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Wearables News Clips for Thursday, June 20, 2013
by Webelow Wear on Jun.20, 2013, under Wearables, Wearables News, Webelow Wear News Clips
In today's clips we learn about a new process for making conductive fabrics, a list of time saving wearables, energy storage in textiles, wearable tactile displays, and Sketchers light up shoes.
New Process For Rendering Paper And Textile Fibers Conductive with Aluminum
Korean researchers have now developed a new process for rendering paper and textile fibers conductive with aluminum … Current techniques like printing or vapor deposition are not applicable to fibrous materials because it is not possible to produce a continuous pattern. In addition, these methods are very expensive … Researchers have now developed a simple, affordable approach for making conductive textile and paper fibers with aluminum. The paper or textile fibers are first pre-treated with a titanium-based catalyst and then dipped into a solution of an aluminum hydride composite solution. The catalyst is needed to allow the subsequent conversion of the aluminum compound to metallic aluminum to occur at room temperature. The materials are not simply coated; in fact their fibers absorb the solution. This means that they do not have just a surface layer of aluminum, but are fully saturated. This produces papers and textile fibers with excellent electrical conductivity that can be bent and folded as desired. They can also be cut to any desired shape and size and simply glued or sewn onto an equally flexible support.
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Time Saving Must Haves: Wearable Electronics For Busy People
Loren's World
… As we have all become more and more dependent on smartphones, developers have caught on to the idea that time saving electronics for busy people really might be the wave of the future, with a a whole heap of new devices hitting the market. Check out these wearable electronics and let me know which ones make your must-have list!
Textile Energy Storage
Drexel University
This research focuses on electrical energy storage solutions for textiles and wearable electronics, a fundamental challenge for designers of smart textiles and wearable technology. As a solution to this problem, we are focusing on supercapacitors, made with activated carbon material. When combined with low power energy harvesting devices as power supply, they can eliminate the need for batteries in application such as wireless sensor networks.
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That Buzz You Feel May Soon Be Your Clothes Talking To You
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A senior research scientist at MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering and a designer of wearable tactile displays, Lynette Jones, has created an array that accurately tracks vibrations through skin in three dimensions. The array contains miniature accelerometers and pancake motors – a type of vibrating motor which is currently used in cellphones … Jones stated there are many potential applications for these types of tactile displays, such as aiding drivers or joggers, directing firefighters through building or helping emergency workers navigate through a disaster site.
Light-Up Shoes Booming, Brightens Sketchers' Bottom Line
Footwear Distributors And Retailers of America
If you were in elementary school during the '90s, chances are you owned a pair of L.A. Lights, or coveted those magical sneakers with lights in the heels, flashing red with every step and telling your peers that you were hip. As it turns out, a more advanced form of the classic light-up shoes are hot again with kids today and racking up millions in sales for Skechers.


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BERLIN (AP) ? Germany's unemployment rate increased to 7.4 percent in January as the country was hit by harsh winter weather, but seasonally adjusted jobless figures dropped unexpectedly and analysts said Thursday that the job market in Europe's biggest economy remains solid.
The number of Germans registered as unemployed stood at 3.14 million, 298,000 higher than in December and 54,000 more than a year earlier, the Federal Labor Agency said.
The head of the agency, Frank-Juergen Weise, said the increase was down to "purely seasonal reasons." Harsh weather typically weighs on industries such as construction in winter.
Adjusted for seasonal factors, the jobless rate slipped to 6.8 percent from 6.9 percent, where it had stood for three months. The number of people out of work was down 16,000 from December ? compared with economists' expectations that it would rise by 8,000.
"Today's numbers confirm that the German job miracle has lost some of its magic," said Carsten Brzeski, an economist at ING in Brussels. "However, even without being miraculous, the labor market should remain growth-supportive."
The solid employment report underlines rising hopes that the German economy will quickly recover from a weak patch and benefit from an easing in Europe's financial turmoil.
The German economy grew a modest 0.7 percent last year, and officials estimate it shrank by as much as 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three-month period. But the central bank says improving hopes for the country's export performance, combined with a stable labor market, point to a pick-up in the economy.
Timo Klein, an economist at IHS Global Insight in Frankfurt, said the debt crisis in the 17 European Union countries that use the euro remains "important as a risk factor" but "should not be much of a burden in the next several months at least."
Retail sales figures released Thursday were less satisfying, however. The Federal Statistical Office reported that, adjusted for inflation, sales were down 0.3 percent in 2012 compared with the previous year. In December, sales were 1.7 percent lower than the previous month.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/german-unemployment-sees-seasonal-rise-january-122652252--finance.html
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John Wilkerson to Replace Jack Schaap as First Baptist Hammond's Pastor
The First Baptist Church of Hammond in Indiana has chosen its new pastor to replace former leader Jack Schaap, who is facing sentencing for engaging in a sexual affair with a minor.
John Wilkerson was voted in by 94 percent of First Baptist Church members to lead the 15,000-strong congregation. He will officially begin serving on Feb. 17, and will seek to continue the healing and rebuilding process as the community seeks to distance itself from former pastor Schaap, according to FBC Hammond.
According to the church's website, Wilkerson graduated from Hyles-Anderson school in 1989 and taught at the church's City Baptist Schools before moving on to teach at a Baptist school in Long Beach, Calif. He then became a principal of Calvary Christian School in Baton Rouge, La., in 1993, before returning to California in 2000 to become the pastor of First Baptist Church of Long Beach. There he oversaw the church as its congregation almost double its size, from 849 to 1,700 people, and led services in English, Korean and Spanish, reaching out to the broader community.
Wilkerson and his wife, Linda, have been married for over 23 years, and have raised nine children. One of them, Tyler, tragically died in Aug. 2008 in a car accident at the age of 17. The Sunday after his passing, Pastor Wilkerson delivered a sermon to the congregation titled "God Makes No Mistakes."
Schaap, 55, pleaded guilty in September in U.S. District Court to transporting a minor across state lines for sexual relations. Early in January he said in a court filing that his affair with the then-16-year-old girl began after church-related stress and long hours put him in a state of depression. Speaking to The Christian Post, a spokesman for First Baptist Church of Hammond said that while Schaap had been a talented preacher, he made big mistakes and should not use stress as an excuse for his actions.
During the police investigation into the affair, FBC Hammond is said to have fully co-operated with detectives and removed Schaap from his position right away. A clergy member is believed to have first reported suspicions of the pastor's behavior after he saw a photo on Schaap's phone of the pastor and the unidentified girl kissing.
After firing Schaap at the end of August, First Baptist Church has welcomed many guest speakers and pastors to preach while they began discussing candidates for the full-time position.


