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Right words spoken well can be a gift
While I'm away, readers give the advice.
On explaining death to children: When my mother was very young, she was extremely concerned about dying and repeatedly asked her mother (my grandmother) about it.
Eventually, Grandmother turned to her and said, "Look, do you remember what it was like before you were born?" My mother said, "No."
"Well," said my grandmother, "That's what it will be like when you die." I was in my late 50s when Mother told me this. It continues to be comforting.
On partners who refuse to budge on one thing or another and won't say why: Why are some people such gutless wonders that they won't say things in plain English? Or, as we say to children, "Use your words."
If someone used his words, it could lead to a productive (if possibly unpleasant) discussion. In my opinion, it is both selfish and cowardly for people to refrain from explaining themselves verbally when they are in a relationship with someone who clearly desires such communication.
– The Verbal One
On providing real help to a family member: My family visited my parents recently. My spouse and I are having serious difficulties and are working on that. My parents aren't oblivious. But instead of volunteering unhelpful advice ("She's such a shrew"; "He's such a (jerk)"), my mom simply took me aside at the end of the visit and said, "We're here for all of you. Whatever happens, you're all good people and we will help as much as we can." I don't know what the future holds, but that sort of quiet support (for both my spouse and me) is priceless.
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On "overbooked" member and other obstacles to family togetherness: I am one of four, and our tradition was to gather to open gifts and celebrate on Christmas Eve. As we began to marry, we continued the tradition. With children/grandchildren added to the mix, it eventually became a physical burden for my parents to host a houseful, but we collectively ignored that fact and continued.
The one sibling who had no children gradually and ultimately bowed out, and the remaining sibs were very smug about this outrageous behavior. Never mind that he and wife always planned a specific time to host our parents in their home and exchange gifts, independently of the others. My husband, two children and I "did" Christmas Eve with my parents, spent a short time with each other Christmas morning, then went to the in-laws' for a big dinner.
It occurred to me, much too late in the game, that my husband and I never established traditions with our own children. In our 60s and 70s now, we siblings rarely get together, and when we do, it seems forced. We're not estranged, it's just that we have little in common as adults. All the early "togetherness" did not generate close family ties.
Annual events – holidays, anniversaries, birthdays – need not be rubber-stamped year after year. Enjoy the enjoyable, be civil when required, and don't fake "togetherness" to the point of resentment.
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A look at some top level enchants
Since my main's an enchanter, I'm going to cheat a bit on priests – but only a bit – and look at four high-level enchants, discussing the strengths and weaknesses. Now before you get excited, I'm looking at it for both sides of the divide – heals and shadow. Let's look at the basics first, shall we?
- Enchant weapon: Major Spellpower (+
46+40 Damage and Healing)
- Enchant weapon: Spellsurge (3% chance on spell cast to restore to each player in the party 100 mana over 10 seconds.)
- Enchant weapon: Major Healing (+81 healing)
- Enchant weapon: Soulfrost (+54 shadow and frost damage)
"Spellpower? What's spellpower doing in there," you ask? After all, it's obvious it's less than spellsurge and soulfrost. Well… near the end I'm going to throw a twist in the straight comparison that may increase it in worth for some of you.
That 'some of you' remark (and maybe and all that) aren't facetious remarks. See, the answer to "which is better" is "it depends on your situation." It depends on your average DPM/HPM, mainly. You know, for this article when I'm doing both I'm going to refer to it as EPM – Effect per Mana – just to save some typing. (regular readers are permitted to snicker.)
Believe it or not, the concept of the comparison is easy. It's the niggly details figuring it out for YOU that's… fun. What you're doing is determining which gives you more total effect.
Assume 100 casts. Determine what proportion of the casts are which spell. Determine EPM, and also the total coefficient (I'll get to that, hold on). Multiply EPM by 300 (100 casts, 3% proc 100 mana each) to get total effect from the Spellsurge. (Actually, get the EPM for each member that uses mana in your party – not raid, party, and multiply that by 300.) In comparison, multiply your total coefficient by your bonus (81 or 54 as appropriate) to get total effect from that. Which one is larger? That's which you'll be choosing. OK, let's do a detail example.
A healer (using the model talents of the longish post not so long ago) has +1200 healing bonus. He's grouped for the raid with a warrior tank and three other casters. Our healer uses three spells exclusively — 2/3 of the time it's Greater Heal, and the remainder is equally split between Flash Heal and Prayer of Mending. (PoM is an interesting calculation, but I've chosen it to demonstrate the technique for PoM or CoH or any other oddballs for healers.) Let's get coefficients first. GH coeff is .8571, times 66 is 56.5686. FH is 42.86, for 16 casts is 6.8576. PoM is 14.29 (I think, since it's sort of an AoE — it may be 42.86), times 17 casts is 2.4293. Added together we get 65.8555, which multiplied by our bonus of 81 means we expect a nominal 5334 healing over 100 casts.
In comparison… FH8 has an HPM of 4.38, GH9 5.93, and PoM has 5.15 per success. We're going to assume PoM averages three ticks each. So I've got (16*4.38)+(16*5.93)+(15.45*17)=592.57, giving us a nominal hpm of 5.93. We get 300 mana, returning 1779 healing FOR US. Remember we have three other (generic) casters in the group. If they are averaging a DpM equivalent to our HpM, then that's another 3 people getting 1779 EpM for a total of 7116 EpM.
Note the assumptions. There are three other casters. If there are only two others, then the spellsurge is giving us 5337 EpM. If their DpM is higher, the EpM goes up – and vice versa. AND… if I used different spell patterns, my HpM and coefficient rates change a lot.
But all that said, I can make a general recommendation – a rule of thumb if you will. For you alone, Major Healing always beats Spellsurge. If you are consistently grouped so there are more than three mana users in your party, Spellsurge is better for the party. If there are less than three, Major Healing is your preference. And if it's normally three, it is literally your choice.
Shadowpriests follow almost the same deal except there's a twist due to VT and VE. Follow the bouncing ball…
Assume for a moment that only 80% of your spells are damage spells – the rest are VE and VT, run so as to keep both up essentially all the time.
VT will return 5% of the bonus*average coefficient*80 in mana as direct competition to spellsurge. Assume an average coefficient of .5 (it'll probably be higher as most of your spells are MB and MF). 54*.05*80= 2160, and 5% of that is 108. Again, most models will have a higher coefficient, giving more mana returned. On the other hand, going higher than 125 is uncommon.
The bottom line of the VT consideration is that spellsurge is only giving you 200 extra mana in comparison.
The kicker for VE when determing effect with bonus. It's quite simple, really. Increase the final effect (coefficient times damage for each damage spell, times number of times the spells are cast) by whatever level of VE/IVE you have – 15, 20, or 25%. Oh, yes, and we apply that to all players in the group – though it's really only important when it's not an overheal. For simplicity, multiply the VE bonus by 2.5 — that's 37%, 50%, and 67% respectively.
Let's do a detail. Our SP casts 80 damage spells over the 100, with an average coefficient of .55 and an average DpM of 6.25, and we have 25% from VE.
For the soulfrost we get a bonus of 54. 54*.55*80= 2376. With VE's effect we get 3954. Oh, and we need to know our mana return to net against the spellsurge. 5% of 2376 is 119.
For Spellsurge, then, we get 300-119=181 net mana gain per partymember who can use it. 6.25 DpM is 1131. If we have four casters we use 4521 – almost 500 more effect. At three, it's only 3391 or 650 less than soulfrost's gain.
Assuming our VE return is as stated, then, for this shadowpriest the decision goes: If 4 or more casters, go spellsurge. If 3 or less, go soulfrost.
Note, please, that there are bonus complications. How much effect do you give the hunter's trap or the mage's sleep – just to lift the curtain a little bit.
In my OPINION, the complications boil down to two issues. The first, and most important, is WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT? It's your toon, after all. The second, and pulling back into "best overall effect", is – if you consistently group with three or four other mana-users, get spellsurge. If it's not consistent, or if its consistently with one or two mana-users, get the bonus gear. Again, that's my OPINION, not having all the myriad details needed to fully minmax your situation.
Oh – I promised to tell you why I bothered to put spellpower up there. It's mainly for the shadow side. See, Spellpower is 85% the bonus of Soulfrost. Which means (when you finish the numbers) that if you're using spellpower instead of soulfrost the rule of thumb for deciding is the healer guide – 4 and 5 go spellsurge, 1 and 2 go spellpower, 3 choose your preference. And this matters for one big and one minor reason.
The minor reason is the ability to find the soulfrost enchant – it's a drop from Kara. In the interests of something beats nothing BUT you have a choice in somethings, there's the data. The major reason is cost.
The Soulfrost requires 6 void crystals, 10 large prismatic shards, 8 greater Planar essences, and 10 each primal water and primal shadow. It's just going to take a while to get that together – especially the void crystals.
For comparison, the other three are much cheaper. Spellsurge is a bit hard to find being a world drop, but it's 20 arcane dust, 10 greater planar essences (GPE) and 12 large prismatic shards (LPS). Major Healing takes getting Exalted with the Sha'tar (which if you're a healer is just a good idea), and takes 8 each LPS, primal water and primal life. And Spellpower – a grind drop on one of two mobs in Blade's Edge – is "only" 8 each GPE and LPS.
If you're having to provide the mats, spellpower now beats nothing — and for shadow, even after you can look at soulfrost you might be waiting quite some time till you can afford it.
5 Responses to "A look at some top level enchants"
Spell surge adds to healing though
+8 dmg?
or +48 healing?
