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December 09, 2013 / Rebecca Jones
I've been thinking about what I want to share with you for the holiday season and there is so much and so little time that it's been hard to narrow it down ... After thinking it through a bit, my hope is to get you the following in the next week, which is cutting it a little close, but that's the best this tired mama can do, I'm afraid. (Super big apologies for completely and utterly missing Hanukkah. The good news is I shouldn't miss it for another 80,000 years or so.)
So, on my front burners are picture and chapter books that I can't live without, a recap of the best of 2013 for kids (picture and chapter books) including the best of the best, adult books of 2013 that you must buy for gifts (or for yourself), and graphic novels for kids ... and that's probably the best I can do without staying up all hours. If you're thinking, why in the world is she doing this -- well, it's purely selfish ... I love to talk books and I really love to write about them and I'm not good at shutting up. Ask my husband.
For today I want to present you with the books that I have found essential to my collection over the last 15 years, both as a children's librarian, and as a parent. I looked through my books (yes, a positively gluttonous amount) and thought about if I could take maybe 30 of them with me and had to give up the rest (horrors), which would they be? Worst case scenario, see? So, without further blathering, here they are. These are the books that you should make sure Santa buys for your kid, with publisher blurbs, because I'm lazy and short on time. They transcend gender and some, even age, and are essential to a basic collection:
For the littles (18 months to 4 years old):
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
Good night, Gorilla.
Good night, Elephant.
It's bedtime at the zoo, and all the animals are going to sleep. Or are they? Who's that short, furry guy with the key in his hand and the mischievous grin?
Good night, Giraffe.
Good night, Hyena.
Sneak along behind the zookeeper's back, and see who gets the last laugh in this riotous good-night romp.
Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd
In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room--to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one--he says goodnight.
In this classic of modern children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day.
A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka
Winner of the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal
This New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Best Illustrated Book relates a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her favorite ball is destroyed by a bigger dog. In the tradition of his nearly wordless picture book Yo! Yes?, Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka explores in pictures the joy and sadness that having a special toy can bring.
Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
"Bark, George," says George's mother, and George goes: "Meow," which definitely isn't right, because George is a dog.
And so is his mother, who repeats, "Bark, George." And George goes, "Quack, quack."
What's going on with George? Find out in this hilarious picture book from Jules Feiffer.
One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root and Jane Chapman
Down by the marsh,
by the sleepy,
slimy marsh,
one duck
gets stuck in the muck . . .
Can two fish, tails going swish, help? What about three moose, munching on spruce? Bright, spirited illustrations by Jane Chapman enhance this one-of-a-kind counting tale by Phyllis Root - a feast of sounds and numbers that will have listeners scrambling to join in the slippy, sloppy fun.
Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers and Marla Frazee
Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They're kissed and dressed and rocked and fed--and completely adored by the families who love them. With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing illustrations, here is an exuberant celebration of playing, sleeping, crawling, and of course, very noisy babies doing all the wonderful things babies do best.
For the slightly less little (ages 4-7):
Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems
It's getting dark, but the pigeon won't go to bed! Will you let him stay up late?
Max's Christmas by Rosemary Wells
Max has plans to stay up late to see Santa Claus, but his big sister, Ruby, wont let him. “Why?” asks Max. To which Ruby replies everyone’s most despised answer: “BECAUSE!” So Max takes matters into his own hands and sneaks into the living room to wait for Santa on his own. Will Santa still show up? What will he say if he sees Max up waiting for him?
In the Rain with Baby Duck by Amy Hest and Jill Barton
It's a rainy, rainy day, and Baby Duck hates rain. Mrs. Duck says she's never heard of a duck not liking rain. But then Grampa Duck and Baby Duck come down from the attic with a little umbrella and rubber boots that belonged to . . . whom? . . . Mrs. Duck! Baby Duck grabs them up with glee and goes outside to play. This ducky story—wonderfully illustrated with watercolors full of tender expression—will have every puddle jumper wishing for rain.
Ginger by Charlotte Voake
A perfect tale for cat lovers—and for younger siblings. Ginger the cat lives a comfortable, well-tended life. But when a pesky kitten moves in, Ginger's days of ease are over. Now it seems he must share his bed and his meals with the intruder forever! What is a pampered cat to do? The award-winning Charlotte Voake knows all about cats and their peculiar ways, as every reader of this dear and funny tale will soon find out.
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman who were very lonely. They decided to get a cat, but when the old man went out searching, he found not one cat, but millions and billions and trillions of cats! Unable to decide which one would be the best pet, he brought them all home. How the old couple came to have just one cat to call their own is a classic tale that has been loved for generations.
Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears:
Click, clack, moo.
But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes...Come join the fun as a bunch of literate cows turn Farmer Brown's farm upside-down!
The Complete Adventures of Curious George by H. A. and Margret Rey
H.A. and Margret Rey introduced the world to Curious George, and the world has loved him ever since. The tales of this cheerful and resilent little heror have kept generations of readers enthralled and entertained. This lavish 70th Anniversary edition includes an introduction by Leonard S. Marcus, Publisher's Perspective by Anita Silvey, retrospective essay by Dee Jones with photographic album of Margaret and H. A. Rey, and the seven original tales of Curious George: Curious George, Curious George Gets a Medal, Curious George Flies a Kite, Curious George Rides a Bike, Curious George Goes to the Hospital, Curious George Takes a Job, and Curious George Learns the Alphabet.
Farfallina and Marcel by Holly Keller
Once there was a caterpillar named Farfallina, whose best friend was a gosling named Marcel. They did everything together -- until one day, everything started to change.
This beautiful and touching story shows that even as life takes different turns, friendship endures.
"Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate by Bob Graham
There are lots of dogs of all shapes and sizes at the animal shelter. But Kate and her mom and dad know they want Dave the moment they see him. He’s small and cute and a perfect fit for the end of Kate’s bed. But then they see Rosy, who is old and gray and broad as a table. How can they take home just one dog when there are so many wonderful animals who need a home? Bob Graham creates an original, endearing family in a touching story that will appeal to animal lovers everywhere.
The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth and Barbara McClintock
A new rendition of a beloved classic. "Concisely written text and a jazzy refrain....You may have other versions on your shelves - make lots of room for copies of this one." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review.
The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney
Caldecott Medal winner Jerry Pinkney enlivens the beloved fable with cheerful and classically beautiful illustrations, making this the ideal edition for every child’s library. "Perfect [for] sharing with one listener, or a crowd." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama bear preparing for her own long winter. Meanwhile Sal's mother is being followed by a small bear with a big appetite for berries! Will each mother go home with the right little one?
With its expressive line drawings and charming story, Blueberries for Sal has won readers' hearts since its first publication in 1948.
For bigger elementary kids (ages 6-9):
Library Lion by Michelle Kudsen and Kevin Hawes
Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. There aren't any rules about lions in the library. And, as it turns out, this lion seems very well suited to library visiting. His big feet are quiet on the library floor. He makes a comfy backrest for the children at story hour. And he never roars in the library, at least not anymore. But when something terrible happens, the lion quickly comes to the rescue in the only way he knows how. Michelle Knudsen's disarming story, illustrated by the matchless Kevin Hawkes in an expressive timeless style, will win over even the most ardent of rule keepers.
Your Favorite Seuss by Dr. Seuss
From his very first book to his very last book, here in one big volume are 13 classic Dr. Seuss stories, everyone’s favorites. All of the words and virtually all of the illustrations are included. Each story is prefaced by a short essay by someone whose life was changed by Dr. Seuss or who is simply an unabashed admirer. Also included are photographs of Dr. Seuss, memorabilia, and original sketches from his books. The stories included are: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Horton Hears a Who!, McElligot’s Pool, If I Ran the Zoo, Happy Birthday to You!, Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book, Yertle the Turtle, The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax, The Sneetches, and Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House, a poignant story of a cute country cottage that becomes engulfed by the city that grows up around it. The house has an expressive face of windows and doors, and even the feelings of a person, so she’s sad when she’s surrounded by the dirty, noisy city’s hustle and bustle: “She missed the field of daisies / and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight.” Fortunately, there’s a happy ending, as the house is taken back to the country where she belongs.
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White and Garth Williams
Charlotte's Web is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur—and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider who lived with Wilbur in the barn.
With the help of Templeton, the rat who never did anything for anybody unless there was something in it for him, and by a wonderfully clever plan of her own, Charlotte saved the life of Wilbur, who by this time had grown up to quite a pig.
How all this comes about is Mr. White's story.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Ralph the mouse ventures out from behind the piney knothole in the wall of his hotel-room home, scrambles up the telephone wire to the end table, and climbs aboard the toy motorcycle left there by a young guest. His thrill ride does not last long. The ringing telephone startles Ralph, and he and the motorcycle take a terrible fall - right to the bottom of a metal wastebasket. Luckily, Keith, the owner of the motorcycle, returns to find his toy. Keith rescues Ralph and teaches him how to ride the bike. Thus begins a great friendship and many awesome adventures.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!
But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!
And for the oldest elementary kids (ages 8-10):
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo With an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with the Broiled Face, and find out what happens when someone steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a mountain snores, and they’ve put a brassiere on the camel.
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan, and when 10-year-old Bud decides to hit the road to find his father, nothing can stop him. Winner of the 2000 Newbery Medal, and the 2000 Coretta Scott King Award.
Bud's journey, punctuated by Dickensian twists in plot and enlivened by a host of memorable personalities, will keep readers engrossed from first page to last. -- Publishers Weekly
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
When ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her preacher father, she doesn't know what to expect. She is lonely at first--that is until she meets Winn-Dixie, a stray dog who helps her make some unusual friends. Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal begins to let go of some of her sadness and finds she has a whole lot to be thankful for.
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
How can a fairy's blessing be such a curse?
At her birth, Ella of Frell was given a foolish fairy's gift—the "gift" of obedience. Ella must obey any order given to her, whether it's hopping on one foot for a day or chopping off her own head!
But strong-willed Ella does not tamely accept her fate. She goes on a quest, encountering ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, fairy godmothers, and handsome princes, determined to break the curse—and live happily ever after.
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.
Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line.
Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it’s up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.
Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan’s unforgettable first-person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
"The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in."
Thirteen-year-old Sophie hears the sea calling, promising adventure and a chance for discovery as she sets sail for England with her three uncles and two cousins. Sophie's cousin Cody isn't sure he has the strength to prove himself to the crew and to his father. Through Sophie's and Cody's travel logs, we hear stories of the past and the daily challenges of surviving at sea as The Wanderer sails toward its destination—and its passengers search for their places in the world.
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice — two city slickers from Chicago — make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy. August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry — all in one day. And there's more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's — each one funnier than the year before — in self-contained chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a rollicking good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
All Harry Potter knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley — a great big swollen spoiled bully. Harry’s room is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn’t had a birthday party in eleven years.
But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to an incredible place that Harry — and anyone who reads about him — will find unforgettable.
For it’s there that he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic in everything from classes to meals, but a great destiny that’s been waiting for him… if Harry can survive the encounter.
Stay tuned for more gift suggestions as I recap the best of adult books for 2013 next.
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Andrew Wig, Ph.D.
Professor, Physics, Department Chair, Chemistry, Engineering & Physics
BenU faculty since 2005
Ph.D., University of Tennessee (2000)
M.S., University of Tennessee (1995)
B.S., North Park University (1991)
College Physics Laboratory, College Physics, University Physics Laboratory, Modern Physics, Modern Physics Laboratory, Electronics, Electricity and Magnetism, Introduction to the Engineering Profession, Engineering Design
Awards and Recognitions:
College of Science Dean's Award for Service 2014
Scanning Probe Microscopy, Optical Tweezers, Physics Education, Outreach
Optical Tweezers: Research will be conducted to use the BU optical tweezers instrument to study biological systems. Optical tweezers use focused light to trap and manipulate small objects. The initial study is focused on the trapping and analysis of E. coli bacteria. The project is experimental and involves learning about optics, lasers, and the interaction of light with matter.
Scanning Probe Microscopy: A Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) is a device used to image surfaces of materials with atomic resolution. This project will involve building and testing an STM. It is an experimental project and will involve computer programming and electronics.
Research Grants and Funding:
NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Award #1240091, “Expanding and Strengthening the Secondary STEM Teacher Training Program”, Co-PI (April, 2012) $ 1.2 million (grant period January 1, 2013-December 31, 2017.
