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This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Now it's time for our Wisdom Watch conversation. That's the part of the program where we hear from those who've made a difference through their work. And our next guest is probably best known these days as one of the toughest television dads ever - Rowan, also known as Elijah Pope, father Washington fixer Olivia Pope on the ABC hit "Scandal." In this next scene, he's giving her the business over her affair with the president.
JOE MORTON: (As Rowan Pope) You raised your skirt and opened your knees and gave it away to a man with too much power. You're not rare. You're not special. Your story's no different than a thousand other stories in this town, so you know how this goes. You could call this in your sleep. First, they'll smile, be warm, sympathetic, on your side, letting you know that they will fight for you. They will lull you into a false sense of security. And then once your belly is exposed, they will gut you like everyone you know. And they will be swift about it. And by the time you realize you should be fighting back, well, you're already bleeding to death. That is the presidency versus you.
MARTIN: And that is Joe Morton as Rowan Pope on "Scandal." And while his current role as the dangerous and eloquent master of intrigue is winning him new fans, he's been acting for more than 40 years in movies like "Speed," "Terminator 2," and "Brother From Another Planet," on television shows like "Law and Order" and "The Good Wife" and onstage in "Raisin," a role that earned him a Tony nomination. Joe Morton and the rest of the cast of "Scandal" return to television tonight. And he's with us now.
MORTON: Glad to be here. Thank you very much.
MARTIN: So what attracted you to this character?
MORTON: Well, first off, I watched the show. I watched the first season and thought after I watched it - I thought, gee, I wonder if there's a way for me to sort of get on to the show. And before I had any opportunity to talk to any of my agents or managers, I actually got a call from them saying that they wanted me to come on the show. That is, "Scandal" wanted me to come on the show. And clearly, the lure was that I was going to be Olivia's dad. And after seeing the show, I thought, well, this could be really exciting.
MARTIN: Is it what you thought it would be?
MORTON: More than what I thought it would be. Television has a tendency to sort up fall into the realm of procedurals. And what's great about this show is that there's lots of language, especially for this particular character. So for me, it's probably the closest I've come to what I experience when I'm on stage, in that I'm actually given speeches not just sort of short bits of this and that to say. So it's been a real joy.
MARTIN: Well, speaking of things that you say, you know, the - one of the sub-stories around "Scandal" is - there is the story about the fact of who's running it. There's the story of the fact who's starring in it. And then there's this whole social media conversation around it. And one of the conversations that emerges is how many people kind of recognized the kind of father you play from their own lives, I mean, particularly African-Americans. And I - you know I have to ask is Rowan the kind of father you had?
MORTON: I think a lot of this character is based on my father. My father was in the military. He was a captain. His service was to, quote-unquote, integrate the armed forces overseas. And so he was a huge disciplinary, and he was a painter as well. So a lot of what you see in Rowan I think I learned when I was a young boy growing up with my dad - that kind of strict view of life, you know, the thing that he says in that same speech that you just played. Later on he says, you know, you have to work twice as hard to get half as much - I think was something that my father told me when I was young. And I think probably and clearly it did resonate throughout the African-American community very strongly in terms of those are the kinds of things we heard from our parents because we knew that we had to work so much harder than the rest of the white world in America.
MARTIN: I just want to play another clip for just really - honestly, for the deliciousness of it. This is a clip from a scene that you did with Tony Goldwyn. He's President Fitzgerald Grant...
MORTON: Right.
MARTIN: ...Who is your daughter's lover, who we alluded to, you know, earlier in the first clip. That is not a spoiler alert. It's kind of...
MORTON: It's already out there.
MARTIN: And let's just say you are not impressed with him.
MORTON: (As Rowan Pope) You are a boy. I'm a man. I have worked for every single thing I have ever received. I have fought and scraped and bled for every inch of ground I walk on. I was the first in my family to go to college. My daughter went to boarding school with the children of kings. I made that happen. You cried yourself to sleep because daddy hurt your feelings, because papa banged his secretary, because it hurt to have so much money. You spoiled, entitled, ungrateful, little brat.
MARTIN: OK. How do you understand your Rowan?
MORTON: I think the way that Shonda writes it's very clear for me. I think Rowan has become a voice for Shonda. I think that that particular character can say things that other characters in the show just are not in the situation to say. For all of the diversity in "Scandal," you know, no one else would be sitting in a room wearing a T-shirt and chains and call a southern, white Republican president a boy. And it's those kinds of things that Rowan has the freedom to say that nobody else could say within the confines of the show.
MARTIN: Is cathartic in some way you think for you, for the people watching it?
MORTON: Oh, I think so. Oh, I think - it's certainly cathartic for me the actor. I mean, to go through a speech like that, you know, there is a beginning, middle and end, and there better be a catharsis at the end of it otherwise I haven't done my job. And I think that for the audience it's all about the shocking joy, if you will, of hearing somebody actually say those kinds of things, especially a black male on television. You don't hear those kinds of things because we - race, as I'm sure you are aware, is a very difficult conversation to have in this country. And so I think that's what Rowan is in "Scandal" to do is to remind himself and to remind those folks who enjoy the show that, you know, things need to - still need to be worked on.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us, we're speaking with actor Joe Morton. He stars as Rowan Pope on the hit ABC drama "Scandal," which returns to the screen tonight. So let's go back and just talk about you. How did you get bitten with the acting bug?
MORTON: I was in college. It was actually my very first day of orientation. And I had actually entered college as a psychology major. And they took us around the campus to show us, you know, what our first year would be like in school. It was Hofstra University. And they, at the end of this tour, if you will, plopped us down in the theater. And I had been, you know, playing music and playing guitar and singing for a while and really enjoyed that. And they put on a skit about what our first year would be like. And after the skit was over, everybody left the theater, and I literally could not get up out of my seat. I just sat there staring at the stage thinking I've always enjoyed singing, maybe I could be an actor. And got up out of my seat, walked to the registrar's office and changed all my majors from psychology to drama.
MARTIN: You know, your breakthrough role came in 1984 when you starred in "The Brother From Another Planet" ...
MORTON: Right.
MARTIN: ...Which is a film that people still talk about. I don't know. Do people still talk to you about that?
MORTON: It's still my favorite film. I mean, I think - I love John Sayles, and I love the way he writes. And that film in particular, in terms of its particular social commentary, is about, you know, an African-American who has tremendous talents and no place to channel them, which was the metaphor of the film.
MARTIN: Just to clarify for people who haven't seen it, you played an alien who crash landed in New York City - I mean, an extra terrestrial.
MORTON: And who has no - and who has no...
MARTIN: Yeah.
MORTON: ...Facility for speech and can heal by touch and can also fix anything electronic by touch.
MARTIN: And you received a tremendous amount of praise from critics for that. And as I said, it's still kind of a cult favorite, would you say?
