surrender your weapon!
The Army wants you – to write soaps for Colombian guerrilla fighters
NY Post: Uncle Sam is looking for a few good men or women — to write Spanish-language soap operas to combat Colombian guerrilla fighters!
The US Army put out a call for proposals to write 20 radio novella episodes that would air in Colombia and push the message that citizens should resist joining violent, drug-pushing rebels.
Additionally, nearly half of those episodes would encourage current fighters to put down their weapons and give up the cause, according to a Wired magazine report. The government wants the radio novellas to focus on counter-recruitment as well as family values and treating women with respect.
And like any good soap opera, the episodes should highlight “democratic alternatives to violence that can furnish functioning state institutions, and emerging environmental concerns in support of US and partner nation goals in Colombia, South America.”
The 15-minute episodes will be written in Spanish “using a mix of Colombian actors who speak the various dialects of each area,” according to the Army’s solicitation request. Stories lines are expected to lean on the real-life experiences of former guerrilla fighters.
“The script … must be written based on the themes provided by a Military Information Support Team (MIST) representative and derived from the statements received from the demobilized guerrillas at one of the Grupo de Atención Humanitaria al Desmovilizado (GAHD) centers located in the cities of Bogota, Bucaramanga, and Cali,” according to the Army’s solicitation.
Ana Patel, of the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuildng and a former expert on disarmament told Wired magazine that “FARC commanders spend a lot of time telling foot soldiers that they will be killed, hurt or imprisoned if they demobilize.”
“For the past couple of years, government officials have asked demobilizing combatants to call their friends who are still in the mountains and tell them that it is safe to demobilize, with a lot of success.”
The mag reports the Army’s soapy plan would have wide reach because of rural Colombia’s reliance on radio communication.
While the military doesn’t reveal how much is being spent on the proposals, the USA Today reported that the Pentagon spent $54 million in 2012 on global propaganda programs.
Your tax dollars at work.
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Tagged Army
A Hero to Remember
Posted on April 15, 2012 by DCG | Leave a comment
Major Ed W. Freeman
Ed W. “Too Tall” Freeman
You’re a 19 year old kid. You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. It’s November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8 to1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the helicopters to stop coming in.
You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re not getting out. Your family is halfway around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then – over the machine gun noise – you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But… It doesn’t seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it. Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.
He’s not MedEvac so it’s not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He’s coming anyway.
And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load three of you at a time on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! Thirteen more times!! Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit four times in the legs and left arm.
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.
That is the story of Ed “Too Tall” Freeman, a hero to remember.
Beyond his service in the Navy in World War II, he reached the Army rank of first sergeant by the time of the Korean War. Although he was in the Corps of Engineers, he fought as an infantry soldier in Korea. He participated in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill and earned a battlefield commission as one of only 14 survivors out of 257 men who made it through the opening stages of the battle. His second lieutenant bars were pinned on by General James Van Fleet personally. He then assumed command of B Company and led them back up Pork Chop Hill.
The commission made him eligible to become a pilot, a childhood dream of his. However, when he applied for pilot training he was told that, at six feet four inches, he was “too tall” for pilot duty. The phrase stuck, and he was known by the nickname of “Too Tall” for the rest of his career.
In 1955, the height limit for pilots was raised and Freeman was accepted into flying school. He first flew fixed-wing Army airplanes before switching to helicopters. After the Korean War, he flew the world on mapping missions. By the time he was sent to Vietnam in 1965, he was an experienced helicopter pilot and was placed second-in-command of his sixteen-craft unit. He served as a captain in Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).
President Bush awards Major Freeman the Medal of Honor
Freeman’s commanding officer nominated him for the Medal of Honor for his actions at Ia Drang, but not in time to meet a two-year deadline then in place. He was instead awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The Medal of Honor nomination was disregarded until 1995, when the two-year deadline was removed. He was formally presented with the medal on July 16, 2001, in the East Room of the White House by President George W. Bush.
Major Freeman passed away in August 2008 in Boise, Idaho.
Remember this great hero that fought so bravely to rescue fellow soldiers. Honor him….honor all that fought so bravely for our country:
Sgt. Dennis P. Weichel Jr.
William T. Ryder
Captain Slade Deville Cutter
Commander Howard Walter Gilmore
Albert Brown
Richard O’Kane
h/t Laura
Posted in Inspirational, Military
Tagged Army, Navy
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Posted on December 18, 2011 by lowtechgrannie lowtechgrannie | 2 comments
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The 1% of the 99%
Posted on November 8, 2011 by DCG | Leave a comment
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Posted in Military, Occupy Wall Street
The latest in my series of “A Hero to Remember” is that of William T. Ryder, the Army’s first paratrooper.
Brigadier General William Thomas Ryder
Ryder helped pioneer Army airborne training, equipment and tactics. He was an aide to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur from 1944 until 1951. In the early 1960s he was a top Army expert in guided missile systems retiring as a brigadier general in 1966.
Ryder graduated from West Point in 1936. More than 200 soldiers volunteered to make up the first platoon of paratroopers. Ryder was selected through a competitive written exam that was scheduled to take two hours. He finished it in 45 minutes while still earning the top score. Ryder is credited with creating “Ryder’s Death Ride” a 34-foot tower from which trainees practiced jumping.
The first US Airborne Unit was a test platoon formed from part of the 29th Infantry Regiment, in July 1940. The platoon leader was Ryder who made the first paratroop jump for the US Military on August 13, 1940 at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, Georgia from a B-18 Bomber.
On July 13, 1943, Ryder jumped into Sicily with Colonel Jim Gavin, commander of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, as part of Operation Husky. He is also reported in at least one source to have jumped with the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment in North Africa as part of Operation Torch in October 1942.
Following promotion to full colonel, in mid-February 1944 Ryder was dispatched to Bribane, Australia to advise General Douglas MacArthur on airborne operations. He remained a member of MacArthur’s staff until President Truman relieved MacArthur in 1951.
The award given to the most outstanding graduate of the Airborne course at Ft. Benning is named for the general. In 1990, General Ryder represented the Airborne to receive a proclamation by North Carolina Governor Jim Martin honoring the 50th anniversary of his first jump. In 1995, the officer’s golf course at Ft. Bragg was named for General Ryder.
In addition to master parachutist badge, the general’s decorations included the Distinguished Service Medal, four awards of the Legion of Merit and two Bronze Stars. General Ryder died from cancer in 1992 and was interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
Exhibit on display of Ryder with paratroopers.
If you ever get to Fayetteville, North Carolina, be sure to stop by the Airborne & Special Operations Museum. They have an extensive display of the history of the airborne and special ops units and an exhibit dedicated to Ryder. The main exhibit gallery moves the visitor through time, starting in 1940 with the conception of the U.S. Army Parachute Test Platoon and ending with today’s airborne and special operations units.
A great man who helped advance our troops’ capabilities in the battlefield.
Andrew Klavan Reviews BATTLE: LOS ANGELES
Posted on March 21, 2011 by lowtechgrannie lowtechgrannie | Leave a comment
The Battle for Los Angelesby Andrew Klavan · View Comments
in Culture
Crowds flocked to the new apocalyptic alien invasion funfest Battle: Los Angeles probably for the same reason a lot of critics hated it: it pays high tribute to the US Marines and, symbolically at least, their Bush-led victory in the Iraq war.
Posted in Culture War, Inspirational, Terrorism
Tagged Andrew Klavan, Army, Baghdad, Hollywood, liberals, Marines, Navy
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Arc (geometry)
Closed segment of a differentiable curve
This article is about arcs in Euclidean geometry and topology. For the use in finite projective geometry, see Arc (projective geometry). For other uses, see Arc (disambiguation).
A circular sector is shaded in green. Its curved boundary of length L is a circular arc.
In Euclidean geometry, an arc (symbol: ⌒) is a closed segment of a differentiable curve. A common example in the plane (a two-dimensional manifold), is a segment of a circle called a circular arc. In space, if the arc is part of a great circle (or great ellipse), it is called a great arc.
Every pair of distinct points on a circle determines two arcs. If the two points are not directly opposite each other, one of these arcs, the minor arc, will subtend an angle at the centre of the circle that is less than π radians (180 degrees), and the other arc, the major arc, will subtend an angle greater than π radians.
1 Circular arcs
1.1 Length of an arc of a circle
1.2 Arc sector area
1.3 Arc segment area
1.4 Arc radius
2 Parabolic arcs
Circular arcs[edit]
Length of an arc of a circle[edit]
See also: Arc length § Arcs of circles
The length (more precisely, arc length) of an arc of a circle with radius r and subtending an angle θ (measured in radians) with the circle center — i.e., the central angle — is
L = θ r . {\displaystyle L=\theta r.}
This is because
L c i r c u m f e r e n c e = θ 2 π . {\displaystyle {\frac {L}{\mathrm {circumference} }}={\frac {\theta }{2\pi }}.}
Substituting in the circumference
L 2 π r = θ 2 π , {\displaystyle {\frac {L}{2\pi r}}={\frac {\theta }{2\pi }},}
and, with α being the same angle measured in degrees, since θ = α/180π, the arc length equals
L = α π r 180 . {\displaystyle L={\frac {\alpha \pi r}{180}}.}
A practical way to determine the length of an arc in a circle is to plot two lines from the arc's endpoints to the center of the circle, measure the angle where the two lines meet the center, then solve for L by cross-multiplying the statement:
measure of angle in degrees/360° = L/circumference.
For example, if the measure of the angle is 60 degrees and the circumference is 24 inches, then
60 360 = L 24 360 L = 1440 L = 4. {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\frac {60}{360}}&={\frac {L}{24}}\\360L&=1440\\L&=4.\end{aligned}}}
This is so because the circumference of a circle and the degrees of a circle, of which there are always 360, are directly proportional.
The upper half of a circle can be parameterized as
y = r 2 − x 2 . {\displaystyle y={\sqrt {r^{2}-x^{2}}}.}
Then the arc length from x = a {\displaystyle x=a} to x = b {\displaystyle x=b} is
L = r [ arcsin ( x r ) ] a b . {\displaystyle L=r{\Big [}\arcsin \left({\frac {x}{r}}\right){\Big ]}_{a}^{b}.}
Arc sector area[edit]
The area of the sector formed by an arc and the center of a circle (bounded by the arc and the two radii drawn to its endpoints) is
A = r 2 θ 2 . {\displaystyle A={\frac {r^{2}\theta }{2}}.}
The area A has the same proportion to the circle area as the angle θ to a full circle:
A π r 2 = θ 2 π . {\displaystyle {\frac {A}{\pi r^{2}}}={\frac {\theta }{2\pi }}.}
We can cancel π on both sides:
A r 2 = θ 2 . {\displaystyle {\frac {A}{r^{2}}}={\frac {\theta }{2}}.}
By multiplying both sides by r2, we get the final result:
A = 1 2 r 2 θ . {\displaystyle A={\frac {1}{2}}r^{2}\theta .}
Using the conversion described above, we find that the area of the sector for a central angle measured in degrees is
A = α 360 π r 2 . {\displaystyle A={\frac {\alpha }{360}}\pi r^{2}.}
Arc segment area[edit]
The area of the shape bounded by the arc and the straight line between its two end points is
1 2 r 2 ( θ − sin θ ) . {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{2}}r^{2}\left(\theta -\sin {\theta }\right).}
To get the area of the arc segment, we need to subtract the area of the triangle, determined by the circle's center and the two end points of the arc, from the area A {\displaystyle A} . See Circular segment for details.
Arc radius[edit]
The product of the line segments AP and PB equals the product of the line segments CP and PD. If the arc has a width AB and height CP, then the circle's diameter C D = A P ⋅ P B C P + C P {\displaystyle CD={\frac {AP\cdot PB}{CP}}+CP}
Using the intersecting chords theorem (also known as power of a point or secant tangent theorem) it is possible to calculate the radius r of a circle given the height H and the width W of an arc:
Consider the chord with the same endpoints as the arc. Its perpendicular bisector is another chord, which is a diameter of the circle. The length of the first chord is W, and it is divided by the bisector into two equal halves, each with length W/2. The total length of the diameter is 2r, and it is divided into two parts by the first chord. The length of one part is the sagitta of the arc, H, and the other part is the remainder of the diameter, with length 2r − H. Applying the intersecting chords theorem to these two chords produces
H ( 2 r − H ) = ( W 2 ) 2 , {\displaystyle H(2r-H)=\left({\frac {W}{2}}\right)^{2},}
whence
2 r − H = W 2 4 H , {\displaystyle 2r-H={\frac {W^{2}}{4H}},}
r = W 2 8 H + H 2 . {\displaystyle r={\frac {W^{2}}{8H}}+{\frac {H}{2}}.}
Parabolic arcs[edit]
For properties of arcs of parabolas (length, enclosed area), see Parabola.
Biarc
Circular-arc graph
Meridian arc
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Circle arcs.
Table of contents for Math Open Reference Circle pages
Math Open Reference page on circular arcs With interactive animation
Math Open Reference page on Radius of a circular arc or segment With interactive animation
Weisstein, Eric W. "Arc". MathWorld.
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This article is about the international treaty. For the research concept acknowledging the use of another's ideas, see Citation. For other uses, see CITE and Citation (disambiguation).
"Washington Convention" redirects here. For the 1966 Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes, see International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
Logo of the 40th anniversary of CITES
3 March 1973 (1973-03-03)
10 ratifications
Government of the Swiss Confederation
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora at Wikisource
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals. It was drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The convention was opened for signature in 1973 and CITES entered into force on 1 July 1975. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species in the wild, and it accords varying degrees of protection to more than 35,000 species of animals and plants. In order to ensure that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was not violated, the Secretariat of GATT was consulted during the drafting process.[1]
As of 2018[update], Secretary-General of the CITES Secretariat is Ivonne Higuero.[2]
1 Background and operation
2 Ratifications
3 Regulation of trade
4 Appendices
4.1 Appendix I
4.2 Appendix II
4.3 Appendix III
5 Amendments and reservations
6 Shortcomings and concerns
6.1 Approach to biodiversity conservation
6.2 Drafting
6.3 Reform suggestions
6.4 TRAFFIC Data
7 Meetings
Background and operation[edit]
CITES is one of the largest and oldest conservation and sustainable use agreements in existence. Participation is voluntary, and countries that have agreed to be bound by the Convention are known as Parties. Although CITES is legally binding on the Parties, it does not take the place of national laws. Rather it provides a framework respected by each Party, which must adopt their own domestic legislation to implement CITES at the national level. Often, domestic legislation is either non-existent (especially in Parties that have not ratified it), or with penalties with the gravity of the crime and insufficient deterrents to wildlife traders.[3] As of 2002, 50% of Parties lacked one or more of the four major requirements for a Party: designation of Management and Scientific Authorities; laws prohibiting the trade in violation of CITES; penalties for such trade; laws providing for the confiscation of specimens.[4]
Funding for the activities of the Secretariat and Conference of the Parties (CoP) meetings comes from a Trust Fund derived from Party contributions. Trust Fund money is not available to Parties to improve implementation or compliance. These activities, and all those outside Secretariat activities (training, species specific programmes such as Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants - MIKE) must find external funding, mostly from donor countries and regional organizations such as the European Union.
Although the Convention itself does not provide for arbitration or dispute in the case of noncompliance, 36 years of CITES in practice has resulted in several strategies to deal with infractions by Parties. The Secretariat, when informed of an infraction by a Party, will notify all other parties. The Secretariat will give the Party time to respond to the allegations and may provide technical assistance to prevent further infractions. Other actions the Convention itself does not provide for but that derive from subsequent COP resolutions may be taken against the offending Party. These include:
Mandatory confirmation of all permits by the Secretariat
Suspension of cooperation from the Secretariat
A formal warning
A visit by the Secretariat to verify capacity
Recommendations to all Parties to suspend CITES related trade with the offending party[5]
Dictation of corrective measures to be taken by the offending Party before the Secretariat will resume cooperation or recommend resumption of trade
Bilateral sanctions have been imposed on the basis of national legislation (e.g. the USA used certification under the Pelly Amendment to get Japan to revoke its reservation to hawksbill turtle products in 1991, thus reducing the volume of its exports).
Infractions may include negligence with respect to permit issuing, excessive trade, lax enforcement, and failing to produce annual reports (the most common).
Originally, CITES addressed depletion resulting from demand for luxury goods such as furs in Western countries, but with the rising wealth of Asia, particularly in China, the focus changed to products demanded there, particularly those used for luxury goods such as ivory or shark fins or for superstitious purposes such as rhinoceros horn. As of 2013 the demand was massive and had expanded to include thousands of species previously considered unremarkable and in no danger of extinction such as manta rays or pangolins.[6]
Ratifications[edit]
Parties to the treaty. Greenland is covered by CITES regulations through Denmark.[7]
The text of the Convention was finalized at a meeting of representatives of 80 countries in Washington, D.C., United States, on 3 March 1973. It was then open for signature until 31 December 1974. It entered into force after the 10th ratification by a signatory country, on 1 July 1975. Countries that signed the Convention become Parties by ratifying, accepting or approving it. By the end of 2003, all signatory countries had become Parties. States that were not signatories may become Parties by acceding to the Convention. As of October 2016, the Convention has 183 parties, including 182 states and the European Union.[8]
The CITES Convention includes provisions and rules for trade with non-Parties. All member states of the United Nations are party to the treaty, with the exception of Andorra, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Federated States of Micronesia, Haiti, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, South Sudan, East Timor, Tonga, Turkmenistan, and Tuvalu. UN observer the Holy See is also not a member. The Faroe Islands, an autonomous country in the Kingdom of Denmark, is also treated as a non-Party to CITES (both the Danish mainland and Greenland are part of CITES).[7][9]
An amendment to the text of the Convention, known as the Gaborone Amendment[10] allows regional economic integration organizations (REIO), such as the European Union, to have the status of a member state and to be a Party to the Convention. The REIO can vote at CITES meetings with the number of votes representing the number of members in the REIO, but it does not have an additional vote.
In accordance with Article XVII, paragraph 3, of the CITES Convention, the Gaborone Amendment entered into force on 29 November 2013, 60 days after 54 (two-thirds) of the 80 States that were party to CITES on 30 April 1983 deposited their instrument of acceptance of the amendment. At that time it entered into force only for those States that had accepted the amendment. The amended text of the Convention will apply automatically to any State that becomes a Party after 29 November 2013. For States that became party to the Convention before that date and have not accepted the amendment, it will enter into force 60 days after they accept it.[11]
Regulation of trade[edit]
CITES works by subjecting international trade in specimens of selected species to certain controls. All import, export, re-export and introduction from the sea of species covered by the Convention has to be authorized through a licensing system. According to Article IX of the Convention, Management and Scientific Authorities, each Party to the Convention must designate one or more Management Authorities in charge of administering that licensing system and one or more Scientific Authorities to advise them on the effects of trade on the status of CITES-listed species.
Appendices[edit]
Roughly 5,000 species of animals and 29,000 species of plants are protected by CITES against over-exploitation through international trade. Each protected species or population is included in one of three lists, called appendices[12][13] (explained below). The Appendix that lists a species or population reflects the extent of the threat to it and the controls that apply to the trade.
Species may be split-listed meaning that some populations of a species are on one Appendix, while some are on another. Some people argue that this is risky as specimens from a more protected population could be 'laundered' through the borders of a Party whose population is not as strictly protected. The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is currently split-listed, with all populations except those of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe listed in Appendix I. Those of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe are listed in Appendix II. Listing the species over the whole of its range would prevent such 'laundering' but also restricts trade in wildlife products by range states with good management practices. There are also species that have only some populations listed in an Appendix. One example is the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), a ruminant native to North America. Its Mexican population is listed in Appendix I, but its U.S. and Canadian populations are not listed (though certain U.S. populations in Arizona are nonetheless protected under the Endangered Species Act).
Species are proposed for inclusion in or deletion from the Appendices at meetings of the Conference of the Parties (CoP), which are held approximately once every three years, the most recent of which was CoP (CoP 17) in Johannesburg, South Africa from 24 September to 5 October 2016 at the Sandton Convention Center.[14]
Species in the Appendices may be proposed for addition, change of Appendix, or de-listing (i.e., deletion) by any Party, whether or not it is a range State and changes may be made despite objections by range States if there is sufficient (2/3 majority) support for the listing. These discussions are usually among the most contentious at CoP meetings.
There has been increasing willingness within the Parties to allow for trade in products from well-managed populations. For instance, sales of the South African white rhino have generated revenues that helped pay for protection. Listing the species on Appendix I increased the price of rhino horn (which fueled more poaching), but the species survived wherever there was adequate on-the-ground protection. Thus field protection may be the primary mechanism that saved the population, but it is likely that field protection would not have been increased without CITES protection.[15]
Appendix I[edit]
Appendix I, about 1200 species, are species that are threatened with extinction and are or may be affected by trade. Commercial trade in wild-caught specimens of these species is illegal (permitted only in exceptional licensed circumstances). Captive-bred animals or cultivated plants of Appendix I species are considered Appendix II specimens, with concomitant requirements (see below and Article VII). The Scientific Authority of the exporting country must make a non-detriment finding, assuring that export of the individuals will not adversely affect the wild population. Any trade in these species requires export and import permits. The Management Authority of the exporting state is expected to check that an import permit has been secured and that the importing state is able to care for the specimen adequately. Notable animal species listed in Appendix I include the red panda (Ailurus fulgens), western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), the chimpanzee species (Pan spp.), tigers (Panthera tigris subspecies), Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica), leopards (Panthera pardus), jaguar (Panthera onca), cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), some populations of African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), the dugong and manatees (Sirenia), and all rhinoceros species (except some Southern African subspecies populations).[16]
Appendix II[edit]
Appendix II, about 21,000 species, are species that are not necessarily threatened with extinction, but may become so unless trade in specimens of such species is subject to strict regulation in order to avoid utilization incompatible with the survival of the species in the wild. In addition, Appendix II can include species similar in appearance to species already listed in the Appendices. International trade in specimens of Appendix II species may be authorized by the granting of an export permit or re-export certificate. In practice, many hundreds of thousands of Appendix II animals are traded annually.[17] No import permit is necessary for these species under CITES, although some Parties do require import permits as part of their stricter domestic measures. A non-detriment finding and export permit are required by the exporting Party.[16]
In addition, Article VII of CITES states that specimens of animals listed in Appendix I that are bred in captivity for commercial purposes are treated as Appendix II. The same applies for specimens of Appendix I plants artificially propagated for commercial purposes.[18]
Examples of species listed on Appendix II are the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), the American black bear (Ursus americanus), Hartmann's mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae), green iguana (Iguana iguana), queen conch (Strombus gigas), Emperor scorpion (Pandinus imperator), Mertens' water monitor (Varanus mertensi), bigleaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) and lignum vitae "ironwood" (Guaiacum officinale).
Appendix III[edit]
Appendix III, about 170 species, are species that are listed after one member country has asked other CITES Parties for assistance in controlling trade in a species. The species are not necessarily threatened with extinction globally. In all member countries, trade in these species is only permitted with an appropriate export permit and a certificate of origin from the state of the member country who has listed the species.[16]
Examples of species listed on Appendix III and the countries that listed them are the two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) by Costa Rica, sitatunga (Tragelaphus Spekii) by Ghana, African civet (Civettictis civetta) by Botswana, and alligator snapping turtle by the USA.
Amendments and reservations[edit]
Amendments to the Convention must be supported by a two-thirds majority who are "present and voting" and can be made during an extraordinary meeting of the COP if one-third of the Parties are interested in such a meeting. The Gaborone Amendment (1983) allows regional economic blocs to accede to the treaty. Reservations (Article XXIII) can be made by any Party with respect to any species, which considerably weakens the treaty (see [1] for current reservations). Trade with non-Party states is allowed, although permits and certificates are recommended to be issued by exporters and sought by importers.
Notable reservations include those by Iceland, Japan and Norway on various baleen whale species and those on Falconiformes by Saudi Arabia.[19]
Shortcomings and concerns[edit]
Approach to biodiversity conservation[edit]
General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use (which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity), although this has been changing (see Nile crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000). It does not explicitly address market demand.[20] Funding does not provide for increased on-the-ground enforcement (it must apply for bilateral aid for most projects of this nature).
Drafting[edit]
By design, CITES regulates and monitors trade in the manner of a "negative list" such that trade in all species is permitted and unregulated unless the species in question appears on the Appendices or looks very much like one of those taxa. Then and only then, trade is regulated or constrained. Because the remit of the Convention covers millions of species of plants and animals, and tens of thousands of these taxa are potentially of economic value, in practice this negative list approach effectively forces CITES signatories to expend limited resources on just a select few, leaving many species to be traded with neither constraint nor review. For example, recently several bird classified as threatened with extinction appeared in the legal wild bird trade because the CITES process never considered their status. If a "positive list" approach were taken, only species evaluated and approved for the positive list would be permitted in trade, thus lightening the review burden for member states and the Secretariat, and also preventing inadvertent legal trade threats to poorly known species.
Specific weaknesses in the text include: it does not stipulate guidelines for the 'non-detriment' finding required of national Scientific Authorities; non-detriment findings require copious amounts of information; the 'household effects' clause is often not rigid enough/specific enough to prevent CITES violations by means of this Article (VII); non-reporting from Parties means Secretariat monitoring is incomplete; and it has no capacity to address domestic trade in listed species.
Reform suggestions[edit]
Suggestions for improvement in the operation of CITES include: more regular missions by the Secretariat (not reserved just for high-profile species); improvement of national legislation and enforcement; better reporting by Parties (and the consolidation of information from all sources-NGOs, TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network and Parties); more emphasis on enforcement-including a technical committee enforcement officer; the development of CITES Action Plans (akin to Biodiversity Action Plans related to the Convention on Biological Diversity) including: designation of Scientific/Management Authorities and national enforcement strategies; incentives for reporting and timelines for both Action Plans and reporting. CITES would benefit from access to Global Environment Facility (GEF), funds-although this is difficult given the GEFs more ecosystem approach-or other more regular funds. Development of a future mechanism similar to that of the Montreal Protocol (developed nations contribute to a fund for developing nations) could allow more funds for non-Secretariat activities.[4]
On 15 July 2008, the Committee of Environmental Insecticides that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country. The amounts to be sold comprise approximately 44 tons from Botswana, 9 tons from Namibia, 51 tons from South Africa, and 4 tons from Zimbabwe. The Chinese government in 2003 acknowledged that it had lost track of 121 tons of ivory between 1991 and 2002.
TRAFFIC Data[edit]
From 2005 – 2009 the legal trade corresponded with these numbers
317,000 live birds
More than 2 million live reptiles
2.5 million crocodile skins
2.1 million snake skins
73 tons of caviar
1.1 million beaver skins
Millions of pieces of coral
20,000 mammalian hunting trophies
In the 1990s the annual trade of legal animal products was $160 billion annually. In 2009 the estimated value almost doubled to $300 billion.[21]
Meetings[edit]
The Conference of the Parties (CoP) is held once every three years. The last Conference of the Parties (CoP 17) was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the one before it (CoP 16) was held in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2013. The next one (CoP 18) will be in Sri Lanka in May 2019. The location of the next CoP is chosen at the close of each CoP by a secret ballot vote.
The CITES Committees (Animals Committee, Plants Committee and Standing Committee) hold meetings during each year that does not have a CoP, while the Standing committee meets also in years with a CoP. The Committee meetings take place in Geneva, Switzerland (where the Secretariat of the CITES Convention is located), unless another country offers to host the meeting. The Secretariat is administered by UNEP. The Animals and Plants Committees have sometimes held joint meetings. The previous joint meeting was held in March 2012 in Dublin, Ireland, and the latest one was held in Veracruz, Mexico in May 2014.
Bern Switzerland 2–6 November 1976
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Fort Lauderdale United States 7–18 November 1994
Harare Zimbabwe 9–20 June 1997
Gigiri Kenya 10–20 April 2000
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Doha Qatar 13–25 March 2010
Bangkok Thailand 3–14 March 2013
Johannesburg South Africa 24 September – 5 October 2016
Colombo Sri Lanka 2019
A current list of upcoming meetings appears on the CITES calendar at http://www.cites.org/eng/news/calendar.php.
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Hawker Typhoon
This article is about the Second World War piston-powered fighter aircraft. For the later jet-powered fighter aircraft, see Eurofighter Typhoon.
"Tiffy" redirects here. For other uses, see Tifi.
Typhoon Ib EK139 N "Dirty Dora" of 175 Sqn. being armed with "500 lb" concrete practice bombs in late 1943.
Fighter-bomber
Sydney Camm
Primary users
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal New Zealand Air Force
Number built
3,317[1][2]
Hawker Tornado
Hawker Tempest
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The Hawker Typhoon (Tiffy in RAF slang) is a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft. It was intended to be a medium–high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement.[3]
The Typhoon was originally designed to mount twelve .303 inch (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns and be powered by the latest 2,000 hp engines. Its service introduction in mid-1941 was plagued with problems and for several months the aircraft faced a doubtful future.[3] When the Luftwaffe brought the formidable Focke-Wulf Fw 190 into service in 1941, the Typhoon was the only RAF fighter capable of catching it at low altitudes; as a result it secured a new role as a low-altitude interceptor.[4]
The Typhoon became established in roles such as night-time intruder and long-range fighter.[5] From late 1942 the Typhoon was equipped with bombs and from late 1943 RP-3 rockets were added to its armoury. With those weapons and its four 20mm Hispano autocannons, the Typhoon became one of the Second World War's most successful ground-attack aircraft.[6]
1 Design and development
1.2 Prototypes
2 Operational service
2.1 Low-level interceptor
2.2 Switch to ground attack
2.3 Captured Typhoons
3 Modifications 1941–1945
3.1 Carbon monoxide seepage
3.2 Tail
3.3 Canopy
3.4 Long-range fighter and fighter-bomber
3.5 Sub-variants
4 Flight characteristics
5 Operators
6 Surviving aircraft
6.1 Memorial
7 Specifications (Typhoon Mk Ib)
9.2 Citations
Design and development[edit]
The unarmed first prototype Typhoon P5212 taken just before its first flight. The prototype had a small tail unit and a solid fairing behind the cockpit, which was fitted with "car door" style access hatches; no inner wheel doors were fitted and the Sabre engine used three exhaust stubs either side of the cowling.
Even before Hurricane production began in March 1937, Sydney Camm had embarked on designing its successor. Two preliminary designs were similar and were larger than the Hurricane. These later became known as the "N" and "R" (from the initial of the engine manufacturers), because they were designed for the newly developed Napier Sabre and Rolls-Royce Vulture engines respectively.[7] Both engines used 24 cylinders and were designed for over 2,000 hp (1,500 kW); the difference between the two was primarily in the arrangement of the cylinders – an H-block in the Sabre and an X-block in the Vulture.[8] Hawker submitted these preliminary designs in July 1937 but were advised to wait until a formal specification for a new fighter was issued.[8]
In March 1938, Hawker received from the Air Ministry, Specification F.18/37 for a fighter which would be able to achieve at least 400 mph (640 km/h) at 15,000 feet (4,600 m) and specified a British engine with a two-speed supercharger. The armament fitted was to be twelve .303 inch Browning machine guns with 500 rounds per gun, with a provision for alternative combinations of weaponry.[9] Camm and his design team started formal development of the designs and construction of prototypes.[8][nb 1]
The basic design of the Typhoon was a combination of traditional Hawker construction (such as used in the earlier Hawker Hurricane) and more modern construction techniques; the front fuselage structure, from the engine mountings to the rear of the cockpit, was made up of bolted and welded duralumin or steel tubes covered with skin panels, while the rear fuselage was a flush-riveted, semi-monocoque structure.[8][nb 2] The forward fuselage and cockpit skinning was made up of large, removable duralumin panels, allowing easy external access to the engine and engine accessories and most of the important hydraulic and electrical equipment.[12][13]
The wing had a span of 41 feet 7 inches (12.67 m), with a wing area of 279 sq ft (29.6 sq m).[14] It was designed with a small amount of inverted gull wing bend; the inner sections had a 1° anhedral, while the outer sections, attached just outboard of the undercarriage legs, had a dihedral of 5½°.[8] The airfoil was a NACA 22 wing section, with a thickness-to-chord ratio of 19.5% at the root tapering to 12% at the tip.[15]
The wing possessed great structural strength, provided plenty of room for fuel tanks and a heavy armament, while allowing the aircraft to be a steady gun platform.[16] Each of the inner wings incorporated two fuel tanks; the "main" tanks, housed in a bay outboard and to the rear of the main undercarriage bays, had a capacity of 40 gallons; while the "nose" tanks, built into the wing leading edges, forward of the main spar, had a capacity of 37 gallons each.[12][17] Also incorporated into the inner wings were inward-retracting landing gear with a wide track of 13 ft 6¾ in.[18]
By contemporary standards, the new design's wing was very "thick", similar to the Hurricane before it. Although the Typhoon was expected to achieve over 400 mph (640 km/h) in level flight at 20,000 ft, the thick wings created a large drag rise and prevented higher speeds than the 410 mph at 20,000 feet (6,100 m) achieved in tests.[19][nb 3] The climb rate and performance above that level was also considered disappointing.[21] When the Typhoon was dived at speeds of over 500 mph (800 km/h), the drag rise caused buffeting and trim changes. These compressibility problems led to Camm designing the Typhoon II, later known as the Tempest, which used much thinner wings with a laminar flow airfoil.[22]
Prototypes[edit]
The second prototype P5216 in the standard RAF camouflage of 1941, possibly with yellow undersurfaces. The retractable tailwheel and main wheels now had doors fitted. Six exhaust stubs and the later standardised four cannon armament were other changes from P5212.
The first flight of the first Typhoon prototype, P5212, made by Hawker's Chief test Pilot Philip Lucas from Langley, was delayed until 24 February 1940 because of the problems with the development of the Sabre engine. Although unarmed for its first flights, P5212 later carried 12 .303 in (7.7 mm) Brownings, set in groups of six in each outer wing panel; this was the armament fitted to the first 110 Typhoons, known as the Typhoon IA.[3][nb 4] P5212 also had a small tail-fin, triple exhaust stubs and no wheel doors fitted to the centre-section.[7] On 9 May 1940 the prototype had a mid-air structural failure, at the join between the forward fuselage and rear fuselage, just behind the pilot's seat. Philip Lucas could see daylight through the split but instead of bailing out, landed the Typhoon and was later awarded the George Medal.[23][24]
On 15 May, the Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, ordered that resources should be concentrated on the production of five main aircraft types (the Spitfire and Hurricane fighters and the Whitley, Wellington and Blenheim bombers). As a result, development of the Typhoon was slowed, production plans were postponed and test flying continued at a reduced rate.[25]
As a result of the delays the second prototype, P5216, first flew on 3 May 1941: P5216 carried an armament of four belt-fed 20 mm (0.79 in) Hispano Mk II cannon, with 140 rounds per gun and was the prototype of the Typhoon IB series.[3] In the interim between construction of the first and second prototypes, the Air Ministry had given Hawker an instruction to proceed with the construction of 1,000 of the new fighters. It was felt that the Vulture engine was more promising, so the order covered 500 Tornadoes and 250 Typhoons, with the balance to be decided once the two had been compared. It was also decided that because Hawker was concentrating on Hurricane production, the Tornado would be built by Avro and Gloster would build the Typhoons at Hucclecote.[23] Avro and Gloster were aircraft companies within the Hawker Siddeley group. As a result of good progress by Gloster, the first production Typhoon R7576 was first flown on 27 May 1941 by Michael Daunt, just over three weeks after the second prototype.[3]
Operational service[edit]
Low-level interceptor[edit]
A Mark IB Typhoon US-A in April 1943. It was flown by Squadron Leader T.H.V Pheloung (New Zealand).[26][nb 5] An 18-inch-wide (460 mm) yellow recognition stripe is visible on the upper wing.
In 1941, the Spitfire Vs, which equipped the bulk of Fighter Command squadrons, were outclassed by the new Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and suffered many losses. The Typhoon was rushed into service with Nos. 56 and 609 Squadrons in late 1941, to counter the Fw 190. This decision proved to be a disaster and several Typhoons were lost due to unknown causes and the Air Ministry began to consider halting production of the type.
In August 1942, Hawker's second test pilot, Ken Seth-Smith, while deputising for Chief Test Pilot Philip Lucas, carried out a straight and level speed test from Hawker's test centre at Langley, and the aircraft broke up over Thorpe, killing the pilot. Sydney Camm and the design team immediately ruled out pilot error, which had been suspected in earlier crashes. Investigation revealed that the elevator mass-balance had torn away from the fuselage structure. Intense flutter developed, the structure failed and the tail broke away. Modification 286 to the structure and the control runs partially solved the structural problem. (The 1940 Philip Lucas test flight incident had been due to an unrelated failing.) Mod 286, which involved fastening external fishplates, or reinforcing plates, around the tail of the aircraft, and eventually internal strengthening, was only a partial remedy, and there were still failures right up to the end of the Typhoon's service life. The Sabre engine was also a constant source of problems, notably in colder weather, when it was very difficult to start, and it suffered problems with wear of its sleeve valves, with consequently high oil consumption. The 24-cylinder engine also produced a very high-pitched engine note, which pilots found very fatiguing.
The Typhoon did not begin to mature as a reliable aircraft until the end of 1942, when its excellent qualities — seen from the start by S/L Roland Beamont of 609 Squadron — became apparent. Beamont had worked as a Hawker production test pilot while resting from operations, and had stayed with Seth-Smith, having his first flight in the aircraft at that time. During late 1942 and early 1943, the Typhoon squadrons were based on airfields near the south and south-east coasts of England and, alongside two Spitfire XII squadrons, countered the Luftwaffe's "tip and run" low-level nuisance raids, shooting down a score or more bomb-carrying Fw 190s. Typhoon squadrons kept at least one pair of aircraft on standing patrols over the south coast, with another pair kept at "readiness" (ready to take off within two minutes) throughout daylight hours. These sections of Typhoons flew at 500 feet (150 m) or lower, with enough height to spot and then intercept the incoming enemy fighter-bombers. The Typhoon finally proved itself in this role; for example, while flying patrols against these low-level raids, 486(NZ) Squadron claimed 20 fighter-bombers, plus three bombers shot down, between mid-October 1942 and mid-July 1943.[27][nb 6]
The first two Messerschmitt Me 210 fighter-bombers to be destroyed over the British Isles fell to the guns of Typhoons in August 1942.[29] During a daylight raid by the Luftwaffe on London on 20 January 1943, four Bf 109G-4s and one Fw 190A-4 of JG 26 were destroyed by Typhoons.[30] As soon as the aircraft entered service, it was apparent the profile of the Typhoon resembled a Fw 190 from some angles, which caused more than one friendly fire incident involving Allied anti-aircraft units and other fighters. This led to Typhoons first being marked up with all-white noses, and later with high visibility black and white stripes under the wings, a precursor of the markings applied to all Allied aircraft on D-Day.
Switch to ground attack[edit]
Rare wartime colour photograph of an unidentified Typhoon in 1943 showing the black and white indentification stripes under the wings
By 1943, the RAF needed a ground attack fighter more than a "pure" fighter and the Typhoon was suited to the role (and less-suited to the pure fighter role than competing aircraft such as the Spitfire Mk IX). The powerful engine allowed the aircraft to carry a load of up to two 1,000 pounds (450 kg) bombs, equal to the light bombers of only a few years earlier. The bomb-equipped aircraft were nicknamed "Bombphoons" and entered service with No. 181 Squadron, formed in September 1942.[31][nb 7]
From September 1943, Typhoons were also armed with four "60 lb" RP-3 rockets under each wing.[nb 8] In October 1943, No. 181 Squadron made the first Typhoon rocket attacks. Although the rocket projectiles were inaccurate and took considerable skill to aim and allow for ballistic drop after firing, "the sheer firepower of just one Typhoon was equivalent to a destroyer's broadside."[33] By the end of 1943, eighteen rocket-equipped Typhoon squadrons formed the basis of the RAF Second Tactical Air Force (2nd TAF) ground attack arm in Europe. In theory, the rocket rails and bomb-racks were interchangeable; in practice, to simplify supply, some 2nd TAF Typhoon squadrons (such as 198 Squadron) used the rockets only, while other squadrons were armed exclusively with bombs (this also allowed individual units to more finely hone their skills with their assigned weapons).[34]
By the Normandy landings in June 1944, 2 TAF had eighteen operational squadrons of Typhoon IBs, while RAF Fighter Command had a further nine.[35] The aircraft proved itself to be the most effective RAF tactical strike aircraft, on interdiction raids against communications and transport targets deep in North Western Europe prior to the invasion and in direct support of the Allied ground forces after D-Day. A system of close liaison with the ground troops was set up by the RAF and army: RAF radio operators in vehicles equipped with VHF R/T travelled with the troops close to the front line and called up Typhoons operating in a "Cab Rank", which attacked the targets, marked for them by smoke shells fired by mortar or artillery, until they were destroyed.[36]
198 Sqn. Typhoons on airfield B10/Plumetot, France, in July 1944. MN526 TP-V has the larger Tempest tailplane and a four-bladed propeller. A heavy dust cloud has been stirred up by the taxiing aircraft.
Against some of the Wehrmacht's heavier tanks, the rockets needed to hit the thin-walled engine compartment or the tracks to have any chance of destroying or disabling the tank. Analysis of destroyed tanks after the Normandy battle showed a "hit-rate" for the air-fired rockets of only 4%.[37] In Operation Goodwood (18 to 21 July), the 2nd Tactical Air Force claimed 257 tanks destroyed.[nb 9] A total of 222 were claimed by Typhoon pilots using rocket projectiles.[38] Once the area was secured, the British "Operational Research Section 2" analysts could confirm only ten out of the 456 knocked out German AFVs found in the area were attributable to Typhoons using rocket projectiles.[38][39]
At Mortain, in the Falaise pocket, a German counter-attack that started on 7 August threatened Patton's break-out from the beachhead; this counter-attack was repulsed by 2nd Tactical Air Force Typhoons and the 9th USAAF. During the course of the battle, pilots of the 2nd Tactical Air Force and 9th USAAF claimed to have destroyed a combined total of 252 tanks.[40] Only 177 German tanks and assault guns participated in the battle and only 46 were lost – of which nine were verified as destroyed by Typhoons, four percent of the total claimed.[41]
The effect on the morale of German troops caught up in a Typhoon RP and cannon attack was decisive, with many tanks and vehicles being abandoned, in spite of superficial damage, such that a signal from the German Army's Chief of Staff stated that the attack had been brought to a standstill by 13:00 '...due to the employment of fighter-bombers by the enemy, and the absence of our own air-support.'[42] The 20 mm cannon also destroyed a large number of (unarmoured) support vehicles, laden with fuel and ammunition for the armoured vehicles.[43] On 10 July at Mortain, flying in support of the US 30th Infantry Division, Typhoons flew 294 sorties in the afternoon that day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 short tons (73 t) of bombs.[44] They engaged the German formations while the US 9th Air Force prevented German fighters from intervening. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, said of the Typhoons; "The chief credit in smashing the enemy's spearhead, however, must go to the rocket-firing Typhoon aircraft of the Second Tactical Air Force... The result of the strafing was that the enemy attack was effectively brought to a halt, and a threat was turned into a great victory."[45]
Another form of attack carried out by Typhoons was "Cloak and Dagger" operations, using intelligence sources to target German HQs. One of the most effective of these was carried out on 24 October 1944, when 146 Typhoon Wing attacked a building in Dordrecht, where senior members of the German 15th Army staff were meeting; 17 staff officers and 36 other officers were killed and the operations of the 15th Army were adversely affected for some time afterwards.[46]
Armourers loading RP-3 rockets with 60 lb High Explosive heads onto steel Mk. I rails. The large hinged gun bay doors are open. The weathered Invasion stripes are on upper and lower wing surfaces, indicating this photo was taken some time in June 1944.
On 24 March 1945, over 400 Typhoons were sent on several sorties each, to suppress German anti-aircraft guns and Wehrmacht resistance to Operation Varsity, the Allied crossing of the Rhine that involved two full divisions of 16,600 troops and 1,770 gliders sent across the river. On 3 May 1945, the Cap Arcona, the Thielbek and the Deutschland, large passenger ships in peacetime now in military service, were sunk in four attacks by RAF Hawker Typhoon 1Bs of No. 83 Group RAF, 2nd Tactical Air Force: the first by 184 Squadron, second by 198 Squadron led by Wing Commander John Robert Baldwin, the third by 263 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Martin T. S. Rumbold and the fourth by 197 Squadron led by Squadron Leader K. J. Harding.[47]
The top-scoring Typhoon ace was Group Captain J. R. Baldwin (609 Squadron and Commanding Officer 198 Squadron, 146 (Typhoon) Wing and 123 (Typhoon) Wing), who claimed 15 aircraft shot down from 1942 to 1944. Some 246 Axis aircraft were claimed by Typhoon pilots during the war.[48]
3,317 Typhoons were built, almost all by Gloster. Hawker developed what was originally an improved Typhoon II, but the differences between it and the Mk I were so great that it was effectively a different aircraft, and was renamed the Hawker Tempest. Once the war in Europe was over Typhoons were quickly removed from front-line squadrons; by October 1945 the Typhoon was no longer in operational use, with many of the wartime Typhoon units such as 198 Squadron being either disbanded or renumbered.[49][50]
Captured Typhoons[edit]
By 1943, with its change of role to ground attack, the Typhoon was constantly operating over enemy territory: inevitably some flyable examples fell into German hands. The first Typhoon to be flown by the Luftwaffe was EJ956 SA-I of 486 (NZ) Sqn. On 23 March 1943, two aircraft flown by F/O Smith and F/S Mawson were on a "Rhubarb" over France.[nb 10] Just as they were crossing the coast at low altitude, Mawson's Typhoon was hit by light flak. He managed to belly-land in a field near Cany-Barville but the aircraft was captured before he could destroy it. The Typhoon was repaired and test flown at Rechlin (a German equivalent to RAE Farnborough), and later served as T9+GK with "Zirkus Rosarius". EJ956 overturned and was written off during a forced landing near Meckelfeld, on 10 August 1944.[26][51] On 14 February 1944, another Typhoon was captured and later flown in Zirkus Rosarius. JP548 of 174 Squadron force landed after engine failure near Blois, France; the pilot, F/O Proddow evaded capture. This Typhoon crashed at Reinsehlen on 29 July 1944, killing Feldwebel Gold.[26]
Modifications 1941–1945[edit]
A Charles E. Brown photo of EK286, "Fiji V, Morris Headstrom Fiji" a brand-new presentation aircraft, at Gloster's Hucclecote airfield, April 1943. The photo gives a clear view of the "car-door" cockpit entry; the rear view mirror under a perspex blister can be seen on the hinged canopy roof.
As was usual with many front line Second World War RAF aircraft, the Typhoon was modified and updated regularly, so that a 1945 production example looked quite different from one built in 1941. In the last months of the war, a number of older aircraft were taken out of storage and overhauled, sometimes seeing active service for the first time; for example, R7771 was from one of the first production batches, built in 1942 with the car-door canopy and other early production features. This Typhoon was delivered to, and served on the Fighter Interception Unit in 1942.[52] In February 1945 R7771 was listed as being in front line service on 182 Sqn.; by then it was fitted with a clear-view "bubble" hood, rocket rails and other late series features.[nb 11]
Carbon monoxide seepage[edit]
The first problem encountered with the Typhoon after its entry into service was the seepage of carbon monoxide fumes into the cockpit. In an attempt to alleviate this, longer exhaust stubs were fitted in November 1941 ("Mod [modification] 239"), and at about the same time the port (left) cockpit doors were sealed. The Pilot's Notes for the Typhoon recommended that "Unless Mod. No. 239 has been embodied it is most important that oxygen be used at all times as a precaution against carbon monoxide poisoning."[54] Despite the modifications, the problem was never entirely solved, and the standard procedure throughout the war was for Typhoon pilots to use oxygen from engine start-up to engine shut down.[55] In addition to carbon monoxide seepage, pilots were experiencing unpleasantly high cockpit temperatures; eventually a ventilation tube helped alleviate, but did not solve the problem. In addition two small, rear opening vents were added below the port side radio hatch, just below the canopy.[nb 12][51]
Tail[edit]
A major problem, afflicting early production Typhoons in particular, was a series of structural failures leading to loss of the entire tail sections of some aircraft, mainly during high-speed dives. Eventually a combination of factors was identified, including harmonic vibration, which could quickly lead to metal fatigue, and a weak transport joint just forward of the horizontal tail unit. The loss of the tailplane of R7692 (having only 11 hours of flight recorded) on 11 August 1942, in the hands of an experienced test pilot (Seth-Smith), caused a major reassessment which concluded that the failure of the bracket holding the elevator mass balance bell crank linkage had allowed unrestrained flutter which led to structural failure of the fuselage at the transport joint.
Starting in September 1942, a steel strap was fitted internally across the rear fuselage transport joint, although this was soon superseded by Mod 286 (modification number 286), in which 20 alloy "fishplates" were riveted externally across the rear fuselage transport joint, while internally some of the rear fuselage frames were strengthened. This was a permanent measure designed to stop rear fuselage structural failures and was introduced on the production line from the 820th aircraft; between December 1942 and March 1943, all Typhoons without Mod 286 were taken out of service and modified. Modified balance weight assemblies were fitted from May 1943. Finally the entire unit was replaced with a redesigned assembly from August 1944.[57]
Although these modifications reduced the numbers of Typhoons being lost due to tail assembly failure, towards the end of the Typhoon's life there were more tail failures, this time caused by a change to the undercarriage latch mechanism in late 1944; in high-speed flight the undercarriage fairings were pulled into the slipstream, creating an uneven airflow over the elevators and rudder resulting in tailplane and then rear fuselage structural failure.[57] In total 25 aircraft were lost and 23 pilots killed due to tail failures.[57]
Canopy[edit]
Late model Typhoon of 440 (RCAF) Squadron. Note the bomb rack under the wing. Rows of five gallon jerrycans dominate the foreground
The Typhoon was first produced with forward-opening "car door" style[nb 13] cockpit doors (complete with wind-down windows), with a transparent "roof" hinged to open to the left. The first 162 Typhoons featured a built-up metal-skinned dorsal fairing behind the pilot's armoured headrest; the mast for the radio aerial protruded through the fairing.[58] From mid- to late 1941 the solid metal aft dorsal fairing was replaced with a transparent structure (later nicknamed "The Coffin Hood"),[57] the pilot's head armour plate was modified to a triangular shape and the side cut-outs were fitted with armoured glass; the first production Typhoon to be fitted with this new structure was R7803. All earlier aircraft were quickly withdrawn and modified. From early 1942 a rear-view mirror was mounted in a perspex blister moulded into the later "car-door" canopy roofs. This modification was not very successful, because the mirror was subject to vibration.[59] Despite the new canopy structure, the pilot's visibility was still restricted by the heavy frames and the clutter of equipment under the rear canopy; from August 1943, as an interim measure, pending the introduction of the new "bubble" canopy and cut-down dorsal fairing, the aerial mast and its associated bracing was removed and replaced with a whip aerial further back on the rear fuselage.[60]
Starting in January 1943, R8809 was used to test a new, clear, one piece sliding "bubble" canopy and its associated new windscreen structure which had slimmer frames which, together with the "cut-down" rear dorsal fairing, provided a far superior all-around field of view to the car-door type. From November 1943 all production aircraft, starting with JR333, were to be so fitted.[59][61] However, the complex modifications required to the fuselage and a long lead time for new components to reach the production line meant that it took some time before the new canopy became standard. To have as many Typhoons of 2nd TAF fitted before "Operation Overlord" conversion kits were produced and Gloster, Hawker and Cunliffe-Owen modified older Typhoons still fitted with the car-door canopy.[62] [nb 14]
Long-range fighter and fighter-bomber[edit]
An early production Typhoon with 45 gallon drop tanks and unfaired cannon; the shallow gull shape of the wing can be seen in this view.
From early 1943 the wings were plumbed and adapted to carry cylindrical 45 imp gal (200 l; 54 US gal) drop tanks,[nb 15] increasing the Typhoon's range from 690 miles (1,110 km) to up to 1,090 miles (1,750 km). This enabled Typhoons to range deep into France, the Netherlands and Belgium. Some units, such as 609 Squadron and 198 Squadron, were able to achieve notable success in air combat and ground attack operations using these long-range Typhoons.[64]
As production continued, the Typhoon's role changed from a low-level interceptor fighter to a fighter bomber. Racks capable of carrying 500-pound (230 kg) bombs were fitted to the wings from October 1942 and were first used operationally by 181 Squadron. By mid-1943, all Typhoons off the production line were capable of carrying bombs. Bigger, solid rubber, grooved "anti-shimmy" tail wheel tyres were introduced in March 1943 on all Typhoons from the 1,001st production aircraft, EK238. The new tyres helped to make heavier, bomb-laden Typhoons more manageable during ground manoeuvres. With the introduction of the bomb racks, small extensions were added to the cannon shell case ejector slots. These allowed the casings to drop clear of bombs or drop tanks suspended from the wing racks.[65] Because of the vulnerability of the Typhoon's liquid-cooled engine cooling system to ground fire, some 780 pounds (350 kg) of armour was added, lining the sides and bottom of the cockpit and engine compartments, as well as the radiator bath.[66]
With the added weight of the bombs and armour, bigger brake discs were fitted to the main wheels. At first this only applied to "Bombphoons", but eventually all Typhoons used these brakes. After tests conducted in 1943, it was determined that the Typhoon was capable of carrying a 1,000-pound (450 kg) bomb under each wing. With the increased load, it was decided that the extra take-off performance conferred by a four-bladed propeller was an advantage. This led to the adoption of a four-bladed propeller unit (de Havilland or Rotol) from early 1944. Coinciding with the new propeller, it was also decided that the larger tailplanes of the Hawker Tempest were to be fitted when tests showed that they improved the handling characteristics of the Typhoon when carrying 1,000-pound (450 kg) bombs.[61][67] Problems were experienced with oil seal leaks from the new propeller unit and a growing number of Typhoons were held in Maintenance Units (MUs) awaiting the arrival of new seals from the U.S. Some 200 Typhoons were manufactured with the new Tempest tails and the three-bladed propeller. A modification programme was inaugurated but it took several months before a majority of operational Typhoons had the four-bladed propeller and enlarged tailplane.[68][nb 16]
In June 1943, Hawker fitted a Typhoon with four steel "Mark I" rocket rails under each wing. Trials at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A & AEE) and Air Fighting Development Unit (AFDU) showed that the combination of the RP-3 rocket and the stable, high-speed platform of the Typhoon was promising. Carrying the eight rails and rockets, it was found that the top speed was reduced by 38 mph (61 km/h), with no adverse handling effects. As a result, the Mk I rails and RP-3s were first fitted to production aircraft of 181 Squadron in October 1943.[71] At first attempts were made to arm Typhoons with either bombs or rockets depending on requirements but it was soon decided that squadrons would specialise. By D-Day, the 2nd TAF was able to field 11 RP ("Rockphoon") Typhoon squadrons and seven "Bombphoon" squadrons.[72]
Later in 1944, attempts were made to increase the firepower by "double banking" rockets on each rail, enabling the Typhoon to carry 16 rockets. The problems involved in operating Typhoons from 2nd TAF airstrips meant that this was not much used, although some Typhoons did fly operationally with 12 rockets, using double-banked rockets on the inner rails.[73] When extra range was required, Typhoons could also operate carrying a drop tank and two rockets outboard of the tank under each wing. From December 1944, aluminium "Mark III" rails, which weighed 240 pounds (110 kg) per set, replaced the steel Mk Is, which weighed 480 pounds (220 kg).[74][nb 17]
In late 1943, Mk III IFF replaced the Mk I and the tailplane tip to fuselage Identification friend or foe (IFF) aerials were replaced by a "bayonet" aerial under the wing's centre section. A Beam Approach Beacon System (Rebecca) transponder unit was fitted in 1944, with the associated aerial appearing under the centre section.
Once Typhoons started operating from forward landing grounds in Normandy, it was found that the dust clouds stirred up by propeller wash consisted of over 80 percent of hard, abrasive material which was damaging the Sabre engines. The sleeve valves in particular were subject to excessive wear and it was calculated that engines would last for three take-offs. As a result, a "dome deflector" was designed and manufactured at great speed by Napier, and within a week most Typhoons had been fitted with it. In operational service these mushroom-shaped air filters, which became red hot, had a propensity for being blown off the air intake at high speed whenever a Sabre engine backfired. They were soon replaced by drum-shaped filters designed by the RAE and Vokes. These had "cuckoo clock" doors in front, which swung open with the pressure changes caused by engine backfires. This standardised filter became Typhoon Mod.420.[76]
At the end of June 1944, a decision was taken to fit tropical air filters as standard, similar to those fitted to the three Typhoons which had been sent to North Africa in 1943. One thousand sets of the filters were to be manufactured and fitted to front line Typhoons as Mod. 421. It was estimated that these could be fitted to all Typhoons on the production lines by the end of September. Research shows that late Typhoons starting in the RB--- series were fitted with the filters, as were some rebuilt aircraft from earlier production batches. Mod. 421 appeared as a streamlined rectangular "hump", just behind the main radiator fairing and between the inner wheel doors, where the updraught carburettor intake was located.[76]
A small, elongated oval static port appeared on the rear starboard fuselage in late 1944. This was apparently used to more accurately measure the aircraft's altitude.
A late production Typhoon of a Canadian squadron with full RP-3 armament, on the later aluminium Mk III rails, using a mix of SAP/HE 60 lb warheads (outermost rail and third) and the HE fragmentation head introduced in early December 1944 (2nd and 4th rail); there are no landing lights on the leading edges of the wings.[77]
One Typhoon, R8694, was used by Napier for trials with the more powerful Sabre IV, cooled using an annular radiator and driving a four-bladed propeller. The new engine and radiator arrangement required substantial modifications to the forward fuselage and engine bearer structures. Although a maximum speed of 452 mph (727 km/h) was claimed by Napier, it was decided that the modifications would not be worthwhile, mainly because of the promising development of the Tempest, and because the disruption to Typhoon production would not be sufficiently outweighed by any benefit achieved.[78][79]
Sub-variants[edit]
In 1943, one Typhoon, R7881 was converted to a prototype night fighter (N.F. Mk. IB), fitted with A.I. (Airborne Interception, i.e., radar) equipment, a special night-flying cockpit and other modifications. Also in 1943, five Typhoons[nb 18] were modified to "Tropical" standard by fitting of an air filter in a fairing behind the main radiator housing. Three[nb 19] underwent trials in Egypt with 451 (RAAF) Squadron during 1943.[26]
The Typhoon FR IB was developed in early 1944 and was used as a tactical reconnaissance fighter. In this version the port inner cannon was removed and three (one forward-facing 14-inch (360 mm) and two vertical five-inch) F24 cameras were carried in its place.[nb 20] Few FR IBs were built, and most served with 268 Squadron, starting in July 1944. The aircraft was never popular with the pilots, who preferred the older Mustang Is and IAs, and the inherent engine and airframe vibrations meant that photos were invariably blurred. As a consequence of these problems, the FR IB was phased out in January 1945.
In 1941, Hawker tendered the Hawker P.1009 "Fleet Fighter" in response to specification N.11/40 for a carrier-based fighter. A new centre section was to be fitted, extending the wingspan to over 45 ft (14 m), and thus increasing the wing area; the wings themselves were to be folding units, which swung and folded parallel to the fuselage, with the leading edges pointing upwards, much like the folding wings on the Grumman F6F Hellcat. The rear fuselage was to be longer and a v-style arrestor hook and associated catapult-launching gear was to be fitted. The design chosen was to result in the postwar Blackburn Firebrand design.[80]
Flight characteristics[edit]
A Hawker Typhoon Mk IB of No. 486 Squadron RAF in flight, in 1943
Flight Lieutenant Ken Trott flew Typhoons with 197 Squadron and recalled:
Rather a large aircraft shall we say, for a single-engine fighter. Terrific power. Quite something to control. I liked it from the point of view of speed and being a very stable gun platform. You could come in on a target at 400 mph and the thing was as steady as a rock.[81]
In early March 1943, at Tangmere, the then new Squadron Leader of 486 (NZ) Squadron, Des Scott, flew a Typhoon for the first time:
She roared, screamed, groaned and whined, but apart from being rather heavy on the controls at high speeds she came through her tests with flying colours...Applying a few degrees of flap we swung on down into the airfield approach, levelled out above the runway and softly eased down on to her two wheels, leaving her tail up until she dropped it of her own accord.
We were soon back in her bay by the dispersal hut, where I turned off the petrol supply cock. After a few moments she ran herself out and with a spit, sob and weary sigh, her great three-bladed propeller came to a stop. So that was it: I was drenched in perspiration and tired out...[82]
The performance limitations for speed were noted on the pilot's notes, published by the Air Ministry. Indicated airspeed for diving was set at 525 mph (845 km/h). The Typhoon could, if needed, be flown at 300 mph (480 km/h) with the cockpit "hood" open. Flight with undercarriage and flaps down could be made without incident, at the respective speeds of 210 and 155 mph (338 and 249 km/h). Owing to stability problems, when the aircraft was carrying bombs, the speed could not exceed 400 mph.[83]
Notes for the management of the fuel system stated that indicated airspeeds (IAS) in excess of 380 mph (610 km/h) were not advisable when fitted with auxiliary drop tanks. Tanks were jettisoned at about 200 mph (320 km/h), but in an emergency, a release at 350 mph (560 km/h) was permitted. Tanks were to be ejected in straight and level flight only.[84] General flying ability was positive. The maximum climbing rate was 185 mph (298 km/h) up to 16,000 ft (4,900 m) reducing speed by 3 mph (4.8 km/h) per 1,000 ft (300 m) above this mark. In stability terms, the aircraft was stable "directionally" and "laterally" but slightly unstable longitudinally, except at high speed, when it was just stable. Aileron control was light and effective up to maximum speed, but at very low speed response was sluggish, particularly when carrying ordnance. The elevator control was rather light and should not be used harshly. There was a tendency to "tighten up" in a looping aircraft. If "black out" conditions were accidentally induced in steep turns or aerobatics, the control column was to be pushed forward "firmly".[85]
Stalling speeds were quite low. The typical Typhoon trait, as with most aircraft at the time, was to drop a wing sharply with flaps either up or down. The stalling speeds varied. The various loads depended on external fittings. All-up weight plus two 500 lb (230 kg) bombs (12,155 lb in total) with flaps up could induce a stall at 90–100 mph. With flaps down, stall was initiated at 70–75 mph. Normal all-up weight (11,120 lb) would see stall at 80–90 and 65–70 mph respectively. With all ammunition and nearly all fuel expended (9,600 lb) stall occurred at 75–80 and 65–70 mph.[86]
Operators[edit]
Main article: List of Hawker Typhoon operators
Surviving aircraft[edit]
Hawker Typhoon MN235 RAF Museum
Hawker Typhoon replica at Memorial de la Paix, Caen
Only one complete Hawker Typhoon still survives – serial number MN235. Originally on display at the National Air and Space Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution) in the United States, it was presented to the RAF Museum in Hendon, North London in commemoration of the RAF's 50th Anniversary in exchange for a Hawker Hurricane. The aircraft was on loan to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Canada.[87] It was briefly on show in the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight hangar at RAF Coningsby,[88] but returned to the Royal Air Force Museum London in November 2018.[89] Several other partial airframes are extant:
Typhoon Ib EJ922 (Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group, Reg Charity No. 1167143, Hawker Typhoon RB396, UK),
Typhoon Ia JR505 (Brian Barnes Collection, UK),
Typhoon Ib JP843 (Typhoon Legacy Co. Ltd., Canada, undergoing long term airworthy restoration; Ex-Roger Marley Collection),
Typhoon Ib RB396 (Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group, Reg Charity No. 1167143, Hawker Typhoon RB396, UK, under restoration; formerly on display at Fort Veldhuis museum, Netherlands) www.hawkertyphoon.com.[90]
Two unidentified cockpit sections are on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, and the Jet Age Museum in Gloucester.
A Hawker Typhoon replica on display at the Memorial de la Paix at Caen, France, was constructed using some original components.
Memorial[edit]
On 9 June 1994, in recognition of the aircraft and crew's role in the liberation of Normandy, a Typhoon memorial was dedicated by Major M. Roland Heudier at Noyers-Bocage, France. Also present at the ceremony were General Yves Paul Ezanno DFC and bar and Squadron Leader Denis Sweeting, both former Squadron Leaders of No. 198 Squadron RAF.[91]
Specifications (Typhoon Mk Ib)[edit]
Data from Mason 1991 unless otherwise stated[92]
Length: 31 ft 11.5 in (9.741 m) [nb 21]
Wingspan: 41 ft 7 in (12.67 m)
Height: 15 ft 4 in (4.67 m) [nb 22]
Wing area: 279 sq ft (25.9 m2)
Airfoil: root: NACA 2219; tip: NACA 2213[93]
Empty weight: 8,840 lb (4,010 kg)
Gross weight: 11,400 lb (5,171 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 13,250 lb (6,010 kg) [nb 23]
Powerplant: 1 × Napier Sabre IIA, IIB or IIC H-24 liquid-cooled sleeve-valve piston engine, 2,180 hp (1,630 kW)
Sabre IIB: 2,200 hp (1,600 kW)
Sabre IIC: 2,260 hp (1,690 kW)
Propellers: 3 or 4-bladed de Havilland or Rotol constant-speed propeller
Maximum speed: 412 mph (663 km/h; 358 kn) at 19,000 ft (5,800 m) with Sabre IIB & 4-bladed propeller[nb 24]
Stall speed: 88 mph (142 km/h; 76 kn) IAS with flaps up
Range: 510 mi (443 nmi; 821 km) [nb 25]
Service ceiling: 35,200 ft (10,700 m)
Rate of climb: 2,740 ft/min (13.9 m/s) [nb 26]
Wing loading: 40.9 lb/sq ft (200 kg/m2)
Power/mass: 0.20 hp/lb (0.33 kW/kg)
Guns: 4 × 20 mm (0.787 in) Hispano Mk II cannon
Rockets: 8 × RP-3 unguided air-to-ground rockets.
Bombs: 2 × 500 lb (230 kg) or 2 × 1,000 lb (450 kg) bombs
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^ The "R" Tornado prototype, which flew before that of the Typhoon, could be identified by its ventral radiator unit and slightly rounder nose profile with a carburettor intake on top of the nose and two sets of exhaust stacks on either side of the engine cowling.[10]
^ The Typhoon and Tornado's forward fuselage structure was a refinement of techniques first developed by Fred Sigrist and Camm in 1925.[11]
^ This was a phenomenon called compressibility and wave drag.[20]
^ Although the four cannon were the preferred armament there was a shortage of the Châtelleraut cannon feed mechanism. Some Typhoon IAs were later converted to IB standard.[3]
^ On 20 June 1943, Sqn Ldr Pheloung flying EK184, US-C, was hit by flak and crashed into the sea while attacking shipping.
^ 486(NZ)Squadron started re-equipping with Typhoons in July 1942, initially using them as night fighters alongside Turbinlite Havocs. However, the Typhoon proved to be too fast for Turbinlite duties and 486 Sqn was quickly reassigned to the day fighter role.[28]
^ The Typhoon's original bomb load of 500 lbs was doubled and then doubled again.[32]
^ A 6-inch-diameter (150 mm), 60 pounds (27 kg) high explosive warhead was the main version used on Typhoons. Also used was solid 25 lb (11 kg), 3.44-inch armour piercing warhead as well as a 25 lb (11 kg) mild steel (later concrete) practice head.
^ The 9th USAAF claimed a further 134 tanks
^ A "Rhubarb" was a small scale attack on enemy ground targets of opportunity. Usually, these were undertaken by a section of two aircraft. Ideally, there would be a heavy cloud base at 2,000–3,000 ft (610–910 m); should fighter opposition be too heavy it would be possible to pull up into the cloud.
^ R7771 is listed as being shot down by flak on 28 February 1945. W/O F. W. Cuthbertson was killed.[53]
^ In April 1943, F/L A. O. Moffet of the RAE Farnborough was attached to 486(NZ) Sqn in response to complaints about the overheated cockpits of the Typhoons. For a fortnight, "Moff" flew operationally with the unit. His tests showed that the cockpit temperatures could reach 135 °F (57 °C).[56]
^ Another aircraft with this sort of door was the Bell P-39 Airacobra
^ It is believed that the first modified Typhoon was R8843 DJ-S, flown by New Zealander Wing Commander Desmond J. Scott, C/O of the Tangmere Wing from September 1943.[63]
^ These same drop tanks used by the Hurricane from 1940.
^ Early in its service life, the Typhoon airframe was prone to a high-frequency vibration while in flight, such that pilots reported that touching the cockpit walls was akin to receiving a mild electric shock.[69] Although not dangerous, it was uncomfortable, and a specially sprung seat was designed and fitted. With the introduction of the four-bladed propeller and larger tailplane it was found that not only was the performance and handling of the Typhoon enhanced, the vibration was much reduced.[70]
^ Starting in June 1944, new production Typhoons had the landing light in the leading edge of the port wing, although most units of 2 TAF omitted this feature and faired over the opening with a metal panel, giving the appearance that all production Typhoons were manufactured without the lights.[75]
^ R8889, R8891, R8925, DN323 and EJ906
^ R8891, DN323 and EJ906
^ Pilots soon discovered that the aircraft yawed to the left when the cannon were fired because the recoil of the two cannon on the starboard wing was not properly balanced by the single cannon to port; as a result the starboard inner cannon was also removed from some aircraft.
^ Late with 4-blade propeller. Early Typhoons were 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) shorter
^ Late production; early Typhoons were 14 ft 10 in (4.52 m) high
^ With two 1,000 pounds (450 kg) bombs
^ The top speed of the Typhoon was reduced by some 15 mph (24 km/h) by the non-jettisonable rocket rails. Rockets and rails reduced the speed by 38 mph (61 km/h).[74]
^ With two 500 lb (230 kg) bombs; 690 mi (600 nmi; 1,110 km) "clean"; 1,090 mi (950 nmi; 1,750 km) with two 45 imp gal (54 US gal; 200 l) drop tanks.[64]
^ F.S supercharger at 3,700 rpm and 14,300 ft (4,360 m)
^ Thomas and Shores 1988, pp. 165–166.
^ Thomas 2000, p. 28.
^ a b c d e f Thomas and Shores 1988, p. 16.
^ Thomas and Shores 1988, pp. 35–36.
^ Thomas and Shores 1988, p. 34.
^ a b Mason 1991, p. 316.
^ a b c d e Thomas and Shores 1988, p. 12.
^ Meekcoms and Morgan 1994, p. 249.
^ Thomas and Shores 1988, pp. 12–13
^ Mason 1991, p. 15.
^ a b Bentley 1975, p. 545.
^ Mason 1991, p. 328.
^ Thomas and Shores 1988, p. 105.
^ Thomas and Shores 1988, pp. 12, 15.
^ Air Ministry 1943/2004, p. 5.
^ Bentley 1975, p. 540.
^ Thomas and Shores 1988, pp. 18, 105.
^ a b Thomas and Shores 1988, p. 13.
^ "No. 35156". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 May 1941. p. 2643.
^ a b c d Thomas and Shores 1988
^ Sortehaug 1998, pp. 339–340.
^ Sortehaug 1998, pp. 23, 30.
^ Ramsay 1990, 165.
^ Caldwell 2012, pp. 15–17.
^ Thomas 2010, p. 9.
^ Gunston 1980, p. 102.
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Joseph C. Wilson
This article is about the diplomat. For others with similar names, see Joseph Wilson (disambiguation). For Republican politician Joe Wilson, see Joe Wilson (American politician).
For more information about the American political scandal involving Joseph C. Wilson and his wife, see Plame affair, CIA leak grand jury investigation, and CIA leak scandal timeline.
United States Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe
September 17, 1992 – August 5, 1995
Keith Leveret Wauchope
Elizabeth Raspolic
Joseph Charles Wilson IV
(1949-11-06) November 6, 1949 (age 69)
Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Valerie Plame Wilson (1998–2017)
Jacqueline Wilson (1986–1998)
Susan Otchis Wilson (1974–1986)
4 (two sets of twins)
(with Valerie Plame Wilson and Susan Otchis Wilson)
University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., 1972)
Strategic management consultant (1998– )
Presidential Special Assistant and NSC Senior Director for African Affairs (1997–1998)
Diplomat (1976–1998)
Joseph Charles Wilson IV (born November 6, 1949) is a former United States diplomat best known for his 2002 trip to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium; his New York Times op-ed piece, "What I Didn't Find in Africa";[1] and the subsequent leaking of information pertaining to the identity of his wife Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. He is the CEO of a consulting firm he founded, JC Wilson International Ventures. In January 2007, Wilson joined Jarch Capital, LLC, as vice chairman.
2 Personal life and family
3 Diplomatic career
4 Subsequent employment
5 Political involvement
6 Trip to Niger
7 "What I Didn't Find in Africa"
8 Administration reactions to disclosure
9 Disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity
10 The Politics of Truth
11 Commentaries
12 Richard Armitage
13 Reactions to the Libby trial and commutation
14 Warner Bros. feature film
15 Civil suit
15.1 Dismissal
15.2 Appeal
16 Honors
Joseph C. Wilson, IV, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1949 to Joseph Charles Wilson, III, and Phyllis (Finnell) Wilson; he grew up in California and Europe (Wilson, The Politics of Truth 32–33).[2] He was raised in a "proud Republican family" in which "there [was] a long tradition of politics and service to the farm" and for which "[p]olitics was a staple around the table" (Wilson, The Politics of Truth 31). His mother's uncle, James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, was mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1912 to 1931 and served as California's governor until his 1934 death in office (The Politics of Truth 31). Wilson's mother's brothers jokingly referred to noted conservative Barry Goldwater as "a bit liberal" (31). Military service was also a strong part of his family history. Both of Wilson's grandfathers served in the two world wars, his paternal grandfather receiving both the British Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre for his service in World War I (32). Wilson's father Joe was a Marine pilot in World War II and narrowly escaped death by taking off immediately before the bombing of the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, in which 700 other American servicemen died (31).
In 1968, Wilson matriculated at the University of California, Santa Barbara, majoring, he once joked, in "history, volleyball, and surfing" and maintaining a "C" average (The Politics of Truth 32). He worked as a carpenter for five years after his 1972 graduation.[3] Later, he became more serious about his education, winning a graduate fellowship and studying public administration.[3] The Vietnam War protests of the late 1960s galvanized Wilson along with much of his generation and "pitted parents against kids in [his] family just as it did in many households around the country" (The Politics of Truth 32).
Personal life and family[edit]
Wilson's first marriage was to his college sweetheart Susan Otchis in 1974 (The Politics of Truth 33). In 1979, the couple had a set of twins, Sabrina Cecile and Joseph Charles V. The marriage ended in an amicable divorce in 1986, toward the end of his service in Burundi. Wilson married his second wife Jacqueline, a French diplomat, raised in Africa, in 1986 (86–89). Though Wilson and Jacqueline began to live separate lives in the 1990s, they did not divorce until 1998 because Wilson "was never in one place long enough to complete the process" (242). Wilson had met Valerie Plame in 1997, while working for President Bill Clinton; they married in 1998, after Wilson's divorce from Jacqueline (242). They had two children, twins Trevor Rolph and Samantha Finnell Diana, born in 2000; the family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2006.[4] Wilson and Plame divorced in 2017.[5]
Diplomatic career[edit]
Diplomatic postings and government positions:[6]
1976–1978: General Services Officer, Niamey, Niger
1978–1979: Administrative Office, Lomé, Togo
1979–1981: Administrative Officer, US State Department, Washington, D.C.
1981–1982: Administrative Officer, Pretoria, South Africa
1982–1985: Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Bujumbura, Burundi
1985–1986: Congressional Fellow, offices of Senator Al Gore and Representative Tom Foley
1986–1988: DCM, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
1988–1991: DCM, Baghdad, Iraq
1992–1995: Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe
1995–1997: Political Advisor (POLAD) to the Commander in Chief of US Armed Forces, Europe (EUCOM), Stuttgart, Germany
1997–1998: Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs, United States National Security Council, Washington, D.C.
Having become fluent in French as a teenager, Wilson entered the US Foreign Service in 1976, where he would be employed until 1998.[6]
From January 1976 through 1998, he was posted in five African nations; as a general services officer in Niamey, Niger, (his first assignment) he was "responsible for keeping the power on and the cars running, among other duties".[3] From 1988 to 1991, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission (to US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie) at the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. In the wake of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, he became the last American diplomat to meet with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, sternly telling him in very clear terms to leave Kuwait (Wilson, The Politics of Truth 107–27). When Hussein sent a note to Wilson (along with other embassy heads in Baghdad) threatening to execute anyone sheltering foreigners in Iraq as a deterrent, Wilson publicly repudiated the President by appearing at a press conference wearing a homemade noose around his neck and declaring, "If the choice is to allow American citizens to be taken hostage or to be executed, I will bring my own fucking rope." [7] Despite Hussein's warnings, Wilson sheltered more than 100 Americans at the embassy and successfully evacuated several thousand people (Americans and other nationals) from Iraq. For his actions, he was called "a true American hero" by President George H. W. Bush.[4] From 1992 to 1995, he served as US ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe.[6]
From 1995 to 1997, Wilson served as Political Advisor (POLAD) to the Commander in Chief of US Armed Forces, Europe (EUCOM), in Stuttgart, Germany. From 1997 until 1998, when he retired, he helped direct Africa policy as Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton and as National Security Council Senior Director for African Affairs.[8]
Subsequent employment[edit]
Since retiring from government service in 1998, Wilson has managed JC Wilson International Ventures Corp., an international business development and management company.[9] Early in 2007, Wilson became vice chairman of Jarch Capital, LLC., to advise the firm on expansion in areas of Africa considered "politically sensitive."[10]
Wilson serves as a guest speaker and panelist in conferences and other programs devoted to African business policies and political affairs, as well as on the matters pertaining to the CIA leak scandal.
Political involvement[edit]
At the midpoint of his career as a diplomat, Wilson served for a year (1985–1986) as a Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Al Gore and Representative Tom Foley; he would later attribute his working for the Democratic Party to "happenstance."[11] That experience helped him gain his position as Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council, in 1997–1998.
Over the years, Wilson has made contributions to the campaigns of Democratic candidates, such as Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Congressman Charles B. Rangel of New York, and to Republican Congressman Ed Royce of California.[12] In 2000, he donated funds both to Gore's and Bush's presidential campaigns.(The Politics of Truth pp. 278–80, 282).[13]
In 2003, Wilson endorsed John Kerry for president and donated to his campaign; in 2003 and 2004, he served as an advisor to and speechwriter for the campaign (410–12).[13][14] Wilson endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2008 US presidential election.[15] He made speeches on her behalf and attended fundraisers for the campaign. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Wilson supported activist groups like Win Without War, a nonpartisan coalition of groups united in opposition to the Iraq War [16] Since the invasion and the publication of his memoir, The Politics of Truth, he has spoken frequently in the public media and at colleges and universities.
Trip to Niger[edit]
In late February 2002, Wilson traveled to Niger at the CIA's request to investigate the possibility that Saddam Hussein had purchased enriched yellowcake uranium. Wilson met with the current US Ambassador to Niger, Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick (1999–2002) at the embassy and then interviewed dozens of officials who had been in the Niger government at the time of the supposed deal. He ultimately concluded: "it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place."[1][a]
Wilson learned that the Iraqis had in fact requested a meeting to discuss "expanding commercial relations" but that Niger's Prime Minister Mayaki had declined, due to concern about U.N. sanctions against Iraq.[notes 1][18][19][20]
"What I Didn't Find in Africa"[edit]
President Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address included these 16 words: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."[21][22] In response, in the July 6, 2003, issue of The New York Times, Wilson contributed an "op-ed" entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa", in which he states that on the basis of his "experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war", he has "little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."[1]
Wilson describes the basis for his mission to Niger as follows: "The vice president's office asked a serious question [about the truth of allegations that Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium yellowcake from Niger]. I was asked to help formulate the answer".[1]
In the last two paragraphs of his op-ed, Wilson relates his perspective to the Bush administration's rationale for the Iraq War:
I was convinced before the war that the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein required a vigorous and sustained international response to disarm him. Iraq possessed and had used chemical weapons; it had an active biological weapons program and quite possibly a nuclear research program—all of which were in violation of United Nations resolutions. Having encountered Mr. Hussein and his thugs in the run-up to the Persian Gulf war of 1991, I was only too aware of the dangers he posed.
But were these dangers the same ones the administration told us about? We have to find out. America's foreign policy depends on the sanctity of its information. For this reason, questioning the selective use of intelligence to justify the war in Iraq is neither idle sniping nor "revisionist history", as Mr. Bush has suggested. The act of war is the last option of a democracy, taken when there is a grave threat to our national security. More than 200 American soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq already. We have a duty to ensure that their sacrifice came for the right reasons.[1]
Administration reactions to disclosure[edit]
At a press conference on Monday, July 7, 2003, the day after the publication of the op-ed, Colin Powell said: "There was sufficient evidence floating around at that time that such a statement was not totally outrageous or not to be believed or not to be appropriately used. It's that once we used the statement, and after further analysis, and looking at other estimates we had, and other information that was coming in, it turned out that the basis upon which that statement was made didn't hold up, and we said so, and we've acknowledged it, and we've moved on." He also said: "the case I put down on the 5th of February [2003], for an hour and 20 minutes, roughly, on terrorism, on weapons of mass destruction, and on the human rights case ... we stand behind"[23]
In a July 11, 2003, statement, CIA director George Tenet, stated that the President, Vice President and other senior administration officials were not briefed on Wilson's report (otherwise widely distributed in the intelligence community) because it "did not resolve whether Iraq was or was not seeking uranium from abroad".[24] In his 2007 memoir, Tenet writes that Wilson's report "produced no solid answers" and "was never delivered to Cheney. In fact, I have no recollection myself of hearing about Wilson's trip at the time."[25]
In the July 11 statement, Tenet also notes that, according to Wilson's report, a former Niger official interpreted an Iraqi approach as an "overture as an attempt to discuss uranium sales."[24] Asked about this the following October, Wilson said that the official in question had declined the meeting, due to U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iraq, but speculated "maybe they might have wanted to talk about uranium".[notes 2]
There has been substantial disagreement about whether Wilson implies in the Op Ed that he was sent to Niger at the request of the vice president, or his office.[26] The implication that Cheney or his office sent Wilson to Niger, whether made by Wilson or the media, was apparently a cause of consternation to vice-presidential aide I. Lewis Libby, who called NBC's Tim Russert to complain.[27] On July 6, 2003, in a Meet the Press interview with Andrea Mitchell, Wilson stated: "The question was asked of the CIA by the office of the vice president. The office of the vice president, I am absolutely convinced, received a very specific response to the question it asked and that response was based upon my trip out there."[28]
Disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity[edit]
Main article: Valerie Plame
The week after the publication of Wilson's New York Times op ed, Robert Novak, in his syndicated Washington Post column, disclosed that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA as an agency operative in an article entitle "Mission to Niger."[17] Subsequently, former Ambassador Wilson and others alleged that the disclosure was part of the Bush administration's attempts to discredit his report about his investigations in Africa and the op-ed describing his findings because they did not support the government's rationale for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Wilson's allegations led to a federal investigation of the leak by the United States Department of Justice, to the appointment of a Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, to the CIA leak grand jury investigation, and to a major American political scandal variously dubbed by the press "Plamegate", the "Plame affair", the "CIA leak scandal", and other terms relating to the public disclosure or "leak" of Mrs. Wilson's then-classified covert CIA identity as "Valerie Plame".
In 2005, retired US Army Major General Paul E. Vallely claimed that former Ambassador Wilson "mentioned Plame's status as a CIA employee" in 2002 [one year before she was allegedly "outed"] in the Fox News Channel's "green room" in Washington, D.C., as they waited to appear on air as analysts.[29]
Although no one was "indicted for actually leaking Plame's identity,"[30] the investigation resulted in the federal criminal trial United States v. Libby in which Lewis Libby, the former Chief of Staff to Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, was tried on five federal felony counts. He was convicted on four of the counts, involving false statements, perjury, and obstruction of justice, none of which related directly to the Plame revelation but rather to his failure to cooperate with the subsequent investigation into the revelation. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and a fine of $250,000.
Libby's prison sentence was commuted by President Bush, who let the conviction and fine stand.[31] Libby was later granted a full pardon by President Trump.
The Politics of Truth[edit]
In 2004, Wilson published a political and personal memoir entitled The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir. The book describes his diplomatic career, his personal life and family, and his experiences during the Valerie Plame affair. Wilson's autobiographical account of over two decades of his life in foreign service includes detailed descriptions of his extensive diplomatic-career experiences, his first marriage and family, briefer references to his second marriage, his meeting of Valerie Plame, their courtship and marriage, and a detailed narrative of the events leading to his decision to go public with his criticisms of the George W. Bush administration and its aftermath.
Commentaries[edit]
An editorial in the Wall Street Journal published in mid-July 2004, finds some justification for his perspective presented in "What I Didn't Find in Africa", but highlights some evidence of Iraq's attempts at acquiring uranium yellowcake from African nations such as Niger, on which Iraq did not follow through.[32]
But another editorial published in the July 13, 2005, Wall Street Journal asserts that Wilson had lied in his "What I Didn't Find in Africa" about "what he'd discovered in Africa, how he'd discovered it, what he'd told the CIA about it, or even why he was sent on the mission."[33]
An editorial headlined "A Good Leak" published in the April 9, 2006, Washington Post claims that "Mr. Wilson was the one guilty of twisting the truth and that, in fact, his report [to the CIA] supported the conclusion that Iraq had sought uranium."[34]
Some commentators and newspaper readers believed that this Washington Post editorial contradicted a news article in the paper's same issue, which reported that the administration had misrepresented its actual confidence level in the intelligence reports that Hussein was seeking uranium.[35][notes 3]
Complaints to the Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell about the apparent contradiction between the article and editorial, resulted in her acknowledging "the high wall between editorial and news" and also that "it would have been helpful if the editorial had put statements about Wilson in more context".[notes 4]
Richard Armitage[edit]
In their 2006 book Hubris, Michael Isikoff and David Corn assert that it was Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, who first revealed that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA to Robert Novak sometime before July 8, 2003.[36] In late August 2006, along with advance publicity for the book, news accounts and editorials began focusing on that public revelation: "Richard L. Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state, has acknowledged that he was the person whose conversation with a columnist in 2003 prompted a long, politically laden criminal investigation in what became known as the C.I.A. leak case, a lawyer involved in the case said on Tuesday [August 29, 2006]."[37]
Wilson and his wife then amended their civil lawsuit (see below) to add Armitage as a defendant along with Vice President Dick Cheney and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. According to their complaint, Richard Armitage was being sued individually (independently of his White House colleagues) for having nevertheless also violated Plame's right to privacy and property (ability to make a living), while not reducing the culpability of the others as claimed.[38]
In a column posted in TownHall.com on 14 September 2006, however, Novak disputes details of Armitage's contemporaneous media accounts of their conversations. According to Novak, "Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he 'thought' might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column." He noted that critics would not be able to "fit Armitage into the left-wing fantasy of a well-crafted White House conspiracy to destroy Joe and Valerie Wilson. The news that he and not Karl Rove was the leaker was devastating news for the Left."[39]
In the American Journalism Review, editor Rem Rieder noted that the disclosure that Armitage was Novak's "primary source" was insufficiently covered in the media.[40]
Reactions to the Libby trial and commutation[edit]
See also: United States v. Libby and Lewis Libby clemency controversy
In response to the verdict on March 6, 2007, finding Lewis Libby guilty of four of the five charges in the Fitzgerald grand jury indictment against him, the Wilsons issued a statement in a press release posted on the website of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. They stated that they respected the jury's verdict and believed justice was done, as well as affirming their commitment to pursuing their civil suit.[41]
Wilson criticized President George W. Bush's July 2, 2007, commutation of Lewis Libby's prison sentence, calling it "a cover-up of the Vice President's role in this matter and quite possibly the role of the President and/or some of his senior White House advisers."[4][notes 5] Wilson also complained that the President's action and others' actions leading to President Bush's commutation of Libby's sentence could seriously damage United States national security by harming its intelligence capability.[42]
Warner Bros. feature film[edit]
On the evening of the verdict in the Libby trial, Joseph C. Wilson appeared on Larry King Live, during which he announced that he and his wife had "signed a deal with Warner Bros of Hollywood to offer their consulting services—or maybe more—in the making of the forthcoming movie about the Libby trial", their lives and the CIA leak scandal.[43] According to an article by Michael Fleming published in Variety earlier in the week, the feature film, a co-production between Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman and Jerry and Janet Zucker of Zucker Productions with a screenplay by Jez and John Butterworth to be based in part on Valerie Wilson's then still-forthcoming book "Fair Game", whose publication, in October 2007, after a delay of two months, was contingent on CIA clearances.[44]
The film, Fair Game, was released November 5, 2010, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. It is based on two books, one written by Wilson, and the other by his wife.[45][46]
Civil suit[edit]
Main articles: Valerie Plame § The Wilsons' civil suit, Lewis Libby § The Wilsons' civil suit, and Wilson v. Cheney
On July 13, 2006, a civil suit was filed by Joseph and Valerie Wilson against Vice President Dick Cheney, his former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, top Presidential advisor Karl Rove, and other unnamed senior White House officials (among whom they later added Richard Armitage), for their alleged role in the public disclosure of Valerie Wilson's classified CIA status.[47] On September 13, 2006, Joseph and Valerie Wilson amended their original lawsuit, adding Richard Armitage as a fourth defendant.[38] Unlike their charges against Rove, Cheney, and Libby, "claiming that they had violated her constitutional rights and discredited her by disclosing that she was an undercover CIA operative", the Wilsons sued Armitage "for violating the 'Wilsons' constitutional right to privacy, Mrs. Wilson's constitutional right to property, and for committing the tort of publication of private facts.'"[38]
Dismissal[edit]
United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge John D. Bates dismissed the Wilsons' lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds on July 19, 2007, stating that the Wilsons had not shown that the case belonged in federal court.[48][49][50][51] Bates also ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction over the claim because the couple had not yet exhausted their administrative remedies.[50] Bates stated that the lawsuit raised "important questions relating to the propriety of actions undertaken by our highest government officials" but also noted that "there can be no serious dispute that the act of rebutting public criticism, such as that levied by Mr. Wilson against the Bush administration's handling of prewar foreign intelligence, by speaking with members of the press is within the scope of defendants' duties as high-level Executive Branch officials", even if "the alleged means by which defendants chose to rebut Mr. Wilson's comments and attack his credibility" were perhaps "highly unsavory."[52]
Appeal[edit]
On July 20, 2007, Ms. Sloan and the Wilsons announced publicly that they had filed an appeal of the US District Court's decision to dismiss their lawsuit.[53] On August 12, 2008, in a 2–1 decision, the three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the dismissal.[54][55] Melanie Sloan, of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which represents the Wilsons, "said the group will request the full D.C. Circuit to review the case and appeal to the US Supreme Court."[54][56] Agreeing with the Bush administration, the Obama Justice Department argues the Wilsons have no legitimate grounds to sue. On the current justice department position, Sloan stated: "We are deeply disappointed that the Obama administration has failed to recognize the grievous harm top Bush White House officials inflicted on Joe and Valerie Wilson. The government's position cannot be reconciled with President Obama's oft-stated commitment to once again make government officials accountable for their actions." [57]
On June 21, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal.[58]
Honors[edit]
Public service awards
Secretary of State Distinguished Service Award
Department of State Superior Honor Award
Department of State Meritorious Honor Award[59]
University of California, Santa Barbara Distinguished Alumnus Award
American Foreign Service Association William R. Rivkin Award (1987)[60]
Commander in the Order of the Equatorial Star (Government of Gabon)
Admiral in the El Paso Navy (El Paso County Commissioners)
BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award, shared with wife, Valerie Plame (2005).[61]
Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling (from the Fertel Foundation and The Nation Institute, Oct. 2003)[11]
Downing Street memo
Iraqi aluminum tubes
Niger uranium forgeries
^ According to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on the US Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (2004), on the basis of his trip to Niger,
In an interview with Committee staff, the former ambassador [Wilson] was able to provide more information about the meeting between former [Niger] Prime Minister Mayaki and the Iraqi delegation. ... [Wilson] said that Mayaki did meet with the Iraqi delegation but never discussed what was meant by [the two countries] "expanding commercial relations" [being suggested by the Iraqis]. ... [Wilson] said that because Mayaki was wary of discussing any trade issues with a country under United Nations (UN) sanctions, he made a successful effort to steer the conversation away from a discussion of trade with the Iraqi delegation." Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, Together with Additional Views Archived 2006-08-30 at the Wayback Machine|24.1 MiB, July 7, 2004, revised July 9, 2004, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 2004) pp. 36–83, accessed July 29, 2007.
^ On Meet the Press with Tim Russert on October 5, 2003, Wilson said: "An intermediary came to this official, and said, 'I want you to meet with these guys. They're interested in talking about expanding commercial relations.' The person who talked to me said, 'Red flags went up immediately, I thought of U.N. Security Council sanctions, I thought of all sorts of other reasons why we didn't want to have any meeting. I declined the meeting', and this was out of the country, on the margins of an OIC meeting. So it was a meeting that did not take place. And at one point during the conversation, this official kind of looked up in the sky and plumbing his conscience, looked back and said, "You know, maybe they might have wanted to talk about uranium." "Transcript of October 5", Meet the Press, MSNBC, October 6, 2003, accessed July 23, 2007. ("Guests: Joseph Wilson, Former Acting Ambassador to Iraq & CIA Envoy to Niger; Robert Novak, Syndicated Columnist; David Broder, Washington Post; Ron Brownstein, Los Angeles Times; Dana Priest, Washington Post Moderator: Tim Russert – NBC News").
^ "At Cheney's instruction, Libby testified, he [Libby] told [reporter] Miller that the uranium story was a 'key judgment' of the intelligence estimate, a term of art indicating there was consensus on a question of central importance. In fact, the alleged effort to buy uranium was not among the estimate's key judgments, which were identified by a headline and bold type and set out in bullet form in the first five pages of the 96-page document ... US intelligence 'did not know' the status of Iraq's procurement efforts, 'cannot confirm' any success and had 'inconclusive' evidence about Iraq's domestic uranium operations. ... The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, likewise, called the claim 'highly dubious.' For those reasons, the uranium story was relegated to a brief inside passage in the October estimate."
^ Replying to complaints from various readers, the Washington Post ombudsman, Deborah Howell, notes that in their front-page news report Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer relied on Fitzgerald's representations in his legal filings, that the editorial's writer wrote it before the front-page report, and that although the writer had not read the report, it would not have changed his mind. Howell notes that the basis for the editorial's claim that Wilson's report "supported the conclusion that Iraq had sought uranium" was the fact that there was a meeting between Iraqi and Nigerien trade officials "because that's mostly what Niger has to export." She observes that the editorial inconsistently deals with the 2004 report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which notes that "the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research analysts believed that [Wilson's] report supported their assessment that Niger was unlikely to be willing or able to sell uranium to Iraq." Howell concludes:
It would have been helpful if the editorial had put statements about Wilson in more context—especially the controversy over his trip and what he said. It also could have used a sentence to say what is known in every newsroom: Leaks are good for journalism.
On the Gellman/Linzer story, it would have been good to quote more from the WMD commission's and Iraq Survey Group's reports and specifically their conclusions.
Both pieces demonstrate the high wall between editorial and news. While editorial writers read reporters' stories, Executive Editor Len Downie doesn't regularly read editorials (although he read this one) lest it make a mark on how he runs the news pages.
Some readers think it's a scandal when two parts of the newspaper appear to be in conflict with each other, but it's not that unusual that reporting—particularly in news and editorial—will depend on different sources. It happened again last week when an editorial and a story gave different estimates for how long it might take Iran to build a nuclear bomb.
Reporting about national security and intelligence gathering is always fraught with fraught [sic]; it is a subject I will write about again. Deborah Howell, "Two Views of the Libby Leak Case", Washington Post, April 16, 2006: B06, accessed September 19, 2006.
^ For Wilson's full published statement in response to the commutation and the press conference about it by President Bush's press spokesman Tony Snow, see Joseph C. Wilson, "Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson's Response Archived 2007-07-10 at Archive.today to Bush Spokesman Tony Snow's Comments at Today's White House Briefing", online posting, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), 3 July 2007, accessed 4 July 2007; online posting, "Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson's Response … " and "Read more", Joseph and Valerie Wilson Legal Support Trust (Home page), n.d., accessed 8 July 2007.
^ See Wilson's "Timeline" entitled "Events surrounding the 'Sixteen Words' and the Disclosure of the Undercover Status of CIA Operative Valerie Plame, Wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson":
September 2002: First public mention of Niger-Iraq uranium connection is made in British White paper.
January 28, 2003: The sixteen words are spoken by President Bush in his State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." March 7, 2003: International Atomic Energy Agency announces that documents provided by U.S. about Niger-Iraq uranium claim are forgeries. March 8, 2003: State Department spokesman says of forged documents: 'We fell for it'; shortly thereafter, Wilson tells CNN that the U.S. government has more information on this matter than the State Department spokesmen acknowledged.
Sources[which?] have informed Wilson that soon after the CNN interview, a decision was made at a meeting in the Office of the Vice President—possibly attended by Dick Cheney, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Newt Gingrich, and other senior Republicans—to produce a workup on Wilson to discredit him.
June 8, 2003: On Meet the Press Condoleezza Rice denies knowledge of how dubious the uranium claim was and dissembles: "Maybe somebody down in the bowels of the Agency knew about this, but nobody in my circles." July 6, 2003: Wilson's op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa", is published in the New York Times; Wilson appears on Meet the Press, describes his trip and why he came away convinced that no attempt by Iraq to purchase uranium from Niger had taken place. July 8, 2003: Columnist Robert Novak encounters Wilson's friend on Washington, D.C., street and blurts out Valerie Plame's CIA employment. July 14, 2003: Novak publishes column revealing Plame's status[17] July 16, 2003: In The Nation David Corn publishes "A White House Smear", explaining that the Intelligence Identities Protection Act may have been violated by leak. July 20, 2003: NBC's Andrea Mitchell tells Wilson that "senior White House sources" had phoned her to stress "the real story here is not the sixteen words ... but Wilson and his wife." July 21, 2003: NBC's Chris Matthews tells Wilson: "I just got off the phone with Karl Rove. He says and I quote, 'Wilson's wife is fair game.' I will confirm that if asked." September 28, 2003: MSNBC announces that Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation into the leak. (Wilson, The Politics of Truth 452–54)
Cf. CIA leak scandal timeline.
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^ Joseph Curl, "Spouse of Outed CIA Officer Signs On with Kerry," Washington Times February 14, 2004.
^ "Frm. Ambassador Joseph Wilson Endorses Clinton" Archived 2007-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, press release, online posting, Hillary Clinton.com (official site), July 16, 2007, accessed July 23, 2007.
^ Press release Archived 2006-09-19 at the Wayback Machine, winwithoutwarus.org, September 24, 2003.
^ a b Novak, Robert (July 14, 2003). "Mission To Niger". The Washington Post.
^ See particularly Part B ("Former Ambassador") of Sec. II: "Niger" in United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, "Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, Together with Additional Views" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-08-30. (24.1 MiB), July 7, 2004, revised July 9, 2004, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 2004) pp. 36–83, accessed July 29, 2007. Cf. Congressional Reports: Archived 2007-12-25 at the Wayback Machine Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, Together with Additional Views, online posting, gpoaccess.gov, July 7, 2004, rev. July 9, 2004, accessed July 29, 2007. (Provides PDF links to full texts in "Table of Contents".)
^ Cf. II.B.: "Niger": "Former Ambassador", rpt. globalsecurity.org, accessed July 29, 2007.
^ Cf. "Full Text: Conclusions of Senate's Iraq Report: Report on the Prewar Intelligence Assessments", MSNBC, July 9, 2004, accessed July 23, 2007.
^ "President Delivers "State of the Union: The U.S. Capitol", press release, The White House, January 28, 2003, accessed July 23, 2007. (Full transcript of the speech.)
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^ As reported in "Defending Claims," broadcast on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Online NewsHour, PBS, July 10, 2003, accessed September 18, 2006 (Both transcript and streaming video available online).
^ a b Quoted from George Tenet, "Statement by George J. Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence," Archived 2003-07-14 at the Wayback Machine official press release, Central Intelligence Agency July 11, 2003.
^ George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA (New York: HarperCollins, 2007) 454. ISBN 978-0-06-114778-4.
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^ "Joe Wilson with Andrea Mitchell, July 6, 2003", online posting of transcript of Meet the Press for July 6, 2003, in "Footnotes", JustOneMinute (blog), July 20, 2004, accessed July 23, 2007. (Not accessible on the searchable transcripts site of Meet the Press.)
^ The John Batchelor Show: November 3, 2005 Archived November 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
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White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
White Center (Yellow, Pink
and Lavender on Rose)
205.8 cm × 141 cm (81.0 in × 56 in)
The Royal family of Qatar
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is an abstract painting by Mark Rothko completed in 1950.
1 2007 sale
2007 sale[edit]
The work was sold in May 2007 by Sotheby's on behalf of David Rockefeller[1] to the Royal family of Qatar; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his wife, Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned.[2] The painting sold for 72.84 million (USD), then setting the record of the current most expensive post-war work of art sold at auction.[3][4]
White Center is part of Rothko's signature multiform style: several blocks of layered, complementary colors on a large canvas.[5]
The painting is from top to bottom, a yellow horizontal rectangle, a black horizontal strip, a narrow white rectangular band and the bottom half is lavender. The top half of the rose ground is deeper in colour and the bottom half is pale. It measures 205.8 × 141 cm.
List of most expensive paintings
^ Melikian, Souren (2007-05-16). "A Rothko sells for $72.84 million at record-setting Sotheby's sale". Retrieved 2008-01-28.
^ Thornton, Sarah; Adam, Georgina (May 4, 2008), "Revealed: $72.8m Rockefeller Rothko has gone to Qatar", The Art Newspaper
^ Pilkington, Ed (2007-05-17). "Warhol goes for $71m in record New York art sale". The Guardian. London.
^ Associated Press. "Rothko painting sets postwar record". MSNBC. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
^ "Mark Rothko". Retrieved 2008-01-28.
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Consumers in the Northeast Shop Early, but Hold Proms Latest in the Season
May 14, 2019 | Lifestyle
Pulse of Prom
NEW YORK, NY, May 14, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ — Today, Occasion Brands, LLC (OB), releases the fifth 2019 issue of Pulse of Prom to exploring how much time junior and senior prom dress buyers allow between ordering online and their event. The data shows that the median number of days between the order date and the consumer-reported event date for junior and senior prom is between 32 and 34 days. Buyers in the Northeast region of the U.S., have the latest proms and purchase their dresses further in advance of their proms than buyers in any other region. The median number of days between the order date and event date for the Northeast is 47. These purchasers may buy early recognizing that their late scheduled dates for prom may leave them with fewer choices of dress styles and a smaller size selection.
To gather the data OB compared the actual order dates with the event dates provided by purchasers when they placed their orders. Of the reported data, junior prom dress sales represented 42% of total sales, while senior prom dress sales were 58%. Purchasers across the U.S. reported dates for junior and senior prom as early as the week of February 25th and as late as the week of July 22nd. Reported event dates for the Northeast extended into June and July; whereas, no prom dates in other regions were reported beyond the week of June 3rd.
Majority of Junior and Senior Proms Held April 1st to May 13th
Although junior and senior proms were reported as occurring as early as the week of February 25th and as late as the week of July 22nd, 82% of consumer-reported prom dates fell between the week of April 1st and the week of May 13th. The most popular week in 2019 for both junior and senior proms was the week of April 29th, representing 18% of all reported prom dates. The week with the smallest percentage (6%) of scheduled proms between the weeks of April 1st and May 13th was the week of April 15th, which was the Catholic Easter and Passover weekend. Outside of those 7 weeks, the remaining 18% of prom dates reported for 2019 were divided evenly: 9% were between the week of February 25th and the week of April 1st and 9% were between the week of May 20th and the week of July 22nd. Across the U.S., prom dates reported for each region similarly showed that the majority of junior and senior proms were scheduled in April and May.
Northeast Proms Are Held the Latest
Looking at regional data across the U.S., both junior and senior proms in the Northeast are held later in the season than in any other region.The Northeast is the only region with junior prom dates reported through the week of June 17th. The Pacific only has junior prom dates reported through the week of May 13th, and in the Midwest, junior proms are reported through the week of May 20th. The South and West have junior prom dates reported through the week of May 27th. In the West, Midwest, South, and Northeast, senior proms ran later into the season than junior proms (except the Pacific, which had the same final week for junior and senior prom). Senior proms end the earliest in the Pacific (AL, HI), with no reported prom dates after the week of May 13th. The Midwest, South, and West only have reported senior prom dates through the week of June 3rd; however, the Northeast has senior prom dates through the week of June 24th. In fact, in the Northeast, 32% of reported senior prom dates were between the weeks of May 27th and June 24th; whereas, only 5% of senior prom dates in the West (only 2% in the Midwest and South) were reported after May 27th.
Most Consumers Purchase a Dress Online One Month Before Prom
The median number of days between the order date and the consumer-reported event date for junior and senior prom is between 32 and 34 days. With the most popular event dates for junior and senior prom reported for the week of April 22 and week of April 29, the median number of 32 to 34 days puts the peak buying weeks for junior prom and senior prom dresses in the last two weeks in March, the week of March 18th and the week of March 25th. For the prom dates reported as early as the week of February 25th, this means prom dress buying starts at the end of January for buyers with early proms and goes through June for consumers with late proms.
