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Every week or two, I have a few thoughts. Most of the league – save the Jets – have started to make off-season moves in anticipation of the draft on Sunday. Trades, buyouts, and rumours galore in this edition of the Extra Attacker. Below is a smattering of my synaptic output.
The Jets inaction to this point – even in locking up their own RFAs – has a sort of frustrating tone to it. It is plain to every fan and blogger alike what needs to be done on this team, and no doubt management is equally aware. Pavelec is a bottom-end goalie behind a shallow, offence-first defence group who are struggling to prop up an unbalanced forward group with limited high-end talent and a lot of waiver wire cast-offs in important roles. Even a conservative wish is 5 players deep:
- Starting Goalie
- Top 4 'multi-tool' defenceman
- Top 6 RW to play with Kane
- Scoring Centre, preferably with a record of success on the powerplay
- Two-way winger in the Kulemin mould
With just 20 players under contract currently and a shrinking cap forcing other GMs to buy out and move quality players, Cheveldayoff has the opportunity to add a handful of impact players among the 25 names he will sign to contracts before October. An aggressive stance might include compliance buyouts for Jokinen and Pavelec to make way for more talented additions in their spots.
Our frustration comes from the rising possibility that Cheveldayoff won't make a sincere effort to win – aggressive or conservative – hiding behind the supposed potential of Pavelec's youth and inexperience (he was drafted in 2005 and has 231 NHL games played, we might remember cynically) and the injuries that quite possibly held the Jets out of the playoffs this year.
Sadly, we know that the Jets had the 25th hardest (5th easiest) schedule in the league last year by playing in a very poor division. Two years into their existence, the Jets still have a losing record against non-Southeast teams, and are entering Conference B as one of only 3 teams to not have made the playoffs either of the last two seasons and with the second fewest combined points over those two years (only Columbus has fewer).
Circumstances are getting harder and the only tell we have – continued patience – suggests that Cheveldayoff wants the high picks that come with losing.
Bought Out Opportunities
- Of course, the hot news today is that Lecavalier is being bought out. Lecavalier is a former 100-pt scorer and the narrative on his career is one of decline. In fact, it should be one of unreasonable expectations.
- Only twice in 14 seasons as a pro has Lecavalier scored more than a point per game. If we take away his best two seasons (200pts in 163 gp) and worst two seasons (65 in 158 gp), he averages .85 pts per game over the remaining 10 years. He consistently plays middle opposition with unimpressive possession results. He's a solid but not spectacular PP contributor, floating around the 4 points per 60 minutes mark for most of his career.
- Put in simple terms, he's a name brand, high (but not elite) scoring centre who was overpaid for his production (which isn't his fault, obviously) and is on the downswing of his career.
- Fans of every team are asking what he could do for their squad today. For the Jets, he's likely a much better fit than is Olli Jokinen for that same spot, a strong mentor for Mark Scheifele, and could take over Little's duties on the PP with positive results. If this were NHL13, I'd buy out Jokinen and sign Lecavlier in a heartbeat (and then trade for the 1st overall pick and Landeskog – man that game is easy.) However, Lecavalier probably has little interest in a team that will use up his remaining years without a sniff at the cup.
- Lebrun is still reporting that Brad Richards doesn't know his future. Everything said about Lecavalier above applies to Richards as well (save being Scheifele's mentor), and either one is an ideal skill addition to a weak top-6 in Winnipeg. But they're also equally unlikely to sign without another significant overpay the Jets can't afford with Jokinen's $4.5M on the books.
- Danny Briere? $9M over 2 would be ideal for the Jets. Would he still be a good signing at $15M/3?
- How about Bryzgalov? Hear me out – first the Jets sign Andrew Ference to leverage his reputation as an eco-warrior in lobbying the city of Winnipeg to build the requisite number of parks Bryzgalov requires to play in a city, and use that to convince Bryz to save us from Pavelec.
Free Agents
- A couple names for centre – Derek Roy and Stephen Weiss. Roy would immediately become the most offensively talented centre on the team, and a 1st unit PP leader. Weiss has historically been a better version of Bryan Little and would give the Jets two high quality two-way pivots. Both are likely looking in the $4-5M range, but poor seasons in 2013 may drive their prices down into the affordable range for the Jets.
- We've talked about fixing the RW with Ryder and Hemsky. News is that Jagr will be a FA on July 5th. He's still a PP contributor and Jagr in a Jets jersey would be a welcomed hockey trivia moment. Still, as primarily a cycle player, his fit with the vertical-attacking Kane and Jokinen is questionable.
- What would it take to get Jarome Iginla? The Jets a unlikely to be his preferred destination. Still, somehow his 23 points in 28 games with the Conference finalist Penguins isn't receiving the fanfare it should. Will that equate to a lot of offers in the $20M/4 range? As a team with $28M in cap space, could the Jets tempt the 6 time all-star with term (the elusive 5th year) or star-dollars in $6M range?
- Despite Cheveldayoff's support of Pavelec in his season-ending press conference, the Jets could add a 1b insurance policy for Pav in Ray Emery, who is gaining attention after a solid season in Chicago.
- Last one: the FA defence group is very poor this year. Rob Scuderi may be available and is better suited to the role Hainsey played last year than the departing LH unionist. If $4M is the asking price from the Kings, would the Jets end up in the $5M range to get him on the phone? Letting Hainsey walk is getting more and more frustrating by the day.
- Ryan Miller is owed $6.25M, but for just one more year and is an elite option from a confused Buffalo management team. 59th overall, Eric O'Dell, and Mark Stuart to get Darcy Regier on the phone? Tough to know what the Sabres could get for an embattled and highly paid goalie after a bad season with the cap shrinking.
- Of course, Luongo remains a draft day trade possibility, but the years left on his contract and his control over where he goes means the Jets are unlikely to even consider it.
- Rumours are that the oft-injured powerforward Ryan Malone is available for very little. His injuries are a concern, but it's his $4.5M contract until 2016 that makes him available. Though two of the Jets' 3 best forwards are on the port-side, adding NHL quality players has to be a priority for a team built from the waiver wire. If he could be had for a mid-level prospect such as Ivan Telegin or Julian Melchiori, would he make your 2013/14 depth chart?
Heard from another team that the Blackhawks are shopping center Dave Bolland…
— Pierre LeBrun (@Real_ESPNLeBrun) June 27, 2013
- Bolland is such a tempting player for the Jets. I mean, just look at his marriage photos. If they had a title, it would be 'Shock and Awe.' (Somehow his marriage photos are a little NSFW) The Jets could use the Bryan Little clone to move up and down the lineup. Bolland could be used in all three disciplines at a reasonable cost of $3.375M. Still, he lacks the offensive punch to improve the Jets scoring meaningfully. What would the Jets have to give up? If Bolland is a salary casualty, then perhaps a second round pick and an equivalent prospect lands him. Adam Lowry (WHL MVP) and the 61st overall (Chicago's own pick from the Oduya deal) might put them in the conversation. It's a bit steep for me.
- One more: Shawn Horcoff. He's overpaid at a $5.5M cap hit, but if the Oilers would hold on to $2M of that, Horcoff could be an ideal 3C for this team. He can slide up when necessary without holding skill players back, is a face-off ace, a great penalty killer, and has had success with the man advantage too. New GM Craig MacTavish has already announced his former Captain's departure, ending his trade leverage. I bet #91 overall (the Jets second 3rd rd pick, acquired from the Blackhawks) is enough, and if Chevy takes back another contract (1st rd bust Alex Plante comes to mind), I suspect both sides could come away happy.
Obviously the Jets can't afford them all. Anyone make your wish list of would-be Jets?


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Friday, July 29, 2011
sdcc 11 stetches
so here are the only things i drew while at con. well thats not true, i did a batman sketch for jose lopez, but i forgot to get a photo of it.
the widow peaking over steves shoulder is done by sophie
Posted by kris anka at 3:27:00 PM
Labels: black widow, bucky barnes, captain america, sharon carter
2 comments:
- bird said...
loving them, delicious flow haha, laughed with the sophie one hahahah
- July 29, 2011 at 4:16 PM
- Jonathan Lankry said...
really love this two !
sweet couple :)
- July 30, 2011 at 10:14 AM
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Topic: Watchmen
anyone here fan of the comic book? it was totally awesome, and if you saw The Dark Knight, then you saw the trailer for the film adaptation. i am totally psyched to go see it. 3/6/09 visit the following links for more info.