Society of Physics Students, Reporter Grant, $500, Fall 2012
Society of Physics Students, Research Grant, $1796, Fall 2009
Professional Activities:
Benedictine University Radiation Safety Officer
Benedictine University IDEA On Campus Director
Co-PI NSF Grant
Laboratory Coordinator for Physics
Current and Former Research Students:
Ameen Ahmed, Physics major
Ambreen Aijazuddin, Physics major
Sylvia Krupa, Biology major
Robert Maynard, Physics major
Nicholas Sexton, Physics major
Jared St. John, Physics major
Sonali Patel, 2013, Biology
Alexis Wadowski, 2013, Physics
Joseph Esner, 2012, Health Science
Michael Krolikiewicz, 2012, Physics
Onyekachi Nwoke, 2012, Health Science
Alonso Valerio, 2012, Physics
Michael Frailaide, 2011, Physics
Beatriz Ibarra, 2011, Biology
Alexander Seymour, 2011, Physics
Jeremy Zoubek, 2011, Physics
Muzamil Arshad, 2010, Physics
Tricia Avanzado, 2010, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Michael Berry, 2010, Physics
Matthew Ekhoff, 2010, Chemistry
Swetha Sabu, 2010, Physics
Jeremy Swaw, 2010, Biology
Kristyn Bales, 2008, Physics and Biology
Sean Smith, 2007, Physics
C. Parks Cheney, A. Wig, R. H. Farahi, A. Gehl, D. L. Hedden, T. L. Ferrell, D. Ji, R. Bell, W. J. McBride, and S. O’Connor, In Vivo real-time ethanol vapor detection in the interstitial fluid of a Wistar rat using piezoresistive microcantilevers, Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 13(2) (2007)
C. Parks Cheney, A. Wig, R. H. Farahi, A. Gehl, D. L. Hedden, T. L. Ferrell, D. Ji, R. Bell, W. J. McBride, and S. O’Connor, In Vivo real-time ethanol vapor detection in the interstitial fluid of a Wistar rat using piezoresistive microcantilevers, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90(1) (2007)
C. Parks Cheney, A. Wig, D. L. Hedden, A. Gehl, A. L. Lereu, R. H. Farahi, S. R. Hunter, and T. L. Ferrell, Ethanol vapor detection in saline solution using piezoresistive microcantilevers, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 095101 (2006)
A. Wig, E. Arakawa, A. Passian, T. Thundat, and T. L. Ferrell, Photothermal Spectroscopy of Bacillus Cereus and Bacillus Anthracis from 2.5 µm to 14.5 µm with microcantilevers, Sensors and Actuators B 114, 206-211, (2006)
A. Passian, A.L. Lereu, A.Wig, F. Meriaudeau, T. Thundat, T.L. Ferrell, Imaging standing surface plasmons by photon tunneling, Physical Review B 71,165418(1)-165418(6), (2005)
A. Passian, A. L. Lereu, E. T. Arakawa, A. Wig, T. Thundat, and T. L. Ferrell, Multiple photon energies modulation via surface plasmons, Optics Letters 30(1), 41-43, (2005)
A. Passian, A. Wig, A. L. Lereu, F. Meriaudeau, T. Thundat, and T. L. Ferrell, Photon tunneling via surface plasmon coupling, Applied Physics Letters 85(16), 3420-3422, (2004)
A. Passian, A. Wig, A. L. Lereu, F. Meriaudeau, T. Thundat, and T. L. Ferrell, Probing large area surface plasmon interference in thin metal films using photon scanning tunneling microscopy, Ultramicroscopy 100, 429-436, (2004)
L. A. Pinnaduwage, A. Wig, D. L. Hedden, A. Gehl, D. Yi, T. Thundat, R.T. Lareau, Detection of Trinitrotoluene via Deflagration on a Microcantilever, Journal of Applied Physics 95(10), 5871-5875, (2004)
A. Wig, A. Passian, E. Arakawa, T. L. Ferrell, and T. Thundat, Interference effects in optically activated microcantilevers, Journal of Applied Physics, 95(3), 1162-1165, (2004)
A. Passian, R. J. Warmack, A. Wig, R.H. Farahi, F. Meriaudeau, T.L. Ferrell, T. Thundat Observation of Knudsen effect with microcantilevers, Ultramicroscopy 97(1-4), (2003)
G. Muralidharan, A. Wig, L. A. Pinnaduwage, D. Hedden, T. Thundat, R. Larou, Adsorption-desorption of Explosive Vapors Investigated with Microcantilevers, Ultramicroscopy 97(1-4), (2003)
A. Passian, A. Wig, F. Meriaudeau, T.L. Ferrell, T. Thundat, Knudsen forces on microcantilevers, Journal of Applied Physics 92, (2002)
A. Passian, A. Wig, F. Meriaudeau, T.L. Ferrell, Potential distribution and field intensity for a hyperboloidal probe in a uniform field, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 20(1), (2002)
A. Passian, A. Wig, F. Meriaudeau, M. Buncick, T. Thundat, T.L. Ferrell, Electrostatic force density for a scanned probe above a charged surface, Journal of Applied Physics, 90(2), (2001)
F. Meriaudeau, A. Wig, A. Passian, J.P. Lauret, T.L. Ferrell, Multiple gold island layers on a fiber core: a promising sensing device, Opt. Eng. 40(5), (2001)
F. Meriaudeau, T. L. Ferrell, E. T. Arakawa, A. Wig, A. Passian, T. Thundat, W. J. Shen, S. Patel, F. B. Kraemer, Study of Different Hormone-Sensitive Lipase Concentrations Using a Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor, Sensors and Actuators B, 73, (2001)
F. Meriaudeau, A. Wig, A. Passian, T. Downey, M. Buncick, and T. L. Ferrell, Gold Island Fiber Optic Sensor for Refractive Indexes Sensing, Sensors and Actuators B, 69(1-2), (2000)
T. Downey, F. Meriaudeau, A. Passian, A. Wig, T. L. Ferrell, Guided propagation in a step index, multi-mode fiber: effects of index difference variation on allowable TM propagation constants, Optics and Laser Technology, 31(4), (1999)
F. Meriaudeau, T. R. Downey, A. Wig, A. Passian, M. C. Buncick, and T. L. Ferrell, Fiber optic sensor on gold island plasmon resonance, Sensors and Actuators B, 54(1-2), (1999)
F. Meriaudeau, T. R. Downey, A. Passian, A. Wig, and T. L. Ferrell, Environmental Effects on surface-plasmon spectra in gold island films potential for sensing applications, Applied Optics, 37(34), (1998)
F. Segner, M. Breinig, D. Desai, A. Wig and L. Straus, Recoil-ion charge-state-resolved electron-production cross sections at 55o for 1 MeV/u C5+ on He and Ar, Physical Review A, 54(2), (1996)
A. Wig, F. Meriaudeau, A. Passian, J.P. Goudonnet, and T. L. Ferrell, Spectroscopy with the Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Microscopy Today, 00-3 (2000)
T. L. Ferrell, F. Meriaudeau, A. Passian, J.P. Goudonnet, and A. Wig, Imaging with the Photon Scanning-Tunneling Microscope, Microscopy Today, 99-4(1999)
Peer-Reviewed and Invited Presentations:
A. Wig, Activity Based Physics at Benedictine University.
APFI Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, July 2009
A. Wig, Optical Tweezers
College of Science Faculty Colloquium, Benedictine University, Spring 2009
A. Wig, Use and Effectiveness of Interactive Lecture Demonstrations
4th annual ACCA Pedagogy Symposium, Lewis University, IL, Fall 2008
A. Wig, Activity Based Physics Education
A. Wig, A. Passian, P. Boudreaux, and T.L. Ferrell, Surface Plasmon Based Spectrometer
American Physical Society March Meeting at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2008
A. Wig, Microcantilever Sensors
College of Science Faculty Colloquium, Benedictine University, December 2006
- A. Wig, A. Passian, E. Arakawa, T. L. Ferrell, and T. Thundat, Interference effects in optically activated microcantilevers
- A. Passian, A. Wig, A. L. Lereu, F. Meriaudeau, T. Thundat, and T. L. Ferrell, Measurement of large area surface plasmon interference in thin metal films using photon scanning tunneling microscopy
Nanostructures and Sensors Conference at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire May 2003
- N. Munoz Aguirre, A. Passian, A. Wig, T. L. Ferrell, Measurements of the dielectric function of allotropic water using absorption spectra of gold (Au) islands at the surface plasmon resonance
- N. Munoz Aguirre, A. Passian, A. Wig, L. Martinez Perez, T. L. Ferrell, Room temperature gas response of evaporated Sn02 thin films using total internal reflection
CSI 2002 9th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors Boston, USA July 7-10 2002
- A. Passian, A. Wig, T.L. Ferrell, F. Meriaudeau, and T. Thundat, Knudsen forces on microcantilevers
- A. Wig, A. Passian, S. Zhu, M. George, T. L. Ferrell, and T. Thundat, Optical activation of microcantilevers with applications for coatingless chemical detection
Scanning Probe Microscopy Sensors and Nanostructures, May 26-29, 2002, Las Vegas, NV
G. Muralidharan, A. Wig, L. Pinnaduwage, T. Thundat and R. T. Lareau, Chemical Sensors Based on Piezoresistive Microcantilevers
2002 MRS Spring Meeting San Francisco, California April 1-5, 2002 Volume 723
L.A. Pinnaduwage, P.F. Britt, J.E. Hawk, D.L. Hedden, R.H. Ilgner, G. Muralidharan, M.E. Sigman, T. Skeen, T. Thundat, A. Wig, E.J. Houser, and R.A. McGill, Explosive Vapor Detection Using Microcantilever Sensors
3rd International Aviation Security Technology Symposium, November 27 – 30, 2001, Atlantic City, NJ
F. Meriaudeau, A. Wig, A. Passian, T.L. Ferrell, New fiber optic sensor: application to refractive index sensing, p354-364
Applications of Optical Fiber Sensors 2000, Proc. SPIE Vol. 4074
F. Meriaudeau, A. Wig, A. Passian, T. Downey, M. Buncick, and T. L. Ferrell, Gold island fiber optic sensor, p214-23
Fiber Optic Sensor Technology and Applications September 1999, Proc. SPIE Vol 3860
- F. Meriaudeau, T.R. Downey, A. Passian, P.I. Oden, A.G. Wig, P.B. Crilly, S. Mangeant, T.L. Ferrell, Thin metal island plasmon sensor, p328-33
- J.C. DePriest, F. Meriaudeau, P.I. Oden, T. Downey, A. Passian, A. Wig, T.L. Ferrell, Chemically Sensitive Surface Plasmon Devices Employing a Self-Assembled Composite Monolayer Film, p772-76
- F. Meriaudeau, T.R. Downey, A. Passian, A.G. Wig, S. Mangeant, P.B. Crilly, T.L. Ferrell, Development of a fiber optics sensor based on gold island plasmon resonance., p1179-84
International Conference of Application of Photonic Technology July 1998, Proc. SPIE Vol 3491
T. L. Ferrell, P.B. Crilly, S.F. Smith, A.L. Wittenberg, C.L. Britton, G.W. Morrison, M.N. Ericson, D. Hedden, D. Bouldin, A. Passian, T. Downey, A. Wig, F. Meriaudeau, Medical Telesensors, p193-198
Biomedical Sensing and Imaging Technologies January 1998, Proc. SPIE Vol 3253
A.G. Wig, D. D. Desai, M. Breinig, Cusp electron production in Coincidence with Target Recoil Ions for 3 MeV C+ on Ar Collisions
The 63rd Meeting of Southeastern Section American Physical Society (SESAPS) November 14-16, 1996, Decatur, Georgia
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Touching Jodhpur – India's Blue City
A general view of the residential area is pictured during dusk at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, April 5, 2015. Jodhpur, also known as the blue city in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan, which residents say originally, was used to show where the highest caste of priestly Hindus live, who wanted to set them apart from the rest of the population. Later the rest of the population followed suit. Another reason for the city to be blue is to keep the buildings cool during the summers, local residents said. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
Educative Blue Dragon
Glaucus atlanticus (common names sea swallow, blue glaucus, blue sea slug and blue ocean slug) is a species of small-sized blue sea slug, a pelagic aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Glaucidae. This is the only species in the genus Glaucus, but is closely related to Glaucilla marginata, which sometimes is included in Glaucus.
Touching “Call of the Blue”
Teeming with images of spectacular underwater scenes from around the world, Call of the Blue is the culmination of a five-year project by the photographer and ocean conservationist Philip Hamilton. This groundbreaking book includes contributions from acclaimed scientists and ocean “guardians”, who reveal what drove them to answer the call of the blue. (Photo by Philip Hamilton/The Guardian)
Fact Crab-Catching Blues
A large stainless steel shovel lies on top of steamed crabs at the A.E. Phillips & Son Inc. crab picking house on Hooper's Island in Fishing Creek, Maryland August 26, 2015. Workers speed through the lump and back fin meat inside the crabs while leaving the more tedious task of picking the claws to others. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Educative Blue-Footed Booby
The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird in the family Sulidae, which includes ten species of long-winged seabirds. Blue-footed boobies belong to the genus Sula, which comprises six species of boobies. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait. Males display their feet in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting their feet up and down while strutting before the female.
See Also: Red
Blue-footed Booby
Educative Blue Marlin: The Giant Ship
Blue Marlin is a semi-submersible heavy lift ship from Dockwise Shipping of the Netherlands. Designed to transport very large semi-submersible drilling rigs above the transport ship's deck, it is equipped with 38 cabins to accommodate 60 people, a workout room, sauna and swimming facilities. Blue Marlin and her sister ship MV Black Marlin comprise the Marlin class of heavy lift ship.
Educative Chefchaouen – the Blue City of Morocco
Chefchaouen or Chaouen is a city in northwest Morocco. It is the chief town of the province of the same name, and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue.
Fact Blue Cut Fire
Seen in a long exposure nighttime photograph, a burned van rests in a lot while a wildfire glows on the horizon in Phelan, Calif., early Thursday, August 18, 2016 2016. (Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)
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“WINTER SOUNDS,” The City of West Hollywood’s Free Concert Series, Kicks off Sat. January 9!
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“WINTER SOUNDS,” THE CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD’S FREE INDOOR CONCERT SERIES,
KICKS OFF JANUARY 9, 2016 AT 4PM WITH MUSIC FROM IREESH LAL
AND LIVE PAINTING FROM NORTON WISDOM
FUTURE CONCERTS REATURE DR. DAWN NORFLEET, GARRETSON & GORODETSKY,
JACK’S CATS, AND HONEY WHISKEY TRIO
The City of West Hollywood, through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, announces the line-up for Winter Sounds 2016, a series of five free indoor concerts held in the City Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room at the West Hollywood Library and Plummer Park’s Fiesta Hall. With an initial concert on January 9, the series runs alternative Saturdays, concluding on March 5. Programming spotlights world music, jazz, folk, and swing. All shows begin at 4PM and are free to attend. Seating is provided, and RSVPs are not required (but are encouraged at http://weho.org/residents/arts-and-culture/2016-winter-sounds).
The kick-off for Winter Sounds on Saturday, January 9 (4PM) features a unique mixture of world sounds, jazz, and electronic music from multi-instrumentalist, composer and programmer Ireesh Lal and live painting from renowned Los Angeles artist Norton Wisdom in the City Council Chambers at the West Hollywood Library. Lal boldly combines his original electronic music and distinctly Western jazz trumpet lines with traditional East Indian elements including the sounds of tabla, oud, and sitar. Wisdom will paint on a wet-erase board, continually altering imagery as he follows the music. Lal cites influences including Ravi Shankar, Miles Davis and Thievery Corporation. His debut solo album Ethnotronica was reased in 2014.
On Saturday, January 23 (4PM), flutist, vocalist and composer Dr. Dawn Norfleet will perform a jazz concert in Fiesta Hall at Plummer Park. Norfleet, who earned a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University, will perform a diverse selection of jazz numbers, including funky odd meter instrumentals to soulful and traditional ballads. She will be accompanied by veteran L.A.-based players with backgrounds ranging from straight ahead jazz to funk. Norfleet has previously performed for the Jazz at LACMA series, and she is also on the teaching-artist faculty of The Music Center. Her workshop is entitled ‘Do-Be’ or Not ‘Do-Bop’: A Vocal Jazz Journey, which takes students on a historical trek through the development of vocal jazz.
On Saturday, February 6, 2016 (4PM), songwriters and performance artists Garretson & Gorodetsky will take the stage in the City’s Council Chambers at the West Hollywood Public Library. They will be joined by Brainchildren of Xenog in a freewheeling concert experience that combines folk tunes, pop ideas, blues riffs and jazz harmonies to create songs that are both haunting and humorous. Their music often explores the fragility of existence, whether it’s a song about a garden slug or a predatory scrub jay. The performance will recreate the sonic experience of a backyard in Los Angeles where skunks, possums, owls, hawks and cats manage to thrive. The ensemble includes: vocalist Weba Garretson on piano and guitar; guitarist and singer Ralph Gorodetsky; Vince Meghrouni on harmonica, flute and saxophone; Brian Christopherson on percussion; Dan Clucas on trumpet, coronet; and Michael Alvidrez on bass. Garretson & Gorodetsky have previously performed at the Getty Museum, UCLA, Skirball Cultural Center, and MOCA. Commissions include music for Los Angeles Poverty Department’s “Utopia/Dystopia” at the Redcat, and the LA Public Library’s stage celebration “My Moby Dick” at the Broad Theatre.
On Saturday, February 20, 2016 (4PM), Jack’s Cats will swing into Fiesta Hall at Plummer Park to entertain concertgoers with a “new-old” sound that’s unmistakably grounded in 1930s/1940s vintage jazz and swing, yet also feels contemporary and vital. Bandleader, swing clarinetist and composer Jack Malmstrom heads the band, which features up-and-coming musicians drawn from Los Angeles’ thriving vintage jazz scene, each one known for musical prowess and engaging showmanship. Toes will be tapping for sure, and dancing will be encouraged at this concert.
Winter Sounds concludes at the beginning of Women’s History Month with folk music from the all-female Honey Whiskey Trio on Saturday, March 5, 2016 (4PM) in the City’s Council Chambers Room at the West Hollywood Public Library. Featuring storytellers in song Courtney Gasque, Ann Louise Jeffries Thaiss, and Christina Wilson, Honey Whiskey Trio explores harmony and melody in folk and bluegrass—and in other well-known tunes sung with a “honey twist.” They will perform a capella, with body percussion, and accompanied by mandolin, guitar, banjo, washboard, dulcimer and mouth trumpet. In 2013, Honey Whiskey Trio won the Harmony Sweepstakes National Competition, also winning Audience Favorite. They have gone on to headline the Los Angeles A Cappella Festival, the Women’s A Cappella Association’s SheSings Festival, and the South Eastern Minnesota A Cappella Festival; have all individually performed with Vox Femina; and were featured artists at the FAR-West Folk Festival, the Rogue Valley Roots Festival, the Long Beach Folk Revival Festival, and the Shedd Institute for the Arts.
