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By some measures, Penn State's home football game Saturday against the University of Nebraska was your typical Big Ten tilt. Beer chugging at the tailgates started bright and early. A group of diminutive Penn State students lugged around cases of Natural Light that outweighed them. Fans chanted "We Are Penn State!" as they walked towards the stadium.
But the signs of the surreal events that have engulfed Penn State over the past week – specifically the accusations of child sex abuse by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, charges that led to the ouster of both legendary football coach Joe Paterno and school president Graham Spanier – were clear. Start with the most alarming one. "Attention," said a sign that greeted the thousands of Penn State fans streaming into Beaver Stadium. "Penn State received an anonymous bomb threat Friday night (Nov. 11)." The warning went on to assure people that the police have investigated the stadium, and found nothing. Still, it was not entirely assuring.
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As for those "We Are Penn State!" chants? Some of them were in response to the protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church, the attention-mongering anti-gay group that pickets funerals and big events. A group of Westboro members gathered near the stadium. "God H8S JoePa" read one uninspiring sign. "You need to read the grand jury report," one of the Westboro picketers shouted. "It's only 23 pages!" The Penn State crowd largely ignored them. Good move.
The weirdest thing of all was that for the first time in 46 years, the little guy with the thick-glasses, the pope of State College and for some, all of Pennsylvania, wasn't leading the Nittany Lion football team onto the field. "I never, ever, ever, ever thought it would come to this," says Sam Komlenic, a Penn State alum who works for the school's public broadcasting station, while tailgating outside of the stadium three hours before kickoff. "Now here we are," he says. The crowd was more subdued at the new, still scarred Penn State. Dan Danckwerth, a freshman, noticed how a pre-game highlight reel that usually pumps up the crowd – it features many clips of Paterno – wasn't played. "It seems to be less active," Danckwerth said of the Penn State crowd, while walking in a stadium corridor during the third quarter. "Less … peppy."
The game started out on a very somber note: before kickoff, the Penn State public address announcer asked for a moment of silence to honor the alleged victims of Sandusky's abuse. A few moments later, players from Nebraska and Penn State met at midfield for a prayer. The crowd of 107,903 people – most rooting for Penn State – finally got frenzied when Penn State mounted a fourth quarter comeback. "Throw the f—–g ball!" yelled a former Penn State football player, one of dozens of lettermen on the sideline who showed up to support the program, during one futile drive. For a Penn Stater, hearing anger at the school for something other than Sandusky is refreshing.
(LIST: The Key Players in the Abuse Case)
Penn State's interim president, Rodney Erickson, admitted that he received messages urging him to cancel Saturday's game. "I personally felt that this was a time to play," Erickson says. "It was also a time we could recognize and bring national focus to the problem of sexual abuse. And to do so in a way that reflected unity, that reflected support, and that reflected the need to bring these issues out into the open."
The game did not turn into an angry pro-Paterno rally. Sure, Paterno had his pockets of support. There was plenty of Paterno gear: "Roll Up Your Pant Legs, This is JoePa's House," said one shirt. "Joe Knows Football" read another. Another Penn State alum wore a sweatshirt that featured Paterno's image, with the words "Get 'Em Out of Here" inscribed on the navy blue. Lawrence Czerpak, a management consultant from Washington, D.C. who graduated from Penn State in 2001, said he's was directing those words to the Board of Trustees that fired Paterno. If the president and Paterno goes, the board should go, Czerpak argues. "You've got to fight, for your right, for JoePa," Czerpak sung at passers-by during a pregame tailgate. One of his buddies had a Paterno mask.
Paterno's home, a modest ranch house near the stadium on one of those tree-lined streets where leaves pile up on the curb, was quiet before the game. (Paterno had said he would watch it on television). His house abuts a place called Sunset Park. Most people just walked by quietly, upset that the media was even there to gauge their emotions. A few tiptoed on Paterno's lawn to glimpse at the sign that someone put up. "Thank You, JoePa," it said. After strolling past Paterno's home Bill Lamont, a professor of vegetable crops at Penn State's Department of Horticulture, described his sadness. "Joe Paterno has given so much to the University," LaMont says. "His legacy is in the communities where the young men that he coached are productive citizens." LaMont felt like the Penn State board was overwhelmed by the media pressure, and should have let the school say goodbye. "I'd like to say thank you to him," says LaMont. "You need to say thank you for that commitment to the University. I'd love to give him a ticket, so we could sit together. He's a lot more than what transpired last week."
(PHOTOS: Riots Rock Penn State After Paterno's Firing)
Paterno wrote his team a letter, read aloud this week at a meeting, that essentially told the Nittany Lions players to stay focused, and take care of business against Nebraska. When asked what his thoughts were while hearing Paterno's words, Penn State tailback Stephfon Greeene said: "I can't remember. Everything was so messed up in my mind. It's so shocking. You don't get to say goodbye to him. You're not going to see him on the practice field, on the bus, on the plane. It is a big loss."
Yet a necessary one. And after learning to cheer without Paterno, maybe the school can finally move forward. Alex Nepa, 2001 Penn State alum partying under a tailgate tent that waved the Dixie flag – Nepa was quick to point out that he didn't put it up there – said that he loved going to Penn State football games where the coach was a living legend. Now, he's accepting new realities. "It's cool to see the school unite," Nepa says "It's almost like a Declaration of Independence from the Joe Paterno era."
Sean Gregory is a staff writer at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @seanmgregory. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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Cite as: Leyva v. National Default Servicing Corp.
127 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 40
July 7, 2011
No. 55216
Appeal from a district court order denying a petition for judicial review in a foreclosure mediation action. Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County; Donald M. Mosley, Judge.
Reversed and remanded.
Crosby & Associates and David M. Crosby and Troy S. Fox, Las Vegas, for Appellant.
Snell & Wilmer, LLP, and Gregory A. Brower and Cynthia Lynn Alexander, Las Vegas, for Respondents America's Servicing Company and Wells Fargo.
Wilde & Associates and Gregory L. Wilde, Las Vegas, for Respondent National Default Servicing Corp.
By the Court, HARDESTY, J.:
In this appeal, we consider issues arising out of Nevada's Foreclosure Mediation Program. First, we must determine whether a homeowner who is not the original mortgagor is a proper party to participate in the program. We conclude that the Foreclosure Mediation statute, NRS 107.086, and the Foreclosure Mediation Rules (FMRs) dictate that a homeowner, even if he or she is not the named mortgagor, is a proper party entitled to request mediation following a notice of default.