Northeast Shoppers Purchase Dresses the Furthest in Advance of Prom
In addition to having prom dates scheduled later in the season than buyers in any other region of the US, consumers in the Northeast shop for their dresses the furthest in advance of their event date. The median number of days between order date and event date for junior prom in the Northeast is 43, and the median number of days for senior prom in the Northeast is 53. Consumers in the Midwest also shop early allowing a median of 32 days for junior prom and 40 days for senior prom between placing their order and the event. For the South, the median difference between order dates and event dates was 27 days for junior prom and 30 days for senior prom. The regions with the shortest turnaround time between the prom dress purchase and the event were the Pacific, with a median of 25 days for junior prom and for senior prom, and the West, with a median of 23 days for junior prom and 26 days for senior prom.
About Pulse of Prom
Pulse of Prom is an in-season industry-focused hot-sheet report which highlights prom season online sales trends across each region of the country. This late season issue focuses on regional sales data for when consumers buy junior and senior prom dresses, as well as the reported dates for prom. The next issue will feature a wrapup of end of season data.
The data for these 2019 prom sales represents orders placed between January 1 and May 3, 2019, and event dates reported by consumers as between March 1 and July 31, 2019. All data is across the United States by Occasion Brands, a leading national online prom retailer.
For more information about Pulse of Prom, please contact: Megan Reeves at [email protected].
About Occasion Brands, LLC
PromGirl, founded in 1998, has sold over 2 million dresses online and is the largest online retailer of prom, homecoming, and other special-occasion dresses. It offers an unparalleled selection of high-quality, in-stock dresses at all price points. Through the website, mobile and social platforms, PromGirl’s reach is global, delivering “dream dresses” to more than 140 international destinations. As part of the Occasion Brands portfolio, PromGirl supports the Occasion Brands mission to be the premier retailer in the special-occasion dress market by providing a world-class shopping experience and maintaining customer trust through an understanding of their needs as they experience some of the most important moments in their lives. Occasion Brands’ staff is based in New York City and Middletown, Delaware, and its state-of-the-art facility in New Jersey houses hundreds of thousands of dresses for PromGirl and its sister brands, Simply Dresses and Kleinfeld Bridal Party. In 2018, Occasion Brands expanded its reach by opening a PromGirl pop-up store in New Jersey, a Simply Dresses pop-up store in New York City, and a Kleinfeld Bridal Party Showroom located on the upper level of the Kleinfeld Bridal store.
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FSI Applauds Repeal of Texas Occupation Tax
Financial Services Institute / FSI Applauds Repeal of Texas Occupation Tax
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a budget bill that includes a provision repealing the state’s longstanding $200 per person yearly occupation tax which included registered representatives, independent financial advisors and others. The Financial Services Institute (FSI) has been working on this fix for advisors throughout this year.
The occupation tax was initially imposed in 1991 when most professional businesses were not subject to the franchise tax. However, in 2006 the franchise tax was significantly changed to incorporate all of the professional groups paying the occupation tax, including independent financial advisors who also pay state registration fees.
“The repeal of the occupation tax is a victory for FSI members,” said FSI President & CEO Dale Brown. “We applaud Governor Abbott, bill sponsors State Representative Drew Darby and State Senator Jane Nelson and the rest of the state legislators for listening to and working with our members and other professionals in Texas impacted by this duplicative tax.”
“This is a very positive development for Texas financial advisors, as well as other professionals in the state,” said FSI Board Member Dean Harman, CFP®, Harman Wealth Management in The Woodlands, Texas. “As a small business owner, I thank Governor Abbott and the state legislature for removing this unnecessary financial burden on Texas professionals.”
FSI members actively lobbied for the repeal during FSI’s Texas State Capitol Day in April during which FSI members from across the state met with over 30 state legislators asking for their support in repealing the occupation tax.
About the Financial Services Institute (FSI): The Financial Services Institute (FSI) is the only organization advocating solely on behalf of independent financial advisors and independent financial services firms. Since 2004, through advocacy, education and public awareness, FSI has successfully promoted a more responsible regulatory environment for more than 37,000 independent financial advisors, and more than 100 independent financial services firms who represent upwards of 160,000 affiliated financial advisors. We effect change through involvement in FINRA governance as well as constructive engagement in the regulatory and legislative processes, working to create a healthier regulatory environment for our members so they can provide affordable, objective advice to hard-working Main Street Americans. For more information, please visit financialservices.org.
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«AMUL – HAZAR 2018» INTERNATIONAL RALLY RAID STARTS
On 11th of September, 2018, “Amul – Hazar 2018” rally raid started in the administrative center of Lebap province. On the eve of the competition, the crews underwent administrative checks and technical inspections, reviewed the course and received the race map containing the route list and the map of the area crossed by the rally course.
Under the regulations of the rally raid, the parc fermé with restricted access was created in the paddock where the crews brought their vehicles early in the morning. Embarking on their journey towards the starting line, the participants began preparations for the prologue, a qualification round that determines the starting order at the first stage of the rally. The prologue covers the distance of 9 km.
President of Turkmenistan arrived at the venue of the official start of the race where the crews, technical staff, event organizers and supervisors, reporters and numerous guests gathered. The Head of the state opened the prologue, racing with number 100 on his sports car along the special track to once again demonstrate his brilliant driving skills. And here to the finish line of the special stage one after another cars come. The crew at number 100 came first.
Then President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov spoke with the director general of the Africa Eco Race who was involved in implementing the “Amul – Hazar 2018” project, Jean-Louis Schlesser.
After the qualification race, the competition’s first stage the length of which is 247 km began.
The cars of the participants of the rally, which is 83 crews, took their places at the start of the first high-speed section and soon set off at an equal interval.
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[[Sierra On-Line]][[Category:Sierra On-Line]]
Construction and management simulation
Windows 3.1x and Macintosh
ESRB: K-A (Kids to Adults)
Outpost is a video game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. In general terms the game is a science-fiction version of SimCity, taking place on a distant planet. The game was noteworthy for having a hard science fiction approach, with one of the main designers being a former NASA scientist.
Outpost was released simultaneously for DOS and Windows 3.1, and was also released for the Macintosh. It was followed by a loosely related sequel, Outpost 2.
2 Critical reaction
3 Bugs and exploits
A massive asteroid named Vulcan's Hammer is detected to be on a collision course with Earth, and all attempts to divert it from this path have failed. The last attempt, firing a large nuclear warhead at the asteroid, actually ended up splitting it not into five chunks as humanity hoped, but rather two asteroids. Now, instead of destroying the earth, it will simply wipe out nearly all life on Earth's surface. Extinction is not an option, and so a mission is organized to create a colony on a world elsewhere in the galaxy as the last hope for mankind's survival. The player is in charge of that mission.
Critical reaction[edit | edit source]
Initial reviews of Outpost were enthusiastic about the game. Most notoriously, the American version of PC Gamer rated the game at 93%, one of its highest ratings ever for the time. It was later made known that the reviewers had in fact played beta versions of the game, and had been promised certain features would be implemented, but never were.[citation needed]
Indeed, many of the features described in the game's own documentation simply did not exist in the game at all. These included the ability to enter diplomatic relations with the rebel colony and the ability to build roads, among other things. Many of these gameplay aspects were later patched in, though in appearance only, as many of them failed to have any meaningful effect on gameplay.
Following the release of the game, the game's general bugginess and perceived mediocre gameplay, along with the lack of features described in most of the game's reviews and the game's own documentation led to a minor backlash against the computer game magazines of the time by consumers who bought the game based on their reviews.[citation needed]
Bugs and exploits[edit | edit source]
Outpost can sometimes end abruptly, as players who choose the wrong star system in the beginning can find him/herself in a star system with no habitable planets.
Sometimes, players will find the colonists on the planet dying en masse unexpectedly, thus causing the game to end when everyone has died. The colonists' death rate during this occurrence is one of exponential growth, following the equation 2^n, where n is the number of turns passed since the widespread death bug began.
The algorithm to calculate recyclable resources was also exploitable. If one built enough residential units, the resulting recyclables produced by the colony would be more than the resources going into the colony.
The game files contain information for several buildings which are not available during gameplay. This was a result of cutbacks made by the game's developers due to a rushed release date.
A player cannot build a working mass driver, as the option to create the rail is nonexistent.
SimMars
Outpost 2
Outpost Universe - The Outpost Universe is a community for the Outpost series games by Sierra/Dynamix. This community is still active as of January 2010.
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The Difficult Relationship, by Richard Aldous
December 8, 2012 at 11:42 (Book Reviews, English History, Historical, Mediocre Books, Politics, Twentieth Century) (Book Review, Margaret Thatcher, Richard Aldous, Ronald Reagan, The Difficult Relationship)
Those readers who are not thoroughly tired of two-hundred page history books marketing themselves with sensationalist claims of the untold shocking story that will redefine the world – probably ought to be. At first glance, this book looks like more of the same. It’s not entirely true. But the title is subtle enough to provide a few misconceptions. A marriage (to borrow a metaphor often pasted onto the Reagan-Thatcher relationship) can be “difficult” because the couple are constantly at each other’s throats, or it can be “difficult” because they loyally and patiently endure difficult times, without ever turning on each other. Aldous does a rather good job playing with the two definitions, and seems to go back and forth between which one he prefers.
Predictably, he spends most of his time dwelling on the hardest parts of the relationship, but outside of the first few pages where he makes his initial case that Thatcher and Reagan were hardly wearing rose-tinted glasses he provides a very level and unambitious catalogue of the political crises that affected both leaders. Is this book weighted to emphasise the negative and entirely eclipse the positive? Of course it is. But not in a dishonest way. Any myopia is entirely appropriate to his context, and Aldous never claims to be giving a comprehensive view of events. He is simply doing what he promised, in laying out the difficulties faced by both parties; whether the difficulties were caused by differences in policy, differences in temperament, mutual misunderstandings, allies and enemies, or deliberate antagonism.
“For the first time it seemed in hours, Thatcher stopped talking. Even with her thick skin, impervious as she was to criticism or embarrassment, the prime minister understood that she had gone too far. Around the table, nobody moved as Reagan maintained eye contact.”
-The Difficult Relationship
Where this book falls slightly short is its failure to offer much in the way of complex explanations for what Aldous observes. Thatcher was angry with Reagan for his vacillating on the Falklands issue, for instance. That was due solely to Reagan’s concern for nurturing Argentina as an anti-communist bastion in the western hemisphere. So far, so good. But Aldous is content to accept this at face value. He rarely speculates, and while to his credit he does explain the agendas of certain figures like Shultz, this is done in a general axiomatic way, without any attempt to look deeper at the politics of 1980s America. Likewise, Thatcher is portrayed largely as mistress of her own destiny. Domestic troubles are occasionally noted when they impacted her transatlantic friendship, but for all intents and purposes both leaders are set in a vacuum that contains only each other, at their most intractable.
As noted above, this is the history that Aldous sets out to tell, and so he should not be judged harshly on what he omits. However, he slashes and ignores enough of real significance that it does begin to weigh against him in the end: and also, against his brash title. There is nothing groundbreaking or sensational in this book, and although he does highlight certain difficulties, they are rocky reefs in an otherwise navigable ocean. Of limited use to an historian, and even less use to those looking for an entry level guide to Anglo-American politics in the 1980s, this book is more of a general case study that might complement other books, but is just as likely to find itself repeating more thorough sources.
King George III, by John Brooke
January 11, 2012 at 20:14 (Biography, Book Reviews, English History, Highly Rated Books, Historical, Politics) (American Revolutionary War, Book Review, John Brooke, King George III)
It is something of a rare pleasure to read biographies by serious historians and dedicated men of letters, rather than well-meaning amateurs, celebrity talking-heads, or journalists. What John Brooke lacks in shimmering prose or scandalous new theories, he more than makes up for in levelheadedness, clarity, and perspicacity. Like so many historians, he has very little time for theories that he does not subscribe to, and some of the juiciest and most entertaining passages of this book are taken up by Brooke’s withering scorn for the pop-psychologists of the twentieth century, the sensationalists of the nineteenth century, and the jingoists from all centuries.
“In the mythology of American history King George III is the would-be tyrant whose wicked plans were foiled by the courage and resistance of the American people. He is the scapegoat for the act of rebellion.”
-George III (John Brooke)
These moments aside, Brooke is methodical without being too dry, and has an aura of The Establishment about his writing, that creates a slightly artificial awe around the subject of his work, as well as lending him a voice of authority to match. He clearly has a great deal of affection for the entire band of miscreants of the eighteenth century–North, Fox, the Pitts, the Willises, the Prince Regent, Bute–and an even stronger affection for the King. While this could be seen as detrimental to a supposedly impartial review of the monarchy, Brooke makes the calculated decision to tell a chiefly personal biography, crossing occasionally into politics when the two areas overlap. Consequently, this book is most comprehensive when the King was most active (during the 1760s through to the 1780s), and includes only the barest treatment of William Pitt the Younger, Napoleon, or America’s turbulent relationship with Britain after the Revolution. This can often be vexing; Brooke is not a consistent author, and by caprice or by design distributes his attentions rather imperfectly. There are times when his portrait of George III is badly affected by his refusal to offer a glimpse at a wider context, and there are times when he drones just a little about a favourite politician with only tenuous links to the King.
As an history of its period, this work is incomplete; as a portrait of a man, it is decidedly myopic. But for all its faults, it is a fine introductory biography, and does not delve too far from the path of received knowledge. A useful book to have in one’s library, and a valuable arrow in the quiver for defending the facts about one of history’s most misconstrued characters.
A Journey, by Tony Blair
December 4, 2011 at 13:33 (Biography, Book Reviews, English History, Highly Rated Books, Historical, Politics, Twentieth Century) (A Journey, Book Review, New Labour, The Journey, Tony Blair)
One of the first things that everyone in the world either loved or utterly loathed about Tony Blair was his hokey, jokey, everyman persona: which was either just that, a carefully and cynically constructed persona; or else a genuine dislike for the airs of power and tradition, and a refreshing and frank openness hitherto unseen in politics. Whether genuine or not, this book is written in a voice that matches Blair’s manner immaculately. Presumably, this has garnered it praise and poison in equal amounts; but that is the first thing any reader will notice. Stiff and awkward, like an older person talking to a teenager about the fashions and bands of five years ago; inoffensive and dreadful jokes that will be laughed at for their daring in being told at all; the confident aside whispered knowingly after any particularly salient point; ready and good-natured self-effacement throughout. Whether Blair penned this biography entirely on his own (he is certainly a capable enough communicator) or worked with a ghostwriter, the very essence of his personality was captured acutely. Whatever else that means, it suggests that this book is written much better than it seems at first glance. It is difficult to write (or act, or paint) well; it is considerably harder to do so–not badly–but just noticeably worse than you are capable of.
“Hadn’t we fought a great campaign? Hadn’t we impaled our enemies on our bayonet, like ripe fruit? Hadn’t our strategies, like something derived from destiny, scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts?”
-A Journey
Weighing in at nearly 700 pages, it is remarkable that Blair covered only his career as leader of the Labour party. There are a few scanty passages about his early life, a handful of reminiscences of his legal career (when germane to the political story) and a little about the ’80s under Neil Kinnock; otherwise almost the entire tome is strictly business, and strictly focused on his tenure as (brief) leader of the Opposition, and of the country. This allows a rare comment to be made. Rare to be said about any biography or history. Blair covers his material comprehensively, and without any area of omission. It is honestly difficult to conceive what of his political career might have been unfairly or unnaturally truncated. Some of his comments are brief (terse, even); but even with these he cannot be said to have left anything out.
His treatment of colleagues and competitors, enemies and acquaintances, and all manner of human beings in between, was always going to be a key talking point about this book. One can almost imagine feverish teams of newspaper hacks hunched up outside Waterstones in the early hours of release day, taking a chapter each and scraping each last ounce of nuance from Blair’s every word, his every pronouncement and judgement of every character, searching for scandalous rivalry or sour grapes. He is a gentleman throughout–although sometimes a snide gentleman with a great deal of subtext. When the time comes to censure someone, he employs like clockwork a patronising, “so-and-so is an excellent and peerless MP, but has an unfortunate tendency to shortsightedness, and doesn’t understand the way the Civil Service works.” Or some variation of the formula. Rupert Murdoch and Ed Balls in particular come in for a regular savaging, but Blair always attempts to justify himself, and never in this book is there an unpleasant taste of bitterness or bile. Seldom, anyway.
“Ed Balls was and is immensely capable intellectually, and also has some of the essential prerequisites for leadership: he has guts, and he can take decisions. But he suffers from the bane of all left-leaning intellectuals. As I have remarked elsewhere, these guys never ‘get’ aspiration…truly muddled and ultimately damaging…”
As far as his honesty goes, an odd curiosity is his clear and conscious attempt to prove that, while he is certainly a master of persuasion, and incredibly good with words, there is more to it than that. A great deal of the effort in this book is given to bolstering his verisimilitude as a politician, and therefore as a writer. If his chief intention is to be believable, then he works like a Trojan, and puts every argument to work in his favour. He parries countless thrusts at his personal and political integrity, and does so with masterful flourish and disarming frankness. While this does not, of course, prove his character or nature (the devil can quote scripture to suit his purpose), it does at the very least provide a challenge to the reader. Listen to what he has to say, and weigh his words with an open mind. His strong insistence that he relies on more than just showmanship and “spin” is powerfully backed up by his record, and together his facts and his rhetoric make for a heady mixture.
This was not altogether a particularly pleasant book to read (the depth with which Blair deals with every shade of issue, from foreign policy to economics, education to the media) makes that a foregone conclusion. And despite how genuine his charming everyman persona might or might not be, it grows tiresome after a while (his parenthetical, “Blimey, I thought to myself,” coming off as particularly cloying). Nevertheless, this is a powerful and persuasive book, and if not a pleasure to begin then certainly a pleasure to reflect on and digest.
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, by Piers Brendon
July 24, 2011 at 12:31 (Book Reviews, English History, Highly Rated Books, Historical, Nineteenth Century, Politics, Second World War, Twentieth Century) (Book Review, British Empire, Lord Salisbury, Piers Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, Victorian Britain)
Piers Brendon writes with the sort of jocular and sardonic style that has become the form for modern histories; always gently mocking all that is positive in his chosen study, and phlegmatically acknowledging all that is negative, all the while maintaining a carefully constructed distance so as not to be sullied by the riff-raff he describes. This permits him astonishing liberties in both damning and lauding, but is a little frustrating due to the difficulty of pinning him down to an honest opinion: these he gives sparingly and reservedly.
While this book is an overview and a glossed account of some two hundred years of global history: in spite of–or even because of his title, Brendon spends very little time at all in the British Isles, and omits almost in their entirety such crucial subjects as the industrial revolution, the repeal of the corn laws, the liberalisation of the British Parliament and even the fierce battles of Disraeli and Gladstone for control of Bristish destiny. All of these subjects are admitted only insofar as they relate to Empire, and then only as they relate directly.
“They included Scottish Highlanders, bag-piped and red-coated, bonneted, plumed and kilted, who were variously thought to be women, eunuchs and demons with a keen appetite for ‘curried black babies.’ Certainly they were a terrifying array, once complimented by General Havelock for holding their fire until ‘you saw the colour of your enemy’s mustachios.'”
-The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Despite this selectiveness and despite his massive scope, Brendon manages to treat several intricate colonial stories with surprising detail. There are the ubiquitous anecdotes and personal recollections and slanders, following modern history’s trend of focusing a little myopically on the “common people” (whoever they were) at the expense of wars and acts and personages; but Brendon allows himself enough space and time to pause on occasion to actually question the causes and reasons for some very singular events. Seldom does he allow himself to give a definitive answer, but at least he ventures so far as to offer out definitive questions.
With prose both lyrical and perversely vernacular, this is not the sort of book where any committed reader will find himself bogged down in a syntactically murderous discussion of dusty manuscript or appalling old civil servants and their historical meddling. It is thrilling in parts, but not gratuitously so, and has a depth that is unexpected in such a casual treatment of such a vast subject. The book’s greatest omission is its apparent failure to contextualise its history, or to link its chronology in a dynamic way to the evolution of global politics and society: however, this omission is apparent only at the first glance, and only because of the sheer mass of material presented, which outweighs the clear comparative commentary that Brendon provides. This is not a flawless work, and it is certainly not the last word on the subject; but it is a pleasing introduction written with a fluent pen and a surprising amount of insight and detail.
At the Edge of the World, by Simon Schama
November 21, 2010 at 20:55 (Ancient, Book Reviews, Bronze Age, English History, Highly Rated Books, Historical) (A History of Britain, At the Edge of the World, Book Review, simon schama)
This is certainly one of Simon Schama’s more populist efforts, and it is instantly clear to the reader that he is performing a careful (and not always successful) balancing act, between accessibility and something that he can put his name on while maintaining his professional reputation. It helps to have watched Schama deliver his incredibly melodramatic discourses on television; he writes exactly how he talks, and if he is informal or chatty then it is because the intended conclusion of this project is less a revolutionary approach towards the understanding of British History, and more a friendly afternoon chat about that same history. Informal, yes; but Schama has a firm hand on the reins, and does not wax too lyrical, or fall too much in love with his own prose.
With five millennia covered in 500 pages, this was never going to be a comprehensive history of anything, but it is a very digestible overview, and beautifully presented. Schama does have a marked reluctance to simply brush over interesting historical characters or events that he considers either irrelevant to the flow of history, or else exhaustively covered in standard school textbooks. This over-editorialising is occasionally tiresome, but certainly serves the purpose of directing the deluge of centuries into an orderly course. He does well in presenting a critical view of history rather than just telling a story, and his sudden delvings into individual and historically unimportant case studies are almost always included to illustrate a point he has already documented in macrocosm first. The book (and the series to which it belongs) is a little too unwieldy to be laid out as a coffee-table book, but is an excellent resource for any amateur historian looking for a useful reference, and fills a comfortable spot on even the scholar’s shelf.
The Great Fire of London, by Stephen Porter
October 29, 2010 at 18:02 (Book Reviews, English History, Highly Rated Books, Historical) (1666, Book Review, history, Stephen Porter, The Great Fire of London)
It is always fun to see a book begin extremely pompously and pontifically, only to make a hilarious mistake, and I did enjoy how Porter began by referring magnificently to “the thirteenth book of Revelation”. I settled in for a long (or not so long) list of sonorously muddled history and grandiloquent mondegreens, and found instead an intelligent and exciting history of the Great Fire of London that was stunningly complete, considering the minute size of this book.
Porter might not be able to find 666 in his Bible, but he is certainly on top of 1666, and although his sources are oft-repeated this cannot be his fault, and his textual criticism is second to none. It seems unfair to criticise a book simply for being short, especially when it seems to cover its subject matter perfectly adequately in its brevity, and yet it must be noted that this is perhaps the shortest serious history book I have ever seen, much less read. Despite this, Porter has provided us with that rare jewel in reading history; an economic event that is not lost in the historian’s obfustication with numbers and figures, and yet not whitewashed with rude approximations.
Ecclesiastical History of the English People, by Bede
September 19, 2010 at 17:54 (Book Reviews, English History, Historical, Mediocre Books, Theology) (Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, history, Saxon England, Venerable Bede)
The Venerable Bede (“old Bede-y eyes” to his friends) presented a vastly different Britain in his historica than might have been expected. Of course, if we wanted Caesars and Boudiccas, an Artos, an Ambrosius, a sprinkling of Vortigerns and Aelles…well, we might be better advised to look elsewhere. Gildas, perhaps. Of course, this is a history of the English people, not of the British Isles, and so Bede remains throughout a thorough jingoist, touching briefly or not at all on the early Dark Age and Roman periods, brushing over those events outside of Ængland that do not directly affect his litany of kings and saints. Much more interesting are the border disputes of Mercia, or the murderous ways of certain heathen usurpers of petty fiefdoms than any real attempt at a wide scope of English history.
Also of difficulty for any reader (even a Christian reader) is Bede’s peculiar preoccupation with a handful of relatively minor issues of dogma that he comments on from the very advent of Christianity in England through to the final paragraphs of the book. The placement of Easter and the correct tonsuring of priests appear to be the most weighty theological issues confronting his church, and he is very anxious to scan through history and comment pedantically whenever he considers these issues to crop up. This can become tiresome, but is indicative of his real and lasting concern that orthodoxy might be threatened (even in the most pithy ways) and that the authority structure of the Church might be damaged. This fundamentalism is evident throughout.
The most touching moment comes during one of many panegyrics for one of many anonymous saints, one Etheldreda. As Bede stands agog gazing up at this magnificent woman, making his usual respectful comments about the great lady’s life and acts, he stammers briefly like a thirteen-year-old and shyly mumbles that he–he–well, he wrote a poem about her. It’s…well, it’s not very good…but, well, you’re really–um–nice?
Even the crusty old sage with the inkstained hands gives us a glimpse of his blushing face, and reminds us that between fierce kings with Viking names and martyrs who starved themselves to death in earnest penitence, the 700s was populated by real people.
In honour of Bede’s high school poetry dedication slipped beneath the pages of his history like a love note crumpled hurriedly into a maths textbook, the reviewer here includes his own imagined reply from Etheldreda to Bede. Like Bede’s original, it is also an accrostic:
In humble chasteness send I this note
Response to thee, upon whom I dote
Expound your sweetness, dearest Bede
And many sweeter poems to read
Little letters that you call hymns
Lengthy lists of your kindly whims
You’re really nice and a very good monk
Lying alone in your lonely monk bunk
I don’t really like that you use the word ‘breast’
Kind of makes me get nervous, but let me confess
Every time that you write I want us to be togedda
You, Venerable Bede, and me, Etheldreda
Of course, this can’t happen, we both have our vows
Unless in the next world the good Lord allows!
xxx Dreddy
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Resolving the problem of the Jewish Left
Samuel Bressler
In my previous article I outlined the several reasons why the Jewish left is in an existential crisis, my goal in this piece will be to provide a potential solution to this problem, a solution which preserves the role of Jewish leftism in the Jewish community.
We should keep in mind a few things: first, that there is nothing inherently left-wing about either Judaism or Jews. For every admirable progressive stance in the Torah, there is at least one other egregiously regressive instance. Why, then, did Jews in America become so overwhelmingly left-wing? In short, because Jewish immigration to America coincided with an explosion of radical left-wing activity, and moreover, that the left promised an end to discrimination and bigotry, including anti-semitism, along with economic liberation. For the proletarian Jew in Russia, in Britain, and in America, this was a promise to eradicate the two main sources of misery he encountered every day. Whether Bundist, Communist, Social-Democratic, or Socialist-Zionist, all movements in the left proposed different solutions to solve the commonly-agreed upon problems of anti-semitism and economic inequality Is it no wonder then, that out of self-interest, millions of Jews joined socialist parties, became organizers in industrial unions, subscribed to socialist media, and passed on these acquired left-wing and radical values to their children, just as they did other Jewish traditions?
Fast-forward to today, and the situation has changed markedly. Diaspora Jews have, by and large, achieved economic prosperity. Anti-semitism has waned, and what’s left of it is typically addressed by both left and right. Thus, there is no impetus for Jews as a group to be left-wing, and the fact that Jews are in fact left-wing can best be described as force of habit, a relic of earlier times. And while old habits may die hard, given enough time, they will die, if no new reason arises to perpetuate it. This then, is the question the Jewish leftist must tackle: in this day and age, why should a day and age, why should a Jew be left-wing?
To answer this question, we cannot rely on purely “universalist” reasons. Appeals to Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), caring for the other, and similar appeals may be nice, however they rely on a fundamental altruism, or putting others before yourself. While we as humans might consider ourselves generous and sensitive to the well-being of others, we will fight harder for an idea, for a movement, with which our own interest, well-being, and future is intertwined with its success.
The visceral, “selfish” reasons to be left-wing are many. However they vary from place to place, with a strong demarcation between Israel and the Diaspora (in this piece I will focus on Diaspora Jews in America). Paradoxically, Israel, despite it’s right-wing Jewish population, has the largest raw potential for Jewish leftism. It is the only place with a true Jewish working class, as opposed to professional class, meaning that traditional left-wing appeals to economic self-interest would likely have the greatest staying power. Israel also has a poverty rate of over 20%, higher than any Western country. Thirty-one percent of children in Israel, or almost 800,000 live in poverty. Given such jarring figures, it is not only fair, but necessary to ask, “is this Zionism”? Did we build a nation only for one in three children to live in poverty inside it? If we must be poor, why be poor in Israel rather than Russia or Morocco or Germany? And of course, poverty is far from the only left-wing issue that must be brought up. As Israel’s media continues to be concentrated in the hands of a few magnates, and as oligarchs have greater say in economic affairs as labor protections and the social safety net are slowly crushed, the same question arises, “is Zionism for this?”And we are in the right here. For Zionism to be legitimate, it must be for all Jews, not just Sheldon Adelson, Yitzchak Tshuva and Nony Moses.
To organize a Jewish left in the Diaspora, particularly in America, the question is more difficult to answer, due to different economic conditions and a more diffuse Jewish community. On the other hand we start with a stronger left-wing base, even if at the moment it is directionless. We would do well to note the high poverty rate particularly among elderly Jews, including Holocaust survivors. Given the high rates of college attendance by young Jews, the issue of usurious student loans may well be salient. We must also challenge established Jewish institutions when they make decisions deleterious to Jewish communities, for example when it comes to allocation of funds. The Jewish left will also be helped by a stagnating economy that is driving down salaries in professions such as medicine and law, both professions where we as Jews have been told we could look forward to a prosperous life if we only worked hard enough. Finally, we might serve as a bridge for left-wing Jews turned off by internal dynamics in the Jewish community, to re-engage with Jewishness.
What of relations with other left-wing groups, many of whom might be hostile, particularly regarding questions of Israel and Zionism? We cannot rely on fraternal relations of decades past to guarantee a common future. We must show we must demonstrate the benefits of working with us, of the added manpower, enthusiasm, and vibrant thought. All of these we must first cultivate independently, to show we are a force to be reckoned with, and a potentially powerful ally. Whether we succeed in winning sympathy and alliance from established left-wing movements will depend on two factors: whether an attitude of mutual self-interest can develop, and if we can develop a radical-left Jewish narrative that will elicit respect from the international left.
And what of relations with Jewish left-wing movements that might describe themselves as non-Zionist or anti-Zionist? Here it is important to distinguish between these groups and older movements from which they might claim descent, such as the Bund. For while the Bund placed ordinary Jews at the center of their political program, and were committed to the continuation of the Jewish people, these concerns are by and large irrelevant to such groups today. As such, any such collaboration with these groups can be assumed to be unproductive in achieving our primary goal. This being said, if such an organization appeared that considered the survival of the Jewish left to be of critical importance, proposed sensible measures to combat negative trends, and committed to working within the larger Jewish community rather than confining themselves to the margins, there should not necessarily be a ban on cooperation on issues relating to the Jewish community, provided that such efforts do not jeopardize our own goals.
And what should our movement do? Quite simply, it must establish itself as providing the Jewish community with the best source of Jewishness. We should set up our own “Hebrew schools”, though of course they must go beyond Hebrew lessons and shallow conceptions of what being Jewish means, rather they must explain our shared history, the shared struggle that each and every Jew is a part of, our shared future, and perhaps most importantly, we must be able to answer the question “Why should one be a Jew?” And of course, this curriculum must be suffused with ideology- we must show why a Jew should be left-wing. Similarly, we must set up our own summer and winter camps, where an atmosphere of Jewish leftism is pervasive. Most importantly, these resources must be available to ordinary Jewish families. Even now, many non religious families (including mine), send their children to Orthodox day camps, simply because they were the only affordable option. We must find a way to make our programs available to all Jewish families, regardless of income. In addition, we must find ways to financially aid poor Jews, particularly the elderly, so they can live their lives in dignity. Through these and many other actions, we must establish ourselves as a pillar holding up the community.
If these challenges seem daunting (and indeed they are), consider what will happen otherwise. The peripheral “mantle” of the community (which also happens to be disproportionately liberal-leaning) will gradually dissolve, leaving behind a numerically small but influential core consisting of ideologically committed, and politically right-wing members. The Jewish community of our grandchildren will largely spring from this core. Without concerted efforts of Jewish left-wingers now, the Jewish community will be conservative until the historical stars align for yet another revolutionary transformation in the Jewish community, an event which might not take place for centuries. Until then, there will be no mass movement for the political and economic rights of ordinary Jews, against threats from both within the community and outside. Shall we wait this long?
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HomeA Quasi-Experimental Study into the Effects of Cross-Age Peer Tutoring on Student Attainment
A Quasi-Experimental Study into the Effects of Cross-Age Peer Tutoring on Student Attainment
March 21, 2018 foeworkingpapers Childhood, Compulsory Education, Masters Dissertation Awardattainment, Disadvantage, peer tutoring, science education, underachievement
Anne Marie Plumb
Existing literature heavily speculates on the effectiveness of methods for raising the attainment of underachieving pupils, but evidence of precisely how these methods of intervention could be conducted is sparse. This paper provides a condensed version of a thesis detailing a study undertaken over one year, exploring the effectiveness of a cross-age peer-tutoring programme within a comprehensive 11-18 secondary school. Underachieving Y10 students took part in the programme; with high achieving students in Y11 participating as tutors. Tutors and tutees were paired based on data from a motivation and self-regulation questionnaire, as well as informal teacher knowledge of student behaviour and personality. Tutoring was a seven-session intervention programme, once per week for 30 minutes. A mixed methods approach was undertaken, and the findings contribute to the existing body of knowledge and understanding of the success of peer-tutoring programmes.
Results show that peer-tutoring significantly raises attainment (p=0.000). The most notable reasons for success were; tutors provide explanations, tuition aids understanding, the one-to-one environment is beneficial, tutoring provides opportunity for discussion, uncertainty can be clarified, and confidence is improved. Data demonstrate that peer-tutoring is equally successful in raising attainment for all underachieving students (disadvantaged or not) as there was no significant difference in improvement of the two groups (p=0.770).
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With league tables not only including the measure of five A*-C grades, but now the English Baccalaureate [five A*-C in English, maths, humanities, science and a language] (‘English Baccalaureate (EBacc) – GOV.UK’, n.d.), student achievement is becoming increasingly researched. Differences in achievement regarding sex, ethnicity and economic status are evident from as early as seven years old, and likely to persist over time (Strand, 1999). Schools have a responsibility to promote positive outcomes, ensuring that students from all backgrounds have equal opportunities. The underachievement of all groups of pupils is a topic of great interest, and coupled with the increasing pressure on teachers to deliver continuous success with the recent introduction of performance-related pay; it is becoming increasingly important to provide evidence for strategies which raise attainment.
Peer-Tutoring
In search of an inexpensive but effective intervention which could be used to support underachieving students, I reviewed the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) teacher toolkit. This led me to their section on peer-tutoring; described as providing moderate impact at a low cost, being based on extensive evidence (L. Bowman-Perrott et al., 2013; Cohen, Kulik, & Kulik, 1982; Cook, Scruggs, Mastropieri, & Casto, 1985; Ginsburg-Block, Rohrbeck, & Fantuzzo, 2006; Jun, Ramirez, & Cumming, 2010; Leung, 2015; Rohrbeck, Ginsburg-Block, Fantuzzo, & Miller, 2003).
Peer tutoring is defined as “an approach in which one child instructs another in material on which the first is an expert and the second is a novice”(Damon & Phelps, 1989, p.11), and includes a range of approaches in which one-to-one support is given from one child to another, often involving different ability pairings and training of the tutor (K. J. Topping et al., 2011). Two main types of peer-tutoring are same-age[1] and cross-age[2] peer-tutoring; many areas of the literature have demonstrated the positive attainment effects of both types of peer-tutoring.
Bayne (2013, p.376) describes some reasoning to the effectiveness of peer tutoring “where barriers may exist between student and teacher along the lines of teaching style, age, gender, among others, opportunities for peers to be involved in the teaching process affords synergy and positive emotion that may not exist otherwise”. Bowman-Perrott et al. (2013, p.39) state “the success of peer tutoring for both tutors and tutees is likely from incorporated instructional features such as frequent opportunities to respond, increased time on task, and regular and immediate feedback.” Vogelwiesche, Grob and Winkler (2006) also conclude that providing immediate feedback about learning progress and mistakes [during tutoring] is beneficial to learning. In addition to receiving immediate feedback, answers, and corrections, tutees also benefit from individualised instruction by the tutor scaffolding information and tailoring instructional strategies to a pace suitable for the tutee (Jacobson et al., 2001).
A report written by Wang, Haertel and Walberg (1997) identifies 28 categories which cover the most significant influences upon student learning. The authors concluded, generally, that direct influences such as the time spent on a topic and the quality of teacher-pupil interactions had a greater impact on learning than indirect influences such as school-wide policies. Using analysis of existing literature, they ranked all 28 influences in order of importance; from most to least influential upon learning; illustrated in figure 1.1. On examination of the authors’ descriptions of each of these influences, I have inferred that peer-tutoring is able to impact upon six of the top ten ranked influence on learning. Table 1.1 outlines each category applicable to the scope of this study, its ranking, the authors’ description of the category, and my own interpretation of why peer-tutoring could provide a mechanism to assist student learning in relation to each category.
Table 1.1: Summary of the influential learning categories identified by (Wang et al., 1997) which can be applied to the peer-tutoring process
The highest ranked influence in the aforementioned study was the management of the classroom, in order to maintain student engagement; as there is a well-established link between engagement and positive learning outcomes. Although some research goes into depth about the multifaceted and complex levels of engagement; whether it be behavioural, emotional or cognitive (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, & Paris, 2004); it can be recognised on the whole that student engagement is believed to be correlated with student achievement (Connell, Halpem-Felsher, Clifford, Crichlow, & Usinger, 1995; Jimerson, Campos, & Greif, 2003; Marks, 2000; Skinner, Zimmer-Gembeck, Connell, Eccles, & Wellborn, 1998). As described in the table, I believe that short, frequent tutoring sessions retain student engagement and on-task participation; and therefore feel this provides a well-founded basis for the use of peer-tutoring as a strategy in raising attainment.
Another concept from the Wang, Haertel and Walberg (1997) study which I found incredibly interesting and applicable to this study is the influence ranked number eight; peer aspirations. Bishop (1989) suggests that a peer pressure against studying hard exists due to the belief of a forced ‘competition’, and that this decreases student motivation in the classroom. In addition to this, the tutor’s role in “modelling of enthusiasm, competence, and the possibility of success (Keith J. Topping, 2005, p.637)” could aid with increasing the self-confidence of the tutee (Keith J. Topping, 2005). Tutees may benefit from tuition sessions due to the combination of the absence of their peers (therefore removing the peer-pressure and competition element) with the pairing of an aspirational and high-achieving student as their tutor (therefore providing a role-model within their education), leading to positive outcomes in attainment
Critical Analysis of Selected Research
There are many existing studies regarding the effectiveness of peer tutoring, and it is important to reflect upon those which offer valuable similarities, but leave behind implications for further work. Table 1.2 displays a visual summary of the method designs, outcomes, and the implications and challenges when applying a selection of other authors’ research to my own. Bowman-Perrott et al (2007) examined the effect of (same-age) class-wide peer tutoring (CWPT) on students with emotional and behavioural difficulties; Allen and Chavkin (2004) investigated cross-age tutoring using community volunteers as tutors for core subjects; McKinstery and Topping (2003) investigated the effect of cross-age peer tutoring on thinking skills; and Vogelwiesche, Grob and Winkler (2006) compared the effectiveness of same-age tutoring with cross-age tutoring in the teaching of computer skills with disadvantaged adolescents. All of these studies provide a comparable age group to the students who received tuition within my study, and two involve science.
Combination of the above ideas brought me toward an intervention programme which would improve student outcomes (Horwath & Basarab-Horwath, 2010); remove elements of negative attainment peer-competition (Bishop, 1989); provide a positive environment for learning based on positive teacher expectations, with allocated time for task completion; and close monitoring of student progress (Brophy, 2006). This research involved implementing a cross-age peer tutoring programme as an intervention strategy for a selected group of underachieving students, with a ‘comparison group’ involving the remainder of the class members who do not receive tuition. The hopeful outcome was raising attainment for these pupils, and potentially assisting to provide reasoning for why peer-tutoring is a successful strategy.
Table 1.2: Summary of the method designs, outcomes, and the implications and challenges when applying the four relevant studies to my own.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the positive effects of cross-age peer tutoring in GCSE biology within a comprehensive secondary school in the UK. Two sub-questions (SQs) have been developed to assist in answering the overarching research question:
Research question: “How effective is cross-age peer-tutoring as a strategy to increase attainment for underachieving pupils in biology?”
SQ1: Does peer-tutoring raise academic attainment in biology?
SQ2: What reasons could explain improvement in attainment?
Data Collection and Design
Overall, the study consisted of an initial testing, selection and pairing process; followed by a seven-week tutoring programme (one 30-minute session per week); then an analysis phase (testing and interviews). A quasi-experimental approach was taken as an experimental group (students who received tutoring) was compared to a control group (students who do not receive tutoring). These groups were not allocated randomly because they were chosen within the classes accessible for this study; with an attempt to keep other variables as similar as possible (Winterbottom, 2009). To invest more validity in the study, a randomised selection of students for each group would have been preferable (Shadish, Cook, & Campbell, 2002); however, it would also be unethical and potentially detrimental for the class teacher (and indeed the school) not to offer such opportunities to students who are underachieving. Although this does infringe upon validity; the methods of data collection and analysis still provide a sufficient degree of internal validity. As combinations of both quantitative and qualitative data were collected during this study, a mixed methods research approach was adopted. All quantitative data were subjected to statistical analysis, using IBM SPSS Statistics (V.23). Analysis firstly involved tests of normality (to determine further testing) and then (as data were normally distributed) either paired-samples t-tests or independent-samples t-tests, depending on the comparisons made. The data collection techniques used, and the purpose of each method are outlined in table 2.1.
Tutoring Session Structure
Sessions began with a concept-mapping activity, as concept maps are recognised as useful activities for (1) organising information, (2) motivating students to study a topic, (3) revising topics, (4) generating discussion around a topic, (5) ranking important ideas and (6) reinforcing ideas (Malone & Dekkers, 1984). Many of these ideas complement those which I hoped would be incorporated into tutoring sessions, and I felt providing tutors with a skeleton structure of the concept map would assist in generating discussion and providing direction for the session. Where possible, the concept maps used were taken from a book by Burggraf (1998), containing pre-drawn content-rich concept maps created using the “National Science Education Standards” as a guide (Burggraf, 1998). If the topics to be covered were not found in this book, I created them myself, bearing in mind the structure and layout of the concept map activities in this book. The concept-mapping activity was followed by a past examination question, giving students an opportunity to apply their knowledge in the format that they will ultimately be examined on, and for the tutor to give feedback and confirm/correct the tutee’s answers. A visual summary of the data sources used to answer the specific research sub-questions can be seen in table 2.2: adapted from Wilson and Stutchbury (2009) table 4.5 p.72.
The data of 27 out of a possible 29 students were used, as data for two students were withdrawn due to parental request and non-attendance to sessions. Twelve students participated in the tuition programme. The ratio of males to females was equal (6M, 6F); a good representation of gender within the school. The ratio of disadvantaged pupils (DPs) to non-disadvantaged pupils was also equal (6 DPs, 6 non-DPs). Of the six DPs, half were male and half were female. The study therefore consisted of a broad representation of range of student backgrounds.
SQ1: Does Peer Tutoring Raise Academic Attainment in Biology?
Percentage scores on pre- and post-tests were used to provide a comparable scale, as the tests undertaken were not the same test, and were not out of the same marks. All students sat the same pre- and post- tests at the same time, were in the same teaching class, and were exposed to the same treatment throughout the study. No revision lessons were covered between pre- and post- tests and therefore students had not re-covered any topics in lessons after the pre-test that were then covered in the post-test. Both the pre- and post- tests were sat under the same conditions, in the same room.
Shapiro-Wilks tests confirmed normality of both pre- and post-test data (p=0.264, p=0.100 respectively). An independent samples t-test of results of the pre-test (completed prior to the intervention) revealed that the students which were subsequently selected for tutoring (M = 25.63, SD = 6.50) had scored significantly lower (t = 6.403, p = 0.000) than their peers who were therefore not selected for intervention (M = 51.00, SD = 13.65).
Post-test data show that attainment of tutored students increased from the pre-test to the post-test (M = 40.99, SD = 11.36). A paired samples t-test revealed that this increase was significant (t = 4.905, p = 0.000). A paired samples t-test was also carried out on the results of the non-tutored students, which demonstrated that on average, there was a slight decrease in the results of students who did not receive tutoring (M = 43.90, SD = 12.06), but that this decrease was not significant (t = 1.828, p = 0.898).
An independent samples t-test on all students’ post-test results indicated that in the test subsequent to the intervention programme, there was no significant difference (t = 0.64, p = 0.528) between the test scores of students who received tutoring (M = 40.99, SD = 11.36) and those who were not selected in the first place as they were already achieving higher scores (M = 43.90, SD = 12.06). This suggests that the intervention closed the existing attainment gap within the class.
Additionally, an independent samples t-test was carried out all students’ results to confirm whether the percentage difference between pre- and post- tests results can be explained by peer tutoring as an independent variable. These results were highly statistically significant (t = 4.34, p = 0.000), suggesting that the intervention can account for the difference in attainment (tutored: M = 15.36, SD = 10.85; not tutored: M = -7.10, SD = 15.05).
Collectively, these results show a highly significant increase in the attainment of students who received peer-tutoring, and no significant change in attainment by students who did not receive peer-tutoring.
SQ2: What Reasons Could Explain the Improvement in Attainment?
This question was answered with the use of the following qualitative data:
Interviews with Y10 students who received tutoring
Open and closed question survey completed by Y11 students who were the tutors for the intervention programme
Six students (2M, 4F) were interviewed; one interview was held with two students, and the other with four. Two of the students were disadvantaged (1M, 1F); therefore interviews covered a broad spectrum of students. It was intentional to interview all tutored students, but due to absences and limited available opportunities to conduct the interviews; this was not possible. This does compromise the validity of the study, however these problems were unavoidable and so results are a ‘best interpretation’.
Interviews were semi-structured; consisting of three pre-planned open-ended questions, but during the interview additional questions were asked to extend or clarify answers. The over-arching questions were:
Did you find the tutoring useful, and why?
What have been the barriers to your learning prior to tutoring?
How has tutoring allowed you to overcome those barriers?
Interviews were transcribed using the coding system discussed by Evans (2009) which was adapted from Ellis and Barkhuizen (2005). Transcriptions were thematically coded using an inductive approach (Evans, 2009), whereby themes which emerged from the data were identified (see appendix for transcription and thematic analysis). A deductive approach was not used as this was an exploratory exercise and there were no predetermined themes. The identified themes were then tallied to count the number of associated responses per question.
Interview Question 1
“Did you find tutoring useful, and why?”
All students concluded that they had found the tutoring experience worthwhile. This question aimed to explore different pupils’ opinions on exactly why they had felt the tutoring had benefitted their learning, leading to their increase in attainment. All of the responses given by students are echoed in some way within literary articles already quoted, and so data are confirmatory to studies already quoted. As shown in table 3.1 below, of all responses, the most popular were the ideas that tutors provide good explanation of concepts, and help aid understanding within the sessions.
Table 3.1: Summary of themes identified from student interviews
“What difficulties have prevented you from learning so far?”
This question aimed to explore a little about the students views on their own learning barriers, and to also encourage them to consider them to reflect on their prior learning experiences. Table 3.2 demonstrates that the majority of students stated they found the classroom a distracting environment, or that they find it difficult to concentrate.
Table 3.2: Summary of themes identified from interview question 1
“How has tutoring allowed you to overcome these barriers?”
The students had not been given their post-test data and therefore were unaware whether or not they had improved academically. Thus, the question was not “how did tutoring help you improve”, as it was intended for students to be reflective upon their experience with their tutors, in relation to their own barriers to learning. The overriding theme, shown in table 3.3, appears to be that tutoring removes classroom distractions and provides opportunity to help students concentrate.
Student Questionnaire
The questionnaire involved nine questions, compiled electronically on SurveyMonkey© and emailed to the tutors, due to time restrictions and ease of communication. Eight students completed the questionnaire. Each question consisted of two parts; a yes/no option and a comment box. Table 3.4 summarises the questions and responses.
Table 3.4: Summary of themes identified from the student questionnaire
These findings suggest that the tutors found that peer-tutoring was a successful strategy, as they perceived that their tutees’ knowledge improved throughout the designated sessions, in addition to securing their own knowledge of the subjects being tutored. Tutors also believed that in the process of tutoring, their confidence with the topic content had improved, though most tutors clearly felt that they needed support (in the form of resources) in order to manage the tutoring sessions.
Overall, it is evident that tutoring benefitted all students. Students who were interviewed felt that being tutored was useful for their learning for a number of reasons, with the largest proportion of positive comments being based around tuition providing an opportunity to discuss topic content with clear explanations from their tutor. This links very closely with the provision of an opportunity for clarification on particular areas which students were not sure about, and also for reflecting on/reviewing answers or previous ideas held by students, which were incorrect, and therefore misconceptions were addressed by the tutor. Student opinions on their barriers to learning most frequently involved comments relating to distractions within the classroom setting. This is not surprising, as disengagement within the classroom is widely reported to impact on academic attainment. The varied responses given from students for how tutoring allowed them to overcome learning barriers demonstrates that tutoring is an individualised process; different students will gain different experiences and different benefits.
Qualitative outcomes and inferences are supported by quantitative data analysis; confirming that tutoring has been successful in significantly (p = 0.000) raising the attainment of underachieving students, closing the attainment gap between underachievers and their peers.
This study explored the effect of cross-age peer tutoring on attainment in biology within a mixed comprehensive 11-18 school. The work involved in this study is highly significant as evidence for the effectiveness of peer-tutoring as a strategy to close any attainment gaps which may be identified. Through quantitative analysis of the data collected, cross-age peer-tutoring was found to significantly increase the attainment in GCSE biology of all pupils (p = 0.000). A multitude of research within the literature supports this, and also suggests explanations of the positive effects of peer-tutoring on attainment. Table 4.1 represents a summary of the qualitative findings, simplifying the student interview and survey responses into a clear visual representation, linking together statements from both sources to offer explanations for the positive effect of peer-tutoring.
Revisiting the Wang, Haertel and Walberg (1997) report which identified 28 categories which influence student learning; the benefits described by students within the present study share links with many of the top ranked influences on learning. Table 4.2 recaps on some of the categories identified by the authors, and the links that I have drawn from the qualitative data within this study to the applicable categories. The categories of influence on learning identified by Wang, Haertel and Walberg (1997) offer valuable explanations for the success of the tutoring programme explored within this study, and combined with my own evidence, supports the conclusions drawn within this research.
Responses gained from students during the qualitative phase of this study support many ideas within the literature. In correlation with Wang, Haertel and Walberg (1997) categories of influences on learning; tutees within this study identified that their lack of engagement during class time (due to being distracted) was the most common barrier to their learning, and that these distractions were not present during tutoring sessions (figure 4.2). Tutees noted that they felt more confident during the sessions (figure 4.3), and it was expressed that students felt the benefit of having their tutor correct their mistakes (figure 4.4); suggesting they felt comfortable making mistakes in the presence of the tutor.
In terms of providing effective learning models; tutees expressed that the tutor provided ideas on revision technique, or was able to draw diagrams if they did not understand something; representing one type of learning model (figure 4.5). Numerous students expressed that they found their tutor good at explaining concepts (figure 4.6); offering explanations to assist understanding. This supports one suggestion by Vogelwiesche, Grob and Winkler (2006) that peers are more likely to provide shorter explanations with demonstrations than adult instructors are, potentially making topic content more accessible to tutees. One tutee also expressed a benefit of her tutor simplifying material to a level she understood (figure 4.7); an example of the tutor directly responding to the tutee’s needs.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
Overall, the study revealed that peer-tutoring is an effective strategy to raise attainment for underachieving students. This has been evidenced through both statistical testing of student data in the pre- and post-testing phases, and also qualitatively through student responses during interviewing. Peer-tutoring provides a focused environment, away from classroom distractions, in which one capable student can share knowledge with another. This has been supported by descriptions that students felt there were no distractions during their tutoring sessions. With effective use of structure to guide sessions, steps can be made to aid the understanding of topic content by the tutee, whilst improving the tutor’s confidence and knowledge security. This is reinforced by comments from students regarding tutors improving the tutees’ confidence. A large benefit of peer-tuition, as supported by other literature, is that it provides tutees with the opportunity to ask questions without feeling peer-pressure or intimidation from classmates, and receive immediate feedback from their tutor; to confirm knowledge or correct misconceptions. Tutors are able to provide effective explanations for the tutee, potentially at a more understandable level than a classroom teacher, in order to reaffirm knowledge. Older and more experienced tutors are able to suggest mechanisms of revision, inspiring tutees to try new techniques when revising alone, potentially aiding their recall and application to examination questions. Tutoring sessions are tailored to the needs of the tutee, and can be completed at a pace comfortable for the tutee, without experiencing time pressures which may be experienced by teachers in order to complete teaching subject curriculum in the given time frame. Overall within this study, both tutors and tutees described tutoring as a positive experience, demonstrating an enjoyment and engagement with the subject through participation in the programme.
This study leaves some interesting doors open for a variety of audiences. On the whole, with correct implementation and organisation, I would suggest that peer-tutoring is successful for raising attainment of underachieving students in secondary science. League tables are continuously being reported where one school is compared with others nationally; the pressure for improvement in attainment is higher now than ever; evidenced by the recent introduction of performance-related pay increases which hold teachers accountable for improving the results of their own classes. Peer-tutoring offers a cost-effective mechanism that schools could utilise, and I would promote consideration of this route.
Since the study identified a significant increase in attainment for tutored students, the methodology adopted within the study could provide recommendations for others. Students were paired based on scores from a self-regulation questionnaire, coupled with the teacher’s personal knowledge, as one way to find the most complementary pairings. The structure of tutoring sessions involved a concept-mapping exercise guided by the tutor, followed by exam practice where the tutee independently applied knowledge, for which the tutor would provide feedback; which is widely regarded as one of many reasons for success of peer-tutoring. The study also sparks interest for potential research into whether structured or unstructured tuition would be more effective, and whether tutors should receive prior ‘training’. The sample size and generalisability of this study, however, is fairly poor. This leaves the door open for extensive follow-up studies to ascertain both the short- and long-term outcomes of peer-tutoring on wider groups of students, and also within different types of schools.
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[1] Same-age peer tutoring involves students of the same age, class or grade level (Robinson, Schofield, & Steers-Wentzell, 2005) working together to provide one-to-one support.
[2] Cross-age peer tutoring involves students at different grade levels; older students tutoring students who are younger than themselves (Robinson et al., 2005).
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The 4th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***LISTS GO HERE!***
Location: Somewhere Hot Scoville Units: 9,999,999 Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
100 Movies. 31 Days. October 1st - 31st, 2008
THIS THREAD IS FOR POSTING YOUR LISTS ONLY!!
FOR DISCUSSION, THE RULES, SCHEDULES, LINKS, OR ANY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS YOU MAY HAVE -- PLEASE VISIT THE MAIN THREAD:
----> THE DISCUSSION THREAD <----
----> DISCUSSION THREAD PART 2 <----
The "31 Films for 31 Days" List
This is an optional subset of the overall challenge.
Watch these 31 films on the listed day, with group discussion starting the next morning.
Or don't watch them but still join the discussion.
The "31 Films in 31 Days" Thread
-Courtesy of Trevor
Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator
Creature from the Black Lagoon (chosen by vote)
The Devil's Rejects (chosen by FusionX)
The Wolf Man (this is October's Full Moon)
Claw of Terror (aka "Scream Bloody Murder")
YouTube link (chosen by Mister Peepers)
Manos: The Hands of Fate (chosen by steelpotato)
Hard (chosen by edwardnortonfan)
April Fool's Day (chosen by wlverinefactor)
John Carpenter's The Thing
October 22nd
The Pit and the Pendulum (chosen by Dimension X)
Horror of Dracula (chosen by Crazee4DVDs)
The Innocents (chosen by Giles)
Black Sunday (chosen by Chad)
The Expanded Checklist/Bingo Card
Copy & Paste this into your list(s).
Try and complete it ...or not.
-Courtesy of Trevor (and some others).
Watch one film from every decade of film history.
--- 1890 - (insert film title here)
--- 1900 -
Watch a film for each rating:
--- Unrated (pre-MPAA) - (insert film title here)
--- G -
--- PG -
--- PG-13 -
--- R -
--- NC-17 -
--- X (not porn; several horror films were rated X) -
--- Unrated (post-MPAA) -
Watch a film starring:
--- Bela Lugosi - (insert film title here)
--- Lon Chaney Sr. -
--- Boris Karloff -
--- Lon Chaney Jr. -
--- Vincent Price -
--- Peter Cushing -
--- Christopher Lee -
--- Robert Englund -
--- Bruce Campbell -
--- Jamie Lee Curtis -
Watch films in at least two languages other than English.
--- First language, (insert language), (insert title).
--- Second language, (insert language), (insert title).
Watch a film in each of the following subgenres/types:
--- Vampire - (insert film title here)
--- Frankenstein -
--- Werewolf -
--- Mummy -
--- Invisible Man -
--- Ghost/haunting -
--- Witchcraft/satanic/religious -
--- Zombie -
--- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac -
--- Monster/creature feature/Godzilla -
--- Documentary -
--- Musical -
--- Spoof/comedy -
--- Revenge -
--- Killer/evil doll -
--- Killer/evil animal -
--- Killer/evil child -
--- Giallo -
--- J horror -
--- MST3K/rifftrax/CT -
--- film and its remake -
--- based on a video game -
--- based on a novel -
--- directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis or Uwe Boll or Ulli Lommel -
--- won an Academy Award -- any category -
--- silent film -
--- Criterion version film -
--- with commentary -
--- film and at least two of its sequels -
--- anthology film -
--- takes place on a holiday -
--- takes place in space -
--- takes place on or under the sea -
--- animated film -
--- called "Night of the ..." -
--- called "Return of the ..." -
--- called "Revenge of the ..." -
--- called "Attack of the ..." -
--- with the words "Living Dead" in the title -
(One film could fill multiple items. Example: Dracula would fill one for decade, rating, actor, vampire, based on novel, and maybe others as well.)
(Use a * to mark first time viewings.)
(Change "---" to "-X-" or some similar mark when you have completed that line item.)
(First one to fill in all the blanks wins a random DVD from Trevor.)
6 Wild Cards
There are 6 wild card options. The wild card can be used for any horror related item, including It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, various halloween Bugs Bunny cartoons, Roseanne or Simpsons Halloween episodes, X-Files or Angel the Series episodes, etc.
-Courtesy of caligulathegod
The Participants
NOTE: If you have more than 1 list (ie weekly), only the first will be linked.
UPDATED 10/16 6:05pm EST
(1 - 75)
chris_sc77
zaphod2467
ThatAnymore
Numes
Cronenbergfan71
LickTheABCs
riotinmyskull
cardsfan111
SpaceBoy
MTRodaba2468
RobCA
Mondo Kane
Jeffy Pop
William Fuld
Darkgod
MrStayPuft
Crazee4DVDs
Dimension X
poster mayhem
NoirFan
whitetigeress
onebyone
Doc Moonlight
smashthesymbols
DEEveeDEE3
mrpeavey
shadokitty
Surfinhank
JerryKILL
beebs
Darth Maher
DeathDealer476
dan31655
InnocentBlood
Mountain Biker
dcrw6
josepotato
vcuram
FantasticVSDoom
tarfrimmer
Russell S
indiephantom
shellebelle
edwardnortonfan
cwileyy
Swarty
advdfreak
Camp Blood
cabinboy454
gryffinmaster
Boondock Saint
acdcrocks1980
SactownRipper
LBCrazyFool
late_but_earnest
FusionX
KillerCannibal
MrTerrific
stonecountry
(76 - ???)
SnapDawg
TheManInBlack
DVDMagic
wlverinefactor
DieBarneyDieNY
steelpotato
clckworang
pyro808
Mathew Ackerly
Ghostface180
alfonsosoriano
toldawg128
caligulathegod
patsfan
terrycloth
Keith6601
Dick Laurent
RagingBull80
TropicalRobot
Rimx
RichardW
konekonoir
cysiam
planetaire
old-boo-radley
jmsmath
LeeVing
Pillowhead
diaclonex
acubfaninmd
thee law
thecrazydude
Sex Fiend
ororama
naitram
The challenge officially begins Wednesday, October 1, 2008 @ Midnight (EST).
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REMINDER...
Don't forget there's gonna be a prize for the most impressive list. It'll be decided by your votes right after the challenge.
FYI, "most impressive" means formatting wise, and not based on the quality or number of films watched.
Wednesday, October 1st
1. Inside UR ("À l'intérieur") (2007) ☼
2. The Cottage (2008) ☼ - Very reminiscent of another British film - "Severance". Throw in Peter Jackson's go-to-guy (Andy Serkis), a Kevin Spacey lookalike (Reece Shearsmith) and a cameo by Pinhead (Doug Bradley) himself, and you've got yourself an effective little horror-comedy with a good ratio of laughs and thrills.
3. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) ☼ - It could easily be called "Creepshow 3" because the series (which I recently discovered on the Sci-Fi channel) is based on those movies and has George A. Romero's involvement. That's a compliment, BTW.
4. Nosferatu (1922) PDD
5. The Fifth Cord (Giornata nera per l'ariete) (1971) ☼
6. The Ghoul (1933) ☼ -
Thursday, October 2nd
7. Asylum (1972) ☼ - Just became one of my favorite Hammer ...err Amicus anthologies.
8. Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
9. Jigoku (Hell) (1960) ☼ - This is one of those cases where I'll have to re-visit this film to form any sort of opinion.
10. Black Christmas (1974) - VERY underrated film that should be held in the same high regards as "Halloween". Seriously, ever horror fan should have this in their collection.
Friday, October 3rd
11. Blacula (1972) - Don't let the title fool you into thinking that this is simply a cheesy blaxploitation flick...it's anything but. The great performance of William Crain is what carries this film.
12. Hammer House of Horror - Episode 5: "The House That Bled to Death" ☼ WC #1
THE THREE MOTHERS TRILOGY:
13. Suspiria (1977)
14. Inferno (1980)
15. Mother of Tears (La Terza madre) (2007) ☼
Saturday, October 4th
16. The Burning (1981) - Imagine a hybrid of "Meatballs" and "Friday the 13th" with the same Tom Savini effects and throw in a young Jason Alexander (with actual hair!) for comedic effect. Quite an overlooked little gem.
HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY:
17. Pumpkinhead (1988) - It's a little thin on character development, but it's still a great atmospheric horror film. The late great Stan Winston should have sit in the director's chair more often.
18. Child's Play (1988)
19. The Ruins UR (2008) ☼
1/3 OF THE FILMS DETERMINED TO KEEP ME AWAKE:
20. The Christmas Tale (Películas para no dormir: Cuento de navidad) (2005) ☼
21. A Real Friend (Películas para no dormir: Adivina quién soy) (2006) ☼
Sunday, October 5th
22. Black Cadillac (2003) ☼ - "Christine" + "The Car" - the supernatural aspects + direct-to-DVD status = Black Cadillac. Meh.
23. Carnival of Souls (1962) - Stephen King recently named this as being one of his top five low-budget horror films (along with Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, and The Blair Witch Project). I agree with his statement.
Monday, October 6th
31. The Pit (1981) ☼
31. Calvaire (2004) NWN ☼
32. The Dunwich Horror (1970)
33. Dead Meat (2004)
34. Films to Keep You Awake: Spectre (Películas para no dormir: Regreso a Moira) (2006) [b]☼[/b
Wednesday, October 8th
35. The Tingler (1959)
36. Hammer House of Horror - Episode VI: "Charlie Boy" (1980) ☼ WC #2
SLIMY CREATURE DOUBLE-FEATURE
37. Slugs (Slugs, muerte viscosa) (1988) ☼
38. The Deadly Spawn (1983)
39. Films to Keep You Awake: The Baby's Room (Películas para no dormir: La habitación del niño) (2006) ☼
Thursday, October 9th
40. Naboer (Next Door) (2005) ☼
ATTACK OF THE KILLER SEQUELS!
41. This Night I'll Posses You Corpse (Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver) (1967)
42. Return of the Evil Dead (El Ataque de los muertos sin ojos) (1973)
43. Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988) ☼
Friday, October 10th
44. -- And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) ☼
45. Anatomie 2 (Anatomy 2) (2003) ☼
46. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007) ☼
47. Demoni 2 (Demons 2) (1986)
Saturday, October 11th
48. Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
49. Suicide Club (Jisatsu saakuru) (2002) ☼
GUNNAR HANSEN 2-FER FOLLOWED BY A NIGHT @ THE OPERA
50. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Blu-ray - My first HD title of the challenge!
51. Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
52. Opera (aka "Terror at the Opera") (1987)
53. The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
54. Diabolical Doctor Z (aka "Miss Muerte") (1966)
55. Hammer House of Horror - Episode 7: "The Silent Scream" (1980) ☼ WC #3
56. Blue Sunshine (1976)
57. Freaks (1932)
Frankenstein (1910)
Monday, October 13th
59. "Kill, Baby... Kill!" (Operazione paura) (1973)
60. Trauma (1993) ☼
61. Films to Keep You Awake: "Blame" (Películas para no dormir: La culpa) (2006) ☼
62. Race with the Devil (1975)
Tuesday, October 14th
63. Scream and Scream Again (1970)
64. 6 Films to Keep You Wake: "To Let" (Películas para no dormir: La culpa) (2006) ☼
65. The Wolf Man (1941)
66.Awakening of the Beast (O Ritual dos Sádicos) (1970)
Wednesday, October 15th
67. Frankentein's Bloody Terror (La Marca del Hombre-lobo) (1968) ☼
68. Tenebre (1982)
69. Beyond the Door (Chi sei?) (1974) ☼
70. Hammer House of Horror - Episode VIII: "Children of the Full Moon" (1980) ☼ WC #4
71. Horror Rises From the Tomb (Espanto surge de la tumba) (1973) ☼
72. The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) ☼
73. The Birds (1963)
74. Female Vampire (Les Avaleuses) (1973)
75. The Gorgon (1964) ☼
76. The Devil's Rain (1975)
77. Splatter: Naked Blood (Nekeddo burâddo: Megyaku) (1995) ☼
78. The Exorcist The Version You Haven't Seen (1973)
79. The Children (aka "The Children of Ravensback") (1980) ☼
80. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) ☼
81. Creep (2004) ☼
PSYCHOTIC DOCTORS TRIPLE-FEATURE
82. Dr. Giggles (1992)
83. Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985)
84. The Rage ( aka "Robert Kurtzman's The Rage") (2007)
85. Rogue (2007) ☼
86. Scream of Fear (1961)
87. The Haunting (1963)
88. Forgot the title!
DEE WALLACE DOUBLE-FEATURE
89. The Frighteners (1996) HD DVD
90. Critters (1986)
91. Elviras Movie Macabre: "The Devil's Wedding Night" (1983) NWN ☼
92. Maniac (1980)
93. The Beyond (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà) (aka "Seven Doors of Death") (1981)
94. Phantasm (1979)
95. Hellgate (1989) ☼
Tuesday, October 21st
96. The Haunted Strangler (aka "Grip of the Strangler") (1958)
97. Stuck (2007) Blu-ray ☼
98. The Bat (1959)
99. The Strangers (2008) Blu-ray ☼
100. Phantasm II (1988)
Wednesday, October 22nd
101. Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ☼
102. The Church (La Chiesa) (1989) ☼
103. Crawlspace
104. Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
105. The Evil Dead (1981)
106. Evil Dead II (aka "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn") (1987)
107. Army of Darkness (1992)
Thursday, October 23rd
108. The Signal (2007) NWN ☼
109. The Food of the Gods (1976) NWN ☼
110. Psycho (1960)
111. Psycho II (1983) ☼
112. Psycho III (1986) ☼
113. Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) ☼
HEAVY METAL DANCING SATANIC ZOMBIES 3-FER
114. Black Roses (1988) ☼
115. Hard Rock Zombies (1985) ☼
116. Dance of Dead (2008) ☼
117. Flavia the Heretic (Flavia, la monaca musulmana) (1974) ☼
118. Microwave Massacre (1983) NWN ☼
119. Horror of Dracula (1958)
120. Axe (aka "Lisa, Lisa") (1977) ☼
121. David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986)
122. The Descent (2005) Blu-ray
123. 28 Days Later (2002)
124. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
125. Don't Go in the Woods (1981) NWN ☼
126. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
127. Dawn of the Dead (aka "Zombie: Dawn of the Dead") (1979)
128. Day of the Dead (1985)
129. Land of the Dead (2005)
130. Diary of the Dead (2007)
131. Bloodsucking Freaks! (aka "The Incredible Torture Show") (1976) NWN
132. The Norliss Tapes (1973) ☼
133. Hammer House of Horror - Episode 9: "Carpathian Eagle" (1980) WC #5 ☼
134. Dr. Renault's Secret (1942) ☼
135. The Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
136. The House with Laughing Windows (La Casa dalle finestre che ridono) (1976) ☼
137. The Undying Monster (1942) ☼
138. The Black Cat (Gatto Nero) (1981) ☼
139. The Aztec Mummy (La Momia Azteca) (1957) ☼
140. The Curse Of The Aztec Mummy (La Maldicion De La Momia Azteca) (1957) ☼
141. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (La Momia Azteca Contra El Robot Humano) (1958) ☼
MARIO BAVA's BLACK TRIPLE-FEATURE
141. Blood and Black Lace (Sei donne per l'assassino) (1964) ☼
142. Black Sunday (La Maschera del demonio) (aka "The Mask of Satan") (1960)
143. Black Sabbath (I Tre volti della paura) (aka "The Three Faces of Fear ") (1963)
144. Color Me Blood Red (1965) ☼
145. Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) ☼
JOHN CARPENTER'S
146. In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
147. The Thing (1982)
148. The Fog (1980)
149. Christine w/commentary (1983)
Friday, October 31st
157. Mad Monster Party? (1969)
158. Faces of Death (1978) Blu-ray ☼
159. Shutter (aka "Shutter: They Are Around Us") (2004) ☼
160. Alone in the Dark (1982) ☼
161. Halloween (aka "The Babysitter Murders") (1978)
162. Halloween II (1981)
163. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) ☼
☼ = First Time Viewing
PDD = Public Domain Download
WC = Wildcard
NWN = Netflix Watch Now
TCM = Turner Classic Movies
The Checklist
-X- 1910 - Frankenstein
-X- 1920 - Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror
-X- 1930 - The Ghoul
-X- 1940 - The Wolf Man
-X- 1950 - The Tingler
-X- 1960 - Carnival of Souls
-X- 1970 - Blacula
-X- 1980 - Inferno
-X- 1990 - Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
-X- 2000 - Shadow of the Vampire
-X- Unrated (pre-MPAA) - Inside
-X- PG - Asylum
--- X (not porn; several horror films X) -
-- Unrated (post-MPAA) -
--- Bela Lugosi -
-X- Boris Karloff - The Ghoul
-X- Bruce Campbell - The Woods
-X- French, Inside.
-X- Spanish, A Real Friend
-X- Vampire - Blacula
--- Frankenstein - -X- Werewolf - The Beast Must Die
-X- Mummy - Bubba Ho-Tep
-X- Ghost/haunting - The Baby's Room
-X- Witchcraft/satanic/religious - Suspiria
-X- Zombie - Dead Meat
-X- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac - Black Christmas
-X- Spoof/comedy - The Cottage
-X- Killer/evil doll - Child's Play
-X- Killer/evil child - The Pit
-X- Giallo - The Fifth Cord
-X- J horror - Jigoku
-X- based on a novel - The Ruins
-X- silent film - Nosferatu
-X- Criterion version film - Jigoku
-X- anthology film - Asylum
-X- takes place on a holiday - Black Christmas
-X- called "Return of the ..." - Return of the Evil Dead
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Location: Bellefontaine, Ohio
This list is finalized
1. Phenomena (1985) (Dir. Dario Argento) (110 Min) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
2. The Secret (2007) (Dir. Vincent Perez) (92 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
3. Rogue (2007) (Dir. Greg Mclean) (99 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
4. Ti piace Hitchcock? (Do You Like Hitchcock?) (2005) (Dir. Dario Argento) (93 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
5.Phenomena (1985) (Dir. Dario Argento) (110 Min) : Watched With Audio Commentary by Dario Argento, Sergio Stivaletti, Claudio Simonetti and Loris Curci
6. Shadow Of The Vampire (2000) (Dir. E. Elias Merhige) (92 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
7. Feast (2005) (Dir. John Gulager) (92 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
8. Shadow Of The Vampire (2000) (Dir. E. Elias Merhige) (92 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by E. Elias Merhige
9. Ravenous (1999) (Dir. Antonia Bird) (101 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
10. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) (Dir. Tony Randel) (99 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
11. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) (Dir. Robert Rodriguez) (108 Min.) ***** Stars out of *****
12. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) (Dir. Tobe Hooper) (100 Minutes) **** Stars out of *****
13.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) (Dir. Tobe Hooper) (100 Minutes) Watched With Audio Commentary by Tobe Hooper and David Gregory
14. Carrie (1976) (Dir. Brian De Palma) (98 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
15. Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) (Dir. Jeff Burr) (86 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
16. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) (Dir. Tobe Hooper) (100 Minutes) Watched With Audio Commentary by Bill Moseley, Caroline Williams, and Tom Savini
17. Kairo (Pulse) (2001) (Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) (119 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
18. Magic (1978) (Dir. Richard Attenborough) (107 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
19. Delicatessen (1991) (Dir. Marc Caro; Jean-Pierre Jeunet) (100 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
20. Masters Of Horror: "Sick Girl" (2006) (Dir. Lucky McKee) (60 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
21. Masters Of Horror: "Incident On And Off A Mountain Road" (2005) (Dir. Don Coscarelli) (52 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
22. Cabin Fever (2002) (Dir. Eli Roth) (93 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
23. Masters Of Horror: "Cigarette Burns" (2005)(Dir. John Carpenter) (60 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
24. Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) (Dir. Jeff Burr) (86 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Jeff Burr, David Schow, Greg Nicotero, Mark Ordesky, R.A. Mihalloff and William Butler
25. Feast (2005) (Dir. John Gulager) (92 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by John Gulager, Mike Leahy, Joel Soisson, Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton, and Gary Tunnicliffe
26. The Bone Collector (1999) (Dir. Phillip Noyce) (118 Mn.) *** Stars out of *****
27. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) (Dir. Jack Clayton) (96 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
28. Two Evil Eyes (1990) (Dir. Dario Argento; George A. Romero) (120 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
29. Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) (2003) (Dir. Ji-woon Kim) (115 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
30. Saam gaang yi (Three... Extremes) (2004) (Dir. Fruit Chan; Chan-wook Park; Takashi Miike) (126 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
31. Masters Of Horror: "Pick Me Up" (2006) (Dir. Larry Cohen) (58 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
32. The Rocky Horror Picture Picture Show (1975) (Dir. Jim Sharman) (100 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
33. Pulse (2006) (Dir. Jim Sonzero) (88 Min.) ** Stars out of *****
34. Ugetsu monogatari (Ugetsu) (1953) (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi) (95 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
35. Pulse (2006) (Dir. Jim Sonzero) (88 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Jim Sonzero and Gary Tunnicliffe
36. Ghosts of Mars (2001) (Dir. John Carpenter) (98 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
37.Pulse (2006) (Dir. Jim Sonzero) (88 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Mike Leahy, Joel Soisson, Ron Vecchiarelli, Kevin O'Neill, Kirk Morri, and Samm Levine
38. Dracula (1931) (Dir. Tod Browning) (75 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
39. Ghosts of Mars (2001) (Dir. John Carpenter) (98 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by John Carpenter and Natasha Henstridge
40. Creepshow 2 (1987) (Dir. Michael Gornick) (92 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
41. Jacob's Ladder (1990) (Dir. Adrian Lyne) (115 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
42. Quarantine (2008) (Dir. John Erick Dowdle) (89 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
43. Diary of the Dead (2007) (Dir. George A. Romero) (95 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
44. Dracula (1931) (Dir. Tod Browning) (75 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by David J. Skal
45. Dracula's Daughter (1936) (Dir. Lambert Hillyer) (71 Min.) ** Stars out of *****
46. Stuck (2007) (Dir. Stuart Gordon) (85 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
47. Son Of Dracula (1943) (Dir. Robert Siodmak) (80 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
48. House Of Dracula (1945) (Dir. Erle C. Kenton) (67 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
49. Flesh For Frankenstein (1973) (Dir. Paul Morrissey) (95 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
50. Psycho II (1983) (Dir. Richard Franklin) (113 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
51. The Amityville Horror (2005) (Dir. Andrew Douglas) (90 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
52. Ed Wood (1994) (Dir. Tim Burton) (127 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
53. Frailty (2001) (Dir. Bill Paxton) (100 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
54. The Rapture (1991) (Dir. Michael Tolken) (100 Mn.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
55. Flesh For Frankenstein (1973) (Dir. Paul Morrissey) (95 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Paul Morrissey, Udo Kier, and Maurice Yacowar
56. The Gravedancers (2006) (Dir. Mike Mendez) (95 Min.) ** Stars out of *****
57. Psycho III (1983) (Dir. Anthony Perkins) (93 Mn.) *** Stars out of *****
58. Jigoku (1960) (Dir. Nobuo Nakagawa) (99 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
59. Night of the Living Dead (1990) (Dir. Tom Savini) (92 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
60. The Rapture (1991) (Dir. Michael Tolken) (100 Mn.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Michael Tolkin, Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny and Patrick Bauchau
61.The Amityville Horror (2005) (Dir. Andrew Douglas) (90 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Ryan Reynolds, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller
62. Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) (Dir. Mick Garris) (96 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
63. La Terza madre (Mother of Tears) (2007) (Dir. Dario Argento) (102 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
64. Child's Play (1988) (Dir. Tom Holland) (87 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
65.Night of the Living Dead (1990) (Dir. Tom Savini) (92 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Tom Savini
66. The Mothman Prophecies (2002) (Dir. Mark Pellington) (119 Min.)
67.Child's Play (1988) (Dir. Tom Holland) (87 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and Kevin Yagher
68. Scary Movie 4 (2006) (Dir. David Zucker) (84 Min.) *1/2 Stars out of *****
69.Child's Play (1988) (Dir. Tom Holland) (87 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by David Kirschner and Don Mancini
70. Child's Play 2 (1990) (Dir. John Lafia) (84 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
71.The Wizard of Gore (2007) (Dir. Jeremy Kasten) (95 Min.) *1/2 Stars out of *****
72. Bride Of Chucky (1998) (Dir. Ronny Yu) (89 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
73. Child's Play (1988) (Dir. Tom Holland) (87 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Tom Holland and Tim Sullivan
74. Seed of Chucky (2004) (Dir. Don Mancini) (86 Min.) ** Stars out of *****
75. Scary Movie 4 (2006) (Dir. David Zucker) (84 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary byDavid Zucker, Robert Weiss and Craig Mazin
76. The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007) (Dir. Dario Piana) (87 Min.) ** Stars out of *****
77. Evil Dead II (1987) (Dir. Sam Raimi) (85 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
78. House on Haunted Hill (1999) (Dir. William Malone) (93 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
79.The Mothman Prophecies (2002) (Dir. Mark Pellington) (119 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Mark Pellington
80. Dressed to Kill (1980) (Dir. Brian De Palma) (105 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
81. Dark Ride(2006) (Dir. Craig Singer) (94 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
82. La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday) (1960) (Dir. Mario Bava) (87 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
83. Tre volti della paura, I (Black Sabbath) (1963) (Dir. Mario Bava) (92 Min.) ***1/2 Stars out of *****
84. Seed of Chucky (2004) (Dir. Don Mancini) (86 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Don Mancini and Jennifer Tilly
85. La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday) (1960) (Dir. Mario Bava) (87 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Tim Lucas
86. Operazione paura (Kill, Baby... Kill!) (1966) (Dir. Mario Bava) (84 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
87. American Psycho (2000) (Dir. Mary Harron) (100 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
88. Tre volti della paura, I (Black Sabbath) (1963) (Dir. Mario Bava) (92 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Tim Lucas
89. Freaks (1932) (Dir. Tod Browning) (64 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
90. Freaks (1932) (Dir. Tod Browning) (64 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by David J. Skal
91. La Ragazza che sapeva troppo (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) (1963) (Dir. Mario Bava) (86 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
92. Red (2008) (Dir. Trygve Diesen ; Lucky McKee) (93 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
93. La Ragazza che sapeva troppo (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) (1963) (Dir. Mario Bava) (86 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Tim Lucas
94. The Abandoned (2006) (Dir. Nacho Cerdà) (99 Min.) **1/2 Stars out of *****
95. Frankenstein (1931) (Dir. James Whale) (70 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
96. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (Dir. James Whale) (75 Min.) ****1/2 Stars out of *****
97. Frankenstein (1931) (Dir. James Whale) (70 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Rudy Behlmer
98. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (Dir. James Whale) (75 Min.) Watched With Audio Commentary by Scott MacQueen
99.Young Frankenstein (1974) (Dir. Mel Brooks) (105 Min.) *** Stars out of *****
100. Pet Sematary (1989) (Dir. Mary Lambert) (103 Min.) **** Stars out of *****
101. Zombie Strippers! (2008) (Dir. Jay Lee) (94 Min.) ** Stars out of *****
Film titles underlined note a first-time viewing of a particular film.
WILD CARDS:
1.Tales from the Crypt: "Split Second" (1991)
2.Tales from the Crypt: "Deadline" (1991)
3. South Park: "Spooky Fish" (1998)
4.Spike TV's third annual "SCREAM" awards (10/21)
5. My Name Is Earl: "Little Bad Voodoo Brother" (2008)
6.The Office: "Employee Transfer" (2008)
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***LIST FINISHED***
1. Seed (07)*--2/5
2. Five Across the Eyes (06)*--2/5
3. Never Cry Werewolf (08)*--3/5
4. 6 Films to Keep You Awake: The Blame (06)*--3/5
5. Dead of Night (45)*--4/5
6. 6 Films to Keep You Awake: Spectre (06)*--3/5
7. Final Destination 2 (03)--4/5
8. 6 Films to Keep You Awake: A Real Friend (06)*--4/5
9. Interview with the Vampire (94)--4/5
10. Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (08)*--4/5
11. A Nightmare on Elm Street (84)--4/5
12. 6 Films to Keep You Awake: A Christmas Tale (06)*--4/5
13. Sarah Landon and the Parnormal Hour (07)*--3/5
14. Masters of Horror: Dance of the Dead (05)*--3/5
15. The Monster That Challenged the World (57)*--3/5
16. It! The Terror from Beyond Space (58)*--3/5
17. Dead Mary (06)*--3/5
18. Night of the Comet (84)--5/5
19. The Legend of Lucy Keyes (06)*--3/5
20. 6 Films to Keep You Awake: The Baby's Room (06)*--4/5
21. 6 Films to Keep You Awake: To Let (06)*--4/5
22. Dark Floors (08)*--3/5
23. Dance of the Dead (08)*--3/5
24. The Last House in the Woods (06)*--3/5
25. Copley: An American Fairytale (08)*--3/5
26. Stuck (07)*--3/5
27. Sickness House (06)*--1/5
28. The Call of Cthulhu (05)*--4/5
29. The Company of Wolves (84)--5/5
30. Chhota Chetan (04)*--3/5
31. One Missed Call (04)*--3/5
32. Audition (99)--5/5
33. Shiver (07)*--4/5
34. Jake's Closet (07)*--3/5
35. Night of the Living Dorks (04)*--3/5
36. Under Wraps (97)--4/5
37. Tower of Terror (97)*--4/5
38. Dracula: Dead and Loving It (95)*--3/5
39. Mother of Tears (07)*--4/5
40. Tamara (05)*--3/5
1. Goosebumps: One Day at Horrorland (97)--3/5
2. Goosebumps: Welcome to Camp Nightmare (95)*--3/5
3. Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of the Frozen Ghost (93)--3/5
4. Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of the Whispering Walls (93)--3/5
5. Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of the Full Moon (93)--3/5
*--first time viewing
-x- 1940 - Dead of Night
-x- 1950 - The Monster That Challenged the World
-x- 1980 - A Nightmare on Elm Street
-x- 1990 - Interview with the Vampire
-x- 2000 - Seed
-x- Unrated (pre-MPAA) - Dead of Night
-x- PG - Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
-x- PG-13 - Night of the Comet
-x- R - Final Destination 2
-x- Unrated (post-MPAA) - Seed
-x- Robert Englund - A Nightmare on Elm Street
-x- First language: Spanish (The Blame)
-x- Second language: Italian (The Last House in the Woods)
-x- Vampire - Interview with the Vampire
-x- Werewolf - Never Cry Werewolf
-x- Mummy - Under Wraps
-x- Ghost/haunting - Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
-x- Witchcraft/satanic/religious - Mother of Tears
-x- Zombie - Night of the Comet
-x- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac - Seed
-x- Monster/creature feature/Godzilla - The Monster That Challenged the World
-x- Documentary - Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
-x- Musical - Chhota Chetan
-x- Spoof/comedy - Dracula: Dead and Loving It
-x- Revenge - Seed
-x- Killer/evil doll - Dead of Night
-x- Killer/evil child - Shiver
-x- J horror - One Missed Call
-x- based on a novel - Interview with the Vampire
-x- directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis or Uwe Boll or Ulli Lommel - Seed
-x- silent film - The Call of Cthulhu
-x- anthology film - Dead of Night
-x- takes place on a holiday - A Christmas Tale
-x- takes place in space - It! The Terror from Beyond Space
-x- takes place on or under the sea - The Monster That Challenged the World
-x- called "Night of the ..." - Night of the Comet
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2005: 30 Films
*= First Viewing
Lets start this fucker!
1. Pet Sematary (1989) (12:00am)
2. Pet Sematary Two (1992) (1:45am)
3. The Blob (1988) (12:15pm)
4. The Dentist (1996) (6:25pm)
5. House of 1000 Corpses (2003) (5:35pm)
6. Chopping Mall (1986) (9:10pm)
7. The Dentist 2 (1998) (12:40am)
8. Dr. Giggles (1992) (2:35am)
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) (2:10pm)
10. Re-Animator (1985) (5:25pm)
11. House on Haunted Hill (1958) (9:15pm)
12. The Last Man on Earth (1964) (10:35pm)
13. The Blob (1958) (2:30am)
14. The Return of the Living Dead (1985) (5:00pm)
15. The Wolf Man (1941) (8:45pm)
16. She-Wolf of London (1946) (10:05pm) *
17. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) (11:10pm)
18. Black Christmas (1974) (1:50pm)
19. Frankenstein (1931) (4:10pm)
20. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (5:20pm)
21. Son of Frankenstein (1939) (6:35pm)
22. Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) (8:15pm) *
23. House of Frankenstein (1944) (9:30pm) *
24. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (11:00pm)
25. Return of the Living Dead Part 2 (1988) (2:10am)
26. Night of the Living Dead (1968) (11:15am)
27. The Invisible Man (1933) (6:30pm)
28. The Invisible Man Returns (1940) (7:55pm)
29. The Invisible Woman (1940) (9:40pm)
30. Invisible Agent (1942) (10:55pm) *
31. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) (11:55pm)
32. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) (1:30am)
33. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) (2:50pm)
34. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) (8:15pm) Wild Card Pick
35. The Fly (1986) (8:45pm)
36. Dawn of the Dead (1978) (10:20pm)
37. Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008) (1:55am) *
38. Urban Legend (1998) (10:00am)
39. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) (2:00am)
40. Scream (1996) (4:15pm)
41. Suspiria (1977) (7:45pm)
42. Happy Birthday to Me (1981) (9:15pm)
43. Ginger Snaps (2000) (12:25pm)
44. The Devil's Rejects (2005) (3:05pm)
45. The Eye (2008) (6:00pm)
46. The Mummy (1932) (7:30pm)
47. The Mummy's Hand (1940) (8:50pm)
48. The Mummy's Tomb (1942) (9:55pm)
49. The Mummy's Ghost (1944) (11:00pm)
50. The Exorcist (1973) (4:35pm)
51. Halloween (2007) (8:40pm)
52. Beetlejuice (1988) (12:15am)
53. P2 (2007) (2:05am)
54. Scream 2 (1997) (3:15pm)
55. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) (6:10pm)
56. Revenge of the Creature (1955) (7:55pm)
57. The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) (9:45pm) *
58. Dracula (1931) (11:00pm)
59. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) (6:45pm)
60. Friday the 13th (1980) (12:50am)
61. One for the Fire: The Legacy of Night of the Living Dead (2008) (10:35pm)
62. The Strangers (2008) (12:10am) *
63. Creepshow (1982) (2:10am)
64. Day of the Dead (1985) (4:45pm)
65. April Fool's Day (1986) (12:30pm)
66. He Knows You're Alone (1980) (2:00pm)
67. Sleepaway Camp (1983) (7:30pm)
68. Poltergeist (1982) (9:00pm)
69. Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) (1:10am)
70. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) (9:55am) *
71. 13 Ghosts (1960) (11:20am)
72. Dracula's Daughter (1936) (12:50pm)
73. Son of Dracula (1943) (2:00pm) *
74. House of Dracula (1945) (3:25pm) *
75. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) (10:55pm)
76. One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead (2007) (2:00am)
77. Scooby-Doo & the Goblin King (2008) (10:20pm)
78. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) (11:35pm)
79. Scooby-Doo & the Witch's Ghost (1999) (12:50am)
80. Psycho (1960) (10:25pm)
81. Scooby Doo & the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) (10:40am)
82. Jack Brooks Monster Slayer (2007) (12:15pm) *
83. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) (6:55pm)
84. The Evil Dead (1981) (9:10pm)
85. The Blair Witch Project (1999) (12:00am)
86. King Kong (1933) (9:40pm)
87. War of the Worlds (2005) (9:55am)
88. The Mummy (1999) (11:50am) Last Year's Record Broken
89. Saw II (2005) (8:45pm)
90. Zombie Strippers (2008) (1:20am) *
91. Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989) (3:10pm)
92. American Psycho (2000) (6:15pm)
95. Return of the Fly (1959) (6:50pm)
96. The Tingler (1959) (8:15pm)
97. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) (10:00pm)
98. The Bat (1959) (11:20pm) *
99. Twice Told Tales (1963) (7:50pm) *
100. Tales of Terror (1962) (10:00pm) *
101. The Monster Squad (1987) (2:20am)
October 29th-October 30th
None, These Days
October 31st HAPPY HALLOWEEN
102. Halloween (1978) (12:40am)
103. Halloween II (1981) (1:05pm)
104. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) (7:00pm)
-X- 1930 - Frankenstein (1931)
-X- 1940 - The Wolf Man (1941)
-X- 1950 - House on Haunted Hill (1958)
-X- 1960 - The Last Man on Earth (1964)
-X- 1970 - Black Christmas (1974)
-X- 1980 - Pet Sematary (1989)
-X- 1990 - Pet Sematary Two (1992)
-X- 2000 - House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
-X- Unrated (pre-MPAA) - House on Haunted Hill (1958)
-X- PG - The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
-X- PG-13 - The Mummy (1999)
-X- R - Pet Sematary (1989)
-X- Unrated (post-MPAA) - Re-Animator (1985)
-X- Bela Lugosi - Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
-X- Boris Karloff - Frankenstein (1931)
-X- Lon Chaney Jr. - The Wolf Man (1941)
-X- Vincent Price - House on Haunted Hill (1958)
-X- Robert Englund - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
-X- Bruce Campbell - The Evil Dead (1981)
-X- Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween (1978)
-X- Vampire - Dracula (1931)
-X- Frankenstein - Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
-X- Werewolf - The Wolf Man (1941)
-X- Mummy - The Mummy (1932)
-X- Invisible Man - The Invisible Man (1933)
-X- Ghost/haunting - House on Haunted Hill (1958)
-X- Witchcraft/satanic/religious - Suspiria (1977)
-X- Zombie - The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
-X- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac - The Dentist (1996)
-X- Monster/creature feature/Godzilla - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
-X- Documentary - One for the Fire: The Legacy of Night of the Living Dead (2008)
-X- Musical - The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
-X- Spoof/comedy - Beetlejuice (1988)
-X- Revenge - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
-X- Killer/evil doll - Poltergeist (1982) ***Evil Clown***
-X- Killer/evil animal - Pet Sematary Two (1992)
-X- Killer/evil child - Pet Sematary (1989)
-X- film and its remake - The Blob (1958) & The Blob (1988)
-X- based on a novel - Frankenstein (1931)
-X- won an Academy Award -- any category - The Fly (1986) - Best Makeup
-X- Criterion version film - The Blob (1958)
-X- film and at least two of its sequels - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
-X- anthology film - Creepshow (1982)
-X- takes place on a holiday - Black Christmas (1974)
-X- takes place on or under the sea - Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
-X- animated film - The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
-X- called "Night of the ..." - Night of the Living Dead (1968)
-X- called "Return of the ..." - The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
-X- called "Revenge of the ..." - Revenge of the Creature (1955)
-X- with the words "Living Dead" in the title - The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
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First Time Viewing
Oct 1:
1. The Brood (1979)
Cronenberg gives us
More emotion here than in
The rest of his films
2. Wicked Little Things (2006)
It's the anti-Brood!
Fun, unpretentious spook show
But no real substance
3. The Monster Squad (1987)
Love letter from Fred
Dekker kicks The Goonies' butt
Up and down the block
4. Teeth (2007)
Paging Doctor Freud!
Gleeful misanthropy from
Beginning to end
5. Long Dream (Nagai yume) (2000)
Junji Ito and
Higuchinsky - a combo
That just can't be beat
6. Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Giant spiders are
Scary, not funny. Again:
Scary! Not funny!
7. Behind the Mask (2006)
De rigueur backlash
Aside, this movie is a
Witty, fun-filled ride
8. The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Early volley of
Proto-metahorror is
Spoiled by apathy
9. Turistas (2006)
I hate to admit
It, but Hostel did it much,
Much, much, much, better
10. Mulberry Street (2006)
What could have been camp
In lesser hands becomes pure
Melancholy here
11. From Beyond (1986)
Great Lovecraft homage
Ending prefigures the end
Of Society
12. The Abandoned (2006)
Bravo! Cerda needs
To make another movie
Soon - A.S.A.P!
13. Street Trash (1987)
Tenafly Viper
Liquor can make your life go
Straight down the commode
14. The Meltdown Memoirs (2006) (Wildcard #1)
Who'd have thought Street Trash
Could engender such a warm,
Heartfelt 'making-of'?
15. Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) (1994)
Sorry, did you say
"Zombies?" I was distracted
By Anna Falchi
16. The Happening (2008)
A failure, but an
Intriguing failure. Still beats
Most Hollywood pap
17. Crazy Eights (2006)
Great cast, great score, and
A cool concept - so how did
This one go so wrong?
18. The Child (1977)
Creepy little gem
Overlooked, but Something Weird
Saves the day once more!
19. Borderland (2007)
Fell asleep watching
This at After Dark. There's a
Recommendation!
20. The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) (1981)
(-Stein!) Man, when Fulci was 'on,'
No one could touch him
21. The Young Ones - "Nasty" (1982) (Wildcard #2)
I now know how to
Approach a humpback bridge, thanks
To Alexei Sayle
22. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Saw the remake first
And believe me, I'm deeply
Ashamed of that fact
23. Nightmare Man (2006)
There's Nothing Out There
Deserves an essay. This one
Just gets a haiku
Oct 10:
24. Whisper (2007)
The Item meets Doug
Clegg's The Nightmare Chronicles
Meets The Omen. Whew!
25. The Machine Girl (Kataude mashin gâru) (2008)
Good old-fashioned blood
And guts, just like Jackson and
Raimi used to make
26. The Signal (2007)
Yep, love conquers all
Even wild variations
In directors' styles
27. Them (Ils) (2006)
An alarm system
Would solve the problem, sure, but
Where's the fun in that?
28. Miners Massacre (2003)
Creature hunts its stolen gold
No, not that creature
29. Masters of Horror: "Family" (2006)
Between this and King
Of the Ants, George Wendt's carving
Quite a horror niche!
30. Darkness (1993)
Fifteen years on, the
Enthusiasm of the
Filmmakers still shines
31. The Changeling (1980)
Putting the 'class' in
'Classic.' One of filmdom's best
Ghost stories, bar none
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DVD Talk Gold Edition
Location: Hawkeye Country
Numes' October Horror Movie Challenge List
Attention --> There may be spoilers in my comments of the films
Goal: 31
Total Watched: 56
Total First Time Viewings: 29
Commentaries: 22
Total Checklist: [35/71]
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
1. Near Dark - [DVD] - 6/10 ☼
Look everyone! It's half of the "Aliens" cast! The acting in this movie was excellent. Bill Paxton was amazing as the "crazy" vampire. It was quite a shock to see Adrian Pasdar (he plays Nathan on Heroes) in the movie. That was one of his first movie roles, and he did an excellent job. I didn't like the kid actor at all, he did not pull it off. The plot was interesting and good, except for the reverse-vampire transfusion element. There was absolutely no explanation of this at all and why it would work. That was the biggest disappointment of the whole movie. The freeze frame at the end was a bit cheesy. Scare Factor: 2/10
2. Wishmaster - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
I'm not sure why I thought this movie was going to be cheesy. The production value is much better than I expected. The special effects are pretty damned good. I really like the Djinn story. It reminded me of the X-Files episode where all of the wishes that people wish for from the Djinn always have a twist to them that almost always backfire. Andrew Divoff was amazing as Nathanial/The Djinn. He was absolutely perfect for the role. Scare Factor 3/10
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
3. Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies - [DVD] - 6/10 ☼
I wasn't expecting much for the sequel, but it was definitely entertaining. Andrew Divoff reprises his role as Nathaniel/The Djinn in this movie and doesn't lose a beat. They really kept with the story from the first movie, which was a welcome surprise. The 1001 souls idea was a bit different from the first movie, but it did add a new element. Once again, the special effects were pretty good. Scare Factor: 3/10
4. Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell - [DVD] - 4/10 ☼
Ok. Here's the dropoff. The acting has taken a big hit. The professor and the Djinn (now played by two different actors) were definitely above par and I did buy into their characters, but everyone else was pretty forgettable. The storyline of the fire gemstone being trapped in the statue has gone by the wayside, but curiously enough, at the beginning of the movie the opening has the statue from the first two movies. I didn't mind the change in the way the Djinn was defeated in this movie. If they would have done the "perfect last wish" ending again, it wouldn't have worked. I'm not saying the end story was better, but at least they tried. I didn't like that they got rid of the Djinn having to build souls before he went to the person who released him. Scare Factor 2/10
5. Resident Evil - [Blu-Ray] - 7/10
Very entertaining movie. I think I may have played the video game a couple times on the Playstation, so I was slightly familiar with the storyline (not that that makes any difference at all.) The British hologram girl as the Red Queen was a great plot point. It added something unique to the movie that could have been just strictly Zombie-action. I never saw the other two movies, they are next... Scare Factor: 3/10
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
6. Resident Evil Apocalypse - [Blu-Ray] - 6/10 ☼
A decent follow-up to the first movie. The priest feeding people to his infected daughter was quite disturbing. Bringing back the max "character" as the mutant killing machine was a cool addition from the first movie. Scare Factor: 3/10
7. Resident Evil: Extinction - [Blu-Ray] - 6/10 ☼
I tend to get a little bored by "end of the world" survival stories (notable exception: Mad Max 2.) At least there was some interesting stuff going on in the underground facility. I liked that they brought back the little British girl hologram idea from the first one. The beginning of the movie has the same opening as the first movie, I literally took the BD out of my PS3 and checked to see if I got the original movie instead of Extinction. lol. Scare Factor: 2/10
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street - [DVD] - 8.5/10
One...Two...Freddy's coming for you. I saw this movie over at a friends house when I was maybe 10 or 12 and it really freaked me out. I remember not being able to sleep at all that night. A true horror classic. As I'm sure many know, it was Johnny Depp's first movie. I don't really find this movie very scary anymore. I'm not quite sure why, I think it's just because I know what's going to happen. Whoa! Did anyone know that they are remaking this in 2010? Hmmm.... Scare Factor (2008): 3.5/10; Scare Factor (1988): 9.5/10
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge - [DVD] - 5.5/10
You know, it's really not all that bad of a sequel. It may have been because I could not keep my eyes off of the actress who played Lisa. Love those redheads! A few plot holes here and there. Like, why did Jesse even bother not going to sleep if Freddy could possess him at any time? Scare Factor: 2/10
10. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - [DVD] - 7/10
Wes Craven came back to be involved in this one. I think Patricia Arquette's performance in this was superb. Her scream is very distinct. The storyline of this one basically ignored part 2 and brought back the story (and a couple characters) from part one, which really helped. Giving a bit more of a back story on Freddy was also a key plot point. Scare Factor: 2/10
11. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master - [DVD] - 3.5/10
Oh my god, the opening theme song is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Are we watching --insert 80's teen coming-of-age movie here--? Wow. They brought back 2 of the people from the last movie and promptly killed them off right away. The Kristen character was replaced by a different actress and she was killed off fairly early in the movie too. Kind of lame that they just killed off everyone so quickly so that the new girl could take over. They also seem to be getting away from the fact that your wounds that killed you in the nightmare show up in real life (except when convenient.) Ridiculous moment #2: The montage of Alice "preparing" to fight Freddy with mementos from her friends. I actually laughed out loud at that. Oh, and they bookend the movie equally terribly with either the same song or the same type of song at the end. I even heard some girl rapping during the credits. Good lord. Scare Factor 2/10
● Wishmaster (Commentary) - [DVD] - 7.5/10 ☼
Excellent commentary. It's amazing what a close-knit group the horror movie people are. The director of this movie was involved in creature effects of at least one movie of every of the "major" horror franchises that I could think of.
12. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child - [DVD] - 4/10
This movie continues a year or so after the last movie. I don't mind the Alice character, but her supporting cast was weak. Some pretty cheesy moments in this movie, especially with the weird Freddy baby and the Alice baby scene. It's never a good idea to do creature effects of babies. Just weird, unrealistic, and annoying. Scare Factor: 2/10
13. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare - [DVD] - 2/10
Oh what a turd of a movie. Once again, it starts off with a horrible horrible song to open the movie. These are supposed to be horror films, my god. The story was truly terrible and the 3D glasses plot point was ridiculous. Awful. Simply awful. Scare Factor: 1/10
● Resident Evil (Visual Effects Commentary) - [DVD] - 8/10 ☼
The director and visual effects supervisor are on this track. A really in-depth track strictly focusing on the visual aspects. The best part was when there was a lull in the visual effects, the director would ask the visual effects supervisor about his other movies like Close Encounters and Blade Runner. Good stuff all around.
14. Wes Craven's New Nightmare - [DVD] - 5/10 ☼
This is the only of the ANOES movies that I haven't seen. It was definitely better than #6, and I see where they were trying to go with the movie, but they just didn't pull it off. Some of the things were interesting, taking place in the "real world," but it's hard to pull off those types of movies. "The Stunt Man" comes to mind as one that was done just about as good as you can do it. It was cool to see some of the people behind the movie and the cameos, but I could have seen that in a documentary. Scare Factor: 2.5/10
15. Night of the Living Dead - [DVD] - 6/10
"They're dead, they're all messed up." I have seen this movie once before, and I can certainly appreciate the movie for what it was when it was made, but it is not really a movie I will watch many more times in the future. I'll probably listen to the Romero commentary more times than watching the movie.
I wish I was old enough to have watched this when it came out (or near when it came out) to perhaps appreciate it as a turning point in horror cinema (if not cinema itself.) I doubt there were many leading actors at that time who were black.
I think my favorite part of the movie is the zombie daughter eating the dads arm and then going and killing (stabbing like 15 times) the mom...the scream is great. Good stuff. Apparently she was full after all that arm eating, because mom wasn't touched. I know I get quite full after eating arm. Scare Factor: 1/10
16. The Shining - [Blu-Ray] - 9/10
This movie is a masterpiece. The music and the cinematography are second to none. The acting is superb. Jack is amazing, as usual. I can't imagine Danny being any more perfect than he was. His subtle change in look from Danny/Tony was brilliant. It's hard to believe a little kid pulled that off so beautifully. Shelly Duvall is perfect in her role as Wendy. I was not a big fan of Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann. I thought his scene with Danny in the kitchen was great, but all of his other scenes felt a little forced. This is my favorite Kubrick movie.
This is probably the 4th time I've seen this movie. The first time was very very intense. Now, since I know what's going to happen, it doesn't impact me nearly as much, but there are definitely some spine-tingling moments.
The tagline for this movie is: "A Masterpiece of Modern Horror." I think they got that exactly right. Scare Factor: 8/10 (initial viewing); Scare Factor (now): 4/10
● Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Cast Commentary) - [DVD] - 2/10 (Jovovich/Fehr); 8/10 (Guillory) ☼
Milla Jovovich is once again terribly annoying. At least her counterpart, Oded Fehr wasn't quite as annoying. There was also a really good commentary, recorded separately, of Sienna Guillory intercut into the commentary with Jovovich and Fehr. I wish they would have had her as the main commentary, her comments were insightful, smart, and well spoken. I noticed something that I have heard in another commentary before, where Sienna said something and they intercut a Jovovich laugh after something she said. Why do they do that, do they really think we're that stupid that we think they are all together? C'mon.
● Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Director/Producer Commentary) - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
A decent commentary track. There was a lot of insight into the production of the movie and plenty of behind-the-scenes tidbits.
17. The Shining: Mini Series - [DVD] - 5/10 ☼
It was probably a real bad idea to watch it right after I watched the movie because it is really nowhere near the quality of the movie. I know I should try to be objective and view it on its own for what it is, but that was about impossible.