To hear music samples from each artist in the series: http://www.weho.org/residents/arts-and-culture/2016-winter-sounds
For concerts that take place at the City’s Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room, free validated parking is available in the five-story parking structure, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard, accessible from El Tovar Place. For concerts that take place at Plummer Park’s Fiesta Hall, free parking is available in both parking lots at Plummer Park, located at 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard.
To learn more about the City of West Hollywood and its arts projects:
www.weho.org/arts
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Barton Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB22 ££85,000
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An excellent opportunity to acquire an attractive and well situated parcel of arable land, with significant amenity value. The land itself extends to 3.474 hectares (8.584 acres in total).
The village of Little Eversden lies 6 miles to the south west of Cambridge just to the north of the A603. The attached plan shows the exact location.
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The land is registered under this scheme.
Wayleaves, Easements and Rights of Way
The land will be sold subject to and with the benefit of all public and private rights of way, pipes, drains, cables, pylons or other easements, restrictions or obligations, whether or not mentioned in these particulars. The land is accessed via a grass strip from the A603 (Cambridge Road).
No services are connected to the land.
All standing timber and hedgerows of trees on land are included within the sale.
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All minerals in or under the land insofar as they are owned by the vendor or are included in the sale.
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The purchaser will be deemed to have inspected the land and satisfy themselves as to the ownership of any boundary, ditch or hedge. Where ownership is know, it is marked by a T on the plans accompanying these particulars of sale. All unmarked boundaries shall be owned and maintained as here to for.
Offers in the region of £85,000 (Eighty Five Thousand Pounds) are invited.
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March 03 2015: Fenris calls for help in dealing with an incipient disaster. Heroes arrive, just where they're needed. And Deadpool
Gotham Coast
The North End of Gotham is almost deserted and abandoned. Almost.
Fenris Wolf
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Steel Blossom - Hydra Operative
Like most coastal cities, Gotham features a substantial population connected to the sea. Extensive dockworks and fisheries built up near the harbor show hat quite clearly. However it's a feature of the modern era that even those who make their living on the rolling blue don't always know the secrets contained therein.
That's mostly for the best.
Tonight, a lone, lean man in a long coat walks a lonely, decrepit road at Gotham's edge, glancing back and forth with a frown. There's deep magic here. Dark magic. Old magic. Something brought by the people across the sea eons ago, and it's beginning to wake.
He may need some help.
The Old Wolf reaches into his pocked and retrieves a cellphone, dialing a number he never uses. "Barbara, can you hear me? There's going to be trouble at the North Shore. Soon."
In the Clocktower, Oracles face is lit by the flickering from her screens, green eyes monitoring her teams on the ground. The phone ringing elicits a bemused glance, as does the number that appears.
"Yes, I can hear you Fenris. North Shore, soon. I'll send some of teams that way. What type of trouble, do you know yet?" The redhead looks grim. This is not usual for Fenris.
Through the Oracle network, the wheelchair bound woman speaks "All teams, this is Oracle, support is needed in North Shore. Now. Exact nature of the threat is still being determined. Please acknowledge and advice when you're heading that way."
Sleep didn't always come easy to Kara, even though her body needed it; it was a fitful time for her often filled with nightmares about Krypton and the things she had seen on Earth. When she couldn't sleep, she often flew.
She had no other excuse for flying around aimlessly, her course taking her inexplicitly towards Gotham City. Spying the lone figure in the longcoat on the decrepit road she decides to go check it out.
Setting down on the ground not far from Fenris, she asks the man, "Are you lost Sir? It's not very safe to be out at this time of night." She had never been to Gotham but she had heard the rumors.
"Acknowledged, Oracle," says Robin. He's not far from the shore, and makes his way there quickly enough, batline rapidly carrying him across the city. He stops on a rooftop overlooking the area, scanning below to see what the issue may be. Old guy in trench coat. Supergirl.
This latter causes him to doubletake, if briefly. In general non-Gotham heroes steer clear of the city — by and large out of respect for/fear of Batman. But Supergirl is Supergirl. He doubts she has much fear of Batman, and while he's generally heard good things about her, her presence in Gotham might not be the best.
"Heads up, Oracle. We have Supergirl on site."
"So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night." The song is sung in a child-like voice, thought it could just as easily belong to an adult. "I hate to go and leave this pretty sight." There is button mashing going on up there. "So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu. Adieu, adieu, to yieu, and yieu, and yieu." And with every 'yieu', Deadpool kills another person as he plays Assassin's Creed III: Liberation on a PlayStation Vita.
With an exaggerated yawn, he pauses his game and stretches his arms, cracking some muscles in the process. "Time for a quadruple B," a big belly burger break for those following at home, he says as he stands up from the green lawn chair with a cherry motif and reaches for the greasy brown bag. Opening it, he allows the smell to rise up and fill his masked nostrils with that intoxicating scent.
He unwraps the burger, takes a big bite, and then immediately spits it out, "eww, there are onions in this! Damnit, now I gotta take it back and have a word with Todd. And he looked so confident when he took my order." Just as he was about to hop down, he noticed two people, one was a real cutie, and the other kind of looked like a female version of Superman. And he waited. "Let's see how this plays out?"
The tall, lean man looks over to Supeprgirl and cants his head slightly. Not the kind of help he was expecting Oracle to send but he'll take it. "No, sadly not." He can't resist. "Not all who wander are lost, you know. And it's about to get less safe here."
He can feel the old magic boiling up from the sea. And a moment later, see… something quite literally boiling up from the sea. Draugr. In this case, the sea giving up it's dead in a way decidedly not what the author of that phrase had in mind when it was penned. Everyone present will hear, at the very edges of their hearing, faint snatches of a song somewhere behind… it's a sad, sweet, haunting, piercing melody. One that could wake the dead. And apparently has.
"Someone's singing the Siren's song. And the dead are responding." The old wolf plucks a necklace off his neck. In a moment it's a very large sword apparently made of silver. "They will do, as one might expect, rather awful things if allowed to run rampant. Oracle, locate the singer. She must be nearby, somewhere. She has to be stopped."
Fenris hasn't noted Deadpool yet, nor Tim, but his voice is clearly audible as he speaks to Kara. "I could probably use some help with this."
"Acknowledged Robin." Oracle watches the Avatar with the little robin move across her screen towards Fenris. The video feeds for the area are pulled to the centre and enlarged. "A female singer, acknowledged Fenris. Looking now. Robin is approaching your location…." she pauses as she notes the burger eating man "You have someone else on the lawn near you too."
There's a number of cameras, and angles, to view, none with sound, it will take Oracle a few moments to locate the singer.
Kara blinks when the man gets all philosophical on her, but she's distracted immediately by the things boiling up from the sea along with the Siren's Song. The young woman stare's off ahead, knowing now why people left Gotham alone.
Then she's distracted by Fenris and his massive sword that just appeared out of nowhere, "Nice sword. Count me in." She couldn't sleep because of nightmares, so beating the crap out of some would be a good remedy she hoped.
Deadpool. It doesn't take long for Robin to identify the… whatever Deadpool is. Mutant assassin? Successor to Shakespeare's fools? Whatever. Robin knows that this is trouble. "The someone," he tells Oracle in a murmur, "Is Deadpool." Could be good. Could be bad. Deadpool, from what Robin knows of the man, is about as crazy as the Joker, but less sadistic and more whimsical. One can hope.
Rather than rushing into things, having heard Oracle's statement about a female singer he uses his ears — and his equipment, plugging a small parabolic microphone into his headset to try and find the source of the music.
"What is that beautiful music?" Deadpool asks no one in particular. He reaches into his belt and pulls out his mobile, trying to record it, but after around 2 minutes, he'll stop, and try and play it back. But the song is too quiet for the phone to pick up. "Damnit, I knew I shouldn't have bought Canadian. Research in Motion my ass, this Blackberry is more like Rubbish in Motion. Next time, I'm buying Japanese, or at least Korean, definitely something Asian."
With a frustrated shake of his head, he'll slip the phone back into his utility belt and do a running jump, followed by a somersault, right into the pavement below. But miraculously, he doesn't die, or even look to be particularly hurt. He'll break the fall by slapping his arms out as he lands on his back, and then quickly roll to his feet, unsheathing a katana during the movement.
"Here's Johnny!" He calls out, then says in a lower, quicker voice, like you'd expect as legal jargon at the end of a commercial, "Here's Johnny is a registered trademark jointing owned by the Stanley Kubrick estate and Warner Brothers Entertainment Incorporated, and is used with the expressed verbal, but not written permission of said parties." And to Supergirl, who was just admiring Fenris' swords, he says, "mine's bigger."
"No doubt." Fenris chuckles and turns to face the wave of dead men walking up the beach. They are not fast. At least not at the moment. They don't look real squishy though. Most are overgrown with some manner of coral, which looks dense and sharp. Many have spikes for hands or claws grown onto their fingers. And there are hundreds. Fenris starts to walk forward. He asked for help and now he has it. Time to do a little spring cleaning.
Robin can quite clearly hear the song now. Enough to get a direction, at least. A more precise location may have to wait for Oracle… who just found the singer. She has a gun and a sword and appears to be behind several locked security doors… which fortuitiously have electronic locks.
"Deadpool." Oracle shakes her head. The man… can be problematic… even when he's fighting on their side.
The singer is located "Office building to your left, Robin. Ground floor, 3rd office on the right. I'll unlock the doors as you get there." This communication is shared with Fenris, as well. Now she's found the singer, the systems facial recognition systems kick in… she should know who the woman is very soon…
Robin, for his part, is already on his way into the building. Direction is enough to get him going, dropping down from his perch and heading in to find the source of the siren song. He's silent, but has extended his bo staff to its full length, cautious, but constantly moving forward and seeking his quarry, going through the doors as Oracle unlocks them. "I'm going in," he notes, probably unnecessarily. Best to keep her posted.
Kara raises her eyebrows as Deadpool suddenly appears and brags about having a bigger sword, "Uh, cool. So why don't you show me how good you are with it?" Like a cute blonde terminator, Kara starts walking towards the undead sea zombie creatures and starts firing blasts of searing red energy from her eyes.
The beams from her eyes cut a path in front of her, mowing down hordes of the creatures as they start moving up on to land. It was fun to cut loose and not have to worry about injuring other living beings.
Then she noticed how many more of the creatures there were. Groaning just a little, she asked nobody in particular, "Why does everything bad always come from the water?"
A katana is a beautiful weapon. They are usually hundreds of years old, made from fairly poor materials, but with the greatest technique. If only Japan had access to better metals, then the katana would have been even better. Weapons such as those are to be respected, honoured, and treated with dignity. Deadpool… uses it to scratch his back.
Supergirl presents Deadpool with a genuine motivation. An attractive girl in tight clothing just asked him to show how good he is with a sword. What red blooded Canadian could resist such temptation. So of course, Deadpool reaches for his phone, and begins playing Clash of Clans as Supergirl begins slaughtering the dead people. And that thought makes him ask aloud, "if you kill a zombie, is that really murder? Zombies are already dead." So, is he on their side, or just being a smart ass? Maybe if he had an incentive, like money. Money is always good.
Fenris really doesn't know Deadpool or he might know what to offer. Really, a two thousand year old wolf-god has had time to get money. He lays into the 'wave' with his blade. Two things are immediately apparent. One) Fenris is not normal. He moves too fast and hits too hard to be normal. Two, Kara is way more efficient. Being able to glare a zombie back to death is definitely faster than swording it.
Well, three things, actually. Three, the song hasn't called just humans. The water parts and some thing that looks vaguely like a very, very large crocadile emerges. A crocadile the size of a small cargo ship.
"Well… that's… unfortunte." The croc roars, causing debris to fly and, incidently, a large rock to strike Deadpool's phone.
The locks open as Oracle disengages them and the song falters just a little as the woman hears them doing so. She reaches over to a switch and kills the lights as Robin nears, laying in wait with that sword and gun as Oracle unlocks the last door.
She may want to get those lights back on.
Oracle does like the feedback, even though she can see what the team is doing via her screens.
Thank goodness for Building Management Systems. Oracle was already tapped in and getting the lights back on is quite easy. "Lights coming on, Robin. She's armed with a sword and a gun." She'll give him time to make the necessary adjustments before making the change.
The results of the face recognition search are returned and the redheads' eyes widen. "HYDRA agent, Robin. Name: Steel Blossom. She's a deadly swordswoman."
Never enter a dark room without a plan. Robin reaches up to his mask to touch a hidden button below his right lens — and then drops his hand away from the night-vision toggle switch. With the lights coming back on, he doesn't want to blind himself.
Rather than simply enter this room, though, he touches a second button, switching to heat vision, and then tosses a pair of smoke pellets through the door. He gives them a few seconds for the smoke to fill the room, and then follows them in, keeping close to the ground to dodge gunfire or a blade, which would usually come toward his midsection. He doesn't speak to acknowledge Oracle's words — that might alert Steel Blossom to his position.
"Isn't that cute" Kara remarks as she sees the gigantic killer croc appear, if it could even be called a crocodile anymore. Glancing over at Deadpool who was playing video games until the loss of his phone she just shakes her head, "Boys and their toys."
The sound of a supersonic boom can be heard and Kara is flying towards the cargo ship sized creature intending to punch it right in the face or fly through it. Whatever got the job done.
"So much for the Deadphone, I hardly knew ye," comes from behind the mask as the man rapidly shakes his wrist. The rock may have knocked the phone out of his hand, destroying it, but damn, that hurt his hand too. He has a healing factor, but that doesn't mean he likes being hit with rocks. At least, not unless he's paying extra for it.
Looking back towards the cargo ship-sized crocodile, he briefly checks his teleporter, "oh yeah, I forgot I was in Gotham, the city so nice, they left it twice." His hand comes up to rub at his chin, "okay, on the one hand, you destroyed my blackberry, and I hated that thing, so that's good. But on the other hand," teleporter engaged, he disappears, reappearing on top of the cargo ship-sized crocodile, "you hurt my hand, so you're gonna have to say sorry, or we just can't be friends."
Already knowing which way he thinks the relationship is going to go, he was going to try to stab the crocodile through the head with his sword, in a test of Japanese craftsmanship versus American kaiju. Who knows, maybe this guy could get a gig in Pacific Rim 2: The Search for More Money.
But Supergirl had other ideas. He teleported over there, so she would be forgiven for the pain he's probably about to endure. She had no idea he was going to do that. At least she won't have to worry about his medical bills. For one, he's Canadian, and they have universal health care. And if that weren't enough, he also has a healing factor. All he can get out before the sonicboom is a sigh of "oh, crap."
Oracle cannot hear the banshee scream as the lights come back up and the woman leaps into the smoke at where he was. She misses, but is quick on the recovery, blade coming up and whipping at the boy wonder's head. She's playing for keeps here and means to give Robin a thrashing that will make what the Joker did to him look petty and quaint.
Back outside both Kara and Wade go flying to the crocadile-thing which roars it's defiance… just in time for the Girl of Steel and the Man of Scars to go right down the gullet and discover that one, it really, really stinks in here, and two, it's a lot tougher than it looks. Not tough enough to stop Kara, but enough that the impact is quite noteable.
Fenris hears the song falter as Robin engages the singer and holds the beach more or less alone. There's a lot less to hold though after Kara did a number on the Draugr and the god-wolf isn't having too much trouble. "Oracle the Draugr appear to be faltering. If we can have light and noise here, as much as possible, it will confuse them. When the song fails, they'll return to the sea where it's dark and quiet."
Oracle watches the Boy Wonder engage and winces. She watched the thrashing he received at the hand of The Joker… and does not want to see that again.
Fenris' request, gets a sharp nod…. and Gothams Information Goddess is already hacking alarm and building management systems for the surrounding structures.