Official Movie Site
HD Trailer
Scream! 2008 Footage
IMDB link
Wiki link
Film Wiki
Watchmen Wiki
Group Picture:
Bios of the 'masked vigilantes':
The Comedian
Doctor 'Doc' Manhattan
Nite Owl
Rorschach (my favorite)
Captain Metropolis
Silk Spectre


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Timor-Leste: Director-General to Highlight Education with UN Secretary-General
The Director-General will join the UN Secretary-General and his special envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown to showcase the role of education in national reconciliation and development, during an official visit to Timor-Leste on 15 and 16 August.
The field visit will give tangible shape to the Secretary-General's Education First Initiative, to be launched formally in the margins of the General Assembly in New York on 26 September. The Initiative aims to raise the visibility of education on the global agenda, and focuses on getting every child into school, improving the quality of learning and fostering global citizenship. UNESCO's Director-General serves as Executive-Secretary of the Initiative's High-Level Steering Committee.
During the visit, the delegation will meet with the President and the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste and key Cabinet figures, interact with students and teachers during a school visit and participate in lecture and panel at Timor-Leste University.
One of the youngest members of the United Nations, Timor-Leste became an independent nation in May 2002. It joined UNESCO in 2003. The following year a UNESCO Antenna Office was set up in Dili, the capital, to support the Government's development strategy. In November 2011, the Government of Timor-Leste pledged $1.5 million to UNESCO's Emergency Fund.
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The ZED amplifiers for mobile use are the culmination of over 25 years of experience in the manufacture and design of audio amplifiers. The philosophies ZED Audio uses to design and build their products don't always follow industry conventional wisdom or accepted beliefs. However, I have yet to audition one of Mr. Mantz's products that sonically disappoint. For example, ZED Audio recommends load impedances at 4 ohms or higher, although the amps I have tested will drive 2 ohms loads quite well. They also suggest that there is little "sonic magic" in cables, a position with which I wholeheartedly agree. Anyway, while I may not completely agree with everything ZED, there is something to be said for an original thinker who's willing to go against the grain and build such impressive high quality gear. For those of you who are familiar with the brand, you'll be happy to know that there are new compact high efficiency models in the works, and we're going to take a look at the largest of them, the new $695.00 Leviathan, here and now.
According to my dictionary, Leviathan means "huge or gargantuan." Well, at first glance you may think the latest ZED amp was misnamed, because it's really not all that huge in size. Measuring 17.5 inches long, 9.75 inches wide and just 2.25 inches tall, the 6 channel Leviathan isn't much bigger than a lot of 4 channel designs. What is quite different though, is that this is a highly efficient full-range Class D design, and all 6 of the channels are rated for either 150 watts into 4 ohms, or 250 watts into 2 ohms. Now that's a lot of power in a relatively compact chassis! And when you think about it, there are very few quality amplifiers available with this much power for anywhere near 600 bucks.
It's a good looking amplifier, with a clear acrylic top panel that shows off the technology and build quality inside. The heat sink is a classically deep finned design with horizontal fins running longitudinally, and is finished in rich looking, dark gray brushed aluminum.
The RCA connections are high-zoot (bitchin') gold plated panel mounts. Power and speaker connections are fairly standard, with the typical gold plated set screw type terminals that will accept 4 gauge power and 8 gauge speaker cables. Designed to be configurable for virtually any system requirement, the amplifier has a dizzying array of possible configurations and settings, thanks to some thoughtful engineering in the front end.
For example, instead of using 2 separate amplifiers for a 4 channel system with subwoofers, the Leviathan allows you to drive the entire system with a single chassis. And thanks to dedicated crossover functions, you don't lose any of the signal control you would normally have with a separate sub amp. But there are many other configurations as well, for example you could drive 3 woofers by bridging the 6 channels, or you could use the amplifier to drive a 3-way 2 channel system, with active crossovers on all outputs. The six inputs can be driven by 3 pairs of RCA's or you can use a traditional 4 channel input configuration and set a switch to drive the channels 5 & 6 with the available signal.
Wide adjustment bandwidth crossovers allow you to select any frequency between 80Hz and 4kHz on channels 1 through 4, and another crossover setup for channels 5 & 6 provides a range of 40 to 240Hz, which is perfectly suited to woofers. To protect woofers from over excursion, there is also a variable frequency subsonic filter. You can also create a bandpass crossover with the simple flip of a switch! All of these crossovers are true 4th order (24dB/Oct) networks, and are fairly easy to understand and adjust, thanks to the logical layout used. The editorialized owner's manual which was written by Steven Mantz himself, (you should read it for the education factor if nothing else) shows at least 15 different configurations the amp can be utilized in!
Because this is a ZED amp, one automatically expects above average sonic performance, and to that end, the Leviathan uses high performance Burr-Brown DAC's in the front end.
Other unusual features of the Leviathan include individual clipping indicators for each of the six channels, and the name ZED lights up in bright blue surface mount LED's when the amp turns on. There is also a protection LED, as well as an end panel mounted power LED.
Most of the previous five and six channel amplifiers I've seen have been relatively modest in terms of power output. This was primarily due to factors such as size and cost. The ZED Audio Leviathan seems to have overcome these obstacles by implementing their full range Class D design, and a cleverly designed power supply.
The school of thought used in the Leviathan (as well as the new 2 channel Kronos) is that the output section of any amplifier is simply a variable valve between the power supply and the speaker. Because of this, any power fluctuations in the supply will become apparent as distortion in the output. In a Class D amplifier, the output is controlled by a PWM (Pulse Width Modulated) system. The PWM amplifier utilizes
a high frequency "carrier wave" which is modulated by the musical signal. This creates a series of variable width pulses, which in turn are amplified by the output section of the amplifier. This signal is sent through carefully designed filters which remove the carrier wave and re-shape the output back to an analog waveform. To accomplish all this, you need very high quality parts that are capable of very high speed switching of high current. In the Leviathan, there are 12 power supply MOSFETS each capable of 110A of current, and a pair of 29A MOSFETS for each of the six channels.
To make sure none of those devices are ever starved for energy, there is 19,000µF of power supply capacitance, and 16,400µF of secondary capacitance. The final drive from the preamp stage to the amplification stage is done in the balanced domain to prevent noise. Also to that end, the ZED amplifiers all use a fully isolated power supply to prevent ground loops and reduce the possibility of alternator noise entering the system.
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My local beer store only carries light malt extract and I'm looking for something like an amber or darker malt extract. Can you order this online anywhere?
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Opera is probably the best browser for slow Internet connections, especially if you enable Opera Turbo, a proxy that compresses web pages. Opera 11.10 improved this feature significantly by replacing highly compressed JPEGs with WebP images.
"The most noticeable difference is probably WebP. An open standard image format that was released with some fanfare by Google last year. We thought it was about time to replace the 20 year old JPEG format with something more modern. Overall, WebP produces images with less artifacts and crisper details, even though the image takes less space," says Opera's Audun Mathias Øygard.
Here's an image from BBC's site in Opera 11.01 (JPEG) and Opera 11.10 (WebP):
Opera's tests showed that there's an important speed improvement: "about 22% less data transferred compared between old and new Opera Turbo". For example, BBC's science page uses 724.1 KB, instead of 1111 KB, in the old version of Opera Turbo.
There are two browsers that support WebP: Chrome and Opera 11.10, but Opera's team found a great way to use it. It's important to mention that WebP is based on WebM/VP8, a video format open sourced by Google.
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AP - Rep. Price says McCrory hasn't responded on questions about WIC
RALEIGH, N.C. - U.S. Rep. David Price says he has gotten no response from Gov. Pat McCrory on why North Carolina was the only state to announce it would end aid to low-income families, pregnant women and infants during the recent federal government shut down.
The Democrat from Chapel Hill said at a luncheon in Raleigh on Friday that the state's Republican administration appeared too eager to cut off help to poor families during the crisis.
Price suggested that North Carolina being alone among the 50 states in announcing it would end federal welfare-to-work assistance and food aid is a sign there is something "really wrong" with McCrory's administration. He and two other Democratic congressmen from North Carolina, Rep. Mel Watt of Charlotte and Rep. G.K. Butterfield of Wilson, sent an Oct. 15 letter questioning the decisions and asking McCrory to reverse course.
"I think it is a very troubling episode," Price said, speaking to a group of reporters. "Seems like they were almost too eager to cut off these benefits. That's the way it looked. If we were one out of 20 or 30 states, that would be different. But when you are one out of 50, that's pretty surely a sign of being an outlier."
Asked for response to Price's comments, McCrory spokesman Ryan Tronovitch said: "We appreciate Rep. Price getting in touch with us and we are glad that the federal shutdown is over."
