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Candidate HIV Vaccine
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00089531
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 6, 2004
Last Update Posted : July 2, 2017
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This study will evaluate whether an experimental vaccine intended to prevent HIV infection is safe and whether it causes any side effects. It will also examine whether the vaccine, called VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP, causes an immune response, and will monitor participants for the social impact of being in an HIV vaccine study. VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP contains synthetic DNA that codes for parts of four HIV proteins. It also contains a "promoter" piece of DNA that is needed to start protein production. The promoter DNA is also synthetic and is like the promoter in another virus called cytomegalovirus (CMV). The vaccine contains no live HIV virus or CMV and cannot cause either of these illnesses.
Healthy volunteers between 18 and 44 years old who are HIV-negative may be eligible for this 32-week study. Candidates are screened with a medical history, physical examination, and blood and urine tests.
Participants receive three injections of the experimental vaccine approximately 28 days apart. The injections are given with a system called the Biojector 2000 that delivers the vaccine through the skin into the muscle without the use of a needle. Subjects are observed for side effects for at least 30 minutes after each vaccination and are required to telephone the clinic staff 1 to 2 days after the injection to report how they are doing. In addition, they are given a diary card to take home, on which they record their temperature and any symptoms daily for five days.
Participants return to the clinic two weeks after each injection. They return the completed diary card and are checked for any health changes or problems since the last visit. They are asked how they are feeling and what medications, if any, they have taken. Blood and urine samples are collected. Some subjects may be asked to have laboratory tests between regular visits if needed to evaluate a change in health. Participants are also asked about any social effects they may have experienced as a result of their participation in the study.
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|Drug: VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP
|Phase 1
Study Design: This is a Phase I open label study to evaluate safety, tolerability, and immune response of a 6-plasmid multiclade HIV-1 DNA vaccine, VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP. The hypothesis is that this regimen will be safe for human administration and elicit immune responses to HIV-1 clade B Gag, Pol and Nef proteins, as well as clades A, B and C Env proteins. The primary objective is to evaluate the safety and tolerability in humans of the investigational vaccine and secondary objectives are to evaluate the immunogenicity of the vaccine as measured by intracellular cytokine staining (ICS) in the 4 weeks after the second or third dose of vaccine and the social impact of participating in an HIV-1 vaccine trial.
Product Description: VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP is composed of 6 closed, circular DNA plasmids that are each 16.67 percent (by weight) of the vaccine. Each of the 6 plasmids in this vaccine expresses a single gene product. Plasmids VRC 4401, VRC 4409 and VRC 4404 are designed to express clade B HIV-1 Gag, Pol and Nef, respectively. VRC 5736, VRC 5737, and VRC 5738 are designed to express HIV-1 Env glycoprotein from clade A, clade B, and clade C, respectively. Vaccine vials will be supplied at 4 mg/mL. Each DNA vaccination will be 1 mL of vaccine administered intramuscularly (in deltoid muscle) using the Biojector 2000 Needle-Free Injection Management System.
Subjects: Healthy adult volunteers (18 to 44 years old) will be enrolled.
Study Plan: Fifteen volunteers will be enrolled, as shown in the schema:
Name of Vaccine: VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP
Number of Subjects: 15
Vaccine Injection Schedule: (at least 21 days between injections)
Day 0: 4 mg
Day 28 plus or minus 7: 4 mg
Day 56 plus or minus 7: 4 mg
Study Duration: 32 weeks clinical follow-up for each participant.
Study Endpoints: The primary endpoint is safety of the regimen; secondary endpoints are
cellular immune responses as measured by ICS within the first 4 weeks after the second and
third doses and social impact at Week 32. Exploratory analyses will include HIV-specific
antibody assays, ICS or other immunological assays at intervals between Day 0 and Week 32.
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|15 participants
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of a 6-Plasmid Multiclade HIV-1 DNA Vaccine, VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP, in Uninfected Adult Volunteers
|Study Start Date :
|August 2, 2004
|Study Completion Date :
|January 15, 2008
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A participant must meet all of the following criteria:
18 to 44 years old.
Available for clinical follow-up through Week 32 of the study.
Able to provide proof of identity to the satisfaction of the study clinician completing the enrollment process.
Complete an Assessment of Understanding prior to enrollment and verbalize understanding of all questions answered incorrectly.
Able and willing to complete the informed consent process.
Willing to receive HIV test results and willing to abide by NIH guidelines for partner notification of positive HIV results.
Willing to donate blood for sample storage to be used for future research.
Willing to discuss HIV infection risks and amenable to risk reduction counseling.
In good general health without clinically significant medical history and has satisfactorily completed screening.
Physical examination and laboratory results without clinically significant findings within the 28 days prior to enrollment.
Laboratory Criteria within 28 days prior to enrollment:
Hemoglobin greater than or equal to 11.5 g/dL for women; greater than or equal to 13.5 g/dL for men.
WBC equal to 3,300-12,000 cells/mm(3).
Differential either within institutional normal range or accompanied by site physician approval.
Total lymphocyte count greater than or equal to 800 cells/mm(3).
Platelets equal 125,000 - 550,000/mm(3).
ALT (SGPT) less than or equal to 1.25 x upper limit of normal.
Serum creatinine less than or equal to upper limit of normal.
Normal urinalysis defined as negative glucose, negative or trace protein, and negative or trace hemoglobin (blood).
Negative FDA-approved HIV blood test.
Negative Hepatitis B surface antigen.
Negative anti-HCV.
Female Specific Criteria:
Negative beta-HCG pregnancy test (urine or serum) on day of enrollment for women presumed to be of reproductive potential.
A female participant must meet any of the following criteria:
No reproductive potential because of menopause (one year without menses) or because of a hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, or tubal ligation,
Participant agrees to be heterosexually inactive at least 21 days prior to enrollment and through Week 32 of the study,
Participant agrees to consistently practice contraception at least 21 days prior to enrollment and through Week 32 of the study by one of the following methods:
Condoms, male or female, with or without a spermicide;
Diaphragm or cervical cap with spermicide;
Intrauterine device;
Contraceptive pills or patch, Norplant, Depo-Provera or other FDA-approved contraceptive method;
Male partner has previously undergone a vasectomy for which there is documentation.
A volunteer will be excluded if one or more of the following conditions apply:
Woman who is breast-feeding or planning to become pregnant during the 32 weeks of study participation.
Volunteer has received any of the following substances:
HIV vaccines in a prior clinical trial;
Immunosuppressive medications or cytotoxic medications or inhaled corticosteroids within the past six months (with the exception of corticosteroid nasal spray for allergic rhinitis or topical corticosteroids for an acute uncomplicated dermatitis);
Blood products within 120 days prior to HIV screening;
Immunoglobulin within 60 days prior to HIV screening;
Investigational research agents within 30 days prior to initial study vaccine administration;
Live attenuated vaccines within 30 days prior to initial study vaccine administration.
