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Italian pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi to perform recital
By Curtis Riggs | March 4, 2009
Virginia G. Piper Concert Series
SCOTTSDALE – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present a recital by celebrated Italian pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi on March 22 at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church in Scottsdale as part of the 2008-09 Virginia G. Piper Concert Series. The performance is presented by the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. Single tickets are available for $24 online at www.scotts-daleperformingarts.org or through the SCPA box office at 480-994-2787.
Each season, the Virginia G. Piper Concert Series brings to Scottsdale internationally acclaimed classical pianists – from legendary performers to emerging talents – for intimate recitals.
Born and raised in Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi won first prize at the Cleve-land International Piano Competition in 1999 and a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Comp-etition, where he also received the award for "Best Perfor-mance of a New Work." Now a dis-tinguished professor of piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Pompa-Baldi has toured extensively on four continents, bringing his assured touch on the keyboard to many of the world's major concert venues.
Among his recent engagements are acclaimed orchestral and solo debuts at Carnegie Hall, a triumphant recital debut in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, a highly praised recital in London and a performance with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in Kiev. Pompa-Baldi's program will include Hummel's Sonata in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3; Schumann's Carnaval, Op. 9; Debussy's Suite Bergamasque; and Rach-maninoff's Sonata No. 2, Op. 36, in B-flat minor (1931 version).
Pinnacle Presbyterian Church is located in Scottsdale at 25150 N. Pima Rd. at the East Happy Valley Road intersection. Free parking is available at the church. A $3 discount per ticket is available for groups of 15 or more (subject to restriction and limitation).
Call (480) 874-4690 for more information. Students with valid student identification may purchase half-price tickets (subject to availability; limit one per student) 72 hours before any performance at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts box office.
Tickets must be purchased in-person; phone orders are not accepted.
2008–09 Virginia G. Piper Concert Series: Antonio Pompa-Baldi Sunday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, Scottsdale.
Courtesy photo: Italian pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi will perform a recital on March 22, 2009, as part of the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts' Virginia G. Piper Concert Series at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church in Scottsdale.
4th Annual Cave Creek Film & Arts Festival
March 4, 2009
Coordinated by the non-profit Cave Creek Film & Arts Festival, the popular creative competition is open to residents statewide with two age divisions per category: youth (ages 12 to 18) and adults (ages 19 and over). Creative categories include: film, visual arts, photography, poetry, short stories, original song, and choreography.
Application Deadline: 5 p.m. on Friday, May 15, 2009
Entry fees: $10 for youth division; $25 for adults. Applications can be downloaded at www.CaveCreek FilmandArtsFestival.com.
Awards: $18,200 in prizes will be awarded. Awards Gala: A special "Coyote Awards Ceremony" will take place in July. Several showcase events will take place prior to the awards ceremony beginning in late June.
Sponsors: This year's event includes more sponsorship opportunities. Interested sponsors and donors should contact Karen Smith-Lovejoy at (480) 515-6283. Information: Call (480) 298-9432 or visit www.CaveCreek FilmandArtsFestival.com.
"Art Night in Cave Creek" is back!
March 4, 2009
Friday, March 13
3 Join our eclectic collection of art galleries in Cave Creek for adventure-filled and truly enchanted evenings from 6 – 9 p.m. the second Friday of every month through May.
Special events include: Drawing for Gift Certificate, Painting with the Artist, Mosaic Demo by Mark Kostner, Meet the Artists, Art Raffle. Silent Auctions, Music, Rug Trunk Show, Performance Art, Refreshments and more.
Look for the luminaries at each location along Cave Creek Road! Maps available inside. For more information please contact Karen at 480-595-1123 or Mickey at 480-329-6118. "Art Night in Cave Creek" Friday, March 13, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m., Luminaries and maps at each location along Cave Creek Road!
39th Annual Scottsdale Arts Festival
March 20–22, 2009 Scottsdale Civic Center Mall
SCOTTSDALE – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present the 39th annual Scottsdale Arts Festival on March 20–22, 2009, at the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall. The event is sponsored by CBS 5, 99.9 KEZ, 95.5 KYOT and SRP.
Consistently ranked among the top arts festivals in the country by the readers of American Style Magazine, the Scottsdale Arts Festival has been an Arizona tradition since 1971.
The three-day event features 200 jury-selected artists from throughout North America who display their work for sale on the beautiful grounds of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall.
Works of art are available for purchase directly from the artists and from the Scottsdale Arts Festival's online art auction.
Visitors also enjoy continuous live music and entertainment from Arizona's top bands and performers, the interactive Photoscopia kaleido-scope and a sneak preview of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project commissioned by the Scottsdale Public Art Program, fun activities for children and families at Imagine Nation, delicious foods and beverages including a wine and beer tasting garden, free admission to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) and free parking and shuttle service.
A complete listing of events, directions, shuttle and parking information is available online at www.scottsdaleartsfestival.org. Hours and admission Friday, March 20, 10 a.m.– 6 p.m. Saturday, March 21, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Sunday, March 22, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Admission: $7 for adults; $5 for students; free for children 12 and under and members of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and SMoCA; two-day pass available for $10.
Location and parking The Scottsdale Arts Festival is held on the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, adjacent to Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at 7380 E. Second St. in downtown Scottsdale, four blocks south of Indian School Road and three blocks east of Scottsdale Road.
Free parking is available in the public parking garage located to the west of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and directly behind Los Olivos restaurant on Wells Fargo Avenue. Additional free parking is available.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 East Second Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, Box Office: 480-994-ARTS (2787). TDD: 480-874-4694 www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org E-mail: email@example.com al


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Inquisition are Colombia's most revered and respected Black Metal band, and one of the most important bands to ever come out of South America, having released nothing but top quality Black Metal for the last 15 years of their existence. That said, Inquisition's members are originally from the United States, with singer and guitarist Dagon forming the band upon moving to Colombia in 1988, and current drummer Incubus joining the band in 1996 when Dagon returned to the U.S.