There were quite a few differences in the mini series, which, I'm sure, were more in-line with the book. The ideas were interesting, but they didn't really pull them off as well as they could have. I really like Steven Weber, but I will always see him as Michael Hackett from Wings, so even his psychotic episodes didn't feel real to me. Once again, unfair to stereotype him as actor, but I couldn't get over it.
I didn't really like the croquet mallet as the weapon (The axe was much more scary in the movie.) One thing I did like was how Tony was really a future version of Danny, that was excellent. As for the hedge creatures, I think the hedge maze worked so much better in the movie than the hedge creatures in the mini-series. Once again, it's not so much that I didn't like the idea of the hedge creatures, but it is so hard to pull off and have it look scary/realistic. It ended up quite cheesy in the mini-series. Scare Factor: 2/10 (note: there was one scene that did make me jump)
● Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Writer's Commentary) - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
Another solid Resident Evil commentary. This time it is the writers' commentary. One of the writers was actually the director of the first movie, so it was really more than just a commentary about the story. A lot of good information on not just this movie but the whole Resident Evil franchise in general.
18. Dawn of the Dead (1978) - [DVD] - 6.5/10 ☼
This is the first time I have seen Dawn of the Dead. This is really a huge jump from Night of the Living Dead and they really did a good job, considering when the movie was made and, what I'm sure was, a fairly low budget. The music had that great cheesy 70's apocalyptic vibe to it. I thought the intercutting of the news programs and the background radio announcements was an excellent way of getting a lot of the exposition out of the way without the main characters have to say it all. The scientist with the eyepatch (and glasses) was priceless. There really aren't enough characters with eyepatches in non-pirate movies nowadays. The scene with the zombie getting the top of his head cut off by the helicopter was classic. I also liked the montage of the stocking of firearms and getting prepared to clear out the mall of the zombies. One thing that might have been inadvertently funny was when one of the bikers put his arm in the blood pressure machine. In the movie, it looked like he thought "hey, now is a good time to check my blood pressure, I'm not going to worry about the 50 zombies coming to attack me." I found it really funny. Scare Factor: 2/10
19. Videodrome - [DVD] - 6/10
"Long live the new flesh!" This is the second time I have seen this movie, and I think I understand it a lot more than I did when I first saw it, but it is still a damned confusing movie. The effects were excellent for the time, I think the only one that wasn't pulled off well was the scene where the gun bonded with James Woods' hand. A lot of what I saw in Videodrome looked like a precursor to eXistenZ, which is probably my favorite Cronenberg movie I have seen. I can't wait to listen to the commentaries.
20. Maniac Cop - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
I was very pleasantly surprised with this movie! I thought it was going to be an ultra-cheesy 80's horror movie, but there was actually a decent plot and the acting was well done. Tom Atkins was great, and Bruce Campbell is great as always. I may have to check out the other two movies.
21. Dawn of the Dead (2004) - [DVD] - 8/10 ☼
What a great movie. I am so glad that the only thing that was really carried over from the original was the shopping mall theme. This is really a stand-alone movie more than a re-make of the original. One of the things that really made this stand apart was that the zombies were now much quicker. That made the movie much more scary to me. One thing that really caught my eye was that they would throw the zombie bodies off the roof. When I watched the original version, I thought the SAME thing. I was wondering why they stuck them in the cooler when they could throw them off the roof. That was such a coincidence that they did that in this movie. I did notice most of the cameos, it's cool that some of the people from the original were in this one (albeit in much different roles, which is the way it should be.) I thought the lounge singer version of "Down with the Sickness" was interesting. At least they played the real version later in the movie. I really love the use of the Johnny Cash song "When the man comes around" near the end of the movie. It just fits perfectly over extreme violence for some reason. They did it on the season finale of season 1 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and it worked brilliantly there. Watching this makes me want to see 300 again (another Zach Snyder movie.) Scare Factor: 3.5/10.
22. Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled - [DVD] - 6/10 ☼
Definitely better than #3. The acting was much better in this movie, and the themes and a lot of the scenes were much more, um how should I say it, "adult" in this movie. That definitely was a bonus for this picture. Once again they added something to the story in this one that was not in the other 3, which really helped the movie, made it stand out, and not just be a mindless sequel. Scare Factor: 1/10.
● Wishmaster 3: (Commentary) - [DVD] - 6.5/10 ☼
Chris Angel does a pretty good commentary. The actors that were with him were ok at times, but overall didn't add a whole lot to the commentary. A pretty interesting look into the making of this movie and what a short schedule they had.
23. Gremlins - [DVD] - 7.5/10
Gremlins was one of those movies that I grew up with. I can't fathom how many times I watched this when I was a kid. I watched it so many times that I don't think I've seen Gremlins for 15 years. It was so much fun to watch this movie again. I had little pieces of the movie that really stuck out in my mind from when I was a kid and it was really interesting to watch it again after all this time. A lot of the things were just little minuscule things that weren't big plot points. There were so many things that used to creep me out back then, it wasn't really as scary this time around, but still probably the most fun/nostalgic movie I've watched so far in this challenge. For some reason I thought the main gremlin was "Spike," not "Stripe." How could I forget that? The creature effects are really top notch in this movie. They're actually better than in the second one, in some sense, because they didn't do any blue/green screen like they did in #2. I could go on and on about the memories that this brought up. Instead, let me just finish up by saying Pheobe Cates is so so lovely. Scare Factor: 2/10.
24. Gremlins 2: The New Batch - [DVD] - 6/10
I did enjoy this movie, and probably watched it more than Gremlins 2 when I was a kid. It was definitely not quite as scary as the first one, and they really went out of their way to try to make this more mainstream. The opening/closing with Daffy and Bugs was incredibly idiotic. Why did they do that? I vaguely remember there being some kind of preview cartoon before Gremlins 2... Maybe that was why? The whole Hulk Hogan movie theater thing was so so lame. Besides those extremely dumb moments, Gremlins 2 was a fun movie. They had quite the cast of actors here. I had no idea who Christopher Lee was last time I watched this, so it was cool to see him as the "mad scientist." John Glover is always good in whatever he does. He is the perfect Daniel Clamp. I did like the idea of the genetic changes that the Gremlins went though....except for the horrible horrible sex change Gremlin. I always thought that was terrible, and it makes me mad thinking about it. It is so dumb. In closing, it was really too bad that they went WAY overboard in making this movie campy and silly, it would have been nice to see something darker like the first one. Scare Factor: 1/10
● Maniac Cop: (Commentary) - [DVD] - 7.5/10 ☼
Great commentary. Bruce Campbell, the director, and I think the producer were on this track. This was an old commentary from the laserdisc. They had a great repor and had a lot of interesting and behind-the-scenes information about the movie.
25. Brotherhood of the Wolf - [DVD] - 8/10
What a great movie! I have seen this once a while ago, and I forgot how good it is. Mani is such an awesome and unique character in this movie. It was a different take on the "stranger from another land" idea that they have in some movies. I absolutely loved the cinematography. The fight/killing sequences were amazing. I especially LOVED the partial freeze-frame scenes when the girl falls into the pond and the beast attacks her. And how awesome was the chain razor bone sword at the end of the movie? Just so many unique things in this movie that made it very enjoyable. Scare Factor: 3/10
26. Day of the Dead - [DVD] - 3/10 ☼
I wanted to like this movie, but it just was a HUGE disappointment after Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. I was surprised to see it rated 6.9 on IMDB and a lot of love for this movie. The special effects were pretty unbelievable, but the plot, pacing, acting, and the sheer amount of ridiculous exposition was unbearable to me (and I don't even mind exposition.) The whole Bub thing was ridiculous, but not in a good way. I just couldn't stand it. I wanted to fast forward through those parts. The idea didn't seem to follow any of the logic that was set up in the first two movies and the positive reinforcement that was set up in the movie for his behavior seemed to go against that logic. If his positive reinforcement was human flesh, why would he bother doing anything for the scientists if his primal instinct was to get flesh from any human anyways? How did he just happen to learn how to use these objects? If any Zombie can learn how to use those objects, they would have made it into the shopping mall in Dawn of the Dead in a couple of weeks. Ahh well, at least I have the commentaries to listen to! Scare Factor: 2.5/10
● Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled (Commentary 1) - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
Another solid commentary with Chris Angel and the two main male actors. I kind of felt like the actors were trying too hard to tell interesting stuff in the commentary, but for the most part Chris Angel did most of the talking and provided a lot of good information about the movie.
27. Shaun of the Dead - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
I thought this was going to be a complete parody of the "of the Dead" movies, but it really was it's own movie, but with some laugh-out-loud hilarious moments. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Simon Pegg has been on Conan twice now, and he's always great on there, but I've never seen him in a movie even though I own this movie, Hot Fuzz, and Spaced. I will be watching those in the near future. Scare Factor: 2/10
This time it was Chris Angel and John Novak (the Djinn). John Novak was quite annoying at times, but he would add a tidbit here and there. Chris Angel did a good job of not re-hashing anything he did in the other commentary. This commentary was supposed to include the main character, but she couldn't make it. It would have been better with her.
● Videodrome (Director/Cinematographer Commentary ) - [DVD] - 8/10 ☼
I am a big fan of Cronenberg commentaries. He really goes into a lot of details into the making of the movie and his though process of making the movie. The Cinematographer commentary was a separate track, but it was intercut perfectly with Cronenberg. A lot of interesting information from him too.
28. "Manos" The Hands of Fate - [DVD] - 0/10
See the 31 movies post here Scare Factor -29/10
29. The Exorcist - [DVD] - 8.5/10
I viewed "The Version You've Never Seen Before" version of the movie. I had seen the VHS version (I'm assuming it was the theatrical version) about 10 years ago.
It was a little hard to remember what was new. IMDB helped me out a bit on that. The most obvious change was the ending. I really didn't like the ending on this version, I thought the theatrical ending was much better. The whole idea about the detective asking if they wanted to go to the movies was very odd and to end the movie on that note was pretty lame.
As for the movie, in general, it is really a classic. In general, if I have seen a movie before, it becomes much less scary the subsequent times I see the movie. That was the case for The Exorcist. It definitely had me on the edge of my seat during the movie, but it would have been so awesome to view this in the theater when it first came out. The acting was great. Linda Blair was truly fantastic. Scare Factor 4/10
30. The Silence of the Lambs - [DVD] - 10/10
One of my absolute favorite movies of all time. I can't think of one flaw in the entire movie. I know it's more of a thriller than a horror movie, but the scene in Buffalo Bill's basement always scares me and I hadn't seen this movie for a couple years. This movie deservedly so swept the "big-5" academy awards in '92. Scare Factor 4.5/10
● Videodrome (James Woods/Deborah Harry Commentary) - [DVD] - 9/10 ☼
Wow. James Woods is excellent in this commentary. He is a really smart guy and had a great mix of talking about the making of the movie, but really went into the philosophy and meaning of the movie....even more than Cronenberg did. Deborah Harry's commentary was intercut and they did an excellent job of putting her in where she had some good comments, but it was definitely dominated by Woods. I will have to see if he has any other commentary tracks out there.
31. Scream Bloody Murder (aka Claw of Terror) - [YouTube] - 2/10 ☼
This movie was bad, but not Manos bad. I actually though the main character was a pretty creepy guy. I'm kind of with Mister Peepers in the fact that it was in intriguing start to the movie, in a weird-cheesy sort of way. Why would they rename the movie "Scream Bloody Murder"? How could they not go with "Claw of Terror"?? "Scream Bloody Murder" is such a lame/generic title for a movie and doesn't distinguish it at all.
I think this quote sums up the movie:
"I get groceries, and clothes, and art stuff, and kill people and do you appreciate it? NO! N-O!" Scare Factor 2/10.
32. Hannibal - [DVD] - 6/10
Such a let down after Silence of the Lambs. The acting is decent, but the story just couldn't come anywhere near Silence. This is my least favorite of Manhunter, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal. I haven't seen Hannibal Rising yet.
33. Stir of Echoes - [DVD] - 7.5/10
I've always liked this movie. It was so creepy and fairly unique take on the seeing dead people theme. One thing that always makes me mad is how they didn't expand on the whole idea of the groups of people who have this gift. This movie could have been one of the all time greats if they would have done more with that plot point. Scare Factor: 5/10 (broken fingernails and pulling teeth out are so uncomfortable to me.
34. Pitch Black - [DVD] - 7/10
I haven't seen this movie for so long, I didn't really remember it at all. Not quite as scary this time, but definitely intense. Vin Diesel in one of his finer moments. I love the part where the guy breathes fire and the creatures are all around him. That was a vivid image from the movie. Scare Factor: 3/10.
35. Creepshow - [DVD] - 4/10
The Ted Danson/Leslie Nielsen section of this movie was the best part. As much as Leslie Nielsen has become more of a comedic character, he really does play a creepy psycho-type guy. The Stephen King section was absolutely horrible. If I ever watch this movie again, I will be skipping this whole part. Just terrible. The old EC comic type presentations were interesting, but ultimately cheesy.
● A Nightmare on Elm Street (Commentary) - [DVD] - 4/10 ☼
This one just didn't work. There were too many people in this commentary. John Saxon didn't hardly say anything, and there was a lot of "oh, remember that" type of comments.
36. Cemetery Man - [DVD] - 6/10 ☼
Wow. This one was pretty weird. I'm still not sure what to say about this movie. This movie was made in Italy, I think, but with Rupert Everett as the main character, and everyone speaking in English, so it was just a little bizarre. To be honest, I'm just kind of at a loss for words. I wish there was a commentary on this movie, I'll have to ready more about it.
37. John Carpenter's The Fog - [DVD] - 6/10 ☼
I'm not sure what I was expecting. Somehow I knew NOTHING about this movie at all. I didn't even know the story. Pretty amazing for a *fairly* famous movie that is almost 30 years old. Definitely an interesting story, but not nearly as good as some of his other movies.
● Wes Craven's A New Nightmare (Commentary) - [DVD] - 7.5/10 ☼
Great commentary. I wasn't expecting much because of the only other Wes Craven commentary I listened to which was A Nightmare on Elm Street. Wes definitely needs to go solo with his commentaries. A lot of great insight and behind the scenes information. I kind of wish he would have gone a little bit more about the other movies, but I suppose that could be more documentary material.
38. Within the Woods (Wildcard #1) - [PC] - ?/10 ☼
Worst transfer ever. I can't make any comments on this short because I couldn't see anything.
39. Evil Dead - [DVD] - 8.5/10
This movie still creeps me out. One of the only ones that does after subsequent viewings. I have seen this now three times, and it is just really well done for when it was made and I'm sure the minuscule budget. The effects were really well done (again for the budget.) The one thing that I didn't like was Linda's makeup after she was possessed. I thought the make-up on everyone else was great when they were possessed, but for Linda it was like a bit of white clown makeup. Scare Factor 5/10.
● Stir of Echoes (Director Commentary) - [DVD] - 8/10 ☼
This is the first commentary I've ever listened to where the person doing the commentary talked and articulated himself exactly like myself. It was a little disconcerting. David Koepp was really good in this commentary. Kevin Bacon really added a lot to this movie from his experience as an actor. Koepp doesn't shy away from pointing out the flaws in the movie or pointing out anything he think he did wrong.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
40. Evil Dead II - [DVD] - 7.5/10
The production value was a lot higher here. I loved the blend of new/old back-story at the beginning. I thought the plot was a little more detailed and it was definitely a right call to update the back story a little bit. I was really disappointed in the stop motion animation, they shouldn't have gone there. The dancing Linda at the beginning was almost laughable. They dwelled too long on the Linda head scene, they could have cut that back a lot and still made the whole chainsaw introduction work. Overall, a great sequel to the original.
● Gremlins (Crew Commentary) - [DVD] - 8/10 ☼
Everyone on this commentary contributed to a lot if interesting information about this movie. Joe Dante did a great job as the glue between other peoples comments. Most of the talk was about the Gremlins themselves and they had the creature effects supervisor on this track and it was really interesting to hear about what they were doing with the Gremlins in each scene.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2008
41. End of Days - [HD DVD] - 7.5/10
You know. I really like this movie. I thought Arnold was great as a tortured soul character. He was more real than his other roles around this time and I really enjoyed listening to him swear and other things that he typically doesn't do. Religious thriller/horror movies are one of my favorite sub-genres and this one was no exception. Gabriel Byrne is brilliant in most everything he does, and there was no let down here. As for casting, I thought it was great except I really did not enjoy Kevin Pollack at all. Normally I don't mind him, but I just felt like he was a weak point. I'm not sure if it was casting, the character, or what.
● Gremlins (Cast Commentary) - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
Zach Galligan and Joe Dante are great in this commentary. Zach tells a lot about the movie and the processes that went into not only the making of the movie, but the casting, etc... Pheobe Cates and Dick Miller hardly said anything, which was probably a good thing. Howie Mandel was also on this track and had some hilarious comments. There was one moment, abut 1/4 of the way through the movie where Dick Miller says to Howie Mandel that he didn't know that Mandel was in the movie and Mandel says that he was the voice of Gizmo and it was nice to meet him and great working with him.
42. The Frighteners - [HD DVD] - 7.5/10 ☼
Wow. Excellent movie. Somehow, I had never even heard of this movie until about 5 years ago when it first came out on DVD. The special effects were fantastic. The story was intriguing and kept me hooked through the whole movie, especially the ending.
● Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Commentary) - [DVD] - 6/10 ☼
Zach Galligan was the only actor holdover from the first commentary (thank goodness.) Once again Joe Dante and Galligan are pretty interesting and a lot of information about the origins of the movie and what Dante was going for.
43. House - [DVD] - 6.5/10 ☼
Well done William Katt, bravo! From now on I will not just think of you as "The guy from Greatest American Hero." George Wendt is great as the neighbor. Some odd musical cues in the movie, but an enjoyable experience overall.
44. House II: The Second Story - [DVD] - 2/10 ☼
They really should have called this "House II: The Turd." What a terrible movie. It had nothing to do with the original. There is one, and only one, reason I could ever see someone watching this movie, and it is a really good bit role for John Ratzenberger (wow, I spelled that right on the first try.) This line cracked me up: "There it is. Looks like you've got some kind of alternate universe in there or something."
45. The People Under the Stairs - [DVD] - 7.5/10
This movie has always been a favorite of mine. Everett McGill and Wendy Robie are *perfect* in their roles in this movie. They are creepy and disturbing. The whole idea is very unique and just hooks you from the first minute they get near the house. My only knock is that the ending is a bit weak and silly.
46. Phantasm - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
I thought this movie was very well done for 1979 and a small budget. The Tall Man is a great, creepy character. I love the yellow blood, the sphere, the dwarfs, and the reveal of the alternate universe. Although I did enjoy the movie, there were a few things that just didn't click for me. The first thing is the few scenes with the guitar playing, extremely lame. The second is Reggie as the ice cream truck guy. It was just too weird. I couldn't actually view Reggie as a character I was invested in. I do want to note that I really enjoy his character in II and II (haven't watched IV yet.) The last thing was that I didn't like Michael Baldwin. It wasn't his acting, it was the fact that he looked just like Nancy Walls, and it was really disconcerting to me. The ending was confusing for me at first, but everything is clearer to me now.
47. Army of Darkness - [DVD] - 5/10
My least favorite of the Evil Dead Trilogy. I think going "big budget" for this picture was a big mistake. Some of the best lines of the series are in this movie, but the special effects were pretty lame. If they would have scaled back and used that money to make the effects more believable, it would have been a much better movie.
48. Phantasm II - [DVD] - 7.5/10 ☼
I've seen I, II, and III now, and this is my favorite. I keep reading that one thing people don't like about this movie is that they don't have Michael Baldwin return. I was actually glad about this (see my comments on the first one.) I know this was more action oriented, but there was enough sci-fi/horror/mystery to keep me in the Phantasm state-of-mind. "Killing" The Tall Man with the injection of the embalming fluid mixed with Hydrochloric Acid was awesome, I love that part. I can't remember if it was in II or III, but the pink hearse flipping scene was incredible. One of the best car stunts I have seen.
49. Phantasm III - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
Phantasm III has the return of Michael Baldwin and Bill Thornbury (Jody.) I really liked the idea that Jody was one of the orb entities that "crossed over." I was a little disappointed that the Liz character was killed off at the beginning of the movie. I think they could have integrated her into the sequel, but I'm sure there were reasons to kill her. Once again, the Reggie character is great. I really really hated the Rocky character. It was like some horrible Grace Jones clone. This movie was made in '94, not '84. C'mon. They have really upped the sphere count and the special effects were really cool with the spheres in this movie. I love the gold sphere. Extra creepy.
50. Misery - [DVD] - 9.5/10
Truly one of my favorite movies of all time. The casting and acting in this movie were absolutely perfect. Kathy Bates portrayal of Annie is so creepy and disturbing, but not at all over-the-top. The ankle scene is one of the only scenes in any movie that I watch where I almost can't watch. Extremely disturbing. The perfect part was how they showed her hitting the first ankle, but don't show the second one. Brilliant.
51. Phantasm IV: Oblivion - [DVD] - 5/10 ☼
Hmm.... This was a real disappointment compared to the other three. Perhaps I didn't get it or something. The part when they went back and met The Tall Man for the first time and he was asking them questions was awesome, then they never did anything with that. Ughh. The ending... what was that? I hope they make a fifth installment so there is more resolution.
● Shaun of the Dead (Commentary) - [DVD] - 7/10 ☼
There is certainly no lack discussion in this commentary! I don't think there's more than a second of dead time in the whole thing. Pretty informative.
52. Pit and the Pendulum - [HDNet Movies] - ?/10 ☼
I truly don't know how to rank this. More in the 31 Films subthread
53. Tales of Terror - [HDNet Movies] - ?/10 ☼
Another Roger Corman picture in nearly the same style as Pit and the Pendulum. Not storywise, but filmmaking wise. I think I understand these pictures a little better now. This was also written by Richard Matheson (after the Poe stories.) I liked it. Not scary at all, but interesting and a new experience from me.
● Phantasm (Commentary) - [DVD] - 5/10
I had high hopes of this commentary, but it was a little disappointing. To be honest, I think they should have just had Coscarelli do the commentary. The quips provided by the actors felt forced and came out at odd times. In addition, everyone was in a well (Jim Gaffigan joke, anyone?) except Angus Scrimm sounded like he was in a different room.
54. Joy Ride - [DVD] - 7.5/10 ☼
This is the first movie that I have seen Leelee Sobieski in, and what can I say? Oh my god, she is gorgeous. This definitely added to my enjoyment of this movie. Overall, pretty intense, I was on the edge of my seat the whole movie. The first thing I noticed was J.J. Abrams was one of the writers.
● The Evil Dead (Director/Producer Commentary) - [DVD] - 4/10 ☼
Sam Raimi had a few things to say, but there was no flow. I don't think Raimi had seen the movie in a while or something.
55. Splinter - [HDNet Movies] - 4/10 ☼
Just ehhh for me on this one. I had no idea what it was about or anything (by choice.) They certainly tried. I really am not a fan of the flash-cut or "flicker-cut" (I don't know the official name) style. Give me a little flow, I don't mind edits, but not this flicker stuff. It definitely has a pseudo-"The Thing" premise that just doesn't work for me. I think the main character was miscast, although I did like the fugitive guy. The best line of the movie: "Don't worry, we're cutting your arm off!"
● The Evil Dead (Bruce Campbell Commentary) - [DVD] - 10/10 ☼
One of the best commentaries I have ever listened to. Bruce Campbell has a genuine love of these movies. He knew every little detail about the making of the movie, and was able to add humor into the commentary. Fantastic.
56. My Name is Earl - Little Bad Voodoo Brother (Wildcard #2) - [NBC HD] - 5/10 ☼
I am an Earl fan, but this one wasn't really that good. They kind of went out of their element in this show with the voodoo kid. I just hated that plot point of the show. I think they could have done a much different story and still kept it Halloween centric. Always a few laughs, but I'll be happy for the normal format to return.
Friday, October 31st, 2008
● Evil Dead II (Commentary) - [DVD] - 9/10 ☼
Another good commentary involving Bruce Campbell. I can't decide if I like him with the other people involved with the movie or him solo. One of the co-writers was on this track and he simply a whiny bitch.
--- 1890 -
-X- 1960 - Night of the Living Dead
-X- 1970 - Dawn of the Dead
-X- 1980 - Near Dark
-X- 1990 - Wishmaster
-X- 2000 - Wishmaster 3 Beyond the Gates of Hell
--- Unrated (pre-MPAA) -
--- G -
-X- PG - Gremlins
-X- PG-13 - Gremlins2: The New Batch
-X- R - Near Dark
--- NC-17 -
--- X -
-X- Unrated (post-MPAA) - Night of the Living Dead
--- Bela Lugosi -
--- Lon Chaney Sr. -
--- Boris Karloff -
--- Lon Chaney Jr. -
-X- Vincent Price - Pit and the Pendulum
--- Peter Cushing -
--- Christopher Lee -
-X- Robert Englund - A Nightmare on Elm Street
-X- Bruce Campbell - Maniac Cop
-X- Jamie Lee Curtis - John Carpenter's The Fog
-X- First language - Brotherhood of the Wolf (French)
--- Second language -
-X- Vampire - Near Dark
--- Frankenstein -
-X- Werewolf - Brotherhood of the Wolf
--- Mummy -
--- Invisible Man -
-X- Ghost/haunting - The Frighteners
-X- Witchcraft/satanic/religious - Wishmaster
-X- Zombie - Resident Evil
-X- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac - Maniac Cop
-X- Monster/creature feature/Godzilla - Brotherhood of the Wolf
--- Documentary -
--- Musical -
-X- Spoof/comedy - Shaun of the Dead
-X- Revenge - A Nightmare on Elm Street
--- Killer/evil doll -
-X- Killer/evil animal - Gremlins
--- Killer/evil child -
--- Giallo -
--- J horror -
--- MST3K/rifftrax/CT -
-X- film and its remake - Dawn of the Dead (1978) / Dawn of the Dead (2004)
-X- based on a video game - Resident Evil
-X- based on a novel - The Shining
--- directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis or Uwe Boll or Ulli Lommel -
-X- won an Academy Award - The Exorcist
--- silent film -
-X- Criterion version film - Videodrome
-X- with commentary - Wishmaster
-X- film and at least two of its sequels - Wishmaster, Wishmaster 2, Wishmaster 3
-X- anthology film - Creepshow
-X- takes place on a holiday - Gremlins (Christmas)
--- takes place in space -
--- takes place on or under the sea -
--- animated film -
-X- called "Night of the ..." - Night of the Living Dead
--- called "Return of the ..." -
--- called "Revenge of the ..." -
--- called "Attack of the ..." -
-X- with the words "Living Dead" in the title - Night of the Living Dead
Miscellaneous Statistics
Thanks to Mondo Kane for the following ideas:
Dead Bodies: 648
Exploding Bodies: 5
Breasts: 65
Nightmare Sequences: 42
Shit-my-pants moments: 6
Dead Animals: 48
Decapitations: 12
Face Removals: 6
Vampire Bites: 3
Crotch Neck-Breaks: 1
Dogs Peeing Fire: 1
Projectile Vomiting: 4
Eliminations from existence: 1
Snake People 1
Tumbleweeds: 2
"Hey! It's that guy" moments: 18
Freeze Frames: 4
Total Time Watched: 3 Days, 19 Hours, and 59 Minutes
Average Time Watched Per Day: 2 Hours and 58 Minutes
● My Halloween costume this year: Chas Tenenbaum from The Royal Tenenbaums
● Favorite first time viewing: Dawn of the Dead (2004)
● Worst movie first time viewing: House II: The Second Story
● Biggest Disappointment: Day of the Dead
● Biggest Surprise: Maniac Cop
● WTF did I just watch?: Claw of Terror
● Should have watched: The X-Files - "Home"
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2. Event Horizon - 96 min. - Directed by: Paul Anderson. Netflix. ShoHD - Very good horror flick set on a space station, which stars Sam Neill, the mom from Nip/Tuck and the gap between Laurence Fishburne's teeth. Hey, I know what you're thinkin'. It's Paul Anderson, there's no way he made a good movie. Well, he did. Way back when. Recommended. 3.5 "Wait! Haven't I seen this before?" moments out of 5.
3. Severance - 96 min. - Directed by: Christopher Smith. Netflix. DVD - I almost forgot how fun this flick is. Equally balances Horror and Comedy. Excellent follow-up to "Creep" from Christopher Smith. 4 "G'damn Laura Harris is hot in this!"'s out of 5.
4. Creature from the Black Lagoon - 80 min. - Directed by: Jack Arnold. Netflix. MaxHD - Ah, still one of my favorite of the Universal monsters. Looked alot better than I was expecting in HD, too. A must see for fans of horror, oh hell, you're probably going to watch it this month anyway..4.5 "Where the hell is Aquaman when you need him?"'s out of 5.
5. Plan 9 from Outer Space - 79 min. - Directed by: Edward D. Wood Jr. Netflix. TCM - I was expecting to wait to watch this at the end of the month, like I usually do, but decided to record it on TCM instead of digging out my DVD.. I know it's TECHNICALLY not horror, but I can care less about your categorization. It has Zombies. 'Nuff said. I don't care if they're holding a cape over their mouth or not. 5 "at least it had to be better than Plan 6. Now THAT sucked!" out of 5.
6. Naboer ("Next Door") ☼ - 75 min. - Directed by: Pål Sletaune. Netflix. DVD - I needed something fairly short to fit in before the clusterfuck of programming on Thursday night, so I put in this little Norwegian film. Very David Lynchian in nature, with truly one of the most unintentionally funny sex scenes in film history. Well, most might find it disturbing, I found it funny. Hey, that chick is hot, even when she had his nose-blood rubbed all over her tits. 3.5 "How did they get away with that?"'s out of 5.
7. Right at Your Door ☼ - 96 min. - Directed by: Chris Gorak. Netflix. SundanceHD - Very enjoyable small budget flick which was a little tampered by the Mist-esque scooby doo ending. Otherwise, I liked it. 3.5 "The second best use of duct tape after kidnapping."out of 5.
8. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein - 83 min. - Directed by: Charles Barton. Netflix. MaxHD - What can possibly be said about this that most people don't already know. It's Abbott and Costello. One of the best Horror/Comedies ever made and worthy of a spot on everybody's list. 5 "Fine, I'll take Mary off your hands for ya"'s out of 5.
9. All The Boys Love Mandy Lane☼ - 90 min. - Directed by: Jonathan Levine. Netflix. DVD - Better than usual slasher flick with and innovative kill or two. And dayum, Amber Heard is a piece. One thing though, all the dudes in this are a buncha dorks, so they wouldn't be able bang a chick like Mandy, anyway. Anyway, pretty good. 3 "I'd hit that!"'s out of 5.
10. Sheitan ("Satan") - 94 min. - Directed by: Kim Chapiron. Netflix. DVD - This film is ALL Vincent Cassell. His performance here completely makes me forget how big a tool he looked dancing around in the Ocean flick. Again, the guys are all a buncha nerds, but that's to be expected. Another awesome French flick that gets a high recommendation from me. If for nothing else Cassell's performance. 4.5 "That motherfucker is ca-ray-zeeeee!"'s out of 5.
11. Hatchet - 93 min. - Directed by: Adam Green. Netflix. DVD - Kinda cliched but felt that's kinda where they were headed. Gore was nice. The parade of Horror "icons" gets annoying after the first 24 movies. Nothing more I can really say. Oh, funniest thing in forever: DVD extra entitled "Meeting Victor Crowley" for those who have seen know exactly what I mean. 3.5 "Woohoo! I get to see Harmony's boobs!!"'s out of 5.
12. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - 83 min. - Directed by: Tobe Hooper. Netflix. DVD - Well, there really isn't anything I need to say to justify giving this a view, the next few films.. maybe. This is constant viewing for me, this "challenge" just gives me a better excuse. 5 "HA! That's what you get Franklin, you annoying prick!" out of 5.
13. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait ☼ - 64 min. - Directed by: Brad Shelley. DVD - Eh, nothing special. Lots of stuff gets repeated. Yep, it was hot. Ok, next. Half the thing is blurred and too much of Gunnar complaining that he will forever be remembered for being Leatherface. Trust me dude, there's much worse things a person can be remembered for. Case in point. 2 "Shoulda been a DVD extra, or something.."'s out of 5.
14. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - 100 min. - Directed by: Tobe Hooper. Netflix. DVD - In the 14 years since the first film, Dennis Hopper became pissed off, Letherface went on the Adkins diet and Chainsaw became one word. Eh, I've always been too hard on this film, but this time, I don't know if it just clicked with me or not, 'cause I enjoyed it more than I usually would. Well, it was funnier at least. Dennis Hopper is great as is Bill Moseley. 3 "CHAINSAW FIGHT!!!"'s out of 5.
15. Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III [unrated] - 85 min. - Directed by: Jeff Burr. Netflix. DVD - Again, as much as usually dislike these flicks maybe I'm just in a good mood, or hell, maybe it's because I'm finally watching them all in a row, but again.. more entertaining than I remember.. and hey, It's Viggo! 3 "The King, the King, the King is on fire, He don't need no water let the Numenorean burn, Burn Numenorean burn!"'s out of 5.
16. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation - 86 min. - Directed by: Kim Henkel. Netflix. DVD - Yeah, this one, I was takin' for the team. If I hadn't decided to watch all 6 flicks in a row, I never woulda even owned this. Anyway, McConaughey (sans bongos) is actually the only thing I enjoyed about it. Huh, who woulda thought? 1.5 "This film doesn't even deserve something funny here"'s out of 5.
17. Texas Chainsaw Massacre [remake] - 98 min. - Directed by: Marcus Nispel. Netflix. DVD - I haven't actually watched this since I bought the 2-disc the day it was released.. and now I remember why. G'damn, Jessica Biel is fine in this, but the rest of it, yeah, blows ass. 2 "What the hell was the point?"'s out of 5.
18. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning [unrated] - 96 min. - Directed by: Jonathan Liebesman. Netflix. DVD - I saw this in the theater, didn't care for it. Got the DVD on the cheap mainly for this challenge. Bleh. Still terrible. Good for gore, so the "Hostel" crowd will love it. Anyway, undeserving of the words "Chainsaw" and "Massacre" 1.5 "Jordana Brewster is cute, though"'s out of 5.
19. Das Komabrutale Duell - 85 min. - Directed by: Heiko Fipper. Netflix. DVD - Ok, the last 25 minutes of Dead Alive spread throughout 85 minutes. Yes. Maybe. MAYBE the goriest film ever made. 'Nuff said. Story: 0 "Story? We don't need to no stinkin' stories" out of 5. Gore: 5 "Yeah! b-o-yyyyyy!"'s out of 5. I apologize for I do not know how Flava Flav made it into my list.
20. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer ☼ - 85 min. - Directed by: Jon Knautz. Netflix. DVD - Very reminiscent of films like "Army of Darkness" and "Slither" (which are both awesome, btw) and other than the fact that the lead actor is really annoying this film follows suit. Robert England is competent in his role, but the chicks aren't that attractive. They don't show any boob, either. 3.5 "If you find a black heart buried in your front lawn: MOVE"'s out of 5.
WILDCARD* "Fantastic Flesh" ☼ - Starz documentary on Make-Up Effects. Eh, so-so. I guess I considered this a wildcard because even though they talk about Day of the Dead, The Thing and The Mist, they also talk about The Godfather and Dances with Wolves.
21. Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane ☼ - 89 min. - Directed by: Scott Thomas. Netflix. DVD - Pretty funny. I can picture the pitch meeting now. "OK, OK, It's Snakes on a Plane, but instead of snakes, ya listenin? OK, instead of snakes, Zombies. Yes, frickin' Zombies on a plane. Awesome, eh? Oh, and get this. Instead of Sam Fucking Jackson, we'll get Buddy Revell. Boom! Clean your pants and let's green light this like now!" 2 "Insert joke here"'s out of 5.
22. Intruder - 88 min. - Directed by: Scott Spiegel. Netflix. DVD - Awesome slasher flick that is forgotten when the greats are talked about. It has '80's style deaths, '80's hair, it stars Ted and Sam Raimi, has a cameo from Bruce Campbell and is one of the first gigs for KNB. A must see. 4 "I'm just crazy 'bout this store!"'s out of 5.
23. Wrestlemaniac ☼ - 75 min. - Directed by: Jesse Baget. Netflix. DVD - Yep. Killer Luche Libra. Buncha dorky guys and ugly chicks car breaks down in a "ghost town" where Rey Mysterio Sr. is killing people and ripping their faces off. This film is EXACTLY as it sounds. Interesting, but spectacular, but hey it's only 75 minutes long. 2 "Where's La Parka when you need him?"'s out of 5.
24. P2 ☼ - 98 min. - Directed by: Franck Khalfoun. Netflix. DVD - Better than I was expecting. It, of course, stars Wes Bentley (sans baggie) and Rachel Nichol's boobs. And truthfully, her boobs give an Oscar-nominating performance. It will bring a tear to your eye. The depth. The emotion. 3.5 "Oscar, are you listening?"'s out of 5.
25. Rosemary's Baby - 136 min. - Directed by: Roman Polanski. Netflix. MaxHD - OK, it's been so long since I've seen this, I figured I might as well DVR it and get it a skin. Still a terrific flick and Mia Farrow is just awesome here. Looked better than I expected in HD too, grainy as hell, but I wouldn't have it any other way. 4.5 "..and Husband of the Year goes to..."'s out of 5.
26. [●REC] - 78 min. - Directed by: Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró. Netflix. DVD - Alright I admit, this one was purely peer pressure. I figured hell, everyone else is watching it, I haven't seen it in a couple months, might as well watch it. Still a great flick. Not that interested in the remake, though. Plus, the trailer like, gives away the ending. Nerds. 4.5 "I can't be the only one who wanted to bone Manuela Velasco.."'s out of 5.
27. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead ☼ - 103 min. - Directed by: Lloyd Kaufman. Netflix. DVD - Without a doubt the best Troma flick since the original Toxic Avenger. I loved every second of this. I wish it was 3 hours longer. It had everything you'd ever want in a movie. Gore, lesbians, musical numbers about salad tossing, chicken zombies, you name it, it's here. A def. recommendation for every Troma fan. 4 "mm, I'll have a Cluckwork Orange please."'s out of 5.
28. 6 Films to Keep You Awake: The Blame ☼ - 72 min. - Directed by: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. Netflix. DVD - Yes, it has a message. Abortion, blah, blah. As a horror film though, It fails. It does nothing that could even keep me awake during the film, and it was barely over an hour long. The acting was competent enough, but the rest did nothing for me. 1 "Fetus meet Toilet"'s out of 5.
29. 6 Films to Keep You Awake: Spectre ☼ - 75 min. - Directed by: Mateo Gil. Netflix. DVD - While better than "The Blame", still nothing special. Honestly, it's more of a coming-of-age story than an actual Horror film. Plus, there's a supposed "twist" that doesn't actually twist. It just sits there, motionless. Plus, I was hoping for a movie with, um, a different Spectre. 2 "Wakey, wakey, hands off snakey!"'s out of 5.
30. Wicked Lake ☼ - 95 min. - Directed by: Zach Passero. Netflix. DVD - Completely unnecessary. Brings nothing to the table. Except of course 4 women spending most of the movie topless and making out. Which of course is fun, but I can see that for free on Spankwire. With better plots, too. Gore is almost non-existent, there is buckets of blood, though. 2 "Hello, ladies. I'm here to fix the plumbing.."'s out of 5.
31. Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds ☼ - 100 min. - Directed by: John Gulager. Netflix. DVD - I loved every second of it. This quite a fun little ride that I would recommend to anybody that is at least a moderate fan of the first flick. There's more. More of everything. More gore, More boobs, more various colored liquids. Now, bring on part 3. Plus, there's midget wrestling. I'm sold. 4 "Take that, you annoying ass baby!"'s out of 5.
32. The Shining - 146 min. - Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. Netflix. Blu-ray - Yeah, what can I really say about this, at this point? I figured since I had the Blu copy sitting on my shelf since it was released, and I still hadn't opened it, that it was time. I'm glad I did. The transfer was terrific, and seeing it in 16:9 was a revelation. 5 "somebody's gone carazzzy!"'s out of 5.
33. Bug - 102 min. - Directed by: William Friedkin. Netflix. DVD - The first time I saw this in the theater, I actually couldn't stop laughing. It was probably the drugs, but who knows. There's something about the "Super Mother Bug" bit that always made me smirk. This time, it hit me. This is a much better film than I gave it credit for. Kudos to you Mr. Friedkin. Oh, and Ashley Judd, still hot. 3.5 " "'s out of 5.
WILDCARD* "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Conversations with Dead People" - 42 min. - Probably my favorite episode of my favorite show (well, second favorite. "Angel" would later overtake it) of all time.
34. Resident Evil - 100 min. - Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson. Netflix. Blu-ray - Yeah, I don't know why I enjoy this film. It has three things in it I hate. Paul W.S. Anderson, Michelle Rodriguez and Milla Jovovich's voice. Finally got to open up my Blu, that I bought on release day. Damn, these things are taken forever. Anyway, the terrific transfer REALLY makes the fake CG look even worse than it did in Standard. Anyway, I still get to see Milla's nipples, so I'm happy. 3 "Somebody shut her up!"'s out of 5.
35. The Monster Squad - 82 min. - Directed by: Fred Dekker. Netflix. DVD - God, I used to love this film when I was a youngin. This got 24/7 marathons around my house, until the friggin' VHS tape started getting all fuzzy and snapped. It wasn't until many, many years later that I realized Lions Gate was putting out this awesome 2-discer. I must say, the film still holds up. There's a certain amount of cheese to it, but who cares? Oh, and for the un-initiated yes, the Wolfman does infact have nards. 4 "Rudy can kick Lucas Barton's Ass!"'s out of 5.
36. Pulse 2: Afterlife ☼ - 88 min. - Directed by: Joel Soisson. Netflix. DVD - Ok, OK. I admit I have no idea why I watched this. I hated the first Pulse (except for my future ex-wife), didn't even care for the original that much. The director only makes horrible sequels to movies that don't need them, and the story seemed pointless. So, yeah, I watched it. Now I wish I didn't. Oh, and another thing: John Gulager in his underwear. Ugh. Thank you, Bob and Harvey fucking Weinstein. .5 "I was so bored, I didn't even care when a boob popped up (or technically, out)"'s out of 5.
37. Cannibal - 90 min. - Directed by: Marion Dora. Netflix. DVD - I can usually sit through every type of film without feeling even the slightest amount of uncomfortableness. Yeah, that was true. Until I watched this. It actually took a few tries to finish it. This should be watched only to fill your quota of "castration" films. Oh, and the only thing worse than the film is the story it was based on: here. 3 "No, don't bite it. I beg of you don't.. ah damn, he bit it!"'s out of 5. DVDTalk.
38. Haute Tension ("High Tension") - 91 min. - Directed by: Alexandre Aja. Netflix. DVD - Still holds up. Awesome flick. Giannetto de Rossi does what he does best, unparalleled gore effects. I mean fuck, this guy has Zombie, The Beyond and Once Upon a Time in the West on his resume. The direction is terrific, from the pacing to the awesome Maniac-inspired restroom scene. A must see/love despite it's scooby-esque ending. 4 "How did her teeth get so white after all that blood?"'s out of 5.
39. Dance of the Dead ☼ - 95 min. - Directed by: Gregg Bishop. Netflix. DVD - I don't care what you think, I thoroughly enjoyed this film. Yes, the guys are too dorky to even sniff the panties of the girls they're supposedly hooking up with, but it's all in fun. Plus, the cheerleader is pretty cute (and supposedly on an episode of One Tree Hill) and I think the one guy was in "The Signal".. but anyway, I enjoyed it. 3.5 "Nice helmet."'s out of 5.
40. Re-Animator - 86 min. - Directed by: Stuart Gordon. Netflix. DVD - A definite classic and one of my all time favorites. That's what I love about this "challenge", it's giving me an opportunity to go back and re-watch alot of flicks that, well, I've seen a shitload of times, but never lose that certain something that made me fall in love with it to begin with. Again, everything about this is classic. 5 "If someone were to make a film about David Gale's life, what would they call it? Here's a suggestion."'s out of 5.
41. Dard Divorce ☼ - 82 min. - Directed by: Olaf Ittenbach. DivX - This is the great Ittenbach (Premutos, The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine) doing his Hostel impression. I guess he figured "fuck it", he eats outrageous gore for breakfast, might as well attempt the "torture" genre (I refuse to call it "torture porn"). Well, the acting is terrible (or the accents are), the sound mix is embarrassing but it succeeds in gore. Like all his films do. Including one torture scene that goes so far, it's actually really funny. 2.5 "Least it was better than "Captivity" but then again, most things are."'s out of 5.
42. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - 83 min. - Directed by: John McNaughton. Netflix. DVD - Another favorite of mine and in my opinion, still holds up today even though most of the effects do not. After reading the boards on IMDB I'm utterly convinced have to be younger than 14 to post there. They talk about this film like it's the second coming of "Howard the Duck" (a movie I happen to love, btw). Well, I guess that's why I rarely read those "boards". But anyway, the Home Invasion scene is still in my top 5 most disturbing scenes ever. 5 "What are you doing?" "I wanna watch it again""'s out of 5.
43. Stuck ☼ - 94 min. - Directed by: Stuart Gordon. Netflix. Blu-ray - Eh. The movie seemed way to Hollywood to me. I mean, I don't get. The original story (here), to me, is way more interesting than the one they made up. I dunno. Plus, I never been a big fan of Mena Suvari, but the cornrows gotta go. They should never, NEVER be worn by anyone who isn't black. Actually for that matter, I don't think they can pull it off either. 2.5 "Do I smell a "Humanitarian of the Year" award coming?"'s out of 5.
44. The Midnight Meat Train ☼ - 100 min. - Directed by: Ryuhei Kitamura. Netflix. FearNetHD - It was alright. Nothing at all special, in fact. The acting was OK, and Leslie Bibb is definitly cute. But some of the gore looked way too CG for me. That's one thing I can't stand. Well, one of the things I can't stand. Anyway, not a terrible film but coulda been much better. 3 "Vinnie Jones is and will be the man. At least for the foreseeable future."'s out of 5.
45. Poltergeist - 114 min. - Directed by: Tobe Hooper. Netflix. Blu-ray - Still as great as I remember it, from when I was younger. Haven't actually viewed it probably around 10 years. Coach is the man in it, and I STILL hate clowns because of this frickin' movie. Oh, and the Blu is a nice little package, sucks they left off any worthwhile extras, though. 4.5 "Is there anybody who filmed this that DIDN'T die?"'s out of 5.
46. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon - 92 min. - Directed by: Scott Glosserman. Netflix. Starz2HD - Wasn't the biggest fan of this the first time I saw it, but I guess it took the right mood, because after watching it again I quite like it. Again, another movie with a cameo from one of the "icons" which like I keep saying gets quite annoying, and don't know why Starz! entertainment needs to put one of them in every movie they release. Well, the lead chick is cute in an innocent kinda way. 3 "Worst. Mask. Ever."'s out of 4.
47. WILDCARD* - Supernatural - "Monster Movie" - Excellent black-n-white episode of perhaps, the best show on Television right now.
48. Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! ☼ - 82 min. - Directed by: Jason Murphy. Netflix. DVD - I usually have nothing against straight-to-DVD Zombie flicks, but this film might single-handedly change my opinion of them. This is straight-to-YouTube. Nothing redeeming about it. At all. There's practically no nudity, no gore (and the gore there is, is just about the worst CG you can imagine). Anyway, I'll speak about it no more. 0 "not even worth it"'s out of 5.
49. The Hitcher [remake] ☼ - 84 min. - Directed by: Dave Meyers. Netflix. DVD - I actually liked this one. Then again I wasn't a big fan of the original either. Well, fuck what I just said. I'm just biased towards this because Sophia Bush is in it, and god is Sophia Bush hot. Damn, just all Sophia Bush and everything. Wow, I can't stop saying her name. Sophia Bush. 3 "oh, and Sean Bean is badass too."'s out of 5.
50. Altered ☼ - 88 min. - Directed by: Eduardo Sánchez. Netflix. DVD - Better than I expected. Pretty much about a group of friends who after being abducted by aliens, and one of them killed, years earlier decide to get revenge by kidnapping an alien and holding him hostage in thier garage. Like I said, better than I anticipated. The accents and the overacting get annoying quickly, but oh well. 3 "I want to believe!"'s out of 5.
51. Funny Games [remake] ☼ - 111 min. - Directed by: Michael Haneke. Netflix. DVD - I had seen the original flick a couple months ago, and thought it was just ridiculous. BUT, I figured (stupid me) that with better actors, I dunno, that it would be better. Like I said, stupid me. If anything, it's worse. Practically shot-for-shot, which is stupid to begin with, and they decided to keep the breaking the 4th wall gimmick. I don't know what to say. I'm stumped. 1 "Really. Them? I've had sweat wiped off my taint more threatening than them."'s out of 5.
52. A Nightmare on Elm Street - 91 min. - Directed by: Wes Craven. Netflix. DVD - Obviously a classic. Has everything you'd want. A young Heather Langenkamp. Johnny Depp being eaten by a bed, and oh yeah, an EVIL Freddy Krueger (remember when?) Ah.. like I said, a classic. 4 "..and it all goes downhill from here."'s out of 5.
53. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge - 87 min. - Directed by: Jack Sholder. Netflix. DVD - The homosexual subtext all but whips its cock out and smacks you with it. I happen to like this sequel, even though it seems extremely out of place when in line with the rest of the series. 3 "Pool Party!!!"'s out of 5.
54. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - 96 min. - Directed by: Chuck Russell. Netflix. DVD - Probably my favorite sequel after New Nightmare. A pre-Morpheus "Larry" Fishburne co-stars with an uber-cute (then) Patricia Arquette. This has plenty of images I still remembered from when I was a youngster. 3.0 "Hey look, Heather's back. Hi Heather!"'s out"
55. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master - 99 min. - Directed by: Renny Harlin. Netflix. DVD - I didn't remember a thing about this film. Nothing stood out. The only thing I remember is the one chick's name was Tuesday Knight. I mean, seriously. Somebody slap her parents. 2 "I'm Wednesday, how're you?"'s out 5.
56. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child - 89 min. - Directed by: Stephen Hopkins. Netflix. DVD - Pretty forgettable other than the freaky annoying kid from Full House. Better than part 4 though. 2 "Speaking of Full House, what the hell happened to Stephanie? She used to be hot.."'s out of 5.
57. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare - 96 min. - Directed by: Rachel Talalay. Netflix. DVD - Most people don't like this, but I found it funny. Plus, Freddy's got himself a power glove. Mad props on that. 3 "this review is coming to you in the THIRD DIMENSION!"'s out of 5.
58. Wes Craven's New Nightmare - 112 min. - Directed by: Wes Craven. Netflix. DVD - My favorite of the Nightmare sequels. Other than the annoying kid, this one is the longest, but flows by the fastest. Oh, and Wes needs to stay away from the camera. He can't act, and he's not interesting. I don't care that everyone loves monkeys. The Freddy make-up is improved, though.3.5 "..and finally it's over."'s out of 5.
59. The Ring [remake] - 115 min. - Directed by: Gore Verbinski. Netflix. TNTHD - Definitely one of the better remakes out there save for a ridiculously stupid editing choice made during the finale. Naomi Watts is total MILF here, even if her accent is a little um, strong is a nice way to put it. The kid is annoying, but all kids are, so no biggie. Still holds up. 4 "I don't care what anyone says it's ALOT better than any of the 4 sequels"'s out of 5.
60. Final Destination 2 - 90 min. - Directed by: David R. Ellis. Netflix. DVD - My favorite of the Destination flicks. Maybe because I'm a gore hound, and IMO the deaths are the most gory in this one. The crash choreography in the opening is phenomenal and the lead actress, A.J. Cook is mighty cute. Oh, and I almost forgot Clark's wife Alicia is in this. 3.5 "Notice how I didn't mention Ali Larter? I dunno, to me, it always looks like she hasn't slept in about a week"'s out of 5.
61. Summer Scars ☼ - 68 min. - Directed by: Julian Richards. Netflix. DVD - Eh, pretty good. Nothing too spectacular. It's really short, which is one of the things that works for it. It's more or less about a buncha whiny British kids who cut school and go in the woods only to be held hostage by a crazy guy who still thinks he's still in the war. Good performances by non-actors, but again, nothing too special. 3 "So, you got hair on your balls?"'s out of 5.
62. Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom - 116 min. - Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Netflix. DVD - More of a drama than "Horror", but definitely features some horrific imagery. Plus, it has shit eating. That always falls under the horrific category to me. Except, well, for that one time, but that's not here nor there. Still pretty good but not the masterpiece it's made out to be. 3 "Orgy! Orgy! Orgy!"'s out of 5.
63. Dumplings ("Gaau ji") - 91 min. - Directed by: Fruit Chan. Netflix. DVD - Who would've thought that in a film compilation with the likes of Takashi Miike and Chan Wook-Park that the stand-out flick would be a small little film by, um, Fruit Chan. This is just an awesome piece of film. Not REALLY horror, but definitely horrific. I'm not the biggest Bai Ling fan but she's good in this. 4 "Fetuses taste great, but you're still hungry after an hour!"'s out of 5.
64. Aftermath/Genesis [with director commentary] - 70 min. - Directed by: Nacho Cerda. Netflix. DVD - Still tough to watch, even with the commentary on. Genesis is probably my favorite of the three shorts, but Aftermath is still awesome in it's own right. What Pep Tosar must've gone through. Yeah, tough to watch, even if you've seen it before. 4 "..."'s out of 5.
65. Friday the 13th - 95 min. - Directed by: Sean S. Cunningham. Netflix. DVD - I haven't seen this one in quite a bit, still good, not great. Look, it's Kevin Bacon. That's all I can really say about this. Not nearly as good as Nightmare. 3 "I'll be honest, the Nintendo game scared the SHIT outta me when I was a kid.."'s out of 5.
66. Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween ☼ - 240 min. - Directed by: Rob Zombie. Netflix. Blu - I didn't think it'd be possible to sit through a 4 hr. 20 min. long documentary on a film I just absolutely hated. But this was very well done. Like I said in the other thread, there's more Danielle Harris, which is always a good thing. In fact, more films need more Danielle Harris. 4 "Who's bright idea was it to film a behind the scenes documentary in 2.35:1?"'s out of 5.
67. Gutterballs ☼ - 94 min. - Directed by: Ryan Nicholson. DVD - Hilarious. Gory as hell. Everything you'd want/expect in a throwback to 80's slasher films. All the deaths are creative (with probably the most creative way to kill 2 people who're in the middle of a 69), the opening rape scene might actually be longer than the one in Irreversible (it also involves a bowling pin, the BIG end) and has a tranny having his/her dick sliced down the middle (Pain Olympics style). All in all, a good time at the movies. 3.5 "Ouch, that's gotta hurt!"'s out of 5.
68. The Strangers ☼ - 85 min. - Directed by: Bryan Bertino. Netflix. Blu-ray - While not as good as "Them" still a pretty good little film. Speedman is OK, but Liv Tyler is the star here. Not only is she hot in it, she's actually good. Oh, and Dennis is here. Awesome. 3 "dude, you're an elf. Use your elf powers to kill them.."'s out of 5.
69. The Machine Girl - 96 min. - Directed by: Noboru Iguchi. Netflix. DVD - Technically, not a horror movie. More of a revenge flick, but who the hell cares. It's gory as all hell, Tokyo Shock released it and there's a drill bra in it. 'Nuff said. 4 "again, a drill bra!"'s out of 5.
70. Darkness: The Vampire Version - 90 min. - Directed by: Leif Jonker. Netflix. DVD - Terrific little gem of a gorefest. Probably the goriest vampire flick ever made. Pretty much a mixture of a Vampire flick and a Melt movie. The transfer looks like absolute ass, but all is forgiven. Oh, and awesome trailer, too. 3.5 "great extras, also"'s out of 5.
71. WILDCARD* - "Supernatural: Yellow Fever" - Another good episode of what, like I said, is probably the best show on TV. Great special effects.
72. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 116 min. - Directed by: Tim Burton. Netflix. Blu-ray - I hate Tim Burton. I hate musicals. Yet I like this movie, Why? 3.5 "I'm waiting.."'s out of 5.
Time for a "Sylvia Likens" double feature:
73. The Girl Next Door - 91 min. - Directed by: Gregory Wilson. Netflix. DVD - Tough to watch, that's for sure. I just don't get why added some of the cringe-worthy moments for "shock value" when the actual TRUE story (link above) is shocking enough. That's cause there's something wrong with Jack Ketchum (spell checker is trying to get me to write Ketchup). Therapy might help. 3 "My turn, my turn"'s out of 5.
74. An American Crime ☼ - 98 min. - Directed by: Tommy O'Haver. Netflix. DVD - A more dramatic take on the above story, staring Juno as Sylvia. It's just that more dramatic, they cut out quite a bit of the stuff that Jack Ketchum added because he's insane. Still tough to watch, but deals alot with the trial (kinda like Emily Rose) 2.5 "Juno still sucks.."'s out of 5.
75. WILDCARD* - The X-Files "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" - Just an all-around awesome episode. Peter Boyle is the shit.
76. Feed ☼ - 101 min. - Directed by: Brett Leonard. Netflix. DVD - Just, eww. Fairly mediocre film from the guy who brought us "Man-Thing". Pretty disgusting, but the editing is shit. Oh, look the dude from Moonlight. Anyway, about the Feeder/Gainer phenomenon about dudes who feed women until they can't well, you can figure it out. 2.5 "..and if you're interested in that type of thing: this is for you"'s out of 5.
77. The Redsin Tower ☼ - 88 min. - Directed by: Fred Vogel. DVD - The newest movie from the guy who directed the "August Underground" trilogy, and it's almost as bad. Some bad overacting, unattractive females. It's only saving grace is the gore and seeing a woman violently raped by thin air. 2 "I think Mr. Vogel should consider retirement"'s out of 5.
78. Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy - 60 min. - Directed by: Takao Nakano. DVD - I figured alot of people were watching "Teeth" which I wasn't a huge fan of, so I decided to put this little flick in. This is THE vagina with teeth film. Gore for the sake of gore. Chinese girls each with bigger tits than the one that died before her and of course, blurry pubic hair. 3 ""'s out of 5.
79. Shaun of the Dead - 99 min. - Directed by: Edgar Wright. Netflix. HD-DVD - A definite new classic. Just all around great. Just, yeah.. I'm speechless. Amongst all the standouts (and there are many) Nick Frost should be mentioned first.4.5 "Aim for the head.."'s out of 5.
80. Planet Terror - 105 min. - Directed by: Robert Rodriguez. Netflix. DVD - I happen to think that Death Proof is the better film (I know, I'm in the minority) but there's no question this is just awesome. I mean seriously, it's Robert Rodriguez doing a Zombie flick. Enough said. Oh, and Rose McGowan is hot here. 4 "Who knew Freddy Rodriguez could be so bad ass?"'s out of 5.
I also watched the following trailers: "Machete", "Werewolf Women of the S.S.", "Don't", "Thanksgiving" and "Hobo With a Shotgun"
81. Rohtenburg ("Grimm Love") ☼ - 90 min. - Directed by: Martin Weisz. DIVx - I was curious, mainly due to the fact that it had been banned and it was based on Arwin Meiwes (which the way more awesome "Cannibal" was based on) and it turns out this movie was pretty forgettable and can easily see why it hasn't been released yet. Here or abroad. 2 "Bite it!"'s out of 5.
82. Zombie Strippers - 94 min. - Directed by: Jay Lee. Netflix. Blu-ray - I happen to like this flick, much better than Jay Lee's first film, which bored me to tears. The racist stereotypes with the Mexican janitor were hilarious (badgers?), and maybe it's just me, but I still think Jenna Jameson looks more like a Zombie without all the make-up. 3 "Stripper Zombie dance-off! What-what!"'s out of 5.
83. Beetlejuice - 92 min. - Directed by: Tim Burton. Netflix. Blu-ray - Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Candyman, doh'. I haven't seen this film in about a decade, and not being the biggest Tim Burton fan, it's still entertaining, but not as good as I remember it. It's amazing to see how thin Alec Baldwin was back then, though. Oh, plus Michael Keaton was terrific here. 3 "..daylight come and me wanna go home?"'s out of 5.
84. Ils ("Them") - 77 min. - Directed by: David Moreau and Xavier Palud. Netflix. DVD - After watching "The Strangers" a couple days ago, I had to put this bad boy in. This is, IMO, a better film than it's remake and am pretty pissed that that film gets a DTS-MA track while this doesn't. That would be awe-inspiring. 4 "See. If you would just play with the damn kids, this whole thing would have never happened.."'s out of 5.
85. Der Todesking ☼ - 80 min. - Directed by: Jörg Buttgereit. DVD - I'm sorry, but this guy is a complete hack. This is the fourth film of his I've seen, and each film is worse than the one that came before it. That's about it. 1.5 "Oh, the threesome scene in "Nekromantik" was hilarious. Forgot about that."'s out of 5.
86. Young Frankenstein - 106 min. - Directed by Mel Brooks. Netflix. Blu-ray - Still as hilarious as the first time I watched it. So many quotable lines, even after the 20th time you see it. Absolute classic. The Blu-ray is phenomenal, too. 5 "Frau Blucher!"'s out of 5.
87. Splinter ☼ - 82 min. - Directed by: Toby Wilkins. Netflix. HDNet Movies - I guess it was OK. I'm not a big fan of the "shake the camera so much you can't see anything" way of film making. It worked for Cloverfield and the like because that's it's gimmick, here it's just used on occasion to mask the fact that I dunno, the suit didn't look right, or to be "scary" or you know. Anyway.. Jill Wagner is smokin' hot, so it's worth a look-see. 2.5 "der, is that the guy from Road Trip? Why yes, I guess it is."'s out of 5.
88. Braindead - 104 min. - Directed by: Peter Jackson. Netflix. DVD - This is a must. I don't care if it's October or not, this is a must watch practically every month of the year. I figured I'd break out my fully uncut Blood Edition. There's just so much awesomeness in this I wouldn't know where to start or end. If you haven't seen it, well, watch it. 5 "Lionel? You're mother ate my dog!"'s out of 5.
89. The Evil Dead - 85 min. - Directed by: Sam Raimi. Netflix. DVD - Still, one the best horror flicks of all time. Yes, Ash is a pussy here. But no biggie. Still features some of the most innovative camera tricks on no-budget ever. A classic. Fo'sho. 5 "Oh, Ashley... um, Ashley?"'s out of 5.
90. À l'intérieur ("Inside") - 82 min. - Directed by: Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury. Netflix. DVD - I've seen this film 4 times now, and yet I still refuse to watch the behind the scenes documentary that comes on the disc. Yeah, I honestly don't give a shit how or why they made this film. It's quickly become one of my favorite new flicks of the last 5 years. Brutal as shit. The tension makes my stomach hurt. Oh, and Beatrice Dalle was ridiculous in this. 5 "Just.. wow"'s out of 5.
91. Suspiria - 98 min. - Directed by: Dario Argento. Netflix. DVD - This is, well, what can I really say about it. It's really, really pretty for starters. Someone needs to phone the Weinstein's and tell them to release this in Blu-ray like soon. We're talking tomorrow. I've seen the film probably around 10, 11 times and it still holds up. Oh, and damn its pretty. 4.5 "oh, and loud, too! This in TrueHD would be a just awesome"'s out of 5.
92. Hellraiser - 94 min. - Directed by: Clive Barker. Netflix. HDNet Movies - This really wasn't on my slate, but HDNet was playing and I said, ah fuck it. I liked it a lot more when I was younger. I dunno. 3 "Jesus Wept!"'s out of 5.
93. Halloween - 91 min. - Directed by: John Carpenter. Netflix. Blu-ray - It would be a little, just a little, sad if I needed to explain why this flick was chosen. Obviously a classic. Oh, and PJ Soles was really cute back when. Plus, she shows her boobs. Well, she wasn't as cute as Heather Bowen was in the "25 years of Terror" documentary, but she was close.
94. The Exorcist: The Version I've Seen Two Time Prior - 132 min. - Directed by: William Friedkin. Netflix. DVD - I still find this film inexplicably funny. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, yeah, it's a classic. What more can I actually say about it. 5 "Crucifix shaped dildo's? Of course, father."'s out of 5.
95. Fear of God: Making the Exorcist ☼ - 74 min. DVD - One of, if not the most entertaining making-of docs about a film I've ever seen. Great stories, great interviews. The whole nine. Plus, it features the original version of the spider-walk, which is about 6 times more creepy than the one they put in the film.
96. WILDCARD* - Ghost Hunters "Live Halloween Event" - This show, along with the people on it, are a joke. It IS entertaining though, but not for the reasons, I hope, they think it is. Oh, this chick is pretty cute though.
GOAL: 31. SECOND GOAL: 50. THIRD GOAL: 72.
ACTUAL TITLES WATCHED: 96
WILDCARDS: 6
((some links are NSFW))
☼ - indicates first time viewing
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DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Location: portsmouth, va
2007 total: 65
2008 goal: 100
1. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) - 5/5
'--> got to start things off the right way. an absolute classic.
2. DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) - 5/5
'--> my second favorite movie of all time.
3. DAY OF THE DEAD (1985) - 4/5
'--> vastly underrated. rhodes is the ultimate asshole. "choke on them!"
4. LAND OF THE DEAD (2005) - 3/5
'--> even a subpar romero zombie flick is better than 95% of what else is out there.
5. DIARY OF THE DEAD (2007) - 3/5
'--> a lot of people hate this one but if you overlook the heavy handed social commentary it's actually pretty fun.
6. DOCUMENT OF THE DEAD (1985) - 3/5
'--> great behind-the-scenes documentary of DOTD brought to you by the guy who would later go on to write STREET TRASH.
7. TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE (1990) - 4/5
'--> i wish they still made horror anthologies of this caliber.
8. MASTERS OF HORROR: RIGHT TO DIE (2007)* - 3/5
'--> a decent MOH entry from the director of WRONG TURN.
9. THE WIZARD OF GORE (2007)* - 3/5
'--> crispin glover was born for these types of roles.
10. WARNING SIGN (1985)* - 3/5
'--> overlooked sci-fi/horror gem about a virus that makes people go crazy.
11. FEAR NO EVIL (1981)* - 3/5
'--> 80's supernatural son-of-satan cheese with an awesome soundtrack.
12. THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRIAN (2008)* - 2/5
'--> latest from the mind of clive barker. gory as hell but boring...the ending was interesting though.
13. HOME SICK (2007)* - 1/5
'--> bill moseley. good practical effects. soundtrack by zombi. that's about all this one had going for it.
14. NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (1975)* - 4/5
'--> excellent abduction/torture exploitation flick. basically LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT...on a train!
15. NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986) - 5/5
'--> why isn't this on dvd? i can't wait to retire my bootleg. so fucking good.
16. BAD DREAMS (1988)* - 3/5
'--> another underrated 80's horror gem.
17. BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006) - 2/5
'--> could've been a decent remake if they didn't fuck up the origin. one of the hottest casts ever assembled.
18. BLOODSUCKING CINEMA (2007)* - 3/5
'--> pretty good documentary about vampires in film.
19. THE FRIGHTENERS (1996) - 4/5
'--> peter jackson makes the transition from indie to hollywood with this horror/comedy. effects look dated but it's still fun.
20. MASTERS OF HORROR: IMPRINT (2006) - 5/5
'--> takashi miike's MOH entry that was too graphic to air on tv.
21. VIDEODROME (1983) - 5/5
'--> easily my favorite cronenberg film and also one of my all time favorite films.
22. RABID (1977)* - 4/5
'--> can we get this released properly on dvd already?
23. THE BROOD (1979) - 4/5
'--> cronenberg's killer mutant kid masterpiece.
24. SCANNERS (1981) - 4/5
'--> head explosion scene still holds up well and so does the ending.
25. THE DEAD ZONE (1983) - 5/5
'--> stephen king and cronenberg? a match made in heaven.
26. THE FLY (1986) - 5/5
'--> a rarity. a remake that is better than the original.
27. JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER (2007)* - 4/5
'--> do you like SLITHER? do you like EVIL DEAD? then you'll probably like this too.
28. SESSION 9 (2001)* - 4/5
'--> slow burning psychological horror with a great ending.
29. SURVIVAL QUEST (1989)* - 3/5
'--> team of mercenaries terrorize a survival quest group.
30. THE HAPPENING (2008) - 1/5
'--> shyamalan has lost any bit of talent he once had. so bad it's fucking awesome!
31. IDLE HANDS (1999) - 3/5
'--> funny little horror/comedy with a young and hot jessica alba.
32. WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976)* - 3/5
'--> like a spanish CHILDREN OF THE CORN...only more gruesome.
33. THE STRANGERS (2008)* - 3/5
'--> first 40 minutes were great but it was all downhill from there.
34. DEADLY FRIEND (1986)* - 3/5
'--> wes craven? kristy swanson? killer basketball? sold.
35. WICKED LAKE (2008)* - 2/5
'--> a group of guys attempt to terrorize a group of lesbian vampire-witches.
36. MASTERS OF HORROR: DEER WOMAN (2005)* - 3/5
'--> might not be the scariest MOH episode but it's easily the funniest.
37. THE HOWLING (1981) - 3/5
'--> early joe dante werewolf flick. the effects still hold up well.
38. HOWLING II: YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF (1985)* - 2/5
'--> pretty weak sequel but it had it's moments. christopher lee and sybil danning's tits helped too.
39. GINGER SNAPS (2000) - 4/5
'--> awesome canadian film about a teenage girl struggling with being a werewolf.
40. DANCE OF THE DEAD (2008)* - 4/5
'--> had a blast with this one. a bunch of laughs and a bunch of zombies.
41. EVENT HORIZON (1997) - 3/5
'--> easily paul w.s. anderson's best film (really his only decent one). there's some disturbing shit to be seen on this spacecraft.
42. EYES OF A STRANGER (1981)* - 3/5
'--> part thriller, part slasher. jennifer jason leigh's acting debut.
43. SUNDOWN: THE VAMPIRE IN RETREAT (1990)* - 3/5
'--> quirky vampire/western hybrid. deborah foreman as a vampire = hot.
44. SLEEPAWAY CAMP (1983) - 5/5
'--> one of my favorite slashers and of course the ending is incredibly creepy.
45. SLEEPAWAY CAMP II: UNHAPPY CAMPERS (1988) - 3/5
'--> decent sequel but nowhere near as awesome as the first. the unique kills are the best parts.
46. SLEEPAWAY CAMP III: TEENAGE WASTELAND (1989) - 3/5
'--> more of the same but still just as entertaining.
47. RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP (2008)* - 2/5
'--> sheesh. nowhere near as good as i had hoped it would be. oh well.
48. THE ENTITY (1981)* - 4/5
'--> excellent supernatural horror based on a true story.
49. SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) - 5/5
'--> a masterpiece from top to bottom. i doubt we'll ever see another horror-comedy this good.
50. PHANTASM (1979) - 5/5
'--> one of my all time favorite horror films. great atmosphere. killer drill spheres. evil dwarfs. what more could you ask for?
51. PHANTASM II (1988) - 4/5
'--> this first sequel is pure action/horror but it works like a great revenge flick.
52. PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD (1994)* - 4/5
'--> this series gets more crazy as it goes along and i fucking love it.
53. PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION (1998)* - 4/5
'--> a perfect finale. everything comes full circle.
54. ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK (1988)* - 3/5
'--> campy horror-comedy with a whole lot of cleavage.
55. MASTERS OF HORROR: INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD (2005) - 4/5
'--> don coscarelli delivers one of my favorite MOH entries.
56. THE BURNING (1981) - 4/5
'--> underrated 80's summer camp slasher with effects by tom savini.
57. THIRST (1979) - 4/5
'--> interesting little australian vampire/cult flick.
58. TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000 (1985) - 3/5
'--> used to watch this all the time when i was younger. still enjoyable.
59. CHILD'S PLAY (1988) - 5/5
'--> so glad this classic is finally available in 16x9 widescreen.
60. CHILD'S PLAY 2 (1990) - 4/5
'--> solid follow up to the original.
'--> this is when chucky starts saying all his cheesey one-liners. not as good as the previous films.
62. BRIDE OF CHUCKY (1998) - 3/5
'--> everything that was wrong with 90's horror can be found here but it's a guilty pleasure.
63. SEED OF CHUCKY (2004) - 2/5
'--> definitely the worst of the series.
64. MALEVOLENCE (2004) - 3/5
'--> a decent modern slasher that borrows elements from the HALLOWEEN and FRIDAY THE 13TH films.
65. SCREAM QUEENS (EPISODE #1.1) (2008)* - 2/5 [WILDCARD #1]
'--> new reality show consisting of 10 girls competing to be in SAW VI.
66. FIDO (2006) - 4/5
'--> canadian zomedy. george romero meets lassie.
67. CEMETERY MAN (1994) - 5/5
'--> one of my all time favorite zombie movies. existential and surreal.
68. NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) - 4/5
'--> awesome 80's post-apocalyptic/zombie flick.
69. DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004) - 4/5
'--> one of the best horror remakes ever. and this is from someone who loves the original.
70. NIGHTMARE CITY (1980) - 4/5
'--> the most brutal zombie film ever. non-stop killing.
71. DEAD ALIVE (1992) - 5/5
'--> gorey and funny. a classic.
72. FRONTIER(S) (2007)* - 4/5
'--> a french mixture of HOSTEL and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.
73. THE FUNHOUSE (1981)* - 4/5
'--> tobe hooper used to make good horror movies. this was one of them.
74. THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (2007) - 4/5
'--> based on a true story. disturbing as fuck.
75. CRITTERS 3 (1991) - 2/5
'--> in my opinion the worst of the series. however, it does feature leonardo dicaprio's first role.
76. FEAST (2005) - 4/5
'--> survival horror with a dash of humor. can't wait to see the sequel.
77. TRAILER PARK OF TERROR (2008)* - 2/5
'--> killer white trash. not terrible but nothing really special going on either.
78. THE WICKER MAN (1973) - 4/5
'--> a classic. still creepy even after the laughably horrible remake.
79. SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999) - 4/5
'--> tim burton's visuals are perfect for this classic story.
80. APRIL FOOL'S DAY (1986) - 4/5
'--> most slasher enthusiasts don't care for the ending...i think it makes it unique.
81. IDENTITY (2003) - 3/5
'--> yea the 'twist' ending is lame but i've always been a fan of the rest of the film.
82. A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959)* - 3/5
'--> entertaining roger corman flick starring a young dick miller.
83. LAST HOUSE IN THE WOODS (2006)* - 1/5
'--> rips off a ton of old horror cliches...horrible horrible horrible.
84. DEAD AND BURIED (1981) - 4/5
'--> underrated 80's gem with great atmosphere and effects work by stan winston.
85. THE SIMPSONS (TREEHOUSE OF HORROR III) (1992) - 5/5 [WILDCARD #2]
'--> killer krusty doll, homer as king kong and springfield zombies. awesome episode!
86. THE CAR (1977)* - 4/5
'--> awesome killer car movie. i can't believe i don't own this yet.
87. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981) - 5/5
'--> a classic. great effects and great humor. probably my favorite werewolf movie.
88. TALES FROM THE CRYPT (AND ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE) (1989) - 5/5 [WILDCARD #3]
'--> probably my favorite TFTC episode. written by fred dekker and directed by robert zemeckis.
89. THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987) - 5/5
'--> loved it as a kid and still love it today. a masterpiece.
90. THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (1971)* - 3/5
'--> decent british anthology film with christopher lee and peter cushing.
91. AUDITION (1999) - 5/5
'--> slow build up to one crazy finale. i love some takashi miike.
92. THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW (1983)* - 3/5
'--> typical cheesy yet entertaining 80's slasher.
94. HIGH TENSION (2003) - 4/5
'--> would've been perfect if they left out that shitty "twist" ending.
95. SUSPIRIA (1977) - 5/5
'--> this was my first argento experience. i haven't looked at horror movies the same since.
96. INFERNO (1980) - 4/5
'--> second part of argento's 'three mothers' trilogy. not as good as SUSPIRIA but still very atmospheric.
97. MOTHER OF TEARS (2007)* - 3/5
'--> not quite as bad as people say but still a major letdown.
98. IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN (1966) - 5/5 [WILDCARD #5]
'--> i still enjoy this timeless classic.
99. NIGHTBREED (1990) - 4/5
'--> crazy ass monster movie from the mind of clive barker.
100. FRIGHT NIGHT (1985) - 5/5
'--> must have watched this dozens of times when i was a kid. still holds up well.
101. FEAST II: SLOPPY SECONDS (2008)* - 3/5
'--> first half was great but it quickly loses steam and the lame cgi takes over.
102. MAD MONSTER PARTY (1969)* - 3/5
'--> i can't believe i had never seen this rankin-bass classic.
103. FREDDY VS. JASON (2003)* - 3/5
'--> not half as bad as i thought it would be. not sure why i avoided it for so long.
* = first time viewing
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Guess I should have a modest goal in '09 since I'll be out of town a couple of times this month, including the first 3 days. As a result, I began at midnight on October 4th. Shooting for 60 with an emphasis on my unwatched pile.
1: Cloverfield - Rented this several months ago and was looking forward to re-visiting it. Not usually a fan of the shaky-cam effect, but it was put to good use in this one.
2: Nightmare on Elm Street - Planning on being an occasional participant in the 31 days/31 films discussion so have to get ready!
3: Child's Play - I think the Good Guy dolls were a little creepy long before Chucky possessed one of them.
4: The Good Son - A stretch to call this horror, but imdb lists it that way. Macaulay Culkin doesn't have to try hard to be unlikeable.
5: Night of the Living Dead (1990) - Ok, probably should have made an effort to obtain a copy of the original to watch first.
6: The Faculty - Lots of familiar names in the cast made this one fun.
7: Scary Movie - Counting this horror spoof film for the challenge. Had previously caught bits and pieces of it, finally watched it from beginning to end. I liked it, though I won't be in any hurry to check out the "sequels."
8: Scream - Watched with commentary. Ironically, it was revealed early on that the original title for this film was Scary Movie. Ironic since I just watched Scary Movie and it poked fun at Scream the whole time.
9: Scream 2 - More irony. I watched this last year and noted that Matthew Lillard (who was in the original Scream) was listed as having an uncredited role in this film. This year, I'm watching this film with commentary and Wes Cravens and the producer point him out as he passes through the background of a scene.
10: Hollow Man - I really like this movie, more than most folks I guess. Of course it bring me joy knowing I picked up the 2-disc version at Big Lots for $3.
11: Scream 3 - Went through the Scream trilogy with commentaries. They've all been good. However, I am ready to move on after hearing the same voices several hours over the previous 2-3 days.
12: Children of the Corn - I found it humorous that the back of the DVD case it indicates the movie is an adult nightmare... Sure it's a vague description of what the movie is about. But perhaps they're also trying to ward off any parents who might see the title and think it's a friendly children's story.
13: Texas Chainsaw Massacre - This classic still delivers! Glad to have watched this during the daytime.
14: The Wolf Man - Anxious to go through some of the classics I've neglected to watch
15: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man - Before Freddy vs. Jason...
16: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - I hadn't seen this since I was a kid, even cheesier than I imagined (if that was even possible).
17: She-Wolf of London - Loved seeing June Lockhart (of Lassie & Lost in Space fame) in this. Otherwise, not too exciting.
18: Werewolf in London - Probably would have been content to stop after the first two Wolf Man films in the Universal set.
19: Prom Night (1980) - Thinking this is the only Jamie Lee Curtis horror film I hadn't seen. Fell below my expectations.
20: Alien - I still kick myself that I didn't check out the Alien series sooner, first viewing it last year.
21: Terror Train - One of my favorites of the 80's...love the killer-changing-costumes concept.
22: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - Good fun. I bet I hadn't seen this since right after it first came out.
23: Halloween III: Season of the Witch - Have seen this many times but surprised to see Nancy Loomis/Kyes appear in this...she was Annie in the first 2 Halloween films.
24: Aliens - Kind of a reverse typecast taking place for me. I had seen so much of Paul Reiser in Mad About You, that it was a tough adjustment seeing him onscreen in a more serious role.
25: Frankenstein (1931) - Have read the book, but never seen the classic all the way through. Some great scenes in this one. Especially touching the interaction with young girl.
26: The Bride of Frankenstein - Another first time viewing. Surprised that "The Bride" makes her initial appearance with just minutes to go before the closing credits.
27: The Thing (1982) - Another "I can't believe I waited til now to watch this." Good stuff.
28: Son of Frankenstein - I continue to enjoy these old Universal flicks. However, I prefer to spread them out in my movie-viewing a bit. I'm anxious to finish the Frankenstein set but I'm craving something else at the moment.
29: Halloween H20 Twenty Years Later - This was a nice rebound from the previous couple of sequels.
30: Ghost of Frankenstein - Kinda corny, but fun nonetheless.
31: Alien 3 - Sigorney Weaver does a great job with these films. Off the top of my head, not sure what other actress could have pulled off her role in these Alien movies.
32: Alien Resurrection - I might be tempted to rate this as my least favorite Alien film, but that wouldn't mean much since I enjoy them all.
33: The Texas Chainsaw Massare (2003) - I thought this was a solid remake. Leatherface was a little more athletic than in the original.
34: Carrie (1976) - I enjoyed this but thought to myself it seems dated. Of course, it's been remade as well but I've only seen this version.
35: The House of Frankenstein - Maybe my favorite of the Frankenstein films I watched, and good enough to consider the series the best of the Universal Monster Movies in my opinion.
36: The Mummy (1932) - The first of many Mummy movies over the next few days.
37: The Mummy's Hand - I got to thinking that I don't know if I'd ever watched a Mummy movie of any kind until this week...not counting some random Scooby-Doo episode.
38: Dressed to Kill - Not your classic horror movie. Seemed predictable to me, but still ok.
39: Urban Legend - Watched with commentary. Sometimes I feel bad about this, but I struggle to enjoy a commentary when listening to someone with an accent talk for 90+ minutes. This almost happened here but was tolerable.
40: 1408 - Enjoyable ride. Cusack was great...it was interesting to see his character change so drastically as the film went on.
41: Scary Movie 4 - Worth the dollar it cost me from Family Video for a few chuckles.
42: Halloween (2007) - Watched with Rob Zombie's commentary. It's possible I like this movie more than anyone else around here from what I've read. Sure, it's not the original but I appreciate the effort here.
43: The Mist - Similar to Cloverfield. Attention paid to the "human element" and having people go after each other in the midst of terror. This caused the film to drag a bit in my opinion, but still an effective thriller. Very surprised by the ending.
44: The Mummy's Tomb - Solid, though I was shaking my head a bit when the Mummy took an older lady by the throat and as he put the death strangle on her, she screamed...I would think this would be impossible but have no way to test this out.
45: Cujo - Watched with commentary. Most interesting tidbit I picked up was that in the book the young boy dies. Stephen King actually suggested that he live in the movie, that it would be too depressing for a movie audience.
46: Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Watching these 70's films allows me the opportunity to see familiar actors in different roles. This time it was Donald Sutherland like I've never seen him before
47: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Land - A little disturbing to see Martin Sheen in such a creepy role.
48: The Mummy's Ghost - All these Mummy movies are running together for me. I find myself a few minutes into one of these wondering if I started the right one or if I'm viewing one that I had already watched.
49: The Mummy's Curse - Of all the Universal monsters, I think I could escape from the Mummy...he's not very agile. If you could avoid his death grip, you should be ok
50: Young Frankenstein - Think I'll end my participation in this year's challenge with this one. Funny that this film is probably more scary in many ways than the original Frankenstein films.
Satisfied to have hit 50 this year (after reaching the century mark in 2007). I put a serious dent in my unwatched horror pile which was my goal going in.
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2008 DVDTalk Horror Challenge - list complete, may add comments
Warning: There are possibly a few spoilers in my movie comments.
Wednesday October 1st - Sweet! I've been overly anxious to start this thing for days now, getting my DVDs piled up in stacks in preparation. Decided to start things off with a guilty pleasure genre, and a film I've been putting off watching for far too long. Despite working 12 hours, got in much more than I thought I would. Slept very little, and work was slow enough to allow a few films on my iphone.
1- The Guardian of the Universe (1995) (90s Gamera #1) - 7/10 -* - I admit it, I'm a sucker for kaiju films. As a kid I fell in love with Gamera and Godzilla, and I've never grown up. Trying to clear out my unwatched pile (of 1000 or so films, ughh), so much of this year's challenge will hopefully be new to me. Some cheesy special effects and a fairly standard story, but a nice re-introduction for the franchise. Nice melding of the monster and human storylines, decent acting for the genre. Long live the turtle!
2- Attack of the Legion (1996) (90s Gamera #2) - 6.5/10 - * - Loved the enemies, insects scare me anyway, so putting them in a horror film guarantees at least a big freak out factor. Enjoyed the movie overall, but the way Gamera dispatches the Queen takes a point off for me. Come on, an all powerful chest cannon? Why not just use it earlier or all the time?
3- Frankenstein (1910) - 8.5/10 - (Wildcard #1, short) - First use of split screen with that mirror thing? The cauldron scene is fairly chilling, and was probably one of the most creative things done on film at that point in time. It's actually quite a compelling and moving story. This wiki article is perhaps a bit too effusive in its praise though.
4- Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (1922) - 8.5/10 - More in the 31 days thread. Anxious to buy the new special edition on DVD, and just ordered the Kinski remake.
5- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - 8/10 - Didn't really need to watch this again, but it was handy when I was testing handbreak, so it was on my iphone. It's one of my all-time favorite horror films, so I really didn't mind. The best of the four versions of this story imo.
6- The Vampire Bat (1933) - 6.6/10 - Another that I only re-watched because I already had it in itunes/my iphone and work was slow. Nice to see a young and gorgeous Fay Wray, perhaps I'll fit in a day of Kong before this challenge is over.
7- The Corpse Vanishes (1942) - 4/10 - Bela Lugosi must have needed the cash. A bizarre little film, perfect for MST3K, unfortunately their riff of it is not on DVD yet.
8- The Phantom of the Opera (1929 reissue) - * - 8/10 - First time seeing this reissue, didn't notice the slight differences, but then, I haven't watched them as often as I should. Silent film actors don't get enough credit, I think they actually had to work harder and be better before voice entered the film industry.
9- The Last House on the Left (1972) - 3/10 - Disturbing. Not a good film to go to sleep after. Not my type of movie; I only bought it, and watch it, for checklist purposes.
Thursday October 2nd - I have to work the first six days of this challenge, but luckily today and tomorrow are only 3-4 hours each day. My OCD is beginning to kick in, well, kick in more than usual, and I have the next 4 or so days planned out. Hope to finish the checklist by the 7th, and then be free to concentrate on my unwatched mountain.
10- The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) - 7/10 - (Wildcard #2, several shorts) - Watched this and a few others (below two, plus a couple not listed) for checklist purposes. Will combine into one wildcard. This film is important historically, and features perhaps the first special effect.
N/A- Le Chaudron Infernal (1903) - 8/10 - I'm looking forward to one day fully exploring the work French director Georges Méliès.
N/A- Le Monstre (1903) - 7/10 - * - Nice special effects for the time. This and many of his other films can be found online, but I'll be seeking out the DVD set of Méliès' work.
11- Trilogy of Terror (1975) - 7.5/10 - This is one of the first horror films I ever saw, a family favorite. I'll probably watch this every Challenge. Has anyone bought the re-release of the DVD? Worth the upgrade?
12- Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later (1998) - 7.5/10 - I really enjoy this sequel. Repeating myself from last year, the scene where Laurie and Michale are face to face for the first time is a wonderful moment.
13- Darkman (1990) - 7/10 - I'm getting away from my goal to watch films from my unwatched pile (if 1500 films could fit in a pile), but I've been meaning to watch this for a long time, and couldn't wait any longer. Wish they got Neeson for the sequels, but I'll still watch them someday.
14- Revenge of Iris (1999) (90s Gamera #3) - 7.5/10 - * - Really well done. Usually in kaiju films, I want them to limit the human storylines and just get to the monsters, but here I actually enjoyed the human scenes. Nice trilogy, consistent storyline, I hope there is more Gamera to come.
15- Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - 8.5/10 - Watched it with the director's commentary. Simply amazing film, more in the 31 days thread. Maybe I'm easily impressed, but the whole concept is just amazing. The movie probably could have had horrible acting, directing, lighting, whatever, and I'd still love the frigging movie because the idea is just so darn cool to me.
16- Mad Monster Party (1969) - 6/10 - * - Would have loved it, but the voices of the two main characters annoyed the heck out of me.
Friday October 3rd - Second day in a row that, besides a few hours of work, I've done almost nothing but watch films. Moving back and forth between two televisions and my computer to keep myself awake and get my daily exercise. Probably shouldn't admit this, but I'm even watching on my iphone at stop lights, breaks in meetings, and in the bathroom.
17- Jaws the Revenge (1987) - 3/10 - Only watched this to fill in a couple of boxes on the checklist.
18- Full Tilt Boogie (1997) - 7/10 - * - Nice documentary on From Dusk Til Dawn.
19- La Culpa (aka Blame) (2006) - 5.5/10 - * - First film of the Six Films to Keep You Awake DVD set. It did so, but not by much. I'm hoping the next 5 films of this set are better.
20- House of the Dead (2003) - 1/10 - Stupid checklist. I hereby vow to never watch this film again.
21- Jigoku (1960) - 6/10 - * - Definitely the most bizarre title I've watched so far.
22- Suspiria (1977) - 7.5/10 - More in the 31 days thread. Fantastic atmosphere compensates for the thin plot and bad-at-times english "dubbing".
23- Tenebre (1982) - 7/10 - * - I don't think I'll ever become a huge Argento fan. Often visually amazing, great music/sound usually, but the stories are always mediocre for me. This one had a very interesting premise at least.
24- Return of the Living Dead (1985) - 7/10 - * - Very well done, as long as you realize that it is meant more of a comedy than a horror flick.
25- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) - 7/10 - How can you go wrong with Spencer Tracey, Lana Turner, and Ingrid Bergman?
Saturday October 4th - Back to my normal 12 hour work days, so probably won't get in too many today, unless work is really slow. Edit to add - It was a slow day, helping my checklist immensely. I'll admit that I wasn't planning on watching quite as much as I did this week, but saw that wlverinefactor was racing towards finishing the checklist and decided to try to defend last year's Bingo win.
26- Scream and Scream Again (1970) - 7/10 - * - Bizarre thing that jumps all over the place. Great for checklist purposes, given the cast.
27- Night of the Living Dead (1968) - 8/10 - More in the 31 days thread. Stupidly bought the 30th anniversary edition with all the horrible additions, will need to find a better version.
28- Night of the Living Dead (1990) - 7/10 - * - Pretty darn good for a remake. I actually like the slight changes. Regrettably, many people refuse to watch black and white movies; so this remake gives them a chance to see a classic. I still like the original more of course.
29- Bride of the Gorilla (1951) - 5.5/10 - Watched online to get a 1950s movie for the checklist. Interesting Wolf Man derivative.
30- Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - 7.5/10 - More in the 31 days thread. Enjoy this still scary Freddy, before most of the sequels ruin him.
31- And the Children Shall Lead (1968) - 7/10 - (Wildcard #3, TV episode) - I've always thought of this as one of the scariest ST episodes, there is just something freaky wrong with kids killing adults.
32- Dawn (2003) - watch online - 4/10 - * - Very low budget film that I found on lycos and watched online. I admire their effort, but hope that this was the first film for all involved.
33- Man Bites Dog (1992) - 7/10 - * - Well done mockumentary, but I don't think I liked it.
34- Phantom Planet (1961) - 7/10 - * - The rating is for the MST3K version of the film, don't think I would have enjoyed it without Mike and the bots.
Sunday October 5th - Bingo.
35- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) - 8/10 - * - Always avoided this film on my DVD which also includes the 1941 version. I looked at the casts involved, and figured that the later Spencer Tracey, Lana Turner, and Ingrid Bergman version had to be an improvement, right? Wrong. Fredric March outclasses Tracey in this role, and overall I enjoyed this one a bit more. Looking around I see there have been at least a dozen versions of this story over the years, might try to collect a few more of them, and have a Jekyll marathon one weekend. Also, I read that the studio tried to suppress the 1931 version in order to promote the 1941 version, going so far as to buy the rights to it and destroy prints of it.
36- Hobgoblins (1988) - MST3K version - movie 1/10, riff 8/10 - * - This could possibly be the worst movie I've ever seen. I'm so glad it was being riffed, very well at that, or it would have been extremely painful.
37- Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) - 1/10 - Just a checklist buffer, might as well have two of everything. And since I'm not doing the checklist next year, I never have to watch this film again.
n/a- The Revenge of the Shanytown (1995) - Another checklist repeat. Silly Highlander Animated series. Don't want to waste a wildcard on this, I have plans for some better things in my last three slots.
Monday October 6th - Looking forward to a day off tomorrow. Cramming 37+ films in those first five days made me realize that I'm not going to do that anymore. My OCD for this challenge is sated, the bingo card was done, I'm going to slow down and watch some non-horror each day. But I'll be honest, if I didn't have a lot of real-world work to do this month, I'd probably watch 4+ a day and try to hit 200, but now I'm just going to try for 100.
38- The Shining (1980) - 9/10 - For just the second time this challenge, I was scared. Kubrick was a master of cinematography. More in the 31 days thread.
39- Alien (1979) - 10/10 - One of only 5 or so films that I have rated 10/10 in my life. Can't imagine a horror challenge without watching this. Watched with group commentary, which I found very entertaining.
N/A - Minnesota Vikings 30, New Orleans Saints 27 (2008) - * - This was a total horror for New Orleans Saints fans, as their team basically gave the game away. Luckily, I'm a Minnesota Viking fan. So while I'll be having nightmares of Reggie Bush returning punts for weeks, I'm happy to see my team re-discover a passing game.
Tuesday October 7th - Finally, my first day off work this month. Spent some time with my Mom, and went to the theater with my sister, niece, and nephew. Found time to order a few more horror DVDs as well, some good sales at Amazon and DD. I always manage to buy 50+ new horror titles every October.
40- Re-Animator (1985) - 9/10 - Maybe a bit of a guilty pleasure, but this is one of my favorite horror movies. Looking back, I was young and easily impressed by gore and nudity when I first saw it. But it is still fun, although less "groundbreaking" and more campy for me now. More in the 31 days thread.
41- Bloody Birthday (1981) - 5.5/10 - * - Good premise, and some nice stabs at stereotypical parenthood fears.
N/A- Righteous Kill (2008) - 3/10 - * - Why did Pacino and DeNiro agree to this? At least it was free thanks to the ubiquitous free movie tickets at retailers.
42- Spoorloos (The Vanishing) (1988) - 9/10 - Very well done Dutch film. Haven't seen the remake yet, but imagine it's horrible.
Wednesday October 8th - Back to work for another 12 hour day, but saw most of the FDTD trilogy on my iPhone there.
43- From Dusk Until Dawn (1996) - 8/10 - I really like George Clooney (in movies at least, not his politics).
44- From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) - 4/10 - * - Not too horrible actually, I feared much worse. Some interesting camera work, lots of gore, and Robert Patrick wasn't bad. I'll likely never watch it again though.
45- From Dusk Til Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999) - 2/10 - * - Crap.
46- Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - 8/10 - Haven't watched this in years. Some fine acting and great underwater cinematography. Looking forward to fully watching the extras and sequels before I put it back on the shelf. More in the 31 days thread.
Thursday October 9th - Hope to finally see some horror in the theater tonight. After work made it to the theater for the $5 Horror Double Feature, I heartily recommend this to anyone with participating theaters near them.
47- Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999) - 4/10 - * - Pretty much what I expected. I was never a chipmunk fan, so have no idea why I bought this DVD, probably for future checklist purposes. Sad that I would actually buy things I don't want just for a meaningless checklist, but that's OCD for you.
48- House on Haunted Hill (1959) - 8.5/10 - A staple of my library, I'll watch some version of this at least once a year.
49- The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) - 3.5/10 - * - While this I'll hopefully never see again. Looks like it was made in a week.
50- The Devil's Rejects (2005) - 5/10 - * - More in the 31 days thread. Not my type of film, but some decent acting, and I enjoyed how they melded Free Bird and it's lyrics into the final sequence.
Friday October 10th - Some family drama kept me away from movies.
51- Rosemary's Baby (1968) - 8/10 - * - Really enjoyed watching this in full for the first time, great to see some older actors given good roles, including an Oscar winning performance by Ruth Gordon. More in the 31 days thread.
Saturday October 11th - Just tried to randomize some films today, picking things out of my unwatched piles.
52- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) - 7/10 - Started this one thinking that I had never seen it before. I guess it was pretty forgettable, but did realize about half way thru that I had watched it. Almost stopped it to go to an unwatched film, but decided I was too far in to stop. Gorier than I thought it would be. Nice to see early Steve Buscemi, Rae Dawn Chong, and Julianne Moore. I actually really enjoyed the wrap-around story.
53- Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1994) - 4.5/10 - * - Not horrible, but nothing at all new. Not sure how they expect us to believe Durant surviving the crash at the end of the first film. An identical twin would have been much more believable.
54- Terrified (1963) - 6.5/10 - * - Great settings! Film gets a bit talky at times, but overall it does a great job of showing people being terrified. Great opening scene, nice soundtrack, and an early appearance from Uncle Jesse!
55- The Ghost Ship (1943) - 7.5/10 - * - My first (?) Val Lewton production.
56- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - 4/10 - * - I recognize it's importance to the medium/genre, and admit that I may have liked it or appreciated it more if I had seen it 30, or even 10 years ago. I understand that many of the horror films I watch and enjoy owe a lot to it, but I just couldn't get into it. One big problem for me was that I couldn't generate sympathy for any of the kids. Strange that I prefer really old horror, or stuff from the 90s and on, but many "classic" of the 70s or so don't do much for me. More in the 31 days thread.
Sunday October 12th - Between football and a few movies, barely left the TV all day.
57- Night Monster (1942) - 7/10 - * - Finished off my Universal Horror boxset, not sure how I missed this one last year.
N/A- St. Louis Rams 19, Washington Redskins 17 (2008) - * - What a nightmare. My hometown and second favorite team, the Redskins, were starting to generate SuperBowl buzz, and were home against the winless and pathetic looking Rams. They hadn't lost a turnover or even fumbled all year, but had four fumbles, losing three, in their first six possessions. On a slightly bright side, my Vikings won another game that they probably deserved to lose.
58- Freaks (1932) - 8/10 - Some genuinely creepy moments in this. More in the 31 days thread.
59- Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996) - 3.5/10 - * - Interesting that this one was filmed and meant to be released before Darkman II. I don't think it mattered either way, both are mediocre and forgettable.
60- The Food of the Gods (1976) - 5/10 - * - This is a "so bad it's good" film. Regretfully admit that I remember being scared by the trailers as a kid. Perfect MST3K-type fodder. Coincidentally appropriate that I chose to watch it on a Sunday, as it features pro football players as it's leads.
61- Snake People (1971) - 4.5/10 - * - The first 20 minutes has got to be the most bizarre opening I've ever seen in a film. So sad that Boris Karloff's last films were these pieced-together Mexican films put out a few years after his death.
Monday October 13th - Back to work, but will try to squeeze in a couple.
62- Friday the 13th (1980) - 6/10 - Was never a big fan of this series, have probably only seen one of them all the way thru in my entire life, the original. I'm sure I've seen parts of several of them on cable over the years, and have probably seen the original 5 or more times, but never really got into them enough to seek out the sequels. Seeking the Best Buy exclusive disc, I finally bought the box set of this earlier this year, and planned to marathon thru all of the movies this month. So far, watched the first two and have enjoyed them. I swear I don't remember Kevin Bacon being in this, and he had a pretty good death scene. More in the 31 days thread.
63- Count Gore De Vol's Creature Feature: The Legacy Begins (2003) - 7/10 - * - (Wildcard #4, see description) - Count Gore de Vol, real name Richard Dyszel, was a television horror host. I believe that most television markets had them back in the 70s and 80s, so many of you may be familiar with the Count or similar characters. Basically, one of the local independent channels, WDCA, channel 20, hired him to host the syndicated horror show, Creature Features. Creature Features is a big part of the reason I became a horror film fan. As a kid in the 70s, the highlight of my weekend was watching the Count host Creature Features, introducing me to the Universal standards, the Godzilla and Gamera films, and other sci-fi and horror classics. Though quirky local programming hosts and Creature Features are long gone, the Count has stayed active, hosting an internet site with a weekly "show" since 1998, and releasing several DVDs. Some of the DVDs are the actual Creature Feature movies, complete with host segments; and some are collections of promos and host material, with new framing segments. This DVD is his first release, showcasing his early years. The wiki articles I've linked are quite accurate, and contain some details as to how groundbreaking the show was in some areas. He hosts an annual horror film festival here in DC, which I hope to attend this weekend.
Tuesday October 14th - My Mom had some cable issues, and just went 72 hours without television. Guy finally showed up at 1830, after they told us we had to wait for him from 1300-1800. Why can't companies give you better time windows than that? They make you take off work or whatever, sit at home for 6 or more hours, and can't call you with updates during the day? She watches a lot of network TV, so I was amazed that she survived that long without it. Made me wonder what I would do. Then I realized that I do that almost every week, go 72 hours or more without watching TV. Between my DVDs and the internet, I can keep my TV busy without ever turning on the cable (Fios) box. I probably only watch 7 hours of TV a week, usually in one or two sittings per week thanks to the DVR. Could I live without that entertainment, and keep that $80 or so per month? Probably.
64- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) - 5.5/10 - * - Interesting that two films into this series, which is identified as Jason in that hockey mask, and we have yet to see it.
65- The Wolf Man (1941) - 7.5/10 - Never noticed before that this is set in Wales. My grandfather immigrated from Wales, and I was able take my father there a few years ago to track down some of our ancestral heritage; visiting record offices, cemeteries, and distant cousins. No werewolves found. Also never knew that there was an earlier Universal werewolf movie, Werewolf of London. It's on the legacy set, perhaps I'll watch it later this month. More in the 31 days thread.
66- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) - 7/10 - * - Probably shouldn't rate it this high, but I'm a sucker for monster combo movies.
67- Death Proof (2007) - first half 9/10, second half 2/10 - I know that many disagree, but I hate the second half of this movie. The girls are incredibly annoying, the car chase scene is not as amazing as people claim, and changing Kurt Russell from a chilling homicidal maniac to a whimpering idiot is something I'll never forgive QT for.
68- The Dead Pit (1989) - 4/10 - * - Bleh.
Wednesday October 15th - Skipped half of my sleep last night to watch Claw of Terror. Not sure whether to thank Mister Peepers or curse him. Lack of sleep has really caught up with me. Work was a chore to get thru, and ended up going to bed almost as soon as I got home.
69- Scream Bloody Murder (aka Claw of Terror) (1973) - 5/10 - * - At first, I thought it was going to be a chore to get thru this thing, but finally decided that it was good campy fun. I can see a remake with Jim Carey as Matthew. Watch it on youtube! The beginning was great, easy to get hooked into it. Was that The Tall Man (from the Phantasm films) we saw early in this film? It was! More in the 31 days thread.
Thursday October 16th - Today I'll be going to my first film festival. It's not a full blown festival perhaps, with conference rooms, discussion panels, and all that. But it does have film screenings, some goodies handed out, some of the talent each day to discuss their films and answer questions, people dressing up, and a local TV legend hosting it. I grew up on Count Gore de Vol, owe/blame a lot of my horror addiction to him, so I'm pretty pissed that I didn't go to this festival the first two years they had it. Won a door prize tonight, a DVD of the soon to be released Trailer Park of Terror, and got to meet the Count, so a pretty awesome day for me.
70- Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) - movie 1/10, MST3K riff 9/10 - Without MST3K, this movie would be painfully bad, and anyone who watched it sans Joel and the bots deserves extra credit. More in the 31 days thread.
71- Man-Thing (2005) - 4.5/10 - * - Not nearly as bad as I expected. This was a favorite comic series of my youth, and this story has very little to do with the excellent comics. But I knew that going in, and was able to separate it from the comics and see it as its own thing, a mediocre movie.
72- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) - 9/10 - First time seeing this since I was a kid, when it used to come on late night TV quite often. A timeless (pun intended) classic, great dialogue, makes you think.
73- The Spooky Movie Film Festival (2008) - 10/10 - * - (Wildcard #5, about 30 shorts, listed separately below) - So I just got home from my first film festival, or at least day 1 of a 5 day festival. Using this one wildcard for all the shorts and other trimmings of this tons-of-fun 5 day film festival. Using this one item and rating for the theater/festival experience as a whole. The atmosphere, the hosts, seeing all the fans in costumes, the freebies and door prizes, meeting a few of the directors; it all was well done and a great experience. I've put off going to something like this for years, and am so glad that I finally made the effort.
N/A- Back to Life (2008) - 8/10 - * - Funny animated short, watch on this youtube link.
N/A- Foet (2001) - 7/10 - * - Disturbing little short with socially relevant concerns.
N/A- The Sleuth Incident (2008) - 6/10 - * - Bizarre little short. I'll never look at teddy bears the same way again.
N/A- Snip (2008) - 6.5/10 - * - Well shot, and disturbing, but I don't think I ever want to see it again.
74- No Through Road (2008) - 7/10 - * - Surprised that I can't find this film on IMDB yet, as it has won some festival awards and has talent that have IMDB entries. Decent Australian flick.
Friday October 17th - The Exorcist really freaks me out, as it is a possible reality imo, so I choose to watch it early in a day to give me time to recover. I'm really enjoying this film festival so far, tonight ended up having better films than the first night.