Second, we must determine if a party is considered to have complied with the applicable statute and FMRs governing document production in a mediation proceeding by producing what the district court referred to as "essential documents." In this, we address whether substantial compliance satisfies the mandates of the statute and FMRs. Because we conclude that strict compliance is compelled by NRS 107.086(4) and (5), that the assignment offered was defective, and that no endorsement of the mortgage note was provided according to Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code, we conclude that Wells Fargo failed to produce the documents required under NRS 107.086(4). Additionally, we recently concluded in Pasillas v. HSBC Bank USA, 127 Nev. ___, ___ P.3d ___ (Adv. Op. No. 39, July 7, 2011), that a party's failure to produce the enumerated documents required by NRS 107.086 and the FMRs prohibits the district court from directing the program administrator to certify the mediation so that the foreclosure process can proceed. Here, we again conclude that, due to the statute's and the FMRs' mandatory language regarding document production, a party is considered to have fully complied with the statute and rules only upon production of all documents required. Failure to do so is a sanctionable offense, and the district court is prohibited from allowing the foreclosure process to proceed. Therefore, we must reverse and remand this case to the district court for it to determine appropriate sanctions against respondents.[1]
Appellant Moises Leyva received and recorded a quitclaim deed in 2007 in exchange for taking over monthly mortgage payments on a residence in Las Vegas. Leyva did not expressly assume the mortgage note, however, and it remained in the original mortgagor's name, Michael Curtis Ramos. Nonetheless, Leyva made the mortgage payments in Leyva's name to respondent Wells Fargo's servicing company for 25 months. Thereafter, Leyva defaulted on the mortgage and, upon receiving a notice of election to sell, decided to pursue mediation through the Foreclosure Mediation Program. Both he and Ramos signed the form electing to mediate. The mediation occurred on September 23, 2009,[2] and Leyva, Ramos, and Wells Fargo were represented by counsel at the mediation. Leyva was present at the mediation, while Ramos was available by telephone. At the mediation, Wells Fargo produced a certified copy of the original deed of trust and mortgage note, on both of which MortgageIT, Inc., not Wells Fargo, was named as the lender, as well as a notarized statement from a Wells Fargo employee asserting that Wells Fargo was in possession of the deed of trust and mortgage note, as well as any assignments thereto. Wells Fargo did not submit copies of any assignments. The parties failed to resolve the foreclosure at the mediation, and the mediator's statement indicated that Wells Fargo failed to bring the statutorily required documents to the mediation. The mediator did not, however, indicate that Wells Fargo participated in the mediation in bad faith.
Leyva then filed a petition for judicial review in district court, claiming that Wells Fargo mediated in bad faith and that it should be sanctioned. After conducting hearings on the petition, the district court found that
there is a lack of showing of bad faith on the part of [Wells Fargo] in that all essential documents were provided, contrary to the indication of the mediator, and that [Wells Fargo] otherwise negotiated in good faith notwithstanding the fact that an agreement was not reached.
Absent timely appeal, a Letter of Certification shall enter.
(Emphasis added.) This appeal followed.[3]
In resolving this appeal, as a preliminary matter, we must determine whether Leyva could properly elect to mediate and participate in the mediation even though he was not a named party on the mortgage note and did not assume the note in his purchase of the residence. Determining that he could participate as the title holder of record, we next consider whether the district court erred in finding that Wells Fargo brought "all essential documents" to the mediation. In doing so, we address Wells Fargo's argument that possessing the original mortgage note and deed of trust is sufficient to demonstrate ownership of the same. We conclude that Wells Fargo failed to produce the documents required under the applicable statute and FMRs and to otherwise show that it had an enforceable interest in the property subject of the mediation. Accordingly, the district court abused its discretion, and sanctions are warranted pursuant to our holding in Pasillas, 127 Nev. at ___, ___ P.3d at ___.
Leyva was a proper party to the mediation
Wells Fargo first argues that because Leyva was neither the grantor on the deed of trust nor the obligor on the note, he was not a proper party to the mediation. We disagree.
NRS 107.086(3) allows "[t]he grantor or the person who holds the title of record" to elect to mediate. (Emphasis added.) Similarly, FMR 5(1) states that "any grantor or person who holds the title of record and is the owner-occupant of a residence" is eligible to participate in the Foreclosure Mediation Program. (Emphasis added.) Leyva recorded his ownership of the subject property in March 2007 and is therefore clearly the title holder of record eligible to participate in the Foreclosure Mediation Program.
Even though the mortgage note remained in Ramos's name, this bifurcation of title ownership and liability on the note served only to potentially limit the foreclosure solutions available to Leyva at the mediation, not to exclude all possible remedies. And while Wells Fargo argues that modification was not an option because Leyva lacked authority over the loan, the record reflects that Ramos, the person with such authority, signed the election-of-mediation form, was represented by counsel at the mediation, and was available by telephone during the mediation. Therefore, Wells Fargo's argument lacks merit. Regardless, because both NRS 107.086(3) and FMR 5(1) permit the person holding the title of record to mediate, and Wells Fargo does not dispute that Leyva possessed a valid, recorded quitclaim deed, we conclude that Leyva could properly elect to mediate and was eligible to participate in the Foreclosure Mediation Program.
Wells Fargo failed to meet the mediation program's documentation requirements, compelling consideration of sanctions
In Pasillas, we held that if a party fails to (1) provide the required documents, or (2) either attend the mediation in person or, if the beneficiary attends through a representative, that person fails to have authority to modify the loan or access to such a person, the district court is required to impose appropriate sanctions. 127 Nev. at ___, ___ P.3d at ___. Here, despite Wells Fargo's failure to bring the assignments for the mortgage note and deed of trust, the district court refused to impose sanctions.[4] "[W]e . . . review a district court's decision regarding the imposition of sanctions for a party's participation in the Foreclosure Mediation Program under an abuse of discretion standard." Id.
Wells Fargo concedes that it did not provide written assignments of the deed of trust and mortgage note as required by NRS 107.086(4) and FMR 5(6). Nevertheless, it argues that it fulfilled the purpose of the statute and rule, and thus, its failure to bring actual copies of any assignments was harmless. In essence, Wells Fargo asserts that its failure to strictly comply with the statute's and FMRs' requirements should not subject it to sanctions, because it substantially complied with those requirements.
"Substantial compliance may be sufficient 'to avoid harsh, unfair or absurd consequences.' Under certain procedural statutes and rules, however, failure to strictly comply . . . can be fatal to a case." Leven v. Frey, 123 Nev. 399, 407, 168 P.3d 712, 717 (2007) (quoting 3 Norman J. Singer, Statutes and Statutory Construction § 57:19, at 58 (6th ed. 2001)). To determine whether a statute and rule require strict compliance or substantial compliance, this court looks at the language used and policy and equity considerations. Id. at 406-07, 168 P.3d at 717. In so doing, we examine whether the purpose of the statute or rule can be adequately served in a manner other than by technical compliance with the statutory or rule language. See id. at 407 n.27, 168 P.3d at 717 n.27 (citing White v. Prince George's County, 877 A.2d 1129, 1137 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2005) ("Where the purpose of the notice requirements is fulfilled, but not necessarily in a manner technically compliant with all of the terms of the statute, this Court has found such substantial compliance to satisfy the statute." (internal quotation omitted))).
Here, both the statutory language and that of the FMRs provide that the beneficiary "shall" bring the enumerated documents, and we have previously recognized that "'shall' is mandatory unless the statute demands a different construction to carry out the clear intent of the legislature." S.N.E.A. v. Daines, 108 Nev. 15, 19, 824 P.2d 276, 278 (1992); see also Pasillas, 127 Nev. at ___, ___ P.3d at ___. The legislative intent behind requiring a party to produce the assignments of the deed of trust and mortgage note is to ensure that whoever is foreclosing "actually owns the note" and has authority to modify the loan. See Hearing on A.B. 149 Before the Joint Comm. on Commerce and Labor, 75th Leg. (Nev., February 11, 2009) (testimony of Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley). Thus, we determine that NRS 107.086 and the FMRs necessitate strict compliance.
Because we conclude that strict compliance is necessary, we must discuss what constitutes a valid assignment of deeds of trust and mortgage notes. Transfers of deeds of trust and mortgage notes are distinctly separate, thus we discuss each one in turn.
The deed of trust, with any assignments, identifies the person who is foreclosing
In this case, Wells Fargo was not the original named beneficiary on the deed of trust, but it contends on appeal that it has the right to foreclose as the assignee of the original beneficiary, MortgageIT. Although Wells Fargo conceded during oral argument that it did not provide the written assignment, it claims that because it provided a certified copy of the deed of trust and a notarized statement from its employee claiming that it was the rightful owner of the deed of trust, no written assignment was necessary. We disagree.
