The TYMCO Model 600® pick-up head incorporates full-width air blast and suction and is designed to work effortlessly with the TYMCO Regenerative Air System to pick up a wide variety of street debris from light trash and leaves to heavy dirt and gravel. The Model 600 pick-up head also comes standard with long-lasting Duo-Skids® which provide increased sweeping performance and longer wear.
The Model 600 may be equipped with the optional Broom Assist Head (BAH) for applications where a broom may be desired. The BAH is controlled by the operator in the cab by a single switch allowing broom-assisted sweeping only when needed because the majority of debris is removed by the powerful TYMCO Regenerative Air System.
The large 12” diameter by 79” long broom is mounted at the rear of the BAH and is fully enclosed for optimum dust control and eliminating risk of “throwing” debris outside the sweep path. The fast rotating BAH broom provides excellent performance by automatically applying as much pressure as needed to loosen heavy, packed-on debris and projecting it into the air blast for faster sweeping.
The Model 600 hopper capacity is over 7.3 cubic yards and ensures owners a payload of over 10,000 lbs. The TYMCO raker-assist dumping system provides smooth discharge of debris from a stationary hopper without requiring unnecessary telescopic hydraulic cylinders for hoisting, hydraulically controlled door latch assemblies, additional hydraulic door opening cylinders, grease points and safety concerns such as pinch points and overhead clearance. The 600 hopper comes standard with two easily accessible inspection doors located on both sides of the hopper.
The 43” diameter Model 600 gutter brooms remove debris from curbs, gutters and around obstacles along city streets such as parked cars and maintenance equipment. An optional tilt adjuster allows you to reach down into the deepest curbs or gutters typically found throughout city industrial and residential streets. The innovative gutter broom provides excellent performance by automatically determining the “digging” pressure needed for different debris; therefore, owners get maximum gutter broom bristle life and sweeping performance. If the gutter broom encounters an immovable object, it will automatically retract to avoid potential damage and return to the original position once the immovable object has been passed, all without intervention from the operator.
The Model 600 is the only street sweeper on the market with a high-efficiency centrifugal dust separator for maximum fine dust particulate separation which provides excellent dust control while using less water. TYMCO’s engineers take several aspects into account when designing for better dust control such as water nozzle design and placement, not just adding more water like other street sweepers. The Model 600 has a water capacity of up to 440 gallons which provides hours of sweeping while maintaining excellent dust control.
The Model 600 is powered by a 99 horsepower John Deere auxiliary engine. This engine powers all hydraulic functions through a gear driven pump and directly belt drives the blower. The lightweight aluminum alloy blower that drives the TYMCO Regenerative Air System only requires a modest amount of horsepower; therefore TYMCO’s engineers designed the Model 600 around a smaller, more fuel efficient auxiliary engine.
The Model 600 is the only street sweeper that utilizes a super-efficient aluminum alloy blower that is self-cleaning and reduces fuel consumption because of its lightweight design requiring less horsepower. The blower is designed to work with the TYMCO Regenerative Air System to both push and pull air which delivers even greater sweeping performance. The Model 600 blower has a natural rubber coating that provides maximum wear against abrasive debris.
The cabover truck chassis allows the Model 600 to carry additional water for dust control as well as provide space for toolbox storage and maintenance tools such as shovels, rakes and brooms. The additional storage provides more versatility if other maintenance tasks need to be taken care of after sweeping such as tending to municipal parks or other city landscaping.


Chuck E. Cheese gets makeover; Mascot rat becomes rocker mouse
Chuck E. Cheese presented by CEC Entertainment Inc. (CEC ENTERTAINMENT INC.)
Chuck E. Cheese has been given the pink slip.
The company that operates the chain of children's pizza restaurants is retiring the giant rodent's outdated image - and the man who voiced its character for nearly two decades. CEC Entertainment Inc. says it plans to launch a national ad campaign Thursday with a revamped image of Chuck E. Cheese as a hip, electric-guitar-playing rock star.
It's just the latest makeover for the 35-year-old mascot, which once was a New Jersey rat who sometimes carried a cigar.
CEC Entertainment, based in Irving, Texas, is struggling to revive sales at its more than 500 pizza restaurants, which offer games, prizes and a musical variety show. In May, CEC said revenue at its locations open at least a year fell 4.2 percent in the first quarter and lowered its outlook for the year.
According to ShowBizPizza.com, a Chuck E. Cheese fan site, the man who voiced the mascot in restaurants and commercials since 1993 learned of his replacement only after coming across "Chuck's Hot New Single" online and realizing it was sung by someone else. The fan site late last week published a Facebook post by Duncan Brannan, the mascot's former voice.
Brannan could not be reached for comment. But in the post, he writes that part of his assignment when he first took on the role was to transform Chuck E. Cheese from "a joke-telling, sometime off-color New Jersey rat" to a lovable, mainstream mouse.
He notes that there were various signs in recent months that suggested he was being pushed out, but that he was assured by the company that he was still the voice of Chuck E.
The Facebook post was republished by The Dallas Observer this week.
CEC Entertainment says that Brannan wasn't fired but that it simply "chose to utilize new voice talent" for its ad campaign. The company said Brannan, a freelancer, is still in contract with the company to provide entertainment in its restaurants.
The new Chuck E. Cheese that launches this week will be voiced by Jaret Reddick, the lead singer for the pop-punk bank Bowling for Soup. The Chuck E. Cheese Facebook page now shows a silhouette of a cartoon mouse playing a guitar.
The first Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre location opened in 1977 in San Jose, Calif. According to ShowBizPizza.com, the idea for Chuck E. came from a generic mascot costume that was acquired by the founder, Nolan Bushnell, who also co-founded Atari and Pong. Executives originally considered calling the restaurant "Rick Rat's Pizza" but a PR agency figured a rat would be a bad mascot for a pizza chain.
The name Chuck E. Cheese was selected because it downplayed the mascot's species and forced people to smile when they said it, according to the site.


Hand of Hope’s short-term medical and dental outreaches began with one trip to Cambodia in 2007. What started out small has now led to several yearly trips to countries around the world. Recently, our team was able to complete the 100th short-term medical and dental outreach in Zambia. Here are some of the lives you were able to impact in the span of just one day!
Oscar came to our medical tent reporting that he was randomly falling down every month. Just the night before, he had fallen down and sustained a traumatic injury to his right arm. The doctor said that it was the type of fracture that could have very easily severed his main artery in his arm. After Oscar’s examination, it was determined that he had a seizure disorder. Unfortunately, he had no way of getting to the hospital for treatment, so we paid for his transport. By diagnosing his disorder, our team hoped he could avoid future injuries to his body.
Sweet Grace came to our outreach hunched over and suffering for aches that most 89-year-olds would experience. However, she did not have the simple medicines available to help. Our team was able to give her aspirin, blood pressure medicine and pills for her muscles; such simple solutions to the pain she was feeling. Our team was also happy to pray with Grace before she left; “Now after prayer, I feel that my body has become normal. It doesn’t feel as badly as before.” She left standing much straighter!
67-year-old Alex had been having trouble with his eyes for at least two years. He was not able to see clearly, and which caused him difficulty when reading. After meeting with one of our volunteers, he received a pair of glasses and was so ecstatic to be able to read again. What was the first book he picked up? One of Joyce’s from the prayer tent!
We’ve been able to treat 297,923 patients and see 106,056 salvations over the course of 100 trips, but there are so many more lives to reach! You can find out more about our upcoming trips at joycemeyer.org/MedicalMissions. So, whether you’ve been a volunteer in the past, or you’ve been financially supporting Joyce Meyer Ministries, you’re a part of this…thank you!