75- The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen) (1973) - 9/10 - * - The new spider walk scene freaked me out the most. I remember when it was released to the theaters, and the big controversy. I was too young to go, but think my parents may have gone. I'll have to ask my mom about it. More in the 31 days thread.
N/A- The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen) (1973) - 9/10 - * - Watched it again with director's commentary. The most painfully boring two hours of this challenge, as all Friedkin did was describe what was happening on screen for the most part. Odd that he put in such a poor performance, as his previous commentaries have been quite good.
76- The Crow (1994) - 9/10 - A favorite of mine, a comic adaptation done right. Watched it this time with the producer and writer commentary. Not sure why it hit me this time, but for the first time while watching this film, and the first time this month, I kind of cried. Not a full blown cry, but a pretty good welling up. So sad to lose Brandon Lee the way we did, he had a ton of talent, and seemed like a really good kid from the interviews I've seen.
N/A- Night of the Hell Hamsters (2006) - 8/10 - * - The second night of The Spooky Movie Horror Film Festival started off with this hilarious short, worth the price of admission alone. One particular death had me cringing for minutes.
N/A- Excision (2008) - 9/10 - * - Best film of the festival so far. Great acting from some locals.
77- Crushed (2008) - 2.5/10 - * - Started off with some potential, but then just dragged on and on and on, and got gorier than most of the Saw and Hostel films. One of the supporting characters has some hilarious dialogue, which kept the first half bearable, if not decent, but wow, did I mention how this thing was too long? The last 20 minutes was painful.
N/A- A Break in the Monotony (2007) - 8/10 - * - youtube trailer - Fun little short with a great twist.
N/A- Prombies (2007) - 6.5/10 - * - Another funny little short highlighting zombies. Starts off really well, but I think the ending could have been better.
78- Brain Dead (2007) - 6/10 - * - Best production values of the festival so far. Ok, if overused concept, some decent acting, but not really very good overall. Will probably re-watch someday, may grow on me, some nice eye candy at least. But why the heck did they give it the same name as two other fairly recent and popular horror movies?
Saturday October 18th - Basically skipping some sleep this weekend so that I can go to this film festival. Finding that doing that is getting more difficult as I age. Skipping a night of sleep was an almost weekly thing when I was in my teens and twenties, and didn't affect me at all. But now, I struggle if I don't get my 4-9 hours per night.
79- The Invisible Man (1933) - 8/10 - Still haven't watched any of the four sequels. Next year, when I'm not encumbered by the checklist, I'll be more free to watch these and other unwatched films in my collection. More in the 31 days thread.
N/A- Harvest Moon (2008) - 7.5/10 - * - Nice little short from FSU. A couple/few of the shorts from this festival have been from there, and all well done so far, makes me think they have a pretty good film school there.
N/A- The Blue Rhino vs. the Diabolic Brain (2008) - 1.5/10 - * - Absolutely no budget, attempt at an Ed Wood homage, but didn't do anything for me. Painful to get thru actually.
N/A- Cheerbleeders (2008) - 7.5/10 - * - Another well done short. I often like my horror mixed with humor, takes the edge off.
N/A- Fun on Earth (2007) - 6/10 - * - Good concept, decent acting. Enjoyable, but I won't be going out of my way to buy it on a shorts collection or follow the director's future work.
N/A- The Procedure (2008) - 7.5/10 - * - Nice work. I've been surprised at how well done some of these shorts have been.
N/A- The Room (2007) - 8/10 - * - Some nice camera work, decent effects and acting, surprised at the low rating for this on IMDB.
80- Vlog (2008) - 4/10 - * - Possible slightly interesting marketing story here. From the producer of Saw, this was apparently billed as the first ever web movie. Webisodes at a borderline porn site collected into a movie. Story is actually halfway decent, but a bit too long. Made the mistake of following the links to research my write-up here, hopefully I don't get fired from work over this mediocre thing.
81- Snuff: a Documentary About Killing on Camera (2008) - 5/10 - * - I never would have paid to see this, or watched it even if it was free on TV. But since I paid for an all festival pass I felt like I needed to see as much as possible to get my money's worth. Very disturbing, I left the theater shaken and depressed. Very well done review here on DVDtalk for this film.
Sunday October 19th - Can't believe that something has supplanted the NFL in my life, but this makes two years in a row that I've spent Sundays in October actually doing something other than watching 10+ hours of the NFL. Very ugly start to the day with the after midnight screening of Snuff, and then way too little sleep, but hopefully the 20 or so films I'll see today will perk me back up.
82- The Shadow Within (2007) - 8/10 - * - Best feature of the fest so far. Thought it was a British film, but was filmed in Italy by Italians. Nice job by Kate Winslet's sister Beth.
N/A- Lawn of the Dead (2008) - 2/10 - * - Local short that probably won't make it to any other festivals.
N/A- Crystl (2008?) - 5/10 - * - The first short on which the google machine thingy fails. A weird music video horror mash up.
N/A- A Beautiful Day (2008?) - 6/10 - * - Another google fail. Does it cost money to add your shorts/films onto IMDB? I don't think so, you'd think new filmmakers would want to get their stuff noticed.
N/A- Peekers (2008) - 8/10 - * - Fun, and yet quite creepy at the same time! Nice to see older actors getting these types of parts.
83- Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1 (2008) - 8/10 - * - Wow! I am quite surprised at the quality of many of these shorts and feature length films. When I started this festival, I expected more local stuff, and feared films that a few people with a weekend to kill and a video camera could put together. Instead I'm getting stuff that is better than half my horror collection. I will not be surprised to see some of these filmmakers and actors go on to much bigger things. Will try to remember to check these links in a year or two to see their progress.
N/A- Attackzoids! (2008) - 7.5/10 - * - Nice melding of animation and live action, and cool effect with the actress' eyes. Not a huge fan of the ending.
N/A- Reflections (2008) - 7/10 - * - Solid, nice ending.
N/A- Transerexia (2008?) - 7/10 - * - A third short with pretty much nothing found on the net. Tiny thing for fans of The Psychedelic Furs.
N/A- Cam 2 Cam (2008) - 7.5/10 - * - Why I don't chat online. Not on IMDB, but watch the whole thing at that link.
84- Strange Girls (2007) - 8/10 - * - Another wow, much better than what I expected I'd find this weekend. Great acting.
N/A- Dead Boyfriends (2008) - 7/10 - * - Fun little lyrical short.
N/A- Vanished Acres (2006) - 8/10 - * - Great cinematography, production values, and acting. In fact, pretty much perfect technically. Requires the audience to think, and fill in some blanks, so most people won't like it much perhaps.
N/A- Kirksdale (2007) - 8/10 - * - This creator will go places. By the way, here is a trailer for this 5 day Spooky Movie Film Festival.
N/A- Shuteye Hotel (2007) - 7/10 - * - Always love Bill Plympton's stuff, this is perhaps the darkest and least funny of his shorts.
85- Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007) - 8/10 - * - One of the best documentaries I've seen, although the subject matter is a bit fluffy.
86- Hard (1998) - 4.5/10 - * - Nice effort, but horrible acting drags it down. More in the 31 days thread.
Monday October 20th - Indie horror films, work, indie horror films, cat nap, work, indie horror films, cat nap... That's been my life the past 5 days. I'm loving it, although really need a full night's sleep tomorrow.
N/A- Mr. Video (2007) - 7/10 - * - Nice anti-piracy short.
N/A- Little Snaps of Horror (2008) - 7/10 - * - Watch it online thru the link.
N/A- Walker Stalker (2008) - 8/10 - * - Inventive and quite unique British short.
87- Bane (2008) - 5/10 - * - This apparently won awards at some film festivals. I feel sorry for the people who spent a weekend watching nothing better than this. Pretty mediocre ending to an otherwise fantastic film festival.
88- April Fool's Day (1986) - 6.5/10 - Original story, some decent scares. Haven't seen the remake yet. More in the 31 days thread.
Tuesday October 21st - After about 6 total hours of sleep over the past 5 days, I slept in today. The sleep deprivation was definitely worth it, as the film festival was great, and I hope to go to others in the future.
89- The Thing (1982) - 9.5/10 - One of the greatest movies made in the last 30 years, if not ever. Even if you take out the ground breaking special effects, remove all the alien/monster stuff, and make it just a film about men and isolation, it's still an amazing film. More in the 31 days thread.
90- The Thing: Terror Takes Shape (1998) - 7.5/10 - * - Nice 83 minute documentary on one of the ten best movies of all time.
91- Revolt of the Zombies (1936) - 3/10 - * - Too romantical.
Wednesday October 22nd - Had a sort of nightmare this morning. Normally wake up for work at around 0500 to my alarm. But today, I instead gradually wake up and notice daylight. Crap. Look at the flashing clock, power had gone out, it was after 0800, and I have to be at work by 0700.
92- The Evil Dead (1981) - 8/10 - Listened to this with the producer/director commentary. Is it just me or did Sam Raimi sleep thru half of this? He seemed to only talk when the producer dragged comments out of him. More in the 31 days thread.
Thursday October 23rd - All those days of no sleep have caught up to me, so now I'm actually sleeping. 12 hours of work, 2 hours of commuting, 7 hours of sleep, 1 hour of showering/eating/other necessities only leaves 2 hours a day for anything fun.
93- Psycho (1960) - 9/10 - Probably my favorite Hitchcock film, still need to watch/re-watch several of them to be sure. More in the 31 days thread.
94- The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) - 8/10 - Genuinely creepy film, from the performances to the subject matter.
Friday October 24th - A full weekend off with very few plans! I hope to get at least 10 films in this 3 day weekend.
95- The Mysterious Doctor (1943) - 7/10 - * - Lots of The Invisible Man and The Wolf Man in this fun little war-time thriller. A bit propaganda-ish perhaps, but some creepy settings and fine acting make it worth your while.
96- The Mummy (1932) - 7/10 - Perhaps my least favorite of the "big 5", at least when rating the original films only. I love it, but it just doesn't grab me as much as the other big 4 do. More in the 31 days thread.
97- The Unearthly (1957) - film 4/10, riff 7/10 - * - Very Ed Wood-ish, he is even given a disputed writing credit, so a horrible film, but slightly so-bad-its-good. Mike and the bot's riffing is average, and it had great eye candy. The three main actresses were a Miss America winner, a playmate of the month, and a Miss America contestant.
Saturday October 25th - A beautiful rainy day, sounds perfect for some film watching.
98- The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) - 8/10 - * - Happy to see that I have five more Corman/Poe/Price films to look forward to. I would say this film had some impact on Italian horror directors. More in the 31 days thread.
99- The Crow: City of Angels (1996) - 1/10 - * - What a total piece of crap. The worst film I've seen this month, or perhaps ever. The cast and crew should be ashamed of themselves. Vincent Perez is horrible as the lead, the plot is completely unoriginal, and the ending couldn't be more horrible.
100- Curse of the Demon (1957) - 8/10 - * - My first ever netflix instant watch, and my #100 for this challenge. I wasn't expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised to really enjoy this film. I'm pretty sure the version I saw was the re-titled and (slightly?) edited US version, and not the British original, Night of the Demon. Anyone have the original cut? Any major differences? What a great ending! Despite my vow to rent more and buy less, and the fact that I watch this online for free whenever I want as long as I keep Netflix, I plan to buy this DVD ASAP.
Sunday October 26th - Could have easily doubled my film output this weekend, but decided to do two other things instead. One, I decided not to ignore my friends and family quite as much as I had planned. Had some meals and NFL watching with some of them. Also, took advantage of some Best Buy coupons to stock up on $5 blu-rays, spending way too many hours in various Best Buys over the course of the weekend, although I did get to play some of the new Guitar Hero there, and scored 10 Blu-rays for $50. Now I just need a HD TV and a Blu-ray player.
100+ Horror of Dracula (1958) - 7/10 - * - May have seen parts of this on TV over the years, but this was my first full viewing. Great performance by Peter Cushing! I know that one could make these complaints on almost every horror movie, but little mistakes by the characters dampen this one quite a bit for me. So Peter Cushing absolutely knows that vampires are real, and knows the foolproof ways to stop them. But does he come prepared? No. He carries one cross, which he purposely leaves before running after Count Dracula! What?! If I were him, I'd have crosses in every pocket, several around my neck, and heck, I'd have them tattooed all over my body. I'd also have garlic stuffed in all my clothes and at least 4 holstered stakes/mallets. And Count Dracula, an intelligent being hundreds of years old, knows he's very vulnerable when in his coffin during the day. Does he take any steps to protect this location? No. At his castle his coffin is simply in the back house, just inside an unlocked door. So after barely surviving an attack in his coffin by his arch nemesis, he moves his coffin to the current home of this man, a foe who has vowed to kill him. Does he at least make a modest attempt to hide this coffin? No! It is plainly in sight just inside the unlocked basement door! More in the 31 days thread.
DVD- The Crow: Salvation (2000) - 4.5/10 - * - Citizen Kane compared to the dreck of the first sequel, but I'll still likely never watch these sequels again.
DVD- Scary Movie 4 - 4.5/10 - Didn't really want to watch this, but I wanted to spend some time with my niece. She doesn't like scary films, so this was the only "horror" film in my sister's collection that Jaime was willing to watch with me. I rated this one slightly higher last year on my first viewing, dropping it now.
DVD- Werewolf of London (1935) - 7.5/10 - * - Under-appreciated classic. This should be seen by any Wolf Man fan. Fine performances and effects, and some nice comedy elements make for an engaging time, the earliest (surviving) film version of a werewolf.
DVD- Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of the Wolf Man (1999) - 6.5/10 - * - Documentary hosted by John Landis is a bit too clip heavy and Universal-centric (but obviously I guess). Not part of my count.
Monday October 27th - Working, so won't get much in, but hope to rent a couple free horror titles since this is Redbox Free Monday. Oops, ended up finding some non-horror to rent this week, Mongol.
iPhone- Dead Men Walk (1943) - 6/10 - * - Mildly entertaining vampire story. The twin twist might have been original at the time. Dwight Frye, Renfield from 1931's Dracula, plays, guess what, a hunchback assistant. Good dual performance from George Zucco, nice quirky role for Fern Emmett, and a perhaps often copied fiery climax.
DVD- She-Wolf of London (1946) - 6.5/10 - * - Great to see a young and beautiful June Lockhart! Not much of a horror, more a mystery, and a decent one at that.
DVD- The Innocents (1961) - 8/10 - * - Wonderfully disturbing. Much more in the 31 days thread.
Tuesday October 28th - Decided to mix things up today and watch several different types of films in several different locations/medias. Including films that I was almost positive would be lousy turned out to be a lousy idea, as I was right.
DVD- Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) - 8.5/10 - * - The day started off very well as I experienced my first ever Fulci film. Appropriate that I started with Fulci's personal favorite of his films. Loved it. Great story, using about 7 different people as suspects in the murder mystery, most being quite compelling possibilities, which left me guessing up until the ending. Big thanks to edwardnortonfan and others for the suggestion. I'm definitely up for more Fulci, but given that this is regarded as his most linear (and best by many), I'll likely not like his others as much.
online- [REC] (2007) - 8.5/10 - * - Maybe I'm easily pleased by gimmicks, but I loved this "video." Wasn't expecting much once I saw that it was going to be all handycam, but after a few weak opening minutes, I was sucked in, and genuinely scared several times. I'll be seeking out the DVD for sure, and will try to catch the American remake Quarantine before it leaves theaters.
online- Shark in Venice (2008) - 1.5/10 - * - It was as bad as it sounds.
TV- Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007) - 3/10 - * - Some decent gore, but not much else.
TV- The Mephisto Waltz (1971) - 7.5/10 - * - Had never heard anything about this somehow, surprising since I love the genre, Alan Alda (sort of), and Jacqueline Bissett. Loved it.
DVD- Black Sunday (1960) - 7.5/10 - * - Incredible gothic atmosphere. Thanks for getting me to watch my first Bava film Chad. Looks like many regard this one, his first as full director, as his best. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more of his stuff. Loved "meeting" star Barbara Steele, nice that we got two of her films this week into the 31 days thread.
Wednesday October 29th - My last day of work this month. Planning to go out of town tomorrow, but will have my portable DVD player and films on my iPhone.
online- Dementia 13 (1963) - 7/10 - * - Another well done Roger Corman production, with Francis Ford Coppola cutting his teeth as a director.
online- White Zombie (1932) - 7/10 - What a lousy wedding day. Mediocre acting outside of Lugosi, but a well done story, one of the first full scores, and some notable cinematography. And hey, it's the first ever zombie movie! We all have to love it for that at least.
online- Maniac (1934) - 3/10 - * - Interesting in a historical perspective, as it may be the first exploitation film.
TV- The Black Room (1935) - 7.5/10 - * - My DVR is filling up, so I need to clear some of it out to clear space for the 24 hours of horror that TCM is starting tomorrow. Very happy to find this old Boris Karloff gem.
TV- Before I Hang (1940) - 7.5/10 - * - I think Karloff does a great job in this "dual" role. Wonderful little "B" picture, thanks to TCM for showing this and so many other great older gems as always.
TV- Almost positive I watched at least one more item before closing the night with Dracula, but I can't remember for sure. Went back to my no sleeping ways I'm afraid, looking forward to November.
DVD- Dracula (1931) - 7.5/10 - For this year's viewing, I listening to the commentary track from film historian David J. Skal. It looks like he has written several books that would interest all of us. Has anyone read any of these: Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, V Is for Vampire: The A to Z Guide to Everything Undead, Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture, Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween, Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice (2008)? Now that I'm slightly "movied out", I hope to read several books this month. More in the 31 days thread.
Thursday October 30th - Didn't sleep much Wednesday or Thursday nights, so got in more than planned. I've been recording tons of stuff off of TMC and other channels, my DVD burner has been in constant operation all month. It stopped working yesterday, guess I burned it out. Have let it sit for a few hours, tried different media, but it has weird hang ups and refuses to burn anything. But my DVR was 90% full, and TMC was airing tons of stuff that I didn't have on disc yet. So I had to get another DVD burner and scramble to keep up. Got as high as 97% full earlier today, with two films recording to my DVR as I was hurriedly burning things as quickly as possible to the new DVD burner. Think I'm home free now, below 90% and not much else in set to record tonight. So that's two multiple hundred dollar devices that I've bought for this challenge, and almost bought a PS3 to watch Halloween in hi def.
DVD- Dracula's Daughter (1936) - 5.5/10 - * -
DVD- Son of Dracula (1943) - 4.5/10 - * -
DVD- House of Dracula (1945) - 6/10 - * -
iPhone- Idle Hands (1999) - 8/10 - Not quite as funny as it could be, but a great concept and some hilarious bits make this my favorite modern horror-comedy. But to be honest, I'd probably give it a 7/10 for Jessica Alba alone.
DVD- Regreso a Moira (aka Spectre) (2006) - 7.5/10 - * -
theater- The Bat (1959) - 7.5/10 - * -
theater- Lycanthropus (aka Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory) (1961) - 6/10 - * -
theater- Quella Villa Accanto al Cimitero (aka The House by the Cemetery (1981) - 7/10 - * - I imagine this was heavily edited.
theater- Quarantine (2008) - 6.5 - * - [Rec] was much better. Why must we dumb things down for Americans?
DVD- Frankenstein (1931) - 9/10 - Another commentary listen for me, as I have seen this film countless times. Film historian Rudy Behlmer does a good job, lots of information, but it seems scripted and has little if any scene-specific information. More in the 31 days thread.
Friday October 31st - So this ended up being a marathon day of eclectic films, the randomness of it kept me focused. Ended with the classic right around midnight, and started another film, as I planned to just skip sleep again and marathon thru until dawn. But decided that perhaps a few hours of sleep before work would be prudent. So I can proudly say that I ended things at midnight-ish with one of the best horror films ever, Halloween.
TV- Dead of Night (1945) - 8.5/10 - * -
DVD- Adivina Quién Soy (aka A Real Friend) (2006) - 8/10 - * -
DVD- Cuento de Navidad (aka A Christmas Tale) (2005) - 8/10 - * -
DVD- La Habitación del Niño (aka The Baby's Room) (2006) - 8/10 - * -
DVD- Para Entrar a Vivir (aka To Let) (2006) - 7.5/10 - * -
DVD- The Haunted Strangler (1958)- 7.5/10 - * - Criterion did a great job on this Monsters and Mayhem set.
DVD- Jack Brooks Monster Slayer (2007)- 7.5/10 - * -
DVD- The Invisible Man Returns (1940)- 6/10 - * -
TV- The Office - Employee Transfer (2008) - 7/10 - * - Watched the Halloween episode with my kind-of girlfriend. Won't count it as I am compelled to save the last wildcard for something truly unique and special, something that I plan to watch every Halloween season for the rest of my life.
DVD- It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)- 9/10 - (Wildcard #6, the original wildcard) - When I think of Halloween, this is the first thing that comes to mind. Originally airing just after my birth, I think that Charles Schulz wrote this and the Christmas special specifically for me.
DVD- Halloween (1978) - 9/10 - More in the 31 days thread.
DVD- Blood Legacy (aka Legacy of Blood) (1971) - ?/10 - * - Started the Cinematic Titanic version of this in the pre-dawn hours, but kept falling asleep. Not because it wasn't hilarious, but because I had gone almost 48 hours without sleep. Decided to stop rewinding it every 5 minutes and just watch it later. The Challenge should end on Halloween anyway.
iphone- Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)- 8/10 - Actually got an unexpected second wind after preparing for and getting into bed, so started this film. After awhile I thought, "What the heck are you doing Trevor? You have to be at work in 4 hours!" So I turned it off and got some much needed sleep.
Coding Key/Miscellaneous Statistics
DVD - 90
TV - 11
theater - 46
iPhone - 18
internet - 14
DVDs opened for this challenge - 34
DVDs bought for this challenge - 20
DVDs rented for this challenge - 6
$300 devices bought for this challenge - 2 (iPhone, DVD Recorder)
5 day film festivals attended for this challenge - 1
Nightmares during this challenge (normally never have them) - 2
Films per day/week
(Numbers here represent items that officially count. Above numbers more inclusive.)
Week 1 - 9+7+9+9+3+2+3 = 42
Week 5 - 6+10+10 = 26
Initial Goals
1- 100+ items - completed on the 25th
2- the expanded checklist - completed on the 5th
3- don't spend too much money - Failed! Spectacularly.
4- don't let the challenge get in the way of my daily reading goals - Failed in a major way! Didn't read a single word outside of the computer, road signs, DVD labels, or food packaging all month. November will be the month of the book.
5- complete the 31 Films in 31 Days subset - completed
Wildcard #1 - The "original horror feature", Frankenstein (1910).
Wildcard #2 - Watched several old shorts to satisfy two of the Expanded Checklist decade items.
Wildcard #3 - Watched what I always found to be the scariest Star Trek (TOS) episode.
Wildcard #4 - A DVD collecting various host segments, promos, and interviews from Count Gore de Vol, a TV horror host, something very popular back in the 70s and 80s.
Wildcard #5 - Used this wildcard for a 5 day film festival.
Wildcard #6 - You can't have Halloween without the Great Pumpkin.
Expanded Checklist/Bingo Card spoilered below
The DVDTalk October Horror Challenge Expanded Checklist/Bingo Card
-X- 1890 - The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
-X- 1900 - Le Chaudron Infernal, Le Monstre
-X- 1920 - Nosferatu
-X- 1930 - The Vampire Bat
-X- 1940 - The Corpse Vanishes
-X- 1950 - Bride of the Gorilla
-X- 1960 - Mad Monster Party
-X- 1970 - The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
-X- 1980 - Jaws the Revenge
-X- 1990 - Gamera trilogy
-X- Unrated (pre-MPAA) - Frankenstein
-X- G - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
-X- PG - Invasion of the Body Snatchers
-X- PG-13 - Jaws the Revenge
-X- R - Night of the Living Dead (1990)
-X- NC-17 - Man Bites Dog
-X- X (not porn; several horror films were rated X) - Flesh for Frankenstein, Last House on the Left
-X- Unrated (post-MPAA) - Gamera trilogy
-X- Bela Lugosi - The Corpse Vanishes
-X- Lon Chaney Sr. - Phantom of the Opera
-X- Boris Karloff - Mad Monster Party
-X- Lon Chaney Jr. - Bride of the Gorilla
-X- Vincent Price - Scream and Scream Again
-X- Peter Cushing - Scream and Scream Again
-X- Christopher Lee - Scream and Scream Again
-X- Robert Englund - Nightmare on Elm Street
-X- Bruce Campbell - Darkman
-X- Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later
-X- First language, Spanish, La Culpa.
-X- Second language, Japanese, Jigoku.
-X- Third language, French, Man Bites Dog.
-X- Fourth language, Dutch, The Vanishing.
-X- Fifth language, music, Nosferatu.
-X- Vampire - Nosferatu, Mad Monster Party
-X- Frankenstein - Frankenstein, Mad Monster Party
-X- Werewolf - Mad Monster Party
-X- Mummy - Mad Monster Party
-X- Invisible Man - Mad Monster Party
-X- Ghost/haunting - Phantom of the Opera, Nightmare on Elm Street
-X- Zombie - Night of the Living Dead (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1990), Return of the Living Dead (1985)
-X- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac - Man Bites Dog, Phantom of the Opera, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later
-X- Monster/creature feature/Godzilla - Gamera trilogy
-X- Documentary - Man Bites Dog
-X- Musical - Mad Monster Party
-X- Spoof/comedy - Mad Monster Party
-X- Revenge - Darkman
-X- Killer/evil doll - Trilogy of Terror
-X- Killer/evil animal - Jaws the Revenge
-X- Killer/evil child - Dawn, And the Children Shall Lead
-X- Giallo - Tenebre
-X- MST3K/rifftrax/CT - Phantom Planet, Hobgoblins
-X- film and its remake - Night of the Living Dead (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1990)
-X- based on a video game - House of the Dead
-X- based on a novel - Frankenstein, Nosferatu
-X- directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis or Uwe Boll or Ulli Lommel - House of the Dead
-X- won an Academy Award, any category - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
-X- silent film - Nosferatu, Phantom of the Opera
-X- Criterion version film - Man Bites Dog, Jigoku
-X- with commentary - Shadow of the Vampire
-X- film and at least two of its sequels - Gamera trilogy
-X- anthology film - Trilogy of Terror
-X- takes place on a holiday - Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later
-X- takes place in space - And the Children Shall Lead, Phantom Planet
-X- takes place on or under the sea - Jaws the Revenge
-X- animated film - Mad Monster Party
-X- called "Night of the ..." - Night of the Living Dead (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1990)
-X- called "Return of the ..." - Return of the Living Dead (1985)
-X- called "Revenge of the ..." - Revenge of Iris
-X- called "Attack of the ..." - Attack of the Legion
-X- with the words "Living Dead" in the title - Night of the Living Dead (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1990)
My 2007 Horror Challenge List
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Let's see if the 3rd year is the charm for hitting my goal of 31!! - I'm having trouble again with Red Sox postseason baseball.
I didn't make my goal yet again, but this is my best season to date, and enjoyed it hte most too. I took it slow, and watch movies when I wanted. Also, I picked up all the legacy dvds which I can't wait to work through. I only made it through all movies on the Creature (which is my favorite) - so I'll try to save some for next year. Another fun Halloween movie season!
2006 Results - GOAL: 31, Watched: 13
Currently Watched: 16
1. Evil Dead (1981) - I haven't watched this or Evil Dead 2 for that matter in ages, being more of a fan of Army of Darkness. However, this was a good excuse to dust off the rubber book of the dead. I was surprised to find I didn't enjoy this much at all anymore. I just didn't' find it that funny or well done, I found it quite the opposite. It just felt like I was being hit over the head with lots of screaming and overly loud sound effects. I know I'm in the minority on this one.
2. Child's Play(1988) - I don't think I've seen this since I saw it at the theater as a kid. I remember enjoying it then, but some reason never wanted to watch, even though I received it as a gift years ago on dvd. I finally opened it, and must say I really found it fun. A pleasant surprise and one I will def watch more often now that I finally opened it. That little boy is such a great little actor ha
3. American Movie(1999) -WILD1- This might be stretching the rules for this title, but I don't even care since it's solely for fun in my case and will count it as my my first wildcard selection. This is a documentary about 2 crazy dudes from Milwaukee who are filming an independent horror film. This movie seems to get lots of panning on this board, but I love it. I find both guys really genuine, and very inspiring. They might be white trash etc. but they do what they love and I think that's great. No scares, but a numerous look at making a horror movie. You need to check this out if you've never seen it. Lots of references to old horror movies, and a little insight into the film making process.
4. Hatchet - Unrated Edition(2006) - I really enjoy this movie for what it is, a mess. Sure there isn't much plot, and the special effects aren't the greatest etc. but I give it credit for all the cameo's in the movie, plus some of the pretty entertaining kill scenes. My favorite is the girl who first gets the grinder to the face, then gets impaled on a shovel that's sticking out of the ground. Very entertaining, a good length 1:25ish, and paced wonderfully in my opinion. Sure it's not original, but it's fun.
5. Halloween- Unrated Edition(2007) - I had not seen this til I watched the workprint version that was leaked before the movie hit the theaters. I hated it then, and hated it even more now. Some of the child stuff was good, and Zombie as normal mixes in music wonderfully (I had to laugh with the love hurts song part) but this movie seemed to drag on forever. I found it all very bland, and something I will never revisit except for the purposes of a competition like this. Very, very disappointing.
6. Waxwork(1988)* - This is my first time viewing this title, and it will be my last. I'm a big fan of House of Wax both the original and remake etc. so I had high hopes for another Wax title, but found this almost unwatchable. It would have been unwatchable if it wasn't for the contest. I found it almost like a ripoff of the House and a really bad Ernest Scared Stupid - that's not good things, although I like them both. This cements that I won't watch part 2 also available for free on onDemand.
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - This is an example of almost perfect horror in my book. A cool concept, great deaths, and a good backstory. I didn't see this as a kid, but I was sure to see the sequels that did make the theater after I saw this on vhs. Watching this makes me want to try to find my Freddy doll that you could pull the cord to hear his catch phrases..
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) - I find this sequel highly enjoyable. I know it gets a bad rap at times, but find it the 3rd best of the series only after the original and part 3. Not high on scares, but vintage horror in my book, and anything with a 80's soundtrack is a blessing. I remember seeing this at the theater with my mom as a kid, memories like that are what me love horror, and the reason I do the competition.
9. House of Wax (1953) - I picked this up last year, loving to see the original versions of films remade. This is still a little dry to me, but I love Vincent Price and enjoy the mood of an older horror movie. I admit, that guy had some skills to make that wax face he would wear during the day supposedly. I really can't figure out where the 3d effect comes into play other then the guy hitting the ball and the credits. I wish it was possible to see these on the big screen as they were then.
10. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - This movie is perfect to me. I love everything about this movie from the music, acting (the boat captain is personal favorite of mine) to the sets. I can remember when this was on tv in 3d back when I was a kid. I remember that you could buy 3d glasses from 7-11s for like a buck a pair. I don't recall what was really in 3d, or how effective it was - but I would like to have the chance to check it out again in that format. Great flick and look forward to watching it's subsequent followups which surprisingly I've never seen.
11. Revenge of the Creature (1955)* - This is my first viewing of this, and enjoyed it quite a bit as a result. Overall I didn't find the movie great, but liked in seeing more of the creature from the black lagoon. I like how they immediately got to the creature, but him in an aquarium and busting out was far less scarer then taking him on, on his turf. This was a big step down, and the worst of the 3 in my opinion.
12. Black Christmas (1974) - I always hear praise about this movie and still don't get it. I've seen it multiple times and enjoy it a little more each time, but I still find it fairly boring etc. This is a 100X better then the remake, but that's not saying much. It's a watcher for the challenge, and for no reason other then it's tied to Christmas.
13. The Creature Walks Among Us (1955)* - Again this was my first viewing and the last movie on my Creature Legacy disc I just purchased. I rank this above 2, but worst then 1. I found the concept interesting, and thought the monster really was played well. I really hated the ending, but then again the ending in 1 and 2 was bad also..
14. Back to the Black Lagoon: A Creature Chronicle (2000)-WILD2-* Really thorough and great documentary on all 3 of the Creature flicks. I just love the creature movies the best, and really enjoyed seeing many of the actors/actresses were they were today.
15. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)-WILD3- I haven't seen this in years, and I know I'm going to be called crazy - but I didn't enjoy it very much. I could just do without the whole snoopy Red Barron storyline. It just felt far to long and slow.. It's great to see a classic again, but not one I'll watch every year like most.
16. . The Shining (1980)-WILD- - I love this movie, although it's very frustrating trying to figure out the ending and various parts. The music is the movie, well that and Jack. Great movie all around, love the maze scene at the end.
Not counted since I used up my WILDCards - Roseanne Halloween Episodes dvd (Misc)-WILD- - I love these, and watch them every year. I'm still surprised they issued this disc, because I think people would buy the regular season discs just for these episodes. Great holiday cheer although they really fall off with the last few. They still make me wish I would decorate my house like a haunted house.
* My first time watching the movie.
-WILD- Denotes wildcard selection
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Well, I fell behind towards the end, due to being sick. Oh well. At least I beat last year.
Last Year: 20
1. The Wolf Man (1941)
2. Dracula (1931)
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
4. Suspiria (1977)
5. Black Christmas (1974)
6. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
8. The Evil Dead (1981)
9. Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987)
10. Army Of Darkness (1993)
12. Le Chaudron Infernal (1903)
13. The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots (1895)
14. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
15. Psycho (1960)
16. The Omen (1976)
19. Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
20. Christine (1983)
21. The Howling (1981)
22. Tenebrae (1982)
23. Carnival Of Souls (1962)
24. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
25. House On Haunted Hill (1959)
27. Carrie (1976)
28. Halloween (1978) (Extended Cut)
--- 1890 - The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots
--- 1900 - Le Chaudron Infernal
--- 1920 - Nosferatu
--- 1930 - Dracula
--- 1940 - The Wolf Man
--- 1950 - House On Haunted Hill
--- 1960 - Psycho
--- 1970 - Suspiria
--- 1980 - A Nightmare On Elm Street
--- 1990 - The Nightmare Before Christmas
--- Unrated (pre-MPAA) - The Wolf Man
--- PG - The Nightmare Before Christmas
--- R - Black Christmas (1974)
--- NC-17 - The Evil Dead
--- X - Evil Dead II (original rating)
--- Unrated (post-MPAA) - Suspiria
--- Bela Lugosi - Dracula
--- Boris Karloff - Frankenstein
--- Lon Chaney Jr. - The Wolf Man
--- Vincent Price - House On Haunted Hill
--- Robert Englund - A Nightmare On Elm Street
--- Bruce Campbell - The Evil Dead
--- Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween
--- Vampire - Dracula
--- Frankenstein - Frankenstein
--- Werewolf - The Wolf Man
--- Ghost/haunting - Carnival Of Souls
--- Witchcraft/satanic/religious - Suspiria
--- Zombie - The Evil Dead
--- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac - Black Christmas (1974)
--- Spoof/comedy - Army Of Darkness
--- Revenge - A Nightmare On Elm Street (Freddy's getting revenge on those who killed him by attacking their children; I'll count it)
--- Giallo - Tenebrae
--- based on a novel - Dracula
--- won an Academy Award - The Omen (1976; Best Original Score)
--- silent film - Nosferatu
--- Criterion version film - Carnival Of Souls
--- film and at least two of its sequels - The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army Of Darkness
--- takes place on a holiday - Black Christmas
--- animated film - The Nightmare Before Christmas
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2006: 31 films watched
2007: 101 films watched
** = first time viewing
Wednesday, October 1st:
1. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
2. Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2 (1987)
3. What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
4. Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
Thursday, October 2nd:
5. The Black Cat (1941)
6. Man Made Monster (1941)
7. Horror Island (1941)
8. Night Monster (1942)
9. Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Friday-Sunday, October 3rd-5th:
Nothing (off to Disneyland for Gay Days!)
Monday, October 6th:
10. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
11. Mad Monster Party (1969)
12. Corpse Bride (2005)
13. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Tuesday, October 7th:
14. Ed Wood (1994)
15. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
16. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Wednesday, October 8th:
17. The Invisible Man (1933)
18. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
19. The Invisible Woman (1940)
20. Invisible Agent (1942)
21. The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
Thursday, October 9th:
22. The Nanny (1965)
23. Trog (1970)
24. Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
25. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Friday, October 10th:
26. What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?** (1969)
27. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
28. The Sixth Sense (1999)
29. Beetlejuice (1988)
30. The Addams Family (1991)
31. Addams Family Values (1993)
Saturday, October 11th:
32. The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
33. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Sunday, October 12th:
34. Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
35. The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant** (1971)
36. The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
37. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Monday, October 13th:
38. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
39. Revenge of the Creature (1955)
40. The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
42. The Mummy's Hand (1940)
43. The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
44. The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
45. The Mummy's Curse (1944)
Tuesday, October 14th:
46. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
47. Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
48. Vamp (1986)
49. Return to Horror High (1987)
50. Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
51. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988)
52. Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
Wednesday, October 15th:
54. Psycho II (1983)
55. Psycho III (1986)
56. Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
57. Psycho Beach Party (2000)
Thursday, October 16th:
59. Dracula (Spanish Version) (1931)
60. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
61. Son of Dracula (1943)
63. She-Wolf of London (1946)
64. Werewolf of London (1935)
66. Omen II: Damien (1978)
67. Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
68. Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)
69. The Omen Legacy (2001)
71. White Pongo** (1945)
72. The Savage Girl** (1932)
73. Law of the Jungle** (1942)
74. Nabonga** (1944)
75. The White Gorilla** (1945)
76. The Gorilla** (1939)
77. Bride of the Gorilla** (1951)
78. The Ape** (1940)
79. The Ape Man** (1943)
80. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla** (1952)
81. The Picture of Dorian Gray** (1945)
82. A Bucket of Blood** (1959)
83. The Giant Behemoth (1959)
84. Child's Play** (1988)
85. Child's Play 2** (1990)
87. Bride of Chucky (1998)
88. Seed of Chucky (2004)
Tuesday, October 21st:
90. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
91. Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
92. Theater of Blood (1973)
93. Madhouse (1974)
94. Vincent Price: The Sinister Image (1988)
Wednesday, October 22nd:
95. Tales of Terror (1962)
96. Twice Told Tales (1963)
97. Asylum (1972)
98. Trilogy of Terror (1975)
99. Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Thursday, October 23rd:
100. The Bride** (1985)
101. Witchboard (1986)
102. Dead of Winter (1987)
103. The Attic Expeditions (2001)
104. Final Destination (2000)
105. Final Destination 2 (2003)
107. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
108. House of Wax (1953)
109. Village of the Damned (1960)
110. Children of the Damned (1963)
111. The Other (1972)
112. Sisters (1973)
113. Angel Heart (1987)
114. They Live (1988)
115. Raising Cain (1992)
116. The Frighteners (1996)
117. The House of Usher (2006)
118. Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
119. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
120. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
121. Carnival of Souls (1962)
123. Frankenstein (1931)
125. Son of Frankenstein (1939)
126. Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
127. Young Frankenstein (1974)
128. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
129. House of Frankenstein (1944)
130. House of Dracula (1945)
131. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
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Challenge '05 list
Looks like I'm gonna finally lift my "No-rerurn clause". But only for certain selections. There's still a lot of movies that I want to see for the first time.
1st:
(Challenge #'05 repeat) 1.Nosferatu (1922) (Art Zoyd score)
2. Vegas Vampires (2003)
3. Drácula contra Frankenstein (1972)
Totals:
12 dead bodies, 12 breasts, 3 musical performances, 1 vampire bonfire
2nd:
4. Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
5. The Burning (1981)
6. The Giant Claw (1957)
24 dead bodies, 4 breasts, 1 dead dog
3rd:
7. Le Chaudron Infernal (1903)
8. Rattlers (1976)
10.Don't Look in the Basement! (1973)
32 dead bodies, 2 breasts, 1 (Real) dead dog, 1 dead chicken, 1 dead bat
4th:
11. In a Dark Place (2006) Darn you, Leelee Sobieski. You take a bath 4 times during this movie and not one boob never pops up.
12. The Devil-Doll (1936)
13. Beast of Blood (1971)
41 dead bodies, 6 breasts, 1 dead snake, 5 nightmare/hallucination sequences
14. Night of the Lepus (1972)
15. Student Bodies (1981)
16. A Blade in the Dark (1983)
27 dead bodies, 2 breasts, 2 dead horses, Over a dozen dead giant rabbits, 1 musical performance.....And 1 dead fly
17. Frankenstein's Daughter (1958)
18. Nurse Sherri (Original Version) (1978)
19. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
18 dead bodies, 16 breasts, 5 hallucination scenes,1 musical performance
20. The Tripper (2006)
21. Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
(Challenge #'06 repeat) 22. Re-Animator (1985)
43 dead bodies, 14 breasts, 2 dead dogs, 1 dead cat, 2 drugged-influence trip out sequences, 2 musical performances
23. Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
(Wildcard #1) 24. Philosophy of a Knife (2008) All 4 frickin' hours of it
25. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) (Tom Weaver audio commentary on during the underwater sequences)
26. SS Camp: Women's Hell (1977)
54 dead bodies, 22 breasts, Over 20 scenes of graphic torture
27. The Day of the Triffids (1962)
28. Strangler of the Swamp (1946)
(Challenge #'05 repeat) 29. The Devil's Rejects (2005)
27 dead bodies, 9 breasts, 1 dead dog, 1 hallucination, 1 nightmare ("50/50")
10th:
30. Drive-In Massacre (1977)
31. The Gruesome Twosome (1967)
32. The Beast Within (1982)
18 dead bodies, 8 breasts, 1 dead dog, 1 tormented flashback,1 groovy 60's beach party
33. The Funhouse (1981)
34. The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
35. Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1972)
36. Masters of Horror-"Family" (2006)
37. The Night Evelyn Came out of Her Grave (1971)
25 dead bodies, 10 breasts, 7 hallucination scenes, 1 annoying theme song, 1 dance performance
(Challenge #'06 repeat) 38. Freaks (1932)
39. Monster A Go-Go (1965)
40. Black Mamba (1974)
41. Jeepers Creepers (2001)
42. The Maid (2005)
(Challenge #'07 repeat) 43. Slaughter Hotel
34 dead bodies, 6 breasts, 2 dance sequences, 1 initiation chant, 1 ritual dance
44. Jaws 2 (1978)
45. Raw Meat (1972)
31 dead bodies, 12 breasts, 2 dead rats, 1 dead killer whale
47. Beyond The Door (1974)
48. The Cell (2000)
4 dead bodies, 6 breasts, 3 journeys into a subconscious nightmare world, 3 dead goldfish
49. The Mad Monster (1942)
50. Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
51. Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) (1969)
17 dead bodies, 12 breasts, 1 dead dog
52. The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
53. Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) (MST3K version)
54. Eaten Alive (1976)
55. Stacy (2001)
20 dead bodies, 4 breasts, 2 dead dogs, 1 group-catfight, 1 nod to George Romero, 1 nod to Bruce Campbell
56. Don't Go in the House (1980)
57. The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
9 dead bodies, 6 breasts, 1 (Real) dead fox, 2 hallucination scenes
58. Halloween (2007)
59. Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006)
30 dead bodies, 9 breasts, 1 dead dog, 1 dead rat, 1 dead cat, 1 dead coyote, 4 animated sequences
60. Premature Burial (1962)
61. Night Train to Terror (1985)
22 dead bodies, 6 breasts, 1 dead frog, 3 outstandingly bad 80's music/dance sequences, 2 claymation attacks
62. Grindhouse (2007) (3-Hour Theatrical Cut)
63. Blood Freak (1972)
180 dead bodies, 10 breasts, 1 dead dog, 1 (Real) dead turkey, 1 drug-influenced hallucination, 5 narrator interuptions
21st:
64. Attack of the Giant Leeches (1953)
65. The Fury of the Wolfman (1972)
66. The Brides of Dracula (1960)
67. The Strangers (2008)
68. Werewolf Woman (1976)
29 dead bodies, 7 breasts, 1 ritual dance, 1 dead chicken, 1 "Made-me-jump" moment
22nd:
69. Tarantula (1955)
71. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
72. The Gate (1987)
73. Living Dead Girl (1982)
99 dead bodies, 6 breasts, 1 dead pigeon, 1 dead cow, 1 French villa party
23rd:
74. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
75. Squirm (1976)
76. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
77. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
24 dead bodies, 4 breasts, 6 nightmare sequences
78. The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
79. The Wasp Woman (1959)
13 dead bodies, 3 breasts, 1 dead cat, 1 hallucination scene, 1 alternate reality fantasy
81. Peeping Tom (1960
82. The Boogeyman (1980)
83. Silenty Night, Deadly Night (1984)
25 dead bodies, 10 breasts, 3 nightmare sequences
84. Strait-Jacket (1964)
85. The Messengers (2007)
86. Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
87. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
32 dead bodies, 2 breasts, 1 dead chicken, 1 dead crow, 1 dead dog, 2 musicial sequences
89. Lady Frankenstein (1971)
90. Devil Times Five (1974)
(Challenge #'05 repeat) 91. Vampyr (1932)
28 dead bodies, 10 breasts, 1 out-of-body experience
92. The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
93. Cannibal Ferox (1981)
(Wildcard #2) 94. Kiss Me Quick! (1964)
95. Ganja & Hess (1973)
24 dead bodies, 28 breasts, 1 dead dog, 1 dead giant insect, 1 dead muskrat, 1 (Real) dead monkey, 1 (Real) dead pig, 1 (Real) dead turtle, 1 (Real) dead crocodile, 6 hallucination scenes, 1 primal scream
97. Doctor Gore (1973)
47 dead bodies, 4 breasts, 2 stock-footage sequences
98. Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
99. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
100. Dead of Night (1945)
101. The Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
8 dead bodies, 8 breasts, 1 dead fox, 1 dead cat, 1 dead cow, 3 nightmare sequences
(Challenge #'05 repeat)102. Dracula (1931)
(Challenge #'06 repeat)103. Frankenstein (1931)
(Challenge #'05 repeat)104. The Wolf Man (1941)
105. The Devil Bat (1940
106. The Dunwich Horror (1970)
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Location: Formerly known as "Jeffy Pop"/Denver
1. Death Note
2. House of Whipcord
3. Pumpkinhead
4. Saw IV
6. The Flesh and Blood Show
7. The Halfway House
8. Dead of Night
9. Cannibal! The Musical
10. Quarantine
11. Fido
12. It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
14. Peeping Tom
15. Otis
16. Cannibal Holocaust
18. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
19. Home Sick
20. Bram Stoker's Dracula
21. Monster on the Campus
22. The Cat O' Nine Tails
23. Do You Like Hitchcock?
24. Christine
25. The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
26. Phenomena
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1. The Giant Claw (TCM recording)
2. Night of the Lepus (TCM recording)
3. Halloween (dvd)
4. Halloween 2007 (dvd)
5. Halloween II (dvd)
6. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (dvd)
7. The Thing (dvd)
8. The Mist (dvd)
9. Black Sunday (dvd)
10. Cult (dvd)
11. Prom Night (dvd)
12. Lust for Dracula (dvd)
13. Night of the Comet (dvd)
14. The Signal (dvd)
15. The Eye (dvd)
16. Last House on the Left (dvd)
17. Trilogy of Terror (dvd)
18. Vampyres (dvd)
19. House of Wax (dvd)
20. May (dvd)
21. Burnt Offerings (dvd)
22. Frankenstein (1931) (dvd)
23. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) (dvd)
24. Bride of Frankenstein (dvd)
25. Saw (dvd)
26. Saw II (dvd)
27. Saw III (dvd)
28. Saw IV (dvd)
Not a damn thing, unfortunately.
29. The Happening (dvd)
30. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (VHS)
31. Saw V (theater)
32. Pumpkinhead (dvd)
33. Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings (dvd)
34. Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (dvd)
35. Pumpkinhead 4 - Blood Feud (dvd)
36. The Reaping (dvd)
37. Candyman (dvd)
38. Homicidal (TCM recording)
39. Peeping Tom (TCM recording)
40. Psycho (dvd)
41. Vampyr: Der Traum des Allan Grey (TCM recording)
42. The Strangers (dvd)
43. Invisible Ghost (dvd)
44. Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (dvd)
45. Zombie Strippers (dvd)
46. Werewolf of Washington (dvd)
47. Shaun of the Dead (dvd)
48. Black Sheep (dvd)
49. Cujo (dvd)
50. Quarantine (theater)
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Last Year: 61 This years goal: 62 Second Goal: 100 Third Goal: 122
Oct 1st
1. Nosferatu (DVD-R) * 70/100
2. The Woods (DVD) * 82/100
3. Wrong Turn (DVD) 66/100
4. execution of mary stuart (computer) * 50/100 WILDCARD 1
le chaudron infernal * 50/100
Frankenstien 1910 * 50/100
Oct 2nd
5. The day the world ended (dvr)* 55/100
6. The Legend of Hell House (dvd) * 62/100
7. Shadow of the Vampire (dvd-r) * 81/100
Oct 3rd
8. Suspiria (dvd) 85/100
9. Raw Meat (dvr) * 80/100
10. A Nightmare on Elm Street (dvd w/ Commentary) 90/100
11. Night of the Living Dead (dvd) 80/100
12. The Beast Within (dvr)* 68/100
13. Return of the Living Dead 2 (dvr) 65/100
14. Invaders from mars (dvr) 72/100
15. The Shining (dvd-r) 88/100
October 7th:
16. reanimator (dvd) 95/100
17. Creature from the black lagoon *(dvr) 70/100
18. The Devils Rejects (dvd) 82/100
19. Only go there at night * (theatre) 70/100 * SPECIAL NOTE* local indy movie that i acted in for a brief scene. Played a farmer and cut someones head ff.
20. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (dvd) 80/100
21. Freaks * (DVD-r) 66/100
22. Mortuary *(DVD) 55/100
23. Mulberry Street (sci-fi) 60/100
24. The Mummy's Tomb *(dvr) 63/100
25. Friday the 13th (dvd) 74/100
26. My Bloddy Valentine *(dvr) 62/100
27. 13 Ghosts * (dvr) 53/100
28. The Wolfman *(dvr) 82/100
29. Friday the 13th Part 2 (dvd) 54/100
32. Friday the 13th part 5 (dvd)
33. Terror Firmer (dvd) 45/100
34. Critters (dvd) 52/100
35. Killer Clowns from Outerspace (dvd) 58/100
36. 2001 Maniacs (dvd) 53/100
37. Childs Play (dvd) 54/100
38. Child's Play 2 (dvd) 59/100
39. The Thing (dvd) 78/100
40. Bride of Reanimator (dvd) 51/100
41. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (monsters hd) 51/100
42. Final Destination 2 (dvd) 62/100
43. Cutting Class * (Showtime) 25/100 and thats for Brad Pitt's roundhouse kick to open a door.
44. Before I hang * (TCM)
45. Vampyr *(dvr) 50/100
46. Tinoterra *(dvr) 3/100 might be the worst movie ever
47. Vampire Lovers *(dvr) 62/100
48. Countess Dracula *(dvr) 60/100
49. Capt. Kronus Vampire Hunter *(dvr) 55/100
50. Saw 5 *(Theatre) 65/100
51. Dracula rose from the grave *(dvr) 56/100
52. The day the earth stood still *(dvr) 52/100
53. It's the great pumpinkin charlie brown *(dvr) 50/100
54. Food Network Challenge Pumpkin Carving*(dvr) 50/100
55. Pumpkinhead (showtime) 62/100
56. Hannibal Rising (showtime) 65/100
57. Student Bodies (dvr)50/100
58. Saw 2 (dvd) 55/100
59. One Missed Call *(dvr) 43/100
60. Reba Halloween Special *(wildcard, tv) 50/100 WILDCARD 2
61. Freddy vs Jason (dvd) 60/100
Body Count: 394 and 10 Vampires,1 rabbit, 2 bats, 5 dogs, 2 cat(1 twice), a bunch of sharks, 1 sea turtle, 2 manta rays ( Tinoterra used real animals)
Boob Count: 78(or 39 pairs)
Butt Count: 14
Full Nudity: 12( but 1 is REAL gross)
First time Viewing ( uses *):30/62
Un-Opneded DVD: 4/23
AFWPD: (Average FIlm Watched Per Day):2
--- 1890 - execution of mary stuart
--- 1910 - Frankenstien
--- 1940 - Mummy's Tomb
--- 1950 - The Day the world ended
--- 1960 - Night of the Living dead
--- 1970 - The Legend of Hell House
--- 1990 - Terror Firmer
--- 2000 - The Woods
--- Unrated (pre-MPAA) - Nosferatu
--- G - Creature from the black lagoon
--- PG - The legend of hell house
--- PG-13 - Critters
--- R - The Woods
--- NC-17 - Terror Firmer
--- X (not porn; several horror films were rated X) - Friday the 13th:Uncut
--- Unrated (post-MPAA) - Re-animator
--- Bela Lugosi - The Wolfman
--- Boris Karloff - Before I hang
--- Lon Chaney Jr. - Mummys Tomb
--- Peter Cushing - Vampire Lovers
--- Christopher Lee - Raw Meat
--- Bruce Campbell - The Woods
--- First language, (German), (Vampyr).
--- Second language, (Spanish), (Tinoterra).
--- Vampire - Nosferatu
--- Frankenstein - Frankenstein 1910
--- Werewolf - The wolfman
--- Mummy - Mummys Tomb
--- Ghost/haunting - Legend of Hell House
--- Witchcraft/satanic/religious - The Woods
--- Zombie - Return of the living dead 2
--- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac - Wrong Turn
--- Monster/creature feature/Godzilla - the day the world ended
--- Documentary - Welcome to the jungle
--- Spoof/comedy - Student Bodies
--- Killer/evil animal - Tinoterra
--- based on a novel - Nosferatu ( Dracula)
--- Criterion version film - Vampyr
--- with commentary - A Nightmare On ELm Street
--- film and at least two of its sequels - Friday the 13, Part 2, part3, Part4, Part 5
--- takes place on a holiday - My Bloody Valentine
--- takes place on or under the sea - Tinoterra
--- called "Night of the ..." - Night of the living dead
--- called "Return of the ..." - Return of the Living Dead 2
--- with the words "Living Dead" in the title - Night of the living dead
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My Goal this year: 40
Green = 1st time view
Blue = repeated view
1)Halloween ('07)-thought I'd start this year off with this one, then end with the original Halloween. This is my third viewing, and it's still my least favorite Zombie movie. Obviously it doesn't come close to the original, but it still does have some genuinely creepy moments (Laurie crawling in the attic, while Michael destroys it with a 2x4).
2)Child's Play-I was born in 86, and I was never afraid of Freddy or Jason, but Chucky scared me to death until I was about 12. There's still some pretty good scare scenes here, like the moment Andy's mom realizes Chucky has no batteries, and Chucky choking the cop in the car. This is also my first time watching it in WIDESCREEN, horray for the new dvd!
3)The Mummy ('32)-First time watching this classic. Almost perfect, but I still prefer Frankenstein just for it's man vs science theme.
4)Pumpkinhead-Loved it! The relationship between the father and son is really developed, and you get the feeling how far the father will go to get vengeance. Great creature design!
5)Child's Play 2-This is the first time watching it as an adult now, and I enjoyed all the black humor. "Goddamn women drivers!" Glad to see Chucky got a lot more screen time, and what a sailor's mouth he has!
6)Phantasm-Wow, definately impressed by this one. Considered a horror classic, and this was my first time seeing it, what's wrong with me? Very original, creepy, and loved the theme.
7)Night of the Living Dead ('68)-A classic, every modern horror film has some reference to this in some way or another.
8)Saw 1-Ushered in a new age of horror. Undeserving of 4 sequals, but easily the best in the series. I do love Billy the Puppet though, I have a 30 inch replica myself.
9)Child's Play 3-At this point, Damballa has to be like "give it a rest, Charles". It loses the humor found in the second entry, tries to be scary and fails. Replacing paint ball with live rounds is the only part that made me laugh.
10)Bride of Chucky-2nd best in the series. Great blend of horror and comedy, it doesn't take itself seriously, and mmmmmm Jennifer Tilly...*drool*
11)Seed of Chucky-Originally I wasn't planning on watching this one, but it's been a while since I watched it last and why not just finish the series? To sum it up, it's crap. The jokes were forced and unoriginal, the only thing that got me to smirk was Redman directing a "Bible Epic". We do get some nudity for the first time in the series, unfortunatly it isn't from Ms. Tilly. The whole Glen/Glenda plot was dull.
12)I Spit On Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman)-Yikes! It's been called a lot of things, my favorite is the "Worst movie ever made" by Ebert. I don't agree with that, it is hard to watch, but it does offer the most agonizing scene to watch in exploitation history. This was my 2nd time watching it, the cheering by the friends during the rape scenes are still hard to listen to. Who's more depraved, the victim or the rapists?
13)The Descent-Creepy, dark, and amazing! Easily in my top 5 horror movies of the past 10 years. It's original, claustrophobic, and chilling. Great spook film.
14)Saw 2-I want to say I hate it, but honestly it's probably my favorite out of the sequals. Why? Because it develops the story of John, tells of his origin and how he became who he is. The twist ending was good. This was the first Saw movie I saw in theaters.
15)Dracula ('31)-My 2nd favorite Universal Monster movie. Bela Lugosi is a legend, his eyes are the star of the movie.
16)Saw 3-I remember seeing this one in theater, more people cringed at the brain surgery scene than any of the traps. Starting to get a little dull at this point, ending isn't as shocking as either of the previous two.
17)Critters-Fun movie, watched this for the first time last Oct challenge. Good amount of humor, but still has the sense of being a true horror film. I love the Crite looking at the ET doll!
18)2001 Maniacs-Now this is everything I could want in a horror film! Good amount of T&A (notice how I list this first?), good make-up effects, unique kills, and Robert Englund!
19)Tremors-seen this a million times, mostly on tv. It's one of the best B creature movies around. Great cast and a great creature design.
20)Frankenstein ('31)-Easily my favorite Universal monster movie. So many iconic scenes, the "It's alive!", little girl with flowers and the climax at the end in the windmill. Love the nature vs science theme, raises a lot of ethical issues still debated today.
21)Saw 4-Havn't watched this one since I saw it in theaters. It made much more sense to me this time after watching Saw 3 recently, I had no idea they both occur simultaneously. I liked it better than 3, we get a lot more scenes of John's past and see how he got his start.
22)Slither-Another of my top 5 favorite horror movies from the past 5 years. Perfect blend of comedy and horror. Good puppet effects mixed with CGI and animatronics. Nathan Fillion and the mayor stole every scene they were in. The dialogue is amazing!
23)Scream-Been a while since I've watched the whole thing. Re-invented the slasher genre for a new generation, all the while making fun of itself. I love the little nods to Craven, like the janitor wearing the Freddy sweater, and one character saying the original Nightmare was a masterpiece, while all the sequals sucked. Loved Jamie Kennedy's character, his character reminded me of myself in high school.
24)Wishmaster-The djinn is the Emperor Palpatine of the horror world. I loved seeing Robert Englund, Kane Hodder and Tony Todd in this one, except this time they're the ones who all get killed off.
25)Nightmare Before Christmas-First time watching the new dvd, what an improvement! Sound is great, and finally anamorphic! Absolutely a classic, in my top 5 Disneys. I have the soundtrack, and proud to admit I know the lyrics to every song.
26)Wishmaster 2-Not nearly as good as the first. I hate when religion enters in movies, and here the protagonists turns to religion for help. There was one unforgettable death scene though, in which a lawyer has sex with himself....yep, you read that right.
27)Tremors 2-Seen this one a bunch of times on tv. Not nearly as good as the first, but still cheesy sci-fi monster goodness. The loss of Kevin Bacon sucks, but at least we still have Burt and Earl back.
28)The Last Man On Earth ('64)-The only good thing that came out of seeing I Am Legend last year was I heard about this movie. What an improvement over the Will Smith version! Story is closer to the book, it's not overloaded with CGI, and Vincent Price gives an amazing performance. Loved the backstory of his wife and daughter. You can tell Romero borrowed heavily from this movie, and in my opinion, the "vampires" here are scarier than in NotLD just for the fact they can taunt you, "Come out, Morgan!"
29)The Black Cat ('41)-Very good mystery film, plays out like a Scooby doo episode with secret passages and such. Don't know why Bela Lugosi is billed as the star, he has a very minor role.
30)Scream 2-I don't agree with it being claimed as a bigger, badder sequal. At this point you know they're just keeping people alive for a sequal. Still ok though, better than most slashers out there.
31)The Omen ('76)-Wow, first time watching this one and was very impressed. I LOVED the latin chanting for the death scenes, just fits so perfectly. I imagine this film was pretty shocking back in the 70's. The death scenes reminded me of Final Destination.
32)Hills Have Eyes ('06)-One of the best horror remakes of recent. After the fifty minute mark, it has a fast pace and is unrelenting. In my opinion, outshines the original.
33)Man Made Monster ('41)-VERY similar to Frankenstein. Another science turns man into monster, monster is misunderstood type movie. It was enjoyable, just nothing astonishing.
34)Tremors 3-Horrible. The cgi was awful, and the idea to make a second evolution of the graboids into ass-blasting creatures with wings was downright embarrasing for the series. Nothing good came out of this one.
35)Scream 3-At this point, I am SICK of the Gail/Dewey relationship. So glad it's over. Weakest of the trilogy, but a good wrapup of the series I guess. Loved the Jay and Silent Bob cameos.
36)Leprechaun-Oh how much I loved seeing Jennifer Aniston run around in tight, jean shorts. It's been years since I've seen this last, and I forgot how funny it is. The leprechaun really gets around in this movie via different modes of transportation, whether it be a wheelchair, mini toy car, tricycle, even rollerblades! The pogostick death scene was unique, and sticks out from the rest. On the fright scale it fails miserably, but on the comedy scale it shines.
37)Alligator-Campy creature flick fun. Love the rampage at the party near the end of the movie.
38)Tremors 4-Very campy, and just marginally enjoyable. Thank goodness Michael Gross is back, his character was the saving grace of the movie.
39)Leprechaun 2-What a fun movie this is. Lots of one liners, and I just love Warwick Davis's laugh and how excited he gets. The drinking scene was priceless, as well as the Michael McDonald (from MadTV) cameo. "Gold Card, Visa, Master, I'd prefer cash, but maybe you're a little short." *laughs histerically*
40)Leprechaun 3-one word: hilarious. Warwick Davis is amazing, these movies are so campy I don't know why more people don't like them. The scene with Elvis and seeing Leprechaun in a nurse's outfit had me laughing out loud. Add to this all the rhymes Leprechaun makes, it's just one incredibly funny movie.
41)Omen 2-Uh oh, Damien's going through an identity crisis. Based on the dvd cover, I thought most of it was gonna focus on Damien in military school, but not even close. Most of it focuses on the Thorne business and family life. Was suprised to see Lance Henrickson in this movie.
42)Critters 2-I'll be damned if this isn't more enjoyable than the first. This is Mick Garris's directoral debut, and he really added a lot to the series. Seeing some nudity was quite the suprise, but always welcome. Good to see some characters from the first come back, like Charlie, Brad, the Sheriff and the two bounty hunters come back.
43)Omen 3-Hated the ending, am I the only one that was rooting for Damien to rule over earth? I laughed at the baby murders, but then again I am a psychopath.
44)The Lost Boys-Awesome vampire movie. Keifer Sutherland is the coolest vampire ever. He may not have Legusi's eyes, but everything else is spectacular. The grandpa is another great character, I feel less loved knowing my grandpa never gave me any stuffed dead animals.
45)Event Horizon-Creepy, chilling atmosphere. Sam Neill is great in his role, as well as Laurence Fishburne. I liked the storyline, a ship that's been beyond the universe to something worse than Hell. Loaded with gruesome imagery that's similar to something out of a Hellraiser flick.
46)Night of the Demons-Fun demonic movie. The demons were done really well, they were creepy and had some good makeup. This movie gives hope to all black characters in horror movies.
47)Hatchet-Great fun and a perfect throwback to all the slasher flicks of the 80's. The gore is plentiful and the kills are memorable. Like Evil Dead, it proves you can have a good movie despite a low budget.
48)Psycho ('60)-First time seeing this! Anthony Perkins does an amazing job, I love how he can quiver his lip and chin giving him a nervous appearance. Fine performance! The soundtrack is legendary, I found myself rewatching the opening credits after the movie was over just to listen to the theme.
49)Cannibal Holocaust-Not a fan of the material per se, but a fan of what it represents. It's divided into two parts, the first being a search and rescue team in the jungle trying to find out what happened to the original crew. While they don't find the crew in the best of shape, they do happen to find their recordings in tact, and so the rest of the film focuses on whether or not they should publish this documentary. This is true horror, but still compared to what goes on in the world on a daily basis, it's tame. Who are the real savages, the native tribes or us?
50)Ginger Snaps-Obviously I know the movie is a metaphor for a girl's transition into puberty, but it was still pretty good. How emo the girls were at the beginning was annoying. For teenagers, these girls are really good at covering up dead bodies, I think even the mob could learn something from them.
51)Psycho 2-Geeze what a cop-out plot twist at the end. They turn Norman into a sympathetic victim here, and I guess we're supposed to feel sorry for him. I didn't like this sequal, it dragged on and it was wierd seeing Dennis Franz play something other than a cop.
52)Psycho 3-Almost put me in a coma. Boring and offered nothing new. They wrapped everything up in the last 3 minutes of the film, I had to ask myself "wait...what?"
53)The Mist (B&W version)-Wow, infinately times better than the colorized version. I watched the colorized version when the dvd first came out, so this was my first time watching it in B&W, and what an improvement it is, almost like an entirely differently movie. Gone is the ridiculous looking CGI. The Mist is another one of my favorite horror movies in the past 5 years. It does a brilliant job in establishing the horror within ourselves and the human race. Darabont does a great job establishing the characters, if there was ever a character to hate, it is Mrs. Carmody.
54)Monster Squad-Never saw this as a kid, but it's still mighty enjoyable even in my 20's. Great comedy, a fun story and great creature makeup by Stan Winston. Scary German Guy's bitchin!
55)Psycho 4-Didn't think it was THAT bad, but still kind of a pain to sit through and still better than 3. John Landis sticks out in his role, I noticed him immediately. The ending brings some closure to the series, but I'm willing to bet anyone that it's only a matter of time before we get a Psycho 5 dealing with Norman's offspring.
56)Killer Klowns From Outer Space-A favorite of mine and one I grew up with. It's the definition of B grade, campy horror. Lots of funny moments, great make up/costume effects, and a good theme song. Will always be a cult classic.
57)Return of the Living Dead-Really does an amazing job capturing the essence of the 80's in both the soundtrack and clothes/wardrobe. An unofficial "sequal" to Night of the Living Dead, it really has a lot of funny moments, but at the same time offers true gore. Tarman is an interesting creation.
58)Silent Night, Deadly Night-A psychology study on what sends a man over the edge? Ok, maybe not, but still a classic that combines two holidays into one bloodbath.
59)The Exorcist (Theatrical Version)-I've seen the Version You've Never Seen, but this was the first time for me watching the theatrical version. A powerful movie with a message and theme. It's not just a horror movie, it has a lot more to offer. A classic that will never be rivaled and will never age.
Oct 23rd
60)Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74)-Easily in my top 5 horror movies of all time. The dinner scene is just purely one of the most unsettling horror scenes of all time. There's some really nice shots too, like the intro with the corpses, as well as the final shot of Leatherface swinging his chainsaw around. A masterpiece for the genre.
61)An American Werewolf in London-Easily the best werewolf movie in the past 20 years or so. John Landis is a great director, he really knows how to add subtle humor to what is otherwise a bloody horror flick.
62)Dead Alive-Any true gorehound's wet dream come true. As much as I love Peter Jackson doing epics like LotR and King Kong, I really wish he'd return to to his roots doing black horror. I dare you to watch the park scene and not laugh.
63)Videodrome-Two words: Stomach vagina. The first time I watched this movie, I was probably one of thousands who asked "WTF?" after finishing it. This time, everything made sense. I'll definately watch this again in the future with James Woods' commentary.
64)Suspiria-The best thing to come out of Italy since pizza and Mario. Goblin's score is legendary. Great movie all around and the first death scene is the perfect way to start a horror movie.
65)The Devil's Rejects-Another of my top 5 horror movies in the past 5 years. One thing that I think Zombie did perfectly is how veiwers can either choose to root for the Sheriff or the Firefly clan. I personally chose to root for Sheriff Wydell, just because I thought Forsythe did an amazing job and I loved a lot of his quotes. It was nice to throw in a tribute to Matthew McGrory at the end as well. The ending scene with "Free Bird" playing is very memorable.
66)Horror Island ('41)-I enjoyed this one. Likeable characters, hidden treasure, a lurking phantom, hidden passages all on a secluded island withing an ancient castle.
67)Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2-It's been years since I've watched this one, so has my opinion changed? Nope, not one bit, it still sucks. Seriously, I hate this movie. Everything is just annoying to me, whether it be the two buddies in the car at the beginning, or all the screams and shouts from Stretch. Even Bill Moseley's voice is annoying in this one. Leatherface's dance with the chainsaw at the end of the first movie is iconic, here it's just pathetic and annoying. There are two positives: Tom Savini's makeup, and the chainsaw dual between Leatherface and Dennis Hopper. I possibly consider this the worst dvd in my collection.
68)The Fly ('86)-My favorite Cronenberg film. Jeff Goldblum is a really interesting and smart man, I think he is the celebrity I would most like to meet one day. The story is great, I like to consider myself a scientist, so I can relate to Goldblum's character. As usual, the makeup effects are phenomenal, Cronenberg makes it look so easy. Overall, along with Carpenter's The Thing, it's the best horror remake.
69)Sleepy Hollow-I can't think of anyone better to bring this grim tale to life than Burton. The casting was great, who doesn't enjoy Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman? Still, after reviewing the short story in a college class and gaining a greater appreciation for it, I can't enjoy all the stuff Burton decided to add to the last hour. The whole witchcraft and controlling the Horseman plot brings it down.
70)Secret Window-Another average, run of the mill Stephen King adaptation that just happens to star mega-huge star Johnny Depp. What I like best about this movie is the lifestyle that the main character leads. Sleep in all day, frequent naps, lay around in a bath robe all day, etc. John Turturro is great too, "You stole my story"
71)From Beyond-Gordon scores again adapting a H.P. Lovecraft story. Worth seeing just for Barbara Crampton in a dominatrix outfit. Jeffrey Combs and Ken Foree are both horror icons, so seeing them together is a dream come true.
72)Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('03)-How can a remake with more gore and torture be less terrifying than the original? Simple, it loses just about everything else. There's nothing shocking here, it's just an updated version with today's gore. Gone is the upsetting dinner scene, gone is the feeling of dread. Basically I watched this just so I can know what to expect for the new Friday the 13th remake coming out next year. I have a feeling it will be a direct carbon copy of this, trading a chainsaw for a machete.
73)The Exorcist 2-A sequal so bad I won't even consider watching it ever again. Really, all we learn here is the demon's name that posessed Regan, which is Pazuzu. There is literally nothing to this movie, scenes just drag on for an eternity, the acting is stale and shallow, and there is 0 scare factor. Nothing, not even one jump scene! Just what the hell is a synchronizer anyways? I don't believe in psychic forces at all, and unfortunately, it plays a big role in this movie.
74)Re-Animator-Easily in my top 10 horror movies of all time. Everything is perfect here, I love Jeffrey Comb's character as the cocky, arrogant med student who has no regard for authority. The cat scene always gets a laugh. The only thing that bugs me is how closely the theme resembles that of the theme from Psycho. Anytime I bring up horror movies to friends, I always recommend this as it seems to be unkown to many people sadly.
75)Bride of Re-Animator-Pretty decent follow up, but terrible dvd presentation and in desperate need of a special edition. We have more of Dr. West this time, and again, all of his lines are great and quotable. Definately can't come close to matching its predecessor, but it was entertaining. Herbert's creations reminded me a lot of that South Park episode where the evil scientist Dr. Mephisto created the four-assed monkey.
76)Candyman-Not the first time I've seen it, but it's been way too long to remember the majority of the story. Tony Todd is at his A game here, his voice is perfect for the urban legend character he plays. Virginia Madsen is my older woman attraction, she is way hot in this movie, especially the scene where she takes off her clothes covered in blood during the strip search (does that make me a psychopath? I'm attracted to a woman covered in blood??)
77)Army of Darkness-Campy, fun classic! Forget all the gore and horror of the first two, and throw in all the campiness you possibly can. While it's a funny movie, and I guess good end to the trilogy, still remains my least favorite in the trilogy. Every line that comes out of Bruce's mouth is highly quotable here.
78)Carrie-Seen quite a few times on tv, but never the full thing on dvd. Thus I was quite suprised at the nudity during the beginning shower scene. This is my 2nd movie from a Stephen King novel featuring a crazed, religious nutcase. I'm beginning to suspect Mr. King isn't very religious. I loved the slow build to the pig blood dropping scene.
79)Beyond Re-Animator-Ahh Herbert West, making the Best Buy geek squad outfit look cool. It's an ok sequal, but still the worst in the trilogy. There's some good gore and make-up effects, but still pales in comparison to the first. The story is ok, as Dr. West finally finds a way to bring humanity back into his re-animated corpses, but of course not without unintended side effects.
80)Captive Wild Woman ('43)-Lions, tigers, and monkey turning into an attractive woman, oh my! Great use of archival footage of lions and tigers intertwined with the movie. I'd say better than your average mad scientist story, but still not one of Universal's best.
81)Cujo-What's that, your kids keep begging you to get them a dog, but you don't want to? Well problem solved, throw Cujo into the dvd player. Yes, I know it has a mother and child being stuck in a car for like 20 minutes, but there's still some tension. Also serves as an educational film for vet school students, as it describes in detail the symptoms of rabies. If you see a mouth foaming, run for the hills!
82)Exorcist 3-INFINATELY times better than Exoricst 2. Still doesn't compare to the original Exoricst, but how many horror films can? Still, characters are brought back from the first and the story takes place in the same town years later. The first hour and ten minutes is similar to something out of David Fincher's Zodiac, in that bizarre murders take place with no evidence left behind. It isn't till late in the film do we start getting some relation to possesion/demonism. I give Blatty credit, he did a great job adapting and directing a movie from his own work.
83)Nightmare on Elm Street-Wes Craven's greatest contribution to the horror genre. There are lots of freaky visuals found throughout, all of which still hold up by today's standards. A very young Johnny Depp is found here, and even here he is stealing the show with the best death scene. I loved Freddy in this one, he's more evil here, no jokes like the comedian he would become in the sequals. Robert Englund is iconic, a true horror legend that can never be replaced.
84)The Others-I place this in my top 10 favorite horror movies. Great atmosphere, creepy setting, and a great ghost story. The thing I like most about this is the sound, turn up your surround sound and you will get quite a few jump scares. For a horror movie, it really has a touching, beautiful ending.
85)The Shining-Absolutely perfect horror movie. I watched it with a friend, and actually pointed out all of the symmetry found throughout, a Kubrick trademark. Nicholson is phenomenal, even when he's just staring into the camera he's creepy. The opening scene with the helicopter view is breathtaking. In my top 5 horror movies.
86)American Psycho-In my top 10 favorite movies of all time. This is my favorite Bale role, I don't care how famous he becomes after being Batman, he is always Pat Bateman to me. This movie is very quotable, and there's so many great scenes (the business card, etc). Perfect blend of black comedy mixed with satire describing life in the 80's.
87)Halloween ('78)-Always have to end the month of Oct with this classic. Easily my favorite horror movie of all time, it's utterly flawless. I love every scene, from the opening zoom-in of the pumpkin during the credits to the stalking shots of Michael in the background. Carpenter is a great composer as well, the theme is just as famous as the movie is.
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October 1st:
1. Psycho (1960)
2. The Most Dangerous Game
3. Pulse (2006)
October 2nd:
4. The Giant Claw
5. The Living Ghost
October 3rd:
7. The X-Files episode 75 "Home" - Wild Card
8. Häxan
9. The Ghoul (1933)
10. Dee Snider's Strangeland
October 4th: A Full Day of Freddy
11. A Nightmare on Elm Street
12. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
13. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
14. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
15. Wes Craven's New Nightmare
October 5th: Slasher Sunday
16. The Burning
17. Madman
18. Going to Pieces: The Rise & Fall of the Slasher Film - documentary
20. I Am Legend
21. Equinox
22. The Ghost Train (1941)
23. Videodrome
24. The Shining
25. Alice, Sweet Alice
26. Alien The Director's Cut
27. American Psycho
28. The Frighteners
29. Goosebumps episode 52 "One Day at Horrorland" - Wild Card
October 9th: Chilling with Chucky
30. Child's Play
31. Child's Play 2
October 10th: Creatures of the Night
33. Fright Night
34. Blood For Dracula
35. Dracula 2000
36. 30 Days of Night
38. Dracula vs. Frankenstein
October 11th:
39. Underworld
40. House of Exorcism
41. Scanners
42. Night of Dark Shadows
43. Bubba Ho-Tep
44. Dominion: A Prequel to the Exorcist
45. Jeepers Creepers
October 13th: I've Got Ed Wood
46. Night of the Ghouls
47. Bride of the Monster
48. Plan 9 From Outer Space
October 14th: Have Fun Storming the William Castle
50. 13 Ghosts (1960)
51. The Tingler
52. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
53. Dead Silence
54. Eaten Alive
55. The Maid
56. Carnival of Souls
57. Silence of the Lambs
58. Young Frankenstein
59. End of Days
61. The Breed
62. House of Usher (1960)
63. Berserk
64. Wicked, Wicked
October 20th: Babysitting Jobs from Hell
65. Rosemary's Baby
66. Omen IV: The Awakening
67. Hell Girl episode one "From Beyond the Twilight" - Wild Card
68. Hell Girl episode two "The Possessed Girl" - Wild Card
October 21st: Texas Chainsaw Tuesday
70. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
71. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
72. Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
74. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Octber 22nd:
75. King Kong (1933)
76. The Mysterious Doctor
77. The Return of Doctor X
October 23rd: Dial Z for Zombie
78. White Zombie
79. I Walked With a Zombie
80. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies!!?
81. Zombie Honeymoon
82. Resident Evil: Extinction
October 24th: Day with the Dead
83. The Return of the Living Dead
84. Dawn of the Dead (2004) - unrated cut
85. George A. Romero's Land of the Dead - unrated cut
86. Dawn of the Dead (1978) - international cut a.k.a Zombi and a few other titles
88. Kairo a.k.a Pulse (2001)
89. The Funhouse
90. Isle of the Dead
October 26th: Universal Horror
91. Creature From The Black Lagoon
92. The Wolf Man
93. House of Dracula
95. Universal Horror - documentary
97. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
98. The Mystery of the Wax Museum
99. Silent Hill
100. Grindhouse - theatrical cut
101. The Body Snatcher
102. Homicidal
103. The Black Room (1935)
104. Before I Hang
105. Vampyr (1932)
106. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - Wild Card
107. The Seventh Victim
108. The Unknown (1927)
109. Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro a.ka. Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell
110. Strait Jacket (1964)
111. Mr. Sardonicus
112. The Tomb of Ligeia
113. The Invisible Man (1933)
114. The Mummy (1932)
October 31st:
115. Resident Evil
116. House of 1000 Corpses
117. The Devil's Rejects
118. Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
119. House of Frankenstein
120. The Devil Bat
121. Mark of the Vampire
122. Freaks
123. Kongo
Final Stats:
films: 116
TV episodes: 4
documentaries: 2
TV specials: 1
Boris Karloff: 8
Robert Englund : 8
Bela Lugosi: 7.5
Lon Chaney Jr.: 4
Vincent Price: 4
Ken Foree: 4
Bill Moseley: 3.5
William Castle: 6
Val Lewton: 5
Tobe Hooper: 4
George Romero: 3
Tod Browning: 3
Ed Wood: 3
Well that was an interesting experience for my first time. I didn't set any official goals for myself but I did want to watch at least one movie everyday and technically I didn't even do that. Still I really out performed my expectations. I had a good pace going but there were moments where I felt like I was crashing. I could have watched a bit more if I really tried but I couldn't bring myself to do it. For example I originally planned to finish off with Freaks, but then I read the challenge doesn't end until dawn but all I could squeeze in was Kongo.
I didn't discover too many new favorites. The best movies were the ones I already knew I enjoyed such as classics like Psycho and The Shining, and personal favorites like Bubba Ho-Tep and, House of 1000 Corpses. I watched some of the Universal Monsters movies that I loved and also some of the not-that-great-but-still-fun sequels that I haven’t seen in years.
I did come up with new takes of some movies I had seen before like the original Halloween. I always thought it was a very good movie and I respected it for the influence it had but it wasn't until my most recent viewing that I really appreciated its' greatness. Also I think the Child's Play movies hold up pretty well. I know the general thought is that they became better when they became comedies but I prefer when they were played straight with a subtle sense of humor.
Of the movies that were new to me there were some pleasant surprises like The Ghost Train which was pretty funny but barely a horror movie, The Burning, The Funhouse and The Return of Doctor X which has Humphrey Bogart as an undead doctor who lives off the blood of the living. I need to watch Videodrome a few more times. I liked it I'm just not sure I understood it. I also think I'm addicted to Vincent Price. I could listen to him read the dictionary.
I didn't watch any particularly awful movies. There were some that are so bad they're good. Strangeland is a movie from the '90s about the dangers of body piercing and the internet. Blood for Dracula is worth watching to see Udo Kier vomit copious amounts of blood. And Dracula vs Frankenstein has J. Carrol Naish giving a lecture about the nature of fear in the middle of a carnival funhouse.
The worst movies were the dull ones. I couldn't maintain my focus during the '79 Dracula. Frank Langella has the charisma of a doorstop. The American remake of Pulse was one of the first movies I watched and it was pretty weak. I later watched the Japanese original and while it's a much deeper and more nuanced film than the remake it really isn't that much of a better one.
All in all I had a lot of fun, but at this point I'm undecided if I'm going to participate again next year.
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Location: Mister Peepers
----October 1----
1. Curse of the Black Widow - A woman was nearly bitten to death by spiders as a baby. This causes her to become a spider at night and eat people. A made for TV movie that was putting me to sleep before the final act where it picked up some
2. Bad Ronald - Crazy boy living in the walls after killing of a ginger. Watched it as a kid on TBS and now my wife got to watch it. I still liked it for what it was.
3. Mazes and Monsters - 3 college kids decide to do the one thing that turns Tom Hanks insane...play live action Dungeons and Dra...er...Mazes and Monsters. Wife fell asleep during this one. Can't blame her but I had to make it to the end just to see him go crazy.
4. Nightmares Come at Night - 3 things can always be found in a Jesus Franco film: Female nudity, long senseless panning of the camera(I once identified a movie I was watching as his within the first 5 minutes because of this), and excess zooming(Once you notice it, it'll drive you insane).
There are 2 things that aren't always found in his movies: Good pacing(most of them), Good female nudity(his later films).
For the Jesus Franco drinking game: 1 drink for each zoom(in or out). 1 drink for each camera pan. You'll be dead within 5 minutes.
5. Full Moon High - Teen Wolf rip-off only this time it's football.
6. The German Chainsaw Massacre - This time it's German
7. The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini - It was watchable
8. Cinematic Titanic: The Wasp Woman - Probably the best CT episode yet. Pretty much had the feel of a MST3K episode with the right movie and jokes.
9. The Alchemist - Some sort of love story that goes on through generations and has a curse thrown in. Eh.
10. Kongo - Remake of the silent Chaney movie. Not bad/Not great.
11. The Headless Ghost - 3 kids trapped in a haunted mansion have to help the headless ghots. Short and boring.
12. Eko Eko Azarak 3 - So boring. Worst movie so far.
13. Exorcismo - Kind of like that movie called The Exorcist. Only more boring.
14. Naked Evil - A British voodoo gang movie
15. Psycho Cop Returns - Wasn't that bad for a silly killer movie but the DVD had crappy cuts that took out a lot when it came to the violence
16. Guess What Happened to Count Dracula? - Forgettable but still not the worst movie I've watched this challenge
17. Dracula the Dirty Old Man - You're wrong if you thought this would make a good family movie. Dracula sends out the wolfman to kidnap women so the Count can molest their breasts.
18. The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake - Skull collector and head swapper.
19. Diary of a Madman - Slow start but got much better in the second half
20. Shrieker - Dull story but at least it wasn't super long. The end just kinda came and went. If you get the symbol you die,
This includes the monster that kills whoever has the symbol
21. Dial D for Demons - Started out pretty good but went down the drain towards the end as they started wrapping everything up really quick.
22. Voodoo Island - Decent film with Karloff as a rich TV guy that learns voodoo is real
23. Arcade - Perfect movie if you want to crash on the couch and watch something lightweight. Stars Ralphie from A Christmas Story and Seth Green in a movie where if you die in the game you live in the game.
24. Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy - Too close to call to say if this is the worst movie I've watched so far. A little boy grows up and doesn't understand what's going on. To cope with this, he attaches a circular saw blade to a baseball bat and kills people.
25. Count Yorga, Vampire - Just another vampire movie
26. Within The Woods - wildcard
27. Call of Cthulu - silent film based on the squid.
28. Blacula - Decent, but some of the scenes played out like Count Yorga, only in different order.
29. Ghostbusters - Watching this reminded me how good it was and how far it fell after seeing parts of the sequel, over and over, on Comedy Central over the years.
30. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Little monsters live in the wall and terrorize the lady that moves in. Could've been good but had a poor ending.
31. The Fly(original) - Help me!!! Help me!!!
32. Mad Monster Party - Puppets attacking each other, just like Frosty the Snowman
33. Mikey - Little kid kills parents for whatever reason he has at the time, gets adopted to new parents, repeat. I enjoyed it.
34. Deathdream - Like Uncle Sam only this time it's Vietnam. A dead soldier returns home and does what he does best, killin'.
35. Return of the Fly - Decent sequel
36. Brain Damage - Liked the Basket Case reference
----October 10----
37. Mutator - Mutant cats go crazy. Eh.
38.Death Spa - A gym gets possessed by the owners dead wife.
39. Come To Me My Love aka Haunted Pussy - Guy catches his woman screwing another guy. He shoots both of them and then himself. A new girl moves into the apartment and the ghost of the guy that shot everyone screws her. The guy also kills everyone else that screws the girl. The next door neighbor also has sex a bunch of times and by the end of the movie, she has sex with her also. In the end the girl kills herself at the urgings of the ghost and they walk off together after he says, "Come to me my love". This movie is what a real "horror porn" is, not something like Hostel. Just because there's a penis doesn't make it a porn movie, this one has the sex. The sex is half the movie yet somehow there's also a story to it.
40. Don't Go In The Woods Alone - Crazy guy in the woods killing people. I liked it. They were fairly inventive with the traps compared to other comparable movies.
41. The Crimson Cult - Reminded me a little of Wicker Man
After October 11th when I dropped out/slowed down
42. The Terminator
43. Garden of the Dead
44. Buttcrack
45. Unhinged
46. X The Unknown
47. Rituals
48. Forced Entry
49. Play Motel
50. Behind Locked Doors
51. Queens of Evil
52. Rings of Fear
-X- 1930 - Kongo
-X- 1950 - The Headless Ghost
-X- 1960 - The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
-X- 1970 - Curse of the Black Widow
-X- 1980 - Mazes and Monsters
-X- 1990 - Eko Eko Azarak 3
-X- 2000 - Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy
-X- Unrated (pre-MPAA) - Kongo
-X- PG - Full Moon High
-X- R - The Alchemist
-X- Unrated (post-MPAA) - Nightmares Come at Night
-X- Boris Karloff - The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
-X- Vincent Price - Diary of a Madman
--- Christopher Lee - The Crimson Cult
-X- Bruce Campbell - Within The Woods
-X- First language, French, Nightmares Come at Night.
-X- Second language, German, The German Chainsaw Massacre.
-X- Vampire - Guess What Happened to Count Dracula?
-X- Frankenstein - Mad Monster Party
-X- Werewolf - Full Moon High
-X- Ghost/haunting - The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
-X- Witchcraft/satanic/religious - The Alchemist
-X- Zombie - Deathdream
-X- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac - The German Chainsaw Massacre
-X- Monster/creature feature/Godzilla - Shrieker
-X- Spoof/comedy - Full Moon High
-X- Revenge - The Alchemist
-X- Killer/evil animal - Mutator
-X- Killer/evil child - Bad Ronald
-X- J horror - Eko Eko Azarak 3
-X- MST3K/rifftrax/CT - Cinematic Titanic: The Wasp Woman
-X- based on a novel - Bad Ronald
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Hammer & Amicus Fanatic
01 October:
001) Piranha
002) A Nightmare On Elm Street
003) Kiss of the Vampire
004) Horror Express
005) Blood for Dracula
006) Black Sunday (1960)
007) Kill Me Tomorrow
008) Frogs
009) Bloody Pit of Horror
010) The Blood Beast Terror
011) Sleepy Hollow
012) Phantom of the Opera (1943)
013) Nosferatu (1922)
014) House By the Cemetery
015) Female Vampire
016) Horror Hospital
017) The Fall of the House of Usher
018) Dr Phibes Rises Again
019) The Beyond (Fulci)
020) The Abominable Dr Phibes
021) WHip and the Body
022) The Pit and the Pendulum
023) Frightmare
024) The Evil Dead
025) City of the Living Dead
026) The Thing With Two Heads
027) Monster From the Ocean Floor
028) Demonia
029) The Bloody Judge
030) Countess Dracula
031) Vampire Circus
032) Twins of Evil
033) The Uncanny
034) Hands of the Ripper
035) The Monster
036) Sleepaway Camp
037) Sleepaway Camp II
038) Sleepaway Camp III
039) Sleepaway Camp IV
040) Dawn of the Dead (European Version)
041) Dawn of the Dead (U.S. Theatrical Version)
042) Dawn of the Dead (Extended Version)
043) The House that Dripped Blood
044) The Beast Must Die
045) Asylum
046) Dr Terror's House of Horrors
047) And Now the Screaming Starts
048) Hellraiser
049) Hellraiser II
050) Hellraiser III
051) Inseinoid
052) Prey
053) Satan's Slave
054) Terror
055) It! (Curse of the Golem)
056) The Beast In the Cellar
057) Witchfinder General
058) Blood On Satan's Claw
059) The Body Stealers
060) Virgin Witch
061) The Haunted House of Horror
062) House of Mortal Sin
063) House of Whipcord
064) Die Screaming Marianne
065) The Comeback
066) The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll
067) Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
068) Scream of Fear
069) The Brides of Dracula
070) The Curse of the Werewolf
071) The Evil of Frankenstein
072) The Black Cat (1934)
073) The Raven
074) Murders In the Rue Morgue
075) Phantasm
076) Phantasm II
077) Phantasm III
078) Phantasm IV
079) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
080) Tombs of the Blind Dead
081) Return of the Evil Dead
082) The Ghost Galleon
083) Night of the Seagulls
084) Trauma (Argento)
085) Sacred Flesh
086) House On the Edge of the Park
087) Chamber of Horrors
088) The Cave
089) The Card Player
090) Touch of Death
091) Pet Sematary
092) Fangs of the Living Dead
093) Dead Birds
094) House On Hunted Hill (1959)
095) Frankenstein's Bloody Terror
096) The Crazies
097) Boa vs Python
098) Macabre
099) Long Weekend
100) From A Whisper to a Scream
101) Dawn of the Mummy
102) The Asphyx
103) The Wasp Woman (1960)
104) Attack of the Giant Leeches
105) Shock (Schock)
106) Night Train Murders
107) I Walked with a Zombie
108) The Body Snatcher
109) I Spit On Your Grave
110) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
111) The Omen (1976)
112) Matango: The Mushroom People
113) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
114) Creepshow
115) Rabid
116) Fright
117) Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
118) The Flesh and the Fiends
119) Beyond the Darkness (Buio Omega)
120) Torso
121) Horrors of the Black Museum
122) The Giant Spider Invasion
123) Candyman
124) Alien
125) Shock Waves
126) Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
127) The Crawling Eye
128) Blood From the Mummy's tomb
129) Baby Blood
130) The Masque of the Red Death
131) Premature Burial
132) Mr Sardonicus
133) The Gorgon
134) Torture Garden
135) Dead of Night
136) The Incredible Melting Man
137) The Thing From Another World
138) The Freakmaker
139) Count Yorga, Vampire
140) The Return of Count Yorga
141) The Navy vs the Night Monsters
142) Haute Tension
143) Dog Soldiers
144) Horror of Dracula
145) Tales That Witness Madness
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Location: The unknown world of the future
2005 October Horror Movie Challenge List 79 movies
2006 October Horror Movie Challenge List 105 movies
1) Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) "The bitch try to suck me like I'm a forty ounce of malt liquor."
2) A Polish Vampire in Burbank (1984) "Is that Polish?"
3) Vampires: Los Muertos (2001) "This is how you make a living?"
4) Near Dark (1987) "Those people back there, they wasn't normal. Normal folks, they don't spit out bullets when you shoot 'em."
5) Reign in Darkness (2001) "My first priority was to keep my heart in my chest."
6) Nosferatu (1922) "..."
7) Shadow of the Vampire (2000) "If it's not in frame, it doesn't exist."
8) Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) "Hören sie! Hören sie! Die kinder der nacht diese musik macht."
9) The Hunger (1983) "You said forever. Neverending. Do you remember?"
10) The Addiction (1994) "You can't kill what's dead. Eternity's a long time. Get used to it."
11) The Vampire (1957) "I guess you ain't had no excitement since Abe Hibble axed his mother-in-law."
12) Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971) "What you couldn't have known is the hippies were riddled with acid."
13) Un Gatto nel Cervello (1990) "Mr. Fulci, what's wrong?"
14) The Black Cat (1981) "Hypnotized by a cat! Are you mad, Gorley?"
15) The New York Ripper (1982) "Quack. Quack."
16) Suspiria (1977) "Turn the blue one!"
17) Phenomena (1984) "I love all insects."
18) Night Monster (1942) "A little knowledge of the occult is dangerous. Unless it's used for good, disaster will follow its wake. That is constant law."
19) Man Made Monster (1941) "What is one life compared to this discovery?"
20) Night of the Living Dead (1968) "Yeah they're dead, they're all messed up."
21) Dawn of the Dead (1978) "Grandad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us, 'When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.'"
22) Diary of the Dead (2007) "Fuckin' mummies get all the girls."
23) Day of the Dead (2007) "Hey buddy, slow down!"
24) Garden of the Dead (1973) "Formaldehyde's never hurt anyone."
25) Pet Sematary II (1992) "You bury your own."
26) The Mist (2007) "The day I need a friend like you, I'll just have myself a little squat and shit one out."
27) 1408 (2007) "Eight dollars for beer nuts. This room is evil."
28) Thinner (1996) "Did he touch you? Did the old man touch you?"
29) The Shining (1980) "Come and play with us, Danny."
30) Re-Animator (1985) "I gave him life."
31) Bride of Re-Animator (1989) "This is no longer just about reanimating the dead. We will create new life."
32) Beyond Re-Animator (2003) "This experiment is over."
33) Dagon (2001) "Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!"
34) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) "We've just begun to learn about the water and its secrets."
35) House of Wax (1953) "I'm going to give the people what they want: Sensation. Horror. Shock."
36) Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006) "Go away, I've had enough of you!"
37) Friday the 13th Part III (1982) "Asshole."
38) Duel (1972) "Fill it with Ethyl."
39) Gargoyles (1972) "Better go with her man, one of those 'gar' things is gonna get her."
40) The Norliss Tapes (1973) "I'm into the book. Deep into it. But uh, it's on, on tapes. A series of tapes. When you hear them you'll understand."
41) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) "You shouldn't have opened it up, Mrs. Farnham."
42) Death at Love House (1976) "I want the world to know the evil, ugly witch that Lorna Love really was."
43) Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) "Now, you remember what we did the last time? We played a game. The hiding game. Remember?"
44) Cult of the Cobra (1955) "The cobra goddess will avenge herself! One by one you will die!"
45) Captive Wild Woman (1943) "I see you're not truly a scientist at heart, Miss Strand. The things we're trying to do, one must be daring."
46) Horror Island (1941) "Leave the castle. Leave the castle."
47) The Black Cat (1941) "He thinks he's Sherlock Holmes."
48) Scared to Death (1947) "Still and all, if you was to get murdered, and I was to find out who done it, it'd be kind of a break for me.'"
49) Strangler of the Swamp (1946) "He walks among us, and kills us, one by one!"
50) Drive In Massacre (1977) "You know, they may have closed that carnival, but the freaks are still hangin' around. And we just talked to two of the choicest ones."
51) Cheerleader Massacre (2002) "Someone check around back, see if there's a hockey mask and a lake."
52) Microwave Massacre (1983) "Didn't I ever tell you about my hemorrhoids?. They get really bad when it's humid you know."
53) Motor Home Massacre (2005) "Let's just get a move on there Jeff Foxworthless."
54) Mardi Gras Massacre (1978) "Tell me, of all the ladies in this bar tonight, which one do you think is the most... evil?"
55) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) "A whole family of Draculas."
56) Freaks (1932) "Gooble gobble, gooble gobble. We accept her, we accept her."
57) She Freak (1967) "Ain't ya got no geek or nothin'?"
58) Freakshow (2006) "Who are you, and would you like to run away to the circus little girl?"
59) Freakshow (1989) "Look, it's probably just a maniac. He'll kill a few people and leave."
60) Anatomy (2000) "Arschloch."
61) Anatomie 2 (2003) "Age Actabile Antihippocrate."
62) The Company of Wolves (1984) "A wolf may be more than he seems. He may come in many disguises."
63) Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972) "Pero... pero esta noche hay luna llena."
64) Wolfman (1978) "Not so sure it's a wolf."
65) Scream of the Wolf (1974) "You never could accept that the life of a predator is superior to that of its victim could you?"
66) The Wolf Man (1941) "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright."
67) Cursed (2005) "Beware the moon. It feeds in the moonlight."
68) Die Screaming Marianne (1970) "Do tell me, did you fornicate with Marianne?"
69) The Screaming Dead (2003) "One time, at cheerleading camp..."
70) Scream for Help (1984) "Not only is he an incompetent murderer, he's a total asshole."
71) Scream Bloody Murder (1973) "I'm sorry lady. I need the house."
72) Bloody Mallory (2002) "Talking Tina?"
73) "Manos" The Hands of Fate (1966) "Mike, I'm scared."
74) The Corpse Vanishes (1942) "I find a coffin much more comfortable than a bed."
75) Track of the Moon Beast (1975) "Do you mind if I borrow your moon rock for a couple of days?"
76) Eaten Alive (1977) "Ol' croc'll eat anything."
77) Eaten Alive! (1980) "Instead of buying frozen meat in the supermarket, they get theirs fresh from people like you."
78) Exorcism (1979) "You're possessed by the devil! You're possessed by the devil! You're possessed by the devil! You're possessed by the devil!"
79) The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) "I don't know. I'm not sure what I've seen."
80) Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers (2005) "I don't know. I was fast asleep."
81) The Exorcist (1973) "I like pizzas too, but I'm not going to marry one."
82) The Messengers (2006) "I've been reading the Farmer Sutra."
83) The Grudge (2004) "Once you have become a part of it, it will never let you go."
84) The Grudge 2 (2006) "It followed me here. They followed me here."
85) The Eye (2008) "Have you seen my report card?"
86) Dead Silence (2006) "Beware the stare of Mary Shaw. She had no children, only dolls. Uhm, something, something scary. Somethingsomething... Boo!"
87) One Missed Call (2007) "Tell her to call customer service."
88) The Hills Have Eyes II (2007) "Where I come from, it's never good to be dead."
89) Hostel Part II (2007) "What'd you say to me?"
90) Creepshow III (2006) "What's so funny about not having an ass?"
91) Saw III (2006) "You're not Jigsaw, bitch!"
92) Saw IV (2007) "I don't wanna play anymore."
93) Five Across the Eyes (2006) "I think she's gonna need a little more medical help than this shirt can provide."
94) 5ive Girls (2006) "Desine sperare qui hic intras."
95) April Fool's Day (1986) "Ha ha ha. April Fool's. Very funny."
96) Student Bodies (1981) "Perhaps man's highest cultural achievement is the horsehead bookend."
97) Night of the Comet (1984) "You were born with an asshole Doris, you don't need Chuck."
98) Night of the Creeps (1986) "I got good news and bad news, girls. The good news is your dates are here."
99) Funeral Home (1980) "Funeral home? You gotta be kidding."
100) The Thing (1982) "Trust is a tough thing to come by these days."
101) The Thing from Another World (1951) "Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."
102) The Blob (1958) "Hey what gives? I thought you cats didn't dig spooky shows."
103) Beware! The Blob (1971) "Watch out for the wolverines."
104) The Blob (1988) "Kevin, don't eat with your face."
105) The Woods (2005) "Fire-crotch! Fire-crotch! Fire-crotch!"
106) The Evil Dead (1982) "No. It was the woods themselves. They're alive, Ashley. The trees, they're alive."
107) American Psycho (2000) "You like Huey Lewis and the News?"
108) American Psycho 2 (2002) "Stop calling me Bobby!"
109) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) "Otis, plug it in."
110) H6: Diario de un Asesino (2004) "La pequeña sierra eléctrica que compré a buen precio es efectiva y práctica."
111) The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (1980) "Hey that Linda Lovelace is somethin' else huh?"
112) C'est Arrivé Près de Chez Vous (1992) "Merde merde merde merde merde."
113) Psychomania (1971) "Some of my best friends are dead."
114) Season of the Witch (1972) "All's fair in love and Mad Libs."
115) The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1974) "No, Molly's the captain of her own ship."
116) Witchboard (1986) "It's pronounced wee-ja, not wee-gee."
117) Witchfinder General (1968) "I am Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder."
118) The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) "Nine killed her. Nine shall die."
119) Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) "We must make haste and find the river at its flood."
120) Theater of Blood (1973) "No. No, another critical miscalculation on your part, dear boy. I am well. It is you who are dead."
121) The Last Man on Earth (1964) "Yeah, I own the world. An empty, dead, silent world."
122) From a Whisper to a Scream (1986) "Welcome to Oldfield."
123) The Tingler (1959) "The Tingler is loose in this theater, and if you don't scream it may kill you!"
124) Pit and the Pendulum (1961) "You are about to enter hell, Bartolome. Hell! The netherworld. The infernal regions. The abode of the damned. Place of torments. Pandemonium. Abbadon! Tophet! Gehenna! Naraka! The pit! And the pendulum."
125) The Skull (1965) "All I can say to you is keep away from the skull of the Marquis de Sade."
126) Horror of Dracula (1958) "You look like a teddy bear now."
127) The House That Dripped Blood (1970) "This is not the first time that something has happened to tenants of that house."
128) From Beyond the Grave (1973) "Can I tempt you with anything?"
129) Tales from the Crypt (1972) "Merry Christmas."
130) The Vault of Horror (1973) "It begins in a graveyard... In a grave... A freshly dug grave... My grave."
131) The Black Room (1935) "Perhaps you will come back from the dead to kill me."
132) Before I Hang (1940) "I've got all the time in the world now."
133) The Body Snatcher (1945) "You'll find the specimen in good condition."
134) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) "My wife is a mental case."
135) The Innocents (1961) "Oh look. It's a lovely spider, and it's eating a butterfly."
136) Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) "You're nothing if not grotesque. Except hungry, of course."
137) Blood Car (2007) "Get in the trunk."
138) Zombie Strippers! (2007) "Darn. I'm out of cliches."
139) A Bucket of Blood (1959) "Just took some clay and fixed it up."
140) Blood Moon (2001) "You're dating an oddity?"
141) Skinwalkers (2006) "The red moon is going to be even stronger tonight."
142) Sssssss (1973) "Freaks! That's what you are; a buncha snake freaks!"
143) Popcorn (1990) "Lights. Camera. Action."
144) Dracula (1931) "I am Dracula."
145) Dracula (1931) "Soy Dracula."
146) Dracula's Daughter (1936) "I am Dracula's daughter."
147) Son of Dracula (1943) "I know all about you. You're not Count Alucard but Count Dracula."
148) The Return of Dracula (1958) "I hope he likes cheese sauce on asparagus."
149) The Beast With Five Fingers (1946) "The horrible hand can't escape anymore."
150) The Beast Within (1981) "You look like the hind end of a 'coon dog just leavin' the swamp."
151) Frankenstein (1931) "Look. It's moving. It's alive. It's alive. It's alive. It's moving. It's alive. It's alive. It's alive! It's alive! It's alive!"
152) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) "She's alive! Alive!"
153) Son of Frankenstein (1939) "He's alive!"
154) The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) "Now you live forever. They can't destroy you."
155) Young Frankenstein (1974) "That's Fronkensteen."
156) Mad Monster Party? (1966) "I've grown a little tired of this horror business."
157) Halloween (2007) "Was that the Boogey Man?"
158) Halloween (1978) "Totally."
159) Halloween II (1981) "Why won't he die?"
160) An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970) "It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
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161) Dead of Night (1945) "Just room for one more inside, sir."
162) [●REC] (2007) "Rapido!"
163) Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) "Doggone if this ain't the best centennial anybody ever had!"
164) Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1963) "Girls, go back into the dormitory. This is nothing for you to see."
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Published on December 4, 2016 December 12, 2016 by booksandangstLeave a comment
Happy Saturday everybody, all of the shows returned this week which was amazing. There was DC crossover week; Agents of SHIELD finally resolved that cliff-hanger; and Pitch aired their penultimate episode. Obviously the biggest question is which was the best but before we get there let’s talk honourable mentions.
Agents of Shield – for some sweet Doctor Strange tie-ins.
Modern Family – for proving that watching Ty Burrell get electrocuted never stops being funny.
Westworld – for managing to be objectively amazing yet subjectively underwhelming.
Pitch – for finally releasing an episode that didn’t stress me out or leave me an emotional wreck.
