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NOTE: Interviews with Director Alexandre O. Phillipe and Jonathan London on the Making of 'Doc of the Dead'can be found below the review.
As of late, there has been so much spoken, written, screamed and moaned about when it comes to the subject of zombies and the undead. We here at the Zombie Research Society have been writing, screaming and moaning about it for years, so we ought to know. And now a brand new film is here to educate those who are not in the know, or for the rest of us fanatics, justify why we love it so much.
Doc of the Dead (2014) begins with intrepid documentary host Jonathan London of Geekscape chatting up the man on the street to see what the average person knows about zombies. After all, zombie culture has crept into every corner of society and taken a permanent place in our psyche — we should all be experts right? Well, if you believed that, you would be wrong. Doc of the Dead aims to set it all straight.
Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead waxes poetic: "They're us having succumbed to our worst fear, which is our own death… Even if you're a mile ahead of them, while you're snoring they'll catch up and eat you. It's like death itself– you do everything you can to stave it off… but it'll get you in the end."
Matt Mogk of the Zombie Research Society cuts right to the chase: "Zombies are a relentlessly aggressive, reanimated human corpse driven by a biological infection."
Doc of the Dead is a documentary directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. The film examines the rise and evolution of zombies in film, television and literature and the impact on pop culture. Many of the genre's most influential figures are featured in the film, including the "Godfather of the zombie genre" George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead), actors Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) and Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead), producer Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead) and acclaimed author Max Brooks (bestsellers The Zombie Survival Guide, World War Z).
What brought this phenomenon to our governments and cities, schools and streets is all covered in loving detail; from its earliest inception in antiquity, through folklore and superstition, to its invasion of literature and film, and finally to it's outbreak in our games and "live" events. The burning question of what exactly makes a zombie a zombie is tackled, if not entirely answered– but can it ever be? As evidenced in the documentary's narrative, everyone has an opinion.
The science behind the undead is explained, revealing just how close we might be to an apocalypse– perhaps not exactly like the one we often see in zombie movies, but one with a very real scientific and biological basis. This and the state of today's society at large might go a long way in explaining the apprehension that is behind the very real preppers' movement, the film postulates.
What struck me throughout this film is how much real depth it has. All of the research and incredible hard work is there on the screen. And in what must have been a licensing nightmare, Doc of the Dead includes scads of clips and footage from many different movies in front of and behind the cameras– from White Zombie to World War Z, further illustrating their points and entertaining us at the same time.
Doc of the Dead is complete and up-to-date, fat with detail and substance. I have no doubt it will become the preeminent standard from which any subsequent documentaries about the undead will be measured. This is an out-of-the-park home run for director Alexandre Phillipe. who also directed the equally impressive The People vs. George Lucas.
It is witty and fast paced, but most importantly, it succeeds in doing what a film, especially a documentary needs to do– it both entertains and informs. Bravo!
Doc of the Dead premieres at the SXSW Film Festival on March 10 and on EPIX on Saturday, March 15, at 8PM ET.
Want a free digital copy of director Alexandre Philippe's comic Deadskins from Fried Comics, get it HERE! Available from March 7th to the 15th.
We managed to wrestle director Alexandre Philippe and on-screen personality Jonathan London to the ground and talk to us about Doc of the Dead.
Here are our interviews…
DOC OF THE DEAD – Alexandre O. Philippe Interview
Alexandre O. Philippe is a director and writer, known for The People vs. George Lucas (2010), The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus (2012) and Left (2006).
There are quite a number of documentaries covering the rise of zombie culture– why did you decide to make this movie?
There's that Night of the Living Dead Documentary that came out recently. There's one about zombie walks which is very specific. The idea was to make the definite comprehensive doc about the state of of the culture today.
Obviously the past 5 years have been tremendous in terms of zombie fandom and how things have changed. I really believe we're IT in terms of a documentary that takes a look at the culture and asks the question "Why zombies" and "Why now?" I really don't think there's anything else out there like it right now.
I agree. Tell us a little about getting the film finished and getting it premiered at SXSW.
It's been a crazy two year journey — just a lot of work. And making this particular kind of doc– it's very very challenging.There's just so many aspects to it; so much licensing involved. So many fans you have to deal with in terms of getting their content. It feels great to be done and finally releasing it. SXSW is really the perfect place to premiere it. SWXW premiered The People vs. George Lucas— we're very glad that they're giving us the stage again.
You mentioned about the fans. Did you find that when you were putting together the film, that there were a lot of different disparate opinions pulling you in different directions. A lot people have different views on what the culture is, what it should be. Very strong views. Can you tell us how you dealt with putting them in the film or leaving them out?
When people are passionate about something it usually comes with a very specific set of ideas and values, and zombies are no different. The main thing where zombies are concerned — is certainly the fast vs. slow zombie right now.
On the one hand you have the zombie purist who are all about George Romero. I think that's fine. I think for a new genre to evolve in a meaningful way, and to become what zombies have become, it has be played with by a lot of different people. It has to become participatory. That means that zombies are going to be in PG-13 movies… there's going to be in romantic comedies, there's going to be in kids movies— there's going to be all kinds of different versions of the zombie. From my perspective, it's very healthy.
