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Materials not returned by the due date will incur a fine. See Fines and Fees for details.
Overdue Items
Patrons will be notified after an item has been overdue for a period of time. Books, Audio Books, CDs, Magazines - The assistant librarian contacts patrons at the end of each month about their overdue items, sending a postal card stating that materials are overdue. The second month, the same procedure is followed. The third month, a card with the items and fines detailed is enclosed in an envelope (this meets privacy requirements). If, at the end of the next month the materials still have not been returned, a letter is sent stating that the situation will be turned over to the authorities for collection.
VHS/DVD - The assistant librarian attempts to notify patrons in a timely fashion (within one or two days) that the materials need to be returned to avoid building a large fine.
A record will be kept of contact attempts.
First notification will be made by phone. If the item is not returned within one week of a phone messaage, written notice will be sent at the end of the month. If the item is not returned within that month, a second written notice will be sent.
If the item is not returned within 60 days of the first notice of overdue materials, the library card will be suspended.
Failure to Return.
Failure to Return library materials for two (2) months or more after the date the person agreed to return the library materials or fails to return library equipment for one (1) month or more after the date the person agreed to return the library equipment is evidence of intent to deprive the owner, providing a reasonable attempt has been made to reclaim the materials or equipment, including the mailing by restricted certified mail of notice that such material or equipment is overdue, and criminal action will be taken.
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Precast concrete shuttering magnet is a new magnetic assemby which is used to fix the framework in precast industry. The assembly consists of some strong neodymium magnets and steel plates which form to certain designed magnetic circuit. This magnetic circuit provides very much stronger attraction force to any ferrous workpiece. But the magnetic power is shielded and controled by the thick metal box. We develop the push ON/OFF button to open or close the magnetic power outside of the metal box.
This flexible system saves time, money and manpower. And we just developed the new style with force 1350KGS but the weight of the magnet is only 6 kg, and the size is 32X9X6cm, compare to bigger 1800KGS magnet box size 32X12X6cm, it is middle size and more economic for your applications.

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Skip to comments.Party crashers will plead fifth if subpoenad
Posted on 12/08/2009 2:00:14 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Party crashers will plead fifth if subpoenad By Eric Zimmermann - 12/08/09 04:27 PM ET
The White House "party crashers" will plead the fifth if they're called before the House Homeland Security Committee, First Read reports.
A lawyer for the couple reportedly indicated to chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) that his clients would invoke their right against self-incrimination if asked about how they got into a state dinner without being invited.
The committee will vote tomorrow on whether to subpoena the couple, who turned down a non-binding request to testify.
It worked for those who were encouraged not to testify against Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Good grief, folks, this is the Kenyan Klod administration.
More crooks have visited the White House since January '09 than lived in San Quenton. (Although the SQ crooks were probably more trustworthy than any in the OBamaloon cabinet.)
Maybe this is a dumb question. What is their crime?
They'll probably plead a fifth of Jack Daniels.
Breitbart discovered that the felon, Robert Creamer, who wrote the script that White House is following on health care, was in attendance that same night. The "party crashers" are a misdirection.
They do not dare to rat out the insider that arranged their entry.
Wednesday, Nov. 25, 1:38 p.m. From Michele Jones to Tareq Salahi Tareq:
You are most welcome! I here (sic) the smile in your e-mail and am delighted that you and Michaele had a wonderful time. :-)
Just take the maybe part off!!
What they really need to do is identify themselves as "undocumented guests."
Two more place settings should have been set for them. Just because they weren't officially invited doesn't mean they should be treated like criminals. Maybe they should get free health care, free housing, free legal services and free White House green cards, so next time they can bring their families and relatives too!
How can anybody be mad at them just because they crossed over some arbitrary man made border? They were only there to do the things that regularly invited guests didn't want to do - like hang out with Joe Biden.
After all, aren't these all the same people who wish amnesty for "undocumented workers?"
I think I read that it was criminal trespassing; the reason people are concerned is that there are photos of BHO with this couple from 2005. The husband founded some type of charity for the "palestinians," and each year has some polo event.
Well the nationality of the feet not withstanding, it's not the first time that has happened.
That would be my defense: I showed up and they let me in. If I wasn't welcome, they were free to make me leave.
This reminds me of the time that my wife and I "crashed" a corporate party near Idaho Falls, Idaho. We were west of town when I saw the Budweiser brewery on the edge of town. Since Idaho Falls was our destination and we had nothing to do for a few hours, we decided to drive over and check out the brewery. We thought maybe we could get a tour or check out the gift shop or something. When we drove up, there was a party right in front of the place. The Budweiser Clydesdales were there and it was a big to-do. We pulled into the parking lot saying to each other, "We better just turn around and get out of here, we'll try another day."
Pulling into the parking lot, some kid who looked about 16 pointed us to a parking spot. I said to my wife, "Let's see if we can see the Clydesdales for a minute, then let's take off." We walked right up to the party with another young kid telling us that "the Clydesdales are right over there, please no smoking and don't do anything to startle the horses. Food and drink is over there, have a great time and welcome." Nobody asked us for anything. That's how most things are in life: if you act like you know what you're doing and act like you're supposed to be there, people don't usually question anything.
Since we really weren't supposed to be there, we didn't eat their food or partake in any drinks. We just checked out the Clydesdales for about 10 minutes, then left. It was pretty cool.
What laws were my wife and I breaking, if any? To be cited for trespassing, I think you have to be asked to leave and warned by the cops not to come back (varies from state to state). But the talk of what laws the White House crashers violated is probably moot. If the White House wants you prosecuted, you're gonna get prosecuted. I'll bet this is something where your lawyer haggles with the prosecutor for a plea bargain that, if you're smart, you'll take it and cut your losses.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that for the Budweiser party that we quasi-crashed, it probably helped that I was wearing Dockers, a golf-style shirt with a collar, and leather shoes that weren't real dressy but they weren't tennis shoes, either. My wife was dressed about the same. We were dressed business-casual like everybody else there, I'm sure that helped a lot. If we looked like bumpkins or it was black-tie formal, we probably would've been told to hit the road.
Were they invited to crash the party as a way to get rid of some secret service men? Maybe the White House wants visitors that only "their team" will see. I'd like to know who invited these people ...
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Road Trip Nightmares
This weekend I spent a total of nine hours in a car with four boys and one husband. Any parent who has ever taken kids on a road trip knows the pain and agony that I just somehow survived.
I have to admit, we have a DVD player in our car, so the road trip isn't as torturous as they were when we were kids, but they still are less than pleasant.
Of course, before we even leave the driveway the kids are fighting over who gets to sit where and one punches the other in the head and one is crying. So, those two get separated and then we're off. Then no one can agree on which movie they want to watch, so that ends up in another fight. This isn't even five miles down the road yet.
We get 30 miles down the road and somebody has to go to the bathroom and somebody else is hungry, even though we ate right before we left and everyone was supposed to go to the bathroom before we left. We stop, and that takes at least 15 minutes, before we are back on the road.
We seem to make it the next few hours with minor hiccups like somebody farting so we roll the windows down, people not keeping their hands to themselves, people putting their stinky feet on other people and more snacks and bathroom breaks.