"It's about to get very noisy there, Fenris. Lights and Sound in 3…" her hands move over her console, entering commands "2…. " another flurry of tapping at the screen… "and 1…." Security klaxons sound from each and every building, flood lights flare to life… "That is what you wanted wasn't it, Fenris?"
Steel Blossom may be a deadly swordswoman, but there are a lot of those. On the other hand, he is probably the single best wielder of the bo in the world. His staff shifts upward, catching her sword, deflecting it, and then he twists the staff up and plants it, using it as leverage to swing a kick at her side. He does not consider for a moment the thrashing he received from Joker. You learn from what happens, and you move on. This woman is not the Joker. She may be a fanatic — many of the HYDRA types are, but she cannot be the sort of maniac that Joker is. And thus she has human weaknesses, foibles, psychological flaws that the Joker would not.
Sure, he may be one big psychological flaw, but that kind of gets in the way of using his mind against him.
As Kara ends up right in the stinky gullet of the beast, her nose wrinkling in disgust as she looks to Deadpool, "I thought it smelled bad on the outside." Standing in the muck of the beast's belly she asks the undead ninja assassin, "Any ideas on how we get out of here??"
Right after asking the question, she had several ideas; but she was curious how this mysterious and odd 'hero' would get out. It might be more interesting than her method of lasering a hole out or just flying back through the mouth.
Still not sure how he went from being on top of the beast's head, almost on its back, to being stuck down its gullet, Deadpool has a tape measure out, checking on how big this place is, "we could put the dining room here, and the kitchen over there…" but Supergirl probably isn't as interested in picking out curtains as Deadpool.
"Oh, let me think, we could use some C4, my katana, your heat vision, we could tickle it until it sneezed us out, there's the back exit, but if you want to use that one, you're on your own."
He doesn't seem to have any remorse for harming the beast, and decides to test its resolve by sticking his katana into it, deep and hard. How tough is it on the inside? Let's fine out. "Oh, and if you fly out, can you save me a tooth. I've always wanted a lucky crocodile tooth."
Well, the answer is not so tough that Deadpool can't cut through it. Or indeed that Kara can't just punch her way out the ribcage. It just may take a bit of effort. Back outside the croc itself is, like some ancient general, rallying the remaining Draugr about it, seemingly quite upset by the noise and lights Oracle just kicked on. They don't like that at all… but the Croc seems to think that adding Fenris to the collection of people in it's gullet is a good idea.
Fenris is a bit busy, still, keeping the slightly less bold but still dangerous normal sized Draugr from moving further into the city (and also away from the annoying lights and noises) so the other two will have to take care of Croc on their own.
Robin meanwhile is in a fight. He's skilled. Arguably one of the best. But she knows her weapon well and despite being kicked aganst the wall isn't about to give up just yet.
Especially not when she can just bring her gun to bear and cut loose. That might put a small hole in her guard though. And, Oracle may note, there's an electrical panel near her blade…
Watching the screens in the Clocktower, Oracle pays attention to the combatants, making sure the alarms and lights stay on as she does. "I'm going to light up that panel, Robin." she's already accessing it through the system "If it doesn't arc and catch her, you might be able to use it."
Robin knows he's up against a difficult opponent. But he has faced the worst that Gotham has to offer, and he's not about to go down without a fight himself. He's a blur of motion, swinging his staff, his fists, his feet, dodging left, right and center. And when Oracle tells him that she's bringing the panel online, he gives a curt nod — not that she can see it — and, allowing Steel Blossom to catch his shoulder with her blade (his staff reduces the force of the blow; his cape keeps him from serious injury), he frees one of his throwing Rs, throws it through the electrical panel, and then attempts to knock his opponent into the electrified weapon.
Kara is fast and unless Deadpool chooses to teleport out, she grabs him by the scruff of his costume, "Grab your own tooth, we're leaving the way we came in." She flies back out of the beast's mouth, potentially with Deadpool in tow like a little puppy dog; shattering several of the beasts teeth on the way out.
Deadpool is abandoned and she just shakes her head at the beast, "Well, it's time for you to take a nap big guy." Kara flies around to the back of the massive crocodile, picks it up by the tail and swings it around a few times before tossing it far off into the ocean.
"The Atlanteans can deal with him."
Deadpool hits a tooth, "owe," then another one, "owe," then another one "owe," and this just goes on. It actually takes seconds, but for the merc with a mouth, it feels like an hour. Did Supergirl really need to drag him along the teeth? Couldn't she have just flown him through the front ones?
After he's abandoned, he shouts, "look, Wendy, I can fly," except he really can't. He's heading straight for the water, ready to make one tremendous bellyflop. But thinking that'd hurt, he instead decides to teleport elsewhere, reappearing in a flash of light on the docks, where he'll decapitate one of the undead things, grabbing the soda it had picked up, and was about to drop, right out of the air. He has a sip, making a loud slurping sound, "mmm, strawberry fanta."
Tim knocks Steel Blossom into the electrified Robin-rang (Round Robin? Something) right as Kara airmils the croc to the Atlanteans. Within a minute of it's departure the undead are headed back to the ocean. With no song to call them they really, really, don't want to be here. Fenris looks about at the two… well, the heroine and Deadpool and smiles a bit, shrinking his blade back down to a necklace and replacing it. "Thank you. Both. That might have gone poorly were it just me." Certainly he'd have been here longer with no one to take care of the song. "Oracle, my thanks to you and your agent." He pauses. "And I think I owe you all a proper meal after that." He tilts his head back toward the city, in invitation, then starts walking. Sometimes the deep dark magic rises…
And sometimes the heroes turn up right where you need them.
"Anytime Fenris. Thank you for the heads up." Watching Robins avatar move away from the scene, the redhead frowns deeply "They were HYDRA Fenris. I've been told to keep an eye out for them. It is concerning."
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CHILDREN OF THE CORN Franchise Retrospective Part 3: Fields Of Terror & Isaac's Return
CHILDREN OF THE CORN V: FIELDS OF TERROR started out with a glimmer of hope when the opening credits listed a few names I was not only familiar with but that I was a fan of. Alexis Arquette, Fred Williamson, David Carradine are all performers I enjoy and I was thinking "okay, maybe we've got something here." On top of them Eva Mendes, Ahmet Zappa co-star and even Jason Voorhees himself, Kane Hodder, has a role. I'll tell you right now he was only in a single scene as a bartender and not as a machete wielding corn stalk monster. What a let down. The opening scene features a clunky 90s CGI murder featuring the main child that would be running the show of our misfit kernels. Sadly shortly after we lose Alexis Arquette and Ahmet Zappa who had great energy and would have been a nice contrast to the rest of our main cast of college students who are basically running around with dumbfounded, mouth agape, looks on their face for the majority of the film.
Oh you're interested in the plot? Well, six college friends (more like 4 friends after the first few minutes of the film take away the two most entertaining characters) go on a road trip and end up stranded in a small rural town that they not smells of burnt popcorn. After getting warned to leave by the sheriff (Fred Williamson) they hole up in an abandoned house for the night and later find that one of the girls missing brothers is in town living with Luke (David Carradine) who seems to be the leader of the strange kids. Luke lets her see her brother who informs her that he has no interest in leaving and is going to be marry a younger girl who is also pregnant with his child. The child leader Ezekiel chooses the brother who has reached 18 years of age as the annual sacrifice to He Who Walks Behind The Rows which means he would have to throw himself into the burning corn silo but the brother refuses and tells Luke his religion is a lie which leads to a battle between the college friends and the runaway brother and the pitchfork wielding psycho children. There's even a showdown between Luke and the sheriff which is my favorite scene in the film and is easily the best special effect moment of the film as well.
The plot is weak and the film isn't interesting enough to keep your attention throughout so that you really settle in to it. I found myself getting restless and bored and simply didn't care about a single thing going on. Fred Williamson and David Carradine are both wasted by given little to do. Our main group is filled with bland characters and uninspired performances and the one thing that these movies have given us each and every time until now is creepy kids but they even ruin that as these kids looked like any child you'd see getting dropped off at junior high and not a group of rural religious nut jobs. Ethan Wiley wrote the first two House films and even directed the second which is a wacky mishmash of ideas that works for a wonderfully fun 80s cocktail but his entry in to the CHILDREN OF THE CORN series is my least favorite through the first five entries.
I spoke too soon. It gets worse. You might think, and I would be right there with you that the return of John Franklin who played Isaac, the preacher leader of the children in the original film would be an upgrade to the series but no, CHILDREN OF THE CORN 666: ISAAC'S RETURN is yet another step down on this ladder of shit. I'm not sure how much lower this thing can go.
Natalie Ramsey stars as Hannah Martin, the first baby born from the cult in the original film, now she has decided to return to Gatlin to find her birth mother. After a strange encounter with a preacher that ends in Hannah crashing her car into a corn field she is taken to the local hospital by the sheriff. At the hospital she finds out Isaac was not killed but ended up in a coma. After she leaves the hospital Hannah begins to get stalked and terrorized during her stay at a local motel. The townspeople speak of a prophecy between her and Isaac but Hannah won't leave until she finds out about her mother.
Well we're scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Isaac is in a coma for years and only Hannah's return wakes him which is an okay plot device, especially five sequels deep but this movie is as painfully boring and disjointed as we can get. Dead birds, messages scrawled across the wall in nail polish, and mentally unstable patients at a hospital are the majority of the horror elements until the eye roll inducing ending where we finally meet He Who Walks Behind The Rows and find out he's some local douche bag in a leather jacket. He manhandles Isaac, killing him and Hannah escapes but is no pregnant with the baby of He Who Walks Behind The Rows.
It's so bad. So so so bad. If you're not bored to tears then you're surely getting infuriated at how stupid the whole thing is. It was bad enough that I was complaining to myself that there was barely any corn! And yet again the creepy kid factor is kept to a minimum. I was hoping Isaac's return would at least bring something of merit back to the series, not that I'm any sort of lover of the original but it's by far the best of the series but no, the plot device was a waste and I'm sure this film is only remembered for being the film that brings back John Franklin and Isaac to the series.
If I was beginning to regret the decision to go through this entire series before I am now in full regret mode. These movies are awful.
CHILDREN OF TH CORN 5: FIELDS OF TERROR - 3.5/10
CHILDREN OF THE CORN 666: ISAAC'S RETURN - 2.5/10
THE ID (Hutson Ranch Media - Blu-ray Review)
Directed By: Thommy Hutson
Written By: Sean H. Stewart
Starring: Amanda Wyss, Patrick Peduto, Jamye Grant
Amanda Wyss stars as Meredith, a middle aged woman living for little else than to care for her sick father. Their relationship isn't good as Meredith's father is abusive toward her every chance he gets. A phone call from an old high school friend gives Meredith a small light in her life but quickly pushes her to the brink of a broken mind.
THE ID is a small production, using a single location and only a handful of characters to tell its story. Amanda Wyss carries the film with a strong performance of a middle aged woman who has been stunted in her mental growth by an abusive father. Meredith still lives in her childhood home in a bedroom decorated with high school banners from over 20 years ago. Her only interaction with the outside world is with the girl who delivers food for her father daily but their interactions are brief and usually end abruptly with Meredith being cold and rude. She is not to blame for how she handles interactions with other people as her father, played disgustingly and perfectly by Patrick Peduto, is an absolute piece of shit to her going as far as spitting in her face and pissing his pants on purpose and laughing in his daughter's face while she has to change him.
Meredith's mind is already a mess as she has visions of killing her father and slips into these visions frequently. When her old high school boyfriend Ted looks her up for a reunion Meredith slips further into a damaged state, while something nice has happened to her and gives her something to look forward to, her Father berates her over it calling her a whore and saying she can't go which only makes things in Meredith's mind that much worse. When the reunion finally happens Ted and his wife find an obviously disturbed woman, living in a reality that doesn't exist and cut their trip short but that's only the start of Meredith's problems.
THE ID is small and tight. It's driven by characters and their performances. Wyss and Peduto are really good together, and they endure a lot. My gripes with the film are minor and deal with the writing particularly dealing with the Ted scene. Ted and Meredith hadn't seen each other since they graduation 28 years earlier, how close could they have been if they didn't have contact in nearly three decades? I understand that in her mental state Meredith could make it the big deal she did when hearing from Ted but what are the chances that after nearly 30 years a happily married man with children randomly looks up an old high school girlfriend out of the blue and then fails to mention his wife and surprises Meredith with her on arrival? That didn't make any sense to me and felt like a plot hole that could have been fixed. It doesn't take away from my overall enjoyment and appreciation from the film but it's not so big that much would have to change to fix it.
Thommy Hutson does a nice job directing this film, it's not overly stylish but he's competent in doing what needs to be done to let the film organically shine. This is a psychological thriller based around a bastardized relationship of a father and his daughter and their brief and tragic encounters with the outside world. Don't let THE ID fly under your radar as it is well worth your time.
The Audio & Video
Hutson Ranch Media releases THE ID on region free Blu-ray with a nice looking 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen Scope aspect ratio transfer. The film has a natural color palette which is pleasing to the eye along with strong finer details and skin tones. The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio mix is free of any background noise or imperfections and has a stable mix.
-Audio Commentary with Director Thommy Hutson
-"Needs, Wants & Desire: Behind The Scenes Of THE ID"
-Deleted and Alternate Scenes
-Additional Behind-The-Scenes Footage
-Audition Clips
-Photo Gallery
-Trailers
THE ID is a really solid modern psychological thriller that deserves to be seen.
THE ID is available HERE
Labels: Disc Review, Horror, Psychological, thriller
KILLER RACK (Camp Motion Pictures - DVD Review)
Directed By: Gregory Lamberson
Written By: Paul McGinnis
Starring: Jessica Zwolak, Debbie Rochon, Paul McGinnis
Betty works a thankless cubicle job where she's overlooked by her boss for sexier women and has a shitty boyfriend waiting for her at home. Tired of how things are going she makes an appointment for breast implants and shortly after she realizes she's made a huge mistake as her new breasts have a murderous mind of their own.
Director Greg Lamberson is no stranger to ridiculous and gory movies as he first made a name for himself back in 1988 with the splatter melt film Slime City, which he followed up with a sequel in 2010. These gooey cult classics aren't far removed from KILLER RACK in terms of tone and content as KILLER RACK doesn't shy away from the bloodshed. Unfortunately it takes quite a while to get to anything worthwhile in KILLER RACK as 95% of the action occurs in the last 10 minutes. Before that we're subjected to painfully unfunny attempts at humor dealing directed at a woman with small breasts. Her life is miserable because of people around her with bigger breasts getting preferential treatment. It really isn't funny and it's handled with so little grace that it began to anger me. I'm far from the most PC person in the world but this script comes across like a couple of frat boys crushing beer cans on their head while yelling "sweet tits!".
When we finally get to a real story for the film to go from it's when Betty, who is played convincingly and likably by Jessica Zwolak, decides to get the implants and sees Dr. Kate Thulu who worships the Elder Gods and in some round about way that makes Betty's new boobs teeth baring monstrous devices of evil. Oh, did you miss the Cthulhu joke? Kate Thulu? You probably missed it because it's so smooth and clever. What's that? You didn't miss it? Oh, silly me. Of course you didn't because they smack you across the face with it. Debbie Rochon made her debut with Slime City and returns to Lamberson here where her over the top B-movie style that I can take or leave but to be fair it fits in fine here.
By the time they flesh out the monster boobs I had lost almost all interest in the movie but they were effectively gross and scary looking all the while looking utterly ridiculous popping through Betty's shirt. They reminded me of a mammary version of the alien monsters from The Deadly Spawn. There's also a tentacle monster moment with the boobs so that we can further try to force the Cthulhu lore in to this film despite there being absolutely no room for it to work organically.
