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Under the mercurial President Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi was a country that seemed eager to pick fights with aid donors, the richer countries that supplied up to 40 percent of Malawi's budget.
In the year before his death, President Mutharika announced that he would defy the International Monetary Fund and continue to provide subsidized seed and fertilizer to Malawian farmers. In parliament, he warned human rights activists that they could face jail time if they insulted him. And on the streets of Lilongwe, he followed through: As protesters called for Mutharika's removal, Malawian police responded with gunfire, killing 20. It was then that Malawi's donors cut the country off from international aid.
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Daniel Yohannes, the chief executive officer of MCC, met President Banda on Thursday, and announced that his organization would reinstate $350 million in grants for hydropower projects in Malawi.
"This is going to bring cheaper energy which is badly needed in the country," Mr. Yohannes said in a phone interview with the Monitor after his meeting with Ms. Banda. "Malawians are going to benefit tremendously. It's going to affect 5 million people, and provide up to $2 billion in value to the country's economy."
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For experts on foreign aid, Malawi is a test case for the West's attempt to use aid as a leverage to foster better democratic governance and economic reform in the developing world. It's an approach that some African nations embrace, while others reject as a painful reminder of the West's colonial period in Africa. For the latter, the no-questions-asked loans and grants from emerging foreign aid donors like China have become more attractive, and encouraged aid skeptics such as the late President Mutharika — who died in April of natural causes — to fight back.
America was not the only aid donor to cut off Malawi for its authoritarian policies, and it is not the only aid donor to reinstate aid when Banda began to strip away the Bingu baggage.
Last April, the African Development Bank announced that it was ready to provide $45 million in budget financing for Malawi to help the new president revive the country's weak economy. Malawi is dependent on one sector, agriculture, for 35 percent of Malawi's gross domestic product, and 80 percent of its export earnings.
In May, Britain pledged $35 million in economic stabilization programs, and $15.4 million for the country's health sector. Two thirds of the country's population live in poverty, and one in five is unable to afford even the most basic minimum food requirements, according to the United Nations Development Program.
The role of democratic governance
Yohannes of the MCC says that the US is committed to supporting democratic governance, and it will continue to use aid dollars as a leverage to encourage better economic policy.
"In order to a member of the MCC family, you have to have the conditions of democratic governance, human rights, and the rule of law," Yohannes says. "Under the previous president, there were some laws that banned free expression, that were very difficult for civil society. There was a crackdown on the media. So when we suspended Malawi, it was because of the killing of civilian protesters by the police."
Banda has taken "bold actions to improve Malawi's human rights environment," Yohannes adds, and announced economic reforms as well.
While refusing to talk about other donor nations, such as China, which may not be as focused on human rights policy, Yohannes says the goal of his agency "is to reduce poverty. Our goal is to help partner countries to get rid of poverty so that aid is no longer needed."
Creating the conditions where countries can wean themselves from foreign aid and stand on their own feet requires the use to become "extremely selective," Yohannes says. "Out of 100 countries that are considered to be poor, we have a relationship with 24."
"When a country does not abide by the preconditions for an MCC grant, they will be suspended," Yohannes says. "Now we believe that we have a good relationship with President Banda, and it will benefit Malawians as well as the people of the United States."


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Jameer Nelson's Annual "Building Magic" Event Likely To Be Cancelled
In what has become the annual offseason bro-building event, Jameer Nelson's "Building Magic" is likely to be cancelled this year. In a conversation with Jameer's agent, Steve Mountain, Magic Basketball Online has learned that there are currently no plans to hold this event. The lockout was cited as the primary reason.
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The Building Magic event has taken place since 2006 and is always held by Jameer Nelson and his camp. Every minute of the week is planned with events such as strength and conditioning workouts, scrimmages, dinners and nightlife. All attendees always receive elaborate gift bags as well. Past events have included bowling, paintball and baseball games amongst others. Planking has not been involved in previous events.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, and Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley announced Hampton Bays Middle School in Hampton Bays, NY, designed by BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers (BBS), a winner of the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools program.
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I didn't mean to create a thread about treating or not treating for mites, but I do appreciate that it's a part of what I outlined as a goal.
Ian, I feel ya. I do. I'm not suggesting that I wouldn't treat if I needed to. And have no illusions about it perhaps not being possible. But I've never really tried not treating in earnest, and when I read that others are doing it successfully to whatever degree that amounts to in relation to their goals - then I feel that I should give it a shot at some point, and what better time to do it than now? What does anyone really know about beekeeping that they haven't themselves? You know what I mean?
To me, treatment free means not doing things specifically to combat mites - it's all related to the mite issue. At the same time, I also recognize that creating a nuc-based operation could have an effect on mite counts, so that is potentially a 'treatment' of sorts. Also, I am hoping to stack the odds in my favor by making more colonies on less gear.
Mike Palmer and Dean - Absolutely. There's no question that it all hangs on the doing. At the moment, we're looking at getting our first snow here tonight. The bees are in for the winter. I've moved to my winter activities, which amount to research and building. In the basement workshop, I'm building enough gear so that I come out of hibernation with the gear for 45 hives - 30 of them double nucs as you have shown in your presentations.
• I've been working with another local beekeeper here, trying to learn whatever I can from his experience, and to have someone who doesn't wear out on the subject of bees to talk to. I did a cut-out with him this summer, and plan to do more next season. I've visiting still others to glean what I can from what they know as well.
• I built 10 swarm traps last winter, and secured places for them this season. I got one swarm, and had lot's of activity at others. I have secured places for them again next spring.
• I have tried to contact anyone around me that has worked on raising queens in the area to learn from them.
• I have been in contact with provincial authorities regarding the closed border regulations, and succeeded in getting a permit to bring in queens this past summer, which is how I got the Buckfasts.
• I have been in touch with science departments of Canadian universities to try and get information on what they know about resistant bees in our climates, and to learn what they can tell me about the progress of any projects aimed at building mite and disease-resistant stocks in Canada.
• I have been in contact with breeders in different parts of Canada regarding their stock in case I decide to apply for 2013 permits.
• I have secured sufficient yard space close to home. One of those yards is quite isolated from other beekeepers, and could be a mating yard site in the future. The city I live in (where most of my bees are now) has a pesticide ban, and has had one in place for three years.
• I will begin to work on queen rearing this season, which I need to learn and am excited about.
• After three and a half years of continuous bee-obsession on my part, my partner Angie, has gone from annoyed, to tolerant, to a sudden and very strong interest in bee-products-based-handmade-soaps-and cosmetics. This could be the greatest development yet.
• Local pollination is something I'm looking at, as the province is a huge fruit grower (apples, blueberries, cranberries, etc) and has had a consistent shortage of bees. There are also an increasing number of organic operations here, which is nice. People are getting as much as $150 a hive, and most of the farms are within an hour and a half of my house. This is part of why I'm aiming at higher numbers. Also, none of the farm areas are very large, which means that bees placed there for pollination still have a pretty wide variety of other types of forage around. So I feel like pollination locally is not going to be especially hard on the bees... (thoughts?)