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services announced earlier this month it was halting the supplemental food voucher program helping 264,000 low-income mothers and their young children due to the shutdown. But the agency announced two days later the program would resume issuing benefits because officials had located money to operate it through the end of October.
The state then announced it would stop accepting Work First applications and told counties they'd have to make do with fewer child care subsidy dollars because money wasn't authorized by Congress after Sept. 30. More than 20,700 North Carolinians received Work First services last month.
North Carolina was the only state not to extend services with state dollars and wait for reimbursement from the federal government. DHHS spokesman Ricky Diaz said earlier this week state that officials weren't persuaded North Carolina could count on that payback.
"There were pretty Republican and pretty conservative states that found this good enough and North Carolina is the only one out of 50 that did not," Price said Friday. "That's a pretty good tip off that there's something really wrong here."
Congressional legislation that passed Wednesday night to end the shutdown directed reimbursement to the states for federal programs that continued during the shutdown.
Price said had the shutdown not ended, he and the other North Carolina Democrats were poised to use their Congressional authority to demand answers from the state.
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My introduction to Hong Kong cinema came in the form of a crash course between the years of 1991 and 1993, when I began to discover and voraciously devour a seemingly endless parade of mind-blowing films made in the past decade. Finding the movies was hard. Finding information on them was even harder, but there was an explosion in the popularity of these films among cult film fans in the United States around that time, so though it took some leg work, we soon found that we were not alone. Together, then, we stumbled through the dark, trading tapes, raiding Chinese grocery stores that stocked videos, writing reviews for one another, publishing fanzines, and doing our best to spread, pre-internet style, every scrap of information we were able to dig up on these amazing movies. In the course of two weeks (maybe less), I think a few friends and I huddled around my massive 10-inch screen TV and watched A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Swordsman, Zu, Once Upon a Time in China, and A Chinese Ghost Story. We sat there another week and just drooled. Though I love each of those movies, there was something about the elegance, beauty, and melancholy of A Chinese Ghost Story that made it stick out as my favorite of the time. Decades later, it's still one of my absolute favorite movies.
Other than what I saw on the screen, though, I didn't know much about the movie — though I quickly learned who Joey Wong Tsu-hsien was. Some things just inspire a man to do his research. Eventually, I learned that it was based on "The Magic Sword" (sometimes also "The Magic Sword and the Magic Bag"), a story in Chinese author Pu Song-ling's anthology horror novel Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, a collection of nearly five hundred ghostly tales written some time during the early days of the Qing Dynasty. As best people can guess, Pu finished the book either in 1679 or 1707. The earliest existing published copy of it dates from 1766. Similar in many ways to classic Japanese yokai stories, Pu's collection revolved around tales of fox spirits, ghouls, and bizarre creatures from rural folklore.
Pu himself was a sort-of failed civil servant who harbored at least some size chip on his shoulder, and his critical view of what was then modern society is reflected in many of the tales, where the monsters are revealed to be far nobler and more trustworthy than the human characters. Bitterness over the Qing dynasty was rampant during those early years (serving as the backdrop for pretty much all of your favorite kungfu films from the 1970s), owing to the fact that the Qing were foreign invaders from Manchuria, to China's north. Although the rotten and corrupt nature of the late Ming dynasty contributed substantially to Manchuria's ability to conquer China, whatever short-comings the Ming had were quickly forgotten amid anti-Manchurian cries to "restore the Ming!" It never happened, though, and the Qing ruled for so long that they became pretty much indistinguishable from native Chinese. My old Chinese lit professor claimed that people used to say that the only difference between a Chinese and a Manchurian was the nail on his little toe.
It's likely that the civil dissent regarding the Qing empire (as well as the lingering corruption of the last Ming court) colored Pu's opinion of his fellow man as expressed in his writing. Centuries later, the phantasmagoric weirdness of his stories inspired dozens of Hong Kong film makers — among them, Ching Siu-tung and Tsui Hark. Or so I believed at the time. What I didn't know was that A Chinese Ghost Story wasn't exactly an adaptation of one of Pu's strange tales. It was, it turned out, a remake of an earlier Shaw Brothers movie that was an adaptation of one of Pu's stories. For most of the 80s and 90s, however, at least in the United States, our knowledge of the Shaw Brothers back catalog was woefully inadequate. Except for some dubbed versions of films by Chang Cheh and Liu Chia-liang, almost no Shaw Brothers films existed on home video. Common knowledge held, in fact, that almost everything in the Shaw Brothers catalog had been destroyed by a fire that swept through the studio's storage facilities.
When I started renting video cassettes from Chinese stores, I began to discover more Shaw Brothers films, mostly fantastical wuxia films from the studio's waning days in the early 1980s, and occasional swordsman films from the 1960s. These were pretty crappy versions of the movies, brutally cropped so that half the movie — the right and left sides of the screen — no longer existed. And they had those pale white subtitles, the ones where only the middle four words were visible, when they weren't disappearing below the bottom of the picture. But it was all I had at the time, so I dealt with it. After all, the originals had all been destroyed in a fire… except that they hadn't.
In the early 2000s, fans of the old school were delirious with joy when it came out that not only did the Shaw Brothers' original prints still exist, but a company named Celestial was going to release the whole damn warehouse on DVD. At first, it sounded too good to be true. But then the movies started coming out, and suddenly it was like discovering Hong Kong cinema for the first time. Many of the movies had never been seen since their initial theatrical runs. People like me who previously only knew Chang Cheh and Liu Chia-liang were suddenly turned on to Chu Yuan and Li Han-Hsiang. Although modern Hong Kong cinema had gone into the toilet, the ability to explore the vast and colorful past filled the void. At least for a few years.
Anyone who understands the tastes and economic tendencies of the average Chinese person knows that they don't really like to spend a lot of time or money on old entertainment. Although the Celestial Shaw Brothers experiment delighted people like me, it (as well as the similar Cathay Studio experiment) largely flopped among Chinese. "Why would you want to waste time on movies that are so old?" I was asked frequently by Chinese friends and family old enough to remember such movies. It was like trying to convince the average American to watch an old black and white film, actually. I guess no one really cares about old movies except us niche markets. Celestial must have suspected this would be the case, and from the very outset, their products were geared toward a Western audience — with English subtitles and very often English language commentary tracks and documentaries. But that's catering to a niche market within a niche market, and you can't build a sustainable business on that. Celestial's release schedule went from aggressive to conservative to modest to a trickle, and then seemed to stop entirely. A deal with an American distributor meant that some of their releases found their way onto domestic region one discs, but really, we were all forced to go into "it was fun while it lasted" mode, forever pining for those tantalizing future releases that never came to pass.
But the good news is that Celestial's early aggressiveness means that they got a whole lot of movies released before the economics curtailed their efforts. And it was as a result of the releases they did manage to get out that I first heard of 1960's Enchanting Shadow, the film A Chinese Ghost Story turned out to be a remake of. Needless to say, I was excited to sit down and watch the original. And while it turns out that I still like A Chinese Ghost Story better, Enchanting Shadow is itself an extremely enjoyable movie for fans of old style supernatural tales. Story-wise, A Chinese Ghost Story is almost identical to the original, but where as the new wave movie is full of frenetic energy and insane special effects, Enchanting Shadow has the feel of an older Japanese horror film, something along the lines of the samurai ghost tales by Nobuo Nakagawa, and in some places, even a Hammer horror movie.
Enchanting Shadowtakes place in the dying days of the Ming Dynasty, with war between the collapsing remnants of the Ming and the conquering Qing ravaging the countryside. A young civil servant named Ning (prolific Shaw Brothers star Zhao Lei) is making his away through the battered kingdom in order to fulfill a promise to his dying mother. Unfortunately, the town he finds himself in at sunset one night is stuffed tot he gills with refugees, travelers, and soldiers, leaving nary a room to be rented. Ning figures he'll just do the "backpacking across Europe" thing and find himself a local temple to crash in for the night. He doesn't much mind that the local temple is abandoned and in a state of decay, nor does he put much value in the opinion of the locals that the place is haunted. After spending a hefty sum of money to find a rickshaw carrier to get him close to the temple (no one will actually go to it, regardless of how much money Ning offers), Ning makes himself at home in the dilapidated old structure. he soon learns, however, that he is not alone.