Then comes the dreaded last hour of nonstop "are we there yets" and "when are we gonna be theres." Finally, we reach our destination and the kids fight their way out of the car along with piles of garbage, which causes another fight over whose garbage is whose and who has to throw it away.
I have to say the best part of the whole trip is reaching your destination. That's because you're not in the car anymore.
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of The University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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Jennifer Lopez shows off her rockin' body for charity as she partakes in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, as challenged by soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo!
The 45-year-old entertainer, with the help of lots of helpers including her six-year-old twins Max and Emme, got LOTS of ice water dumped on her for the good cause. JLo nominated Iggy Azalea, Leah Remini, and Pitbull.
"After workout #ALSicebucketchallenge Thanks @cristiano @tracyanderson oh and @pitbull @thenewclassic @leahremini you've been challenged!" JLo wrote on her Instagram.
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This question is often asked by newcomers to Eclipse, probably as a result of switching from another IDE with a different interpretation of the term project. Similarly, people often ask how to access the "active" file. In Eclipse there is no such thing as an active project or file. Projects can be opened or closed, but many projects may be open at any given time.
Often people are really asking for the currently selected project, folder, or file. The selection can be queried using the UI's ISelectionService.
Once you have the selection, you can extract the selected resource as follows:
IResource extractSelection(ISelection sel) { if (!(sel instanceof IStructuredSelection)) return null; IStructuredSelection ss = (IStructuredSelection) sel; Object element = ss.getFirstElement(); if (element instanceof IResource) return (IResource) element; if (!(element instanceof IAdaptable)) return null; IAdaptable adaptable = (IAdaptable)element; Object adapter = adaptable.getAdapter(IResource.class); return (IResource) adapter; }
If you are looking for the active editor, you can determine that from the IPartService. If an editor is active, you can extract the resource, if available, like this:
IResource extractResource(IEditorPart editor) { IEditorInput input = editor.getInput(); if (!(input instanceof IFileEditorInput)) return null; return ((IFileEditorInput)input).getFile(); }
The code above has a minor error:
IEditorInput input = editor.getEditorInput();
To obtain the project from the resource use IResource.getProject().
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Instruction starts at 6 p.m. at the Niagara County Public Safety Building, 5574 Niagara St. Extension, Lockport, and it generally lasts three to four hours.
Applications can be obtained at www.niagarasheriff.com. For questions or to have an application mailed, contact Capt. Michael Dunn at 716-438-3331 or Deputy Pat Williams at 716-523-0098.
Applicants will be notified by mail when accepted into the program. Applicants must be at least 20 years of age, reside or work within Niagara County and have no prior felony convictions or outstanding warrants.
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Oh my heck! I totally need those bags! Thanks. I'll try to find them at Party City. But sheesh, I didn't know everyone was using piping bags. I'm such a dork.
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I've found Wilton has starred printing their names on the bags, so they aren't clear (unless they've changed back)-so I was excited to find these!


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Bendigo Spirit clinches back-to-back WNBL titles with 94-83 win over Townsville Fire
The Bendigo Spirit have clinched back-to-back WNBL titles with a 94-83 home grand final win over Townsville Fire.
Bendigo has produced a blistering start and an equally sizzling finish to secure back-to-back WNBL titles with a 94-83 grand final win over Townsville.
Leading by just one goal at the final change, minor premiers Bendigo scored the first nine points of the final term to send the home crowd into raptures.
The Spirit lost only two games all season and ensured that if it was veteran guard Kristi Harrower's final game, it was an appropriate swan song for the four-time Olympic medallist.
Three quick buckets to centre Gabrielle Richards and a three-pointer to Kelly Wilson gave Bendigo a 10-point buffer in the last quarter that was never reduced to below six.
Bendigo bolted to a 23-10 lead after seven and a half minutes, with an unstoppable Kelsey Griffin scoring 14 in the first quarter.
Griffin finished with 28 points and 15 rebounds, while 39-year-old Harrower tallied 22 points and a match-high nine assists.
American WNBA forward Griffin won her second straight grand final MVP.
Fire, who also lost at Bendigo in last year's grand final, cut an eight-point quarter time deficit to five at halftime.
With three-time league MVP Suzy Batkovic and Mia Newley providing offence, Townsville hit the front in the third quarter.
The teams exchanged a one-point lead on several occasions in a head-spinning high quality third quarter.
Batkovic finished with 21 points, nine rebounds, three steals and a block.
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2011: Played in 22 games for the Gauchos…Scored five goals and collected three steals…Had two-goal games in victories over Marist (Feb. 12) and La Verne (Mar. 4)…Also dished out an assist and one field block.
2010: Played in 24 games for the Gauchos during her sophomore campaign...Scored 11 goals and dished out eight assists...Also drew six ejections and collected a pair of steals...Started the season with a bang, scoring in a 5-3 win over Cal State Bakersfield (Jan. 23)...Tallied a season-best hat trick against Sonoma State (Jan. 30)...Scored in the 15-14 sudden victory win over Long Beach State in the first round of the Big West Championships (Apr. 23).
2009: Scored eight goals as a true freshman...Had a season-high three goals in a 15-10 win over Cal Baptist (Mar. 4)...Scored in the Big West opening round game against Pacific (Apr. 24) and in the final against UC Irvine (Apr. 26)...Tallied one assist and two steals.
Played at El Segundo High School under head coach Scott Garinger...Was a First Team All-Ocean League selection and was league MVP during her senior season after leading the team in scoring...Named First Team All-CIF Division VI during her junior and senior seasons and was a Second Team selection as a sophomore...Helped the Eagles to a CIF Championship during the 2006-07 season...On the Principal's Honor Roll all four years of high school…Also competed in swimming.
Played for Los Angeles Water Polo Club, helping her team to a second-place finish at the 2008 National Junior Olympics.
Elle Susanne Quane was born on Feb. 7, 1990 in Los Angeles, Calif. to parents Mark and Linda Quane...Has an older sister, Markayla, who played water polo for UC San Diego...Is a sociology major at UCSB...Outside of the pool, she enjoys the ocean, hiking, and traveling...Favorite movie is "Miracle" and enjoys reading the "Twilight" series...Says winning the semi-final game at the 2008 Junior Olympics is her most memorable athletic achievement.


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The landscape of Chinese educational (im)mobilities: Perspectives...9 Nov King's College
Seminar 2: The landscape of Chinese educational (im)mobilities: Perspectives of larger-scale data
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Date: 9 November 2017
Venue: River Room, Strand Campus, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Time: 11 am to 4 pm
Confirmed speakers include: Professor Yaojun Li (Manchester University), Professor Futao Huang (Hiroshima University, Japan), Professor Catherine Montgomery (University of Bath), Dr Cora Lingling Xu (Keele University), Dr Lu Wang (University of Hull)
In this seminar, papers will employ larger-scale data to recognise and outline the broad trends of education (im)mobilities within and beyond China. We will focus on interrogating how, if at all, social inequalities are reduced or reproduced through various forms of education (im)mobilities. We will question whether by focusing on (im)mobilities, we are valorising certain forms of educational trajectories over other less prominent forms. Methodologically, we will address the difficulties with getting hold of high quality large-scale data with Chinese contexts. By the end of this seminar we will have a more critical understanding regarding the merits and pitfalls of the grand narratives of educational (im)mobilities within the Chinese contexts.