• Beyond that, there is a government incentive program offering any beekeeper who has at least 50 hives in pollination in a season, a grant of as much as 50% of the cost of any expansion they want to do.
So that's a potential shot in the arm if I get to 50 and still want to expand to reach that 100.
I am interested in creating a viable sideline. I'd like to reach $15,000 annual income after expenses. I have not created a business plan or anything yet, as I'm still really just focused on learning about the bees, and which aspects of working with bees I enjoy most. I have made all of my gear out of reclaimed lumber and have spent very little money. Everything I'm building is designed to be cost-effective and as efficient as possible.
I am not over-extending myself economically at all, and won't unless I have a viable business plan.
At this point, it's just doing and learning; thinking and planning.
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good work adam!
journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Im not against developing bees that are more tolerant to diseases,
we as beekeepers can bring these traits into our operation to help minimize the need to relieve disease pressures
disease is always going to be part of looking after animals, no way around it. Our ability to manage those disease losses is what allows us to manage bees
here is a project I am supporting ,
If your interested in natural selection, this project will be right up your alley. The amount of effort these people put into this project is outstanding. And I am supporting their efforts by bringing their stock into a portion of my operation. For a beekeeper like myself to achieve anywhere near what they have accomplished is impossible.
Now the other question is how do they measure success in what the project has provided them,.? Time will tell,
The other question is how does mother nature manage the disease pressures naturally? The answer is looking like she wants to manage mites exactly the opposite way we want to keep our bees
Ian, Saskatraz is one of the operations I've been in touch with for potential import next season. The problem there for me is that the information on their progress is outdated, and communication is very slow. I have mentioned this here before. I'm not knocking them, I'm just saying that for a guy on the other side of the country trying to make decisions on where to get bees on a limited permit - one needs clear, up-to-date information, and prompt communication.
Do you have info on their progress since 2009? How are they doing in terms of reaching their goals?
Is that a project you would like to experiment in your own operation?
The project is a death sentence for most all the bees put into that breeding program, and the equipment is lost.
The same with these mite natural selection projects, countless number of hives go into these projects, and most all of them die off, taking the surviours as nature allows. Im not talking tens of hives, im talking thousands of hives and breeding projects.
Is that a project a beekeeper is willing to take up? Probably would bankrupt the best of them, so instead we take breeding stock from these projects.
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>>o you have info on their progress since 2009? How are they doing in terms of reaching their goals?
Thats the thing about these projects,
Im not in touch with the fellows running the project, just the broker selling the queens
From what i understand, the results from the project is not leading the way we would like to have them go, perhaps the way nature wants to manage the mites is by making a smaller hive and swarming more often, not exactly what beekeepers want.
But I posted the project address to show that there are efforts working in a treatment free setting.
Adam, it may seem that as soon as someone mentions treatment free, the conversation gets hung up on that fact. And rightly so. Disease control has to be covered before any thing else can be done.
Why would you manage your hives treatment free in terms to mites, but not any of the other diseases ?
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>>• Beyond that, there is a government incentive program offering any beekeeper who has at least 50 hives in pollination in a season, a grant of as much as 50% of the cost of any expansion they want to do.
Good as gold!
The twist is that the government is opening the border to pollination from out-of-province. That will likely result soon in a completely open border. That will make the market more competitive and probably bring down what people pay for pollination. It will also bring in a ton of bees. I'm not sure how long the government will have an incentive program, once the fruit industry's pollination needs are satisfied.
Ian, you ask:
"Why would you manage your hives treatment free in terms to mites, but not any of the other diseases ? "
Well, mites aren't a disease, and they haven't been with us very long. I am happy to consider each disease individually.
So, in the spring, you have 15 colonies and 30 nucs. Manage the two groups separately. The production colonies should give enough bee resources to keep your numbers up. Might even make a bit of honey...but any honey harvested is gravy. The nucleus colonies are given a third story at the beginning of May...comb if you have it.
Allow the nucs but build well, and begin harvesting brood and bees from them. Timing? Don't know NS, certainly before they begin swarm preparations. I start here about mid-May, removing brood for cell building. If I were you, I would buy queens at first. so all your brood and bees from the nucs, goes into making more nucs.
Harvest brood in rotation...harvesting what the nucs give you, one or two or three combs, replacing with comb if you have it, foundation if you don't. Foundation will slow the process. After a couple harvests, you knock the nuc back to two stories, then one, then knocking the remaining bees and brood back to a beginning nuc in strength. If the queen is still prolific, let her stay. Re-queen if she's showing her age. Let that remaining nuc build up as you would a new one...into the second story, and winter all your nucs in two stories.
Using comb as replacements, I harvested 900 combs of brood from 50 double story nucs in 2011...not a good honey year. 900 combs of brood is enough to make 400+ nucleus colonies. From your 30 nucs, using foundation, I would expect you could make at least 5:1 new nucs to wintered nucs. That would leave you with about 150 nucs going into winter.
You shouldn't have more than about 10% winter loss in your nucs, once you are experienced enough. That leaves you 135 in the spring.
You sell 100 four or five frame nucs for what? $125-130? You have four or five combs left over to use in the process. In a few years, with enough combs to use in your nuc making, you can approach 10:1 in your nuc making. You can figure it out from here...how much income you might glean from your bees at that point.
But, early in this, when you're at 5:1, your income should be around that $15,000 you are shooting for. Income from your nuc bees that don't have to be treated, are a back-up for your production colonies, can be used in your breeding program, and require very little in initial investment.
That's how I would write a business plan if I were in your position. You folks chasing the elusive honey crop about the countryside, you should consider this plan. Good honey crops are few and far between. Honey is expensive to produce, in labor and equipment. The money is in the bees.
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Thanks for that outstanding bit of info Michael,
I've gathered from previous writings that you also pack up nuc-harvested frames of brood and boost up normal production hives with them, which makes them better honey producers.
Is that true?
If so, do you leave bees from the nuc on the brood to prevent chilling while driving to yards?
Since you don't do spring splits, can we ask what swarming prevention you practice?
That's a real nice business plan Mike and one that could be applied by a lot more readers of Beesource than the plan that we use. A few observations. #1 Mike probably makes it sound a bit easier than it is, first, it's a lot of work and secondly he is a talented beekeeper with a lifetime of experience in honing his skill. #2 If everyone operated as such nucs probably would no longer bring $125 but that would depend on how many people out there are truly dedicated to doing the work it requires. so I will conclude that there probably isn't much danger in that but you would have to develop a customer base. #3. A re-reading of Adams opening post tells us that, like many on here, they are starting out with the desire to be treatment free. The blueprint that Mr. Palmer has layed out is probably not going to be compatible with that goal. One constant in whatever plan you choose is that to get any kind of payback from your beekeeping endeavor requires a lot of dedication and resiliency. Things are never quite as simple as a neat business plan might make them appear.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
have you thought about nosema? Especially when talking about pollinating blueberries in Nova Scotia,
I know a guy who use to live close to me here, packed up and is now managing a pollination outfit in New Brunswick.
