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THE TWILIGHT ZONE FOREVER: On the release of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Seasons 1 & 2 on Blu-ray (Part 4)
We continue with the final entry in our series of posts by Arlen Schumer exploring The Twilight Zone. (Part 1 can be read here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here). In Part 4, Schumer continues his exploration of themes of the series, including "the time element," and "obsolete man":
The time element was a cornerstone of The Twilight Zone, a dimension Serling described as "timeless as infinity."
"The Time Element" was a precursor to The Twilight Zone, an episode of Desilu Playhouse's 1958 season that Serling, by then a triple-Emmy Award-winning television playwright, expanded from his own radio play. The hour-long drama, about a man (veteran actor William Bendix) who believes he has gone back in time to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor, received more mail than any other Playhouse that year, prompting CBS to commission a pilot for what became The Twilight Zone. Once in The Zone, Serling & Co. would continue to explore time and its discontents.
A strong case can be made for Serling's first-season "Walking Distance" being not only the best time-travel episode of the series, but the best episode of The Twilight Zone, period. Everything about it is literally note-perfect, from Serling's beautifully- worded script, full of an aching, nostalgic longing for his own childhood...
"I had been living in a dead run And one day I knew I had to come back here I had to come back and get on a merry-go-round
And eat cotton candy
And listen to band concerts I had to stop and breathe and close my eyes and smell and listen."
...to Gig Young's sensitive performance as Serling's stand-in, photographed for posterity by Twilight Zone Director of Photography George T. Clemens in a series of arresting, character-revealing close-ups; from the subtle direction by Robert Stevens (whose only other Twilight Zone was "Where is Everybody?"), featuring a special effects-free through- the-looking-glass entry back in time and an incredibly stylized carousel climax, to Bernard Herrmann's truly haunting score, a wistful whine of strings that underscores all the yearning and melancholy associated with the futile quest to recapture youth. "Walking Distance" has subsequently become the benchmark against which all such time-travel television shows and films—Back to the Future, Big, Peggy Sue Gets Married, The Time Traveler's Wife—are measured. But never bettered.
"The Trouble With Templeton" was TV writer-producer (Dr. Kildaire, Police Story) E. Jack Neuman's single Twilight Zone episode—but a classic. Aging stage actor Booth Templeton goes back in time 33 years—"Yesterday and its memories is what he wants," Serling narrates—and is startled to see his longed-for wife and best friend in a speakeasy actors' hangout—"And yesterday is what he'll get," Serling warns. What follows is one of The Twilight Zone's most stunningly written, staged, lit and choreographed sequences, in which we find out that everyone in the speakeasy had been "acting" for Templeton, turning what had been a somewhat sentimental exercise (perhaps Neuman's take on "Walking Distance"?) into something more tragic and true.
"Escape Clause" is Serling's contribution to the Faustian soul-selling-to-the-devil genre, in this case in exchange for immortality. As usual, the seller gets less than he bargained for: "Immortality—what's the good of it? There isn't any kicks, any excitement!" bemoans David Wayne in a manic performance that, along with the devilish irony of Serling's ending, makes this the best of the more lighthearted Twilight Zone episodes.
Playing off the ubiquity of the TV westerns that glutted the era's primetime schedules, Serling's "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" transports its protagonist (Cliff Robertson) forward in time to confront the modern frontier. Another example, like "Walking Distance," of time travel without special effects, as Robertson simply goes over a rim in the desert and through time.
Picking up from the same Death Valley location, "The Rip Van Winkle Caper," also by Serling, sends a gang of modern gold-stealing outlaws into the future, via suspended animation—technology commonplace in modern science fiction but pretty new to TV audiences in 1961. A classic study in greed, the episode's grim denouement delivers an ironic lesson in speculating to the last man standing when he finds that, in the future he escaped to, gold is worthless.
The leader of the "Rip Van Winkle" gang, Oscar Beregi, does a second Twilight Zone star turn as a leader of a different gang, a Nazi concentration-camp commandant come to revisit an old haunt, Dachau, in Serling's polemical "Death's-Head Revisited." Airing in November '61, months after the trial began in Israel of the Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann (but a month before he was sentenced to death), Serling puts his proxy- Eichmann through trial by Twilight Zone, delivering cathartic release by driving Beregi's SS Captain insane with hallucinatory visions of the striped-pajama'd, skeletal ghosts of the prisoners he slaughtered years before.
Just like the 1959 episode "Time Enough at Last" (see the theme "Obsolete Man" below) was America's first televised look at The Day After the bombs drop, "Death's-Head..." must have been, for many, their first exposure in primetime TV to a Holocaust-themed dramatization (the film version of The Diary of Anne Frank preceded it by two years, the novel The Pawnbroker came out the same year, the Sidney Lumet film of it, starring Rod Steiger, four years away). A prime example of a subject Serling could never have gotten through intact in the '50s, but was able to in The Twilight Zone.
Returning to the suspended animation device, "The Long Morrow" is a sequel of sorts to The Twilight Zone's pilot episode; the isolation tank-testing that the astronaut-in- training hallucinates through in "Where is Everybody?" was intended to prepare him for isolation in deep space—"the long morrow." This episode's spaceman embarks on his journey, but not before he lets affairs of the heart cloud his mission, and, as usual in The Twilight Zone, things don't turn out as planned.
Teetering on the edge of soap opera, this is another beautifully-worded script by Serling, evidenced in this interior monologue describing the state of suspended animation: "It's not just the long deep sleep that comes when the fear has left...the cold is felt...the slipping away of feeling is noted and succumbed to. The mind functions...time is distorted, jumbled, telescoped, accordioned...but there is a sense of time, even so..." Even bad makeup doesn't ruin the poignant sorrow of the episode's climax.
Which, with the age, and gender, of the couples' roles reversed, is similar in pathos to that of Serling's "The Trade-Ins," a cousin to the Twilight Zone episode "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" (in "Obsolete Man") about an elderly couple who may have the opportunity to trade in their old bodies for young ones—if they can afford it.
An offbeat addition to "The Time Element" is "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," a short French film adaptation of an 1886 Ambrose Bierce short story that won first prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, bought and repackaged as a Twilight Zone episode to bring the final '63-64 season in under budget. A terse tale of a Civil War Confederate spy's last moments before—and after—his execution, "An Occurrence..." both hews to the Twilight Zone twist-ending formula and forecasts the 1990 film Jacob's Ladder, which transferred the setting to the Vietnam War. Exposure as a Twilight Zone episode enabled "An Occurrence..." to win an Oscar in 1964, fitting tribute to one of the many past masters who helped shape Serling's timeless classic.
"I am a human being! I exist! And if I speak one thought aloud, That thought lives!" —Rod Serling, "The Obsolete Man," 1961
Invariably, when Rod Serling's name is brought up, The Twilight Zone comes to mind a lot faster and more often than "Requiem for a Heavyweight," "Patterns," or any of his other live dramas from the Golden Age of Television; yet many of the themes Serling would later clothe in fantasy and illusion in The Twilight Zone were first explored in those '50s teleplays. His most recurring theme—alienation of the individual through bigotry, prejudice, racism, and corporate and technological oppression—was that of the "Obsolete Man."