Inquisition's 2007 album Nefarious Dismal Orations sounds exactly as the album's name and opening track's title would have you imagine: dismal, nefarious, ancient, monumental, but above all, crushing. Inquisition prove once again that not only are they unique at what they do, they also excel at it. This time around they have opted for a slightly cleaner production in comparison to their previous releases, but while this would normally detract from almost any traditional Black Metal album, here it only enhances the overall feeling of apocalyptic grandeur driven forwards by Dagon's trademark addictive riffs and abyssic vocals.
During the album's opening segment, the listener is greeted with a brief but brilliant infernal choir, which is made even more memorable due to it bearing a moderate resemblance to the distinct soundtracks Ennio Morricone produced for countless spaghetti westerns, before plunging headfirst into the abyss that is the remainder of the album's first track, "Ancient Monumental War Hymn".
From this moment onwards, as with all of Inquisition's albums, Nefarious Dismal Orations is filled to the brim with heavier-than-lead guitars, Dagon's hypnotic monotone vocals, and last but definately not least, Incubus' sublime drumming that just fits perfectly in place throughout, both fast and slow sections alike. There is absolutely zero filler on this album, it's 100% pure guitar-driven annihilating Black Metal every step of the way, but for all the monumental destruction that Nefarious Dismal Orations brings forth, there are many moments where the relentless drumming subsides and gives way to some slower and heavier but equally memorable riffs.
There isn't that much more that can be said about Inquisition's music that hasn't been said already, as they produce a surprisingly unique blend of Black Metal that is pretty much beyond comparison. I won't do a song-by-song description of the album either because my vocabulary is just too limited to express what makes them so good. In other words, it has to be heard in order to be understood.
If you have not yet had the chance to hear Inquisition's unique approach to Black Metal, then you really don't know what you're missing out on. Nefarious Dismal Orations is the perfect place to start, but you will be so impressed and awe-struck that you will find yourself checking out every other Inquisition album even before the first track on Nefarious Dismal Orations is over. Be warned, for once you discover what Inquisition has to offer, you may not want to listen to any other band's music for some time.
Inquisition are one of a kind, because for some mysterious reason no other band that I know of has ever tried the same take on Black Metal as they have, although it's possibly due to nobody daring to venture into the lands where Inquitision are already king.
What other albums sound similar to this?
I'm afraid that you have a pretty limited choice if you are seeking similar sounding albums to Nefarious Dismal Orations because, as I have already repeated several times before, no other band sounds quite like Inquisition does. Their unique combination of crushing riffs and atmosphere, complimented by the perfect drumming and monotone vocals can really only be found on other Inquisition albums, but fortunately they have so far released a total of 5 full length studio recordings, each one with a slightly different approach to Inquisition's winning formula. To begin with, try their most recent masterpiece Ominous Doctrines Of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm, and also be sure to check out their 2002 classic Invoking The Majestic Throne Of Satan.
As far as other bands go, maybe only Immortal, with Abbath's similar vocal style and their emphasis on riff-driven Black Metal can be compared, so try their At The Heart Of Winter and Sons Of Northern Darkness albums before investigating further. If you do happen to know of any other bands who's music sounds similar to Nefarious Dismal Orations, please let us know!
In a nutshell...
Inquisition's Nefarious Dismal Orations is in our opinion their greatest and most addictive album to date, with a mind-blowing journey from the opening choir to the final pulverizing riff, although it should really be left up to the listener to decide which is Inquisition's greatest album because, as has been stated already, each of their albums has a slightly different approach to their unique formula of Black Metal, and therefore each of their albums could easily be regarded as their greatest ever.
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There's a new after-school program in Milledgeville aimed at helping students do better in the classroom, and saving parents money at the same time.
Julian Reddick and his wife started a tutoring program in Milledgeville.
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Image Comics has announced that an eerie and hauntingly original graphic novel titled LITTLE GIRLS will debut from creators Nicholas Aflleje and Sarah DeLaine in March 2019.
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
What we are working on...
Samit is finishing up new array class. The new arrays will simplify writing matlab functions and improve performance.
I've been trying to fix a very annoying bug - zooming on a image has unpredictable results. In the process I'm cleaning up some handle graphics code. I think I'm going to cleanup more code in libgraphics.
7 comments:
- Ted said...
Is there any function in FreeMat for doing thermal modeling or heat transfer?
- April 4, 2008 at 9:37 AM
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Since you are checking out the image window you might want to also check out the 3d rotate freeze problem. See tracker 1929734 for a reproducible example.
Another graphics related is the incorrect hidden line algorithm when using surf more than once in the same figure window. See tracker 1930809 for a reproducible example. (I think this one has an easy fix.)
- April 4, 2008 at 6:22 PM
- Eugene said...
What problem are you trying to solve? I don't think there is a function for modeling heat transfer. In most practical cases it is a very hard problem with volumes written about different methods, ways of handling boundary conditions, etc.
By the way, the same goes for most problem areas covered by matlab toolboxes. In my experience, the functionality provided by most matlab toolboxes is never sufficient for anything but trivial applications.
- April 4, 2008 at 8:32 PM
- Eugene said...
I'll look into it. Thanks for the reminder.
Most likely it will make it into release 4. I don't know if we'll be doing more releases on the 3 branch - very time consuming.
- April 4, 2008 at 8:35 PM
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Please use the FreeMat Forums for discussions:
The User and the
Developer one.