Bees going into blue berry pollination look good, bees leaving blue berry pollination look lousy. There is a nutritional deficit on that plant,
for what its worth,
I've heard that about blueberries, which is why I mentioned the fact that there are a lot of smaller farms here. A friend of mine who pollinates here was telling me about how he's gone to check on the bees in blueberries, and their all in the wildflowers around the property. Most of the farms here aren't a large enough area. There are some large farms, but I really don't imagine that I'll be competing for those big-business contracts. There are plenty of small fruit farmers around that can use help from a little guy like me.
But there are other crops too, and I will certainly consider be health in any plans I make.
I try to be serious lol
I hear they pay somewhat reasonable pollination fees,
you should pay attention to the guys here who pollinate almonds.
Theme from their conversations are nutrition, disease control, nutrition, moving hives, feeding, nutrition,
yes, small farmers like little beekeepers. But I doubt they will pay you big fees for pollination contracts. More likely they will give you a spot to keep bees on, and will be grateful for your pollination
How do you suggest I build up from where I am, given that I have next to no comb resources?
To recap, I have:
• 6 overwintering nucs (5 new Buckfast)
• 6 production colonies
(I have one weak one as well, but I don't think it'll make it. That will leave some comb though)
If I add a box 3rd week of May, and I've only got foundation, what's my schedule going to look like if I want to be back to the one box by July 15? I figure that's when one want's to be making OW nucs up for the following winter if I don't have enough drawn comb. With comb, I'll move to an August 1 date. This year, we had a dearth and I didn't have comb. My July 25 nucs were light and I had to feed. They built comb pretty well, but were just shy of drawing out all the foundation.
Thanks again,
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Two first-place finishes each by senior co-captain Jeff Lee and freshman Ous Mellouli paved the way for a Gold victory over the Cardinal as the 2002-2003 USC men's and women's swimming and diving teams kicked off the season with the exhibition intrasquad meet.
With the scent of grills heating up wafting through the pool deck, the gold team held off the charging cardinal squad, 137.5 to 117.5, and earned a barbeque meal, compliments exclusively from their red-hue clad teammates. This despite the Cardinal team earning the coveted spirit points (10) handed out by Coach Mark Schubert.
Lee won both the 50y free and the100y fly while Mellouli took the 100y and 200y free. Other gold winners included senior Jennifer Parmenter (50y free), sophomore Paul Fahey (200y IM), freshman Stacy Vazhenin (200y back) and freshman Margie Pedder (500y free). The gold also got a boost from junior diver Nicci Fusaro, who earned a pair of wins on the springboard.
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For the first time in more than two decades, Lewis & Clark's men's basketball team will be led by a new head coach, Dinari Foreman B.S. '95. Foreman took over the post from Bob Gaillard, his former college coach and current mentor. Foreman is the first African American head basketball coach in Lewis & Clark history and the only African American men's basketball coach currently in the Northwest Conference.
"While we're sad that Bob will no longer be coaching our men's basketball team, we are absolutely delighted about Dinari Foreman succeeding him," President Barry Glassner said. "As a Lewis & Clark alum, as a former star player for our team, and as a mentor with a special gift for connecting with student-athletes, Dinari is in an ideal position to continue the strong tradition of men's basketball at Lewis & Clark."
I can't wait to lead and mentor these young people through what should be the best times of their lives.Dinari Foreman
Foreman has been a cornerstone of the Lewis & Clark basketball program for the past decade, initially returning to his alma mater as a part-time assistant coach in the 2001-02 season. After six seasons as an assistant, Foreman was promoted to associate head coach in 2007.
During his time on the bench alongside head coach Gaillard, Foreman helped lead the Pioneers to six post-season appearances, including making it to the Elite Eight of the 2002 NCAA National Tournament, along with a pair of Northwest Conference titles. He coached 18 players to All-Conference honors and helped mentor Scott Davis to All-American status in 2002.
Foreman's history with the Pioneers began as a player wearing the orange and black. An NAIA All-American at Lewis & Clark in the 1994-95 season, Foreman went on to spend two years playing international ball in Germany. He was a member of two Northwest Conference championship teams at Lewis & Clark, including a 1993-94 team that went to the Final Four of the NAIA National Championship. In his senior year at Lewis & Clark, Foreman finished second in the nation in scoring at the NAIA level. He was inducted into the Lewis & Clark College Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
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And the winner of American Idol is…nah, I won't give it away until after the jump for those of you who decided to watch Law and Order: SVU (and by "you" I mean me) and save the Idol recap for later. I actually learned who won right before I started watching. Thanks DVR and internet. It's down to Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips. Who will it be? Let's find out in what may be the most anticlimactic AI finale EVER. At least that lead in was dramatic, right? The final twelve perform, and blah, blah, filler, blah. Really do we need two more hours of Idol after two hours of Idol last night?
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Expanded replay, approved during the offseason, had its debut today in the Blue Jays-Twins game in Fort Myers. Twice, actually! This is going to be a familiar sight in baseball's future, so we might as well get used to it.
The umpires on the field ruled that the throw had pulled Jared Goedert off the bag, making Chris Rahl safe. Toronto manager John Gibbons came out, calmly challenged the call, and in precisely 2:34, the umpires decided to uphold the safe call.
It was remarkably close—inconclusive, in the NFL review lingo—but let the record show that Gibbons is the first MLB manager to challenge a call, and the first to lose his challenge. Seeing which teams are the worst at challenging plays will be an underrated subplot to the season.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech women's basketball team was defeated by the Memphis Tigers Monday afternoon, 73-64, thanks in part to 20 Tiger points from the charity stripe, 11 in the second half alone.
The Golden Eagles struggled in the second half, picking up 12 fouls and sending Memphis to foul line 17 times. Tech was outscored 41-31 in the second half, diminishing the one-point lead the Golden Eagles had earned in the first half. As the play became more aggressive, mild-mannered TTU coach Jim Davis made his voice heard, picking up a technical at the 12-minute mark.
Seeing their coach speak for them, the Golden Eagles fought hard, but were held scoreless for over three minutes. Diamond Henderson, Jala Harris and Lashay Davis pushed the tempo, putting up shot after shot, but nothing seemed to fall for the Purple and Gold.
Coming off the bench Henderson led the squad with 18 points, and Harris added 15 points, a team high 5 rebounds, two assists and two steals. From behind the arc, the Golden Eagles went 4-22, shooting a season low 18.2%. Davis went 3-8 from three-point land for 9 points, and added four rebounds, two assists and two steals.