MORTON: It is. In my mind, there is one review that I will never forget. And the film came out - and I forget which reviewer it was. It was one of the big ones - basically said that he was appalled that the industry allowed John Sayles to bring his homemade films across the water from Jersey to New York.
MARTIN: Oh, my. Ouch.
MORTON: But still, it was, you know, I think for the average person, you know, it really sort of struck home in terms of who this guy was. And that's the beauty of film I think is that in many cases, despite what the critics say, people will go and see it if they think it's something that interests them.
MARTIN: Now, you know, you are an actor that everybody has seen in something. You've been in television, often in guest roles, since the '70s. You know these are - you've been in "Sanford and Son." You've been in "MASH." I mean, you know, you've had meaty roles. You've made a strong impression. But is this what you hoped for? I mean, did you - you know, after that breakthrough role that you would have more leading roles or something? Like, you know what I mean? I'm just wondering how you think about your career?
MORTON: I think probably no differently than any other actor in that, you know, you have a so-called breakthrough performance. You're hoping for more opportunity. And for me, at the time, it was fairly difficult in that for most black males at the time, you know, the roles were either, you know, drug dealers, pimps, you know, bogeyman of some sort. And I made a very conscious decision that somebody would take that job, it just wouldn't be me. That my goal was to try to present as many different kinds of positive African-American images as I could. And if I did play someone who was nefarious in some way, that it would have some reason for being, that there would be something to take away not just some guy who comes out of the dark and kills people.
MARTIN: What do you think is the message of your career, looping back to the whole question of wisdom? I mean, do you have some wisdom that you could impart drawing on your career? I mean, one of the things I've noticed is the versatility. I mean, you've worked across genre. I mean, you've done everything. You've done theater and movies and television and - what do you think? Yeah.
MORTON: Well, theater is where I started. And so that was extremely helpful in that what I learned after a while was that if I could do a show on Broadway or off-Broadway eight times a week for six months and keep that character fresh, then I was capable of doing anything. And "Rasin," which was a musical version of "Raisin in the Sun," I did that show for two and a half years. And at a point, you know, you think how am I going to sort of keep this fresh so the audience doesn't think, oh, he's walking through it 'cause he's been doing it for two and half years. But it was a real lesson in terms of how to do other kinds of things - how to prepare, which is the other part of the equation. You know, people keep saying, you know, that so-and-so was lucky. And my definition of luck is opportunity meeting preparedness. So it's being prepared for an eventuality that I think has kept me going is that something comes up and, so far - knock wood - I've been prepared to take on the challenge.
MARTIN: So what can we look forward to for your Rowan this season? Can you give us any hints?
MORTON: No.
MARTIN: Or then you'd have to kill us, right?
MORTON: Exactly. No, I mean, I think what you'll see is - I mean, clearly, given the last confrontation between Fitz and Rowan, there is probably some retribution on its way from both corners, if you will, with Olivia being in the middle of all of that. So Shonda has, at this point, pushed things to the limit, I mean, as she always does. Just when you think, you know, you couldn't go any further, Shonda will find a way to sort of push it even further. So what's coming up I think is really exciting and will keep, literally, will keep people on the edge of their seats.
MARTIN: Award-winning actor Joe Morton is one of the stars of "Scandal," which returns to the airwaves tonight. And we were actually able to catch up with him in Washington, D.C., no doubt on a secret mission. So thank you so much for joining us.
MORTON: You're welcome. Thank you very much for inviting me.
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On the outskirts of ancient Rome stands what remains of the villa owned by Livia Drusilla, wife to Caesar Augustus, Rome's first and greatest Emperor. Though the villa was discovered and explored as far back as the 16th century, serious excavations did not begin until the 1860's. In 1863 these excavations uncovered a remarkable work of art, the statue that would come to be known as Augustus of Prima Porta. Livia kept this marble statue of her husband, itself a copy of a bronze commissioned in 20 B.C. to celebrate Augustus' great triumph over the Parthians. This statue is the first of the twenty-five objects through which we will explore the history of Christianity.
Born Gaius Octavius, Augustus was the great-nephew and eventual heir of Julius Caesar. Following his uncle's murder, Augustus successfully defeated the assassins and overcame all challenges to power. In 27 B.C. the Senate crowned him Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus—Emperor Caesar Exalted One Son of God. He would rule for over forty years. The great poet Virgil would write of him
Behold the man—the promised one, of whom you know—
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And to restore the Golden Age to Latium,
Where Saturn used to rule. His empire will extend
Beyond the Garamants and Indians, over lands
In the far north and south of the stars of the zodiac
And the yearly path of the sun…
Augustus' ascension and the strength of his rule ushered in a time of peace and stability that historians have called the Pax Romana or "Roman Peace." This was Rome's golden age of cultural, scientific, and architectural advance. And this, the Pax Romana, provides the context for the dawn of Christian history. So strong was Augustus and so powerful what he set in place that peace would endure for over 200 years despite the weak rulers that would follow.
But the Pax Romana was not a peace for all people. Though Rome had peace from civil war and serious internal challenges, she continued to assert her military might over the known world. Under Julius Caesar Rome had already been dominant in western Europe, but under Augustus her armies extended through eastern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. Luke, the church's earliest historian, records that "In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered" (Luke 2:1). When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Galilee, he was born into a town and province subject to Rome and her Emperor.
In Augustus of Prima Porta we see this Emperor at the very height of his power. Like today's politicians, Augustus protected his image carefully and used it to convey something of his strength and attributes. Here he is young, athletic, powerful. His face is youthful and handsome, his right arm is raised in an address to his legions, his left leg is bent as he strides forward. This may not be an accurate portrayal of the man as he was, but certainly it is the man as he wished to be revered and remembered.
Under his rule Rome did not only extend her empire but also consolidated and strengthened it. As the Roman armies conquered, officials followed behind to build the infrastructure necessary to support a mighty empire. Ports sprang up around the Mediterranean, the pirates that had once plied the seas were nearly eradicated, bandits and rebels were hunted down, and carefully-constructed roads connected one province to the next so that it could be said, "All roads lead to Rome." These were the ports that would transport the earliest missionaries across peaceful seas and the roads that would allow the spread of Christianity to mimic the conquests of Rome, though where Rome conquered with sword and spear, Christians would conquer with a very different kind of weapon. Augustus even advocated religious tolerance, allowing other faiths to co-exist with Roman polytheism. His Pax Romana provided the infrastructure and stability that would allow the faith to spread far and fast.
Yet in Augustus of Prima Porta we see the roots of the greatest challenge of the church's infancy. At Augustus' right side is Cupid astride a dolphin, reminding his subjects that he, like Julius Caesar before him, is descended from the Venus, the goddess of love. His bare feet both symbolize and declare his divinity, for where a mere man goes to war wearing boots, a god strides into battle barefoot. Augustus is not only a mighty Emperor, but a son of the gods.