Medically indicated subunit or killed vaccines, e.g. influenza, pneumococcal, or allergy treatment with antigen injections, within 14 days of study vaccine administration;
Current anti-TB prophylaxis or therapy.
Volunteer has a history of any of the following clinically significant conditions:
Serious adverse reactions to vaccines such as anaphylaxis, hives, respiratory difficulty, angioedema, or abdominal pain.
Autoimmune disease or immunodeficiency.
Asthma that is unstable or required emergent care, urgent care, hospitalization or intubation during the past two years or that requires the use of oral or intravenous corticosteroids.
Diabetes mellitus (type I or II), with the exception of gestational diabetes.
History of thyroidectomy or thyroid disease that required medication within the past 12 months.
Serious angioedema episodes within the previous 3 years or requiring medication in the previous two years.
Hypertension that is not well controlled by medication or is more than 150/100 at enrollment.
Bleeding disorder diagnosed by a doctor (e.g. factor deficiency, coagulopathy, or platelet disorder requiring special precautions) or significant bruising or bleeding difficulties with IM injections or blood draws.
Syphilis infection that is active or a positive serology due to a syphilis infection treated less than six months ago.
Malignancy that is active or treated malignancy for which there is not reasonable assurance of sustained cure or malignancy that is likely to recur during the period of the study.
Seizure disorder other than:
- febrile seizures under the age of two,
- seizures secondary to alcohol withdrawal more than 3 years ago, or
- a singular seizure not requiring treatment within the last 3 years.
Asplenia, functional asplenia or any condition resulting in the absence or removal of the spleen.
Psychiatric condition that precludes compliance with the protocol; past or present psychoses; past or present bipolar disorder requiring therapy that has not been well controlled on medication for the past two years; disorder requiring lithium; or suicidal ideation occurring within five years prior to enrollment.
Any medical, psychiatric, social condition, occupational reason or other responsibility that, in the judgment of the investigator, is a contraindication to protocol participation or impairs a volunteer's ability to give informed consent.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00089531
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|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
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|First Posted:
|August 6, 2004 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 2, 2017
|Last Verified:
|January 15, 2008
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100 Years of Fashion
36 comments:
- Roselie said...
I love this video too! My favorite decades are 1910 and 1980(rock).I also like the medieval asthetic.
- October 29, 2011 at 4:40 AM
- Roselie said...
I love this video too! My favorite decades are 1910 and 1980(rock).I also like the medieval asthetic.
- October 29, 2011 at 4:41 AM
- Gracey said...
I'm a pro-20s too! :) Parfait!
- October 29, 2011 at 6:34 AM
- Unknown said...
Loved the video, dearest Shawna!!! So amazing and well done!!
Be sure my Saturday is much more wonderful now!!!
How are you dear??
Much love on your way....
- October 29, 2011 at 6:52 AM
- Castles Crowns and Cottages said...
That was ONE PERFECT VIDEO!!!!!!! I would love to have been that dancer to not only dance, but to wear all those magnificent clothes! DEAREST! GOOD TO SEE YOU! How are you precious friend?
I love the 40s and early 50s. My AUDREY era!!!!!
Enjoy this magnificent fall day, Anita
- October 29, 2011 at 6:59 AM
- THE ALTERNATIVE WIFE said...
That's adorable!!! I think I'd like to live at least a day in all of them actually :)
Hope you're having a great weekend! xoxo
- October 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- Monique said...
I adore the 20s...can't get enough of those cloche hats
- October 29, 2011 at 10:52 PM
- Maria said...
Vintage fashion is my favorite. Sometimes, I even wonder whether I've been placed in the 21st century by mistake. I wish I was one of the girls in the picture!
(sorry I'm rambling)
Anyway, you blog is marvey and your pictures are great, just letting you know :)
Love, Maria
- October 29, 2011 at 11:02 PM
- Castles Crowns and Cottages said...
And it is always so nice to see you come by to visit sweet SUNSHINE!!! Oh dear one, I so know the feeling of being SO BUSY with the job that all the creativity time gets squeezed out. I had been feeling like this last week especially. But I was gently reminded by a colleague that we are all in the same STRESSFUL situation, that had really discouraged me. Teaching is WONDERFUL, but with budget cuts and more to do, it makes it a horrible experience at times. EVEN THE CREATIVITY of teaching has been squeezed to be very hard to reach. BUT somehow, I have found to at least sell some of my art that I already have...but I am now itching to create new ideas because my Etsy is starting to feel more comfortable. Last week, I FREAKED OUT because I was wondering how I would manage my busy school week with this new venture. But that is what weekends are for: TO FIGURE IT OUT and make it run smoother!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT; you are a constant friend and I so appreciate that. I SEND YOU MY WELL-WISHES and love and may you find a moment to enjoy what YOU LOVE!!! Anita
- October 30, 2011 at 2:39 AM
The video made me smile.
Darling, happy happy happy birthday!!! I hope you had a lovely one! I can't wait to see pictures!:)
Tell me more about the new job! I adore how good you are at accepting change. It's inspiring, and it makes me smile.
My week was very busy, but my weekend has been relatively slow. My mom is here. My heart is happy.
- October 30, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- cb said...
that was the cutest video! i loved it! i think i could watch that all day and then try and copy the dance! you find such a great videos!
- October 30, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Style, She Wrote said...
Beautiful post! Thanks for this walk through fashion history. xo style, she wrote
- October 30, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- stylenuggets said...
Nicely done video. And aren't we lucky to have so many decades to choose from?
- October 30, 2011 at 3:50 PM
- The Many Colours of Happiness said...
Darn, I can't watch the video at work :( But it sounds really interesting!
I would pick either the 50s or 20s. I used to be completely obsessed with 50s style, but the 20s has the solo charleston and flappers so now it's too hard to choose between them!
- October 30, 2011 at 9:58 PM
- Wida said...
It is so fun and clever!! It must've taken them forever to make it perfect!
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- October 31, 2011 at 12:37 AM
- Annie said...
all such fun eras for fashion! I always have pictured myself in the 50s :) Hope you had a fabulous weekend Shawna!!
p.s. Have you been to Chicago before? I really loved it! xo
- October 31, 2011 at 7:18 AM
- Annie said...
also, fun video :)
- October 31, 2011 at 7:20 AM
- Punctuation Mark said...
That is a great video for sure... have a great week!
- October 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- amy b.s. said...
that video is so cute.