If you off heal, even once in a while, spellpower may be a better bet
Thank you for your article. It stands alone – a source for my noob knowledge base.
ummm, Major Spellpower isnt +46 Damage and Healing, its [u]+40 Damage[/u] only… either that or my server got majorly rolled by blizzard!!


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Last Friday our new juicer was to arrive, however, to our disappointment it did not make it to our house (which confuses me as it arrived in the next town over the night before according to the tracking.) So we had to make the best of our no longer juice fasting weekend and decided to eat a lot of raw dishes and will continue to this week as well. We both work outside the house so have a juice fast during the week isn't something that we are able to do and this coming weekend we have dining plans both Saturday and Sunday so we will have to hold off on our juice fast until the following weekend. Although we will be unable to juice fast this week we will be having juice for breakfast and dinner and eating a raw dish for lunch.
We did not eat all raw this weekend but we did have a lot of meals that were. The first of which was breakfast on Saturday; we enjoyed (almost) raw breakfast crepe with coconut cashew pudding and bananas.
The raw crepe was from Ani Phyo's book and is great it is made up of 1.5 cups flax meal, 1 tablespoon coconut oil, 1/8 cup water, ¼ cup agave and a pinch of salt. I topped these with Ani's coconut cashew pudding which was super easy to make all you have to do is blend 2 cups cashews, 1.5 cups water, ½ cup shredded coconut, and ½ cup agave. I then placed sliced bananas on top of this and drizzled with maple rice syrup. It was delicious.
The Maple Rice Nectar Came from Suzanne's Specialities which has a variety of all natural, vegan and organic sweetners. I have always loved the ricemellow – being a fan of fluffernutter as a child it was great to find something similar and vegan. However my favorite product of Suzanne's that I have tired so far is the Maple Rice Nectar- it is sweet and delicious and when you are out of maple syrup it is a great alternative- mind you it doens't taste the same but it is very yummy.
On Sunday morning we enjoyed the remaining coconut cashew pudding in the form of a parfait- I layered sliced strawberries coconut cashew pudding and Feed Bittersweet-ness Granola. This granola is great we also received a few other varieties and have used them on top of yogurts, with soy milk and just a handful as a quick yummy snack. Most of their granola is vegan and I was actually sent one with honey in it but I am putting it in a care package for a friend because I'm sure she'll enjoy this granola as much as my husband and I do.
Sunday dinner was (almost) raw tacos in honor of National Taco Day (actually I didn't plan it that way it just happened). The only none raw item was our sprouted tortillas. The tacos were made up of Ani Phyo's nut meat, baja cheese, red pepper corn salsa and some shredded purple cabbage. I really would have liked to put some avocado on as well but mine weren't ripe enough. I have to say I didn't love the "meat", "cheese" and salsa on their own but all together the flavors were wonderful. I can't wait to make more raw eats and juices this week.
Oh and of course we enjoyed a lovely raw dessert of Hazelnut Chocolate Mousse Cake it was delightful!
Things to come this week: Raw Polenta with Mushroom Rague, Green Salad with Sweet Miso Dressing, lots of raw juices and Kristen Suzanne's Harvest Soup.
I have to come up with something to bring to the Raw Potluck Meetup on Sunday….still not sure what to bring yet.


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Rural Afghans turn against Taliban, eke out own fight
- Witnesses say the revolt against Taliban rule was prompted by its oppressive policies
- Some schools closed by the Taliban have since reopened
- A reported 300 anti-Taliban fighters have wrested control of 55 remote villages
ANDAR, Afghanistan -- Former Taliban commander Mullah Ramahtullah expresses contempt for the militants he once considered brothers in arms.
Though he still wears his hair long, as many Taliban members do, Ramahtullah says he has broken away from Afghanistan's former hard-line rulers and is supporting an uprising against them in a remote corner of Ghazni province known as Andar district.
"The people in Andar realized that the Taliban weren't acting according to sharia law," says Ramahtullah in a recent interview with USA TODAY, referring to the militant's decision to shut down schools in the district and force shopkeepers out of business.
Since last spring, residents of some rural villages in Andar have been waging sporadic battles against the Taliban in regions where there are no Afghan troops or U.S. forces to help. They do this despite the fact that uprisings against the Taliban often end quickly with Taliban forces wiping out those who object to their strict rule.
Both Afghans involved in the fighting and U.S. military leaders at nearby bases say the revolt against Taliban rule was prompted by the militant group's policies of oppression. At first, neither the Afghan government nor coalition forces knew what to make of the movement but have since endorsed it.
"We support this uprising against the Taliban … unfortunately, we cannot provide them with weapons," says Sadiq Sadiqqi, spokesman for Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior, noting that it would be illegal for the ministry to arm civilians. "But we do support the movement against those that turned their lives into a living nightmare."
Ramahtullah is one example of what motivates Afghans to turn against the Islamic clerics who ruled Afghanistan before they were deposed by the U.S.-led military invasion following the 9/11 terror attacks.
Ramahtullah was one of them and served three years at a U.S. military prison in Afghanistan after his capture in Ghazni for militancy. After his release, he promptly rejoined the Taliban until last spring. That was when his brother was killed by the militants, and he saw what they were doing once they regained control of villages.
"The Taliban won't allow schools, which is a civil service. And shops were closed. Why should that be?" Ramahtullah said.
In one uprising, Ramahtullah was shot through the hand during a fight against Taliban militants who had surrounded a village where anti-Taliban locals lived. Though several residents were killed, it provided the spark for the movement now several months in the making.
U.S. military officials in Ghazni say they suspect the uprising is getting more than just moral support from the ministry and Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, or NDS, the country's top intelligence agency.
NDS head Asadullah Khalid was born in Ghazni and is known to have taken a keen interest in ousting the Taliban from his homeland, having survived several assassination attempts by the militant group. Khalid was also implicated in human rights abuses during his tenure as governor of Kandahar province from 2005 to 2008 and is accused of ordering the deaths of five United Nations workers by bombing during that time.
"This movement needed help, and he (Khalid) was there to provide the movement with help with the blessing, I think, of the Afghan government," says Lt. Col. Kevin Lambert, a battalion commander in Ghazni.
U.S. forces currently based in Andar district are relegated to roles of advising and assisting the Afghan National Security Forces in the region.
A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai declined to comment on the uprising. But a group of former and current leaders from Andar say they recently met with Karzai to explain what was happening in the remote regions of the country and to ease concerns that the rebellion might be against his elected government as well.
"The president admitted that he was suspicious of the uprising at first, but now he understands the reality," says Abdul Jabbar Shulgari, a former member of parliament for Ghazni province.
Reports are scarce as to just how well the uprising is fairing. Some schools closed by the Taliban are known to have reopened in Andar, as well as local businesses, U.S. forces say.
Lutfullah Kamran, one of the leaders of the uprising, says he and about 300 anti-Taliban fighters have wrested control from the Taliban of 55 of Andar's villages. Kamran says the movement has momentum enough to sustain itself in Andar for the time being, though he says the uprising can't grow without help from the outside.
"We wanted to spread the uprising," Kamran says. "We are close to including other districts in Ghazni but cannot move forward because we lack weapons and financial support."
Some say the uprising is already fracturing amid internal disputes. An expert with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based think tank, says leaders of the uprising are guilty of committing their own abuses against villagers.
"So far, these guys are not well-structured and have rivalries within the movement," says researcher Emal Habib, a pseudonym he uses to protect family still in Ghazni. He says locals accuse the uprising fighters of "robbing, detaining and killing anyone who supports the Taliban."
Habib says the origin story of the fledgling uprising has been misconstrued, asserting it was originally a battle between rival militant groups: the Taliban vs. the Hezb-e-Islami, otherwise known as HIG.
"The Taliban may have been undermined," he says. "But they are never short of new fighters."


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@seallion and myself @syncwinnipeg.
Happy Halloween!
Jake and I also watched the film "Scoop" together during the CosmicTi69er get together. I liked how the film resonated with Spirits and featured Crowley Cards as well as The Fountains Deadman Hugh Jackman.
The Creators Chair
The Chair/Chariot is also a pointer towards the Soul/Psyche/Psyncho/Skin. The Tarot being likely descended from Qabalah demonstrates the Merkaba or Spirital Body of Light as the Chariot moved by the Spirit, who is the Charioteer.
While doing my weekly scrolling through the grapevine of 60s and 70s Psych-edelia albums on youtube, I came across a great band called " IRON BUTTERFLY " last night. And one of the first songs I listened to features and allusion to Monday Night/Mostly Tuesdays arrival of Hurrican Sandy. The song Lightening features the lyrics "Tuesday brings the STORM".
Happy Halloween!
KevIndra: When I noticed the name of Jake and Jims lovely new video, I realized that I had just been thinking ofPsyche and its etymology last week when I came across a book at my bandmates house. The book is called Insect Mythology, being that we play Psych-edelic rock I enjoyed the connection between Psyche, Soul, and the Butterfly and a newly recorded insect themed song of ours. The Root of Psycho is Psyche, so I thought a butterfly should likely make its way into Psyncho, I thought predicting it on twitter would be fun and Jake and Jim confirmed a butterfly clip..
Just a few minutes into the video we see a Neon Butterfly as the classic Psycho Knife fades into it. I read a tweet from Jim sayiing that the Butterfly was accidental but he decided to leave it in there.
The Psycho Knife is infamous for cutting Skin/Sink. The Butterfly as mentioned above is associated with the theme of rebirth and moving between worlds. The word Film not only refers to a cinematic piece of art but also refers to a thin skin or membrane. I have personally associated films with our connection to the Spiritual realm, the film being the membrane that it is allows us to peace together pointers toward he Soul/Psyche/Butterfly/Sinko. Sync/Sink has often involved some form of Cut-up mixed medias as well. For instance my Sink cut up, "Film: a Thin Skin or Membrane".