Black-ish – for elegantly dealing with some complex themes of identity.
Empire – for setting the standard for awkward family dinners.
Gotham – for the best episode since its first season.
Jane The Virgin – for catering to that burgeoning lapsed Catholic market.
Once Upon A Time – for confirming that nobody will ever carry a baby full term in this show.
Show of the Week: DC Crossover
This week saw the first time in history that the DC shows on The CW – Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow – crossed over and it was perfect. Normally, this section is reserved for a single show but it is impossible to choose between the four episodes that aired this week because they all came together as one cohesive narrative. Separating them simply wouldn’t make sense.
When I heard that the main villain in the crossover was going to be aliens, I was less than enthused but I am happy to say that I was wrong to judge it so quickly. The aliens ended up being a very serious threat with believable motivations.
More than anything, I loved this television event because it felt like a massive pay-off for anybody that had been following these shows from the very beginning. Old characters were brought back; subtle nods were made to the wider DC universe; and they did an amazing job of analysing the relationship dynamics that form when you throw this group of people together.
The ending, with Oliver and Barry sat talking in a bar, felt like an wonderfully poetic way to wrap up the week. They were the two characters that began this wider universe and you were really able to appreciate that in how the wider team immediately deferred to them as leaders.
This Week’s Worst: No Tomorrow
There’s no doubt that No Tomorrow has improved from when it first began this season but it still isn’t doing enough. The show has established what it’s about and at times it can be a fun thing to watch but it has no real bite to it.
It’s being sold as an hour-long dramedy when its story seems better suited to the half-hour sitcom format. With such a high-level of competition on The CW at the moment, I don’t know if this first-season show will be renewed next year.
Did you have a favourite episode from the crossover? Have you been watching No Tomorrow? What did you watch this week? Let me know in the comments.
Categories TV, Uncategorized•Tags agents of shield, arrow, black-ish, empire, legends of tomorrow, modern family, no tomorrow, pitch, supergirl, the flash, westworld
Published on November 30, 2016 December 12, 2016 by booksandangstLeave a comment
It’s the final day of November which means tomorrow is Christmas. That’s right, the entire month of December is Christmas but if a day is just too long to wait, then I have a couple of early presents for you in the form of some news. A lot has been going on so you might find yourself feeling lost and asking: wait, what happened? if that’s the case, I’ve got you covered.
DC Crossover Week
The CW’s DC Crossover Week is well underway but if you haven’t already been watching, it is a week-long event in which The CW’s DC hero shows crossover. So from Monday to Thursday night, Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow are all following one storyline that sees them all jumping into each other’s shows. The event is now halfway through and it’s amazing. If you weren’t watching it already, you are in the fortunate situation of being able to watch the first two episodes right now without having to wait a whole day in between.
Riverdale Trailer
The first trailer for The CW’s upcoming series, Riverdale, was released this week. The series is a teen drama based on the characters from Archie Comics. I am not familiar with Archie Comics so I didn’t know what to make of this series: to be perfectly honest, the trailer doesn’t tell you very much except for the fact that they have a very pretty cast (but it’s The CW so what else were you expecting?). If you want to have a look, you can check that out below:
H&M Christmas Advert
The Christmas adverts are one of my favourite parts of the festive season and every year they just seem to get better. H&M took it to a whole new level this year by hiring Wes Anderson to direct a short film and it’s beautiful. It’s Wes Anderson so every shot is gorgeous but the story itself is very sweet. It’s less than four minutes long so check it out:
Have you been watching crossover week? Will you be watching Riverdale in the new year? What’s your favourite seasonal advert currently on air? Let me know in the comments.
Categories News, Uncategorized•Tags arrow, christmas, H&M, legends of tomorrow, riverdale, supergirl, The CW, the flash, wes anderson
Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all of the people out there who celebrate the holiday. If you’re in a country like mine where we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, this holiday just meant that there was very little television and lots of online sales. Anyway, back to the topic at hand: let’s talk about what showed this week. Before we get to the best, we have to talk honourable mentions.
Jane the Virgin – for Bruno Mars karaoke.
Gotham – for confirming that it gets a hundred times better when watched as a comedy rather than a drama.
Supergirl – for Alex: she’s quickly becoming the best part of the show.
No Tomorrow – for fuchsia houses and party crashers.
Scorpion – for farting superheroes that save California.
Show of the Week: The Flash
I didn’t like Caitlin last season: she was boring and superfluous and I didn’t really understand what she added to the show. The only time that that changed was when we saw her Earth-2 doppelganger, Killer Frost. The people over at The Flash have clearly taken that to heart and this season we’re seeing Caitlin wrestle against her inner Killer Frost.
The Flash is good at heroes but their villains are often just a little bit too campy to be taken seriously or seen as genuinely threatening. With Killer Frost, Alchemy, and Savitar, the villains in this series have reached a new level of awesome.
Also in this episode, we were able to see Wally finally get his powers and all the Kid Flash fans rejoiced. They have been teasing this story-line for the longest time and we finally get to see it play out – in my opinion, just in the nick of time, because Wally was beginning to come across more like a whiny kid than a young hero.
Finally, dues must be paid to Grant Gustin and Carlos Valdes who are two fantastic actors that are able to bring real emotion to what can sometimes be a light show.
This Week’s Worst: Westworld
I have been praising Westworld since its first episode because it’s new and different and a very brave concept to invest so much money in, but as the plot unravels I am losing interest.
This is a show about robotics, artificial intelligence, morality, humanity, and so many other huge ideas. It does well exploring them but in the end I worry that it is more of a philosophical discussion than a compelling, narrative-driven show. Clearly there is a story, I’m just not sure that it’s as interesting as the concepts that it is trying to explore.
People were calling it HBO’s new Game of Thrones before it ever aired but by now I think that the world can agree that that simply isn’t true. Forgetting the completely different genres, Game of Thrones was always the sort of show that left you shocked and wanting more. Westworld is interesting and intelligent but it’s not addictive. I could stop watching it at any point and not care about what happens next.
Are you looking forward to next week’s four-way CW superhero crossover? Which of the shows is your favourite? What did you watch this week? Let me know in the comments.
Categories TV, Uncategorized•Tags gotham, jane the virgin, no tomorrow, scorpion, supergirl, the flash, westworld
~RIP Robert Vaughn~
There has been plenty happening in the world of geekdom of the last couple of days and it can all be a little bit overwhelming sometimes. You may even find yourself asking: wait, what happened? If so, I have got you covered.
Now You See Me 3 Hires New Writers
If the fact that a Now You See Me 3 movie is in the works was news to you then you’re not alone. After the second movie tanked this past summer, nobody was expecting a follow up. However, it seems that the studio had been so enthused by the success of the original that they immediately signed off on two sequels which brings us to where we are now. Fortunately, they are making some changes with this installment: Neil Widener and Gavin James will be writing this film. The duo are relatively new but hopefully they can breathe this franchise back to life. At the moment the main cast are said to be returning for the third film.
Arrowverse Crossover
The Arrowverse is alive and kicking. All of the shows (Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow) have come back strong this autumn and now we can now look forward to a four-day crossover event. In previous years we have seen The Flash and Arrow crossover but in just three weeks time all four of the shows will meet. The CW posted a little teaser which you can check out below:
Cloak And Dagger Delayed
In April, Freeform announced that they were developing a new series based on the Marvel comic: Cloak and Dagger. We had hoped to see it air early in the new year but the show’s release has been delayed to Winter 2018 as the first script undergoes rewrites. I have never been a massive fan of Freeform (I imagine that I’m not their target demographic) but as they lose their biggest shows, Pretty Little Liars and Switched at Birth, they are running out of successful content.
Are you still interested in the Now You See Me franchise? Are four shows too many for a crossover? Do you care about the Cloak and Dagger series? Let me know in the comments.
Categories News, Uncategorized•Tags arrow, cloak and dagger, DC, freeform, legends of tomorrow, now you see me, supergirl, the flash
Published on November 2, 2016 December 12, 2016 by booksandangstLeave a comment
With one week until the US elections, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are dominating the news cycle and as somebody in the UK who is largely unaffected by the results, I’m sitting back and loving all of it. However, there is other news – cooler news. If you don’t know what I’m talking about and you find yourself asking: wait, what happened? I’ve got you covered.
The Defenders Run Will Be 8 Episodes
Marvel have a pretty solid formula in both their films and series but they are straying from it with the upcoming series: The Defenders. Whilst their other Netflix series have had 13 episode seasons, The Defenders will only be 8 episodes long.
I have mixed feelings on this. Obviously I want as much of this show as possible but if they only have 8 episodes of material then I wouldn’t want it stretched out to 13 and risk losing quality. If that dampened your excitement for the show maybe these new set photos will cheer you up.
Disney Developing Live-Action Snow White Movie
Disney are roaring ahead with their live-action remakes and the next classic in their sights is Snow White. The Girl on the Train screenwriter, Erin Cressida Wilson, is in negotiations to write the script with Benk Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land) attached as songwriters. The movie will include some of the original music but new songs are also being written.
In recent years there have been two separate attempts at a live-action Snow White in Mirror, Mirror and Snow White & the Huntsman but neither really captured the magic of Disney’s animated version. Hopefully Disney won’t fall short of their own original.
The Flash Loses Its Second Director
Rick Famuyiwa has become the second director this year to leave ‘The Flash’ movie over creative differences. I’m trying to have faith in the DCEU, I really am, but they make it so difficult. I mean, what are Warner Bros. doing to these directors? Just let them make a nice movie!
The film was set to begin production early next year and was slated for a March 2018 release but whilst Warner Bros. are yet to release a statement, it seems unlikely that that will happen.
Do you wish that the Defenders was longer? Are you tired of Disney remakes? Do you think that The Flash movie will get its act together in time for a 2018 release? Let me know in the comments.
Categories News, Uncategorized•Tags DC, DCEU, Disney, marvel, netflix, Snow White, the defenders, the flash
Published on October 7, 2016 December 12, 2016 by booksandangstLeave a comment
The CW heroes are back; Westworld and No Tomorrow premiered; and Pitch continues to be awesome. This was a good week in television but what was the best show? Before we get to that, I have to appreciate some of the runner-ups.
Westworld – for making westerns cool. It wasn’t easy, but you did it.
Arrow – for reintroducing quality fight choreography to network television.
Pitch – for keeping up an insane level of awesome three episodes in.
Modern Family – for talking about a presidential election without talking about the presidential election.
Gotham – for creating an episode that I actually remembered the plot of ten minutes later.
How To Get Away With Murder – for… well, it was just especially good this week. Props.
The Flash came back strong in its Season 3 premiere. The much awaited “Flashpoint” was everything that you could have hoped for.
Something that I noticed last season with the Earth-2 story-line was that this show is very good at creating alternate timelines. It’s always fun and interesting to watch. Of course, the show has matured since its perpetually sunny first season but they still made sure that there were plenty of moments to laugh in this episode. The running ‘Kid Flash’ gag never stopped being entertaining for me.
Grant Gustin was fantastic – going from happy puppy to wounded puppy (let’s face it, he’s always a puppy) flawlessly and really selling the stakes involved in this new arc.
If you read my reviews last season then you’ll know that I wasn’t the biggest fan of Danielle Panabaker’s Caitlin Snow but her brief appearance in this first episode has me optimistic that she could actually be enjoyable to watch this season.
Unfortunately we will not be able to see how “Flashpoint” has affected the wider Arrowverse but we can look forward to another episode of consequences next week.
This Week’s Worst: Once Upon A Time
Once Upon A Time is a tricky show to get right: it doesn’t hide it’s camp nature and that in and of itself is awesome. It’s essentially a fairy-tale for grown ups but it felt like they forgot the “grown ups” part this week.
In it’s sixth season, this show has explored almost all the stories that could make compelling television but they aren’t stopping. This week the gang faced off against the Count of Monte Cristo – I’m sorry, are you not intimately familiar with your 19th century French literature? – and it ended almost exactly how you thought it would.
I still have faith in this show but this week wasn’t its best showing, especially compared to everything else (and I’m including Gotham in that category).
What did you watch this week? Do you agree or disagree with anything that I’ve said? Let me know in the comments.
Categories Features, TV, Uncategorized•Tags arrow, gotham, how to get away with murder, modern family, once upon a time, pitch, the flash, TV, westworld
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Produced by Tom Dowd
Album Body Wishes (Bonus Track Version)
Baby Jane Lyrics
Baby Jane, don't leave me hanging on the line
Baby Jane, don't it make you feel sad
Baby Jane, I've said all I want to say
'Cause I've got ideas and plans of my own
How did the single chart?
“Baby Jane” was #1 in Belgium, Germany, and the U.K. It was also #2 in Switzerland, #3 in Austria and Sweden.
What certifications has the single received?
“Baby Jane” is certified gold in France, selling over 500,000 units, and silver in the U.K. with over 250,000 units sold.
"Baby Jane" Track Info
Written By Rod Stewart & Jay Davis
Mixed At Record Plant Recording Studios
Drums Tony Brock
Background Vocals Jim Cregan & Jay Davis
Synthesizer Kevin Savigar
Bass Jay Davis
Guitar Robin Lemesurier & Jim Cregan
Recorded At The Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA
Body Wishes (Bonus Track Version) Rod Stewart
1. Dancin’ Alone
2. Baby Jane
3. Move Me
4. Body Wishes
5. Sweet Surrender
6. What Am I Gonna Do (I’m So In Love With You)
7. Ghetto Blaster
8. Ready Now
9. Strangers Again
10. Satisfied
11. That’s What Friends are For
12. Body Wishes (Alternate Mix)
13. Move Me (Alternate Mix)
14. What Am I Gonna Do (I’m So In Love With You) [Alternate Mix]
15. Strangers Again (Alternate Mix)
16. Walkin’
17. You’re in My Heart (The Final Acclaim) [Live At the Greek Theater]
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/ Programs / Health Science
The B.S. in Health Science degree is specially designed for students who want to pursue a program in Pre-Physical Therapy or Pre-Occupational Therapy. The curriculum includes most of the prerequisites and science courses required for admission to a Doctor of Physical Therapy program or a master’s/doctoral-level program in occupational therapy. The coursework is designed to enhance students’ knowledge of the health sciences and prepare them for the academic rigors of graduate school.
Zane Boles
Having a smaller campus allows faculty and staff to invest in students’ lives on a level that isn’t possible at larger universities. Maintaining a balanced life as a student-athlete can be difficult, but it helps to know that everyone here is doing whatever they can to help you succeed.
Why should I choose Health Science?
Majors learn about health from physiological, anatomical, kinesiological and functional points of view while completing the prerequisites required for graduate studies in physical therapy or occupational therapy.
What are some courses I will take?
Anatomical Kinesiology
Health Science Clinical I-III
Seminar in Health Science
Rehab and Therapeutic Exercises
Exercise Testing and Prescription
Catalog Information
Health Science B.S.
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A Compassionate Heart
Sara Hayward says she got the best of both worlds during her education at UMHB. Intellectually, she was able to gain a deep understanding of the physiological processes that occur within the body, which helps her in her daily work as a physical therapist at Baylor Scott & White’s Roney Bone and Joint Institute. But she also discovered that showing love to her patients was just as important. “The kindness and genuine caring nature of the faculty and staff at UMHB helped me develop a more compassionate heart for my patients and to learn to meet them where they are in their road to recovery.”
What are some career options?
Health Science majors can choose many career paths:
Graduate studies in physical therapy
Graduate studies in occupational therapy
Community health educator
Who is hiring UMHB students?
UMHB Health Science students have found success in many different areas:
Scott & White Roney Bone & Joint Institute
Stephenville Sports Rehab
Sportherapy
Where can I go to grad school?
Many Health Science students have continued their education at these schools:
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Texas Women’s University
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor DPT program
What is special about Health Sciences at UMHB?
Students complete three Health Science Clinical courses which allow them to observe and shadow three licensed physical or occupational therapists, in different areas of specialization, to gain insight into those specialties.
Several of the undergraduate courses in this major are taught by licensed physical and occupational therapists; this allows students to interact with professionals in their area of interest and gain a better understanding of their chosen profession.
Students have the opportunity to assist professors in cutting-edge nutritional, exercise, health, and rehabilitative research in UMHB’s state-of-the-art laboratories.
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The Bard’s Tale 4: Barrows Deep Director’s Cut Is Releasing In August, New Endgame Chapter Added To The Game
Jul 12, 2019 Joshua Goodpastor 0 comments 59
Credit: inExile Entertainment
The Bard’s Tale 4 launched in 2018 and served as the most recent addition to The Bard’s Tale series. The game was met with positive reviews, and back in February, it was announced that the game would be returning in a Director’s Cut form. The release date is finally set for August, bringing a treasured game back to the forefront of fan’s minds.
The game addresses feedback from the initial launch and has implemented thousands of fixes and tweaks to improve the experience. The developer, inXile Entertainment, said they are also releasing the long-awaited DLC with the game in the form of a new final chapter.
The updated version of this game will include new enemies, weapons, and items as well as an updated interface to make it easier to play the game. More classes will also be available as well as gender character creation options and additional difficulty settings for more of a challenge.
Combat and encounters have been rebalanced, and the game will now provide full gamepad support for players wishing to use a controller. The game is a dungeon crawler role-playing game that is experienced from a first-person perspective. It is built using Unreal Engine 4 with the textures and 3D objects having their unique style.
Upon its original release, it was generally well received, but many noted errors in the narrative and mechanics of the game as a whole. This updated version is a chance for the developers to work out the kinks and bring the game into its full potential. They have worked tirelessly with fan feedback, and all changes were based upon that work.
Although this will be the shining star of the developer’s recent releases, many are wondering what is next in The Bard’s Tale series. They promise that this new chapter will add hours of additional content to the game, but no details were released as to what is included. Hopefully, this will satisfy the hunger of fans and give the developers some time to work on their next title.
The Bard’s Tale 4 Director’s Cut is currently available for pre-purchase on Steam and will also be coming to GOG. The game will also be coming to PS4 and Xbox One upon its release. If you already own the original version of the game, you will receive all the Director’s Cut content and updates as a free update to your current game.
The release is scheduled to happen on August 27th, and many are excitedly awaiting the updates to their favorite game. The developers have made no mention of the next title that will be available, but at least fans have a chance at the new content in last year’s release.
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Interview: HAYP chats with the core team of URVAKAN Festival
You may have heard the buzz about URVAKAN Festival, (“GHOST” Festival in Armenian) a cultural festival that aims to reanimate neglected/phantom urban spaces through music and performance. As a gallery that thrives on bringing art into the public space, HAYP Pop Up couldn’t resist the opportunity to partner when the URVAKAN team invited us to co-curate several site-specific installations at some of the venues. URVAKAN Festival will take place in Yerevan, Armenia from May 3-5, 2019 with a full day and night program principally at the Children’s Railway Station in the Hrazdan Gorge, with other locations still TBA. In an attempt to de-mystify the ghost, we had a little chat with the team behind the magic. Take a look at the below interview for some insider info on who, what, where, and why URVAKAN is happening, and how to book your tickets.
HAYP Pop Up Gallery: Let’s start by you guys introducing yourselves. As we understand, you’re quite a big group of creatives, whose on the team and what brought you together?
URVAKAN Festival: That’s true. The core of the team mostly consists of people with Armenian roots, but who actually cares about nationality nowadays? We believe in a world without borders, that’s why our team consists of young creatives currently residing in New York, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and more, with rather different backgrounds: from digital marketing and cultural events, to restaurant business, mobile apps and even beauty salons. Of course, there’s a lot of amazing people from Yerevan helping us – obviously, this couldn’t happen without local expertise. We also inspired some of our international friends who quickly jumped on board and became the puzzle’s missing pieces. All in all, everyone who’s on board is attached to the creative industries and hopes to promote and develop this area in every way possible.
What brought us together? Well, some of us know each other for more than a decade, some got close just several months ago, but our common story starts in December 2018, when the core of the team accidentally visited Armenia. Since then there have been a number of trips around the country, and dozens of new acquaintances that showed us a different side of Armenia. So here we are, trying to bring together our experiences with a humble desire to give back to the country that inspired us so much. With a proper respect to the roots – that’s why the collaboration with the local scene is so important for us and you can see a lot of Armenian artists in the line-up. It’s up to the public to decide if we succeed.
HPG: Why “Urvakan”? Where does the festival name come from, and what format should people expect?
UF: We started by traveling around Armenia. Throughout these trips, we found that aside from historic cultural attractions, the country is filled with numerous astonishing locations that you simply can’t find in a tourist guide. Examples like the Composers’ Creativity House hidden in the mountains of Dilijan, where Dmitri Shostakovich was staying for four years in the 1960’s. His piano is still there – standing in a cold, partly destroyed cottage. Or the Writers’ Resort on the shore of Lake Sevan, a unique example of early Soviet architectural avant-garde, just to name a few. All of them are striking architectural forms, with layered histories and meanings, however, most of them are in a terrible condition, abandoned and forgotten. There’s a certain “ghostly” state of these spaces [which is what the word “urvakan” means], neither “alive” as they were decades ago, nor dead. Something in between. A fascinating, uneasy beauty. We hope that our approach to the festival locations will help investors see these half-abandoned spaces from a different angle – filled with contemporary music of various genres, performance, street and digital art, food markets and whatever else; they have all the potential to become important public spaces in the future. We’d really love to share our vision and show rather than tell that these landmarks are more than cultural heritage, they’re also a great opportunity for the city’s new culture.
Lake Sevan Writers’ Resort, Armenia.
Amphitheater at the Composers’ Creativity House (also known as Composers’ Resort) in Dilijan, Armenia.
Archival image of Yerevan’s Master Plan by Tamanyan exhibiting the importance of parks and greenery to the city’s original urban design.
HPG: Can you tell our readers a little bit about the main location you chose for the festival at the Children’s Railway station? Why this location and what makes it so special to you?
UF: The Yerevan Children’s Railway “Paros”, part of a park named after Abovyan, was built in the 1930’s, designed by architect Mikael Mazmanyan. It turned out to be his last work in Armenia. It was one of the pioneer’s [Soviet Youth organization] railways, which were serviced by children and supposed to raise interest in working on the railway. The railroad loop passes [til this day] through the Hrazdan gorge for 2 km. Alexander Tamanyan, the author of Yerevan’s master [urban] plan, believed that the Hrazdan gorge should be a place of rest for Yerevan residents, giving them the opportunity to enjoy nature and breathe fresh air. He planned for the two tunnels, which are still the shortest path to the railway, to bring fresh air from the gorge to the city center. Isn’t this amazing?
Recently we found old albums with a lot of photos from city holidays, community work days, competitions, concerts held on the railway. This place was truly loved by townsfolk. Nowadays it’s still functioning, however, it’s in a semi-abandoned state. With the help of the city authorities and volunteers we’re going to clean the gorge’s landscape and turn the railway into “Urvakan” city with its own markets, art pieces and three stages celebrating the life-giving power of music.
View of the Children’s Railway Station as seen descending from the steps of the Hrazdan Gorge gardens.
The balcony of the Children’s Railway Station looking onto the river canal.
One of the two tunnels connecting the Hrazdan Gorge to Mashtots Park, in Yerevan City Centre.
HPG: Who will be performing at Urvakan, and in particular, who on the line-up are you most excited about?
UF: Our three-day multifaceted program will feature some outstanding and challenging performances by more than 70 artists from 24 countries. It’s quite hard to pick favourites, but you would most definitely want to come for the opening concert [Friday, May 3], which will feature two pieces by Iranian composer Ata Ebtekar aka “Sote”, and Russian multidisciplinary artist and musician HMOT aka “Stas Sharifullin”. Ata’s “Sacred Horror In Design” is a marvellous audiovisual piece first presented at Berlin’s CTM Festival, which brings together traditional Middle East instruments and current music technologies, featuring Dutch visual artist Tarik Barri (he’s worked with Thom Yorke, Flying Lotus, Robert Henke). Whereas HMOT will present a commissioned, site-specific piece based on Yerevan’s architectural plans, to be performed by a group of local contemporary musicians alongside with Sergey Letov, the Soviet and Russian avant garde / free jazz music legend.
Photo still from Ata Ebtekar aka SOTE’s “Sacred Horror in Design” audiovisual performance.
As for the rest of the program, there are lots of highlights – both during the day and night programmes. The performance by the one and only Russell Haswell is one you cannot miss for sure. Then, there’s American avant garde music legend Anna Homler, who will play one of her pieces with a little help from another great British artist Rupert Clervaux. You also definitely should catch Italy’s Mana presenting his debut album, just released at Hyperdub, and Egyptian ZULI. The night program is also a big thing: our friends from Moscow’s Gost Zvuk label will perform at the opening party (don’t miss Vtgnike’s live performance – he will present his new album just released on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People- and a lot more. Saturday night [May 4] will feature multiple stages filled with audiovisual shows and current dance music trends. As you can see, there’s a lot to experience! A detailed program will soon be published on our website – urvakan.com.
One important thing to mention is that we really wanted to focus on musicians from Eastern Europe and the Middle East – on those whose voices are often excluded from the global context. There’s a huge underground music scene in Russia, almost unknown to the West. During our research we stumbled upon lots of outstanding talents in Armenia, we have a certain focus on the Iranian scene as well. We believe in the uniting power of music. Last but not least to mention – the whole program is set together by the international group of curators behind Klammklang, Synthposium, Radio Morpheus, Rabitza, Richterfest and other internationally acclaimed new music initiatives.
HPG: You’ve been curating a series of events including the “Alabalanitsa” nights at the Mirzoyan Library, and live streamings with Radio Morpheus. How does this fit into your overall concept and what are you trying to achieve through this?
UF: Besides the festival itself, Urvakan’s mission is to offer a platform for musicians and artists working in Armenia and worldwide through a wealth of year-round projects. Besides “Alabalanitsa” and Radio Morpheus, our curators from Proun Gallery held a “Bring Your Own Beamer” event at the Hay-Art exhibition space. This is just the start, but we’ve already achieved some results in building new formats for connecting between local and foreign creative communities.The most important thing is that all these events give us a chance not only to share our views and experience, but also to receive new, unique knowledge from locals. That’s what Urvakan is about.
HPG: As a group of individuals with a lot of experience in the music and festival industry, what is your vision for the future of such events in Armenia?
UF: It’s hard to say, we can’t predict the future. But for sure we can invent it together. There’s a great tradition in jazz, classical and popular music, dance music is also becoming a worldwide phenomena, so it’s time to step up with something existing on the margins of these genres. Something that definitely offers a challenging experience, but this experience is quite rewarding as well.
HPG: And on a practical note, where can people go to learn more about URVAKAN and buy tickets?
UF: For the latest news and updates follow our accounts on Facebook, VK, Instagram and Telegram. And, of course, don’t forget to visit our website – urvakan.com – and get your ticket. The early bird main pass tickets are already on sale, and they’re quickly selling out!
Early Bird Tickets are on sale on Resident Advisor until April 14, 2019.
Tickets also available on Tomsarkgh.
URVAKAN Festival will take place from May 3-5, 2019 at several venues in Yerevan, Armenia. Follow them on social media for more info!
Reading fortunes and being seen
February 7, 2019 February 8, 2019 Leave a comment
Aramazt Kalayjian is a multi-disciplinary artist from New York, currently based in Yerevan, Armenia since 2011. The below text is a reflection on “If walls could see” a collaborative project with installation by Armenuhi Yeghanyan, and durational performance by Aramazt Kalayjian. The project took place in the framework of HAYP 12 12 12 RETROSPECTIVE, an exhibit that looked at the medieval caravanserai as metaphor for cultural meeting point. Themes of exchange, travel, displacement, fantasy, translation and encounters pervaded the works on view from December 12 -24, 2018 on the third floor of the Armenia Market.
Hayku 30.0
Coffee is Seeing
Sometimes we need the other
Here we are all one
We all want to be seen and we do it in very different ways.
I had created a set of wall-hanging sculptures featuring haiku poetry, separated into three layers of glass, 4cms apart, making a visual puzzle. It was simple and playful.
Complimenting this I performed coffee cup readings. My guest would arrive and I would prepare coffee and read their fortune. I would write a haiku poem on an Armenian language typewriter and give them their reading to remember.
The door opens, I have received another guest. I greet them warmly and light the gas stove. She sits before me, asking questions. She seems familiar but I do not recognise her. “Do you remember me?” she asks. I mention a certain familiarity but that is all. “Then good, I won’t tell you anything more to see if your cup reading is authentic.”
I laugh and we drink our coffee and flip the cup. I was being tested but I had faith in the coffee grains creating their story on the white porcelain walls and in my ability to read the symbols and weave meaning.
My mother had an abortion before I was born. She was 19 and not ready for motherhood. Then, as now, taboos surrounded her decision. She was depressed, ashamed and in reclusion before my birth. I came along, like Simba, a joy for our family and community. The first-born of the youngest child in her family.
She had not had the childhood she would have hoped for. Her father passed away when she was just three. She had taken on the role of helper of the house, cooking, cleaning and babysitting cousins. She had become a mother before she was a woman. I understood why she began to train me, and later my brothers, to be her aids around the house. She later confessed she had always wanted a daughter.
On days off from school we were handed individual lists of chores in my mother’s handwriting or we were given extraordinarily inconvenient tasks such as reading a book aloud into a tape recorder so that there was proof of our having practiced reading that day. My father would take the cassette and listen to us read 40 Days of Musa Dagh or Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys on his commute to work. This was his way to make us present in his life. He could listen to our voice despite his absence from home.
It is here that I learned to cook and clean and learn and evolve. It wasn’t the best nor the worst childhood; there was love and anguish; there was appreciation and neglect; guilt and innocence; polarity also revealed duality.
The very first thing I learned from my mother was to make coffee. And this was a profound desire of mine.
Observing the family gatherings of my youth, the ceremonial aspect of receiving coffee at the end of a meal or an evening was divine. The first sips were spiritual ecstasy when the coffee was good. When it wasn’t there was criticism sprinkled in with gossip and conversation. It became a challenge I wanted my skills to meet.
Cups of coffee. Something human and universal being shared. First dates and breakups. Beginnings, interviews, being fired or laid-off. All can start with a cup of coffee and often do. Friends gather over coffee, families end gatherings with it. You can drink it before and after sex and at any other time!
Coffee is said to have been discovered by shepherds in the village of Kaffa, Ethiopia. Their goats were, according to legend, exceptionally frisky and energetic after eating the seed and flesh of the coffee fruit. It was considered to have magical or spiritual qualities and in Ethiopian culture today the coffee ceremony remains a staple in welcoming guests. Upon a bed of grass, several people gather around a clay pot and coals while the coffee beans are roasted on a pan over a naked fire. Frankincense is burnt. The coffee seed is roasted until the beans are browned and crushed by a mortar and pestle and then poured into the Jebenna, the aforementioned thin-necked clay pot Ethiopians use for coffee ceremonies.
Since then, the bean has been cultivated in a variety of different ways and its export from Ethiopia to the Ottoman Empire popularized the drink as a commodity and a pastime. As the grinds became more refined, so too did the tastes and methods of preparation. Mixes with milk and sugar, sometimes with tea or honey. The culture of coffee was born and it was widespread by the late 19th century.
We, humans, have sought meaning in patterns since the early cave paintings depicting man and nature. Cloud gazing, I-Ching coins, tea leaves, all offer a canvas from which patterns and meaning have been cultivated for centuries. Coffee grounds, naturally, offer this too.
I learnt how to read a cup from my mother and uncle. The reading always took place at the very end of a meeting or a gathering in our home. My mother read the cups as if to offer relief from worry emphasizing the positive and reminding the listener to be more aware of opportunities and others. My uncle, however, approached the matter as if reading tarot cards. His own interest in spirituality gave him a foundation to both see and to connect with the person before him when reading the coffee cup.
Having witnessed this throughout my childhood, I sensed that there was magic in the cup. Here was a way to truly connect with the love and attention channelled into it. It seemed like people felt they were being seen for who they truly were.
We trust the foreigner. We trust the neutral, non-attached person that is disconnected from our lives. People seek this possibility and coffee cups offer it.
I wanted to create this experience a long time ago and the caravanserai with HAYP offered the perfect opportunity, in the land of open doors and tinted windows.
The response at the exhibition was completely unexpected. I had imagined sitting in a room and having maybe one or two people arrive for coffee. Instead, the demand was great. Perhaps people have an inherent desire to sit and be heard. There is a comparison with Catholic confession, with the priest and the sinner. In our case the roles are perhaps more nebulous, beyond reader and listener.
What was most astounding was how readily people shared openly, with the cup between us. I was asked if I could see people looking negatively on them and their life. One woman described an emotional affair with another man and asked if that was worse than a physical affair. Someone else told me their entire story, from youth to marriage, and how her husband had became a brutal person, triggering a suicide attempt. All of this to me! I am no one. A man that made cups of coffee, a man that told stories as a way to see and be seen.
I was surprised by the variety of people that came along. Two women working in the wig store below the exhibition space arrived one by one. The quirky owner of the building with his right-hand man, seeking advice based on his profound belief in fortunes. An elder, an adult, and one of our youth, arrived at one point representing three generations of women. Artists, designers, performers, dancers, architects, musicians, writers, hopefuls, seekers, lovers of life, ordinary folk, all lined up for a free cup and a fortune, written in short form, as a memento.
I felt a deep responsibility. To remain as neutral as possible when sitting in front of another. To try to be totally absent of ego and present in the moment while interpreting the grains and the patterns, however subtle or bold. I did not want to color the story with my own and instead took symbols from the cup, interpreting meaning, somehow, to reveal simple truths.
I was left feeling exhausted and full of gratitude.
written by Aramazt Kalayjian
edited by Raffi Ouzounian
photography by Ed Tadevossian
video by Karén Khachaturov
A walk around Oda[r]isque
by Aram Atamian
Note by the editor: Aram Atamian is the author, choreographer and performer of “Oda[r]isque”, a participatory performance and installation that took place over the course of three days, from December 20-22, 2018 at HAYP Pop Up Gallery in the context of HAYP 12 12 12 RETROSPECTIVE.
0° a walk around Oda[r]isque
From top: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Odalisque with Slave, 1839; Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1852-59; Silvia Sleigh, The Turkish Bath, 1973; Oda[r]isque #1: Aramazt, 2018; Oda[r]isque #16: Mary, 2018; Oda[r]isque #18: Petros, 2018; Oda[r]isque #21: Karen, 2018.
“You’re coming from behind the mountain” is how my Persian-Armenian friend translated one of his favorite Armenian idioms to me. It means roughly the same thing as the English idiom “You’ve been living under a rock”, but also, he explained, implies this person-from-the-other-side has a certain wildness or is ‘unbridled’ or ‘unleashed’. The Armenian word sandsardsak came up to describe this shade of meaning in particular. During my research in preparation for Oda[r]isque, a participatory performance and installation for HAYP’s final exhibit 12-12-12, this idiom kept coming back to me. My notes in my phone remain from this conversation sometime in 2016:
Screenshot of a smartphone note from 2016
The three dashes [- – -] indicate where you can insert your pronoun of choice, depending on who is coming from behind the mountain. As the project was coming together, I asked a friend from Yerevan if this idiom was familiar as I was considering having it be a subtitle of the project and wanted to make sure it was relevant. She didn’t recognize it, but she suggested the word sandsardsak as an alternative to the idiom [1].
The Program/instructions that were given to all attendees of Oda[r]isque on December 20th-22nd from 7:00-9:00pm AMT.
Oda[r]isque!
Thank you so much for coming! Together we’ll be hijacking classical 19th century orientalist images to playfully research connections between geography, identity, and fantasy.
Step 1: grab whichever props immediately look appealing to you-no need to overthink.
Step 2: together we’ll collaborate on making an image. We can use the blue book [2] as inspiration or just jump right in.
Step 3: I’ll shoot our images and they will be on view here for the remainder of the exhibition for our collective reflection and enjoyment. With your permission, they will be compiled and accessible on the @odarisque Instagram account [3].
[reverse side]
The special thing about orientalism is that it is a personal fantasy about direction. A fantasy of what is not here but over there—a line of desire that can be followed in the imagination and then, for some, by setting out on foot to follow that line. What one hopes to find over there could be an escape, it could be freedom from sexual repression, it could be a new life or even a new self. In the past this has been oriented around a myth of an East and a West, Orient and Occident [4]. What is it, though, when our fantasies of possibility are linked to home and identity instead of just the exotic? How do we use these two-directional fantasies of ownership to conjure home and to define ourselves?
I was initially concerned that
People wouldn’t want to be photographed.
People wouldn’t feel like subjects.
I found to my surprise and relief that
Most people like to be photographed.
Each person, it seemed to me, had such a precise point of view that the passive objects of the source paintings were entirely replaced by critical, powerful subjects.
While each collaborator more or less had a strong vision for the image they wanted to make, almost always this was realized with input from the entire audience. This happened completely naturally with no suggestion from me. I was very pleased about this because I knew the whole project would fall apart conceptually if it was my gaze and direction behind each image. I set a rule for myself to be more of an assistant and camera operator for each participant’s vision.
Each day’s mood was remarkably different. The first day was only one sided, and we essentially started with all the props on set and people more or less took away and rearranged as the shoot moved on. While the party atmosphere of the first day was most welcome, for the second day I wanted to test the double-sided set to give people that initial choice. Also, we cleared the set after each shoot so the selection of props became another defining moment. The images from the second day have a sparser, more deliberate and critical feel to me for these reasons. The third day was somehow a happy mix of both-there was a boldness and confidence to the image-making that made me wonder how this project could evolve over a longer period.
The Odalisque [5]
A classic trope in 19th century Orientalist painting in which a female, typically non-Muslim, member of a haram reclines luxuriously. Usually these were painted by Western European men in their own studios embellished from scraps of fact into a speculative fantasy of a place east of them which they may never have visited. Sarah Ahmed explains:
The Orient is not an empty place; it is full, and it is full of all that which is “not Europe” or not Occidental, and which in its ”not-ness” seems to point to another way of being in the world – to a world of romance, sexuality and sensuality [6]. In a way, orientalism involves the transformation of “farness” as a spatial marker of distance into a property of people and places. “They” embody what is far away. Thus “farness” takes the direction of a wish, or even follows the line of a wish. The “far” often slides into the exotic, after all. The exotic is not only where we are not, but it is also future oriented, as a place we long for and might yet inhabit. […] This fantasy of lack, of what is “not here,” shapes the desire for what is “there,” such that “there” becomes visible on the horizon as “supplying” what is lacking […] Desire directs bodies toward its object; in desire, we face the desired and seek to get closer. Desire confirms that which we are not (the object of desire), while it pushes us toward that “not,” which appears as an object on the horizon, at the edge of our gaze, always getting closer even when it is not quite here [emphasis added.] [7]
180° 360°
The visa stamp
“Rather than ‘eastern’ or ‘western’, Armenia was imaged as a borderland, ‘in-between’ East and West. The image of the Armenians, therefore, was characterized by ambiguity.
The Armenian population was dispersed across the borders of the Russian, Persian and Ottoman Empires, a region frequently portrayed as the boundary between civilization and barbarism or Europe and Asia. It was also perceived as a religious borderland, the meeting place of Christianity and Islam. Armenia was problematic as it seemed to straddle these borders.[8]”-Jo Laycock
This occidental/oriental fantasy seems to operate over vast expanses of land and sea and across continents. Armenians, on the other hand, experience a distinctly local fantasy of east and west all our own which hinges entirely and precisely on the geographical marker of Mt Ararat: the terms Western and Eastern Armenian are contingent on which side of the mountain, the west or the east, a particular Armenian’s family is originally from. The entry and exit visa stamps of the Republic of Armenia depict Sis and Masis, the two peaks of Ararat, though they are entirely outside of country borders. This implies you are now entering or exiting two countries at once: the Republic of Armenia and an Other [Odar] Armenia. The other being, as Ahmed put it, a ‘not-ness’ or all that is not here.
at the center of Oda[r]ique was a woven tapestry of a screenshot I took from Google Maps of the view of the western side of Mount Ararat looking directly east to Armenia. This is the other side of the mountain, with Sis on the right and Masis on the left.
The 2.7×1.3m tapestry was woven using a digital jacquard loom, which translates a digital image into binary code which is then read by the loom and each row of threads is set automatically and then advanced by hand. Because of this, the other side of the weaving reveals the colors which were hidden on areas of the front, creating something like a negative image. Additionally, of course, the image itself is flipped. In this case the reverse of the tapestry has Sis on the left and Masis on the right, as one sees it from the RA.
On the second and third day of Oda[r]isque, both sides of the tapestry were lit creating a double-sided set. Each subject/collaborator first had to choose which side they wished to work with, decisions could have been made based on eastern/western Armenian identity, nationality, fantasy, longing, aesthetic preference, whim, or some combination of these. Whatever the deciding factors were, once this choice became the first step of the process the images began to take on a more deliberate and critical tone as there was now an invitation to take a side and define it.
Research Bibliography for Oda[r]isque:
Ahmed, Sarah. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Akomfrah, John. 2013. The Stuart Hall Project. DVD. United Kingdom: Smoking Dog Films.
Boone, Joseph Allen. The Homoerotics of Orientalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Epstein, Mikhail. “On Transculture.” Academic Exchange 7, no. 5 (2005). http://www.emory.edu/ACAD_EXCHANGE/2005/aprmay/sidebar.html
Laycock, Jo. Imagining Armenia. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Peltre, Christine. Orientalism in Art (New York : Abbeville Press, 1998).
Razlogov, Kirill. “Parajanov in prison: an exercise in transculturalism.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 12, No. 1 (2018): 37-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2018.1422223 .
Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
What now
I consider the live photoshoot to be the main piece and the resulting images as a kind of glorified documentation. However, seeing the results of everyone’s extremely thoughtful and playful work I think they would function quite well on their own. I’m starting to plan a physical publication with pieces of writing accompanying each image in collaboration with the participants. Until then, the Instagram catalogue, @odarisque, is a placeholder and you’ll find any/all updates right there.
Another Armenian friend from Tehran confirmed that this idiom is regularly used in in the Persian-Armenian dialect.
Christine Peltre, Orientalism in Art (New York : Abbeville Press, 1998).
If you wish to get in touch, you can e-mail me at aramatamianstudio[at]gmail[dot]com.
Which caused its fair share of problems: most orientalist imagery can be read as a biproduct and tool of colonization and imperialism. See Edward Said’s Orientalism for more on this.
Famous interventions with this trope include Manet’s Olympia, where instead of imagining a sex-slave from a foreign land he appropriates the pose and composition exactly but with a sex-worker and her maid in a contemporary Parisian setting. Also of note is Sylvia Sleigh’s The Turkish Bath (1973) after the Ingres painting of the same name, which borrows certain compositional elements from the Ingres (particularly the cloning of one of the bodies) but with contemporary men in her circle including the performance artist and sculptor Scott Burton posing.
sandsardsak/սանձարձակ again comes to mind.
Sarah Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), 114.
Jo Laycock, Imagining Armenia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009), 28-29.
CALL TO PERFORMERS/Կոչ մասնակիցներին
հայերենի տեքստը ստորև ն է գտնվում
Dear artists, storytellers, musicians and performers,
HAYP Pop Up Gallery will be back in Gyumri this fall, from November 18 to 28. Our project “New Illuminations” has three different components: interviews (on-going), a workshop (nov 5-8), and an exhibition (nov 18-28).
We are a pop-up gallery, which means the gallery space will only be open for 10 days (after that, we will be gone… until our next project). We believe that performance art allows people to engage with the visual arts in new and exciting ways. That’s why we want to host events during the exhibit, and we want you to be involved!
If you have a cool concept, it’s your turn to shine!
Summer ‘16 with HAYP Pop Up Gallery
June 9, 2016 June 9, 2016 Leave a comment
Happy summer everyone! Wondering what’s in the works for HAYP these next few months? Here’s a little insight into our upcoming plans.
What’s the news with FLOW?
First off, you may have heard of or been wondering about our plans for FLOW, a summer festival for which we have been contacting artists, potential partners and funders for the past year. The project is large-scale and involves several international visual artists, and many international musical performers. The public interest and appeal is there, but the challenges lie in other expected (and unexpected) areas. A primary concern for us is everyone’s safety, especially considering the location’s proximity to the NK border. Due to recent political unrest at the borders, both the HAYP team and some of our sponsors have decided that August 2016 is not an optimal moment. For now the project is temporarily on hold. This news is both disappointing and also a blessing in disguise, as we think more time will give us the opportunity for better results.
That said, we have other exciting projects in stock. Here’s the line-up:
June 23: A Pop-Up Performance
Coming soon is an Aerial Dance Performance by Armenian-Argentinian dancer Marcela Perez. You may remember seeing Marcela perform at HAYP back in April 2015 at ANKAPital. Marcela is back from Buenos Aires and HAYP seized the opportunity to collaborate once again. What’s new this time around? We are adding some major height to her act. Marcela will be suspended from above for her aerial choreography, but this time we get to experience her whimsical movements on the rooftop lounge at Opera Suite Hotel.
The bar is called Forty-Four Sky, and cocktails, food, and hookah are available alongside a spectacular view of Yerevan. Don’t miss out on this one-time special event. There will be a showing on Thursday, June 23rd at 8:30pm and 9:30pm. DJ set to follow.
June 25: HAYP Workshop for HARTAK FESTIVAL
The second event happening in June is a Pop Up Workshop organized in the framework of the Hartak Festival organized by AEON anti-café. The workshop goal is to guide participants on how to make their ideas happen. This 3-hour workshop will involve a short presentation by HAYP, and especially hands-on work by workshop members. We’ll go over how to thoroughly develop a concept through market research and public feedback, how to seek out partnerships, locations, sponsors and more. We will share our experience and know-how on how to transform an idea into a reality. Join us with an idea, enthusiasm, and ready-to-work energy! More info and sign up available on the Hartak Festival website here. We are waiting for you!
July 3: HAYP for TUMO on VARDAVAR
HAYP Pop Up Gallery is going to join the Tumo team to celebrate Vardavar 2016, happening this year on July 3rd. HAYP will be among the various collaborators invited to participate at a day full of events, installations and fun in the major park surrounding TUMO center. We will curate a unique art installation inspired by this pagan water festival. More info coming soon, so stay tuned!
Transit via Bayandur
December 7, 2015 March 12, 2016 Leave a comment
From October 28 to November 1, HAYP Pop Up Gallery took over the Yerevan-Gyumri train with an art installation and a series of performances. One of those performances was an original project put together by Nairi Hakhverdi, titled “Literary train” (Stories from the 1920s).
“What is luck for you?” Interactive performance for “In Motion”
November 27, 2015 March 12, 2016 Leave a comment
This article was originally published on Civilnet.am on November 26.
German artist-in-residence
Three weeks ago, an artist from Stuttgart decided to perform an unexpected artistic and social experiment on the Yerevan-Gyumri train. Barbara Karsh-Chaïeb had been doing an artist residency at AKOS for a little more than two weeks when she heard about HAYP Pop Up Gallery’s exhibition project on the train, and decided to get involved.
HAYP Feature: Joseph Zakarian
Photo credits: Joseph Zakarian.
Anna and I first met Joseph Zakarian in December 2014. We had just closed off our first HAYP exhibition, and went to celebrate at Jean Paul Existential Café. It seems to happen every so often in Yerevan ; you get acquainted with new people on a night out, and somehow you end up working with them on your next project, just because you realize how aligned your ideas are.
Joseph Zakarian will be our DJ and live performer for the opening night of “The Scale of Life” our upcoming exhibit. We’re very happy to be collaborating with such a talented and open minded artist. As far as his musical genre is concerned, Joseph’s influences are Detroit Techno and Chicago House, although he loves to experiment and never sticks to one style when he’s performing.
Joseph performing in Tehran for NYE 2015. Photo credits: Joseph Zakarian.
An early aficionado, Joseph has been into electronic music since his school days when he started DJing at small house parties. He has always been enthusiastic about mixing, and that passion naturally evolved later to producing his own electronic music.
Joseph Zakarian was born in Amman, Jordan, and studied filmmaking and photojournalism here in Yerevan. He says that this particular environment helped him develop as an upcoming artist back then. A talented photographer, Joseph is currently working on combining his passion for electronic music with his academic background. In our opinion, marrying filming and photography with electronic music and performance definitely sounds like a good experiment to try out at HAYP…
Last month, Joseph’s photographs from the Armenian Presidential Elections Aftermath, (2007) were exhibited at Sararash art gallery, in his hometown of Amman.
Armenian Presidential Elections Aftermath, 2007. Photo credits: Joseph Zakarian.
Luckily, Joseph Zakarian will be staying and performing in Armenia for the next few weeks, before going back to Jordan. To find out when and where his next gigs are, follow his fan page on facebook!
We’re looking forward to see him in action on Friday.
Charlotte Poulain
FLOW – Lake Sevan 2016
By Anna K. Gargarian
Some of you may have been hearing the buzz about FLOW, HAYP’s summer project by lake Sevan. Although it was originally planned for 2015, the project will take place next summer of 2016. Why? We’ve received so many interesting proposals for collaboration by artists and musicians alike that the project has grown from a one-day event to a three-day festival. Instead of rushing things and doing a watered-down version of the project, we decided to dedicate the proper amount of time to plan and budget the FLOW we really want to see take place. What, you may ask, is this FLOW we envision?
FLOW is a three day cultural festival that includes: a temporary site-specific installation, three days of performance (dance, theater and experimental shows), and two evenings of concerts featuring local and international musicians. The unique location, Port Ayas, is a coastal campsite on Lake Sevan near Shorja village. It offers a stunning landscape for artists to work with, and an amazing experience for guests to explore art, grab a bite, take a swim, and even spend the night camping. What’s more, docked at Port Ayas is Cilicia, the legendary wooden sailboat that traveled across Europe (it took two years), and that is modeled after the historic 13th century merchant ship from the Cilicia Kingdom. The vessel measures 20m long, weighs 50 tons, and was entirely constructed from shipbuilding techniques found in medieval manuscripts.
Charlotte and I visiting the sailboat two months ago. It’s currently under renovation, but still amazing and full of character.
Exhibition Concept
The theme, FLOW, is inspired by water: it’s movement, sound, and symbolism. Water has long-been a source of creative inspiration. We invite artists to explore this theme through various media: painting, photography, installation, sculpture, video, sound…. whatever floats your boat (pun intended).
Here are some examples of works we like from around the world that have served as inspiration for this project:
Land -art installation by Gerry Berry in Ireland.
Left: Inflatable light installation by Spacecadets (Great Britain). Right: “Walk on water” pod-men by Bits’n’pieces (Boston).
“Please Touch the Art” Mirror installation by Jeppe Hein at the Brooklyn Bridge park. Photo credits: Dezeen.com.
We’ve been working hard these past two months securing the location and figuring out logistics. We’ve brainstormed with beloved local band (gone international) BAMBIR, as well as emerging musical and visual artist Raffi Semerdjian and his band Palm of Granite.
We’ve been Skyping with internationally renowned Armenian artist, Kevork Mourad (Syrian-born, New York-based painter, film-maker, and performer), and sketching and engineering large-scale sculptural works with local artists and chemists (yes, that’s right…chemists…you wait and see!).
Artist Kevork Mourad at work in his studio in New York.
If you’re interested in getting involved, don’t hesitate to contact us. We will put up a call to projects this month with more information on how to be a part of FLOW- LAKE SEVAN 2016.
Pop-Up restaurant by Muvbox in Montreal, Canada.
Stay tuned for what’s happening this month with HAYP! We’re combining forces with a new local Pop-up Restaurant lead by Victoria Aleksanyan and Arine Aghazarian to bring food and art together for a full experience of the senses. More information coming next week.
Noumeda Carbone: HAYP Resident Artist
Photo credits: Sasha Maddah Photography
Noumeda Carbone’s 6x4m wall painting “Unmapped 7” is stunning and profound: a web of intertwined vein-like forms spans across a weightless space, severed at the center. Like a butterfly split into two or a severed lung, the arterial shapes breathe both life and pain at once. “Unmapped 7” shows simultaneous connectivity and disconnect: Noumeda’s interpretation of the theme of HAYP’s exhibit “ANKAPital”, which takes a closer look at “ankaputyiun” (disconnected or non-sensical in Armenian). Carbone has been developing these “Unmapped” forms over the past few years, as seen in her wall painting from the 2012 Castro Street Art Project in Tel Aviv and in several live painting performances in Florence, Italy.
I like to give myself limits” she tells me, “I’ll work with a single form or shape in repetition, and push myself to see how far I can take it. There’s a certain rhythm and multiplicity that comes out of limiting the elements with which I work, like color and shape, an almost obsessive multidimensionality. I am very inspired by nature and creating parallel spatial dimensions”.
And in fact, what I like the most about Noumeda’s work is her ability to create deep spatial dimensions despite her minimalist graphic style. Her work conveys a fine balance and harmony between the simple and the complex.
Noumeda also created a second site-specific art piece in Armenia for HAYP Pop Up Gallery, this time in a public location at Victory Park thanks to the support of Zeitun Municipality. The wall painting was a public performance that took place last Saturday, April 25th from 2pm to 8pm in the company of dear friends, curious wanderers and art lovers who gathered under the sun with some drinks and snacks to see her creative process in action.
Noumeda’s work has been commissioned internationally, and her clients include VOGUE-TRENDS, Ferragamo, Leo Burnett, Pitti Immagine, The Guardian, Kult Magazine among others, and her works have been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine and Hi-Fructose. We are happy to say that now she can add HAYP Pop Up Gallery to her list of collaborators and Armenia to her list of international destinations! You can come by the gallery to see Unmapped 7 in person on appointment (as of the 27th, “ANKAPital” is officially closed). We also have available signed and numbered Limited Edition prints for the investment savvy Collector that are available also on appointment.
Contact: info.hayp@gmail.com | +374. (0)99.741.626 . Anna K. Gargarian.
Noumeda Carbone. Internationally renowned artist. See more of her work here: http://www.noumeda.com
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The recommended daily intake for vitamin E is 15 mg. Don't take more than 1,000 mg of alpha-tocopherol per day. This amount is equivalent to approximately 1,500 IU of "d-alpha-tocopherol," sometimes labeled as "natural source" vitamin E, or 1,100 IU of "dl-alpha-tocopherol," a synthetic form of vitamin E. Consuming more than this could increase your risk of bleeding because vitamin E can act as an anticoagulant (blood thinner).
A 55-year-old woman who gets less than 30 minutes of daily physical activity should eat five ounces of grains; two cups of vegetables; one and a half cups of fruit; three cups of milk; five ounces of meat and beans; five teaspoons of oils, and no more than 130 calories of additional fat and sugar. If she got 30 to 60 minutes of daily exercise, she could increase her intake to six ounces of grains; two and a half cups of vegetables; and up to 265 additional calories of fat and sugar.
Everyone seems to have food allergies these days, but in fact, such allergies are rare. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, while one in three adults think they have a food allergy or modify their family's diet, only about four percent do. A food allergy is an abnormal immune-system response to certain foods (most commonly, fish, shellfish, peanuts, other nuts and eggs). Symptoms can include hives, rashes, nasal congestion, nausea, diarrhea and gas. However, symptoms of food intolerance—such as intestinal distress—may mimic those of a food allergy. You may want to talk to an allergist about diagnosis and treatment. Whether you have food allergies or intolerance, you will need to develop a diet that fits your needs and avoids foods that trigger a reaction.
Though we are known for our group fitness classes, MPOWER Fitness has a wealth of trainers committed to encouraging and inspiring the community on a smaller more personal scale as well. Offering custom programming that suites each client's needs, our personal trainers utilize a fundamental approach to fitness, focusing on functional movements. Understanding that health and wellness does not lie just inside the gym, we believe that through functional fitness, we can give our clients the tools they need to live long healthy lives outside our doors.
Dallas is from Shepherd, Texas and has had a passion for athletics since she was a young girl. She moved to College Station in 2007 and soon realized her enthusiasm for well-being and helping others when she attended boot camps and group fitness classes. Since then, she has acquired her Personal Training Certification through AFAA. She is currently pursuing a degree in kinesiology with a minor in biology and nutrition with the aspiration to help others attain their own fitness ambitions. Dallas is married and has 2 amazing daughters. Outside of MPOWER Fitness and being a stay at home mom, she enjoys spending time with her family, playing sports and reading.
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Before you start a juice cleanse diet, know that drastically restricting your caloric intake to drop pounds may backfire: In a 2010 study, women placed on a 1,200-calorie diet for three weeks had elevated levels of cortisol, our primary stress hormone. [Tweet this fact!] Chronic stress has been associated with an increased risk of weight gain as well as coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, and impaired immune functioning.
For once we're not talking about breakfast but rather the recovery meal after your workout. “So many women skip post-exercise nutrition because they don’t want to 'undo the calories they just burned,'” says Amanda Carlson-Phillips, vice president of nutrition and research for Athletes’ Performance and Core Performance. “But getting a combination of 10 to 15 grams of protein and 20 to 30 grams of carbohydrates within 30 minutes of your workout will help to refuel your body, promote muscle recovery, amp up your energy, and build a leaner physique.”
SOURCES: Elaine Turner, PhD, RD, associate professor, department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Florida, Gainesville. Sharon B. Spalding, MEd, CSCS, professor, physical education and health; and associate director, Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership, Mary Baldwin College Staunton, Va. American Dietetic Association web site. Institute of Medicine at the National Academies web site.
The Center for Young Women’s Health (CYWH) is a collaboration between the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and the Division of Gynecology at Boston Children’s Hospital. The Center is an educational entity that exists to provide teen girls and young women with carefully researched health information, health education programs, and conferences.
B12: Like folic acid, B12 is essential for healthy nervous system development and function. Pregnant women who are vegans or vegetarians may fall short on B12, since it is present in animal protein and to a lesser extent in dairy. Teenage and adult women need 2.4 mcg. Recommended levels rise to 2.6 mcg for pregnant women and 2.8 mcg for lactating women.
However, 30% is still a lot of fat for one serving, so considered absolute values like how many grams of fat, carbohydrates, protein, etc. are consumed instead of relative values like "50% less fat." Additionally, reaching fitness goals is largely about calorie intake. More body fat and unwanted weight will be gained by eating 500 calories of a low-fat item than by eating 100 calories of a high-fat item, so keep this in mind.
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Air Force recognizes veterans in blue
Posted on November 22, 2017 December 28, 2017 By Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Category: Lifetimes
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas — Veterans in Blue 2017 is now available online. First launched in 2010, Veterans in Blue is a portrait collection showcasing men and women who have contributed to the security of our nation and the legacy of the Air Force.
This year, the series showcases 38 stories of service by Air Force veterans. The Airmen highlighted helped maintain readiness and our nation’s security during the Cuban missile crisis and global conflicts, drove innovation to secure the service’s future, strengthened alliances and developed leaders in all walks of life – priorities for all Airmen today.
Many of the veterans selected have continued their service by leading in businesses and their communities. Through the Veterans in Blue project, these service members share their personal stories of how the Air Force has made a difference in their lives.
“Every veteran’s contribution has helped make our Air Force what it is today, and we are proud to be able to tell the stories of these men and women and honor their service to our country,” said 1st Lt. Kippun Sumner, 3rd Combat Camera Squadron and lead for this year’s project.
The Air Force veterans honored in this year’s volume are:
Retired Gen. Edward Rice is a 1978 distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He was a command pilot with more than 4,000 flying hours in the B-1B, B-52G/H, E-3, B-2, KC-135, C-130H, T-37 and T-38.
Chad Hennings graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1988 and served as an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot flying 45 combat missions in support of Operation Provide Comfort. After separating as a captain, Hennings played for nine seasons in the National Football League, winning three Super Bowls in four years.
Retired Col. Charlie Simpson served in the Air Force as a missileer, commissioning in November 1959 and retiring in August 1989. During his time in service, Simpson was one of the missileers on duty during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Retired Col. Gary West flew more than 130 combat missions in F-15s and F-16s over Iraq and Bosnia before retiring in 2005. After retirement, West performed a 2,500-mile memorial bike trip along the East Coast of the U.S. in dedication to fallen service members.
Retired Col. Suellyn Novak is a 32-year Air Force veteran who served as a personnel officer, biomedical laboratory scientist and squadron commander. She now serves as the president of the board and executive director of a museum dedicated to veterans in Alaska.
Retired Senior Master Sgt. George Price served more than 26 years in the Air Force before retiring in August 1976. As the athletic director for Bitburg Air Base High School, Price went on to win numerous awards and was the first civilian inducted into U.S. Air Forces in Europe’s Sports Hall of Fame as the head coach with the most wins in USAFE history.
Retired Maj. Gen. Lorraine Potter was commissioned into the Air Force in 1973 as the first female chaplain. She was also the first female chaplain in the Armed Services to promote to general officer in 1999. During her military career, Potter visited and preached in 39 countries and all 50 states.
Jonathan Klein joined the Air Force as a nuclear and missile operations officer. He served for a total of 242 days on alert with the 742nd Missile Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. After separating from the Air Force as a captain, Klein went on to open his own restaurant, using the skills he learned in the service to grow his business.
Retired Senior Master Sgt. William Hardy joined the Air Force in July 1978, spending much of his 22 years of service in special-duty assignments such as first sergeant and military training instructor. Hardy retired in September 2001 and now serves as a Junior ROTC instructor at Klein Forest High School in Houston.
Stan Standridge joined the Air Force as security specialist, serving from July 1989 to July 1993. After separating, he attended the police academy and now serves as Abilene, Texas’ youngest-ever police chief.
Jerry Owens began his Air Force career in May 1968. After serving as a military working dog handler, Owens went on to work for the Dallas Police Department for 24 years. He now works as a dog trainer for a non-profit organization that provides service dogs to disabled veterans.
Retired Chief Master Sgt. Robert Brown served as an aircraft maintainer for 26 years and was hand-picked to be part of the Presidential Airlift Group, where he served Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
James Forman enlisted as a private in the Army Air Corps in 1940 and served for 14 years in both World War II and the Korean War before separating as a major. During his service, he trained recruits on camera maintenance and usage and was a photo interpretation officer.
Milton Johns flew 63 combat missions during World War II as a member of the 510th Fighter Squadron. During his career, Johns rose to the rank of major and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters.
Retired Master Sgt. Paul Dunning joined the Air Force in 1968 and crewed the F-4Ds that participated in Operation Linebacker II, a bombing campaign over North Vietnam. After retiring in 2002, he continues to crew aircraft as a civilian.
Retired Lt. Col. Tony Bevacqua joined the Air Force in 1952 and was the 55th person to solo pilot the U-2. He was the 158th pilot to fly the SR-71 and flew a total of 738 hours. He continues to involve himself in the Air Force community and currently serves as a member of the Liaison Committee for Beale AFB, California.
Chief Master Sgt. Richard Metcalf joined the Air Force in May 1973, starting his 30-year career in maintenance as a jet engine mechanic on the F-4 Phantom II. After retiring in June 2003, he opened an alpaca farm in Clovis, New Mexico, and works with his wife to educate the local community about these unique animals.
Retired Col. Paul Mootz served in the Air Force for 30 years from 1959 to 1989. During his time in the service, he developed a passion for distance running and broke the marathon 3-hour barrier in 1972. He was also named the USAFE distance running champion in 1973 and 1974.
Retired Chief Master Sgt. Gerry Leo enlisted in the Air Force in 1963 as an aircraft mechanic and spent much of his service in the Air Force Reserve, working for the 914th Airlift Wing at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station in New York. He has flown more than 10,000 hours in the C-130 Hercules as the chief flight engineer.
Ryan Daniel enlisted in the Air Force in 1996, serving as a munitions systems technician before becoming a Tops in Blue performer. During his time in service, he toured 20 countries and entertained more than 250,000 military members and civilians. Now separated, he works as a country music artist, using his talents to raise awareness on issues ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder to domestic violence.
Retired Master Sgt. Willie Ford joined the Air Force in December 1991, beginning his career as a vehicle operator before transitioning to a professional military education instructor. Retiring in 2011, he now works as a professional military education curriculum developer at Maxwell AFB – Gunter Annex, Alabama.
Retired Master Sgt. Gregory Passig joined the Air Force in 1990 and deployed to Korea, Oman, Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait before retiring in 2012. He now works as the Director of Business Operations for the 52nd Contracting Squadron, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.
Retired Col. Thomas Fagan joined the Air Force at the height of the Vietnam War in 1968, initially serving as a missileer at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming. Throughout his 30-year career, he served as a missile combat crew commander, and was one of eight military personnel chosen to build the U.S. nuclear war plan.
Retired Chief Master Sgt. Charles Milam joined the Air Force in 1955 and was one of the first air policemen to ride the Indian 34 motorcycle. Milam supervised 11 Airmen assigned to the security detail for the Presidential Advisor on Vietnam Affairs and trained Vietnamese guards who provided security for embassy staff members and their families.
Retired Lt. Col. John Marusiak Jr. completed a total of 105 missions over Europe during World War II, including providing ground cover during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Retired Lt. Col. Janet Pattison joined the Air Force in June 1992, starting her career as a missileer at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming, before retiring in February 2012. She now co-owns and operates her own business with her husband in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Retired Maj. Gen. Joe McNeil was part of the “Greensboro Four” as a college student, sitting down with three of his friends at a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter in February 1960, sparking a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality. He served for 32 years in the Air Force and the Air Force Reserve before his retirement in 2001.
Retired Col. Bruce Sturk is a 26-year Air Force veteran who commissioned in 1980 and served as an air battle manager. He is currently involved with the military community as a member of the Military Affairs Committee and president of the Civic Leaders Association at Langley AFB, Virginia.
Aubrey Palmer joined the Air Force as part of the buddy system in November 1970. He served in the air cargo career field at McChord AFB, Washington. After his separation, he went on to work as an engineer for Jefferson County, Washington for 26 years.
Irving Tyrrell Jr. commissioned into the Air Force in 1971 as an air weapons controller. While in the service, he gained an interest in computers and returned to school to earn a degree in computer science.
Retired Lt. Col. John Kidd served for 24 years in the Air Force, flying more than 7,000 hours before retiring as a C-5 instructor pilot. He now spends his time working on a hay farm in Jackson County, Oklahoma.
Retired Master Sgt. James Rangitsch entered the Air Force in 1979 and was deployed to Dharan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, in support of Operation Southern Watch. He was awarded the Purple Heart during the Khobar Towers incident.
Retired Master Sgt. Beth Yandow joined in the Air Force in July 1984, and was the first female to qualify as an airborne mission supervisor on the RC-135 in April 1995.
Retired Lt. Col. Elis Salamone began her military career in the Army before commissioning as a nurse in the Air Force. She proved herself not only as a nurse, but as a leader by managing multiple medical staff members in Germany, where she tended to injured troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kathy Durst was one of the first female Air Force Academy cadets, graduating in the top 10 percent of her class. After commissioning, she served as a T-38 instructor pilot. She now works as the first female chief pilot for a major U.S. airline.
Dr. Yardley Hunter joined the Air Force in 1975 and was one of only three women to graduate with an Air Force commission from Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her graduation from the air traffic control school in December 1975 coincided with the integration of women at the Air Force Academy where she was selected to be one of the first female air training officers.
Retired Col. Kathy Cosand was part of the first group of women to graduate from the Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training program. She was the Air Force’s first female aviator qualified on the C-141 and the first female to earn the Air Medal in 1978.
Retired Chief Master Sgt. Leslie Jones joined the Air Force in November 1983, serving for 30 years. He was deployed in support of numerous operations overseas, and now works at the lodging office at Spangdahlem AB, Germany.
View their biographies, photos and video interviews on the VIB website and the DVIDS feature page. Each veteran’s portrait will also be displayed on the fifth floor of the Pentagon in A ring between the eighth and ninth corridor.
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2019 May 14 Historical Manuscripts Grand Format Auction - DallasAuction #6210
Deng Xiaoping Signed Time Magazine with Black and White Photograph....
Deng Xiaoping Signed Time Magazine with Black and White Photograph. 8.25" x 10.75", February 5, 1979. Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping graced the cover of Time magazine after being voted "Man of the Year" by the publication. He was paramount in leading China through cultural and economic reforms. In 1977, he launched the "Beijing Spring", which allowed the general public to voice grievances and criticism towards the government, specifically the Chinese Cultural Revolution that had been launched by Mao Zedong. In the spring of 1979, Deng took his first and only visit to the United States, where he met President Carter and several members of Congress. Deng also visited the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, and the Boeing headquarters in Seattle.
The cover of Time magazine bears the likeness of Deng, and was signed on the evening of January 30, 1979 at a State dinner honoring Deng at the U.S. Capitol. The Chinese leader has signed his name in black ink above the headline, "Teng Comes Calling". The cover has been detached from the text of the magazine, which is included in the lot and contains an exclusive interview with Deng.
Accompanying the magazine is an 8" x 10", black and white photograph of Deng making a ceremonial toast during the State dinner on January 30, 1979. A letter of provenance that accompanies the piece states that the photograph was taken by the official Senate photographer, as the press and members of the public were not allowed at the event. This is a copy of the official photograph, made by the Senate photographer. It also states that the autograph was obtained by Senator Mark Hatfield in the Capitol Rotunda where the State dinner was held.
Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) was born a peasant but rose through the ranks after studying and working in France during the 1920s. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923 and later became the party's Secretary General during the 1950s. He was key in orchestrating China's economic reform during the late 1950s and early 1960s, but his policies drew the ire of Chairman Mao Zedong. After Mao's death in 1976, he came to power and led the People's Republic of China from 1978 until he stepped down in 1989. During his leadership, Deng was instrumental in opening China to the global market and foreign investment. He can be credited with boosting China into becoming a world power with one of the fastest growing economies, and for raising the standard of living for millions within China.
Condition: The cover is lightly worn at the edges and corners, but the signature is bold and clear. The magazine text is lightly toned, else very good. The accompanying photograph is fine.
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[From the web] Duterte and the ghosts of Plaza Miranda By James Ross/HRW
Human Rights Online Philippines / September 18, 2016
COMMENTARY: Duterte and the ghosts of Plaza Miranda
By: James Ross
@inquirerdotnet
Forty-five years ago, on Aug. 21, 1971, three grenades were tossed at the speaker’s podium in Manila’s Plaza Miranda, where thousands had gathered for an opposition rally. Nine people were killed and at least 100 wounded in an act of political violence that shocked the Philippines.
Opposition politicians blamed the increasingly authoritarian president, Ferdinand Marcos, for the deadly attack; Marcos blamed the insurgent Communist Party of the Philippines. A year later, Marcos declared martial law and suspended the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, putting the country on a path to dictatorship, with arbitrary arrests, torture and killings that did not let up until the “People Power” revolution of 1986 forced Marcos out of office.
Last week, on Sept. 2, unidentified assailants bombed a popular night market in Davao City while President Duterte, the city’s former mayor, was in town. The horrific attack killed at least 14 people and wounded more than 60. The Islamist armed group Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility. The next day, the President said it was his duty to protect the country and declared a “state of lawlessness.” (It has since been formally proclaimed as “a state of national emergency on account of lawless violence.-ED.) He made clear that: “It’s not martial law, but I am inviting now the … military and the police to run the country according to my specifications. … They can do what they really need to do until such time that I can say it is safe.”
Although Mr. Duterte’s reputation rests as much on his outrageous public utterances as on the things he has done, his words after the bombing were carefully chosen. The Philippine Constitution of 1987 places significant legislative and judicial checks on a president’s ability to declare martial law, a deliberate attempt to avoid a repetition of the Marcos tyranny. However, the same constitutional provision provides no explicit checks on the president as commander in chief to call on the Armed Forces of the Philippines “to prevent or suppress lawless violence, invasion or rebellion.”
Even under a president who respected human rights, calling on the military to carry out law enforcement duties would be troubling. Soldiers are trained and equipped to kill enemy fighters on the battlefield—military police aside, they are not a suitable force for carrying out law enforcement operations against civilians in a rights-respecting manner.
But this is a president who, in his short time in office, has shown not an iota of concern for human rights. His “war on drugs” has been a bloodbath. Unidentified gunmen have killed more than 1,000 people between July 1, when Mr. Duterte took office, and mid-August. Official statistics show that in the same period, police have killed 712 suspected “drug pushers and users.” Administration assertions that these deaths were not “salvagings”—police slang for extrajudicial killings—but lawful acts of self-defense, ring hollow.
Mr. Duterte’s declaration of a state of lawlessness appears less intended to bolster an overwhelmed police force or deploy the military in counterinsurgency operations—that’s been their role for decades—but rather to justify and expand the bloody path down which he has already taken the country. “There is a crisis in this country involving drugs, extrajudicial killings, and there seems to be an environment of lawlessness, lawless violence,” he said in his Sept. 3 statement. The military needed a bigger role because “these are extraordinary times.”
The immediate danger is that the Philippine military will be added to the combustible mix of trigger-happy police and vigilantes who, with Mr. Duterte’s encouragement, have gunned down men, women and children on the streets, inside their homes, and in detention centers after arrest. Recent progress in curtailing such abuses by the military, which had committed summary executions with impunity since Marcos’ time, will likely fall by the wayside.
The long-term danger may be even greater. Unless Philippine lawmakers demonstrate political will, the Davao City bombing could become Mr. Duterte’s Plaza Miranda, an atrocity of convenience to justify presidential usurpation of power. The decades since the fall of Marcos have often been difficult, but through good administrations and bad, Filipinos have held tight to the fundamental belief that respect for basic liberties and democratic institutions, however flawed in practice, were at the heart of Filipino values. Invoking people power might not be successful a second time around.
James Ross, the legal and policy director at Human Rights Watch, lived in the Philippines in the mid-1980s.
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Nov. 4 Gala to end Hinds CC’s year-long Centennial celebration with pizzazz
Posted by Cathy Hayden on Thu, Aug, 31, 2017 @ 11:08:68 AM
In PR
What happened to June, July and August? The summer months flew by for a number of us at Hinds Community College as we worked on materials for the continuation this fall of our Centennial celebration.
Hinds is 100 years old, officially on Sept. 9. Thanks to what I learned from reading a draft copy of Dr. Ben Fatherree’s history of the college, I know that Hinds didn’t start out as a college but as a boarding high school for rural boys and girls who wanted an education.
Hinds County Agricultural High School opened to 117 students on Sept. 9, 1917. A week before, on Sept. 2, with no students on campus, the school hosted the annual convention of the State Conference of Teachers with attendees allowed to board in the newly built men’s and women’s dorms.
If it weren’t for the town of Raymond’s desire to be the home of an agricultural high school in the early 1900s, there might not be a Hinds Community College today.
When the state Legislature opened the door for counties to create boarding schools for rural boys and girls, Raymond jumped on the chance, committing $5,000 in bonds to purchase about 45 acres of land that became the heart of, first, the high school and, then, in the 1920s, the college.
Because of that history, Hinds is joining with the Raymond Chamber of Commerce for a dual celebration on Sept. 9 -- the annual Raymond Country Fair and Hinds Community College’s Centennial.
The fair will be on the square in downtown Raymond. Hinds will have a prominent role in the celebration. In addition to providing entertainment, college volunteers will also be assisting the chamber with some special activities for the children’s area. Plenty of Centennial memorabilia will also be available to the public.
During the spring we had a number of Centennial events, and we have many more planned for this fall. I would like to highlight two, one that had already happened and another that will happen on Nov. 4.
On Aug. 10, we honored the 100 People Passionate about Hinds Community College. It took a great deal of planning, but it turned out to be a fun celebration for many people who have been the heart and soul of this college. Much of my summer, as well as that of a few other people, went to publishing a book honoring the 100 people. The book included short profiles of the 100 people written by a number of people, including retirees from the Raymond Campus English Department. Among the 100 People are the current governor, Gov. Phil Bryant, and a former governor, Gov. John Bell Williams, for whom the Hinds airport is named.
The 100 People Passionate about Hinds Community College
I learned a few things in the process of working on the book. One of those interesting tidbits was that state Rep. Greg Holloway of Hazlehurst is the nephew of Dr. Walter Washington, who was president of Utica Junior College from 1957 to 1969 and was later president of Alcorn State University.
Something else I didn’t know about was the career of Rosia Crisler, who was an accomplished actor, writer and singer. The mother of my former colleague Marshand Crisler, I knew her as a dedicated Hinds instructor.
Another interesting story was about former Secretary of Labor Dr. Ray Marshall, who lives in Texas now. He never finished high school but was granted entrance to Hinds after World War II by then-Registrar Mildred Herrin, who was also one of the 100 People. He and his four siblings lived in an orphanage in Mississippi after their mother died in 1939.
The Centennial celebration has been a lot of fun and will continue to be throughout September and October. For more information about the Centennial, click here. For a list of events, click here.
Our final event will be the Centennial Gala on Nov. 4 at the Muse Center. I’ve already bought a new dress I’m looking forward to wearing! I’m expecting the Gala to be a lot of fun, with a silent auction and reception at 5:30 p.m. and a dinner and program at 6:30 p.m. Our Hinds talent will be featured, including the Jubilee Singers, Hi-Steppers, Jazz Band and Montage Theatre of Dance.
The best part is that proceeds go to the Centennial Endowment to fund future college needs, including student scholarships and faculty development. Anyone who can’t make it to the Gala but wants to contribute to the Centennial Endowment is welcome to do so by clicking here.
It’s not very often that anyone gets to be a part of such a momentous year-long celebration. It’s been a great ride over the past few months, and I’m looking forward to an exciting night on Nov. 4. Come join us at the Gala and any other of our events over the next two months.
Finally, with the photos below, I'd like to recognize just a few of the college "worker bees" who helped make the 100 People Passionate about Hinds Community College a success.
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To all logically minded people out there, what makes some people have an unreali
gmwilliamsposted 3 years ago
To all logically minded people out there, what makes some people have an unrealistic premise
that money is not important to living a decent life and that people can be happy without money when societal evidence contradicts such a fallacious premise? It is poor people who commit the most crimes because they do not have the educational avenues and opportunities to achieve a better socioeconomic life legally so they resort to illegal means. Also many poor parents push their children into nefarious activities in order to live decently. Social programs aiding the poor absorb much of our tax dollars. So anyone who states that poor people are happy have faulty logic.
cobrienposted 3 years ago
People who say money is not important to having a decent life have different perspectives then you. What do you mean by "money"? Wealth? What do others mean by "money"?
Poor people are unhappy and often turn to crime because they don't have the money to pay their bills. Wealthy people are often unhappy because money cannot build or support healthy relationships. The happiest people I have known had just enough to pay their bills with a little left over and enough in the bank for emergencies. Many were in debt and none were wealthy.
To say that the poor don't have the opportunities necessary to get out of poverty lacks support. The government is more than happy to help impoverished people with funding for a college education.
I currently live in poverty. I moved my family to another state with a lower cost of living, so now, although I often borrow from Peter to pay Paul, my rent is paid and my utilities are on, and I am happier than I have ever been. Furthermore, I receive government loans and grants and am a full time online student at Columbia Southern University where I am earning my BS in Psychology. I actually plan to teach GED and can do that with any Bachelors degree. My loans will be paid back at $75 a month, which is a drop in the bucket when you have a degree and make more money, so not wanting to acquire student loans is just an excuse. Also, I receive the balance of my loans and grants, and it helps a lot towards bills.
The lack of opportunities that you noted come from lack of knowledge. I am older now, but if I was made aware of the resources open to me years ago, I would be so much farther in my career right now.
That is my whole reason for wanting to teach GED. People who didn't graduate from high school usually come from lower socio-economic levels or have other personal issues and I look forward to showing them the opportunities available to them.
The reason social programs are not working is because they don't address all the issues. I am unable to work due to illness and a need to care for my 22 year old autistic and schizo-affective son. Yet, I've been denied public assistance because I am a student and don't work at least part-time. I could probably get SSI, but it takes at least two years to get approved and I will have my degree by then. I also have a young friend in Florida who has a baby and she receives state assistance. She is anxious to return to work, but needs child care assistance and the waiting list is 18 months
As I have said, money is important. If you were wealthy, you wouldn't have to depend upon the government. You would be self-sufficient. Being poor is a curse and an aberration, believe it or not. Being wealthy means independence & freedom.
ChristinSposted 3 years ago
I just don't understand the need people have to determine what makes another "happy". Happiness is a choice. According to this logic, people all over the world must be entirely miserable and never experience joy and I don't buy it. I think you are mistaking "comfort" for happiness. Are wealthier people more comfortable - yes. Are they more "happy" - that depends on the choices they make, the people they surround themselves with and their disposition and outlook on life. I'd wager there are many miserable misers out there who hoard wealth because they feel it is a measure of their "worth" - doesn't sound very happy to me. I'm also convinced there are poor people who feel desperate and unhappy and they choose to remain that way rather than free themselves - plenty of joy and misery to go around to all people. In the end, we are all having a human experience. Every human being will experience the heights of bliss and depths of despair at some point - it's called life and money has nothing to do with it.
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UK Government announces backing for 8 major renewable energy projects
Today the United Kingdom Government announced that deals have been agreed to provide financial support for eight major renewable energy projects which will provide enough renewable energy capacity to power millions of homes.
Of the eight renewable energy projects five are offshore wind farms, the remaining 3 are biomass developments. All eight are to be supported by the Government’s Contracts for Difference support scheme. Through this scheme the government has agreed to pay a fixed rate for the power generated by these eight renewable energy developments for a period of fifteen years. The price will be determined by the date on which the developments begin to feed electricity into the grid. The sooner these developments come online the higher the price they receive will be.
The 8 projects combined could add up 4.5GW (gigawatts) of renewable electricity generation capacity to the National Grid. 4.5GW of power represents 4% of the UK’s current electricity capacity or enough electricity to power over three million homes across the UK. According to Government figures the eight projects will provide up to £12 billion of private investment in the UK economy by 2020 and support up to 8,500 jobs. Additionally, once completed, the 8 developments could produce 14% of the renewable energy the UK requires to meet it’s 2020 renewable energy generation targets. The increase in renewable capacity and reduction in the need for fossil fuels is also expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 million tonnes a year.
The eight developments are spread across the UK. The largest project approved in terms of capacity is the new 1.2GW Hornsea wind farm which will be located off the Yorkshire coast. Two other entirely new wind farms will also receive funding; the 664MW (megawatt) Beatrice wind farm which will be sited off the Moray coast and the 402MW Dudgeon wind farm which will be sited off the north Norfolk coast. Two extensions for existing offshore wind farms were also approved for funding; a 258MW extension to the Burbo Bank wind farm off the coast of Merseyside and a 660MW extension to the Walney wind farm in the Irish Sea. The three biomass projects are also located across the country. Lynemouth power station in Northumberland and Drax power station in Yorkshire are to be converted for biomass use. And finally a brand new 229MW dedicated biomass power station will be constructed in Teeside.
Industry trade body Scottish Renewables released a statment following the announcement that the proposed Beatrice wind farm (located in Scottish waters) had been successful in it’s application:
“It is greatly encouraging to see a Scottish offshore wind project selected for an early investment contract by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
“Having received planning consent from the Scottish Government in March, to now get an early Contract for Difference gives the Beatrice project the certainty of support we’ve been calling for from the UK Government.
“With our huge offshore wind resource, it is not unrealistic to expect to see a number of Scottish offshore wind projects receive planning consent and secure financial support by the end of the year.
“This decision will help kick-start the offshore wind sector in Scotland, which has the potential to provide thousands of jobs and billions of pounds of inward investment to our country, while also making a significant contribution to Scotland’s ambitious 2020 renewable energy targets.”
The eight projects were selected from an original shortlist of 57 applications. A smaller shortlist of 10 was published in December. These ten sites had been chosen on the criteria of cost effectiveness. Further Contracts for Difference are to be made available in the autumn of this year. The UK Government is committed to meeting over 30% of UK electricity demand from renewable sources by 2020.
Announcing the successful projects UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey made the following statement:
“These contracts for major renewable electricity projects mark a new stage in Britain’s green energy investment boom.
“By themselves they will bring green jobs and growth across the UK, but they are a significant part of our efforts to give Britain cleaner and more secure energy.
“These are the first investments from our reforms to build the world’s first low carbon electricity market – reforms which will see competition and markets attract tens of billions of pounds of vital energy investment whilst reducing the costs of clean energy to consumers.
“Record levels of energy investment are at the forefront of the Government’s infrastructure programme and are filling the massive gap we inherited. It’s practical reforms like these that will keep the lights on and tackle climate change, by giving investors more certainty.”
It should be remembered that it is not through offshore wind and biomass alone that Scottish and UK renewable energy targets will be met. All forms of renewable energy generation will have to play their part. Particularly onshore wind; due to it’s nature one of the cheapest and most mature renewable energy technologies. We at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy) are looking forward to contributing further to meeting the countries binding renewable energy generation targets.
In other news this week it was announced that Scotland could soon be home to new form of floating wind turbine. The BAT (Buoyant Airborne Turbine) has been in development for several years through a collaboration between entrepreneurs and US military personnel.
The BATs (which some have said resemble UFOs in appearance) are filled with helium and are then tethered to the ground. The technology is intended to operate at increased heights in comparison to more traditional wind turbines allowing power to be generated from higher wind speeds. The tether has the dual function of allowing higher wind speeds to be used and to reduce costs.
Currently 4 prototypes have been developed. The first commercial model is expected to be tested in Alaska in 2015 by American green energy firm Altaeros Energies. This model is expected to produce 30kW from a height of 1,000 feet. Successful testing of this model will then be followed by further testing of higher capacity designs at increased heights. Scotland has been mooted as a suitable location for further testing due to the high wind speeds as well as the large number of isolated rural communities located in the country. The BATs are intended to be used in isolated areas where energy has to be transported in; as is the case on several of the Scottish Isles.
Altaeros business development manager Ryan Holy said: “The real value is that we are generating more electricity because we are capturing stronger, more consistent resource, and that means that the price is going to be lower because the annual kWh produced will be a lot higher.
“In addition to that, the customer doesn’t have to deal with a lot of the logistical headaches of installing a concrete path or a tower, which can take some time and might be dependent on seasons.
“We are looking at remote and rural locations first, and any region that is suffering from high electricity costs, as our product can give that customer more energy independence and lower their price, so it could be some parts of Scotland, or any islands that have to ship their fuel in.”
The development of the BAT demonstrates that despite onshore wind being one of the most mature renewable energy technologies there is still vast room for improvement, innovation and cost reduction.
UK public greatly favours onshore wind over fracking
A new poll, published this week by You Gov, has revealed the strong and continuing support which the British public has for onshore energy wind energy.
In total 2,061 people were surveyed to gauge public support and preference for differing forms of electricity generation; in this case onshore wind energy and shale gas fracking. 62% of those polled confirmed that they would prefer to see an onshore wind farm in their local council area than a shale gas fracking development. In contrast only 19% stated that they would be more comfortable with having a shale gas fracking development in their area. Public support for shale gas fracking consistently remains in a minority according to every poll published on the subject. This is despite much campaigning for the technology from some parts of the print media and promotion from some senior political figures. Despite attempts to portray support for different forms of energy generation as party politics the You Gov poll has revealed that support for either shale gas fracking or onshore wind and other forms of renewable energy does not correlate with voting intentions.
The poll was commissioned by green energy company Ecotricity and has produced a number of interesting findings about public support for onshore wind. For example the poll has revealed that shale gas fracking is far less popular with women than it is with men (not to say that a majority of men supported shale gas fracking over onshore wind). Only 9% of women polled preferred the idea of fracking for energy over onshore wind generation. More men were in favour but still only a minority of 29%. A majority of both sexes were in favour of further onshore wind developments; 68% of women and 56% of men offered this opinion. Interestingly onshore wind generation is also more popular with the young than it is the old. Only 12% of those who stated that they supported fracking developments over onshore wind were aged between 18 to 24. In contrast 29% of those who gave that opinion were over 60. This suggests that support for fracking may diminish further in the future.
The results of the You Gov correspond with the UK government’s own findings. The last published results (from Feburary 2014) of the government’s ongoing attitudes survey which found that 64% of the public support further onshore wind developments compared to only 28% who support shale gas fracking. Indeed the various quarterly publications of the attitudes survey suggest only that the British public is rather unmoved by the regularly occurring campaigns against renewable energy from some arms of the media.
Given that electoral campaigning for the 2015 general election has begun in earnest if not in name it is very interesting to note that based upon the data collected by You Gov there exists no majority of any political persuasion who prefers shale gas fracking to onshore wind energy. For example, of those polled who indicated their preference to vote Conservative: half expressed a preference for further onshore wind developments; only a third preferred shale gas fracking. Significant majorities of Liberal Democrat and Labour voters (78% and 76% respectively) favoured onshore wind. Support for shale gas fracking was very much a minority pursuit (14% and 9% respectively). There were even more UKIP voters in favour of onshore wind than shale gas fracking (41% compared to 36%). This is despite frequent portrayals of the party as being composed of extremists. The fact that voting intentions simply do not correspond with opinions of renewable energy suggest that energy policy is considered to be a domain for facts rather than party politics.
This week also saw the publication of the United Nation’s third Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (composed of a panel of 200 leading scientists) report ‘Mitigation of Climate Change’. The report has outlined in the strongest possible terms that it only through greatly increased use of renewable energy and a corresponding reduction in the burning fossil fuels that a climate change disaster can be averted
The leading minds of the age have stated that a tripling or even quadrupling in the use of renewable energy generation will be needed to prevent carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rising above the critical level of 480 ppm (parts per million) before the middle of this century If carbon dioxide levels were to surpass this level then the worst effects of climate change become unavoidable.
The report also highlights the importance of onshore wind to achieving these aims, particularly in countries such as the UK. Given the limited potential of such renewable technologies as solar power in a climate such as ours, and the currently noncommercial nature of technologies such as marine and tidal turbines, then it is logical that wind energy generation has a key part to play in the drive for enough renewable capacity and carbon dioxide emission reductions. Furthermore, given that onshore wind energy is one of the cheapest forms of renewable generation (cheaper for example than offshore wind) it is clear that onshore wind capacity will have to increase dramatically. This was a point made by trade body RenewableUK’s deputy chief executive Maf Smith:
“When it comes to taking practical action against carbon emissions, the most useful tool in the kit is wind energy. It’s the most developed renewable technology we have, providing more than half the low-carbon electricity we generate in the UK. We’ve now installed more than 10 gigawatts onshore and offshore – that’s enough to power more than 6 million homes, saving more than 11 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year.
“We installed nearly 5 gigawatts between 2000 and 2010, showing that at a time when global carbon emissions were rising fast, the UK was expanding its wind energy fleet rapidly to play its role in mitigating the effects of climate change. That’s why the Department of Energy and Climate Change said last month that the UK’s carbon emissions fell between 2012 and 2013 – and they cited our switch in electricity generation away from fossil fuels as the key factor driving that change.
“It’s also worth remembering that onshore wind is the lowest cost clean source we have in abundance – cheaper than other renewables and new nuclear. Wind ticks all the boxes in terms of affordability and low-carbon credentials, as well as providing us with home-grown energy security”.
Given the crucial nature of increasing onshore wind capacity it is fortunate that the British public remains strongly in favour of the technology. We at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy) intend to play our part in helping the UK achieve it’s renewable energy goals.
Gamesa unveils new anti-ice tech
This week turbine manufacturer Gamesa launched a new and innovative solution to ice formation on turbine blades.
The new system, known as ‘Bladeshield’, is a paint based solution, featuring the usage of nano-materials, which is designed to combat the issue of ice formation experienced in colder climates.
Whilst solutions are already available for this issue, ‘Bladeshield’ is the first technology to not simply reduce ice formation and erosion but to help prevent it. An additive is dissolved and applied to the paint base before being applied to turbine blades. The new paint is expected to improve, even double, the durability of turbine blades.
The new solution has been under development for the last three years as a part of the Azimut project for the development of new offshore technologies. The Azimut project is a collaborative project between a number of Spanish renewable energy companies to develop technologies used in both onshore and offshore wind with the intended aim of producing a new 15MW turbine model. The Azimut project works in collaboration with Spain’s Centre for the Development of Offshore Technology. It should be noted, however, that Gamesa has already confirmed that the new paint solution will be used in their line of 2.0MW – 2.5MW turbines for both onshore and offshore use.
Gamesa’s Chief Technology Officer Jose Antonio Malumbres commented:
“Although Gamesa already had blade de-icing systems, it has developed this innovative solution in anticipation of the emerging needs of our increasingly sophisticated and demanding customers. Most of the anti-icing solutions on the markets studied within Azimut project reduce blade paint´s resistance to erosion. Gamesa has attempted to remain one step ahead, using nano-materials to create a system that not only prevents ice formation but also improves anti-erosion performance.”
Gamesa has already unveiled a number of other technical innovations including two separate, custom designed, systems for detecting and removing ice from the blades of their 2MW and 2.5MW turbines. An additional ice prevention system is currently being designed for the company’s range of 5MW turbines in partnership with Finnish technology provider VTT.
The development of wind turbine systems for cold and extreme climates is moving apace. The EWEA (European Wind Energy Association) has forecasted that 40 to 50 gigawatts of wind energy will be built in cold climates by 2017. This would represent an increase of 72% on the amount of wind energy capacity installed in cold climates in 2012. Technical innovation is pushing the expansion of wind energy into frontiers and climates.
In other news this week, potato supplier Greenvale announced that a 15MW turbine is to be constructed at their potato packaging plant (the largest in the UK) in Cambridgeshire.
The 100 metre tall turbine is expected to be constructed and generating power by the end of the year. Once completed it is anticipated to generate up to 60% of the electricity used on the site. This will serve not only to significantly reduce the plants costs and overheads in the short term but also safeguard the company from price rises in the future.
Trevor Dear, operations director of Greenvale, said: “The wind turbine will secure a reliable energy supply for our packing site, generate jobs within the region, and reduce our impact on the environment. This is a key part of our environmental policy, which aims to reduce our CO2 output by 20 per cent by 2015.”
Funding for the project was supplied by Santander and Tridos Renewables. This marks the 13th project in Tridos Renewables Investment’s portfolio. The group now has a combined clean energy portfolio of 60MW. The Greenvale turbine underlines the benefits which small and medium scale wind can bring, not just to landowners, but to companies and businesses across the UK. On-site power generation not only means reduced bills in the short term but also reduced CO2 emissions and protection from energy price spikes and fossil fuel volatility in the future. Small and medium wind will also be crucial to ensuring that Scotland’s and the UK’s renewable energy and CO2 emission reduction targets are met.
It should be remembered that wind energy does not simply mean large scale wind farms but also individuals and businesses taking their power needs into the own hands and reaping the benefits. We at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy) are delighted to have helped people across Scotland reduce their overheads, open up new revenue streams, diversify their businesses and brought much needed sustainability.
UK renewable energy at record high
New figures published last week by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change in it’s ‘Energy Trends‘ document have revealed that the amount of electricity being produced from the country’s renewable energy infrastructure has increased dramatically over the course of 2014.
The figures revealed that in 2013 a record 14.8% of the UK’s overall electricity production came from renewable sources. In total 52.8 terrawatt hours of electricity was produced from renewable sources in 2013. In the same period the UK’s renewable energy capacity increased by a quarter to 19.4 Gigawatts. These headline grabbing figures underline the great strides which the UK’s renewable energy industry made in 2013 and the promise of further great leaps forward in the future.
Indeed the further progress which renewable energy is making was underlined by the fact that from November 2013 to January 2014 renewables met approximately 18% of the UK’s electricity demand. Given the high wind speeds experienced in the country over this period one would be correct in assuming that this increase of around 3% of electricity demand met by renewables was powered by wind energy.
The record increase in renewable energy generation capacity was largely driven by the UK’s wind energy industry. Huge progress was made by both the onshore and offshore sectors. In 2013 onshore wind produced 16.5 terrawatt hours of electricity. This is an increase of over 36% compared to generation figures for 2012. Offshore wind generation increased by almost 46% to 10.9 terrawatt hours. An impressive and understandable increase given the relative maturity of the onshore sector.
Industry trade-body RenewableUK’s Director of External Affairs Jennifer Webber made the following comment shortly after the publication of the figures:
“At a time when we needed it most, wind delivered. Onshore wind generation was up 64% compared to the previous year, and wind as a whole delivered over 10% of the UK’s total power needs across the quarter, proving it’s a force to be reckoned with.
Wind energy’s generation was the equivalent of power for 7.86 million homes for the full quarter.
By developing our wind resource we ease our reliance on costly imported foreign fuels and reduce the amount of polluting CO2 in our atmosphere.
In addition by using our natural resources we’re creating thousands of jobs, like the ones Siemens announced just this week.
The UK has a choice – stay in hock to foreign powers for our energy or invest in secure, clean renewables and build tens of thousands of jobs for British workers”.
It should be noted that it was not just wind energy that took great strides in 2013. For example solar energy produced 2 terrawatt hours of electricity; an increase of almost 70% of 2012’s total. Bioenergy generation also saw an increase of 22.8% demonstrating the growth experienced in all renewable energy sectors in the UK.
The renewable energy industry’s success in Scotland or rather Scotland’s success with renewable energy was particularly notable. Scotland has managed to begin to harness the power of it’s renewable resources and is outpacing the rest of the UK in moving to a low carbon energy sector. Around 32% of the UK’s renewable energy generation in 2013 was carried out in Scotland. 46% of Scotland’s total electricity consumption was met by renewable sources. This puts the country well on track to meet the 2020 target of 100% renewable energy and leaves the interim 2015 target of 50% renewable energy as something of a formality. We at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy) are delighted to have been able to contribute to such success. The revealing of such Scottish success was met enthusiastically by government and industry. Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing released the following statement:
“These figures show that renewable electricity in Scotland is going from strength to strength, showing that 2013 was a record year for renewable generation in Scotland. Scottish renewable generation made up approximately 32 per cent of total UK renewable generation in 2013 – showing that Scotland has some of the best natural resources.
“The Scottish Government’s target is to generate the equivalent of 100 per cent of Scotland’s gross annual electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2020, as part of a wider, balanced, energy mix. These figures show that renewable generation in Scotland was at a record high last year, meeting around 46 per cent of our electricity demand, and helping keep the lights on across these islands at a time when Ofgem are warning of the ever tightening gap between peak electricity demand and electricity supply.
“Investment in Scottish renewable energy continues to grow. Between January 2010 and April 2013, the industry announced £13.1 billion of investment and over 9,000 associated jobs. Scotland leads the world in the development of marine energy technologies. There are more different wave and tidal power devices being developed and tested in Scotland than there are in any other country in the world.
“Independence will allow Scotland to pursue the opportunity to maximise the benefits from our energy wealth, including our potential for further developments in renewable energy. We can build on our existing success in this area and work to encourage the development of a wide range of renewable technologies, which will help enhance a reliable and secure energy supply and help Scotland meet its ambitious climate change targets.
Joss Blamire, Senior Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables, said:
“Even today, many people do not realise the massive contribution renewables make to powering our homes and businesses and reducing our carbon emissions.
“These UK Government figures show that, alongside nuclear, renewables are the biggest provider of electricity in the country, with 2013 our best-ever year.
“The report goes to show what can be achieved when industry and government work together towards our ambitious 2020 renewable energy targets.
“However, at a time of some change and uncertainty, government and industry must remain focused on these shared goals if the sector is to continue to provide increasing economic, environmental and social benefits to Scotland.”
In other news last week, a report published by consultancy group Pöyry and Cambridge Econometrics has revealed the impact that wind energy could have upon the Irish economy. If 5.4GW of new wind capacity is installed by 2030 then around €8.3 billion of new investment would be delivered to the Irish economy.
The report, entitled ‘Value of Wind Energy to Ireland’ goes on to reveal that the net annual GDP impact of new wind capacity will be between €350m and €490m a year to 2020. This figure would then be expected to increase to between €646m and €769m a year during the 2021 to 2030 period. Such a drive for wind energy could also create over 20,000 jobs in the country by 2030. Additionally it could eliminate the need for spending around €700 million a year on fossil fuel imports. The publication comes at a time in which Ireland’s dependence upon fossil fuel imports is coming under the spotlight due to geo-political uncertainty in Eastern-Europe. The success which has been found in the UK can only increase the desire for an Irish drive for wind.
The release of the DECC report has highlighted what successful 2013 the UK’s renewable energy experienced. ILI (RE) is proud to have done it’s part but attention must now turn to the future and the successes of 2014.
New UK Wind Energy Records Set
Last week it was announced by industry trade body RenewableUK that the month of December 2013 had seen several wind power records being broken. The announcement followed the publication of electricity generation statistics for December by the National Grid. Despite the high-winds experienced in the UK over the course of December it should be noted that the setting of new records does not simply represent a particularly blustery month but rather the continuation of an upwards trend.
The first record which was broken was the amount of wind power generated in a single month. December saw 2,481,080 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity being generated from wind power. This level of generation is enough to power 5.7 million British homes at a time of year which traditionally sees an increase in power usage and demand. The previous record was set in October 2013 when 1,956,437 MWh of electricity was generated from the wind. Crucially, however, this increase in generation led to an increase in the use of wind power by the UK. In December 2013 10% of the UK’s total power demand was sourced from wind power. In comparison, October 2013 saw 8% of the UK’s total energy demand being sourced from wind.
Records were also broken for the amount of electricity generated from wind power over the course of a single week and a single day. The week beginning Monday the 16th of December saw 783,886 MWh of electricity being produced from wind power. This level of power generation represented 13% of the weeks total electricity demand. The 21st of December was the day on which the single day generation record was broken. 132,812 MWh of electricty was generated from wind power representing a notable 17% of the days total electricity demand. The single day generation record had set as recently as the 29th of November. The regularity with which new records are being set reveals the progress that the UK’s wind industry is making in increasing capacity and reducing the country’s dependence upon fossil fuel imports. Indeed around 500 Megawatts of new wind capacity was installed and connected into the National Grid between June and November 2013.
Maf Smith, Deputy Chief Executive of RenewableUK made the following statement whilst announcing the new records:
“This is a towering achievement for the British wind energy industry. It provides cast-iron proof that the direction of travel away from dirty fossil fuels to clean renewable sources is unstoppable.
“In December, we generated more electricity from wind for British homes and businesses than during any other month on record – and we also hit weekly and daily highs.
“This gives us a great sense of confidence for the year ahead, when we will continue to increase the amount of clean power we generate from wind, onshore and offshore.
“As we do so, we are lessening our dependence on excruciatingly expensive imports of fossil fuels which have driven people’s fuel bills up. British wind energy is providing a better alternative – a stable, secure, cost-effective supply of home-grown power”.
Of course it should be remembered that the figures released by the National Grid do not represent the full amount of wind energy being generated in the UK. There are a large amount of wind turbines in the UK, particularly within the small to medium scale (the scale at which we at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy) specialise in) which do not feed power into the National Grid. Such turbines will be supplying power locally or on-site. The owners of such developments are not required to supply real time output data to the National Grid and as such will not have been included in their figures.
It should be noted that UK wind power breaking such records as this is set to become a regular occurrence in the near future as more turbines are consented, constructed and begin to supply power into the National Grid. We at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy) are looking forward to playing our part in this process as more of our developments are completed in the very near future.
In other news, figures released by Spain’s national grid operator have revealed that wind power has become the country’s dominant electricty source in 2013. Red Electrica de Espana (REE) published a report which revealed that for the very first time wind power contributed more to meeting electricty demand within the country than any other source. Over the course of 2013 wind met 21.1% of Spanish electricity demand. This was enough to produce more than Spain’s fleet of nuclear plants which met 21%. In total 53,926 GWh (Gigawatt hours) of electricity was produced from wind power in 2013. This represents an increase of 12% over 2012.
It should be noted that other forms of renewable energy also saw an increase in their output. Hydropower generation soared to 32,205 GWh; a 16% increase on the historic average helped by high levels of rainfall. Solar energy also contributed more due an increase in capacity. In 2013 173 MW of new wind power capacity was introduced into the grid, 140 MW of solar PV and 300 MW of solar thermal capacity were also added to the system. These increases mean that renewable technologies now account for 49.1% of installed Spanish capacity.
The success of the Spanish embrace of renewable power can also be seen in the reduced output of more traditional forms of electricity generation. Output from traditional gas fired power plants dropped a dramatic 34.2%. Output from coal fired plants dropped 27.3% and even nuclear output dropped by 8.3%. These reductions combined with a 2.1% drop in total power demand and increased use of renewable power has meant that the greenhouse gas emissions produced by the Spanish power sector are estimated to have dropped an incredible 23.1% last year to 61.4 million tonnes. These figures demonstrate that an electricity supply system based upon renewables not only works for end users but also serves to increase energy security and reduce carbon emissions.
We at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy) are delighted to have played a part in setting new wind generation records. We also look forward to helping set new records with our already installed turbines and also those of our developments which will have completed construction in the near future.
RenewableUK unveils solution to issue of Other Amplitude Modulation
By admin | December 18, 2013
This week industry trade body RenewableUK published new research on the subject of wind energy acoustics. The study was produced to explore the issue of Other Amplitude Modulation’ – this is a phenomenon which affects a small minority of wind turbine installations.
The research was carried out in partnership with the University of Salford, the University of Southampton, the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands, Hoare Lea Acoustics, Robert Davies Associates and DTU Riso in Denmark. The aim of the research was to determine the causes behind Other Amplitude Modulation and to investigate solutions to the issue.
Firstly it should be noted that Other Amplitude Modulation is entirely different to Normal Amplitude Modulation. Normal Amplitude Modulation is the sound commonly heard from wind turbine installations – the ‘swishing’ sound generated as the turbine blades spin through the air. Other Amplitude Modulation is a far more infrequent and uncommon sound which lasts for a few minutes.
The research reveals that Other Amplitude Modulation is caused by sudden and unexpected variations in both wind speed and direction. When this occurs the wind hits different parts of the turbine blade at different speeds causing momentary stalling of the turbine blades and a ‘whooshing noise’.