I think, it is better to have all the discussions in one place (not fragmetated in so many places like blog comments) since not all users follow so many places (but might be interested in the answers as well :) ).
Thank you,
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please give me the format for plotting discrete sequence using freemat. like stem in MATLAB
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Cricket Snearing
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Interaction, Motivation and Team Building
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This High Energy session will have you laughing, cheering and having FUN while you partake activities incorporating Team Building, Socialization Skills, Game Development / Modification, Ice Breakers and more!
Arts & Crafts
Cricket Snearing
If you love crafts, come learn about some fun ideas, resources to find projects and how to structure your program whether you have no budget or an unlimited amount to spend! Resources and door prizes, too!!!
Camp Nature Programs – Forest Not Required
Harold Gordon
Today's campers are tomorrow's leaders. Providing them with fun, hands-on nature education at camp is an important part of our mission as we prepare them to be the decision makers of the future. Whether your camp operates at a school, in an after school club, in a city park or is lucky enough to be in the woods, all camps can have a great nature program with or without a camp naturalist. Come share ideas, learn how to plan a great nature program and have some fun with a few take home nature crafts.
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Cricket Snearing
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Understanding and Managing Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
Joe Serio
All children feel anxiety, but some children struggle with it more than others. Learn about anxiety in young people and develop skills to help them manage these strong emotions.
Three to Five Year-Olds & Camp: Herding Cats and Building Relationships
Jean Robbins, Ph.D.
Malcolm Scott
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Keynote Speaker: Jim Cain
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Michael Brandwein
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Staff trainer and educator Michael Brandwein (michaelbrandwein.com) is the national award-winning, number one best-selling author in the camp field, including Training Terrific Staff and Skill of the Day: What Great Leaders of Young People Do and Say. He's presented in all 50 states and on six of the seven continents. Michael wrote and presented three 1999 Emmy® award-winning television programs on communicating with children. He is a frequent keynote speaker for national organizations including the American Camp Association (ACA) and the National Recreation and Park Association. Michael has served on the national board of directors of the ACA.
Stuart Jones, M.A.
Owner/Director, Outpost Recreation and Education, Inc.
Stuart has spent his entire career working with children. He has been a member of the American Camp Association (ACA) since 1994, and is a frequent speaker at both local and national ACA conferences, leading sessions on camp management, staff supervision, child development, business management, and program evaluation.
In 2001 Stuart founded Outpost Summer Camps – a private, independent day camp offering a traditional summer program to children aged 3-14 located in San Diego. Stuart also serves as Project Director for Acorn Evaluation, a social-service consulting firm providing evaluation support and online reporting for QRIS (Quality Rating and Improvement System) programs for preschools and Head Start programs.
Stuart has a Master's degree in developmental psychology and is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego. He is father to five children ages 15, 14, 11, 5, and 2. He lives in Poway, California with his wife Dr. Kelly Jones, a clinical psychologist who directs the FRIENDS Social Skills program and maintains a private practice in Carmel Valley.
Harold Gordon
Harold Gordon is a youth development professional with over 25 years of camp directing experience. He is the former owner and director of two large ACA accredited Southern California day camps and a preschool. Harold hung up his full time camp director/owner hat in 2011. Since 2003, he has also been a co-owner of Nature-Watch providing outstanding nature education products to youth serving organizations across the country. Harold holds an undergraduate degree from University of California, Davis and a teaching credential from California State University, Northridge.
Jean Robbins
Catherine Cook School
Jean Robbins has been the Head of the Early Childhood Division since 2007 and has established best classroom practices, curriculum, and supervision measures to make The Catherine Cook School a leader in high quality early childhood programming. She holds a doctorate degree in child development from the Erikson Institute, an M.B.A. from Columbia University in New York, and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Smith College.
Malcolm Scott
Catherine Cook School
Malcolm Scott is the Early Childhood and Lower School PE teacher at Catherine Cook School. For the past 13 years, Mr. Scott has worked in camps for young children. He's been the Director at "Pee Wee Sports Camp", through the Evanston Park District since 2012. Mr. Scott holds a degree in Exercise and Sports Science and Physical Education from Carthage College.
Joe Serio
Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System
Joe has been in the field for over 20 years and focused predominantly on working with children and adolescents in various settings. He has experience with youth services, community mental health and inpatient treatment. Joe is also on faculty at national Louis University in their Graduate Counseling program.
Charon "Cricket" Snearing
Sesame/Rockwood Day Camps
Cricket is currently Administrative Director and Rockwood Adventures Teen Travel Director at Sesame/Rockwood Day Camps in Blue Bell, PA. Her over 60 years of camp experience includes camper, counselor, program director, arts & crafts director and camp director at various Girl Scout and private day and sleepaway camps. She is a past board member of the New York State Camp Directors Association and the New Jersey Section of ACA, and an ACA member for over 30 years. Cricket was a Tri-State Award winner from both the Keystone and New Jersey Sections and received the ACA National Service Award in 2009. Cricket recently received the first Michael Chauveau Distinguished Service Award from the ACA Keystone Regional. Cricket has been a presenter at National and Regional ACA conferences, at various section meetings and at the Tri-State Camp Conference. She was a member of the
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Cricket grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and received a Bachelor in Art Education from Indiana University. Her special camp and training interests include arts and crafts and programming—particularly special events, rainy day activities and outdoor cooking. Cricket's hobbies and interests include crafts, candy-making, painting funky furniture and doing volunteer work for the local domestic violence program.
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King's Knight is, at best, a brave attempt to try to fuse the vertical shooter with the RPG genre. At its worst it's a poorly designed and ultimately frustrating mess that really isn't worth any of your time. Don't be suckered in by the credentials of the developer; there's a very good reason why you've never heard of this game.