Sink/Psyche/Film among other heautiful and mysterious forces brought me up to Winnipeg, Sync City, in 2010 for the Cosmic Ti69er. When at the sacred site in rural Manito-Ahbee known as he Creaters Chair/Seat, Jake, Jim, Doug Bolles and myself were trailed by dancing butterflies as we tuned into Jims Icaros.
Jake and I also watched the film "Scoop" together during the CosmicTi69er get together. I liked how the film resonated with Spirits and featured Crowley Cards as well as The Fountains Deadman Hugh Jackman.
The Creators Chair
The Chair/Chariot is also a pointer towards the Soul/Psyche/Psyncho/Skin. The Tarot being likely descended from Qabalah demonstrates the Merkaba or Spirital Body of Light as the Chariot moved by the Spirit, who is the Charioteer.
The spiral of the contents within the Grail held by the Charioteer reminds me of the psychedelic swirling nature of Sink as demonstrated in Psyncho with the drain scenes, the spinning also resonates with film reels and the cosmos. The Heart of sink/skin is the infinitely deep Synch Wholely Grail, the cup of LIFE/FILM. Cheers yall
While doing my weekly scrolling through the grapevine of 60s and 70s Psych-edelia albums on youtube, I came across a great band called " IRON BUTTERFLY " last night. And one of the first songs I listened to features and allusion to Monday Night/Mostly Tuesdays arrival of Hurrican Sandy. The song Lightening features the lyrics "Tuesday brings the STORM".
Doubt this makes for fascinating reading but just in case anyone is interested in seeing a bit of the process involved in making a sync video like "Psyncho", here is the script.
I can't imagine anyone but @syncwinnipeg creating so exactly what I imagine from these words, not to mention adding many-many-many extra layers of depth & creativity that blows my mind.
The times I have collaborated with Jim has produced the work I have enjoyed the most.
Thanks for watching!
We start by zooming out from a close up of the Crowley Death Thoth Tarot card which Hugh Jackman is holding while staring into Scarlett Jo's eyes on the Scoop poster.
Hugh Jackman is sitting at a bar with a beer (In The Prestige).
He takes a sip and sees a King of Diamonds on the bottom of the glass. He removes it.
We see a close up and that it is a King of Diamonds. He looks around to see who sent it..
The Prestige
34:01 Hugh Jackman as Robert sitting at bar finding small playing card.
We see Scarlett sitting in an audience smiling watching a stage magic show and hearing the words:
10:00 "Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for the astonishing magic of SPLENDINI!"
We see the announcer and he points towards Splendini aka Woody Allen coming on stage.
We notice the background is a giant red dragon and oversize playing cards. (could quickly cut back to
Jackman in The Prestige with the card. Note there is a King of Hearts on stage. Maybe you could zoom in or highlight this fact somehow?)
The Prestige
17:45 "I thought of a name for you." Says actress Piper Perabo to her husband in the film, Hugh Jackman.
17:49 "The Great Danton." as she says these words we cut to some shots of posters for Hugh Jackman reading:
"The Great Danton".
38:46 People walking up to a theater with posters all along a wall reading "The Great Danton"
and just a bit of the very next shot with him on stage.
Back to Scoop and we see Woody Allen standing by his magic box saying:
11:16 "I'm gonna need a volunteer"
11:25 We see Scarlett being hand picked from an applauding audience and proceeding to walk up onstage.
12:50 "Now Sandra I'm gonna ask you to step inside that box." says Allen/Splendini to Scarlett/Sandra.
35:48 "In here, Miss Wenscombe" says Michael Caine to Scarlett opening the doors of a stage magicians box just like the one we just saw Scarlett being asked to get inside of by Splendini.
(I like the golden birds on this box, Phoenix?)
35:51 "No point in meeting Mr. Angier if you don't fit." Says Caine as Scarlett stairs over at Angier aka The Great Danton sitting on a chair practicing a trick.
35:55 Caine helps her into the box.
13:20 Splendini motioning at Scarlett to get in the box, which she does.
36:40 Caine closing the box doors and motioning to it. "She's not experienced". He walks over to Jackman "But she knows how to present herself." This cuts to scenes of Scarlett onstage with Jackman "A pretty assistant is the most effective form of misdirection". Scarlett smiling at Jackman as he passes her some "magic" cloth.
45:54 Scarlet picks up a photo album and pages through it. We see black and white photos of a woman.
(again here maybe a good idea to put Scoop title onscreen as this shows how they are both in this as well as The Prestige. See how you feel)
46:09 "That's my mother" says Hugh. Scarlett : "She was very attractive".
"Yes, but quite difficult." retorts Jackman.
It would be nice to start hearing the sound of Mrs. Bates' (Norman Bates' mother) whining voice from Psycho overlapping with this shot.
Psycho 1960
We see actress Janet Leigh staring out of the window of her Motel Room as a voice booms:
32:22 MRS. BATES: "No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing strange young girls in for supper!
By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap, erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds!"
NORMAN: "Mother, please."
Hitchcock Trailer
1:21 "You are intrigued aren't you." says Hopkins as Hitchock to Helen Mirren across an outdoors breakfast table.
As he is speaking we cut to a view of a woman's elegantly dressed rear (Scarlett) walking through a restaurant and joining Mirren and Hopkins. "Killing off your leading lady half way through the film".
1:27 "How are you going to shoot this shower scene?" says Scarlett as Leigh as we see shots of the shower scene.
Psycho 1960
47:41 The shower curtain is pulled away and we see the dark silhouette of Bates as Mother stabbing a screaming Janet Leigh.
Psycho 1998
45:30 We cut (he he) to a screaming Anne Hesche in the remake where Vince Vaughn is doing the stabbing.
Return to Paradise (mine is a DVD rip with VOB files..)
6:42 (VTS_01_3.VOB) "You're killing me Beth" says Vince Vaughn who just killed Hesche in Psycho.
Psycho 1998
27:15 "Thank you, Mr. Bates." Says Hesche. "Norman Bates." replies Vaughn.
Return to Paradise
6:43 "Im killing you?" replies Hesche.
(Insert quick shots of the actor titles Vince Vaughn (VTS_01_1.VOB 00:37) Anne Heshce (00:41) Joaquin Phoenix (00:46) Films Title "Return to Paradise" 00:49)
Another shot from Psycho with Mother/Bates stabbing Hesche.
6:46 Vaughn takes a step towards Hesche. "You're Killing me"
6:51 Vaughn stroking the side of Hesche's face.
Somehow we now need to show that Anne Hesche is born on the same day (May 25) as Ian McKellen.
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2:21:41 Gandalf's eyes are closed and we hear snarling sounds as the camera zooms in on his face. He opens his eyes and we briefly see the approaching red light of the monstrous Balrog.
2:21:57 "A Balrog" says Gandalf/McKellan.
We see the Psycho intro sequence titles with its famous score (will look for mp3) where the letters are cut and shifted apart resonating the cutting, stabbing etc. We hear the scary music, see the parts of the credits reading Psycho, Viggo Mortensen (1:13) & Anne Hesche.
Next we see the part right after the credits (2:40) where the title "Phoenix, Arizona" appears over the skyline (maybe zoom in on or highlight phoenix in some fashion, we will see it again..)
as we are zooming through the city and into a specific hotel window. We can speed this up real fast but not cutting until we see Viggo & Hesche lying on a bed and a nice close up of both of their faces.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
1:55:07 The Ghost king tells Viggo Aragorn "None but the King of Gondor may command me" as Viggo lifts his blade pointing up and cutting across his face. The sword/blade that proves he is the king.
We should now Highlight in some fashion that this is a Peter Jackson film and that he is born on Oct 31 aka Halloween.
We cut to another Peter Jackson film...
The Frighteners
2:15 A terrified woman runs screaming up a staircase as a ghost in the floor chases her.
2:27 Her mother exits a room with a shotgun and says "The wicked shell be punished" and proceeds to shoot the floor ghost strangling the girl. It jumps out at us and we see the title writ large in blue
"The Frighteners".
6:05 Title reading "Directed by Peter Jackson"
10:32"She was madly in love with the psychopath, Bartlett." says a TV with a grainy black and white image of a girl surrounded by reporters. This cuts to actress Trini Alvarado grabbing the remote and hitting pause.
10:35 "That's her!" (being the woman we saw running away from the ghost, up the stairs..)
10:39 "I was in her house this afternoon." as she says this we cut quickly to a shot of her meeting the
women she is talking about, the same little girl on screen)
8:17 "Mother, please." says Patricia. "Patricia never leaves the house." (this "difficult mother" stuff echoes Psycho and Scoop) Would be nice to quickly insert the audio where Hugh Jackman says "but quite difficult"
08:22 "But it hurts." continues Patricia. Mother: "To your room, this instant!"
Jumping back to where we left Trini watching TV.
10:42 Her husband, on an exercise machine, slides into view. He gives her a funny look and picks up the cover of the tape she is watching. It reads "Psychopaths" in blood.
10:45 "Well, that's just terrific, honey. We've been in town for three months... and you're making friends with the Manson Family."
24:48 Micheal J Fox circling "Deaths" in a newspaper. A ghost sitting in front of him smacks the paper and says:
24:49 "Give it up, Frank. Death ain't no way to make a living."
18:07 "You shouldn't leave your TV on so loud when you go out." says Louis to Sigourney Weaver as she is trying to get into her apartment and away from Louis'.