Tech's two centers found themselves in foul trouble throughout the game. T'Keyah Williams and Mariah Dean found themselves with four fouls with Williams adding four points. Dean, Molly Heady and Kellie Cook each tallied four rebounds and six points.
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At EA's recent Studio Showcase 06, we got a glimpse of the future of one of the most popular racing franchises in gaming history (next to Gran Turismo, of course). The tricked-out racing rides of Need For Speed are back and even more customizable than ever - with hyper-tense, high stakes tracks to match.
To start, EA has added a new feature called Auto Sculpt that blows the doors off of the term "vehicle customization." Instead of simply strapping on pre-formed after-market parts to your sleek speedster, you'll be able to shape and deform each part to your own maniacal specifications. By tweaking sliders you can alter an inconceivable number of part dimensions - whether that be flaring out side skirts, dropping the front bumper to near pavement scraping depths or widening the roof scoop into a gaping maw of air intake-age, it's all within your grasp.
And while the traditional city races remain, the big stakes hinge on the incredibly dangerous canyon races where one false jerk of the wheel could put you in the hospital and out of the race. We witnessed a white-knuckle follow-the-leader charge down an oppressively dark mountain run... until broken guard rails were all that were left the car we were watching. It didn't appear to be a game-ending, career-destroying, pull-the-memory-card-before-it-can-save kind of event though, because you can always restart the race in true Need For Speed fashion. But that didn't detract from the tension one iota. Other races are slightly more pedestrian and feature the familiar kind of point-based events like drift races to complete the stable of nitro-burning activities.
A brief chat with Executive Producer Larry LaPierre (known for his work on past NFS titles and SSX) yielded that the PS3 version (and by extention, all other versions as well) is approaching very early playable stages, and he reckoned it'd be ready in about nine months - though we stress that this is an extremely rough estimate. That seems like quite a ways off, but from what we saw at EA's plush Redwood Shores digs, it'll be worth the wait.


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Does this scenery remotely resemble the one above?
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Seneca wrote:That picture was from a (faked?) crash in Indonesia.
Also, here's one for the blue and white stripes thread. Two of the victims were football players:
Can you believe they'd even use pictures of this quality to identify the vicsims:
The US pilot who died when his jet crashed in a field has been called a "hero" by the farmer who owns the land, after he avoided hitting him and his son.
Maj Taj Sareen was killed when his jet came down at Temple farm in Redmere, Cambridgeshire, last week.
Peter Sizer said he was working in his shed with his son when the pilot crashed, just missing the building.
He phoned the emergency services when he heard the explosion.
"I heard a bang and saw this fireball, it was a huge shock. It was only 200m from our shed.
"I would say that he is a hero. He saved our lives by swerving around the shed to miss us. It makes us both feel lucky to be alive.
"The impact was so big that we only found a hole in the ground and just wreckage, the plane was buried into the soil, there was no fire," Mr Sizer said.
The farmer said that the doors were completely blown off his shed by the explosion.
"If he landed the other side, the shockwaves alone would probably have killed us," he added.
simonshack wrote:This time they went heavily for the "male-psyop-consumer" target. Here are 17 Russian vicsim-babes of the alleged "FLIGHT 321" planecrash - picked straight out of some modeling agency portfolio it seems
Out of the total 217 passegers, 138 were women, 62 men and 17 were children.
Twenty-five children were believed to have been on board, along with 192 adults - nearly 140 of who were women.
"My wife [was on board]. The kids returned earlier, they traveled [to Egypt] together, but the children came home earlier, and she [was supposed] to return today. I had a dream tonight, like I was washing her, and she had no leg," one man at the airport told RT's Ruptly news agency.
"She sent me a text message around six o'clock in the morning, it said 'I'm boarding now, Godspeed.' That's all," the sobbing man added.
However, terrorism experts said Isil had never claimed an attack it did not carry out.
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No. 7 Mizzou Softball Run-Rules South Carolina in Six
COLUMBIA - No. 7 Mizzou softball's offense was clicking with 10 runs from 10 hits as the Tigers defeated Southeastern Conference foe South Carolina in six innings, 10-2. The victory was its fourth-straight run-rule shortened win, as well as its eighth of the season. Sophomore first baseman Kelsea Roth led the way for Mizzou offensively with her second grand slam of the season in the bottom of the first inning for her ninth home run overall. She batted 2-for-3, also adding a single in the bottom of the third.
The Tigers' win moves their record up to 18-2 overall, with a 5-1 mark in conference play. The Gamecocks dropped to 18-12 (1-6 SEC) with the loss.
Roth's four-run shot started Mizzou's scoring, with the Tigers adding two more in the bottom of the second. Sophomore shortstop Corrin Genovese knocked in freshman outfielder Sarah Moore to give the Tigers a 6-0 lead. Senior catcher Jenna Marston then flied out to left field to sacrifice in Genovese who had advanced to third base on a passed ball.
Senior pitcher Chelsea Thomas threw 4.0 innings and allowed no hits. The two-time All-American struck out seven Gamecocks while issuing three walks.
Senior Nicole Hudson entered for the final 2.0 innings of pitching duties. South Carolina got two runs back in the top of the sixth inning off two singles and an error in Mizzou's defense. Hudson finished with two hits allowed and two unearned runs.
The Tigers poured on four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to secure the run-rule. Sophomore Kayla Kingsley started with a single, with redshirt freshman outfielder Taylor Gadbois following with a sacrifice bunt that was played by a USC as a fielder's choice with all runners safe. Sophomore Kelsi Jones continued the hitting with a single that loaded the bases.
Freshman second baseman Emily Crane hit a single down the left field line that resulted in two runs scoring after a fielding error allowed in Gadbois after Kingsley scored. Hudson was intentionally walked between outs. The second out, a groundout by senior infielder Princess Krebs, scored Jones. Junior outfielder Mackenzie Sykes delivered with two outs, hitting a single up the middle to drive home Crane for Mizzou's 10th run.
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I know that my fellow Mideast correspondents, not to mention the refugees we meet from places like Syria and Iraq, can concur that having to make do with the same hotel shampoo for two days running is unacceptable. We also would dearly love if that were the leading item on the list of why our jobs and lives are hard.


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Bill Imada plays career matchmaker at Hiatt Communications Forum
Imada encourages more than 250 students, alumnae and friends to 'pay-it-forward'
Impressed by the caliber of Brandeis students and alumnae, 2013 Communications Forum keynote, Bill Imada has made a personal commitment to help students excel in the next step of their professional development.
Founder, chairman and chief collaboration officer of IW Group, Inc., Imada recently joined Brandeisians for the third annual Communications Forum at the Hassenfeld Conference Center. IW Group, Inc. has worked with notable brands, including McDonald's USA, Verizon, Warner Bros. Pictures and Coca-Cola Farms. He is also an active blogger and writes for Advertising Age, an international publication covering the advertising industry.