At this point it should be emphasised that the research has revealed that Other Amplitude Modulation is no louder than the more commonly occurring and accepted Normal Amplitude Modulation. Both cause noises at a level of around 35-40 decibels it is, however, the case that Other Amplitude Modulation occurs at a deeper pitch. The sound produced by these sudden variations of wind speed and direction has been likened to the noise produced by a single-carriage A-road at a distance of 1 kilometer.
Interestingly the research also revealed that Other Amplitude Modulation affects only around 3% of wind turbine installations in the UK. Very much a minority. These findings were based upon a 2007 research paper produced by the University of Salford. This paper found that only 4 of 135 turbine sites (as were installed in the UK as of 2007) were affected by Other Amplitude Modulation. From this the RenewableUK study concluded that 15 of 521 (currently operational) turbine sites would be affected by Other Amplitude Modulation. Other Amplitude Modulation could be then rightly described as affecting a very small minority of the United Kingdom’s wind turbines. However that does not stop it from being an issue that the UK’s wind industry is keen to address.
As such RenewableUK also published the solutions to the issue of Other Amplitude Modulation which were identified by their research. A software solution is sufficient to deal with the issues involved. Software systems already present in wind turbines can be adapted to change the angles of turbine blades at times when Other Amplitude Modulation could occur. This would avoid the problem of turbine blades momentarily stalling entirely.
Additionally RenewableUK has also entered into partnership with the Institute of Acoustics to produce planning conditions and guidance for the issue of Other Amplitude Modulation. This would ensure that occurrences of Other Amplitude Modulation would be minimized. It would be up to developers to measure instances of Other Amplitude Modulation and set a threshold in decibels above which they would be required to act immediately to change blade angles to minimise the noise. This would occur as part of the planning process. Given the already low level of Other Amplitude Modulation occurrences such planning procedures could virtually eliminate the issue entirely.
Speaking at the publication of the research, RenewableUK’s Deputy Chief Executive Maf Smith commented:
“It’s right that the wind industry should take the lead in investigating issues like this when they arise. As a result of the in-depth research we’ve commissioned, we’ve identified the causes of OAM, and, most importantly, the industry has identified a way to deal with it effectively.
“On the limited and infrequent occasions when OAM occurs, we can address it by using software to adjust the way turbines operate, changing the angle of the blades.
“Beyond that, the industry has worked with members of the UK’s leading acoustics institute to develop a planning condition for local authorities to use, which we’re publishing today alongside this work. This states that if OAM occurs, it’s up to the wind industry to resolve it.
“We’re proud to have commissioned this ground-breaking research as it pushes the boundaries of our knowledge of wind turbine acoustics considerably further forward. It’s a tangible example of the wind industry acting in a responsible manner, demonstrating that we’re continuing to be good neighbours to the communities who host wind farms in the UK”.
In other news this week UK company Blade Dynamics announced it’s plans to move forward development of a ‘very long’ and highly efficient turbine blade. This follows the successful completion of the design stage.
The project is receiving support from the UK Government, the industry-supported Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) and the wind turbine manufacturer Siemens. Blade Design will now proceed to the prototype stage of the project and hopes to begin testing the new 80 metre long turbine blade before the end of 2014. The blade will be lighter, longer and more efficient than those currently in use.
News of the commencement of the next stage of the project was greeted enthusiastically. Henrik Stiesdal, chief technology officer at Siemens Wind Power commented; “Subject to successful conclusion of the tests it is clear that the potentials of the split-blade technology of Blade Dynamics would be expected to become even more interesting as we move to even larger turbine platforms.”
Andrew Scott, program manager for offshore wind at the ETI stated:
“The ETI’s vision is to support the development of next-generation blade technology because improved rotor performance is fundamental to achieving the goal of reducing the cost of offshore wind energy.
“We greatly appreciate the ongoing commitment of Siemens to this project with Blade Dynamics. As leaders in this field, this partnership for the development of next-generation rotor technology has the potential to have a huge impact on the cost of offshore wind energy in the future.”
These two announcements indicate the progress which is being made by the UK wind industry. Whether it be the development of new and more efficient technology or the addressing of existing (if extremely infrequently occurring) issues it can be seen that the UK’s wind industry is ending 2013 as it began it; with an eye to the future.
UK Wind Capacity Increases 25%
By admin | November 7, 2013
A new report published this week by trade-body RenewableUK has revealed that once again the UK wind energy industry has seen another record breaking year of dizzying growth.
RenewableUK published its annual report ‘Wind Energy in the UK’ yesterday. The report examines developments within both the onshore and offshore sectors of the UK wind industry.
Firstly, the report revealed that the UK’s installed offshore wind capacity increased by a staggering 79% over the period between July 2012 and June 2013. At the start of July 2012 there was 1,858 Megawatts (MW) of operational installed offshore wind capacity in UK waters. By the end of June 2013 this figure had increased to 3,321 MW of operational installed capacity. Interestingly, there were four major offshore wind projects which began generating electricity and feeding it into the National Grid within this time frame:Greater Gabbard (off the coast of Suffolk), Gunfleet Sands III (off the coast of Essex), Sheringham Shoal (off the coast of Norfolk) and the London Array (in the Thames Estuary) – which is the currently the worlds largest offshore wind farm with an installed capacity of 630 MW. The completion of these four major projects demonstrates the observed trend of offshore wind projects increasing in scale. This trend can be partially explained by a reduction in costs and also improvements in technology.
The UK’s more mature onshore wind industry also underwent a period of impressive growth. 1,258 MW of new onshore wind capacity was installed between July 2012 and June 2013. This brings the total level of installed onshore capacity in the UK up to 6,389 MW by the end of July 2013 and the end of the period covered by the report. This represents an increase of 25% in total installed onshore capacity. However it should be noted that RenewableUK estimated that at the end of June 2013 there was a further 1,571 MW of onshore capacity under construction, 4,804 MW of capacity which had been approved but construction had not yet begun on and 7,743 MW live within the planning system. This demonstrates that there is a significant amount of growth which will occur within the UK onshore wind industry in the near future.
The period July 2012 to June 2013 also marked the first time in which more offshore wind capacity was installed than onshore wind capacity (1,462 MW compared to 1,258 MW). Of course it should be remembered that the onshore wind market is more more mature than the offshore wind market. In total, across both sectors, 2,721 MW of new capacity was installed. This brought the UK’s total installed wind capacity to 9,710 MW from 6,389 MW and represents growth of 40% and enough new installed capacity to power five and a half million homes. This level of new capacity also brought in £2 billion into the UK economy; clearly demonstrating the positive economic benefits which wind energy is creating for the UK economy.
It has been noted that the size of offshore projects is increasing but it is also the case that the size of onshore projects is decreasing. Several reasons have been put forward to explain this trend. As mentioned previously in the offshore sector costs are coming down and technology is improving. In the onshore sector the decrease in project size has been attributed to, amongst other things, the success of the UK Governments feed-in tariff scheme which incentivizes the development of smaller scale projects. Additionally the sub-5 MW market developed considerably. Indeed it has accounted for two-thirds of all onshore wind planning submissions between July 2012 and June 2013. The reduced availability of sites suitable for large scale wind farm development has also been put forward to explain the reduction in onshore project size. We could also argue that this reduction in project size vindicates the approach of ourselves at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy) as our primary focus has always been on small and medium scale developments.
RenewableUK’s Chief Executive, Maria McCaffrey commented on the publication of the report:
“We’ve smashed another record in the past year with more offshore wind installed than ever before – the 79% increase in capacity within 12 months is a terrific achievement. With onshore expanding by 25%, the wind industry as a whole has proved that it has the tenacity to achieve substantial growth.
“It’s tangible proof of the dedication of thousands of Britons who are working tirelessly to generate electricity from a clean, home-grown source at a cost that we can control, increasing the UK’s energy security.
“Tens of thousands more will be joining the industry over the rest of this decade as we build out the rest of the projects in the pipeline – as long as Government policy is supportive and provides the right framework for one of this country’s greatest modern industrial and environmental success stories to reach its full potential”.
The publication of a separate study this week further vindicated the increasing focus on smaller scale onshore developments. The study, carried out by analytical firm Verdantix and commissioned by energy consultancy Utilyx, suggests that on-site renewable energy generation could save UK businesses up to £33 billion between 2010 and 2030. The report forecasts that the capacity of onsite waste-to-energy plants, wind turbines, anaerobic digestors, and solar panels, as well as combined heat and power and tri-generation facilities will increase 130 per cent to 17GW by 2030. The proper development of such on-site technologies could account for 14% of all UK generating capacity by 2030 and would also bring the additional benefit of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 350 million tonnes.
The development of such technologies would be hugely beneficial to UK businesses allwoing them to no longer have to rely on volatile international gas markets and could considerably reduce costs, particularly in the long term; not just from reduced energy bills but from reduced payments of the UK ‘carbon tax’ or carbon floor-price. Mark Stokes, director at Utilyx commented:
Traditionally businesses and organisations have focused on one aspect of energy management – typically procurement or energy efficiency.
“The report reveals the need to look at the bigger picture and adopt a joined up approach including considering on-site energy generation. In a climate of volatile and rising energy prices, decentralized energy can help businesses save money, reduce carbon, and provide energy security.”
The publication of these reports reveals not only the progress made by the UK wind industry but also the huge benefits it can still bring to the UK’s economy. We at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy) will be playing our part in delivering that.
New radar system could mean boon for onshore wind
Last week a new and potentially revolutionary 3D radar system was tested in Scotland. The new system is designed to eliminate interference in radar systems from wind turbines.
Current radar systems can be subject to interference from wind turbines. When spinning and generating power turbines in areas covered by aviation radar systems can potentially confuse or ‘clutter’ radar. Whilst there are some limited solutions available to turbine developers the scale at which these can be used is limited. Existing aviation radar systems can be ‘patched’ to reduce any potential for ‘clutter’ on radar screens however this must be done on an individual basis and it is generally the case that one patch can be used in a 2.5 kilometre radius. Additionally patches are not always available. These limitations have meant that many potential onshore wind developments have been unable to progress despite them meeting all other criteria for development in terms of environmental and landscape impact,grid capacity, visual impact etc. The trade body RenewableUK has estimated that approximately 6.2 GW (Gigawatts) worth of onshore wind developments have been held up due to such aviation issues. However, this figure is likely to be higher due to developments being dropped early or never progressed with due to expectations of such issues down the line.
The new 3D holographic radar system was successfully tested at Prestwick Airport last week by the systems developer Aveillant. The new 3D radar system was successful in differentiating between spinning turbine blades and flying aircraft. The turbines at Millour Wind Farm which is nearby to Prestwick Airport were used to conduct the tests. It should be noted this this windfarm is located in an area which does not cause any potential safety risks to the existing radar system at Prestwick Airport.
The new radar system has also been succesfully tested recently in the United States; at Indian Mesa Wind Farm in West Texas. In both tests the system was completely successful in pinpointing the location of all turbines and aircraft (as part of the test information about the flight-paths and altitudes of aircraft passing over and near to the turbines was not made known in advance) without any interference. Following the US tests it was announced that American civil and military surveillance requirements were successfully met. Gordon Oswald, Aveillant’s Chief Technology Officer stated:
“We don’t know exactly what was flown overhead – we’re talking about the most sophisticated government in the world here, and they will be out to test us – but we can confirm that several different types of aircraft were detected above and around the wind farm, and that our radar easily distinguished between wind farms and different types of aircraft.”
It is worth noting that the radar system was safely and successfully installed for the US test in less than a day. Developer Aveillant has announced that provided further, more detailed, tests are successful then the radar system could be in commercial operation by the end of this year.
David Crisp, chief executive at Aviellant made the following statement after the completion of the test at Prestwick:
“This is the first live demonstration of the radar [in the UK] and it has gone fantastically well.
“We have had very good feedback from wind farm developers and the Civil Aviation Authority, and will be doing more detailed risk assessments to meet the CAA’s standards.
“It’s an interesting thing to demonstrate because we are basically showing that there is nothing to see. Normal radar sweeps around once every four seconds. Holographic 3D radar is the next generation technology, going round four times per second, or 16 times faster.
“The first aim was to prove that the 3D radar can differentiate between aircraft and turbines, which was clearly demonstrated. The second aim was to show that the holographic radar can be integrated with airport radar, which happened seamlessly.
“If all those objections shown in the RenewableUK data last year were removed you could almost double the amount of wind farms in the UK. This will have a huge impact in Scotland, which is, quite rightly I think, very committed to wind power and has a very good wind climate compared to England.”
Several major players in the onshore wind industry have invested in the development of this new radar system through the Aviation Investment Fund Company Limited (AIFC).Currently AIFC has invested £500,000 in the development. Their chairman Simon Heyes was present at the test in the UK and made the following comment to the press:
“To see what we have heard so much about has been really good. It certainly takes us a step forward to our goal of getting wind farms constructed where they currently are held up by objections from airports.”
Industry body Scottish Renewables has estimated that around half of all wind turbine applications which have ran into aviation issues are in Scotland. From this then we can see the contribution the roll-out of such new radar systems could make not just to Scotland’s onshore wind industry but to our country’s targets in renewable energy generation, carbon emission reduction and to increasing our energy security.
Scottish Renewables’ senior policy manager Ross Blairmie reacted to the successful testing:
“For a number of years the industry has been working extensively to understand how wind farms interact with radars used by the aviation industry … This has resulted in major investments being made to find innovative solutions to tackle the issue.
“Scottish Renewables welcomes the new research and technology being tested by Aveillant and hopes to work with companies like them, along with the Scottish Government and the aviation industry, to find a solution to remove this significant barrier to the development of onshore wind in Scotland.”
It is worth noting that the issue of radar interference has not just affected the development of large scale wind farms but small and medium scale developments such as those carried out by ourselves at Intelligent Land Investments (Renewable Energy). Whilst much of the media attention has focused on wind farms, as is often the case, there are landowners and farmers in many areas of Scotland who have been unable to progress with their developments due to aviation concerns. The successful commercial deployment of new 3D radar systems represents an opportunity for many farmers and landowners to progress with onshore wind developments. Meaning that much needed revenue streams can be accessed in what are difficult times for many in the agricultural industry. Additionally the progression of such developments would also mean more funding for community contribution schemes such as we at ILI (RE) operate.
We eagerly await further news on this front.
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EXCLUSIVE | Jean-Michel Blais: “Playing piano has a direct effect on my Tourette’s”
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Blais talks of working with Xavier Dolan on Matthias et Maxime and his career’s rapid rise
by Greg Wetherall 19th June 2019
“It’s a new thing in my life,” neoclassical composer Jean-Michel Blais says to me as we sit across one another on the decks of a rather windy beach bar in the middle of the Côte d’Azur. He is talking about his music career to date and the sharp ascent that has led to a soundtrack for French cinema’s wunderkind Xavier Dolan’s new movie Matthias et Maxime.
“My friends kicked my ass and said that I should put my music online on Bandcamp,’’ Blais recalls. This was three years ago. The rapid progress made since has seemingly astounded the refreshingly down-to-earth French-Canadian Blais. His enthusiasm is palpable and he revels in regaling his sharp climb. “I did [upload material to Bandcamp], and it was picked up by a label called ‘Arts & Crafts’ based in Toronto. They have Feist, Gonzales and names like that. That’s where it all started. From there it got bigger and bigger – I started writing a second album at the same time as my first was picked up by Time magazine as one of ‘Top Ten Best Albums of 2016’.”
The album in question is his debut, II, which was followed by Cascades. The success resulted in a huge shift. His ‘day job’ had to go. “It was at that point I had to quit my job,” he tells me.
Matthias et Maxime (2019)
Taking Xavier Dolan’s Call
With a celebrated career comes a blossoming reputation and the opportunity for greater challenges. Indeed, the stakes are ever increasing for the boy who grew up in the small rural Catholic town of Nicolet in Quebec. To be lauded by Time magazine and have Mummy director Dolan call is something that still shocks Blais. “I have grown through his art,” he says admiringly. “And I just received this call! ‘Hey, this is Xavier. Would you like to do the soundtrack to my next movie?’ I love your music, I listen to it a lot and I have no idea why no one has asked you so far to do a soundtrack’. I was like, ‘Of course. What the fuck?!’ There is a childlike excitement that emanates palpably from Blais as he recalls what was clearly a pinch-yourself moment for him.
“We recorded our soundtrack in the same studio as Arcade Fire recorded their soundtrack for Her. It’s a very casual studio in Montreal. It is beautiful and they have the best piano in town. It’s a super-creative spot”, he admires.
It turns out that Dolan and Blais’ approach was to create on-the-hoof; something very similar to the approach taken on his previous studio albums. “The very first time that we met there were no images, but I improvised anyway and we ended up keeping most of those improvisations… what was not meant to be the final take ended up being the final take”. Why? “Well, we started to love what we had already recorded,” he says fondly.
“When Xavier and I met he made listen to a bunch of stuff: his influences.” What was in there? “Well, a lot of film music and classical stuff. That was a big shift to me, as I quit studying classical because I thought it was way too stuck up and not up to our contemporary ways or needs. And that is also why I quit the conservatory.” What changed? “Xavier showed me some Schubert sonata and this was new to me.” This seemed to flick a switch for Blais. “[Schubert] is amazing and a mysterious character too… we don’t know much about his personal life”.
The Art of Improvisation
How does Jean-Michel manage to recall and remember the works that he creates spontaneously? It is a thread that runs through his solo output as well as the Matthias et Maxime soundtrack. “When I improvise I seem to have a sort of filter in my memory that remembers the best stuff that I come up with,” he explains. “This all started when I was younger. I don’t feel like I’m composing when I’m making music. I feel like I’m digging and finding things that are pre-existing. They are already there in the universe and I’m just channelling in.”
“I work with my hands and that’s how I craft music, rather than sitting down thinking and conceptualising. There are people who write that way and it’s fine but it just isn’t my process at all. What’s lovely is that Xavier also has this relationship with his actors where he allows for a degree of improvisation and live rehearsal on set whilst filming scenes.”
Music as Therapy
Tourette’s Syndrome is a condition that has plagued Blais since he was a young boy. He has discovered that playing music abates and subdues his symptoms significantly. “The short-term effect of when I play is that the tics stop immediately”, he says. “In the long-term, when I play for a while, most of the time I get to control them.” It means that when he doesn’t play, his symptoms return. “Not playing for a long time prevents my anxiety from being properly controlled. Then the tics come back. Playing piano specifically therefore has a direct effect on my Tourette’s”.
Dolan and Blais: the start of something special?
Considering the success of the Matthias et Maxime, thoughts fall on whether Blais and Dolan will work together again. Has it been discussed? “We haven’t [discussed it]”, reflects the musician. “I’m not even sure if Xavier knows exactly what comes next, but he sure knows I’ll be his man, anytime. It just depends on what his needs are. On my side, I want to develop my writing techniques, the incorporation of other instruments, post-production techniques, and even adopting an orchestra, but let’s say one step at the time!”
Matthias et Maxime competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and will be released in the UK at a later date.
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Home Neck of the Woods Central City Ensley homicide prompts talk of crime at City Council meeting
Ensley homicide prompts talk of crime at City Council meeting
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Birmingham City Hall seen from Linn Park.
There was a homicide on Monday night in Ensley near the Belview Heights community, according to several media reports.
And the killing, which is the 55th in Birmingham so far in 2019, prompted a tense exchange between Mayor Randall Woodfin and City Council member Steven Hoyt — a long-time Belview Heights resident — at the Council’s regular meeting today.
Hoyt said that he and his neighbors in the area are “very concerned” about recent killings in Belview Heights and Ensley.
“People are scared; people are terrorized,” he said.
And Hoyt told Woodfin that he wants to know what the city will do to fight crime more effectively. “I need to know a plan,” he said.
He said that Birmingham police should get tougher on crime and adopt a “zero-tolerance” approach, even if it means some lawsuits against the city.
And Hoyt suggested that the city may need outside help to fight crime. “Maybe we should call in the National Guard to come in and help us control this city,” Hoyt said.
“Our young people are dying by degrees,” he said.
However, Woodfin stated flatly that the city will not be calling out the National Guard.
He said that the Birmingham Police Department has taken more than 500 guns off the street since January. “I wish we could take every one,” he said.
And he tried to reassure the people of Belview Heights. “Your neighborhood is very safe,” said Woodfin, who added that most of the people involved in homicides in the city know each other and have been involved in disputes that come to a violent resolution.
“These are not random killings, random murders,” he said. “They are interactions between people who know each other.”
He also quarreled with Hoyt’s use of the term “terror” to describe a climate of fear among residents. “There is no terror in Belview Heights,” Woodfin said. “There are things that are happening that are very personal in nature."
And he said the city will continue to “throw every resource at the problem” and to take more illegal guns off the street.
“I don't know if that’s satisfactory,” Hoyt said in response to Woodfin.
“Terror is something that's real,” said Hoyt, who said that even his wife and daughter are now afraid to come home unless he is there to make sure they get in the house safely.
“If you don't know how to fight (crime), ask someone else to come in and help,” he told Woodfin.
On May 21, Birmingham Police Chief Patrick D. Smith — on the job since June 2018 — gave the Council a report on violent crime in the city.
Smith said that homicides in Birmingham had increased from 51 in 2014 to 100 in 2018 and that the city was on pace so far this year to match that 2018 total.
However, there are “some signs of progress,” Smith said.
“We’re doing what we can to address crime in the city,” he said.
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How a Few Random Sounds Became "I Wanna Get Better" by Bleachers
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With a snippet from a voicemail, a soundbite from a video of his girlfriend, and a few piano notes, Jack Antonoff of Bleachers had the framework of an idea that evolved into the song "I Wanna Get Better." In the video above you see how a few sounds became a full song.
Antonoff is better known as the lead guitarist for the Grammy-winning band Fun. "I Wanna Get Better," a catchy summer jam, is one of the first singles off Strange Desire, the debut album from his solo project, Bleachers.
The above YouTube clip is a look at Antonoff's creative process. It's one of those cases of a talented musician making something hard like songwriting look like something any schlub could do. Take some sounds, throw them in some basic audio editing program, add some drum loops, and pop in some synths? For all intents and purposes, you could do that too. Actually, Bleachers are putting out a call for fans to do up their own remixes of "I Wanna Get Better" with stems you can download right here. After you've created one, you can send it into BleachersHotline@gmail.com. We'd also love for you to load them up on SoundCloud and post them in the comments.
Regardless of your own musical prowess, you can enjoy the video for "I Wanna Get Better" below. Strange Desire is out July 15.
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Imperial Arts
Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Imperial Arts' LiveJournal:
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Solomonic Demonology in Context
Throughout history, empires have expanded the awareness between distant cultures, producing a shared body of knowledge and ingenuity with noteworthy triumphs along the way. By decay or calamity, the rise of empires is usually accompanied by a fall, resulting in disconnection of shared beliefs and practices among formerly united peoples. Much of what was once widely known, given enough time and a change in national identity, becomes obscure and arcane, with the gaps in complete knowledge filled-in by creativity or ignorant speculation.
The loss of an empire, leading to smaller self sufficient nations in competition or cooperation with each other, can affect every aspect of daily life, leaves a scar on architecture. The Pyramids were a marvel to the Caliph, who could imagine building nothing of the sort in his own era. The intricate workmanship standard at the court of the Tsars is rarely even attempted today. The Holy Roman Empire could only hope to achieve the engineering feats of the actual Roman Empire. Of all things lost, one of the first to go is usually the volumes of accumulated knowledge, especially those things which are held in reserve for an elect few.
It is after such events that the bulk of the lore of magic comes to us in the present day. What we now possess as the literature and material legacy of magic record fragments of ideas which have been taken from the more productive eras, jostled together, and many of them have become badly damaged. The entire subject of magic, while giving wings to the imagination, is a minefield for the intellect.
There is no grand editor of the essential library of magical lore, nor any standard interpretation. The idea of magic exceeds books and artifacts, and is also a matter of living discourse, making any sort of comprehensive study difficult to undertake.
There are a variety of ways to look at the subject. Rather than select the best one, I would prefer to illustrate a few of the stronger positions and allow the reader to examine their strengths and weaknesses. I shall refer to these as the Four Empires of Solomonic Demonology. The first is the Christian interpretation, the second is the Pagan interpretation, the third is Muslim, and the last is Judaic.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
The Holy Guardian Angel and the Pauline Art
I have a sensitivity toward small animals, and recent fires and other disasters bring to mind the suffering of the thousands of small and unobtrusive creatures lurking in the wild when faced with such calamity. That it did not happen to humans makes the event far less horrific, proving a general species-wide consensus that human life has particular value above all other types of life. Despite this basic understanding of equality shared throughout all people, it is apparently of little consequence that a tremendous number of people endure hardships like starvation and death by violence or disease.
Never Forget! The terrorist attacks of September 11th led to the deaths of more than 100,000 non-combatants overseas. The financial siege of Venezuela has led to mass graves and police behaving as roving bands of murderers. It's an accepted fact there are skeletal children in Africa and diseases in all hot countries. And yet, there are millions whose lives never encounter such things.
The comfortable upper class of the globe, even the poorest of people in the more prosperous nations, have a staggeringly different level of comfort than anyone else. I don't mean the Rolls Royce club, but all of us who are participants in modern life. We have toilets and phones and ski lifts, and Omar over there hasn't got squat. Not that it really bothers anyone!
Sure, some people are upset. But most simply acknowledge it as an unpleasant fact of existence. Faced directly with Omar, it might be a different story, but across the world he is left to fend for himself. Poor Omar might begin to wonder what value or significance his life could possibly have. He might even begin to wonder if he is, like the animals, just a beast doomed to die, a meaningless part of some vast and incomprehensible system whose key parts are forever unattainable, or if instead he is indeed a Man, with divinely ordained purpose.
Thus armed, whether with a seal or ring or whatever else, and having taken some care to seek and offer forgiveness for wrongdoings, you are to invoke the angel. Every catholic schoolchild knows the proper invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel: to light, to guard, to rule, and to guide, and the specifics of conjuration are not especially important in this case as it is entirely personal and discreet. The role of the angel is to provide clarity and perspective, and to warn or encourage its charge.
I do not personally seek or receive such visitations from my Guardian Angel in the context of magic rituals. I do however believe that this Angel has probably done me a world of good without ever itself becoming personally manifest. The objective in making contact with the angel is not so much to become satisfied as the recipient of special powers and secret counsels, but to become capable in some pursuit that imparts meaning and purpose into life which can be shared with others.
Obligatory Xmas Sales Pitch
Which edition of the Lemegeton should you get?
How about the one that was compiled by someone who actually uses it, and whose work is the FIRST AND ONLY printed documentation of the work done according to the actual instructions?
How about the one with vivid colors and illuminations on every page, that looks and feels like a real Book of Magic?
How about the one that has images of the spirits, and information about them, gathered from first-hand experience?
How about the one that describes the practical details of the work, especially for the non-Goetia sections like the Almadel?
How about the one that gives all the spirit and divine names with suggestions for their meanings and pronunciation?
How about the one that doesn't waste your time with speculations about people long dead, and instead begins from page one with instructions?
How about the one which is so rare that, at the present time, only a few copies exist?
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Truth & Tradition
While I was still a very young child, I would ask my parents questions about the universe. Around the time I was four or five years old, I asked each parent individually about the origins of Mankind and the Universe, and I received two very different answers. This should be no surprise in and of itself: my mother was a microbiologist who worked in a rigorous scientific environment, and my father the architect was accustomed to functionally creative design. An odd thing happened when they decided to answer. My father, who introduced me to mythology and fantasy of all sorts, gave a child-scale version of the Carl Sagan answer: biochemistry borne of galaxies and planetary nebulae, all originating from fundamental principles of matter. My mother, the scientist, answered with the Garden of Eden story. As a child, I had no way of determining the veracity of either tale, had no indication that I should regard either version with suspicion, and I saw no inherent contradiction between the two.
If we are to take our angels and devils into the New Age, in which we are all more aware of the facts of Nature, and have as complete a perspective as possible in regard to the history of the universe, we will need to substantially update the concepts working behind these figures. They cannot remain in their present forms, with their present mythic identities, without severe consequences. Either we will expand the lore of spirits to include the much larger world-view now available, or we will halt the advance of knowledge in favor of a more comfortable mythology.
I suggest, from my vantage as one of those people who has engaged the art of spirit invocation directly, that we might begin to establish the modern understanding of spirits from the same starting point as we begin to understand ourselves. We acknowledge that we are conscious beings foremost and that our physical bodies provide an interface with the world; and we might extend this same proposition of a core identity composed of Will to those other beings which we call spirits.
It is not necessary to force upon these beings any kind of understanding about how or why they exist, stuffing them into receptacles designed by ethnic cults of dubious validity. Just as the religions of the past and present developed as the result of direct engagement with spirits, so should the future concept of spirits represent the result of investigative effort and not empty speculation.
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Esoteric Science and Natural Philosophy
Let us depart from the standard topics of occult philosophy and instead examine some hidden properties of physical matter. These secrets are observable and demonstrable, but require a more sophisticated approach than merely looking and hoping to understand. Many of the most important features of matter only appear when exposed to rigorous testing and abstract calculations. Such methods are usually available only to specialists with expert training, but any person of average intelligence can easily comprehend the import of these facts and the effects of their discovery upon both moral and natural philosophy.
At this point we may return our attention to occult topics and attempt to understand how these newfound facts might affect the working paradigm of a serious magician. Under the assumption that we are free to know anything that can be known, we have no reason to fear these new ideas. It is possible that such knowledge makes it difficult to adapt effectively to most forms of organized religious belief, especially in those cases where certain ideas are held beyond the possibility of question. Just as millions of people continue to reject the idea that the Earth is older than 6000 years, there will be plenty of people who gleefully assume that the science geeks have got this all wrong.
It is my personal belief that attempting to know more about life and the way things work is a laudable goal, and I do not put a cap on that knowledge at the place where my senses and ordinary experience fails me. At some point in the distant past, a person sat watching the sunsets and sunrises closely over a long enough period of time to discover that the Sun moves through the sky in a predictable and reliable pattern. His discovery led to agriculture, which developed a civilization sufficiently luxurious that it now can provide us with digital alarm clocks to remind us of the sunrise.
The people who made these observations, the ones who turned civilization into something civilized by standing out under the stars with a clay note-pad, were in their day the Wizards. They weren’t looking for the arcane and ancient lore, they wanted cutting-edge science and technology, better medicines, and an understanding of the universe from a wider perspective than that afforded the average goat-herder.
Rather than replicate their experiments and gloat over their collections of lore, it is incumbent upon modern magicians to also stand on or near the cutting-edge and to seek the advancement of human knowledge and culture. If we turn up our noses and walk away from this knowledge, saying that we prefer to get our version of the hidden truths of reality from books and tales full of talking animals and flying dragons, we are moving backwards instead of forwards in the stream of ideas.
It remains yet to be seen whether this information will form the basis of any specific type of occult practice. As of yet, that has not occurred. Those who profess to follow these ideas as the basis of their magical work, the so-called Chaos Magicians, have on the whole completely ignored this information just as staunchly as any High Priestess of Faery Wicca.
We should also be cautious in assuming that this wealth of scientific data somehow undermines the basis of faith and morals. We might separate, for example, the belief that thunder is the sound of angels bowling while still invoking angels for assistance and illumination. If anything, the wonder of creation has become orders of magnitude more wonderful, much to the greater glory of God whose work the universe represents.
Elementary Studies
Someone from the internet recently asked me what I thought Agrippa’s work would look like if he were alive today and writing for a contemporary audience. This is an interesting question and I think that those who read here might be interested to hear my thoughts on the matter; but first I think it would be appropriate to discuss the content of “Occult Philosophy” in its original setting.
So where does this leave the modern magician who finds himself enthralled by the idea of magic, yet unwilling to leave his brain on the hat rack inside the entry doors of the Collegium Spiritus Sancti?
Despite what the Chaos Magicians claim, the world has not yet developed a semi-coherent system of occult practice which incorporates much of the scientific advance from the last 500 years. Those who profess to update the curriculum often do so at the expense of its integrity, leaving the student with a watered-down version of physics or an absurd postmodern version of magic.
My own response, as this journal probably indicates, is to explore the older works on their own terms. I draw pentacles, recite prayers, invoke spirits, and bind evil demons in the names of God, as these are some of the better options for such work that appear in my own time and culture. I am certain that there are other options which are just as valid, but I choose the Art of Solomon and the strictures and directives which come with it. At this point, I am more interested in exploring where it can go and what it can do to assist myself and others than matching up each spirit to its corresponding Psalm.
I have no concern whatsoever whether any of my work produces more or better collections of spirit lore. It is neither my design, nor my desire, to see the occultists of the world come together to make a new and giant revision of classical occultism. I am however extremely interested in seeing people develop new technologies and resolve some of the real and tangible problems of the world using the existing materials; and I believe that magic offers solutions that religion scorns and science cannot attempt.
Progress and Development
I prefer to tell people about how I did something, rather than to tell them about how they can do something. It is my understanding that the people who can relate to my experiences in some way can figure things out for themselves and do their own thing their own way after taking mine into account. I don’t have anything to “teach” these people, they follow their own course as do I. Even so, there are plenty of people who want to be instructed.
The last century or so has seen the unprecedented rise of diverse esoteric orders. Most of these take inspiration from religious and political societies, and so it should not be terribly surprising that these orders lean towards religious devotion and internal disputes. The overwhelmingly popular alternative is to simply ignore participation in these societies and follow a self-guided course of practice; but here I would like to offer some thoughts on organized development in conjunction with the work of others.
None of this work should be regarded as a skill or hobby to be taken up or set aside as one might do with a guitar or a set of wood-crafting tools. Whether great or small, the effort to practice invocations of spirits will inevitably push life in a new direction which does not easily waver in its course. The magician becomes a part of something beyond his control, and surviving in such a position demands a kind of negotiated peace. If successful, the work should result in major and permanent changes in the life of the magician, and these are signs of progress more than any subjective faculty which regular practice might appear to produce.
The Legend of King Solomon
I write this post with two purposes in mind. First, to advertise my illustrated children’s book, The Legend of King Solomon, containing 30 of the most beloved tales of this mythic monarch. Second, I would like to address some ideas about how to get into more serious dimensions of magic and what to expect from it, and for this I will refer to topics in the children’s book.
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Far too much effort is applied among modern students of ceremonial magic towards understanding the meaning of symbols. The work of a magician is always in some way mysterious, and so it is of no account to have a better explanation of it than that offered by someone else. As well, far too little attention is paid to the role of the magician and the kind of objectives which are chosen for the work. It would ruffle no feathers to describe magic as an act of will, and in the Solomonic system that will is represented as one with broad responsibilities.
The magical literature attributed to King Solomon presents the magician as a person of temporal as well as spiritual power. The scriptural account of Solomon describes him as a ruthless dictator, a skilled diplomat, and a person of worldly appetites. Whereas Waite speaks of the grimoire magician as “poor, proscribed, envious, ambitious, and having no capacity for legitimate enterprises,” the tradition of Solomon is to search for authority by wisdom, not to cheat fate and gain special advantages.
At some point in the development of a magician, it becomes apparent that most of the literature on the subject is geared towards highly religious people. I find this amusing, and sometimes a little frustrating, as most magicians gravitate toward the occult as an alternative to mainstream religion, or as an escape from it. I write this post for those who aren’t quite comfortable with going to Sunday Mass, but who also aren’t ready to become a Shamanic Buddhist Druid.
I write all of this for the sake of addressing what I call “thematic” elements of magic, in this case the direct involvement of religion in the rites and ceremonies of the grimoires. To be brief, I might say that a magician can be irreligious or devout, but an irreverent magician is rarely respectable. I believe it is important to not permit the religious aspects of the practice to overwhelm or displace the magical aspects of the Art, but it is good to recognize a few points on which they agree.
The central agreement between the grimoires and religion is that the grimoires teach communication with beings of religious significance. They are spirits, gods, demons, all the ghosts and djinn of the invisible world, and we are mortals who presume to treat with them; but ultimately everything is ruled by God Almighty. Some grimoires demand a small degree of actual cult participation, but even the Red Dragon insinuates that you are interrupting Midnight Mass and not leading the choir there.
Stop Trying to Get Rich
Most magicians are poor. That’s OK, most of everyone is poor, and among those poor people, many are happy about their lives. I am sick of seeing the majority of magicians running around chasing after the nearest dollar every time they step into the circle. This post is intended for those who find themselves continually searching for the better Money Spell.
So you have called upon Bune, made sixteen different Jupiter talismans, and have tried Commanding Oil from the rootwork store in an attempt to get more customers at your Etsy shop; but you’re still broke.
Let me offer two simple suggestions.
1. Instead of trying to become wealthy, aim at becoming successful. Become a better musician, a better artist, a better athlete, or a better anything, and apply your magic toward that end. There’s no guarantee that you will become a high-income celebrity, but you will at least have something real upon which to base your appraisal of life.
In terms of planetary magic, Solomonic pentacles and the like, branch out into work with Mars and Mercury instead of Jupiter and Venus. Set yourself on a path of productivity and effective communication, rather than worrying over the supposed end-result of being the rich guy with a cute girlfriend.
Once you have decided that you will do something wonderful with yourself rather than merely try to accumulate enough cash to buy whatever some other person has made, get to work on that. They say nobody is perfect, but most people (myself included) are very far from it, and it takes work to avoid being a loser. Apply those Mars conjurations toward gaining vitality and reducing unwelcome health issues, and use those Mercury talismans to gain skills in diplomacy.
2. Do something really weird. Magic is not, at least in my opinion, something that should be merely an advantage for the otherwise ordinary person. It should elevate your experience of life into something beyond that which the average person can access. A magician should be inspiring in some way, whether for good or ill, and not just the guy who happens to win slightly more often than the boring guy next door.
It is not enough to have a skill, to be doing well at a hobby or career. In order to really develop as a magician, you have to explore a bit outside the comfort zone and attempt to do what mere mortals cannot. You may fail, and fail again, but if you do not make an effort to try, you are wasting your time as a magician. Open portals to the demonic realm, try to levitate, lay siege to a nearby town, go on treasure hunts, anything that calls to you on a deep and personal level as “the kind of thing magicians ought to do.”
It is essential in doing these weird things that you break out of whatever grimoire or curriculum you are using. The magic you explore should be something of your own design, at least in part, and it should be important to you as a personal goal.
Finally, do not allow wealth (or lack thereof) to dominate your appreciation of magical arts.
Treasure Hunts
The grimoires are full of interesting things to accomplish: get rich, become famous, acquire hidden knowledge, and a variety of other items along those three primary themes. Despite this, I very often meet grimoire conjurors whose lives are not interesting. I write this post for them.
When was the last time you went out looking for treasure with the aid of spirits, spells, and divinations?
If the answer is “Never,” I want you to consider why you have never done so. I would be willing to bet that the main reason most people have never done anything of the sort is their lack of faith in success. That would be a fair assumption, but if it were not just on the edge of the impossible, it would not be very impressive as Magic.
I would like to tell you of my adventures on three treasure hunts, each involving the aid of a Familiar Spirit, seeking treasures guarded by Purson, Vassago, and Astaroth.
The Golden Cavern has been amply described elsewhere, but briefly I should restate the incident for those who are unfamiliar with it. Following directions of a spirit, I located a vein of gold ore in Northern California that required a long, steep climb to access. At one point in the ascent, I was warned of an unseen hazard by the Familiar Spirit. I was not warned of the several armed men on the ridge across from the site, who opened fire, and I was not warned of the disasters and personal dangers following the discovery.
I was unable to get anything resembling details from Vassago about the Mormon Gold in Nevada, and resorted to the Familiar Spirit. This revealed several geological features to follow, and the spirit did not indicate that this would involve a climb of more than a thousand feet directly upwards with a deep pit of sand at the top. Despite detecting the “gold” signal from the pit, the site was abandoned due to fading light and a lack of a means to excavate the sand.
In seeking the Skull of St. Nick, I was given directions to seek the signs of water on the exterior of a building in a precise spot, and the direction to go downwards from there. Upon exit of the building, in the exact place described, there was a water drain and a sort of small door which would have been hazardous to enter.
In all three cases, the spirit direction was confirmed, and yet in no case was I ever able to make myself master of these spirit-guarded treasures. Nonetheless, I have scaled cliffsides, explored ancient sites and trails, and have really pitted myself physically and mentally against some huge obstacles, even gunshots. If I had simply said to myself “Nah, that won’t work,” I would be in the same position financially today, but I would have missed out on the adventures. I would also not have the confirmation that the spirit could in fact reveal true items beyond my knowledge, although none of them were particularly useful in the ways I desired them to be, and all failed to mention inherent dangers and drawbacks.
Perhaps someone will come along who is willing to actually do this sort of thing and have a treasure to show for it. I am certain that some exist, and I would love to see others attempt to uncover precious things long lost or hidden.
Unless you grew up chewing on a used smartphone, you probably remember a time when occult books were not as easily obtained as they are today. Major bookstores might stock a few items between the Astrology and Self Help sections, and your local library might have had a copy of the Grimoire of Armadel or The Sacred Magic of Abramelin, but serious occult lore was kept a dark secret until the mid 1990s.
I decided to write this post after overhearing a conversation between two young people debating which occult books to acquire. One was telling the other to simply go somewhere and download everything for free, which long-time readers know drives me up the wall. As I see things, if a person cannot afford to buy a book on ceremonial magic, there is very little chance that he can afford to use it. The counter-argument that usually appears is that there are so many things to read, and it would cost a fortune to actually pay for them. Yes, it can be expensive to build a library, but I would like to suggest an alternate strategy.
I think that at some point a person must decide upon a book or a school of practice, or invent one, and then consider that as a personal form of magic. It makes sense to put a bit of thought and study into that choice of definition, but it is best to go ahead with it at some point and see where it leads, regardless of whether you have the details perfectly understood.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
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Do you need a "Dinosaur Time" wall clock, an Aleister Crowley case for your Kindle, Eye of Jupiter coaster set, or a necktie featuring the Lord of the Hidden Fire?
I'm pretty happy with my Golden Cavern mug.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2015
For those who want to read some of my older writings, but who do not want to pay full cover price, here are about 500 pages of them for $10 as an e-book.
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I love Edgar Rice Burroughs books, but have found that the electronic reader world has left them largely neglected. The same can be said for "The Troll" by T.H. White and not a few other stories worth reading but poorly represented online. Please use this e book as an opportunity to sample full copies of the work, but I am confident that if you find them worthwhile to read fully, you would be better served by a print copy.
I had originally left my cover pages blank, so that the contents could be judged on their own merits. Some time has been taken to rectify the blank covers for Imperial Arts, Secrets of magic, and The Wizard's Workshop, but the content remains identical except for that of Secrets of Magic which have been fitted to the proper format.
I have also printed The Magan Text in casewrap hardcover, for those who dislike the washed out image qualities of the paperback. The Book of Lies is now available in paperback as well.
Helisol and The Great Key have been combined into The Magical Arts of Solomon the Wise, but the content of both texts included are unaltered. This is only for those who want a larger format hardcover, as the content is identical to the two paperbacks.
Those who wish to see me in person are welcome to attend the Seattle Esoteric Book Conference with me on September 27th and 28th.
Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
Thanks to my new large-format scanner, I was able to transform these huge manuscripts into printable paperbacks. The first is the so-called Greater Key of Solomon, here named "The Great Key," containing all the ceremonies presented in their "secret order" so that the book can be followed start-to-finish.
The second is my personal edition of the Lemegeton, which I have titled "Helisol" after an alternate title of the original manuscript. Each of these are printed in full color, with vivid green and purple inks, profusely illustrated. These are printed just as they appear in my manuscript, with no typing or editorial notes.
They're expensive to produce. They each required literally years to complete, with pages full of luxurious india ink and gold-leaf.
Let me be very clear that these books are not reprints and copies of materials you might already own. They are my personal working texts, and I debated long whether to simply keep them to myself.
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The Novice Arts
The subject of preparation for the ceremonies being so frequently asked, and with the new image features of Livejournal, I would like to describe the preliminary rites of conjuration applicable throughout the Lemegeton.
The idea that the 5th book of the Lemegeton is to be spoken as a consecration of the circle and ceremonial effects is not new. It appears explicitly in the text, in describing the prayers to be made upon entering the circle. There are ten such prayers for the circle itself, as well as others for the pentacles and triangle. The prayers of the circle are, I believe, of great importance to the ceremony as they contain the foundations of the system itself, the structure under which the whole idea of spirits and conjurations is expected to operate.
I am presenting these as photo-copies from my own working text, originally 14x22 inches, with the black text as the spoken portion, the red text as cipher for the Hebrew words in the circle, and the green as meditations on the themes indicated by these names.
It is certain that every person will come to a slightly different understanding of these terms, and that an individual will develop his own understanding as time passes. It is also irrelevant, in my opinion, whether or not one really considers these things a part of some absolute reality or truth, so long as they are understood as elements of the Lemegeton system. I do not believe that it is at all important to understand the cultural context of the rituals, whether they are 16th century or prehistoric or entirely modern, so long as one has a well-considered grasp of the major theoretical and practical points of the system.
The ceremonies operate far more like a subpoena than a phone-call, and this is an aspect of the work largely ignored in the literature of the subject. The reader of these texts is told to do and say various things which will, hopefully, contact a spirit. Contacting a spirit is a relatively small matter, with little difference to be made between requesting Captain Howdy on the Ouija board and evoking the infernal princes in elaborate regalia. The ceremony, with its obscure complexities, is intended to do more than merely attract attention or to assault spirits with holy names and dire incantations.
The ceremony of conjuration is designed to effect an environment similar to proceedings in a court of law, wherein both parties -the spirit and the magician - assent voluntarily into covenants with one another. A covenant is much that a bargain or contract is not, and lest there be some confusion of terms it should be understood that the conjuration is designed to express the will or testament of the magician. It must be entered with a clear mind, having the facts of the matter in view, or else it is invalidated. The oath and covenant made by the magician is not with the spirit, but with God who is supreme over men and spirits alike, and this is another point entirely lost in modern presentations of demonology despite it being on the first page of the most common grimoires.
In the case of the circle invocations, one must decide what it means to be a "Servant of the Most High" and to establish an understanding of his relationship with the spirits and their Creator. The circle itself is like the chariot of Ezekiel, a series of concentric rings surrounded by fire with a throne in the midst and six-angled figures on four sides, and for the ceremony it is the means by which the magician is figuratively exalted in divine power. There is perhaps not an absolutely correct way of understanding these things, but if one has no understanding of them or if they are denied, then the whole work is a sham and the oaths and conjurations are of no account.
I should mention also that this is not, in my opinion, a matter of generating "subjective synthesis" or any kind of fundamental agreement with the supposed grimoire paradigm. Rather, it is an understanding that the manner in which the grimoire is designed to operate is through the establishment of covenants, and that without acknowledgement of the terms of the covenants one proceeds in futility whether he is pious or perverse.
The Almadel
This is intended to be a brief review of the Almadel, from my own perspective and experiences. I realize that my writing can come across as an authoritative style, but in point of fact I am simply presenting my personal take on the subject as with all of these other things in the journal, and you are free to take it or leave it.
It is my opinion that the Almadel is the first of the "practical" arts that one should pursue in the Lemegeton series. This is due to the ease with which one can acquire the physical implements of the ritual, and to the way in which the spirits are approached. It is an introduction to evocation which allows the spirits to declare what is "right and proper" for them to perform. The magician is not encouraged to bring his preconceived notions of practicality to the ritual, seeking treasures and lovers or secret wisdom, but rather places himself before the spirits for the reception of their communication whatever that might be. The manifestations are not expected to be especially fantastic, the intent being merely to establish a genuine contact with intelligent beings of a benevolent nature.
Those who view this art as a technical procedure, or who regard it from a literary/historical standpoint, are missing out on the real work. The magical art, even "slavish devotion to the instructions of the grimoires," is a personal and individual work. Aside from the craft work involved, there are philosophical concerns that arise in the course of the work which force one to make and stand behind bold decisions in regard to what one wants from life and how one wishes to obtain those things. I see so many people struggling to establish a practical paradigm which fits their personal motif, seeking out the most-original or most-complete ceremonies, and ever struggling to do what is indisputably correct or whatever is awesome in the eyes of their peers. In my own work, I have decided to simply choose this one particular system and explore it thoroughly, regardless of its provenance, and I have not found that to be limiting or opposed to anything that I have believed was good.
Pauline Art: Abasdarhon
I am usually quite reticent concerning the other elements of ritual in the Lemegeton, this journal being exclusive to the Goetia with only a few tangential references to the other sections. There are several reasons for this, chief among them the fact that I feel the results of my other work are of a deeply personal nature and should not be brought up for public inspection. Though matters of less concern, my other motivations for silence on these arts stem from the fact that this journal has been an attempt to explore what is arguably the most interesting and popular of all ceremonial magic texts.
For those who are less familiar with the Lemegeton, it is divided into five "books" and some of these have more than one section. These books are copied from Latin, Greek, and Hebrew source materials which are now lost, and the Lemegeton is one manifestation of the lineage which I have found sufficient for practice. My experiment has been to apply all of the instructions and explore what can or cannot be done if one were to confine the limits of occult practice to this one exemplary text. I believe that, due to being copied from Hebrew texts which read back-to-front and right-to-left, the books of the Lemegeton are printed in reverse order, so that one ought to properly begin with the Artem Novem, followed by the Almadel, the invocation of the Guardian Angel, the use of the Table of Practice, the two forms of Theurgy, and finally the Goetia which is invariably attempted before anything else.
The use of the Table of Practice occurs in the section called "The Pauline Art," which is an obscure reference to visionary and revelatory magic according to J. Peterson and his source Lynn Thorndike. This is described, by means of illustration, as a round table with a Star of David, in which there are seven pairs of concentric circles, one at each point and one in the center. Between each pair of circles are six esoteric figures representing the planets, and in the center of each smaller circle there is a planetary symbol. The Sun is in the center with a letter R (resh, probably intended as the solar face), and the other planets are arranged clockwise beginning with Saturn at the top. Beside the top angle, there is the name of Jehovah.
I made this table from a round piece of wood about 22 inches in diameter and one inch thick, engraved with a chisel and rotary tool, sanded and stained with darker areas in the concentric circles. This is set over a bronze table base about a foot high. For travel purposes, I used colored silk thread to embroider the same design on a linen cloth of equal size.
Have we come to such a low point in civilization that it is necessary to bring in the celestial hosts to remind people to love their wives, care for animals, and give a brother a break? That is frightening, and I would hate to think that this was the real need for the spirit to make such revelations public. Perhaps the spirit wished to encourage people away from demonic evocation while not discouraging them from occult rituals. Whatever the case, such was the revelation and I have done my best to relate it faithfully.
For the Inquisitive
I am not dead or inactive, but have relocated to a small island some 23 miles offshore.
This journal remains my personal work, not a professional publication, and as such it should be expected that I update it in a manner I deem fitting.
Overall, I have greatly appreciated the responses to this work, but have long felt that much of what has been taken from this journal is not what I feel are its strongest merits, and so I will take this time to reflect on what this work is and what it is not.
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I had debated whether or not to make further updates to this journal on account of the unsavory attention it has attracted at time despite the overall positive response. I will continue to consider that, but for the present I will only say that I am still alive and quite well.
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Goetia: Balaam #51
BLOM (Balaam) pronounced "Bal- 'om"
King Commanding 40 Legions
I have called the spirit of Balaam, who was the last holy prophet of the nations in the days of the Exodus, brother to the first king of Edom. In the grand tradition of the Bible repeating themes, Edom is the "wicked older brother" to Israel, its people the descendants of Esau. The Edomites had the blessings of the righteous, but lacked guidance. They were given a prophet, Balaam, and his corruption provoked the ruin of the whole nation over the course of centuries.
Of all the things said by the spirit, the one that struck me the most was that none of these wide-range world events mean much to me, and that I am better off using my time to focus on my personal goals. The banking collapse has been imminent for years, and yet the fringe outlets cry every day that the destruction of all things convenient is scheduled to happen next week. When it fails to manifest next week, the clock has been pushed back another month, or another year, until you have a situation not unlike those who watch and wait for the Rapture. Things of that nature can and do happen, but it is more productive to live in readiness for what can be expected than to live in fear of what cannot be expected.
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Category: anniversary
2016, a look back
Another year nears its end, the seventh of this blog, which is always a good opportunity to look back, especially at what has appeared here in the blog over the course of 2016. I have grouped things loosely in various categories, so as to give an impression of cohesion.
Pope Francis at work
In Rome, and despite turning 80 this year, Pope Francis kept up the pace, introducing several changes, expected and unexpected. First, in January, he issued a decree which opened the rite of foot washing on Maundy Thursday also for women. I reflected on it here.
On Ash Wednesday, the Holy Father sent out 1,000 missionaries of mercy, among them 13 Dutch priests, as part of the ongoing Holy Year of Mercy.
Pope Francis commented on the question of female deacons, which led to much debate, at least in Catholic social media. I also shared my thoughts.
A smaller debate revolved around an instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by the Pope, about Christian burial.
The reform of the Curia also continued, first with the creation of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life and the appoinment of Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell as its first prefect; and then with the creation of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, for which the Pope picked Cardinal Peter Turkson as head.
Pope Francis also added to the College of Cardinals, as he called his third consistory, choosing seventeen new cardinals from all over the world.
Towards the end of the year, and following the end of the Holy Year of Mercy, Pope Francis issued an Apostolic Letter about the absolution from the sin of abortion, a faculty now extended to all priests.
The Pope abroad
Pope Francis made several visits abroad this year. To Cuba and Mexico, to Greece, to Armenia, to Poland, to Georgia and Azerbaijan, but the last one received the most attention here. For two days, Pope Francis put ecumenism in the spotlight during his visit to Sweden. Announced in January as a one-day visit, a second day was added in June. In October, the Nordic bishops previewed the visit in a pastoral letter, which I published in English.
The abuse crisis
Still here, and unlikely to go completely away in the next years or decades, the abuse crisis continues to haunt the Church. in February there were shocked reactions to comments made by a prelate during a conference on how bishops should handle abuse allegations. I tried to add some context here. In the Netherlands there was indignation when it became clear that a significant number of abuse cases settled out of court included a secrecy clause, preventing victims from speaking negatively about the Church institutions under whose care they suffered abuse. In April, the annual statistics of abuse cases processed and compensation paid out were released.
In April Amoris laetitia was released, the Post-Synodal Exhortation that was the fruit of the two Synod of Bishops assemblies on the family. Cardinal Eijk, the Dutch delegate to the assemblies, offered his initial thoughts about the document, followed by many other bishops.
While the document was broadly lauded, an ambuguous footnote led to much discussion. In November, four cardinals publised a list of dubia they presented to the Pope, but which received no answer. Citing the clear uncertainty about certain parts of Amoris laetitia, visible in the wide range of conclusions drawn, the cardinals respectfully asked for clarification, which they will most likely not be getting, at least not in the standard way.
The local churches
There were many more and varied events in local churches in the Netherlands and beyond. Theirs is a very general category, aiming to showcase some of the more important and interesting developments in 2016.
In January, the Belgian bishops elected then-Archbishop Jozef De Kesel as their new president. At the same time, Cardinal Wim Eijk announced that he would not be available for a second term as president of the Dutch Bishops’ Conference. In June, Bishop Hans van den Hende was chosen to succeed him.
Bishop Antoon Hurkmans retired as Bishop of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and in January he sent his final message to the faithful of his diocese, asking for unity with the new bishop. In April, rumours started floating that the bishops had suggested Bishop Hurkmans as new rector of the Church of the Frisians in Rome.
The Dioceses of Rotterdam and Groningen-Leeuwarden celebrated the 60th anniversary of their establishment.
On Schiermonnikoog, the Cistercian monks, formerly of Sion Abbey, found a location for their new monastery.
The Dutch and Belgian bishops announced a new translation of the Lord’s Prayera new translation of the Lord’s Prayer, to be introduced on the first Sunday of Advent.
A photograph of the cathedral of Groningen-Leeuwarden started appearing across the globe as a stock photo in articles about the Catholic Church. It continues to do so, as I saw it appear, some time last week, in an advert for a concert by a Dutch singer.
Speaking in Lourdes in May, Roermond’s Bishop Frans Wiertz spoke open-heartedly about his deteriorating Eyesight.
In June, Fr. Hermann Scheipers passed away. The 102-year-old priest was the last survivor of Dachau concentration camp’s priest barracks.
In that same month, the nestor of the Dutch bishops marked the 75th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Bishop Huub Ernst is 99 and currently the sixth-oldest bishop in the world.
In Belgium, the new Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels closed down the Fraternity of the Holy Apostles, erected by his predecessor, to the surprise of many.
Bishop Patrick Hoogmartens of Hasselt received a personal message and blessing from Pope Francis on the occasion of the 18th Coronation Feasts held in Hasselt in the summer.
The annual procession in honour of St. Willibrord in Utrecht was criticised this year after the archbishop chose to limit its ecumenical aspect. I shared some thoughts here.
In Norway, Trondheim completed and consecrated a new cathedral. English Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor was sent to represent the Holy Father at the event.
The retired archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, André-Joseph Léonard, was heard from again when a new book featured his thoughts about never having been made a cardinal, unlike his immediate predecessors and, it turned out at about the time of the book’s publication, is successor.
At the end of the year, Berlin was hit by terrorism as a truck plowed through a Christmas market, killing 12 and wounding numerous others. Archbishop Heiner Koch offered a poetic reflection.
The Dutch Church abroad
In foreign media, the Catholic Church in the Netherlands also made a few headlines.
In September, Cardinal Eijk was invited to speak at the annual assembly of the Canadian bishops, sharing his experiences and thoughts concerning the legalisation of assisted suicide. In the wake of that meeting, he also floated the idea that the Pope could write an encyclical on the errors of gender ideology.
in Rome, 2,000 Dutch pilgrims were met by Pope Francis, who spoke to them about being channels of mercy.
The new Dutch translation of the Our Father also sparked fears in some quarters that the bishops were leading everyone into heresy, leading to many faithful revolting against the new text. The truth was somewhat less exciting.
Equally overexcited was the report of empty parishes and starving priests in the Netherlands. I provided some necessary details here.
In Dutch
While my blog is written in English, there have also been three blog posts in Dutch. All three were translations of texts which were especially interesting or important. The first was my translation of the joint declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, an important milestone in ecumenical relations between the Catholic and the Russian Orthodox Churches.
Then there was the headline-making address by Cardinal Robert Sarah at the Sacra Liturgia Conference in London, in which the cardinal invited priests to start celebrating ad orientem again. But the text contained much more than that, and remains well worth reading.
Lastly, I provided translations of all the papal addresses and homilies during the Holy Father’s visit to Sweden. I kept the post at the top of the blog for a while, as a reflection of its importance for Dutch-speaking Christians as well.
A thank you
Twice in 2016 I asked my readers to contribute financially to the blog. In both instances several of you came through, using the PayPal button in the sidebar to donate. My gratitude to you remains.
2016 in appointments
10 January: Msgr. Rolf Steinhäuser is appointed as auxiliary bishop of Köln and titular bishop of Thuburnica.
5 March: Bishop Gerard de Korte, bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden, is appointed as bishop of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
29 April: Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers, auxiliary bishop of Münster and titular bishop of Tulana, is appointed as bishop of Dresden-Meißen.
1 July: Msgr. Georg Bätzing is appointed as bishop of Limburg.
23 September: Bishop Helmut Dieser, auxiliary bishop of Trier and titular bishop of Narona, is appointed as bishop of Aachen.
5 October: Fr. Lodewijk Aerts is appointed as bishop of Bruges.
12 October: Archbishop Augustine Kasujja, titular archbishop of Cesarea in Numidia and apostolic nuncio to Nigeria, is appointed as apostolic nuncio to Belgium.
28 October: Msgr. Rupert Graf zu Stolberg is appointed as auxiliary bishop of München und Freising and titular bishop of Sassura.
7 December: Archbishop Augustine Kasujja is appointed as apostolic nuncio to Luxembourg.
As every year, there is also death. Notewrothy this year were the following:
26 March: Bishop Andreas Sol, 100, Bishop emeritus of Amboina.
31 March: Georges-Marie-Martin Cardinal Cottier, 93, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Domenico e Sisto, Pro-Theologian emeritus of the Prefecture of the Papal Household.
16 May: Giovanni Cardinal Coppa, 90, Cardinal-Deacon of San Lino, Apostolic Nuncio emeritus to the Czech Republic.
26 May: Loris Cardinal Capovilla, 100, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Archbishop-Prelate emeritus of Loreto.
9 July: Silvano Cardinal Piovanelli, 92, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Grazie a Via Trionfale, Archbishop emeritus of Firenze.
2 August: Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, 89, Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina, Archbishop emeritus of Kraków.
18 August: Bishop Jan Van Cauwelaert, 102, Bishop emeritus of Inongo.
13 November: Bishop Aloysius Zichem, 83, Bishop emeritus of Paramaribo.
21 November: Bishop Maximilian Ziegelbauer, 93, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Augsburg.
14 December: Paulo Cardinal Arns, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Antonio da Padova in Via Tuscolana, Archbishop emeritus of São Paulo, Protopriest of the College of Cardinals.
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Happy birthday, Papa
Pope Francis marks his 79th birthday today. Happy birthday, Holy Father!
Posted on December 17, 2015 Categories anniversaryTags birthday, pope francis
“A holy temple in the Lord” – a papal letter to the Church of the Frisians
The national Church of the Netherlands in Rome, the church of Saints Michael and Magnus in Borgo, better known as the Church of the Frisians, celebrated the 25th anniversary of the renewed use of the building as such. In 1989, it was the later Bishop Tiny Muskens, then rector of the Pontifical Dutch College, who started the first of an unbroken series of Masses in the Dutch language in this 12th century church on the edge of St. Peter’s Square. To commemorate this, a plaque was revealed in honour of the late Bishop Muskens (pictured at right).
On Sunday, a festive Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Eijk, and he was also the recipient of a letter sent on behalf of Pope Francis by Archbishop Giovanni Becciu from the Secretariat of State. My translation follows below, although I am uncertain if this is the complete text. But for now, the sentiment comes across as the archbishop uses a passage from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians to succinctly describe what a Church is.
“With joy Pope Francis took note of the 25th anniversary of the transferral of the venerable church of Saints Michael and Magnus in Borgo, the Church of the Frisians, as national church of the Netherlands.
As Church we are all “built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone. Every structure knit together in him grows into a holy temple in the Lord” (Eph. 2:20-21). May this certainty give strength to the faithful in their daily work and their witness of Christ, the Saviour. May they always be messengers of the joy of the Gospel to their neighbours.
Pope Francis wishes and prays that the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and Mother of the Church, may accompany all visitors of Ss. Michael and Magnus with her loving support and gladly grants you, your eminence, as well as the honourable father rector and all who will take part in the celebration of the Eucharist and the festivities on the occasion of the anniversary, the Apostolic blessing.”
Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu
Substaitue for general Affairs, Secretariat of State
from Rome, 7 November 2014
the Feast of St Willibrord
Posted on November 10, 2014 Categories anniversary, Catholic Church in the Netherlands, From RomeTags archbishop giovanni becciu, bishop tiny muskens, church of the frisians, jesus christ, letter to the ephesians, mary, mass, pontifical dutch college, pope francis, prayer, wim cardinal eijkLeave a comment on “A holy temple in the Lord” – a papal letter to the Church of the Frisians
Happy birthday to Cardinal Simonis
Happy birthday to Adrianus Johannes Cardinal Simonis, who today marks his 82nd birthday.
Cardinal Simonis was born in Lisse, then in the Diocese of Haarlem and today in the Diocese of Rotterdam, and became a priest of the Diocese of Rotterdam and later bishop of that same diocese, Coadjutor Archbishop and Archbishop of Utrecht, and Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente. He retired in 2007.
Posted on November 26, 2013 September 15, 2013 Categories anniversaryTags adrianus cardinal simonis, archdiocese of utrecht, birthday, diocese of haarlem-amsterdam, diocese of rotterdam, san clementeLeave a comment on Happy birthday to Cardinal Simonis
Happy birthday to Bishop Hendriks
Happy birthday to Bishop Johannes Willebrordus Maria Hendriks, who today marks his 59th birthday.
Bishop Hendriks was born in Leidschendam, the the Diocese of Haarlem and today in the Diocese of Rotterdam, and became a priest of the Diocese of Rotterdam and later auxiliary bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam.
Posted on November 17, 2013 September 15, 2013 Categories anniversaryTags birthday, bishop jan hendriks, diocese of haarlem-amsterdam, rotterdamLeave a comment on Happy birthday to Bishop Hendriks
Happy birthday to Bishop Woorts
Happy birthday to Bishop Herman Willebrordus Woorts, who today marks his 50th birthday.
Bishop Woorts was born in Abcoude, Archdiocese of Utrecht, and became a priest and later auxiliary bishop of Utrecht.
Posted on November 12, 2013 September 15, 2013 Categories anniversaryTags archdiocese of utrecht, birthday, bishop herman woortsLeave a comment on Happy birthday to Bishop Woorts
Happy birthday to Bishop Sol
Happy birthday to Bishop Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol, who today marks his 98th birthday.
Bishop Sol was born in Sloten, in the Diocese of Haarlem, and became a priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He became Coadjutor Bishop and later Bishop of Amboina in Indonesia. He retired in 1994.
Posted on October 19, 2013 September 15, 2013 Categories anniversaryTags bishop andreas sol, borthday, diocese of amboina, diocese of haarlem-amsterdam, indonesia, missionaires of the sacred heart of jesusLeave a comment on Happy birthday to Bishop Sol
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How I escaped a vicious payday loan cycle that left me paying back more than my monthly rent
Siobhan Taylor, a single mother to two boys, found herself relying on payday loans to pay the bills.
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Siobhan Taylor’s story is a familiar one in modern day Britain.
After splitting from the father of her two boys in 2013, the working mum found herself in dire straits. With nowhere else to turn, she was forced to take out a payday loan to cover the rent and basic living costs.
At first the loans were small – £50 here and there to tide her over. But with exorbitant interest rates often exceeding 1000 per cent annually, she soon faced crippling repayments at the end of each month; forcing her further in debt with multiple lenders.
“I needed the money to pay my rent. It was a necessary evil unfortunately,” she says. “I ended up in a vicious cycle where I had to pay more than my rent at the end of the month.”
Backed into a corner, the 32-year-old Scot was finally forced to choose between paying for her expensive temporary accommodation or the loan repayments.
Choosing to keep a roof over her family’s head, she defaulted with some of the lenders.
“When I took out the loans, I was paying small amounts each month – maybe £100 or £200. But it soon grew to £600 or £700, which is not far off my whole wage and it didn’t leave anything else for living or bills. So I had to cancel the direct debits.”
The result has been a five-year struggle in which Siobhan has been working hard to clear her debts and rebuild her credit score – which was already too low for her to be considered by mainstream lenders, and has been hit harder still.
Siobhan’s first move was to access her credit report through Clearscore.
“At the time of splitting up with my ex partner and moving into temporary accommodation I got in an absolute mess over a phone bill with Vodafone. It was then I looked at my credit score and now I keep a really close eye on it.
“It has taken a while to get back on track just paying normal monthly payments, but I’m doing what I can to improve my rating. I’m making sure that anything I’ve got is being paid on time – so it’s going in the right direction.”
Siobhan was aided a little by the Financial Conduct Authority’s crackdown on Pay Day lenders in 2015, when it introduced a cap on the amount of interest companies could charge.
This, combined with the negative publicity the industry was attracting, meant that some of Siobhan’s debt was written off.
“Wonga got in touch to say they had decided that my loan shouldn’t have happened and so I didn’t have to pay it off, which was a big relief,” she explains.
Alternatives to payday loans
Credit Unions work locally and offer rates typically between 10 and 15 per cent APR to members. Find your nearest union through the Association of British Credit Unions.
Check with your local authority to see whether you are entitled to grants or assistance for home improvements. Find out more at Citizens Advice.
Fair for You
Flexible credit provider Fair for You offers loans on a range of household goods at a lower rate than mainstream competitors. They offer an APR of 42 per cent with no penalties for late or early repayment.
Part of social enterprise and responsible lender Five Lamps, Conduit offers loans of between £100 and £1,000 over six or 12 months at an APR of 112.9 per cent.
Fair Finance
Fair Finance offers personal loans of up to £1,000 at an APR of 135.8 per cent over six to 18 months to benefits claimants and those with a poor credit history. An online or face-to-face interview is required.
The other loans Siobhan began clearing slowly, paying off debts with Provident Financial and Lending Stream, as well as the Vodafone bill.
She has one final debt with Pay Day UK, which is currently around £375; substantially more than her original loan due to the addition of extra fees and charges. However, she insists the loan should never have been given and so she is fighting to have it written off too.
Siobhan’s monthly salary of around £700, which she earns – perhaps ironically – as a part time debt collector for HMRC, combined with weekly tax credits of around £170 do not stretch far, and she still needs to borrow money.
Big-ticket household items are a particular struggle, a problem she faced when finally moved to permanent accommodation in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, and needed a new fridge freezer.
She thought first of Brighthouse, which provides credit for expensive household items. However the huge rates of interest – which sees customers often pay back more than double the item’s value – put her off. Following a Facebook advert she found Fair for You, which she says was more affordable.
“It was £350 for the new fridge freezer plus only £50 in interest over 14 months, which was very reasonable compared to other places. I applied and was accepted the next day.”
She has since also bought a new cooker with Fair for You, paying around £75 per month for both items. She praises the firm’s customer service and often refers her friends, earning a £5 cash back reward for each successful referral.
In October last year she also took out a loan of £1,500 with Scotwest Credit Union to buy a new car, again attracted by a lower interest rate (12.1 per cent) than those offered by most providers servicing her demographic.
“Using a credit union and Fair for You is definitely the best way forward for people like me that are on low incomes and don’t have the best credit,” she says.
“I avoid payday loans now – it’s just not worth it. Even if it helps in the short term, you just get in more of a mess.”
More in money:
– How I manage to save money despite earning a low wage
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– ‘I got £15,000 into debt – here’s how I’m paying it off’
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Parineeti Chopra considering to take digital plunge
Mumbai, Mar 11 (PTI) Actor Parineeti Chopra says she is not averse to doing web series and has even received some interesting offers.
The actor’s co-star “Kesari” co-star Akshay Kumar recently announced that he would be making his digital debut.
Parineeti said there are a lot of options for actors to choose from, content wise
“I’m getting a lot of interesting content for shows. I have three-four show offers but I don’t know which one, or if I’m even going to do any of them. It happens that I’m about to say yes to a show and an amazing film comes up,” she said in a group interview.
This year, Parineeti will be seen in three films- “Kesari”, “Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar” and “Jabariya Jodi”.
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The actor said she was supposed to have only two releases this year but “Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar” got pushed.
“You cannot plan. When you plan, God laughs, the film industry also laughs, things change everyday! But that’s the beauty of it,” she said.
Parineeti is waiting to see how the year unfolds as she awaits the announcement of three projects.
One of those is rumoured to be “Baahubali” director SS Rajamouli’s next “RRR”, starring Jr NTR and Ram Charan.
When asked if she is doing the film, Parineeti said, “I’ll only say that you guys should wait and believe the things we announce. Whatever my films are, they’ll be announced within this week.”
She is currently awaiting the release of “Kesari” on March 21.
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Texas Tech's Norense Odiase, left, Jarrett Culver and head coach Chris Beard listen to a question during a news conference for the championship of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, April 7, 2019, in Minneapolis. Texas Tech will play Virginia on Monday for the national championship. (AP Photo/Tim Donnelly)
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Former Indiana men's basketball coach Bob Knight sits in the press box at Bart Kaufman Field during Indiana's baseball game against Penn State in Bloomington, Ind., Saturday, April 6, 2019. Knight made his first public appearance on campus since he was fired almost 19 years ago. The Big Ten Network was broadcasting the game when Knight made the impromptu golf cart ride to the field. (Alexis Oser/The Herald-Times via AP)
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The buzzer sounded and Tom Izzo walked stoically across the Final Four floor to shake hands with Texas Tech counterpart Chris Beard, no doubt complimenting him on a fine defensive performance. It's a walk Izzo has made a lot over the past two decades. Frustrated all night by the...
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Zekun Mao uses editing to create a thrill for audiences
January 27, 2019 pressva Leave a comment
Zekun Mao still remembers the first time she truly noticed film as a form of art, beyond a simple form of entertainment. She was watching Christopher Nolan’s 2000 blockbuster Memento, and she was fascinated by not just the story, but how it was being told. She began to immerse herself in movies, making her realize a passion that she never knew she had. She knew from then on that she was meant to go into filmmaking, and now, as an award-winning editor, she is living her dream.
“Whatever style the story requires, I will cut the film in that way. I would describe my style of editing as naturalism. I came from a documentary background. Being natural, or being real, is the most important thing. When I am editing, I like to stick to the style of the footage and stick to the tone of stories. I love showing the story as it should be. If it should be emotional, then I will make sure the way I cut the movie will make audiences feel that particular way,” she said.
Becoming an industry leader in her home country of China and abroad, Mao knows just what it takes to captivate an audience. This is exemplified with her work on films like Jie Jie, And The Dream That Mattered, Janek/Bastard, and American Dream, to name a few.
Last year, Mao also saw worldwide success with her film Our Way Home. The dramatic thriller tells the story of Chinese-American James, who picks up his older sister Barbara from college for Thanksgiving 1962. After a racist encounter in a diner, they think they’re being followed, but it’s not someone they expected. The story spoke to Mao, who has experienced similar forms of racism in her own life, which is why she felt compelled to work on the film.
“The story is about racism, especially at this moment when a lot of similar things are happening in the world. A lot of the feelings that immigrants have are painful, confused and embarrassing. Through this story, I want to tell the world that racism is a terrible thing and it shouldn’t happen to anyone. Moreover, the story is about Chinese immigrants. I want to highlight stories that are about my own community and about our history. As a Chinese filmmaker, I see that as one of my responsibilities. I think it is very important to show the difficulties and struggles that Chinese immigrants have even today,” said Mao.
Our Way Home had its world premiere at the Hollyshorts Film Festival 2018 where it was an Official Selection and is expected to continue its film festival run this year. Mao was pivotal to the film’s success. As it is a thriller, creating tension and uneasiness is key to captivating the audience, and editing is a vital tool to achieve this. Her work created the tone, bringing the audience into this dark world, making the thriller just that: thrilling.
“I am really happy that our film has been such a success. I feel really rewarded. All the hard work that we put in was really worth it. I am so happy that the story let the world pay attention to racism that still exists today. I am happy that through this film, I speak out loud what a lot of people want to say. I am also happy that I highlighted the story from my own community,” she said.
When editing, Mao made the decision of using fast cuts. During one crucial scene where the characters are being chased, Mao used her skills to create a feeling of danger, using jump cuts. The cuts are constantly jumping between cars and between the inside and outside of the car.
Mao thoroughly enjoyed her time working on Our Way Home. Everyone she worked with was dedicated to making the best film possible, and it shows in the final cut. Mao formed great professional relationships on set, which was almost the best part of working on the film. The best, she says, was sharing the story with a worldwide audience.
“The story is the reason why I worked on this project, and telling the story is the most enjoyable part of this process. I am very happy that I was able to tell this story, because I believe a lot of people experience racism in different ways. And a lot of Chinese-Americans had the confusing moment of figuring out who they really are. I hope after watching this film, audiences can think about all these problems,” she said.
Be sure to check out Our Way Home to see a telling and timely story, and just what Mao is capable of as an editor.
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Editor Xiaodan Yang creates visual masterpiece with ‘It’s Not Just About a Film’
March 14, 2018 pressva Leave a comment
Xiaodan Yang knows being a film editor isn’t always the most glamorous job in the industry. When she goes to a film premiere, she will see the cast and crew and feel like she knows them so well after seeing their faces on her screen for the past few months. However, it is often the premiere where they first meet her. Editing isn’t a front-and-centre job, and often involves many isolated hours going through the same five seconds of footage trying to decide how best to use it. That being said, she absolutely loves what she does.
“I enjoy every moment during editing. I’m glad to be a participant and witness of the whole journey. Editing is my tool to communicate with audiences. It is how I put my emotions into the story. When people connect with the film, that’s my favorite moment, and I know I’ve done my job,” she said.
Born and raised in China, Yang has now taken the world by storm. Her work on films such as Witness and Sixteen received international recognition, and audiences can expect the same from her upcoming films Kayla and Summer Orange, which makes its world premiere at the renowned Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner in May. All those she collaborates with not only appreciate what she is capable of, they admire it.
“Xiaodan is a very talented editor. We know each other because of film Snatching Sword (a.k.a Wang Shan). Snatching Sword is an action film, and over half of the scenes are action scenes. As we all know, editing action scenes is like a big trial for an editor. When Xiaodan delivered her first cut, I saw her talents instantaneously. She is sensitive to the pace of the film and knows how to use sound design to tell a story. I think that’s really important for a film editor. What’s more, she has a very collaborative attitude and the ability of responding promptly, which make her an excellent team player. My other crew members and I all enjoy working with her,” said Rachel Zhou, Director and Writer.
One of Yang’s most impressive works was her film It’s Not Just About a Film. After spending the beginning of 2017 editing the project, it premiered on May 13th, and then made its way to several film festivals. Yang herself was awarded with Best Editing at the Top Shorts Film Festival and the Award of Merit in Editing at the Accolade Global Film Festival. Needless to say, the film could never have seen the success that it did without her.
“It still feels so exciting, knowing my work was recognized on a global scale. Winning those two awards, it means so much to me. To be honest, this is not that kind of regular ‘Hollywood film’. The way we decided to tell the story breaks the routine. I’m so glad there are people that can understand our intention and like it,” she said.
It’s Not Just About a Film tells the story of Max, an actor. To get the lead of a film, Max seduces and has an affair with Cameron, the lead actress and wife of the film’s investor Fabrizio. However, as the shooting goes on, Max realizes that Fabrizio is a violent person with a gangster background. Max wants to end the affair but finds himself unable to break away from it. It is a pretty stylish story, ironic and funny, but also extremely suspenseful.
“Working on It’s Not Just About a Film was a very creative process. The director and I had reached a consensus that we had to break the rules. It’s a wild story that needs wild ways to edit. That’s actually not an easy thing to do, but I was ready to try. It was like a brand-new experience for me. When I was working in the editing suite with Chen, the Director, he always encouraged me to try whatever felt good. I could forget about any editing rules in my mind, and it made for an amazing experience. I still feel so lucky that I got to be part of it. All the cast and crew were amazing,” said Yang.
Knowing he wanted Yang on board right away, the director sent her the script. At the time, it was not even completed. The first time she read the script, the story impressed the editor a lot. It was completely different from the films she had edited previously, and Yang is always looking for something new and unique challenges to get her creative juices flowing.
The film follows three different timelines all happening at the same time and includes several dream sequences. These three timelines revolve around the leading character in the story, reality, his dream and the film within the film. This makes for entertaining watching, but immensely challenging editing. With so much going on, Yang knew she had to put the scenes together in not just a creative way, but also one that was logical for audiences not to get lost and confused in the different storylines. She spent a good deal of time on the first cut. Almost every scene in the film had a different location, or even different time and space. Therefore, Yang decided to use different aspect ratios to present different timelines. However, after a few cuts, she still had the concern as to whether or not the audience could understand everything. She then tried to simplify the story by losing minor details, which made the film more relaxed and funny. Yang’s understanding of storytelling proved vital.
“Since the structure of this story was so complicated, editing played an even more important role. I kept reminding myself about one thing, “What am I trying to convey to the audience here?”. Once I was sure about the answer, every decision I made should serve this purpose. Otherwise, it’s easy to get off track under this situation. That’s why my work is particularly essential for this project. I had the responsibility to control the direction of the film, and at the same time to make it interesting,” Yang described.
In addition to editor, Yang took on the role of post-production coordinator for the film. As an editor, she cares about the sound and color correction a lot, and she always sticks to the end until everything is done, making her the perfect fit for the position. She also likes to give her input to the sound designer and colorist, knowing what would work best while editing.
Undoubtedly, Yang’s contributions to It’s Not Just About a Film made the film what it is today. Her commitment to the project was evident with every decision she made. However, the awards and accolades are not important to this editor, who remains humble. For Yang, she just focuses on the story she is telling.
“As the director said, “It’s a story about dream and subjective perception of the world.” And there is always a saying that “dream is the reflection of reality”. I don’t know if there’s scientific evidence to prove it, but it makes sense to me. Based on this concept, we developed this wild, dramatic, even absurd story. For me, it’s fantastic. It stimulated my full potential as an editor,” she concluded.
Be sure to check out Yang’s outstanding work in It’s Not Just About a Film.
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Editor James Ralph is indirectly responsible for success of superstars with work on ‘X Factor’
September 24, 2017 pressva Leave a comment
As a child growing up in London, England, James Ralph wanted to be a chef. He enjoyed the creativity that came along with cooking, being able to create something amazing from simple ingredients. During this time, his hobby was making videos with his friends. As he grew, he started to realize the parallels between cooking and filmmaking. Both involve a high level of creativity and natural instinct, and both are their own forms of art. It was this realization that made making movies turn from a hobby to a true passion, and changed Ralph’s life.
Now, Ralph is one of Britain’s most celebrated editors. His work throughout his country’s television industry is iconic, putting his touch on the nation’s most popular shows. Working on series like Love Island, Britain’s Got Talent, 24 Hours in A&E, The Voice UK, and many more, Ralph has made quite the name for himself. This all truly began with his work on the immensely popular singing competition The X Factor.
“It’s amazing to think that over the years working on this show, I have had a hand in editing the auditions of artists who have gone on to enjoy massive worldwide fame. Early One Direction solo auditions, JLS, Little Mix as soloists and when first together amongst others. It gives me a real sense of achievement to think that, although they’ll have absolutely no idea who I am or what I do, I have in my small way played a part in their journey to superstardom,” said Ralph.
Having worked on the show since 2008 when it began its fifth season, Ralph is acutely aware of how to make the show a success. He brings a consistency and deep understanding of the show and how it works best. He has been involved in all stages of the editing process, from the initial auditions, to arenas, boot camp, judges houses, and the live shows. His extensive experience on the show and his vast understanding of its many elements has meant that he has a senior role, working as a lead or finishing editor. He knows the look and feel better than almost anyone, and without him, the show may not be what it is today.
“What I love about working on a show like this is that it’s a real test of all my skills as an editor, but also because it is transmitting weekly, you are working on something, that is getting real time feedback from the press, the public and social media. A really successful audition can become a real water cooler moment where it seems like everyone is talking about it, and that is a great feeling,” said Ralph.
From the beginning, Ralph is heavily involved in editing the audition stage of the show. He spends weeks going through all the footage from each audition, figuring out exactly what should be highlighted. Once episodes have been cast, he crafts every audition, ensuring to tell each story fully, maximizing the potential of each act. He also has to connect each act, and building the bridges and connections between them takes a great deal of time and skill, as viewers need the entire show to be seamless. According to Ralph, the choice of music and the pacing of the stories is so important in making the most of every scene. Simon Cowell is also highly involved in the process, and Ralph sends edits to him regularly for feedback. Ralph’s editing skills are vastly appreciated by all who work on the show.
“James is a pleasure to work with. Over the years numerous Series Producers and Edit Producers have worked alongside him and the feedback is always extremely positive. James is someone we try to book as an editor for the show every year, he is very much a part of the core edit team. We also work very long hours and James will never lose his sense of humor and always has a smile on his face,” said Ashley Whitehouse, Series Producer. “James is a very creative editor who can work extremely well under pressure, often cutting to very tight deadlines. He is a great editor when it comes to telling emotional stories, but equally skilled when it comes to cutting comedy. James is also very accommodating when working with junior members of the editorial team and will often help nurture less experienced producers. James is often used as a ‘finisher’ on our shows too, great attention to detail.”
Ralph takes a great sense of satisfaction from the fact that his work is not only appreciated by colleagues, but also fans. The show is consistently popular with the public and press, with extremely high ratings and award wins. When a fan retweets an audition, or likes a video on YouTube, they may not realize they are congratulating Ralph for a job well done.
“I love working on this show for a number of reasons. It’s a heady mix of intense pressure to deliver against deadlines for transmission, super creativity, and the chance to work on discovering acts that have gone on to become some of the biggest global acts in recent years. I have been involved in all areas of the edit from the opening sequences, pre-titles, guest artist videos for people like Katie Perry, Robbie Williams to actual parts of the show, live show videos as well as lead and finishing editor roles. There isn’t really a part of the editing of the show that I don’t know about,” he concluded.
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Editor Minghao Shen helps terrify audiences in award-winning horror flick ‘Emily’
Growing up in Beijing China, Minghao Shen always loved film. Unlike many who enjoy watching a movie, he would think about how it was being made. The details behind how each scene was put together were what captivated him; he wanted to be a filmmaker. Eventually, the nuances and strategy behind editing caught his attention, and he knew that was where his future was. Now, he is an internationally celebrated editor.
Shen has worked on countless critically-acclaimed projects, earning him a reputation as one of China’s best recent film editors. His work on films such as Inside Linda Vista Hospital, Stay, Cartoon Book, and Red String has allowed worldwide audiences to see what he is capable of, showing without a doubt why he is so respected in the industry. His work on the horror film Emily perfectly encapsulates what the editor is capable of.
“It is a simple but tense horror film. The movements of shots and the whole visual style are really outstanding. I knew that there would be challenges, but that it would be a great chance for editing,” said Shen.
The film tells the scary story of a woman named Emily. Emily dies giving birth at home after her husband, John, abandons her. However, she will have her revenge from beyond the grave when she returns as a ghost set on killing her widowed husband.
“My favorite part of the whole production was talking about the story, because we found out that there were multiple options would work for it. Although each of the options would have been great, but couldn’t mix them all together, otherwise the tone would be chaos. As an editor, having to narrow this down and figure out how to properly tell the story and convey the right tone was great,” said Shen.
Shen’s instincts proved to be spot on, as Emily went on to do very well at several prestigious film festivals. It was an Official Selection at the Los Angeles CineFest, the SoCal Creative and Innovative Film Festival, the Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival, the Action on Film International Film Festival, the California Independent Film Festival, and the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival. It won Best Overall Micro Film at the Indie Gathering International Short Film Festival and at the Accolade Global Film Competition it won the Award of Excellence.
“I had many complex feelings when I discovered the film was getting a lot of awards. It was a blend of excitement and satisfaction after the hard work everyone had done. We know that we took a bunch of time and work on the film, so I was so glad that our hard work got such encouragement from the festivals,” said Shen.
None of this could have been possible without Shen’s editing talents. He spent his time taking notes every time he met with the director, ensuring he still achieved the vision of the film while bringing his own touch to it. After the first rough cut, there were a lot of points that needed to be ironed out and redone, but based on notes he did originally, it greatly assisted to the time it took.
“Horror film is always about beats, so the director worked really hard with me to specify each second to make the film the best,” said Shen. “I talked with the director about our thoughts and he trusted me for the style based on my previous experience. There were always some different editing choices between me and the director. He is a talented and continuously brainstorming how to make the film better, so I always let him know more than one choice to let our minds be more open, so that we could avoid some useless change and waste of work time. We actually had some different thoughts in some parts. After a lot of meetings, we finally compromised our differences and both of us thinks this made the finished product better than what just our own ideas would have.”
The director, Jun Xia, agrees, and knows that without Shen his film could not have achieved what it did. The two have worked together on multiple projects since Emily, and Xia knows that Shen’s talents are essential to making a good film.
“Minghao and I had worked together for a few times before, and he is always a good listener. He can take feedback and produce more ideas all the time. Minghao is an experienced editor. We talked a lot about a lot of different ways to make Emily better, and it did. He can always come up with unique thoughts when it comes to editing,” said Xia.
Everyone that works with Shen is continuously impressed by his editing skills. Without his work on Emily, audiences may not have been on the edge of their seats, terrified about what would happen next.
You can watch Shen’s impressive editing work on the short film Emily here.
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Editing Genius Rudy Vermorel Engages Millennials with his Work
March 24, 2017 Scott Prewitt Leave a comment
At the heart of every production, whether it’s an advertisement or an epic drama, is a story with a purpose. The writers, cinematographers and director are all critical to a project’s creation, but it’s at the editor’s desk where it becomes more than just raw footage and words on a script. It’s up to the editor to see the forest through the trees — to know the story that’s being told, and to be able to put the right scenes together in the right places like so many puzzle pieces, to create the final product that movie theater audiences and home viewers will ultimately see.
The job of an editor can be grueling, but for Rudy Vermorel it’s all a labor of love. Painstakingly parsing through hundreds of hours of footage, one second at a time, is just the beginning of Vermorel’s zenlike process. He cuts, splices and rearranges scenes with a methodical efficiency and confidence honed by experience, breathing life into the story with every move.
“Once I have the footage I start to watch it to get an idea of the general tone,” Vermorel said. “If there is music in the background of the video I listen to the song to feel all the emotions and adapt the song to the footage. Then, I start cutting and I create my magic.”
In 2016, Taco Bell hired Vermorel as the lead editor for the company’s web series “Taco Tales,” an innovative marketing campaign geared toward the millennial demographic. In each episode, actors reenact Taco Bell-related stories found online at sites like Facebook and Reddit. Lighthearted and at times zany, editing the web series gave Vermorel the chance to showcase his talent for comedic timing. Moreover, the decision by such a massive company to hire Vermorel for a major social media marketing campaign speaks volumes about his talent.
Vermorel worked hard to earn his reputation as a leading figure in the field, a reputation which in turn earned him the trust of a wide array of high-profile clients internationally. Among countless other productions he’s served as the lead editor on advertisements for Ford, music videos for artists including MTV Video Music Award winner Demi Lovato, and in 2016 he expanded his repertoire with a venture into the rapidly growing market of mobile gaming.
Supercell – the group behind the runaway hit game “Clash of Clans” on iPhone and Android smartphones – has relied heavily on its strategy of widespread marketing to entice players into joining, to great effect. When the company released “Clash Royale” in 2016, it began preparing for a massive advertising blitz and Vermorel was recruited as the campaign’s editor.
“I am not a big game player so… at first I was apprehensive about how to edit it,” he said. “I figured out that the best way to work on it was to start playing the game, and I enjoyed it a lot. After that, I had so many ideas for how to highlight ‘Clash Royale,’ and all the fun, strategy and entertainment that make up the game.”
Initially the campaign was challenging for Vermorel, but he quickly adapted and before long the campaign had produced 20 videos publicizing “Clash Royale.” The videos racked up more than 120 million views, and the game became the top downloaded and highest-earning app on the iOS App Store overnight.
“I was very attached to the characters. I attributed to them a very different style, which allowed me to vary the editing techniques,” he said. “I wanted to showcase the funny side of the characters. For that we worked on their design to make them endearing, then I opted for modern dynamic editing in order to attract the interest of a large audience.”
The campaign was such a wild success that Vermorel was asked to continue editing the game’s ad campaigns for the next three years, the first of which will begin development this year.
Very few people involved in a production can ever be as intimately familiar with the project as the editor. A dedicated editor can spend days or weeks poring through every scene countless times. They can spend years perfecting the ability to bring the narrative together using the timing, cadence, and music of each scene. An editor’s job is to build order from chaos, to understand the director’s vision for a project and to bring that vision to life. A production is only as good as its editor, and Rudy Vermorel is the best there is.
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EDITING THE MORE SENSITIVE PARTS: LUIZ SCHIEL
August 5, 2016 pressva Leave a comment
Technology has brought the entire world closer. Social media such as Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook have given a global platform to anyone who desires it. What one gains in exposure, you lose in privacy. The generational difference of opinion on this is vast. Older generations are wary while younger generations don’t even think about an idea as archaic as privacy. It’s certain that different ages and different cultures feel differently about discussing the topic of sex. V-Card the Film is a perfect example of how society’s discussion of the subject has changed. The film’s editor Luiz Henrique Schiel Gigolotti understood that he needed to be as precise as a surgeon to navigate the subject matter of which could both attract or offend differing viewers. The duplicity was challenging for Luiz as he wanted the artist’s message to ring true while still representing the humor and real social stigma associated with the main character Dillon’s situation. The proper editing can completely change the audience’s decision to respect or feel pity for the protagonist.
V-Card is the story of Dillon, a twenty-three year old virgin. Dillon has been trying but things haven’t worked out as planned. Depending on your cultural and religious background you might be offended or intrigued by his story. Luiz’s job as an editor is to help the filmmakers find that middle ground that interests everyone without turning them away. Dillon is a likeable, early 20’s New Yorker with a job, friends, & the things that most of us desire. Dillon is the film’s proxy for all of us to examine how we feel about virginity. The question put to the audience is whether we make our own decision about when we lose it or if we feel pressured by society to make it occur within a certain time frame in order to feel “normal.” The documentary examines Dillon’s life and feelings as well as those of random interviewees (and some scheduled ones) from many different cultural, racial, sexual, and social backgrounds. The star and writer of V-Card is Dillon Birdsall. When Dillon approached Luizto be the film’s editor, he was eager to accept. Gigolotti recalls, “When Dillon asked me to edit V-Card, I didn’t think twice about jumping into this project. The challenges of editing a feature documentary are something that I really get excited about, even more so with a film like this that so openly discusses a subject that many people are still uncomfortable talking about on a personal level.”
Editing is sometimes thankless. When it is done poorly, the audience is aware of it and a film seems cluttered and cumbersome. When editing is highly professional, you become lost in the story and don’t notice the skillful editing. An editor’s job is not for those who require constant praise. Still, editors are just as much a part of the creative process as the cinematographer, director, and others involved in filmmaking due to the fact that they have the ability to enhance the emotional impact the audience feels towards the action on screen. In a film like V-Card the emotions are varied and the different people involved in the discussion are very numerous. Once the actual filming has taken place, it’s Luiz’s job to connect the audience with Dillon and his interviewees, even when they sometimes only appear for seconds. Jamaal Green is the director (nominated at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival in 2014 for Chronicles of a Profiler) of V-Card the Film and the person who most closely works with Luiz on the tone set by the film. Jamal praises Gigolotti’s work stating, “Luiz is a vital asset to any film. He has become my go to person for editing and ‘After Effects.’ I can think of three specific projects we worked on in which his abilities took the films to a higher level. A good editor can present what you have and make it work, but a great editor will make what you have filmed look even better. That’s what Luiz has done with V-Card. He is an amazing artist and a pleasure to work with.”
In terms of his involvement in V-Card, there were some obvious challenges and other, less expected ones for Gigolotti. He explains, “Editing V-Card was a huge challenge in my career. When we talk about virginity or sexuality, there is always some concern to not offend the person we are talking to. In this specific case, I needed to make sure that the edit and the graphics are not offensive to the audience.” Far from offensive, thanks in large part to Luiz’s editing, V-Card achieves a heartfelt tone. Rather than leading the viewer to any judgment of Dillon, we are warmly invited to question our own experiences and how we perceive others who may have had radically different entrees into the world of human sexuality. The subject matter of the film could have taken several different and more highly salacious slants but Gigolotti worked with Dillon and Jamaal to place the topic in a nicely gift wrapped present with a colorful bow on top. That colorful bow was realized in the formatting of animation sequences. Luiz’s skill at combining real life footage and animation is a primary reason that he was asked to edit V-Card the Film. Dillon Birdsall, writer and star of V-Card the Film comments, “The main reason I hired Luiz for the film is because he is a fantastic editor, especially when it comes to after FX and animations. When we first seriously considered the idea of intermingling animation to the film, it was Luiz’s ideas and expertise that enabled us to successfully achieve the results we wanted. We needed a light heartedness that wasn’t gimmicky and also wouldn’t take you too far away from the storyline. He has been a vital part of the documentary and brings a ton of great ideas and enthusiasm to the project. I’ve known him for a little over two years now and I’ve become a huge fan of his work. I feel very lucky to have worked with him and I definitely hope to do so again.”
In addition to another documentary currently in production (Luiz admits to being smitten with this approach to telling a story), advertisements, and other films; Gigolotti has most recently been editing for Martha Stewart’s Living. The diversity and amount of work he finds in New York these days reaffirms his decision to move from Brazil to work in the US as an editor. He recognizes, “There are so many great artists, directors, and all around professionals in the industry here in the US. It seems like I am challenged everyday by people who only want the best. That’s what I always have wanted to be a part of, a community committed to always bringing their best.”
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Editor David Guthrie Nails the Perfect Cut
February 29, 2016 Samantha E. Pineda Leave a comment
Editor David Guthrie shot by Nick Nelson
In the entertainment industry, every creative position on a production plays a vital role to its success, and the job of the editor might be the most important of all. Even more so than the writer’s words or the actor’s lines, the editor is responsible for crafting the final version of what the spectator sees.
The editor helps make the footage speak to the audience, which is exactly why David Guthrie stands out among some of the most brilliant editors working in the industry today. Without his wonderful ability to tell a story, the sheer volume of film footage from the productions to which he’s lent his skill would lack a cohesive narrative.
“Most of the skill in editing comes from making creative decisions, what shot to use where, what music tracks to use, the pacing, rhythm, etc. All of that is easily done on all three platforms,” according to Guthrie.
The Toronto born editor has a knack for creating an effective, riveting story regardless of how many hundreds of hours of footage he has to sort through. Guthrie has also benefited from having a background in music, which greatly enhances the cadence of his edits.
“You try a hundred different tracks of music and none of them are the right one and you just don’t know why and then you find the one that works and you just know, you can feel it and then you cut it in and the whole scene comes to life.”
Guthrie’s exceptional talent landed him the role of editor on the critically acclaimed televised adaption Billy Bishop Goes To War directed by Academy Award nominee Barbara Willis Sweet, as well as the smash hit documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
Currently streaming on Netflix, Jiro Dreams of Sushi has been an official selection at numerous festivals including Toronto, Berlin, and New Zealand International Film Festivals, as well as the Tribeca Film Festival.
After the documentary’s overwhelming feat, Guthrie took on the challenge of working on the labor intensive Weather Channel reality show Cold Water Captains.
“You can give me hundreds of hours of footage with no direction and I can sift through it and find the story thread. Having a writer‘s approach to editing has always been my strong suit, as well as having a music background,” says Guthrie regarding his editing process.
In Guthrie’s next project, he carried multiple hats as a director, writer, editor and star in the TV comedy Room & Bored. The project paid off immensely by becoming an official selection at the New York Television Festival, which led Guthrie to secure a development deal with the Gannett Network.
The outstanding editor recently completed production on the comedy series Beck & Call, produced by Rockfield Productions, Inc. The series follows two talent agents struggling to make it in Brooklyn. Season 1 of the show is slated to be released later this year.
Regardless of the genre or medium, David Guthrie’s remarkable editing prowess has placed him among the best editors in the industry; and, as he continues to flex his skill across platforms, it seems there is literally no stopping this talented Canadian.
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Why Nina?
If you know me or follow me on social media, you know that I often have Nina Simone moments. Mood swings when only Nina Simone’s music will do. I’ve had more than a few of you ask, why Nina? What’s the obsession? It is usually a time when I am somber, mellow and reflective. Getting lost in Nina’s voice is effortless. It’s rich and complex. It warms me like a favorite blanket. Comforts me like a mother’s embrace. Carries me like a river. Today happens to be a Nina Simone kind of day.
One could argue that somber moments call for uplifting music. That’s not true in my case. For me, somber moments, reflective moments call for contemplative music. Nina Simone’s music, whether a heartfelt ballad or funky blues, is contemplative and it is so because her voice is seductive and hypnotic. Feeling somber? Listen to “My Man’s Gone Now” or “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and Nina will share the moment with you. She let’s you know that she indeed understands what you are going through.
Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina in 1933, Nina Simone is perhaps one of the most under-appreciated vocalist in jazz history. She didn’t have the technically flawless voice of Sarah Vaughan or the swing of Ella Fitzgerald. What she did posses was an uncanny ability to tell and sell a story. An ability rivaled only by Billie Holiday. As a musical griot, the High Priestess of Soul understood the pain of being misunderstood, unloved and uncomfortable and parlayed the bitterness of life into a song. On stage and through song, Nina Simone represented the pride and soul of a people.
Most music fans under a certain age today attribute the song “Feeling Good” to Michael Buble. There is no comparison, in my opinion, between the two. Buble’s performance is technically sound. There is no denying his talent as vocalist. But when Nina sings “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me” you understand the pain, the hurt and sorrow of an old world that makes the new world so much sweeter. The proclamation of freedom is immediately clear. Feeling good having risen from a place of misery. That song was successful because of Nina’s ability to sell the pain.
Nina is good company when I’m down. Nina makes the sweet moments sweeter. Nina puts me in touch with my own wretchedness. Makes me feel sexy… Makes me feel proud… Makes me feel soulful. And that is Why Nina.
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The Maids review
Posted on June 18, 2013 by jolitson
Isabelle Huppert and Cate Blanchett. Photo: Lisa Tomasetti
The starry line-up of Cate Blanchett, Isabelle Huppert and Elizabeth Debicki in Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Maids is one of the most glittering pieces of casting seen on the Sydney stage for a while.
The vehicle that brings them together, meanwhile, is a dark, challenging, existential play.
Written in 1947 by French playwright Jean Genet, The Maids was inspired by a notorious, real-life case in 1933 when two sisters working as servants in Le Mans brutally murdered their mistress and her daughter. Discovered naked in bed together with the murder weapons, they immediately confessed.
In the play, two maids play a sadistic, sexualised, ritual game in which they act out the roles of servant and dominating employer and fantasise about killing their mistress. Reality and fantasy slip and slide in a play with layer upon layer of role-playing.
On this particular day, Claire (Blanchett) is playing the role of the mistress, while her older sister Solange (Huppert) plays Claire. An alarm clock from the kitchen sits on the bedside table to warn them of the impending arrival of their mistress (Debicki).
Director Benedict Andrews uses a muscular, new translation by himself and Andrew Upton, which feels contemporary yet true to the play, while the glossy, stylised production features several of his directorial signatures: glass walls and cameras feeding live footage onto a large screen.
Designer Alice Babidge transforms the stage into an opulent boudoir with a long rack of elegant couture, a bed, dressing table and hundreds of flowers in vases all over the room, with fake flowers underlining the theme of artifice.
The walls act as mirrors but through them we glimpse camera operators. The video (designed by Sean Bacon) gives us close-ups of the actors and brief scenes from a bathroom behind the main room but also picks out details like a knocked-over vase or rubber gloves lying on the bed. At times it’s distracting but overall it works, enhancing the intimacy of the play in the large theatre and the sense of voyeurism.
Andrews does a great job of mining the dark humour in the play and genuinely jolts you at times (think spit, profanities and toilet scenes).
The three actors respond to his vision with deeply committed, heightened performances.
Blanchett is remarkable, mercurial and fearless as she swans around histrionically in the guise of the mistress, then slumps back into Claire’s slutty, bitter anger and despair at her dead-end life. Holding nothing back, she seems genuinely spent at the curtain call.
The petite Huppert is more wry, playful and laissez-faire as Solange in a highly physical performance that sees her doing pull-ups from the clothes rack, pumping her legs on the bed and moving in a jerky, girlish fashion. However, her strong French accent has you straining to understand her at times, particularly when she speaks quickly. In a wordy play where the language and what they say is so important, it’s problematic.
Though both Blanchett and Huppert are individually terrific, the relationship between the two maids as co-dependent sisters doesn’t feel entirely believable.
Elizabeth Debicki and Cate Blanchett. Photo: Lisa Tomaetti
In the smaller role of the mistress, the statuesque Debicki (a 22-year old newcomer fresh from playing Jordan Baker in Baz Luhrmann’s film The Great Gatsby) holds her own. Flouncing in like a celebrity used to the glare of the paparazzi flashbulbs, she captures the character’s skittish, careless, preening, self-regarding behaviour as she gushes over the maids one minute and barely knows one from the other the next.
The mistress is play-acting herself: playing at being the authoritative mistress as well as the devoted, suffering wife whose husband has been arrested. Debicki feels very young for the role and pushes close to farce as the mistress dashes off to see her husband but it’s a mesmerising performance by an actor we will doubtless be seeing a great deal more of.
But for all the passion on stage, I watched the production dispassionately, almost forensically without being sucked into the play. I felt totally disconnected from it. Perhaps that’s what Andrews wants; Genet certainly doesn’t invite an emotional response but I suspect it’s partly the theatre too, which feels very large for such an intimate piece.
Nonetheless, it’s a fascinating production of an intriguing play with some very fine acting.
Sydney Theatre until July 20
An edited version of this review appeared in the Sunday Telegraph on June 16
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Elizabeth Debicki interview
Posted on June 3, 2013 by jolitson
The last few weeks have been a complete whirlwind for Elizabeth Debicki, the 22- year old Australian actor who is being hailed as the breakout star of Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated, much-scrutinised film The Great Gatsby.
She’s walked the red carpet for the movie’s gala opening at the Cannes Film Festival and at the lavish Sydney premiere. She’s wined and dined with the rich and famous at several exclusive events including a Prada dinner hosted by US Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
In between all that she’s been rehearsing a production of Jean Genet’s The Maids for Sydney Theatre Company with Cate Blanchett and French film star Isabelle Huppert.
It’s enough to go to a girl’s head, but Debicki seems unaffected by all the glitz, glamour and media attention.
“Someone asked me, ‘how do you stay grounded?’ Well, it’s a bit bizarre but I feel very normal. I just feel busy and tired. And happy,” she says.
“I’m happy that the film has come out and is doing so well and I’m happy to be working at STC on this play. I think that’s one of the best things to keep you grounded after a whirlwind press junket – waking up and coming to a theatre rehearsal and standing at the foot of (the play) and saying, ‘I’m not sure how to do this.’ That will keep you grounded,” she says.
“Someone asked me if I’ve been recognised (on the street). The answer is no. I don’t look anything like myself in this film. So life is pretty normal. I’m just working here everyday.”