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Fancy a tiny Cortex A9 and Tegra 2 system? CompuLabs Trim-Slice isn't a bad choice.
Subject: Systems | January 9, 2012 - 04:03 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: arm, cortex-a9, Tegra 2, compulab, thin-slice, nettop
If you need only moderate processing power and need a small footprint then CompuLab might just have the system for you. Their Trim-Slice nettop is powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 a 1GHZ dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 and 1GB of DDR2 RAM, with a SATA HDD. It has four USB 2.0 ports, WiFi and a wired NIC, two HDMI ports and a S/PDIF in port, which ought to handle what you need from this system. It comes with Ubuntu 11.04 for ARMv7, which Phoronix points out is obsolete and recommends updating to a newer version. The system is comparable to Atom based machines in performance and in price, a basic 1GB system is $213USD while the model Phoronix reviewed would cost you about $100 more. Read on to see how it did in the benchmarks.
"The Trim-Slice from CompuLab is a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 nettop based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform. In this article are our first Ubuntu benchmarks of this low power, fan-less desktop with comparative figures to Intel's older platforms and the OMAP4660-based dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 PandaBoard ES."
Here are some more Systems articles from around the web:
- ARM Cortex-A9 PandaBoard ES Benchmarks @ Phoronix
- Building a BitTorrent Rig with the Zotac ZBOX Nano Plus @ Legit Reviews
- Acer Aspire Z5771-UR31P Review @ TechReviewSource
- HP Omni 120-1024 Review @ TechReviewSource
- How To Build A Windows Home Server @ HardwareHeaven
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The next time your cellphone dings on the highway, think twice before reading your message: State and federal authorities are ramping up the war on texting in 2013:
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- You're more likely to get caught. Federal dollars will underwrite the cost of spotters who point out texting drivers to officers down the road.
- You're likely to face a steeper penalty. Those federal dollars will reward states that increase penalties for repeat offenders.
- You're more likely to see a car insurance hit. More states have begun to treat texting as a moving violation, the same as they do speeding.
Texting laws remain a hodgepodge -- 11 states don't even ban it, and some of the rest don't allow police to pull you over solely for texting -- but the trend remains clear.
How Will They Catch Me?
While enforcement of texting laws can be difficult, some officers say it is getting easier as drivers become more blatant.
"Drivers don't seem to even think about it anymore," says Sgt. Paul Paulos of the St. Paul, Minn., Police Department. "In fact, many drivers have become quite obvious."
"Obvious" includes drivers holding the phone in front of their faces, he says, or staring intently at their laps. And then there is the not-so-obvious: Texting drivers hesitate at traffic lights, weave or drift out of a lane, and drive below the speed limit.
Any of those behaviors could result in a traffic stop. But the federal government is stepping in to help police find better ways to enforce texting laws.
A U.S. Department of Transportation pilot project will test new enforcement methods in Connecticut and Massachusetts. One tactic involves putting spotters on overpasses to flag texting drivers for patrol cars down the road. Another approach is roving officers using unmarked high-riding SUVs to peer into cars, catching texters in the act. (Tennessee has already put unmarked SUVs on the road in texting hotspots.)
California and Delaware have also been awarded funds to ramp up enforcement and publicize the result. The first wave resulted in 4,753 tickets in early December, and two more "maximum enforcement" periods are planned in 2013.
The new highway appropriations law has other incentives for states that implement a full array of changes, escalating fines for repeat offenders and making distracted driving part of the driver's license exam.
But I Can't Help Myself
How common is texting these days? David Thomas at Cars.com used a few hidden cameras on his daily commute -- and the results are shocking.
It's not like drivers don't know the dangers. A recent AAA poll found 94% of Pennsylvania drivers consider texting while driving a serious threat -- and that 35% admitted reading a text or e-mail while driving in the last month.
In June 2011, over 196 billion text messages were sent or received in the U.S., up nearly 50% from June 2009, according to CTIA. Experts say that almost 80% of car crashes involve some type of driver inattention within 3 seconds of the crash.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood refers to distracted driving as a "national epidemic" and has called for a federal law banning talking on a cellphone or texting while driving.
Maybe even more technology can help.
A raft of apps and devices has hit the market, enabling those low on will power to avoid temptation. Most of them lock the driver out of a cellphone's texting, e-mail and Web functions; others can redirect incoming texts and calls as well.
TextBuster and Key2SafeDriving, for example, use a device that plugs into the car's onboard diagnostics port and communicates via Bluetooth with an application on the phone. Drivers can still make hands-free calls. (See "Please make me stop texting.")
The devices cost $100 to $200.
A Ticket, or a Ticket?
In many states, a texting ticket is a misdemeanor that won't even reach your motor vehicle record. That doesn't mean the ticket is cheap; in California, with fees and court costs, a texting citation can cost $336. It does mean your insurance company won't see the black mark and raise your rates as a result. (See "Tickets that don't raise your insurance rates.")
In increasing number of states -- Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New York, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming among them -- are handling texting tickets as moving violations that are reported to the department of motor vehicles and thus to your insurer.
"A single texting ticket is usually like a single minor speeding ticket," says Penny Gusner, consumer analyst at CarInsurance.com. "Your rates might go up, and they might not. But watch out for that second ticket, because it starts to look like a pattern of risky behavior."
A texting ticket that hits your motor vehicle record could push your rates up 10 to 20% for a first offense and 40% for repeat offenders, Gusner says.
The original article can be found at CarInsurance.com:Texting? Watch out for overpasses


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Hey, you sass that hoopy Fortran?
With the six vendors listed above we are blessed that the base Fortran coverage is Fortran 95. At previous Marks we still supported compilers covering only Fortran 77 (g77 and pgf77 for example). This forced us to jump through all manner of hoops so that we could do some of the really useful stuff from Fortran 90—like, woah, dynamically allocating memory—in a Fortran 77 way.
Some hoops still exist though, even with Fortran 90 code.
For example, we recently ran into the following:
PROGRAM str_read ! .. Implicit None Statement .. IMPLICIT NONE ! .. Parameters .. INTEGER, PARAMETER :: wp = KIND(0.0D0) ! .. Local Scalars .. REAL (kind=wp) :: rval INTEGER :: ioerr CHARACTER (200) :: my_str ! .. Executable Statements .. my_str = '1.0D400' READ (my_str,'(E16.0)',iostat=ioerr) rval PRINT *, 'IOERR = ', ioerr END PROGRAM str_readIgnoring the fact that the code fragment is a little contextless, just imagine that we're trying to trap overflowing real values being read from a CHARACTER. On five of the six compilers given above, two return a nonzero ioerr from the READ, two carry on happily and set rval to Infinity, and one core dumps! (At the time of writing, I didn't have access to all six compilers.)
Conferring with the Fortran standard (e.g., the draft Fortran 95) we see the dreaded phrase
The set of input/output error conditions is processor dependent.(my italics), so we can't even complain to the compiler vendors about this behaviour! We have good relationships with the vendors, so when our building process reveals a compiler bug we'll report it. But as you can imagine, sometimes it can be a battle to achieve what we want across many Fortran platforms in as simple and maintainable a way as possible.
The next level of complication comes from ensuring that what we do in Fortran is callable from non-Fortran environments. We usually take Microsoft Excel as a sufficiently-far-removed example. I won't go into details of the usual issues raised by cross-language programming; however, now we're at a base level of Fortran 95 we've been looking at pushing our envelope more and trying out some Fortran 2003 features, specifically C Interoperability.
M'colleague Nicolas has been working on a suite of image processing routines. In pure Fortran a NAG_IMAGE TYPE exists to hold the pixel values and other metadata for the image. To make this passable from outside Fortran we're using Fortran 2003. It's understandable with new features in the language that there should be a settling-in period, but it's no exaggeration to say that every compiler we tried did, at some point, fall over on our new code. Thanks to the hard work of the compiler developers on the various teams we're now at a stable state, but there are still some vendors who are lagging behind with Fortran 2003 and for which we have to exclude the image-processing code from our testing.
Looking forward (!) to Fortran 2008, I'm interested to see how the new special-function INTRINSICs (BESSEL_J*, BESSEL_Y*, ERF* and *GAMMA) will behave across different compilers. In theory these new INTRINSICs mean we'd be able to withdraw a sizeable chunk of our S Chapter. But I wonder how easy that will be?
(The images in this post are from now voyager, but are probably copyright PolyGram Filmed Entertainment.)


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CALLS have been made to secure the Wyvern Theatre car park ahead of its demolition later in the year after 17-year-old Ashley McKinnon fell to his death on Thursday.
Toby Robson, 43, pulled a woman back from the roof of the car park in November, and said the latest development was too predictable.
"Sadly this was not a surprise at all," he said. "That is what has made me so angry. It was a complete inevitability. After the incident I was involved in this was an accident waiting to happen, and I am absolutely furious. It was just so predictable.
"The response to events like this is often to shrug their shoulders, but there is now a whole litany of these incidents, not only in this car park but around the town. "I have counted up at least four fatalities from the Wyvern car park. Putting it in context, if there had been a stretch of road which had seen four deaths, money would have been spent to change the layout of that road."
Ashley's friends and family have paid tribute to him and said the fall may have been an accident.
His girlfriend Atlanta Holmes said he regularly went up to the car park to find space to think.
The car park is due to be demolished later in the year.
"Last year it was said the car park would be closed by Christmas, but that has not happened," said Toby.
"The simplest option now would be to close the top deck. "If it is already earmarked for closure, why not shut it up now?
"There is an extra incentive to close the old car park." "Two deaths and the incident I was involved in over the space of six months is crazy.
"I understand that the council does not have money to burn, but if they have invested all this money into the new car park, you have to ask why this one is still open.
"You could say that it would not cost a huge amount of money to put in some low barriers. "If people are in a vulnerable position at a given time, there is a window at which they are at risk. "In all public places you try to minimise that risk and make it as safe as you can. It is a public and moral responsibility.
"Of course nothing is totally safe. You could say no car is completely safe, but we still have seat belts and air bags installed.
"People acknowledge this is a risk, and traffic wardens have been given some training but nothing more meaningful than that has been done.
"It is beyond belief this car park is still open. I do not think any individual bears sole responsibility for this, but a decision has to be made."
A spokesman for Swindon Council said: "All of our patrolling car park staff are trained to be vigilant for vulnerable people in our multi-storey car parks and will respond accordingly. We have put up posters in our car parks urging distressed or depressed people to contact Swindon Samaritans.
"The Council's Cabinet also approved a car park strategy which will see the closure of some of our older car parks. Our modern car parks, such as Whalebridge have larger barriers on their rooftops to minimise incidents."