Through his involvement with the Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF), which works to demystify and enrich the understanding of advertising and its role in culture, society and the economy, Imada was introduced to the growing interest in marketing and communications at Brandeis.Imada spent the day of the forum on campus as a guest lecturer in an undergraduate communications class at the International Business School (IBS). He also participated in a brown bag lunch session organized by the Hiatt Career Center. He took keen interest to get to know each student and write down information about their conversation.
In the event's third consecutive year, he addressed a full house with an entertaining and inspiring presentation in which he shared his personal experience with a twist of "10 words of wisdom" from successful Brandeis alumnae.
"Do not give up. Your career will take twists and turns; Enjoy the ride," said Imada, whose own career has come full circle to a now profitable relationship with the company that he had initially been turned down by when he first set out to pursue his dream job.
The evening concluded with rounds of speed networking, facilitated by 40 industry professionals including those from Hill Holiday, Google and Today.com. Within 24 hours, Assistant Director of Employer Relations at the Hiatt Career Center Caroline O'Shea, who coordinated the forum, had already begun to see her inbox fill with invitations from Imada to students connecting them with industry colleagues, and offering advice on how to follow-up.
There are several success stories in motion and others that took place that evening, including Ayan Sanyal '14, economics major, who was offered a spring internship at Hill Holiday on the spot.
"I was, of course, elated when I found out the position was offered to me," said Sanyal. "This event gave me important face-time with an employer, which I find extremely important. Hiatt gave me the opportunity to finally meet with employers and discuss their work, my talents and how I could fit in their work environment."
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The first impressions are important, right? Well, the same goes for film. The opening title sequence of a film is that film's opportunity to make a good first impression on you, the viewer. A well-crafted title sequence introduces the audience to the tone and theme of the film as well as the cast and crew.
This list is for your enjoyment and inspiration. I have chosen some of our favorite selections from all eras and genres.
1. "Se7en" (1995) – Directed by David Fincher
A credits sequence that has itself been credited with reviving the great tradition of elaborate credits sequences, the indelible, unsettling opening titles of "Se7en," David Fincher's meticulously tailored serial killer procedural, have prompted many grubby, psycho-chic imitators over the years. Fincher hired a designer named Kyle Cooper to take on the sequence, but he was very much involved in its conception and execution. Cooper watched the film numerous times then set out to create a mood piece that would engage with the theme and plot of the film in both abstract and concrete ways. Capturing the insular, obsessive quality of the killer at the center of "Se7en" was the driving aesthetic force: distant, mechanical beats clang and squeak on the soundtrack — the song is Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" re-mixed by Coil and Danny Hyde — as though rising up from some dank, isolated cellar. Preceded by an image of a sleepless Morgan Freeman's detective setting a metronome ticking, the credits suggest the X-ray opposite of a morally ordered mind. Fingers are shaved of their prints and then the nasty, bandaged versions scribble out a psychotic's manifesto in nightmare flashes alternated with the actual titles, which were hand-scratched onto the film stock and then edited together in layers to pulse with jittery light. Even the names seem like fragments recovered from some unspeakably dark corner of the subconscious. The sequence took two days to shoot and five weeks to edit (those stubby fingers don't belong to Kevin Spacey, either, a choice that upset Fincher at first). Artisan work, not animation, achieved the texture and impact of this sequence; the grime of that toil feels embedded in the film itself.
2. "Watchmen" (2009) – Directed by Zack Snyder
Regardless of one's feelings towards Zack Snyder's ambitious mounting of Alan Moore's tale of outcast superheroes, the one thing everyone could agree upon when "Watchmen" hit theaters back in March of 2009 was its incredible opening title sequence. At six minutes, the scene may run long by conventional film standards, but what it accomplishes — condensing this alternate world history into a comparatively tiny package — is nearly impossible. The sequence wasn't an easy one to pull off — the "300" director had to fit bits and pieces of the shots into his busy shooting schedule while design firm yU + co was brought in to create 3D credits that playfully interacted with scenes like the recreation of the Last Supper at Sally Jupiter's retirement dinner or Dr. Manhattan's meeting with President Kennedy at the White House. The sequence is wordless but we can tell, even without Bob Dylan singing it, that "The Times They Are a'Changin'."
3. "Saturday Night Fever" (1977) – Directed by John Badham
Without a single line of pertinent dialogue, the opening of "Saturday Night Fever" perfectly demonstrates the disconnect between Tony Manero's glamorous dreams and unglamorous reality. The sequence opens with symbolic shots of New York's Brooklyn and Verrazano Bridges and then zooms in to an elevated subway train pulling into the station in Bay Ridge, foreshadowing Tony's climactic subway ride after his final dance contest late in the film. Down to the street level we meet Tony (John Travolta), walking with a can of paint. The Bee Gee's disco anthem "Staying Alive" blasts on the soundtrack, but only Tony walks in perfect time with its beat, a choice that emphasizes his importance within the film and his powerful connection with music. Tony's gorgeous polyester clothes and syncopated strut suggest he's a big shot, but no big shot sneaks slices of pizza while running errands for a hardware store or puts five bucks on a shirt for layaway. Tony's walk hints at his desire for freedom while his ultimate destination, back at his dead-end job, emphasizes the fact that wherever he goes, whatever he does, he can't escape his provincial Brooklyn home. Excitement lay just over those bridges in Manhattan. But you can't get there by walking.
4. "Catch Me If You Can" (2002) – Directed by Steven Spielberg
A stand-alone graphic sequence reminiscent of those prefacing 1960s capers like "Charade" and the "Pink Panther" films, the opening titles of Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" are a startling blend of style and narrative invention. Designed by the crazy hip Paris-based duo of Oliver Kuntzel and Florence Deygas, the sequence blends hand-stamp and computer animation for an atmospheric look that situates the story to come — that of the notorious mid-century con man Frank Abagnale and the FBI agent on his tail — in its native era. Stylized, silhouetted figures of Abagnale and Agent Hanratty interact with the titles themselves, which are stretched and pulled into backdrop duty for the cleverly detailed scenarios. Those scenarios anticipate the film's story: Abagnale is depicted as a pilot, then a doctor, then a businessman, and in each brief sequence Hanratty is shown in pursuit and gaining ground. Kuntzel and Deygas create a sense of forward movement by giving the chase a left-to-right trajectory, with Abagnale slipping down corridors, passing through transformative walls and at one point using the elongated stem of a 'p' as an escape rope. Conducting the entire exercise are the hushed, tip-toe syncopations of longtime Spielberg collaborator John Williams's score.