Camping out in the old temple as well is a Taoist swordsman named Yan (Yeung Chi-Hing). Enchanting Shadow differs slightly from the later A Chinese Ghost Story in that the swordsman isn't initially antagonistic toward the happy-go-lucky Ning. A bit puzzled by the young lad, perhaps, stand-offish at first, maybe amused, but generally, Yan seems to welcome the company. Nor is he a dedicated ghost buster, as Wu ma's version of the character is, taking a "live and let live" attitude toward ghosts. However, both versions of the swordsman do get to sing and practice their sword technique, though the scene that appears in A Chinese Ghost Story is somewhat more dynamic and hyperactive.
Yan and Ning have talks about the state of the country and why each of them is not fighting in the war — Ning because of piety toward his mother, and Yan because he seems to have rejected the conflicts and political machinations of man. When the subject of haunting comes up, Yan just gives a non-committal shrug, remarking that even if there are ghosts, some of them are probably substantially more honorable than men.
Ning soon discovers that Yan is not his only neighbor. A villa next to the old temple is also hopping, with a group of attractive young women lounging about the place. One in particular, Hsiao-Chien (Shaw Brothers mega-star Betty Loh Tih), catches Ning's attention with her guzheng playing, painting, and poetry composing — all artistic pursuits that are near and dear to the scholar's heart. Ning gets busted sneaking into Hsiao-Chien's room to help complete an unfinished poem, and the young woman doesn't take too kindly to the lad's prowler behavior. Still, after a stormy start, the two become closer, eventually even falling in love — which would be sweet if Hsiao-Chien didn't turn out to be a ghost, her well-appointed villa an illusion covering a decrepit haunted house, and her mistress (Tong Yeuk-Ching) a demanding old ghoul with a taste for the flesh and souls of young scholars.
While Enchanting Shadow isn't particularly scary most of the time, it does achieve an effectively creepy atmosphere. Director Li Han-Hsiang was famous for his attention to detail, and his obsession with art direction and sets means that Enchanting Shadow takes place in a well realized, highly stylized universe. The decaying temple is drenched in cobwebs and dust and ruined old furniture, making it feel very much like a decrepit old temple rather than a movie set of a decrepit old temple. Even if you didn't already know the story, there's something undeniably wrong and supernatural about the place.
1958 and 1959 saw the introduction of "Hammer horror" to the world in the form of The Horror of Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein. I'd bet good money — though not a lot of it — that at least someone involved in the making of Enchanting Shadow was influenced a great deal by the new style horror films emerging from England's Hammer Studio, especially The Horror of Dracula (the Shaw Bros. studio would eventually collaborate with Hammer on a number of films, most notably The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires). There are several scenes in Enchanting Shadow that but for the costumes could have come right out of Hammer's Dracula movie. Ning's ride to the haunted temple is very much a "I will not take you to Castle Dracula!" moment, as is the reaction of everyone to his insistence on going to the temple. I'm surprised that Ning didn't walk into an inn and order a pint of ale from Michael Ripper. The close attention to detail, sets, and props was also a hallmark of the Hammer horror films, and the final showdown between Ning, the swordsman, Hsiao-Chien, and devil granny feels exactly like the finale of a Dracula film, right down to the smoking skeleton lying behind "The End." Even the camerawork calls to mind the more dynamic style of filming that was defined by Hammer's early horror output.
Other aspects of the film recall the work of Japanese master of horror Nobuo Nakagawa, who made a name for himself directing eerie period pieces featuring vengeful ghosts and ghouls. Nakagawa's films would have also used many of the same cultural shorthand signs to communicate the strange and eerie — the primary one being the use of colors, especially green lights to let you know when something is ghostin' around. Enchanting Shadow, I think, mixes together Nakagawa's supernatural samurai with the Hammer horror style, plus a dash of local seasoning to create a movie that is both uniquely Chinese and yet still speaks the international language of spooky cinema. No matter what your experience with Chinese culture may be, once the scares begin, you will be familiar territory.
If there's a problem with the film — and this one is minor — it's that the ending is a bit rushed and abrupt. A nighttime journey through an increasingly haunted looking woods achieves a considerable amount of tension, with Ning hurrying to return Hsiao-Chien's body to a proper graveyard so she can break the granny's spell over her. The mood and escalating sense of desperation is reminiscent of one of your finer Hammer films, and even though you expect granny to catch up with them, it's still a tense and frightening moment when it happens. Unfortunately, the finale suffers from the too-sudden kind of resolution that marred the otherwise exceptional Nosferatu decades before, leaving me with a bit of a, "Huh, that wrapped up quickly" reaction. However, it's not nearly enough to ruin the movie, the rest of which is absolutely fantastic, and once again, anyone who is a fan of Hammer horror will recognize the tendency to get the credits rolling before Dracula's corpse is even done dissolving.
Director Li Han-Hsiang had been puttering around the Shaw Brothers studio for a few years before directing Enchanting Shadow. His big break came in 1959, with the romantic epic The Kingdom and the Beauty starring tragic Shaw Bros. leading lady Linda Lin Dai. A year later, Enchanting Shadow would cement Li's position as one of the preeminent directors at the studio. He specialized in opulent costume dramas and huangmei opera adaptations, and for years his style defined the studio. Working with his Enchanting Shadow leading lady, Betty Li Toh, he directed some of the biggest and most respected hits in Hong Kong history, most notably The Love Eterne.
As huangmei films began to lose popularity, Li decided to seek his fortunes elsewhere. Unfortunately for the director, things didn't work out, and he soon found himself back at Shaw Brothers. Things had changed, though, and Li soon found himself tasked with directing skin flicks for the studio. Not one to be deterred by smutty material, however, Li dove into them with full force, bringing the same sort of sprawling lavishness and craftsmanship to his erotic films as he'd practiced with his epics the previous decade. In 1982, he directed Passing Flickers, a nudity-filled exploration of the film-making industry that was both a scathing indictment and uproarious celebration of the business in general, and the Shaw Brothers studio in particular.
Betty Loh Ti's life was one filled with tragedy and triumph. She was raised by her grandmother after both parents died. She developed an early interest in the performing arts, eventually winning a contract with the Great Wall Film Studios in 1953. Her time at Great Wall passed uneventfully, however, and it wasn't until she contracted with Shaw Brothers that her star began to rise. She appeared in several of the studio's biggest films, and eventually married Shaw Bros. leading man Peter Chen Ho (a fixture in many of Inoue Umetsugu's best musicals for the studio). In 1964, she left Shaw Brothers for Motion Picture and General Investments Limited, where she worked for another four years before an untimely death. Most everyone reports it as suicide, but details are sketchy, at best. During her time at Shaw Brothers though, and thanks to films like Enchanting Shadow, The Love Eterne, and Dream of the Red Chamber, she came to embody everything audiences expected a leading lady to be.
Unfortunately for leading man Zhao Lei, he's trapped between one of the greatest leading ladies in Hong Kong cinema history and one of the Shaw Brothers greatest supporting actors (Yeung Chi-Hing) giving what has to be one of his best performances as the world-weary warrior-monk and part-time expert on the supernatural, swordsman Yan. Against such elegance on one side, and such boisterous charm on the other, Zhao Lei's affable scholar sort of gets lost in the mix. It's still a solid performance, however. Like director Li Han-Hsiang, Zhao enjoyed a long career that saw him, like many long-lived actors, struggling to adapt to changing trends. He performed in a number of big films from the 1960s, including A Story of Three Loves starring Grace Chang, several other Betty Loh Ti films, and a few of Li Han-Hsiang's other major films of the period, including Empress Wu, Dream of the Red Chamber, and Beyond the Great Wall. In the 1970s, he pops up in a number of my favorite kungfu films, including King Hu's The Valiant Ones and the utterly ridiculous but entertaining Monkey with 72 Magic. By 1982, his career was winding down, but before his death in 1989, he came out for one more go-round in John Woo's Just Heroes, a veritable who's who of past their prime veterans and, for some reason, Stephen Chow.
If you are a fan of A Chinese Ghost Story, or if you simply enjoy a solid supernatural film, there's a lot to love in Enchanting Shadow. It's the sort of elegant, artfully crafted sort of film you don't see much of any more, with an attention to detail that wouldn't be matched until Chu Yuan started directed wuxia movies for the same studio. Enchanting Shadow is one of the first significant films in the fledgling Hong Kong horror scene and would be worth seeing for historical importance alone. Luckily, it has a lot more to offer the viewer than a mere film history lesson. It's a beautifully acted, beautifully crafted, genuinely creepy high point in the long tradition of good old fashioned ghost stories.