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City Council Member Brings "Career Heroes" to Eastside Charter School
Wilmington City Council Member Darius Brown today introduced the Career Heroes program to children at Eastside Charter School at 3000 North Claymont Street, a school which is located in his 3rd Council District. Working in collaboration with the State Department of Labor which developed the program in conjunction with other career developers, Brown said he is so impressed with the trading card-based career education program that he has made it his mission to have it introduced in more schools in Wilmington.
"Some children, especially those who live in an urban setting, can't let their minds get excited like many of us did years ago about what they would like to be when they grow up," said Council Member Brown. "Whether because of their home life or neighborhood conditions, there are some children who don't think about their future. If you don't aspire to be something and achieve something, then you can sometimes lose hope. We shouldn't let that happen to our children and that's why I believe that Career Heroes is one way to change a child's focus on life and their own future."
According to State Labor Secretary John McMahon, who joined Council Member Brown at today's introductory presentation at Eastside Charter, Career Heroes is a set of career education tools designed around the theme of popular trading card games. "The goal of Career Heroes is simple—to introduce elementary school children to the concept of career planning and to teach them the basics of using career information," said the Secretary. "We see examples every day at the Labor Department of citizens who need a better focus as adults on their own skills and abilities so they can successfully seek work and find a satisfying career. We are doing a better job of educating our young people about careers paths and we will strive to do even more."
Lyn Anderson, an editor and production coordinator with the Department of Labor (DOL) said while the State DOL is proud of its role in bringing the Career Heroes program to Delaware, it received help from other career developers who collaborate regularly to assist clients. She said an accompanying publication to the program entitled "Career Aware" was adapted from Oregon's Partnership for Occupational and Career Information as well as the original "Career Heroes" produced by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry.
Eastside Charter School is located in the former Martin Luther King Elementary School, at 3000 North Claymont Street, next to East Wilmington's Riverside community. The facility is also known as the EastSide Learning Center in recognition of the school's broad range of community educational and service activities. The school currently enrolls about 400 primary students, from Kindergarten through eighth grade. The typical classroom size is less than 20 students and the overall student/teacher ratio is less than 12 to 1 after taking into account specialist teachers in reading, math, library, media, music, art, physical education, and special education. The school says smaller classes are one of the keys to Eastside Charter's success.
Eastside Charter staff observed today's Career Heroes presentation to make an assessment of the benefit to students with an eye toward scheduling other Department of Labor classroom presentations in the future.


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City police plan to meet with management of a downtown club after two people waiting in line were shot early Monday — a shooting that capped a violent weekend in Baltimore and has revived discussions about security around city bars and clubs.
Eight people were shot in the city over the weekend, and police said they had several plans in place in hopes of curbing violence. That includes prioritizing arrest warrants for people with domestic violence or robbery histories, and increasing foot patrols.
The double-shooting downtown occurred about 1 a.m. outside Club Mirage in the 400 block of W. Baltimore St., across from the


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As meaningless games go, they don't get more meaningless than the last game of the preseason. All are played on a Thursday night; none are televised by the league's broadcast partners.
And yet in San Diego, where the Chargers struggle to sell tickets to games that count, the blackout of the preseason finale against the 49ers has been lifted.
The team announced the development on Tuesday, a day after announcing the 72-hour deadline had been extended by 24 hours to sell 1,100 non-premium ticket.
The preseason game also coincides with the team's 25th annual Salute to the Military, with the Chargers holding a walk-through practice on the USS Ronald Reagan on Wednesday.
It's unclear how many tickets were purchased by the team and/or sponsors at 34 cents on the dollar. Still, it's not a bad sign for the regular season that the Chargers at a minimum got close enough to a sellout to enable someone to write a check for the rest.


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The Future of Education: What Happens to Accreditation Under an Open Education Model?
In our last blog The Future of Education: Amazon or an eBay Model? "Anonymous" posted an excellent question:
"Very insightful, and I agree with most of the premises. The only one that stands out is the accreditation/social validation angle. IIT or Harvard graduate has a validation angle to employers, which will not go away for top institutions".
We had the exact same comment from a colleague on the blog recently and this blog summarizes some views on the subject:


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From Tribal Hamlet to Financial Consultancy...
It has been a long journey for Shekar Nalla –from a small tribal village in Andhra Pradesh, India to selling insurance products in the metropolitan city of Hyderabad.
Shekar's family lived a hand to mouth existence, and he thought that maybe someday in the future he would earn Rs. 24,000 (US$400) per year. But now, Shekar earns Rs. 156,000 (US$3000) annually through his new job with an insurance company.
His widowed mother no longer has to struggle because Shekhar sends her Rs. 60,000 (US$1500) a year. With his new job the status of the family has risen among the village headman and higher caste members, especially when he sent home a colored Samsung TV—the first in his village. "Richer relatives who avoided us, call me saying, 'Shekar can you show me a job'," said Shekhar.
The United Nations commemorated the International Year of Youth from August 11, 2010 to August 11, 2011. To promote youth participation towards progress and development, the Rural Livelihoods team at the World Bank has put youth like Shekar Nalla at the forefront of poverty reduction and maximizing rural growth.


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One of the first things that stands out about Macalester's eco-house is there is nothing that makes it stand out from the neighboring houses. In fact, there are barely any noticeable differences now from before assistant professor Chris Wells helped launch a $50,000 remodel. Take the new roof, for instance, made from galvanized steel with a 50-year warranty.
"Looking at it you can't tell the difference," Wells said. "Once it's installed it looks like a standard asphalt roof. They come in a variety of different aesthetic finishes so you can get one that looks like clay tile, you can get one that looks like slate, you can get one that looks like shingles."
Wells, who teaches environmental science, said the steel roof lasts more than twice as long as a conventional asphalt roof and can be recycled at the end of its useful life.
The kitchen also puts a new, environmentally-friendly material on display. The counter tops resemble slate, but are made from recycled paper and cashew resin.
But installing new and different materials isn't the only goal. Wells said one guiding principle is reusing what's already in the house, like the kitchen cabinets, to cut down on trips to the landfill.
"By cutting them out we made room for the dishwasher, we were able to extend the countertop all the way to the door which gave us significantly more counter space, we made room for a recycling center and then we just put a new counter top on top of it and turned it into a kitchen island," Wells said.
The home keeps its original wood floors, windows and trim. The walls and ceilings remain intact. The 70s-era, earth-tone, vinyl kitchen floor is not stylish, but the remodeling team found it too useful to remove.
[There is] no difference and it's completely reliable as far as we've seenMacalester junior Austin Werth
There are some expected additions: kitchen appliances were all replaced with energy efficient machines and compact fluorescent lights replace all incandescents, cutting the light bill by three-quarters. In the bathroom, a bright overhead light needs no electricity at all.
"That's a solar tube providing all the light right now into the bathroom," he said. "You wouldn't know, you'd think that it was a bright overhead light."
The solar tube carries sunlight through the attic into the room.
Sunlight is also key to one of the biggest changes for the house: a conversion to solar heated water. A complex arrangement of copper pipes pumps 130 degree water from two panels on the garage roof through a specially designed water heater. Eco-house resident Austin Werth said he's not bothered by the unconventional set-up.
"Beyond just kind of thinking about when am I taking a shower, when is the hot water most available--which you try to do, you think the sun is shining let's use the hot water so we use solar--other than that it's no difference and it's completely reliable as far as we've seen," Wirth said.
Werth, a junior in environmental studies, beat out other students in a competition for a spot in the house.
The eco-house idea didn't start at Macalester. Green construction techniques are mainstream for residences and some campus housing. Places like Carleton College, Drake University in Iowa, and Ohio University are among a handful of schools that have either established or are considering student residences aligned with environmental studies.
Macalester does have a natural fit with other teaching programs related to other homes the college owns near campus--for instance some houses require residents to speak in a particular language. Once the initial renovations are place, the Eco House will ultimately serve as a 24-hour-a-day ecological work station for students, assistant professor Wells said.
"Part of the vision for the house and where we'd like to take it in the future is to install sophisticated energy monitoring equipment that will allow us to keep track of all the resources flowing through the house both water and electricity and to keep data that would be accessible on a web site to anyone with web access as to how well the various systems are performing," he said.
The original $50,000 for the remodel came from four grants solicited by students. Wells and the students are now working on additional grants to fund the next phase of the project.