Augustus died when Jesus was still a boy, perhaps around the time Jesus visited the temple and chose to remain behind without his parents (see Luke 2:41ff). Augustus of Prima Porta was carved after Augustus' death but was meant to reaffirm all his claims to divinity and, by extension, the claims of the emperors that would follow him. As Christians took advantage of the Pax Romana to spread their gospel message, a message that declared there was but one God and one way to God, they would eventually and inevitably come into conflict with these divine Emperors. There could be only one Son of God; there could be no room for another Savior when the Emperor himself was savior.
Augustus was succeeded by Tiberius who was in turn succeeded by emperors whose reigns would be short and in many cases nearly forgotten. What remained consistent was the power of Rome and the power of its Emperor. The Pax Romana would survive for generations and with it the conditions that would unwittingly aid the spread of the gospel even while seeking to destroy those who proclaimed it. But where Augustus had been tolerant, his successors would determine that they must eradicate this upstart faith. Many of Jesus' earliest followers would be imprisoned and punished and in some cases executed under the authority of these emperors.
And so in this statue which is now nearly 2,000 years old, we see the context in which Christian history began. In his parting words to his most trusted followers Jesus commanded that they should go into all the world and take the gospel message with them (Matthew 28:16-20) but he also warned that the gospel's advance would be met with fierce persecution (Matthew 10:16-33). In Augustus of Prima Porta we see the providence of God in bringing about conditions in which the gospel could spread quickly and widely and become firmly established in a short period of time. In the very same statue we see the adversity that would accompany and purify it, for as Tertullian would say in the next century and under the persecution of one of Augustus' successors, the blood of martyrs is like a seed that causes the church to grow.
From a priceless marble statue of a mighty Roman Emperor we will now travel 1,300 miles and turn our attention to a tiny scrap of parchment, the second of the twenty-five objects through which we will trace the history of Christianity.
Augustus of Prima Porta is now on public display in The Braccio Nuovo at the Vatican Museum.
More in The History of Christianity in 25 Objects:
- The History of Christianity in 25 Objects: Introduction
- The History of Christianity in 25 Objects: Rylands Library Papyrus P52
- The History of Christianity in 25 Objects: Alexamenos Graffito
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Most of you know or are familiar with the Shark and Blue Shark.
We are adding to the family the Shark Buck a step down converter based on the same IC used in the Shark and Blue Shark.
General overview.
The Shark Buck is the same diameter (0.75") as the other two, has the same trim pot and trim pot functionality. I Remora can be mounted on the Shark Buck and behave the same as the regular Shark (Note 1).
Since the control trim pot functions the same as a regular Shark you can use one external pot to control both the Shark and Shark Buck. Thus, one external pot or one Remora could control two Blue Sharks and one Shark Buck to drive two strings of 4 single LEDs in series and the Shark Buck could drive one Seoul P7 or one Cree MC-E LED. Many other combinations can be had with this versatile common control interface.
Since the Shark Buck steps down the output current max is greater than in a boost configuration. I have tested the Shark Buck with 3A to the load and it behaves nicely.
Here are some numbers I graphed from a Revision 1 board.
Vin Iin Vout Iout (Watts) (Watts) %
15 0.95 3.635 3.037 14.1455 11.0395 78.0%
14 1.03 3.523 3.053 14.3067 10.75572 75.2%
13 1.11 3.516 3.063 14.3079 10.76951 75.3%
12 1.2 3.509 3.073 14.268 10.78316 75.6%
11 1.31 3.504 3.087 14.2659 10.81685 75.8%
10 1.45 3.499 3.105 14.3405 10.8644 75.8%
9 1.62 3.497 3.122 14.4018 10.91763 75.8%
8 1.83 3.495 3.14 14.4387 10.9743 76.0%
7 2.082 3.489 3.153 14.34498 11.00082 76.7%
6 2.439 3.48 3.154 14.36571 10.97592 76.4%
5 2.74 3.453 2.999 13.3986 10.35555 77.3%
I may have an error at the 15V input as the efficiency rose when it should have continued the downward slope. The line should be straighter, but, I believe this is due to the time it takes for me to read and write the measurements down the board and LED temperature moved and made for a slight error in measurement. If you straighten out the line you can see that around 5V the efficiency is just over 79% and at 14 Volts it has dropped to around 77% efficiency. I would draw a straight line from these two to get a more realistic graph of efficiency.
Note in the numbers that the current to the LED was slightly higher than 3A. Unlike other converter boards this one is delivering 3A.
The Shark Buck also has reverse battery protection and accomdates the same copper C as on the regular Shark for optimum thermal transfer to the heat sink.
There are two sense resistors on this board making it easier to generate a valid output current combination.
One 0.1 ohm resistor = 1A max.
Two 0.1 ohm resistors = 2A max.
One 0.1 ohm, one 0.05 ohm = 3A max. (maximum output configuration)
I'm sure you have questions and feel free to post them here in this thread. When I get more pictures and data I will add them to this thread.
1) The inductor placement encroaches into the area under the Remora and raises the height of the Remora. Once mounted the completed assembly will be thicker than a regular Shark + Remora.
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The long-awaited "The Dark Knight Rises" -- the latest big-screen treatment of DC Comics' Batman -- will hit screens this week, and the early movie reviews are looking good. The movie builds on the 2008 hit "The Dark Knight," and maintains its dark, brooding tenor. Though the mayhem is not for everyone (were comic books?), I'm glad that the Caped Crusader has developed into a strong movie franchise in director Christopher Nolan's trilogy. The Superman movies never achieved this sort of complexity, and some other recent super-hero movies have turned into an amalgam of special effects. Here are some excerpts from movie reviews:
Tribune -- "The Dark Knight Rises" is not dull, or even overlong, despite its running time. It's more an example of what one character, in a cameo, refers to as "the decadence of Gotham" — Gotham in this case meaning Hollywood. Nolan amalgamates the second movie's9/11 breakdown vibe with rampant, murderous visions of class warfare and economic despair.
Associated Press -- There's so much going on here ... that "The Dark Knight Rises" feels overloaded, and sadly lacking the spark that gave 2008's "The Dark Knight" such vibrancy. The absence of Heath Ledger, who won a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of the anarchic and truly frightening Joker, is really obvious here. It retrospect, it makes you realize how crucial Ledger's performance was in making that Batman movie fly. By comparison, "The Dark Knight Rises" is plot-heavy, obsessed with process, laden with expository dialogue and flashbacks that bog down the momentum and -- dare I say it? -- just flat-out boring at times.
Los Angeles Times -- Potent, persuasive and hypnotic, "The Dark Knight Rises"has us at its mercy. A disturbing experience we live through as much as a film we watch, this dazzling conclusion to director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is more than an exceptional superhero movie, it is masterful filmmaking by any standard. So much so that, its considerable 2-hour, 44-minute length notwithstanding, as soon as it's over, all you want to do is see it all over again.