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Square Enix's lip-service support of the Virtual Console has earned us another stinker from the RPG masters' backlog of non-RPGs. King's Knight is a poor substitute for the old-school role-playing experiences we could be getting instead, but the company seems solidly set on a strategy of simply remaking those old Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games again and again, and is unlikely to ever damage their own bottom line by re-releasing the original versions of those adventures for just five bucks. Still, we can hold on to hope that it might happen someday – the potential that a masterpiece like Chrono Trigger might one day arrive in the Wii Shop seems just a little bit better every time something else from Square shows up there, even if it is comparative junk like this too-tough shooter.


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SEPTEMBER: Respect for Self and Others/Self Discipline
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An Interview with Bubba Fish, Writer and Producer of Clinger
by Mike Haberfelner
September 2015
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Your new movie Clinger -
in a few words, what is it about?
is just your average coming-of-age horror film about a girl in her first high
school relationship whose overly-attentive boyfriend Robert dies in an
embarrassing accident and comes back from the dead to kill her so they can be
together for eternity.
Who had the original idea for Clinger,
and how did the project get off the ground?
Michael Steves and I were in the middle of preparing to produce another script he had
written about a family of wealthy cannibals, when Michael called me on the
phone during my senior year in college and told me he had a much better
idea. Mind you, this was after months of preparing to produce Good
Taste as it was called. We decided it was worth it to scrap all of our
previous work (Michael�s screenwriting work mostly), because we loved
this idea so much.
What were
your sources of inspiration when writing Clinger?
used my first high school relationship as well as every awkward moment in
my life as inspiration, as I know my co-writers Gabi Chennisi Duncombe and Michael
Steves did too. In one scene,
Fern completely embarrasses herself at a high school party. In another,
she loses her virginity and it�s a huge let-down. I really wish I could
say these scenes were not based on my personal experiences.
can you tell us about your co-writers, and what was the writing process
my co-writers are huge divas and I can�t stand their outrageous demands.
Just kidding they are my best friends from high school and life partners
and we now have this trifecta marriage that really works and we couldn�t
leave it even if we tried.
Basically it goes like this: Michael suggests that a character barfs something out
of its mouth, and Gabi and I find a way to make that happen.
As a producer, what were the main
challenges of bringing Clinger
to the screen, and how much of a hands-on or hands-off producer were you?
had produced music videos, commercials, and shorts in the past, so I did
have some experience, and I felt pretty confident going into it. But a
feature film is a totally new beast, and I had no idea how much more work
it would be than anything else I had done in my life so far.
I made the mistake at the beginning of production of trying too hard not to
step on other people�s toes, when really I needed to be checking every
single aspect of the movie at every moment making sure something
catastrophic wasn�t about to happen. Even though we had an amazing crew,
it�s inevitable in a micro budget movie that things are going to go
wrong, and you have to have your antennas up at all times ready to catch
it before it does. I definitely learned that by the end of production.
was your collaboration with Clinger's
director Michael Steves like during the shoot?
and I had been best friends through high school and college and had
collaborated many times before, so we started off with a better heads
start than many producer/director combos. Michael is a director that knows
how to stay calm in the face of what seems like an insurmountable
challenge. He takes notes and feedback in a productive manner, and is not
at all hesitant to kill his babies (don�t worry he doesn�t have any
actual children). He also has the unique talent of being able to function
on nothing but an unholy lack of sleep and twelve shots of espresso. I
think we all three, Gabi Michael and I, learned more on Clinger
than we
could have ever imagined about being writers, producers, directors, and
DPs, but also about being supportive of each other and on the same team.
Do talk
about the shoot as such for a bit, and the on-set atmosphere?
was the most fun and most stressful summer camp in the world. It was
summertime, brutally hot in Houston, TX, and everyone was sleeping at
Michael�s house or my house. God bless our parents. It was a very large
crew for a micro budget film, so it was a social environment. We were on
set for a month. Just like any film set, there were a lot of laughs and a
lot of late nights where we all just wanted to go to sleep and not talk to
anyone ever again. But our crew were the biggest troopers. They maintained
a positive attitude and made it the best summer of my life.
you were also the editor of Clinger
- what were the main issues here, and how would you describe the film's
editing style as such?
Lord where do I start?! First off, it was a lot of fun and I wouldn�t
trade the experience for the world. Also, it was horrible and a lot more
taxing than I think I realized at the time. On the weekend we picture
locked I didn�t leave my apartment for 48 hours straight. I was so
absorbed in making our deadlines that I forgot about my car and got a
street sweeping ticket. And I was actually fine with the ticket because we
were finally picture locked and nothing could bring me down at that point.
Clinger really taught me how many tools are at an editor�s disposal to make a
scene make sense. At first I was really hesitant to use a lot of ADR, and
then Michael pushed me to put ADR in every weak spot in the movie, and we
ended up with a slightly less technical professional product but a much
more complete film. And when two scenes in particular weren�t working,
Michael wanted to put animated sequences in their place. They ended up
being standout scenes in the movie. It�s fun working in the horror
genre, especially such a goofy horror movie, because you have even fewer
rules than normal.
Anything you can tell us about
critical and audience reception of Clinger
seems to be getting a really solid reception from the indie and horror
critics alike which I�m really proud of. People are willing to excuse
some of the amateurish elements of the film because of how much heart it
clearly has. And I think they are recognizing that Clinger
has something
to say both about how �nice guys� sometimes feel entitled to girls and
about how incredibly powerful yet ultimately misleading first love can be.
Any future projects you'd like to share?