KILLER RACK has some sporadic entertaining moments and when the movie is giving us the visual goods it's not all bad but when it relies more on its writing and humor it fails miserably. The premise of KILLER RACK has "short film" written all over it but unfortunately everyone involved decided on a 95 minute feature that just has little going for it.
Camp Motion Pictures releases KILLER RACK on DVD with an attractive 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that features a natural but healthy color palette and good detail. The image is clean and clear. The 2.0 Stereo audio is crisp and well mixed overall. There's no damage or background noise.
-Audio Commentary
-Deleted Scenes
-Behind The Scenes Featurette
-"Kill The Bitch" short film
-"The Camper" short film
KILLER RACK could have been a fun, ridiculous and bloody short film but as a feature film it has a bad script, shoehorned plot devices and too much filler for 10 minutes of fun to carry. I think your time is better spent elsewhere.
KILLER RACK is available HERE
THE CURSE OF DOCTOR WOLFENSTEIN (Reel Gore Releasing Blu-ray Review)
Germany/2015
Directed By: Marc Rohnstock
Written By: Marc Rohnstock
Starring: Isabelle Aring, Robin Czerny, Roland Freitag
In pre-World War II Germany Dr. Victor Wolfenstein has become obsessed with discovering the secret to immortality. Upon finding a serum that can stop the affects of aging he has infected himself with Necrosis, a flesh eating disease. The evil doctor must replace his rotting parts with fresh parts and as the local village is under attack by the doctor they bad together and bury the madman alive. Now in present day the doctor has unearthed himself, still rotting and longing for fresh flesh and a group of teens on their way to a giant party get stranded in the village and quickly learn of the curse that Doctor Wolfenstein has put upon the area.
THE CURSE OF DOCTOR WOLFENSTEIN carries on the tradition of not only its writer/director Marc Rohnstock who is no stranger to splatter films, but a longer, deeper tradition of German splatter films dating back to Olaf Ittenbach (The Burning Moon) and Jorg Buttgereit (Nekromantik). American audiences had a chance to learn Rohnstock's name several years ago when his film Necronos (aka Necronos: Tower Of Doom) was released on DVD by Troma. The bloodshed was the real deal. The gore was incredible. And five years later Rohnstock is back with a dirty, grimy film that will make you want to take a shower. If you're expecting buckets of blood you should bring barrels because the hordes of nameless victims that Doctor Wolfenstein dispatches in gruesome, grotesque and downright gross ways all have the gore flying.
Make no mistake, you're here for the gore. If you've followed this site for any amount of time you'll know I have very mixed emotions on gore for the sake of gore as simply being gory doesn't make a horror film great. There is that special time where it can make it damn entertaining though and that is the case of THE CURSE OF DOCTOR WOLFENSTEIN. That isn't to say the film is perfect as a good twenty or even thirty minutes could be trimmed without losing anything of substance and it would make the film a tighter product.
But, what the fuck, that would also cut out a half dozen kills or more. And remember, these aren't your cut away, clean up with a single paper towel kills. These are victim after victim stripped down to their most vulnerable position, sliced, diced, chopped and popped. In the best way THE CURSE OF THE DOCTOR WOLFENSTEIN is disgusting. I can talk about the acting, which is fine, or I can talk about the writing, which features a standard slasher set up and all of the tropes and the editing or lack thereof has been mentioned but sometimes what can be described as the lowest common denominator can be more than enough for a good time.
THE CURSE OF DOCTOR WOLFENSTEIN does a great job carrying on the German splatter film legacy and you can even spot the king of German splatter Olaf Ittenbach in a cameo as a victim which I count as a seal of approval from him. THE CURSE OF DOCTOR WOLFENSTEIN isn't perfect but it's fucking nasty and sometimes that is just what the doctor ordered.
The third release from Reel Gore Releasing is another stunner in terms of A/V presentation. The Blu-ray quality of DOCTOR WOLFENSTEIN is top notch with exceptionally sharp picture and high detail levels. Colors are strong especially the crimson reds from the arterial sprays. Flesh tones are natural with no signs of waxiness from excessive DNR. There are two audio options, both in the film's native German with optional English subtitles. There is a DTS-HD 2.0 and DTS-HD 5.1 mix respectively. The 2.0 mix is crisp, perfectly clear and stable with no level fluctuations. The audio is free of distortions, hiccups or wobbles.
-"Trapped And Stabbed" - A short film by Marc Rohnstock
-Blooper Reels
-Trailer
-Still Gallery
THE CURSE OF DOCTOR WOLFENSTEIN might be THE release for gore hounds in 2016.
THE CURSE OF DOCTOR WOLFENSTEIN is available HERE
Labels: Disc Review, Gore, Horror, Nudity, Reel Gore Releasing
Reel Gore Releasing #4 - The Orphan Killer (Press Release)
COMPANY SITE: www.reelgorereleasing.com
PRESS CONTACT: press@reelgorereleasing.com
REEL GORE RELEASING presents the official release of Matt Farnsworth’s slasher movie THE ORPHAN KILLER on Blu-ray/DVD December 13, 2016
Los Angeles, CA (December 2016) For immediate release. Synopsis: The Orphan Killer is a tour de force murder flick that defies classification. It goes far beyond current trends in gore and breaks open a new suffering genre of horror. Marcus Miller is a serial murderer hell-bent on teaching his estranged sister Audrey what it means to have family loyalty. His lessons are taught in massive doses of vulgar and unimaginable pain. Throughout her brutal torture we learn that Marcus is not the only Miller with Killer in the bloodline as Audrey proves to be a formidable adversary. Starring: Diane Foster, David Bachhaus, Karen Young, James McCaffrey, Matt Farnsworth.
THE ORPHAN KILLER (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Street Date: December 13, 2016
Film run time: Approx. 83 minutes
Language: English language with optional Spanish/French/Italian/Japanese subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Widescreen Anamorphic
Audio: DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround/Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Label/Distributor: Reel Gore Releasing/CAV
Catalog Number: RGR004
Collectible Blu-ray/DVD O-Card and Sleeve
Behind The Murder - Exclusive Video Diary
Collectible O-Card
First pressing of 1000 copies include Collector’s Card RGR004
KILLJOY'S PSYCHO CIRCUS (Full Moon - DVD Review)
Directed By: John Lechago
Written By: John Lechago
Starring: Trent Haaga, Victoria De Mare, Al Burke
Killjoy the demon clown has escaped hell and his time spent hosting a wickedly weird talk show is interrupted when Beelzebub comes after Killjoy to trap his spirit and bring it back to hell. Killjoy and his crew must fight off Beelzebub and his psychos in an intergalactic battle of bad CGI and body paint.
KILLJOY'S PSYCHO CIRCUS is the fifth entry into the franchise which I admittedly have very little knowledge of. I know that this film follows the fourth entry Killjoy Goes To Hell (yes, I figured that out on my own), and I've seen very brief footage from the earlier films but I had never sat down to watch a Killjoy film before now. KILLYJOY'S PSYCHO CIRCUS focused much more on Killjoy's relationship with his sidekick Batty Boop who is a fellow clown rocking a body paint suit and arguably the most annoying voice I've ever heard in film. A deliberate speech impediment and whiny, squeaky voice made every line from Batty unbearable, and she has plenty of lines. It was a welcomed surprise to be able to learn about the characters jumping in to a series so far along, I don't feel like I missed much or that I can at least survive without knowing it.
Trent Haaga plays the titular demon clown and he's the high point of the film. He's genuinely funny with great comedic timing and brings great emotion to the character through all of the makeup and latex work. Writer/director John Lechago is no stranger to the franchise having directed the last three films in the franchise and his script is surprisingly good. KILLJOY'S PSYCHO CIRCUS is a well written movie, especially by modern Full Moon standards. The acting isn't half bad from the supporting cast either. Victoria De Mare is quite good as Batty, despite her annoying voice, she plays the smitten sidekick role very well.
Where the film stumbles is that it's rather uneventful. This is a case where too much character development and story is just too much. I was left wanting more demon carnival shenanigans and only later on in the film do we really get any sort of action with a quick shoot out scene that easily dispatches of most of Beelzebub's psychos and a final battle that is cheesy as hell and features a Mortal Kombat soundtrack. Both of the big action sequences are definitely fun but there's just not enough of them and the film's reliance on sex jokes and toilet humor ultimately lets it down.
It's a shame that KILLJOY'S PSYCHO CIRCUS isn't being released on Blu-ray because it is a very colorful production and has interesting sets that would look fantastic in HD. That said, the DVD from Full Moon does look quite good. The colors shine through vividly and the detail level is strong. The 16x9 anamorphic widescreen transfer is sharp and clean. The 2.0 English audio mix sounds good as well with steady levels and a complimentary mix between dialogue and soundtrack. The audio is clear and crisp with no distortions.
Bare bones.
Returning Killjoy fans will likely find a lot to enjoy here but newcomers may want to watch some trailers or the first film in the series before diving into KILLJOY'S PSYCHO CIRCUS to see if this is their cup of tea. Recommended for returning fans of the series.
KILLJOY'S PSYCHO CIRCUS is available HERE
DEATHROW GAMESHOW
Directed By: Mark Pirro
Written By: Mark Pirro, Alan Gries
Starring: John McCafferty, Robyn Blythe, Beano
Chuck Toedan is the host of the popular but wildly controversial TV gameshow Live Or Die where death row inmates compete for a chance to beat their sentence or at least win some prizes for their family on the way out. Toedan's own life is put in jeopardy when he kills a local mob boss and a hit man comes to the studio for Toedan. A battle for survival ensues as Toedan tries to outsmart and outmaneuver the mafia hit man while being put in the same situations he's used to seeing his contestants in!
Mark Pirro directed DEATHROW GAMESHOW only having had experience making Super 8 shorts and his debut feature A Polish Vampire In Burbank which was also shot on Super 8. Pirro was given the chance to make his first 35mm feature and didn't squander it despite being overwhelmed and realizing his tight knit crew from his days with 8mm were going to need some help with a more experienced crew. The thing Pirro didn't need too much help with was writing a hilariously dark comedy that is full of colorful characters and fun sight gags.
John McCafferty is absolutely fantastic as Chuck Toedan and perfectly embodies a corny gameshow host. His chemistry with Robyn Blythe is natural and their character progression is handled nicely. Blythe is quite likable and is a genuinely nice person who gets caught up in a bad situation, and during her dinner with the hit man a rather disgusting and off putting situation as well. Beano does a great job playing a caricature of a typical mafia hitman, playing up his Italian heritage to a comical level. The best scenes of the film are of course the gameshow scenes and seeing the inmates meet their ends in all of the hilaroiusly staged events. Or is it of their family's reaction to their demise and the surprising upswing in their mood when they find out they've won some wonderful prizes? It's both. The cheese smothered script works so wonderfully that all of the over acting and hokey parodies of all aspects of game shows bring nothing but laughs.
DEATHROW GAMESHOW has grown on me to be among the most underrated comedic gems of the late 80s and it's low budget nature and campy vibe only add to its charm.
Vinegar Syndrome releases an impressive looking Blu-ray that easily outshines previous DVD releases that frankly didn't look bad themselves. It's the immediately noticeable improvement that speaks volumes for the quality of this transfer, taking a film that looked fine on home video and making it look truly outstanding. The 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer retains the film's original aspect ratio and has been restored from a brand new 2K scan from the original 35mm negatives and features a natural and healthy grain structure. Colors have never looked better for this film than they do here, with an increased richness and vivid quality. Black levels are deep and inky and the picture is quite sharp and clean. The English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono is especially crisp and clear with steady levels and no distortions or background noise. The film certainly hasn't sounded this good before. English SDH subtitles are available.
-Audio Commentary with director Mark Pirro, and stars John McCafferty and Robyn Blythe
-"Revisiting DEATHROW GAMESHOW" - A well done documentary clocking in at over a half hour long.
-2015 Director's Cut of DEATHROW GAMESHOW
-Multiple Director's Introductions
-"Buns" - a 1978 short film from Mark Pirro
-"The Spy Who Did It Better" - 1979 short film from Mark Pirro
-Original theatrical trailer
-TV Spots
-Image Gallery
-Reversible Artwork
Two cuts of the film, short films from the director and a host of other entertaining and high quality extras are just the icing on top of the cake for this hilarious black comedy that looks and sounds like you've just won the grand prize on an exploitation gameshow.
DEATHROW GAMESHOW is available HERE
Labels: Comedy, dark comedy, Disc Review, Horror, Vinegar Syndrome
The Possession Experiment (2016)
Directed By: Scott B. Hansen
Written By: Mary Dixon, Scott B. Hansen
Starring: Chris Minor, Clay Harper, Nicky Jasper
Release Date: December 6, 2016 (VOD, Digital HD, DVD)
THE POSSESSION EXPERIMENT opens with a bloody violent scene of an exorcism going wildly wrong and almost everyone involved winding up dead. It is an opening scene that immediately captures the audience's attention and sets up a promising film.
Then the rest of the movie happens. And you wonder what happened. The set up is decent enough, with a college student preparing a project for his Religion class as he sets out to prove or disprove demonic possession and exorcism using the police evidence and location of the opening scene exorcism. He partners up with a stoner for the project who adds nothing to the film but to talk about eating every time he's on screen and with a pretty med student who will document his vital signs and any changes in behavior.
This decent set up is marred by completely inept editing, characters that show up out of nowhere in important scenes such as the medium who leaves as fast as she enters and we never see a character call her, talk to her, make any sort of business deal with her prior to her debut into the film. I feel the filmmakers couldn't decide what they wanted the signs and symptoms of demonic possession to be in this film as it changes from the stereotypical green puke and speaking in tongues type to fashioning a homemade Freddy Kruger glove out of X-Acto knives and going on a bit of a slasher spree. It left me with a giant question as to exactly what I was supposed to be watching.
There's lots of cues and devices lifted from better exorcism and demonic horror films and lots of them have no real reason or explanation for being in this film. Like what is the big deal that the Ouija board was found in the wall in this movie? It's never explained. Any old Ouija board could have done the same thing. That's one of many questions I'm left with in this overly unsatisfying experience.
If you see Bill Moseley's name attached to THE POSSESSION EXPERIMENT don't be fooled as he is gone by the end of the opening scene. THE POSSESSION EXPERIMENT ends up having a handful of really well done scenes surrounded by a plethora of bad filmmaking and overacting and it's really not worth your time.
NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS (2016)
Directed By: Henrique Couto
Written By: Henrique Couto
Starring: Josh Miller, Bradley Diehl, Marylee Osborne
Straight forward comedies with no real ties to horror or exploitation are not something I regularly cover here but when I saw the trailer for Henrique Couto's NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS it immediately struck a chord with me and I knew it would be something I could relate to. So while you won't be seeing the newest Zac Efron comedy being covered here I think a dark indie comedy like NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS fits in just fine.
Josh Miller stars as Neil, a self employed painter and graphic designer who has just been dumped by his long term girlfriend and ends up drunkenly drinking bleach while drinking away his feelings which lands him in the psych ward of the hospital and on court ordered therapy. Now Neil must sort out his feelings, his friends and most of all his life to find happiness and meaning in his life. Or maybe he'll just waste away eating a lot of Chinese take out.
NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS is a great watch for anybody floating in the purgatory of their 20s and early 30s, not quite sure what direction they should take in their lives when everything they've come to know has seemingly turned its back on them and fallen apart. It's a great coming of age story at a stage in life that we don't get many films that answer the numerous questions we still have at that age. Miller nails the lead role, infinitely likable and easy to relate with, he carries writer/director Henrique Couto's strong script. He's supported by a Bradley Diehl who plays Neil's best friend Dave. The type of friend that rags on you and shits on you and will endlessly make fun of you about everything but has your back every second of every day. He's the type of friend we all need and Diehl is hilarious in his crudeness. Along with Diehl is Marylee Osborne who becomes one of Neil's inner circle after his breakup and proves that new friends and meaningful relationships can pop up from the most unexpected places. Osborne does a great job proving to be a soft soul with a rough and tough exterior.