Washington Post -- Nolan ... has made a completely satisfying movie with "The Dark Knight Rises," one steeped enough in self-contained mythology to reward hard-core fans while giving less invested viewers a rousing, adroitly executed piece of popcorn entertainment. What's more, Nolan has heroically resisted the siren call of 3-D, that odious gimmick that has done nothing more for cinema than separate people from their money for no added visual or narrative value. Instead, he has thrown in with IMAX, whose bold detail and boxy framing are just right for this big-shouldered production. "The Dark Knight Rises" looks terrific, from its handsome, uncluttered production design and subtle costumes to impressively staged stunts that unfold with taut lucidity.
Newsday -- Things bog down badly with a late-hour spiritual odyssey that we've seen before, and there are moments when characters lapse into comic-book speak, delivering lengthy explanations of their nefarious plans. But "The Dark Knight Rises" is a satisfyingly grand finale to this series and -- surprise, surprise -- a rousing opening chord to another.


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Overeating? Fructose may be to blame
Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates diets, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating.
After drinking a fructose beverage, the brain doesn't register the feeling of being full as it does when simple glucose is consumed, researchers found.
It's a small study and does not prove that fructose or its relative, high-fructose corn syrup, can cause obesity, but experts say it adds to evidence that they may play a role.
The sugars often are added to processed foods and beverages and consumption has risen dramatically since the 1970s along with obesity.
A third of children and teens in the United States and more than two-thirds of adults are obese or overweight. In Australia in 2011-12, 63 per cent of adults were overweight or obese, as were a quarter of children aged five to 17, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported.
All sugars are not equal – even though they contain the same amount of kilojoules – because they are metabolised differently in the body.
Table sugar is sucrose, which is half fructose, half glucose, while high-fructose corn syrup is 55 per cent fructose and 45 per cent glucose. Some nutrition experts say this sweetener may pose special risks, but others and the industry reject that claim.
Doctors say we eat too much sugar in all forms.
For the study, scientists used magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scans to track blood flow in the brain in 20 young, normal-weight people before and after they had drinks containing glucose or fructose in two sessions several weeks apart.
Scans showed that drinking glucose "turns off or suppresses the activity of areas of the brain that are critical for reward and desire for food", said one study leader, the Yale University endocrinologist Professor Robert Sherwin.
With fructose, "we don't see those changes", he said.
"As a result, the desire to eat continues – it isn't turned off."
What's convincing, said Jonathan Purnell, an endocrinologist at Oregon Health and Science University, is that the imaging results mirrored how hungry the people said they felt, as well as what earlier studies found in animals.
"It implies that fructose, at least with regards to promoting food intake and weight gain, is a bad actor compared to glucose," Dr Purnell said.
He wrote a commentary that appears with the federally funded study in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Asso-ciation.
Researchers are now testing obese people to determine if they react the same way to fructose and glucose as the normal-weight people in the study.
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Stuart Freeborn, a movie makeup artist whose alchemy helped shape the outlandish space creatures that stalk the "Star Wars" films — including the big-eared, big-brained little Yoda, whom he modeled after himself and Albert Einstein — died on Tuesday in London. He was 98.
George Lucas, the "Star Wars" director, announced his death, calling him "a makeup legend."
Mr. Freeborn worked on more than 75 movies, creating the makeup for stars like Marlene Dietrich, Burt Lancaster, Vivien Leigh and Gregory Peck. He created the looks of the three characters — Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake of the Royal Air Force, President Muffley and the paraplegic ex-Nazi Dr. Strangelove — Peter Sellers played in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
Mr. Kubrick so liked the "Strangelove" work that he asked Mr. Freeborn to create the apelike hominids in "The Dawn of Man" sequence in the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." The project, taking two years for Mr. Freeborn to complete, involved crafting masks with lips and tongues that moved, realistic-looking simian teeth and body suits made from human, yak and horsehair.
Mr. Lucas was so impressed with his "Space Odyssey" work that he asked Mr. Freeborn to handle makeup duties for "Star Wars." He accepted the job but not before questioning whether the movie would be a box-office success. (The "Star Wars" series has made over $4 billion.) His inspiration for the look of Yoda, a puppet, came when he looked in the mirror and saw the lumps and bumps on his own face. To convey the mental power of this master of the Jedi Order, an ancient monastic peacekeeping organization in the "Star Wars" universe, he hit on the notion of using Einstein's eye wrinkles. Yoda's big ears popped out of Mr. Freeborn's imagination.
Still, he said in an interview in 2008, he had remained nervous about his idea. "I had never modeled anything so quick," he said. "It's going to be a load of rubbish."
Mr. Lucas demanded to see Yoda immediately. When Mr. Freeborn removed the cloth covering his model, he recalled, Mr. Lucas exclaimed, "That's it! That's just what I want!" Mr. Freeborn also made Chewbacca, the furry 7-foot-3 co-pilot of the hero Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford. (Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca.) He made Jabba the Hutt, a large, sluglike alien that required three puppeteers to operate, for the third film in the original series, "Return of the Jedi." To create the bizarre crowd of extraterrestrials who gather at the "Star Wars" cantina, Mr. Freeborn recruited his wife, Kay, and son, Graham, both makeup artists, to help.
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Mrs. Freeborn died last year. Mr. Freeborn's sons, Graham, Roger and Ray, also died before him. He is survived by seven grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren.
Stuart Freeborn was born in London on Sept. 5, 1914. Even as a teenager, he yearned to work in the movie business and practiced making himself up to look like different characters. He studied chemistry to learn how to use different kinds of plastic without harming human skin.
Shrugging off his father's pleas that he follow him into the insurance business, Mr. Freeborn repeatedly applied to studios, sometimes even sneaking into them hoping to demonstrate his skills. At 25, he devised a bolder scheme: he called studio executives and the newspapers to tell the lie that the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was driving around Mr. Freeborn's London suburb. The emperor was in fact Mr. Freeborn wearing a fake beard and nose. He was detained by the police but not hired by the studios.
Undaunted, he sent photos of his work to the director Alexander Korda, a leader in the British film industry. Mr. Korda hired him, and he was soon doing makeup for costume dramas and period pieces.
One of his earliest credited jobs was for David Lean's 1948 film classic, "Oliver Twist." For the villain Fagin — Dickens frequently referred to him in the novel as "the Jew" — Mr. Freeborn offered two different noses: one cartoonishly hooked, the other of the more conventional variety. His bosses chose the hooked nose for the actor in the role, Alec Guinness, evoking an anti-Semitic stereotype and prompting accusations of anti-Semitism. The film was not shown in the United States until 1951. Mr. Freeborn said he deeply regretted the use of the image, not least, he said, because he was part Jewish.
Mr. Freeborn immodestly said that there was little he could not do when it came to transforming actors into credible-looking characters. He said he more than once enlarged actresses' breasts for nude scenes. But he was never nominated for an Academy Award.