A deed of trust is an instrument that "secure[s] the performance of an obligation or the payment of any debt." NRS 107.020. This court has previously held that a deed of trust "constitutes a conveyance of land as defined by NRS 111.010."[5] Ray v. Hawkins, 76 Nev. 164, 166, 350 P.2d 998, 999 (1960). The statute of frauds governs when a conveyance creates or assigns an interest in land:
No estate or interest in lands, . . . nor any trust or power over or concerning lands, or in any manner relating thereto, shall be created, granted, assigned, surrendered or declared . . . , unless . . . by deed or conveyance, in writing, subscribed by the party creating, granting, assigning, surrendering or declaring the same, or by the party's lawful agent thereunto authorized in writing.
NRS 111.205(1) (emphases added). Thus, to prove that MortgageIT properly assigned its interest in land via the deed of trust to Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo needed to provide a signed writing from MortgageIT demonstrating that transfer of interest. No such assignment was provided at the mediation or to the district court, and the statement from Wells Fargo itself is insufficient proof of assignment. Absent a proper assignment of a deed of trust, Wells Fargo lacks standing to pursue foreclosure proceedings against Leyva.
Mortgage note
The proper method of transferring the right to payment under a mortgage note is governed by Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code- Negotiable Instruments, because a mortgage note is a negotiable instrument.[6] Birkland v. Silver State Financial Services, Inc., No. 2:10-CV-00035-KJD-LRL, 2010 WL 3419372, at *4 (D. Nev. Aug. 25, 2010). The obligor on the note has the right to know the identity of the entity that is "entitled to enforce" the mortgage note under Article 3, see NRS 104.3301, "[o]therwise, the [homeowner] may pay funds to a stranger in the case." In re Veal, No. 09-14808, 2011 WL 2304200, at *16 (B.A.P. 9th Cir. June 10, 2011) (holding, in a bankruptcy case, that AHMSI did not prove that it was the party entitled to enforce, and receive payments from, a mortgage note because it "presented no evidence as to who possessed the original Note. It also presented no evidence showing [e]ndorsement of the note either in its favor or in favor of Wells Fargo, for whom AHMSI allegedly was servicing the [bankrupt party's] Loan."). If the homeowner pays funds to a "stranger in the case," then his or her obligation on the note would not be reduced by the payments made. See id. at *7 ("if a[n obligor on a mortgage note] makes a payment to a 'person entitled to enforce,' the obligation is satisfied on a dollar for dollar basis, and the [obligor] never has to pay that amount again").
Wells Fargo argues that, under Nevada law, possession of the original note allowed it to enforce the note. We disagree and take this opportunity to clarify the applicability of Article 3 to mortgage notes, as we anticipate increasing participation in the Foreclosure Mediation Program, as well as a corresponding increase in the number of foreclosure appeals in this state. As discussed below, we conclude that Article 3 clearly requires Wells Fargo to demonstrate more than mere possession of the original note to be able to enforce a negotiable instrument under the facts of this case.
Pursuant to NRS 104.3102(1), Article 3 applies to negotiable instruments. Negotiable instruments are defined as
an unconditional promise or order to pay a fixed amount of money, with or without interest or other charges described in the promise or order, if it:
(a) Is payable to bearer or to order at the time it is issued or first comes into possession of a holder;
(b) Is payable on demand or at a definite time; and
(c) Does not state any other undertaking or instruction by the person promising or ordering payment to do any act in addition to the payment of money.
NRS 104.3104(1). Thus, a mortgage note is a negotiable instrument, and any negotiation of a mortgage note must be done in accordance with Article 3.
A note can be made payable to bearer or payable to order. NRS 104.3109. If the note is payable to bearer, that "indicates that the person in possession of the promise or order is entitled to payment." NRS 104.3109(1)(a). However, "[a] promise or order that is not payable to bearer is payable to order if it is payable to the order of an identified person . . . . A promise or order that is payable to order is payable to the identified person." NRS 104.3109(2).
For a note in order form to be enforceable by a party other than to whom the note is originally payable, the note must be either negotiated or transferred.[7] A "'[n]egotiation' means a transfer of possession, whether voluntary or involuntary, of an instrument by a person other than the issuer to a person who thereby becomes its holder." NRS 104.3201(1). "[I]f an instrument is payable to an identified person, negotiation requires transfer of possession of the instrument and its endorsement by the holder."[8] NRS 104.3201(2) (emphasis added). An "endorsement" is a signature that is "made on an instrument for the purpose of negotiating the instrument." NRS 104.3204(1). Thus, if the note is payable to the order of an identifiable party, but is then sold or otherwise assigned to a new party, it must be endorsed by the party to whom it was originally payable for the note to be considered properly negotiated to the new party. Once a proper negotiation occurs, the new party, or "note holder," with possession is entitled to enforce the note. NRS 104.1201(2)(u)(1) ("Holder means . . . [t]he person in possession of a negotiable instrument that is payable either to bearer or to an identified person that is the person in possession.").
If a party cannot attain "holder" status by showing a valid negotiation, the party may establish its right to enforce the note by showing that the note has been validly transferred. NRS 104.3203(2). The only distinction between a negotiation and a transfer is that, in the case of a transfer, the note need not be endorsed by the party who is relinquishing enforcement rights. Because a transferred note is not endorsed, however, the party seeking to establish its right to enforce the note "must account for possession of the unendorsed instrument by proving the transaction through which the transferee acquired it." U.C.C. § 3-203 cmt. 2 (explaining the effect of § 3-203(b), codified in Nevada as NRS 104.3203(2)). In other words, because the party seeking to enforce the note cannot "prove" its right to enforce through the use of a valid endorsement, the party must "prove" by some other means that it was given possession of the note for the purpose of enforcing it.[9]
In this case, the adjustable rate mortgage note provides: "In return for a loan that I have received, I promise to pay U.S. $192,000.00 . . . plus interest, to the order of Lender. Lender is [MortgageIT, Inc.]" (emphasis added). Because the mortgage note is payable to the order of a specific party, MortgageIT, to negotiate the note to a new party, in this case Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo must have possession of the note and the note must be properly endorsed by MortgageIT. See NRS 104.3201(2). No such endorsement was included in the documents produced at mediation or in the documents filed with the district court, nor was a valid assignment produced as proof of the note's transfer, and mere possession does not entitle Wells Fargo to enforce the note. Therefore, because the mortgage note is payable to MortgageIT, unless Wells Fargo can prove that the note was properly endorsed or validly transferred, thereby making it the party entitled to enforce the note, it has not demonstrated authority to mediate the note.
As we concluded in Pasillas, a foreclosing party's failure to bring the required documents to the mediation is a sanctionable offense under NRS 107.086 and the FMRs. Therefore, we conclude that the district court abused its discretion when it denied Leyva's petition for judicial review. Accordingly, we reverse the district court's order and remand this matter to the district court with instructions to determine the appropriate sanctions for Wells Fargo's violation of the statutory and rule-based requirement. In doing so, the district court should consider the factors discussed in Pasillas.[10]
DOUGLAS, C.J., and CHERRY, SAITTA, GIBBONS, PICKERING, and PARRAGUIRRE, JJ., concur.
[1] Because we reverse on other grounds, we do not reach Leyva's contention that respondent Wells Fargo also participated in the mediation in bad faith because it refused to offer anything other than a cash-for-keys option to avoiding foreclosure.