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manuright needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 39 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Our company manufactures and sells consumer goods to retailers. We need a classy web site with a unique look that portrays our brands and products.
This contest includes one page (landing page after retailers log in) and a logo.
After the contest, I want to work with the winning designer to develop the rest of our site. This includes 10-20 additional sub-pages (using the same header / right column / footer), at a rate of roughly $100 per page.
Rite Lite
What we do: We are a large wholesaler of consumer goods. You can see our current (outdated) web site here: http://www.ritelite.com
Current Goals: Our new site will look nothing like our current site. Both design & functionality will be completely different. This design should be sharp and catchy, and, more importantly, easy to use and navigate.
Contest Details: One part of our site allows retailers to log in and shop for our products. This contest is for the main page of that store ($500) and an updated logo ($100). If you win for both, you get the full $600.
What I Want: We need one page that will be the starting page for our storefront. I created a very bare mockup of the elements that I need on the web page. You can find that here: http://www.ritelite.com/99designs/1/example.gif
This layout is just a guide; I want to see some creativity.
We will be using AJAX for some drop downs & popups. On this page, the "Shop By Catalog Code" link will drop down a layer to enter item codes. You can see the idea here: http://www.ritelite.com/99designs/1…p_down.gif
Other Resources: If you want to use some of our products for inspiration or in the design, please use our current web site or download this zip file of some products: http://www.ritelite.com/99designs/1/Images.zip
Deliverables: Layered PSD file with editable effects. (For example, if you created a gradient for a button, I want to be able to edit that gradient.)
- classy & attractive
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Daniel Craig & Javier Bardem: 'Skyfall' Paris Premiere!
Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem pose for a picture at the premiere of their James Bond flick Skyfall at Cinema UGC Normandie on Wednesday (October 24) in Paris, France.
The co-stars were joined on the red carpet by Bond Girl Berenice Marlohe and director Sam Mendes.
The day before, Daniel, Javier, and Berenice premiered the flick in London – the boys suited up while Berenice and Naomie Harris went all out glam!
Also pictured inside: Javier landing at the airport in Paris that same day with his wife Penelope and son Leo.
FYI: Berenice is wearing an Elie Saab gown and Sergio Rossi shoes.
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Norris helps power A's past Perez, Rangers
ARLINGTON -- One night after beating Rangers ace Yu Darvish, the A's took care of the American League's ERA leader with ease on Tuesday.
Texas' Martin Perez was forced to relinquish that title, after allowing a career-high eight runs in the A's 9-3 series-clinching victory at Globe Life Park, where they'll attempt a three-game sweep over the Rangers come Wednesday.View Full Game Coverage
ARLINGTON -- One night after beating Rangers ace Yu Darvish, the A's took care of the American League's ERA leader with ease on Tuesday.
Texas' Martin Perez was forced to relinquish that title, after allowing a career-high eight runs in the A's 9-3 series-clinching victory at Globe Life Park, where they'll attempt a three-game sweep over the Rangers come Wednesday.View Full Game Coverage
Perez, whose ERA moved from 1.42 to 2.95 in the loss, was on the heels of back-to-back shutouts and riding a 26-inning scoreless streak, but the A's quickly put that to rest in the first inning with a pair of runs off the first of two Derek Norris doubles on the night.
Oakland knocked Perez out of the game after just 4 2/3 innings. Darvish only made it 3 1/3 innings.
Together, they were tagged for a combined 12 runs. Consider it revenge on the A's part for being swept in their home park by this same club last week.
"It's almost like a little payback," said starter Scott Kazmir, who picked up the win. "We just feel comfortable out there, especially being able to get their No. 1, No. 2 guys out of there so early.
"We set the tone early. We worked Darvish, and it seemed like the same thing today. They were laying off some good pitches and waiting for the ones they could really do something with, and they didn't miss them."
"For me, I've always seen him pretty well," said Norris, 13-for-27 over his last nine games. "I kind of have to, considering I'm facing all left-handers. He's a great ground-ball pitcher. He gets a lot of double plays, and so you have to force him up in the zone. He didn't have much of a choice. He was living down there in the zone and we weren't biting on it. He had to elevate it to get the strikes."
Craig Gentry's second-inning leadoff triple in his first at-bat back in Texas led to the A's third run, and Norris would add his second RBI double in the third for a 4-0 lead the A's would never relinquish.
Oakland improved to an American League-best 17-10 with the win, extending its lead in the AL West to two games.
The Rangers reached the board against Kazmir in the fourth, but the A's broke open the game with full force in a five-run fifth.
All of the inning's runs came with two outs. Perez walked in a run before departing, and righty Jason Frasor proceeded to walk in another run. Josh Reddick followed with a two-run single, and a wild pitch would send in another run to cap off the wild inning.
"[Perez] missed a lot of spots tonight," said Rangers manager Ron Washington. "When he missed it, it was in the middle of the plate and it was up. Previous, everything he threw he put it where he wanted to. Tonight, when he missed his spot, it was in the middle of the plate.
"They hit mistakes very well. That's what they do well, they hit mistakes."
Kazmir labored and lasted five innings for the A's, his shortest stint of the year, and allowed three runs on seven hits and a walk with four strikeouts while improving to 4-0 on the season.
He hasn't lost since Sept. 16, a stretch spanning eight games.
"If that's a bad game for him," said manager Bob Melvin, "we'll take it."
A's relievers Ryan Cook, Fernando Abad and Sean Doolittle combined for four scoreless innings to close out a win that came just six days after Perez had limited the A's to three hits over nine scoreless innings.
"We got on him early today," said Melvin. "Typically with a good pitcher like that who's on a roll, your best chance is early on before he gets settled in. When we're doing well, that's what we're doing, making guys work and throwing a lot of pitches and finding a ball in your zone and squaring one up."
"That's what Oakland does," said Rangers catcher Robinson Chirinos. "Even through the Minor Leagues, they take a lot of pitches, they make the pitcher work long every at-bat, and when you don't execute the pitch, they're putting themselves in good hitting counts. That's what happened yesterday and today."
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Turns out Tom Brady is better at throwing touchdown passes than landing a jump on skis.
Big surprise there.
The Patriots quarterback posted a video of himself on Instagram doing a face-plant after taking a small jump while on a recent skiing vacation. He even quoted a South Park episode, showing he took the spill with a sense of humor.
Brady joked that he dinged up his left shoulder, which hardly matters to a right-handed quarterback. But the video nevertheless caused a few Patriots fans to fret.
Probably caused just as many to laugh.