You know, I certainly prefer the classic zombie in a movie, but I can certainly also appreciate the new kinds of zombies that are emerging these days. My one message to purists is that, you don't have to watch any of that stuff. The beauty is that we'll always have the classic Romero films. I think it's a waste to get all pissed off about where zombies are going.
Absolutely. When you think about it, even the purists who love the slow Romero-type zombies have to agree that George created a social statement about the time. Zombie culture seems to evolve with society– the culture and evolution of zombies changes with what is happening in real society.
Yeah. In fact … what we said in the film — after 9/11 our fears were greater. The slow moving zombies didn't do it for us anymore. We needed the fast zombie. I think it's really interesting, and of course that's true across the board of film history. You look at the kinds of films that are coming out at a certain time, it says something about us. That's why the fast zombie can't be dismissed. The fact that we have faster zombies now may be a reflection of how great our fears are.
Back to George Romero (and Night of the Living Dead) which you covered a lot in the film, for good reason. What are your impression of these guys (Romero, Russo, Streiner) and the crap they've had to deal with in regards to the copyright stuff. What happened there?
Honestly, they are all extremely gracious– I can't say enough wonderful things about all of them. Their heart was really in the right place at the time. They just wanted to make a good movie, and that's what they did. And unfortunately because of the copyright SNAFU they lost control of the film. As an independent film maker, I can only imagine how that feels. I certainly feel that these guys deserve to make a lot more money on this landmark movie than they have.
On the flip-side, of course, the fact that the movie became public domain is exactly what enabled the zombie genre to take off, because then the people screen the film, broadcast the film everywhere, so it made it much more readily available. I think that's what took it out of the shadows. It was a very revolutionary film at the time– there was no kid out there who was allowed to watch it. But the fact that it became public domain made it more accessible. It took a while for zombies to become as truly mainstream as they are now. It was always very strong in fringe culture for several decades, but without that event, which is the loss of the copyright, I very much doubt that zombies would be as huge as they are today.
It's kind of ironic, I guess?
Yeah, on the one hand it's a great thing, on the other hand you have to feel for George. You really can't look at it one way or the other, it's really both. I just hope that George realizes how many fans he has, and how grateful people are for what he's done. I mean, just the fact that he's still giving interviews– that he's still willing to talk to people about it, in spite of what happened, I think that it tells you a great deal about the kind of man he is.
Yeah– every time I've spoken with George– he has a really healthy view of what happened. I guess you could dwell on it until you're a miserable, bitter person.
Tell us more about the production.
I look back on this production, and it's been a huge challenge. There were several times throughout the process where we thought it just wasn't going to get made– it isn't going to happen. But to meet these great zombie icons and to be able to pick their brains — that was fantastic. We finally got it made, it feels like such a relief to be perfectly honest.
How is the zombie apocalypse going to happen?
It's not. How's that for an answer? [Ha ha!] Certainly an outbreak could happen, something that could decimate millions of people like the bubonic plague. I'm not envisioning a scenario in which people start chasing each other, eating each other. And quite frankly, I don't find that idea romantic at all. I know there are some people out there who really want this to happen. I think it's a bit of a fantasy for some people, but I think it would be the worst possible thing you can imagine, so I just don't think it's going to happen.
Nice segue into the survivalist/preppers movement.
Life has to be lived, and if you're going to spend your time preparing for something that is probably not going to happen– I think a reasonable question to ask is "What are you doing with your life?" I think it's fair to take precautions. There are also things you can do in life that I think are smart choices for you. Preparing for a zombie apocalypse — I hate to be so blunt– I don't think that's a very smart thing to do. If you do it as a fun outlet to prepare for a catastrophe– I could understand that. If you live in San Francisco and you need to do earthquake preparedness– if it's just more fun to do that and think about zombies — hey why not! But if you're genuinely worried about the zombie apocalypse happening, and you're genuinely building shelters — then hey, it's a free country and people can do whatever they want, but I think it's a major waste of time.
How did you and Jonathan get together?
I've had this idea to make this film for about five years now, I approached both Jonathan and Geekscape and Red Letter Media and I asked them to do some very specific segments for the film and they really delivered. The idea with Jonathan was to stick him out there and have him do some pretty crazy outrageous things which he never shied away from.
Like drinking his own pee?
Yeah– when he told me about that I was thinking I put you out there to see what happens and you go on and do that. [Ha ha.] It was really fun working with this group of guys, and Red Letter Media too were fabulous. We did a lot more than what's in the film right now, the rest will be eventually available on our international DVD.
Anything you want to say to our readers and people thinking about checking out the film?
If you're a zombie fan, you'll get a lot from this film– I think that it is a very zombie-fan-friendly-film. But it's also equally friendly for someone who doesn't understand the first thing about zombies, who may have just walked by a zombie walk and gone "What the hell is this?" and you want to have an understanding of what zombies are all about. I really worked very hard to do that. I did the same thing with "People vs. George Lucas" –this idea that to make a film that is accessible to Star Wars fans and non-Star Wars fans.