- October 31, 2011 at 8:15 AM
- Martina said...
Interesting thought! I'd love the 20s,and 60s, but also, i love now - because of the freedom of what you can wear! Happy Halloween to you!
- October 31, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- erica said...
Love this post!!! Hope you are having a fabulous day!
- October 31, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- HOGGER & Co. said...
Fantastic video; I felt that a lot of it looked current hahaha - fashion, and it's cylces!
- October 31, 2011 at 11:00 AM
- Bonnie said...
It is so fun to look back over the history of fashion. There are so many changes to note!
Twitter: @GlamKitten88
- October 31, 2011 at 3:07 PM
- Gloria said...
Gorgeous!!! We are having a windy, blustery day here. I feel like I am inside Christopher Robin's world...with lovable ol' Pooh Bear. I hope your day is as lovely as all of these wonderful fashions pictured here!
blessings to you,
- November 1, 2011 at 1:59 PM
- About Last Weekend said...
Love the fashion of the fifties but would have been a tough time for women to get ahead I think...
- November 1, 2011 at 3:55 PM
- Punctuation Mark said...
i love that video!!! so cool!
- November 2, 2011 at 7:13 AM
- Madeleine Roberts said...
That video is so cute. Hmm my favorite decade for fashion? That is such a hard question. I love them all for different reasons but I guess I span between 50s and early 60s. I love that whole Mad Men style. But then to contradict myself I also love the late 60s and early 70s too.
- November 2, 2011 at 7:24 AM
- StephieB said...
I think I love the 20s. I love hats! Hugs and hope your week is "fashioning" itself into a good one!
Stephie x
- November 2, 2011 at 9:25 PM
- heather said...
i love that video! it is so much fun! goodness i'm happy to be able to watch video on my computer nowadays. it used to be soooo slow and impossible in patagonia. happy november to you, shawna!!
- November 2, 2011 at 10:31 PM
- HOGGER & Co. said...
That is such a fun video! Thank you for the comments on my new site - I didn't design the font - it's Goudy Bookletter - I love it!
- November 3, 2011 at 6:05 AM
- Gorgeous Glam said...
I love that 2nd pic! so me ;) I am in love with old Hllywood. The 20s 30's. That was def my kind of glamour dressing! Although we've got way better shoes these days! lol
- November 3, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- shopgirl said...
Thanks for your well wishes Shawna! I am feeling better but I think it's possible that I'm allergic to the humid and cold weather here. :-((
And this video is just SUPER AWESOME! Not only are the costume changes amazing, the different types of dancing through decades is just really cool!! Thanks for sharing this weetie!
Hope you have a great wekeend!
p.s. Love the new look!
- November 4, 2011 at 4:54 AM
- classiq said...
The 50s remain my favourite decade. I think style was synonym with fashion more than in any other period.
- November 6, 2011 at 11:04 PM
- simply_KC said...
Great Video! I'm sure it was fun to do as much as it is for us to watch.
I love those eras too up to the 60's. And I am actually working on my project with that same concept! :) Ah the nostalgia... I often wonder what it would've been like to live in those times.
♥ x0x0
- November 7, 2011 at 9:44 PM
- Unknown said...
These really are beautiful fashion decades, Ive always love the 50s, esp because of the movie Grease!! Love all of these photos though!
- November 7, 2011 at 10:00 PM
- georgia ~ gi gi said...
Oh Poppie Girl I am right there with you in each era!It just seemed so Glamourous back then!
That Video is super cool and fun!
Great Poppie Post!
Love you
gi gi
- November 8, 2011 at 1:24 PM

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Hanzal answered moments later, but New York wasn't deterred.
Tavares, the Islanders' new captain, notched his second with 5:11 left in the period, and McDonald made it 5-1 just 2:35 later.
NOTES: The Coyotes were without D Derek Morris, who missed the game because of an upper-body injury despite taking part in the morning skate. ... The Islanders again scratched RW Cal Clutterbuck, who is close to returning following a leg laceration sustained during the preseason. ... Phoenix is 0-2 on a five-game trip that has three Eastern stops remaining. ... Dating to last season, the Islanders had played six straight one-goal games -- including five shootouts. They went 2-1-3.


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New restaurants at JFK's Terminal 4
If you're flying out of JFK's Terminal 4, don't bother to eat before you leave the house. The Delta-anchored terminal, which underwent a complete renovation a few years ago, is now launching an ambitious new food program.
Among the new offerings are Shake Shack, the cult burger-custard stand (whose sole Long Island location is in Westbury); Blue Smoke, Danny Meyer's Manhattan barbecue mecca; La Brea Bakery, the artisan bakery-sandwicherie out of Los Angeles; and two restaurants created by Top Chef Masters champ Marcus Samuelsson, Uptown Brasserie and Street Food. All these and more join The Palm Bar & Grille steakhouse, which opened there in 2009.
Care for a more traditional pre-boarding repast? You'll also find Dunkin' Donuts, McDonald's and Buffalo Wild Wings.


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Today is Halloween, and I can't resist a post about my favorite writer of "alternate reality" short stories, Edgar Allan Poe, who has not always been taken as seriously as he should be. Sometimes dismissed, at best, as a creator of creepy potboilers, or at worst, as a drunk and a child molester, Poe has been sneered at by many critics, even as he has been hailed as an inspiration by many fiction writers.
Edgar Allan Poe was interested in all human experiences which challenged or undermined the easy assumption that everyday reality was the only reality worth attending to. Although some readers may think that this preference for alternate realms of experience was part of his psychological makeup, it is much more likely that it grew out of his acceptance of the German romantic tradition of short fiction as a vehicle for presenting experiences that break up the ordinary.
One of the most common such "alternate" experiences, of course, one that is accessible to every human being, is the experience of dream. However, Poe was not only interested in presenting dreams as if they were reality, he was also interested, as was typical of the Blackwood fiction of the day, in presenting experiences that were so extreme that they seemed to have the nightmarish quality of dream. To present dream as reality and reality as dream was, for Poe, to blur the lines between the two forms of experience. It was to give the human construct of a dream the hard feel of the external world and to give the seemingly hard contours of the external world a sense of being a human construct.
Two of Poe's best-known stories which blur this dream/reality distinction are "Descent into the Maelstrom" (May 1841) and "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842). Both present characters placed in an extreme situation; however, the situations differ in a crucial way. In the first the extreme situation is a natural phenomenon, in spite of the fact that by its extremity it seems unnatural. It is a favorite Poe technique to create the extreme situation by pushing the ordinary situation to extraordinary lengths, to suggest the supernatural by pushing the natural to extremes.