5. "Dawn of the Dead" (2004) – Directed by Zack Snyder
To remake a genre classic is to court fanboys' immediate ire. But Zack Snyder quickly won many over with the intro to his re-do of George A. Romero's beloved zombie saga, kickstarting the action with a balls-to-the-wall opening that culminates with a hood-of-the-car POV shot of a suburban apocalypse. When Sarah Polly's car crashes into the ditch and the screen goes black, it's like a gunshot exclamation point, and leads immediately to a montage that blends credits (smearily wiped away like blood), schizo verité footage of mass unrest and hysteria, staged images of zombie madness, and a fictional TV press conference in which an official claims not to know anything helpful about the zombie outbreak. Cue Johnny Cash's "The Man Who Comes Around," an unforgettably beautiful song of biblical desolation and apocalyptic hopelessness that's so chilling and so apt for an end-of-the-world saga that it transforms the sequence into the high watermark of the entire film.
6. "The Warriors" (1979) – Directed by Walter Hill
The distant neon lights of Coney Island's Wonder Wheel introduce us "The Warriors," which updates the ancient story "Anabasis" by the Greek author Xenophon to 1970s New York City. In that context, the Wonder Wheel is something of a modern day rota fortunae, one which is about to spin in a rather unlucky direction for our heroes. A charismatic gang leader has invited all the biggest gangs of New York City to a meeting in Queens so the Warriors from Coney reluctantly board a B train to head uptown. Little by little the tension mounts: Barry De Vorzon's electronic score pulsates, angry and violent, as point-of-view shots from the front of the subway suggest the Warriors are being unwillingly ferried toward a dark and uncertain future. As the train passes more neighborhoods, more gangs are introduced, like the mime-faced Hi-Hats of Soho and the purple-clad Boppers of Harlem. The titles themselves are designed to resemble graffiti sprayed in the Warriors' signature crimson, which their war chief Cleon (Dorsey) instructs their resident artist Rembrandt (Marcelino Sanchez) to use liberally. "I want you to hit everything in sight," Cleon tells him. "I want everybody to know The Warriors were there." Thirty years later, this sequence is a big reason why the Warriors haven't been forgotten.
7. "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!" (1988) – Directed by David Zucker
For the film adaptation of their cult TV show "Police Squad!" David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker (ZAZ) carried over the big-band theme song by Ira Newborn, but radically altered the credit sequence. "Police Squad!" began with a brief shot of a police siren underneath the title followed by a mock-serious rundown of the actors. The movie expands that opening shot into three minutes of jokes. ZAZ fixed the camera behind the siren, and rode it through an increasingly outrageous series of locations. It begins on the cop movie cliché of rain soaked streets, but soon it veers onto the sidewalk, stops off for a car wash, goes on a tour of a McMansion, sexually harasses a woman's locker room, speeds down a roller coaster, and finally rolls to a stop in front of a donut shop. It's the perfect introduction to ZAZ's gift of gag.
8. "Lord of War" (2005) – Directed by Andrew Niccol
"There are times when people work for nothing on a movie," "Lord of War" director Andrew Niccol says on the film's DVD commentary. "In this case, people actually paid the production to work on this sequence." Although he was referring to the fact that he had to "beg" for additional funds four months after production wrapped for this brilliant sequence, it is the rare opening credits good enough for some sequence designers to waive their fee to work on. Ultimately, French visual effects specialist Yann Blondel did the heavy lifting, creating the bullet we follow from factory to AK-47 out of CGI, as well as much of the machinery that creates it; Niccol shot the rest in three days in South Africa with cinematographer Amir Mokri operating his own motion control camera. The result is a perfectly executed preface that sets up the reality of the film immediately (in terms of detailing the process, if not necessarily the overly pixilated bullet) while employing Buffalo Springfield's anti-war "For What It's Worth" as a tongue-in-cheek nod to what's to come.
9. "Psycho" (1960) – Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Saul Bass is one of the cinema's great unsung giants, and his opening credit sequence for "Psycho" remains one of his true masterpieces, a striking work of abstraction that, when combined with Bernard Herrmann's iconic violin-dominant theme, captures the essence of the film. Bass's titles race onto the screen from the left and right amidst rectangular lines that shove, push and splinter the text, creating visual tension and anxiety from the outset by moving in harmony with Herrmann's music. Then the film's actual title appears, and it fragments, a gorgeous expression of Norman Bates' fractured psyche. Barreling forward with frantic rapidity, the scene suggests the film's bifurcated structure in its use of symmetrical lines in addition to reflecting the formal control of Hitchcock's forthcoming direction. When the lines finally give way to the famous wide-to-tight aerial shots of Phoenix, one's nerves are already thoroughly rattled.
10. "JCDV" (2008) – Directed by Mabrouk El Meckri
By the time he made 2008′s "JCVD" Jean-Claude Van Damme was a joke. Relegated to the straight-to-video ghetto, he was cranking out one forgettable programmer after another with titles that seemed to poke cruel fun at the moribund state of his career ("Derailed," "Until Death," et. al.). Before he could even attempt to convince audiences to take him seriously as an actor he had to first reassure them they should still take him seriously as an action star, hence the thrilling three-and-a-half minute action-packed sequence which kicks off "JCVD," wherein our titular hero kicks, spins, stabs, shoots, tosses grenades, and evades explosions, all in a single, incredible take. The whole thing culminates with a great joke, as Van Damme survives this insane gauntlet of choreography and stunts, only to see the shot ruined by a clumsy extra. That means the star has to go begging his director — a young kid throws darts at a picture of the Hollywood sign — to ease up on him. He's 47-years-old, he reminds him, and this stuff isn't as easy for him anymore. Which makes what he does in "JCVD" that much more impressive.
11. "Shaft" (1971) – Directed by Gordon Parks
Everyone knows the titles to "Shaft" — Richard Roundtree walking to his office in Times Square to the sounds of Isaac Hayes' supremely funky title song. That wakka-cha-wakka beat, Roundtree's brown leather trenchcoat, his middle finger to the cab that tries to cut him off in a crosswalk, it's a familiar classic. But most miss the richness of the sequence's details: in particular, the clever way director Gordon Parks uses the Deuce's grindhouse marquees to comment upon Shaft's status as one of Hollywood's first black action heroes. In one take, Roudntree walks toward the camera from deep in the background along a bustling sidewalk; the top right of the frame is filled with a marquee, but most of the writing on it is obscured by a subway entrance lamppost. The only words we can make out are "NEW POLICY," as in, the fact that "Shaft" even exists represents an exciting new policy for studio filmmaking. A few shots later Shaft pushes his way through a crowd of protesters beneath another marquee. This part of this one that we can make out reads "All Color." The significance is clear again, for those who can dig it.