18:12 "That's strange. I didn't realize l left it on."
18:22 "Bye Louis" says Weaver shutting her apt. door. We see Louis walking down the hall talking to himself.
18:25 "Okay, so I'll see you later, huh? I'll give you a call."
18:29 "I gotta have a shower."
We quickly see shots from all three our Psycho shower scenes Psycho 1960, Psycho 1998 & Hitchcock trailer.
Psycho 1960 47:10 Janet Leigh as Marion Crane under the water spraying from her shower.
Psycho 1998 44:28 Anne Hesche as Marion Crane under the water spraying from her shower.
Hitchcock 1:27 Scarlett as Janet Leigh talking in close up "How are you going to shoot this shower scene?" Which cuts to a quick shot of water coming out of the shower head.
18:42 "Have you or any of your family ever seen a spook, specter or ghost?" asks Bill Murray on Weaver's TV set.
(Quick cut to close up of Bill yelling (34:00) as green blob ghost "Slimer" rushes towards him. We see Slimer coming at us at 34:02 and even closer at 34:06)
18:46 "If the answer is yes, pick up your phone and call the professionals. Ghostbusters!" Weaver looking skeptically at the TV.
Ghost World
12:43 "Oh, yeah, and be sure to wear that sexy green cardigan." says Thora Birch as Enid on the phone. Scarlett as Rebecca smacks Enid with a cow print pillow.
00:40 We see the title Ghost World and Scarlett Johansson. (title actually has some really funky crazy old east Indian pop that you could use around these Ghost World parts...)
6:02 "Hey, Rebecca." Says a boy at the dance to Scarlett who is pouring some red punch. "Oh, hi." she replies.
We cut to the title shot of Hitchcock's 1940 classic "Rebecca" over a dark misty black and white country side.
00:41 "Rebecca" title large on screen. Next we see Hitchcock's title.
01:40 "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock". Just some quick "Ghost" resonating dialogue that can start at some point as we see the titles and maybe cut to the characters actually speaking them.
1:12:28 "Do you think the dead come back and watch the living?" "No, I don't believe it." Maybe this as we see the titles above.
01:12:34 "Sometimes I wonder if she doesn't come back here to Manderley... and watch you and Mr. de Winter together." and this we see again... a great sinister camera zoom.
Ghost World
12:50 "Oh, it's that comedian I was telling you about." says Scarlett turning up a TV set.
12:52 "I still live with my mother." Says the comedian on TV. "He's the absolute worst." says Scarlett.
Psycho 1960
37:14 "Well, a boy's best friend is his mother." says Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates backed by his stuffed birds.
Ghost World
12:57 "So what if she's been dead for fifteen years?" continues the comedian.
Psycho 1998 (my torrent is in 2 parts and this is from the second)
27:28 "Norman Bates' mother has been dead and buried in Green Lawn Cemetery for the past ten years." says the Sheriff to Viggo & Julianne Moore.
41:50 Julianne Moore walking up to a seated figure of a woman. Pulls a curtain and says:
41:53 "Miss' Bates?". She swivels the figure around and we see the dead face of Miss Bates as a spider crawls over it.
Julianne Screams...
Ghost World
1:21:58 "Because you'll totally freak out and act like a psycho about it." says Enid to Rebecca.
Another Hitchcock trailer shot with Scarlett, refreshing our mind as to why this is so relevant.
Maybe the Title from the Trailer that reads Hitchcock in red with the shattered design and knife cutting sound at 2:25 plus this nice shot at 1:45 where Hitchcock pulls the shower curtain, Scarlett is screaming and he is stabbing.
Ghost World
1:22:02 "What? You're the psycho." replies Rebecca.
Now we bring our Ghost resonators Scarlett and Murray together in Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation
49:57 Murray is sitting next to Scarlett with pink wig in a zebra wallpapered karaoke bar.
He takes her smoke from her. It cuts to them facing us and she puts her head on his shoulder.
(Pretty sure this was the image that was shining through the Ayahuasca article in Intelligent Life
Magazine I gave you. You took this amazing Instagram photo of it, remember?)
We hear the great electro scary music for Halloween 1978 right at the very start of the film.
00:30 "John Carpenter's Halloween" we see these titles and the smiling sinister Jack O Lantern.
1:18:52 Jamie Lee Curtis is yelling "Tommy!" and banging on a door. Across the street we see Michael Meyers approaching.
1:18:54 "Tommy its me!"
The Fountain
24:54 Hugh Jackman kneels before a bathtub in which his wife Weisz is sitting. He turns on the hot water tap.
25:06 Just a fast shot of her from the front and Hugh placing the hot spunge on her skin.
25:19 "Tommy" says Weisz...
00:43 "introducing Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie" is the next title we see.
1:20:32 Jamie Lee With a giant knife peering over a coachs edge.
57:51 "Death has come to your little town, sheriff." says Dr Sam to a Police officer. Maybe just the dialogue over the above shots.
The Fountain
6:40 The conquistador Thomas/Tommy/Hugh lunges at the Mayan priest but the priest is faster and stabs him instead.
6:45 We see the blade inside Tommy the conquistador's belly who grabs at it.
The Village
51:47 Big close up of Joaquin Phoenix as Lucius staring into the camera, he proceeds to look down.
A hand is holding a blade that is sticking into Lucius' belly looking just like the shot from The Fountain.
The Fountain
6:46 Hugh pulls the blade from his belly.
The Village
51:56 The blade is slowly withdrawn by the hand from Luscious' belly.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - A Very Happy Ending
Would be really nice to hear the title music from the show which is something many associate with Hitchcock.
It could even start over the previous shot. Maybe a quick shot of the Title and Silhouette logo of Hitchcock.
The title, logo and theme music are all in the 1st 30 seconds of the youtube clip.
Still hearing the theme music we see quick titles for "A Very Happy Ending" 1:07 & "Leaf Phoenix" at 1:12
4:42 Close up of a mouth speaking "No but I got your number", a spring knife pops and a man is stabbed.
4:47 We see a young Joaquin's eyes swell in surprise as he witnesses the stabbing.
The Fountain
6:53 "Death is the road to awe" says the Mayan priest.
The Frighteners
3:12 We see a newspaper being prepped on a computer screen and a headline reading "Death Strikes Again".
This dialogue:
3:18 "The mystery heart condition that has killed over 30 people in less than four years has claimed another victim. "
43:34 Michael J Fox crouches down and we see him from under a toilet stall door.
43:37 A man is standing by a urinal/fountain and looking uncomfortably over his shoulder at Fox sneaking around the washroom and up to the door of a toilet stall.
Fountain - Marcel Duchamp (clip from youtube)
00:01 We see a title card reading "Fountain Marcel Duchamp" and a picture of his urinal.
00:02 "This is a really classic example of Dada" says a grey haired woman about Duchamp's fountain with the famous urinal by her side.
We cut back to the bathtub in The Fountain film.
The Fountain
26:28 Weisz pulls Tommy into the bathtub and water splashes. We hear audio from the art video clip of Duchamp's "The Fountain".
Would be nice to have this with the poster for The Fountain beside the clip so we make the association.
Fountain - Marcel Duchamp
00:48 audio of lady saying "What strikes me about The Fountain.."
The Frighteners
43:40 Quick shot of man by the urinal again looking at Fox who proceeds to open the stall door at
43:46 Fox opens the door and we see a toilet.
Psycho 1960
46:40 We see big full screen toilet and Janet Leigh as Marion Crane flushing torn paper and a shot right after of her
in her night gown (Just so we get a picture of who and what we are seeing aka Psycho washroom)
The Village
11:26 "Those We Don't Speak Of are much larger creatures than coyotes..." says Sigourney surrounded by fellow Villagers.
Coyote Ugly
31:56 "I'm a Coyote" says Piper Perabo standing in a kitchen. This cuts to a man eating and miming a "howl" (nice 420 behind him).
Here we can highlight with text that Piper Perabo is a Oct 31 aka Halloween born star moving into the next movie also
with Piper..
The Prestige
12:25 A crouched Hugh Jackman kisses Piper's leg as he is tying her up on stage. She looks down, he looks up and we see Christian Bale (12:30) tying her arms & giving her a nod.
American Psycho
1:02:30 Bale as Patrick Bateman (obvious nod to Psycho) lifts a nail gun up aimed at Chloe Sevigny's head who is sitting on his white sofa, oblivious to the threat.
1:02:31 "I guess you could say I just wanna have a meaningful relationship with someone special."
We see Chloe from the front as he is saying this "Hmm."
Would be nice to do the poster thing here so we see the word Psycho and the title inserted somehow for actress "Chloe Sevigny"
01:41 "Chloe Sevigny" the title for the movie is at 00:48 if you wanted that.
(Just thinking out loud here but I can see you using split screen to have titles shots for actors under or beside a clip like the one above with Chloe & Bale. I dont bother with making the Bale connect between The Prestige & American Psycho because its obvious.)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2:22 Love this crazy shot of Jamie Lee Curtis walking up to a counter, opening her bag and Chloe stepping out, with no cuts. We can hear the dialogue from the next shot, her saying "Chloe!" maybe as we see Chloe the dog step out of the bag. (Either here or when we get back to this film after dealing with Carrie we need a poster or title for film) (Title "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" just to give us an idea of where we are at.