Turkey rhinotracheitis virus and Escherichia coli experimental infection in chickens: histopathological, immunocytochemical and microbiological study.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the response of chickens to a combined infection with turkey rhinotracheitis virus (TRTV) and Escherichia coli O78:K80. Groups of specific-pathogen-free chickens were inoculated by eyedrop and intranasal routes with TRTV and/or E. coli O78:K80. Presence of E. coli O78:K80, histopathological changes and tissue distribution of viral antigen in the respiratory tract of chickens were evaluated. Dual infection resulted in increased severity of clinical signs, and macroscopic and microscopic lesions compared with those groups given single infections. All 36 chickens inoculated with TRTV plus E. coli O78:K80 showed severe rhinitis. Moreover, periorbital edema and fibrinous airsacculitis and pericarditis were observed in one of the three chickens inoculated with both agents and sacrificed at day 5 p.i. In addition, purulent material in the air spaces of the cranial bones was seen in three of the six animals from the same group sacrificed at days 5 and 7 p.i. The distribution of viral antigen in tissues was similar in groups inoculated with TRTV and TRTV plus E. coli, but viral antigen was detected only in main bronchi of chickens from the latter group. The quantity of E. coli O78:K80 isolated from the nasal cavity was greater in the group given dual infection. The results obtained suggest that TRTV may act as primary agent, enhancing E. coli multiplication. The lesions observed in the group inoculated with both agents could correspond to an initial stage of swollen head syndrome (SHS) and contribute to the hypothesis that SHS could be due to a mixed infection with TRTV and E. coli.


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March 4, 2011As much as we are against legible clothing, we are for legible state secrets. That's why we're trying to figure out what shirt/sweatshirt to buy at The WikiLeaks shop, where the proceeds go to support the web's premiere whistleblowing operation. Keeping WikiLocks -- aka Julian Assange -- in highlights, gel, and other styling products alone has got to run into six figures. Whichever garment we end up choosing, we know it's going to hurt a little, but such is the price of freedom.


I had a busy night last night at my LSS, Fancy That Scrapbooking in Springfield. It's a nice little shop and i'm really enjoying going there - especially since they don't charge for their crop nights!! A rarity these days!!
A couple more shares today. Firstly a challenge from the Kraft It Up blog. The challenge was to scrap a Christmas photo using non-traditional Christmas colours. I took inspiration from the yummy Bo Bunny range that has come out this Christmas and scrapped in Purple, Aqua and Lime Green - how yummy does it look!!!
The ribbon i used on the LO was quite a find!! I had to do 3 laps of the shop until i found exactly what i was looking for, and boy does it suit!! So shimmery and such gorgeous colours :) I've used lots of paint and glimmer mist and glam on this LO - i was quite into the paint last night!!
I've used a bit of paint on my second share for today - it's for the 1st Scrap The Boys December challenge "Dasher or Prancer" - scrap your boy strutting his stuff!! Here's Calvin pushing his little chair around the first time he figured out he would walk by pushing stuff. He loved it!!
The papers are from the Wander range by Basic Grey. They are such good boy colours. All of the chipboard pieces are from the same range, as well as those yummy tag type bits - how cute are they? Basic Grey has been doing these things for a couple of ranges now and i've resisted, but i thought they worked really well with this range. Might have to reproduce them myself next time though - they are just a piece of PP with some wire, popped up on some foam. Cool, huh!!
Your layouts are awesome. Thanks for joining in at KIU. I love your colour combo.....it looks super.
awwww... its so GREAT to see you back scrapping. LOVE your pages.
Gorgeous layouts, wonderful colors too!


Impellus is seeking to recruit professional and ambitious individuals to fill a varied internal sales and account management role.
Impellus is a well-respected, fast-growing provider of management training courses based in bright, modern offices in the centre of St Albans. The company has just won a contract to supply management apprenticeships to medium and large organisations, and is going through ISO9001 accreditation.
As part of our expansion we’re looking to recruit a professional, dedicated Telephone Sales Executive to help our clients to make the right choices about their management training.
With over 300 courses run each year, the company is known for delivering high-value training to Managers at all levels across its 25 UK venues and through client premises. Impellus is an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) approved provider, is approved to deliver Management Apprenticeships and prides itself on helping companies and professionals reach new performance levels.
You will be at the centre of our relationships with clients and a key member of our growing sales and marketing team.
You’ll need to be professional, articulate and friendly, and be motivated by maximising sales and relationship opportunities to new and existing customers. We are looking for people who take care in the way they work and the manner in which clients and potential clients are treated.
Your approach to clients will be based on seeing yourself as a relationship builder and trusted consultant as well as a sales professional. You will be able to match learning and development to organisational need for clients and work in a collaborative manner with your colleagues.
The role involves dealing with incoming enquiries and generating a high volume of opportunities and sales from potential clients and existing customers. This is done by creating good, professional and constructive relationships with our smaller customers and supporting the relationships with larger customers in line with the guidance of a Senior Account Manager with whom you will need to work constructively to succeed.
Company specific training will be provided.


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It all about design which lies in the realm of engineering and chip architecture but also electrical design such as building circuits and chips.
This field cover topics with the device interconnection which is related to systems. It also includes some of the practical topics like resources sharing, and creating better protocol to transmitting data which reduce network traffic. Other work it include is peer to peer network which allow resource detection and load balancing to prevent damaging the network.
This field is all about designing and making animated movies, but also cover topics like data visualization. There are some of the graphics which contain 2D and 3D world.
This field is the heart of computer science all the non-theory areas depend on programming language. It includes optimization means to speed up your program and these days compiler optimization do amazing things.
This field relies on some of the work of programming language and deals with the design and implementation of software. It covers topic like defensive programming, focus on designing and work on large-scale projects.


Expert Interview with Bill Flynn on the Best Strategies for Startup Growth

Why do most of the startups fail and what should you do to grow your business and stay competitive?

You will find answers to these and even more questions from the interview with business advisor and coach - Bill Flynn. Bill`s experience includes 2 dozen companies with 20+ startups among them. He has been a business advisor for 9+ years including advisory board seats for several companies, a 9-time VP, Sales, GM and CMO.

In addition, Bill has been involved in 2 IPOs and 7 acquisitions and his GM experience includes a successful division turnaround for a $120MM IT services company where he has also served as CMO.

In this interview you will get precious tips for your startup business that will definitely stir you into action!

1. Bill, first of all, why have you decided to help entrepreneurs build a successful business?

I think it is a shame that great people, great companies, and great ideas fail too often for completely preventable reasons. I have become a coach to do my part in my small corner of the world. I love helping organizations figure out as quickly as possible if they are solving a problem worth solving for the right set of customers or not. For the same reasons as startups, I also help those that make it through the product/market fit knothole to scale up the business which is almost a completely different set of skills and thinking.

2. You have worked with more than 25 startups and have probably seen their ups and downs. What are the main reasons that lead to the startup failure and how to avoid them?

There are so many reasons why startups fail. One that I have seen most often is that the founding team falls in love with their idea instead of falling in love with the customer and the problem. They too often become emotionally attached to their idea. They forget that you must make something that enough people will pay you enough money for to make a real business.

Too many mistakenly believe that their job is to convince the customer how clever they are instead of focusing on making something that is easy to say yes to. You want them to say: ”This is exactly what we have been looking for!”

You must remember that they really don’t care about your idea (even if they say they do as people are generally polite) if it does not help them in some meaningful way. The real test is to ask them to write a check. That is when you find out what they really think.

It helps to be aware that they are, like all of us, trying to make progress in their lives and their businesses. They want assistance with that and that is your job as an entrepreneur - to help them to make progress in their lives in the easiest way possible. If it is something that you enjoy doing and it solves a real need for enough people, you have a much better chance of succeeding than others.

Another reason is that you give up. Your commitment needs to be higher than the pain and suffering you will endure. However, you must balance that commitment with knowing when to move on. This is one of the most difficult balancing acts you will ever face. My advice is to give up only when, after you have tried everything you can, you do not find a problem worth solving. Do this by going out and asking all the possible constituencies if they are experiencing this problem today and how important it is to them. If they have the problem but it is way down on their list of priorities, it does not matter how great a job you do at solving it, you will have limited success.

The last reason I see most often is that you just run out of cash. You may do everything right and build something that enough people want to pay for but cannot attract enough additional investments to help you realize your vision.

The problem is, in most cases, those who risk real money (theirs or someone else’s) will be far more conservative than you. They want to see some level of traction before they invest. With this simple truth in mind, I believe that it behooves the founder to do everything he/she can to not need outside investment.

3. We all know that the first thing the startup should concentrate on is the target audience. What are the best ways to understand your target customer?

My point of view has changed over the years on this question. I now think that the problem you are solving is paramount and the target audience comes later. You definitely need to care about and identify your audience in order to start, but it is not always the first thing. As Ash Maurya is fond of saying, “Life is too short to build something no one wants.”