“Here” is the Wharf Theatre where she is rehearsing Genet’s dark, elliptical play about two maids who act out a ritual fantasy of murdering their mistress.
We meet during a break in rehearsals. She’s dressed in ripped jeans and striped T-shirt without a skerrick of makeup but she still looks glowingly elegant. Much has been made of her creamy, luminous beauty, which has a similar quality to Cate Blanchett’s, with inevitable comparisons being made between the two actresses.
Debicki shrugs the idea off as if flicking at a fly. “Oh, it’s very flattering but I think people just have to have something to liken you to,” she says amiably.
Genet’s 1947 play was inspired by the notorious, true-life story of French servants Christine and Lea Papin, two quiet sisters who in 1933 brutally murdered their mistress and her daughter, attacking them with a kitchen knife and a hammer and gouging their eyes out.
The Sydney Theatre Company production will use a new translation by Benedict Andrews, who also directs, and Andrew Upton.
Elizabeth Debicki during rehearsals for The Maids. Photo: Lisa Tomasetti
Debicki plays the mistress. Starting rehearsals with Blanchett and Huppert was, she says, “daunting and thrilling. ‘Surreal’ is my buzzword in my life (at the moment). It’s an accurate way to describe it. It’s very strange when you meet somebody that you’re admired for so long you are a bit in awe of that person.
“I definitely was, and I still am everyday as I watch them work. And I did spend the first few days feeling quite – not out of my depth because nobody made me feel that – but I was sitting there pinching myself. I kept looking at Cate and Isabelle because I’d watched their films forever. I’d met Cate in person before when I came to talk about the play with her and Andrew. That was surreal. We had a cup of coffee and it was like, ‘I’m having coffee with Cate Blanchett.’
“But I’d never met Isabelle and I’ve loved her work for so long so to be actually working with her is kind of electric. I still can’t believe it when we are playing the scene together that I have the honour of working with someone with that talent.”
Andrews has no doubt she belongs in their company and predicts that her “brave, thrilling turn” as the mistress will be “an unforgettable Sydney debut of a serious new actress.
“Elizabeth is an astonishing talent. The real deal,” he says. “It’s a treat to watch her share the stage with Cate and Isabelle – two of the greatest living stage actresses. I love watching her soak it all in and learning on her feet. She’s commanding, seemingly fearless, hyper-inventive, deliciously playful and fiercely intelligent.”
For her part, Debicki describes Andrews’ direction as “wonderful and relentless – which is a good combination. It keeps me on my toes. I remember something Cate said: that his rehearsal room was really muscular, and it is. It’s incredibly physical. It’s relentless (but) not in a bad way. The play is like that too, it demands a lot of the actors. There are so many things happening on so many layers and levels and they are firing off all at once.
“One day in rehearsal you could be working on one level and then you think, ‘oh good, I’ve got that’, then you come in the next day and there’s another whole level. It’s just an every-expanding monster.
“It’s all about roles, the maids playing the role of the mistress and (one of them) playing the other maid. But the mistress is playing the role of mistress as well as playing the abandoned mother and devoted woman so there is so much role-playing. When we first started work on it I found it so dense I didn’t know where to place things but I think I’ve almost let myself not know now.”
Debicki was born in Paris to a Polish father and Australian mother, both of them classically trained dancers. They moved to Melbourne when she was five, where her mother still runs a dancing school.
She trained as a dancer but by age 16 was too tall to become a ballerina – she is a statuesque 1.9 metres – so turned her attention to acting. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2010 and a few months later was cast in The Gift by Joanna Murray-Smith at Melbourne Theatre Company. She also landed a bit part in Stephan Elliott’s film A Few Best Men.
During The Gift, she put down an audition tape for the role of Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby. “I think by then they had been trying to cast Jordan for a while,” she says.
The LA casting agent was impressed and Debicki was flown to Los Angeles to audition for Luhrmann during a crazy four-day trip.
Jordan Baker is a professional golfer, who lives a reckless, glamorous lifestyle. “It was the most fun I’ve ever had playing a character – though Mistress is getting pretty close,” says Debicki. “I think Jordan is a fabulous role. She just a party girl. To be perfectly honest I just had a really good time. There’s something really liberating about playing someone who is so reckless, with real commitment issues. She’s so careless. I’ve said it before but I just inhabited her bold ‘whateverness’. That was how I survived such a massive shoot. But she was great. I got amazing costumes, amazing jewellery, great wig. I kind of just had a great time.”
Debicki, who admits she’s never been sporty, had a golfing instructor for the role.
“There’s one (golf) swing in the whole movie. It was probably my most nervous day of shooting,” she says. “I had the instructor on the side of the camera telling me how to do it. I was so determined to get it perfect. This was a massive character trait – she’s a professional golfer and there are so many people around the world who play golf so if they watch the movie and go, ‘that’s a terrible swing’, I’d be mortified. So I tried really hard but I don’t think I’d ever play golf again. It’s so dull – though conceptually I understand that it’s a beautiful game.”
Reviews for The Great Gatsby may be mixed but Debicki, who has landed raves, has nothing but praise for Luhrmann and the film. “I think it’s beautiful. I’m so proud of it,” she says.
Having moved to Sydney for the filming, Debicki been based there off and on for the past 18 months but says she’ll go where the work is.
“I’m actually really good at doing that,” she says. “It just suits my personality. I get bored when I’m in the same place. I like building a nest somewhere then dismantling it and moving on. I’m too much of a traveller I guess. I like to be in new places.”
Doubtless she has been inundated with works offers but right now she has her sights set firmly on The Maids.
“I’ve got really wonderful agents in America already that I’ve had since I signed up to the movie,” she says. “Certainly a movie like this does help (your profile) obviously, but I’m really focussing on getting through this play. It’s quite consuming at the moment. Then I can take the blinkers off and see what the future holds.”
The Maids, Sydney Theatre, June 4 – July 20.
An edited version of this story appeared in The Sunday Telegraph on June 2.
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The Joy of Violent Movement
Independent Music with an International Focus
Tag: Sista Bossen
indie rock by William Ruben Helms Jul 2, 201903:30 July 2, 2019
Live Footage: Up-and-Coming Danish Duo Mavoureen Performs “Bliss” at Tapetown Studios’ Spot Festival Special
Over the past couple of years, I’ve written quite a bit about Aarhus, Denmark-based recording studio Tapetown Studios and their longtime partnership with Sound of Aarhus. Together, the studio and the website have invited national, regional and internationally recognized touring bands to stop by Tapetown for a live session, which they film and then distribute to all of your favorite social media and streaming sites. During the live series’ history, they’ve invited British indie rockers Ulrika Spacek, Gothenburg, Sweden-based trio Pale Honey, the Bay Area-based JOVM mainstay Tim Cohen and his The Fresh & Onlys, renowned British psych rockers The Telescopes, Malmo, Sweden-based punk rock act Sista Bossen, Copenhagen, Denmark-based indie rock quartet ONBC, up-and-coming, Los Angeles-based post punk rock act Moaning, Oslo, Norway-based punk trio Dark Times
Tapetown Studios recently teamed up with Drowned in Sound and the folks at Spot Festival for another series of live sessions in which three internationally touring acts were invited to Tapetown to perform. The second act invited to Tapetown was the mysterious Danish post-punk duo Mavoureen. The act is putting the finishing touches on their forthcoming full-length debut, an effort recorded at Echo Canyon Studios with Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley contributing drums. Interestingly, the act performed the blistering, Nirvana-like “Bliss,” a song that frenetic and furious track that features fuzzy power chords, howled vocals, thunderous drumming and a mosh pit friendly hook. Much like its predecessor, play this one as loudly as humanly possible.
Live Footage: Oslo’s Dark Times Performs “Give” at Tapetown Sessions’ Spot Festival Special
Over the past couple of years, I’ve written quite a bit about Aarhus, Denmark-based recording studio Tapetown Studios and their longtime partnership with Sound of Aarhus. Together, the studio and the website have invited national, regional and internationally recognized touring bands to stop by Tapetown for a live session, which they film and then distribute to all of your favorite social media and streaming sites. During the live series’ history, they’ve invited British indie rockers Ulrika Spacek, Gothenburg, Sweden-based trio Pale Honey, the Bay Area-based JOVM mainstay Tim Cohen and his The Fresh & Onlys, renowned British psych rockers The Telescopes, Malmo, Sweden-based punk rock act Sista Bossen, Copenhagen, Denmark-based indie rock quartet ONBC, up-and-coming, Los Angeles-based post punk rock act Moaning and Stockholm, Sweden’s Les Big Byrd among a growing list of others.
Tapetown Studios recently teamed up with Drowned in Sound and the folks at Spot Festival for another series of live sessions in which three internationally touring acts were invited to Tapetown to perform. One of the invited acts was the Oslo, Norway-based trio Dark Times. Comprised of Ann Kristen Traaen (guitar, vocals), Sebastian Rusten (baritone guitar) and Rikke Fjell Jørgensen (drums), the Norwegian act quickly amassed a profile within their hometown’s underground scene for crafting a unique blend of punk, noise rock and fuzzy guitar pop. Since their formation, the band has been praised by the likes of NME and BrooklynVegan for their live shows — and interestingly, they became the first Norwegian act to be profiled in Maximum Rocknroll.
Building upon a growing profile the act’s 2014 full-length debut Give, which was released through Sheep Chase Records was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen). They also played SXSW back in 2017 and released their sophomore full-length album in 2018.
The members of the acclaimed Norwegian indie act played a 10 song, 30 minute set — but the recently released video for the sessions is the feral and blistering “Give.” Centered around fuzzy power chords, thunderous drumming and howled vocals, the song will remind some listeners of Fever to Tell-era Yeah Yeah Yeahs and classic 90s grunge. Play this one as loud as possible.
indie rock by William Ruben Helms Jan 7, 201920:45 January 7, 2019
Live Footage: Les Big Byrd Perform “A Little More Numb” at Tapetown Studios
Comprised of founding duo Jocke Åhlund and Frans Johansson along with Frans Johansson and Martin Ehrencrona, the Stockholm Sweden-based indie rock act Les Big Byrd features a collection of their hometown’s most accomplished indie musicians. Åhlund co-founded cult Teddybears with his brother Klas in 1991. Åhlund went on to play guitar in Caesars — and formed Smile, with Peter, Björn and John’s Björn Yttling. And in that insanely busy period, Åhlund managed to find time to write for and produce the legendary Giorgio Moroder and renowned Swedish pop artist Robyn. Johansson, meanwhile, was a bassist in Swedish Grammy Award-winning act Fireside since the early nineties and worked as a touring bassist with The Soundtrack of Our Lives.
As the story goes, by 2011 Åhlund and Johansson had become increasingly disillusioned with their primary gigs and they began to collaborate with each other, frequently bouncing musical ideas off one another; the band’s founding duo quickly recruited two fellow grizzled scene vets, keyboardist Martin ‘Konie’ Ehrencrona and Caesars drummer Nino Keller to finalize the band’s lineup.
The band’s debut, 2014’s Back to Bagarmossen EP was an atmospheric, guitar driven effort that found the quartet receiving attention from Swedish national TV. Interestingly, with a growing national profile. the members of Les Big Byrd ran into The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe at a local record store, and after hitting it off with him, the band headed to Newcombe’s Berlin-based studio to jam with him — and the end result was a handful of tracks which eventually appeared on their critically applauded Åhlund-produced full-length debut, They Worshipped Cats, an album that was a decided left turn into trippy space rock.
In the winter of 2015, 18 months after the release of They Worshipped Cats, Åhlund was looking forward to working on new material; however, unlike their debut, he was determined to bring in an outside producer to allow him to focus just on the songwriting and playing. With much of their material drawing heavily from psych rock and drone, while retaining a pop sensibility, the band recruited Spacemen 3‘s Sonic Boom (a.k.a.Pete Kember) to produce the album as the band loved his work on MGMT‘s 2010 sophomore album Congratulations. The initial sessions with Kember quickly went awry; Kember clashed with Newcombe, who also headed to Sweden to work on some ideas for the record with the band — and Åhlund eventually found himself taking up the production role, he didn’t want and wasn’t seeking.
Burned out by the experience, the band shelved the second album for a while. “I didn’t know it at the time, but I needed to get some distance from it,” Åhlund says in press notes. “It was only after a while that I was able to go back and realise that there was a really good album in there.” The members of Les Big Byrd spent the bulk of last year remaking and re-imaging the material in their own image — with Kember and Newcombe’s contributions being limited. Recorded between two Stockholm studios — Åhlund’s own and Ehrencrona’s Studio Cobra — the band’s sophomore album Iran Iraq IKEA derives its title from a slogan that Åhlund’s saw printed on a tie while in Berlin years earlier and wanted to use for years; in fact, Åhlund felt that it suited the album, “because it gave it all some kind of subtly poetic intrigue.” However, the album’s politics — if you really want to call it that — are rooted within the personal, As Åhlund says in press notes, “It’s about classic topics like love and failure. And about being older and feeling like you’ve pissed your life away, It’s about regrets and wishing you’d done things another way,”
The band’s Åhlund takes up production duties again, but with the admission that maybe it was something he never really wanted to give up — and sonically speaking, the band reportedly have reinvented themselves and their sound but while retaining elements of the sound and approach that first won them national and international attention. “I still love my krautrock, and space rock, and experimental, improvisational stuff” says Åhlund. “But I also have a strong love for psychedelic sixties pop music, and I love reverb-drenched guitar with a lot of tremolo on it. All of those things make it on to Iran Iraq IKEA, but the lines are blurred – there’s a lot of electronics, and you can’t always tell where each individual sound is coming from. Hopefully it’s suggestive, a little bit uncertain and unpredictable, at least that’s what I wanted.”
Now, if you’ve been frequenting this site over the past couple of years, you’d recall that Aarhus, Denmark-based recording studio Tapetown Studios in partnership with Sound of Aarhus have been inviting national, regional and internationally recognized touring bands to come into their studios for a live session, which they film and distribute through all of your favorite social media sites. So far they’ve inited British indie rockers Ulrika Spacek, Gothenburg, Sweden-based trio Pale Honey, the Bay Area-based JOVM mainstay Tim Cohen and his The Fresh & Onlys, renowned British psych rockers The Telescopes, Malmo, Sweden-based punk rock act Sista Bossen, Copenhagen, Denmark-based indie rock quartet ONBC, and up-and-coming, Los Angeles-based post punk rock act Moaning. Recently, the members of Les Big Byrd stopped by Tapetown Studios to perform the bittersweet lament “A Little More Numb.”
indie rock by William Ruben Helms Sep 12, 201802:20 September 11, 2018
Live Footage: Moaning Performs “Artificial” at Tapetown Studios
Over the better part of this year, I’ve written a bit about the Los Angeles, CA-based trio Moaning, and as you may recall, the band which is comprised of Sean Solomon, Pascal Stevenson and Andrew MacKelvie have spent the past few years crafting a moody and angular sound that draws from shoegaze, slacker rock and post-punk — and as a result, the Southern Californian trio has received attention both nationally and internationally from the likes of The Fader, The Guardian, DIY Magazine, Stereogum, and others.
Moaning’s self-titled, full-length debut was released earlier this year through Sub Pop Records, and the album’s fourth single “Artificial” is centered around angular guitar and bass chords, thundering drumming and an anthemic hook — and while recalling Joy Division, Interpol, Preoccupations and others; but just under the surface, the song bristles with a tense an uneasy self-awareness of the narrator’s own artifice, superficiality and ugliness, as well as that of the larger world he lives in.
Interestingly, if you’ve been frequenting this site over the 18 months or so, you’d also recall that Aarhus, Denmark-based recording studio Tapetown Studios and Sound of Aarhus have been inviting national. regional and even internationally recognized touring bands to come into their studios for a live session, which they film and release through the interwebs. And during that time, they’ve invited British indie rockers Ulrika Spacek, Gothenburg, Sweden-based trio Pale Honey, the Bay Area-based JOVM mainstay Tim Cohen and his primary project The Fresh & Onlys, renowned British psych rockers The Telescopes, Malmo, Sweden-based punk rock act Sista Bossen, Copenhagen, Denmark-based indie rock quartet ONBC and a growing list of others. The members of Moaning had stopped by Tapetown Studios during their second European Union tour, and performed an urgent rendition of the attention-grabbing “Artificial” as part of the Tapetown Studio sessions. Check it.
Uncategorized by William Ruben Helms Jul 10, 201818:35 July 13, 2018
Live Footage: Denmark’s ONBC Performs the Gorgeous and Ethereal “Copenhagen” at Tapetown Studios
ONBC is a Copenhagen, Denmark-based indie rock quartet, comprised of some of Denmark’s most acclaimed musicians — and the band can trace its origins to the formation and breakup of its earliest iteration Oliver North Boy Choir, an electro pop-leaning act, which featured founding members Camilla Florentz (vocals, bass) and Mikkel Max Jorn (guitar), who were both members of indie band epo-555. After releasing a number of EPs and singles, as well as covers of The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Boo Radleys, the Oliver North Boy Choir split up. In 2014 the members of Oliver North Boy Choir reunited but with the recruitment of Tanja Forsberg Simonsen (vocals, synths), who was a member of influential Danish indie pop act superheroes and Private; Ivan Petersen (drums), the frontman of The Boombox Hearts, and a radical change in sonic direction, the band was renamed ONBC.
In their native Denmark, the quartet has received attention for a cinematic sound and songwriting approach that some have compared to Low, Chris Issak and Julee Cruise — although as soon as I heard the gorgeous, shoegazer-like “Copenhagen,” I immediately thought of Malmo, Sweden’s Fredrik, Coco Beware and Caveman-era Caveman and Beach House as the harmonies of Forsberg Simonsen and Florentz ethereally float over a delicate and sparse arrangement of shimmering guitar chords and dramatic drumming.
Now, if you’ve been frequenting this site over the past 15-18 months or so, you’d recall that Aarhus, Denmark-based recording studio Tapetown Studios and Sound of Aarhus have been inviting national. regional and even internationally recognized touring bands to come into their studios for a live session, which they film and release through the interwebs. During the live session’s run, a number of bands have participated and been featured including British indie rockers Ulrika Spacek, the Gothenburg, Sweden-based trio Pale Honey, the Bay Area-based JOVM mainstay Tim Cohen and his primary project The Fresh & Onlys, the renowned British psych rockers The Telescopes, and a growing list of others.
ONBC’s Tapetown Studio session, much like Sista Bossen’s session is presented by their label, Crunchy Frog Records and was filmed during Aarhus’ popular Danish and Scandinavian indie music festival, Spot Festival — and it may arguably be one of the most stunningly beautiful ones they’ve shot to date.
Video by William Ruben Helms Jul 3, 201816:45 July 3, 2018
Live Footage: Swedish Punk Rockers Sista Bossen Perform an Explosive Set at Tapetown Studios
With the release of their full-length debut Se Upp För, the Malmo, Sweden-based punk rock act Sista Bossen, comprised of Hampus Sunden, Frans Möller, Fredrik Persson,
Patrik Schlegel and Kristopher Ståhlgren have developed a reputation across their native Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia for meshing high energy punk rock with psych rock in free flowing, anarchistic and humorous fashion — and unsurprisingly, their sound and songwriting winds up being wild, explosive and unpredictable yet centered by a crooked yet infectious melodic sense.
The Malmo, Sweden-based punk rock act’s sophomore effort Titta inte på mig (när jag dansar) was released earlier this year by Danish indie label Crunchy Frog Records in collaboration with Kollektivet Records. The up-and-coming Swedish punk rock outfit was recently invited to stop by Aarhus, Denmark-based recording studio Tapetown Studios — and if you’ve been frequenting this site over the past 15-18 months or so, you’d know that Sound of Aarhus along with the Aarhus-based studio have developed a continuing video series in which they invite national, regional and even internationally recognized touring bands to come into their studios for a live session. A number of bands have played including British indie rockers Ulrika Spacek, the Gothenburg, Sweden-based trio Pale Honey, the Bay Area-based JOVM mainstay Tim Cohen and his primary project The Fresh & Onlys, the renowned British psych rockers The Telescopes, and a growing list of others.
Sista Bossen’s Tapetown Studio session which was sponsored by Crunch Frog Records, is the first session in its history to be sung completely in Swedish — until now, bands have written and performed material in English. But most important, it’s an incredible display of the mischievousness and explosive quality of their overall sound and live set; if anything, it’s the most energetic set I’ve come across as the band’s lead singer shouts, stomps and rolls around the floor with childlike fury and abandon. Along with that, there’s a playful musical joke in which the leader singer asks the band to play a little softer before the set’s fittingly explosive and quick conclusion. Regardless of the language, these guys kick ass — and have a mosh pit friendly sound.
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Countdown to Tbilisi: Experience the full Fource of The Netherlands!
Posted 14 November 2017 at 11:37 CET
With just a week to go until rehearsals begin for the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, we meet Fource from The Netherlands. 2017 marks the first time ever that a boy band will represent the country in Junior Eurovision.
Together Max, Jannes, Niels & Ian make Fource. Right after they were selected for the semi-final of the Dutch Junior Eurovision selection, they asked the public to help them come up with a name for the boy band. Many fans submitted their ideas and eventually they chose the name Fource! This name refers to the group of four and their strength.
Meet Fource
Max (14) has already competed in The Voice Kids. He also played several parts in musicals. Jannes (14) started his career at a young age and has already played in several musicals. The third member of the group is Niels (12) and he was part of the famous Dutch children’s choir Kinderen voor Kinderen for three years. Last but not least is Ian (13). He only recently started singing, but already made it into this boy band and is ready for his first international performance.
Right after winning the Dutch national selection for Junior Eurovision Fource proved extremely popular in The Netherlands gaining fans from all over the country. They will perform Love Me at the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. You can watch the official video below.
Although the four boys live in different parts of The Netherlands, they often come together to sing, practice or just have fun. They also make a lot of videos on the YouTube channel of the Dutch Junior Song Contest (Juniorsongfestival.NL), and they’re planning to make a lot more fun videos during their stay in Georgia!
The last time The Netherlands was represented by a boy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was back in 2009, when Ralf won the international final in Kyiv with Click Clack. The Netherlands has participated in every single edition of Junior Eurovision since the competition began in 2003.
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Little Mix Open Up About Writing Their Third Album
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The girls of Little Mix are currently touring the UK (and will be hitting the US later this year) as part of their 'Salute' tour but not surprisingly, the band is already working on a new third album and a possible new single to be released soon.
While speaking with Sugarscape, the band revealed that they have been working with fellow British artists Jessie J and Nicola Roberts on some new tracks that could serve as the album's first single.
"We've had two [sessions] with Jessie J, which was really fun, and a few with Nicola Roberts, but we haven't had many because we've been so busy. We're still in the beginning stages, trying to work out what we want to do and where we want to go with it," said Jesy of Little Mix.
In terms of the next album, Perrie added that they've become more selective and careful with their writing. "We're always looking to better ourselves, because when we're in the studio writing, we'll hear a track and we'll be buzzing and starting writing over it. But if we're not feeling it, we move on and go for something else."
Leigh-Anne added that she is optimistic that the album will be completed by the end of this year.
For more on Little Mix's plans for their third album, click on this link to read the rest of the interview.
Next: Little Mix Voted Best New Artist in 2014 PopCrush Fan Awards
Source: Little Mix Open Up About Writing Their Third Album
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Living in Western New York
Buffalo is the second largest city in New York State with a population of approximately 1.3 million people in the surrounding metropolitan area.
Residents of Western New York can enjoy the urban lifestyle of cities such as Buffalo and Niagara Falls, combined with the small town character of communities nestled into the surrounding countryside.
Just 20 minutes from Buffalo are the breathtaking views of the world famous Niagara Falls. With Canada being so close, Toronto brings a strong international flair to the area with its world class restaurants, theatre and entertainment.
Buffalo is also fortunate to have easy access to Fort Erie and Niagara Falls Ontario’s Clifton Hill, which lies just across the Peace Bridge. Clifton Hill is fun for all ages, with attractions like the Niagara SkyWheel helicopter rides over the falls and plenty of restaurants.
Buffalo enjoys a mixed and thriving economy with a moderate cost of living. Housing costs in Western New York are among the lowest in the Northeast with a broad selection of affordable houses, apartments and condominiums.
Most recently, downtown has seen a significant growth in new apartments and condominium development.
Western New York is home to educational institutions for students of all levels.
Like most large cities, Buffalo is home to festivals that have become part of the city's culture and tradition. They include the Taste of Buffalo, the National Buffalo Wing Festival, Buffalo Brewfest, The Allentown Art Festival, Dyngus Day Buffalo and the BASH, a military fundraiser for disaster preparedness education and response in Western New York communities.
Western New York brings in top musicians, such as the Rolling Stones, and has cultural resources such as museums, art galleries, theaters and more. For information about Buffalo's attractions, visit the websites below:
Buffalo.com
Buffalo Convention and Visitors Bureau
BuffaloRising.com
Artpark
Niagara Wine Trail
For sports fans, Western New York offers the National Football League's Buffalo Bills and the National Hockey League's Buffalo Sabres. The Sabres play in a state-of-the-art sports complex in downtown Buffalo. Western New York is also home to the Buffalo Bisons, the triple A affiliate MLB team to the Blue Jays.
An Ideal Climate
Buffalo and Western New York have some of the best summer weather in the country, with plenty of sunshine and warm breezes to complement the many outdoor activities. We're located on two of the Great Lakes, along with the Niagara River, and have access to boating, sailing, and fishing, among other water sports.
Western New Yorkers can take advantage of winter weather with a short drive to Holiday Valley ski resort in Ellicottville NY, which offers skiing and snowboarding.
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Assistant Director of Communications
Department: University Life
Web Announcement:
The Division of University Life at George Mason University is seeking interested and qualified candidates for the newly created Assistant Director of Communications position. Reporting to the Director of Communications and Marketing, this position coordinates and manages high-priority communications for Mason undergraduate students, focusing on the first-year experience. This role will also oversee content creation to inform various student populations using multiple distribution channels. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason's academic and culturally inclusive environment.
Developing and maintaining comprehensive communication for incoming students focusing on undergraduate first-time, full-time, and transfer students. Leading and supporting a campus-wide, cross-divisional communications stakeholder group to disseminate information about deadlines, processes, and programs. Additional responsibilities include working with various campus partners to identify communication needs, developing and executing plans to leverage Mason technology platforms to facilitate a digital first-year experience, and coordinate special projects as assigned.
An earned master’s degree in communications, marketing, higher education, or a related field; combination of education and experience equivalent to the earned degree may be considered.
Strong project management skills and experience, including: identifying and creating teams; identifying the process, roles, and timeline to reach key goals and produce deliverables, integrating information and input to create project plans that will achieve team objectives; tracking tasks and recommending actions to correct course, as needed; and ensuring that projects achieve the agreed-upon level of quality while remaining on schedule and on budget.
Demonstrated ability to create content and communicate clearly using different channels and audiences.
Knowledge of writing styles for public relations and publication procedures, as well as communication styles using multi-media and content for websites.
Strong organizational, interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
Ability to handle confidential and sensitive communications with discretion.
Advanced capability with social media applications; familiarity with graphic design software (Illustrator, PhotoShop, InDesign).
Previous experience working in an educational setting.
Salary: Low to Mid 50's
Mason Ad Statement:
Great Careers Begin at Mason!
George Mason University is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with national distinction in both academics and research. Mason holds a top U.S. News and World Report “Up and Coming” spot for national universities and is recognized for its global appeal and excellence in higher education.
Mason is currently the largest and most diverse university in Virginia with students and faculty from all 50 states and over 135 countries studying in over 200 degree programs at campuses in Arlington, Fairfax and Prince William, as well as at learning locations across the commonwealth. Rooted in Mason’s diversity is a campus culture that is both rewarding and exciting, work that is meaningful, and opportunities to both collaborate and create.
If you are interested in joining the Mason family take a look at our current opportunities and catch some Mason spirit at jobs.gmu.edu/!
George Mason University, Where Innovation is Tradition.
For full consideration, applicants must apply at https://jobs.gmu.edu/; complete and submit the online application; and upload a cover letter, resume, and a list of three professional references with contact information.
Equity Statement:
George Mason University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, committed to promoting inclusion and equity in its community. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law.
About George Mason University
George Mason University is Virginia's largest public university located in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. With strong undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering, information technology, public policy, economics, visual and performing arts, life sciences and biotechnology, Mason prepares its alumni to succeed in the workforce and meet the needs of the region and the world.
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Storm tabbed eighth in GLIAC Media Poll
BAY CITY, Mich. -- The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference released its Preseason Media Poll, as well as the Preseason All-GLIAC Teams, to launch the 2013-14 Women's Basketball Media Day on Thursday.
Lake Erie was tabbed to finish eighth in the GLIAC South Division. The Storm received 26 points in the poll.
Defending National Champion Ashland earned the top spot in the poll, garnering 178 points, one more than Findlay. Michigan Tech tallied 177 points in being selected as the No. 1 team in the North Division.
The Storm is slated to open its season this weekend with two games at the GMAC-GLIAC Challenge in Elkins, W. Va. LEC will open its season with a Friday, 8 p.m. game against Alderson-Broaddus (W. Va.). On Saturday (3:30 p.m.) the Storm will face tournament host Davis & Elkins.
The Storm is slated to commence GLIAC play – after six non-conference games – on Dec. 5 when the Green & White travel to Ferris State (Mich.).
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New art destination Villa Carmignac opens its doors June 2
Villa Carmignac on Porquerolles Island. Image: Fondation Carmignac/Lionel Barbe via AFP
Agence France-Presse / 04:40 PM May 28, 2018
The French Mediterranean island of Porquerolles will be the site of a brand-new contemporary art venue that opens its doors on June 2, offering temporary exhibitions and a sculpture garden within its idyllic surroundings.
Villa Carmignac is the work of the Fondation Carmignac, which was created in 2000 under the initiative of collector Edouard Carmignac to showcase an art collection of nearly 300 works.
Among that collection, which in part celebrates American art from the 1960s to 1980s, are iconic works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat, joined by works from Gerhard Richter, Willem de Kooning, Martial Raysse, Miquel Barceló and Ed Ruscha.
Artists from further afield include Zhang Huan and El Anatsui, while young and emerging artists include Korakrit Arunanondchai and Theaster Gates, and photography and photojournalism likewise have an important place in the collection.
At the new site, visitors will discover the Fondation’s collection within a Provençal farmhouse, for which an extension was built to accommodate 2,000 square meters of exhibition space. In an effort to integrate the museum into the farmhouse’s original footprint, that space has been created below the natural surface of the site, with just a few planted terraces and walls made of local stone exposed to view.
At the center of the museum, visitors will find an “aquatic ceiling,” for which a body of water was built into the construction, allowing natural light to filter through.
Outside, a selection of works will be displayed in a sculpture park occupying a 15-hectare garden. Among the out-of-doors works will be Olaf Breuning’s monumental 1970 work “Mother Nature” and Miquel Barceló’s imposing sculpture “Alycastre”, a “half skull and half sea monster” that will welcome visitors at the Villa’s entrance.
Upon its opening, the venue will feature the exhibition “Sea of Desire”, which takes its name from the words written on a large-scale painting by Ed Ruscha and will feature works from the collection that “challenge with a thirst for revolution and freedom and a quest for beauty.”
Villa Carmignac is accessible by boat and can be visited by foot or bicycle. Reservations can be made online, with entries limited to 50 people every half-hour. CC
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Baton Rouge is a vibrant city with plenty of things to see and do. We encourage you to make the most of your time in the city during Family Weekend by exploring all that Baton Rouge has to offer.
Please note that these events are not held in conjunction with Family Weekend, and additional costs may be associated with these events. Visit visitbatonrouge.com for a list of additional events and attractions.
Ascension Hot Air Balloon Festival
Experience a two-day festival that consists of hair air balloon glows, live entertainment, barbecue competition, great food, nightly firework shows, carnival rides and plenty of fun activities for children of all ages.
Location: Lamar Dixon Expo Center, 9039 St. Landry Rd., Gonzales, LA 70737
Hours: Friday from 4:00 to 11:00 p.m.; Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Cost: $6 for adults, free for children 8 and under
Baton Rouge Zoo
Discover the animal kingdom at BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo. The adventure awaits those of all ages, so bring the entire family and visit with all the marvelous animals through walking paths, train rides, and up-close experiences.
Location: 3601 Thomas Rd., Baton Rouge, LA 70807
Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily
Cost: $8.75 for adults and teens, $5.75 for ages 2 – 12, $7.75 for senior citizens, and free for ages 1 and under
Knock Knock Children’s Museum
Families and children of all backgrounds and experiences can interact and learn through play. The Knock Knock Children’s Museum is fill with hands-on, fun-filled interactive exhibits anchored in developing children through literacy skills while also expanding knowledge and raising interest in STEM subjects and careers.
Location: 1900 Dalrymple Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808
Hours: Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cost: Free for ages 1 and younger, $14 for all other visitors
Louisiana Art & Science Museum
Join those at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum to meet with lifelong explorers inspired by art and science. Enjoy exhibitions, planetarium shows, hands-on galleries, interactive performances, and more.
Location: 100 River Road South, Downtown Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Hours: Fridays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m.
Cost: $8 for first time visit for college students with ID, $7.50 for children and senior citizens, and $9 for adults
Louisiana’s Old State Capitol
Louisiana’s Old State Capitol, a Gothic architectural treasure, stands high on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. The 165-year-old statehouse has withstood war, fire, scandal, bitter debate, abandonment, and occasional fistfight. Today, the building stands as a testament to bold, inspired leadership and active citizenship.
Location: 100 North Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Hours: Fridays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Cost: Free admission for self-guided tour
LSU Museum of Art
Get inspired through collections, exhibitions, conservation, and education at the LSU Museum of Art. The museum “supports ambitious art outreach initiatives ranging from collaborative projects with local artists and LSU faculty and students to thriving primary and secondary school art programs.” Join the Louisiana Museum of Art on September 22 for the Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day for free admission!
Location: Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette Street, 5th Floor, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Hours: Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m.
Cost: $5 for ages 13 and older. Free for children 12 and under and those with a University student ID.
Red Stick Farmers Market
Red Stick Farmers is an open-air, producer-only market, with over 50 member farmers and a variety of locally grown products, including fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, seafood, artisan breads, homemade pies, honey, milk and cheese, native plants, herbs, and specialty food items. Cash, credit, and debit cards are accepted. Red Stick Farmers Market has a no pet policy.
Location: 5th and Main Streets (Downtown Baton Rouge)
Hours: Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
USS Kidd Veterans Museum
Join those aboard the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd (DD-661), the “Pirate of the Pacific”. Located in the heart of scenic downtown Baton Rouge, she is the centerpiece of a memorial which serves to honor the men and women of our American armed forces. Through these pages, you will take a step back in time and learn about their sacrifices for the freedoms we enjoy today.
Location: 205 South River Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Hours: Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cost: $10 for adults, $8 for veterans and senior citizens, and $6 for children
Theaters and Performances
Manship Theater: Mary Gauthier in Concert
Location: 100 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Showtime: Friday, September 21st at 7:30 p.m.
Cost: Tickets vary between $39.95 to $59.95, plus fees
Manship Theater: Lucia Micarelli in Concert
Showtime: Sunday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m.
Cost: Tickets vary between $25 to $45, plus fees
Theater Baton Rouge
Join Theater Baton Rouge for their production of Little Shop of Horrors from September 21, 2018 to October 7, 2018. One of the longest running off-Broadway shows, Little Shop of Horrors is a charmingly tongue in cheek comedy that will delight audiences night after night!
Location: 7155 Florida Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Showtime: 2:00 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $30 for admission, $19 for students with ID
Location: 9111 Jefferson Hwy., Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Date & Time: Friday, September 21st at 6:30 p.m.
Chapel of the Cross Lutheran Church
Location: 3235 Dalrymple Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Date & Time: Sunday, September 23rd at 11:00 a.m.
Christ Covenant Church (Non-denominational)
Location: 1700 Lee Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Christ the King Catholic Church
Location: 11 Fraternity Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Date & Time: Saturday, September 22nd 3 hours before kick-off
Date & Time: Sunday, September 23rd at 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. (in Spanish), 6:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m, & 10:00 p.m.
Congregation B'nai Israel
Location: 3354 Kleinert Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Islamic Center of Baton Rouge
Location: 820 W. Chimes St., Baton Rouge, LA 70802
(Sunday services are held at Masjid Al-Rahman located at 285 E. Airport Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70806)
Date & Time: Sunday, September 23rd from 6:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.
Istrouma Baptist Church
Location: 10500 Sam Rushing Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 7081
St. Alban's Chapel (Episcopal/Anglican)
Location: 11 Dalrymple Dr. & Highland Rd., Baton Rouge, LA 70802
The Refuge (Non-deonominational)
Date & Time: Sunday, September 23rd at 7:30 p.m.
University Presbyterian
Date & Time: Sunday, September 23rd at 8:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
University United Methodist Church
Date & &Time: Sunday, September 23rd at 8:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
Wesley Foundation at LSU (Methodist)
Location: 333 E. Chimes St., Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Date & Time: Sunday, September 23 at 8:00 p.m.
146 Thomas Boyd Hall
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Trump, Congress to End US Government Shutdown
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Jan 25, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
U.S. President Donald Trump said that he has reached a deal with Congressional leaders to reopen the government for three weeks.
The deal to end the 35-day partial government shutdown does not include Trump’s demand of $5.7 billion to build a wall at the country’s southern border with Mexico.
But in his speech Friday, Trump said if talks on border security fail to produce a “powerful wall or steel barrier,” he would shut down the government again on February 15 or declare a national emergency to build one.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have repeatedly called for Trump to reopen the government before lawmakers negotiate the issue of border security.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., smile during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, after President Donald Trump announces a deal to reopen the government.
The announcement came as the effects of the longest shutdown in American history were spreading across the nation.
In New York, airplanes were being delayed at least 90 minutes. The government reported that the delay was caused by a small “increase in sick leave” from air traffic controllers in centers in Florida and Washington, D.C. The workers are among the 800,000 federal employees who have not been getting paid during the shutdown.
Officials added that many airport security screeners were not reporting to work because of financial stresses.
At the Internal Revenue Service, less than half of the recalled workers reported to work. The Trump administration had called back workers to deal with the increase in tax filing activities.
In a video message, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, said he was “about as angry as I’ve been in a long, long time.”
Wray called the shutdown “short-sighted” and “unfair.” He added that all FBI workers were feeling financial stresses from the shutdown.
Hai Do wrote this story for Learning English with additional reporting from the Associated Press. Ashley Thompson was the editor.
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Code Girls
The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Mundy, Liza
This book reveals for the first time the courageous efforts of the remarkable young women recruited by the U.S. government during World War II to crack German and Japanese military codes, showing how they helped secure an Allied victory before their vow of secrecy nearly erased their vital contributions from U.S. history.
Publisher: New York, New York : Hachette Books, ©2017.
Characteristics: xiv, 416 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates :,illustrations, portraits ;,24 cm.
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rogeraeschliman Jul 03, 2019
Wonderful bit of history recommended for WWII buffs, women's history buffs and espionage/spy buffs. Nice crossover that tells a couple of stories and shares some of once top secret, insider knowledge of how code breakers in general, and these young women specifically, helped win the war.
dixiedog Jun 23, 2019
Code Girls – ‘The Untold Story of American Women Code Breakers of WWII’ was without a doubt obviously thoroughly researched and it does recognize the way women were undervalued within society before WWII. It is preposterous how women were discriminated against before the war, e.g., they should not take a man’s job; they were with very few exceptions, not allowed admission into America’s top universities; they were expected to stay home and raise children after a family was started, and so much more. While I did enjoy reading this book as it was quite an eye opener, I did find this book to be painfully far too detailed. I do feel the author could have told this story in far fewer pages and still paid homage to what these women achieved.
This book does document and recognize the significant contribution that women made backfilling jobs on assembly lines, and other jobs vacated by men going overseas. The US Government prohibited women from active rolls in fighting. As code breakers they helped turn the tide of WWII in favour of the United States and its allies. They worked and lived in less than favourable conditions for salaries less than men in the same situation. Their collective sacrifices saved countless lives and helped to bring about the end of the war. The fight they endured to be recognized and to receive equal pay for equal work still goes on today to some extent.
This is a story that needed to be told and it certainly played its part in bringing about equality for women. Senior-Doctor-at-Bass-Fishing! D. A.
glotet May 12, 2019
Please note that Code Girls is a heavy hard-cover book with very small print so may prove to be a challenge for some.
Havanacat Jan 10, 2019
People. The story of the American version of Bletchley Park.
jmmReads Jan 01, 2019
A fascinating story, intelligently and kindly told. Make no mistake, this is not fluff writing. Liza Mundy has a gift, being able to focus on the accomplishments of the women and reporting the conflicts they encountered without dwelling on the seamier or sensational side of the stories they told. She has managed to tell a cohesive and detailed story without succumbing to the temptation tell every detail that she had uncovered in her research. This is a treat in historical writing.
mcfaddenp1 Dec 05, 2018
My Mother, Velma Merrill McFadden was a Hillsboro High, Oregon graduate of 1928, although College would come at a later date, her ability as a trained professional musician and retail music store "musicologist" was a talent that she would soon be shocked to learn in 1943 was of imminent valuable assistance to the war effort against the AXIS.
Not having read the new title, I hope there is mention of a small college in East Providence , Rhode Island where she received initial training in " Crypto".
In early 1997, shortly before her passing, we were watching a NOVA special on code breaking during WW2. She raised her arm with difficulty, and pointed to an image on the screen stating:
"...there is Mr. so and so, he was two offices down in our Division.
Taken aback, I questioned her about why she had "gone east" during WW2, as no family or work was there, as far as her family thought. She stated, "...we were told that as long as we lived, if we ever spoke about what we did there, we could be hung...man or woman".
Since her former boss was now being featured on this NOVA special documentary, I asked if now she would tell us what she did there in "Crypto". She refused, and although 86 and near death, kept the oath she swore to never divulge her work there.
This is a good example of "The Greatest Generation", they took their oaths seriously.
Traffic7 Sep 11, 2018
I truly enjoyed this book, was extremely interesting. I also appreciated the author included in the sociological facts of the time period. The fact these extremely intelligent women kept this quiet all of these years just dispels the stereotype of gabby women. My mother was in her early twenties during this time and working at this time. She spoke a little about what life was like but after we both read this book, we had had some very in depth and heart to heart conversations.
bisqit May 07, 2018
Very interesting story of an ignored contribution by women during W W II. It shows the attitudes toward women of the time. It made me admire my mother more since she was of that era.
mammothhawk229e Apr 15, 2018
US Navy recruits from university. Army forced to recruit teachers after Navy whined.
Highlighted office politics, living conditions & the influence on the war.
Totally surprised on Tony Randall's cameo.
The sad thing was that new generation of women had to fight the same old battles for workplace acceptance within the intelligence community in the 1980s & 1990s as most of the wartime female recruits got let go, got married & raised a family after the war.
orange_lobster_23 Apr 06, 2018
A wonderfully researched documentation of the under-recognized story of the significant contribution of American women to the resolution of W.W. II. Numerous narratives of workplace misogyny detailed in dress code, housing, military code etc. of the 1940's persist.
World War, 1939-1945 — Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945 — Participation, Female.
Cryptographers — United States — History — 20th Century.
Cryptography — United States — History — 20th Century.
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Home > Question Period
Posted on 2008.05.28
Libby speaks out on the B.C. Supreme Court Decision on Insite
EXCERPT FROM HANSARD Wednesday 28 May, 2008
Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP): – Mr. Speaker,yesterday B.C.’s Supreme Court decision makes it abundantly clear that Insite, the supervised injection facility in east Vancouver, is a health facility. The ruling also makes it clear that closing Insite would be ³inconsistent with the state’s interest in fostering individual and community health and preventing death and disease².Can the Minister of Health assure the House today that his Conservative government will abide by the court’s decision and not appeal this important case?
Hon. Tony Clement (Minister of Health and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I am not in charge of appeals. That is the Minister of Justice. but I can say to the House that on this side of the House at least we are disappointed with the judgment. We disagree with the judgment.
We are, of course, examining our options and I would say to the House that we on this side of the House care about treating drug addicts who need our help. We care about preventing people, especially our young people, from becoming drug addicts in the first place. That is our way to reduce harm in our society and we are proud of taking that message to the people of Canada.
Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP): Mr. Speaker, if the Minister of Health claims that he cares about people who use drugs and the issues they face, then he will respect the decision of the court.
The medical, scientific and now legal conclusions just could not be any clearer. Insite is a life-saving facility and harm reduction is an essential component of Canada’s drug strategy.
When will the minister put aside his personal ideological position, respect the court’s decision and get to work on changing Canada’s drug laws to allow access to health facilities such as Insite? When is he going to do that? He is taking too long.
Hon. Tony Clement (Minister of Health and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, CPC): Mr. Speaker, it is a bit rich for the member from the New Democratic Party to start lecturing us on ideological positions. That is its bread and butter over there, but we on this side of the House are here for public policy. We are here to help our kids, prevent them from getting on drugs in the first place. We are here to help addicts.
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How to Stay in Touch with Your Human Roots
Jenny O'Grady May 19, 2011 StoriesLeave a comment
With Dr. Jay Freyman, Associate Professor, Department of Ancient Studies
Picture yourself trapped on a desert island. What book or books would keep you best occupied for, say, the rest of your life? Dr. Jay Freyman’s answer is simple: The Oxford English Dictionary (or OED for short). At a time when fewer and fewer of us are cognizant of the history of the words that surround us, Freyman argues that this hefty tome (or the two-volume shrunken print version with magnifying glass) teaches not only the story of human language, but of humanity itself.
English is a hodgepodge of languages – some of them ancient tongues no longer in active use. Dig into the foundations – as each entry of the OED does – and you discover that these languages live on in our own.
Aside from burying your nose in a multivolume dictionary, Freyman has some other easy ways to reconnect the English of the 21st Century – and those who speak it – to its roots in history.
— Jenny O’Grady
Embrace Your Alma Mater
If you graduated from UMBC in the last five years or so, you likely sang the school’s alma mater. You also likely framed your diploma, hung it on the wall – and forgot about what it says. But Freyman says the language used in academia – and the fine print of your degree – is a link between old-school language and the higher education of today.
“The words alma mater in Latin mean ‘nourishing mother,’” says Freyman, who points to other Latin phrases such as in loco parentis (or “in the place of the parent”) as indicators of the university’s role as a parent, of sorts, who teaches, guides and protects the young academic.
Upon graduation, the diploma declares levels of achievement, including magna cum laude and others indicating levels of “high praise.”
“I believe most people are familiar with the terms, but not necessarily aware of what they mean,” says Freyman. “Even so, they know it sounds like an honor, it sounds good…and you know you’ve done something special to have earned it.”
Be (Smartly) Entertained
Sometimes, a society has so much entertainment at its fingertips, it can be difficult to choose how to spend a Wednesday evening. Not surprisingly, some choices are better for the brain – and for our purpose of exploring ancient words and ideals.
Choosing to read a book or to see a live performance like a play can feel like a step back in time. Reading a book allows you make connections between words of the past and present in a way that humans have done since ancient Egypt. And watching a play brings you in touch with centuries-old words in a way that nothing else can. Even reality television.
“It’s simply incredible to watch a play,” says Freyman. “You become a part of it. It makes you think. There’s nothing like it.”
Embrace Ancient Ideals
If you want to truly appreciate the ancients, you should probably try thinking like them, too. That way, if someone asks, “Why should I care about old words and ideas?” you can prepare yourself with a few answers.
“A society needs to challenge and treasure memory,” says Freyman. With the Internet at the ready with answers to everyday questions, we just don’t commit as much information to memory as citizens of the past did. Dissolving the link between memory and knowledge means we can miss lessons the past wants to teach us.
“Memory is like a muscle. If you don’t use it, it atrophies, you lose it,” he says. “Without it, we forget what brought us to where we are today. We are in danger of losing so much.”
Another ancient ideal worth adopting: improving the mind benefits the individual, which benefits society.
“If you have an idea of what a human being was meant to be…well, that’s an end in itself,” he says. “This is very corny, and it won’t sell…but that’s the best reason in the world. It simply makes you a better human being.”
Having a degree from UMBC is one thing, but knowing the proper usage of the word “alumni” will make you seem extra smart.
The word alumnus is used to refer to one male graduate; alumna refers to one female graduate. The word alumni is used when referring to a group of male graduates, however it is also used as a collective term for alumni of both genders. Alumnae is used in referring to a group of exclusively female graduates.
Watch our video to see these words put to use by UMBC’s on-campus alumni!
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Staging the Struggle
At Play – Fall 2009
[Photos] What a wine tasting!
Over Coffee – Summer 2010
Discovery – Summer 2011
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Israel Takes Aim at UNESCO, Again
July 10, 2017 Mitchell Plitnick 6 Comments
by Mitchell Plitnick
Israel and the United States have once again turned their fire on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). At issue this time is the decision by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee to recognize the Old City of Hebron as a Palestinian site and to add it as a World Heritage in Danger site.
According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the UNESCO resolution is “delusional” because it allegedly denies the Jewish connection to Hebron. Indeed, denying such a connection to a city that contains the Tomb of the Patriarchs would be highly offensive to Jews all over the world. The only problem is, UNESCO did no such thing.
As Orly Noy points out in +972 Magazine, “As opposed to what Israel is attempting to portray, UNESCO does not comment on the religious aspects of heritage sites, or to whom they are or are not considered holy.”
All three Abrahamic faiths consider the site holy for it is home to both the Tomb of the Patriarchs and the Ibrahimi Mosque. What really bothered Israel, although it can’t say it this way, is that the resolution specifically states that the site is in Palestine, a state that does not exist in a physical sense, but which is a non-voting member of the UN and was admitted in 2011 to UNESCO.
Netanyahu can’t, for the moment, make the case that the Tomb is Israeli, because Israel has never claimed sovereignty over Hebron, even though the city is home to the most controversial, and often violent, sites of Israeli settlement and occupation. To claim Hebron would be to officially declare the option of a Palestinian state dead, and Israel is not prepared to do that.
So, Netanyahu says that this UNESCO statement erases the Jewish connection to Hebron. That’s nothing less than a bald-faced lie. The resolution does nothing of the kind. In fact, the report from the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) clearly acknowledges the Jewish religious and historical connections to the city.
But if recent events demonstrate anything, it is that Israel is far from synonymous with Judaism or Jews as a group. The Netanyahu government has recently made that abundantly clear to liberal Jews in the United States, much to their dismay. The UNESCO resolution does imply that Israel—not Jews—has no claim on the Tomb/Mosque site. No one, for instance, would consider it credible for Israel to claim as its own the Sardis Synagogue. One of the most ancient Jewish sites in the world at t 2,400 years old, this synagogue is in Turkey and is extremely well-maintained. The Jobar Synagogue in Syria, which has been mostly destroyed in the war, is a tragic loss for Jews everywhere, but not specifically for Israel.
Why, then, would Hebron be treated differently?
One reason is that the request for the site’s recognition and placement on the endangered list came from the Palestinian Authority. Another is that the report details numerous actions by Israel that raise serious concerns about open access to non-Jews, the effects of settlement and military activity on the site, and archaeological activity that has already caused damage to parts of the Old City.
Although Israel shouts to the heavens about its respect for all religions and for access to holy sites, no one could possibly go to Hebron and come out believing Israel’s claims. Nowhere is the occupation starker and more visible. There is every reason for the United Nations to focus on Hebron, to protect its holy sites, and to combat the Israeli occupation there. No security rationale can justify Jewish settlement in Hebron.
US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley said that the UNESCO resolution is an “affront to history.” Obviously, the ambassador is not well informed on the history of the city. That might be forgiven but shouldn’t we expect her to understand UN process and procedure? That is after all, her job. In this case, as Americans for Peace Now’s Ori Nir reported, UNESCO has not yet formulated its statement regarding Hebron. The press release about the World Heritage Committee’s vote may or may not reflect UNESCO’s full stance on the matter. Which also means that while Haley is performing her theatrics, she could be trying to influence that final statement instead.
In fairness to Haley, however, her ability to influence anything at UNESCO is severely limited. At one time, the US voice held considerable weight in the body. Until 2011, the United States contributed 22% of the organization’s budget. Any organization tends to listen to the provider of more than 1/5 of their funding.
But when UNESCO voted overwhelmingly in 2011 to admit Palestine, it triggered a US law that forced the Obama Administration to withdraw its funding. The US still sits on UNESCO’s executive board, but its influence is clearly diminished.
Israel, for its part, withheld another $1 million from its UN membership dues in response to the latest UNESCO controversy. This is the fourth time Israel has cut its contribution to the UN, reducing it in total from $11.7 million to $1.7 million. Meanwhile, the US is said to be “reviewing” its ties to UNESCO in response to the Hebron decision.
There was a real possibility of raising some issues about this resolution. The ICOMOS report, for example, said that in 1929, Jews fled Hebron “when violence flared.” In fact, it was a targeted massacre of 67 Jews in the city (a massacre that could have been much worse but for the intervention of some of Hebron’s Arab residents). That sort of language is, indeed, objectionable. If Israel felt that any of the charges raised in the ICOMOS report were erroneous, it could have engaged and then publicized the reality.
Instead, as usual, Israel disengaged and refused access as much as it could. The message it is sending is that it’s more important to accuse its detractors of anti-Semitism than to deal with any substantive issues it might have.
Given the nature of the occupation, the daily brutality, the false image of it projected for people who have either refused to see it for themselves or never had the chance to, it is not surprising that this is the course both Israel and the Trump administration would choose. Israeli and US hysteria over the Hebron designation was not focused on objections to Israeli actions, but on a completely bogus charge of anti-Semitism. That sort of deflection is much more typical of a guilty party than an innocent one.
Photo: Tomb of the Patriarchs (Wikimedia Commons)
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Mitchell Plitnick
Mitchell Plitnick is a political analyst and writer. His previous positions include vice president at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, director of the US Office of B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, and co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace. His writing has appeared in Ha’aretz, the New Republic, the Jordan Times, Middle East Report, the San Francisco Chronicle, +972 Magazine, Outlook, and other outlets. He was a columnist for Tikkun Magazine, Zeek Magazine and Souciant. He has spoken all over the country on Middle East politics, and has regularly offered commentary in a wide range of radio and television outlets including PBS News Hour, the O’Reilly Factor, i24 (Israel), Pacifica Radio, CNBC Asia and many other outlets, as well as at his own blog, Rethinking Foreign Policy, at www.mitchellplitnick.com. You can find him on Twitter @MJPlitnick.
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Tony Riley
A mosque was deliberately built on top of a Jewish holy site.
An excellent analysis – Thank You.
I always know when Netanyahu is lying – his lips keep moving!
Haley is just a zionist stooge hand-puppet.
The predictable zionist response does not bring peace one day sooner.
It is almost as though they don’t want peace.
Is the zionist industrial-military-financial complex now calling the shots?
Perish the thoughts!
John O
In Córdoba, Spain, a cathedral was built (I suppose “deliberately” – buildings don’t form themselves by accident) around a mosque. This wonderful structure is also a world heritage site. Where I live (England) many churches are built on top of Roman temples, which were built on top of Iron Age sacred places. It’s no big deal, unless of course you want to return humanity to the religious wars of the 12th century.
Marc (@marc2twitt)
A Two Citizenships Solution vs. a Jewish-Arab State:
The number of Arabs and Jews living west of the Jordan River is approximately the same.
A two states solution is meaningless without changing citizenship of Israeli Arabs.
Israeli Arabs obtained Israeli citizenship illegally and against international law.
Unfortunately, Israel long ago became a bi-national , it’s an incubator for Arab people.
Arabs hate Jewish state. This can lead to events such as those that occur in Syria.
Jews will not survive in a bi-national state.
Israel must stop to impose Israeli citizenship to the hostile nation.
Immediately after the establishment of a new Arab state west of the Jordan River ( or return Jordanian rule ), the Arabs of Haifa, Nazareth, Lod, Galilee, Negev, Jerusalem etc. must become citizens of their new (old) state.
If the Jews do not want to continue to live in a bi-national state, and within a generation become a minority in Israel, they must prepare for a referendum (as in Scotland) based on the UN resolution to divide Palestine for Jews and Arabs.
Fatah-Hamas government requires land free of Jews.
Therefore, Israeli demands are legitimate and forced:
1. To divide National Insurance for Jews and Arabs, by forming the funds from taxes collected separately from Jews and Arabs.
2. To employ only the Arabs, who will replace Israeli citizenship to the status of Israel’s residents.
3. Deductions from wages ( income tax and health tax) of Arab residents to transfer to the Palestinian Authority , of course along with responsibility for health, education , jobs and pensions to all Arabs who wish to remain in Israel.
It’s possible to separate from the Arabs by the law, as the Irish and the British, as the Czechs and the Slovaks or as the Greeks and the Turks in Cyprus . First to separate economically and then geographically.
Palestinian citizenship to the Arabs, Israeli citizenship to the Jews.
Two Nations – Two States – Two Citizenships !
The only sustainable long term solution is:
The Arabs should be ruled by the Arab administration and the Jews should be governed by the Jewish government.
James Canning
That Netanyahu would “lie a blue streak” regarding Hebron is no surprise. Bravo, UNESCO.
‘To Ask an Arab Student to Internalize This Is a Way of Humiliating Him’
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Wills and Powers of Attorney
Farming and agribusiness
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Inland Rail Project
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Landowners expected to lose land to the Brisbane to Melbourne Inland Rail Project (Inland Rail Project) are being urged to seek legal advice without delay to ensure they receive their full entitlements to compensation for the loss of their land. This advice comes following the Australian Rail Track Corporation’s recent announcement that the land to be acquired as part of the Narromine to Narrabri (‘N2N’) section of the Inland Rail Project has been largely identified, which means landowners between Narromine and Narrabri are now likely to be aware if they will be directly affected.
Maddens Lawyers has been closely monitoring the developments of the Inland Rail Project, which includes the upgrade of existing tracks as well as construction of a number of sections of new track. Many rural and regional landowners positioned on, or adjacent to, the new sections of track will have their land compulsorily acquired by the New South Wales (NSW) Government and Queensland (QLD) Government.
The Australian Rail Track Corporation, overseen by the Federal Government, has estimated that 1,000 to 1,100 property acquisitions will be required to complete the Inland Rail Project. Properties impacted are located in NSW and QLD and range from large rural properties to residential areas of regional towns.
Some of the impacts for which compensation is recoverable may include:
Valuation fees
Stamp duty and conveyancing costs
Loss of use of the land
Consequential financial losses
Solatium or non-financial disadvantage
Maddens is offering to assist landowners in advancing claims for compensation associated with the compulsory acquisition of their land at no cost to them.
Maddens Lawyers has significant experience in representing large groups in rural settings having successfully represented many hundreds of victims of bushfires across regional and outer urban areas of Victoria and New South Wales since 1983. Those likely to be impacted by the Inland Rail Project are encouraged to contact Maddens Lawyers on 1800 815 228 or register online. By registering, landholders will receive regular updates and will be able to access the services and advice offered by Maddens Lawyers.
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Ryan Lochte confuses Canadian Thanksgiving with a Jewish holiday
Image: matt hazlett/Getty Images
By Jessye McGarry 2016-10-17 16:55:47 UTC
Ryan Lochte, Olympic swimmer and American heartthrob turned liar turned dancer, has once again provided us an answer for the question, "What would Ryan Lochte do?"
In an interview with New York Magazine, Lochte mistook the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur for Canadian Thanksgiving.
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During the interview, Lochte's publicist informs him that it's Yom Kippur. Lochte asks her about it, and she tells him that "it's the Jewish Day of Atonement."
Lochte becomes puzzled, and asks, "Wasn't it just their Thanksgiving two days ago?"
His publicist corrects him, explaining that he's thinking of Canadian Thanksgiving.
And, while this moment is not particularly relevant to his confusion of the holidays, it is certainly of note that immediately following that conversation, Lochte realized he'd been butt-dialing people as they spoke.
In his defense, he's not entirely off-base with the concept of a Jewish Thanksgiving. Sukkot began last night, which some regard as a kind of Thanksgiving.
However, Yom Kippur, a day of fasting and atonement is definitely not Thanksgiving. He'll have to wait another year, but now he'll know exactly what to atone for.
Topics: Culture, ryan lochte, Sports, thanksgiving, yom kippur
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Mycoskie sold his online driver education company for $500,000 to finance Toms shoes.[14] The company name is derived from the word "tomorrow",[9] and evolved from the original concept, "Shoes for Tomorrow Project".[16] Mycoskie initially commissioned Argentine shoe manufacturers to make 250 pairs of shoes. Sales officially began in May 2006.[14] After an article ran in the Los Angeles Times, the company received order requests for nine times the available stock online,[14] and 10,000 pairs were sold in the first year. The first batch of 10,000 free shoes were distributed in October 2006 to Argentine children.[7][17][18][19]
Five years later, TOMS realized this movement could serve other basic needs and launched TOMS Eyewear. With every pair purchased, TOMS will help give sight to a person in need. One for One®. As we learn that everyday choices have the power to impact the lives of those around the world, the TOMS movement will continue to grow and evolve. With every backpack you purchase, TOMS will help stop bullying, one youth at a time. One for One®. Join us at TOMS.com.
In June 2014, the company announced that Mycoskie was looking to sell part of his stake in the company to help it grow faster and meet its long-term goals.[23] On August 20, 2014 Bain Capital acquired 50% of Toms. Reuters reported that the transaction valued the company at $625 million; Mycoskie's personal wealth following the deal was reported at $300 million.[2] Mycoskie retained 50% ownership of Toms, as well as his role as "Chief Shoe Giver". Mycoskie said he would use half of the proceeds from the sale to start a new fund to support socially minded entrepreneurship, and Bain would match his investment and continue the company's one-for-one policy.[24][25]
What began as a simple idea has evolved into a powerful business model that helps address need and advance health, education and economic opportunity for children and their communities around the world. Supporting TOMS Shoes is also a compassionate display of support for helping children get some of the basics they need to enjoy better and healthier lives. Whether it's a pair of TOMS booties, shoes or sandals, you're helping to make a difference in the world.
By 2011, over 500 retailers carried the brand globally and in the same year, Toms launched its eyewear line.[21] By 2012 over two million pairs of new shoes had been given to children in developing countries around the world. The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at the University of New Mexico has described the company as an example of social entrepreneurship.[14][22]
The Tom's 'One for One' model has inspired many different companies to adopt similar concepts. Warby Parker, launched in 2010, donates a pair of glasses to someone in need for every pair of glasses it sells. The social business Ruby Cup uses a 'Buy One Give One' model for their menstrual cup venture, benefiting women in Kenya.[61] A Bristol chiropractic center influenced by Mycoskie's Start Something That Matters[62] book started donating £1 to Cherish Uganda for every appointment attended.[63]
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"Brokerage Professions and Implementing Reform in an Age of Experts."
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"Making the Cut: Using Status-based Countertactics to Block Social Movement Implementation and Micro-institutional Change in Surgery."
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Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery.
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"The Initial Assignment Effect: Local Employer Practices and Positive Career Outcomes for Work-Family Program Users."
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Damien Hirst #Change #Future #History
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
<blockquote><q>But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.</q><cite title="Damien Hirst"> <a href="https://mottod.com/authors/damien-hirst">Damien Hirst</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/change">#Change</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/future">#Future</a> <a href="https://mottod.com/categories/history">#History</a> </cite></blockquote>
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Aaliyah – Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number
Aaliyah - Age Ain't Nothing But A Number
When Aaliyah was introduced to R Kelly at a tender age of 13 by her uncle Hankerson, she had no idea her first album Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number would sell 6 million copies by the end of December 1994.
R Kelly not only mentored Aaliyah as they spent hours late night trying to perfect her songs to his fast paced R&B music, they also fell in love with each other and would later get secretly married when Aaliyah turns 15.
Her songs "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number", "At Your Best (You Are Love)" and "Back & Forth" all topped the Billboard R&B charts throughout 1994 before they were over thrown by Mariah Carey's "One Sweet Day".
Aaliyah and R Kelly did manage to reach the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, as they sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S alone.
To further promote the album as well as to make the most of her album's success, Aaliyah would organize a world tour with R Kelly starting early 1995.
With more than 30 shows in US, Europe and Japan.Aaliyah hardly showed any nerves while performing in front of huge crowds as a teenager.
Aaliyah's funky upbeat slow jams combined with the Asian influence, especially the belly dance moves of Arabia made her songs and videos the most seductive of the 90s.
This world tour also turned her fortunes upside down and true to her name Aaliyah (translates as 'Exalted one', 'most high' in Swahili) spent the money on the much needed expenses of her family and friends.
Aaliyah - At Your Best - Lyrics
Release Date - August 22, 1994
Album - Age Ain't Nothing but a Number
When I feel what I feel, sometimes it's hard to tell you so
You may not be in the mood to learn
What you think you know
There are times, when I find, you wanna keep yourself from me,
When I don't have the strength, I'm just a mirror of what I see
But at your best, you are love
You're a positive motivating force within my life
Should you ever feel the need to wonder why
Let me know, Let me Know
Laaaaa hahh Let me know
When you feel, what you feel, oh how hard for me to understand
So many things have taken place before this love affair began
But If you feel, oh like I feel, confusion can give way to doubt
For there are times when I fall short of what I say, what I say I'm all about, all about
Tell Me what it is (Tell me what it is)
There's no need to make believe (make believe, no need to make believe)
Look beyond your words (look beyond your words)
Try to find a place for me (Try to find, find a place for me)
'Cause at your best, you are loved
See, stay at your best baby
Track List -
Throw Your Hands Up
Down with the Clique
No One Knows How to Love Me Quite Like You Do
I'm so Into You
Street Thing
Young Nation
I'm Down
Back & Forth (Mr. Lee & R. Kelly's Remix)
Usher – Moving Mountains
AC, Pop, R&B/Hip Hop, US Top 50
Despacito (Remix) [feat. Justi…
Adele – Send My Love (To…
Pop, US Top 50
Justin Timberlake – Futu…
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Politics, Profession, Reviews
Roundtable: How Old Should a Doctor Be?
Posted by guestwriter on March 30, 2018 April 2, 2018
On January 6, 2018, Dr Haider Javed Warraich published an op-ed in the New York Times titled “For Doctors, Age May Be More Than a Number.” In this responsive roundtable, writers Anna Fenton-Hathaway (English literature), Jordan Babando (sociology), and Benjamin Gagnon Chainey (French literature) consider the possibilities and provocations of thinking about how a doctor’s age informs their medical practice.
Decline Ideology: What We Talk about When We Talk about Age
Anna Fenton-Hathaway
Decline is a metaphor as hard to contain as dye. Once it has tinged our expectations of the future (sensations, rewards, status, power, voice) with peril, it tends to stain our experiences, our views of others, our explanatory systems, and then our retrospective judgments.
—Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Aged by Culture
Dr. Haider Javed Warraich, 29, opens his recent New York Times op-ed with the question he hears “all the time” during his work as a doctor: “Can I ask how old you are?” We are to understand that this question is posed skeptically, by patients who would prefer to see a “silver-haired doctor” at the bedside. The whole of medical training, built as it is on the “young learning from the old,” serves to reinforce this prejudice against the young. Such prejudices are keeping health care in a harmful holding pattern, Warraich argues, and so he calls for older doctors to share more power with younger ones or step aside. According to him, “Young doctors are ready to make health care both more innovative and patient-centric,” but this revolutionary spirit is being met with resistance: “are the senior doctors they work with, and the patients they take care of, ready for them?”
This narrative should be familiar to all of us. It goes like this: We are being held back from progress due to our misplaced trust in experience—experience that very likely explains why we’re in this mess to begin with. You may recognize this trope from contemporary American political rhetoric, where institutional knowledge and competence are portrayed as inimical to change, or from media rehashes of Generation X’s complaints against the Baby Boomer generation (a conflict so useful that it has survived the swapping-out of its actors; its current version pits the Millennials against everybody else). Admittedly, Warraich supports his version of this trope with studies by “researchers at Harvard” and a 2005 meta-analysis indicating “an inverse relationship between the number of years that a physician has been in practice and the quality of care that the physician provides” (Choudhry et al.). But the mechanism that would explain such findings, as well as much of Warraich’s overall argument, relies on something besides data: namely, our implicit assent that decline is the natural order of things. Wherever there are gaps in the evidence or leaps in logic, the reader is expected to fill them in with what age studies critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette calls decline ideology.
Gullette coined the phrase “decline ideology” to describe two phenomena: our broader cultural apprehension that “aging” equals loss or failure; and the forces prompting us to understand this equation as both an essential truth and a biological fact. Her Aged by Culture (2004) is a brilliant field guide to the various species of cultural messages shaping our perceptions of age and aging, many of which read decline into what might otherwise be seen as neutral change.
Approaching Warraich’s op-ed from a critical age studies perspective means, for one, exposing where the piece interprets the negative effects of a specific, individual process as symptoms of aging-in-general (Jordan Babando does this when he analyzes the effects of compassion fatigue and burnout on some, but not all, experienced physicians). An age studies perspective also seeks to provide a check on certain unacknowledged assumptions, such as the belief that systemic change derives from a conflict between the young and the old rather than from the efforts of intergenerational coalitions. When people doing the same job understand themselves as distinct groups in competition for resources or power, somebody is benefiting from the conflict—but it’s usually not one of those groups. Rather than granting Warraich’s arbitrary and disempowering division between young and old, then, Benjamin Gagnon Chainey challenges him to think more expansively about the “rapport between one’s age and the ages of others.”
“There are 19- and 20-year-olds I work with who will blow your mind,” a friend tells Warraich as they collaborate on a machine-learning model for predicting in-patient mortality. These “mind-blowing” workers attract the most enthusiastic praise depicted in the piece, and it is implied but not stated that they are programmers. Elsewhere, Warraich claims that medical training “is far too long given that the average age of physicians completing is the early to mid-30s.” Oddly, although he links to an article that discusses the financial burden of medical school and downward pressure on physician salaries (as well as burnout due to increasing administrative tasks), he offers neither of those reasons for the “given” here. Does starting a career in one’s mid-30s seem to Warraich so universally galling that it needs no further explanation—a sign of deferred adulthood, perhaps, or of not pulling one’s weight? A more plausible answer emerges when we juxtapose the 29-year-old Warraich to those inspiring figures ten years younger, and follow the signs from Warraich’s dissatisfaction with medicine to an industry he finds more open to youthful disruption: the tech industry.
In tech, the idea that a teenager or 20-year-old is the best source of creativity has become a sort of truism. The idea that older professionals are less adaptable, less savvy, and slower than their younger counterparts, meanwhile, has become a largely unchallenged “fact.” This decline narrative is frequently applied to Silicon Valley’s employees, but it applies to its wares as well. From personnel to iPads, obsolescence seems to arrive more and more quickly, a troubling phenomenon Gullette calls “speed-up.” Quietly aligning himself with tech through repeated references to innovation, Warraich indicates he would welcome a shift toward that industry’s problem-solving techniques (predictive analytics among them) and values (innovation, newness, youth). Yet he does not say how such techniques and values would stem increasing administrative obligations, address patients’ unequal access to care, or eliminate other factors that keep physicians from being fully “patient-centric” today.
When Warraich provides startling data about the apparent effects of aging on physicians, he does so largely without comment, leaving even a convinced reader a little unsure how to proceed. One study he cites, for instance, looked at hospitalists from four age categories—less than 40, 40-49, 50-59, and 60 and above—and calculated the mortality rate for over 700,000 admissions (of Medicare patients 65 years old or more) treated by those physicians. The authors concluded that, “Within the same hospital, patients treated by older physicians had higher mortality than patients cared for by younger physicians, except those physicians treating high volumes of patients” (Tsugawa et al.). They found that readmissions did not vary with physician age.
In accounting for the lower mortality rates, Warraich remarks that “younger doctors are more likely to adopt innovative practices” but also that their “inexperience . . . allows them to be free of malignant relics from the past. Having not trained in an era steeped in medical paternalism, younger physicians are more likely to place the patient on the pedestal rather than themselves.” Setting aside the slippage between a general lack of experience and the lack of a specific experience, at least the term “malignant relics” lays bare a potential reason behind the success of the young (or the failure of the old): they were trained in a different era. Yet if bygone values are somehow to blame for 50-year-old doctors’ poorer performance than that of the 40-year-olds, what does the volume of patients have to do with it? Put another way, if a basic inclination to self-importance is the problem here, why does that effect recede when the focus is on readmissions rather than mortality, or when patient volume is high?
While Warraich’s discussion of the study above uses generation-based reasoning, the meta-analysis he cites suggests that diminished performance is a life-course effect—something that will happen to everyone, regardless of training or status or orientation. This is not just the narrative of decline, it is its frank assertion. I did not sift through the list of references consulted for the meta-analysis. Even if we grant its validity, though, we are left with the questions “why?” and “what next?” If the “inverse relationship” is attributable to aging-in-general, Warraich may be lashing himself and his early-career peers to a trajectory they may soon find less affirming. And if it is specific to a single age cohort, a result of exposure to medical paternalism, won’t the problem reach its natural end-point when the physicians in question retire?
For those remaining in the profession, of course, the idea that there’s “a consistent, positive relationship between [physicians’] lack of experience and better quality of clinical care” poses a strange challenge: How does one pursue a lack of experience, or positively accumulate it?
As a kind of academic activism, Gullette’s brand of age studies is meant both to uncover decline ideology and to resist it. “Speed-up at any age, the dominance of decline narrative, early nostalgia, age apprehensiveness, slicing life into mutually hostile stages—these are crimes against the life course,” she writes (36).
My attempts to police these crimes here, however, have led me to a disarming, and to my mind positive, realization: Warraich’s right. Patients do take age into account when they imagine the doctor they want. What’s unique is that the ideal is not that of youth or beauty, or even necessarily that of “cutting-edge” technique. Conversations I’ve had about an “ideal” physician’s qualities have instead highlighted things like judgment, restraint, knowing when not to intervene, and even, for some, the peculiar comforts of an “old-school” approach. Taken together, these qualities can be understood as a form of Aristotle’s phronesis: that flexible, practical reasoning in the face of uncertainty that Kathryn Montgomery has argued is precisely how doctors think (4-5).
While I did hear a few stories like Warraich’s, in which patients or family members initially worried that the doctor appearing at the bedside seemed too young or inexperienced, they said that a quick reframe did the trick: rather than evaluate the physician’s competence on the basis of experience, they decided to think of it in terms of recency of training. To me, that evaluative flexibility is a positive sign. It means that decline is not yet our default logic when we contemplate a physician’s age—but also that we are not asking the impossible of experienced physicians. (Even phronesis is subject to setbacks, and can be stymied by a singular case.)
It’s an indication of our own collective wisdom that we haven’t locked ourselves into a single narrative or age-based ideology on this subject. Let’s not start now.
Thanks to Tod Chambers, Bryan Morrison, and Dan Gleason for talking through these ideas with me, and to Arden Hegele for her encouragement and exceptional editing.
White Coat, Dark Ego: The Fragility of a Young Doctor
Jordan Babando
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
—Albert Einstein, The Human Side
In “For Doctors, Age May Be More Than A Number,” Dr. Haider Warraich provides a brief personal reflection about the challenges of being taken seriously as a young doctor, while also criticizing older physicians for being neither as cutting edge nor as successful in treating patients as their younger counterparts. Dr. Warraich does not necessarily proclaim “out with the old and in with the new,” but he does insist that older and more experienced physicians perform more poorly than young ones—and that the data backs up his assertion. What the article misses, however, are the hardships and trauma that seasoned physicians have encountered throughout their careers—hardships that can transform them unrecognizably from the individuals they once were when they first entered the profession. In fact, rather than indicting medicine’s ageist cultural expectations of physicians, the article reveals more about this young doctor’s struggle to find his place in the profession. Dr. Warraich’s primary complaints—of not being taken seriously and promoted quickly because of his youth and inexperience—are rooted in what I call Doogie Howser Problem.
The Doogie Howser Problem: The Challenges of the Young and Inexperienced
From 1989 to 1993, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) aired a television series called “Doogie Howser, M.D.” The series follows a fictional 14-year-old prodigy with photographic memory who becomes America’s youngest licensed physician. As he struggles with the daily trials of being a teenager, Howser must also constantly grapple with being taken seriously as a young and inexperienced medical doctor. This is a recurring problem for Howser, as he has to prove himself to his patients, their families, and the other medical staff who are older and more experienced. This, in my view, relates to the problem Dr. Warraich describes (albeit in a highly exaggerated form)—hence the Doogie Howser Problem.
In one scene, a patient questions Howser’s ability to treat him properly and calls him “a kid.” Howser responds, “True, but I’m also a genius. If you have a problem with that I can get you someone who’s older but not as smart as me.” What Howser is missing here is the same problem that the op-ed has overlooked. Howser forgets that being a genius, scoring among the top percentile, or even being able to remember everything that he was taught in medical school, do not translate into being the best physician in diagnosing and treating every patient. Indeed, one research study showed how hospital units with more experienced staff had fewer medical errors, while units with more highly educated staff did not perform any better (Blegen et al., 2001). Failing to recognize the benefits of experience neglects the practical know-how of those who have experienced situations outside of medical school training—a very rich potential source of knowledge that young physicians should tap into through engagement with their older colleagues.
Narcissism, Fragile Egos and Measurements of Success
One of the challenges for young physicians that Dr. Warraich’s article raises is the problem of evaluation and peer comparison once the doctor has entered the workforce. The rigor of medical school acceptance means that students are almost universally high academic achievers, accustomed to “being the best, to being treated as if they are gifted” (Sinclair, 2014). While in medical school, students continue to strive for top performance and work hard to achieve high grades in their board licensing exams. But once they leave school, the new doctors lack, often for the first time in their intellectual lives, the structure of a formal grading system, which they had earlier used to measure their own success and to compare themselves with their peers. In the workforce, promotions come rarely, and senior positions are occupied by older, more experienced doctors.
The medical profession offers a rude awakening from the ongoing external validation that some medical students have become accustomed to. Lifelong learning for physicians is extremely important for proper patient care; however, apart from requiring doctors to complete continuing medical education hours every year to maintain their licenses, the profession lacks tools for evaluating ongoing learning (Hojat et al., 2006). Furthermore, physicians can go years without ever hearing statements of positive reinforcement or praise (Sinclair, 2014). Without assessment programs or verbal rewards, physicians are left to seek a sense of success in workplace promotions, one of very few viable methods to measure their accomplishment relative to others—and with fewer promotional positions available due to changing demographics in the profession, this is admittedly a frustrating state of affairs for success-driven young physicians. Still, a physician’s focus on maintaining their ego through external rewards can lead to negative consequences, both for patient care and for the physician’s own development.
A sense of self-esteem and confidence is important to the doctor’s practice. According to Banja (2005) there are even healthy “medical narcissists” who work hard to be the best, while maintaining their self-esteem. But overdependence on external feedback causes some physicians to rely on negative behaviors to protect themselves when things go wrong (Alexander et al., 2010: Banja, 2005). Some individuals might not ask others for help, especially from their perceived competitors. They might also have trouble admitting failure, and may exaggerate their medical abilities (Alexander et al., 2010). When their capabilities are questioned and their confidence is damaged, they tend to retaliate or become defensive rather than accepting their shortcomings (Banja, 2005). Crucially, all of this can contribute to a lower quality of patient care.
Dr. Warraich’s op-ed suggests that an intergenerational conflict between older and younger physicians is the principal cause of the junior doctor’s sense of professional malaise. But might it be also that young doctors, with their lifelong training in an environment focused on external accreditation, are too dependent on institutional rewards to support their self-esteem? In this light, the article’s critique of older experienced physicians—those who occupy the coveted senior roles—seems a self-defensive deflection from the emotional challenges of being a junior doctor who has lost their external support system. “Silver-haired” physicians should not be portrayed as some sort of healthcare risk, while making their age and experience the scapegoat. If this article’s focus were truly on the caregiving limitations of older physicians, it would have instead opened a discussion of the underlying causes and potential solutions for shortfalls in their patient care.
Death, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout
Because Warraich’s piece does not explain why a more experienced physician might provide worse care, I’d like to speculate briefly about potential causes. One typical charge against older physicians is that the quality of their practice is diminished by compassion fatigue and burnout, which result respectively from interactions with patients, and from the stresses that come from the everyday work environment (Gallagher, 2013). Many physicians suffer from both compassion fatigue and burnout, which have been recognized as occupational hazards (Boudreau et al., 2006). Encountering death is a particular challenge of the profession, and has been found to impact every physician in some way (Gallagher, 2013). It must be difficult for physicians to witness the death of a patient to whom they are close. I doubt it gets easier as such experiences recur.
Doctors do feel sad and they grieve for their patients. Ofri (2013) finds that over time they can either recognize and address that sadness, or store it away for later. What physicians cannot do is keep it out, since grief and sadness always find a way in. Ofri further notes that physicians who are unable to deal with sadness and grief properly begin to suffer from mental health problems that negatively impact their own lives—and those of their patients. Burnout and compassion fatigue, for example, can lead to physicians becoming depressed or detached from their jobs: they can develop poorer concentration and decision making, experience increases in errors, and maintain a lower quality of patient care overall (Gallagher, 2013). Some physicians who have spent years in their field will no longer resemble the selves they once were when they first entered medical practice, just as a new soldier is changed by years of service and the traumatic events that come with it.
It’s relevant to note that compassion fatigue and burnout are less likely to occur in physicians who have high self-esteem, personal control, and optimism (Alarcon et al., 2009). External factors are also influential, of course: workplace stress, work-life balance, and workplace relationships might also negatively impact the care a physician provides.
Conclusion: Medicine Cannot be a Selfish Endeavor
Although Dr. Warraich’s article promotes a movement of patient-centered care spearheaded by young doctors, the piece undermines its own assertion with its critique of senior physicians and the patients who prefer their care. Shouldn’t “innovative and patient-centered care” involve trying to accommodate a patient’s request and taking their needs, concerns, and preferences into consideration? While the author makes several good points—that learning should be a two-way street between physicians both young and old, and that an open and non-condescending dialogue for the sharing of knowledge is beneficial for both physicians and their patients—the piece would benefit from an honest and open discussion both of why the patients of older physicians might receive inferior care, and of the institutional and professional norms that undermine a junior doctor’s confidence. Rather than attacking senior doctors, Dr. Warraich might instead focus his energies on changing negative cultural perceptions of young and less experienced physicians through a continuous demonstration of positive and empathetic patient care. This tactic would prove much more beneficial than writing defensively about concerns about inexperience, especially in ways that wrongfully bolster the competencies of younger, less experienced physicians at the expense of those of older, more experienced ones.
The Challenges of Professionalism for Today’s—and Yesterday’s—Medical Youth
Benjamin Gagnon Chainey
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser
than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
It is just the same with the different periods in a man’s life;
and yet often, in the one case no less than in the other, it is a mistaken opinion.[1]
—Arthur Schopenhauer, The Ages of Life
Dr. Haider Warraich’s op-ed opens with the question all health professionals are asked as they begin their career, whether as physicians or nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, or psychologists—“Can I ask how old you are?”[2] The writer is concerned with the matter of age in medical practice: he criticizes older generations of doctors, while praising the “innovative and patient-centered” character of younger doctors and medical school candidates.
This desire of up-and-coming medical staff to put forward their expertise, even though they lack the experience that comes with time, is both understandable and admirable. But the op-ed piece neglects a number of important philosophical considerations about the complexity of the “ages of life,” to pastiche the title of an essay by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. It may appear ironic for a young doctor to resent being asked their age by a radio host, as if it did not or should not matter in (the perception of) their identity— although it is precisely the first question, along with that of gender, that they ask of their own patients.
In the middle of the 19th century, the “century of scientists” that would push medicine definitively into its modern path, Schopenhauer wrote, “Our whole life long it is the present, and the present alone, that we actually possess” (Ages of Life). Taking Warraich’s op-ed piece as an invitation to debate, I would like to complicate the article’s familiar portrait of technologically-savvy and innovative youth in opposition to outdated older people. My thinking could be summarized in a more nuanced title: “Not Only for Doctors, Age Should Always Be More Than a Number.”
Between experience and expertise: professionalism
From the outset, the self-styled young doctor states: “In many professions, a premium is placed on experience, with age often a surrogate for expertise—but probably no profession places more primacy on age than medicine.” Although we should prioritize neither one, Dr. Warraich’s assertion calls for a definition of the difference between expertise, founded on the mastery of ideas, and experience, based on a more “intuitive knowledge” of the world, as Schopenhauer explains:
But ideas furnish no information as to the real and essential nature of objects, which, as the foundation and true content of all knowledge, can be reached only by the process called intuition. This is a kind of knowledge which can in no wise be instilled into us from without; we must arrive at it by and for ourselves.
It is this epistemological consideration that Dr. Warraich questions, perhaps unknowingly, when he invokes the better quality of healthcare provided by younger caregivers:
A paper published last year by researchers at Harvard showed something very striking — patients being taken care of by younger doctors were less likely to die. […] The majority of research shows a consistent, positive relationship between lack of experience and better quality of clinical care.
Dr. Warraich is perfectly right to point out this paradoxical aspect of patient care. However, it would be interesting to view it in light of the professional aspect of medical education —something his article does not explicitly address. A group of Dutch researchers investigating medical training highlights professionalism as a core competency of medical practice, but one that is harder to evaluate objectively.[3]
Paradoxical relations to the medical hierarchy and history
Dr. Warraich’s op-ed piece is not opposed to the importance of professionalism. The author places innovation and quality of care at the center of his practice. The piece does, however, raise questions about the relationship between young doctors and the old guard of the medical institution. Schopenhauer noted pessimistically, “it becomes a habit for today to look down with contempt upon yesterday,” and Dr. Warraich similarly glorifies medical youth when he states: “Their inexperience also allows them to be free of malignant relics from the past. Having not trained in an era steeped in medical paternalism, younger physicians are more likely to place the patient on the pedestal rather than themselves.”
This remark could easily be turned on its head: “Their inexperience also keeps them apart from beneficial relics from the past,” which again Dr. Warraich does not oppose. He pleads for an intergenerational cooperation in the medical body: “As a young doctor, I constantly look to my mentors for guidance. Yet, at the same time, I also believe that experienced physicians need to look to younger doctors to bring a fresh perspective to health care’s most vexing questions.” In itself highly legitimate, Warraich’s plea for the acknowledgement of younger doctors’ input takes on a paradoxical overtone when this input is not limited to technology, but also to end of life care, and the medical-scientific understanding of old age and death:
Nowhere is this truer than at the end of life. Research shows that younger doctors are more likely to discuss important but difficult issues with critically ill patients such as prognosis, preferences for life-sustaining treatments, hospice and the place where patients may want to die.
It does appear as a contradictory statement that youth should know more about the suffering of old age and the apprehension of death than old age itself. This paradox is even more salient when compared to Schopenhauer’s words: “The cheerfulness and vivacity of youth are partly due to the fact that, when we are ascending the hill of life, death is not visible: it lies down at the bottom of the other side.” All of this raises the question: how could youth better apprehend and cure the sufferings of old age if it does not see them, feel them, or experience them directly? Could distance to death in fact help better look at it? Or could it be that, not suffering themselves, younger people could be more efficient in treating the ills of old age?
Who sees and fears death?
For there is indeed danger in the belief that one is best positioned to apprehend and forestall death. It implies knowing what it means to suffer, to get old, and to die. Beyond any medical and scientific discourse—and, I should now add, beyond any technological innovation—I ask Dr. Warraich’s and his fellow young doctors: how do you think your relationship to technological innovation and to evidence-based approaches, but also to suffering, to old age, to death, will evolve and transform as you too grow older?
I salute Dr. Warraich’s demands for the contribution of younger health professionals to better care practices and the bidirectional nature of the pedagogical relationship, as when he notes:
To move forward, recognition is needed not just for the traditional model of learning in medicine — the young learning from the old — but also for the fact that there is much that more experienced physicians can learn from young doctors. Mentorship is a two-way street, with the most successful academics also being the greatest champions of their trainees.
However, I also ask the same medical youth not to remain insensitive to the philosophical implications of such demands, and to keep in mind Schopenhauer’s stressing of an epistemic vacillation: “But the most curious fact is that it is also only towards the close of life than a man really recognizes and understands his own true self,—the aims and objects he has followed in life, more especially the kind of relation in which he has stood to other people and to the world.” To this consideration, Schopenhauer adds a warning for all apprentices to meditate upon, whether young in age, in expertise, or in experience:
In a young man, it is a bad sign, as well from an intellectual as from a moral point of view, if he is precocious in understanding the ways of the world, and in adapting himself to its pursuits; if he at once knows how to deal with men, and enters upon life, as it were, fully prepared. It argues a vulgar nature. On the other hand, to be surprised and astonished at the way people act, and to be clumsy and cross-grained in having to do with them, indicates a character of the nobler sort.
What is important, then, may not be so much one’s age, but rather the rapport between one’s own age and the ages of others. And this, too, Dr. Warraich seems to integrate with humility and optimism in his op-ed piece. As he begins his thirties, he makes a judicious attempt to turn the lacunae of his inexperience into motivation, and his expertise into experience:
Over time, I have begun to see my lack of experience as a strength. Feeling like I have more to learn forces me to keep my eyes and ears open as I hope to learn from all those around me — from the seasoned clinicians who have seen medicine evolve from a cottage industry to an industrialized behemoth, from the patients who share their lives with us and, finally, from the medical students, interns and residents who are even younger than I am.
In the end, young Dr. Warraich’s invitation is the symptom of a need, a necessity within the medical body to reflect on its evolution, its past and its future, and the inevitable tensions it faces: intersubjective ones, but also epistemic, temporal, and cultural ones. In that sense, Dr. Warraich’s team would gain from joining forces with a medical humanities team, to find ways of cooperating that would be not only more efficient, but also more profoundly humane concerning the best care to provide to suffering, aging, and dying bodies. Such a collaboration holds exciting promise, especially if Dr. Warraich is correct when he reports the words of a young colleague about upcoming generations of physicians: “‘There are 19- and 20-year-olds I work with who will blow your mind,’ he told me.” The challenge of such cooperation would be all the more exhilarating if we take up the words of Schopenhauer, who predicted in the “century of scientists”:
Youth is the time for amassing the material for a knowledge of the world that shall be distinctive and peculiar, — for an original view of life, in other words, the legacy that a man of genius leaves to his fellow-men; it is, however, only in later years that he becomes master of his material. Accordingly, it will be found that, as a rule, a great writer gives his best work to the world when he is about fifty years of age. But though the tree of knowledge must reach its full height before it can bear fruit, the roots of it lie in youth.
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[1] Arthur Schopenhauer. (1851) 2004. The Ages of Life. Counsels and Maxims from the Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (T. Bailey Saunders, trans.). Project Gutenberg. All citations from Schopenhauer are taken from this edition.
[2] Haider Javed Warraich. (6 January 2018). Opinion | For Doctors, Age May Be More Than a Number. The New York Times. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/for-doctors-age-may-be-more-than-a-number.html. All citations from Warraich are taken from this piece.
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Robinson receives 2017 Distinguished Mentor Award
Robert G. Robinson, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry and former chair and DEO of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, was honored Tuesday, Oct. 17, with the 2017 Distinguished Mentor Award.
Receiving the award, Robinson used four stories to illustrate his development as a mentor.
“No one really teaches you how to be a mentor. You make mistakes and you learn,” he said.“As the students you have trained leave to go out on their own, in the back of your mind is the hope that they will do better than you did and be even more successful. And, I am proud to say that of the 43 postdoctoral students I trained, 33 are still in academia, 17 are full professors, and three have endowed positions at their institutions.”
In closing he added, “I am very proud of all of them and I am very grateful to receive this award, which will always hold a special place in my life.”
Established in 2002 with the generous support of Dr. Daryl and Nancy Granner, the Carver College of Medicine Distinguished Mentor Award and Lecture event honors faculty members whose distinguished careers have resulted in the mentoring of individuals who have gone on to have their own prestigious careers.
Others who spoke
Michael Welsh, MD, who provides administrative leadership of the program, introduced Eve Marder, PhD, to give the 2017 Distinguished Mentor Lecture, titled “Robustness, Neuromodulation, and Homeostasis in Neurons and Networks.” Marder is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. She is internationally known for discovering that neuronal circuits are not hard-wired, but can be reconfigured by neuromodulatory influences to produce a variety of outputs.
In addition, two mentees provided tributes to Robinson, describing the significant impact he had on their lives and careers:
Jeffrey Edwin Max, MBBCh
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Neuropsychiatric Research, Rady Children’s Hospital
Rajesh Parikh, MD, DPM, DipNBE
Neuropsychiatrist
Director of Medical Research, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre
More about Robinson
In his career, Robert G. Robinson had two major passions—research and teaching—from which the world has benefited greatly.
With more than 50 mentees on five continents, many of whom have gone on to distinguished careers of their own, Robinson is one of the most successful mentors in the field of psychiatry. Through mentorship he has passed along not only his extensive knowledge of neuropsychiatry, but also the value of a research career that integrates laboratory discovery and clinical practice.
“Dr. Robinson gave me my first clear view of what a successful multidisciplinary lab could accomplish. He was a generous mentor and important role model,” notes a former fellow who now is a leading investigator in the use of neuroimaging to study the effect of deep brain stimulation for treating mood disorders.
In his laboratory at Johns Hopkins, and later at the University of Iowa, Robinson was committed to improving the care of patients and understanding psychiatric illness through empirical and basic science research.
His conviction that systematic collaborations between basic and clinical researchers would enhance discovery and patient care began when he was a medical student at Cornell University. It grew stronger as he progressed through residency at Cornell and as a research associate with the National Institute of Mental Health’s Laboratory of Neuropharmacology. A fellowship in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences led to his first faculty position there—and the opportunity to test his theory in weekly research meetings.
“Our lab was truly bench to bedside to community,” says a former graduate student of Robinson’s. “We looked forward to the meetings because it was a chance to hear what the lab people were working on, and to find out what the neuroimaging people thought of it. The primate researchers figured out how it might affect their work, and how it all might fit into the theories of the clinical researchers.”
Robinson receives his award from Jean Robillard, MD
Robinson’s interests in research—post-stroke psychiatric syndromes, specifically—and mentoring continued even as he served as the Paul W. Penningroth Professor and Head of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa from 1990 to 2011. Then known as “chairman’s rounds,” Robinson’s weekly sessions with students, trainees, and faculty often produced valuable insights.
“I learned not only about psychiatry, but how to be an educator,” says a faculty member. “He had an incredibly kind and gentle approach to teaching that was not only effective but inspiring, which I try to emulate in my own interactions with learners.”
In 2015, Robinson received two major awards recognizing his exceptional contributions to the field of psychiatry. He was honored as an “author, teacher, scientist, and mentor” with the Gary J. Tucker Lifetime Achievement Award in Neuropsychiatry for his achievements in neuropsychiatry and his years of service to the American Neuropsychiatric Association, including serving as its president 1998–1999. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) presented him with the Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry, the only geriatric psychiatry award given by the APA, bestowed upon psychiatrists who demonstrate special leadership or outstanding work in training, clinical practice, or research over the course of their career.
As a colleague notes, “Dr. Robinson’s mentorship has played a role in a large number of the leading scientists in our nation. I can’t think of anyone who has devoted themselves more faithfully to the furthering of the careers of his mentees. The Distinguished Mentor Award is fitting recognition of an outstanding mentor who has impacted education, research, and patient care throughout the world through transfer of his knowledge, skills, and inspiration to new colleagues.”
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A 28-year-old female with folliculitis is not responsive to a 10-day treatment course with penicillin. An enzyme produced by the etiologic agent is most likely responsible for this treatment failure. At which site on the molecule shown does this enzyme act to destroy penicillin?
The structural integrity of the β-lactam ring in penicillins is essential for their antimicrobial activity. Many resistant strains of staphylococci produce a β-lactamase (penicillinase) that cleaves the β-lactam ring of penicillin at the carbon-nitrogen bond (4 in diagram). Other organisms, including coliform bacteria and Pseudomonas, produce cephalosporinases, metallo-β- lactamases, and carbapenamases that cleave the β-lactam rings of cephalosporins and/or carbapenems, as well as penicillins, at the same site. Penicillin amidase inactivates penicillin by disrupting the bond between the radical and nitrogen in the free amino group (1 in diagram). Bonds 2, 3, and 5 are not commonly broken by bacterial enzymes.
A 35-year-old male was treated with an aminoglycoside for an infection with a gram-negative rod. Which of the following bacterial processes is involved in transport of this antibiotic into the cell?
Facilitated diffusion
Group translocation
Oxidative phosphorylation
Transpeptidation
Aminoglycosides passively diffuse across the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria through porins. The passage of aminoglycosides into the cytoplasm is an active process dependent on oxidative phosphorylation (d). Facilitated diffusion (a) involves specific protein carriers. Group translocation (c) occurs in the absence of oxygen. Fermentation (b) is a mechanism for production of energy. Transpeptidation (e) is a reaction involving the transfer of one or more amino acids from one peptide chain to another, or in the addition of amino acids to the growing peptide chain during translation.
A 36-year-old male developed a painful purulent urethral discharge following a 2-week vacation to Thailand. A Gram stain reveals gramnegative diplococci. Iron, which it obtains through surface receptors, is essential for the expression of the microorganism’s virulence factors. From which of the following molecules does it obtain iron?
Ferric oxide
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)
Pyocyanin
Siderophores
Unlike E. coli, Salmonella, Pseudomonas, and other gram-negative bacilli, Neisseria gonorrhoeae does not produce siderophores (e). Instead the pathogenic Neisseria obtain iron through surface receptors that interact with lactoferrin (b) and transferrin, host molecules that sequester iron. Ferric oxide (a) is produced by some environmental bacteria. LPS (c) does not play a role in the iron uptake or metabolism of the bacteria. Pyocyanin (d) is a blue redox pigment produced by P. aeruginosa that can generate reactive oxygen intermediates and affect the electron transport chain and vesicular transport of eukaryotic cells.
A female medical student is admitted to the emergency department with symptoms of severe urinary tract infection (UTI). The Escherichia coli strain isolated from urine produced extended-spectrum β-lactamase. In which anatomic area of the cell would this enzyme be located?
The periplasm is the space between the outer membrane and the cytoplasmic membrane of gramnegative bacteria. The periplasmic space (c) in E. coli has been shown to contain enzymes involved in transport, degradation, and synthesis, including β-lactamase. The other structures are labeled in the diagram above (capsule—A; outer membrane—B; cytoplasmic membrane—D; cytoplasm). The chromosome and other structures found within or on the cell surface, such as the flagellum and pilus present in the diagram, were not indicated among the choices.
A 52-year-old male develops abscesses following surgery to repair an abdominal gunshot wound. Gram stain of the foul-smelling exudate from his abscess reveals numerous polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs or neutrophils) and several gram-negative rods that did not grow on blood plates in the presence of O2. Metabolism of O2 results in toxic reactive oxygen species. Which of the following enzymes inactivates superoxide free radicals
Permease
Toxic oxygen radicals, superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, are generated during aerobic metabolism. Superoxide dismutase (e) catalyzes the reaction that detoxifies superoxide . Both catalase (b) and peroxidase (d) detoxify hydrogen peroxide, but peroxidases also act on lipid peroxides. The reaction catalyzed by catalase is . ATPase (a) converts ATP into ADP plus a free phosphate ion. Permeases (d) are membrane transport proteins that facilitate the passage of specific molecules across into or out of the cell.
A 52-year-old male develops abscesses following surgery to repair an abdominal gunshot wound. Gram stain of the foul-smelling exudate from his abscess reveals numerous polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs or neutrophils) and several gram-negative rods that did not grow on blood plates in the presence of O2. Metabolism of O2 results in toxic reactive oxygen species. Which of the following antibiotics would be the best choice for treating this patient’s infection?
The etiologic agent of this man’s infection is an anaerobe, most likely Bacteroides fragilis. Ampicillin (a) is unlikely to be successful as most isolates of B. fragilis produce β-lactamase. Chloramphenicol (b) is rarely used in the United States because of its toxicity, although it is used for treatment of serious rickettsial infection such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and as an alternative for treatment of bacterial meningitis in patients who have hypersensitivity to penicillins and cephalosporins. Ciprofloxacin (c), a fluoroquinolone antibiotic, has no spectrum of activity against anaerobes. Oxygen is necessary for transport of aminoglycosides like gentamicin (d) into the bacterial cell; thus, they have no spectrum of activity against anaerobes. Of the drugs listed, metronidazole (e) is the best choice for infections with anaerobic gram-negative bacilli. Additional antibiotics with activity against anaerobic gram-negative bacilli are carbapenems and β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations. Bacteroides has become increasingly resistant to clindamycin, which used to be a good alternative, with up to 25% of isolates now resistant.
A teenaged boy suffered a foot laceration while swimming in a polluted water area in a river. He did not seek medical treatment, and the wound developed a foul-smelling exudate. One of the bacteria isolated from the abscess exudate was missing superoxide dismutase, catalase, and a peroxidase. Which of the following statements best describes this microorganism?
It is a capnophile
It is a facultative anaerobe
It is a microaerophile
It is an anaerobe
It is an obligate aerobe
Superoxide dismutase is an enzyme found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells that can survive in an environment of O 2. Lack of this enzyme, as well as peroxidase and catalase, ensures that a bacterium will not grow in the presence of O2, making it an anaerobe (d). Capnophiles (a) prefer an atmosphere with increased CO2 and ambient O2; Haemophilus ducreyi is capnophilic. Microaerophiles (c) such as Campylobacter jejuni prefer increased CO2 and reduced O2. Facultative anaerobes (b) can grow in the presence or absence of O 2. Obligate aerobes (e), such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, require O2 for growth unless they can utilize an alternative terminal electron acceptor.
A 20-year-old pregnant female patient presents to the emergency room with a 4-day history of fever, chills, and myalgia. Two days prior to this, she had noted painful genital lesions that had begun as vesicles. Pelvic examination revealed extensive vesicular and ulcerative lesions on the left labia minora and majora with marked edema, and inguinal lymphadenopathy. Which of the microorganisms causing genital ulcers can be demonstrated by dark field microscopy?
Chlamydia trachomatis LGV serovars
Haemophilus ducreyi
Herpes simplex virus type 2
Klebsiella granulomatis
The microbes that cause genital ulcers are Chlamydia trachomatis LGV serovars 1 to 3, Haemophilus ducreyi, herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2, Klebsiella granulomatis, and Treponema pallidum. The various methods for diagnosis are outlined in the below table. Treponema pallidum (e) can be demonstrated by darkfield microscopy in primary and secondary syphilitic lesions.
A 20-year-old pregnant female patient presents to the emergency room with a 4-day history of fever, chills, and myalgia. Two days prior to this, she had noted painful genital lesions that had begun as vesicles. Pelvic examination revealed extensive vesicular and ulcerative lesions on the left labia minora and majora with marked edema, and inguinal lymphadenopathy. Which of the following tests would prove that the patient is infectious for herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2?
Detection of HSV2-specific IgM
Direct immunofluorescent assay
Nucleic acid amplification testing
Tzanck smear
See the table above. Culture (a) is the best method to prove infectivity. However, viral culture decreases in sensitivity as the lesions begin to heal, so nucleic acid amplification testing or PCR (d) is increasingly used. PCR detects viral DNA, which may be present in non-infective particles. Because herpes simplex is shed intermittently upon reactivation, negative culture or PCR does not rule out latent infection. Viral antigens, detected by direct immunofluorescent assay (c) (or enzyme immunoassay), may be present after infectious particles have been neutralized or disrupted by antivirals. Cytologic detection by Tzanck smear (e) of genital lesions or cervical Pap smear is insensitive and nonspecific and should not be relied upon. Serologic detection (b) using tests that are type-specific may be used in cases or recurrent genital symptoms or atypical symptoms with negative culture; clinical diagnosis of genital herpes without laboratory confirmation, or a partner with genital herpes. Screening of the general population should not be done.
Gram-negative diplococci were demonstrated in a Gram stain of urethral drainage from an 18-year-old male who presented with symptoms of urethritis. Continuous passage of this strain on laboratory medium resulted in the reversion of a fimbriated to a nonfimbriated strain. Which of the following is the most likely implication of this phenomenon?
A negative capsule strain
Death of the organism
Inability to colonize the mucosal epithelium
Loss of serologic specificity
Reversion to a gram-positive stain
The vignette and figure detail a typical case of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Bacteria may shift rapidly between the fimbriated (fim +) and the nonfimbriated (fim–) states. Fimbriae function as adhesions to specific surfaces and, consequently, play a major role in pathogenesis. Lack of fimbriae prevents colonization of the mucosal surface by the bacterium (c). Pili (fimbriae) are hairlike appendages that extend several millimeters from the gonococcal surface. Fim changes would have no effect on capsule presence (a) or loss of serologic specificity (d). Such changes would not cause the death of the organism (b), and Neisseria organisms never revert to a gram- positive staining result (e) due to the major differences found in the structures of gram-positive and gram-negative cell walls.
Twenty-eight hours after eating undercooked chicken, a 50-year-old farmer presents to the emergency room with abdominal pain, cramping, bloody diarrhea, and nausea. An isolate from the stool is biochemically identified as Salmonella enterica; however, the isolate cannot be serotyped. Which of the following has this organism lost?
Mannose receptor
O-specific polysaccharide
LPS, a component of the outer membrane of gram-negative microorganisms consists of three regions: lipid A, which forms the outer leaflet of the lipid bilayer outer membrane; the core polysaccharide; and the O-antigen polysaccharide (e) side chain that confers serospecificity or serotype for the Enterbacteriaceae. Strains that have lost the O antigen cannot be serotpyed. Flagella (b) confer the H antigens, which are also used in the typing of Salmonella strains after the O typing; strains that have lost flagella cannot be H-typed. The capsule (a) confers the K antigen; pili (d) can be conjugative or be involved in motility or adhesion (usually called fimbriae). Neither the K antigens nor the pilus- nor fimbria-related antigens are utilized in the serotyping of Salmonella for epidemiologic purposes. The mannose receptor (c) is found on macrophages and used by them to characterize pathogenic microbes in the host innate response.