Release Year: 1960 | Country: Hong Kong | Starring: Zhao Lei, Betty Loh Tih, Tong Yeuk-Ching, Yeung Chi-Hing, Su Chiang, Lee Kwan, Hao Li-Jen, Simon Li Kuo-Hua, Lok Kei | Screenplay: Wong Yuet-Ting | Director: Li Han-Hsiang | Cinematographer: Hoh Luk-Ying | Music: Yao Min | Producer: Run Run Shaw | Original Title: Ching nu yu hun


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Monday, October 10, 2011
NIGHT OF THE DEMON will have a limited edition reversible cover
30 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Awesome. I look forward to the surprise. Is it reversed, in that the Bigfoot is in the corner, and Maria is on the main area of the cover? I guess I'll just have to wait and see...
- October 11, 2011 at 3:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
Hahahaha... another unintentionally created collectible.
Do you honestly think being even more unprofessional than your track record so far will do anything at all to curb the complaints,, or endear you to your customer base???
If you don't like it, a/ shut up shop like to said you would, in one of your more memorable tantrums, OR b/ look at why you are continually getting *mostly well founded* if not entirely polite complaints and damned well do something about it - I am sure other labels don't cause nearly so much unhappiness and frustration in the horror community as you do... and most of it could be avoided by you doing the job right first time and not continually stirring up bad feeling with stunts like insulting DVD covers and snidey remarks on interviews [about BBNM] just to wind people up.
You're only hanging on by your fingernails because of some of the sought-after titles that occassionally come out. Push people too far and you might just get the 'finger' even if you do release something special. We pay your wages, and I for one am VERY close to seeing you starve and giving MY money to those who know customer service is king... Screw NOTD, I can live without it if you pull another cover stunt like Nightmare.
- October 11, 2011 at 5:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
Is this why the title is delayed on Amazon? Looking forward to this release.
- October 11, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- Jimmy said...
Anonymous #1
That would be awesome indeed! Now that would be a reversible cover I would use.
Amonymous #2
You know that you are pathetic? I don't think the horror "fan" as you are "pay the wages" of the Code Red employee as you as a group buy fricking nothing... So shut the fuck up and buy something else if you aren't happy! FYI I wait for some DVD release from Grindhouse Releasing, Dark Sky Films and Synapse since more than 5 years and I don't cry on their blog or Facebook page. Why? Because I have a life that doesn't depend of a film or two...
BYW can't wait to see the cover, hope it will be as fun as the Nightmare one.
- October 11, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- Josh said...
Its amazing you guys puts more time and money into crap like this, instead of giving the people what they want, the titles that you guys claimed you were going to do. I hear all these posts about you guys being broke and almost out of business, heres a simple solution release more titles, and stop making all these crap announcements. I can only imagine how long you guys are going to fart around with getting ghostkeeper out, do you release how sought after that movie is, and your doing nothing with it, you guys really dropped the ball.
You guys complain about companies stealing your titles, well than release them like you say your going to and you wouldnt have this problem. Your refering to Scorpion Entertainment who has plans to release Human Experiments under the Katrinas Nightmare Theatre Series, which blows your Marias b movie mayhem out of the water. Put more effort into releasing instead of all these phony press releases that your going to be releasing this movie and that movie.
- October 12, 2011 at 2:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
Josh, Scorpion is Code Red's brother...
Not hard to see who got the common sense and the marketing skills, and who is the twisted little runt who enjoys talking out of their behind with a long history of gaffs, lies, failures and outbursts at the buyers expense.
Scorpion announced the 'Girls & Horror' concept first ***with d/sided covers from the outset*** with no quibbles. How could Code Red get it so damned wrong when he is copying his brother's homework for Pete's sake..?
The relationship of the labels also explains how 'Who?', with Elliot Gould, got announced on CRs blog and has since turned up as a Scorpion Release instead.
I honestly don't care what CR releases anymore, or what sort of tantrums he throws on the covers... He insults everyone with this latest cover stunt - people who want NOTD but not the childish blurb are not going to wait for the first run to sell out in order to get the more 'grown up' wording... otherwise the first run simply will not sell out for the polite blurb to replace it. So everyone loses and has to put up with Bill's baby outbursts - whether they are facing the Amaray or the World you'll know it's there, and that spoils it. Nightmare selling it's initial 2,500 copies was a never to be repeated one-off for Code Red - pure luck that it was such a BIG release. NOTD is going to die on it's arse at 400-500 copies [like Code Red tells us a lot of his other releases do] so everyone gets stuck with Bill's childishness.
I am boycotting CR as of now, I can't think of a single unreleased horror film on my wants list that'd entice me back - not even Blood Beach which CR attempted unsuccessfully to negotiate several years ago. For the record I don't care about BBNM.
Come on people, BOYCOTT CODE RED,- hell, life is too short to let such an annoying little fool spoil the enjoyment of Horror Films. He hasn't got anthing THAT important to offer, since Nightmare came out, but plenty of other labels do...
- October 12, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
So sad, some of thse responses. CR should just as well delete them, but..... Who knows.
As CR has said, these releases cost $. It almost makes me embarassed, I but the same shit you do, Josh.
Shut up, or buy a reel. Life is short.
- October 12, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Anonymous said...
Code Red was one of my favourite labels and I bought up to 30 of their titles. But sadly that has changed. I don't get what this guy behind Code Red is doing. People complained about the cover art being ruined by the Maria pictures and the inappropriate personal jokes. Instead of listening to the fans he simply ignored these statements. He did not say a single word about the cover artwork being reversible or not. The fans had to wait for the first review to find out. Now he complains about the negative statements of the fans and even mocks them with the 'reversible' cover of Night of the Demon. Giving your customers the finger is more than just unprofessional. Learn a lesson from your brother who has given us quality releases where no one had to complain about stupid marketing decisions or image neurosis because he was clever enough to please everyone from the start.
- October 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- Jimmy said...
Anonymous post at 1:17 PM
Learn a lesson from your brother who has given us quality releases where no one had to complain about stupid marketing decisions or image neurosis because he was clever enough to please everyone from the start.
Actually the brilliant thing that Scorpions Releasing do is to not have a blog, so no loosers anonymous with no life had a chance to jump in the whining bandwagon...
Contrary to many anonymous who don't buy the titles anyway I find it funny as hell that Code Red give them the cover they deserve. It's funny that except here, one forum I've quit some time ago and probably Horror Digital no forum I read make a big deal of what is on a cover... Probably because normal people watch the movies and not the covers.
- October 12, 2011 at 9:15 PM
- Thomas P. said...
I'm surpriced how those dumb people whine how the cover looks, i'm just happy over that the movie is finally out, and in a great release.
- October 13, 2011 at 12:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
@ Jimmy
According to your statements the people who did not like the cover decisions don't have a 'life' and are not 'normal'.
I am really impressed by your argumentation skills and ingenious conclusions. You are the right spokesperson for Code Red.
- October 13, 2011 at 4:57 AM
- Josh #2 said...
These vultures on these comment boards are ridiculous. Bitter, fat toothpaste fillers with nothing better to do than attack a company.
That said, I hate to admit it, but they have a point about the snide remarks on covers. Scorpion chooses class over crass and it makes everybody love them. Code Red...man. I love you guys, but christ, knock it off with the cruel treatment of your films! The toilet menus, the '100,000 copies' joke and further knocks against the films being released are totally unprofessional and disrespectful to the movies being released. THIS IS COMING FROM A FAN WHO APPRECIATES YOUR WORK AND WANTS YOU TO SUCCEED! SO PLEASE LISTEN! Cut out the pre-schooler comments on the discs, spell check your covers, listen to what the sane fans want and make a compromise and stop letting the idiots get you riled up. Giving the middle finger to people, including those that deserve it, is a horrible marketing scheme, and will be your downfall if you keep it up. I have bought 15+ of your films and hope to keep it up for the future, and if you treat your work with elegance and proper procedure, you will be rewarded. Trust me. People would much rather buy a true DVD disc that a farcical one.
- October 13, 2011 at 11:55 AM
- Jimmy said...
Anonymous post the October 13, 2011 4:57 AM
According to your statements the people who did not like the cover decisions don't have a 'life' and are not 'normal'.
Real life people watch the movie, the extras and don't really care about the cover as it wasn't the reason why the dvd was bought. By exemple all the Redemption Films dvd covers are ugly and had nothing to do with the film themselves, but that didn't prevent me to buy them as I wanted the movie. For me all this silliness because of a cover is just another exemple of the usual trolling we read here from the anonymous. I don't say all the anonymous poster are like that, but I usually don't give a lot of credibility at someone who doesn't give his name.
And no I ain't a Code Red PR guy. I'm just a movie collector who find all this bashing stupid. Do you want to see all the independant labels close their doors and leave the market only to the majors. Good luck if you want to see sixties or seventies movies release properly (or even release) in the future.