In the second story, the ontological status of the situation is ambiguous, for although the character knows physically where he is, he does not know psychically what state he is in. The stories also differ in terms of what motivates the extreme state. In "A Descent into the Maelstrom," Poe devotes most of the story to setting up the situation, normalizing it, locating it in space; once the situation is established the story is almost over. In "The Pit and the Pendulum," how the character got to his present situation is left vague; a great deal of the story is spent considering whether he is in is a dream or a waking state. However, the means by which the two characters cope with their situations is similar; both make use of careful and lucid observation to try to escape their fate.
"Descent into the Maelstrom" begins in the typical Blackwood magazine manner by presenting a character who has undergone an "event" which has never happened to a human being before and who needs, like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, to tell about it. Moreover, Poe follows the device common to romantic dramatic lyric poetry of having the narrator tell the story while located the self at that point where the events of the story took place, informing his wedding-guest-like auditor: "I have brought you here that you might have the best possible view of the scene of that event I mentioned--and to tell you the whole story with the spot just under your eye." However, the teller also makes use of the eighteenth-century technique of verisimilitude, using a "particularizing manner" to give precise details of the physical phenomenon he is describing. The listener adds to this particularizing technique of authenticating the event by quoting from written sources such as Rasmus and the Encyclopedia Britannica, but asserts that no matter how "circumstantial" or detailed the descriptions are, they fall short of conveying the horror, the magnificence, or the "sense of the novel" which the scene of the whirlpool elicits, noting, however, that he is not sure from what "point of view" previous commentators viewed the whirlpool. It is this notion of point of view that motivates the story, for, as the teller has said at the beginning, no one has had the viewpoint he has had--the typical romantic perspective from within rather than from without.
The storyteller presents himself as an inadequate teller, for he often claims the inability of his words to capture the event; he says it is "folly to attempt describing" the hurricane which hits, and when he knows he is close to the whirlpool, he says, "no one will know what my feelings were at that moment". However, if his feelings of horror are indescribable, his feelings when he loses his sense of horror are calm and logical. Indeed, when he makes up his mind to hope no more, he becomes composed and begins to reflect on how magnificent it would be to die in this manifestation of God's power, becoming obsessed with the "keenest curiosity."
It is precisely this obsession to observe which saves the narrator. The nearer he comes to the bottom of the whirlpool, the keener grows what he calls his "unnatural curiosity." It is a combination of memory and observation of the geometric shapes which are less apt to be drawn down in the whirlpool that marks the means of his escape. Lashing himself to a cylinder-shaped barrel, he throws himself off the fishing boat into the whirlpool and hovers half-way between the top and the bottom, between chaos below and salvation above, until the whirlpool--which is, after all, limited in time, subsides. At this point, the teller ends his tale by moving from the past to the present-tense, reflecting on the tale itself, becoming transformed by the experience from participant to manipulator of his own discourse, for he says his companions on shore "knew me no more than they would have known a traveller from the spirit-land."
"The Pit and the Pendulum" is much more ambiguous about the epistemological or ontological state of the extreme situation than "A Descent into the Maelstrom." Although the entire story takes place inside a prison cell into which the narrator of the story, and indeed the story's only visible character, has been thrown, the story does not indicate what the nameless narrator has done to deserve the tortures he endures in the pit, nor does it deal with any of the religious or social implications of the Inquisition responsible for his imprisonment. It simply recounts, in excruciatingly exact detail, the step-by-step means by which the torturers try to break the protagonist's spirit and his own methodical attempts to escape each new horror that they put in his path.
Although "The Pit and the Pendulum" only focuses on one character, the reader actually discovers very little about him. We do not know his name, what he has done, whether he is guilty, whether he is a criminal, what he misses about life in the everyday world--in short, we know none of those things about the character that we might expect to learn if this were a novel in which a man spends several years in prison. Although such a lack of knowledge would make readers quickly lose interest if they were reading a novel, it is indeed all that it is necessary to know to become involved with Poe's short story. For this is not a realistic story of an individual human character caught in an unjust social system, but rather a nightmarish, symbolic story about every person's worst nightmare and an allegory of the most basic human situation and dilemma. Harry Levine has described the story as such an allegory, and David Hirsch has further argued that the character's situation embodies the modern existential experience: "the surface of Poe's world has broken and cracked, and man stands at the edge of the bottomless abyss."
The story is a Poe paradigm. Focusing on a character under sentence of death and aware of it, it moves the character into a concrete dilemma which seems to "stand for" a metaphysical situation in an ambiguous way that suggests its "dreamy," "indeterminate" nature. In this story we find the most explicit statement in Poe's fiction of his sense of the blurry line between dream and reality. The narrator considers that although when we awake even from the soundest sleep, "we break the gossamer web of some dream," the web is so flimsy that a second later we forget we have dreamed at all. However, sometimes, perhaps much later, memories of the details of the dream come back and we do not know where they have come from. This sense of having a memory of that which did not in fact occur is central to the story's ambiguity, for as the narrator tries to remember his experience, it is not clear whether the memory is of a real event or a dream event that has been forgotten.
He does not know in what state he is; the only thing he does know is that he is not dead, for he says "Such a supposition, notwithstanding what we read in fiction, is altogether inconsistent with real existence;--but where and in what state was I?" The narrator's task is simply to save himself, but in order to survive he must know where he is, and the first crucial task he undertakes is to try to orient himself. However, his efforts are complicated by his moving back and forth between sleep and waking; each time he falls asleep, he must reorient himself all over again. This explains why even after trying to demarcate his position, he awakes and, instead of going on forward, retraces his steps and thus overestimates the size of his cell.
Like the protagonist in "A Descent into the Maelstrom," he is preoccupied with curiosity about the mere physical nature of his surroundings, taking a "wild interest in trifles." However, in spite of his deliberative efforts, it is the accident of tripping that saves him from the pit the first time. Waking from another interlude of sleep, he is bound down, and this time above him is a picture of time, synonymous with death, carrying not the image of a scythe, but rather an actual pendulum which sweeps back and forth. In this situation, surrounded by the repulsive rats, with the scythe of time and thus death over his head, he again moves back and forth between the states of sensibility and insensibility.
This pattern of moving in and out of consciousness is typical of Poe, for in such an alternating state, consciousness has some of the characteristics of unconsciousness and vice versa; one state is imbued with the qualities of the other state. As a result, Poe's stories are neither solely like the consciousness of realism, nor the projective unconsciousness of romance. As the narrator totters on the brink of the pit, the walls rush back and an outstretched arm catches him as he falls. The ending is not an ending at all, but rather the beginning of waking life, the movement from the gossamer dream or nightmare which constitutes the story itself.