The film also shows that sometimes swallowing your pride and letting go of a grudge is the best thing that can happen to you and allow you to be free, grow and again, create a meaningful relationship. Henrique Couto's film isn't all hugs and kisses, there's plenty of darker moments and eye opening revelations like not all long term friendships are worth hanging on to and not everyone will fit into you life forever. It's a harsh realization but it's one we all find out eventually. When it comes down to it NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS shows that plenty of good things actually do happen but life is a rocky fucking road and getting to those good spots can really put us through our paces and sometimes it's okay to befriend your local Chinese restaurant owner to get free noodles to eat away the pain... but not everyday. Get real.
NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS is a fine example of an indie comedy that makes use of great characters and writing over cheaper sight gags or gimmicks. I'm of the mind that making a really good comedy, dark or otherwise, is one of the toughest types of films to make and Couto is up to the challenge with NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS.
NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS will be available for purchase HERE and also for rent on Amazon
Labels: Comedy, dark comedy, independent
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-- ITALIANO
The Centro Scavi
Safeguard of the cultural heritage
IRAN – Khuzistan
IRAN – Khu-i Khwaja
IRAN – Atrek Valley
IRAQ – Seleucia on the Tigris
IRAQ – Veh-Ardashir
IRAQ – Babylon
IRAQ - Hamrin
IRAQ – Kifrin
IRAQ – Khirbet Hatara
IRAQ – Hatra
IRAQ – Nimrud
IRAQ – Nineveh
IRAQ – Tulul al Baqarat (Al-Kut)
ITALY – Locri
ITALY - Selinus
ITALY – Verbano Cusio Ossola
LEBANON – Beirut
LEBANON – The Beka’a Valley
PAKISTAN – Swat
PAKISTAN – Banbhore
TUNISIA – IPAMED
TUNISIA – Carthage
The Italian-Iraqi Cultural Centre of Archaeological Science and Restoration – Baghdad
The Iraq Museum in Baghdad
B.R.I.L.A. - Bureau for Recovering and Investigating Iraqi Looted Antiquities
The activities of the Iraqi-Italian Institutes in Baghdad
Monografie di Mesopotamia
Mnème
Parthica
Excavation campaigns at Kuh-i Khwaja
Seistan — Kuh-i Khwaja
Giorgio Gullini
The archaeological studies, conducted by the Centro Scavi di Torino (then called Centro Scavi dell’ISMEO e di Torino) from 1960 to 1961, concerned the Kuh-i Khwaja complex in Iran’s Seistan region.The study, which combined stratigraphic excavations and the analytical study of building techniques, showed how the site, in its construction stages spanning from the Achemenid to the Sasanian periods, is the clarifying element of the architecture of western Iran, a region of cultural upheaval and a meeting point of Greek and Iranian element.
The region around Lake Hamun, straddling the current border between Iran and Afghanistan, is known as Seistan, a toponym of Arab origin; in Achemenid times this area was known as Zranka or, in Greek, Dranjan, meaning “region near the lake”. Kuh-i Khwaja rises at the centre of the lake, on a basalt rock island.
Literary, archaeological and epigraphic accounts began to appear only from the Achaemenid age, but it seems plausible to believe that the first populations were of Iranic descent, originating from the Caspian sea, supplanted by Persian tribes, presumably even before the empire of Cyrus the Great, who conquered the area around mid-6th century BC.
With the Persian Empire, the region became considerably important from an agricultural point of view, and remained so up to its conquest by Alexander the Great. According to ancient literary tradition, the Macedonian king founded Prophtasia, meaning “the anticipation”, in memory of the averted threat posed by Philotas’ conspiracy. It is difficult to reconstruct the region’s archaeological history in Hellenistic times, although it is not unlikely that it was similar to that of nearby Arachosia, with which it always had strong ties, and which presumably became a frontier area with both the Maurya empire and the western Hellenistic territories in the 3rd century BC.
This situation lasted until the area’s conquest by the Parths, when Mithridates annexed the semi-nomadic Iranic tribes that lived there – the Saka – to his army: in fact, the creation in this period of a Saka kingdom that was formally autonomous but fully integrated in the Arsacid orbit seems likely. The Saka kingdoms succeeded one another until the 2nd century AD, when it is likely that, more than actually being conquered, they were influenced by the great Kushan expansion. With the advent of the Sasanids and the great accomplishments of Ardashir I (224-241 AD), central power was also reaffirmed in Iran’s eastern provinces, at the expense of independent principalities, and the issue of the eastern borders – and therefore of Dranjan – became especially important again.
The archaeological research conducted in the 1960s on the Kuh-i Khwaja hill allowed the monumental remains found there to be identified as being part of a very important sacred/religious centre. The monumental remains were subdivided into five groups: the Palace of Gondophares, composed of monumental structures arranged around a square courtyard; the residential area, immediately adjacent to the palace, between its ring of walls and a second outermost circle; a group of stone terracing structures, located northeast and west of the Palace, on which a considerable number of tombs were placed; a group of structures with basalt substitutions, placed at the top of the height, behind the Palace; and finally, what is known as the Chihil Dukhtaran (“the 40 maidens”) complex, on the hill’s southwest tip, relatively isolated, but with a commanding view of the entire region, that was in fact associated with a quadrangular fortress.
The research consisted in a systematic study of the area and in stratigraphic excavation, concentrated especially in the area of the Chihil Dukhtaran fortress.
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Destination Desto
One of the many things about doing a radio show is that it forces you to seek out and listen to new music. Over the last two years we've come across some great producers I didn't previously know and one of them is Desto. His productions have be consistenly great since "Disapearing Reapearing Ink" turned our heads, so it seemed only right to ask the guy for a few beats and words of his own.
**Desto mix for Blackdown**
Download it HERE.
Desto "Broken Memory" (forthcoming Ramp Recordings)
Jtreole "The Loot [Sully remix]" (forthcoming Keysound Recordings)
Asylum Seekas "Magic Words [TMU remix]" (dub)
Tes La Rok "Mandem" (dub)
Desto "Ice Cold" (dub)
Desto "20/20 Hindsight" (dub)
Sully "In Some Pattern" (forthcoming Keysound Recordings)
Desto "Disappearing Reappearing Ink" (forthcoming Ramp Recordings)
TRG "Strobe Lick" (dub)
Tes La Rok "Inta" (dub)
Desto "Dark Matter" (forthcoming Noppa Recordings)
- "Wizard Of Wor" tease-
Khid "Emptying The Ghost Of Her" (dub)
Desto "Can't Take It" (dub)
Desto "Overkrookd" (dub)
Computer Jay "Maintain [Ikonika remix]" (forthcoming Ramp Recordings)
Clouds "Napalm" (dub)
Desto "Stay Strong" (dub)
Desto "Gremlinz" (forthcoming Noppa Recordings)
Desto "Cold [refix]" (forthcoming Noppa Recordings)
Blackdown: So Desto, tell us a little bit about yourself, where are you currently based?
Desto: I'm 28 years old, based in Helsinki, Finland. I started dabbling with music production in '93 with a 386 PC and tracker software which was the only cheap option for sample based music production for a kid at the time. The sound quality was much worse than the samplers back then so it was by no means going anywhere but it was a lot of fun. Sample size was very limited and to work around that took some creativity. Sometimes we'd make tunes of all styles that were called chiptunes that were less than 10kb in size, some of them sounded decent still. This taught me things like how to construct a variety of sounds from a single cycle of a sine wave.
The sound at the time was on the hardcore tip and me and my friends were crazy for it. In '94 I met the fella later known as Tes La Rok. I remember we bumped into this record store in '94 with a Moving Shadow compilation playing and walked out with a copy each. We were mad for the Metalheadz, Photek and the Bristol guys. Tes lived in the east and i lived in the west 1.5h away so we just talked about music a lot and exchanged tunes trying to produce jungle. This was in the days of no internet but there was a vibrant tracker scene supported by guys running BBSs on their home computers. What it meant was kids had files hosted on their computers and you could access them by using an extra slow dial-up connection. People were sharing their tunes of different styles uploading and downloading stuff one at a time and making up what could be described as tracker music labels. It was all good fun.
The music making started getting a bit more serious and around '98 Tes got his first release while i was falling off producing as I couldn't really afford any studio gear and felt DnB was getting boring with everyone jumping for the roller beats instead of the complex rhythms and aesthetics of the early days. The next years went by with me buying soul & funk breaks and hiphop, playing them at b-boy (breaking) events and actually breaking and eventually travelling the world with it which i've been doing for 12 years now.
Dubstep was really the first genre of electronic music that awakened my interest again in '06. I'd kept producing on a dated platform and at a slow pace but hearing the new sounds i started getting back into it. I had a lot of injury time from breaking and had to think of something to do. I called up Tes who i'd not had too much contact with for the past years and he told me he'd already been whipping up dubstep rhythms for a while. My studio was very dated so it took some time for me to get my hands on a new laptop and Cubase in late '07 which was a big step forward. I 'launched' the Desto project then. I felt i'd made music for long enough without making anything out of it apart from a couple of small releases and i thought i'd give it a go. Early inspirations include Youngsta & Tasks sets on Rinse. The tunes Youngsta used to play still make the hairs on my arm stand up. The people behind these tunes get my utmost respect.
B: In the last year or so your productions have been consistently great, starting with "Disapearing Reapearing Ink", can you tell me a bit about your sound and where you're going?
D: My sound is really a mixture of all the influences I've had since I started listening to Kraftwerk at the age of three. It ranges from the hiphop of the 90s to Warp sounds of the same era to jungle to soul. I go back to my old records for inspiration. I feel it took me a while to get used to Cubase and not being too concerned by genre definitions which at the time I got into dubstep were somewhat more vague than the 'recipe' that seems to be popular nowadays. Back then it felt like dubstep was welcoming producers to come in and bring their own influence with them. For a while I tried forcing myself to the halfstep style but I later realized there were enough clones around (and they were doing a better job than me as well) so I decided to go with what ever I felt like doing. I just get up in the morning, down a pint of strong coffee and see what happens.
B: You're played by dubstep-affiliated Rinse DJs like myself, Dusk and Oneman but to me your sound is more like grime or w*nky, more HyperGrime than Hyperdub: is grime an inspiration at all?
D: Grime is definitely one of my inspirations. I'm not the biggest grime connoisseur at all but I have a little section of old Alias, Black Ops & Eski stuff in my record shelf. I've actually bought my best grime records long after it was originally released, a lot of it from Dead-O and the other heads out here who were into grime in it's golden days but I heard it back when I started getting into dubstep. I just recently listened to some of my earliest '06 productions and found one of the tunes having the exact same drum pattern as Ice Cold which is one of my recent more grimey tunes so the influence has been there all along. Then again I'd say hiphop has had a much greater influence on my sound so it's hard for me to pinpoint where it all comes from. The biggest part of my record collection is still soul, funk, jazz and hiphop.
It's fair to say my sonic travels have taken me rather far from the 'core dubstep sound'. I think it gets more interesting when there's less boundaries. I like to keep it around 140bpm though as I'm still very much attracted to the DMZ nights type of dubstep aesthetic although my tracks might not directly imply this. I feel the possibilities with this sound are still endless. It might just take some coffee to realize it.
B: A lot of dubstep is trying to be dark now, almost comically so (except the joke isn't funnny). Your tunes, like lots of synthy, grimey, w*nky stuff is full of melodic light and colour: do you see music in this way too?
D: When a sound gets popular and more producers get into it the clichés are bound to get emphasis - indeed even to a comical extent. After EZ Rollers and the others pushing the effective straight roller beat in the late 90s DnB was never the same again. When every producer and DJ went for it the effect was gone. Being dark for the sake of dark in dubstep works in a similar pattern. But there's still great dark dubstep around.
I love the aesthetic of - for example - Mala and Loefah... I'm really glad these guys are back into their production after a bit of a break. With my music I always try to bring something of interest to the table (with varying results obviously) and lately it has been a lot of the synths i've finally afforded and dry sounds instead of dub echoes and dark atmospheres. Like you mentioned above dubstep has plenty of that. I've been trained as a classical pianist for 10 years when I was a kid so I guess to an extent the melody comes from there. And Kraftwerk. The 'wonkiness' (or post-Dilla sound as I see it) comes from the hiphop. I'm not that great at doing spacious tracks either so I've played with melodies instead as it comes naturally. I've been experimenting with space a lot more just lately though so we'll see what comes out of that. As for visual arts I draw inspiration from anything from Style Wars to old PC CGA graphics to Dali to Commodore 64. I try to approach music differently each time to keep it interesting, it can be drawn from visual arts to dance to just audio.
B: You're based in Finland, right? Can you tell me about the scene where you live, what nights go on, what DJs and producers should we know about...
D: Firstly, Helsinki inspires me. I love the city. It's streets and dwellers are a big part of my music and my part of the city, Vallila is just sheer inspiration. I could write a book on this but moving on...
I'm lucky to live here. The scene here is vibrant and Helsinki was one of the first places that for example N-Type, Chef and Pinch played outside the UK. This is due to Tes La Rok, Dead-O, RPK, Sire and others pushing the sound at an early stage. Nights like Slam It and Alas have been pushing the sound forward and doing the groundwork when the turnout for the parties wasn't that big. They've always made sure the soundsystem is weighty and provided the Helsinki dubsteppers with the full spectrum of the dubstep styles from eyes down vibes to the dubby to the techy to the ravey to whatnot. Due to this the artists they bring over can genuinely do their own thing during their sets without having to worry about playing the biggest bangers. Unless of course playing bangers is their thing.
A guy called Didier (of the Soul Investigators fame) bought dub cutting equipment from Jason at transition a few years back and at the beginning of 2009 opened Timmion Cutting Laboratory here in Helsinki. It's been great for the dubstep scene here, we can get direct feedback on the tracks and cut fresh dubs on the day we have a set. It's like having our own little Transition studios over here which is just a lot of fun. I cut all the music I play out so not having to order from the UK has been a big help. The smell of fresh plates before a good night is priceless.
There's a lot of good producers out here. I included tracks from Tes, Clouds, TMU and Khid in my mix, other producers include Non Person, Late, RPK, Teeth... The list goes on and I'm happy to say more and more producers are stepping up. It's lively out here I tell you.
B: What music (producers, DJs, scenes) are inspiring you right now?
D: All my old records, special mention to RZAs production on Tical which I keep going back to. The positive vibes of the finnish dubstep scene. As for dubstep producers there's too many to mention... Guys like Tes, Clouds and the rest of the local fellas, Mala, Kode9, Loefah, Coki, El-B, Benny Ill, Cyrus, Sully, Untold, Skream, Benga, Peverelist, Fantastic Mr. Fox & Rich Reason, Zomby, Joker, Silkie, TRG... The list goes on. As for DJs, seeing and hearing Oneman mix out here was a big inspiration. The whole thing him, Brackles, Shortstuff and them got going on is interesting. ASE in general and the Transition show is always a pleasure to listen to on Rinse. One of the most important inspirations has been the trips to London for DMZ and Forward. The trips have been very inspirational. I got a lot of love for London streets as well.
B: You've got a release forthcoming on Ramp ("Disapearing Reapearing Ink"/"Broken Memory") and had a release on Argon and BoomBap. What imprints inspire you?