For instance, you may be solving a compelling problem but for the wrong audience. You may pick the wrong target that has little or no interest. However, you may find that with a tiny tweak you are solving a problem or identifying an unmet need for a completely different target audience that is significantly larger.

Let`s take Airbnb for example. Initially they targeted people who needed a place to stay at big political conventions. They had some but limited success. They found that the best possible audience was much broader - people who wanted a more authentic experience when traveling - and began designing their solution to large and popular destination cities in the US. It is important to note that they did not take off until one of the founders spent a good amount of time speaking directly with the “renters” to see how they could remove as many constraints from the process as possible. Exactly after this educational trip, they began to grow into the largest hotel business in the world. This is another great example of why it is important to truly understand the needs of your customers.

4. First of all, the product should solve problems. How to understand that this problem is worth solving?

Conduct a proper Customer Development process. Get out of the office. Talk to your target audience with an empathetic ear. Find out what is important to them - where they are struggling and if/how they are trying to solve the problem today. Please note the Airbnb example above.

5. How can the startup founder come up with the unique solution to this problem?

This is a great question. I have found that they may not be able to come up with a unique solution. In that case, they should move on to another idea. The best way to figure this out is to conduct a proper Customer Development Process for most. Some consumer solutions, especially in software, can do a lot of rapid prototyping with an excellent feedback loop process and iterate their way without Customer Development. However, they do have to engage the customer at some point as the feedback they get may be misinterpreted and lead them down the wrong path.

6. What are the 4 best ways to test your idea before pushing the product into the market?

I am sure there are lots of different ways that work. The two that I am most familiar with are the two I have already mentioned:

Customer Development

Rapid Prototyping with feedback loop

7. Bill, what in your opinion is the most critical moment the startups face? How can they overcome it without giving up?

Most failed startups try to scale too fast. They do not realize they are not a real business yet. Steve Blank defines startups as "temporary organizations in search of a business model". Until they figure this out, they should resist scaling. Growth is the silent killer of most startups as well as scale-ups (especially if you do not have a ton of cash in the bank).

3 out of the last 4 startups I worked with fell into this trap. They thought they were on to something because that got early positive feedback and their investors were pushing them to scale and hire. None of them really understood what problem they were solving and what was the best way to solve it.

Tragically, one of these failed startups identified a market ripe for disruption. The customers were dissatisfied with the current solution and were looking for alternatives. The product was pretty solid and the small set of initial users were relatively happy. However, they didn`t realize the entirety of the problem they were facing.

While the prospects were dissatisfied, that level of dissatisfaction was not enough to get them to switch to this brand new solution. The current solutions were good or not terrible enough to get them to take the leap. To illustrate this point, there is a general change formula that has been around for a while.

Dissatisfaction x Vision x First Steps > Resistance.

All change creates resistance. Startups are typically disruptors which means they force change to happen. The way to affect change is to overcome the natural resistance to change.

BTW - this formula applies to change within organizations as well - really, any change process.
People have different tolerances of giving up so I am going to stay away from that one. However, my advice it the same as above, find a problem truly worth solving, be humble, curious and empathetic. If you can do that, you will either pivot your way to some level of success or reach failure faster wasting significantly less time and money.


South Florida Interior Design - A Grand Mansion set against a pristine background of lush forest.
“Majestic Mansion in Photos” - additional photographs of this stunning home.
Grand Hall - In the grand hall, sparkle reverberates off the Brazilian Cherry Jatoba hardwood banister and artwork from the Private Collection of Ebanista as the luster from the checkerboard pattern of brushed and polished Crema Marfil marble flooring leads the way through double library doors inset with McMow’s leaded art glass.
FOR ELOISE KUBLI, A FLORIDA DESIGNER WHO WAS NOT about to be daunted by the logistics of designing and furnishing a home 3,200 miles away, the arrival of seven tractor trailers hauling cargo toward their destination - a 30,000-square-foot residential complex was a thrilling apogee.
“Yes,” she says, “most of the custom work was fabricated or purchased in Florida then shipped north, including 27 pairs of leaded glass doors and all of the furnishings.” But in a whirlwind conclusion to the several years it took to build the home, Kubli would extract the truck’s contents and have the home installed and completed in 11 days.
Dining Room - Golden teak Swarovski crystals hang from Schonbek’s chandeliers in the dining room, where the claw-footed table by Giemme belies masterful inlaid Italian marquetry. In an interplay of inspiration and execution, the hand-cut stenciled medallions were influenced by the embroidered silk sheers from Saletex.
Grand Salon - With understated drama, Tomlinson’s sofa and Marge Carson armchairs make a statement in the grand salon. Here, a custom area rug from Edward Fields’ draws in the tones of blues and creams in the Stroheim draperies and Pindler & Pindler sheers.
The entry foyer immediately gives way to the grand hall, where a soaring stairway swirls upward with festooned wrought iron balustrades. Here, the 40-foot ceiling and coffered millwork continue skyward to a Venetian-plastered dome and a palatial chandelier by Originals 22. Off of the foyer, opposite the doors to the library, lies the dramatic dining room. The massive table and gilded intricacies of its chairs by Giemme make every guest feel like royalty. Overhead, golden teak Swarovski crystals hang from the chandeliers refracting rainbows across the room. “All of the ceilings are coffered and the millwork hand-bronzed, but here I wanted something even more visually gorgeous,” Kubli says of the hand-stenciled, rich crimson and gold filigree ceiling medallions.
Game Room - In the game room, a double fieldstone fireplace and Swaim’s Old World billiard table combine with E.G. Cody’s bronze lionhead carved barstools for a metropolitan masculinity.
But nowhere is more luxurious than the grand salon. With walls hand-troweled in an Old World burnish, the rest of the room is serene in hues of cream and gold. The elaborate symphony of drapery jabots, swags and cascading silk reflected in 552 yards of fabric speaks to Kubli’s layering philosophy. “Layering gives dimension - so does texture,” she says.
Theater Entrance - The suspense builds as guests enter the First Impressions home theatre from the lobby and “light trap” hall.
And on the lowest level, the real fun begins. Created by master home-theatre architect and designer Jeffrey Smith, claret walls and gold leafed Corinthian columns turn the downstairs into La Scala. “Actually, the entire theatre is a room within a room,” Smith says.
Theater - Inside the entrance doors, wall sconces from Farrey’s shimmer as touches of gold leaf highlight the extravagant use of eucalyptus wood. The owners’ handheld monitor controls it all, from featured movies to the theatre’s climate and lighting — even the irrigation system outside.
View of the pool from the Lanai.
Pristinely set against a vista of trees, this grand paradise, with its stone garden that wraps around an outdoor entertainment complex fit for a high-end resort, welcomes friends and family in a place the owners love.


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Over 60 intrepid local people tackled the tower at Southend University Hospital by abseiling 154 feet down tower block to raise money for a ward, department or hospital charity of their choice.
Captain America, otherwise known as Terry Anderson, 56, from Southchurch village, was raising money for Bedwell ward, a cancer ward, in memory of his late friend Gerry Splarn.
He said: "I've not been in the area long and wanted to be a part of something that brought the local community together."
Mother and daughter, Tracey Meddle, 53, and Tamsin Meddle, 30, were Batman and Robin respectively. They didn't hail from Gotham but closer to home in Stambridge, the dynamically dressed duo were raising money for the Keyhole Cancer Appeal in memory of Bob Finch, Tracey's dad and Tamsin's grandfather.
Tracey, by day a student wellbeing manager at Belfairs, may have looked the part of The Dark Knight but confessed she was less happy about The Dark Knight rising as she was afraid of heights, whilst Tamsin said: "I probably should have been Spider-Man as I work in nuclear medicine at the hospital."
After the descent, which they both completed together, Tamsin added: "It was a really exciting adrenalin rush and a fantastic experience."
Meanwhile, Supergirl flew in from Wickford to take part, in the guise of 24 year old Stephanie Eaton. And Stephanie's superhero outfit really was befitting as she explained: "My mum calls me Supergirl as last year I had three life-saving operations here at the hospital. None of my operations were able to be done with keyhole surgery but I know what a real benefit it can bring to patients, so I am raising money for the Keyhole Cancer Appeal. I've not done something like this before but just wanted to give something back."
Stephanie has already raised an impressive £1,400 for her abseil and her abseiling action is even more impressive as she had to get special permission from her surgeon to complete the challenge as she has one more operation to go.
But you didn't have to have a cape to be a superhero at the tackle the tower abseil. Sheila Fenner, 72, from Southend is a community first responder in Thorpe Bay and was tackling the tower to raise money for Westcliff ward who looked after her husband before he sadly passed away. Sheila was not fazed by the 10 storey abseil, she said: "I have abseiled before down the Argos building in town, but that wasn't as tall as this. Friends and family think I'm mad and need a brain transplant but I've raised nearly £350."
Lucy Thomas-Clayton, associate director of community engagement, said: "Many people taking on the 10-storey abseil have their own personal stories relating to a ward, department or appeal that either they or a loved one have benefitted from and it is always amazing to see the dedication and passion of people like Terry, Tracey, Tamsin, Stephanie and Sheila, as well as everyone else who took part, supporting Southend Hospital."
This is the second time local people have taken on the tackle the tower experience and it is set to return next year, if you are interested in taking part contact fundraising@southend.nhs.uk .