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written by Eugenia Etkina, Aaron R. Warren, and Michael Gentile
The word modeling is becoming more and more common in physics, chemistry, and general science instruction. In physics, students learn models of the solar system, light, and atom. In biology courses they encounter models of joints, the circulatory system, and metabolic processes. The benefits of engaging students in model building are described in the literature. "Modeling instruction" is an example of a whole curriculum based on the idea of modeling. However, in a traditional physics class students do not have a clear understanding of what the word model means, and thus do not appreciate the role of this notion in physics. Physics teachers also have difficulties defining this word. The purposes of this paper are (a) to reexamine the word model as it is used in science, and (b) to suggest several types of tasks that engage students in the construction of models in a regular-format introductory physics course.
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What is an Ebow?
The EBow or ebow (brand name for "Electronic Bow" or Energy Bow) (often spelled E-bow in common usage)is a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar, invented by Greg Heet in 1969. Instead of having the strings hit by the fingers or a pick, they are moved by the electromagnetic field created by the device, producing a sound reminiscent of using a bow on the strings.
The EBow is used to produce a variety of sounds not usually playable on an electric guitar. By varying the EBow's linear position on the string, the user can produce different string overtones, and also fade in and out by lowering and raising the EBow. Furthermore, starting with the current generation of EBow (PlusEbow, the 4th edition Ebow), the user also gains an additional mode known as harmonic mode, which produces a higher harmonic sound instead of the fundamental note.
A wide variety of artists have used the EBow in a wide variety of musical styles. Radiohead most notably. An early pioneer of EBow playing was Max Sunyer, who used it in a 1978 live album "Iceberg en directe", recorded and released in Spain Picap. It was used later on by Bill Nelson, who introduced it to Stuart Adamson of The Skids. Adamson went on to use it heavily with Big Country, and it formed an integral part of their well-known "bagpipe sound". More recently, it has been used on Opeth's 2001 album Blackwater Park, in order to create ambient background melodies.
Besides its appearance in Rock and Jazz music, the E-Bow also made its way in the domain of contemporary art music, being used by John Cage in his harp piece A Postcard from Heaven (1982), Karlheinz Essl in Sequitur VIII (2008) for electric guitar and live-electronics, Elliott Sharp on SFERICS (1996), Arnold Dreyblatt in E-Bow Blues (released 1998) and David First in A Bet on Transcendence Favors the House (2008).
While the EBow is not normally used with the electric bass guitar, which has heavier strings, Michael Manring (who uses light bass strings) has persevered, and it features heavily on his 1995 album Thönk. He has even been known to use two at once.
Although the EBow is most commonly played on the electric guitar because of the ease of use and the responsiveness obtainable from the pickup, it has also been used in applications with the steel-string acoustic guitar. For example, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour used one on his Gibson J-200 acoustic in the 1994 song Take It Back to great effect. Generally an acoustic guitar gives a limited response for varying reasons, including the density and spacing of the guitar strings. But despite these limitations, using an EBow on an acoustic guitar gives a rich, flute and clarinet-like tone with a slow-swelling response.
Furthermore, an EBow can also be utilised on a grand piano (with depressed sustain pedal) in order to create sustained sinusoidal sounds as it was used by Olga Neuwirth in Hooloomooloo (1997).
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There was a time when many people in the United States of America turned their backs on Kenneth Hodges. But, there has never been a moment in the last forty eight years when Kenneth Hodges ever dreamed of turning his back on the United States of America. Called a "baby-killer" and a "murderer," Kenneth Hodges had good reasons to feel anger, to furiously lash out at those who assaulted him with hate and looked away in pathetic apathy. Instead, Kenneth Hodges sought out a higher power, one who gave him a special mission to serve his country. And, thirty seven years later, he is still carrying out that personal mission with eternal pride and with gracious honor, giving back to those veterans who have also served our country.
As Kenneth Hodges walked off the stage with his diploma from B.D. Perry High School in his hand, he knew that serving in the military would be an honorable way. He had an uncle, Hubert Mathis, who had been in the Army. He thought to himself that he wanted to make the military a career. So, he enlisted in the Army, just three weeks after graduation in 1963.
His values of country, honor, and doing right had been ingrained into Kenneth since he was a young boy by his mother, Mrs. Pauline Mathis Hodges, and his father, J. Richard Hodges. Mrs. Hodges began her teaching career in one-room school houses. In her thirty-five years of teaching school, Mrs. Hodges taught in churches which were specially outfitted for classes and the old Buckeye Junior High School, before teaching at B.D. Perry School on Highway 319. Mrs. Hodges ended her career as a teacher at East Laurens Primary School in the early 1970s.
Kenneth entered the infantry and was assigned to Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Division. As one of the division's crack units after training at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, the 20th regiment was sent to the Province of Quang Ngai, one of the most pro-Viet Cong provinces of South Vietnam.
The Americal Division had taken many casualties since its arrival in November 1967. As many as one third of the losses came from booby traps and mines, many of which were set by civilians sympathetic to the Viet Cong cause.
Charlie Company suffered its worst casualties on February 25, 1968. Captain Ernest Medina was awarded the Silver Star for his actions in rescuing his men. Medina and many field grade officers demanded that their men keep up an all out attack on the Viet Cong and their sympathizers. Regimental planners formulated a plan to clear the villages of My Lai of all Viet Cong.
March 16, 1968: Hodges recalled, "The morning of the 16th started early. The mood was sort of somber, but there was an edge of excitement." Hodges said in a 1989 Frontline documentary, "We knew we were going into something big and we were gonna deal with them." Normally a rifleman carried 180 rounds of ammo. Hodges remembered, "We were instructed to pack a triple basic load of ammunition. So we were expecting great resistance in that village."
Hodges and the other squad leaders were guiding their men into position to move out. "It was quite clear that no one was to be spared in that village, Hodges said, "The orders meant killing small kids, killing women, because they were soldiers," he added. The men of Charlie Company knew that refusing to carry out an order could result in punishment. Twenty-one years after the incident, Hodges recalled, "If one of my men had refused to shoot, I shudder to think what have been the repercussions. It's hard to say now what I would have done, looking back. At the time that it actually happened, he would have been in serious trouble."
In justifying his actions at My Lai, Hodges, in the Frontline documentary, said, "As a professional soldier, I had been taught to carry out the orders and at no time did it ever cross my mind to disobey or to refuse to carry out an order that was issued by my superiors." His soldiers were trained that way. "It's either you or the enemy, and the people who were in that village, the women, the little kids, the old men, were all considered the enemy," he said. Sgt. Hodges taught his soldiers how to deal with the enemy when they came face to face with him. "They are trained to be killers," he added."
In a 2010 American Experience documentary, Hodges, some forty-two years after My Lai, maintained that he and the others were following orders. "You train a man to soldier, you take him out of civilian life, you teach him to be a soldier, you train him to follow orders, you express to him the importance of following orders, and you train him to kill," the former sergeant maintained.
"After the My Lai operation and we returned to base camp, Captain Medina told us do not answer any questions from anyone, news reporters or anybody else, about this last mission," Hodges remembered. "Other units had experienced similar things, they had carried out similar operations. For some reason or another, it started off with a soldier sharing something with someone else who wasn't there. And, that person sharing it with someone else, who happened to be a friend of that guy. It sort of mushroomed from there and then someone decided that his conscience won't let him rest until justice was done," he added.