Serling's breakthrough, the Emmy-winning "Patterns" (1955), was a Death of a Salesman-inspired indictment of grey-flannelled Babbitry, with new kid on the corporate block Richard Kiley knocking heads with CEO Everett Sloane over over-the-hill exec Ed Begley, the "obsolete man" in this story.
Serling returned to this milieu years later in The Twilight Zone with "A Stop at Willoughby," starring James Daly as a harried adman tired of the rat race, pummeled by his boss' daily harangue, "This is a push business! A push-push-push business! Push and drive! All the way! All the time! Right on down the line!" Daly's response, feebly admitted to his ultra-materialist shrew of a wife, would become a familiar refrain of the Sixties' counterculture:
"Some people aren't built for competition. Or big pretentious houses they can't afford. Or rich communities they don't feel comfortable in. Or country clubs they wear around their neck like a badge of status."
Seeking refuge in "Willoughby," a turn-of-the-century haven that exists only in his mind, Daly steps off his train—to his death. "Turn on, tune in, and drop
out," indeed.
Another sensitive outcast was bookworm Henry Bemis, played by Burgess Meredith, in Serling's "Time Enough at Last." His obsession, like Daly's, for quietude far from the maddening crowd, saves his life when he sequesters himself alone in a bank vault to read, leaving him the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust (the first fictional visualization of the aftermath of an atomic bomb on American television, and one of the all-time greatest set designs in TV history); it also figures in his downfall. The abrupt, downbeat tone of the ending—Meredith accidentally breaking his glasses, remarkably pessimistic even for Serling (though it was an adapted from a short story by LynnVenable) —accounts for the high esteem this episode is held in today.
Happy endings were not usually Twilight Zone's forte, especially in the works of Serling's other writers. Like Richard Matheson's "Steel," in which newly-minted movie star Lee Marvin ('62's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) is the titular manager of a robotic prizefighter (the year is 1974; boxing by humans had been abolished in '68) who must pose as one because of technical difficulties with his mechanical charge. Steel, a former prizefighter, fights against both his robot's obsolescence and his own, thinking he still has the right stuff to beat "The Maynard Flash," his android opponent—man versus machine in Matheson's métier.
Against the vehement advice of his partner trainer, Steel steps into the ring, ghastly and garish in makeup meant to make Marvin's already grim visage even more mechanical looking—but to no avail, as he is promptly beaten bloody in a bout staged wonderfully well, particularly the almost-humanlike movements of the robot, terrifying in its relentless, Terminator-like onslaught. If there were ever to be prizefighting robots who resembled humans, they'd definitely look much like the way longtime Twilight Zone makeup man William Tuttle conceived them, poker faces of synthetic flesh with eyes as dead and black as a shark's, riding that perfect line between fantasy and reality that The Twilight Zone, of course, traveled best.
From boxing to billiards we go, to George Clayton Johnson's "A Game of Pool," which poses the question: can there be obsolescence in victory as well as defeat? Coincidentally airing less than three weeks after the strikingly similar film The Hustler debuted (9/25/61), with Paul Newman playing the titular hero against Jackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats, "...Pool" pits Jack Klugman (tied with Burgess Meredith for most Twilight Zone appearances, four), against the great comedian and entertainer Jonathan Winters as "Fats Brown."
Winters plays Brown with a dignity belying his jovial girth, a reserved resignation borne from years of having to face off against upstarts like Jesse Cardiff (Klugman), just as a wild west gunslinger had to draw against any cock of the walk. Cardiff does finally beat Brown, but finds winning isn't everything; it is indeed—as he'll spend the rest of eternity learning—the only thing.
Johnson got the chance to remake this episode for one of the recent Twilight Zone syndicated television incarnations, based on his original script, in which the supernatural ending of the '61 episode is eliminated, and Cardiff, rather than go to that great pool room in the sky, instead loses to Brown and lives to play again. Like all the Twilight Zone remakes over the years, it is unarguable that the original episode remains, forever, the better.
In the tale whose title inspired this theme, "The Obsolete Man" by Serling, Burgess Meredith somewhat reprises his "Time Enough..." Bemis role more seriously, this time as a librarian in the near future, aptly-named Wordsworth, who is condemned to death by the fascistic Chancellor of "The State," fellow Twilight Zone alum Fritz Weaver ("Third from the Sun"), with the utterly memorable monotone mantra, "YOU-ARE- OBSOLETE." Against outsized German Expressionist sets, "The Obsolete Man" suggests Kafka's The Trial (though it predates Orson Welles' '62 film adaptation by a year) as might've been rewritten by Ayn Rand. If a little strident, the episode's nevertheless the best expression of Serling's Orwellian worldview:
"History teaches us a great deal. We had predecessors who had the beginnings of the right idea: Hitler, of course; Stalin, too. But their error was not one of excess—it was simply not going far enough. Too many undesirables were left around, and undesirables eventually form a core of resistance. Old people, for example, clutch at the past and won't accept the new. The sick, the maimed, and the deformed—they fasten onto the healthy body and damage it. So we eliminate them. They can perform no useful function for The State, so we put an end to them."
Serling makes the political personal when, in a rare mid-episode Twilight Zone twist, Wordsworth turns the tables on The State and forces an eleventh-hour sudden-death stalemate with The Chancellor, live on State-run television—reality TV years ahead of its time.
The climax of "The Obsolete Man," 1961. Climaxing in the most stagelike mise-en-scene of any Twilight Zone, The State's two-dozen drones surround the now-obsolete Chancellor, to the sound of the B-side of their "OBSOLETE" chant, a buzzing drone that increases in intensity until, in a bizarre (even for The Twilight Zone) bacchanalia, they pounce on the pleading man and—beat him? Eat him?
The episode's closing narration, atypically delivered on-camera by Serling, also achieves relevancy in light of subsequent events in global politics, from Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall to the streets of Tehran:
"Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man—that state is obsolete."
Obsolete, maybe, but until then, still in power, clamping down on all those who refuse to conform—even to standards of physical beauty. The sister episodes "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" (written by John Tomerlin) and Serling's "Eye of The Beholder" share this theme.
"Number Twelve..." boasts a number of touches that illuminate much more beyond the confines of the story's setting, a futuristic hospital where patients cheerfully undergo "The Transformation" into vacuous lookalikes (prefiguring The Stepford Wives, the book and the movie, by a decade): naming the doomed heroine "Marilyn" (Monroe died a year and a half earlier) and her girlfriend, a proto-Valley Girl, "Val" (who recites the State anthem, "Life is pretty/Life is fun/I am all/And all is one!"); Val's recreational drug of choice, "Instant Smile"; the casting of the real-life Supermodel of the day (1963), Suzy Parker, as Val's mother; the suggestion, when mom's maid is condescended to—despite her same Parker supermodel looks—that class differences will always trump physical differences; the original mid-program commercial for "Thrill" dish detergent that (coincidentally?) offers women "a new pair of hands"; and Serling's concluding, clairvoyant voiceover: "Portrait of a young lady in love—with herself. Improbable? Perhaps. But in an age of plastic surgery, body building and an infinity of cosmetics, let us hesitate to say impossible."