- October 14, 2011 at 1:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
I want to thank the babies at Code Red for letting us in on to their trite and childish way of alienating the consumers BEFORE I wasted any more money on their sub par releases. We don't need to support such nonsense.
Actually, I read the comments regarding your cover artwork and not all were as crass as your response. It shows that you would rather stoop to their level than show respect to your loyal customers.
Keep it up and I'm sure you won't be around much longer. I would much rather go without your product or what's better, simply purchase used items off the secondary market through second hand stores than spend another dime supporting such immature and assinine gimmicks.
Good luck maintaining the fan base you have with such immaturity. If you cannot take criticism, get some want ads and a new job.
Stop pissing and moaning about other companies supposedly ripping you off. Atleast they actually know what they are doing when it comes to putting out product.
*Once again, thanks for letting me know before I plunked down my change about your lame stunt. It saved me some cash and hopefully, in some way will hasten your company's inevitable closure.
*I'll give companies like Synapse the business they deserve. I'm only ten minutes from them as it is.
- October 14, 2011 at 6:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
They were not all snide remarks, that was just an excuse for you to be a complete asshole...
The only thing you can rely on from Code Red nowadays.
- October 14, 2011 at 6:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
If anyone follows Code Red on twitter, I've never seen such unprofessional/half-insane posts on a company twitter profile. Definitely interesting reads though.
- October 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM
- Xeno Morph said...
When I opened my DVD & pulled out the reversible cover... I thought it was pretty funny. What's with the outrage? The humor deficiency here is surprising.
- October 18, 2011 at 6:55 PM
- Colt said...
Okay here is my two cents. You all cry about code red but you still waste time coming on here and complaining about stupid shit like cover art for some rare B movie that your lucky enough to have on DVD. Then why are you wasting your life? Time is important just stop buying from Code Red its that easy and ignore it. I for one have better things to do then to come on here and cry about how the cover art sucks. I love code red and will continue to buy his dvds. He puts out films that really are mostly forgotten the cover art dosen't matter that much I am just happy to have a nice dvd. I will defend him, Your all a bunch of cry baby's that have nothing better to do. Just don't buy his dvds and move on. I think its funny I bet you still buy the dvd he wins no matter what. You know Fox or MCA or any major studio will never put this shit out. Just enjoy it why you can. I hope he dosen't go under, the cover art isn't that big of a deal. In-fact your just looking for shit to cry about at this point no matter what he does you will bitch and moan. Get a LIFE!!! Damn I am film nerd and love these movies for what they are but some people go way too far over this Get Laid, Get out of the house, Do something Fun. Some 40 year old crying mommy the dvd cover sucks I hate code red bad bad bad. LOL! Good luck Code Red just make plain boring black DVD boxes for now on In fact save the money for more cool titles just put then in plain sleeves. Or just send them out with a pic of you giving a middle finger LOL I would gladly put that on my shelf
- October 18, 2011 at 9:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
code red rules. just be glad this film is seeing the light of day. on another note, here's a petition to get CODE RED to release BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/coderedbbnm/
Please sign and support.
- October 19, 2011 at 8:42 PM
- The Dude said...
I received "Night of the Demon" today. I think it's a great idea to have a reversible dvd art cover. I liked the front as well as the reversible cover. The reversible art cover was hilarious! This will make me buy another copy. Bill, I think you did the right thing having Maria. I enjoyed watching her at the beginning and end of the "Night of the Demon." At least there's an option to watch without her if you don't enjoy Rhonda Shear or Elvira. More reversible art covers, more Maria, and more movies please! I liked the trailers of "Killpoint;" "Lowblow;" and "The Hearse." I hope Code Red releases them very soon! By the way, the restoration for NOTD was very nice and I'm glad to have an official release of this movie in my collection. Thanks Code Red! By the way people, I think Bill has a good sense of humor and enjoys riling everyone up, because he's getting your attention.
- October 22, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- Luke H said...
I think it's really cool you compromised like this!
- October 23, 2011 at 6:42 PM
- Brian said...
I love all of your dvd's. Everyone who complains can go fuck themselves with a splintered stick. My only complains is that I wish that some of your titles didn;t go out of print. Because they go out of print, the same people who complain, sell their copies for absurd prices on ebay. They can all go eat a dick. Thank you again code red for released awesome flicks!
- October 26, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Anonymous said...
@Brian...you sir have just won the prize for most idiotic comment. "Everyone who complains can go fuck themselves with a splintered stick. My only complains is...". Did you read that before you typed it?
- October 28, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- Anonymous said...
It's great that 'Vampire at Midnight' finally comes with a reversible cover. I hope that Code Red keeps this strategy for the upcoming Maria titles. It's so easy to make everyone happy.
It would be great if the second pressings of Haunted, Mardi Gras Massacre and Night of the Demon also came with reversible covers of the original cover art. I would double dip in a minute. It would also be great is they let the customers know if the DVDs come with reversible covers. Scorpion always give the info in their press releases.
- November 1, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- Jeremy Hollinger: Consummate Purfeshinal said...
Keep up the sardonic joke covers, Code Red...after all, there is almost indescribable entertainment to be found in the levels of stress and anxiety it induces in humorless little OCD completist basement-dwelling horror faggots such as anonymous # 2 here.
And shut the fuck up, little club-footed, micropenised Josh.
- November 11, 2011 at 11:41 PM
- SimonD said...
Sweet Jesus some peeps are way too obsessed! cover it in a plain brown paper bag for all I care, its the contents that count.
As for those who complain, zip it and go produce your own custom cover if it makes your panties bunch up so.
- November 12, 2011 at 9:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks so much for the reversible Night of the Demon cover. Without it I would never have bought it, but just downloaded instead. But i am a collector and am against downloads.
In a day when it harder and harder to sell DVD's and make a profit it makes absolutly no sense to waste money on some Wrestling chick. She maybe horrible but horror she is not. Losing her or customers seems like a no brainer but then again????
Reversible covers or no sale.
- December 1, 2011 at 3:11 PM
- Phantom_Chris said...
Yeah, No theatrical poster was made. BUT there was an original video poster for it, which is the Cloudy/Moon background on black with Night of the Demon in white text across the bottom. Would have been nice to see this, I honestly DESPISE the Maria covers and the entire concept of her being involved with these classic films, but, I Care about the film being remastered and uncut, not who presents the film or who releases it on DVD for that matter. Be thankful this film looks great now and it is available to you. Or do you guys prefer bootleg dvds taken from a 4th generation VHS copy????
Code Red needs to shape up, for sure. But you fucking idiot's are 100x worse.
- December 5, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- Dylan Hodge said...
The problem Code Red has is that its market are dvd collectors. Not average movie watchers. I think alot of these people have o.c.d. and are obsessed with their collection. This Maria chick on the cover spoils it for them. Then they get nasty on this comment board.
I wish Code Red all the best
- February 15, 2012 at 10:24 PM
- Lyhue.W said...
i love the NOTD reverse cover art. a true kick in the balls for all those who complain about petty shit such as cover art. thanks code red.
was the Primal Rage dvd intended to play w/out an interactive menu? kinda feels like a VHS tape.
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And then it's done. The car engine is turned off, we all get out, have a stretch and start unloading bags. If we are arriving at Mum and Dad's there are excited hugs, delicious wine and a hot meal before bed. If we are arriving back in London there is the excitement of seeing the hens again, the comforting familiarity of being back home, and a mental calculation of how many more months it will be before we can get back in the car and do it all over again.


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New 2019 GMC Terrain AWD SLE VIN 3GKALTEV2KL293010 Stock Number N293010
Sale Price $31,060
See Important Disclosures Here
Lease for $303/month for 39 months with $3,356 due at signing including $0 Security Deposit and 10,000 miles per year. Payment expires on 02/28/19.
Estimated Lease payment based on 39 months and $3,356 due at lease signing. Cash due at signing includes $6,554 capitalization cost reduction, which includes $650 acquisition fee, plus a required security deposit of $0, and first month's lease payment of $303. Excludes title, taxes, registration, and license fees. Total monthly payments equal $18,338. Mileage charge of $0.25 per mile over 10,000 miles. Not all consumers will qualify. Residency restrictions may apply.
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The work to be done on the car was explained in detail. People were polite and very helpful. The wait was not long. The car was return in a clean and ...
Told I would be out in an hour and I was. Efficient and on time. Thanks,
From beginning to end, everyone was polite m, professional and helpful.