The ones coming out very soon are a 12" on Ramp and a double pack EP on Noppa. There's more to come from Argon hopefully and others but more on that later. As for labels I'm feeling apart from the ones mentioned, Hyperdub, Deep Medi, Wireblock (for releasing Rustie, bless them!), One Handed Music, Lucky Me, Hemlock and Keysound definitely. And no, you didn't have to extort me with dirty gossip for that one, Keysound has been a buy on sight label for me for a while. There would be so much more but an endless list of music would be pointless.
Photos by Anssi Räisänen http://www.chiefgarage.com/.
Posted by Blackdown at 8:51 pm
Nice read, thanks bro.
Im not buying any of his tunes till he starts to smile
Stephen said...
"B: A lot of dubstep is trying to be dark now, almost comically so (except the joke isn't funny)."
thanks for saying this, needs to be heard. big interview, big mix, big producer. respect due.
nordanvinden said...
What Stephen said,
big up!
namhenderson said...
Nice interview.
Thanks for sharing the mix....
Juhani said...
big up desto! greets from oulu massive!
gaijn said...
can't wait for some of these tracks to see the light of day - been waiting for "ink" ever since it first played out on Rinse, and "can't take it" should be big too... top mix, and a good interview - nice.
Here comes the lick again
Kowton
Rinse September
Blackdown ft Durrty Goodz Concrete Streets
Marcus NASTY interview
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Monsanto Charged with Crimes Against Humanity
Earlier this year, dozens of food, farming, and environmental justice groups announced they will put Monsanto on trial for "crimes against nature and humanity" on October 16, 2016 (World Food Day), in The Hague, Netherlands.
The steering committee for the Monsanto Tribunal includes Vandana Shiva, Corinne Lepage (former environment minister of France), Gilles-Éric Séralini (toxicologist researching toxicities of GMOs and glyphosate), and Olivier De Schutter (former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food), among others.
As noted by Andre Leu, president of the International Foundation for Organic Agriculture (IFOAM):
"Monsanto is able to ignore the human and environmental damage caused by its products, and maintain its devastating activities through a strategy of systemic concealment:
By lobbying regulatory agencies and governments, by resorting to lying and corruption, by financing fraudulent scientific studies, by pressuring independent scientists, and by manipulating the press and media.
Monsanto's history reads like a text-book case of impunity, benefiting transnational corporations and their executives, whose activities contribute to climate and biosphere crises and threaten the safety of the planet."
CBS This Morning recently interviewed Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant about the lack of transparency when it comes to foods containing genetically engineered (GE) ingredients, and why the company spent $10 million to defeat GMO labeling in Colorado and Oregon alone.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/12/22/monsanto-charged-with-crimes-against-humanity.aspx
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New Arrivals 2/18/2017
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Five Things The Markets Are Talking About: Monday, May 9th 2016
Historically, the first trading session after a non-farm payroll (NFP) print tends to be the least volatile day of the month, and today’s opening session, thus far, is holding true to that statement.
From an economic fundamental viewpoint, the next couple of trading sessions are rather anticlimactic when compared to last week’s data points.
The highlight of this week is Thursday’s Bank of England (BoE) monetary policy decision. Currently, Governor Carney is in a tough spot given the looming Brexit vote next month and recent reports confirming that the uncertainty surrounding the referendum is already negatively affecting the economy.
1. Non-farm payroll (NFP) fallout
Friday’s jobs report should be keeping the Fed in standby mode as it considers “whether” and “when” to begin normalize short-term interest rates again. Fed talk has warned a June rate increase is possible if the economy regains momentum after a slow Q1, but April’s disappointing jobs release (+160k vs. 2015’s monthly average of +229k) undermines that argument. A downtick in labor-force participation does as well.
It’s not all bad, with an increase in average hourly earnings of +2.5% from a year earlier, Fed officials are looking for signs of wage increases as slack in the labor market diminishes.
Taken altogether, Friday’s report does not entirely eliminate the possibility of a June increase, but new rounds of data on consumption, inflation and hiring will need to show improvement to convince the Fed that its a go in June.
Futures odds for a rate increase at the June meeting have fallen to +6% from +13% and by year’s end, the odds have dropped to +48% from +57%.
Despite this, the USD is at a two-week high against the bulk of European currencies despite the recent miss in payrolls.
2. Greece on the agenda
Euro area finance ministers (Eurogroup) are holding an extraordinary meeting in Brussels today to discuss the Greek bailout. Will Greece be able to win some much-needed financial breathing space after six years of turbulence?
The Eurogroup and the IMF will assess whether Greek Prime Minister Tsipras has made enough budget-tightening commitments to gain another disbursement of emergency loans.
Last week, the Greek Parliament had secured enough votes to pass tax and pension reforms ahead of today’s meet, but any other additional contingency measures could not be passed by parliament as it was seen as counterproductive.
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5. Soft China trade data weigh on regional bourses
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Breaking down the numbers – imports came in at -5.7% vs. +0.3%e, while exports were also below forecast at +4.1% vs. +4.3%e.
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A Visit to the Linnaeus Garden in Uppsala Sweden
Labels: linnaeus, math and science, plants, sweden, taxonomy
Overview | Sexual System | Selected Plants | Brochures
Left: The Linnaeus Museum in Uppsala. Center: Main axis of the Linnaeus Garden. Right: Aquarium lacustre - lake pond and orangery.
Four years ago I started to get interested in Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), often referred to as the “father of modern taxonomy", and his work on the naming of plants, first described in Systema naturae (1735). I read Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist for some background; it's a biography of Linnaeus that was first published in 1971. The biography makes a number of references to the Linnaeus Garden in Uppsala, and so it was fitting that when we were recently in Stockholm Sweden, we should make a trip north to Uppsala.
It’s easy to get to Uppsala by train from Stockholm’s main station. Arriving at the train station in Uppsala, it’s a easy and pleasant walk through the town to reach the garden.
Visiting the garden includes visiting the Linnaeus Museum, the home Linnaeus lived in between 1743 and 1778. It takes a good 30 to 60 minutes to explore the house, depending on your interest. The free audio guide is useful for making sense of the rooms and artifacts found therein. The museum naturally talks about Linnaeus but also a lot about his wife Sara Elisabeth Moræa* (1716 – 1806). They were married from 1739 until Linnaeus’ death and had seven children. Sara Lisa seems to have been quite a capable woman, running the house and the family business as many good Swedish housewives did back then…as the audio guide informed us.
Aside: I’ve always been confused with the multiple names used to refer to Linnaeus, the man who revolutionized the naming of things. In English and Swedish, his name is Carl Linnaeus. Linnaeus wrote a lot in Latin, and his name Latinized is Carolus Linnæus (with the grapheme æ). Carl von Linné is the name he took after being ennobled in 1761 (ante-dated 1757), with the addition of the nobiliary particle von. And finally, I have to remember when talking to my Italian friends that he’s known as Carlo Linneo.
The Linnaeus Museum. Left: First floor. Center left: Second floor. Center right: Bedroom with showcase of manuscripts authored by Linnaeus. Right: View from the museum into the garden.
After visiting the house, we strolled around the gardens, which are today restored more or less as they were in Linnaeus’ time circa 1745. That wasn’t always the case. The gardens fell into disuse and the house was used for other purposes for over a hundred years after Linnaeus' death. It was the Swedish Linnaeus Society founded in 1917 who is to credit for the resurrection of the gardens and house to the state we see it today.
Curiosity: The Linnaeus family kept a small menagerie of animals around them while they lived in Uppsala including a raccoon, Guinea pigs, peacocks, parrots, and monkeys. While visiting the Linnaeus garden, you can’t help but notice the monkey houses, small gray huts placed high on poles. They have an interesting chain system so that monkeys could go up and down the poles but always remained attached.
Sexual System
How are the gardens arranged? From the garden brochure (attached below) we have these major sections:
Perennial parterre with perennial species planted according to the 24 classes in the Linnaeus’ classification.
Annual parterre with annual and biennial species. There are 44 beds including annual and biennial plants.
Apricarium where succulents are kept during summers.
Aquarium fluviatile simulating a river pond setting.
Aquarium lacustre simulating a lake pond setting.
Aquarium palustre simulating a marsh pond.
Spring parterre with Siberian plants and spring-flowering bulbs.
Autumn parterre with plants from eastern North America.
Southern parterre where plants from the orangery are placed during the summer.
The hedges surrounding the perennial and annual parterres are a mix of mock orange, barberry, willow and spruce.
We spent the most time looking at the plants in the annual and perennial parterres, which are arranged according to the 24 classes in Linnaeus’ sexual system. Sexual what? Linnaeus had a strong penchant for order and a dissatisfaction with existing plant classification systems, so he invented his own based on the arrangement and number of male and female parts of the flowers of plants, his so-called sexual system. Recall that Linnaeus lived before Darwin and the ideas of evolutionary relationships between individual and groups of organisms such as plant species were yet to come.
Linnaeus’ system was based on observable similarities, not natural relationships between plants. Though, at times observable similarities (or artificial relationships) are related to an underlying natural relationship. In fact, as we explored the two parterres, initially I thought the plants were arranged by (what we call today) families because that’s how I first perceived the groupings of plants. However, after poking around a bit, this didn’t quite make sense.
It turns out that there is some overlap between Linnaeus’ classification and the modern taxonomic rank of family. For example, Class II:1 (Diandria) contains Olea, Ligustrum, Syringa and Jasminum, which today are all grouped in the family Oleaceae. On the other hand, Class II:1 (Diandria) also contains Veronica, Justicia, Pinguicula, and Verbena which are in different families, respectively Plantaginaceae, Acanthaceae, Lentibulariaceae, and Verbenaceae.
Left: View of main axis of the Linnaeus Garden. Center the hedge around the perennial parterre. Right: View of monkey huts.
Selected Plants
When Linnaeus took over responsibility for the garden in 1741, he re-arranged it according to his classification scheme and documented it in Hortus Upsaliensis (1748).
The plants listed below are a few we photographed in the annual and perennial parterres. They are listed in order by parterre, and their Linnaeus class, 1 through 24. For an idea of the original class descriptions, see the 10th edition of Systema Naturae (volume 2) available at the Biodiversity Heritage Library web site. For example, for class 9 (IX), Enneandria, the Latin description is “Mariti novem in eodem thalamo cum femina”, which can be translated as “Nine men in the same bride’s chamber, with one woman”. Pretty saucy stuff.
Name from plant label in Linnaeus’ Garden
Class:Order in Linnaeus’ system, e.g., II:2 is called Diandria, flowers with 2 stamens and 1 pistil
Location: annual or perennial parterre
Today’s accepted family name
Veronica spuria (synonym of Pseudolysimachion spurium)
- II:1 - Diandria:Monogynia
- Location: perennial parterre
- Family: Plantaginaceae
- V:1 - Pentandria:Monogynian
- Family: Boraginaceae
Symphutum officinale
Astrantia major
- V:2 - Pentandria:Digynia
- Family: Apiaceae
Asclepias syriaca
- Family: Asclepiadaceae
Linum perenne
- V:5 - Pentandria:Pentagynia
- Family: Linaceae
Tradescantia virginiana
- VI:1 - Hexandria:Monogynia
- Family: Commelinaceae
Rheum palmatum
- IX:2 - Enneandria:Monogynia
- Family: Polygonaceae
Eryngium planum
- X:II -
Lychnis chalcedonica
- X:5 - Decandria:Pentagynia
- Family: Caryophyllaceae
Delphinium elatum
- XIII:3 0 Polyandria:Trigynia
- Family: Ranunculaceae
Phlomis tuberosa
- XIV:1 - Didynamia:Gymnospermia
- Family: Lamiaceae
Digitalis lutea
- XIV:2 - Didynamia:Angiospermia
Anthyllis vulneraria
- XVII:4 - Diadelphia:Decandria
- Family: Fabiaceae
Sonchus plumieri
- XIX:1 - Syngenesia:Polygami Æqualis
- Family: Asteraceae
- Synonym of Lactuca plumieri
- XIX:2 - Syngenesia:Superflua
Salvia sclarea
- II:1
- Location: annual parterre
Convolvulus tricolor
- V:1 - Diandria:Monogynia
- Family: Convulvulaceae
- V:1: Pentandria:Monogynia
- Family: Solanaceae
- V:1 - Pentandria:Monogynia
Browallia americana
Ricinus communis
- XX1:9 - Monoecia:Monadelphia
- Family: Euphorbiaceae
Other associated Linnaeus-themed stops you might consider while in Uppsala are:
Linnaeus’ Hammarby. This was Linnaeus’ summer residence. Sara Lisa managed the house and farm while Linnaeus worked on naming things. Hammarby is just outside of Uppsala to the southeast.
The Botanical Garden (Uppsala University). Today this is the official botanical garden, created in 1787 after Linnaeus garden became too small to meet the needs of the university. The botanical garden is about a 20-minute walk from the Linnaeus Garden.
The Linnaeus Museum brochure.
The Linnaeus Garden Brochure.
Linnaeus Hammarby Brochure.
The Botanical Garden Brochure.
The Tropical Greenhouse Brochure.
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An Arum of Great Kallos, a.k.a. the Calla Lily
"Kallos" is the Greek word for "beauty." And the flower we know as the calla lily certainly is a beauty. It is not, however, a member of the lily family. It is actually an arum, native to South Africa, and is related to philodendron, spathiphyllum (also called peace lily plants, popular for florists), and caladium plants. The calla lily gained its misnomer when it was cataloged incorrectly in the 1700's by Swedish botanist, Carolus Linnaeus. (Known as the "Father of Modern Taxonomy," Linnaeus laid the foundations for how we classify living organisms. Since he classified over 7,300 species, I think one mistake is forgivable) A German botanist, Karl Koch, corrected the error in the 1800's, but the name "calla lily" continues to be used this day.
My friend Roben is marrying her beau Craig in a few weeks. She is madly in love with Craig, then cats, then calla lillies. (she likes alliteration, apparently) Congrats to Roben and Craig; this blog's for you. :)
Calla lilies today are one of the most popular flowers for weddings, because of their striking and unusual shape, and also because the hybridization of them has resulted today in some amazing colors (Picasso is my favorite). Besides beauty and magnificence, they also represent purity, as the most well-known calla lilies were velvety, large and white. Their trumpet shape was said to mimic the shape of a woman, and thanks to Sigmund Freud, the late 19th century mind also began associating the calla lily with sex, lust and ardor. So much for the purity aspect.
Picasso Calla Lily
But calla lilies were most popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a funeral flower and a carved symbol on tombstones. Because they bloomed in South Africa most heavily during their summer, which was the European and American winter, their new audiences in the 1800's saw them as an imported bringer of light to the darkest days of winter. And, as with many symbols of the 19th century, calla lilies represented the Resurrection, or the light of Christ dispelling the darkness. Their trumpet shape in the spiritual context represents the trumpets of angels heralding Jesus' victory over death. Today, calla lilies can be grown in this hemisphere, and they bloom in my flower beds in July.
One of the interesting things about the calla lily is that the true flower is actually the spadix (the yellowish spike), which is located inside the white or colored spathe, which is just a modified leaf. Calla lilies have remained a popular flower in America for more than 100 years, and they have inspired many artists, most notably Georgia O'Keefe. Roben, I like calla lilies and cats and Craig....you have good taste. Enjoy.
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Welcome to the Hotel Californshark – Day Four
July 9, 2007 by Carl Safina Leave a Comment
Just a few miles away, the high-rising shoulders of Catalina lost themselves in low-hanging overcast. The dawn sea looked pewter—moody and lovely.
Fishing was excellent but catching was slow, to paraphrase an old joke. Our morning haul-back brought just two small Blue Sharks. We did see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) and glimpsed the swift fin of a Minke Whale (rhymes with kinky) and a big Risso’s Dolphin, and later a pod of Common Dolphins came streaking through the waves, shadowed by a retinue of Elegant Terns. In other words, non-stop grace and wonderment, as usual.