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(Pocket-lint) - The BeBook Neo takes the "traditional" (if we can use such a term for devices that have only been around for a couple of years) approach, offering an E-Ink screen, but incorporating Wi-Fi. Could this be the connected ebook reader that we have all been waiting for, offering open choice against the likes of Amazon's Kindle?
Ebook readers find themselves in a slightly awkward place at the moment. Apple's iPad has stoked the tablet furnace, and we are likely to see a wave of devices that will offer features that the BeBook Neo offers and more. Of course, the use of E-Ink technology for the display does mean that this ebook reader is easier on the eyes than those with backlit displays: people will say you can read the iPad without strain, but there's no getting away from the fact that it is backlit and the screen is too glossy for relaxing in the garden on a sunny day to read a little Simon Scarrow.
This is where the BeBook Neo's strength lies, in offering a good platform for reading, as do the other E-Ink devices we've reviewed. Say what you like, we still think there is a place for this type of device. Long battery life - weeks of reading - combined with that paper-like experience make these things great for reading novels on your travels.
The addition of extra features, then, poses something of a problem for the BeBook Neo. It's never going to be as good an experience as a fully-fledged tablet. The screen doesn't offer the same experience and the inclusion of Wi-Fi destroys one of the other benefits: the long battery life. The Wi-Fi can be switched off using a slider on the side of the device and that's advisable whenever it isn't absolutely necessary, because it drains the battery very quickly.
So what does the inclusion of Wi-Fi offer you? It allows the BeBook Neo to head online. Strangely Wi-Fi doesn't remember which connection you use (but will remember your password) so you have to go through a connection process each time you want to do something online.
There is a basic browser, with links to Adobe, Google and Wikipedia, as well as MyBeBook.com. This isn't an ebook store, as you might expect, but a series of links offering up access to Foyles, Blackwell and WHSmith's websites. Surprisingly, these take you through to a full website experience, so once you arrive at one of these websites, you still have to navigate as normal, find the ebooks and then make your selection.
It's a shame this content hasn't been tailored to the device, or that BeBook hasn't aggregated and reformatted it: ultimately, this would make the experience better and encourage people to purchase books through the system. Navigation around pages is using the stylus to drag the page around, which is a little hit and miss.
But it does work and if you are a fan of downloading books from places like Project Gutenberg, then you'll be able to get the books directly into the device, in EPUB format, without using a computer, which will be a bonus for many.
However, the browser isn't the most stable and we found on many occasions that it would fail to load a page. When in an area of low Wi-Fi signal, it would simply not respond. But even sitting close to the router, we found it struggled to load pages. So much so, that we never managed to purchase an ebook from any of the supplied stores to download. The process isn't slick and simple like it is buying a book from the Kindle Store, so in this sense, it's almost better to ignore the connected option, and use your PC as normal to transfer books via USB.
The BeBook Neo gives you a 600 x 800 pixel resolution display measuring 6 inches. This is typical size for a reader and given that you can set the text size to fill your page, it makes for comfortable reading. The panel is a touch panel too, although it only responds to the supplied stylus that tucks into the back of the device.
This is something of a pain, because when you want to interact, you can't just use your finger, so it feels a little dated. However, unlike the Sony Reader Touch Edition, you don't get an uncomfortable level of reflection off the display either.
Being touch-enabled means you can annotate books, write notes or doodle pictures at your leisure. Of course, the touch display is needed to support the online ambitions, as when you come to navigate to a website, you'll have to use the on-screen keyboard to tap in the address or search string and so on.
At the bottom of the screen is a set of controls that not only handle your page turning, but also let you navigate the menus without using the stylus. The round controls consist of two rings, the outer of which offers the Menu and Back controls, along with page turning, whilst the inner ring gives you control on four directions, so you can highlight the option you want and press the central ok button.
It's a tidy solution, but not the most practical. It's easy to hit the other controls as you navigate, so the experience can be frustrating. We'd have rather seen additional page turning options elsewhere too, perhaps on the side of the device. Internally there is 512MB of memory, and the device measures 196 x 121 x 10.6mm and weighs a surprisingly-heavy 298g.
On the bottom edge of the BeBook Neo you'll find a volume control, Mini-USB, power button, 3.5mm jack and SD card slot. We did manage to power of the device a couple of times when resting it on a hard surface due to the placement of the power button.
Inserting an SD card is an easy way to add content if you don't want to use a direct USB connection to your PC, although given the nature of DRM and Adobe Digital Editions, you'll probably find yourself hooking up to your PC when dealing with purchased content anyway. SD cards are automatically detected, and files will be offered up, displaying documents or for viewing images.
Supported file types include EPUB, PDF, TXT, RTF, MOBI, CHM, PDB, HTML, along with JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF, giving you reasonably wide support. The likelihood is that most will be using EPUB or PDF, however, if you want to read Word DOCs, they are not supported so you'll have to save in a different format first.
Despite the inclusion of a 3.5mm jack and volume controls, there didn't appear to be any music playback.
In terms of design, the BeBook Neo offers a plastic front, which feels solid enough and a rough metal back. The feeling of the back wasn't pleasant, a little like running your fingernails down a chalkboard. It looks smart enough, but wasn't as luxurious in the hand as the Sony or Kindle rivals.
As an ebook reader, the Neo is nice enough. It is a good size and the screen gives you the benefits of E-Ink without the reflections you'll find elsewhere. Page refreshing is fast and there are plenty of options, like being able to rotate the page and change the text size. However, given the poor experience we had taking the Neo online, we're not convinced.
Unfortunately you will be paying over the odds for this device. At £279, it is expensive for an experience that leaves a lot to be desired. A little refinement and the BeBook Neo could be a compelling option: make the Wi-Fi more user-friendly and tailor the content to suit the device and you'd be on to a winner.
As it is, the BeBook Neo feels incomplete and we aren't sold on the rough metal back. Ambitious, but the Neo fails to fulfil its lofty aims, and at this price, we'd expect a more complete experience.


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Where's the milk? School lunches no longer sacred cows
Last Saturday was the start of Gakko Kyushoku Shukan (School Lunch Week), an annual celebration of the meals that public elementary and junior high school students in Japan enjoy every day by force of law.
School lunches have been a point of pride for Japan's education institutions, a means of integrating lifelong health maintenance into the standard curriculum. On another level, mandatory school lunches, as the late writer Kuniko Mukoda once famously pointed out, was the basis for the widespread idea that all Japanese belonged to the "middle class."