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Pro-Tips, Hot Cartoons, and KITTEHS: The Best of Megan No H

In which FYA bids farewell to Megan No H with a collection near-comprehensive history of her greatest hits.

Happy Independence Day, y'all! As you can see from the teaser line, today's also a different kind of independence day at FYA: Megan No H's from our corner of the internet, SOB. So in honour of our departing links maven, I present to you the very best of Megan (which turns out to be basically everything she wrote), Procrastination Pro-Tips style!

Movie Related Things

Megan reviewed tons of movies for FYA, but there's simply no other way to begin this section than with her highly scientific analysis of 10 Things I Hate About You, or what she calls the greatest teen movie of all-time. (Some might disagree... )

Speaking of brilliant ideas, there was that time she put together a guide to sexy Olympians with Alix and Erin. (Remember when we hadn't heard Ryan Lochte speak yet? Sigh.) And obvs, we can't talk about Megan and sexy hunks without mentioning her all-important contribution to society: HOTTEST CARTOON CHARACTERS.

And finally, to know Megan is to know her fervent love of cats. It's a bit surprising to me that she doesn't completely dominate the cats tag (although she does have the most posts as of now). Anyway, here's what Megan had to say about her love of cats in the book report for one of her faves, Emily of New Moon:

Emily loves cats like I love cats. She wants to cuddle them and kiss them and talk about them in a way that other people probably find slightly creepy. She honestly cannot understand why everyone wouldn't want a cat.

(For what it's worth, I find Megan's love of cats to be quite endearing and not at all creepy. And I'm pretty much the opposite of Megan when it comes to cats.)

An artist's rendition** of the remaining FYAers clinging onto Megan IN OUR HEARTS.

**Omg looking through Megan's old posts reveals that I may have subconsciously lifted that idea from a farewell she wrote. MEGAN IS EVERYWHERE. Megan-ception!


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Effect: A passive aura Levious gives out around his body, like a layer of extra skin. This ability allows for manifestation of his other abilities.
Effect: Able to compress and control atoms, blood cells, molecules by controlling flowing within the vectors. Can create small bombs, light radiant, and regenerate cells through molecular control. Can also separate, and dissipate energy. Distorting, and bending matter itself.
Effect: Levious Vector field expands a 20 feet radius. The field lights up with holy light, enchancing “Angels” abilities times 3. Levious gets a tremendous speed boost, and reaction boost. Everything within the vector IS effected by Levious abilities. After this ability is done, Levious will faint in 3 post from exhaustion.


The front door connects the outside world and the home. It is always in use and exposed to the weather and wears itself down after years. Their condition is very important for the defense against cold and heat. That's why it's worthwhile to replace the old one with a new one. "At Hartmut G.'s in Berlin-Köpenick the entrance door had suffered greatly under the influence of the weather: paint peeled off, there were cracks everywhere, through which the air was free could circulate. He wanted to put an end to it. "He decided to entrust this task to the ISOTEC company. The doors were dismantled and the old door opened, and a new gray door was added to better weather conditions Hartmut G .: "I have rarely experienced such excellent advice." The contact was - due to the fact that I do not use the housing unit - exclusively via e-mail and telephone And you need 8 stars from me. "
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The wonderful people at Nando’s hot and spicy chicken restaurant chain (1,ooo stores worldwide) hosted us for our culinary tour of South Africa, and I admired their post-apartheid business ethic of treating everyone the same regardless of their origin, heritage, or religion–see the article about our trip here. Now, in the controversy over immigration in the U.S., the management of Nando’s has made a statement: they have a new campaign with the hash tag #Everyoneiswelcome. It has printed posters describing Nando’s as “an immigrant employing‚ gay loving‚ Muslim respecting‚ racism opposing, equal paying, multicultural restaurant.” CNN reports, “By taking its message to the White House (there are two restaurants within easy reach), Nando’s is staying true to its tradition of edgy political campaigns that have sometimes got it into trouble.” Nando’s management release a statement saying, “On Inauguration Day and beyond, even if you’ve never sat at one of our tables, you’re welcome to stand with us. #EveryoneIsWelcome A couple of years ago on a trip to Washington, we had lunch at a Nando’s near the White House and the food was just as delicious as it was in Cape Town–a remarkable achievement. Well, all I can say is that we stand with them.


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Like Bencharong ware, Lain Nam Thon ware is a polychrome porcelain made in the city of Jingdezhen (the porcelain capital of China) and richly decorated to Thai tastes with bright enamel glazes. It is thought that Buddhist books and paintings were supplied as references and sent to Guangzhou merchants, who acted as intermediaries to the Chinese potters and decorators for foreign orders. As with Western orders, new, alien ceramic shapes were communicated by maquettes in wood or perhaps metal.
After the fall of Autthaya to the Burmese in 1767 Lain Nam Thong wares superseded Bencharong wares as the exclusive wares of royalty. While closely related to Bencharong wares, Lain Nam Thon wares are distinguished by their use of gold in either the main pattern or background.
Jackie Menzies, TAASA Review , 'The Nanhai Trade', pg. 4-7, Sydney, Mar 2004, 4-5, 6 (colour illus.), 7.
The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales , 'Export Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 143 (colour illus.).


Web server. Apache is also the most popular Web server on the Internet.
- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the mod_imap module of Apache.
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Pistol-Packing Pol Eyes Governorship
Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, arrested last year after nearly carrying a loaded gun aboard a jet, wants to be California's next governor.
By Kevin Riggs
Published Dec 1, 2012 at 7:53 PM | Updated at 9:40 PM PST on Dec 1, 2012
It's not political satire. But it has all the elements.
Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, is known mainly for his outspoken criticism of illegal immigrants, his former membership in the Minuteman Project, and his arrest last year at a Southern California airport for stashing a loaded handgun in his luggage.
On Wednesday, Ventura Star Capitol reporter Timm Herdt was first to unearth the news that Donnelly has also opened an exploratory committee to run for governor in 2014. That sparked a rush of stories by other Capitol reporters.
It certainly spiced up an otherwise quiet day in Sacramento.
In the aftermath of an election year that proved to be disastrous for the Republican Party in California, Donnelly would appear to be the last person the GOP would pick as its standard-bearer in the next election cycle. The party's registration has already dipped below 30 percent, and it suffered enough losses to hand Democrats their first two-thirds supermajority in the legislature in more than a century.
The Republicans had particular difficulty attracting Latino voters this year.
But Donnelly, in an interview posted on a conservative website, said he is motivated to run because "There's nobody out there who is fighting for us."
Donnelly, first elected to the Assembly two years ago, was a member of the Minuteman Project, a citizens group formed to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border. He tried and failed this year to roll back a new law that gives a college tuition break to undocumented immigrant students.
Donnelly made headlines late last year when he was arrested at Ontario International Airport after officers discovered a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage as he prepared to board a flight to Sacramento. He said he had forgotten about the weapon, had his charges reduced to misdemeanors, and was given three-years probation.
News of Donnelly's interest in the governorship was, of course, an immediate source of delight for Democrats. Democratic consultant Jason Kinney proclaimed, via Twitter, that he was "giddy" at the prospect of Donnelly's candidacy.
Thoughtful Republicans, both in Sacramento and in Washington, are talking of the need to rebuild their party by changing their message on immigration and nurturing a moderate image.
Donnelly and his followers didn't get that memo. If he's serious about his candidacy, for those hoping to broaden the party's appeal, it adds up to a lump of coal in the GOP's Christmas stocking.
Author Kevin Riggs, an Emmy-winning former TV reporter in Sacramento, is Senior Vice President at Randle Communications.