00:43 Title "Beverly Hills Chihuahua"
1:23:01-1:23:04 "Chloe!" "Chloe!" yells Jamie Lee Curtis (if possible her yelling and her title from the opening at same time with a split screen if you feel this works..."Jamie Lee Curtis" at 1:22 If not no big deal we should know this is Curtis)
Carrie Teaser Trailer
00:42 We zoom in on Chloe Moretz as Carrie covered in blood which cuts to the title Carrie dripping blood and star titles Chloe Grace Moretz & Julianne Moore.
Carrie New York Comic Con Panel (Youtube video)
5:10 "Chloe, tell me about that Blood bath or about that Blood Shower if you will. This audio over a clip from the Carrie trailer above.
Maybe we can zoom into Julianne Moores' title before moving to the next clip with her.
20:42 Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried sitting at a bar. Moore asks "What's your name?"
20:54 Close up of Amanda "It's Chloe"
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Jamie Lee Curtis
1:23:06 one last "Chloe!" from Jamie Lee Curtis. (Here we need a poster or film title "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" just to give us an idea of where we are at 00:43 Title "Beverly Hills Chihuahua".
Would be nice to time it that we see Lee Curtis then a shot of Chloe the dog as we hear her scream "Chloe!")
24:50 "What is all of this?" asks Chloe the white Chihuahua looking at a passing brightly costumed crowd.
24:56 "The Day of the Dead." says Delgado the German Shepard
24:58 Chloe: "This is so beautiful". and wee see nice shots of the parade with people as death.
Now if we could somehow visually show the October 31 Halloween and November 1 Day of the Dead connect..
Maybe a calender shot of last day of October and 1st day of November, mmmm. Either way something highlighting that Halloween is Oct 31 and Day of the Dead is Nov 1 so that folks can make the connection. Also a good place for the Tupac "God Bless the Dead" line
25:01 "It's what humans do to honor their ancestors." continues Delgado.
1:23:10 and we are back once more with Jamie Lee yelling at the same staircase interior shot but this time she says "Rachel!" (who is our Oct 31 Born star Piper Perabo!)
This is cool as we now know that we have a star from Halloween and a star born on Halloween together in shot.
Lets try and make this clear and fun for the viewer to recognize...
1:23:10 "Hi, Aunt Viv." says Rachel/Piper from the staircase.
"Hi" responds Jamie Lee as Aunt Viv turning towards us. Now lets cut back to Halloween just for a second.
1:06:42 PJ Soles as Lynda is lying in bed sitting up and staring at a figure draped in a sheet aka a Ghost costume.
She thinks this is her boyfriend Bob but it is in actual fact killer Michael Meyers.
"See anything you like" she says and giggles. We see the Ghost/Bob/Meyers...
We need the title from the intro reading "and PJ Soles as Lynda" 00:55 because we are showing her again in a moment with Murray in Stripes.
1:06:50 "What's the matter? Can't I get your ghost, Bob?" and Giggles again.
Qiuck flash of Slimer comming at Bill Murray in Ghosbusters again.
(Quick cut to close up of Bill yelling (34:00) as green blob ghost "Slimer" rushes towards him. We see Slimer coming at us at 34:02 and even closer at 34:06)
25:56 "You've come all this way. Would you like to check the refrigerator?" says Sigourney to Murray, them both standing in her kitchen. Murray is making a nice professional looking inspection of eggs etc on the countertop.
1:10:25 "This guy's doing pretty well" says Murray to PJ Soles while rummaging through a refrigerator.
PJ Soles: "Alright you've looked at the General's refrigerator long enough lets go" pushing him away.
You can use the poster with Murray pointing ("I want you for US Army") which also reads PJ Soles here.
26:19 "You actually eat this stuff?" asks Murray with him and Sigourney in front of open fridge just like Stripes above.
1:07:24 "This is going nowhere." says PJ now on the phone as Ghost/Bob/Meyers creeps up from behind. I imagine that is how the audience feels right now.. This cuts to Jamie Lee putting down her knitting to answer the phone.
1:07:30 Exhales a sigh of relief and says "Finally."
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
We left Beverly Hills Chihuahua with Lee turning to see Piper on the stairs now wee see Piper/Rachel come down, greet and hug her Aunt Viv/Curtis.
1:23:13 "Hi" hugging each other.
1:23:17 "Your hair is all wet."
You Again
48:00 "Did you take a shower?" asks Sigourney of a wet Jamie Lee who responds "Yes".
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
1:23:20 "I was in a bath." says Piper (might want "Piper Perabo's" title at 1:00 and repeat that she is Oct 31 aka Halloween born)
The Village
23:54 "There are secrets in every corner of this village." says Joaquin to his mom Sigourney across a table.
23:59 "Do you not feel it? Do you not see it?" as he points to a mysterious box.
24:06 Close up of mystery box.
The Prestige
1:01:17 "No one cares about the man who disappears. The man in the box. They care about the one who comes out." says Wolfman Jack. We can hear some of this dialogue start over the clip of the box in The Village. But we do want to see Scarlett below..
1:01:21 "I care about the man in the box." says Scarlett.
(Now I want to so something totally Psyncho and connect the box to the shower/bath/sink theme...)
1:13:03 We see a box. Its lid flips open and we see PJ and Murray get up out of it.
1:13:12 "Well that was interesting" says Murray.
(nice as the man in the box is indeed someone Scarlett cares about.. in Lost in Translation)
The Prestige
12:40 Piper is being lifted up by her bonds.
12:42 We see the water box being positioned. Maybe just a quick
shot of Jackman and Bale staring up at her.
12:55 She is hanging in darkness. We hear a snap and she splashes down into the water cube.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
1:23:17 "Your hair is all wet." Says Jamie Lee to Piper.
You Again
47:07 Jamie Lee under the sync kicking at the "sink trap" or "U-bend". It brakes and water shoots out at her.
Superstars & Their Moms Jamie Lee Curtis, Kelly Curtis and Janet Leigh (Youtube clip)
00:00 We see titles "Superstars & Their Moms". A voice says "Janet Leigh, pretty as a picture. I had a crush on her."
As the voice speaks we see a framed Psycho poster.
7:13 We see an older Janet Leigh mouthing "Thank you" and hear her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis "You've been there forever. With me and Kelly and being there, means so much, just being a mom."
7:48 "Come here little Janet" says Jamie Lee motioning to her mom to join her and her sister.
"Lets give you love" and they kiss her.
You Again
46:47 Jamie Lee holds an earring up at her ear staring in a mirror and drops it down the sync whole.
It's here that we make the connect between Scarlett and Jamie Lee's shared Nov 22 birthdays. So text reading: "Birthday November 22"
46:51 Shocked she look up at us.
28:24 "She cannot swim. The girl cannot swim. Like a lead weight, she sinks to the bottom all the time." says Woody Allen stepping up to Scarlett and Hugh. Here we put Scarlett's birthday up as November 22.
Maybe in some fashion the "Nov 22" has been up since we saw Jamie Lee at the sync and is still here as we hear about Scarlett syncing.
Psycho 1960
53:07 Bates is washing his bloody hands at the sync, in black and white.
The Frighteners
43:53 The man alarmed at Fox's erratic behavior in the washroom is desperately trying to leave but of course has to wash his hands at the sync first and pumps the soap dispenser.
Psycho 1998
50:56 Bates is washing his bloody hands at the sync, in color.
The Frighteners
44:03 A wide shot of him washing his hands and looking over his shoulder at the viewers of Psyncho.
44:08 The camera zooms in as the hand of death jumps out of the mirror grabbing his heart.
(this cuts back and forth to Fox watching this scene but we only want the man at the sync and Death)
Death exits the mirror, hovers over the body a bit and jumps back into the watery, mercurial surface
of the looking glass.
I like ending with death as we started with him but Im giving you the blood spiraling down the drain holes in both Psycho's as it might be cool for end titles or whatever...
Psycho 1960
48:54 Blood spiraling down drain in black and white.
Psycho 1998
46:40 Blood spiraling down drain in color.


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With the passing of Nelson Mandela on Thursday at age 95, the huge success of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" takes on an even deeper relevance.
Starring British actor Idris Elba as the late anti-apartheid crusader, "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" is in part based on Mandela's bestselling 1994 memoir of the same name, and follows his path from idealistic student to his leadership of the African National Congress to imprisonment on Robben Island and eventual political ascension after his release.
The movie, which debuted in Mandela's native South Africa on November 28, has become the country's highest grossing picture. "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," has already earned $427,000 (Rand 4.4 million), according to Videovision Entertainment.
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"To call the prospect of playing Nelson Mandela intimidating would be to put it lightly," Elba told the Independent of the role. "But it's a massive honor to play this saint amongst men. I was honestly confused about why they came to me. I thought, 'You can't be serious! You chose me out of everyone you could have gone to?' Then I found out that Nelson Mandela was into 'The Wire.' I thought, 'It's amazing – he might have kicked back and watched the 'Wire' box set!' The role was definitely the biggest challenge of my life. I look and sound nothing like the man – but hopefully I've pulled it off."
One person privileged to have been granted a sneak peek has no issues with Elba in the role. The man who the film is based on.
"He asked, 'Is that me or is that an actor?'"Mark Coulier, the makeup artist who helped Elba incarnate the role, told the Los Angeles Times of Mandela's reaction to early footage screened for the iconic leader. The picture was made in consultation with the Mandela family and his foundation.
This fall also saw the release "Winnie," featuring Jennifer Hudson as Mandela's ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Terrence Howard as South Africa's first black president.
The film's director, South African Darrell Roodt described "Winnie" as "the ultimate women's movie" and "an amazing love story." That description did not sit well with the film's subject, who was not involved in the production and responded to Roodt's statements saying: "I think it is an insult. I don't know what would be romantic in our bitter struggle."