Chennisi Duncombe,
Michael Steves and I aren�t tired of each other yet for some reason so we wrote
our second feature together, The Cold Descent, a supernatural western
starring Tony Todd (Candyman) Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Terminator), and
Michael Eklund (Bates Motel). It�s currently in post, and we�re really
excited it about how it�s coming out!
entered the filmworld as a commercial and music video director - so do
talk about that aspect of your career for a bit, and did you receive any
formal education on the subject?
the time I started producing
Clinger, I had just graduated from USC�s
Film & TV Production program, and I had been directing for my entire
life. Which like I talked about above basically means nothing when
you�re making your first feature. USC prepared me as much as any set of
classes could. Ultimately though, there is no way to learn how to make an
indie feature, other than doing it yourself.
What can you tell us
about your filmwork prior to Clinger?
Clinger, I did a lot of music videos and shorts. One short that
Michael and I made, Workout Buddies: A Bro Love Story, got over a million
hits on YouTube and helped us get funding for Clinger.
During post on Clinger, around this time last year, we had a music video
gain traction online for portraying an aging same-sex couple looking back
on their life called #ThisCouldBeUs. It was covered in The Huffington
Post, Upworthy, Logo and some other outlets -- that was a very rewarding
experience and obviously super different from Clinger. This year, Michael
and I co-directed a spot about the recently deceased, 103 year-old founder
of an insurance company who left his final message to his company before
he died. It�s very sweet and inspirational, and I can�t wait for
people to see it. It was my first time co-directing with Michael, and it
was a blast. Gabi produced too, which was new for her.
writers, whoever else who inspire you?
your own feature allows for a very unique phenomenon known as �an
appreciation for bad movies�. First of all, movies that I used to think
were bad I now think are total genius as long as I walk out knowing
exactly what happened in it. But
more importantly, it now doesn�t matter to me if a movie is considered
bad or good before I watch it, because if it�s good, I�ll enjoy it,
and if it�s bad, I�ll enjoy everything I am learning from it. I
realized that I learn a lot more from bad movies than I do from good
movies. Good movies are inspiring artistically, but you get too
emotionally involved in the film to be able to recognize all the mechanics
of it. I find that bad movies (or even better, mediocre ones) teach me so
much more about how to make a good movie.
So my answer is� bad movies inspire me!
Your favourite
to write and produce Clinger
made me into a horror fan. We delved deep
into the genre to write this film, and I found so many movies that I
consider among my favorites today.
... and of course, films you really deplore?
taught me a very important lesson. If you walk out of a feature film and
you know exactly what happened in it, it is actual genius. In a short,
commercial, or music video, it�s pretty easy to get the audience from A
to B in a story, but a feature film is so different. We would finish
shooting a scene, patting each other on the back, thinking we had
absolutely NAILED it. Then we�d watch the assembly the next day and we
would look at each other and ask �wait what the hell just happened in
that scene?� In fact, the first cut of the movie (pre our reshoots six months later) made
very little sense for that reason. And that is why I learned to respect
Adam Sandler movies. For most of them, you can walk out of and at least
know what actually occurred in them. And that is so much harder than it
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actually think Clinger is better than The Tree of Life because it�s
never boring. It�s a lot of other things. Yes it's clearly made by a
bunch of recent college grads who had never made a movie before. But
it�s not boring! Clinger: 1, Tree of Life: 0.
for real though I really did like that one second shot in the Tree of
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Driving home late on a Sunday evening, Ray LaMontagne's album Trouble is keeping me company. The song Burn comes on and I find myself unable to let it blend into the sounds of the road and the engine and the world passing by at 73 mph.
Ain't it clear when I'm near you
I'm just dying to hear you
Calling my name one more time
Oh so don't pay no mind
To my watering eyes
Must be something in the air
That I'm breathing
Yes'n I try to ignore
All this blood on the floor
It's just this heart on my sleeve that's a bleeding
A conversation that I had with a friend a few days earlier comes to mind. She said it was part of the curse of my compassion that I wear my heart on my sleeve and it sometimes gets trampled on. I love Ray LaMontagne's voice, it is like melted chocolate or edible velvet. I have no idea where those comparisons come from, but his voice just feels like something you can taste.
There is so much passion and emotion in each song. I love it when you can hear soul of the artist in the songs they write and perform. LaMontagne has said "I always, always end up recording the songs that I feel are important for me to work through." To me that sounds more like the philosophy of a writer than that of a performer. This is a philosophy I appreciate much more than the artist who writes a catchy hook and meaningless lyrics and performs a song to death for pure commercial exploit. This is not to say that I don't appreciate the performers and catchy hooks, but there just seems to be so much more substance to something that speaks to the soul.


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The year is 2016, and the terms "rape" and "refugee" have become synonymous. No, really. Wherever Syrian migrants go, rape tends to follow (see #RefugeesWelcome: UK Arrests 900 Syrians For Rape and Child Abuse…). This sexual assault case takes us to Sweden, where two young girls were gang-raped by a couple of, you guessed it, refugees.
According to documents from the court… At least two girls have been subjected to gang rape [by] four refugees… [Who] state they are between 15 and 17 years old. One of the rapists previously convicted for threatening to kill employees at HVB homes.
The men have been arrested on suspicion of abuse but are now released because of their allegedly low age. There have been four detainees where arrests have been lifted, says [the] chief prosecutor.
Yeah, my bet is that those migrant "teenagers"? Totally not teenagers (see Want Asylum in Sweden? Easy. Just Lie About Your Age…). Not that it really matters. Rapists are despicable slimebuckets whether they're 14 or 40. It doesn't make much of a difference besides upping the gross factor.
Still, these abominations used their "age" to get off the hook. Sounds a tad like rape culture, doesn't it?