Charges of murder and rape were lodged and dismissed against Sgt. Hodges. Lt. William Calley, the platoon commander, was the only person found guilty in the action at My Lai. None of the field grade officers who planned the operation were ever charged. Despite the fact that he was cleared, the United States Army discharged Sgt. Kenneth Hodges from the service.
Kenneth Hodges desperately wanted to remain in the Army and serve his country. After he got out of the service, Kenneth lived in Columbus, Georgia for a couple of years. Those years were spent hoping against hope that the Army was going reinstate him and take him back in. With the help of a lawyer, Frank Martin over in Columbus, Hodges took his case all the way to the Supreme Court. "But, I lost out," the ten-year veteran looked back.
Hodges believes there is still a segment of society that Vietnam still rests on their minds. Not just the veterans, but people who are just ordinary citizens. "The full story, the incidents which led up to My Lai - a lot of people don't talk about them, because a lot of people don't know about them. As I relate the story to people, they say, "I didn't know all of that took place. I never heard that." Because, what happened before would shed a lot of light on why things went down like they did at My Lai."
"With the things that I went through and after and during the trial, I was recommended for a general court martial. It did not go that far. During that period, it was pretty dark. "Public sentiment turned, it was already out there, Vietnam vets were baby killers and more or less dregs of society," Hodges expounded.
Hodges' unit was considered the best of the brigade in their training operations in Hawaii, so much so that they were the advance party to go over first. Hodges said, "Once the news came out a year and half later, even the army said we were undertrained and undereducated. Which was hardly the case. We had been undereducated. Some of them did have low IQs. But that was not our fault, they were drafted. If you have ever seen the movie Forrest Gump, I saw first hand "Forrest Gump."
Hodges was referring to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's 100,000 project, in which the military openly ignored intelligence test results in drafting and enlisting soldiers. "These soldiers were good soldiers because of the repetition in their training. Tthey could pick it up. And, because they were of a simple mind, following orders was something they understood," Hodges maintains. "So after their experiences in Vietnam, they had a hard time dealing with what they saw and what they experienced," the former sergeant added.
In general, Hodges felt that many in the country turned their backs on the Vietnam veteran. He recalled the story, "When the news broke about the things, the trial, my mother, who grew up teaching school in Laurens County and on the east side of the river, was shunned. None of her friends, or so called friends, even called and offered words of encouragement or words of consolation. But a woman whom she had never met, a white lady, called and said, 'I cooked a cake. I want you to put on a pot of coffee. I know you must be going through something now.'" It was those things that were "heartwarming, touching and uplifting" to Kenneth Hodges. Those were the exceptions, and not the rule.
One touching exception to that rule came during the holidays at the end of Hodges' first of his two tours of duty in Vietnam. Hodges was returning home when he was at the Atlanta Airport awaiting a layover flight to Macon before taking a taxi to Dublin to surprise his family, who didn't know he was coming home for the holidays. "While I was waiting for the plane to fly to Macon, I was browsing in one of the shops there and I came upon this one white couple and the lady greeted me. I was in uniform and we started talking. She said, 'Are you in the army?' Yes, I said. She said, 'Well, where have you just come from, where are you going?' I said, I am going home for the holidays. She said, 'Where are you coming from?' I said, from Vietnam," he recalled.
"A look of surprise came over her and she excitedly said, 'You are home from Vietnam?' I said, yes. She called her husband over and she said, 'Honey, this soldier returned from Vietnam and he is going to be home for Thanksgiving and for Christmas.' He looked me in the eye and with tears in his eyes said, 'Thank you for doing my part. I couldn't go. I have health problems. I was listed and categorized as F4 - unfit for military service. Thank you for doing my part.' He hugged me and his wife hugged me. That stands out as one of the high points of returning from Vietnam," he concluded. Hodges recalled that other than a welcome from his family, there were hardly any welcome homes or any thank yous.
The incident at My Lai is just a only a small part of the story of Kenneth Hodges. The story of Hodges, the veteran, does not end here. In fact, his story is just beginning. Read more in tomorrow's edition the story of Kenneth Hodges, a veteran's veteran.
"One morning I woke up with a thought that I needed to find a new direction. I needed to make a new beginning," Kenneth said as felt that his new beginning should be back in Dublin and that he could turn his life around at home. He was drifting, going no where in a hurry, dealing with alcoholism and his problems with the military. Hodges saw his problems were not being corrected and were not going to be corrected in Columbus. In early 1975, Hodges made a fateful decision, packed his bags and came home to find his new beginning. All he had was his family, himself, and his faith in God.
Hodges never gave any thought to working at the VA until he met Grady Phillips. Phillips asked Hodges had he ever thought about working at the VA hospital. "That's when the light went on. I said, wow!. That's a great idea," Hodges fondly recalled.
He gives credit to those who stepped up for him and embraced him. One of them was E.B. Smith, the union president and a veteran. "He had no requirement to help me as I was a temporary employee. He was a caring individual," Hodges added. Bob Willis was another who came to assist Hodges in his quest to become a permanent employee. Willis went to the director, Harold Duncan, and pleaded with him to give Hodges a chance.
Willis declared, "I wish we had hundreds of employees like Kenneth." I was so impressed with him, I went to the Harold Duncan, the director, and plead his case for permanent employment. I told him that he wouldn't regret it. In my years at the VA, Kenneth did an outstanding job and we never had any complaints about the way he did his job. He is a fine man."
Hodges' application was bogging down in the bowels of the bureaucracy. In the first round of testing he received a very low score. He had completed high school, a year of college and trade school. Hodges, naturally frustrated at the endless delays asked a VA official, "What am I supposed to do to make a living, rob a bank? I can't get on at the VA. This is crazy!" Hodges grabbed some sheets of paper and wrote out his case. The official took them to the board and plead his case. With his veteran's preference, Hodges scored a 99 and got a permanent job in housekeeping.
Working early on in the kitchen, the laundry, Hodges kept looking for a more fulfilling position. In late 1977, a job was announced on the board for a motor vehicle operator. "The more I dug into it, the more I learned what motor vehicle operators do. They transport patients, veterans to other VA facilities, clinics and nursing homes. And these veterans come from our service area, which includes 59 counties surrounding Dublin. The idea came to my mind that this was a way to reach other veterans who may be experiencing similar problems." Hodges remarked. Not long after he got the job a Seventh Day Adventist minister, who worked in the laundry, kept telling Hodges, "That's your job. God has work for you to do in that job."
Hodges does the things he does for veterans because it gives him a sense of accomplishment. "It gives me a good feeling - a giving back to those who gave to me when I was coming along struggling. When I started at the VA, it was hard getting on permanently. I managed to get on to a temporary assignment, but getting a permanent assignment proved to be a challenge," he maintained.