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text: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 streich at uwm.edu wrote: > *SNIP* > > but part of this class is also setting up monitoring and benchmarking tools > > and tests to get overall proformance and what not of my cluster... > > Check out MRTG and Ganglia on the net for monitoring. I know that MRTG is > avalible as a RedHat package that can be installed from distro's install CDs, > but it is probably best to get it in source code and configure it to meet your > needs. Ganglia is powerful, it is used by a lot of clusters running ROCKs. Or you can try wulfware (xmlsysd and e.g. wulfstat or wulflogger). Depends on what you want to do with the data. wulflogger makes it very easy to log a variety of cluster load metrics into a file at a selected interval, in case you want to actually run programs to analyze it or plot it with standalone tools. It should be prebuilt for FC2, RH9 and Centos 3.3 here: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf/wulfware.php (or available in source rpm or tarball if you prefer). I've tried to make this a yummified repository, so you can if you wish autoupdate from it via yum, or of course you can just grab source or binary rpms and put them into a local repository. rgb > > > And setting up and running some parrallel Applications ... Im very interested > in > > getting more into clusters so was wondering if anyone has any tools or scripts > > or anything i can setup and test on my fedora warewulf setup just to get > > experience Also i really need some computational or Sim type app's or any type > > of cluster parrallel application i can play with to get the hang of them so i > > can move on to makeing my own applications this would be a HUGE help > > Hot topics that are using clusters include astronomical models, biology (human > genome stuff), and all sorts of things. Our cluster is dedicated to > atmospheric research (in particular studying fluffy white clouds most > atmospheric researchers aren't as intrested in as storms and such) running > COAMPs and wrf (MPI based programs). > > I suppose the real question is: what type of problem are you intrested in? > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Roasted Tomatoes
This is a great dish for those extra tomatoes you may have.
Small tomatoes leave uncut.
Medium - large size cut in half.
Put in bowl with sliced onions and a small amount (to taste) of fresh chopped garlic cloves and toss with olive oil.
Use a baking pan with sides so juice does not spill into oven.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
An Israeli newspaper recently hosted a war simulation that showed an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities causing severe damage and the Jewish state not suffering any major consequences for that action.
The Makor Rishon newspaper brought together former government officials and army generals, university professors who are experts on regional players, and journalists who know the current conflicts inside and out to participate in the exercise.
According to the premise of the game, Israel's intelligence community suddenly learns that Iran is moving sensitive and critical nuclear equipment to protected underground sites. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quietly authorizes and immediate aerial strike, during which 10 Israeli jets are shot down over enemy territory. The strike succeeds in setting Iran's nuclear program back at least seven years.
The simulation put the date of the attack on either October 14 or 15. That was somewhat prescient considering that Netanyahu is now expected to announce early elections for the beginning of September, and many believe one of the reasons is so that he can deal with Iran unencumbered in mid-October.
Following the initial strike, the simulation shows US President Barack Obama issue an angry reply and blast Israel for "intervention" in the American presidential election. Obama is frustrated that the Israeli strike will bring up the price of oil at a time when he is trying to win reelection. However, the White House does not threaten Israel or issue any ultimatums. At the same time, Obama tells Israel it is on its own should Iran choose to retaliate.
Then comes Iran's response. Ground forces mass near the border with Iraq, Hizballah fires missiles from southern Lebanon, a series of large-scale terrorist attacks (including a "dirty bomb" in Tel Aviv) kill large numbers in Israel, and Iranian long-range missiles strike the Jewish state.
At home, Netanyahu and his government enjoy a large degree of support, even from the usually critical media. Back in America, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney demands Obama immediately support Israel, making Romney the clear "pro-Israel" candidate, while Obama privately threatens an Israeli minister on the phone, telling him, "I may still be president on November 7. This will have a price, as far as you are concerned. I will not elaborate right now, but you should take this into consideration."
Iran likes the direction Israel-US relations are going, and tries to drive a further wedge by offering Obama unlimited oil supplies. The ploy apparently ignores, or fails to take into account the broad American support for Israel, and Obama eventually threatens Iran with US military action if it does not cease ongoing large-scale terrorist attacks against Israeli targets.
Commentators noted that while the simulation seemed dramatic and severe, nothing in it was outside the realm of possibility, especially considering Israel's proven willingness to preemptively strike nuclear programs it believes pose an existential threat.
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Radim sys is aged 25 and lives in Bezno. He works as a driver and in his spare time enjoys sports and football. He is a very cute looking guy who does a good interview and then climbs up on the pommel horse to begin his show. Standing on the horse, feet planted firmly apart Radim begins to run his hands over his body. He soon slips of his tee shirt and we see his nice, slim build. Gyrating his hips a little as he gropes himself Radim then opens his jeans and starts to play with his cock. He has a very nice tan line too. As his cock begins to get hard Radim pushes the jeans down. Sitting on the horse the jeans are completely removed and Radim leans back. A helping hand arrives and takes some oil,dripping it on Radim's body. The hands rub the oil into the body and all over the cock and balls. Taking hold of the cock the hand begins to wank Radim. Soon that cock is rock hard again and Radim lifts his legs so that we can see his tight ass as he is wanked. Some oil is rubbed over that sexy ass and as the helping hand wanks him Radim shoots a nice big load of cum. Then it is off to the shower to clean up.
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text: best scents Archive On Second Thought, Don't Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies for the Open House! Posted in Design Psychology by Melissa Tracey By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR(R) Magazine A favorite real estate tip: When prepping a home for a showing, whip up some chocolate chip cookies to fill the home with that rich, inviting, tasty smell. Who wouldn't want to sit... Read More → By Melissa Tracey April 8, 2013 Design Psychology


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Release Date: December 17th, 2003
DVD Release Date: May 25th, 2004
PG-13 |3 hr 20 minPlot Summary
The culmination of nearly 10 years' work and conclusion to Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the timeless J.R.R. Tolkien classic, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" presents the final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth. Hobbits Frodo and Sam reach Mordor in their quest to destroy the `one ring', while Aragorn leads the forces of good against Sauron's evil army at the stone city of Minas Tirith.
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill
Director: Peter Jackson
Production Co: New Line Cinema, Saul Zaentz Company
Distributors: New Line Cinema
Keywords: Survival, Intense, Suspenseful, Underdog, Dark, Quest, Rivalry, Temptation