On the afternoon haul, something simultaneously auspicious and ominous: one of the braided cable leaders came up chewed through. I would not have thought that possible. It’s hard to imagine something capable of doing that and still being interested in sucking in one of our 10-inch mackerel, rather than, say, eating a sea lion, but odd stuff happens at sea. The set brought two Mako pups. Suzie invited me to do the tagging, which I duly did for the pups.
Carl Safina and Suzie Kohin
Then on one of the last hooks hung a larger Mako, about six feet long and about 170 pounds. The larger animal would get the two kinds of electronic tags, and because applying these takes some practice, Suzie took over again. She led the animal toward us with the leader, and as the cradle dipped into the sea she pulled it over the perforated metal and yelled, “Up!” The water drained away and the Mako began thrashing, but we pounced on it as Erick Oñate-González put the thick blanket over its big black eyes, pulled up its pointy nose, and into the jaws of death inserted the ventilator hose. Quite a job description.
One of the electronic tags bolts to the dorsal fin and transmits its presence to satellites when the shark is traveling at the sea surface, thus tracking its cross-ocean travels.
The other tag looks a little like a cigar on a stalk that is anchored into the muscle; it records temperature and depth, then releases itself at a pre-programed time (about eight months from now), floats to the surface, and tells satellites the story of the shark’s vertical travels between the surface and the dark, cold depths. It’s incredible technology, revolutionizing our understanding of how animals use the ocean. Turns out that though Makos frequent the surface, they often dive to a thousand feet, rarely twice that.
While Suzie applied the tags, Erick held the head, kept its eyes covered, and kept the ventilator in place. That job takes nerve and concentration; you can’t get distracted or be caught by surprise if a shark this size suddenly thrashes. I helped “control” the tail, but in fact the shark stayed passive most of the time. I had the distinct sensual pleasure of having my hands on that beautiful sleek, cobalt skin, with its fine-sandy texture, and the strong, thick keel at the tailstock’s base. An exquisite, living sculpture; evolutionary art.
At one point as we rolled the shark slightly to check sex (male, indicated by its two penis-like misnamed “claspers”) the Mako started squirming and was working itself up to some violent thrashing. Anyone who has caught them on rod and reel knows Makos are capable of literally spinning out of control. I noticed that the blanket had slipped off its left eye, and when Eric quickly flapped it back on, the shark’s whole body instantly relaxed, its muscular tension utterly dissipating.
Erick covering makos eyes
When Suzie yelled “Down!” and the cradle entered the water and we shoved that Mako forward, it took off like a shot.
And where do the sharks we’re catching in these relatively protected waters go? The tracking affirms that these sharks range widely up and down the California Current, west to waters north of Hawaii, down off Mexico, and generally becoming vulnerable to fishing boats from other countries in the open ocean. No sea is an island.
In the early 1990s there had been a small commercial fishery for sharks here. It had a temporary permit, and the permit was not renewed because the area proved to be a shark nursery. Thus this survey was born. Would that such wisdom prevailed world-wide.
satellite tag on mako
In the last two decades the number of sharks killed has skyrocketed, draining the sea of many of its most compelling predators. I’ve seen the difference; the numbers of sharks we used to see in the 1980s was much greater than now. Everyone I know who has a history at sea says the same, as do a series of recent scientific studies.
Tens of millions of sharks have been killed annually, mainly for fins used as a thickener in soup, mainly since the mid-1980s. The number killed is almost certain to decline, not because international fisheries management—still dysfunctional over vast swaths of the planet—is likely get its ass in gear anytime soon for the benefit of sharks, but because the sharks will grow progressively scarcer.
In the present survey, there’s some evidence of decline in this population, but the trend is unclear. Year-to-year variability, based in part on weather and water quality (for instance, blooms of toxic red tides) affects numbers of sharks caught. So uncertainty remains about this shark community’s trajectory. More time is likely to clear the picture. But slow declines can be hard to detect for years, until real problems accumulate. That’s a problem in itself, because it delays action.
mako swimming with transmitter
For example, many populations of albatrosses have been declining at rates of around just 1% per year (coincidentally, mainly because of incidental drowning in poorly regulated long-line fisheries.) It took too long for scientists to determine the declines were real, sustained, and significant. But over the course of just one working career for the scientists who were monitoring albatrosses, declines of 1% annually became population emergencies threatening some albatrosses with extinction. And yet in the last decade some real progress has been made in reducing albatross deaths. Bright spots include Alaska, Hawaii, New Zealand, the Falklands, South Georgia Island, and the Southern Ocean. That progress matters; it may yet save threatened albatrosses.
It also suggests that despite the history of most fisheries management worldwide, there remains hope for sharks. Certainly, these sharks we’re catching, many of them quite young, constitute hope with a mischievous grin.
— Carl Safina
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Posted by Jefferson on 9/22/17 • Categorized as College Football
North Carolina State vs. Florida State -FSU hasn’t played a game since opening against Alabama in Atlanta, and that seems like last season, it’s been so long. Due to Hurricane Irma and the recovery efforts, their game against Louisiana-Monroe was cancelled and the annual classic contest with Miami was postponed until Oct 7th. The Seminoles might be a little rusty, but they ought to certainly be well-rested. FSU has defeated North Carolina State the last four times they’ve met, and the Noles enter this game as a 12-point favorite. On the down side, starting QB Deondre Francois was lost for the season due to an injury sustained late in the Alabama game, and freshman QB James Blackman will be making his first start Saturday. Head Coach Jimbo Fisher is optimistic about the frosh, he was highly recruited, Fisher likes the way he has been working, and Blackman has been studying the playbook hard. But, he is a true freshman and is absolutely unproven. Another downside might be that the Seminoles could be a bit rusty. Sure, they have been working out, practicing, studying film, but that’s not the same as being in a game. In their only contest this season FSU showed that their offensive line was suspect against a strong pass rush -Alabama’s. NC State’s defensive line will never be mistaken for Bamas,’they may still cause problems for a freshman Quarterback.
North Carolina State– NC State started off the season by losing to South Carolina, not a resume booster. Kentucky subsequently beat the Gamecocks. The Pack has since beaten Marshall and Furman. NC State has a star in the making in with quarterback Ryan Finley, who has thrown 192 consecutive passes without an interception. That’s the longest active streak in the nation. The offensive line will get a boost with the return of right tackle Will Richardson, who had to serve a two-game suspension. The defense has Bradley Chubb, who is being talked about as a high draft pick in the next NFL draft. The key to a Wolfpack victory will be how well their defense plays. If they are able to put pressure on the newbie QB, denying him time in the pocket to make his reads, they’ll have a chance. Not saying NC State has great chance, or even a very good chance, just saying they have a chance. NC State has a history of rearing up on their hindlegs and taking the measure of FSU. Hasn’t happened lately, but it has happened before. That said, CSF is picking Florida State to win the game.
TCU vs Oklahoma State– Most of the talk on this game is about Oklahoma State and quarterback Mason Rudolph;- something about high powered offenses generating a lot of points. But TCU’s quarterback Kenny Hill has been having a pretty good season, himself. He didn’t always perform this way when he was at Texas A&M, but it appears he has found his stride with the Frogs. He has completed 75% of his passes for 737 yards with eight touchdowns and only two INT’s. Not bad, not bad at all. But this game is not going to be determined by the Horned Frog’s offense. To beat Oklahoma State, TCU’s defense must rise to the occasion. They allowed 36 points to SMU, and, usually, that would be a bad thing, but the Mustangs, under new Head Coach Chad Morris, are a much better team than they have been in the past. Against Arkansas, the Gary Patterson typical defense was most impressive, smothering the Razorbacks, 28-7. They must, absolutely must, put a pass rush on OSU’s Rudolph. No pass rush, no victory. TCU under Gary Patterson has a history of having a strong defenses and this year is no exception. But against the high-powered, fast-paced, unrelenting Cowboy offense, the Horned Frog defenders have to be at the top of their game.
Oklahoma State– The OSU Cowpokes have played South Alabama, Tulsa, and Pitt, and Oklahoma State has looked virtually unstoppable. In their last game, against the Panthers, O-State opened up a 21-0 first quarter lead, which by halftime had reached 49. Rudolph was throwing the ball with pinpoint precision with 497 yards and five touchdowns. This adds up to being the third best offense in the nation. The Cowboys have concentrated almost entirely on offense, but their defense will have to show up for this game. Against the run, and against the previously mentioned trio of teams, the D-Line had been holding their own. The secondary has had it pretty easy since opposing teams have had to throw bombs just to remain in the game. The bombs didn’t work. The defense doesn’t have to be the star of the game, but they will have to show up. There’s a difference between being Alabama good and just kind-of good. The Poke offense will face their first real test of the season because TCU ain’t no slouch. Actually, Tulsa wasn’t a slouch, nor was Pitt, and the Cowboys dismantled them. Win this one, and Oklahoma State should be in shape for their showdown against OU later on in November. Bear Bryant always said, “Offenses win games, defenses win championships.” This is just a game, so CSF is picking Oklahoma State, but it won’t be a shock if the Horn Frogs surprise them, and us.
Mississippi State vs Georgia- The Dogs against the Dawgs! The Mississippi State Bulldogs enter Sanford Stadium for a showdown that no one had picked as a marquee event at the start of the season. The Bulldogs throttled LSU, 37-3, last week. Not many people were picking MSU do that, but they not only won, they outplayed the Tigers in every aspect of the game. Now the big question is, “can they do it again?” Answering this question is what separates champions from pretenders. If they want a place at the table (meaning Atlanta) at the end of the season, they are going to have to beat the SEC East favorite this week. You may not know about QB Nick Fitzgerald, but you will. He is no secret to those of us who do know about him. His prowess on the field comes as no surprise; actually, the entire MSU offense comes as no surprise. They are good, very good, they have great receivers and the running backs aren’t half bad, either. The surprising aspect is how physically they are playing on both sides of the line. LSU was supposed to have bigger players who would push around the little Bulldogs, but just the opposite happened. The offensive line push gave QB Fitzgerald a wide-open playing field. The defense then out-muscled LSU, shutting everything down. Georgia just might be better than LSU was expected to be, however. The Dogs’ offensive line is going to face another big bunch of boys in Athens and they’ll have to equal the effort they had against the Bayou Bengals. The MSU defense has been the biggest surprise. This weekend they will have to surprise even more. UGA has two running backs that are very physical and very fast, so the defenders have to get into the backfield and disrupt the flow. Under no circumstances can they allow the Georgia offense to get into any sort of rhythm.
Georgia– The Dawgs of Georgia are also at 3-0 and atop the SEC East? Georgia has not been tested in the Conference so far, they did go up to South Bend, IN, and beat Notre Dame, 20-19, then they’ve played Samford and App State. Beating the Irish on their home field early in the season is no mean feat, but it doesn’t count in the SEC standings. True Freshman QB Jake Fromm has not done a bad job since replacing their injured starter, Jacob Eason. He is 34-57 with 449 yards, five touchdowns and one INT. He should be starting on Saturday as well, even though Eason was back in practice this week. But the best news for the Dawgs is that Sony Michel will be back in the backfield sharing carries with Nick Chubb. This will give the Dawgs a big edge on the ground. Having one back at this caliber is one thing, having two would be considered rich, and rich they are. Should Georgia get the running game going, it will take a lot of pressure off QB Fromm. BUT they will first have to get the running game going, and that could be tough. The UGA defense has be considerably upgraded since Head Coach Kirby Smart arrived, no big surprise there, as he was the defensive coordinator for the Tide prior to moving to Georgia. Smart has been recruiting a varied array of talent, so that the defense can play from a variety of formations. They can employ the 4-3, the 3-4, or other formations to exploit an opposing weakness they find. This is a tactic Alabama has been using for years. Where did I say Smart was before moving to Georgia? It works. Most numbers are pointing towards a Mississippi State win, it’s not a big difference but the Maroon Bulldogs are favored. After much thought, research, and many flips of the coin, CSF is going for the Dawgs. Dawgs over Dogs. Maybe. Can I have one more flip? Two out of three? Georgia.
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Virginia travels to the Northwest to play Boise State. I’m going with the Cavaliers
Utah vs Arizona, the Utes win
Ohio State will actually fare well against UNLV
Louisville will rebound against Kent State. Did I just say that?
Army rolls all over Tulane. Beat Navy!
Texas A&M might cause The Daughter to be happy by beating Arkansas, but it could be close
Pitt will get rocked by Georgia Tech. Especially since Tech blocks are dangerous.
Alabama goes to Nashville and beats Vanderbilt, even though some of the Vandy players have been saying that Alabama is next. When you decide to assassinate the king, don’t miss. The Tide Rolls and it might get ugly.
USC needs to be consistent against California
Duke beats down North Carolina. When they’re down, kick ’em.
Purdue sees if they are for real against Michigan, and it might end well for the Boilermakers
Baylor’s woes continue against Oklahoma
LSU should do better with Syracuse than they did with Mississippi State
Penn State will roar over Iowa
Auburn better not struggle with Missouri or Malzahn is in deep water
Kentucky has its best chance in years to beat Florida, but they won’t
Michigan State adds to Notre Dame’s woes. Listening to the press whine will be great
Washington might struggle a tad with Colorado
Oregon visit Tempe, AZ, to meet Arizona State. The seat gets hotter under Coach Graham
Stanford really needs a win against UCLA. UCLA really needs a win against Stanford. Who’ll get it? The Cardinal.
North Alabama takes on rival West Alabama and their high flying offense, but the Lion Defense will shut them down. Roar Lions
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Required Reading: Empathy & Disgust
Michael Connor | Wed Apr 29th, 2015 11:45 a.m.
Distaste or disgust involves a rejection of an idea that has been offered for enjoyment.
—Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, 1798
For the first time, this year's Seven on Seven will have an overarching theme offered to participants as a provocation: Empathy & Disgust.
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We chose this theme partly because of recent discussions about "affective computing," which aims to detect and respond appropriately to users' emotions. The field gained some visibility after the release of Spike Jonze's Her; writing for Rhizome, Martine Syms argued that the film could be read as "an elaborate product spec" for intelligent agents that can replace human relationships. Recently, a new crop of apps that function as "Intelligent Personal Agents" bring us a step closer to this future, while a more speculative app from Blast Theory offers a fully-fledged emotional relationship with a virtual character who gradually reveals herself to be "needy, sloppy, piteous, and desperate."
Some of the real-world research underpinning emotional analysis was discussed in a New Yorker piece earlier this year, focusing on the work of Affectiva and scientist Rana el Kaliouby. The company is developing a tool called Affdex that can "make relable interences about people's emotions" based on video monitoring:
During the 2012 Presidential elections, Kaliouby’s team used Affdex to track more than two hundred people watching clips of the Obama-Romney debates, and concluded that the software was able to predict voting preference with seventy-three-per-cent accuracy.
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Managing Boundaries with your Intelligent Personal Agent
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Karen, my life coach, was supposed to teach me about changing my attitude towards relationships.[1] Over the past ten days, she has mostly taught me about how not to be caught up in one. I've watched her get wine-blind with Dave, her lecherous roommate. I've seen her wallow in her pajamas over the man who got away. She doesn't practice radical self-love. She is reductive, aimless, even pathetic, but I don't have the heart to fire her.
Karen is an iPhone app developed by Blast Theory and Dr. Kelly Page.[2] Over the course of 17 interactive videos, I meet with its protagonist, Karen—a sweet, crumpled woman played with pitch-perfect melancholy by actress Claire Cage.[3] I log in at all hours to watch: from the airport, during my commute, and late at night. I am sucked into her chaos. She has no boundaries. I can walk in on her eating breakfast, doing her makeup, or daydreaming in bed. I am more careful to draw my own.
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