Several years ago, the government said it wanted to reinforce "food education," though it hardly seems necessary since the school lunch program already does that, and very effectively. According to law, all public school children below high school must buy lunch, and those who cannot afford it receive subsidies from the authorities. Each school will have its own nutritionist to make sure the children receive properly balanced meals. In terms of cost, the ingredients for the meals will be paid for by the students, meaning their parents, while labor, maintenance and other related expenses are taken care of by local governments with help from the central government.
This latter element has lately been challenged as more local governments look for ways to cut their budgets. Last summer, Sanjo, a city in Niigata Prefecture, "experimentally" stopped serving milk with lunches at 30 public schools. The ostensible reason, according to the mayor, was that parents complained that milk doesn't fit in with the Japanese cuisine the schools served.


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Groupon's Andrew Mason Speaks!
The last time I really was truly bullish on a start-up and its founder–BoomTown's motto is wait-and-see rather than hype-it-up–was AdMob's Omar Hamoui.
That turned out pretty well, with the sale of the mobile advertising site to Google (GOOG) for $750 million last fall.
My 2010 start-up that passes the slightly-less-raised-eyebrow test is Groupon, a group-based social buying service that nabbed another $30 million in funding in December.
So earlier this week, I sat down with Groupon's Midwesternly-nice Andrew Mason, 29, to talk about where the start-up is headed with its pile of dough and growing base of consumers who want to make a deal.
The Chicago-based Groupon has actually raised a total of just under $36 million from angels, New Enterprise Associates and Accel Partners so far.
Not that it needs it. The company–like AdMob–is profitable, despite having 200 employees and and a lightning growth path to expand its base of local sites.
The innovative service, which launched only a year ago, features a "daily deal" with a huge discount on a wide range of things–from spas to skydiving and, recently, pole-dancing lessons–in more than two dozen U.S. cities, including Chicago, Boston, New York and San Francisco.
Not everything works–a recent offer of a lobster dinner shipped to buyers was a bomb, as was a tour of Michael Jackson's childhood home in Gary, Indiana.
The deals are offered to large groups of potential buyers on the Web, through email or via social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Using social tools, Groupon–a mashup term for "group" and "coupon"–tries to use collective buying power to get low prices and push customers to local businesses.
If it reaches the number of buyers it needs, which can be in the thousands, Groupon sells coupons to the consumers and collects a hefty fee for the sale from the businesses it sends customers to.
At the cost of discounting and of paying off Groupon, small businesses get a crack at a lot of new customers–think of it as social networking lead-generation or, perhaps, the "Social Shopping Network."
Groupon grew out of a project of The Point, an online community launched in 2007 for organizing group action.
This kind of thing has been tried before, of course, centering on consumers who group together to get discounts on items by purchasing them in bulk.
In Web 1.0, there were many group-buying sites, most of which failed badly. One of the more high-profile ones–Mercata–got $90 million in funding from investors, including Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures.
But now the group-buying space has been reinvigorated, with a spate of competitors, some of which are clear copycats–which, touchingly, really bugs Mason.
There is even a site, called Yipit, that aggregates all the group-buying sites.
Here's the video of my interview with Mason at the Accel offices in downtown Palo Alto, Calif., on his second visit to Silicon Valley–as well as a video below it from Groupon about how the service works:
Learn How Groupon Works! from The Point on Vimeo.


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Will Richardson and Lee Kolbert shared their views on their philosophies as educators and how it impacts on their relationships with their child's classroom teacher. Penny Lindballe shared her insights as a parent. More details to follow.


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A resident of Forest Hills for over 30 years, Schulman is running for the 29th District seat, being vacated by outgoing council member Melinda Katz.
She said her experience serving in the public, private, and non-profit sectors have prepared her elected office.
"I want to take what I've done in the community on a volunteer basis to another level," Schulman said in an interview at a Forest Hills diner. "I want to make a difference."
The Democrat comes from a working class family and is a product of the city's public school system. A former chief of staff to two council members, Schulman now serves as Senior Associate Executive Director for Business Affairs at Woodhull Medical Center.
She said her experiences growing up in Queens, and varied professional career, have helped form her platform, one based on "giving a voice to people in the district who don't have a voice."
Schulman said her candidacy represents a break from the political dynamic in the 29th District, which she describes as an old politics kind of network.
A fresh face in city politics, Schulman is positioning herself as a middle-ground Democrat, a progressive who still has the experience and the background necessary to win, and then govern effectively.
Priorities for Schulman include education, healthcare, and affordable housing. She said her office would staff a 24/7 hotline so constituents can call in at any time with concerns or issues.
But first and foremost, Schulman said, is the task of job creation in Queens at a time of national economic crisis.
"New York is actually suffering much more than anywhere else in the country because the majority of tax revenue we take in is from Wall Street," she said. She said if elected she plans to battle the recession locally, with small business and job creation programs in the "green" industry, and elsewhere.
"At the end of the day," Schulman said. "I'm really trying to earn people's vote. I'm not taking it for granted."


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Hi all, i want to apologise for not writing sooner. Things have been a little crazy for me. My pride and joy my lovely laptop has died! Luke spilled juice on it and it no longer types so i cant get online as often as i would like. I have also split up with Chris. This was my choice and am totally ok with the decision so i will explain more in future.
Really i just wanted to let everyone know that i have not had the 2nd EMDR session as yet. Alison had to cancel our appointment and then i had to cancel the next one as i had an appointment with an occupational Therapist. The OT is called Karen and i will be meeting with her on a weekly basis. Today was my second meeting with Karen. The last two sessions have really been mostly talking and ive had the usualy homework like answering questions about my thought etc. Next Thursday i will be seeing Karen again and this time i think we will actually be venturing outdoors.
This weekend i have my 3 nephews and then the summer holidays begin so i will be out more running around after the kids. I will write in more detail about the Occupational Therapy next time and will let you know whats happening with the EMDR.
Sorry again for the huge gab in messages. I hope everyone is well x
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Hi all, i want to apologise for not writing sooner. Things have been a little crazy for me. My pride and joy my lovely laptop has died! Luke spilled juice on it and it no longer types so i cant get online as often as i would like. I have also split up with Chris. This was my choice and am totally ok with the decision so i will explain more in future.
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Sunday, 1 June 2008
1st EMDR Session
I have been saying for a while that i can going to try an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) session. So here are a few facts quickly.
Key Benefits
- EMDR often resolves emotional distrubances and trauma where other therapies have failed.
- EMDR is effective for most anxiety based disorders.