In "Eye of The Beholder," Serling takes the age-old adage about beauty and gives it such a thorough Twilight Zone treatment that it remains the series' quintessential episode. When it was originally telecast in 1960, chances are the bandaged Janet Tyler (another strong Serling female lead), considered hideously ugly and threatened with segregation with those of "her own kind" if her (eleventh!) plastic surgery failed, was seen as Serling's poster child for the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement; but since then, the generic hospital setting and talk of quarantining those "similarly afflicted" reeks of AIDS-era ignorance, while the rant by the "Leader" about conforming to society's norms not only parallels Serling's own struggles with the censors, but foretells the culture wars waged ever since:
"It is essential in this society that we not only have a norm, but that we conform to that norm! Conformity we must worship and hold sacred! Conformity is the key to survival!"
The script is a hallmark of Serling's style: strong on theme, poetic dialogue, morality, and suspense, capped by a truly unforgettable ending. The deft direction by Douglas Heyes and stunning camerawork by George T. Clemens, meant to obscure the doctors' and nurses' pig- like faces (the masterworks of William Tuttle) until the end, are nothing if not artistically audacious. And Maxine Stuart, playing the bandaged Tyler (the revealed Tyler was Donna Douglas, soon to be Elly May Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies), had to act with her hand gestures and voice only—and created a performance for the ages.
"Eye of the Beholder," Serling's message of tolerance and compassion, finally reveals that we are all Janet Tylers beneath our bandages, faceless and invisible to a society that would prefer nothing more than to render our individuality...obsolete.
The Twilight Zone is a legacy that continues to teach, entertain, and inspire; it is a measure of that legacy that Rod Serling was able to surmount the obstacles inherent in a commercial medium like television to touch more peoples' imaginations with more ideas of lasting impact than any American (television?) writer of our time.
"As long as people talk about you, you're not really dead As long as they speak your name, you continue A legend doesn't die just because the man does"
—George Clayton Johnson, "A Game of Pool," 1961.
Arlen Schumer wrote and designed Visions From The Twilight Zone, the only coffee table art book about the series, and continues to present a multimedia show based on the book to universities and cultural institutions around the country, including The 2008 Rod Serling Conference at Ithaca University, and the 2009 New York Comic Convention, where he also presented his mini-marathon, "The Five Themes of The Twilight Zone." He presented his new show, "The Twilight Zone Forever," at The New York Times' TimesCenter in New York on the exact 50th Anniversary of The Twilight Zone's debut, October 2, 2009. On November 11 Schumer will make a presentation in connection with a screening the 50th anniversary of "The Eye of the Beholder" episode at the prestigious Tribeca Cinema. Tickets can be purchased here.
The Twilight Zone season 1 & season 2 are available on Blu-ray DVD at the TheoFantastique Store.


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Re: Help with a relationship
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 19:39:12 GMT
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"Jan.Hidders" <hidders_at_hcoss.uia.ac.be> wrote in message
> In article <51d64140.0209110058.715e35a_at_posting.google.com>,
> Paul <pbrazier_at_cosmos-uk.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >What does SQL have a FOREIGN KEY clause when the CHECK clause would
> >suffice?
> Next to efficiency it also allows you to state how what should be doen if
> the constraint is violoted, e.g., ON DELETE CASCADE.
Maybe to state things slightly differently, a FOREIGN KEY constraint is a DB constraint, but stated and defined in declarative fashion. In other words, it enforces constraints across one or more tables within the database. Today's relational DBMS's, and the SQL data access language, are somewhat limited in their capability in defining any customized database constraint, other than by implementing procedural logic (e.g. triggers).
Thus, declaring a FOREIGN KEY constraint is perhaps preferable that defining a CHECK constraint because one can define and configure it <declaratively> instead of using procedural implementations which are not easily definable within a data definition language. Obviously, this would naturally be applicable to an increase in efficiency and reuse as Jan has already stated.
Daniel Guntermann Received on Fri Sep 20 2002 - 21:39:12 CEST

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text: I just don't see the wholes on d being as big as the ones on o. That's why I could see them grabbing a qb and maybe a rb early on. If we keep wimbley and the additions of philips and woodyard, lb became a much smaller need. I don't think dl is a huge need either, a need but not bigger than qb and rb. I really could only see that taking a shot on a cb early in the draft. If barr or mack are there, that's the only way I see them going d in the first. The biggest need on our team right now is qb, everything to me after that are all much smaller needs.


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College basketball
December 15, 2002
INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Kara Lawson and Shyra Ely each scored 16 as No.4 Tennessee beat Southern Cal 71-39 Saturday.
Ebony Hoffman had 10 as the Trojans finished with the lowest point total in team history.
The Vols opened the second half by outscoring Southern Cal 14-4, taking a 42-18 lead. Tennessee led by at least 22 the rest of the way and led by 34 three times.
The Trojans shot 27.3 percent in the first and scored two during the final 11:01 of the half.
The win was Tennessee's fifth straight over Southern Cal, giving the Vols an 8-7 series lead.
NO. 5 STANFORD 67, PACIFIC 56: Kelley Suminski scored 17 of her 22 in the second to lead the host Cardinal. Stanford outscored the Tigers 26-7 during the final 7:50 to take control.
NO.6 PURDUE 53, INDIANA 51: Shereka Wright scored 26, including two free throws with 4.7 seconds left, to lead the Boilermakers at the Duel in the Dome in Indianapolis. The Hoosiers had one more possession, but Jenny DeMuth missed a layup.
NO.8 NOTRE DAME 84, TEMPLE 61: Alicia Ratay scored 17, Courtney LaVere had 16 and nine rebounds, and the host Fighting Irish used a 14-0 run early in the second to take control. Notre Dame dominated inside, outrebounding the Owls 44-34.
NO. 10 TEXAS TECH 84, WYOMING 64: Cisti Greenwalt had career highs of 26 points and eight blocks for the visiting Red Raiders. Ashley Elliott scored 18 to lead Wyoming, which shot 16 percent in the first half.
PITT 92, NO.11 PENN ST. 88 (OT): Sheila Stufflet completed a three-point play with 18 seconds left in overtime, and Brooke Stewart added two free throws in the final seconds for the host Panthers. Kelly Mazzante scored 36 for the Nittany Lions. Penn State rallied from a nine-point deficit but Pitt forced overtime when Laine Selwyn made two free throws with one second left.
NO.15 OKLAHOMA 68, TCU 64: Chelsi Welch scored 16 as the visiting Sooners rallied. The Horned Frogs led 24-19 at halftime after Oklahoma hit 27 percent from the field. But the Sooners shot 56 percent in the second.