His friends thought his best chance for an Oscar was for his work in "2001," but only "Planet of the Apes" was recognized at the 1969 ceremony: an honorary Academy Award for its makeup artist, John Chambers. Mr. Freeborn's supporters speculated that his apes were so realistic that the Oscar's judges may have thought they were real.


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The legal and cultural traditions of Greece in general and the history of the island of Rhodes in particular, including its legendary sea laws, make summer study in Rhodes an ideal experience for law students seeking to specialize in maritime legal affairs. With the objective of serving those interests, Tulane Law School has sponsored summer sessions in Greece every year since 1980.
Rhodes is a fascinating island, rich in culture, history, and natural beauty. It boasts rolling green hills that reach the emerald waters of the southeast Mediterranean Sea and hundreds of miles of beaches and coves. Ancient Greek temples, Byzantine churches, and medieval palaces speak of the glories of the past. As described by a former student, the program gives an "in-depth understanding in short time" and provides "efficient teaching, beautiful island, [and] friendly faculty."
Tulane's Rhodes Program offers a variety of courses on admiralty, the law of the sea and ocean management. All courses are taught by nationally and internationally recognized legal experts in settings that enhance an understanding of the international dimensions of the subject-matter under review. Students may enroll for up to four credit hours. One additional credit may be available through directed research after completion of the program. All classes will be held at the Sheraton Resort Hotel in Rhodes.
The Aegean Institute of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law has been a co-sponsor of Tulane's Summer Program in Rhodes since 1994. The Institute, an independent research center affiliated with the University of the Aegean, is located in the center of Rhodes, has a specialized library and documentation center on the law of the sea and maritime law. The Institute organizes or participates in research projects, seminars and conferences related to the law of the sea and maritime law; it publishes the Aegean Review of Law of the Sea and Maritime Law. Each year the Institute grants scholarships to students from Greece and other countries to attend the Tulane summer session.
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The history of the Christmas carol extends back to the Middle Ages, producing a rich tradition over centuries which continues to the modern era. This selection of new and familiar Christmas music presents the genre in unique musical colours featuring the world's foremost guitar ensemble, Los Romeros, playing arrangements for four guitars and in company with the orchestra, the Concerto Málaga, directed by conductor and composer, Massimo Paris.
This extraordinary family of musicians, known as Los Romeros, has been a powerful presence on the international concert platform for nearly five decades. When Los Romeros made their first European tour in 1969/70, they were described by an ecstatic press as "Segovia times four", "the Paganinis", and "the royal family of the guitar". The patriarch of the family, Celedonio Romero (1913–1996), emigrated to the USA in 1957 with his young sons Celin (b. 1936), Pepe (b. 1944) and Angel (b. 1946). Celedonio taught his talented children from an early age to play the guitar, the result being a remarkable family saga which has ensured for itself a permanent place in the pantheon of guitar history.
The music of Los Romeros goes on through the generations as Angel Romero's son, Lito, has joined the ensemble following the death of Celedonio, while Celino (Celin's son) replaced Angel in the quartet in 1990 when his uncle decided to concentrate on his solo career. In all, seven of Celedonio's grandchildren play the guitar. However, Pepe Jr. has acquired an international reputation as a maker of guitars, having studied the craft in Germany and elsewhere.
Thus Los Romeros have become a legend of guitar virtuosity and artistic integrity, whether as members of the renowned ensemble or as soloists in their own right. In February 2000, King Juan Carlos of Spain awarded the family a collective knighthood in the form of the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.
Among their hundreds of concerts, Los Romeros have performed at the White House and the Vatican, for Prince Charles, Queen Sofía of Spain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, and have appeared with the world's leading orchestras. Many fine works have been written for them, including concertos by Joaquín Rodrigo and Federico Moreno Torroba.
Each culture has its own approach to the concept of carols, the international nature of the form bringing together a vast array of diverse characteristics. Though carols may express similar religious sentiments, various musical idioms are available ranging from straightforward folk melodies sparsely harmonized to intricately woven large-scale compositions.
On this recording the more traditional carols are interpreted through the vibrant sounds of the guitar quartet itself – the incomparable ensemble playing of Los Romeros. In this context, familiar items such as Away in a Manger, Silent Night, El Noi de la Mare, Carol of the Bells, The Little Drummer Boy, etc., take on a new and highly charged significance, the intricate sonorities being presented with appropriately intimate artistry, as well as a sense of spontaneity and freshness.
Where the guitars are accompanied by the orchestra in Handel's "For unto us a Child is born" and the "Hallelujah" chorus, the listener may well experience the sensation of discovering a Baroque concerto, combining brilliance with symmetry. In the two arrangements of Ave Maria (by Schubert and Gounod respectively), familiar works take on excitingly different perspectives, the guitar ensemble being one of the most flexibly expressive combinations, especially when matched with superb orchestral accompaniments.
Included on this recording is also a recent work, the X'mas Suite by Massimo Paris, Italian composer, conductor and virtuoso viola player, who in 2003 was appointed conductor and artistic director of the orchestra, Concerto Málaga.
Maestro Paris's solution to the problem of composing contemporary carols is to bring together evocative themes in four movements with traditional tonalities, the fifth being a fiery saltarello, a celebratory dance which pays homage to past customs and the demands of the 21st century. The composer skilfully integrates the ensemble expertise of Los Romeros with subtle orchestral textures, both parties complementing the other in accordance with the distinct moods of each movement of the suite.
As may seem appropriate, Los Romeros are permitted the final statement, a rendering of O Christmas Tree, from the German carol O Tannenbaum, based on an ancient folk tune, and a gently contrapuntal approach to We Wish You a Merry Christmas, a carol which originated in 16th-century England. The poised assurance of Los Romeros, the harvest of so many decades in the musical spotlight, brings to these lovely carols an enhanced beauty and meaning.
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CWD expands its presence on city's southeast side
It hasn't yet decided on a project for the site.
It appears the reason CWD Real Estate Investment bought the building that houses the Michigan Athletic Club and the property it sits on is that both are close to some sites the firm already owns.
The MAC is at 2500 Burton St. SE in Grand Rapids, near Breton Village Mall and other parcels CWD recently bought.
But the firm's partners, Sam Cummings, Scott Wierda and Dan DeVos, said they haven't put together a proposed development for the site as of yet.
"Our goal with this property, first and foremost, is to do what's best for the community and the immediate neighborhood. We are committed to the Breton Village area and do not want the property to sit vacant once the MAC closes down at its lease expiration," said Wierda, co-managing partner of CWD, in a statement.
"We are patient investors and will be exploring a number of options. We want to have the best possible plan moving forward," added Wierda, who also said Brian De Vries is part of this investment.
John Truscott, principal and president of Truscott Rossman, a Lansing public relations firm representing CWD, said the partners were very interested in the property. The site is a fairly large one for an urban commercial location at 8.5 acres.