So happy thanks 😀
I was very pleased that the your dealership is honoring the free services I was told I would receive having a concern following my last visit.
Everything went well. When I brought my car and reminded them to please run it through the car wash afterwards, I was told that the car wash wasn't on...
Great experience great people
Staff is always friendly and welcoming
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day 814:
i'm constantly drawn back to black, white and green....okay, and butcher's brown paper....and rough string.....and shades of grey..... and crisp green and white flowers. it was our starting point for the Shoebox {see day 376} and our wedding (although we used dark chocolate brown as well as black) {see day 384}.
i never seem to get bored of these colours and the combination of natural textures against a monochromatic backdrop. throw in some industrial steel and my interior heaven is complete......
p.s. i also think that i'm going through a small online-balloon-ordering frenzy. i now have 100 of these black balloons (minus the above 12). i went looking for black versions of these oversized ones but no-one seems to stock them. although let's hope that i don't find any as we are fast running out of space in this Shoebox.


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Industry Partners
In addition to our co-op partners, the College engages industry in a variety of ways.
Each degree program has an advisory board with whom they meet regularly to ensure that our academic programs are providing a curriculum that is current with industry needs and standards. These boards also help the college identify external funding opportunities and support. Board members come from a wide variety of industries and some are alums of the program boards on which they serve.
The Dean's Advisory Council serves to advise the Dean on overall direction and strategic planning for the College. All members are engineers by education and many are entrepreneurial in spirit and action.
Senior Design, a two term sequence course that all KGCOE seniors take provides another avenue for us to involve industry. This course sequence prepares students for modern engineering practices. Students work in teams, often multidisciplinary, with corporate sponsors on real-world engineering problems. They define and analyze the problem, then design solutions within customer requirements and constraints. Students have worked on a wide variety of projects over the years – here a just a few titles that provide a sense of the depth and breadth of senior design:
- Navigation Aid for the Blind
- Wireless Power Transmission Through the Skin
- Moog Flight Simulator
- Wind Energy Collection to Energy Bank
- Photovoltaic Energy Housing
- Near Space Solar Power Conditioning
- Next Generation Charcoal Stove for Haiti
- Green Sauna
- Wegman's Freezer Inventory Management
- Intra-building Navigation Device
- Dresser Rand Wellsville Ventilator Factory
- Cheesecake Water Dosing
- Monitoring Device for Human Smoking Behavior
Also see: Corporate Gateway


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A modern approach of famous Black Forest Gateau adapted from my friend's book, "The Ultimate Mixer Cookbook" by Kay Halsey.
It's the first time I made a swissroll without any flour and oil. Its like eating a meringue actually but its good. And it was so good to go with a cup of hot long black...yum!!
Here come the recipe:
175g dark chocolate
6 tbsps brandy (I used rum coz no brandy at home...;p)
210g sugar
5 medium eggs, separated
300ml whipping cream
2-3 tbsps icing sugar
300g fresh cherries (I used canned coz no fresh cherries were found near my area..haha!)
~ Preheat oven at 180'C. Lined a swissroll tin. (12x10")
~ Break chocolate, melt at double boil with 4 tbsps of brandy.
~ Melt till smooth and remove from heat.
~ Beat sugar and egg yolks till creamy and add in the melted chocolate.
~ Whisk egg whites until stiff.
~ Fold egg whites into chocolate mixture gently.
~ Stir lightly, do not over mix.
~ Pour into prepared tin and level the surface.
~ Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the top set.
~ Remove from oven and cover with a damp sheet of greaseproof paper and a tea towel.
~ Leave overnight or at least 8 hours to stand.
~ Whipped whipping cream and stir in remaining brandy. Mix well.
~ Sprinkle a large sheet of greaseproof paper with icing sugar and invert the cooked cake on it.
~ Remove the tin and discard the lining paper.
~ Spread with prepared whipped cream and top with cherries.
~ Carefully roll up and deco as desire with extra cherries or icing sugar.
"Tips: Use fresh cherries if possible! " This was stated in the book, the taste must be better I guess with those fresh cherries. I'll make this again when I can get some fresh ones...:)
Well, mine turns out almost the same as the picture shown in the book..hehe! Guess I got it right!


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Dermatitis is an inflammation of the skin. Dermatitis actually refers to a number of skin conditions that inflame the skin.
Many types of dermatitis require clinical care by your child's physician or other health care professional. Listed in the directory below are some, for which we have provided a brief overview.
Contact Dermatitis
Atopic Dermatitis in Children
Diaper Dermatitis
Seborrheic Dermatitis (Cradle Cap)


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RBC.com | Français | | Contact Us
RBC joined millions of people and organizations around the world to support Earth Day on April 22. "Our employees tell us that they care about the environment and that they are proud to work for a company that is committed to environmental sustainability," said Sandra Odendahl, Director of Corporate Sustainability. "Earth Day is a great way to raise awareness and offer employees a meaningful way to contribute to our corporate culture of environmental sustainability."
To celebrate Earth Day 2013, RBC launched a number of activities across the organization to raise awareness and provide staff with opportunities to get involved and make a difference. Below are a few examples:
More than 3,400 employees participated in the enterprise-wide RBC Green Innovation Challenge. The aim of the three-week Challenge was to generate new ideas on how RBC can become a more environmentally responsible organization. RBC employees submitted ideas through an innovative web tool called SoapBox, developed by an early-stage Canadian company called Hit Send Inc. , and then the online community voted on ideas with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. The Challenge also leveraged a comment feature to stir up some debate among employees and help spark new ideas. To ensure the Challenge had meaning, management committed to completing a feasibility review on the 10 top ideas to determine if the ideas could be implemented. Top ideas were also awarded with $250 RBC Blue Water Project Visa Gift Cards. In total over 1650 ideas were submitted by employees and nearly 25,000 votes registered.
During the Challenge, employees could submit ideas under four categories: reducing GHGs and energy, reducing paper, helping our clients go green and other green ideas.
Nearly 600 employees attended the 2nd RBC Earth Day Fair in downtown Toronto on April 19. The Fair showcased many of RBC's environmental programs and success stories and featured display booths from seven RBC departments and 15 external business partners. The event was a great opportunity for employees to come and meet RBC's environmental ambassadors and green suppliers, ask questions and find out how they could contribute to environmental sustainability at RBC. We also gave away a brand new bike to one lucky attendee!
This year, we asked internal and external partners, "what are you doing to help RBC go green?" and captured a lot of great responses in this video.
RBC would like to thank our partners: Bullfrog Power, Canpar, Cascades Recovery, CBRE, Civic Action, Dialog, GEEP, Haworth, IBM, Interface, Newell Rubbermaid, OMNI/Avmor, Oxford Properties, Staples and Teknion for making the event so successful!
For the 2nd consecutive year, RBC partnered with a number of organizations to raise awareness about the environmental impacts of electronic waste, commonly referred to as e-waste. The United Nations considers e-waste as one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. Annual e-waste volumes have increased by a staggering 40 per cent worldwide due to increasing demand for consumer electronics products. The partnerships centered on co-hosting numerous e-waste recycling events where employees, clients and the general public could responsibly dispose of personal e-waste. Highlights include:
The combined campaigns collected over 14,800 kilograms (that's almost 15 tonnes) of electronic items that were dismantled and recycled with emphasis on the responsible disposal of any hazardous materials. At all of the events, the e-waste was processed by Global Electric Electronic Processing (GEEP).
Representatives from five Canadian banks and GEEP at one of the e-waste collection locations in downtown Toronto.
To read about last year's Earth Day celebrations at RBC visit: RBC Earth Day 2012


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Full Time School Psychologist (PSYCH) - Fairbanks, AK
Soliant is working with a client whom is located around the Fairbanks, AK area looking to fill a School Psychologist (PSYCH) opening in their district. This position would be a full time immediate need. Interviews are happening as soon as possible so please apply below to be considered part of the process.
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Chris Higgin's next five injuries as predicted by one of our Vancouver Canucks bloggers Richard Hodges. Chris Higgins wasn't flying to San Jose with the team because of a mysterious hand infection. What does this all mean? Luckily, Richard specialises in speculative medicine and can predict Chris Higgins' next five injuries.
Vancouver Canucks Chris Higgins' Unplanned Hand Injury
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Although Facebook's latest privacy changes elicited a positive reaction from some long-time critics, not everyone is enamored of the update meant to simplify how users share their information. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Center for Digital Democracy, the Privacy Rights Coalition, Consumer Watchdog, and numerous other privacy groups held a call Thursday to discuss the changes, reiterating their collective belief that regulation is still necessary in order to keep Facebook and others in check.