She told CNN: "I have absolutely nothing against Jennifer [Hudson], but I have everything against the movie itself. ... I was not consulted. I am still alive, and I think that it is a total disrespect to come to South Africa, make a movie about my struggle, and call that movie some translation of a romantic life of Winnie Mandela."
"Winnie" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, 2011 and struggled to find distributors. It had a limited release in Canada in 2012 and Image Entertainment, who acquired the USA distribution rights, eventually released the movie on September 6.
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" and "Winnie" are not the first time the life of Mandela has inspired movies. Elba and Howard join a list of actors who have portrayed the freedom fighter that includes Sidney Poitier, Danny Glover and Morgan Freeman.
Below is a list of productions featuring the late President of the Republic of South Africa:
"Mandela" (1987)
Danny Glover stars in the titular role of this HBO produced television film. Alfre Woodard portrayed Mandela's wife Winnie. At the time the film was made Mandela was in the 25th year of his prison sentence. The movie covers the period between 1948 to 1987 and traces Mandela's evolution from young lawyer to anti-Apartheid political activist.
As with "Winnie," Winnie Mandela was vocal in her disapproval of the project according to the Los Angeles Times. "To these people, we are nothing but a source of dollars," she said through her lawyer about the producers of the film cable-TV movie. "These people should please leave us alone," a statement quoted her as saying. "This film serves no political purpose and was made solely for commercial reasons. The producers are just cashing in on the name of the family."
"Malcolm X" (1992)
Just after his release from prison and just before he became president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela made a brief appearance in Spike Lee's biopic of American black nationalist leader Malcolm X. Mandela plays a Soweto schoolteacher addressing his pupils who one by one declare, "I am Malcolm X." The scene comes at the very end of the film.
During filming Mandela refused to repeat the last four words of Malcolm's speech "by any means necessary," so Lee instead inserted black and white footage of Malcolm saying it himself.
"Mandela and de Klerk" (1997)
Sidney Poitier portrays the great leader in this biopic alongside Michael Caine as South African President F.W. de Klerk. Set in 1964, the made for television movie follows Mandela as he is released from prison after 27 years and the relationship he had with the then president. Filmed in South Africa, the movie used many locations where the actual events depicted took place and the dramatized sequences feature augmented newsreel footage from the time.
"Invictus" (2009)
The Clint Eastwood-directed sports biopic features Matt Damon as the captain of South Africa's rugby team Francois Pienaar and Morgan Freeman as Mandela. Set in the 1990s, the film revolves around Mandela, recently released from prison, and his attempts to unite blacks and whites in support of their national team the Springboks as South Africa hosts the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
As the team learns to come together as one, the nation slowly does the same. The movie culminates with the Springboks win over the New Zealand All Blacks.
Mandela viewed the film with Freeman sitting beside him. When Freeman as Mandela first appeared onscreen, the actor says Mandela whispered to him, "I know that fellow."
"It was the perfect story to depict Mandela," Freeman said at the time. "Who he is, how he is, how he thinks, how he operates. It's all incorporated into this story."
The film received many accolades with Freeman receiving a best actor Golden Globe, SAG award and nomination for the best actor Academy Award for his portrayal.
Honorable mention:
"The Cosby Show" (1987)
In the hit television series, Cliff Huxtable's (Bill Cosby) eldest daughter Sondra and husband Elvin become pregnant in the shows fourth season (1987-88). The resulting twins were named Nelson and Winnie, in honor of the leader and his wife Winnie. While the character of Mandela is never actually seen onscreen, the naming of the children represented the leader's importance to and influence on international race relations at the time.


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Royalty Research Fund (RRF)
Through the RRF, the Office of Research supports UW faculty seeking to establish new research programs. See below for information regarding the RRF and how to apply.
- Purpose
- History
- Eligibility
- Applications Allowed
- Matching Funds, External Support, Start Up Funds and Bridge Funds
- When to Apply / Deadline
- Review
- Budgets
- How to Apply
- Questions
The purpose of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) is to advance new directions in research, particularly:
- in disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, and/or
- for faculty who are junior in rank, and/or
- in cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants' competitiveness for subsequent funding.
Proposals must demonstrate a high probability of generating important new creative activities or scholarly understandings, new scholarly materials or resources, significant data or information, or essential instrumentation resources that are likely to significantly advance the reputation of the university, lead to external funding, or lead to developing a new technology. (Note: RRF proposals must support faculty development; this fund is not intended to support independent research projects undertaken by graduate students and/or post-doctorates.)
Over the past three years, the success rate for RRF proposals has ranged from 24% to 28%, with an average of 26%.
This program is funded from royalty and licensing fee income generated by the University's technology transfer program. The RRF has been offered twice a year since the Spring of 1992. In 1994, the Royalty Research Fund Scholar program was initiated to provide one quarter of release time for faculty with full teaching loads to engage in concentrated scholarly activities. The RRF welcomes proposals with budgets up to $40,000.
Faculty and professional staff with PI status (as determined by their dean) are eligible to apply, except those with acting, affiliate, visiting, postdoctoral, or temporary (including limited duration) appointments. While some researchers in these categories do have PI status, they are not eligible for the RRF program and we do not make exceptions to this rule. Eligible faculty ranks include (but are not limited to): Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Research Professor, Research Associate Professor, and Research Assistant Professor. A co-PI must also hold one of the eligible ranks. All applicants must hold an eligible rank at the time of submission and the appointment must be active in Workday. If you have already received an RRF award, you are not eligible to apply again for a period of two years after the previous RRF award was formally terminated and the final report received. RRF Scholar applicants (those requesting one quarter of release time from teaching) must teach at least four regular and substantial courses per year; independent study and dissertation supervision are not included.
Note: If a UW faculty member holds an eligible rank but is based at another institution (e.g. Seattle Children's or Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), all of his/her extramural grants must be run through the UW in order to be eligible for an RRF award.
Deans, Directors, and Chairs should only approve RRF proposals for faculty and professional staff who are eligible for the program.
Applications Allowed
A PI or co-PI may submit only one proposal per round. Our policy precludes PIs and co-PIs from having multiple funded proposals within the same period. There are no such restrictions on participating faculty or staff who are not PIs or co-PIs. A proposal which is not funded may be resubmitted twice (taking previous review comments into consideration); any proposal can be submitted a maximum of three times. Copies of previously funded proposals for the past six years are available for examination (by appointment) in the Office of Research, G80 Gerberding Hall.
Matching Funds, External Support, Start Up Funds and Bridge Funds
The RRF may not be proposed as matching funds for another grant. An RRF grant may be used as matching for a proposal submitted after the RRF award date. Applications can be made for external support of the same project, but an RRF award will not be given if an external award has been made. Support will not be provided merely to supplement or extend an ongoing funded research project. The RRF is not intended to provide or supplement start-up funds for new faculty. RRF awards are based on the quality of the science being proposed, and are not intended to serve solely as bridge funding when other external sources of research support have been lost. The University program that supports faculty bridge funds is the Bridge Funding program. Please note that acceptance of an RRF award of $30,000 or more, will make an individual ineligible for a Bridge Fund award. Applicants who apply to both programs simultaneously will only be given one award. If an individual holds a Bridge Fund award and subsequently receives an RRF award of $30,000 or more, any remaining Bridge Fund monies must be returned.
When to Apply / Deadline
Proposals are solicited twice a year and are due by 5:00 pm the last Monday in September and the first Monday in March; awards are announced by January 15 and June 15, respectively.
Departments receive an email announcing the next round of competition a couple of months in advance of the deadline. Late applications will not be accepted – NO EXCEPTIONS.
Fall Round
- Applications are available approximately mid-June
- Submissions are due the last Monday in September
- Awards will be announced by January 15th
Spring Round
- Applications are available in mid-January
- Submissions are due the first Monday in March
- Awards will be announced by June 15th
Proposals are reviewed by a faculty committee that recommends funding priorities to the Office of Research. The committee solicits reviews from two faculty peers based on written proposal evaluation criteria. Please note that these reviewers will not necessarily be specialists in the applicant's subfield. Thought should be given, therefore, to crafting the proposal so that a wider audience may understand it. Although technical field-specific information will be expected, the major features of the proposal must also be accessible to non-specialists. The primary criterion is the merit of the proposal. Secondary criteria include suitability to the goals of the RRF and available opportunities and timeliness of the proposal for obtaining subsequent funding. In disciplines for which applicants may also be eligible to compete for federal funding (e.g., NIH, NSF), preference is given to junior faculty. Similarly, among proposals of comparable merit, preference is given to junior faculty. Proposals from senior faculty are funded only when they a) support a genuinely new direction in the applicant's research and/or career development or b) provide a unique opportunity to compete for subsequent one-time (or infrequently offered) funding or c) originate in a discipline for which external funding opportunities are minimal.
Proposals may request funds up to $40,000. Only proposals identified by the review committee as exceptional will be awarded funding at the upper end of the range. The review committee can recommend a reduction in the proposed budget to allow support of as many meritorious projects as possible. Funds will not be released until after the awards are announced and the requisite paperwork is completed and approved. These are normally one-year awards.
How to Apply
Before applying, be sure to review all of the information provided above regarding the RRF and the Instructions for Preparing an RRF Proposal. If you teach four or more courses per year and are interested in applying for a quarter of teaching release, please see the RRF Scholars Program.