NO.16 MISS. ST. 72, ILLINOIS 67: Tan White had 19 points and six steals and reserve Doceida Warren scored 15 for the visiting Bulldogs. Mississippi State won without All-American LaToya Thomas, who did not make the trip because of a family problem.
NO. 17 LA. TECH 93, NICHOLLS ST. 50: Erica Smith scored 17 to lead the host Techsters. Louisiana Tech charged to an 8-2 lead and extended it to 41-27 by halftime. Amber Obaze added 16 points and Aarica Ray scored 14 as the Techsters earned their third straight win over a state rival.
NO.20 GEORGIA 87, TENN. TECH 56: Christi Thomas scored 17 in 20 minutes to lead the host Bulldogs. The teams were tied at halftime before Georgia took a 51-20 edge in the second.
NO.22 BYU 68, N.C. STATE 57: Erin Thorn had 21 points and eight rebounds for the visiting Cougars. The Wolfpack trailed 31-20 at halftime after hitting 7 of 32, including 1-of-10 3-pointers.
SMU: Former coach Welton Brown died. He was 57. Mr. Brown died Thursday of complications from a severe stroke in September.
FIU 81, MIAMI 70: Sylvia Mesa scored a career-high 21 and Cormisha Cotton added 19 for the host Golden Panthers. Florida International had to a two-point lead with 1:59 left before Mesa converted a three-point play that put the Golden Panthers ahead 71-66. The Hurricanes missed five of their last six field goals and FIU connected on 7-of-10 free throws the last 46 seconds.


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Today, I talked to my son on the phone (FaceTime) the who is currently 9 hours ahead of me. It was incredibly hard.
He asked where I was. When I told him I could see the wheels turning behind his eyes. He looked away. I asked him where he was, how the flight was, what he watched–all questions which he deferred to his mom for the answers. I could see that he was getting a little frustrated. At the mention of bed, he began to get upset. Tears even.
Not atypical young child behavior, right? Right…
Connection lost…retrying…
At this point I'm feeling guilt well up within me. Guilt is a monster that is always rattling its chains but at times like these it takes over. It pulls at my clothing and squeezes my internal organs.
After reconnecting, it is clear that he is trying to talk to me, to do the "right" thing, but just wants to end it. As he cries–through the buffering, freezing segments of video–I look at his face and I just want to touch him and tell him it's ok. He's not on a hot seat of any kind and he doesn't need to be polite for me. It's hard not to think he is rightfully upset about circumstances. I am sorry for this. I tell him again that I love him and I'll see him later. Have a good time. Eventually I hang up on the spinning "Reconnecting…" graphic.
Now the monster screams and berates me. It pulls at my hair and punches me in the teeth. I sob uncontrollably.
One day I hope he will understand, and forgive me. Some day soon I hope that I can reassure him. I hope that he will feel my hope for something better on the horizon. I hope he believes I love him so much. It won't always be like this.


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Fret not, Directioners. Liam Payne is here to stay.
The 19-year-old boy-bander took to Twitter to deny a British tabloid report that he was leaving One Direction to spend more time with girlfriend Danielle Peazer.
"thought i'd let you know this latest story is bulls--t," he tweeted Sunday. "I love you guys so much I love this band they're my best mates I ain't goin now werrr"
Thank goodness for that. The Daily Star erroneously claimed that Liam was planning to abandon Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik because long promotional tours away from home "kill him" and he "hates being away from [Danielle]."
The tabloid also claimed Liam "feels he doesn't get the same status and respect as the big stars like Harry and Niall and sometimes even questions why he's in the band at all."
Obviously, based on his latest tweet, this is not the case at all. And for the record, we think Liam's just as big a star as Harry and Niall!


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NEW Zealand Boxing Federation official Faiyaz Khan believes Fiji has the potential to groom top boxers.
Khan, who is in the country to officiate some matches at the Naidiri Boxing Promotion, said Fiji had the material to produce good boxers such as Sakaraia Ve, Alipate Korovou, the late Sunia Cama, Frank Atu and the likes.
He said the New Zealand Boxing Federation was committed in developing and reviving boxing in Fiji.
"Boxing in Fiji will go a long way under the new boxing officials," said Khan.
"If programs are regular we can again produce top boxers.
"We have the potential to produce more good boxers. We have some good fighters, all they need is proper training, proper diet, proper guidance and more good game time.
"New Zealand is happy to help the sport and develop upcoming boxers.
"We have met Fiji Boxing Commission West director Usman ALI Lale in New Zealand over the past weeks and we have formed a partnership to help Fiji."
Khan is encouraging young boxers to take up the sport.
He also advised those fighting in tonight's program to enjoy the sport.
"Boxing is a sport where boxers need to stick to the rule of the game."
"We are not there to kill one another but stick to the main rules and win the games."
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An open letter to Emily Thomas and the art community
Much of our art community is talking about a woman named Emily Thomas and her blog post. This column began as an open letter to her and became a rebuke to the art community.
Thomas recently made a trip with her daughters to the Milwaukee Art Museum where she saw a few things she liked but found much of the art to be lewd and lame, according to an entry in her family blog. It was a Wednesday, a free day for Milwaukee County residents, and she was "sooo glad" she didn't pay to get in.
"I'm sorry, but words cannot express just how much I loathe this 'exhibit,'." she wrote of Ellsworth Kelly's "Red, Yellow, Blue II."
"Wait, I get it," she continued. "The 'artist' ...is coming back over the weekend to put something real onto those primary colored rectangular pieces of crap."
Thomas also celebrated one daughter's snickering at the "HUGE backside" of Gaston Lachaise's bronze sculpture "Standing Woman." Thomas' daughter closed her eyes in disgust when she passed. "I'm right there with you child!" Thomas wrote.
Worse, though, was a painting in the Jan Lievens exhibit that she described as a "woman with her breasts hanging out."
"So ugly...I told (the girls) to close their eyes as they walked past it," Thomas blogged.
My initial reaction to this? Exhaustion. Annoyance. I was tempted to dismiss Thomas as the kind of person Picasso warned of.
"People insufficiently prepared for art should never be allowed close to art," Picasso said. "Yes, art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art."
I was not alone in this reaction. The "Thomas Family" blog entry circulated in the art community via e-mail, Twitter, the Milwaukee Artists Resource Network listserv and general chitchat.
"YIKES!" wrote Michael Moynihan to the MARN group. "At first I thought this was a joke or satire. But then I realized it was an actual person." In her MARN post, Liz Humphrey wrote that Thomas "purposely reinforces her children's limited world view and is proud of it." Peter Goldberg weighed in, too: "This is not a laughing matter. We should be concerned about art literacy for the sake of the future of the arts and for the sake of the world."
This was exhausting, too. The laments can be as predictable as Thomas' my-kid-could-make-that refrain.