[2] Therefore, this mediation was governed by the Foreclosure Mediation Rules in effect from July 31, 2009, until September 28, 2009, at which time the rules were amended. See In the Matter of the Adoption of Rules for Foreclosure Mediation, ADKT 435 (Order Adopting Foreclosure Mediation Rules, June 30, 2009, and Order Amending Foreclosure Mediation Rules and Adopting Forms, September 28, 2009). Although the changes required some renumbering of the rules, the language of the rules important to this case, namely, those specifying who can participate in the mediation and the documents that must be provided, remain essentially the same.
[3] This court has jurisdiction over the appeal from the district court's final order in the judicial review proceeding. Nev. Const. art. 6, § 4; NRAP 3A(b)(1).
[4] At the time the district court entered its order, the Pasillas opinion had not been published.
[5] "'Conveyance' shall be construed to embrace every instrument in writing, except a last will and testament, whatever may be its form, and by whatever name it may be known in law, by which any estate or interest in lands is created, aliened, assigned or surrendered." NRS 111.010(1).
[6] Article 3 is codified in NRS 104.3101-.3605.
[7] Since the documents provided at the mediation did not establish transfer of either the mortgage or the note, we express no opinion on the issue addressed in the Restatement (Third) of Property section 5.4 concerning the effect on the mortgage of the note having been transferred or the reverse.
[8] Under NRS 104.3301(1)(a), a person entitled to enforce an instrument is "[t]he holder of the instrument."
[9] To "prove" a transaction under NRS 104.3203(2), a party must present evidence sufficient to establish that it is more likely than not that the transaction took place. NRS 104.3103(1)(i) (defining "prove"); NRS 104.1201(h) (defining "burden of establishing").
[10] In Pasillas, we concluded that the following nonexhaustive list of factors would aid district courts in determining what sanctions are appropriate: "whether the violations were intentional, the amount of prejudice to the nonviolating party, and the violating party's willingness to mitigate any harm by continuing meaningful negotiation." Pasillas v. HSBC Bank USA, 127 Nev. ___, ___, ___ P.3d ___, ___ (Adv. Op. No. 39, July 7, 2011).
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A Cook County judge today refused to lower bond for one of seven teenagers charged with beating and robbing a 17-year-old high school student in a South Side alley in a videotaped attack that went viral on the Internet.
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Judge Sandra Ramos denied the request to lower the bond or to release Palomino on electronic monitoring.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11578432/Creationism-still-taught-in-faith-schools-despite-Government-funding-threat.htmlYet a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests show that 54 private schools are still being funded by local authorities, while continuing to teach that the Earth began with Adam and Eve.
Only 14 of the 91 schools teaching creationism have had their funding withdrawn, an investigation by the British Humanist Association revealed.
The campaign group also found that some faith schools' science departments were teaching pupils to identify what happened on each of the days of the creation.
The curriculum of one group of religious schools reads: "Creation stories give a holistic image of the origins of the earth, plants, animals and human beings."
In another, it says that 'The Darwinian mechanism delivers clarifying power within a certain range of phenomena, but it is rooted in reductionist thinking and Victorian ethics and young people need to emerge from school with a clear sense of its limits.'
The article mentions both Christian Schools Trust and Accelerated Christian Education schools as being among the culprits but gives no indication of how they have obtained state funding in the first place. i shall have to look for the original report on the BHA site.
Interestingly, the creationists get much less of a kicking in the Telegraph comments than i have seen after similar items on the Mail site. One commenter getting away with dismissing evolution is a polycommenter common on the Telegraph and Guardian sites, one "Slobberdan" who seems handy with the cut and paste. He refers to the work of "Harry" - actually Barry - Hall of Rochester university who seems to have his work appropriated by the usual creationist suspects. Acutally Hall seems to be a perfectly respectable evolutionary biologist, judging by a press release from his university: http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=1555
Harry for Barry might be a typo, but Slobberdan's confusion of haemophilia with sickle-cell anaemia in conferring resistance to malaria is less excusable. Even so, it might be worth looking at Hall's work to make sure that the creationists are indeed misrepresenting it.
The BHA link is here https://humanism.org.uk/2015/05/02/bha-reveals-creationist-private-schools-continue-to-receive-state-funds-through-nurseries-despite-government-ban/
It's the rather old story that the schools are getting funds through what is, in effect, aoucher scheme for nursery funding. The BHA says that this was officially stopped for creationist schools last year.


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Jerry Brown, why is it so hard? Democrats, why can't you do it? Republicans, what's so special about fiscal discipline?
I just balanced the budget, all by myself, right now. Heck, I balanced it with a $6 billion surplus.
Of course, I didn't have to negotiate with anyone or win any votes. All I had to do was take the California Budget Challenge, put together by the nonprofit Next 10.
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The challenge tool was just updated to allow you to go on-line and face all the same budget choices that confront the state right now.
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I balanced the budget by protecting education, while cutting social services and raising taxes. The budget challenge didn't give me a choice, but I would have put my entire surplus in a rainy day fund that couldn't be touched for at least two years. The state should build up a rainy day fund of 20 percent in advance of the next recession.
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Men's shorts are OK. (Women's shorts are also OK, but they are much more obviously OK, and not what we are talking about.) Summers get hot around this part of the solar system; why swaddle those vast swaths of leg-skin behind fabric when you could use them, sensibly, to radiate your body's internal (and rising) heat?
Shorts of a reasonable length—hemmed somewhere in the near-vicinity of the knee, that is to say—embody a neat compromise: between society's understandable preference for not exposing our tender eyeballs to the horror of the male buttock any more than absolutely necessary, on the one hand, and our also very understandable preference for not sweltering to death on the other. When the weather is hot, people should wear shorts. Men should wear shorts.
The suit, on the other hand... OK, it has its uses. As determinedly punctilious display of formality, it works! And, hey, that's not nothing: Sometimes you want your dress to express reverence and propriety—at a wedding, say, or a funeral, or an interview for a Serious Grown-Up Job. When you want your clothing to say I am concerned with observance of etiquette and convention, and thus may be trusted with the nuclear launch codes. It's good for that. Good for the suit.
But, here's the thing about formality: The very particular thing it signifies is prioritization of etiquette over comfort. This is what makes it formality. All those buttons and collars and tie knots and lapels, the ironing and starching and tucking and tying: These things exist not because they produce comfort (quite the opposite!), but because they're elaborate-looking. Our dipshit forebears created an agglomeration of fine details to get right, involving layers upon layers of expensive fabric, so that by possessing all of that fabric and getting the details of its arrangement right, a man could signify the class status that privileged him with the knowledge of how to get those details right, as well as the wealth to afford specialized formalwear, and, possibly, the personal attendants to assist him in putting it on (and/or receive a merciless flogging for sending him forth into the evening with an insufficiently starched collar).
Class-warfare ramifications aside (fuck suits!), you can see that this puts the suit at precise odds with shorts. Shorts embody a choice of comfort over fanciness (even when they look OK, as they do on dudes with toned calves and slim ankles); the suit, by its design, says I have chosen to be uncomfortable for the sake of propriety.
Do not make the intellectual error of thinking that a suit with shorts represents a compromise between formality and comfort. For one thing, the pants are the least-formal part of a suit; all the mannered discomfort is in the upper half, and none of it is mitigated by the inclusion of shorts. For another, comfort is anathema to formality; like Harry Potter and Voldemort, the two simply cannot compromise with each other. A suit with shorts is a "compromise" between formality and comfort like black silk Zubaz pants are a "compromise" between formality and comfort: not. Not a compromise.
No, the suit-with-shorts is a getup at fundamental odds with itself. It signifies a wearer who wishes to reserve for himself the class status signified by formality, but also the indifference to class status signified by the choice of comfort over decorum. It signifies a dipshit.