Here's the sucky thing – these refugees are granted asylum and special protection simply because they're refugees. They're qualified for special treatment because they're in need. But as it turns out, they're also lying, violent, rapey dirtbags. Seriously, how many more rapes, beheadings, truckings, bombings, and shootings until Europe starts to understand? Muslims. Don't. Like. You.
And hey, what about Swedish people? These two girls? Given the choice, would likely have opted for not being raped. Even if that meant closing the borders to refugees who "need protection." Swedish children need protection. Their bleeding heart government is failing to provide them with said protection. Sweden authorities chose to instead expose their citizens to burka-clad ticking time bombs. Oh, and the whole rape thing? Swedish officials suggest wearing a do-not-molest-me bracelet and hoping for the best. Guess these gals didn't get the memo.
Yes, sorry leftists, Muslims like rape. Not just in Sweden.


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Professor Mercurio has taught as a member of the faculty of law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and as visitor at several universities in Australia and North America. He has held visiting positions at a number of institutions in Asia, Europe and the United States and is currently a Professorial Visiting Fellow at UNSW and Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Mercurio worked both in government and in private practice. He continues to advise law firms, international organizations, NGOs and several governments on a wide range of international trade and investment matters.
An active participant in a number of associations, he was a member of the founding committee and served on the inaugural Executive Board of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), a founding member of the SIEL Intellectual Property Law Network, a founding member of the Asian International Economic Law Network and is a Member for Hong Kong in the Asian WTO Research Network. In 2010 he authored the case for the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition and from 2013-2015 served as a member of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development/Evian Group E15 Expert Working Group on Trade and Innovation.
- PhD, awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Academic Excellence, Macquarie University
- LLM in International Law (Distinction), University of New South Wales
- JD (Hons) Case Western Reserve University, School of Law
- BA (Politics & Government) (Hons) Ohio Wesleyan University
- Admitted to the State Bar of California
- Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar Association
- International trade law
- International economic law
- International investment law
- Intellectual property
- Public law
Publications since 2010
- International Economic Law after the Global Crisis: A Tale of Fragmented Disciplines (Cambridge University Press, 2015) (with CL Lim)
- Science and Technology in International Economic Law: Balancing Competing Interests (Routledge, 2013) (edited with Kuei-Jung Ni)
- The Regulation of Services and Intellectual Property (Ashgate Publishing, 2013) (edited with Markus Krajewski)
- World Trade Law: Text, Materials and Commentary (2nd edition, Hart Publishing, 2012)(with Simon Lester and Arwel Davies)
Journal Articles
- "Safeguarding Public Welfare? – Intellectual Property Rights, Health and the Continuing Evolution of Treaty Drafting in International Investment Agreements" (2015) 6 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 252-276
- "The Flow-on Effect: How the TPP will re-shape trade relations in Asia" (2015) _ European Yearbook of International Economic Law _ (forthcoming)
- "Foreign Direct Investment in the Pharmaceutical Industry – What are the Key Determinants? A Case Study of Singapore and Hong Kong" (2015) _ Asian Journal of Comparative Law _ (with Daria Kim) (50% contribution)
- "The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Becoming a Game Changer" (2014) 37 The World Economy 1558-1574
- "International Investment Agreements and Public Health: Neutralizing a Threat through Treaty Drafting" (2014) 92(7) Bulletin of the World Health Organization 520-525
- "Patently Lacking: An Analysis and Call for Systemic Review of Pharmaceutical Law and Policy – A Case Study of in Hong Kong" (2014) 9(1) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy 63-122
- "The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Ambitious Aims vs Political Reality" (2013) 3(2) KLRI Journal of Law and Legislation 315-343
- "The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Potential Failure to Game Changer" (2013) 14 Australian Institute of International Affairs Policy Commentary 21-30
- "Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Intellectual Property Rights in International Investment Agreements" (2012) 15(3) Journal of International Economic Law 871-915
- "Low Carbon Emission Standards and the WTO: Do Californian Measures targeting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Unfairly Discriminate against Canadian Oil" (2012) 45(2) University of British Columbia Law Review 451-496 (with Justin Wong)
- "Beyond the Text: The Significance of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)" (2012) 15(2) Journal of International Economic Law 361-390
- "'Seizing' Pharmaceuticals in Transit: Analysing the WTO Dispute that Wasn't" (2012) 61(2) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 389-426
- "China and the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights" (2012) 2012/1 China Perspectives 23-28
- Published in French as: 'la protection et le respect de la propriété intellectuelle depuis l'accession de la Chine a l'Organisation mondiale du commerce' (2012) 2012/1 Perspectives Chinoises 23-29
- "A Call for an Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Labour: Why and how the WTO should play a role in upholding core labour standards" (2012) 37(3) North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 101-160 (with Renee Chartres)
- "China's Evolving Role in WTO Dispute Settlement: Acceptance, Consolidation and Activation" (2012) 3 European Yearbook of International Economic Law 89-123 (with Mitali Tyagi)
- "Trade Liberalisation in Asia: why intra-Asian free trade agreements are not utilised by the business community" (2011) 6(1) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy 109-136
- "The Untapped Potential of Investor-State Dispute Settlement involving Intellectual Property Rights and Expropriation in Free Trade Agreements" (2011) 15(3) Ewha Law Journal 1-24