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After what was an extremely hectic race weekend from Vegas (I know I still haven't posted about it- don't worry I will-but I want to get Bristol out of the way before I get too far behind), I was looking forward to watching the racing action at Bristol from home. I love me some Bristol and it was a blustery and stormy day here on the central coast.
It just so happens that Tony Stewart was one of the hot pass drivers this race (his first time this year that I can remember) so I decided to watch on his DirecTv Hot Pass channel. I knew he hadn't qualified too well (23rd) and that he didn't seem to be all that spectacular in practice so I figured it would be one of those days where I was hoping he didn't get a lap down too early (so easy to go a lap down at short tracks like Bristol and Martinsville).
(Side note: The photographer in me LOVES the above picture…LOVES it).
I happened to catch Tony's (comical) pre-race interview and one of the questions was about how he and Steve were clicking this early in the season. He said that they seemed to be getting along quite well and the only issue Tony could even think of was that Steve is soft spoken and sometimes hard to hear on the radio- I have always heard that it is LOUD at Bristol and teams have trouble hearing each other's radio communications anyway- so I thought that this might be an issue. I was wrong.
Tony started the race by thanking the team for busting butt to make all the changes they made on the race car (uh-oh said my gut that means that the car WAS crap out of the box and what they had was probably hit-or-miss). He also told his spotter to reign him in if he felt Tony was getting easily frustrated. I wonder how one reigns in their own boss? (Spotter's jobs fascinate me but that is a story for a different day). It also didn't sound to me like they were having any issue hearing each other during the race from what I could tell from the Hot Pass.
I will say this though…yes this is Tony's third crew chief in however many years he's been doing this in NASCAR but it means it's my third crew chief too…and it was different listening to Steve Addington on the radio. Thanks to my lack of Sprint Cup Mobile on my phone now, this was my first time really listening to their radio communications and my ears (and brain) were use to Darian's voice and now I have to get use to Steve Addington's voice. I do like the way he calls Tony into and out of the pit box though…it reminds me more of Zipadelli.
My favorite part of the race was seeing Tony battle Brad Keselowski to stay on the lead lap. It was an epic battle and you could tell that Tony was driving his ass off to keep Keselowski behind him. He eventually succumbed to Bad Brad but thankfully a caution soon after gained Tony a "Lucky Dog" and he got back on the lead lap. Between attrition and a better handling car Tony had worked his way up to 9th and was battling for 8th. Tony ended up getting hit by Brendan Gaughan in the #33 and damaging the rear of his car fairly severely.
Another favorite part of the race (thanks to Hot Pass) was this gem between Tony and his spotter Bob Jeffrey (@eyeinthesky14):
Tony: WHO THE F@(K JUST HIT ME?
Bob: Gaughan
Tony: WHO?!?
My second favorite thing was MY witty tweet after Tony got wrecked…that no one seemed to catch:
Ok so I spelled Gaughan wrong but it was STILL damn funny if I don't say so myself. Seriously people- I am not usually this witty so soak it up while you can.
Anyway, as my tweet above mentions, Tony ended up having to take two pitstops under the caution to fix damage on the car and was able to not only stay on the lead lap BUT finish a fairly respectable 14th (he would have been 15th but Junior cut a tire on the last lap…perhaps karma was paying him back for cutting Jeff Gordon's tire early in the race). Tony is currently 7th in the points standings.
- I really HATE knowing that the drivers are getting introduced to a song of their choosing and introducing themselves and we don't get to see it happening on the TV. In case you are wondering- Tony Stewart picked a different song this time. One of my favorite Toby Keith songs actually- How Do Yo Like Me Now? so YEY Tony for picking something non-Kid Rockish. Other songs of note: Brian Vickers- Back In The Saddle Again by Aerosmith (so fitting don't you think?), Jimmie Johnson- Jimi Thing by Dave Matthews Band, Jeff Gordon- Theme to Flash Gordon by Queen, Kevin Harvick- Save Water, Drink Beer by Chris Young, and Dale Jr picked my second favorite Pantera song by choosing Walk.
- The "shit for luck" up there in the title is NOT something I called the race- that was taking words out of Tony's mouth. He said on his radio after the race something to the effect of that he was pleased with their performance at Bristol despite having "shit for luck".
Gratuitous Tony Stewart Picture:
Next race: AUTOCLUB in CALI…and yes I WILL BE THERE.
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Launched: June 11, 2012
Concludes: July 9, 2012
Current Funding: $277,213 of $500,000 goal
Kickstarter Link
Well-known cyberpunk author Neal Stephenson might not seem like the most likely candidate to seek funding for a video game on Kickstarter. Still, the Snow Crash scribe and self-described "swordsmanship geek" is using the crowdfunding service to fix what he sees as the wholly unsatisfying portrayals of swordfights in existing video games.
"It's not a sword game if you have to pull a trigger or push a button to swing your sword," Stephenson says somewhat angrily in the video introduction for the project. That's why Clang will use a "low-latency, high-precision motion controller" to let players simulate everything from feints and parries to grappling and pommel strikes. While the specific controller hasn't been discussed, the current plan is to use a "commercial, third-party, off-the-shelf controller that anyone can buy today," which has us wondering whether such a controller can really be accurate enough for what Stephenson is envisioning.
The $500,000 Stephenson is seeking will go toward hiring a small army of artists, animators, and expert swordsmen to make the game as realistic as possible—"it takes a lot of people to make a sword game that doesn't suck," he notes. The team's initial goal is to develop a prototype focused on one-on-one multiplayer duels with the two-handed longsword (which Stephenson calls the "queen of weapons"). Longer term, the plan is to expand that into a fully featured adventure, based around a fantasy world that is currently being built in books published under Amazon.com's 47 North publishing label. Stephenson's pitch also focuses on expandability, and making the game "in such a way that other people can use our tools to improve on what we've done."
A $25 pledge will earn you a download of the game, which is due to be complete in February 2013, while donating $10,000 will get you a real steel longsword and a studio tour with the team.
Alpha Colony: A Tribute to M.U.L.E.
Launched: June 14, 2012
Concludes: July 15, 2012
Current Funding: $6,151 of $500,000 goal
Kickstarter Link
M.U.L.E. might be one of the most influential computer games of all time. The 1983 game's combination of strategy elements and economic simulation with intuitive hot-seat multiplayer can be seen in everything from Civilization to Maxis' simulation games. In fact, Will Wright actually dedicated The Sims to M.U.L.E. creator Dani Bunten, who passed away in 1998 while working on an updated, Internet-compatible version of the game.
That sadly aborted effort can now continue thanks to a new Kickstarter project that aims to capture the gameplay and feel of M.U.L.E. while updating the experience for a new generation that has probably never heard of the original game. Creative Director Christopher Williamson went so far as to contact Bunten's daughter to get access to some "secret designs" the developer was working on before her death.
Just like the original game, Alpha Colony will be about mastering supply and demand as you race to colonize a planet using a robotic Multiple Use Labor Element. While the updated game will attempt to hew as close to possible as the source material, the team says it has been influenced by elements of modern games like Settlers of Catan and Words with Friends. And of course the presentation is being updated, with the blocky M.U.L.E. graphics of the early '80s replaced by full 3D models, complete with facial expressions and personality traits.
The core game is available for a $10 contribution on iOS and a $15 contribution for PC/Mac, but those that donate at least $25 to the Kickstarter effort will also receive a copy of M.U.L.E. Returns, a more direct port of the original game for iOS devices. Higher contribution levels come with rewards including early access to the beta edition and development forums, physical boxed editions, and more.
Word Realms
Launched: May 15, 2012
Concludes: June 21, 2012
Current Funding: $89,892 of $100,000 goal
Kickstarter Link
The world at large might not be clamoring for more games in the style of Popcap's Bookworm Adventures, but I know I am. That's why I was so excited to hear about the Kickstarter for Word Realms, another game in the much-too-small genre of role-playing-games-based-on-building-words-from-a-limited-set-of-letter-tiles-to-create-attacks.
Word Realms comes from the creators of the tongue-in-cheek, lo-fi, Web-based MMO Kingdom of Loathing, and it seems intent on capturing that game's irreverent, twisted sense of humor. What started as a six-month side-project squeezed in alongside constant KoL updates has now developed into a four-year labor, as the game's scope expanded to include more minigames, storylines, and polish.
That single-player version is almost ready to go, and a pledge of at least $11 will get you access to it before the general public. But the creators say they're also using Kickstarter to prove there's enough interest in the concept to justify the work it would take to convert the game into a full-fledged MMO. If they surpass their funding goals by a good margin, they've promised an iPad conversion and unspecified Easter Eggs as well.
$11 gets you the game, but donating hundreds of dollars lets you design NPCs in the game, while a contribution of $3,737 or more gets you a trip to Arizona to meet the creators and hang out playing board games for a while.


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A woman in Orange was arrested for disorderly conduct Saturday, March 16, after using profanity at the Pilot gas station at 2205 Hwy. 62.
According to a report from the Orange Police Department, police received a call at approximately 3:20 a.m. Saturday regarding a disturbance at the Pilot station. OPD Officer James Davis reported several subjects were involved in a verbal altercation. According to his account, he made contact with 34-year-old Orange resident Spirit Lea Johnson who was involved in the disturbance. Davis reported Johnson was "irritated and very uncooperative" when he spoke to her. He went on to report that the woman was using language he described as "vulgar, profane and indecent...that by it's very utterance tended to incite and immediate breach of peace" that could be heard by patrons of the business.
Johnson was arrested for Class C disorderly conduct and taken to the Orange County Jail.
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The woes keep on coming.
CerebusChrysler DaimlerChrysler is recalling 2007 Jeep Wranglers and Dodge Nitros because an electrical glitch could cause the vehicle to stall. True, both of these vehicles share the family 3.7-liter V6, but the Liberty remains unaffected because it uses an older, glitch-free ECM. While a recall of 80,000 vehicles is just large enough to merit coverage, we're mostly posting this because of the following:
The automaker said the power interruption could lead to a short engine stall, but said the engine would immediately restart if the vehicle was in motion.
Sounds like a fuel-saving feature to us.
Chrysler recalls Wranglers, Nitros over engine [msnbc.com]
Jalopnik Reviews: 2007 Dodge Nitro R/T 2WD, Part 1; VW to Recall 790,000 Cars. Oof.; SEMA 2007: Jeep Wrangler JT Concept [Internal]


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As long as she can remember, Michelle has had a strange fascination with anything supernatural and sci-fi. After discovering historical romance novels, it was only natural that the supernatural and love/romance elements should someday meet in her wonderland of a brain. She's glad they did for their children have been pouring onto the computer screen ever since.
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As part of the speaker series, Maria Honig gave a talk at 091labs in October. Here are the videos for anyone who missed it!
Sailing away from Cape Town's shores on September 2008, Maria Honig, a marine biologist and avid seabird lover, dreamt of observing albatrosses in the Scotia Seas. Hitchhiking to the Falklands, she crewed on expedition yachts to South Georgia, the Beagle Channel, Cape Horn and finally Antarctica. At 091labs in Galway in October, she shared her adventure stories!