Thanks Alexandre and congratulations on an outstanding film!
Get a free digital copy of director Alexandre Philippe's comic Deadskins from Fried Comics, HERE! Available from March 7th to the 15th.
DOC OF THE DEAD – Jonathan London Interview
Jonathan London is a pop culture expert and host of Geekscape (www.Geekscape.net).
Tell us a bit about getting this film finished and premiering at SXSW
I grew up in Austin and still consider it my home so premiering at SXSW is a dream that I've had since I started coming to the festival twenty years ago. Alexandre has always known how important this festival is to me and called me first thing when we got accepted. From there it was just a big crunch to get everything finished in time, especially for our editor Chad and Alexandre. I'm proud of the work we all did to have 'Doc of the Dead' make it into SXSW. Now I can't wait for the reaction from my hometown to some of the things we put in the movie!
What are your impressions of George Romero, John Russo, Russ Streiner, Tom Savini, Max Brooks, Bruce Campbell, Simin Pegg?
My biggest impression from any of the people we interviewed in the film is of Simon Pegg. In April of 2012, Alexandre asked me if I wanted to help him with a zombie culture documentary. I was interested but didn't know if we could do it and make it better than The People VS George Lucas, which I love but Alexandre could just go and do something like that himself. I needed a way we could make the movie even bigger for Alexandre and I.
I had just had Simon Pegg as a guest on Geekscape and had become friends with him. I quickly wrote Simon a message asking if he'd come over to my house for an interview and to be in the spiritual follow up to The People VS George Lucas, which he was a fan of. Oh, and it was about zombies! He replied almost instantly and in a week he was at my house filming his interview… and the first interview for 'Doc of the Dead'! My wife ended up in a shot in the film and Alexandre broke one of our chairs! It was a good day!
Without Simon, I don't know think the movie would have been nearly the same. He's just very generous and truly loves talking about zombies and Star Wars and everything we care about! Alexandre and I decided from the start that all of the interview subjects in the film had to be heavy hitters so that it would be the best zombie documentary ever made. Simon's involvement from the start set the tone for that and I can't say enough nice things about him.
Are there any homages/remakes/sequels to NOTLD that you like?
Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead are the great ones!
How do you feel about the varied definitions of what makes a zombie a zombie (Romero, Boyle, O'Bannon etc)– Dead/Virus/Voodoo/Supernatural
My zombies are pretty by the book. Otherwise it becomes a mummy (curse), or summoned dead coprse (supernatural) or doesn't have to be dead (Voodoo). It's a flesh eating, reanimated corpse brought back to life by a radiological or viral infection! And you have to destroy the brain to re-kill them!
What is your opinion on fast or slow zombies?
Slow all the way! Come on now!
What was the most fun/craziest thing that happened making the making of your documentary?
Um… none of the serious preppers and survivalists I talked to in the film were willing to drink their pee after putting it through a filter. That's a survival feature that some of these filters advertised! And it's a real survival situation! You might have to do that one day! But none of them would do it! So… well, let's just say watch 'Doc of the Dead' and know that I'm tougher than any of them.
Any hiccups?
Sure! But I learned that if you drink your filtered pee upside down while burping the alphabet the hiccups will go away.
Favorite zombie movie?
The original Night of the Living Dead. I don't want to sound like I'm not trying! I've seen a lot of them (including the weird or offensive stuff like Retardead). But it really is one of the best movies ever made!
Favorite zombie movie moment?
The garden trowel basement scene in Night of the Living Dead, when the daughter turns on her mom and dad. It's probably one of the most popular choices but that's because it's one of the best scenes in any horror movie.
Any favorite zombie games?
Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 are the best zombie games out there! Most zombie games are just kill sprees but those games really nailed the cooperative aspect of survival! You have to work together as a team to make it to the end of the stages… or not! Sometimes it is fun to just leave people behind. I first met Walking Dead show runner Scott Gimple while playing Left 4 Dead 2 online with friends. When he got the job writing on Walking Dead I thought it made perfect sense!
That being said, the scariest zombie game I've ever played is ZombieU. It's the hardest and most atmospheric of all the zombie games (and I've played almost all of them). It gets overlooked a lot but I think that one is right there with the Left 4 Dead games.
Finally, Telltale Games' episodic Walking Dead game is the best version of The Walking Dead in any medium! And I don't say that lightly! I've read every issue of the comic series from the start and have watched all of the TV episodes! But by forcing you to make all of the hard decisions, and with those decisions having long, permanent impacts on the entire story, they've created the most engrossing story in The Walking Dead world. It's incredible. My wife and I play it together and sometimes have to just give up and flip a coin to make some of those decisions. It's that stressful!
What are your views on Survivalists/Preppers?
I think a lot of them approach survival and prepping from a well intentioned place but are painted to look like crazy extremists living on the outskirts. I met and spent time with a lot of them while shooting our segments for the film and it changed my view completely. Most of them are just worried about keeping their families safe, especially in light of recent events like Hurricane Katrina, 9-11 and the 2011 tsunami in Japan. They definitely got me thinking about my own family's welfare and I'd be lying if I said I didn't buy more than a few things from some of them after the interviews!