- "A Precautionary Approach to Decision Making: The Evolving Jurisprudence on Article 5.7 of the SPS Agreement" (2010) 2(2) Trade, Law and Development 195-223 (with Dianna Shao
- "Reconceptualising the Debate on Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Development" (2010) 3(1) The Law and Development Review 65-107
- "Treaty Interpretation in WTO Dispute Settlement: The Outstanding Question of the Legality of Local Working Requirements" (2010) 19(2) Minnesota Journal of International Law 275-326 (with Mitali Tyagi)
Book Chapters
- "China, Intellectual Property and the WTO: Challenging but not a challenge to the existing legal order" in Colin Picker and Lisa Toohey (eds) China in the International Economic Order: New Directions And Changing Paradigms (Cambridge University Press, 2015) 293-318
- "The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Less Harmonization, Further Fragmentation" in CL Lim and Bryan Mercurio (eds) International Economic Law after the Global Crisis: A Tale of Fragmented Disciplines (Cambridge University Press, 2015) 406-426
- "The Fragmented Disciplines of International Economic Law after the Global Financial and Economic Crisis: An Introduction" in CL Lim and Bryan Mercurio (eds) International Economic Law after the Global Crisis: A Tale of Fragmented Disciplines (Cambridge University Press, 2015) (with CL Lim) 1-30
- "ACTA: Anatomy of a Failed Agreement" in Pedro Roffe (ed) The ACTA and the Plurilateral Enforcement Agenda: Genesis and Aftermath (Cambridge University Press, 2015) 329-337
- "Public health law – case study: plain packaging" in Sian Griffiths (ed) Routledge Handbook on Global Public Health in South/East Asia (Routledge, 2014) 512-521
- "The Future of the WTO" in Andreas Kellerhals (ed) Bilateralismus im multilateralen Europa (Schulthess Verlag, 2014) 81-99
- "After the Second Extension of the Transition Period for LDCs: How Can the WTO Gradually Integrate the Poorest Countries into TRIPS?" in Bryan Mercurio and Kuei-Jung Ni (eds) Science and Technology in International Economic Law: Balancing Competing Interests (Routledge, 2013) 260-290
- "World Trade Organization", Chapter 10 of International Business Transactions in The Laws of Australia (Thomson Reuters, 2013) 1001-1065
- "Trade Liberalization and Poverty Reduction: Complimentary or Contradictory Aims" in Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer (ed) Poverty and International Economic Law (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013)
- "TRIPs and Access to Essential Medicines" in Denise Prévost and Geert Van Calster (eds) Research Handbook on Environment, Health and the WTO (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2013)
- "Intellectual Property Rights, Trade and Economic Development" in YS Lee, Won-Mog Choi and Gary Horlick (eds) Law and Development Perspective on International Trade Law (Cambridge University Press, 2011) 49-80
- "Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements in Asia: A Sceptic's View" in Ross Buckley, Richard Hu and Douglas Arner (eds), The Economic and Financial Integration of East Asia (Edward Elgar, 2011) 121-149
Representative Publications, 2004-2009
- International Business Law (Oxford University Press, 2009) (with Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Leon Trakman and Bruno Zeller)
- Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements: Commentary and Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2009)(edited with Simon Lester)
- "Is China a 'Currency Manipulator'?: The legitimacy of China's exchange regime under the current international legal framework" (2009) 43(3) International Lawyer 1257-1300 (with Celine Sze Ning Leung)
- "Why Compensation Cannot Replace Trade Retaliation in the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding" (2009) 8(2) World Trade Review 315-338
- "Health in the Developing World: the case for a new international funding and support agency" (2009) 4(1) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy 27-64
- "The Politics and Law of Prisoner Disenfranchisement in Australian Federal Elections' in Alec Ewald and Brandon Rottinghaus (eds) Democracy and Punishment: International Perspectives on Criminal Disenfranchisement (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (with Ronni Redman and David Brown) 167-204
- "Growth and Development: Economic and Legal Conditions' (2007) 30 UNSW Law Journal 437-476
- "The WTO and its Institutional Impediments' (2007) 8(1) Melbourne Journal of International Law 198-232
- "Resolving the Public Health Crisis in the Developing World: Problems and Barriers of Access to Essential Medicines' (2007) Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 1-40
- "TRIPS-Plus Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements' in Lorand Bartels and Federico Ortino (eds) Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System (OUP, 2006) 215-238.
- WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding: A Detailed Interpretation (Kluwer Law International, 2005) (with Yang Guohua and Li Yongjie)
- "Expanding Democracy: Why Australia should negotiate for open and transparent dispute settlement in its FTAs' (2005) 6(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 485-515 (with Rebecca LaForgia)
- "Electoral Law: Free and Fair?' (2004) 32 Federal Law Review 365-395 (with George Williams)
- "TRIPs, Patents and Access to Life-Saving Drugs in the Developing World' (2004) 8 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 211-253
- "Improving Dispute Settlement in the WTO: The DSU Review – Making It Work?' (2004) 38 Journal of World Trade 795-854


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Sustainable tourism is a new way to see Scotland
ELIE, Scotland — The weather in this lovely seaside village on Scotland's east coast, not far from the golfing mecca of St. Andrews, was about as inhospitable as it could be for early November.
The wind whipped the sea into a frenzy, sending whitecaps ashore; a misty rain leaked from a leaden sky; and icy pellets of hail showered down like miniature daggers.
So, what was I doing, layered up like the Michelin tire man, ambling along the beach with seven other women and a frisky black Labrador retriever named Hooley?
We were here with "Forage Ranger" Fiona Houston, a journalist and local-food advocate, to learn about the edible delights found on the coast this time of year, including oysters and varieties of kelp and seaweed. Our tour was intended to be a "walk, talk, taste" experience, but after 20 minutes of being buffeted by the wind and bruised by the ice pellets, we chose to talk while we walked to the nearest pub to do our tasting there. Only Hooley seemed disappointed.