"They own a lot of property in the area, so when this became available they definitely wanted to add it to their portfolio and continue to grow their interest in that area," said Truscott.
Truscott added that CWD has just begun its process to figure out what would be the best use for the site.
City Planning Director Suzanne Schulz said the property is zoned a Planned Unit Development, or a PUD in zoning parlance. So any change in use that CWD has in mind for the property would have to go to the Planning Commission and then to the City Commission.
"The question would be, what are they planning on doing and how sensitive is it compared to what is already there? So depending on the extent and scope of the project, that would determine the approval process they would need to go through," said Schulz.
"We haven't seen any proposed plans for the site," she added.
CWD was recently awarded a zoning change for two nearby parcels the firm is planning to develop into a retail use. The properties are at 2410 and 2420 Burton St. SE, where the firm said it plans to put up a 12,000-square-foot retail building on a redesigned footprint.
A zoning change was needed for the project because the parcels were zoned with a nod to office use and not retail, even though the sites are across the street from the Breton Village Mall, which CWD also owns.
A representative for CWD told the Planning Commission the company has a tenant interested in setting up shop there if the properties are rezoned.
"They are heavily invested in that area with Jade Pig (Ventures) and CWD between Breton Village Mall and the southeast corner at Breton and Burton that they just recently had rezoned. So certainly I think they'll be trying to protect the investment they've already made," said Schulz.
"Clearly, they have a vision for that area of the city, and when they are ready they will share it with everybody," she added.
"It could be an investment from a land-control standpoint because they have been investing in that area and they want to make sure it is managed in a way they can protect their investment."
Mercy Health Saint Mary's has announced it will discontinue operating the MAC and was hoping that someone would make an offer on the business because it wasn't financially viable for the health system to continue operating it.
Saint Mary's lease on the building expires at the end of January and won't be renewed, unless a valid offer is made on the business. Saint Mary's announced the MAC will close Jan. 5.
"CWD doesn't operate health clubs. If somebody steps forward, they might entertain that as an option. At least that is an option, but they're looking at all options right now," said Truscott.
According to Kent County property records, CPPR LLC has owned the property since late January 1999 when the local investor group purchased it for $5.5 million. The 2013 State Equalized Value of the site stood at $2.94 million.
Truscott told the Business Journal a purchase price will not be disclosed.
"We are excited about this acquisition because it is not only a continuation of supporting and investing in Grand Rapids, but it also emphasizes the importance of reinvesting in our near neighborhoods, as well as our urban core," Cummings said.


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A man is conducting a phone scam towards businesses in the area of Ferndale, police report.
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The man is described as a white man in his 30s with a cut on his right eyebrow.
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An epic rebirth to Toho's iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston, Andy Serkis
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UK HealthCare – The Power of Advanced Medicine
UK HealthCare is the hospitals and clinics of the University of Kentucky. But it is so much more. It is 9,000 people – physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals – all dedicated to providing the most advanced, most effective care available, not just in Kentucky but anywhere.
It is physicians and other medical professionals trained in the most sophisticated, most up-to-the-minute medical techniques so that no Kentuckian, no matter how sick they are or how rare their illness, needs to go far from home for the treatment they need.
It is a Level 1 trauma center, ready every minute of every day to treat even the most serious injuries when they come through the door. And a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, caring for the tiniest and sickest newborns – and giving them a chance not just to live, but to live normal, productive, happy lives.
It is nurses providing care for every patient, every time that's so good it has received Magnet status, the highest recognition available in the nursing field.
It is educators in our six health professions colleges teaching the next generations of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, spreading the highest standards of care like ripples to the future.
It is researchers working to discover treatments and cures not yet even imagined.
And it is a network of partnerships and outreach locations throughout the state, so that world-class care is always close to home.
UK HealthCare is the power of advanced medicine.
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Research is the key to the future of medicine. At UK HealthCare, our researchers are working every day to find answers where there were no answers before.
As an academic research institution, our physicians as well as pharmacists, nurses and other healthcare professionals are continuously pursuing the next generation of cures, treatments, protocols and policies. Their discoveries have the potential to change what's medically possible within our lifetimes. At the same time, our educators and thought leaders in health policy and delivery are transforming the healthcare landscape in Kentucky to provide the right care in the right place for everyone in the state.
The UK Markey Cancer Center has earned designation by the National Cancer Institute – the most prestigious designation possible. And because of that, we have access to new treatments not yet generally available, and to clinical trials most other hospitals do not.
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UK HealthCare is committed to the pillars of academic health care—research, education and clinical care. Dedicated to the health of the people of Kentucky, we will provide the most advanced patient care and serve as an information resource. We will strengthen local health care and improve the delivery system by partnering with community hospitals and physicians. We will support the organization's education and research needs by offering cutting edge services on par with the nation's best providers.
The vision of UK HealthCare is to achieve national recognition as a Top 20 public academic health center, providing optimal multidisciplinary health care and developing advanced medical therapeutics for the people of Kentucky and surrounding regions.
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UK HealthCare has grown dramatically in recent years. Between 2004 and 2015, hospital discharges increased 88 percent while the complexity of the cases we treated moved us from the 25th percentile of academic medical centers, to the 75th.
At the same time, overall improvements in the quality of care and patient safety led to UK HealthCare receiving the UHC Rising Star Award in 2013 and becoming a national leader in patient safety in 2015.
UK HealthCare's University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital remains the No. 1 hospital in Kentucky and the Bluegrass Region, according to U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals Rankings.
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Today, we're excited to share with you a major release that our team has been working on for quite some time: Squarespace Commerce.
Giving our customers the ability to manage and sell products on their websites has been the most requested Squarespace feature of all time. Thanks to the powerful architecture of Squarespace 6, we've built a truly integrated commerce solution that gives our customers amazing power and flexibility within a single platform.
This is a significant release for us. Here are the major points:
- Works with every template. Squarespace Commerce works with every Squarespace template. Click the dollar sign icon in your Website Manager to create a new product collection. Your products are presented in a flexible, minimal grid designed to fit nicely into any website. Customize the style of your products grid right from the Style Editor, just like any other area of your website. Commerce is currently available to U.S. customers only.
- Sell digital and physical goods on a single platform. Squarespace lets you sell any type of product using a single interface. Your digital goods are delivered via customized email links that expire in 24 hours from delivery. You can control link sharing and re-send delivery links from the Commerce panel in your Website Manager.
- 30-second merchant account signup using Stripe. We've partnered with Stripe to provide a painless way for you to start accepting payments immediately using Squarespace Commerce. From your Commerce area, click "Connect Stripe", and fill out the form. Once you make a sale, payments will go directly into your bank account. Stripe and Squarespace are completely integrated – there are no confusing codes to enter.