EPIC, with the help of 14 other privacy groups, has filed not one, but two complaints about Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission over the last six months. Among their concerns were the facts that Facebook made nearly all information opt-out instead of opt-in by default, and that the social network was regularly engaging in deceptive practices contrary to its own privacy policy.
The changes introduced by Facebook this week were largely meant to address these concerns. Still, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a point of saying that, while the company listened to everyone's feedback, it made the changes based on what its users said they wanted—not the privacy groups.
During Thursday's call, those groups generally agreed that Facebook's attempt to simplify the user controls was a positive step, but many believed Facebook stopped short of making any substantial changes. Jeff Chester from the Center for Digital Democracy noted that he was "struck" at how sloppily the privacy changes were carried out. "Two weeks of caffeine and all nighters—those are hardly the conditions to create a serious privacy policy," Chester said.
Others agreed, arguing that there were still substantial changes to be made and pointing out that nearly all settings to share information remained opt-out instead of opt-in. "Despite the procedural improvements made, the substance does remain largely unchanged," said Chip Pitts of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. "As a matter of corporate social responsibility, there are still substantial questions about the deceptiveness of Facebook's approach to these issues. There are still very important reasons for federal regulatory action and oversight on an ongoing basis in this area."
In fact, many of the groups participating in Thursday's discussion expressed concern that Facebook was being disingenuous with its latest update, and that it only made the changes to keep regulators off its case. "I view what has been done as a preemptive strike against regulation by the FTC," said Paul Stevens from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
"This whole process shows something of [a] Silicon Valley mindset that Facebook and Google follow: never ask for permission, always ask for forgiveness," added Consumer Watchdog's John Simpson. "If they were sincere, there would be the minimal amount of sharing and if you wish to share more, then you'd have the option to do that. We have no reason to trust the company now based on its history."
It's clear that Facebook still has a ways to go before its harshest critics are appeased. EPIC was unable to provide a status update on its FTC complaint—the FTC typically doesn't comment on investigations until they are over. However, the organization remained hopeful that, given the seriousness of the allegations, the FTC would take "strong, quick, and decisive action" on the complaint.
Update: Facebook Public Policy Communications manager Andrew Noyes told Ars that the company listened to feedback from both consumers and advocates in order to formulate its latest privacy changes. "The early reaction to these changes from users around the world and the community of privacy and consumer groups has been overwhelmingly positive. We plan to continue the dialogue about privacy with all these organizations, including the small group of critics who voiced their opinion today," Noyes said.


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Primary Care Sports Medicine
Special Tests & Minor Surgery
While many people enjoy good health and few changes in their activities with the years, others may develop serious conditions that require ongoing medical attention.
Our geriatric services are provided by caring staff members who understand the special needs of patients 62 years old and older. We have specially-trained doctors to provide this care in our new Robert and Frances Monk Geriatric Center, a bright, spacious center with 12 roomy exam areas, wide halls for wheelchairs, and comfortable furnishings.
The compassionate doctors of ECU Physicians Geriatrics Division can provide all of your care, including check-ups as well as attention for problems that may arise from chronic conditions such as diabetes. When needed, we can make referrals to specialists and coordinate your care. We provide support and guidance to caregivers.
Because existing illnesses such as obesity, heart disease and high blood pressure can worsen unexpectedly, we carefully watch for those changes. We also understand the importance of making sure medications are monitored and adjusted as needed. Our doctors offer evaluations for memory loss, dementia and falling.
We have proudly offered geriatrics care at our medical school since it opened in 1981. Today, we are able to build on our many years of experience and the discoveries since then to understand and treat the conditions of aging.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
August 24, 1891
A Good Man Gone
Chester D. Hubbard, whose death Wheeling and West Virginia are called upon to mourn, was a good man through and through. To say good things of him is only to present the man as he was in his family, in his business life, in his long and active connection with public affairs. What he engaged in he undertook conscientiously and with all his might, and when he had become advanced in years his energy was far above that of the ordinary man.
For more than three score years and ten Mr. Hubbard was a resident of Wheeling, which he saw grow slowly, solidly, surely, and for which he had a tender affection. He took a natural pride in the city and the State, for he had helped to make them both, each in a different sense. He had helped as much as anybody and more than most of his fellow citizens to advance the city in all that makes a city. He was in at the birth of the new State, from an attitude of unyielding opposition in the Secession Convention of 1861 passing logically to active championship of the movement to found a new commonwealth of the loyal West of the Old Dominion.
It was one of the traits of his strong character that he could do nothing by halves. Whether he was engaged in his daily business, in politics, to which he thought it the duty of every citizen to give close attention, or in the conduct of the educational enterprises with which he was so long associated, he gave to each in its season the very best that was in him. He was as wise in devising as he was energetic in executing, and his counsel was sought in a wide range of matters of moment. For this service he was well equipped by a naturally alert intelligence, by his liberal education, by his thoughtful habit, and by the scope of his busy career, from early childhood to the hour of his death passed in Wheeling.
He believed in the cause of the Union and planted himself solidly on that side. He believed in the Republican party, believed in its principles and its policies, believed in working for his party, in talking for it and in voting for it. There was something in him which drew to him the young men of the party, who counted him one of themselves.
In 1884 West Virginia Republicans were very much aroused by the Blaine issue. The party was unquestionably for the popular leader, but some of its strong men were of another way of thinking and were earnestly endeavoring to bring about the selection of delegates in other interests. Mr. Hubbard, fearing that those efforts might succeed, regarding a Blaine delegation from West Virginia as all important to the general success, went into the contest with all the enthusiasm that any young man could have brought to it. In the State Convention he was one of the leading figures in as spirited a debate as has been heard in any body in West Virginia. He took hard blows and returned them with interest, always in good humor and always in dead earnest. His years did not stand in his way nor did they give anybody advantage over him.
In truth it may be said of Mr. Hubbard that he had no old age, although he was in his seventy-seventh. He was an active force almost to his last hour. While his death was not sudden in the usual sense, he was so lately one of the active men among us that the chord seems to have been snapped while it was under full tension. His death does not make one vacancy it makes many vacancies, in Wheeling, touching the life of the city at many prominent points.
So closes a career which no father need hesitate to hold up to his son as an example of the model business man and citizen. If prayers avail for the rest of a soul this good man's sleep will be a sweet repose.


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OG Sundays
This cozy neighborhood bar is the perfect spot to wind down the weekend if you're feeling low key but still have a little dance left in you. It's definitely more watering hole than dance club, but DJ As-Is (plus occasional guest DJs) always has people on their feet with feel-good tunes that leap from funk and soul to disco and boogie. The crowd can vary—one week it'll be sparse and the next so thick you can barely move. But when it hits that sweet spot between slow and sardine-packed, you'll definitely want to blow off that Monday morning meeting.


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No two snowflakes are alike…each with a beauty of their own and Melyssa Connolly has captured the beauty of snowflakes in this new Holly Jolly set that are sure to make you wish it were snowing. This amazing set also includes a die! It's a fabulous versatile set that will surely bring a holiday glisten to your projects – all you need to add is the glitter!
Holly Jolly is a 6x8 set that includes a total of 35 stamps and one die and will sell for $31.50.
And here's my card...
I tucked the die cut with the stamped snowflake, under the panel with the snowman and the sentiment. This particular sentiment comes as single curved phrase, so I stamped it twice to get an effect of an image enclosed in a circle of words.
I also stamped some smaller snowflakes with brown ink, on patterned paper. I like experimenting with different colours of my stamped snowflakes, and so far they never felt wrong - brown, pink, blue - you name it! I encourage you to do so too... so FUN! :)
Supplies: cardstock: PTI (Ocean Tides), white; papers: My Mind's Eye (Six By Six - Honey Cake); stamps/die: There She Goes (Holly Jolly); ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa), Versa Color (Celadon); Copics; distressing tool; sewing machine; twill ribbon; buttons; Nestabilities Circles; chipboard snowflake: Maya Road; pearls/pearl brad: SEI; baker's twine; glitter glue; paper lace
You might have noticed, that I also rebelled with the use of paper... yes, the brown DP underneath is covered with roses! HA! Does it work? I think so, but you tell me :)
The card is my loose take on Cardabilities sketch #43. I'm also playing with RCC30 - Holiday Hoopla.
Would you like to win the new Holly Jolly stamp set? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter's blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter's blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the 'it' blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter's Blog Hop Challenge post. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday November 26th with the winner being announced during the release party chat.
Good luck, and happy hopping!