Which, actually, there's something kind of perfect about that, because it also just kinda makes you look like a fucking dipshit. Like Little Lord Fauntleroy. It is a bad look for bad people with bad clothing opinions.
Don't wear a suit with shorts. Thank you.
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Are Taxes Causing the Rich to Renounce Their Citizenship?
According to the latest Internal Revenue Service report, the number of Americans renouncing their U.S. citizenship (or terminating their long-term permanent residency) has increased nearly ninefold since 2008.
n the first quarter alone, 499 Americans expatriated through the IRS, meaning they probably won't have to pay U.S. taxes anymore, according to data that first appeared on Andrew Mitchel's International Tax Blog. That compares with a quarterly average of 384 in 2010. And 2010 marked a significant jump from 2009 and 2008, with quarterly averages of 186 and 58, respectively.
These are small numbers of course. With 300 million Americans, 499 expatriates is hardly a drop in the ocean. Yet the trend is almost a straight line up.
Why is this happening?
The IRS doesn't tell us why people expatriate, or who they are or where they go. Lawyers say most are wealthy Americans who have expatriated to all manner of countries.
One argument is that they are leaving because of President Obama and the nation's leaders.
"There is growing concern, particularly among the wealthy, about the future financial direction of the country," said Paul L. Caron, Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. "This President constantly demonizes the wealthy, who undoubtedly are concerned about the tax policy that would emerge in 2012 if a re-elected Barack Obama, unconstrained by re-election concerns, finally confronts the budgetary train wreck that he has done so much to exacerbate."
Other attorneys who specialize in helping the Americans expatriate say the reason is that the IRS is cracking down on overseas bank accounts and offshore income. There is a population of U.S. citizens who live overseas and may never have paid U.S. taxes on their non-U.S. earnings and non-U.S. accounts. Now that the IRS is enforcing the rules, with criminal penalties for scofflaws, the overseas residents would prefer to expatriate rather than pay.
"I think this is coming to the forefront because of offshore reporting and banker reporting issues," said Peter Connors, a tax attorney in New York. "there is a price to being a citizen of the U.S. and at a certain point the price may not be worth it."
Whatever the case, the numbers are clearly headed in the wrong direction.
Why do you think Americans are expatriating?


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In the latest episode of MicroBite, The Register's software editor Gavin Clarke and All-About-Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley look at how Microsoft will be screwing up the dynamics of multiple families for the rest of the year.
From May onwards, Microsoft is going to be dishing up enough preview code for testing that you won't need to find a reason to put a screen between you and your loved ones. That is if the loved ones in your life are the family and not the zeroes and ones coming out of Redmond.
Getting in your sunscreen this year: Visual Studio 2010 beta one, the Office 2010 community technology preview, SharePoint 2010, and early releases not just of the next SQL Server, but also the big-iron appliance edition called Madison. Testing might be about as close as you come to Madison, though: Before Microsoft bought the technology it needed for Madison with the DATAllegro acquisition last year, a DataAllegro appliance cost $1.1m for 15TB of storage, and required dual-socket and fibre-channel computing power. Maybe Office 2010 is more up your alley, even though it is running late and Microsoft can't possibly add anything more to Office. Can it?
When you're done with that, and with the summer a memory, let your thoughts turn to the falling leaves of autumn and long nights of winter. Windows 7 is now coming later this year, Microsoft has admitted, although the company looks like it'll lose another generation to Apple thanks to timing. Unless Microsoft plans to shake up the usual cycle and go for a Windows-Vista-style phased introduction that puts netbooks into the hands of the kids this September instead of October.
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Join the hospital for a silent auction and physician exhibit while enjoying a signature cocktail, then proceed to a dinner featuring a fashion show by Belk highlighting breast cancer survivors. Attendees will enjoy keynote speakers Heidi Marble and Jen Curfman, telling their story Skin Tight Genes. Heidi was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, which is rare and aggressive.
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England bowlers struggle against Haryana in warm-up tie
Haryana responded strongly to England XI's mammoth first innings total of 521 by reaching 172-4 by stumps on the second day of their four-day practice match on Friday.
England's back-up bowlers were made to sweat by Haryana's unheralded batsmen on the second day of the four-day match in Ahmedabad on Friday.
The tourists, who revelled on the slow pitch to pile up 521 in their first innings, also found wickets hard to come as the state side cruised to 172-4 by stumps.
Opener Rahul Dewan was unbeaten on 77 and Sunny Singh made 55, the pair making light of England's attack with a 97-run partnership for the second wicket.
Tim Bresnan claimed 2-47, but pacemen Stuart Meaker and Graham Onions went wicketless on a day when play was held up briefly as a monkey ran across the outfield.
England were without four frontline bowlers, including the rested James Anderson, for the final warm-up game before the first Test that opens in the same city on November 15.
Pace bowlers Stuart Broad and Steven Finn are recovering from injuries, while off-spinner Graeme Swann has flown home to attend to his sick daughter.
The tourists added 113 in the morning session after resuming at 408-3 before they were all out at the stroke of lunch.
All-rounder Samit Patel made 67, continuing his good form on the tour which had fetched him 104 and 60 in the previous two warm-up matches.
Ian Bell scored 62 and Matt Prior smashed 41 off 36 balls before England lost their last five wickets for 14 runs attempting to push the scoring.
Leg-spinner Amit Mishra, the lone international in Haryana's team, and off-break bowler Jayant Yadav picked up four wickets each.
Brief scores:
England 1st innings: 521 (Alastair Cook 97, Nick Compton 74, Kevin Pietersen 110 retired out, Ian Bell 62, Samit Patel 67, Matt Prior 41, Amit Mishra 4-67, Jayant Yadav 4-110)
Haryana 1st innings: 172-4 (Rahul Dewan 77 not out, Sunny Singh 55, Tim Bresnan 2-47, Monty Panesar 1-32, Samit Patel 1-15)
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
My 30th Birthday Weekend
The rest of the weekend was awesome too- on Friday Andy flew in from Seattle so we (Anita, Andy and myself) went to dinner at LGO, then went back to Andy's room at the Hotel Valley Ho and ate way too many sweets. It was a late night filled with girl talking and fun, and it was the best way to kick off my birthday weekend.
The next morning I woke up and got a good workout in, then headed over to the nail salon with my sister to meet up with all the girls. We all got mani/pedis then headed over to The Phoenician. We spent the whole day out by the pool, lounging on chairs on the lawn, enjoying summery drinks (they have a great strawberry banana smoothie) and talking for hours. It was so much fun, and especially awesome because a few of my girlfriends had yet to meet until that afternoon! After our day in the sun we all went back to our rooms to get ready, then met up in Shirley and Alana's room for a mini-celebration before dinner. The girls gave me some of the sweetest gifts, and we enjoyed some Sprinkles cupcakes and other treats while we hung out and talked for awhile.
We did dinner at Citizen Public House and because it was Restaurant Week they had a special menu featured. I got the corn salad (delicious), chicken, and ended the meal with a "coffee and doughnuts" bread pudding. All of it was excellent. Afterward we went back to the hotel, hung out for a bit more, then went to sleep.
Sunday was full of friends and fun- Pita Jungle and Rita's with friends, a birthday celebration for our friend Danny at Thai Basil, quality time with my sweet Erin, and some great family time with my parents.
On Monday Hank and I shopped in the morning so I could pick out some birthday goodies, then came back to my parents' and celebrated with them. They of course made a huge deal (see below for the silly "Over The Hill" caution tape they made me walk through), and it was really wonderful. And then we ended our whirlwind long weekend by seeing our friends Broadway Calls play a show at Chaser's. They played so much old stuff, and I was the happiest birthday girl in the entire world to spend the last hours of my twenties seeing one of my favorite bands, enjoying Shirley Temples, and hanging out with some of my oldest and dearest friends.