Now, did I buy an underground bunker from Ron Hubbard, the bunker building guy I interviewed in the movie? I only want to buy one as a safe place to play video games without being bothered!
How will the zombie apocalypse come about?
A cannibalistic tribe that eats human brains will result in a protein fold that mutates into a Prion Disease like Mad Cow. It's touched on a bit in 'Doc of the Dead' but we interviewed one of the leading neuroscientists in the world about this for the film and it's real possibility! I don't think I slept for a week after that interview. It didn't help that he took a human brain out of his lab's fridge and started poking and prodding it in front of me. I'm pretty happy with myself that I didn't puke on camera. I'm pretty sure I'd be dead within 10 minutes of an actual outbreak. Something would make me puke and then I'd die. It almost happened in the film!
Thanks Jonathan and congratulations on an outstanding film!


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Two men were arrested this week after authorities seized a large amount of drugs and guns from a northwest Harris County home.
Harris County Sheriff's deputies responded to tips from residents about heavy foot and vehicle traffic coming from a home in the Longwood Village subdivision.
Officials set surveillance on the home in the 14400 block of Kenley Orchard Lane. They obtained a search warrant on Juston Dew, 21, and Octivous Williams, 25, who they say both live in the home.
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When a change is not quite as good as a rest
IN what has to be the most frequent churning of fixture structures in sport, the GAA's two main hurling competitions are heading for their 17th change since 1997.
Central Council voted last Saturday to alter the Allianz League format for the ninth time since 1997 and will deliberate in January on a proposed eighth adjustment in the same period to the All-Ireland championship.
Some change is certain in the top competition, with the main proposals involving a reduction in the number of counties competing for the Liam MacCarthy Cup and a streamlining of the Leinster championship to feature a preliminary section among the weaker counties with one qualifying to join Kilkenny, Galway, Dublin, Offaly and Wexford in the last six.
The bewilderingly high attrition rate on the systems used for the two principal inter-county competitions has inevitably led to confusion among players and public alike. Just as they are growing accustomed to one format, it's changed and very often will come under pressure even before it's seen through for one season, leading to calls for a rethink.
Bizarrely, a Congress decision in April 2007 to cut the round robin All-Ireland qualifier groups from two to one was never implemented, having been voted out at Special Congress six months later in favour of straight knock-out qualifiers.
Last year, Central Council voted in August to have a straight final in Division 1 between the counties who finished top of 1A and 1B but rescinded the decision two months later and added semi-finals to the programme. That applied this year and will be retained in 2013 but already it has been decided to change again for 2014 when eight counties (four each from 1A and 1B) will qualify for quarter-finals.
It means that four of six counties in either group will have a chance of winning the Division 1 title outright which is an unusually high qualification rate in a competition featuring only 12 entrants.
The bottom two in 1A and 1B will enter a play-off to decide who drops to 1B.
Since the All-Ireland championships and Division 1 NHL almost never cater for more than 16 counties, it's quite remarkable that there have been so many changes to the systems over the years.
Adjustments to the league have been quite common for decades but the first major shake-up of the championship didn't arrive until 1997 when beaten Leinster and Munster finalists were allowed re-enter the race for the Liam MacCarthy Cup while Galway and the Ulster champions lost their automatic right to qualify for the All-Ireland semi-finals.
That lasted until 2002 when all teams beaten in the Leinster and Munster championships returned to the All-Ireland scene.
It survived for three seasons and since then there have been several more adjustments, with another to come in 2014.
The Munster championship has remained unchanged over the years but its Leinster counterpart adopted Galway and Antrim in 2009 and will also host London next year in what will be 10-county event. Even then, there's a quirk as Leinster have retained the regulation which allows the defending champions (Galway in 2013) automatic entry to the semi-final. All-Ireland champions Kilkenny will enter at the quarter-final stage where they will play Offaly in Tullamore on June 9.
There have been repeated assurances over the years that the formats for the All-Ireland championship and National League (Division 1) would be allowed to settle in but it has never happened, largely because counties begin agitating for change very early in a new cycle.
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Football has been much more settled, especially in the championship where the only major change was the introduction of the All-Ireland qualifiers in 2001.
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As outsourced freelancers we are always in touch with freelancing websites. And at least once a day somebody wants a pixel-perfect website. I'm sure you guys and girls working with designers have heard in the past few months: "Look, I've Installed Pixel Perfect addon for Mozilla and the website I designed and the website you coded are not identical".
What do you want?
I'm wondering what people want. It's a mistake thinking that what we want is what everybody wants. The user's needs are not the designer's need of a good looking website or the developer's need of a fast loading, functional website. What do the people with the IDEA and the money to build a website want from the company making the website? Do they know what they need?
Why the pixel-perfect idea even came up? If somebody wants a pixel perfect website, does he/she wants it pixel-perfect in Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Opera, Chrome or Safari? For Windows, OSX or Linux? In all of them maybe? The fonts should render like Adobe Photoshops ones? How is the page suppose to look on a mobile device?