Over the last thirty-three years, Hodges estimates that he has driven more than one million miles in transporting veterans. "I had veterans usually going to Augusta or Decatur, two to three hours. I had them and I had their attention. They couldn't get away. So they were trapped with me. I could talk to them. There were veterans who had similar problems to what I had, especially Vietnam veterans. Some of them were younger. Some of them were older. I saw that they were going through the same problems that I was going through with PTSD dealing with every day problems after you got back, still making adjustments from being in the war. It gave me a great opportunity. It still gives me a great opportunity, because now I am seeing younger veterans coming from Iraq and from Afghanistan. They are suffering from similar problems and I am able to share my experiences with them and what I learned about PTSD, and ways to deal with it and cope with it." he said.
Hodges counts the number of veterans which he has helped to be in the tens of thousands. "I am interacting with them in someway, talking with them about different things, different aspects of their lives - the things that they are going through. The assistance that I give some of them is just talk and advice - some of them, just a listening ear," he says.
During the period between 1982 to the early 1990s Hodges was on the road to Augusta everyday, sometimes twice a day and even three times in one day. " One Saturday, I had a scheduled transfer. When I got back from that one, I had an emergency. When I got back from that one, I had another emergency. The other two drivers were out sick, so I drove 600 miles within a twenty-four period in three trips to Augusta." he remarked.
Hodges also takes veterans to get their driver's licenses and IDs. Although his primary mission is to make sure the patients get transportation for medical treatment he finds a lot of guys coming in with their pockets empty. With no public transportation available, he makes sure that veterans can take care of their of the business during their stay at the VA Hospital. He took one man out to get a driver's license for his van. He got it even though he lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam. "That really blew my mind. He is a Vietnam veteran. He lost both legs and an arm. I saw him in Atlanta and he was driving," he fondly recalled.
An old friend, whom Kenneth met at Fort Benning back in the early 70s, called him. He was crying. The friend had been receiving bad treatment from his co-workers. "He was on the verge of doing something foolish. He called me and said there was going to be homicide or a suicide. I don't know which," said Kenneth, who told his friend, "It sounds like PTSD has set in on you." This was in the early 90s, the mid 90s. Today he is on the road to receiving the help that he needs and getting the counseling he needs for the PTSD as well as other physical problems.
Time and time again in his life, Kenneth Hodges has seen that giving back to others brings blessings back to the giver ten fold. He does good deeds not for any hope of reward nor recognition. Not one to blow his own horn, Hodges related the story of a veteran who had been sleeping under a bridge for two months and drinking whenever he could. After deciding that the vet wanted to come in and get cleaned up, Hodges transported him from Augusta to Dublin to be admitted to the detox ward. "The clothes that he had a stench in them - you could hardly stand it riding in the van. When I got back to Dublin, I took all of his clothes, everything that he had, which was in two large plastic bags. I took it home and washed them, dried them, and returned them to him fresh," he recalled.
Hodges realizes that there are many people around town who don't seek or want recognition for the acts of charity and kindness. He tells the story of a young lady who worked at the VA. Her estranged boyfriend slashed all of her tires. Her fellow employees raised $270.00 to help her buy new tires. Kenneth picked up the phone and phoned a friend, who was a local tire dealer. He told the man of the lady's predicament. The dealer said, "Kenneth, as I have always told you if you need anything call me." Hodges told the dealer what had happened. He said, "You've got $270?" Hodges said, "yes." The dealer said, "Let me call you back in five minutes." "He called me in three," Hodges said. The tire shop owner asked, "You've got $270 and you want these tires mounted and balanced?" Hodges told the man, "I know it is a tall request," to which the dealer responded, "The cheapest tire I have got is $325 for the set and that doesn't include mounting and balancing, but bring me that $270."
That tire dealer, as you may have guessed by now, was Hodges' fellow good deed doer, Scott Beasley of Duncan Tire Company. When asked about Kenneth Hodges, Beasley smiled excitedly and said, " You mean Kenneth Hodges, he is Dublin's hero! Beasley declared, "Kenneth Hodges has a heart as big as the helmet that the soldier's wear." Beasley remembered watching the American Experience documentary on My Lai when all of sudden he recognized his old friend. He exclaimed, "That's Kenneth!," as his heart swelled with pride and admiration.
Hodges remembered meeting a couple in Augusta while waiting to return a patient home. He had known them in the years in which they ran a variety store on I-16 in Dublin. The man was suffering from an aneurism. The lady was recovering from cancer. While the couple were in Augusta, they had a flat tire. The lady was trying to call for a mechanic to come and change or repair their tire. That's when Kenneth Hodges stepped in.
The man told his wife to hang up the phone and that help was on the way. Puzzled, the lady responded, "They are here already here? I didn't get a chance to talk." The man said, "No, Kenneth is here to change the tire." Kenneth refused the lady's financial reward. When Hodges got back to Dublin, the couple had already called his supervisor, Freddie Smith. Smith told the chief, who within a matter of days, presented a "Caring Award" to Hodges. He had a choice between a meal for four at a Macon restaurant or a fifty-dollar savings bond. Hodges laughed, "I said, "I know how to cook, give me the savings bond!".
The list of good deeds goes on and on. There too many to list and too many which have never been told nor were expected to be known or publicly appreciated outside of those who received his generous aid.
Kenneth Hodges's story of service to his country continues in tomorrow's edition.
Kenneth Hodges has been serving our country for more than two thirds of his sixty six years. And, he has no plans to stop any time soon. He has no goal of fifty or fifty-five years. "I tell folks when they question me about my retirement. It's like a piece of gum that you stick in your mouth, the sweet taste is still there," Hodges said.
On almost every morning, Kenneth Hodges stills looks forward to getting up and going to work, facing new challenges and meeting new people, talking to them and sharing his experiences, and trying to shed some light on how they can better themselves. He unequivocally stated, "There are lot more opportunities now for the Afghanistan and Iraqi veterans than there were for the Vietnam veterans."
Kenneth Hodges relishes in doing what he can to carry out the programs that the VA has as well as his own program of assisting the veterans and encouraging them by giving them the courage to continue on with what they are doing. Hodges insists that the veterans whom he meets continue to get an education. He challenges them not to give up on their dreams. "If they have something they want to do, pursue it," Hodges declared.
"They are more warmly received. And, that does not bother me. Some people have problems dealing with that, but that was another time and another place," Hodges commented on how he and other Vietnam vets were treated four decades ago.
From time to time, Kenneth Hodges interacts with female veterans. Some of them have dependence problems, and sadly some of the women are homeless. To the young veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq, Hodges encourages them to seek a higher power. "If you don't want to call it God, seek a higher power, like an AA commitment," he tells young veterans. He shares with them his own guidance from God in overcoming his problems. "I looked to God for my guidance and to get to me through it," Hodges asserted.
There were no parades, no ceremonies, not hardly a single celebration when Kenneth Hodges and other Vietnam veterans came home to the United States. But, it is not too late to welcome those who served. Hodges, himself now finds himself instinctively thanking the Vietnam veterans he meets for their service to our country.
Just five years ago, Hodges, wearing a cap indicating the he was a veteran of the Vietnam War, was at a convenience store gassing up his vehicle. He noticed a young veteran in his late twenties. The young man walked directly toward him and looked him straight in the eye. He stuck out his hand and said, "Thank you for your service to our country and welcome home." Hodges said, "I was shocked at his actions, and I said what did you say? I had to hear it again." The young man repeated, "Thank you for your service to our country. Welcome home, Vietnam veterans didn't get a lot of that" Hodges was so touched that he began to cry.