I couldn't imagine a better start to a new decade. Thank you to Hank, Shirley and Autumn for planning such a wonderful weekend and all of my girlfriends for making me feel so special, whether they were there in person or sent love via flowers (Emily!) or phonecalls. I love you!
And thank YOU all so much for all of your sweet birthday wishes here on this blog, Twitter, humoring me as I over-Instagrammed the past couple of days, and always being so sweet. I feel lucky to have all of you in my life too.
Here are a million photos from the entire weekend, mainly taken with my iPhone. Enjoy!
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- Courtney KlemmeMay 30, 2012 at 9:28 PM
Aww! Happy Birthday! It looks like you had the best time! Congrats!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday gorgeous lady! It looks like you had the most wonderful birthday weekend - so special! xo much love!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday! You make 30 look good!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 30, 2012 at 11:17 PM
Happy 30th!!! Looks like it was terrific:)ReplyDelete
Looks and sounds like an amazing weekend. Happy Birthday! xReplyDelete
Those look like some really lovely ladies!ReplyDelete
You look so happy! :D I love the pics!
Oh so glad you had such an amazing birthday day weekend!!ReplyDelete
I adore every single one of your dresses your are wearing! You look great!
Amy xo
Oh too gorgeous!! What a divine special birthday weekend.. so much fun! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY.. I love your blog.. it's the only one I look forward to reading each day. Lots of love from South Africa xReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures and post. Happy birthday :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous. Amazing. Perfect.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing your 30th birthday weekend pics, it lookes like the most fun ever. You are so lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful people. Happy Birthday!
- AnonymousMay 31, 2012 at 6:40 AM
First of all, it sounds like your birthday weekend was perfect. Second, I am jealous that you own SO many adorable dresses. Third, my brother is in a band called The Menzingers and they've played with Broadway Calls many times! Have you ever heard of them?ReplyDelete
xo, Sarah
You, my friend, know how to party!! Happy 30th!ReplyDelete
You look fabulous! Glad your celebration was everything you hoped for.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday!! It looks like you had an amazing birthday weekend! I absolutely love the dress you wore to your birthday dinner :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 31, 2012 at 7:48 AM
That looks like such a fun birthday weekend :) I've been following along via instagram!!! I'd love to get away with all my girlfriends on my 30th. Such a great idea! I'd love to be laying out by that pool right now ;) ♥LindsayReplyDelete
what a beautiful weekend! looks perfect, all of you ladies look amazing! happy birthday danielle :)ReplyDelete
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What a fun weekend!!! I have to say, I am pretty jealous, I have wanted to stay at the Valley Ho for years! :-)ReplyDelete
Happy birthday lady! Love your blog! And I wish you a lot of happiness in the years to come!ReplyDelete
yay! Happy Birthday! Love that stripey white dressReplyDelete
Happy birthday! I'm a recent new follower of your blog, and I have to say that all of your lovely posts never fail to make me smile. It looks like you had an amazing birthday weekend, and you and all of your friends look absolutely gorgeous! (Also I love that pink dress! Where is it from?)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 31, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Now THIS is how you spend a birthday!!! It sounds like it was full of happiness and love. :)ReplyDelete
Looks like you had a great birthday filled with everything necessary! Happy (late) Birthday! :)ReplyDelete
Wow, 30?! You don't look it. It looks like you had an awesome birthday. Happy late birthday! :)ReplyDelete
Looks like a fantastic birthday weekend, Danielle! Your pictures are beautiful :)ReplyDelete
Wow. You are one loved lady.ReplyDelete
I loved seeing your instagram photos of the weekend and love these. It looks like you had a blast! Happy belated birthday!ReplyDelete
happy birthday! such a fun weekend : ) beautiful photos !ReplyDelete
gahhh this looks like it was the perfect birthday weekend ever! Happy Birthday! I love that scalloped dress and omg you are making me want thigh tattoos. There is no way they would half as good on me though lol.ReplyDelete
Happy birthday Danielle! Looks like a fantastic weekend. Makes me think I should start planning my own 30th in November!!ReplyDelete
LOVE this post!!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIELLE!!!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday, Danielle! Your celebrating looks like so much fun. I love all of your outfits too!ReplyDelete
Where did you get your coral scalloped dress and the striped shift?! They're adorable!ReplyDelete
It seem you had a great day. Love those photos and it feels like I'm part of it. Belated!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh that blue/white dress is SO CUTE!! Where did you get it? You're definitely going to have to start labeling your flickr photos with the info :DReplyDelete
Glad you had an awesome weekend!!! The pictures are great. Oh. And ice cream cake was an awesome option.ReplyDelete
I don't think I ever really got to say Happy birthday!! I've had this idea for a gift forever and I'm sending it out this weekend. 30 is a big deal! You had a beautiful celebration and i can't wait to see how fabulous 30 is!ReplyDelete
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The American warfighter and our national security are not the only victims of this first, drastic result of the 2011 Budget Control Act. The budget released today takes direct aim at the first wave of 350,000 aerospace and defense workers who will be out of work if Congress does not find a solution to the sequestration trigger being pulled in 321 days. In the mean time, hundreds of companies that together form the "defense industrial base" have already begun to downsize in response to the cuts already enacted.
And lest we forget, sequestration-driven budget cuts will most certainly hit the FAA and NASA as well. More aerospace companies and workers in all 50 states will share the pain of those 350,000 employees projected to be jobless following a $1 trillion cut to the defense budget.
The solution to our country's budget crisis does not lie in further indiscriminate cuts to defense that put our country at risk and will throw hundreds of thousands of skilled workers out of their jobs. The solution does not lie in reversing progress toward safer, more efficient air travel made through investments to date in the FAA's NextGen air traffic management system. And renting Russian rockets to take American astronauts into space sends American space jobs offshore and poses an immediate threat to our country's goal of maintaining a space program that is second to none in the world.
There is no rocket science to finding the only solution to America's budget crisis. Reform of entitlement programs and current tax policies are the only answers to a multi-trillion dollar budget deficit. The notion that adequate spending on our country's defense, infrastructure and future in space is in any way "discretionary" is, simply put, dangerous.
The one-million aerospace and defense workers in America are proud, patriotic, well-educated and highly skilled. As the election season heats up, current and aspiring members of Congress will face these one-million voters who demand an answer to the central question of today's budget crisis – are those we elect to office prepared to make the tough decisions on realistic, long-term budget reform? The thousands of aerospace and defense workers who find themselves out of work this year as a result of the budget crisis will undoubtedly be the first to demand an answer.
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Be warned that SPOILERS are unavoidable in the following discussion and I have not avoided them.
Alex Nicol's THE SCREAMING SKULL, for which I could find very little love to reward my Googling, strikes me as a film ripe for renewed appreciation - not as a horror classic, by any means, but rather as an extremely modest film of skilled parentage that succeeds in creating something pleasurably eerie within its very limited means.