Briefly, the RRF application consists of an eGC1 (electronic Grants and Contracts form 1) created online in SAGE (System to Administer Grants Electronically), the proposal documents, and the Suggested Reviewers Memo. The proposal documents are gathered into a single PDF file and attached electronically to the eGC1. The completed application is then routed electronically to all the individuals that need to approve the proposal: Chairs, Directors, and Deans. It is then automatically routed to the RRF. The Suggested Reviewers Memo is submitted separately. Applications not fully approved by the RRF deadline will not be accepted – NO EXCEPTIONS.
- New applicants should contact Peter Wilsnack, 206-685-9316, email@example.com
- Existing awardees should contact Karen Luetjen, 206-616-9089, firstname.lastname@example.com
- For questions about SAGE, check with your unit's administrator or contact email@example.com, 206-685-8335


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BOSTON — Firefighters scrambling to get water to an eight-alarm fire in Boston Wednesday came up with a creative way to get around one obstacle.
Someone had parked their BMW in front of the fire hydrant near the fire, blocking access.
So they punched out the windows and ran a 4-inch hose from the hydrant through the driver's side window and out the passenger's side.
"The general reaction is that some people find humor in it,'' said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald told the Boston Globe. "But it's really a serious situation. That water supply is the lifeblood of the engine company."
Boston police said an officer ticketed the vehicle. The fine for such a violation is $100.


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Users Speak Out: Olympus SP-570 UZ
Sure, the compact Olympus SP-590 is the hot ticket these days when it comes to Olympus's ultrazoom collection. But interest in the manufacturer's newer, smaller long-lens technology has recently resulted in some fantastic clearance and used deals on last year's full-scale version, the Olympus SP-570 UZ.
With a 20x wide-angle lens and a 10 megapixel sensor, the SP-570 offers all of the typical features of a modern ultrazoom: manual exposure control, a large LCD and electronic viewfinder, even a flash hot-shoe. No, it doesn't serve up the ultra-long lenses of this year's crop of serious point-and-shoots, and you won't be capturing any HD movies, either. Other than some finnicky controls and a general concern for the camera's noise suppression in the upper reaches of its sensitivity range – hardly a problem unique to Olympus, we should note – the SP-570 impressed us considerably when we reviewed the camera around this time last year.
Sure, performance expectations can change a lot in the camera world over the course of a year. But if you can find a deal on one, the SP-570 might just be your ticket to 590-like performance at a recession-beating price.
But as always, don't take our word for it. See what the following contributors to DCR's user opinions had to say on the subject.
Takes quite some time to master
Submitted by felix on 6/2/2008
PROS: Excellent macro. Good color. Wide zoom starts at 26 mm. RAW. Hotshoe. Electronic zoom ring. Good stabilizer. In camera RAW development.
CONS: Face recognition hinders instead of helps (can be disabled). Electronic zoom ring should be moved gently with small movements, not fast. Wobbly zoom lens; I would not trust to attach a filter to it. xD H card or M+ card needed and they are not yet [readily] available.
Good Point and Shoot value
Submitted by Burt Armstrong on 5/8/2008
PROS: Good image quality (much improved over SP-550). Image stabalization is very effective. Great quality movie clips. Color banlance very nice for a P&S camera. If you expect results like [those] from the Olympus E-3 or Nikon D-300 [from the SP-570] you will be disappointed, but for what it is, the results are extremely good. Great red eye reduction tool as well.
CONS: No option for filters. Small diameter lens picks up more atmosphereric distortion at full zoom for far away objects when compared to a long DSLR lens.
Bold but not impressive
Submitted by Graeme Shaw on 4/20/2008
PROS: Long zoom is handy and the camera is fairly small and portable. LED at back is large and easy to use.
CONS: IQ is quite terrible IMHO. Lower light situations produce noise quickly as the ISO rises. Image stabilization is really not effective and images are almost all somewhat soft or blurred. Color balance out of the box is far from accurate. Blown highlights, blue fringing at high contrast margins in shots, and hunting for focus in low light situations add to the grab bag of issues optically. The electronic zoom ring is a lagging pain in the backside to operate. It is totally useless in action situations. […] If you are looking at a long zoom camera this seems a poor choice […].
Better than my old Lumix FZ18 in most areas
Submitted by Randy Browning on 4/18/2008
PROS: Zoom, display quality, wide angle, clear and precise images at any resolution, movie features, high speed ability at 3M, image stabilization, face recognition, hot shoe, true pix III processor, raw mode and camera body size. I had the Lumix FZ18K for three months, and although a good camera it was weak in areas where Olympus has filled many of those holes. My main camera is a Canon 5D, so I don't worship in the cult following of any specific manufacture, I just buy the most full featured for the dollar. Prior to my Canon I owned the Nikon D80.
CONS: Plastic feel, no threading on lens to allow for filter, XD card only. Come on Olympus, either expand the card size or add CF.


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The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short.
After many months of constant development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0.10 (codename "Squeeze"). This new version of Debian includes various interesting features such as multiarch support, several specific tools to deploy private clouds, an improved installer, and a complete set of multimedia codecs and front-ends which remove the need for third-party repositories.
The installation process has been greatly improved: Debian can now be installed using software speech, above all by visually impaired people who do not use a Braille device. Thanks to the combined efforts of a huge number of translators, the installation system is available in 73 languages, and more than a dozen of them are available for speech synthesis too.
In addition, for the first time, Debian supports installation and booting using UEFI for new 64-bit PCs (amd64), although there is no support for "Secure Boot" yet.
With this broad selection of packages, Debian once again stays true to its goal of being the universal operating system. It is suitable for many different use cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from development servers to cluster systems; and for database, web, or storage servers. At the same time, additional quality assurance efforts like automatic installation and upgrade tests for all packages in Debian's archive ensure that "Wheezy" fulfills the high expectations that users have of a stable Debian release. It is rock solid and rigorously tested.


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Fusion-io Inc slashed its fiscal 2013 revenue forecast as key customers Facebook Inc and Apple Inc delayed orders, sending the storage drive maker's shares down 21 percent after the bell.
"… The change in our guidance reflects a two-quarter shift in the timing of their bulk purchases," Fusion-io Chief Financial Officer Dennis Wolf said in a statement.
Facebook accounted for 30 percent of Fusion-io's total sales of $359.3 million in its previous financial year, while Apple contributed 25 percent.
The company, whose competitors include OCZ Technology Group Inc and Stec Inc, now expects revenue of about $420 million to $440 million in the year ending June 2013, down from its earlier estimate of about $521 million to $539 million.
Analysts on average were expecting revenue of $530.1 million in the period, according Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
"The reduction in guidance is largely attributable to a reduction of expected shipments to Apple and Facebook," Technology Insights Research analyst Nehal Chokshi said.
The company, which employs Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist, makes solid state memory drives using NAND flash technology.
Fusion-io posted net income of $1.7 million, or 2 cents per share, in the second quarter, compared with a net loss of $5.7 million, or 7 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, it earned 13 cents per share, while revenue rose about 43 percent to $120.6 million.
Analysts on average had expected adjusted earnings of 8 cents per share on revenue of $120.3 million.
The company's shares, which have fallen about 19 percent in the last three months, were trading at $16.19 after the bell. They closed at $20.09 on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Health Insurance for Adult Children
Know the rules for keeping your kids on your health insurance plans.
We put our 24-year-old son back on our health insurance policy at the beginning of the year, but he just landed a new job with benefits. The health insurance at his company isn't nearly as good as our policy, though. Can we keep him on our policy, or does he have to take his employer's insurance?
That's a tricky question. The health-reform law allows parents to keep their grown kids on their health insurance coverage until age 26. But the rules are complicated if the child's new employer offers health insurance benefits (regardless of whether he or she signs up for the employer's plan).
The answer depends on whether the parents' health plan is considered to be "grandfathered," meaning it has remained essentially the same since health care reform was enacted on March 23, 2010, or "nongrandfathered," meaning it's either a new plan or an existing plan that's made significant changes to its premiums and benefits since then. Plans that are not grandfathered are subject to some additional provisions of the new law that do not affect grandfathered plans.
Your son can stay on your policy if it is not grandfathered even if he is offered health insurance coverage at his new job. But if your plan is grandfathered, then it's up to your employer to decide how to apply this rule. Some employers will allow adult children to stay on their parents' policies even if they are eligible for health insurance coverage through their jobs. But other employers with grandfathered plans will choose not to extend coverage to adult children who are eligible for their own insurance through a job. "How 'good' the coverage is, or even whether the child takes that other coverage, is not relevant," says Pearce Weaver, senior vice-president of Fidelity Benefits Consulting.
These rules, however, can be difficult to enforce. "Some employers conduct dependent audits to confirm eligibility of covered dependents, including the child's employment" says Weaver. "And many employers reserve the right to take disciplinary action against employees who fraudulently cover ineligible dependents," he says.
Ask your employer or insurer whether your plan is considered to be grandfathered and find out about the rules for keeping your son on your policy. Beginning in 2014, new rules kick in that will allow adult children to stay on their parents' plans even if they are offered coverage through their employer.
For more information about the nuances of this rule, see the Young Adult Coverage Until Age 26 section of the Healthcare.gov Web site. See 6 Ways to Cash In on the Health Law for strategies to make the most of the new rules.


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There, I fixed it.
In one teensy weensy nod to competence and accountability, Elections Newfoundland and Labrador have posted the poll-by-poll results of last month's provincial by-election in Carbonear–Harbour Grace. (PDF link.)
Before you get too excited, know that the results are not in machine-readable format, despite having obviously been prepared in one (and that, nearly a month ago.) This corner has remedied this obvious lapse.