12. "The Man With the Golden Arm" (1955) – Directed by Otto Preminger
Given that Saul Bass is widely thought of as the greatest title sequence designer of all time and that dramas about drug use have proliferated significantly since "The Man With the Golden Arm" was produced in 1955, it's easy to forget the daunting challenge Bass faced with Otto Preminger's drama about Frank Sinatra as a heroin addict trying to kick his habit. There was no template for what Bass did with just some little white lines and a brassy score from Elmer Bernstein, either in terms of tackling the issue of drug abuse so starkly or of film credits' design, which up until then had mostly been reduced to lists in cursive fonts. The MPAA never approved the film, but Bass made it so they couldn't have taken any issue with how it was presented, only implying with the white lines that manifested out of every corner of the frame the sensation of shooting up and the craving for more. When Preminger's name finally is presented with the craggy arm at the end, the same that was at the center of the film's entire advertising campaign, it's the audience that's hooked.
13. "The Graduate" (1967) – Directed by Mike Nichols
he's on the same belt as his suitcase." The sequence has been imitated and plundered numerous times — Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown" slyly updated it by suggesting Pam Grier was at a similar crossroads later in life to the score of "Across 110th Street" — but its power has yet to be replicated, capturing the fears and ambivalence of that moment when you don't know where life is going to take you.
14. "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (1999) – Directed by Jay Roach
Everything about the "Austin Powers" aesthetic got bigger in the 1999 sequel to Mike Myers's spy-spoofing paisley juggernaut. References — known and private — drove the original film's parodic humor: James Bond's sober silliness, abysmal punning, cartoon villains, and pneumatic women are played against Benny Hill body humor and Myers's antic, inventive mania. For Austin Powers's theme, Myers chose a song familiar to many of his fellow Canadians: "Soul Bossa Nova," a 1962 number by Quincy Jones that was also the theme song of "Definition," a popular Canadian game show in the 1970s and '80s. The song accompanies the title sequences of all three "Austin Powers" movies, a reference within a reference that now refers chiefly to Austin Powers himself. "The Spy Who Shagged Me" begins with a prelude in which Dr. Evil plots to steal Austin's mojo and Austin's beloved Vanessa self-destructs in a tragic Fembot incident. He mourns for a moment, then realizes he's single again: Cue the soundtrack! The elaborate visual joke of the opening sequence is actually an extension of one of the funniest bits in the first film. If you smirked twice during the previous sentence, you were probably also broken up by the scene in which Austin moves about an apartment stark naked, with various objects and implements ingeniously covering up his naughty bits. For the titles sequence of the sequel Austin is cavorting about a posh hotel in the raw, covered only by a vulgar thatch of chest hair. He flashes the lobby, meets and greets in the dining room, then dashes out to the pool for a little synchronized swimming, all by way of saying: Welcome back, baby!
15. "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) – Directed by Stanley Kubrick
The brilliant opener to "Dr. Strangelove" is a deadpan depiction of airplane intercourse. A refueling tanker dips its wick into the small fighter plane below it, gently bouncing up and down as the strainingly romantic tune of "Try A Little Tenderness" plays over their union. A jittery and unprecedentedly huge font lists the credits in between the steel thrustings.This short piece nails the macho self-aggrandizement of the military industrial complex in under two minutes. Stanley Kubrick drafted Cuban-born graphic designer Pablo Ferro to craft this title sequence, and also endorsed his hand-drawn font that itself acts as a caricature of straight Hollywood text. Ferro had made his name in commercials with a quick cut style, but "Strangelove" launched a long career in film, including work on the title sequences for everything from "A Clockwork Orange" to "L.A. Confidential." This might be his crowning achievement though, with the most elegant dick joke ever filmed.
16. "Life of Brian" (1979) – Directed by Terry Jones
Monty Python's "Life of Brian" takes direct aim at faith, organized religion and true believers, so what better way to start than with a credit sequence that demolishes, literally, old-world totems? Terry Gilliam's irreverently animated sequence is awash in classical Roman architecture and sculptures, all of which crumble and collapse while attempting to be constructed by faceless workers, a motif that subtly conveys the film's overriding aim of cheeky biblical reconstruction. With a ridiculousness befitting a Python effort, the sequence offers up the titular Brian as a baby plummeting down a cavern, people being crushed beneath frontages, and a winged angel who, while ascending to Heaven, is burnt by the sun. The real coup de grace, however, is the scene's grand theme song, which — with lyrics about the titular faux-holy man such as, "And he started to shave, and have one off the wrist, and want to see girls, and go out and get pissed" — encapsulates the entire endeavor's impertinent absurdity.
17. "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (2005) – Directed by Shane Black
Even though Danny Yount has credited Saul Bass as an inspiration for the design of the opening titles for Shane Black's murder mystery "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," the sequence is a true original. Yount's job — striking the right tone somewhere between classic and contemporary — had to be intimidating. But he managed to hit that perfect note of retro cool, and his creation bursts at the seams with affection for the crime genre, honoring every element of detective story lore from blood splatters to jail breaks to the promise of guns and curvy femme fatales. Yount's abstract imagery — expressionless figures and undefined locations — and composer John Ottman's nimble score build anticipation for a great mystery while allowing the film that follows to pay it off. According to WatchTheTitles.com, producer Joel Silver had planned to commission just a fraction of what ultimately made it into the film before being impressed enough by Yount's '60s-style concept to extend the sequence. The impression it left on moviegoers who saw this underrated gem lasted even longer.
18. "Snatch" (2000) – Directed by Guy Ritchie
Opening credits for actors are commonplace, obviously, but opening credits for characters are comparatively rare. Rather than name Dennis Farina, Brad Pitt, and Benicio Del Toro, guys we're all quite familiar with anyway, the titles for "Snatch" introduce us to the men they're playing: Cousin Avi, Mickey, and Franky Four Fingers, respectively. This technique is particularly welcome in a film like "Snatch" which contains so many plot threads featuring so many characters, all of whom speak with incoherently thick British accents. Director Guy Ritchie also gets bonus style points for fluidity. The transitions between characters are insanely clever: The camera zooms in on the enormous diamond in Franky's four fingered hand and when it zooms out, it's in the mitts of Cousin Avi. He puts the diamond in his safe, and the camera pans through the wall to another room, where Sol (Lennie James) is pulling some cash from his safe. He tosses the cash into the air and it lands on a table in front of Mickey, and so on. Ritchie isn't just introducing us to all the characters, he's introducing us to the connections between them, and preparing us for the idea that the plot of this movie can careen off in a new direction at any moment.