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Philips partners with Marshall Land Systems in the deployment of CT scanners to international armed forces including the UK
London – UK, Philips together with Marshall Land Systems, part of the Cambridge-based Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group, have worked closely together to develop a solution for a rapidly deployable, containerised CT scanner, offering whole body CT scanning, for use in battlefield conditions.
The containerised CT scanner features the Philips Brilliance CT 64 scanner integrated into an expandable shelter that ensures maximum safety for patients, operators and bystanders. Marshall Land Systems selected the Philips CT scanner because of its reliability, speed and ease of use – all critical factors when supporting caregivers to save lives on the battlefield. Already in service, the containerised CT scanner is designed for use in demanding environments with arduous field and climatic conditions.
The containerised CT scanner can be transported by sea, rail, or on the back of a truck, and when it arrives, can be setup by two people ready to carry out its first scan within two hours. During transportation the robust Philips CT scanner is protected from shocks and vibrations using a patented system developed by Marshall’s engineers.
Marshall Land Systems was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2013 in April of this year for the innovation category. The Innovation Award included the company’s achievement in designing deployable CT scanners, working closely with its partner, Philips Healthcare UK. Ray Cutting, Managing Director, Land Systems says, “This award is the result of a close strategic partnership with Philips, coupled with Marshall’s unrivalled expertise in developing complex deployable solutions to problems previously thought to be too difficult.”
Philips CT scanner is built on Philips’ innovative Essence technology, a unique combination of X-ray tube, detector and reconstruction design elements that improve image quality in every CT examination. Mike Hayden, Sales Director Imaging Systems, Philips Healthcare UK, adds, “We’re tremendously excited about this award and proud of our joint achievement with Marshall. This rapidly deployable containerised Philips CT scanner will provide vital diagnostic capability, normally available only in fixed hospital facilities, into the hands of clinicians on deployed operations and will support clinicians in saving lives on the front line.
This latest co-operation confirms the reliability of Philips CT scanner and clearly positions Philips as the preferred containerised mobile CT supplier in the military domain.”
Barbara Neate
Philips Corporate Communications
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E-mail: Barbara.neate@philips.com
About Royal Philips Electronics
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Land Systems have designed and manufactured over 5,000 shelters in more than 200 configurations.
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group specialises in the conversion and modification of military, civil and business aircraft; alongside defence vehicle engineering and shelter manufacture. Its capabilities include engineering design, manufacture and test; and the provision of personnel, training and advice, while providing maintenance, integration, manufacture and product support.
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group since 1909 has been valued for its integrity, performance and customer focus which has been demonstrated through its innovative solutions and ability to deliver on-time and to-cost.
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group is part of the Marshall Group of Companies that employs over 4,500 people with a turnover in excess of £1.2bn.
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A Netherlands public agency responsible for providing social benefits was struggling to create an efficient system for detecting fraud in applications to receive social benefits. Only a very small fraction of the applications that were flagged by the system for possible fraud turned out to be actual fraud; in fact, the great majority was “false positives.” The need to investigate such a large number of false positives was overwhelming the agency’s capacity to review cases and root out real cases of deceit.
Deloitte Netherlands invited the agency to visit the Greenhouse for a demonstration of how advanced analytics could be used to detect fraud more reliably. The solution that Deloitte Netherlands’ analytics specialists had in mind was a “machine learning” program: one that would teach itself to flag benefits applications for possible fraud and use feedback from the fraud team’s analysis to gain accuracy over time.
Ahead of the Greenhouse session, Deloitte Netherlands received samples of the client’s actual benefits application records, some fraudulent and some legitimate. Working closely with the client’s software vendor, Deloitte Netherlands’ analytics team created a model to scan the records and devise a logical method of identifying applications that appeared fraudulent. That model would be put to the test in the Greenhouse.
Deloitte Netherlands began the Greenhouse session by explaining how machine learning works; in this case they showed how a computer learns to judge whether a head photographed from behind belongs to a man or a woman. The machine-learning model uses a “training” sample of photographs—photos identified as men or women—to create a formula for predicting gender based on a weighted combination of visual attributes such as hair length and neck size. Every successive training case enabled the model to gain prediction accuracy by changing the importance it assigns to each attribute.
Next, the team ran the fraud-detection model it had created for the client. The team fed a batch of application records into the model. Like the photographic-prediction model, the fraud-detection model became increasingly accurate as it churned through the new batch of records and refined its logic for making fraud predictions based on each record’s attributes. By the end of the session, the model was operating at approximately 75 percent prediction accuracy—a big improvement over the client’s existing accuracy rate.
The Greenhouse session provided the agency with a firsthand look at how predictive analytics really works. It was also the first time the agency had seen advanced analytics applied to their work, and it convinced them to proceed with implementing the predictive model that Deloitte Netherlands had showcased in the Greenhouse. The model was eventually flagging fraudulent applications with 95 percent accuracy. The model not only increased the efficiency of the fraud department, but also stopped a large number of fraudulent payments. Further analysis of the predicted and validated fraud cases also revealed valuable insight into fraud patterns.


The Bloomington Food Policy Council, established in 2011, exists to increase and preserve access to sustainably produced, locally grown, healthful food for all residents in Monroe and surrounding counties. We are a group of community members committed to building food security by assessing the current food system and advocating policy changes that assure everyone access to affordable and nutritious food, with an emphasis on food produced sustainably by local farmers and gardeners.
BFPC Chair, Ryan Conway, will join the DFMC on Thursday April 13th to discuss the importance of including Food Systems in the City and County’s comprehensive and everyday planning activities. The inclusion of Food Systems in the forthcoming City of Bloomington Comprehensive Master Plan (CMP) was mandated by the Imagine Bloomington Steering Committee, tasked by the City of Bloomington to develop core standards for priority needs for the City’s next master plan. However, the original draft of the CMP contained only a few, superficial references to this critical element Bloomington’s social, economic, and environmental systems. Attendees will be invited to contribute general and specific feedback on goals, policies, and programs that the BFPC should include in its recommendations to the City and County regarding a Food Systems chapter in the CMP. The BFPC is recruiting additional board members, to more thoroughly address this crucial policy work, and will entertain self-nominations on a rolling basis, submitted to bfpc@bloomingtonfpc.org. Come learn about and discuss the fight for food security, food justice, and food sovereignty in Bloomington and Monroe County!


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Brynwood Sells Balance Bar

November 27, 2012

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Brynwood Partners has sold Balance Bar, a portfolio company since 2009, to NBTY, a nutritional product provider and portfolio company of The Carlyle Group. Brynwood had carved out the nutrition/energy bar company from Kraft Foods through its Brynwood Partners VI fund. Balance Bar will now fold into NBTY's product line, which includes MET-Rx, Vitamin World, and Nature's Bounty. NBTY was acquired by Carlyle in a public-to-private buyout in 2010.


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Does anybody recognize this dinosaur themed lava lamp?It was being sold online secondhand, and I couldn't tell if it was a unique oddity, or a poorly made / generic lamp from overseees.Any ideas…Continue


ellie be: storyteller + photographer : hello. hi. welcome back.
I stepped off of the plane and into the Atlanta airport and immediately thought, "What the heck America, why are you so WARM."
My summer was amazingly beautiful. I spent it all at an orphanage in Guatemala and had some of the richest and most wonderful experiences I have ever had. I met precious children, spent a lot of time with my spectacular team, and was immersed in the gracious love of God. There are so many stories that I could type out and tons upon tons of pictures I could share, but I think the one thing that I want to get across is that my summer was worth it. If any of you are thinking of doing a short-term missions trip, do it. Every ounce of your body will become tired. You will be mentally exhausted at times. BUT. But. You will meet wonderful people. You will be stretched and challenged in a way that you might never have thought possible. You will be blessed beyond measure. God works in mighty ways when you follow His call for you and your life.
I can't wait to get back into "scheduled programming," which sounds like I'm a TV announcer but what ever. Thank you all for sticking around and I hope your summer was amazing. What were up to?
yay yay yay yay! i'm glad you're back :) it's so great that you had an awesome time. mission trips are just the best.
Sounds and looks like a great trip! Welcome back!
so glad you're back! Looks like you had an amazing time.
so, so, so glad you're back. your updates were amazingly awesome.
sounds like you had a great time and the Lord worked in amazing ways! I had an opportunity to go on a missions trip this summer and it's just amazing how God works in each person's life individually and to the people around you! Getting back into the everyday things can be weird after a mission trip! haha! love the pictures!