Actor Alex Nicol conceived the six-week independent production as a career boost. After working nearly a decade onscreen - starting out as a Universal contract player in George Sherman's THE SLEEPING CITY (1950), being loaned out for the Hammer noirs THE BLACK GLOVE and HEAT WAVE (both 1954), and several years after having given an outstanding performance as Donald Crisp's deranged son in Anthony Mann's THE MAN FROM LARAMIE (1955) - Nicol felt that he wasn't receiving offers that were equal to his abilities. So he had the idea to make a low-budget film, in a popular genre that was all but guaranteed to make money, which might encourage those in his business to regard him with renewed seriousness. It is clear from the end product that he had studied the way Roger Corman had gone about his own early successes. THE SCREAMING SKULL was released to theaters in January 1958 on an American International double bill with TERROR FROM YEAR 5000 - a film in which, incidentally, Corman himself had invested though not officially; it isn't known whether this was also true of Nicol's film. The double bill didn't win much in the way of critical favor, but it was considered a commercial success. Even so, it didn't result in the professional sea change Nicol had anticipated.
As it happens, THE SCREAMING SKULL became one of those movies that frequently appeared on local television in my pre-teen years, during the mid-1960s, when horror pickings were so scarce that anything even remotely related to the genre tended to get watched again and again, sometimes more out of devotion and gratitude than real enthusiasm. Nevertheless, it was a movie I always liked; the story was simple enough for me to follow from an early age, and its modest, offbeat scares were genuinely creepy.
On television, of course, whatever suspense the film generated was periodically punctured by commercial interruptions. And then, after the introduction of home video, this ambitious little film fell into the public domain, surfacing in a succession of dupey releases that made it a literal eyesore. As time went on, the simple act of trying to watch THE SCREAMING SKULL became its own worst discouragement.
So I was intrigued to discover the film on Amazon Prime's horror roster, available free to all members. Wondering if their presentation might mark any improvement over what has been generally the standard for the last 35 years, I pressed "Watch Now" - and was delighted to see an Orion logo preceding a perfectly crisp transfer - by far, the very best quality I had ever seen! The film ended 67m 28s later with the MGM lion, marking it as being of still more recent vintage than the Orion tag suggested. This same transfer, I'm told, sneaked out on DVD last spring through Shout! Factory's economy label Timeless Media as part of a "Movies 4 U" package along with THE VAMPIRE (1957), THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970) and THE BAT PEOPLE (1973), priced at only $5.99, but Stephen R. Bissette tells me that this good-looking presentation drifts out of sync with its soundtrack about 45 minutes in. Not so with Amazon Prime.
After absorbing the film as it was meant to be seen, probably for the first time, it became obvious to me that Nicol planned this project very well and assembled his crew with great care. THE SCREAMING SKULL was the first feature film to be written by CLIMAX! staff writer John Kneubuhl, whose extensive later television credits include THRILLER's most terrifying episode, based on Robert E. Howard's "Pigeons From Hell." Kneubuhl, a well-read writer judging from his many adaptation credits, took his title from an otherwise unrelated story written in 1911 by F. Marion Crawford. The film's director of photography was Oscar-winning Floyd Crosby, A.S.C., then Roger Corman's principal cameraman, who embraced the film as an opportunity to explore the then-largely-untapped potential for fright in double-exposed imagery. As far as I know, Ernest Gold's score - recorded shortly before his high profile winning streak with ON THE BEACH, INHERIT THE WIND and EXODUS - was the first in the horror genre to borrow from Hector Berlioz's "Dies Irae," as Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING would do almost two decades later. (It caught on fast, with Gerald Fried adapting it for his bombastic main theme to THE RETURN OF DRACULA, only three months later.) Already, we count three aces.
The film's pre-credits sequence alone proves Nicol a man of vision, if we look at it from the proper perspective. It opens on a lingering shot of a casket whose lid slowly opens to reveal a mood-setting message.
I know what you're thinking. Everything about this sequence suggests the influence of William Castle - the insurance against death by fright (explained to us in a voice-over), the surfacing of the eponymous skull from smoking, bubbling waters - I thought so, too. But if we check the release dates at the IMDb, Nicol's film premiered some ten months before the Halloween premiere of Castle's horror debut with MACABRE, which likewise insured its ticket-buyers against death by fright - and more than a year before Castle filmed a skeleton rising from a roiling acid bath in HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959). To my mind, this detail alone requires a significant rewrite of 1950s horror film history.
As the narrative begins, Nicol immediately demonstrates his intention to invest the film with as much production value as he could afford, opening on an establishing shot of the splendid grounds of the Huntington Hartford Estate, located off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, with its magnificent main mansion, San Patrizio, standing in for the Whitlock home. When the Whitlocks arrive, they do so in a new model Mercedes-Benz with gull-wing doors! Once we're inside the house, Nicol can't very cover the fact that the place is empty and unheated with chipped paint on the walls; it literally contains nothing but a downstairs rug, a particularly ragged-looking chair, a painting, a cabinet, two cots, a small wing table, and a candle! But a throwaway line of dialogue explains the spartan interior - the previous lady of the house, an eccentric, was very particular about adding only the pieces of furniture that really belonged there - and we're off and running.
The five-member cast boasts John Hudson (Nicol's co-star in Budd Boetticher's RED BALL EXPRESS, the twin brother of ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN's William Hudson) as the haunted widower Eric Whitlock; Peggy Webber (fresh from Alfred Hitchcock's THE WRONG MAN) as his new bride Jenni; Russ Conway (who had just appeared as the Hardy Boys' father in two MICKEY MOUSE CLUB serials) as the Reverend Edward Snow, a lifelong friend of Eric's; Tony Johnson as Mrs. Snow; and Nicol himself as Mickey, Eric's half-witted gardener, who clings to an irrational devotion to the late Mrs. Whitlock, Marian, who drowned on the property. Her spirit seems to inhabit a self-portrait that we're told by Eric was "poorly done" - and Floyd Crosby renders it suitably chilling with an unexpected superimposition.
The five-member cast boasts John Hudson (Nicol's co-star in Budd Boetticher's RED BALL EXPRESS, the twin brother of ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN's William Hudson) as the haunted widower Eric Whitlock; Peggy Webber (fresh from Alfred Hitchcock's THE WRONG MAN) as his new bride Jenni; Russ Conway (who had just appeared as the Hardy Boys' father in two MICKEY MOUSE CLUB serials) as the Reverend Edward Snow, a lifelong friend of Eric's; Tony Johnson as Mrs. Snow; and Nicol himself as Mickey, Eric's half-witted gardener, who clings to an irrational devotion to the late Mrs. Whitlock, Marian, who drowned on the property. Her spirit seems to inhabit a self-portrait that we're told by Eric was "poorly done" - and Floyd Crosby renders it suitably chilling with an unexpected superimposition.
Eric is seemingly devoted to his new wife, recently released from a sanitarium after suffering the shock of seeing both her parents drown in a boating accident. Jenni is one of the more sensitively written female characters to be found in this period of American horror cinema; she is not only grateful to have found love with Eric, but openly allows him any lingering feelings he may still have for Marian; she expresses her gratitude to her memory for teaching Eric what it means to love and value someone, as she needs to be loved and valued. The dialogue makes reference to Jenni being a "plain" woman, which becomes a telling plot point - but, as portrayed by Peggy Webber, Jenni is invested with all the personality, sensitivity and physical allure to make Eric's attraction to her plausible. (Without the personal charisma both Webber and Hudson bring to their characters, the film's first half would have been ruinously transparent.) This relationship stands in opposition to Mickey's more ethereal devotion to Marian, which is expressed through his keeping her former gardens in splendid condition, bringing flowers to her grave site, and paying poignant visits to the pond where she accidentally drowned, touching the face of the lilypad-mottled waters and raising his fingers to his lips. On first viewing, these scenes intentionally appear sick and neurotic but, in retrospect and on subsequent viewings, these scenes are revealed as the sanest and most tragic, as they humanize a character whom we never directly meet, whom Eric, unbeknownst to us and to Jenni, has deliberately distorted and demonized. (Nicol, wearing his hair much longer than was commonly acceptable in 1958 - prompting an early remark from the buzz-cutted Reverend Snow, about getting him to a barber soon - bears an unmistakable resemblance to Corman's screenwriter Charles B. Griffith which, considering their shared connections to Crosby and AIP, one suspects could be deliberate.)