When he meets a Vietnam veteran because of his insignia on his cap or what he is wearing which sets him apart, Hodges will greet him, "I don't have to know him. I will just walk up to him and extend my hand, shake his hand, and welcome him home and thank him for his service to his country," he maintains as most of them have the same reaction that he did.
Hodges says that the citizens of our community can help veterans who are now returning by embracing them and welcoming them home. "Give them some support and listen to them. Some of them are reluctant to share their stories," he says. As for himself, sharing his story is therapy. He feels that so many people are in the dark as far as the Vietnam veteran, what he is and who he is. "We are a cross section of society of that period. We are no more and we are no less than the others are. It's just that we served in an unpopular war. And, when it was over, there was not a win involved. We sort of tucked our tails between our legs and walked off," he concluded.
Kenneth Hodges has fought many fights in his life. And, like his second-cousin, six-time world champion boxer "Sugar Ray" Robinson, he has won most of them. In commenting on his struggles and the triumph of his faith, Hodges says, "Sometimes life is like a bad movie. You keep on watching it and hope it will turn out good."
Kenneth Hodges never really liked bad endings. His sister, Frenchy Hodges, remembered the days of their youth when they and their siblings, Marva, Larue, and Joe Richard, Jr., were working in the fields along side their farmer father, Joe Richard Hodges, Sr. Frenchy, a nationally recognized poetess and story teller, often made up stories, some of which had sad endings. "Kenneth has always been a sensitive and caring man," said Ms. Hodges. "When he began to cry after hearing my stories, I would say, 'No, the story really doesn't end that way," and I would change the story to add a happy ending to cheer him up," Hodges happily recalled.
Many years ago Hodges learned that words can hurt and words can heal. "A lot of times you don't know the impact of what you do or what you say will have on some people. Sometimes you'll never know," he says. He was reminded about a story of a professor who assigned his psychology students the task of telling someone what they meant to them. As he rushed through his own busy schedule, the professor forgot that he himself was supposed to complete the assignment. He went to his son's room and told him just how much he appreciated what his son had done to help around the house and how proud of him he was for his good grades and how much he loved him. The boy began to sob uncontrollably. When asked what was wrong, the son said, "Dad, I didn't think you had even noticed me period, or even noticed what I did around the house. I didn't think you even noticed my grades or anything I did in school. That was why tomorrow morning, I planned to kill myself."
That story got Kenneth to thinking that sometimes you say things that are ugly or hurting to people that you want to strike out. And, they can really hurt people. It made him think the angry and bitter words should stop coming out of his mouth.
There was a period there when he could pass it out freely, especially if you crossed his path. "I tell the guys sometimes that I used to be a revolving SOB and I loved it," Hodges admits. One guy said, "What is a revolving SOB?" Hodges said, "Any way that I turned, I was one. It was nothing that I was proud of." After Vietnam, Hodges didn't realize what Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was. "It manifests itself in people's minds. One of the effects is anger and not necessarily at anyone or anybody. Just anger. But since I have been at the VA, I have met a half dozen people who have shared their stories about anger," he said.
After listening to veterans, Hodges realized that he too had some of that anger. "I realized that the angrier you get, the more excited and the more you like it. And, that is dangerous. That's a part of that transformation. I turned it around. I said, no, no, you don't want to go back there," he recollected.
Kenneth Hodges gives all the credit for turning his life around to God. "The Master, the man upstairs. He showed it to me and let me see it vividly, vividly. I said, no, no, I don't want to go back there." He urges all veterans to get help from the VA. He shares his story of overcoming turmoil in his life through his faith in God and his God-given love he has for his fellow veterans.
And today, you'll still find Kenneth Hodges after almost a half century of serving his country, still serving the country and the veterans whom he never turned his back on. While not working at the VA on or the road, you may find him at home, doing what he loves to do, cooking a delicious meal and enjoying life with this wife Margaret. Sometimes he closes his eyes and watches himself starring in a bad biographical movie which is now showing the good parts. And, it looks like there will be a wonderful and oh so happy ending.
Welcome home, Sergeant Kenneth Hodges! Thank you for your service to our country.


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Frankenweenie (2D) (US - BD)
Gabe is proud of himself for not making any John Bobbitt jokes in this review...
After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog, Sparky (Frank Welker), young filmmaker/inventor Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life – with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor's fellow students, teachers, and the entire town learn that getting a new 'leash on life' can be monstrous. (From Disney's original synopsis)
Despite retrospectively defending his older work and enjoying Sweeney Todd a whole lot more than I thought I would, I pretty much gave up on Tim Burton when he made it abundantly clear he had no interest in growing as a filmmaker. Retooling the same themes and images over and over isn't a criminal offense (Wes Anderson is still getting away with it, Dario Argento got away with it for a couple of decades), but Burton also has the dubious habit of making some supremely obnoxious movies over the last decade, specifically uber-hits Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland (I haven't seen Dark Shadows). Burton semi-recently returned to his animation roots with The Corpse Bride, which bared every one of his visual and thematic trademarks. More telling, it was an utter bore. As a pseudo-remake of one of an early short (another obvious homage to period B-movies) and the stop-motion animated follow-up to The Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie came to theaters dangling enough red flags to keep me from spending my money on it. But now I've been sent a copy to review and I'm forced to face my negative assumptions.
Being a pseudo-remake, I assumed Frankenweenie was some kind of ne plus ultra sampling of Burton's refusal to challenge himself. Beyond the obvious return to old material, this voice cast is brimming with familiar names that helped establish Burton as a 'name' director (Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Landau) and its major character designs are recycled from the director's other early short subjects (the title dog is looks like the dog from Family Dog and Vincent is a direct analogue to the title character of, well, Vincent). The good news is that, even though Burton hasn't moved on as a filmmaker, Frankenweenie isn't a complete retread of the original short and, as such, is pretty entertaining on its own terms. Burton uses the extra time to pad out the mythology of his little universe and say something about conservative America's ongoing issues with modern science and public education (I'm surprised Fox News didn't pick up on it). Or perhaps he's just reiterating his favourite morals about not judging strange people. Like The Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie is a rather expensive, time-consuming practice in analyzing personal demons. The difference is that, in the spirit of the reflective theme, Burton and credited screenwriter John August (who wrote Burton's ultimate daddy-issues-fest Big Fish) aren't concerned with current idiosyncrasies; they're looking back into idiosyncratic childhood.