- Simple pricing. No Squarespace-imposed transaction fees. Squarespace Commerce is included in our Business Plan, priced at $24/month with a yearly purchase ($30/month if you pay month-to-month). There are no other pricing tiers, and Squarespace does not impose a transaction fee on your store. Stripe, our integrated payment processor, charges a simple and transparent fee of $0.30 + 2.9% for every successful transaction.
- Flexible product variants & unlimited SKUs. Our product implementation supports multi-dimensional product variants (such as size and color) as well as sale prices. The Squarespace Commerce interface is ideally suited for use with small stores (< 200 SKUs), but we do not place any limits on the amount of SKUs you can have in your inventory. We will be expanding the interface in the future to easily accommodate larger stores.
- LayoutEngine integration. Squarespace Commerce is fully integrated with the rest of our content block system. We've developed a Product Block, which works much like our Amazon Block, except it pulls items from your product collection. You can use this block anywhere LayoutEngine is enabled (blog posts, pages, sidebars, and more) – meaning that you will be able to create an editorialized commerce experience for your visitors.
- Unified inventory management. You can quickly sort items across your entire store by stock level, price, or title.
- Coupons, taxes, shipping. Squarespace allows you to create multiple types of coupons for your store. Create coupons that apply to all orders, orders that meet a certain minimum, or for specific products. Coupons can expire, and you can create flexible discounts depending on what you'd like to discount. Full tax and shipping rules by region also help you run your store.
- Order fulfillment interface. Printable packing slips. Squarespace's order management interface lets you easily track outstanding orders, resend customer update emails and print packing slips from a single interface.
- Mailing list integration at checkout. Building a loyal customer base is a crucial component of running a successful store. We've integrated MailChimp to let customers sign up for email communications from your store at checkout.
- Express checkout mode. Don't need a cart? Squarespace offers a streamlined checkout mode that lets your customers jump directly to your payment page, bypassing any kind of shopping cart interface. This option is great for selling single products.
- Customizable order emails. Customize your emails with personalized messages for your customers.
- Order exporting to CSV. Need your order data? Export easily to CSV format for importing into accounting and spreadsheet tools.
- Store manager role. Our permissions system lets you give select individuals access to manage inventory and orders in your store, but they will not be able to change your website design.
- Automatic Google Analytics and Mixpanel integration. Plug in your Google Analytics or Mixpanel IDs for deeper insight of your commerce transactions.
- Stay connected with your customers. Our social integrations let you easily share store news and product updates to Twitter, Facebook, or any other social service supported by the platform.
- Import from Shopify and Big Cartel. Move your existing Shopify or Big Cartel inventory over to Squarespace with just a few clicks. All images and available data will be transferred over.
- Available in our developer platform. Squarespace Commerce works perfectly with our developer platform as well, so developers can create custom Squarespace stores with a totally unique design.
This release represents a huge step in achieving Squarespace's mission to power any sort of website within our integrated platform. We've been working on this project for a long time, and we're thrilled to finally share the results.
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Employers large and small are actively recruiting career-oriented, trained employees in the fast-growing field of culinary arts. Opportunities exist in many diverse areas, including hotels, restaurants, catering and corporate food services.
The program combines classical cooking methods with regional flair while providing you the skills to run a profitable business. Learn food service management, preparation, and restaurant service while gaining experience working in our kitchens, campus restaurant and at catered events.
You can also earn a two-year Baking Degree or one-year Baking Certificate with an emphasis on specialty baking, a progression of decorating skills, and bakery management. The degree prepares students for entry-level work as bakers for high volume bakeries as well as smaller independent businesses.
Graduates of the program are employed at well-known restaurants and catering companies in Snohomish and King counties as well as running their own restaurants, bakeries and catering businesses.
The college's chef instructors and students prepare desserts at the International Pinot Noir Celebration in Oregon, have been featured in "Northwest Palate," are members of The Chaîne des Rôtisseurs international gastronomic society, and have participated in apprenticeships locally at Quillisascut Farm School and internationally at the Cannes Film Festival. Our students have baked and decorated the cakes for Snohomish County's 150th anniversary celebration on Jan. 14, 2011.
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- Culinary Arts Associate of Technical Arts – learn food production, service and management to prepare for positions as cooks, kitchen managers, servers and hosts in the food service industry and the skills needed to enter management training positions in fine dining, fast food, and institutional food service. Begin the program in fall, winter, or spring quarters.
- Basic Commercial Cooking Certificate – gain entry level kitchen and cooking skills.
- Advanced Commercial Cooking Certificate – add skills in restaurant operations, sauté, bread production, and pastry and dessert preparation.
- Catering Certificate – prepare for an entry level career in catering.
- Baking Degree and Certificate – prepare for an entry level career in pastries or baking.
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Where were you at 5:02? May 18th, 1965, that is. Attending a Hindu wedding in New Delhi? Riding a roller coaster in Mexico City? Serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Rio de Janeiro? Or perhaps being born in San Diego? These are just some of the events captured by the film Eulogy to 5:02, written and produced by Bruce Herschensohn for the United States Information Agency in 1965. Narrated by Richard Burton, the 27-minute film presents twenty segments—each one-minute long—depicting a "minute lived in freedom" in twenty locations around the world. That minute? 5:02 Greenwich Mean Time on May 18th, 1965.
It was a minute of no particular importance, but, as the opening narration tells us, "for the two-thirds of the world who lived in freedom on May the 18th, 5:02 was significant, for it was another minute spent in doing what they chose to do. Though their freedom went on as unnoticed as the time, 5:02 was theirs, to work if they wanted to work, to dream if they wanted to dream, to live as they wanted to live."
Although clearly crafted for an explicit purpose at the height of the Cold War, Eulogy to 5:02 presents the viewer with a remarkable, multinational time capsule depicting life on Earth nearly 50 years ago. Tahitian women wash clothes on the beach as the sun rises; Arab construction workers build high-rise apartments in the planned-city of Ashdod, Israel; and youngsters play children's games on the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark. A little closer to home, a salesman maneuvers his convertible through the labyrinthine freeway system of Los Angeles, where it is 9:02 AM (the lack of traffic congestion would startle today's commuter). All scenes are scored with Herschensohn's lively and dramatic music.
At least as interesting as the film itself is the story behind its creation. This story plays out in the digitized scripts, production notes, and correspondence of the Bruce Herschensohn Collection. Coordinating the simultaneous filming of twenty sequences in twenty global locations is a significant task—as is fudging the truth when circumstances don't quite work out. Piecing this story together reveals as much about history and politics as it does about making movies.