- EMDR should not be confused with hypnotherapy. EMDR is a client led therapy and always remains within the control of the client
- EMDR is capable of rapid results
I found this description - EMDR® is a new psychotherapy used to treat troubling symptoms, such as anxiety, guilt, anger, depression, panic, sleep disturbance, and flashbacks that are the result of traumatic experiences. Traditional therapies have met with limited success in treating victims of trauma. Not only has EMDR therapy been proven effective in reducing the chronic symptoms which follow trauma, the therapy benefits appear to be permanent. Since Dr. Shapiro's first published research study in 1989, EMDR ® has developed and evolved through the contributions of therapists and researchers all over the world. It now incorporates elements from many different treatment approaches. To date, it has helped an estimated half million people of all ages receive relief from many different kinds of psychological distress.
Ok so thats the basics. I was told about it in a far simpler form. You are asked to focus on what you would like 'healed' and as your body goes through different sensations you have to move your eyes to follow someones movements... usually a hand moving back and forth, sometimes the therapist uses a tapping maching.
Anyway on Friday i met with Alison and i was to decide whether i wanted to try the EMDR or go a walk. I have heard huge praise regarding EMDR and knew i wanteds to try it as soon as possible. It was a nice sunny day so we got comfortable in the garden and made a start. I told Alison i wanted to work on my general anxiety. I want to eliminate the daily fear of having a panic attack. So i was axked various questions, told to imagine various things and we got to work. In tha past i have tried therapies where you are told to imagine a situation that has made you panic. I can imagine the situation but i never experience the body sensations much to the therapists disappointment. I have even been asked to think of situations that would scare me, for example, travelling outside of my comfort zone. Once again i can picture these things but my body doesnt usually react unless i am actually IN that situation.
Anyway the session began and in my head i was focusing simple on the words panic, anxiety, fear etc whilst moving my eyes. Very quickly i noticed my body changing. I had gone from relaxed and happy to extremely uptight and uncomfortable. My palms began to sweat and my stomach churned. We stopped every minute or so and i was asked to explain who i wasd feeling. 'Go with that' Alison would say, and so we would continue. My hands began to sweat, My heart pouding, i became very dizzy and suddenly had the urge to vomit, yet we continued. Alison had always told me that these sessions are completely in my control and that any client can say stop if it gets too much. But i continuted as the sensations took over me and soon i experienced extreme depresonalization and felt utterly disconnected from everything. While this was happening i was so hypersentitive, the trees were blowing, people were walking past, my neighbours were pottering around in there gardens and it all got a bit much. I told her to stop!
I was desperate for it to end. I knew it was onviously working as no other therapy has made me feel anything like that before. Alison then helped me to relax with a few excerises and soon i was back to normal. She explained that this reaction is normal. I dont want to put anyone of in anyway but it has been known for people to cry , or vomit, during sessions. Our brains are processing all the supressed memoried and processing all our phobias. So i guess its understandable that its not very pleasant. Alison said though that the best thing to do is ride it out. Stay with the therapy and soon the sensations get less and less and when they have stopped completely you then move onto the important part of the process... the 'cure'.
I was disappointed that i said stop but the whole time in my head i was thinking 'this is too awful and how long do i have to do this'! i wanted it to be over. I had spoken to a girl in the past who had to stop her session as she said it had been too intense and now i can totally sympathise with her.
I have arranged my 2nd session and that is for this Tuesday. This time i am going to do it in the comfort of my bedroom, with the blinds drawn, with as little to stimulate me as possible. I hope i can ride it out. To be honest i dont know if i will, but even if i have to say stop again i will try and try again as i really think this could work, it was just so powerful!
So ill see how it goes on Tuesday. Please dont let this post have put anyone off, it wasnt all bad, the relaxation exercises are great and i felt totally fine within minutes. I think its a therapy that take guts to face, but one that could maybe the the answer for many of us.
Also i wanted to give people this link. Its for Paul McKennas web page. A women who emails me told me about it and i am so grateful, so thank you so much Christine. I havent yet bought it but i have heard a lot of praise for Paul McKenna so i would say its definatly worth a try.
Ill report back after Tuesday lol x
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I've been missing from much of my usual online forum and twitter activities over the last 10 days, I've been flat out with the 48 Hour Film Project, my annual step in the creative side of the business. Lots of new things to report this year. First non-tech thing is CineForm staff members Jake, Tim, Craig and myself, formed two teams rather than just one this year. While this was saddened me at first, the results do not show anything negative from our divided efforts, both resulting films received more awards than the sum of our previous 5 year history with this competition. My team film draw the genre Detective/Cop to make "The Case of the Wild Hare" in a comic Film Noir style, winning an audience award a two jury prizes. Tim and Jake's team draw genre Film de Femme, shot a thriller, and got a jury prize and runner up for best of San Diego (out of 47 submitted films.)
Check both films out on Vimeo in HD, or just watch embedded.
The Case of the Wild Hare from David Newman on Vimeo.
Touch from Jake Segraves on Vimeo.
Now for the technical: one film used an SI-2K (running beta 2.0 software -- nice), a Kenyon gyro stabler (interesting), and range of 30+ year-old C-mount primes and zooms (classic), the other used an HV30 with a lens adapter with Canon still lenses. Can you tell which is which? Shooting technology is clearly only a small factor in making an enjoyable film, as both films won against very polished projects shooting from 5Ds to Red Ones. While the shooting technology could hardly me more different, the post workflows where very alike. Editing was done is Premiere Pro CS3 (Windows) on i7s or dual quad Core2 Intel systems (OSes range form XP64 to Win7.) CS4 wasn't used only for HDSDI monitoring reasons, as we haven't got that working yet. CS4 would have helped as we always used the beta features of our own tools, and one of the new features only worked in CS4 (we didn't realize until mid-post.) Both films where shoot for 2.35:1 presentation, as 16:9 has become so TV like these days. The new feature that neither team got to use was an addition to First Light, enabling 2.35:1 crop and centering as Active Metadata -- would have saved some time in post for positioning and rendering. First Light was used extensively on both projects, all grading was done as a real-time operation in First Light, particularly aided with the new auto sync. feature which keeps First Light connected with the NLE's timeline. No color correction was needed within Premiere itself.
More on First Light. One thing that helped us was a range of 3D LUTs (look files) that we have been preparing for sometime. These LUTs are now available for download to use with your Neo HD/4K and Prospect under Windows (Mac versions soon.) In such compressed schedule, you get very little time to work on your look, I think I put about 30-40 minutes into color correcting Wild Hare, about twice the time I had for color work for last year's project, but it is not much so prepared LUTs helped greatly. The Active Metadata LUT system, works on the final output for the image, with all the linear light processing for white balance, color matrixing (saturation) and channel gains, lift, and gamma being applied to the input of the LUT. This makes it pretty easy to mix and match a range of sources to produce on common look (stylized or not.) As I was working with two co-directors, one of whom had never working in film before (only stage work), I prepared different look profiles as switchable color databases, so the entire timeline could have is look/style switched dynamically. This helped showcase possible finishing styles without impacting the editing session, which went into 47th hour.