Let's break this down, briefly. Kelly's triptych of colors is a coy and challenging modern artwork. Hate is not an irrational reaction.
"Standing Woman" is another story. I'll defend her proud, heroic visage to the death, down to her well-endowed derrière. The bias against a big bottom is problematic. I won't get into that here. The question I'd have for Thomas is this: Are you just looking for art to be pretty?
The Lievens? Think of it as a 17th-century version of a Facebook picture, made by boys being boys (one of them being Rembrandt!), for better or worse. I like the view of the show's curator, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.: "It's somewhat risqué for sure (but) sweet also."
Still, if Thomas finds a jiggling prostitute abhorrent, all power to her. Why are we so offended?
I tried getting in touch with Thomas via her blog to no avail. What I see on her blog pages, though, is a great mom who takes her daughters on wonderful adventures and encourages one of them in her desire to be an artist. I see a mom who organized a birthday party with an art gallery theme, complete with an exhibition of her daughter's oeuvre, an art theft game, art-making projects and cakes shaped like artists' palettes.
What I see is a woman who packed up three small girls and went to the museum hoping for a great experience — and didn't get one. I see a woman who didn't connect.
What's so disturbing is what Emily Thomas represents: a world of people who don't connect.
Why that is and who's to blame — these are big questions.
I don't have the answers, but I do know that the narrative that museums tell, the art historical context that's needed to enjoy them, is lost on many of the Emily Thomases of the world.
And is it any wonder? With an on-demand, image-driven culture that's overwhelmed with creative output, with actual art, who's going to be invested in that particular conversational thread? The biggest challenges that museums face is the ubiquity of art outside of them.
But ultimately the disconnect is a problem for artists and the art itself. Where does this leave those artists who reacted so vehemently to this particular mom and blogger? Where does it leave artists who have unprecedented access to public opinion about art?
What does it mean to make art at a time when art literacy may be faltering, on the one hand, but, on the other, there's a rich, visual vernacular to tap into?
What would happen if artists went into the studio with Emily Thomas in mind? I can't help but think this is a healthy, needed challenge.
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Firefox 24 ESR should be officially released today which means Firefox 17 ESR users will be automatically upgraded to Firefox 24 ESR. I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone of a major change that happened in Firefox 21 that will impact everyone upgrading to Firefox 24 ESR.
The location of a number of important files that are used to customize Firefox has changed. Here's the list:
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Women in Aerospace recently announced the winners of its 25th Annual Women in Aerospace Awards. For 2010, WIA honored eight outstanding women for their contributions to the aerospace industry and to the advancement of women in the field.
Professor Alison Flatau, Associate Dean and Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, was named the recipient of the Aerospace Educator Award, "for her exceptional leadership and dedication to aerospace education and for her unwavering commitment to the advancement of women in the Aerospace Engineering field."
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Thanks to the folks at AquamanShrine.com I learned that September 25th, 2011 is the 70th anniversary of Aquaman's debut in comics. What a crazy coincidence, my birthday is September 25th. It also just so happens that I did a new illustration of the King of the Sea this last week. Check it out here.


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In today's tough economic climate it is more important than ever to keep your skill sets up-to-date and add new ones. Microsoft has started a new initiative called Elevate America. The goal is to use the tools and resources provided by Microsoft to improve your job skills, build your IT career and plan for your future.
Microsoft is partnering with governments, private, public and community organizations to launch Elevate America; free and low cost resources that provide the skills, training and certifications needed for people of all ages who are preparing for job opportunities in today's changing economy.
Microsoft Corp. today announced a new initiative, Elevate America, which will provide up to 2 million people over the next three years with the technology training needed to succeed in the 21st-century economy.
Microsoft has worked for years with other businesses and community-based partners to broaden access to job opportunities through information technology education and training. Elevate America expands these efforts and provides immediate support in response to the current economic crisis in partnership with others in the public and private sector.
Elevate America has two main offerings, one available immediately and one that will be provided in partnership with state governments including those of Florida, New York and Washington.
A new online resource, located at http://www.microsoft.com/ElevateAmerica, is available today. This new Web site helps individuals understand what types of technical skills they need for the jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities of today and tomorrow, and resources to help acquire these skills. The Web site provides access to several Microsoft online training programs, including how to use the Internet, send e-mail and create a résumé, as well as more advanced programs on using specific Microsoft applications.
In order to provide a broader range of training programs and certification exams, Microsoft will also partner with state and local governments, which in turn will make these resources available to their citizens. Pamela Passman, corporate vice president of Microsoft Global Corporate Affairs, today announced that Florida, New York and Washington will be the first states to provide Elevate America to their residents. Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire says that programs such as Elevate America are critical to providing support to Washington families and helping the economy recover.
"At the federal, state and local level, leaders are working together to help start the engine of economic growth. The private sector provides much of the spark needed to jump-start that engine," Gregoire said. "Elevate America is a great example of Microsoft's leadership on education and work force development — issues that bring us a step closer to recovery by helping us provide critically important help to our citizens. Washington state is pleased to be one of the first states to partner with Microsoft to provide Elevate America to our residents."
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said that the success of the Elevate Miami program in his state is proof that public-private partnerships can work and benefit citizens. "We have worked with Microsoft for years in Miami to bring technology training to underserved populations," he said. "Now, with Elevate America, we have the opportunity to bring these important skills to even more people, at a time when they are needed more than ever."
Elevate America is an extension of Microsoft's long-standing commitment to provide skills training and certification through schools, government programs and community-based organizations. The Unlimited Potential Community Technology Skills Program is an example of how Microsoft is already working to bridge the technology skills gap and equip more people with skills relevant to today's work force. More than half of today's jobs require some technology skills, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that will reach 77 percent in the next decade.
"Millions of Americans don't have the technology skills needed in today's economy. Through Elevate America, we want to help workers get the skills they need to succeed," Passman said. "We are also providing a full range of work force development resources for state and local governments so they can offer specialized training for their workers."
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After the excitement of finally being in the northern-most state of the country began to sink in on day one, day two is when our real adventure started! 4 days of riding to reach Ladakh, distances of 110 km, 183 km, 237 km and 210 km to be covered, and one hotel, one houseboat and one tent stay. Bikes, riding gears, helmets, rain gear, gloves, riding shoes; all the dressing up made us feel like soldiers, soldiers going on wars to conquer different mountains. In retrospect, we did, in fact, conquer them! That's how we dressed up, and that's how onlookers on the road made us feel. Waves from friendly locals, hi-fives from excited kids, looks of amusement from pedestrians and thumbs-up from fellow riders.


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JERUSALEM (Mar. 2)
Max Fisher, chairman of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, disclosed here today that a major new effort is underway to test the willingness of the Soviet Union to allow Russian Jews to reunite with their families in the United States. He said that he had personally approached the State Department to adopt a more liberal policy on entry permits for Soviet Jews.