I should have asked you how you spell your name.
I would just like to say how much we all enjoyed last Friday evening. It was great and everyone in our party said the same.
I am sure we will come again next year.
The feedback was that all enjoyed themselves, the food was good, the room very festive and your team were all very helpful and considerate with timings, room temperature and anything we needed was no problem to them.
Please pass on our appreciation for their top efforts, including the chef of course, for giving us a great afternoon.
Just want to say a big thank you for Friday.
People are talking about how good the magician was, I think the meal was superb and the DJ was brilliant (I’m still struggling to walk from all the dancing).
Was such a great night.
Thank you to everyone at Beales.
Thank you so much for all your help on Friday.


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On the Verge: Year of Bests – 2016
By le0pard13, December 30, 2016
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up a number authors and write-ups that exceed whatever threshold I have in my head. I promised not to get caught flat-footed again. So, I rectified the issue by gathering them up and presenting each quarterly. This the last of such as we put 2016 to bed.
Is that a leaf falling…if so let’s continue, shall we?
It was a distinct pleasure to read the writings of various contributors to Sammy Juliano‘s wonderful blog series over at Wonders in the Dark. Without a doubt, saving the best for last. Here would be a taste, with Robert Hornak’s at the 14th position:
14. Planet of the Apes (1968)
“The movie’s scope, defined by its intergalactic, centuries-crossing canvas, is illuminated and enhanced by director Franklin Schaffner’s sure wide-screen storytelling. While filling the frame with visceral action, there’s also attention given to the relative sparseness of the world, the near-agoraphobic vulnerability inherent in a tiny ape community from which the empty world extends away forever in every direction and in every variation from desert to sea. There’s an aloneness inherent in the setup, and an anxiety layered in as one sees, from a sardonic god’s-eye view, the numerically insignificant population of this hirsute township organizing itself under the rule of an ape law that requires rigid separation and fanatical obedience to a law set down a millennium before by a mythical-sounding “lawgiver”.”
Roderick Heath’s at eleventh:
11. Alien (1979)
“I can imagine opening a newspaper in 1979 and glancing at a review of Alien with its plot recounted in dry ink lines, or perhaps at a poster and beholding the infamous tagline, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” I think one would have been forgiven if the thought didn’t cross your mind that it would one day this film might be considered a major cinematic classic. Even when you know much more about it, the improbability still stands.”*
* As someone who did just this prior to heading out to get in line in Westwood Village, this is probably true. Up until you were plastered in your seat, with a whole bunch of strangers in a darkened movie halls who were also losing their popcorn when Kane’s son makes his debut.
Returning John Greco at the five position:
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers is an expertly made low budget thriller that slowly builds in tension and never lets up. Filled with perfectly executed cinematography, a pulsating music score (by Carmen Dragon) and top notch acting performances from Kevin McCarthy and the lovely Dana Wynters in a gallant battle to save the human race from dehumanizing pods. Despite the fact that we see no monsters or strange looking aliens, Siegel and company make us believe they are out there, ready to take us down. Not through any violence or massive destruction but simply by sleeping, sweet gentle sleep. They know, we as humans, no matter how much we fight it, will eventually have to fall asleep, and then they will take us over.”
Another friend and blogger, J.D. Lafrance bringing in #4:
4. Blade Runner (1982)
“One of the first things that struck me about Blade Runner is its obsessive attention to detail. It is virtually impossible to take it all in upon an initial viewing. Only after watching it several times was I able to properly appreciate how fully-realized the world of Ridley Scott’s film is – a tangible future that “you can see and touch,” the director said in an interview, “it makes you a little uneasier because you feel it’s just round the corner.” This vivid world, designed by Syd Mead and Lawrence G. Paull with special effects by Douglas Trumbull, is the backdrop to a detective story. Ex-cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is brought out of retirement to find and kill four replicants, artificial people that are forbidden to be on Earth, but this is merely a launching pad for Scott to address a myriad of fascinating themes – predominantly, as with the novel, what it means to be human.”
Roderick Heath’s return for the second slot:
“Director Lang and his creative and personal partner Thea Von Harbou had climbed swiftly to the peak of the German film industry thanks to highly ambitious, stylistically radical films that provided basic engineering for cinema as it found maturity and began to branch into different streams of genre and style. Lang, working under the influence of Louis Feuillade, had taken his template and pushed it into stranger places with his rollicking action-adventure diptych The Spiders (1919), and had written the script for the film that kicked off the Expressionist cinema style, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919).”
Culminating with #1 in Dean Treadway’s capable hands:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
“One of the pioneering achievements of 2001 was its use of front projection photography. Rear projection, where a film is projected from behind a screen with actors positioned in front of it, had long been used to make a cast look like they were “on location.” But Kubrick thought it looked phony (and it usually did). Front projection was new and infinitely more convincing. The effect enabled Kubrick to project slide photographs of African landscapes onto a wall behind the rocky sets. The slide was projected at a very low light—so low that the image would not register as it hit the actors. But on the wall to which the projector was pointed were strips of highly reflective material developed for road signs by 3M. The huge front projector threw out an equally large, sharp, realistic image on the massive wall, which picked it up brilliantly, lending the illusion that the scenes were filmed on location.”
Okay, time again to revisit the high-frame-rate argument. This time through Daniel Engber‘s fine article over a Slant:
It Looked Great. It Was Unwatchable.
“For decades now, forward-looking filmmakers have tried to prove that when it comes to frame rates, more is really more. Douglas Trumbull, who did the visual effects for 2001 and Blade Runner, has advocated for higher frame rates since the 1970s. By eliminating flicker, he argued all those years ago, filmmakers could produce a smoother picture—a sort of “liquid realism” that would be more affecting and engaging. According to an essay on high-frame-rate cinema by film scholar Julie Turnock of the University of Illinois, Trumbull tested out his theory by measuring the brain waves, pulse, and skin conductance of people as they watched movies with different frame rates. All three measures would increase, he claimed, as he raised the rate to 60 fps.”
I’ve no doubt whatsoever that the related criticism to the very popular The Walking Dead will not sway the devoted to abandon their series. They’ll have to come to that conclusion for themselves, as I’ve said to my daughter. Here then is the best argument, by Matt Zoller Seitz for Vulture, that gives voice to my feelings toward the show (and yes, I’ve tried to watch it more than a few times) and why I care little for it:
The Empty Violence of The Walking Dead
“I’ve been writing about this medium for 20 years and watching it for more than 40, and I can’t recall a major TV series marketing cruelty and trauma as cynically, even gleefully, as this AMC saga. The rampage was hyped by a lengthy, thorough ad campaign spotlighting not any regular cast member, but Negan and his weapon. If you lived in a major city during the past seven months, it was impossible to spend a day outdoors without seeing a bus ad or subway poster featuring the grinning Negan and his bat, christened Lucille, after his late wife.”
Can’t have a Year of Bests without the good folk over at Art of the Title, and highlighting a classic ’90s horror film, to boot.
“The opening of Candyman is an elegant and ominous overture to a brutal and tragic narrative. The title sequence features a series of flowing aerial views captured by helicopter pilot Bobby Zajonc looking down on the winding freeways of Chicago, its Hitchcockian influences laid bare, setting up one of the major underpinnings of the film: architecture as a malevolent force. The credits, designed by studio Heart Times Coffee Cup Equals Lightning, zoom in and out of frame to mimic the smooth movement of the cars below. Elevating all of this is a fantastic synth and choral score composed by Philip Glass, celestial and foreboding, portending doom while lulling with its grace.”
Speaking of horror, time once again to look back upon a seminal film that brought us the type of zombies that continue to overrun us in pop culture. We speak of George Romero’s ’60s flick and Ferdy on Films does the honors over on her blog:
“To be sure, Night of the Living Dead is no perfect artefact. But it’s the blend of cinematic intelligence and homespun crudity enforced by the circumstances of its production that made it instantly galvanising: the result vibrates with pitiless gall and insolent power, a statement from the fringe that hits right at the axis. Night of the Living Dead exemplified several new trends already in motion when it was released. The old Hollywood was splintering and a void had opened, where there were huge sums of money to be made from an audience TV and mainstream cinema couldn’t touch. The likes of no-budget goreteur Herschell Gordon Lewis had already proven the potential punch of low-budget horror movies made by filmmakers not just outside of the studio cinema system but also labouring away in what seemed to be backwaters of American cultural life.”
Much like horror films in October, this film makes its annual showing soon after All Hallows Eve finishes, almost like clockwork. Just as chilling, too. It’s been paraded and adored ad nauseam, but now the other side of its nature has been explored in recent years. Almost as predictably. This time by Christopher Orr for The Atlantic. Enjoy:
Love Actually Is the Least Romantic Film of All Time
“So take the film on its own titular terms. What does Love Actually tell us about love, actually? Well, I think it tells us a number of things, most of them wrong and a few of them appalling. Now, anyone who goes to the cineplex with any regularity knows that the last decade has seen more than its share of bad romantic comedies. But Love Actually is exceptional in that it is not merely, like so many other entries in the genre, unromantic. Rather, it is emphatically, almost shockingly, anti-romantic.”
I like to think my mother would have appreciated a Star Trek: TNG episode she never got to see (which I highlighted some years back). Sure as shootin’, she would have gotten a kick out of Mirah Curzer‘s take of it. Her Medium article drew upon aspects mom would have gravitated toward, I’ve no doubt, if she’d have lived to see it:
Star Trek’s Feminist Statement: Believe Women
“Star Trek is no stranger to making radical statements — this is the show that had the first black woman as a regular cast member, that featured the first interracial kiss, that puts a woman on the bridge crew whose skill set is literally empathy. But there is something really special going on in the TNG episode “Remember Me.” I was re-watching it recently, and the episode’s overt feminism practically knocked me over.”
The rule of three rises again. One film in particular this Fall has made the type of waves, cinematically, Oscar-wise, and personally, that makes it a must-see. Three reviews got my attention and naturally made this highlight reel. First, Marilyn Ferdinand‘s:
“Coming-of-age films strike a nostalgic chord with many adults. These films work a kind of magic by awakening the adolescent within, letting us run the tapes of our own coming-of-age saga alongside the story on screen. But what if you could actually feel as though you are inside the experience of the person on screen, perhaps a person wholly unlike yourself? What if you could actually feel the emotions of a difficult transition, not just hitch your trailer of memories and feelings to a familiar tune? Somehow, Moonlight, a miracle that shouldn’t exist but does, accomplishes just that, and it is sweeping over audiences like the lapping ocean that forms a powerful symbol throughout the film.
…and Ruth‘s over on her FlixChatter blog:
FlixChatter Review: Moonlight (2016)
“In terms of story-telling, Moonlight is certainly one of the most unique as well as challenging. Some might think it’s similar to Richard Linklater Boyhood (though I haven’t seen it yet) with the protagonist played by two actors. In Moonlight, the life of black-American Chiron is portrayed by three actors, from young adolescence (Alex R. Hibbert), mid-teen (Ashton Sanders) and young adult (Trevante Rhodes). The casting is impressive as all three actors, despite not looking that much alike, somehow shares a certain quiet grace about them and ability to conveys much with so little.”
…and finally Daniel Simpson‘s on his PG Cooper’s Movie Reviews blog:
Moonlight Review
“Moonlight’s episodic structure can probably be compared to that of Boyhood, but Linklater’s decision to drop in year after gave his film more of a narrative flow. Now that I think about it, Moonlight might in fact be closer to another Linklater work; the Before trilogy. Like those films, Moonlight skips a lot of years between episodes while what went down during that time is hinted at and inferred. Despite what might seem a broken up narrative, Moonlight does have a very clear linear progression and character growth. The parts of Chiron’s life highlighted are not random, but are pivotal points in the man’s growth. Part of what makes the film so fascinating is simply seeing the pieces of Chiron’s life and how that informs his growth. Additionally, writer/director Barry Jenkins does a great job finding the drama in Chiron’s life while also keeping things restrained. There are in fact a number of over the top/melodramatic paths this kind of story could have fallen into, but Jenkins sidesteps this nicely.”
I can see you need a break, so take in the Art of the Title‘s look at another David Fincher effort and try to relax…oh, never mind:
“In David Fincher’s Panic Room, home is the battleground, the safe spaces all upturned and infiltrated. When the home invasion thriller was released in 2002, American audiences were still reeling from the September 11th terror attacks in New York City. Similar to the home invasion flicks of the ’60s — like genre classics Lady in a Cage (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967) — Panic Room emerged in a time and place that was tense and tightly coiled.”
Speaking about panic, writer and record store owner Matt Wake, for L.A. Weekly identified something music enthusiasts should be truly worried about:
Master Recordings — From Abbey Roadto Born to Run — Could Be Lost Forever, Without Archivists’ Help
“The biggest challenge McEowen faces as an archivist? “The condition of the tapes, because they’ve been stored for so long,” he says. With his glasses, gray ponytail and beard, he looks both professorial and like a longtime Allman Brothers fan. “Some of them are 40 years old or so. They may have absorbed moisture if they haven’t been stored correctly. And that requires baking, in an oven at 120 degrees for six hours. Oxide loss off the tapes creates dropouts; sounds will either completely go away or it will fade out and come back.”
Oh, this wouldn’t be a highlight reel without good friend and contributor Aurora herself. Once again, Once upon a screen… pays a fine tribute to a director, actor, and film that has entertained and enthralled me through the decades:
Self-Plagiarism is Style: Hitchcock, Grant and NORTH by NORTHWEST (1959)
“I knew the movie Dean Swanzey was referring to was The 39 Steps right off the bat because of the stabbing in the beginning of the movie, which doesn’t happen in North by Northwest. Otherwise the similarities between the two movies are indeed striking. In fact, the reason I so adore North by Northwest, which I’ve easily seen 100 times, is its endless Hitchcock-ness. North by Northwest is Hitchcock’s ode to Hitchcock, a brilliant amalgamation of Hitchcockian cinema in its purest form. We’ve seen every element in this film before, including the plot as the email above suggests. Yet North by Northwest manages to remain fresh, exciting and ever entertaining. It’s a miracle and perhaps – on its own – testament to Alfred Hitchcock’s genius.”
Ryan Marshall, part of a wonderful ensemble of film writers for the podcasting them softly site, took on one of the cogently odd and emblematic westerns of the ’70s and did it justice:
MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971) – A REVIEW BY RYAN MARSHALL
“Only a select few films have a kind of palpable density that the viewer feels right in the gut, and as it turns out Altman has made quite a few of them. Throughout the course of just two hours, man himself is challenged (the tragedy of masculinity suppressing all which stands in its path), and everything – land and life alike – has a dollar value. For instance, when McCabe continually refuses the offers from the mining company’s shady representatives, they send over a trio of bounty hunters to seal the deal. Afraid for his life but unwilling to leave the town and business he helped start, McCabe turns to his lawyer for advice, but is instead treated to a spiel that basically amounts to the company’s safety being favored over McCabe’s. The poor bastard’s response is genuinely haunting: “Well I just, uh…didn’t want to get killed.””
This being a year-end piece to one of the most turbulent in the second decade of the new millennium, might as well have a couple of ‘best of lists’ for 2016 from David Edelstein and Vulture:
The 10 Best Movies of 2016 — and 6 More
“5. O.J.: Made in America
And made for television, really, but shown in enough theaters to qualify for encomiums and awards from film critics. It deserves them. Using amazing archival footage and fresh interviews, Ezra Edelman’s 467-minute O.J. Simpson epic pokes and prods, extrapolates and interpolates. We see the fractious world out of which the inhumanly handsome and talented black football star emerged and the impact of that world on his psyche. We see how a man with zero interest in being a symbol for his race became an instrument of black revenge on a police force that had brutalized them for decades.”