Peggy Webber was pregnant with her first child at the time of filming, and Nicol - seizing upon another commercial element at hand - exploits her ripening figure with nightgown shots and one particularly gratuitous scene (missing from many PD tapes and discs) where she strips down to her bra (this is pre-PSYCHO, remember) to read Henry James' novella "The Beast in the Jungle." The James story is at least as foregrounded as Ms. Webber's bosom, encouraging one to seek out connections between the two works. They are there. A Wikipedia consultation reveals that the story is about a man and a woman who waste their lives by living under a sense of ominous foreboding about something that ultimately never happens - which finds resonance in the way Eric and the Reverend try to discourage Jenni's escalating feeling of being haunted, as she feels the mansion is haunted, by Marian's ghost - which becomes her idée fixe once the Reverend innocently confides to her something that Eric would not (knowing that the Reverend would) - namely, that Marian died the same way her parents did. But "The Beast in the Jungle" is also the story of an egotistical man's sense of expectation and entitlement, of feeling destined for great things that - in his mind - raise him above the commonplace rewards of the home and love that might have been his, which is ultimately revealed as the true nature of Eric.
When Eric spends a night away from the mansion, leaving Jenni alone with Mickey and the mansion and her story, the haunting takes more aggressive steps - in the form of a grinning skull that continually crosses her path. (Peggy Webber proves herself an able screamer with a terrific scream face in these scenes.) When Eric returns, he confronts Mickey with accusations of trying to torment Jenni, whom he allegedly hates for trying to take Marian's place as lady of the house. In a scene I found particularly disturbing as a child, Eric slaps Mickey repeatedly before threatening the innocent with even greater violence. We soon learn that Eric is in fact engineering the haunting himself, that he married Jenni - whose parents were wealthy - only to terrorize her back into a sanitarium so that he could take charge of her fortune. Because the script has openly referenced Jenni as a plain and troubled woman, the film allies her with Mickey as someone who is somewhat less than whole, whose perceived deficiencies makes her easy prey for the delusionally entitled Eric. In the final analysis, these deficiencies are revealed as qualities that make both Jenni and Mickey more authentic and caring as people.
Once Eric's true nature is revealed, the "Beast in the Jungle" begins to materialize to manifest his "spectacular fate." This begins when Jenni has a surprise encounter with what appears to be Marian's ghost in the greenhouse.
In the film's most chilling shot, the transparent ghost of Marian follows Jenni down the stairs of the greenhouse into close-up - an effect that Floyd Crosby could only have achieved with a meticulously planned double exposure, matching the actual exterior of the greenhouse to an exact studio recreation of the exterior covered in black fabric, with the white-clad ghost filmed descending a cloaked set of stairs - the same principle used by John Fulton in creating his special effects for James Whale's THE INVISIBLE MAN in 1933.
From this point on, the film plays out in the style of a classic EC horror comic, with the scheming Eric attempting to strangle Jenni and being chased down by the very horror he dared to impersonate and manipulate to his own selfish ends. The Beast of his Jungle pounces and sinks its teeth into him.
In Tom Weaver's 2010 book A SCI-FI SWARM AND HORROR HOARDE: INTERVIEWS WITH 62 FILMMAKERS, Peggy Webber recalled that she felt like throwing up after seeing the finished picture. (Morning sickness, perhaps?) In its public domain status, the film went on to become the butt of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000's jokes. I don't get it. Knowing what I know about low-budget filmmaking of this period, I can find nothing in THE SCREAMING SKULL that speaks of creative negligence, crudity, or condescension toward its genre. On the contrary, for a directorial debut, it demonstrates remarkable credibility and resourcefulness, and for a horror film of its station and era, it earns a well-deserved niche in the curator's mind. It's a nice example of what people used to call a "sleeper." Alex Nicol himself recalled the film fondly, telling Wheeler Dixon in his book COLLECTED INTERVIEWS: VOICES FROM TWENTIETH CENTURY CINEMA, "I liked it. It had some nice dolly shots, a good atmosphere. So I was happy with that; it was a nice change from what I'd been doing."
If we discount the two Tarzan features adapted from episodes of the NBC-TV series, Nicol went on to direct two other features before his death at age 85 in 2001: the 1961 Italian-made war drama THREE CAME BACK and the 1973 Crown International release POINT OF TERROR with Peter Carpenter and Dyanne Thorne. In both cases, he demonstrated discernible care while working within challenging borders, creating modest works of quality out of almost nothing. Not bad for someone who directed only three features, each in a different decade.


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SIDS: Back sleeping, breast feeding save lives
Babies are popping out of my friends like popcorn! Even my friends who swore they would never have children now own minivans filled with car seats complete with puke, toys, and diapers.
When I was a medical student (circa 1991), I had a two-week rotation in the newborn nursery. They had a rule, "If you find a baby with a dirty diaper, you have to change it." Having never changed a diaper in my life, my first experience was like an I Love Lucy episode. I didn't know baby poop could go everywhere in two seconds flat. I looked like an extra in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. But in just one day, I became a proficient diaper changer, and when they were all clean, I'd put them on their tummies to sleep.
Was positioning the babies on their tummies dangerous?
In 1992, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) strongly recommended putting all babies on their backs to sleep. Since that recommendation, the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has dropped dramatically in the U.S.
SIDS is the number-one cause of death in infants one to twelve months of age in the US. This tragic syndrome occurs in fewer than one per 1,000 live births. The majority of SIDS cases occur before six months of age.
African Americans and American Indian/Alaskan native children are two to three times more likely to die of SIDS.
There is no known cause of SIDS. Infant deaths are considered unexplained after a thorough investigation that includes autopsy, examination of the death scene, and a clinical history.
Premature babies and babies with a low birth weight are at higher risk for SIDS. Mothers who smoke during or after pregnancy add risk to their babies for SIDS. Alcohol and drug use are bad for the baby in every respect as well as increasing the risk of SIDS. Pregnant ladies who don't get prenatal care or who start prenatal care late in pregnancy have babies with increased risk of SIDS.
Though the incidence of SIDS has gone down in the past 20 years, suffocation, accidental strangulation, and entrapment have all increased. Therefore, on October 13 of this year the Academy updated its guidelines that nothing should be in the crib with the baby. No pillow, blankies, loose beddings, toys, wedges or positioners. Nada. Even bumper pads increase the risk of suffocation, strangulation, and entrapment.
Babies should be bundled up without covering the head to avoid overheating. They should not sleep by a heater, radiator, or in direct sunshine. They should always be placed on a firm surface to prevent suffocating in creases and crevices such as in a comfy sofa. Car seats and other sitting devices are discouraged for routine sleep.
It seems every parent I know has a home monitor or some commercial device, but the Academy doesn't recommended them. They do recommend having the baby sleep in the same room as the parents– not in the parents' bed, but his or her own crib– for the first six months.
To prevent a flat head, "Tummy Time" is recommended once a day while the baby is awake and fully supervised.
So what's a mom to do for her baby? Breast-feed!
Everything I read shows the incredible benefits of mother's breast milk for the infant, and breast-feeding has been shown to decrease the risk of SIDS. Immunizations have also been shown to decrease SIDS by 50 percent.
SIDS is a horrible tragedy. I can't imagine going through it. I hope all new babies are healthy and stay safe and grow up to be loving, caring, open-minded people.
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