For example, the concluding one-minute segment of the film depicts the arrival of refugees to free soil. Herschensohn originally scripted the sequence with mainland Chinese seeking refuge in Hong Kong, but circumstances required the relocation of the scene to Vietnam. His instructions to the local film crew (employed by the USIA) included the following: "This is one of our main propaganda sequences and needs to come off with a real feeling of compassion. The family or families need to evoke a real empathy from the audience and no corn. The faces should be great old wrinkled faces as well as unknowing youth…" On May 24th, 1965, Ed Hunter of the USIA film crew in Saigon wrote to Herschensohn with news of the successful, although arduous night of filming. "I risked my life, got soaked to the skin, and was arrested four times during the shooting, if you like the footage and can't pay, send a present." The night before the film shoot, he explains, Vietcong disguised as Marines attacked an outpost only a quarter of a mile from the location. Hunter also references the bombing of the US embassy less than two months earlier, which his crew also documented. "Ghastly. Truly ghastly." He writes of the embassy: "We now have safety glass in our office windows, and they have bricked up the library downstairs. Come back to Saigon…"
See the results for yourself. Click here to watch Eulogy to 5:02 in its entirety and then explore the materials related to the film in the Bruce Herschensohn Collection. Enjoy.


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'Game of Thrones' Season 3: Producers Explain Surprise Character Return
'Game of Thrones' fans well know that HBO's adaptation of the George R.R. Martin series will often incorporate changes of convenience, while keeping to the canon in a manner that AMC's 'The Walking Dead' often lacks. Last night's "Dark Wings, Dar
k Words" however introduced some far-flung changes from the books ahead, so why did David Benioff and Dan Weiss deviate so far from the book? Find out whose surprise return has 'Game of Thrones' fans alight inside!
Though itself adapted from George R.R. Martin's canon, Theon Greyjoy's siege of Winterfell proved to be a highlight of 'Game of Thrones season 2 that saw actor Alfie Allen significantly impressing the HBO drama's producers. So much so, in fact, that last night's 'Game of Thrones' season 3 episode "Dark Wings, Dark Words" gave the character an early return, a full two books ahead of schedule!
While HBO's current series tracks the first half of series creator George R.R. Martin's third novel in the series "A Storm of Swords," Theon himself is not heard from again until Martin's fifth novel "A Dance with Dragons." However, last night's episode saw Theon revealed to be alive, and tortured by as-yet-unrevealed figures, so why the change, according to executive producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss? Says Benioff to Entertainment Weekly:
Once we saw what Alfie was doing with the role we wanted to keep him going. His character is very shades-of-gray. He's fun to write for and he's fun to watch... [Also] Alfie doesn't look anything like the character in the book but when he auditioned he blew everybody else out of the water. Theon last season did so many horrible things, but it was so much easier to imagine for yourself how he got to that place. He's a character that's similar in many ways to the book version, but because of Alfie the character has taken on his own life in the show.
Benioff added that Allen's unique portrayal of the character made him far more sympathetic than the book, in spite of some terrible actions, and presented an opportunity to further develop the character in ways waiting for later seasons would have stalled. The circumstances of the character's capture remain something of a mystery, given how HBO adapted the events from the book, but time will reveal Greyjoy's role in the coming season.
What say you? Were you surprised to see Theon back so soon? Did he come to a deserved fate for his actions in season 2? Tell us what you think of 'Game of Thrones' season 3 after the latest preview below!


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Scream no more, Sir SmackMe. You just been smuck'd with an epic mini-series on component creation, now up on Adobe's Developer Center. My colleague Jeff Kamerer, engineer on the Flash Authoring team, has written basically a thesis, a small book on how to make your own AS3 components with the Flash CS3 framework. When Jeff sent me a draft six weeks ago, it was 32,000 words and 102 pages. He's not kidding around.
Here's the summary of what's covered:
Creating ActionScript 3.0 components in FlashAfter following along with this series, you will learn how to do the following:
- Set up the layers and frames in your component movie clip symbol
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I am a PhD student who does not have extensive computational experience seeking advice from those experienced with computational modelling as to which method would be most appropriate for solving my particular problem.
Physical Scenario
The Salvinia is a small floating fern. Its leaves have upon them a forest-like structure of fronds, with a particular shape and particular regions of hydrophobia and hydrophilia. This structure, also found elsewhere in nature, allows the Salvinia to maintain a persistent, stable air layer on its surface due to the phenomenon of surface tension.
For those familiar with the phenomenon of capillary action, this physical scenario is closely related, and involves many of the same considerations.
In brief, the interface between the air and the water is often constructed according to the method of Gauss. Operating on a variational principle, this method involves writing the free surface energy, the "wetting energy" due to contact with the solid boundaries (fronds) and gravitational potential (if desired) as action functionals to be minimised. It is also usually desirable to impose a condition on the volume bounded by the surface, specifying that it should not change under the variation, in order to fix a unique surface with respect to translations.
Classical formulations have viewed the surface as a height function over a euclidean domain. This can cause problems when the surface curves back on itself, as in the case of some sessile drops, for example. Thus, I have written the action functionals in terms of functions $X^A$ (where $A=1,2,3$) which define the embedding of the surface into three-dimensional euclidean space.
Why is this a problem?
The difficulty I have encountered is that the solid boundaries (fronds) do not have a simple geometry. Take, for example, the case where the fronds are cylinders. It is then possible to define the surface as a function $u(x,y)$ over a domain $\Omega$. The functional is can then be decomposed into an interior term and a boundary term using the divergence theorem, and solved using a finite element method.
Now consider the (still relatively simple) case where the frond is a cone, rather than a cylinder. Now, as the surface moves up and down vertically, the location and shape of the boundary as viewed in the $(x,y)$ plane changes, depending on the height and curvature of the surface.
What I have already tried
I have produced solutions for the cylinder case using FEMLAB, and replicated those results with COMSOL. However, I was unable to think of a way to incorporate more complicated boundary structures (even simple ones such as a cone).
I have had slightly more success with the Surface Evolver, developed by Ken Brakke. This is also a finite-element-style scheme, which works by evolving an initial surface using a gradient descent method. The software is stable and well-written, and I have been able to produce results for a cylinder, a cone and hyperboloid. However, as the solid boundaries must be defined as level-set constraints, I assume that building more complex solid boundaries would require overlapping level-set constraints and some criteria for switching between them appropriately.
I am aware of several different methods which may be applicable, including: Volume-of-Fluid methods, Level-Set Methods (Osher & Sethian), Finite Element Methods for PDEs and the Dorfmeister-Pedit-Wu algorithm. I have been endeavouring to determine for myself whether any or all of these might be appropriate, but due to my limited computational experience, I am quite unsure as to what method might be appropriate.
Important Comment
I am not attempting, in any way, to avoid the long and possibly laborious process of learning the ins and outs of a computational method. If referred by consensus or expert advice to an appropriate method, I will most happily plow into every piece of material I can find on the subject until I am able to address my problem. At this stage, I simply do not have the breadth of knowledge necessary to investigate every possible method and assess each for its strengths and weaknesses with respect to my problem.
Is there a computational method, or already-existing software package, which is appropriate for modelling fluid-air interfaces with solid boundaries of complicated geometry?
With thanks in anticipation,
Christopher Laing