What do you need?
Forget about the developers and the designers and the people who think they are both. What do users need? Do they care somebody spent 2 or 3 extra hours just to make the site "pixel-perfect"? Do they care that these extra hours mean extra money invested in this? Does it worth it?
And if not, why do I continue to see people asking pixel-perfect websites? Why does it matter that the line-height is not perfect, or the font doesn't look identical in IE and Mozilla? Is this what matters most? What shines? Who cares about the functionality, the load speed or the quality of the content of the website?
Who cares?
Does the user even care? Most of them scan the website without noticing the details, look for something in particular which mostly is content related and then go. Their frustration may come from other directions: the website lacks usability or accessibility, does not load fast enough, the content is not related to the user's needs, the website is not mobile ready, etc.
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I got a freelance editing job ("job") a few days ago. Today, I went to go get the footage from the guy who directed it. I should mention that he graduated from my MFA program in May. On the phone he seemed like a nice enough guy. The fact that he wasn't really willing to coordinate with me at a point when he wasn't in the Hollywood Hills and instead expected me to drive my ass up there (an hour drive) should have been a little red flag, but hey, I'm a good sport. Then I spent some time with the guy.
Holy shit.
The file transfer took almost twenty minutes. This meant twenty minutes of talking, and the first thing he says to me is something to the tune of "You know, most students in your position would pay to pick my brain. You know, film school, the industry." My GOD this was some shade of cocky, I wouldn't have expected from anyone in my program, but given the reputation USC students have, I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised. He proceeded of course to list his accomplishments, which to me (no matter how hard he worked for them) seemed about par for the course for a recent grad. He gave me a copy of his thesis, and bragged that he'd gotten a manager right off from that thesis. My only real questions for him (until I switched gears into brownnose mode; I'm really bad at that) were about his debt; he said he'd racked up somewhere in the neighborhood of two-hundred thousand.
I suppose this was noteworthy to me because I felt like I was seeing this black, horrible, twisted image of the future. Not necessarily of me; I'm not saying I'm incapable of such arrogance, who knows? Maybe someday I'll grow a pair and be one of those Hollywood ball-buster types. But if you're arrogant, at least have the good sense to be conniving about it. Dealing-with-people 101 is pretty simple, and this fellow failed it pretty hard. Guys, when you want to succeed, DO NOT TALK ABOUT YOURSELF FIRST, no matter who you're trying to impress. You'll get much further in life if you make others feel awesome (do as I say, not as I do.)
But I also thought about my classmates. let me get this straight; I LOVE my classmates. Well, most of them. I never thought I'd have such affection for a group of people, let alone so many people (there are about fifty of us). But needless to say, the majority, or at least the plurality, want to be directors. I don't aspire as intently as some of my colleagues, but I haven't ruled it out yet. I can't imagine that these guys (and girls), who are by and large not only talented but generally personable folks, would flaunt their assumed superiority and success over their peers so brusquely. But this guy's big argument, I think when he saw my thinly-veiled disgust at his own self-aggrandizing, was that if you want to make it in such a competitive, ungrateful field, you HAVE to be an arrogant bastard. You HAVE to believe that your way is the only way, because when you open yourself to other possibilities, everything just falls apart like an undercooked bundt cake.
Allow me to posit an alternative;
Before I moved to Los Angeles, one of my friends was studying at the Actors Studio at Pace University, and always attended James Lipton's interviews, and the one she got me into was Conan O'Brien, just before he, too, made the jump out to LA to host the Tonight Show. What he said would always stick with me, but one of Conan's most defining traits is his self-effacing nature, modest, even self-deprecating. One can sense that air of confidence on him, that he doesn't mean it when he criticizes his appearance or performance, but he doesn't push anything; he lets his talent speak for himself. And this was what he told Lipton's students; don't panic, don't try to push yourself. Just be present, do what you love, do what you're good at. Be unassuming, and endear yourself to people, but more importantly, know what you're good at. Don't pimp yourself when you don't really have anything to pimp (this guy's film, incidentally, while he'd clearly sunk a lot of money into it, wasn't anything more than technically good). At the end of the day, if you have talent and, more importantly, believe in that talent, it will speak for itself when you take the opportunity to show it. Screenwriting 101; show, don't tell.
A lot of people would argue that in the cutthroat world of Hollywood this isn't a realistic way to go about things. That may be, but hey, Conan O'Brien too popped up here in the late 1980's with nary a thing but a bachelor's degree and a job at a leather shop in West Hollywood. It seems that some can get pretty far without being a douchebag.


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Aldo Colombini's philosophy regarding his award-winning magic is best summed up in his own words: "The manner in which I approach magic, as well as the goal I try to achieve in the magic I create, can be expressed simply as follows - magic that is direct, easy and commercial. I don't know any other way of presenting this fascinating art."
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Traffic has been disrupted today on the M62 due to accidents but all lanes are now open although traffic is moving slower than normal.
The exit slip road at J26, M606 (Chain Bar), is also now open.