Fisher described the new efforts at a press conference. He said that "thousands" of affidavits have been sent to the USSR recently by Russian Jews living in the U.S. attesting to close family relationships with particular Jews residing in the Soviet Union. He said the letters were forwarded by HIAS following a decision by a committee comprised of the leaders of all major American Jewish organizations. He stressed that the decision was taken with the knowledge and approval of the Israeli government.
According to Fisher, fewer than 1000 Soviet Jews a year managed to obtain visas for family reunion in the U.S. in the past. But now, with as many as 20,000 Soviet Jewish emigres living in the U.S., including "noshrim" (dropouts) and some who spent time in Israel, the pressure for family reunions has become more intense, Fisher said.
Fisher's remarks appeared to nonplus some Israeli government officials. They acknowledged that the government had been privy to the decision-making process by the American Jewish leadership but were vague as to at what precise stage Israel was brought into the picture. One top official said that Israel's consistent position has been that the Jewish Agency should help Soviet Jews bound for Israel and other Jewish organizations should assist those going elsewhere, provided the latter were not misusing an Israeli visa.
"We are only interested in cutting down the misuse of Israeli visas so as not to give the Soviet authorities a pretext to claim that the whole aliya movement is a sham because so many ostensible olim head elsewhere." another official explained.
Some non-government circles claimed that if the HIAS effort succeeds and a much larger number of Russian Jews are able to get visas for emigration to the U.S., it could conceivably afford the Soviets the pretext to claim that the emigration movement as a whole was to the capitalist countries of the West rather than a return to the "national homeland."
These circles noted that when the dropout problem first arose, Israel feared that the large number of emigres who opted to go to the U.S.would jeopardize the departure of those whose destination was Israel. They said the Soviet authorities would be unable to "justify" the departure of Jews to other disgruntled ethnic minorities in the USSR if it was seen that most of the Jews went to countries other than Israel.
But now Israel's emphasis apparently has shifted to visa misuse which was, originally, only an ancillary consideration. Jerusalem is now insisting that Jewish organizations abroad desist from aiding Soviet Jews who deliberately abused their Israeli visas in order to discourage others from similar abuse.


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Alicia Keys promised to give a big performance during the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards and while she did produce some pretty good "surprise" guests, it seemed to fall a bit flat.
The performance started out with Alicia on the keyboard as she performed her new single "Girl On Fire." A few rough vocal notes later, she cued to Nicki Minaj. Nicki brought some spunk to the performing, delivering her verse with a tough girl stance. When Nicki closed her verse with the line "but I got em aggy 'cause I win the gold like Gabby," 2012 all-around Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas appeared on stage as the proverbial girl on fire. She flipped across the stage and met up with AKeys for a high five. The performance was good but not great and suffered from a bit too much hype.
"Girl On Fire" is the title-track of Alicia Keys' new album. The album is due in stores on November 27. Watch Alicia's VMAs performance below.


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Jewelry Buzz: See Halle Berry's Gorgeous Emerald Engagement Ring
It's Hump Day, Glamazons! Hope you're making the most of it. I'm spending it indulging in my favorite pastime: shopping. Yes, the Marni for H&M editor event wasn't enough to feed my addiction. Sigh. I picked up this Asos dress (marked down from $72!) for my DC trip this weekend. Do you love? I also am (still) on the hunt for a fab outfit for Glamazon Channing's shindig tomorrow. Should I go for a colorblock moment? Debut some floral pants? Go for a bold shoe? Decisions, decisions. Before I try on everything in my closet (and destroy my room in the process) to come up with an outfit (does anyone else experience this?), I'm going to give you the fashion and beauty news for today. Let's get to the scoop!
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The recently-engaged Jessica Biel shows off the beauty that won over Justin Timberlake on the cover of W Magazine. Peep the aptly-titled cover line "Bringing Sexy Back" and sidenote: are full lips still a thing? ::Pouts.:: [Styleite]
John Galliano Back To Work at Schiaparelli?
After John Galliano was unceremoniously fired from Dior following an anti-Semitic rant, the future of his storied career looked grim. Since then, we've speculated to the point of exhaustion about every possible designer that could replace him — with little thought about where HE could end up. Now, a year later, we hear that he may find a home at Schiaparelli.Via WWD:
Lam's departure coincides with continued speculation that John Galliano was in talks with the Italian firm to either do a Tod's capsule collection or revamp its Schiaparelli brand. However, [chairman Diego] Della Valle firmly dismissed the rumors.
We all know fashion folks dismiss rumors right before breaking the news that the gossip was true all along. Will this be the case with Galliano and Schiaparelli? Should he be welcomed back into the fashion industry with open arms? [The Cut Blog]
Iris Apfel Gets A Jimmy Choo in Her Honor
After hanging out with Glamazon Andrea at the HSN gala, Iris Apfel came home to news that a Jimmy Choo shoe had been designed in her honor. The shoe features brown braided straps and a colorful tassel that Racked points out Apfel probably doesn't even like (as she named high heels the worst trend in footwear). This quote from Jimmy Choo reps, however, may get her seal of approval. Via The Telegraph: "they're calling the shoe the "ultimate homage to the grand dame of idiosyncratic fashion" saying it was "inspired by the inimitable style of fashion innovator and doyenne of ethnic embellishment, Iris Apfel." Way to respect a legend, Jimmy. [Racked]
Conde Nast Enforces Rules For Internship Programs
Conde Nast recently overhauled its internship program, strictly enforcing the following regulations effective this semester:
• Interns aren't allowed to stay at the company for more than one semester per calendar year unless granted special clearance by Human Resources.
• Interns are required to do an orientation with HR where they are told to contact them if they are working unreasonably long hours or are mistreated.
• Interns can only work until 7pm and their security badges will actually be modified so that they won't work after 7pm–meaning they won't be able to get back into the building after 7 (making any late-afternoon errands or pickups particularly stressful)
• Interns are given stipends (around $550 for the semester)
• Interns have to receive college credit to be eligible for an internship.
• Interns will have to have official mentors
• Interns are only allowed to work on tasks related to the job at hand and no personal errands
I love that mentors are now required. Mentors go a long way in preparing someone to enter the professional field; I am so thankful for mine and grateful for the opportunity to mentor my fave up-and-coming smart fashion girls. But what do you think of these restrictions, Glamazons? [Fashionista]
A $19 Marni for H&M Collar Sold For Almost $500 on eBay
What in the fashion retail hell? I thought I was a tad thirsty (and insane) searching dressing rooms for discarded Marni for H&M items at the pre-shopping party but eBay shoppers have me beat by a landslide. Some poor style addict out there actually paid $472 for a $19 Marni for H&M collar. Like, for serious? I'm two seconds away from selling all my purchases on eBay for ridiculous prices (I'm talking, thousands). But I won't…because I love them.