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Lisanti is the author of five books on Sixties Cinema. His latest two releases are Glamour Girls in Sixties Hollywood and Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First
Wave, 1959-1969. Among his
interviewees are such Sixties cult movie actors as Carol Lynley, Pamela Tiffin,
Aron Kincaid, Francine York, Jody McCrea, Lana Wood, Diane McBain, Chris Noel
and Peter Brown. Tom credits his fascination with film to frequent family
outings to the drive-in and ABC-TV's 4:30 Movie, which introduced him to the
groovy world of beach movies, biker flicks, Elvis musicals and spy spoofs. He has done readings and book signings at
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The legendary star of hundreds of films is one of the most respected and honoured
actors in today's film industry. With a career spanning half a century, Mr.
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Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy; George Lucas' new Star Wars trilogy
and films for Tim Burton such as Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory. Mr. Lee and his good friend Peter Cushing established cinematic history
with their numerous co-starring roles in the Hammer horror films. Mr. Lee's
interpretation of Dracula remains one of the signature achievements in the horror
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virtually every type of film and for many legendary directors. He will be relating
the stories behind the making of some of many of his films in columns he will
regularly contribute to Cinema Retro. In June 2009, Christopher Lee became known officially as Sir Christopher Lee, following the knighthood appointed him by Queen Elizabeth. The entire staff is honoured to share
our masthead with this living legend.
For the latest on Mr. Lee's activities, visit his official web site at - http://www.christopherleeweb.com/
Raymond Benson is the author of the James
Bond novels The Man With the Red Tattoo, Never Dream of Dying, DoubleShot, High Time To Kill, The Facts
of Death, and Zero Minus Ten, as well as the novelizations of the films Die Another Day, The World is
Not Enough, and Tomorrow Never Dies. His Bond short stories have been published in Playboy and TV Guide
magazines. He is also the author of the suspense novels, Face Blind and Evil Hours, and the non-fiction
books The Pocket Essentials Guide to Jethro Tull and The James Bond Bedside Companion (the latter was
nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Biographical/Critical Work in 1984). Raymond also has
extensive experience directing stage plays, composing music, and designing and writing adventure
computer games. He currently teaches Film Studies at William R. Harper College in Palantine, Illinois.
He is married, has one son, and is based in the Chicago area. www.raymondbenson.com
Caroline made her first impression on the public by being proclaimed "Face
of the Year" by Britain's 'The Evening News'. At the tender age of sixteen,
she embarked on a recording career and has worked with such legendary musicians
as Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Adam Ant. Her appearance on a calendar for
Lamb's Navy Rum caused a sensation in Britain and helped ensure the success
of her budding film career. Over the years, she has risen to the top ranks of
'glamour girls' of the British cinema with an active fan club and numerous web
sites devoted to her career. Her films include Dracula 72 A.D., The Golden Voyage
of Sinbad', At The Earth's Core', Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, The Dr.Phibes
films and the 1977 James Bond blockbuster The Spy Who Loved Me. She has co-starred
with such acting giants as Christopher Lee, Richard Widmark, Peter Cushing,
Vincent Price and Roger Moore. Caroline will relive the making of her films
- both the classics and a few she would prefer to forget - in her regular column
for Cinema retro.
Lee is the author/co-author of numerous books about the cinema including The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies 1915-1969, The Great Fox War Movies,
The Essential James Bond, The Films of Clint Eastwood, The Films of Harrison
Ford, The John Wayne Scrapbook, The Ultimate Clint Eastwood Trivia Book, True
Grits, The Films of Tom Hanks, The Incredible World of OO7 and The Official
Andy Griffith Scrapbook. He has discussed the cinema on countless TV and radio
programmes, including 'The Howard Stern Show', 'Geraldo Rivera' and the popular
British show 'Good Morning'. He also co-produced the acclaimed documentaries
The Making of Goldfinger, The Making of Thunderball and the Inside Dr. Stranglelove
for DVD release, as well as the audio commentary track with director Sidney
Lumet for The Verdict. He also created and hosts the acclaimed 'Let's Bond in
Britain' tours of James Bond film locations, has been employed as a consultant
for both Christie's, and the official James Bond conventions in America. In addition to teaching classic film courses at NYU, Lee also holds film events at New York's legendary club for the arts, The Players. He resides in New Jersey, where he enthusiastically ignores making household repairs
so he can indulge in his passion for classic movies.
Jon Heitland is the author of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Book: The Behind the Scenes Story of a
Television Classic (St Martin's Press). An Iowa-based attorney who specializes in worker's compensation,
Jon is also a screenwriter and documentary producer. He is presently preparing a major documentary about
the history of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
DAVE WORRALL, a lifelong student of the international cinema, has appeared (and worked
on) numerous TV and radio programmes for Home Box Office, BBC, Fox Television,
Carlton TV, The History Channel, ITV and Thames Television (with Jonathan Ross).
He has also been employed by; Corgi Toys, Eon Productions (the Bond film makers),
The National Motor Museum, MGM/UA Home Video and Vodaphone, for his vast knowledge
of the OO7 phenomenon. He is the publisher and author of The Most Famous Car
in the World: the Complete History of the James Bond Aston Martin DB5, The James
Bond Die-casts of Corgi, and co-author (with Lee Pfeiffer) of The Essential
James Bond (for Macmillan), an official reference guide to the series that has
sold over 250,000 copies to date. Dave is also the publisher of 'The James Bond
Collector's Club' magazine, co-published (and designed) the book James Bond's
London, and worked as UK Field Producer on the James Bond DVD documentary films
currently on sale around the world. An aficionado of the films of Clint Eastwood,
Sergio Leone and Hammer Horror, Dave resides on the edge of The New Forest where
he takes a fiendish delight in having turned a childhood obsession for films
into a career. He recently co-authored The Great Fox War Movies with his Cinema
Retro co-founder Lee Pfeiffer. Click on 'history' at www.bondbooks.biz
for further information.
Gareth Owen graduated from the University of Wales in 1994 with an honours
degree in Applied Physics and Electronics…. And then joined the film industry!
Since '94 he has run his own production company, and now heads Sir Roger Moore's
office based at the world-famous Pinewood Studios in England. Gareth has also
written five books, and contributes to periodicals such as British Film &
TV Production Magazine, British Cinematographer, Hotdog, and other film-related
publications. Since 2001 he has served as CEO for The Lunch Club - the media
industry networking organisation - is a founder member of the UK Association
of Celebrity Assistants, a Member of BAFTA, and sits on the fundraising committee
of the Cinema And Television Benevolent Fund.
Matthew Field is an author and journalist. He has gained wide experience from
interviewing a variety of stars and film related personnel, including Donald
Sutherland, Mark Whalberg and Sir Michael Caine for his first book The Making
of The Italian Job. Matthew was also the author and director of special features
for the Paramount DVD release of The Italian Job and Zulu and is currently writing
The Man Who Came To Play the authorized biography of Academy Award Winning film
producer, Michael Deeley. His second book, Michael Caine: You're A Big Man was
published in October 2003. Matthew's recent work has also been published in
Esquire magazine, Hotdog, DVD Review, MiniWorld and The Sunday Express. While
studying for a BA HONS degree in 'Screenwriting for Film and Television', at
Bournemouth University, Matthew keeps busy as a director of Livonia Productions
Ltd. based near his home in Dorset.
Tim began his love affair with cinema (and James Bond in particular) after
seeing DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER in 1971. A decade later he was publishing his own
regular 007 journals and went on to write extensively for the publications of
the James Bond International Fan Club & Archive. Diversifying over the years,
his interviews and articles - which bear a keen slant towards exploitation and
horror cinema of the 1960s and 1970s - have appeared in magazines around the
globe, among them "Little Shoppe of Horrors", "Bizarre", "Uncut", "Draculina",
"Samhain", "Divinity" and "Femme Fatales" (on which he served a term as British
Correspondent). During the 1990s Tim self-financed a number of now out of print
but eagerly sought-after publications dedicated to some of his favourite actresses
from exploitation cinema. His most recent self-publication, "The Bond Women:
007 Style" (an extensive reference work detailing over 250 actresses who worked
on the James Bond film series) appeared in 2002, leading to an invite to assume
the role of Editorial Consultant on John Cork and Maryam d'Abo's recent 007
volume "Bond Girls Are Forever". Other noteworthy publications Tim has contributed
to significantly include "Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the 1970s"
and "Flesh and Blood", and he wrote numerous reviews for "DVD Delirium" Volumes
1 and 2. His first novel, "Vampyres", based on - what else? - a 1970s horror
film of the same name, was published in 2001. The novel's enthusiastic reception
engendered a commission from the film's producer and director (Brian Smedley-Aston
and José Larraz respectively) to pen the screenplay for a belated sequel. Recently
completed, it's anticipated that the film will go into production during 2004.
Tim is now looking forward to bringing to the pages of "Cinema Retro" his passion
and expansive knowledge of films (and the actresses who decorated them) from
the 60s through the 70s.
Designer, writer and producer. By trade, Jaz Wiseman is a graphic designer
who has worked for a variety of film companies including Columbia, Sony, and
Warner Brothers. Since 1991 he has been designing and editing his own publication,
The Morning After; a magazine devoted to Lew Grade's action/adventure series
The Persuaders! starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. Renowned for his knowledge