On the railways a replacement bus service is running on Northern Rail between Hebden Bridge and Burnley Manchester Road due to engineering works.
Today's weather will see outbreaks of rain, heavy at times.
It will feel cold in the gusty winds.
There will be isolated showers tonight, but most places dry with broken cloud.
A touch of frost is likely in sheltered locations as winds ease.


text: The second webisode in the JIBBERISH VOLUME 2 series takes the crew to Ontario, Canada. The crew creeps through the outskirts of Peterborough to surprise 7-year-old Cameron Spalding, a regular at Send it with Stepchild week at Camp of Champions, at his home. JP, Simon, and Blair spend the day shredding with Cameron in his backyard jib park and warming up for the streets of Ontario.


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The risk of contracting meningitis in Saskatchewan is low, a health official said on Thursday, while a Western Hockey League player remained in critical condition with the virus in Saskatoon.
"It's important to recognize that meningitis ... is extremely rare," Dr. Saqib Shahab, the province's chief medical health officer, told reporters in Regina.
"In Saskatchewan ... we see anywhere between two to 10 cases a year."
The renewed concerns about meningitis come as Tim Bozon, a star player with the Kootenay Ice, remains at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital.
Bozon was admitted to the hospital on Saturday, a day after scoring a goal for the visiting Ice in a game against the Saskatoon Blades at Credit Union Place.
The case has prompted public health officials to ensure that anyone whom Bozon, 19, recently had contact with receives appropriate medical treatment.
Management of the Blades has confirmed that the team's players and other personnel have been given antibiotics as a precaution.
The Regina Pats will play against the Ice in Cranbrook, B.C., on Saturday. Pats management did not respond on Thursday to repeated requests for comment on any protective measures the team might be taking.
While avoiding comment directly on Bozon's situation, Shahab stressed that the potentially fatal virus is spread only through close or direct contact with someone infected.
"Just being in the same room," he said, "does not result in increased risk."
Saskatchewan had seven confirmed cases of meningitis in 2011, before dropping to three cases in 2012 and the same number last year.
Aside from Bozon, there has been one confirmed case of meningitis in the province this year.
A key factor in reducing the number of cases, according to Shahab, is the province's high immunization rate.
Shahab noted that about 95 per cent of children entering kindergarten in Saskatchewan have received meningitis vaccinations.
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Sunday, 13 December 2015
FS462 - Thanks
A very simple thank you card for this week's Splitcoaststampers' Featured Stamper, sixclarks. I chose this card as my inspiration:
I focused on the:
-colour scheme (red, teal, grey)
-heart and flower elements
-general layout
-a tilted focal point (although on looking back at the inspiration, my tilt is the opposite direction!)
I changed:
-use of the heart and flowers
-size of the card
-location of the sentiment
-left off the ribbon and paper 'button'
I used a Simon Says Stamp sentiment and an MFT pierced square die. And some really old, unlabelled stamps for the heart and flowers.
Congratulations! I hope you enjoy your time as Featured Stamper!
6 comments:
- TK said...
Pretty card - I am so loving that teal color, it just makes me happy!
- 13 December 2015 at 02:15
- Lisa said...
This is perfectly sweet!
- 14 December 2015 at 15:39
- Geri said...
Yes...I'm suppose to be baking, or cleaning, or something...but just couldn't resist a quick visit! Simply sweet - love it!
- 14 December 2015 at 16:02
- Maxine D said...
Love this card Ardyth - beautiful execution of a CAS card, and a great CASE
- 14 December 2015 at 20:17
- Chriss Blagrave said...
Lovely CAS...I like how you selected elements from "six clarks" card. You have that eye!
- 15 December 2015 at 20:38
- Anita in France said...
Sweet, pretty and so wonderfully CAS, Ardyth ... fabulous! Hugs & bisous, Anita :)
- 18 December 2015 at 01:35
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I have the following assignment for my Java class, and, as my professor fully supports reaching out for assistance and advice, I will ask all of you here. This is my second formal class for Java, and I have made a few pointless Android apps, so I'm not a total beginner, but I know I am missing something.
and the code I have so far:Quote:
Create an original single-file program in a file called <YourName>Week3TreeLab.java that satisfies this criteria:
1. Your class includes a constructor that takes a string as a parameter. (Lets call that string the "one_letter" for this discussion.)
2. Your class implements the Comparable interface such that it compares the "one_letter" given to it via the constructor.
3. The main method of your class Prints your full name (First and Last)
4. The main method of your class creates an instance of itself for each letter of your last name and each created instance is stored in a TreeSet.
5. The main method of your class prints the "one_letter" of each instance stored in the TreeSet by walking the TreeSet via a "Iterator<T>" style iterator, where <T> is your classname.