Anyway, whoever spent half a thousand dollars on a neck collar that originally costed 19 bucks is going to be devastated to hear Marni for H&M returns are happening. And will continue to happen until March 18th as H&M gave shoppers ten days to return Marni pieces. So if you still want a piece of the collection, I totally advise you to stalk the registers at your local H&M instead of the eBay sales listings. Your bank account will thank you. [Madison Avenue Spy]
See Halle Berry's Emerald Engagement Ring
Well, isn't this sweet. As I'm sure you know, Olivier Martinez proposed to Halle Berry and for the occasion, he chose a relatively understated emerald ring. Of course, Halle has all the money in the world and could've got the most ostentatious stone there is but this ring is special not because of the cost, but the sentimental value. Awww. Details via jeweler Robert Mazlo's interview with PeopleStyleWatch:
"The ring is textured and contains codes and symbols which you cannot see … only the person wearing it can. It's very uncommon. The symbols and codes represent [the couple's] story and only they can interpret it."
Are you feeling all warm and fuzzy yet? My birth stone is an emerald so I'm all for this ring. Best wishes to the newly-engaged, unbelievably-handsome couple. [People]
Until tomorrow!
Glamazon Jessica


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Honoring Mary Gunn's 40 years of service to Greater Boston
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Learn more about Generations Incorporated, how we help support communities to tackle the literacy crisis in Greater Boston, and how you can be involved in an organization with 25 years of experience in innovating intergenerational mentorships.
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Today, we work to train nearly 300 volunteers to serve day after day tutoring 3,200 young school children who are in need of both a literacy tutor and a caring mentor. Our proven, evidence-based models of literacy success are more effective and focused that ever, and we're proud to deliver quality tutoring from experienced volunteers who are passionate about serving. As a result, Generations Incorporated has grown over time to become the largest and most effective literacy program in the region.
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- a non-Greek, esp. a Jew of the Hellenistic period, who adopted the Greek language, customs, etc.
- a specialist in the study of the Classical Greek language and ancient Greek culture
Origin of HellenistClassical Greek Hell?nist?s, imitator of the Greeks from Hell?nizein, to speak Greek
- One in Hellenistic times who adopted the Greek language and culture, especially a Jew of the Diaspora.
- A devotee or student of Greek civilization, language, or literature.
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- A specialist in the study of Greek language, literature, culture, or history, or an admirer of the Greek culture and civilization.
- A person who adopted the Greek customs, language and culture during the Hellenistic period, especially a Hellenized Jew.
From Ancient Greek ελληνιστής (hellenistes) "somebody who speaks Greek", from ελληνίζειν (hellenizein) "to speak Greek, to make Greek, to become Greek, hellenize", from Ancient Greek Έλλην (Hellen) "Greek".


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"MAJOR! is a documentary film exploring the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years."
The above description and few additional details from Miss Major's Wikipedia Bio were all I knew about Major Griffin-Gracy a few weeks ago when I accepted an invitation to attend film's premiere at the 2015 Transgender Film Festival in San Francisco.
It's not that I didn't know the statistics.
I did.
From the advocacy of Janet Mock, I learned about the increased risk of violence faced by transwomen of color and through the incarceration of CeCe McDonald, I learned about their disproportionate representation in the criminal justice system. I've seen the graphs and charts, but Major! explores these issues through story; tracing the harrowing yet exuberant life of an irreverent, irrepressible and utterly disarming woman who has built family and community for transgender women in and out of prison.
Miss Major's TGI Justice Project works to create "a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom… working in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures."
The staff and volunteers at TGI Justice visit prisoners, write letters, do research and advocate for their sisters behind bars. It is a noble work. It matters.
What I experienced watching this film is akin to the religious conviction of a lapsed evangelical during a barn-burning sermon. I was deeply affected and ultimately shamed by how little I have done for others. in my life. As I witnessed Major's struggles and losses, I became acutely aware that for too long, I have excused my inaction by wrapping myself up in grief.
I am too sad, too anxious, too broken to do the work that must be done is an easy out, but for how long? At what point do the injustices of this world demand that I snap out of it?
One of the most powerful moments of the night was Miss Major's defiant battle cry; I am still fucking here. At the film's close, familiar and unfamiliar transgender women appeared on-screen, echoing this refrain. It was evidence of the resilience of the human spirit in a society and its systems which seek to destroy. And yet, there are so many who are not still here.
The empty seat beside me was glaring and I wept throughout the 8-minute standing ovation. Leaving the theater, I felt the full weight of having been a useless ally – mostly in theory and woefully out of practice. My daughter is gone, but I am still fucking here and I should damn well be putting that grief to work in her name.
For such inspiration and a renewed fire in your belly, I highly recommend checking out MAJOR!, when and where you can find it.
MANY THANKS to AJ Russo, who squired away tickets for J., Mouse and I to attend the event.
Visit the MAJOR! doc's website: http://www.missmajorfilm.com/
Find out more about the work TGI Justice does here: http://www.tgijp.org/


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A sound library today is like gold: we need sounds. A Sound Effect is a new website dedicated to promote and make available the SFX libraries created by bold and independent Sound professionals all over the world. The time is right: we interviewed its founder Asbjoern Andersen.
Hi Asbjoern, thanks for taking the time to talk to me. Can you introduce yourself to our readers and tell us more about you and your work?
My name is Asbjoern Andersen and I'm a composer in Epic Sound. It's a company I founded in 2002 along with my colleagues, sound designer David Filskov and orchestral composer Simon Ravn.
We deliver music, sound design, voices and localization – so we do our best to deliver the full package when it comes to sound.
Just some days ago you launched a new project called A Sound Effect, a resource for independent sound libraries, can you tell us more about this project?
Sure! Simply put, A Sound Effect is a catalog of independent sound effect libraries (the first in the world, as far as I know). It allows sound designers to show case their work – and sound users to browse, search and preview libraries to get the exact sounds they need.
But why did I start it in the first place? Well, I think there's some really impressive work being done within the indie sound effect community – but getting a proper overview of what sounds and libraries are out there is very hard.
I've always liked a good challenge, so as a side project, I decided to put together a new site that would fix this. And, as is often the case, it turned out to take a lot longer than expected – especially since this was done in my spare time, with most of my waking hours being spent composing in Epic Sound.
But it's finally up and running, and I'm thankful for the very positive response it's received so far!
There are some competitors in these field of the web, then what is the added value for Sound professionals and their libraries to be featured on A Sound Effect?
I think there are many advantages to this site.
As an individual library creator, it's a challenge to get your work and site to be seen as an alternative to the established libraries if you're only offering, say, three to four specialized libraries.
Why? It has nothing to do with the quality of work – far from it, in fact. But buyers tend to gravitate towards places where they have a good certainty of finding what they need. And if you're offering those three libraries, your site probably isn't first on the list.
When you take a look at A Sound Effect, it becomes apparent just how rich and varied the selection of libraries from the indie sfx community really is. United, the indie sfx libraries suddenly become a vastly better proposition for sound users, as chances that they can find what they need are now much higher.
Showcasing these great libraries in one place makes them much more accessible – and I think every indie sound designer stands to gain from this. That's my hope, anyways.