of the ITC action/adventure series he was approached by Carlton in May 2000
to work as a DVD producer. During his 18-month period at the company, Jaz produced
such flagship titles as Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray, Space:1999
and The Prisoner (all of which were DVD box sets). He was also responsible for
a range of special editions of such classic Rank films as Brief Encounter, The
Red Shoes, The African Queen, Genevieve, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oliver
Twist and The 39 Steps. Early volumes of The Champions, Danger Man, The Persuaders!,
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and The Saint also came under his watchful eye.
Jaz acted as a consultant for French company TF1 for their DVD box set releases
of The Champions, Department S, The Persuaders!, The Prisoner, Space:1999 and
UFO. Currently he is moderating and producing commentaries and special features
for Australian DVD company Umbrella Entertainment Ltd, including Department
S, The Saint, The Prisoner, Minder, Man About The House, George and Mildred
and Return of The Saint. Jaz has interviewed and worked with many cast and crew
members from 1960s and 70s productions including Sir Roger Moore, Peter Wyngarde,
George Cole, Roy Ward Baker, Sue Lloyd, Verity Lambert, Robert S. Baker, Brian
Murphy, Sally Thomsett and Peter Bowles. As a director of Popco Jaz has many
future projects planned including the publication of Danger Man, The Definitive
Companion, which he is writing in collaboration with fellow Popco director Robert
As a writer/producer at HBO, Cerulli interviewed over 60 stars and filmmakers
including Sean Connery, Angelina Jolie, and Sidney Pollack; and co-created a
Cinemax series that interviewed over 50,000 movie fans across America. He has
also worked on the special features of eight DVDs including Halloween, and was
the producer of the Goldfinger and Thunderball documentaries for TWINE Entertainment
with Lee Pfeiffer.
Robert Fairclough is a writer, researcher and graphic designer with a life-long
interest in popular culture of all kinds. As an interviewer, he has talked to
everyone from prolific film and television composer Barrington Pheloung to The
Stranglers' drummer Jet Black. He was part of the team behind the independently
published 1998 book Fags, Slags, Blags and Jags: The Sweeney, which due to popular
demand was reissued by Reynolds and Hearn in October 2002 as Sweeney! The Official
Companion, co-written with Mike Kenwood. Staying with the grainy 1970s London
of Inspector Regan and Sergeant Carter, he was a consultant on the soundtrack
album Shut It! The Music of The Sweeney (Sanctuary Records/Cinephile, 2001).
He is also the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling The Prisoner:
The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series (Carlton Books, April 2002).
He is currently working on that book's prequel Danger Man: The Official Companion
to the Classic TV Series with Jaz Wiseman. He has been adviser to BBC Radio
4's documentary series Britain in a Box and is consultant editor and writer
on the DeAgostini partworks Inspector Morse: The Complete Collection, The Prisoner:
The Official Fact Files and A Touch of Frost: The Complete Collection. The Inspector
Morse title has won two awards so far in 2004: the ACE award for Launch of the
Year 2003 and the British Video Association award for Innovation in Industry
2003. With Jaz Wiseman and Mike Kenwood, he is one of the directors of the cooperative
Popco (www.pop-co.com) who specialise in classic film, TV and music and provide
a variety of services to clients, including DVD commentaries, documentary making
and graphic design.
Born in 1967 in Sindelfingen/Germany. Mike has been
a film-buff since he can remember, and co-organized (from 1977-1984) the program booking and advertising
at his local cinema. A keen collector of movie-memorabilia since 1978, he has one of the largest photo
and poster archives in Europe. Mike's first introduction to the world of film-making came through
getting jobs on the sets of his former neighbour Roland Emmerich's first four Science-Fiction movies. In
1992 Mike moved to Munich, where he studied film-making and made his first documentaries. In 1997,
Siegel met filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, who encouraged him to make his $10,000 feature film debut
ROADRUNNER. Like Rodriguez, Mike does all the various jobs himself: production, direction, writing,
photography and editing. In 2000 he co-organized a Sam Peckinpah festival in Padua, Italy. It included
the most complete retrospective to date and an exhibition on the director's life and films. Guest stars
like James Coburn, Ali MacGraw, R.G.Armstrong and David Warner attended and agreed to participate in a
feature length documentary on the director's life. PASSION & POETRY - THE JOURNEY OF SAM PECKINPAH
(release date: Winter 2004) started shooting in December 2002 in Mexico, and has since seen filming in
Los Angeles, London & Berlin. Among the participants are Ernest Borgnine, Kris Kristofferson,
L.Q.Jones, Bo Hopkins, Senta Berger and Peckinpah family-members. In December 2003 Mike's photo-book on
Peckinpah was published in Germany. Called PASSION & POETRY - SAM PECKINPAH IN PICTURES, it can be
purchased by visiting his web site - www.eldorado-film.de
Born in 1964, and currently working for the BBC at Television Centre in London,
Darren's knowledge of the works of John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone
is unquestionable, with his archive of movie soundtrack scores containing over
2000 titles. An avid collector of Clint Eastwood memorabilia for some twenty-five
years, Darren was credited on (and created the title for) the A&E television
biography of Clint Eastwood's 'Gut Instinct' in 2003. During the same year he
was credited on FSM's restored CD release of Ron Goodwin's Where Eagles Dare
(for providing illustrative material) and was granted some well-earned time
with Mr. Eastwood after attending the UK premiere of Mystic River and television
interview on the BBC show Parkinson. Apart from his passion for film music and
the career of Clint Eastwood, Darren is also a keen fan of classic horror films,
which has led to several of his articles being published in fan based magazines
Gary Giblin is a writer and film historian who specializes in James Bond and
Alfred Hitchcock. His first book was James Bond's London, an acclaimed reference
guide to British locations associated with the literary and cinematic Bond,
as well as author Ian Fleming. His second book, Alfred Hitchcock's London (forthcoming),
is a travel reference guide to the birthplace - and frequent filming locale
- of the great director. Gary is also editor and chief writer for the Secret
Intelligence website, and regularly contributes articles and reviews to The
MacGuffin, the Hitchcock scholar's website. He has served as a consultant to
MGM on the James Bond legend and has appeared on the History Channel's program
'The Secrets of Spying'. He and his wife Lisa, a Spanish teacher, live with
their two cats in Indiana.
Having been writing for almost twenty years, Martin's work has been published
in an array of magazines including Impact, Action TV, Science Fiction And Fantasy
Modeller and Toy Shop. During this time Martin has interviewed close to fifty
leading genre personalities, amongst them animation legend Ray Harryhausen,
'Thunderbirds' co-creator Sylvia Anderson, 'Batman' star Adam West, 'Avengers'
girl Linda Thorson and Oscar-winning special effects supervisor Brian Johnson.
Having lived in London for some forty years, Martin has written authoritative
articles covering such varied topics as the ITC action programmes, the career
of Derek Meddings, the production of the 'Batman' television series and the
popular hobby of collecting TV/Film memorabilia. In his capacity as a researcher,
Martin has supplied text and imagery for a number of DVD projects including
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Green Hornet, along with a plethora of Gerry
Anderson titles including Thunderbirds, Stingray, UFO Space 1999.
A film collector of forty years and specialising in the films of John Wayne,
Charlton Heston and poster artists Reynold Brown, Frank McCarthy, Howerd Terpning,
Jean Mascii and Casaro, Roger has contributed material to various publications
including Lee Pfeiffer's John Wayne Scrapbook and an upcoming book on Reynold
Brown. Roger's vast knowledge and archive of material has also been a source
for poster art and stills for CD cover art and booklets by Film Score Monthly
and SAE. During his career as a teacher, Roger produced a booklet for educational
purposes on using film to teach Nat. Curriculum History in secondary schools.
Many of Roger's posters are on display at the John Ford Museum at Goulding's
Lodge in Monument Valley, Utah where the master director filmed some of his
greatest movies.
film crossword.
Robert Sellers is a failed actor and doing his level best to fail as a writer,
too. Specialising in cinema, he periodically writes for Empire, Total Film and
Hot Dog. And if you're reasonably famous and snuff it, he might have a few good
things to say about you as well, seeing he's one of the obituary writers on
the Independent. He is the author too of biographies on Sean Connery, Tom Cruise
and Harrison Ford. This summer sees the paperback edition of his acclaimed book
on George Harrison/Monty Python's HandMade Films, entitled Very Naughty Boys.
And unless a very large ransom is paid into a certain Swiss bank account, more
books are threatened, including a tome on the cult TV shows of ITC: Super Spies
and Sexy Thighs. He is also pleased to be writing the authorised biography of
stunt man and action director Vic Armstrong.
Stephen is the author of more than 30 books, including The Beatles Book of
Lists; She Came In Through the Kitchen Window: Recipes Inspired by The Beatles
and their Music, and, with Michael Lewis, Here, There and Everywhere: The 100
Best Beatles Songs. He is also the author of The New York Times best-seller,
JFK Jr.; The Essential Stephen King; The Italian 100; The Weird 100; The Woody
Allen Companion; The Official 'Gone With The Wind' Companion; The Robin Williams
Scrapbook; The Hollywood Book of Lists, and the novel, The Euthanasia Dialogues.
He and Michael Lewis also co-authored the screenplay, Pilgrim's Landing, a fantasy
about John Lennon. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Pam, and their cat,
Carter. His favourite movie is Woody Allen's Manhattan, with Goodfellas running
a close second.
Michael is the author/co-author of seven books, including The Films of Harrison
Ford; The Films of Tom Hanks; True Grits: Recipes Inspired by John Wayne and
His Movies, and The Cheapskate's Guide to Walt Disney World. He works as an
editor for a major publishing company, focusing on popular culture, New Age,
health, and contemporary history titles. He co-authored Here, There and Everywhere
and the screenplay Pilgrim's Landing with Stephen Spignesi. He lives in New