I know that the line "x[i] = new MyNameWeek3Lab(Character.toString(name.charAt(i))) ;" is causing my problems, I had it not using an array, but it was only picking up the last letter ie the "e". I can get the proper output, but not in the way the professor wants. I hate that I can't just do it how it makes sense to me!Code:
import java.util.*;
public class MyNameWeek3Lab implements Comparable {
public static String l;
public static TreeSet<MyNameWeek3Lab> t1 = new TreeSet<MyNameWeek3Lab>();
public static String letter;
public MyNameWeek3Lab(String letter){
l = letter;
public static void printTree(){
//Prints TreeSet
Iterator<MyNameWeek3Lab> it1 =t1.iterator();
MyNameWeek3Lab entry = it1.next();
public static void main(String[] args) {
String name = "My Name";
System.out.println("Week 3 Lab, " + name);
name = name.toLowerCase();
//add letters to treeset via constructor
int i;
MyNameWeek3Lab[] x = new MyNameWeek3Lab[0];
for(i=0; i < name.length(); i++){
x[i] = new MyNameWeek3Lab(Character.toString(name.charAt(i)));
//print with iterator
public int compareTo(Object o) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return 0;
Should I not use an array? Do I just need to write the compareTo first? Could I get some help with the compareTo? I feel it is unnecessary since TreeSet sorts automatically, and I have never used compareTo for anything other than integers, so I'm not sure how to approach it for strings.
And am I meeting the requirements, anything you can think of to get me closer?
any and all input is appreciated.


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Central New York Oil And Gas Company, LLC
Original Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 02/06/2006, Docket: RP06-171-001, Status: Effective
Second Revised Sheet No. 99 Second Revised Sheet No. 99 : Effective
Superseding: Superseding First Revised Sheet No. 99
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS (continued)
(a) Priority Of Nominations For Interruptible
Service: Seller, in determining the
allocation of interruptible service capacity
on any Gas Day among Customers under Rate
Schedule ISS, which have nominated quantities
of service desired on such Gas Day, shall be
assigned the order of priority of such
service on the basis that the highest rate
offered for such service shall be accorded
the highest priority. If more than one
nomination or request for interruptible
storage on a Gas Day includes an offer of the
same rate, then the order of priority as
among such nominations or requests shall be
the same, and if the available capacity is
insufficient to provide the full level of
service proposed in such nominations or
requests, the service provided shall be
allocated among such Customers pro rata based
on the quantities nominated or requested.
(b) A Customer desiring service under Rate
Schedule ISS in a Month shall submit to
Seller, at least five (5) Business Days prior
to the start of such Month, the rate that
such Customer is willing to pay for such
service in such Month. The rate submitted by
Customer pursuant to the above provision
shall be used to determine priority among
nominations on each Gas Day of such Month.
Once Customer's nomination is accepted, and
priority is assigned thereto pursuant to this
section for such Month, such priority shall
not be changed by the execution of new ISS
Agreements during the Month for service under
Rate Schedule ISS.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this
Section 10.2, if a Customer under Rate
Schedule ISS fails to submit a timely
nomination for service for a Month, pursuant
to these General Terms and Conditions, for
such service, then such Customer's priority
for such service for that Month, shall be
changed, on the first Day of that Month, to a
ranking below that of all other Customers who
have made timely nominations for service.
10.3 Overrun Service
All requests for Overrun Service under Rate Schedules FSS or
ISS shall rank in priority pursuant to Section 10.1(c) of
these General Terms and Conditions. If some, but not all,
overrun service requests can be satisfied, the service shall
be allocated on the basis of highest rate offered for such
service (pro rata for customers offering the same rate for
such service).


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Beppe Sannino described Watford's game with Queens Park Rangers as "massive" and stressed his team must take points from all four of their remaining matches if they want to keep their play-off hopes alive.
The Hornets are five points below the top six, with a game in hand, heading into this afternoon's contest with QPR, who are nine points above seventh-placed Reading.
Sannino said: "I think it will be a very good game because QPR are comfortably in the play-offs but still have to win the game.
"And because we want to go into the play-offs, I think it will be a good game. And I hope there will be goals.
"The only way to still dream is to get points everywhere so it is a massive game for us."


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Dear America (or perhaps you prefer 'MURICA!),
It come to attention that you now have big helicopter, no? You say CH-53K is big stronk helicopter! Give ridiculous name "King Stallion!" Made with very advanced carbon fiber with three big engine, make powerful stronk fuel hog embodiment of 'MURICA! Like your SUV with rotor on top, no? Silly 'MURICA! Mother Russia beat you at helicopter game long ago!
You think of Halo, you think of ultimate bro game where good friend act like teamkilling dick. In Mother Russia, Halo is mighty symbol of glorious helicopter achievement. How mighty and glorious? Try largest and most powerful helicopter in world! Look at Mighty Russia Halo pulling puny little capitalist twin-rotor!
In Soviet Russia, Helicopter not lift You, You Lift Helicopter! With Mighty Russia Helicopter! Look at Mighty Halo lift airliner as seen from good friend at English Russia! And, uhh...ok, I better quit now before it gets too out of hand and Jalopnik decides to not run this one...uuuuuuuuuu.