Here is an example of a before and after First Light processing.
After our two teams had submitted, the remainder of the week was spent preparing the other 45 films of presentation in CineForm format out to the Christie 2K projector to the local UltraStar theater. As CineForm is San Diego 48 Hour sponsor we requested that 1080p CineForm AVI/MOV be the default HD submission format (we gave all teams a 30-day Neo HD license,) fortunately more than half of films where submitting this way, making our life easier. It is was the remaining SD submissions, with its many pixel aspect ratios, letter-boxing, pillar-boxing, cropping, and pulldown variations, that was a time consuming headache (upres'ing it to look decent.)
For theatrical presentation we were prepared to use a Wafian F-1 as a playback server, which has worked flawlessly in previous years, and is not so rarely used for this purpose (as works really well -- F-1(s) where use to present HD at Comicon.) Unfortunately an hour before the first theatrical presentation the drive sled that goes into the Wafian crashed. This piece of bad luck put as in a panic, as it was going to take more than the remaining hour to prep a new drive with the 23 films that were screening that evening. Fortunately Tim had been experimenting with scheduled playback using, CineForm AVIs, a Blackmagic card and the open source Media Player Classic, and his system than all the films on it. Basically a cheap PC with a $300 HDSDI card hooked to a theater projector, become an awesome 10-bit 1080p presentation system. This was not flawless, it stopped about 7 films into the second screening group (resulting in 45 seconds of black as Tim run up into the projection booth to give MPC a kick.) While a Wafian would never have done that, the cheapness of this presentation solution made us pursue the same setup the next night and for the best of San Diego screening. There is still work to tweak this solution, but something like this is needed, as it is crazy that San Diego is still the only city to project in HD for this international festival, this being San Diego's third HD year.
Extending our experience from the local festival,we want every festival to stop presenting DVDs or Beta (still so common,) when most sources are film or now HD or originated. The solution has got to be cheap and simple, to allow for last minute playlist changes for pre-rolls, differing frame rates (24p, 30p and 60i,) audio level adjustments and skipping bars and tone, etc, i.e. BluRay will not do. We had one beautifully master film this year, that had the wrong black levels, put it through First Light, fixed it in seconds without any rendering. Duane Trammel, San Diego 48 Hour producer, used the playlist flexibility, to inter-cut interviews with several of the filmmakers in this short problem -- it was a pretty cool touch. More of this style of flexible is what is needed, and we are hoping to help.


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Matthew's Gospel In Rough Beauty
Why make biblical epics? Most filmmakers produce them to entertain and/or get rich. Others aim higher and try to connect contemporary audiences with the ideas and stories upon which our culture is based.
The Gospel According to St. Matthew accomplishes all of this and more. No one knows for certain what inspired the Italian writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini (Accatone) to create this film, but its single-minded intensity and luminous passion produce a satisfying drama with a unique appeal to Christians.
This is a movie that can make converts. It can be used as a tool of evangelization which grabs its audience emotionally while propagating an orthodox understanding of the faith.
The film was first released in 1964 after winning the Special Jury Prize at that year's Venice Film Festival. At first glance, it doesn't seem to conform to the rest of Pasolini's work. The filmmaker was a well-known Marxist, and his previous movies reflect this point of view.
Not surprisingly, every scene in The Gospel According to St. Matthew bears witness to his commitment to the poor. But the film is dedicated to Pope John XXIII, and much to the horror of Europe's secularist intelligentsia, it also presents the miracles as real events.
The movie was shot entirely on location in the hills of Basilicata in southern Italy. The cast is made up exclusively of nonprofessionals. Most were local peasants although Pasolini used his own mother to play Mary during Jesus' later ministry. The text is taken verbatim from the Gospel. The sequence of events is slightly reordered. Some scenes are shortened. Others are omitted.
One of the first images is a closeup of Mary (Margharita Caruza), whose natural beauty reminds us that the radiant Madonnas of Italian Renaissance masters like Raphael and da Vinci were probably inspired by real-life models. The young woman is pregnant, and her husband Joseph (Marcello Norante), who looks like he actually works with his hands, broods nearby. He walks away as if to abandon her.
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Immediately, there's a miraculous intervention which the filmmaker makes sure has no rational explanation. A handsome, dark-haired angel appears on the road. "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son and you must name him Jesus" (Matthew 1:20-21). Joseph, of course, obeys.
The movie, like Matthew's Gospel, doesn't contain the birth narrative. The three wise men come to worship the Christ child. When they return to their own country without revisiting King Herod, the massacre of the innocents is ordered.
The murderous incident is recreated with realistic, documentary techniques which are used throughout the rest of the film. The slaughter takes place on a rocky hillside. Herod's soldiers attack both on foot and on horseback. They are peasants like their victims but vicious and uncouth. The film techniques focus on the mothers' terror and grief, not the acts of violence themselves. We experience viscerally the sense of evil which permeates the event. The Holy Family is saved by the appearance of the same angel.
As we move into the adulthood of Jesus (Enrique Irazoq), the movie emphasizes the authorities' opposition. The beheading of John the Baptist is a crucial turning point. Unlike most presentations of the incident, Salome isn't depicted as particularly sensuous. She's modestly dressed, and her dancing is almost innocent. The feast takes place in the daytime in an open-air courtyard. Absent is the expected depravity. Yet the prophet's death seems even more calculated and coldblooded than usual.
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Jesus sheds a silent tear. The muscles in his face harden as he becomes aware that John's violent death is a precursor of his own. This adds a sense of urgency to the teachings that follow.
Jesus' love of children is highlighted. We see that they adore him, and he brightens whenever they come near. These encounters underline the importance of his teaching that "Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18:3). It is also the little ones bearing flowers and branches who first welcome him on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Jesus' appearances before the Sanhedrin and Pontius Pilate are captured in long shots with a hand-held camera. We can clearly hear the Gospel text describing what's happening. But the visual action, viewed from within the crowd, is distant and hard to follow. We feel the remoteness of the religious and political authorities from those they're governing and the unfairness of what they decide.
The crucifixion is shot in a similarly naturalistic fashion. There's no attempt to compose pretty pictures such as are often found in biblical movies and old-master paintings. Our Savior's pain and suffering is real.
The Gospel According to St. Matthew successfully dramatizes Jesus' transcendent powers and his connection to ordinary people. It works as both a human and a spiritual story. We are moved by its rough beauty, and our souls are opened to its truth.
Arts & Culture Correspondent John Prizer writes from Los Angeles.
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