Here is the same data, in tab-delimited vanilla PDF, which you can copy and paste into other software:
Meanwhile, as of the close of business today, December 27th, 2013, with only two government working days left before it becomes 2014, there is still no sign of the 2012 Newfoundland and Labrador political finance disclosures, nor of the 2011 election-period contributions to political parties, as required by the provincial elections act. (It's probably too much to hope, at this point, that the candidate disclosures for last June's Cartwright–L'Anse au Clair by-election, might also have shown up this calendar year.)
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David Hasselhoff has shot down new reports he's engaged to his longtime girlfriend, insisting the couple has no plans to marry.
The former Baywatch star, who has twice proposed to his Welsh girlfriend Hayley Roberts, fueled speculation he was three times lucky on Monday when he posted a picture of himself on bended knee on Australia's Sydney Harbour Bridge on Twitter.com.
But Hasselhoff played down the supposed romantic gesture on Tuesday, telling People.com the pair was just having fun.
He says, "The truth is I'm having a fantastic time with this lovely lady but at this time we have no plans to marry."
The actor has been married twice before to Catherine Hickland and Pamela Bach, the mother of his two grown-up daughters.


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An era is the term used unofficially to group similar Grand Theft Auto games released in succession.
An era can be thought of as a generation of GTA games, where each game within that era have a number of similarities. Games within an era generally have similar artistic styles, overlapping storylines and a range of content appearing in several of those games. An era can span many years with many games, or even just contain one game.
A new era starts with the release of a numbered GTA game, such as Grand Theft Auto III or Grand Theft Auto IV. This then groups all the related games until the next numbered GTA.
On Grand Theft Wiki, the name of the numbered game is the name we give to that era. So GTA IV started the GTA IV Era.
|2D Universe
|GTA 1 Era
|GTA 1 (PlayStation, PC, Game Boy Color)
|GTA 2 Era
|GTA 2 (PlayStation, PC, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color)
|3D Universe
|GTA III Era
|GTA III (PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox, iOS, Android, Mac)
GTA Vice City (PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox, iOS, Android, Mac)
GTA San Andreas (PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox, Mac)
GTA Advance (Game Boy Advance)
GTA Liberty City Stories (PSP, PlayStation 2)
GTA Vice City Stories (PSP, PlayStation 2)
|HD Universe
|GTA IV Era
|GTA IV (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC)
GTA Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS, PSP, iOS)
|GTA V Era
|GTA V (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
GTA Online (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
Within a single era, games generally have a lot in common:
- Artistic style
- Overlapping storyline & characters
- Many overlapping brands, products, advertisements etc
- Locations (whether accessible or just mentioned)
- Vehicles and weapons
- Gameplay mechanics & features (such as Wanted Level)
However, many of these do vary between individual games (such as vehicles), whilst others exist across more than one era (such as Sprunk). However, games within an era still have much more in common than those in separate eras.
- Exceptions
The gap between GTA III and GTA IV was almost 7 years, so the games within the GTA III Era varied greatly in technical quality and features. However, they still belong to the GTA III Era as the storylines are related, a number of characters overlap, and the general design of the game is similar (such as Wanted Level). GTA IV has no overlapping storyline and introduces different gameplay mechanics, although certain brands and many vehicles appear also in the new era.
Note that any games released late, or with a new version released after a new era has started (such as a Mac or mobile version), are still regarded as being part of the era they are most related to. The grouping of similar games is more important than strictly separating by release date.
It is known that Rockstar Games use this same grouping of games internally, but no official term (such as 'era' or 'generation') is known, and no grouping of the games is used on the box or in product descriptions.


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Successful candidates will be flexible, quick-thinking, hard-working and will respond positively to new challenges. Full-time training is included. Excellent organisational skills and strong sense of teamwork are essential. Experience in FCE, CAE and IELTS are necessary: professional experience in other fields is a definite advantage.
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Having a fair bit of trouble. I'm used to Allegro and drawing sprites on a bitmap buffer at X Y coords. Now I've started a test project with OpenGL and its weird.
Basically, as far as I know, theirs many ways to draw stuff in OpenGL. At the moment, I think I'm creating a Quad? Whatever that is, and I think Ive given it a texture of a bitmap and them im drawing that:
GLuint gl_image;
bitmap = load_bitmap("cat.bmp", NULL);
gl_image = allegro_gl_make_texture_ex(AGL_TEXTURE_MASKED, bitmap, GL_RGBA);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, gl_image);
glColor4ub(255, 255, 255, 255);
glTexCoord2f(0, 0); glVertex3f(-0.5, 0.5, 0);
glTexCoord2f(1, 0); glVertex3f(0.5, 0.5, 0);
glTexCoord2f(1, 1); glVertex3f(0.5, -0.5, 0);
glTexCoord2f(0, 1); glVertex3f(-0.5, -0.5, 0);
So yeah. So I got a few questions:
Is this the best way of drawing a sprite? Is it suitable?
The big question: Can anyone help / Does anyone know any tutorials on this weird coordinate thing? If it even is that. It's vastly different from XY, but I want to learn it. I was thinking maybe I could learn how this weird positioning stuff works, and then write a function to try and translate it to X and Y coords.
Thats about it. I'm still trying to figure it all out on my own but any contributions you guys can make would be greatly appreciated =D


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Norba National 4-Cross - Mount Snow, Vermont
Courtesy USA Cycling
Mt. Snow, VT (June, 21, 2003) Eric Carter (Temecula, CA; Mongoose-Hyundai) and Sabrina Jonnier (FRA; Intense) showed why they claimed the number one seeds for today's mountain cross finals in round three of the NORBA National Championship Mountain Bike Series in Mt. Snow, VT, each posting victories in the face of stiff competition.
Following an electrifying cross-country race in the afternoon, the gravity riders took to the mountain cross course in a light drizzle that did little to keep the crowds away.
The women's event was without Tara Llanes (Corona, CA; Giant-Pearl Izumi), currently second in the NCS points standings, who suffered a broken foot in an automobile accident earlier in the week, but the depth of the women's field ensured a competitive race.
The 16-woman field was narrowed down to the final four after a few heats and featured Jonnier, Marla Streb (Los Osos, CA; Luna Chix), Katrina Miller (AUS; Jamis) and current points leader, Jill Kintner (San Jose, CA; Staats).
In what looked to be a competitive final round, the race was essentially over the second it began as some contact amongst the women caused Kinter, Streb, and Miller to go down right out of the gate. Jonnier escaped the carnage and had an immediate gap that she maintained through the finish. The race at this point was for second place, which was taken by Streb ahead of Miller after a second crash by Kintner in the middle of the course took her out of contention.
Asked about the early crash, Jonnier responded, "I had a good gate last week, but everybody pushed me so this week I pushed everybody on the outside. Katrina tried to come inside, and I pushed back."
The last four men standing after the elimination of 60 throughout the evening were top seed Carter, NORBA NCMBS points leader, Mike King (San Diego, CA; Haro-Lee Dungarees), Chris Kovarik (AUS; Intense-Fox) and Frenchman, Fabien Barel (Kona Clarks). Out of the gate, it was Carter, who despite racing on a broken hand, took advantage of his inside lane assignment, leading after the first corner and never looking back. Without many opportunities to make up lost ground on this particular course, the riders maintained their positions they had out of the gate all the way to the finish 30 seconds later. Carter took the victory from Kovarik as King and Barel took home third and fourth respectively.
"The first straightaway was like thoroughbred racing", Carter noted, "It was flat and tons of horsepower was being laid down." I focused on having clean shifts and getting my second, third and fourth pedals going so I could get my bars up front, take my line and make everybody back off."
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[caption id="attachment_6339" align="alignnone" width="625"] As his death is met with grief, we remember his wisdom. [Photo credit: hawking.org.uk][/caption]By Bryce Kirchoff for Next Avenue
As the passing of renowned physicist and public intellectual Stephen Hawking is met with grief and remembrance the world over, Next Avenue wanted to honor the man who educated the world on a host of issues by sharing five important lessons we learned from him:
At 22, Professor Hawking was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neuron disease and told he only had a few years to live. For most of his adult life, he was wheelchair bound and could speak only with the aid of a vocal synthesizer. Yet, against all odds, Hawking had a successful career and rich family life until passing away at the age of 76.
From Oxford graduate to public figure to cosmologist to celebrity, Stephen Hawking was perhaps the scientist with the most prominent place in the public eye in the past few decades. His book, A Brief History of Time, shattered expectations for sales. And in recent years, he was a vocal critic of environmental policies that he felt were hurting the planet. He traveled to space, figuratively, and had a "theory of everything." In short, Hawking hasn't spoken without the aid of a computer for decades, but he has most definitely been heard.
Professor Hawking had as much to say about humanity as he did about the cosmos. In a 1998 interview with Der Spiegiel he said "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." He also had great wisdom about our responsibilities to ourselves and one another as people. In a 2010 interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC, Hawking offered three pieces of wise advice: "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
Despite having his mind and gaze directed at the stars, Hawking was always present in the life, family and community that surrounded him. Indeed, his children have credited him as being a loving father, noting that he would often say, "It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love."
Perhaps one of the most famous of Hawking's quotes is the most prescient on the day of his passing. Once, when speaking on his theory of everything, in which he explains that the universe is governed by a set of laws, Hawking pondered how the universe began. He then added, "Where is it going and will it have an end? If so, how will it end? If we find the answers to these questions, we really shall know the mind of God." In other words, the end was not a finale as such, but the beginning of a whole new way of knowing.
So long, Professor Hawking, and may you find peace on your journey. You helped make the world kinder and smarter for having been in it. You are a giant on whose shoulders we now stand.
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