In many ways, Frankenweenie is just as much a follow-up to Ed Wood as it is a follow-up to Corpse Bride. It sees Burton once again working within the constraints '50s era black & white photography style. There are some expansive, impressionistic, James Whale-like images, but a lot of the story is told through a more static look that recalls Stefan Czapsky's lo-fi Ed Wood photography. Both films also celebrate the B-cinema Burton grew up on without Mars Attacks' satirical approach. The difference is that Ed Wood pays homage to, well, filmmaker Ed Wood and his movies, whereas Frankenweenie is a bit more of a '30s-'60s catchall, especially the third act, which features callouts to everything from James Whale and Tod Browning, to the drive-in era and kaiju classic Gamera. And, just because the tone doesn't call for it, Burton even throws in a bit of his beloved Hammer by including footage of Christopher Lee in Dracula (1968, aka The Horror of Dracula). Frankenweenie also has the fortunate distinction of actually being funny, which is something that has been missing from Burton's oeuvre since Sleepy Hollow. For years, the director's very specific, morbid brand of humour has been shaded by obnoxious special effects and manic Johnny Depp performances. This film is more muted and character-based in its quirky comedic approach. 'Weird Girl' (never otherwise named and also voiced by Catherine O'Hara), with her saucer eyes, wispy voice, and her clairvoyant cat poop, is absolutely priceless. The physical gags aren't as amusing, but at least they give the film some momentum, unlike the terminally static Corpse Bride. Unfortunately, Burton's sense of emotional resonance has been off for decades, so the big tear-jerker moments don't quite land with the intended punch. At best, these are cute, when I believe Burton was aiming for something more akin to genuinely moving.
Every time a stop motion animated feature is released questions, seem to arise concerning exactly how much the credited director had to do with the production. There's just so much time and hands-on work involved in the process that no one person can truly hold sway over the entire production. This process is so time consuming that even the editor's job is mostly done in pre-production. All four of Burton's stop motion productions ( The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach were directed by Henry Selick) were made over a long enough period of time that they ended up being released within a year of one of his big budget live-action features ( The Nightmare Before Christmas and Batman Returns, James and the Giant Peach and Mars Attacks, Corpse Bride and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this film and Dark Shadows). Unfortunately, someone's name needs to be on the marquee (Director's Guild rules practically dictate this), which leaves a legion of filmmakers delegated to the less distinguished end credit line. The animation here is certainly outstanding from a technical standpoint. I've never seen stop-motion executed so smoothly and the camera placement is dynamic without drawing to attention to itself. It's surprisingly easy to forget that you're watching animation and not actors in ridiculous suits of some kind. Fortunately, the charm of the format isn't lost in the technical artistry, especially where characters that require different head pieces to speak are concerned, like Mr. Rzykruski's (Martin Landau), who speaks with a delightful jitter. The more complex surfaces, like the grass of the backyard, also feature little, unintentional and beautiful motion artefacts.
The stop motion animation process has been coupled with 3D photography for some time now, starting with the post-conversion 3D re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas in 2006. I saw it and the post-conversion was awful. Coraline was then the first to be shot specifically in digital 3D in 2009 and the effect was well-received enough to inspire a regular practice. The process is so popular at this point that Frankenweenie wasn't even the only 3D stop-motion release of 2012 (the similarly themed ParaNorman was released a couple of months prior). Once again, my review here pertains only to the 2D Blu-ray's transfer. The animators shot their work in native 3D using Canon EOS Mark II cameras, the same models used for Corpse Bride and ParaNorman. Because Frankenweenie is such a stylized picture, photographically speaking, I'm left without much to talk about in terms of this transfer. The image is crisply black & white and the lighting schemes are almost exclusively set to appear quite dark. Even daylight is obscured and grey, leading to sharp, thick, black shadows and perfectly white highlights. The image hasn't been altered to appear grainy like film (there's next to nothing in terms of noise), but the filmmakers have taken effort to make everything appear underexposed. This makes for some nice, soft gradient blends amid the otherwise jet black canvas. The dark bits and hotspot highlights don't do anything to damage the transfer's high level of detail. The finest textures of the models and sets are quite complex, despite the absence of colour with zero blocking noise and only the slightest hint of edge enhancement.
This DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack matches the mixed old-fashioned/new-fangled approach set by the image quality. The dialogue is mostly centered, assuming the characters speaking are on-screen, and the words are always clear. At the same time, the vocal performances veer from tinny to warm and are often slightly inconsistent in terms of volume. I believe this was the intended effect. The effects work is similarly thin for the most part, including what sounds like analogue-collected foley work. This makes for a pleasantly naturalistic approach to an otherwise unnatural process. These basic effects do move through the channels on occasion, but are usually anchored in the middle channel. Though most of the film ticks by without much more than basic ambience, the extended climax is quite loud. Highlights include any experiment sequence, where thunder and lightning play a big role, and creature transformations/attacks that allow for more aggressive directional enhancement. Danny Elfman continues his long, long line of musical compositions for Tim Burton here. He doesn't attempt to recreate the magic of Nightmare Before Christmas' songs this time, unlike his Corpse Bride soundtrack, which featured a single, sad little song that served only to remind us that we weren't watching Nightmare Before Christmas. Frankenweenie's music does remind one of Nightmare Before Christmas, however, mostly because it rarely goes away and tends to tell the story when words are absent.
The special features start with Miniatures in Motion: Bringing Frankenweenie to Life (23:10, HD). This behind-the-scenes featurette includes Burton, producers Allison Abbate and Don Hahn, animation director Trey Thomas, puppet hospital supervisor Andy Gent, armature maker Josie Corben, puppet designers Peter Saunders and Ian McKinnen, model maker Paul Davis, art director Alexandra Walker, director of photography Peter Sorg, painter Roy Bell, prop maker Maggie Haden, and animation staff Tobias Fouracre, Mark Waring, and Anthony Elworthy discussing the film's production in the UK, from expanding the original short into a feature, puppet construction/repair, set and prop construction, production design, and every part of the stop-motion animation process. Frankenweenie Touring Exhibit (4:40, HD) briefly covers an exhibition of the film's sketches, sets, props, and puppets, including further interviews with Burton and his producers. Extras end with a new short entitled Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers (2:30, HD), the original live-action Frankenweenie short (which can also be seen on the Nightmare Before Christmas Blu-ray, 30:00, SD), a Plain White Ts Pet Semetary music video (The Ramones are rolling in their graves, 3:50, HD), and trailers.
Frankenweenie really could've been a tone-deaf disaster, but it's quite entertaining and charming enough to overcome any of its major shortcomings. I can't imagine it having the enduring legacy of The Nightmare Before Christmas (in fact, I can't imagine it have any legacy outside of perhaps some cult fans), but that's definitely a step up from the entirely forgettable Corpse Bride and the eye-gougingly annoying Alice in Wonderland. This Blu-ray presentation is positively gorgeous, limited only by the dark, black & white photography, and the DTS-HD MA soundtrack is a perfect arena for Danny Elfman's enduring musical score. The extras are brief, but cover the important bases.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Some material may not be suitable for children
Disc Details
Release Date: 8th January 2013
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, DTS-HD HR 7.1 French, DVS 2.0 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Captain Sparky vs The Flying Saucers Short, Miniatures in Motion: Bringing Frankenweenie to Life, Frankenweenie Touring Exibit, Original Frankenweenie Live-Action Short, Music Video, Trailers, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Charlie Tahan, Frank Welker, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Robert Capron, Atticus Shaffer
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Horror and Sci-Fi
Length: 87 minutes
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