Inside the cozy confines of The Ship Inn, a fire blazed, a pint appeared in my hand, and a gent sitting on a bar stool, nursing his own beer, swiveled around to address me.
"Are ye daft, lass, wandering around on the beach in weather such as this?" he asked.
For the record, I didn't think I appeared any more daft than the others, but he seemed to take a shine to me. After learning that I lived in Lexington, he allowed that he "knew a chap who knew a chap who once worked with horses."
I had come to Scotland for what was billed as a "glam, green experience," to discover that you don't have to sacrifice the glam to appreciate the green. Indeed, Scotland has led the United Kingdom in sustainability, alternately caring for and making use of the natural environment in unique ways.
During the next six days, I would meet a chocolatier who infuses her candies with rhubarb, wild mint, Scots pine, garlic and almost anything growing in the woods around her home on the southern shore of Loch Tay; a man who runs a "green" distillery in the picturesque town of Pitlochry; and an herbalist who dispenses natural products at Napier's, Edinburgh's oldest pharmacy. (Who knew that passion flower capsules are a remedy for restless leg syndrome?)
Beauty and splendor
Anyone who has ever been to Scotland can attest to its outstanding natural beauty: rugged mountains and deep glens, shimmering lochs and firths, heather-blanketed hillsides in the spring and summer, forests ablaze with color in the fall, and snow-capped peaks in the winter. From the Lowlands to the Highlands, spectacular vistas unfold.
That scenery is a source of pride for the British — why do you suppose the royal family keeps rushing off to Balmoral, in northeast Scotland? — and a source of endless fascination for the visitor. Amid the dramatic landscape of the Valley of Glencoe, I learned about the massacre of the ill-fated MacDonald clan. After lunch one day at the Victorian-era Fortingall Hotel, I wandered into the adjoining village cemetery and saw a yew tree that has stood for several thousand years, and under which, it is alleged, Pontius Pilate was born.
On a tour of Blair Atholl Castle — its gleaming white turrets rising against a backdrop of hills — I learned about the 19th-century Duke of Atholl, who, at one time, boasted Britain's only private army. The duke dispatched his army just once, in an effort to turn back a botanical expedition led by a certain Professor Balfour. He was unsuccessful, and the professor won the right to walk the area around the scenic Falls of Bruar in search of rare botanical specimens. In Fort Augustus, alongside Loch Ness, I didn't spot "Nessie," only three kayakers gently gliding through the loch's glassy water.
A safari and a sip or two
Scotland isn't the first place one thinks of for four-wheel-drive safaris to view animals in their natural habitats, but Highland Adventure Safaris offers that opportunity. Amid the majestic scenery of Highland Perthshire — called Europe's last wilderness — we boarded our Land Rovers and headed off in search of the Caledonian "big five:" grouse, mountain hare, red deer, golden eagle and red squirrel.
Colin and Andy, our kilted safari leaders, set up a high-powered telescope, allowing us a perfect view of three noble stags atop a rocky ledge. Afterward, they organized a Scotch tasting in a secluded mountainside cabin. You'd think that after a "wee dram" or two, I wouldn't have any trouble seeing things, but I have to confess I was the only one in our party who failed to spy the elusive snowy owl and the pine marten.
No trip to Scotland is complete without a distillery tour of its most famous product. The names roll off the tongue: Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Strathisla, Dalwhinnie, Talisker.
Edradour is probably not a name most Americans are familiar with, as barely 12 casks a week are produced by three men using the same recipe as their predecessors 150 years ago.
The distillery, nestled in a glen of the hills above Pitlochry in the Southern Highlands, can claim a number of distinctions: the smallest distillery in Scotland, both in footprint and distribution (it's the country's last remaining "farmhouse" distillery and produces as much in a year as the larger distilleries do in a week). The single malt, aged for 10 years after fermentation, is difficult to get in the United States today, but it allegedly did a brisk business during Prohibition.
Fine food, green practices
If you drive the scarily narrow road alongside Loch Voil in Trossachs National Park, you will arrive in Balquhidder Glen, where you could be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled upon a 21st-century Brigadoon. Unlike that legendary village, though, the Monachyle Mhor Hotel doesn't appear just one day every 100 years. Owned and operated by brothers Tom and Dick Lewis and their sister Melanie, it is just one facet of a family business that emphasizes sustainability and farm-to-table produce.
"Our aim is to provide the finest Scottish food and hospitality, whilst taking care of our spectacular surroundings," Tom Lewis says.
As a host, Tom welcomes the likes of Prince William (whose best mate from university lives in the area) and actor Gerard Butler, who likes to bring his mother here. As a businessman, he welcomes visitors to the area to drop by Mhorbread (a bakery, tearoom and shop) and Mhorfish (a combination fishmongers, restaurant and setting for his cookery classes) in the nearby village of Callander. And as a raconteur, he knows no equal. The man can tell a story. In this instance, the theme is that a country can be both glam and green.


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Iron is a key component of railway construction. The Central African Republic has significant reserves of iron ore, which, to date, have not been exploited.
That will change.
London-based businessman Saifee Durbar will span Africa, from Cameroon to Sudan, with a railway. It will go through the Central African Republic and make use of the nation's vast mineral resources. Saif Durbar says the railway will enhance Africa's self sufficiency and establish its role in global commerce-something started with the construction of the Suez Canal.
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The township has enacted and enforces the Zoning Ordinance and a group of Police Power ordinances. The Zoning ordinance is established and maintained by the Planning Commission and delineates the land use (zones) and building regulations. The Zoning ordinance follows from and is guided by the Grass Lake Charter Township Master Plan, which defines the overall land usage goals and objectives for the township. A zoning map, which defines the specific zoning for each township parcel, can be viewed by clicking on this Zoning Map link.
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