The Soviets recognized the military advantages of helicopters early on, particularly for a helicopter large enough to carry things like the infamous Scud missile and the similar FROG-7 (that's Free-Range Over Ground, nothing to do with turning into a prince if you kiss it). At the same time, the helicopter can be used for resource exploitation in the vast expanses of Siberia. That necessarily resulted in a very large helicopter - large enough to immediately qualify as the largest in the world. In many cases, engineers would do a hard cost-benefit analysis, see what necessary compromises might need to be made, and come up with a design that might be able to do some of the drafted requirements some of the time or with heavy modification in order to avoid the complexities that come with a machine that can be labeled as the world's largest helicopter. In the late 1950s, the Soviets took a hard look at these requirements and said, of course we build largest helicopter! We Mother Russia!
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The Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (the primary supplier of Soviet/Russian helicopters, then and now) came up with what was essentially a grossly enlarged version of their popular Mi-8 medium-lift utility helicopter. Pictured above, it was called the Mi-6, with NATO assigning it the codename "Hook." As can be seen, it was fitted with stub wings which provided additional lift in forward flight, particularly important when at full load. It was widely exported and served in militaries all over South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. Egypt, Iraq, and potentially Laos, Indonesia and Vietnam all used them in combat. The Egyptian and Iraqi copters in particular showed the vulnerabilities of such a large beast on the frontlines before they could even get into the air; many Egyptian Army "Hooks" were caught and bombed on the ground by the Israeli Air Force in the opening days of the Six-Day War, and Iraqi "Hooks" suffered losses and operational attrition against the Islamic Iranian Air Force and Army before being finished off by Coalition forces in Desert Storm. Notwithstanding, the Mi-6 proved that size has its benefits and was a highly praised utility helicopter that did indeed find good use in Siberia. It consequently spawned a specialized variant, the Mi-10 (NATO code name "Harke") which featured a very interesting, "cut-down" fuselage (dumping dead weight for more payload) and tall landing gear for palletized loads slung neatly and snugly underneath the fuselague including whole shipping containers. A sub-variant specialized for the "flying crane" role, the Mi-10K, reduced the landing gear height and introduced an operator's station underneath the nose so that someone can see what was actually going on with that sling load.
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Both the "Hook" and "Harke" represented, at best, solidly 60s technology, and their heavy-lift titles were being encroached upon by Western designs, namely the Sikorsky S-80, known as the CH-53E Super Sea Stallion in military service. Eventually it was time to move on. In the interim Mil developed the truly monstrous V-12, usually mistakenly called the "Mi-12" and given the NATO codename "Homer." The "Homer" was the largest helicopter ever made, using not one but two full-size Mi-6 rotors and was envisioned being able to carry strategic nuclear missiles. No production examples were made as it was deemed too big to be practical. In 1986 Mil rolled out the Mi-26, which was labeled the "Halo" by NATO. It's hardly an unfitting codename - though slower than many smaller (and later) helicopters, it's still capable of hitting around the 200 MPH mark. Moreover, it easily took back the heavy lift crown with a total capacity of over 20 tons and an internal volume said to be comparable to a C-130 Hercules. The Mi-26 can be fairly described as a "super-refined" Mi-6 leveraging off the V-12 program (if you squint, you can see a good bit of V-12 after a crash weight-loss program) and with the best updates and technology the Soviet Union can offer at the time, including an 8-blade main rotor which still remains unique in the manned helicopter world. The V-12 legacy also gives it a rather porpoise-shaped fuselage (apparently, its crews think it looks more like a flying cow).
Flying the Mi-26 reveals the limitations of 80s Russian technology. It has no less than four instrumented piloting stations, twice more than any modern Western aircraft designer would ever dare dream of, and each one is wallpapered with "steam gauge" dials. The fancy computer screen Multi-Function Displays Western pilots are now accustomed to are few and far between. Then again, most Western pilots aren't accustomed to swallowing entire fully-loaded fuel tankers or eight-wheeled "Scud" missile launchers into the cargo hold either.
The first operational use of the Mi-26 came very shortly after its public reveal - they were used in emergency response and recovery operations over the Chernobyl disaster along with Mi-6s, including spraying radiation-neutralizing chemicals (you can see more at English Russia). They've also been extensively used in UN operations where the super heavy-lift capability became an invaluable asset. Mi-26s have been exported all over the world including Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and India. The Indian Army has become particularly fond of the Mi-26 and taking advantage of its raw power for extreme high altitude operations in the Himalayas, setting a number of records. The Indian Army is also one of the early adopters of the latest variant, the Mi-26T2, primarily identifiable from a spotlight added underneath the right pilot's station.
Despite its amazing capability, its sheer size and complexity can be very taxing. Reportedly, Peru and Mexico have removed their "Halos" from service, in the latter case having two out of their entire fleet of three helicopters crash. India declined additional Mi-26 purchases in favor of Boeing CH-47 Chinooks. A Russian Mi-26 was shot down over Chechnya in a very visible incident, highlighting the vulnerability of such large helicopters in combat roles.
Nonetheless, the Mi-26 remains an important staple of the Russian Army. No doubt as tensions increase between Ukraine and Russia, we'll continue to see Putin parade these huge beasts around everywhere as appropriate symbols of Russian military might and power projection.
Opening image credit Alex Beltyukov on Wikipedia


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