The Best Film Performances of 2016
“Mahershala Ali, Moonlight. The entire cast of Moonlight is marvelous, but Ali has broken out. As a conflicted drug dealer — a man who’s such a mixture of opposite traits that he could be called tragic — he’s riveting no matter what he’s doing or not doing.”
Easily, what had to be one of the most intriguing and diverse roundtable discussions of the year, by Matthew Belloni and Stephen Gallowa for The Hollywood Reporter:
Director Roundtable: Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington and 4 More on Paralyzing Fears, Cast and Crew Complaints
“Not surprisingly, the conversation quickly turned into a spirited debate among peers, touching on their often-paralyzing fears (“I was like, ‘I can’t do this,’ ” recalled Washington of his first directing gig), cast and crew complaints (“They make your life hell sometimes,” quipped Stone), the backlash over The Birth of a Nation director Nate Parker’s rape trial (“I don’t think it’s fair,” said Gibson) and the feeling that making a movie is akin to going to war (“You feel like you’re a general and you have troops,” added Gibson). Toward the end, Nair came full circle with Washington, revealing she had cast a first-time actor in a scene with him all those years ago. Responded Washington with a laugh, “I didn’t know she had not acted!””
Somebody had to do it, especially around this time of year. Admittedly, when Macca’s Christmas ditty makes an appearance, I’ll listen. It’s an obligatory gesture…Hell, I have this on ‘ye old iPod, in point of fact. So, there must be a reason it’s there, and Annie Zaleski explains why we “…love it or hate it, or love it and hate it” finally, in her Salon music piece.
In defense of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
““Wonderful Christmastime” also came during a time when music was ready for a change. As the ’80s neared, pop and rock artists were grappling with how to navigate and embrace cutting-edge trends: disco, the roiling punk underbelly and the burgeoning new wave scene. Plus, by 1979, McCartney too was itching for a change. Although Wings toured the U.K. in the fall of that year (and even played “Wonderful Christmastime”), the band had nearly run its course. For better or for worse, McCartney was primed to take a leap of faith and dive headfirst into whatever was coming next.”
If you’re a fan of John Carpenter and/or Quentin Tarantino, or neither but are a fan of the visual cinematic queues filmmakers put into their work, then this KINO short showcased over at Boing Boing is a must-see:
The Hateful Eight’s homage to The Thing: shots compared
“While it’s not odd that QT, master of the cinematic homage, would be drawing creative and narrative inspiration from elsewhere, it might seem a little odd to some folks that for a western Tarantino would choose to reference a sci-fi monster movie. But look at even the most basic comparisons: both are ensemble pieces (led by Kurt Russell) that take place largely in one room/compound in the middle of polar nowhere; both center on the themes of paranoia and mistrust; and both are violent as all get out. Makes a little more sense now, doesn’t it?”
As an opening titles enthusiast, this Cinefix video, with all its references and substantiation regarding this particularly keen cinematic and graphic art form, of their 10 best is not to be missed. I mean it:
There’s alway mixed feelings when a project comes to an end. Joy, surely, when it’s accomplished, and perhaps a bit of sadness in putting to bed something that became part of your life. Even if it is a revisit, of sorts. That came to mind when friend (and fellow TCM Classic Film Fest participant) Richard Kirkham closed out his marvelous undertaking of his favorite year in movies, 1984; finishing it most appropriately:
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
“It takes a large portion of the nearly three hundred pages of the novel, to explain the social strata in the world of Oceania. The idea of “thought-crime” and it’s ultimate solution “Newspeak” are central to the written text but are not the main focus in the film. Visualizing a totalitarian society where the oppressed voluntarily participate in their own subjugation requires a visual aesthetic not a narrative track. The poverty and abandonment of the “proles” or non-party members of the culture are portrayed in exceptionally depressing ways in the film. There is a morbidly disgusting scene where Winston recalls visiting a prostitute in the prole areas of the city. The visualization is nearly enough to make you want to join the Anti-Sex League yourself.”
It goes without saying that remain a big fan of Marlene Dietrich. So when Margaret Perry highlighted this magnetic movie star within the backdrop of a Billy Wilder film on her blog, and putting it in historical, cultural, and social context, it had to join the year-end list:
Marlene Dietrich’s Re-Education of American Female Sensuality
“The duality of Marlene Dietrich’s star persona in Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair (1948), first as a German ex-patriot and secondly as a patriotic American film star, serves to establish three distinctive heterotopias within the film text, enabling American postwar audiences to navigate the complexities of Berlin’s zonal divisions as represented in the film. Within these heterotopias, the Dietrich persona offers layers of discourse related to time, place, and nationalism, which allow her to re-educate Congresswoman Frost (Jean Arthur) on the expectations of womanhood in the new patriarchal order of a world divided by the Cold War.”
My lovely spouse of almost three decades can assure you I don’t need another motivation to purchase music. I’m sure if she reads this it’ll only aggravate the situation — so, let’s keep this list by the good folk at The Vinyl Factory to ourselves as we close out the year, shall we?:
The 20 best soundtracks of 2016
“This year’s Oscar season was met by a few soundtrack firsts that were simply too juicy (for the establishment) to resist. Master of the playlist, Quentin Tarantino’s first ever originally commissioned score for The Hateful Eight was delivered by none other than maestro Ennio Morricone, marking his first Western soundtrack after forty-odd years from the frontier. It scooped best score then but now, by December, the competition – from the likes of Jóhann Jóhannsson, Alex Somers, Cliff Martinez, Nils Frahm – is fierce.”
Will add this final image to the highlight reel for it is fitting and heartfelt:
Carrie Fisher (1956-2016) actress, author, screenwriter.
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A Song For This Day (and year): Suavecito
Same Song, Different Movie: Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash
21 Responses to “On the Verge: Year of Bests – 2016”
Cindy Bruchman December 30, 2016
Fascinating, thoughtful, and in-depth, your choices, their readability, and their perspectives were interesting. Great post, Michael. Happy New Year!
le0pard13 January 5, 2017
Thank you for the kind words, Cindy, and Happiest of New Year’s to you, too. 🙂
Rick Ouellette December 30, 2016
These all look like great choices. I’ve got some reading to do! Happy New Year!
Right back at ‘cha, Rick! 🙂
ckckred December 30, 2016
You know, I never cared much for The Walking Dead either. I remember watching part of season 1 and although I found parts of it entertaining it didn’t really grabbed me and couldn’t compare to the high standards AMC set with Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
Yeah, I think it quite a drop from the likes of Mad Men and Breaking Bad, too. Well, at least we have a new season of Better Call Saul to look forward to. 😉
Thank you and Happy New Year. 🙂
Cavershamragu December 30, 2016
Such wonderful material – maybe 3016 wasn’t such a train wreck after all! Thanks Michael, hope you have a great 2017.
Thank you ever so much, Sergio. Hope 2017 works out for us all. 🙂
Jay December 30, 2016
I don’t know what kind of steel-trap memory you have to be able to pull together a list like this!
This is why Evernote was invented, I’m sure. 😉
Thanks, Jay, and Happy New Year. 🙂
ruth December 30, 2016
Thanks so much for including my review, Michael. That’s one of my fave reviews I’ve written and it’s a film I’ll be rooting for at the Oscar this year. Definitely agree w/ Edelstein’s pick of fave performance, Mahershala Ali will be in my top 3 of the year when I get around to doing my top 10 list. Have a blessed New Year!
Oh, I was so happy to include it, Ruth. We’re like-minded re: the work of Mahershala Ali. What a year for him. Happiest of New Year’s, my friend. 🙂
ruth January 5, 2017
I just saw Ali in Hidden Figures last night, another great film everyone should go see. He didn’t have a big part but still, it was great seeing him on screen!
Oh, I so want to see Hidden Figures. Even more now. Thanks, Ruth. 🙂
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Novroz January 1, 2017
I have to be honest that I don’t read them all as it is too long…but I applaud your time for compiling it.
I really like that Quote for Alien.
Happy new year Mike 🙂
Thank you very much, Novroz. Happy New Year, my friend. 🙂
Vinyl Connection January 2, 2017
What a buffet feast! Enough to get through to Easter, even? Thanks Michael.
Thank you for your readership, Bruce. Always appreciated, my friend. 🙂
Three Rows Back January 3, 2017
As always, a fantastic compendium of articles that offer a different take on what I normally read. Happy New Year sir.
Thank you and Happiest of New Year’s, Mark. 🙂


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