A 2-year-old infant is diagnosed with meningitis. A lumbar puncture reveals numerous neutrophils and gram-positive cocci in pairs that appear encapsulated. She is admitted to the hospital and started on intravenous (IV) β-lactams. Which of the following targets would most likely play a role in the development of resistance to this antibiotic in the most likely etiologic agent of this child’s meningitis?
Bactoprenol
DNA gyrase
Penicillin-binding protein
Reverse transcriptase
RNA polymerase
Transpeptidases, or penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) (c), are inactivated when bound to penicillin. Altered PBPs no longer bind the β-lactam antibiotic. The acquisition of a new PBP or modification of the existing one is the mechanism by which S. pneumoniae, the most likely etiologic of this child’s meningitis, become resistant to β-lactams. Altered PBPs are also seen in N. gonorrhoeae, S. aureus, and other bacteria. Bactoprenol (a) is not known to be involved in antibiotic resistance. Fluoroquinolones target the DNA gyrase (b), while rifamycins target the bacterial RNA polymerase (e). Bacteria do not utilize reverse transcriptase (d).
A cattle farmer develops necrotic lesions on his arms and face following a traumatic encounter with a bull. Selective inhibition of synthesis of dipicolinic acid by the etiologic agent of the infection would most likely inhibit the formation of the infective structure. Which of the following would be inhibited?
Bacterial spore formation
Bacterial vegetative cells
Fungal arthrospores
Fungal microconidia
Mycobacterial vegetative cells
The vignette presents a case of cutaneous anthrax. Anthrax is acquired by cutaneous introduction, ingestion, or inhalation of endospores from contaminated animals such as cattle, sheep, and goats. Inhibition of dipicolinic acid synthesis would prevent formation of bacterial spores (a), but would not affect vegetative cells (b, e). Mycobacteria do not form spores. Dipicolinic acid is not found in fungal arthrospores (c) or microconidia (d).
A 30-year-old male presents to the emergency room with high fever and malaise, which he reports that it began 4 days ago and got progressively worse each day. He appears underweight and very ill. Physical examination reveals needle marks in both antecubital fossae. Upon listening for heart sounds, you hear a distinctive systolic heart murmur. You order blood cultures and make a presumptive diagnosis of acute bacterial endocarditis. Following is the growth curve of the organism growing in a nutrient medium at 35°C with both O2 and added CO2 present. In which of the following growth phases would the organism most likely be resistant to β-lactam antibiotics?
Lag phase
Log phase
Stationary phase
Death phase
The bacterial growth cycle is characterized by four phases as shown in the figure for this question. In the lag phase (a), the bacteria are not dividing but exhibit dynamic metabolic activity as they adjust to the new environment. Depending on the species and the temperature, pH, and nutrients available, the bacteria begin dividing within a few hours and enter the log phase (b) where they grow exponentially for 12 to 18 hours. As nutrients become depleted and/or toxic waste products accumulate in the culture, growth slows so that the number of new cells and cells that die are balanced; this is the stationary phase (c). When nutrients are exhausted or the culture medium becomes too toxic, the number of viable cells decreases dramatically; this is the death phase (d). Similar phases occur when the bacteria are introduced into the host, although the timing may vary due to the specific host environment and the host defenses encountered. Antibiotics that affect the cell wall, such as β-lactams, are not effective in the lag phase (a).
A 30-year-old male presents to the emergency room with high fever and malaise, which he reports that it began 4 days ago and got progressively worse each day. He appears underweight and very ill. Physical examination reveals needle marks in both antecubital fossae. Upon listening for heart sounds, you hear a distinctive systolic heart murmur. You order blood cultures and make a presumptive diagnosis of acute bacterial endocarditis. Following is the growth curve of the organism growing in a nutrient medium at 35°C with both O2 and added CO2 present. On which of the following growth phases would treatment with gentamicin have a maximal effect?
Aminoglycosides exert three effects on protein synthesis: (1) block initiation of translation, (2) cause incorporation of incorrect amino acids into the growing peptide chain, and (3) elicit premature termination of translation. Protein synthesis occurs throughout the growth cycle, but optimum effectiveness of aminoglycosides is seen in the log phase (b).
An outbreak of diarrhea is thought to be related to a group of vendors who were selling hot dogs at the county fair. Stool cultures are positive for Shigella in almost all individuals who ate the hot dogs. Growth of the isolated colonies in nutrient liquid medium without the transfer to fresh medium will eventually induce the death phase of the organism. Which of the following is a limiting factor in microbial growth under laboratory conditions?
Accumulation of oxygen-free radicals
Accumulation of peroxide
Accumulation of toxic products in the growth medium
Loss of superoxide dismutase
Differentiation of the gram-negative bacilli that cause gastroenteritis begins with aerobic (Enterobacteriaceae and Vibrio) versus microaerophilic (b) (Campylobacter) growth. Morphology on a lactose-containing selective agar such as MacConkey agar separates Salmonella and Shigella, which do not ferment lactose (a), whereas E. coli and Vibrio do. Shigella can be differentiated from Salmonella on agar containing iron; Shigella do not produce H2S (c) while Salmonella do. Vibrio species are oxidase positive (d); the Enterobacteriaceae are not. Urease production (e) distinguishes Proteus spp. from Salmonella.
A 62-year-old woman with diagnosed type 2 diabetes lived alone and did essentially nothing to manage her illness, including disregarding her physician’s instructions. She was taken to her local emergency room (ER) with severe, multiple infected foot lesions, which yielded a variety of opportunistic microbes with a mixture of antibiotic susceptibilities. The physician decided to treat with systemic and topical antimicrobials. Which of the following antimicrobial agents must only be used topically?
Bacitracin
Penicillin (d) is well-tolerated as is itraconazole (c). Vancomycin (e) is irritating and can result in phlebitis at the site of injection; nephrotoxicity of aminoglycosides is exacerbated by concomitant use of vancomycin, but can be controlled by careful dosage. Gentamicin (b) and other aminoglycosides are ototoxic and nephrotoxic, but these adverse effects can usually be controlled by monitoring of serum concentration and careful dosage. Bacitracin (a) is highly nephrotoxic, so much so that it cannot be administered systemically. Because bacitracin is poorly absorbed, it can be used topically, providing local antibacterial activity but no systemic toxicity.
A 42-year-old alcoholic man presents with fever, chills, cough, and chest x-ray suggestive of pneumonia. The Gram-stained smear of sputum shows many PMNs and gram-positive cocci in pairs and chains. Which of the following is the correct order of the procedural steps when performing the Gram stain?
Fixation, crystal violet, alcohol/acetone decolorization, safranin
Fixation, crystal violet, iodine treatment, alcohol/acetone decolorization, safranin
Fixation, crystal violet, iodine treatment, safranin
Fixation, crystal violet, safranin
Fixation, safranin, iodine treatment, alcohol/acetone decolorization, crystal violet
First described in 1884 by a Danish physician, Hans Christian Gram, the Gram stain has proved to be one of the most useful diagnostic laboratory procedures in microbiology and medicine. The Gram stain procedure is characterized by the following steps: (1) fixation of the bacteria to the slide, (2) crystal violet (acridine dye) treatment, (3) iodine treatment, (4) decolorization using alcohol/acetone wash, and (4) counterstaining using safranin. Gram-positive bacteria have thick outer walls with no lipids, whereas gram-negative bacteria have a thin wall and an outer membrane. The difference between gram-positive and gram-negative organisms is in the cell-wall permeability to these complexes on treatment with mixtures of acetone and alcohol solvents. Thus, gram-positive bacteria retain purple iodinedye complexes, whereas gram-negative bacteria do not retain these complexes when decolorized using an alcohol/acetone wash.
A 78-year-old man presents to the local emergency department with a severe headache and stiff neck. The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimen is cloudy. Analysis reveals 400 white blood cells per cubic millimeter (95% PMNs), a protein concentration of 75 mg/dL, and a glucose concentration of 20 mg/dL. While in the ER, a resident does a Gram stain of the CSF but mistakenly forgets the iodine treatment step. If the meningitis is caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, how will the bacteria seen on the resident’s slide appear?
All the cells will be blue
All the cells will be decolorized
All the cells will be purple
All the cells will be red
All the cells will lyse; thus, no Gram stain results will be obtained
If the iodine treatment step is omitted during the Gram stain process, the purple iodinedye complexes will not form. The crystal violet will wash away during the alcohol/acetone decolorization washing step and all cells will appear red (d). Gram staining of pus or fluids along with clinical findings can guide the management of an infection before culture results are available in the clinical setting.
A 28-year-old female just returned from a 1-week cruise with stops along the coast of Mexico. Forty-eight hours after her return she is reported to have headache, fever, abdominal cramps, and constipation. Over the next 5 days, her fever increases with continued complaints of myalgias, malaise, and anorexia. A blood culture is positive for S. enterica ser. Typhi. Her condition improves with a treatment course of a ciprofloxacin. Which of the following is the function of porins that would prevent the effective use of this antimicrobial?
Hydrolysis of hydrophilic antimicrobials
Metabolism of phosphorylated intermediates
Serologic stabilization of the O antigen
Inactivation of hydrophobic antimicrobials
Transfer of molecules through the outer membrane
Porins are protein trimers that function in outer-membrane (OM) permeability. Porins permit the transfer of molecules across the OM (e) including the passage of many antimicrobial drugs such as the fluoroquinolones. Porins participate in multidrug-resistance efflux pumps that export drugs like ciprofloxacin from the cell. Porins play no role in the metabolism required for hydrolysis of antimicrobials (a), metabolism of metabolic intermediates (b), serologic stabilization of the O antigen (c), or inactivation of hydrophobic antimicrobials (d).
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1. A 28-year-old female with folliculitis is not responsive to a 10-day treatment course with penicillin. An enzyme produced by the etiologic agent is most likely responsible for this treatment failure. At which site on the molecule shown does this enzyme act to destroy penicillin?
e. 5
2. A 35-year-old male was treated with an aminoglycoside for an infection with a gram-negative rod. Which of the following bacterial processes is involved in transport of this antibiotic into the cell?
a. Facilitated diffusion
b. Fermentation
c. Group translocation
d. Oxidative phosphorylation
e. Transpeptidation
3. A 36-year-old male developed a painful purulent urethral discharge following a 2-week vacation to Thailand. A Gram stain reveals gramnegative diplococci. Iron, which it obtains through surface receptors, is essential for the expression of the microorganism’s virulence factors. From which of the following molecules does it obtain iron?
a. Ferric oxide
b. Lactoferrin
c. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)
d. Pyocyanin
e. Siderophores
4. A female medical student is admitted to the emergency department with symptoms of severe urinary tract infection (UTI). The Escherichia coli strain isolated from urine produced extended-spectrum β-lactamase. In which anatomic area of the cell would this enzyme be located?
b. B
e. E
a. ATPase
b. Catalase
c. Permease
d. Peroxidase
e. Superoxide dismutase
a. Ampicillin
b. Chloramphenicol
c. Ciprofloxacin
d. Gentamicin
e. Metronidazole
7. A teenaged boy suffered a foot laceration while swimming in a polluted water area in a river. He did not seek medical treatment, and the wound developed a foul-smelling exudate. One of the bacteria isolated from the abscess exudate was missing superoxide dismutase, catalase, and a peroxidase. Which of the following statements best describes this microorganism?
a. It is a capnophile
b. It is a facultative anaerobe
c. It is a microaerophile
d. It is an anaerobe
e. It is an obligate aerobe
A 20-year-old pregnant female patient presents to the emergency room with a 4-day history of fever, chills, and myalgia. Two days prior to this, she had noted painful genital lesions that had begun as vesicles. Pelvic examination revealed extensive vesicular and ulcerative lesions on the left
labia minora and majora with marked edema, and inguinal lymphadenopathy. Which of the microorganisms causing genital ulcers can be demonstrated by dark field microscopy?
a. Chlamydia trachomatis LGV serovars
b. Haemophilus ducreyi
c. Herpes simplex virus type 2
d. Klebsiella granulomatis
e. Treponema pallidum
A 20-year-old pregnant female patient presents to the emergency room with a 4-day history of fever, chills, and myalgia. Two days prior to this, she had noted painful genital lesions that had begun as vesicles. Pelvic examination revealed extensive vesicular and ulcerative lesions on the left labia minora and majora with marked edema, and inguinal lymphadenopathy. Which of th following tests would prove that the patient is infectious for herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2?
a. Culture
b. Detection of HSV2-specific IgM
c. Direct immunofluorescent assay
d. Nucleic acid amplification testing
e. Tzanck smear
10. Gram-negative diplococci were demonstrated in a Gram stain of urethral drainage from an 18 year-old male who presented with symptoms of urethritis. Continuous passage of this strain on laboratory medium resulted in the reversion of a fimbriated to a nonfimbriated strain. Which of the following is the most likely implication of this phenomenon?
a. A negative capsule strain
b. Death of the organism
c. Inability to colonize the mucosal epithelium
d. Loss of serologic specificity
e. Reversion to a gram-positive stain
11. Twenty-eight hours after eating undercooked chicken, a 50-year-old farmer presents to the emergency room with abdominal pain, cramping, bloody diarrhea, and nausea. An isolate from the stool is biochemically identified as Salmonella enterica; however, the isolate cannot be serotyped. Which of the following has this organism lost?
a. Capsule
b. Flagella
c. Mannose receptor
d. Pili
e. O-specific polysaccharide
12. A 2-year-old infant is diagnosed with meningitis. A lumbar puncture reveals numerous neutrophils and gram-positive cocci in pairs that appear encapsulated. She is admitted to the hospital and started on intravenous (IV) β-lactams. Which of the following targets would most likely play a role in the development of resistance to this antibiotic in the most likely etiologic agent of this child’s meningitis?
a. Bactoprenol
b. DNA gyrase
c. Penicillin-binding protein
d. Reverse transcriptase
e. RNA polymerase
13. A cattle farmer develops necrotic lesions on his arms and face following a traumatic encounter with a bull. Selective inhibition of synthesis of dipicolinic acid by the etiologic agent of the infection would most likely inhibit the formation of the infective structure. Which of the following would be inhibited?
a. Bacterial spore formation
b. Bacterial vegetative cells
c. Fungal arthrospores
d. Fungal microconidia
e. Mycobacterial vegetative cells
a. Lag phase
b. Log phase
c. Stationary phase
d. Death phase
16. An outbreak of diarrhea is thought to be related to a group of vendors who were selling hot dogs at the county fair. Stool cultures are positive for Shigella in almost all individuals who ate the hot dogs. Growth of the isolated colonies in nutrient liquid medium without the transfer to fresh medium will eventually induce the death phase of the organism. Which of the following is a limiting factor in microbial growth under laboratory conditions?
a. Accumulation of oxygen-free radicals
b. Accumulation of peroxide
c. Accumulation of toxic products in the growth medium
d. Loss of superoxide dismutase
e. Oxygen
17. A 62-year-old woman with diagnosed type 2 diabetes lived alone and did essentially nothing to manage her illness, including disregarding her physician’s instructions. She was taken to her local emergency room (ER) with severe, multiple infected foot lesions, which yielded a variety of opportunistic microbes with a mixture of antibiotic susceptibilities. The physician decided to treat with systemic and topical antimicrobials. Which of the following antimicrobial agents must only be used topically?
a. Bacitracin
b. Gentamicin
c. Itraconazole
d. Penicillin
e. Vancomycin
18. A 42-year-old alcoholic man presents with fever, chills, cough, and chest x-ray suggestive of pneumonia. The Gram-stained smear of sputum shows many PMNs and gram-positive cocci in pairs and chains. Which of the following is the correct order of the procedural steps when performing the Gram stain?
a. Fixation, crystal violet, alcohol/acetone decolorization, safranin
b. Fixation, crystal violet, iodine treatment, alcohol/acetone decolorization, safranin
c. Fixation, crystal violet, iodine treatment, safranin
d. Fixation, crystal violet, safranin
e. Fixation, safranin, iodine treatment, alcohol/acetone decolorization, crystal violet
19. A 78-year-old man presents to the local emergency department with a severe headache and stiff neck. The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimen is cloudy. Analysis reveals 400 white blood cells per cubic millimeter (95% PMNs), a protein concentration of 75 mg/dL, and a glucose concentration of 20 mg/dL. While in the ER, a resident does a Gram stain of the CSF but mistakenly forgets the iodine treatment step. If the meningitis is caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, how will the bacteria seen on the resident’s slide appear?
a. All the cells will be blue
b. All the cells will be decolorized
c. All the cells will be purple
d. All the cells will be red
e. All the cells will lyse; thus, no Gram stain results will be obtained
f. Half of the cells will be red and the other half will be blue
20. A 28-year-old female just returned from a 1-week cruise with stops along the coast of Mexico. Forty-eight hours after her return she is reported to have headache, fever, abdominal cramps, and constipation. Over the next 5 days, her fever increases with continued complaints of myalgias, malaise, and anorexia. A blood culture is positive for S. enterica ser. Typhi. Her condition improves with a treatment course of a ciprofloxacin. Which of the following is the function of porins that would prevent the effective use of this antimicrobial?
a. Hydrolysis of hydrophilic antimicrobials
b. Metabolism of phosphorylated intermediates
c. Serologic stabilization of the O antigen
d. Inactivation of hydrophobic antimicrobials
e. Transfer of molecules through the outer membrane
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The Gift of Ganja: How Entrepreneurs in D.C. Are Using a Loophole to Move Marijuana
Jun 5, 2017 03:00 PM PST
by Zach Harris
We went on a ride along with High Speed and Kush Gods, two Washington D.C. startups that operate within the legally grey realm to make big cash off cannabis.
Lead illustration by Stephen Maurice Graham
“Can I see your ID?”
It’s 4/20 and I’m out on a delivery with High Speed, Washington D.C.’s premier fresh-pressed juice and cannabis company.
“I’m gonna need to see your license if you could grab it, please.”
The middle-aged man who just walked out of a yoga studio to pick up his holiday goods looks perplexed, but Raheem, the delivery driver I’m riding with, insists. According to the District’s recreational cannabis laws, only those 21 years and older can legally receive a gift of cannabis, so it’s not until after the man walks back inside and returns with his driver's license that we can give him the $55 bottled apple-cucumber juice he paid for online, and the free bag of weed that comes with it. This is what canna-business looks like in DC.
Washington D.C. is not a state. That may seem like common sense for anyone who’s passed grade school geography, but it’s important to remember when diving into the District’s cannabis community. While voters in Colorado, Oregon, and the like were able to pass legal weed legislation and jump right into a regulated market, D.C. is instead subject to the will of Congress’s federal budget — and the counterproductive, city-specific riders that come with it.
Since D.C. voters passed Initiative 71 to legalize adult use, possession, and the personal cultivation of cannabis in 2014, Congress has passed budget add-ons, or “riders,” each year to block the District from spending money to craft retail cannabis regulations or “enact any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act.”
Without retail stores, D.C. residents and tourists are forced to grow their own cannabis, rely on the kindness of others, or find one of Washington’s “gift economy” providers — companies willing to serve marijuana as a gift in exchange for donations, delivery, and packaging fees, or alongside legally taxed (although highly-priced) non-cannabis items. This is exactly the legal grey area in which High Speed does business.
In Massachusetts and Maine, gift economies have sprung up while state lawmakers bicker over regulations and retail start dates. In fully regulated states like Oregon and Colorado, the same structure can be found on Craigslist, where unlicensed dealers push buds for donation as a way to skirt local laws. In the District of Columbia, though, the gift economy has become an industry. By crafting businesses around the rules of Initiative 71, D.C. cannabis companies have been able to forego the expensive regulatory roadblocks found in other states, while testing the boundaries of local law enforcement and their own ability to adapt. So as venture capitalists and big tobacco make their way into the West Coast’s exploding cannabis industry, independent entrepreneurs willing to risk a little and gain a lot are making a name for themselves in D.C.. But with a Republican-controlled federal government willing to upend popular policies right at their doorstep and no change in sight for D.C.’s local regulations, will these companies be locked up, forced out, and made to pursue the cannabis green rush in a state with full regulations, or will they be able to keep thriving in Washington’s legally-grey loophole?
Enter Nicholas Cunningham, one of D.C.’s most seasoned gift economy vets. In 2015 Cunningham decided that Initiative 71, and the loophole it opened, were ripe for the taking. He had saved up money working in L.A.’s medical marijuana industry, and without the pricey regulatory costs found in established markets, the then 31-year-old entrepreneur jumped into the East Coast’s green rush head first.
“When the laws changed in D.C., it was pretty much perfect for the way I wanted to do things and the position I was in,” Cunningham told MERRY JANE by phone. “It was just me on my own, no investors, just doing all I could. I wasn’t in the position to pay for licensing and do the things that California required.”
So Cunningham ditched his life in the Southland, drove east, and started Kush Gods, a donation-based cannabis company putting their brand (and bud) front and center. With a fleet of vinyl-wrapped luxury vehicles emblazoned with the Kush Gods logo and imagery of dank nugs, Cunningham and his team started driving around the city, offering infused edibles in exchange for donations. On any given Friday night in the summer of 2016, it was common to see the Kush Gods’ Mercedes parked on U Street — the main drag uniting several of Northwest D.C.’s hippest neighborhoods — hawking magic brownies in exchange for a $10 donation on the spot.
But while Cunningham was under the impression that asking for donations instead of payment would protect him from the law, D.C.’s Metro Police Department didn’t want to talk semantics. Cunningham was caught in a sting operation and charged with two counts of selling marijuana. After months of running through legal hoops, Cunningham plead out and was given two years’ probation under the condition that he recuse himself from further cannabis-related business.
"Will these companies be locked up, forced out, and made to pursue the cannabis green rush in a state with full regulations, or will they be able to keep thriving in Washington’s legally-grey loophole?"
Despite the arrest, Cunningham was still under the impression that he was following the law of the land; he even walked out of court and told news cameras that the Kush Gods would be back in business the next day. And they were, under a new model that has cannabis recipients sign a form unequivocally stating that they are making a donation to the Kush Gods and not purchasing anything.
Yet thanks to the Kush Gods’ loud street presence and Cunningham’s openness with the media, a judge revoked his probation, and the man behind Kush Gods began 2017 by serving 60 days in jail. If you ask Cunningham, it was all a play to get his attention-grabbing cars off the street and make an example out of him.
“There was nobody branding donation-based cannabis in D.C. before us, but since then it’s blown up,” Cunningham said. “I think when the police did what they did to me, they thought that people would be too afraid to try it themselves — but I think it motivated more people to start their own gift economy businesses.”
David Umeh is one of those motivated businessmen. The 26-year-old Oakland, CA native started High Speed Delivery after returning home from a three-year-stint at Virginia’s Hampton University. The company began as a medical marijuana courier for dispensaries in the Bay Area, but David soon found out that deep-pocketed delivery heavyweights like Eaze had the region locked down.
“Competition drives innovation, but I still wanted more,” Umeh told MERRY JANE by phone. “Washington D.C. caught my eye because, first of all, how the legal framework is set up; second, because we were in an election year; and third, it just really tickled my fancy that they would make those laws in the nation’s capital.”
High Speed launched in the District in January 2016, and the company immediately parlayed itself into D.C.’s cannabis community, while also capitalizing on the nation’s widespread fresh-pressed juice trend. Umeh and his team crafted a website where gifts of cannabis — or “Love,” as High Speed calls it — can be added to juice orders. And while gift weights aren’t specified online, juices with added “Love” translates to about an eighth of flower, while juices with “Lots of Love” come with decidedly larger gifts.
All payments are made online so there’s no cash transaction at the delivery drop off, and the slick, branded bags that conceal the cannabis gift make High Speed feel like just another app-based delivery company — a GrubHub or Seamless, but with a much smaller menu. The company sends out a weekly newsletter with strain selections, info about local community events and an inspirational quote like, “Nothing will bring you peace, you must bring yourself to it.” It’s not hard to tell that David’s Bay Area influences stretch down to Silicon Valley.
So while the Kush Gods have no qualms with putting cannabis front and center, High Speed takes a more low-key approach, putting the juices on display and letting the cannabis play the background. Like Cunningham and Kush Gods though, it didn’t take long for the media to latch onto High Speed’s unique form of branding. It didn’t hurt that Umeh was more than willing to talk.
“I think when the police did what they did to me, they thought that people would be too afraid to try it themselves — but I think it motivated more people to start their own gift economy businesses.”
After the press caught on last April, High Speed saw an immediate flood of business. With the increased volume came issues with local juice suppliers who were either unable to keep up supply or upset about the cannabis-related promotions; sometimes both. So once again, Umeh adjusted.
He’s since started Capital Juice, a sister brand to High Speed that offers custom juices inspired by D.C.’s neighborhoods. They have flavors like Berry Farms, Strawberry Shaw, and The Uptown — a tart cucumber, lemon, and apple mixture that, if you’re to believe me, is just as good if not better than any $8 bottle you’ll find at Whole Foods. In addition to the High Speed menu, you can find Capital Juice in the refrigerated aisle of three District bodegas that have no ties to the cannabis community.
Since Cunningham’s arrest, the Kush Gods have also gone online. They’ve taken the cars off city streets, and cannabis products are now posted on social media alongside a phone line that lets prospective benefactors know where they can meet up to donate. The Kush Gods set a meet-up location every day where people 21 and older can sign the donation paperwork, and are then sent to a nearby restaurant or shop where they can choose between various cannabis gifts. It may not be a California dispensary, but that hasn’t stopped D.C. residents and tourists alike from seeking out the day’s pick up spot.
While D.C.’s unregulated form of legalization means that breaking the rules can land you in jail, cannabis is still legal in the District, and the result of the Kush Gods’ case has been more like a regulatory fine than a death sentence for the company. Cunningham’s arrest pushed the limits of Initiative 71, but it’s also allowed him, and a handful of newer gift economy businesses like High Speed, to figure out how they can comply with local legislation.
Without the eye-popping cars on the streets, cops have left the Kush Gods alone, so far. As for High Speed, along with Dreamy (which sells motivational speeches with a gift of cannabis), Red Eye (similar to High Speed, but with cookies instead of juice), and the Capital’s other web-based, gift-economy cannabis businesses, the same idiom has rang true: Out of sight, out of the police’s mind.
As Dreamy’s founder Ryan Ha told me during a chance meeting at a D.C. bar, “If Colorado represents America’s low-risk, low-profit cannabis center thanks to floods of competition and high barriers to entry, and New York City is the country’s high-risk, high-profit hot spot, where weed still sells for a premium but total criminalization makes public branding impossible, Washington D.C. is the middle ground, where low-risk meets high-profits.” That middle ground makes the grey area endlessly appealing.
“If Colorado represents America’s low-risk, low-profit cannabis center thanks to floods of competition and high barriers to entry, and New York City is the country’s high-risk, high-profit hot spot, where weed still sells for a premium but total criminalization makes public branding impossible, Washington D.C. is the middle ground, where low-risk meets high-profits.”
By the time I met with Umeh and the High Speed team on the morning of 4/20, business was already in full swing. The first stop was Capital Juice. After winding through mid-morning government traffic while debating the high points of Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN., we arrived at a warehouse full of produce. Umeh told me that the ten or so cases of Capital Juice tucked near the door were the butt of the past two weeks’ production. “It started as a whole pallet, sky high,” he said through a grin.
After checking out the juice facility, I hopped in the car with Raheem, one of High Speed’s delivery drivers, and we were off to deliver juice and give out heady gifts. While that might sound like a blast, it ended up being more like what I imagine following a pizza guy is like. Each driver has a case of juice and sixteen gifts — totaling two ounces, or exactly the amount of cannabis an adult is legally allowed to carry in the District. The 40 year-old yogi running upstairs for his I.D. was the most exciting encounter of the day. Other than that, it was mostly bad traffic and happy customers.
California’s weed farms weren’t sown the day after legislation went into effect, and drug stores sold “medicinal whiskey” as a toothache remedy during Prohibition. In other words, exploiting legal loopholes to achieve financial success is nothing new and it’s not always exciting; just ask D.C.’s most high-profile resident, Donald Trump.
With conflicting state and federal laws across the country putting America’s entire cannabis industry into legally unknown territory, tensions have only grown higher since Trump moved to town. In D.C., two years of uncertainty and adaptation have prepared gift economy cannabis businesses for the Trump administration’s potential reefer madness methodology.
“I think it’s apparent that there’s going to be an increased level of pressure,” Umeh of High Speed says about the Trump administration’s presence. “But really, what did we sign ourselves up for? If I’m not ready for a new regime to come in and have their mixed feelings, I shouldn’t have signed up for this in the beginning.”
Locally though, police say they are aware of the gift economy providers, but they’ve largely abstained from intervening. Still, that doesn’t mean that the gift economy will last forever. MERRY JANE’s legal expert, a licensed lawyer who goes by Cannabiz Confidante to protect her identity, says that the gift economy providers could be in trouble if further challenged in court.
“The donation/gift loophole in DC is ripe for a legal challenge — essentially by arguing that any transfer is not a true gift because something of value was given in exchange,” she wrote in an email. “I believe it would be hard to legally justify a mark-up on a non-marijuana item when it's known that marijuana was given ostensibly as a ‘free gift’ along with that item.”
In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Lt. Andrew Struhar from D.C. Metro’s narcotics squad issued a similar sentiment, and suggested that business could be shut down on a case-by-case basis going forward. “Investigators are aware of the services, and when they deem them illegal, they shut them down.” For now though, it’s still not exactly clear where that legal line lies.
"What did we sign ourselves up for? If I’m not ready for a new regime to come in and have their mixed feelings, I shouldn’t have signed up for this in the beginning.”
With their successes in the District’s legal grey area though, both Cunningham and Umeh have plans for expansion. At the tail end of 2016, Umeh saw Massachusetts’ newly minted legalization as a prime opportunity to grow the High Speed brand, and took his show on the road, setting up shop in Boston while Bay State regulators quarrel over official retail cannabis start dates. He says business is starting strong in Beantown, with a city-specific line of Capital Juices on the way and a preliminary eye on opportunities to turn High Speed into a fully taxed and regulated part of the local cannabis industry.
For Cunningham, impending legalization in Ohio has raised interest, but the main focus remains and will continue to be the District of Columbia and the seemingly never-ending legal purgatory that is the D.C. grey area cannabis market. “It’s been a gift and a curse,” Cunningham said. “It’s taken a toll on my family, but it’s got its perks too. I wouldn’t change it.”
As more states push to legalize cannabis in the coming years, delayed regulations will no doubt create similar gift economies around the country as a new set of risk-taking entrepreneurs try and stake out their own corner of America’s multi-billion dollar cannabis industry.
In Washington D.C., the gift economy businesses have become the city’s most active cannabis providers, and unless a large-scale crackdown occurs, or by some miracle Congress rescinds their moratorium on regulated retail shops, companies like the Kush Gods and High Speed see no need to change their business model. If anything, they will continue to serve the growing market and push the limits of the country’s burgeoning legal weed landscape.
“We’ll be in D.C. until they completely shut everything down,” Cunningham said of the Kush Gods’ future. “We’re sticking around.”
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The Chicago Department of Aviation says an alternative fuel station is planned for shuttle buses, taxis and drivers at O’Hare International Airport. The department said Monday the fueling station complex is scheduled to open in early 2016. It will offer fast-charging electric stations, alternative fuels and conventional gasoline to professional drivers and the public.
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Sunboldt Grown’s Sunshine Johnston and the Art of Doing Nothing
The humble dry farmer has a formidable message of quality for the world.
Tom Hymes
Image courtesy of Phil Emerson, Sunboldt Grown Farms
With California’s permanent cannabis regulations recently finalized, licensees have a stable foundation of compliance upon which to build their branding and marketing, which is precisely where a lot of energy is being focused as 2019 gets underway. No region feels the pressure to brand more than northern California, and perhaps no county has more branding expectations placed on its shoulders than Humboldt, where cannabis courses through the body politic.
Sunshine Johnston is one farmer who has spent years preparing for just this moment. The owner-operator of Sunboldt Grown Farms dry-farms 10,000 square feet along the Eel River. Arriving in southern Humboldt at the age of seven, Johnston said she was raised by activists and artists in the community where she started farming with her mother. “We grew to save redwood trees and to help indigenous people,” she said.
Johnston still touches the plant every day and said it defines her. “It’s my existence, my identity, who I am, and what I’ve been doing,” she said. “I think it may be because my mom looked at it in a very spiritual way, all those hours listening to Bob Marley as a kid, all the activism.” She paused. “It gave me a sense of freedom and independence I am very grateful for.”
Johnston lives with her husband, Eric, in Redcrest, where she is an avid farmer laser-focused on building a successful brand and a perennially active member of a community with which she closely identifies. A former board member of California Cannabis Voice Humboldt, she regularly attends meetings of the county board of supervisors to speak on behalf of craft cultivators, is a frequent speaker at industry trade events, and hosts a weekly cannabis show on KMUD. “My mom was one of the founders,” she remarked of SoHum’s storied community station.
She’s made time to do all of this as a one-woman band, singlehandedly building a business and brand from scratch, which has meant reinventing herself while simultaneously remaining true to herself and the community that raised her.
“My mom’s generation felt let down by society primarily because their leaders at the time were assassinated; students were killed at Kent State,” she said. “They got kind of upset and just wanted to live outside society. At the same time, they did something unique by starting their own institutions—community centers, a credit union, community schools where parents would help teach the children. There also was a health center started as a result of herbicide spraying by the lumber industry making people sick. There was self-reliance and a do-it-yourself attitude.”
They are qualities Johnston carries forward. “A lot of my motivation is just taking ownership. I feel an obligation to make it; to be successful. I have a responsibility to represent my community.”
A taste for flavor
Johnston has a cool expectation of fame, which might come off as arrogance if she didn’t really know her shit—and not just as a Humboldt-bred cultivator. She also brings years of experience as a local wine broker to the table, invaluable knowledge that gives her a decided advantage in the marketplace.
“What has been a major strength for me has been the ten years I spent brokering wine,” she said. “I’ve brokered for lots of small wineries. They have the same issues with distributors and getting paid as cannabis cultivators do. They also have problems getting on the [store] shelf and getting their stories told.”
But her wine experience also gave her something potentially priceless in the cannabis world. “Through that process of selling wine I developed a palate, particularly of flavors,” she explained. The skill came in handy when she started breeding strains a few years ago.
“In 2015, I knew I needed a portfolio of genetics, so I just jumped right into it,” she said. “I started doing crosses and had my own breeding program.” She didn’t take breeding very seriously at first. “I just wanted to make nice flavors and build a portfolio, but other breeders started taking me seriously, I think because I have a palate and I’m able to create flavors,” she explained.
Now she sees her “vintner’s palate” and the benefit it gives her as a cannabis breeder to be a marketable asset. In 2018, she farmed three of her own original strains: Loopy Fruit, Wanderlust, and Chronic Freedom. “This year it really struck me that I have a strength here that I need to make a part of my company,” she said. “That’s great, because I really do enjoy it.”
“My first thought when I see an indoor operation is, ‘Those plants are in prison.” — Sunshine Johnston, owner, Sunboldt Grown Farms
A do-nothing farmer
“I was previously known for having good herb,” Johnston said of life before she founded Sunboldt Grown Farms. Little has been the same since. “I started the company in 2015, and it has been nothing but [research and development] for me ever since,” she said. “It’s not easy to do, but I’ve created a brand with no product. I’ve created demand with no product. If there was anyone who could do it, it was me. All my moves were for one thing and one thing only, and I take it very seriously, and that is going to market. The reason I wasn’t making money in 2016 or 2017 is because I was preparing to go to market in 2019. That’s what I was doing and what all my moves were about. It just takes time.
“There is more to it than flower,” she continued. “Genetics was a big part of it.” She also made a “smart move” in 2017 when she partnered with Nasha to provide flower grown to maturity specifically for hashish. “I had done a little bit of work with Barron Lutz from Nasha, who does bubble hash, and I approached him and asked him to take half my crop,” she said. “No one had ever approached him like this. He looked at me and his first response was, ‘I can’t do that.’ ‘Why not?’ I asked him. ‘I don’t know what to pay you.’ ‘Don’t worry about it,’ I said. ‘We’ll figure it out later.’”
Johnston’s explanation for why she gave Lutz the benefit of the doubt speaks volumes about her business acumen and her people smarts. “The reason I said that was because I watched him pound the pavement and get his product into all these shops the year before, and I knew he had good retail relationships,” she said. “His sales rep down here, who was also his brother-in-law, was going to shops once a week, and I knew that if you’re going to a shop once a week, you’re more likely to get sales and get paid. I knew that was a successful model, and I knew that in 2019 I would need retail partners. He would co-brand me and get me into all these shops. I didn’t have a license, a permit, or anything, and I went for it.”
In the end, the idea worked. “It’s proving itself because bubble hash, unlike distillates or these other types of extracts, shows off the farmer the best,” she said. “You can’t really cut corners like you can with these other things, because you need oil, and to get oil you need to get ripe. The one thing I could say to Barron very convincingly was, ‘I can let things hang. I let things get ripe.’ We didn’t know the oil yields of my genetics, and that was a risk right there for the both of us, but it worked out.”
For his part, Lutz holds the quality of flower he gets from Johnston in very high esteem and is not shy about saying so. At The Emerald Cup in December, when asked what he needed to scale up his own production, he replied, “Twenty more Sunshine Johnston farms.”
Johnston is no less appreciative of Nasha’s product. “I really value the hash because it’s whole-plant medicine, and I feel it shows what I do the best,” she said.
So, what exactly does Johnston do on her dry farm that produces such quality flower? Not much, she said. “I would describe myself as a do-nothing farmer, which stems from The One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming,” she said. Written by Masanobu Fukuoka in 2009, the book describes the author’s “do-nothing” technique, which was described by the New York Review of Books as “commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort.”
Johnston continued, “It wasn’t until after I had started dry-farming and not using fertilizer that I realized that was what I was doing. A do-nothing farmer is like the concept of ‘do no harm’ by letting nature do the work.”
Half her crop was dry-farmed in 2018, and she was “just stunned at the results.” The plants that were watered were very uneven, but the plants without water flourished.” Now she’s hooked. “All of us who dry farm are very enthusiastic [about it] and want everyone else to dry farm, too,” she said.
To market
“All I’ve been doing is strategizing, and now I’m closing a chapter and starting a new one,” said Johnston. “Once I go to market, everything changes, because now I have a product line.”
She is working hard on her brand strategy now, figuring out her initial product line and gathering funds for packaging. As a craft cultivator, she knows her route to the top will be a singular one defined by more than a cult of personality. “Oh yeah, the easiest thing to do is to market Sunshine Johnston,” she said. “But more important is the message I’m bringing. The more focused I make that message, the stronger I’ll be.
“I define craft farming as the cannabis being the artist,” she added. “It creates me. I am crafted by cannabis. I don’t craft cannabis. I get to be the artist with my branding.”
Johnston has a lot of messages to share, depending on the situation and the target audience, which could range from retailers and distributors to regulators and consumers. Shrewd as a fox, she holds each actor in the cannabis food chain to high standards but demands even more of herself. “My message to corporate America is, ‘Look at this girl. She’s independent. We’re scrambling with all this money, and she’s dry-farming and not using any money?’ I’m a lean operation, and the point is for corporate America to go, ‘I love Humboldt County and this gal is going to make it and that’s good, because we love what comes out of this region.’ I’m the way you want to get your message out there.”
It’s part and parcel of the role she sees for herself. “I feel some urgency to prove myself in the marketplace, because that will give me leadership,” she said. “It will help me because until I do, I will be questioned in this industry. One of the best things I can do is lead by example.”
On that score, Johnston is like an Eveready battery: always moving, never out of juice. She has a million tasks in front of her, but there can be few people in the industry more focused than Sunshine Johnston, whose time as a wine broker taught her a few lessons she still uses.
“There is the naked wine drinker, who wants wine that is less-manipulated by the winemaker, and here is the winemaker who tinkers and manipulates,” she explained. “Only every time you tinker and manipulate, in my mind you lose a little something.
“It’s the same thing with cannabis,” she added. “You have indoor and outdoor. The indoor grower will say, ‘I have so much control over the environment. I can control everything. Control, control, control.’
“My first thought when I see an indoor operation is, ‘Those plants are in prison,’” she continued. “That’s because of the artificial lights, which don’t have a connection with the cosmos. Light from the sun travels eight minutes across the sky and comes in wavelengths that are connected to the cosmos. Indoor lights can have a connection with the cosmos, but they are not the same as the sun.”
“I define craft farming as the cannabis being the artist. It creates me. I am crafted by cannabis. I don’t craft cannabis. I get to be the artist with my branding.” — Sunshine Johnston, owner, Sunboldt Grown Farms
The differences are equally extreme with cultivators. “The indoor grower says it’s the hand of man that manipulates, controls, and brings out the best of the plant’s genetics, that the best genetic expression is brought about by his tinkering,” she said. “It’s his control and what he can do to manipulate the environment in the grow room.
“Then there is me, who says, ‘I’m going to take me out of this as much as possible, because it’s nature and the cosmos that perfects this.
“And the perfection is circumstantial,” she added emphatically. “I don’t create it. It’s not something that happens year after year. It’s like a vintage wine. It’s connected to these earth rhythms, to things I don’t control. That’s what makes it perfect, the things I do not control.”
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DNA MICROARRAY
DNA microarray is simply a high-throughput molecular biology technique that is used to determine how genes work at any given point in time in a cell i.e. how genes are turned off or on in a cell. Similar to the traditional southern blotting technique (which is mainly used to detect the presence of a piece of DNA molecule in a sample), DNA microarray allows scientists to array several thousands of DNA on a microarray or microscopic slide at a very short time and in a precise manner. The technology of DNA microarray has become an indispensable research tool within the life sciences; and this high-throughput technique is also applied in medicine, pharmaceutical companies and even in biotechnology to enhance productivity and understanding of the genetic bases of living organisms inclusive of microbes. With DNA microarray, it is possible for molecular biologists to monitor the expression of thousands of the genes of an organism in real-time i.e. at a simultaneous fashion. DNA microarray is a gene-expression profiling-based technique that is computer-enabled and is generally used to identify multiple and similar genes that are usually co-expressed in a cell at a short span of time; and DNA microarray makes use of high-throughput technology such as the FD10 Next-generation DNA Microarray System which makes it possible to analyze several thousands of genes at a short time (Figure 1).
A microarray which can also be called a gene chip is usually a solid slide that is immobilized with DNA oligomers (particularly complementary DNA, cDNA molecules). The immobilized cDNA molecules or DNA oligomers symbolizes the complete genome of the samples or organism whose cells is to be analyzed using the DNA microarray technique. Microarrays are mini-computer chips that are used by molecular biologists to analyze and/or determine the presence of a particular gene sequence in a sample in a very faster approach (Figure 2). The expression of many genes in a single reaction mixture could now be quickly undertaken and in an efficient way as against the period when it was difficult to analyze several thousands of genes at the same time. With DNA microarray several aberrations in the physiological make up of an organism especially as it relates to their genetic makeup could be deciphered; and such knowledge could be used to compare normal and abnormal genes as panacea to unraveling and solving some of the mysteries surrounding some molecular and non-infectious or mutational diseases of man (e.g. cancer). DNA microarray is a computer-enabled experimentation. Because thousands of unique spots are normally arrayed in orderly rows and columns on a DNA microarray slide (which is generally a solid surface immobilized with cDNA molecules), the exact location and sequence of each of the unique spot (which is indicative of a particular gene) is recorded in a computer database. In DNA microarray, the cDNA derived from the mRNA of known genes is immobilized onto a microarray slide. The sample to be analyzed has genes from both the normal tissue/cell as well as the diseased tissues. Since each of the spots on the scanned imagery of the microarray represents a particular gene, spots with more intensity are obtained for diseased tissue gene if the gene is over expressed in the diseased condition. This expression pattern is then compared to the expression pattern of a gene responsible for a disease; and in this way DNA microarray could be employed to detect or diagnose a particular disease condition in a human host. With microarray technology, molecular biology scientists can comfortably monitor and study how gene is expressed in both healthy cells and diseased cells.
Figure 1: The FD10 Next-generation DNA Microarray System for DNA microarray experimentation.
Figure 2: Illustration of a DNA microarray chip or gene chip used for gene expression assays. The microarrays resemble a microscope and they may even be smaller than the microscope slide. DNA microarrays are usually spatially arranged in a two dimensional (2-D) network fashion or grid that is arranged in arrow and column pattern. Aside the Affymetrix – which is a short oligonucleotide array; other gene expression assays also exist and they include: Fibre Optic Arrays (Illumina), Long Oligonucleotide Arrays (Agilent), and Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE).
Figure 3: Illustration of the protocol involved in performing DNA microarray technique. This is a two-channel or dual-colour microarray experiment in which normal cells and abnormal cells are simultaneously analyzed and compared. In two-channel DNA microarray experimentation, diseased cells or tissues are compared with healthy tissues with a view to unravel the genetic basis or cause of a particular disease. Less active genes produce fewer mRNA molecules while active genes produce many molecules of mRNA molecules. With DNA microarray, molecular biologists can understand how different genes work at different times. Absence of fluorescence or spots on the microarray shows that none of the mRNA molecules was hybridized to the cDNA; and such genes are inferred inactive.
Briefly, DNA microarray involves the hybridization of a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) molecule to its precursor deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) template molecule in a microarray via the process of immobilization (Figure 3). Immobilization is a biotechnological approach that is used to immobilize or attach macromolecules inclusive of proteins, enzymes and DNA or genes to solid surfaces or structures. In immobilization technique, these macromolecules are bounded (i.e. attached) to a solid carrier or support that enables them to react effectively with their other reactants. The originator DNA molecule in this case is usually a complementary DNA (cDNA) probe which is generated from the mRNA molecule via the activities of reverse transcriptase (RT) enzyme. Reverse transcriptase is an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase enzyme (i.e. an enzyme that is RNA-directed) that synthesizes a DNA molecule from a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule. The mRNA molecule serves as the template molecule for the biosynthesis of the DNA molecule.
According to the central dogma of molecular biology as aforementioned in this textbook, DNA is transcribed to mRNA which is later translated to a specific protein molecule in the cell of an organism via transcription and translation respectively; and since the protein molecule is like the final product of a gene (DNA) expression in a cell, the mRNA is critical to the development of the actual protein molecule because it is the mRNA that decode the final genetic instruction encoded in the DNA for protein biosynthesis in the ribosome. (Proteins are the gene product of the cell). Because the mRNA molecule produced by the cell is complementary to its originator DNA molecule, the mRNA molecule will automatically bind to the original portion of the DNA strand from which it was copied or transcribed from; and this phenomenon is exploited in DNA microarray techniques to analyze several thousands of genes. The array or microarray is usually constructed from several DNA molecules or from the DNA-containing sample since it is the main genetic material that is transcribed to mRNA. The cDNA (which represent the mRNA in the cell) is labeled with a different fluorescent dye while the normal and abnormal samples are equally labeled with different dyes for easy characterization and identification at the end of the experimentation process. Labeled cDNA molecules bind or hybridize to their complementary DNA molecules immobilized or attached to the DNA microarray slide; and the intensity of the fluorescent for each of the spot on the DNA microarray slide is observed and measured via a specialized scanner connected to a computers system.
It is noteworthy that the amount of mRNA molecule bound to each site on the microarray plate or DNA microarray slide indicates the expression level of the various genes (which may range in several thousands) analyzed in the cell. In order words, the data so generated from the DNA microarray technique expressly show the gene expression in the cell; and each of the coloured spot on the microarray is unique and they each represent a particular gene (Figure 3). Comparing a normal gene with an abnormal gene allows molecular biologists and physicians to understand and elucidate the origin of several molecular diseases (e.g. cancer). When two cells (e.g. a normal cell and an abnormal cell) are co-hybridized in a DNA microarray technique, what happens is that both the normal cell and the abnormal cell (e.g. a cancer cell) will compete for the synthetic cDNA molecules on the DNA microarray slide; and since each of these cells are fluorescently-labeled and have different colours, it is easier for the researcher to elucidate which of the genes is expressed more than the other. Several techniques of DNA microarrays exist; and the type of DNA microarray experiment to undertake is dependent upon several factors which is normally determined by the researcher.
DNA microarray expression analysis, DNA microarray for mutation analysis and comparative genomic analysis are some of the various types of DNA microarray techniques available to undertake DNA microarray experimentation. The application of DNA microarray technique is boundless. DNA microarray technique is currently being used to evaluate the effects of toxins to cells; they have also been applied in the discovery of novel genes; DNA microarray is also applied in the discovery of novel drugs and other therapeutics; and this high-throughput technique is also applied in the diagnosis of diseases especially non-infectious molecular diseases such as cancer at the molecular level. Other applications of DNA microarray include: genotyping; estimating DNA copy number; measuring transcript abundance; identifying protein binding sites; measuring the decay rates of mRNA in the cell; and determining the subcellular localization of gene products in the cell of an organism.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden's quotes
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
No hero is mortal till he dies.
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
Now is the age of anxiety.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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Why smart street lights are part of Kansas City's urban transformation plan
Fri, 2016-05-13 06:00 -- Doug Peeples
We've said if often enough: smart street light networks are an ideal launch pad for smart cities. They're highly adaptable. They're scalable. They're energy efficient. And they can help cities do so much more than provide economical lighting because applications for smart transportation, environmental monitoring, city services management and others can be added to the network. While Kansas City leaders chose to start small, they're well aware of the benefits smart street lights will bring. — Doug Peeples
With help from partner companies, Kansas City recently announced it will install free public Wi-Fi in a 50-block section of downtown and it has already embarked on the first phase of an integrated city-wide transit system with its new KC Streetcar and other features. It also plans to add 125 smart street lights with more to come.
True, as a story in The Verge noted, the city is angling to increase its chances of winning a $40 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation that would go a long way toward supporting the city's smart transportation plans and its smart city urban transformation effort. Kansas City is one of seven in the final round of the DOT competition. Council Lead Partner Cisco and Associate Partner Black & Veatch worked with the city to develop the framework for its urban transformation program.
But it's much more than that
The city's primary reason for providing smart street lights and the other improvements is to meet the expectations of its citizens. "The smart city piece of this has been to augment that physical construction with the 21st century capabilities that our citizens not only expect from the commercial world but also from the city itself," said Bob Bennett, the city's chief innovation officer.
For the street light project the city selected lighting that has sensors that tell the lights to dim when no one is beneath them. The combination of LED lamps and the ability to dim can save a substantial amount of money on a city's energy bill. And the lighting system also includes sensors that recognize large groups of people, a feature that can help the city decide the best locations to direct resources, such as police personnel, or help businesses determine the best locations.
The city's Wi-Fi (with data aggregation and networking provided by Cisco) and smart street light strategy is part of a larger plan to install a rapid transit bus corridor and self-driving car lanes. Both the transit system and car lanes will likely be connected to the monitoring and other capabilities of the street lighting network.
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Lithium: Wonder Drug? Part I
Posted by Melissa Troyer on October 2, 2014 in Cognition, Drugs, Mental Illness, Neurodegenerative disorders, Pharmacology | 1 Comment
I’m so happy ’cause today
I’ve found my friends
They’re in my head
What comes to mind when you hear the word lithium? A drug used to manage life-threatening mood disorders? A potentially deadly toxin? A chemical found in trace amounts in many compounds in nature? (Or maybe just the Nirvana song?)
Any of these answers would be felicitous. A recent New York Times Sunday Review piece by psychiatrist Dr. Anna Fels touted the potential benefits of the naturally-occurring element, atomic number 3 on the periodic table. Dr. Fels’ primary argument was that lithium, widely known for its use as a mood stabilizer for individuals with severe mood disorders, also has a positive effect on mood and cognition in non-clinical populations in trace amounts. She explores two findings which have to this date not gotten much press time. First, higher trace amounts of lithium occurring in natural water sources are associated with lower rates of suicide in those communities. Second, lithium may act as a neuro-protective agent both in medical (therapeutic) doses for patients and in trace amounts, possibly contributing to reduced rates of dementia. Before exploring these findings, I turn to a brief history of the discovery of the element lithium and its use for medicinal purposes.
A brief wondrous history of lithium and medicine
Johan Arfvedson is credited with the discovery of lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt. By the middle of the century, lithium was being used for medical purposes, primarily to treat gout (a type of arthritis) and rheumatism [see Figure 1 for a brief medical history through 1971)], and by the end of the century artsy types likes Mark Twain were enjoying naturally-occurring lithium salt baths in locations such as Lithia Springs, GA.
Figure 1. Medical history for lithium. Taken from from Doig et al., 1973 [4].
In 1948, lithium was used for the first time to treat mania, a state characterized as a heightened period of mood including both euphoria and irritability. In the first medical paper on the matter, Dr. John Cade writes of hospitalized manic patients who were, by turn, “destructive, mischievous, and interfering,” “continuously garrulous, restless, irritable, and euphoric,” and “noisy, elated, with marked distractibility and flight of ideas” (p. 350). In many of these cases, after administration of lithium citrate, patients responded quite positively to the drug, exhibited reduced manic symptoms, and became well enough to re-enter into the workforce.
The next year, reports were published that lithium could have fatal toxic effects. A compound called westsal® [1], composed of lithium chloride and potassium iodide, was being provided as a salt substitute to patients who had heart disease (arteriosclerosis) and were on salt-restricted diets. After having eaten food prepared with the substance for several days, multiple patients began to experience symptoms such as “…tremor, muscle twitches, apathy, difficult mentation, blurring of vision, confusion and, finally, coma and death” (p. 687). These were some of the earliest, though not the very first [2], reports that high doses of lithium could be fatally dangerous.
In lower doses, however, lithium has proved the opposite of deadly. By 1970, lithium had been approved by the FDA [3] as a treatment for manic-depressive (or bipolar) disorder. Today, it remains a widely-used treatment for bipolar disorder, especially beneficial during an acute period of mania and for prevention of suicide. However, even when administered at relatively safe, therapeutic doses, lithium remains a risk for renal (kidney) dysfunction, and individuals who regularly take lithium must have renal function monitored at regular intervals. Like many other substances (controlled or not), the moral of the story as far as lithium goes seems to be that in moderate quantities, it can be quite beneficial—but in excess, it can be deadly.
Trace amounts of lithium and prevention of suicide
As Fels points out, lithium has historically had a bit of a bad reputation. Its toxicity in large doses and association with mental illness do not make it a poster child for a natural remedy. Fels argues that it is. Lithium is present to varying degrees in natural water sources [see Figure 2]. Research from several countries has begun to suggest a link between the amount of naturally-occurring lithium present in the water and variables related to mood and cognition.
Figure 2. Map of trace levels of lithium from select areas of the United States. Taken from Ayotte et al., 2011 [5].
A first group of studies that Fels describes suggest that a greater amount of lithium may be related to lower rates of suicide. The first study to show such a link was published nearly 25 years ago in Texas, where the authors found that increased levels of lithium in a county’s drinking water were associated with a decrease in a host of variables, including rates of suicide, homicide, rape, and possession of narcotics. The study is intriguing, yet the data were analyzed in a way that make them susceptible to effects of outliers (rather than computing correlation on continuous measures of lithium levels and rates of suicide, the authors grouped counties into three groups and computed multiple comparisons between categorical groups). Interpreting causality is also an issue: there could be a third variable correlated with lithium that is responsible for the differences between the groups. For instance, though the authors mention that socioeconomic status was not associated with crime rates, such factors were not partialed out in analyses of the relationship between lithium and other measures.
The continued presence of associations between lithium levels in water and with suicide, however, suggest that the link initially reported in the Texas study is tenable. Studies from Japan, Austria, and Greece have also shown a negative correlation between lithium levels in drinking water and rates of suicide. As Fels notes, there is at least one study from England which reported no association between lithium levels and suicide rates, but a recent review paper on the topic suggests that a majority of the research supports the notion that increased levels of lithium in drinking water are related to decreased rates in suicide, and possibly other mood-related dysfunction.
The quantity of lithium examined in these studies is orders of magnitude smaller (see Figure 3) than the amount prescribed to patients for bipolar disorder. While the precise mechanisms of lithium are unknown, there is evidence that its contribution to preventing suicide operates by mechanisms different from those operating in reduction of mania. For instance, as the authors of the review on trace amounts of lithium and suicide suggest, the depressive episodes which often precede suicide are not particularly aided by lithium (though they are more responsive to other types of mood stabilizers, such as antidepressants). There are therefore likely different contributions of lithium to (a) stopping a manic episode and (b) preventing suicide, which typically follows depression, not mania. The authors suggest that the trace amounts of lithium in water may offer protection over a longer timescale and may act as neuro-protective factors (and possibly even promote neurogenesis, or the creation of new brain cells). Cconverging evidence from studies of links between lithium and dementia lend them additional support. [See next week’s post (Lithium Wonder Drug: Part 2!) for an analysis of the neurobiology underlying proposed mechanisms for neuro-protective properties of lithium.]
Figure 3. Relative quantities of serum levels of lithium in the body after being exposed to trace amounts, a clinical dose, or higher doses leading to toxicity or even death.
Lithium: A natural guardian against dementia?
Dementia is roughly defined as dysfunction of multiple brain systems, such as language or memory, observed primarily in the elderly. Although mood disorders, particularly depression, have been shown to be associated with the presence of dementia later in life, current research suggests that depression late in life may be a prodromal symptom of dementia, rather than a cause, while depression earlier in life may be a risk factor.
As Fels notes in her recent article, individuals with bipolar disorder may also be at greater risk for dementia, but the story changes once lithium is considered. One study found that when participants with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder continued use of lithium (as opposed to obtaining just a single prescription for it), rates of dementia were decreased compared to participants who were using other types of medication (including antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and antipsychotics).
Another line of research suggests that lithium may not only be a neuro-protective agent (thereby guarding against the degenerative processes contributing to dementia) but may actually promote neurogenesis. One study found that patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder who had been taking lithium, compared both to untreated patients and healthy controls, were found to have increased gray matter volume across the brain. While this study could not make many claims about causality due to the constraints of the methodology, a subsequent study took a longitudinal approach and replicated the results, finding that over the course of sixteen weeks of treatment, the prescription of lithium was positively associated both with gray matter volume and treatment outcome [Figure 4].
Figure 4. Gray matter volume increases following lithium treatment in bipolar patients compared to control groups [VPA=valproic acid, a placebo for lithium]. Taken from Lyoo et al., 2009 [6].
Finally, a very recent meta-analysis reviewed studies investigating associations between both medically-prescribed lithium and trace amounts of lithium found in drinking water and rates of dementia. The negative correlation between taking lithium for bipolar disorder and a decreased rate of dementia was observed in five out of seven studies reviewed. What’s more, all of the reviewed studies reporting clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease showed benefits of lithium compared to placebo.
So far, the evidence indicates It is not controversial that lithium has properties which, when properly administered, may change brain chemistry for the better. Dr. Fels closed her Times piece by strongly advocating for further research into its therapeutic and neuro-protective properties: “Some scientists have, in fact, proposed that lithium be recognized as an essential trace element nutrient. Who knows what the impact on our society would be if micro-dose lithium were again part of our standard nutritional fare? What if it were… put into the water supply? The research to date strongly suggests that suicide levels would be reduced, and even perhaps other violent acts. And maybe the dementia rate would decline. We don’t know because the research hasn’t been done.”
Maybe we shouldn’t treat lithium like Kool-aid, but we might be better off if we snuck just a little into our water each day.
[1] Side note: All signs seem to suggest that there was a market for tasty salt substitutes at the time; as the authors of a similar report write, “In view of the increasing emphasis on restriction of sodium intake in the management of cardiac decompensation and other conditions, a harmless substitute for salt in the seasoning of food has been widely sought and is much to be desired.”
[2] Similar symptoms were observed in an earlier study, during which a Dr. S.A. Cleaveland subjected himself to the study of the effects of taking different doses of lithium. During the highest dose, the doctor experienced near “prostration,” noting that “…the dizziness, weakness, and tremors were so intense that there was staggering and it was necessary to go to bed” (p. 722).
[3] Science News, Volume 97 (p. 390) points out that, in addition to its toxicity (at only 3 times the therapeutic dose), the delay in the approval may also have hinged on the reluctance of pharmaceutical companies who stood little to gain from selling the naturally occurring chemical lithium, which could not be patented.
[4] Doig, Mt., Heyl, M.G., & Martin, D.F. (1973). Lithium and mental health. Journal of Chemical Education, 50(5), 343-345.
[5] Ayotte, J.D., Gronberg, J.A.M., & Adopaca, L.E. (2011). Trace elements and radon in groundwater across the United States, 1992-2003. Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5059, National Water-Quality Assessment Program.
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New London Chronology
Additional History
African-American Methodist Church
Bedford Alum Springs Hotel
Holt-Ashwell House
Mead’s Tavern
New London Methodist Church North
A Crossroads of American History
Mead’s Tavern is one of only a handful of colonial structures remaining in Central Virginia. The crossroads upon which New London is situated became a intersection of peoples, cultures, and historical eras. During the colonial era, settlers from the north and east traveled this way to the frontier. William Mead took advantage of the opportunity provided by this busy place and built his tavern right at the crossroads. The building’s survival on the original lot represents a valuable opportunity for historical investigation of the rich, but largely forgotten history of a seemingly inconsequential town called New London, Virginia.
This site aims to bring to life the rich history of New London by connecting anyone and everyone with Mead’s Tavern and its story. This will be accomplished through documenting the property’s numerous owners, adding links to upcoming events, and providing a platform for research for generations to come. There will also be updated documentation regarding the people, documents, artifacts, and the restoration process. This is a collaborative student research project that is an outgrowth of Liberty University’s new Public History and Digital History classes. It provides hands-on learning opportunities as well as undergraduate and graduate level research.
William Mead purchased Lots 5 and 6 in New London in 1761 and quickly built a building. He operated a tavern in the building from 1763 to the late 1780’s. In 1784 Mead sold the property to William Harris and they relocated further south to be closer to family. The building hosted a girls’ school, Roland Academy, from the early 1810’s to the mid 1820’s; the headmaster was Samuel T. Miller.[1] It served as a Manse in the 1890’s, as well as Dr. Kabler’s home and office in the early twentieth century before he moved across the road.[2]
Taverns, like Mead’s, were important to communities during America’s Colonial period and were often the first building built in a town.[3] Many taverns had a simple taproom, however, high-class taverns had a separate room dedicated as a parlor in which respected individuals dined.[4] The tavern was a welcome sight for a traveler, especially one traveling to the wilderness, seeking food and lodging for himself and his animals. Taverns were also often used by locals to conduct business, hold debates, hear the latest news, and enjoy some entertainment. Despite the festivities, tavern keepers were placed under strict regulations to keep the peace and prevent gambling. The court clerk signed off on the licenses and enforced the law.[5]
New London’s decline may explain why Mead’s Tavern did not remain a tavern. The decline of New London began in 1782 when Campbell County was split off of Bedford County. After the county seat was moved to Liberty, now Bedford, the courthouse fell into disarray. In 1787, the courthouse was rehabilitated when Virginia decided to make New London the District Court for several counties for a short time.[6] After this court removal the town’s prestige faltered yet again. The final blow to the town’s prestige was the removal of the arsenal in 1812.[7] There were several attempts to restore New London’s prestige. In 1813 citizens of Bedford and Campbell counties petitioned the State Assembly to combine the counties and restore New London as the county seat. This petition was soundly rejected.[8] In the late 19th century the town’s name was changed to Bedford Alum Springs in the hope that a resort in the area would bring new life to the town.[9] The resort folded after many years and the town’s name reverted to New London in the early 20th century.[10]
[1] Mary Abrams, “History in Brief,” Lynch’s Ferry, A Journal of Local History (Fall/Winter 2012): 1.
[2] Chronicle, January Membership Meeting Program (January 2012): 7.
[3] Alice Morse Earle, Stage-Coach and Tavern Days. (New York: MacMillan, 1900), 41.
[4] Earle, 42-44.
[5] “45. A Bill for Licensing and Regulating Taverns, 18 June 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 2, 1777 – 18 June 1779, ed. Julian P. Boyd. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950): 447–448.
[6] Claude A. Thompson, New London The Forgotten (New London: 1939), 6.
[7] “Thomas Jefferson to William Eustis, 6 June 1812,” Founders Online, National Archives. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 5, 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008): 104–105.
[8] Early, 33.
[10] Daisy Imogene Read, New London Today and Yesterday, 2nd ed. (Lynchburg, VA: Warwick House Publishers, 2011): 35-36.
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $6 million for earthquake early warning research
By Robert Sanders, Media relations| November 29, 2011 July 9, 2015
November 29, 2011 July 9, 2015 Robert Sanders
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $6 million to three West Coast universities to create a prototype earthquake early warning system for the Pacific Coast of the United States.
An example of a ShakeAlert warning for a resident of San Francisco after an earthquake near Santa Cruz. The image shows the expanding zone of shaking and the expected time before arrival of the first wave of shaking.
The grant will allow seismologists at the University of California, Berkeley; California Institute of Technology (Caltech); and University of Washington, Seattle, in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to learn about the science of earthquakes and the best way to capture and analyze seismic data. The goal is to give schools, utilities, industries and the general public as much time as possible—most likely seconds to several minutes—before the ground begins to shake.
“The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is funding this basic, fundamental science to yield an earthquake early warning prototype that we hope will pave the way for a fully functioning system in the Western U.S.,” said Cyndi Atherton, director for science programs at the foundation. “A warning system has the potential to save thousands of lives and millions of dollars in the event of an earthquake, and we feel it is important to resolve any scientific questions that could stand in the way of implementing such a system.”
Each university will receive $2 million over three years.
“The technology and scientific expertise exist to create a sophisticated West Coast earthquake early warning system even more advanced than Japan’s now four-year-old system, which functioned well after the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku quake earlier this year,” said Richard Allen, director of the campus’s Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary science. “We are gratified that the foundation is supporting research that will help us bridge the gap between the current nascent test earthquake early warning system in California and a full West Coast ShakeAlert prototype.”
ShakeAlert, the current version of an earthquake early warning (EEW) system now being tested by Caltech and UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Southern California Earthquake Center, ETH Zurich and the USGS, opens a pop-up alert on a recipient’s computer in the event of a major earthquake. The alert lists the quake’s location and magnitude and the estimated time before shaking should be felt. While people living near the epicenter of a quake will not have much warning, those farther from a large quake could have seconds or tens of seconds of notice before the ground shakes.
“The USGS has the federal responsibility to issue alerts for earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides to enhance public safety and to reduce losses through effective forecasts and warnings. We look forward to integrating the expected results of the research funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation into our real-time earthquake monitoring systems,” said USGS seismologist and EEW coordinator Doug Given.
The universities will seek partners in industry to provide extra funding, test the prototype and give critical feedback about how they want to receive warnings. Google.org and Deutsche Telekom’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center have already partnered with the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory to financially support development of the prototype.
The grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will help each university tailor its EEW system to the local fault system, addressing issues of rapid detection and prediction of shaking and delivery of a warning to those in harm’s way.
“Our immediate goal in the Pacific Northwest is analysis of hundreds of GPS stations along with the existing seismometers to provide minutes of warning in the case of great coastal earthquakes,” said John Vidale, director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. “At first, the warnings will alert only a group of sophisticated industry and government partners while we iron out the wrinkles and build a case for a full-blown public system, as Japan already has.”
A comprehensive earthquake early warning system along the West Coast would cost approximately $150 million over five years. The California Integrated Seismic Network earlier this year estimated that a California system would cost about $80 million over five years, while a Pacific Northwest system would cost approximately $70 million. CISN is a partnership of universities, the USGS and the state of California that monitors earthquakes throughout the state.
UC Berkeley will use some of its grant money to speed up the processing of data from its network of GPS monitors, enabling real-time processing needed for rapid warnings. Caltech seismologists and engineers will work together to improve estimates of shaking as a function of distance from an earthquake’s epicenter, and extend these estimates to how buildings will respond.
All three universities will utilize their regional seismic networks to improve accurate assessment of earthquakes as they occur, especially large earthquakes. Current EEW systems, for example, act as if quakes rupture at only one point, when, in fact, in larger earthquakes, fault ruptures can extend over hundreds of kilometers.
“The Foundation’s grant is a huge contribution to moving forward the science of earthquake early warning systems,” said Thomas Heaton, director of Caltech’s Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory and professor of geophysics and of civil engineering.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, established in 2000, seeks to advance environmental conservation and scientific research around the world and to improve the quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. The foundation’s Science Program aims to make a significant impact on the development of provocative, transformative scientific research, and increase knowledge in emerging fields.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
University of Washington, Seattle press release
Seismologists urge creation of earthquake early warning system along Pacific Coast (4/5/11 press release)
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McDonald’s Corporation Announces New Developmental Licensee for Its Business in Hungary
McDonald’s Corporation today announced that a share sale and purchase agreement has been signed with Sándor Scheer, a partner keen to become the Developmental Licensee (DL) for its Hungarian market.
Mr. Scheer is founder, shareholder and CEO of Market Építő one of the largest construction companies in Hungary. Market Építő is based in Hungary and over the years has been involved in the construction of some of the most prestigious building investments in Hungary, and has had direct experience with McDonald’s through the construction of several McDonald’s restaurants and the first Ronald McDonald House in Hungary. Mr. Scheer is also the owner of real estate developer Unione Group and owner of the Hotel Clark.
The transaction is expected to close during the first quarter of 2019.
McDonald’s Hungarian business includes a total of 89 restaurants, of which more than 50% are currently franchised. Financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.
Under the DL structure, McDonald’s will transfer its ownership interest in its business in Hungary and grant a franchise to the DL to develop and operate the McDonald’s restaurants in this market. The DL partner will provide the capital necessary to support and grow the business.
Ian Borden, President, McDonald’s International Developmental Licensee Markets, said:
“We look forward to welcoming Sándor Scheer as our strategic partner in Hungary. As a successful entrepreneur, he has a clear understanding of how to successfully develop and grow businesses in the market. Importantly, Sándor shares our passion for the McDonald’s brand. With his strong track record in operations and development in the construction and hospitality industries, coupled with his customer- and people-centric mindset, we are confident that Sándor will accelerate the growth opportunities in Hungary for our business and for his people.”
Sándor Scheer said:
“I am excited to have the opportunity to join McDonald’s as Developmental Licensee for Hungary. I have previously had experience with McDonald’s through the construction of several McDonald’s restaurants and the first Ronald McDonald House in Hungary, which I found highly inspiring and motivating. With strong, customer-focused plans and capable market teams in place, it is a truly exciting time to join the McDonald’s family. I look forward to leveraging our collective knowledge and expertise to drive even greater success for the business and a more modern, convenient experience for our Hungarian customers.”
This announcement follows a rigorous evaluation and selection process. In November of 2015, McDonald’s committed to the long-term goal of becoming 95 percent franchised. McDonald’s has now refranchised more than 4,000 restaurants worldwide.
McDonald's is one of the the world's leading global foodservice retailer with over 37,000 locations in 120 countries. More than 90% of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business men and women.
McDonald’s has successfully utilized the DL ownership structure for more than 30 years in regions throughout the world including more than 80 individual countries with a portfolio of approximately 6,900 restaurants.
About Sándor Scheer
Sándor Scheer is founder, shareholder and CEO of Market Építő, one of the largest construction companies in Hungary and also the owner of real estate developer Unione Group and owner of the Hotel Clark. Over the years, Market Építő has been involved in the construction of some of the most prestigious building investments in Hungary, as well as the construction of several McDonald’s restaurants and the first Ronald McDonald House in the market.
Known for its customer-focused approach and commitment to quality, Market Építő has also received numerous awards over the years, including the Budapest Architectural Award, Workplace of the Year Award and most recently in 2018, the Company of the Year.
The company has also demonstrated a strong commitment to children’s and families’ well-being through regular support of the Bátor Tábor Foundation, as well as various sport associations, such as III. kerületi Torna és Vívó Egylet.
McDonald’s Corporation today announced that a share sale and purchase agreement has been signed with Sándor Scheer, a partner keen to become the Developmental Licensee (DL) for its Hungarian market. Mr. Scheer is founder, shareholder and CEO of Market Építő one of the largest construction
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Historic Homes & Historic Sites
8 Gardner Street Built 1886, acquired 1960
Open Daily, May 25-Oct 14, 11:00am-4:00pm
Walking Directions Biking Directions Driving Directions Nearest NRTA Wave Bus Stop:
Greenhound Bus Station, Candle St.
Fire Hose Cart House has limitations of authentic 19th-century architecture and the building is not wheelchair-accessible.
Steps, cobblestone surfaces and a narrow doorway may present difficulties for those with physical disabilities.
Service animals are welcome to visit the Fire Hose Cart House. We follow the Federal government’s guidelines on service animals. The NHA welcomes dogs that are individually trained to perform a task or work for a person with a disability, but please leave pets at home.
No public restrooms available.
About the Fire Hose Cart House
Built forty years after the Great Fire of 1846 destroyed much of downtown Nantucket, the NHA Fire Hose Cart House is a reminder of the pivotal role fire played in Nantucket’s history.
This newly-restored building at 8 Gardner Street is the last remaining structure of its kind to house vintage nineteenth-century hose carts and pumpers, including “Cataract #6”, which survived the Great Fire of 1846.
The restoration project was made possible in part by a grant from the Nantucket Community Preservation Committee. The restoration includes updated displays and artifacts, as well as an interactive exhibit that offers in-depth interpretations of the history of fires on Nantucket.
Learn more about the history of the Fire Hose Cart House
What You Will Experience
Engine No. 6: Cataract, built in 1831, was Nantucket’s first two-cylinder engine. It played a key part during the Great Fire of 1846 and was in service until 1896. Hover shows Cataract being pulled up Main Street after a trial, ca. 1910.
This hand-pump engine No. 1: Siasconset arrived in 1900. It wasn’t until 1896 that ‘Sconset had its own fire department. Hover shows the Siasconset following a fire drill, ca. 1900.
This 11 minute video documents the Great Fire of 1846 that started in a hat shop and overnight destroyed much of downtown Nantucket. In all, between 300 and 400 buildings were destroyed and over one million dollars’ worth of property lost.
This 18-minute video documents twelve notable fires that occurred on Nantucket during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries among the hundreds of recorded fires that occurred during this period.
We ask all of our visitors to conduct themselves in a respectful way at all NHA properties in accordance with the Code of Conduct and all laws and local ordinances.
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Luongo to GM Gillis: Take as much time as you need
By Ryan DadounJan 11, 2013, 11:34 PM EDT
It’s entirely possible that Roberto Luongo’s tenure with Vancouver will end in mere days, but if Canucks GM Mike Gillis can’t get the price he wants for the all-star goaltender, that’s fine with Luongo.
“I told (Gillis) I was ready to go as long as it took,” said Luongo in a Sportsnet report. “Whether it’s a couple days, next week, two weeks, at the end of the season, it’s totally fine with me.”
Back in May, Luongo thought he would have been traded before the start of the Vancouver Canucks’ training camp, especially given the commitment they made to netminder Cory Schneider when they signed him to a three-year, $12 million deal. Still, at the age of 33 he feels comfortable in Vancouver.
“I’ve matured in the sense where I can handle adversity than I did back then,” said Luongo. “That’s why I’ve been really calm about the whole situation. I’ve been able to enjoy it, even though it’s not an easy situation.”
For his part, Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said he’s “very fortunate to have” Luongo, although he wouldn’t name either goaltender as his starter.
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Three Desert Cities May Extend Alcohol Sales to 4 a.m.
September 1, 2018 6:54 PM September 1, 2018 6:54 PM
The City of Coachella, Cathedral City and Palm Springs are part of the nine cities in the state that chose to be in the pilot program to extend hours of alcohol sales from 2 a.m. to four in the morning.
The idea is nothing new for East Coasters, but now residents of California may soon have watering holes open almost reaching dawn as Senate Bill 905 has passed the last legislative session and its waiting for Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.
The pilot program would take effect in 2021 and end after 2015.
Cesar Mourelo works the door at Chill Bar in Palm Springs, he is for the bar being open two extra hours.
“People do hang out after the bar closes at 2 a.m. they hang out in crowds at each bar,” Mourelo said. “So I think it would be a good idea instead of them outside, have them inside and not causing any trouble.”
Bars and clubs in Palm Springs won’t automatically stay open until four in the morning if the bill passes. The individual bar owner would have to apply for a permit to extend hours of alcohol sales.
The author of the bill Sen. Scott Wiener said the extended hours would help revitalize business districts and increase tourism.
Bobby Peckham is a resident of Palm Springs and he would not mind having bars open until four in the morning.
Peckham said, “I don’t think it would hurt anybody, you know, but people tend to overreact on things like that but I don’t think it would be a big deal.”
There are those who oppose SB 905, policy watchdog organizations claim the extended hours may impact public safety.
Part of the bill requires a local task-force to include at least one member of law enforcement to create a plan identifying potential impacts.
Even though SB 905 may be provocative, at the end of the day it would require one to be up at 4 a.m. to fully enjoy it.
As for Peckham, he said, “Will I be out here? No I’ll be sleeping.”
Governor Brown has until September 30 to sign the bill.
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You cannot afford to have any cardboard characters, anywhere
5 December 2014 5 December 2014 nzponywriter
Last night, while I was working on the revised story outline for Against the Clock, I discovered something about one of my characters that I never knew before. It was one of those weird moments when I was writing, and I tapped out a quick filler line of dialogue for her, and then looked at the words and thought Wait, does that mean…? And as clear as day, she looked at me and said, with conviction and grace and a fierce determination – Yes, it does.
Characters take on a life of their own. It’s a weird phenomenon that I can only liken to the way that sometimes your brain will pluck a completely random and obscure thought out of mid-air, surprising you with it. Characters do that too. I never saw this revelation coming, but goodness it makes her a lot more interesting and layered. And I’m really excited now to explore that new dimension.
In my previous blog, I rattled on about Joss Whedon, one of my writing heroes. Another writer whose work I greatly admire is the much lesser-known Doris Egan, who has written for various TV shows over the years, including House, Smallville, Tru Calling and Dark Angel. Not the greatest shows, but her work was always excellent in it, and she also wrote a few great entries on her blog tightropegirl.livejournal.com about writing. In one post from way back in the dark ages of 2006, she was discussing how important (or unimportant) it is to do your research, depending on what you’re writing (e.g. historical fiction = lots of research) and it evolved into a discussion on characterisation. I had the following passage printed out and stuck on my wall for years, and I read it almost every day. It has had a huge impact on the way that I approach writing, and characterisation, and I owe her a debt of gratitude for it.
Let’s move on to look at a hypothetical short story you decide to write about an encounter between a visiting handyman who’s repairing a kitchen cupboard and a ten-year-old boy — a conversation about a bird that strikes the window glass in the kitchen and knocks itself out. Your story takes place in the present day and is from the point of view of the boy. You need only one piece of information here: you want to initiate the conversation by having the handyman ask the boy to fetch him a tool from the box by the door, and you want to know what tool it might be. You could, conceivably, in the heat of creation, write that entire story out while it’s fresh in your mind and wants to be written, leaving a blank in one sentence for the name of the tool.
Those are the two ends of the spectrum: for a historical novel, you may have spent a couple of years reading all sorts of books; for the handyman story, you only need a word, and you don’t have to wait for it to write the first draft. But it is a spectrum, make no mistake.
Let’s go back to the handyman story, and this time do it from the point of view of the handyman. Now you have a bit more research to do, even if the dialogue stays the same — because you need to know the inside of that character’s head. When he walks into that house he’ll be aware, even if distantly, of whether he’s been there before; what kind of jobs he usually does; how long he thinks this will take; whether he sees it as simple or complex; and in a general sense, what he gets out of it. By that last, I mean you’ll want to have an idea, whether you reference it or not, as to why he’s a handyman. Does he like the freedom? Is he in the country on a work permit and this is all he could get? Is he actually making a fair living? Is he good at what he does? When the boy’s mother tells him the problem, does he reflect on how his clients tend not to know what the real problem is, and underestimate how long repairs will take?
Now let’s muddy the waters and say the boy’s encounter with the handyman is one scene in a movie about a ten-year-old boy who witnesses a murder. The handyman has nothing to do with the murder, and is only in this one scene; the point of it is to confront the boy with death (in the form of the bird flying against the window and killing itself). This lets the audience hear what the boy has to say, thereby subtextually referencing the murder and giving us an idea of thoughts he hasn’t been able to share with anyone. None of this is in the viewpoint of the handyman, so you don’t have to work out his life’s story — from a pure research standpoint, you still only need that one tool name. You’re on the extreme “easy” end of the spectrum here.
But. For the scene to mean anything, you’ll want to have an idea of who that character is — again, why he’s a handyman, how much money he makes, where he lives, whether he has a son of his own, whether he’s an easy person to talk to or a misanthrope (the latter could actually be more interesting in this situation) — all the things that give him shape and life. Assuming you haven’t set this story in some exotic locale, most or all of these are things you can work out using ordinary commonsense knowledge. But work them out you must, because in my opinion, spear carriers must live. He’s not going to spill out those details to the boy, but they’ll define how he talks and what his emotional reactions are; and you can’t afford to have any cardboard characters, anywhere.
Not everyone agrees. I remember, years ago, a writing teacher (a good teacher, too) criticizing another student’s manuscript, in which a traumatized crime witness is picked up by a passing couple in a van. They’re feminist activists who work with abused women, and they assume the traumatized woman was attacked, probably by a boyfriend. The witness says nothing to any of this, and the scene only takes a couple of minutes, but I remember thinking how well-realized everyone was. I said to myself, “If the walk-ons are this rich, I can’t wait to read the rest!” The teacher, on the other hand, thought that by making passing characters too interesting, you take away from the leads; a reader’s attention span is only so long. Pish, I say to that. And tosh as well.
Spear carriers must live. And one way to do that is simply never to have them behave as expected if you can avoid it. What really disturbs the attention span of the audience, in my opinion, is the boredom that comes from predictability.
You can read Doris Egan’s full blog post here.
Sometimes that unpredictability is intentional. I had an idea a few days ago for a plotline in a series of six novels that I’m planning (I’m ridiculously ambitious sometimes) that would really muddy up the waters in my protagonist’s life. It’s one of those cases where you think “Wouldn’t it be interesting if…?” and then your brain goes “Yeah, but wouldn’t it be even more interesting if…?” and then you’re just rubbing your hands together with glee thinking about working that story out, except unfortunately now you have to go to work and put stories on the backburner for the day.
But I digress. Several lines from Doris’s blog post above have continued to resonate with me over the last eight years since I first read it:
For the scene to mean anything…
Every scene has to mean something. It has to add to the story in some way, shape or form. It might be simply to establish a relationship between characters, it might be a building block towards a later scene, and the first time through, readers might not think twice about it. But when they re-read, when they come back to it, they’ll be able to see how it fits into the bigger story. They’ll realise why it’s important, and what it means. Every scene has to be there for a reason – another thing I learned from TV. When you only have 42 minutes to tell a story, you have to make every minute of it count. If you want to keep your readers engaged, you have to do the same thing when you write.
You cannot afford to have any cardboard characters, anywhere.
This. This one line, more than any other, goes through my head repeatedly when I’m writing, and when I’m reviewing. Every character has to have a backstory, a reason. One of the characters I’m most proud of is Susannah Andrews, from Dare to Dream (and Dream On, though in a lesser role). Susannah reads like a stereotype, the spoiled rich girl who treats her ponies poorly, and is only out to win. I needed a character like Susannah for the story to work – but I wanted her to be human. There is a reason for everything she does. She’s being driven by her parents and their competitive nature, and it’s her fear of failure and disappointing them that pushes her on. But when it goes too far, she sees it, and she finds the courage to change the course she’s been on.
There are many characters like Susannah in pony fiction – the spoiled rich girl is a staple of the genre. Sometimes these characters are redeemed, and sometimes they’re not. Often they’re redeemed for one novel, when we get a flash of insight into who they are as a person and why they behave that way, but by the next instalment they’re back to being the villain, because the writer only sees them that way in their head. To me, Susannah was never a villain – she was a victim. When I reintroduced her in Dream On, it was important to me that other people were able to recognise that too.
Spear carriers must live.
Which is to say, even the background characters have to have a backstory. I have a huge spreadsheet document on my computer that shows every character I ever have or ever plan to write a book about, and where they are at a certain point in time, so that the books can eventually all exist on a timeline. Characters will weave their way in and out of each other’s stories. (Hint: there is a character in both Dare to Dream and Dream On who will feature heavily in books 3 and 4 of the Clearwater Bay series – although notably all of the Clearwater Bay books actually take place earlier – if you look closely in Flying Changes, you’ll find Peter Andrews competing in Pony of the Year on his grey pony Flying High, who is being ridden by his younger sister Susannah by the time we get to Dare to Dream…)
Again, I digress. The point of this is that every character, no matter how seemingly insignificant to the story, has a background. I am excited to write books about one character where someone forms an opinion of another person and the reader agrees, then they read another book from that person’s perspective and realise that there was so much going on that they didn’t even know before. Because that’s how life works. We never know what’s going on in other people’s lives, and often operate on our own assumptions. I’m fascinated by that, and it is destined to become a hallmark of my work.
Because there are so many things that I know about my characters that readers don’t. Some of these details will eventually be revealed, others might remain only known to me. If they’re not pertinent to the telling of the story, I leave them out of it. But the characters have lives beyond the glimpses that are in my books – they’ve lived before them and will live on after them.
The boredom that comes from predictability.
Never have your characters behave as expected, if you can help it. I think about this a lot. Characters often behave unpredictably in books – and sometimes their actions are startling, but make sense. Sometimes they don’t, and that was a huge challenge for me in writing Dare to Dream – to have the big reveal at the end make sense to the reader, even though it was (hopefully) unexpected. It seemed to work. As pony book expert Jane Badger said in her review of Dare to Dream – “I do like a book where I haven’t worked out how it will end well before I’ve got there.” Phew.
Jane in particular found Susannah to be a compelling character, telling me that “I really liked Susannah, and I particularly liked the fact you sent her away into a complex, and ambivalent situation. Looking forward to see what you do with her next.”
Jane hasn’t read Dream On yet, but she does have a copy to review, and will hopefully have a chance to do so soon. In the meantime I’m trying to be patient, and hoping that she’ll like it as much as she did Dare to Dream. And that she will appreciate Susannah’s journey in this second novel.
Fingers crossed.
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About the United States Postal Service
The history of the U.S. Postal Service stretches back to the very beginning of our country (and even a little bit before!). In that 239-year period, there have been some interesting and wacky circumstances that we bet you didn’t learn about in school.
Here are the Top 10 things you probably don’t know about the USPS:
1. Box up my baby, please.
Although it has always been strictly against postal regulations, there have been instances where parents “mailed” their children in the early years of Parcel Post. In fact, in 1913, an 8-month-old baby was shipped to his grandmother who lived a few miles away. Weighing just under the 11-pound parcel limit, baby Beagle’s parents paid 15 cents for postage!
2. The King of Rock and Roll … and stamps?
The best-selling commemorative stamp to date is the Elvis Stamp that was issued in 1993. Since then, USPS has come out with all kinds of intriguing stamps, including triangular, round and holographic stamps.
(Source: Mailonmove.com)
3. Bringing a new meaning to “air mail.”
Railroads were the primary mode of mail transportation from the 1870s to the 1950s. At small USPS post offices, mail clerks aboard the train would throw one pouch of mail and, seconds later, catch another pouch filled with the town’s outgoing mail (all without the train stopping!)
(Source: USPS)
4. EnvelOPES.
Before July 1845, people almost never used envelopes. The main issue was cost, because sending two pieces of paper instead of one cost twice as much, since an envelope counted as an extra sheet.
(Source: Craft Super Store)
5. You go, girl!
Women have served as postmasters since the very beginning of our country’s history. Mary Katherine Goddard was the first women postmaster in the United Colonies (postmaster of Baltimore, Maryland) when Benjamin Franklin was named American Postmaster General in July 1775.
(Source: Baltimore Sun)
6. Vroom.
The Greenville South Carolina Post Office began using motorcycles (Harley Davidsons, no less!) to deliver mail around 1906. Unfortunately, this changed in 1915, when the Postmaster General declared that motorcycles could only be used for rural delivery if they had affixed weatherproof containers for the mail.
7. Mail Carriers to the rescue!
Initiated in 1982, the USPS Carrier Alert Program helps protect the wellbeing of elderly and disabled customers. USPS letter carriers will alert emergency personnel if they notice a buildup of mail or other suspicious circumstances that might indicate an accident or illness.
(Source: NALC)
8. Mail by Sled.
In Alaska, the mail used to be delivered by dogsled. However, in 1963 the last dogsled route (from Gambell to Savoonga) was converted to an airplane route. Dogsleds in Alaska are now used mostly for sport and, of course, for the famous Iditarod Race!
(Source: National Archives)
9. Handling all kinds of mail– including email!
In addition to all of the physical mail that the USPS handles every year, the Postal Service also has one of the largest corporate email systems. In fact, it receives 3.5 million legitimate emails per day, delivered to more than 208,000 email accounts.
10. Stop, in the name of the USPS!
One of the nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agencies is the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. In 2014 alone, the agency reported 6,000 arrests and 5,300 convictions ranging from mail scams, illegal narcotics, counterfeit money orders, fraudulent lottery mailings and more.
(Source: Postal Museum)
If you liked those fun facts, find more in USPS’s printable history booklet.
To learn more about the USPS, check out our FedEx vs. UPS vs. USPS page.
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More foreign companies invest in the Netherlands: 10,000 extra jobs
A total of 372 foreign companies such as Giant, Timberland and DAZN generated 9,847 additional jobs in the Netherlands in 2018. Collectively, these companies contributed 2.85 billion euros to our economy. These jobs and investments are credited to the Invest in Holland network, which consists of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) - the investment promotion agency of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy - its regional partners, and the Holland International Distribution Council (HIDC). In the previous year, 2017, 357 companies invested 1.67 billion euros in our country.
Minister Wiebes of Economic Affairs & Climate Policy: "These results once again confirm that foreign companies are important to our globally operating country. Around one million people work for foreign companies in the Netherlands and an additional half-million work indirectly for these companies as suppliers, particularly in SMEs. Due to the growing international uncertainty surrounding Brexit and changing global trade policies, the importance of a good Dutch business climate for all of us is continually increasing."
The work of the NFIA falls partly under the responsibility of the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Sigrid Kaag: “The impending Brexit and tensions around international trade provide opportunities for Dutch companies. Our companies are innovative, flexible and adapt to this changing market. Furthermore, the Netherlands’ position as a stable economic hub is also attractive to foreign companies. This position will only be further strengthened. It is positive that this is reflected in the approximately 10,000 newly-created jobs in 2018.”
From Headquarters to R&D
The NFIA is responsible for 8,475 out of the 9,847 jobs created by the Invest in Holland network. In 2018, the NFIA managed to attract 248 foreign investment projects to the Netherlands, which collectively account for 2.76 billion euros in investments. The annual results also show that the majority of new jobs are created within headquarters (2,259), followed by marketing & sales offices (1,834), distribution centers (1,053), service centers (977), production sites (884) and R&D locations (755). As illustration, sports media company DAZN established a development center in Amsterdam, Giant and Timberland expanded their European distribution locations (in Lelystad and Almelo respectively) and Mitsui Chemicals committed to producing plastics at the Chemelot Campus in Limburg.
The majority of 'foreign jobs' are, as in 2017, created by US companies. In 2018, this accounted for 3,185 jobs, with a total accompanying investment of 1.19 billion euros. Following the US is the United Kingdom (1,596 jobs), then China (614 jobs), Japan (580 jobs) and Germany (300 jobs).
More Brexit companies
In 2018, the Invest in Holland network brought 42 companies to the Netherlands as a result of Brexit, accounting for 1,923 jobs and some 291 million euros in investments. Companies signaling expansion of their offices in the Netherlands partly due to Brexit, include the Japanese investment bank Norinchukin and media company TVT Media. Financial services providers MarketAxess and Azimo, and maritime insurer UK P&I Club all announced office openings in our country last year, due to Brexit as well. The relocation of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to Amsterdam, also supported by Invest in Holland, is included herein. In 2019, several companies, including Discovery and Bloomberg have already announced their intention to invest in the Netherlands because of Brexit.
The number of companies relocating activities to our country due to Brexit has grown compared to 2017, during which 18 companies made a Brexit-related move to the Netherlands. Additionally, the NFIA is talking with more than 250 foreign companies considering setting up operations in the Netherlands following Brexit. These are predominantly British companies, but also American and Asian organizations that are reconsidering their current European structure due to uncertainties caused by Brexit. These include companies in the financial sector, media and advertising, life sciences & health and logistics. In addition to the Netherlands, these companies are also investigating options in other countries, including Germany, France and Ireland.
Since the establishment of the Invest in Holland network in 2015, the NFIA and its regional partners have attracted 1,402 companies to the Netherlands. This has resulted in a total direct inward investment of 8.1 billion euros and the creation of more than 43,000 jobs in the Netherlands. In addition to the NFIA, the Invest in Holland network comprises the regional development agencies: NOM, Oost NL, North-Holland North, amsterdam inbusiness, InnovationQuarter, The Hague Business Agency, Rotterdam Partners, Invest Utrecht, BOM, Invest in Zeeland, LIOF and HIDC.
www.government.nl / www.investinholland.com
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David Gregory Named Moderator of ‘Meet the Press’
December 7, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush, Media, Obama | Tags: "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue", "Late Edition", ABC, Barack Obama, CBS, Chuck Todd, CNN, David Gregory, Face the Nation, Fox News Sunday, Gwen Ifill, Jeff Zucker, Meet the Press, MSNBC, NBC executives, NBC's political director, PBS's "Washington Week", President Bush, rivals, senior White House correspondent, This Week, Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw | Leave a comment
Barack Obama made news on “Meet the Press” this morning, but the NBC program made some news as well in the final moments.
Tom Brokaw, the interim moderator, confirmed what had already leaked out in recent days: the new host of the 60-year-old program will be David Gregory.
The network’s senior White House correspondent, now host of MSNBC’s “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” had been considered the front-runner for the post, which became vacant when longtime moderator Tim Russert died in June. But NBC executives were still negotiating the final terms of the deal this past week.
Gregory will take the helm of the top-rated Sunday talk show, but his rivals at ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’s “Face the Nation,” CNN’s “Late Edition” and “Fox News Sunday” all see an opportunity to move up now that Brokaw, the veteran NBC anchor, is relinquishing the reins.
Other leading contenders had been Chuck Todd, NBC’s political director, and Gwen Ifill, host of PBS’s “Washington Week.” The final decision was made by Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, and NBC News President Steve Capus.
Gregory, 38, frequently clashed with President Bush’s spokesmen during his days as a White House reporter. But he also has a witty side, which he often displayed while filling in as a co-host on the “Today” show. MSNBC tapped the 6-foot-5 correspondent as moderator during the presidential debates and on Election Night.
Russert, a former Democratic operative, dominated the Sunday morning competition after taking over the program in 1991 and making his mark with aggressive interviews. Brokaw, the former “Nightly News” anchor, agreed to fill in after Russert’s death but made clear he wanted to leave after the election.
What remains to be seen is whether Gregory sticks with the Russert format or tries to change the show to suit his personal style.
Since joining NBC, Gregory has covered the O.J. Simpson trials, the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the Clinton impeachment and the death of Pope John Paul II.
Katie Couric’s Advice For Sarah Palin
November 12, 2008 in Palin, Republican, Sarah Palin | Tags: advice, CBS, Katie Couric, Media News, Sarah Palin | Leave a comment
The NY Post caught up with CBS anchor Katie Couric and asked her about former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin:
Couric thinks Sarah Palin has a thing or two to learn about politics before she contemplates a White House run in 2012. “I think she should keep her head down, work really hard and learn about governing. But I’m not anyone to give advice to anyone about anything,” she told Page Six at Glamour Magazine’s 2008 Women of the Year Awards dinner at the Essex House. Although her interview with Palin made the Alaska governor look dumb, Couric won’t give herself too much credit. “I was really just a conduit that allowed her to air her views,” she said. “I don’t want to judge. I’ll let the voters do that.”
Election ’08: Soaring Number of Viewers, CNN twice as many as Fox News
November 6, 2008 in Barack Obama, Biden, democrats, Joe Biden, John McCain, McCain, Obama, Palin, Republican, Sarah Palin | Tags: 60 million viewers, ABC, audience, BET, Black Entertainment Televison, Brian Williams, broadcast networks, cable news, CALLING WIN, CBS, Charles Gibson, CNN, Diane Sawyer, ELECTION COVERAGE, ELECTION VIEWERS, Fox News, George Stephanopoulos, HDNet, Katie Couric, MSNBC, NBC, Nielsen, Nielsen Media Research, OBAMA WIN, Obama’s victory, Telemundo, Tom Brokaw, Univision, WOLF BLITZER, Wolfe | Leave a comment
During election night I went over to Fox News – I got the sense they were a little depressed over there – seem dismayed at the direction of the results coming in. They didn’t actually believe all that stuff they were saying about Barack – did they?
More than 60 million viewers watched prime-time, election-night coverage on ABC, NBC, CBS and the three main cable news networks, an increase of nearly 10 percent over 2004, according to early estimates provided Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research.
When adding in the viewership of eight other channels — including Black Entertainment Televison and the Spanish-language networks Univision and Telemundo — Tuesday night’s combined viewership ballooned to 71.5 million, more than in either 2004 or 2000.
The most-watched network, with an estimated 13.1 million viewers, was ABC. It had stationed Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos in Times Square, which was soon playing host to a raucous, impromptu celebration of Barack Obama’s victory that felt more like Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve party than election night. The network’s audience was about the same as in 2004.
On cable, the big winner was CNN, which drew an estimated 12.3 million viewers in prime time, nearly double its audience four years earlier. The CNN audience was so large that it eclipsed that of two broadcast networks, NBC (12 million) and CBS (7.8 million), for the first time. (The audiences for the NBC and CBS broadcasts, which were led by Brian Williams and Katie Couric, each fell by more than 15 percent, when compared with election night of 2004.)
NBC’s sister cable network, MSNBC, posted large gains, with an audience of 5.9 million, more than double its viewership in 2004, according to the Nielsen estimates. (During the campaign, MSNBC and The New York Times shared some political newsgathering.) Fox News also gained Tuesday night, with an estimated 9 million viewers, an increase of about 12 percent over 2004.
For viewers of the broadcast network coverage, this election night represented a moment of transition. Since the last election, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw have left their anchor posts on CBS and NBC — Mr. Brokaw returned as an NBC analyst Tuesday night, Mr. Rather was on HDNet, a cable channel — and Peter Jennings died.
For the cable news channels, too, new trends emerged. CNN, which was seen by fewer viewers than Fox News on election night 2004, this year outdrew Fox News. In addition, the Fox broadcast network drew 5.1 million viewers.
Hilary Clinton Expects ‘Big Win’ (Video)
November 4, 2008 in Barack Obama, Biden, Bush, Clinton, democrats, Joe Biden, Obama, Republican | Tags: Barack Obama, CBS, Clintons, hilary clinton, Hillary, New York, vote | Leave a comment
Another day on Palin/McCain hatred and racist rally trail!
October 29, 2008 in Barack Obama, John McCain, McCain, Obama, Palin, Republican, Sarah Palin | Tags: ABC, Biden, Bush, CBS, Clinton, CNN, conspiracy, Election, Fox News, funny, hannity, hate, iran, iraq, Israel, McCain, mob, MSNBC, o'reilly, Obama, Olbermann, Palin, palin crowd, PBS, racist, rally, Russia, truth, usa, war | Leave a comment
Obama on McCain tactics, family & winning (Video)
October 23, 2008 in Barack Obama, Biden, democrats, Joe Biden, John McCain, McCain, Obama, Palin, Sarah Palin | Tags: Biden, cancer, CBS, division, gradfather, grandmother, interview, McCain, mother, Negative, news, Obama, one-one, strategy, tactics | 2 comments
CBS Instant Poll Of Undecided Voters – Puts Obama 53% to McCain 22%
October 16, 2008 in Barack Obama, Debates, John McCain, McCain, Obama | Tags: 2008 presidential debate, 2008 presidential debate polls, CBS, CBS News, Instant Polls, Polls, voters, Voters Undecided | Leave a comment
Chaos On Wall Street – CBS (Video)
October 7, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush, Debates, Economy, John McCain, McCain, Obama, Republican | Tags: bailout, Biden, Bush, CBS, CBS News, Couric, Debates, Economy, Financial Crisis, McCain, Obama, politics, rescue plan, Wall Street | 1 comment
Sarah Palin discusses global warming and its causes, vaguely, on CBS
October 1, 2008 in climate change, Debates, Palin, Republican, Sarah Palin | Tags: causes, CBS, Debate, Environment, global warming, Sarah Palin, vaguely | Leave a comment
Sarah Palin clearly was in her comfort zone when she chatted on-air Tuesday with conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt. As The Ticket noted , she presented a persona and offered some lines that could serve her well in her Thursday debate with Joe Biden.
Tuesday also saw the broadcast of the last of her several interviews with Katie Couric of CBS (we will miss them; they were fast becoming a staple of our daily routine).
The final segment may not spark more calls from conservative commentators that Palin give up her spot on the Republican national ticket. But in front of the television cameras — and in the face of more pointed questioning — the self-assurance that marked her conversation with Hewitt continued to elude her.
One answer by Palin will do little to quell concerns about her position on global warming. As she did with ABC’s Charlie Gibson a few weeks back, she did her best to skirt a direct answer on its causes.
From the transcript:
Palin’s idea for the polar bears is to shoot them - literally - Palin and her husband Todd are challenging the Federal Gov. to have polar bears removed from the threatened species list - as their habitat gets in the way of their and Big Oil’s proposed oil drilling plans, but also to lift the ban on hunting them.
Couric: What’s your position on global warming? Do you believe it’s man-made or not?
Palin: Well, we’re the only Arctic state, of course, Alaska. So we feel the impacts more than any other state, up there with the changes in climates. And certainly, it is apparent. We have erosion issues. And we have melting sea ice, of course. So, what I’ve done up there is form a sub-cabinet to focus solely on climate change. Understanding that it is real. And …
Couric: Is it man-made, though in your view?
Palin: You know there are – there are man’s activities that can be contributed to the issues that we’re dealing with now, these impacts. I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate. Because the world’s weather patterns are cyclical. And over history we have seen change there. But kind of doesn’t matter at this point, as we debate what caused it. The point is: it’s real; we need to do something about it.
Pardon us for asking, but would it not be difficult to devise an effective policy to mitigate the effects of global warming without a firm grasp on what caused it?
Palin also was not about to be pinned down …
… by Couric on the subject of her reading habits. Here’s the exchange:
Couric: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
Palin: I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.
Couric: What, specifically?
Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.
Couric: Can you name a few?
Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where it’s kind of suggested, “Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?” Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.
Palin may well ace her final on Thursday (especially if much of the public decides to grade on the curve). But following the debate, we think it far more likely her future bookings will tilt heavily toward tete-a-tetes with friendly radio types than sit-downs with the likes of Gibson and Couric.
— Don Frederick
Debate Fallout: A Little For McCain But Somewhat More For Obama
September 27, 2008 in Barack Obama, Debates, McCain | Tags: Barack Obama Presidential Debates, CBS, CNN, Debates, Fox News, John McCain, McCain, Polls | Leave a comment
Several people commented the John McCain never glanced over once to look at Obama – McCain’s debating style indicates that he is depending of some sort of old guard force – to be there to automatically back him up – which will be there to assist him in getting others to see why Barack Obama should not be standing next to him in this debate.
What he fails to comprehend and perhaps is most afraid of is that Obama represents – the new guard – what we saw in the turn out of 200,000 people in Germany – what we saw on the last day of the Democratic Convention and with his acceptance speech – that Barack Obama is leading the charge as the new guard – with a new vision – that this can’t be put down with a few sarcastic old guard remarks and condescending phrases. Either way the new reality is Obama’s – like it was also Gore’s and Kerry’s – as it’s time move away from the old way and in a whole new direction.
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Pensions History
Tracing the history of British pensions
Thatcher’s Pension Reforms
The Fowler Inquiry into Provision for Retirement and the Pension Reforms of 1986
Publications & briefings
Principal Investigator: Professor Hugh Pemberton
Professor of Contemporary British History at the University of Bristol, Dr Pemberton is an expert on the history of of modern Britain, and particularly of British politics, from the Second World War to the very contemporary. Having worked for a number of years as a business analyst in the life and pensions industry he took is his PhD at Bristol in 2001 (in the departments of History and Politics). He took up a teaching post at Bristol in 2004, after a spell at the LSE as British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in its Department of Economic History. His research focuses principally on UK economic and social policy and on issues of governance.
Co-Investigator: Dr James Freeman
Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Bristol, Dr Freeman’s research examines twentieth-century British political rhetoric at macro and micro scales using a methodology that combines close-readings of archival materials with rhetorical theory and quantitative techniques derived from from corpus linguistics.
Research Assistant: Dr Aled Davies.
Dr Davies took his PhD at the University of Oxford in 2014 on ‘The City of London and British Social Democracy, c. 1959 – 1979’ . He is interested in the formation of Thatcherite economic and social policies. The research assistant on the project form 2014-17 he is now working at the University of Cambridge.
Doctoral Researcher: Thomas Gould.
Thomas is conducting research into the actuarial profession in the 1980s.
Thatcher’s Pension Reforms – Witness Seminar, 6 Dec 2017
Women Against State Pensions Inequality – some history
Josephine Cumbo joins project board
Thatcher’s Pension Reforms: Latest findings
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