On A Sound Effect, I'm also featuring some of the latest releases in the blog, and in the newsletter – giving sound designers another way of bringing more attention to their work. So if you've just released a new sound library, be sure to let me know about it.
Finally, another advantage is that sound designers manage their own libraries and profiles. I leave it to them to present their libraries, set prices and handle the actual sales, by sending visitors directly to individual sites. Of course, I may suggest tweaks here and there to ensure consistency across the site, but that's always done in dialogue with the sound designer.
There's a large degree of freedom on the site, which I think is important to the whole independent aspect of this project.
And for end-users, well, there's now an easier way of finding unique sounds for their projects, created by some very talented sound designers.
What are the rules and conditions to have sound libraries admitted on the website? Did you build a process to validate quality of assets or something similar?
To be listed, you'll need to have actual sound effect libraries for sale, have your own store, SoundCloud demos and a few other technicalities. Of course, it's in everyone's interest to ensure that there's some quality material available on the site, so I do my best to check out the work of new members. But largely, it's an open platform, so there are few restrictions.
Before the site was launched, I spent some time researching what was out there and working with a handful of sound designers to get their libraries listed.
So what's currently on the site is mostly stuff I've hand-picked. Many of the sound designers I knew (and knew of) beforehand, so I had a very good feeling that they were doing quality stuff.
I guess the web is the ultimate place where Sound designers and Recordists will promote their products, but maybe some new ideas like crowdsourcing, mobile/portable recorders and recording applications could give innovation here. What do you think about this? What could be the future of Sound FX in the digital era?
Well, I'm a composer, not a sound designer, so there are probably people out there who can answer this better than I can. But in general, crowdsourcing is an interesting approach, especially with so many capable recording devices available to people.
What's crucial for it to work, though, is that the framework and direction is clearly defined before starting a project – if you ask people to participate, you really need to know where you're going with the project and what you're looking to accomplish with it.
From a composer's perspective, I've seen many music briefs that simply weren't clear enough, and this ultimately ended up wasting everyone's time.
So make sure you're very clear in what you're asking people to create, or you'll risk ending up with loads of… well, useless stuff. Quantity is not a means it itself. You want stuff that works for your purpose.
I read from your Twitter profile that one of your last projects was for Nokia on brand sounds for products such as the Lumia 920. Can you tell us more about this project?
Yes, it was a really interesting. We were brought in by the sound team at Nokia to create some very unique orchestral sounds for the whole Nokia Lumia range. The aim was to give the sounds a much more organic, living quality than you normally find in product sound. The response has been great and it's been very exciting to be part of such an ambitious project.
What is your ordinary day of work? Do you use a regular process to work at projects, some kind of defined workflow to be more effective while designing and building sounds and music with clients?
Our work is project based, so it actually varies a lot. But I pretty much always get in at 8 am, get an overview of the day's tasks and then get started.
I do my best to compose every single day, even when it's mostly a planning / paperwork day in the studio – I find that it keeps me on my toes, composing-wise. I'm also really glad to be working with such talented colleagues. It takes a lot of stress of your shoulders when you can help each other out – and it allows me to focus on what I do best.
When it comes to workflow, I think there's tremendous value in using examples to understand what the client needs. This avoids a lot of misunderstandings and saves you hours of going in the wrong direction.
So in my book, continuously honing your craft, surrounding yourself with talented people and using examples to pinpoint where you need to go are three important approaches to getting great results.
If people want to support A Sound Effect, what can they do?
The site has just launched, so we obviously need to get the word out about it. Please share the news about the site with your friends, colleagues and media contacts.
If you're a sound designer who wants to have your libraries featured on A Sound Effect, you can contact me – this also goes for questions and feedback.
And finally, if you're a blog owner, we've got an RSS feed up featuring the very latest library releases. By adding the feed on your site, you're giving some important exposure to the newest libraries from the indie sfx community.
Thanks a lot for the response so far, and hope you all enjoy the site!
Gianpaolo D'Amico
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Kaley Cuoco's Wedding Cake Was Hung Upside Down from a Chandelier!
We've seen some pretty outrageous cakes here at Delish, but we're pretty sure that the dessert at Kaley Cuoco's recent wedding celebration takes the cake. According to People, Kaley Cuoco of The Big Bang Theory got married on New Year's Eve alongside an enormous cake that just so happened to hang upside down from a chandelier. The Butter End Cakery in Los Angeles created the sugary masterpiece using custom rigging, sandbags, and a whole lot of rhinestones. The cake boasted two flavors, almond with toasted almond cream cheese buttercream frosting and chocolate almond cherry with cherry cream cheese buttercream frosting, but the best part was not how it tasted. The engineering was so good that the bride and groom were actually able to cut the cake from its hanging position.
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Formal Analysis - Final Due February 22, 2012
Choose a original work of art that you wish to write about. Spend about an hour examining it, taking brief notes about its size, form, composition, and subject matter. Think about how your eye moves across or through it. What causes your eye to do that? Look away and then back, where does your eye first rest? Once you feel that you can describe the work without looking at it again you are ready to write. Describe the work in such a way that you can recreate it for someone who cannot see it. You should start by giving an overall description of the form, shape and size of the piece then give a rough outline of the composition. If it is a landscape painting, for example, you should start by saying something like: "A landscape dominated by a large tree in the central front of the picture plane and level ground stretching away from the tree on either side as far as the horizon line in the middle of the picture plane half way up the canvas. Several figures are arrayed around the tree, some sitting, some standing." After you have given the reader a general idea of the image describe the most salient visual details that draw the eye around the image. These details can be the light, color, careful design, striking facial features or gestures etc.
Note: Your paper should include footnotes if you have read anything about the image you are analyzing. Your paper should also incude a good copy of the image with the source of this copy cited in the paper.


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Spring Street Park to enter construction phase this week
Spring Street Park is set to enter its construction phase beginning this week.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Spring Street Park, nestled between 4th and 5th streets in DTLA, is set to enter its construction phase beginning this week.
This "parklet if you will" is .7 acres, said Councilwoman Jan Perry, who's been involved in the area's development since its inception.
Although ground was officially broken on the site last October, this was followed by months of demolition. This Thursday at 9 a.m., the Department of Recreation and Parks along with Perry and Councilman José Huizar will break ground again -- ushering in the next portion of the park's creation.
The area is slotted to include an oval-shaped lawn, rectangular plaza, walking paths and a water feature.
Perry emphasized that the park is largely a product of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC) and their conversations on what the priorities were for the community. Ideas such as turning the space into a dog park were initially discussed, but the area was determined to be too small to accommodate that.
Plans for the neighborhood park were first announced in January 2009, when the city purchased the plot of land located between the Rowan Lofts and the El Dorado Lofts, from developer Downtown Properties.
Spring Street Park is expected to open in the summer of 2013, coming nearly a year after the debut of the new Grand Park as well as the City Hall Park. Perry says Spring Street will distinguish itself however by being a real "neighborhood park" and hopefully attracting local families and residents throughout the day.