Jersey with his wife Amy and their two daughters. His favourite movie is Indiana
Jones and the Last Crusade, but Jaws, The Natural, and Saving Private Ryan are
right up there.
Bill is a well-known scholar of classic films who specializes in projection
techniques and restoration processes. He has participated in the making of documentaries
about classic films for home video release, most notably "The Making of
Goldfinger", "The Making of Thunderball" and "Inside Dr.
Strangelove". He has also been a driving force in showing classic films
at theatres in the New York metropolitan area. His love of the cinema has led
to an achievement that most film fans would envy: he has a custom-built, soundproof
theatre system in his home that shows both 35mm and 16mm formats. Bill will
be contributing articles to Cinema Retro that involve the technical aspects
of film restoration and projection.
Writer and producer. Jerome Wybon has written articles about DVD and movies
for the French magazines Starfix and DVDVision, and worked in production on
various shows devoted to Television series and movies for the French TV Channels,
Canal Jimmy and Cine-Cinema, before becoming a producer of DVD documentaries.
Jerome has arranged and interviewed (for audio commentaries) French Directors
Alain Corneau, Patrice Leconte, Gerard Oury, Bertrand Blier, Philippe De Broca,
Jacques Deray, Philippe Labro and worked on 'The Making of the Fantomas Trilogy'
(made during the 60s) for Gaumont. Jerome was also a consultant for TF1 Video
for their DVD box set releases of The Champions, Department S, Thunderbirds,
The Prisoner, The Saint, The Persuaders!, Space:1999, UFO and the upcoming release
of Danger Man next year. He won a Prize at the 2003 Making of Festival of Toulouse
(France) for his documentary about the Making of Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke
for Buena Vista France. He is currently working on a documentary about film
composer Jo Hisaishi for the upcoming Special Edition DVD of Spirited Away,
for Buena Vista France and just finished the research for the upcoming DVD release
of The New Avengers in France (through Studio Canal Video) where he discovered
some rare screen-tests of Gareth Hunt and Joanna Lumley, and behind the scenes
footage of the series with Patrick MacNee. He is also at work on special Editions
DVD of Jack Clayton's The Innocents, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise,
Samuel Bronston's El Cid, Fall of the Roman Empire, 55 Days of Peking, Circus
World, for the French company, Opening Edition.
A broadcaster and award-winning journalist, Tony Earnshaw is the author of
An Actor, and a Rare One - Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes (Scarecrow Press),
which won the 'Special Sherlock Award' from Sherlock magazine in 2002, and Beating
the Devil - The Making of Night of the Demon (NMPFT/Tomahawk Press), published
this summer. Other projects on the boil include The Wicker Man - The Making
and Mutilation of a British Film Classic, for Tomahawk, The Films of Richard
Burton, and a Peter Cushing biography. A cinema specialist for twenty years
he has contributed to an array of British and Stateside mags including Film
Review, Starburst, Scarlet Street, Star Wars: The Official Magazine, Flicks,
Impact and the late, lamented Hammer Horror. He has been resident film critic
with the Yorkshire Post since 1995. As director of the annual Bradford Film
Festival and Head of Film Programming at the National Museum of Photography,
Film & Television he has interviewed many of the key figures in the history
of British film including Michael Deeley, Ken Annakin, Roy Ward Baker, Richard
Todd, Mike Hodges, Jenny Agutter and Jack Cardiff. He has produced three documentaries
for the NMPFT featuring interviews with Jean Simmons, Richard Attenborough and
Mike Hodges, as well as the short Leatherface Speaks - An Informal Interview
with Gunnar Hansen. For the NMPFT he wrote monographs on Jack Cardiff and the
Indian star Om Puri. Tony has guested on a string of BBC radio programmes including
Back Row and Brief Lives, and was among the observers who appeared on The 100
Greatest War Films and The Ultimate Sci-Fi Top Ten: Robots. His many interests
include Sam Peckinpah, Richard Burton, Hammer films and the cinema of George
A. Romero, and images and interviews from his personal archive have appeared
in publications as diverse as The Hammer Story and Hong Kong Action Cinema.
Tony resides in darkest Yorkshire with his beautiful wife, Danni, and a slinky
black cat called Mars Bar.
STEVE SARAGOSSI, M.A., is a London born film historian and journalist who's work as a
"keeper of the flame" – making sure older movies don't disappear from the
public consciousness – has earned him fans of forgotten movies the world over.
He was delighted to find out he wasn't the only person in the world to get
excited when Crack in the World gets
a TV airing. Steve's particular field of
interest is film music and he has amassed one of the most comprehensive
collections of soundtracks on vinyl. He particularly is a fan of the Silver
Age, that period that encompasses the early 60s to the early 70s, and is proud
of the fact that he has had a chance to meet some of his idols of the era, such
as John Barry, Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, John Williams and Jerry
Goldsmith. Currently living in sunny
Brisbane, Australia, he is studying for his PhD and researching the history of
censorship in cinema and its wider cultural impacts. He is also in the process
of writing a book on the films of Norman Jewison. His list of favourite movies
changes all the time, but if pushed will always include The Lion in Winter, The
Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 version obviously), The Godfather, The Gambler, The Stunt Man,
and The Odd Couple – so no hope of
pigeon-holing then. Married with two boys, Steve hopes to one day fulfil his
wish of writing a cultural history of film music.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Dean Brierly currently resides in Studio City, California,
where he makes his living as a freelance writer, editor and photographer. His
obsessions include profiling maverick filmmakers, collecting film stills, drinking
sake, photographing urban wastelands, exploring exotic locales and procrastinating.
His reading habits are hard-boiled and his viewing habits are non-CGI. Brierly's
favourite film decade is 1964-1974 and his favourite films are the ones nobody's
heard of. He has written about Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Mann, Jean-Pierre Melville,
Robert Siodmak, Don Siegel, Michael Winner, David Carradine, Alain Delon, Oliver
Reed, Frank Sinatra, Fred Williamson, Hollywood's toughest character actors,
cult TV, that Bond fellow, and much more for: Cinema Retro, Filmfax, Outré,
Far Out, Drill, Sky and Men's Fitness. He has also contributed to: Camera &
Darkroom, PhotoWork, Photovision, Photo Metro, The Nude and the Contemporary
Photographer, S Affiliated Books, Mosaic Records, Crosscheck Records and Hustler.
He can be contacted at dbrierly @ ispwest.com. A website devoted to his fine
art photography is at http://www.deanbrierly.com.
Our man in OZ, Christian is a 30-something copywriter and corporate marketing
gringo. He's been a film reviewer for numerous papers and dot.coms and he's
studied photography, advertising, and professional screenwriting & editing.
New films pretty much all look the same to him - that's why he's here. When
he's not hunting down the forgotten classics of the 60s and 70s he's writing
screenplays and hawking them about town - though exactly 'which' town is still
a mystery to all, including himself. He's also in the process of building the
definitive Peckinpah web site, http://www.bloodysam.com
. Look out for his regular column: A Dollar Too Short and a Day Too Late - Minor
Masterpieces Mostly Missed.
A living legend among his peers, Vic Armstrong made his debut as a stuntman
and quickly gained a reputation not only for his stunt abilities but also for
his creative vision as well. The multi-talented veteran of almost 40 years in
show business has become a respected Stunt Coordinator and Second Unit Director,
working with top names such as Spielberg, Scorsese and Lucas. His credits include
the James Bond movies, the entire Indiana Jones trilogy, Gangs of New York,
and most recently War of the Worlds. Vic is currently working on Mission Impossible:
3 with Tom Cruise.
Appearing as a femme fatale in
popular films of the 1970s, Maddy has a treasure trove of great stories about what it was like to be
young and na?ve in the dangerous waters of the motion picture industry. Maddy has the enviable
reputation of being an actress in three of the world's most famous series: James Bond, Carry On and the
Hammer Film Productions movies. That's why she's writing for us!
Tom has been a professional photographer since 1983, paying
his dues with many weddings, including a few of his own, as well as
other commercial photo interests. Tom's big break into Entertainment
Photography was in 1995, earning his Collectables Photographer Credit
for his work on Behind the Scenes with Goldfinger and Behind the
Scenes with Thunderball. Since then, Tom has taken his press card
abroad and covered the world premieres for "Tomorrow Never Dies" and
"The World is Not Enough". Additionally, Tom's press card has gained
him access to opportunities to get Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Al
Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Pierce Brosnan, Drew Barrymore and many other
"James Bond" alumni before his lens. In addition to the previously
mentioned documentaries, Tom's published book credits include:The
Davy Crockett Craze, The Essential Bond, The View From Here and Mr.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Additionally, Tom has seen his photos published
in the following magazines, Collecting 007, Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,
SMOKE Magazine, and of course, Cinema Retro. When not taking photos,
Tom is a member of The Players, NYC, and also a member-owner of The
Metropolitan Society, a private cigar club in Fairfield, NJ.
David Savage is a film journalist based in New York. Among other
publications, he was a frequent contributor to INDEX magazine (1996-2005), where he
profiled many of Hollywood's Unjustly Forgotten, as well as actors, directors and
artists just emerging into the public's eye. For reasons still not clear, even to
him, he has never seen a Samuel Fuller film.
JOHN EXSHAW is a freelance writer who is
currently working on a book about popular Italian cinema. His interviews with
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were collected in the book, 'Dracula:
Celebrating 100 Years'. He is a regular contributor to the obituaries page
of The Independent, and is the review columnist of Boxing Monthly
magazine. Co-writer of two award-winning screenplays, he is also an editorial
board member of, and contributor to, the on-line Irish Journal of Gothic and
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