19. "Vertigo" (1958) – Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Saul Bass' brilliant opening titles for "Vertigo," our pick for the finest ever made, distill the film's 128 minutes into 156 visceral seconds. Bass designed everything to reflect the film to follow. James Stewart's credit appears over an extreme closeup of a woman's face, just above its enormous pair of lips; idt won't be the last time Stewart asserts his influence on a woman's appearance in the film. The camera pans up to the anonymous woman's eyes, which dart left and right and then stare straight ahead as Kim Novak's name materializes, suggesting her character's discomfort under Stewart's controlling gaze. Voyeurism plays a key role in the film, and so we zoom in on a single eye and the screen turns red — symbolizing the blood (or perhaps the passion) to follow. The title appears from the depths of woman's pupil followed by the a series of spiraling geometric shapes. Bass' Spirograph-style images, set to the repetitive rise and fall of Bernard Hermann's lush string loops, gives us the disorienting sensation that we are falling even as we're sitting in our theater seat — a small taste of Stewart's character's titular affliction. By the time we return to the woman's face for Alfred Hitchcock's credit — which also comes, appropriately, from the depths of an eye — the film's mood is perfectly established: mystery and menace, exhilaration and madness. The combination of imagery and sound suggests horror, but also the allure of horror, our secret desire to learn what lurks in the dark recesses of each others' minds. Bass' great sequence does to the viewer what the sight of Novak does to Stewart: freaks him out and turns him on.
20. "Juno" (2007) – Directed by Jason Reitman
The combination of live action and animation used for the opening credits in Jason Reitman's Juno meshed well with the theme of a teenage girl who is forced to grow up. Reitman is clearly a fan of cool opening credits…
21. "The Incredibles" (2004) – Directed by Brad Bird
Only the creative folks at Pixar would think to open a CG animated movie with some stylish 2D animated titles. Awesome.
22. "Zombieland" (2009) – Directed by Ruben Fleischer
Featuring the second best use of classic Metallica (the first being Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills) the title sequence to Zombieland does not back down. Flashes of jarring death slathered with slow speed splatter document a kinetic finality that does not force its humor. We see every black bauble of biohazardous blood upsurge and dot the landscape of a crippled Earth.
23. "Panic Room" (2002) – Directed by David Fincher
I may get some crap for this one but I don't care. I always loved the simplicity of this sequence. David Fincher clearly loves his title sequences. Subtle yet cold with Howard Shore's danger-brewing score. What makes this sequence stand out is how real and right-there the titles look. They float against skyscrapers and downtown churches as if they belonged. At first glance you're not even sure whether or not they're really there.
24. "Thank You for Smoking" (2005) – Directed by Jason Reitman
A very clever title sequence with the credits written on vintage cigarette packaging.
25. "Delicatessen" (1991) – Directed by Marc Caro & Jean Pierre Jeunet
The picture above depicts what type of film Delicatessen is, through the colours used and how they are presented. The pig in the top left suggests there is going to be a butcher character within the main characters. Also the shots that are used allow there to be a use of the title along the differnet items that appear in the shots. This technique is good and effective, i think that this is the sort of thing that i wish to do within my film introduction. This title sequence also shows the importance of the title, probably more important than fully setting out a story. This is because it starts the film as a slow build up to the story. The continous shot is almost like a montage of item waitng to be used for the titles, which i think is an effective way of presenting your opening titles. The music within the sequence also creates an atmospheric feel to the opening, which is important in displaying the genre to the audience. In this case it is a French sounding music, which links in to the fact that the French are famous for food and the film is about a butcher. Automatically it is giving of the right signals for the understanding of what it is going to be about.
26. "Music & Lyrics" (2007) – Directed by Marc Lawrence
A perfect 80's music video parody…
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Hoping to escape the unfavorable early spring conditions in New England, the MIT track & field team traveled to Southern California for a few days of training, followed by a meet at Point Loma Nazarene University on Saturday. Despite not being able to travel with a full roster, both the men and women scored well and turned in quality performances at the meet. The men finished fourth out of 12 teams with 347 points while the women totaled 390, good for third overall.
Freshman Jacqueline Brew had an outstanding debut to her outdoor season, taking first place in three events and setting an MIT rookie record in the 100 meter dash. Brew was the top finisher in the 100 (12.60), long jump (17-3.50 feet) and triple jump (34-9.50 feet). The freshman also placed third in the 100-meter hurdles and was part of the third-place 4x100 relay, accounting for an astounding 81.25 points on her own.
Portia Jones posted an NCAA automatic qualifying time in the 200m, coming across the finish in 24.44, good for second place. Martha Gross was 10th with a time of 26.46 and Brew placed 11th but was unable to score, as only two competitors per team were eligible to record points in each event.
Competing for the first time since her National runner-up result in the NCAA Indoor Championship, Karin Fisher led a sweep of the top three for the Cardinal and Gray in the pole vault. Fisher cleared 12-0.00 feet for a Provisional NCAA mark. Teammates Hazel Briner (11-7.25 feet) and Lauren Kuntz (11-6.00) were right behind her, in second and third place, respectively. Fisher displayed some versatility, taking fourth place in the triple jump (33-4.50 feet).
Louise van den Heuvel also had a strong debut, setting a freshman record in the 800m with her 10th-place time of 2:21.83 and finishing fifth in the 1500m (4:47.56).
On the men's side, Josh Duncavage had a solid all-around meet, as the sophomore sprinter placed first in the 100m with a time of 11.09 seconds and was 5th in the 200m (22.66). He also ran a leg of MIT's 2nd-place 4x100m relay that finished in 42.97.
Tyler Singer-Clark had a pair of top four finishes for the Engineers, taking third in the 400m (49.96) and fourth in the 200m (22.63). He was also a part of the 4x100 relay.
The MIT throwers, Kenneth Cooper, Mitchell Kelly and Chinedum Umachi combined to take first place in three events. Cooper was first in the shot put (46-9.00 feet) and hammer throw (166-06 feet). In the discus, Kelly was first (162-06 feet) and was backed up by Umachi in second and Cooper in fourth. Vladimir Sobes was a runner-up in the javelin with
Tech will return to Cambridge next weekend for the annual Engineer's Cup competition against RPI and WPI. The meet begins on the Steinbrenner track at 12:00 p.m.


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In 2010 an earthquake occurred just off the coast of central Chile, rated an 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale. The resulting tsunami was absolutely devastating, not only killing over 500 people, but also doing an incredible amount of damage to cities an infrastructure. And now Eli Roth and director Nicolás López are preparing to give you the experience of that horrible, destructive seismic event first hand with their new movie Aftershock - and now the first look at the film has arrived online.
Radius TWC - the newest arm of The Weinstein Company - has debuted the first trailer for the new flick, which doesn't seem to focus so much on the Chilean people dealing with the destruction of their country as much as it does a group of American tourists. So it's kind of like someone made a horror version of The Impossible. Scope out the preview below.
Written by Roth and Lopez, the movie follows a group of tourists as they journey through South America. While at an underground nightclub in Chile the world around them begins to fall apart, as an unbelievable natural disaster strikes. But as much damage as the earthquake causes, it's nothing compared to what human beings can do when put into panic mode. Roth stars in the film as well along with Andrea Osvárt, Ariel Levy, Nicolás Martínez, Lorenza Izzo, Natasha Yarovenko, and Selena Gomez. Aftershock played at the Toronto International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest earlier this year and will be heading to theaters at some point in 2013.