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Monday, November 30, 2015
RIP Carolyne Barry aka Carole Shelyne (1943 - 2015)
It had certainly worked for Harold Lloyd, and indeed for Clark Kent - just a pair of round horn-rimmed glasses.
In the early 1960s, a 21 year-old Brooklyn-born dancer named Carole Stuppler was hired to become one of the dancers on ABC-TV's SHINDIG. She put on a pair of round horn-rimmed glasses, changed her name to Carole Shelyne (pronounced "she-lin"), and danced her little heart out. I suppose the glasses (which were lens-less, like the ones Phil Silvers wore - so they wouldn't reflect studio lights) could have been a further change of identity to protect her privacy, like her name change, but they also helped her to stand out. The Shindig dancers - which included Teri Garr, Anita Mann, Pam Freeman, Brenda Benet and the curiously named Maria Ghava - were all accomplished go-go spirits, but regardless of the choreography, the eye was somehow always drawn to those glasses. At least mine was. I was eight when SHINDIG premiered in 1964, and suddenly going on 12, thanks to this vision of perky kookiness calling herself Carole Shelyne.
She was an early crush of mine, and I just learned the other day that she died last June, at the age of 71.
The IMDb credits Carolyne Barry - the name she eventually settled on - with appearing on 45 episodes of SHINDIG between 1964 and 1965. On one of those episodes, she stepped into the spotlight to perform a song from a novelty single she had just recorded for Liberty Records, "The Girl With the Horn-Rimmed Glasses." It had even better B-side called "Boys Do Make Passes At Girls Who Wear Glasses," written by the songwriting team of Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner, whose astonishing list of credits include numerous songs for AIP movies, including all the BEACH PARTY pictures, both DR GOLDFOOT pictures, WILD IN THE STREETS and GODZILLA VS THE SMOG MONSTER ("Save The Earth")!
Hemric-Styner also wrote a song called "These Are the Good Times," which Frankie Avalon performed on THE PATTY DUKE SHOW - where Carole followed a MR NOVAK dramatic debut ("Beat the Ploughshare, Edge the Sword") with a special guest performance in an episode called "Patty's Private Pygmalion." Here, sporting the familiar round specs, she played a high school wallflower named Marcia, whom the outgoing Patty Lane grooms to become so popular that she ends up losing her own date to her. The performance that Carole gave here was surprisingly vulnerable and poignant, while also showing unsuspected range in the opposite direction, and the script by Arnold Horwitt (whom I'm surprised to see also wrote one of my favorite GREEN ACRES episodes, "The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud") ventured some surprisingly candid comments about teenage jealousy. When people look back on THE PATTY DUKE SHOW, this is one of the episodes they typically remember.
But it was Carole's performance as Marvin (yes, Marvin) in the 1966 spy-beach spoof OUT OF SIGHT that really got to me. If the BEACH PARTY movies were like MAD magazine, OUT OF SIGHT is like those oddball DC Comics comedy titles like ANGEL AND THE APE or THE INFERIOR FIVE, and it has a consistently great score produced by Nick Venet and anonymously played by the famous Wrecking Crew, with guest musical appearances by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Turtles, The Astronauts, Dobie Gray and The Knickerbockers. The songs are fantastic. Directed by Lennie Weinrib (one of the constables who investigate Peter Lorre's cellar in TALES OF TERROR, and later the voice of H.R. Pufnstuf himself) and scripted by future LAUGH-IN cast member Larry Hovis, it's a vehicle for a young comic actor named Jonathan Daly, a charming composite of Robert Vaughn, Jerry Lewis and Nancy Kulp. Daly plays Homer, the hapless, envious butler of top secret agent John Stamp, who poses as his absent boss to disrupt the plan of Russian spy Big D (John Lawrence) to destroy all teenagers - because all their "yeah yeah yeah" nonsense annoys him. Marvin is a bespectacled wallflower of a girl who gloms onto Homer as her date for the festival Big D is sponsoring to lure the biggest of all British long-haired bands to their destruction. "He's just my type - a BOY!" she gushes. As the movie continues, we realize that it doesn't really have the Beatles in store; the biggest British long-haired band is Freddie and the Dreamers! (Unless you're watching the band in performance from behind them - then they become stock footage of the Beatles!) Anyway, I loved it when I first saw it in December 1966 and I still do.
On the night I learned of Carole's passing, I pulled out my trusty DVD-R copy of OUT OF SIGHT - recorded from AMC during that wonderful period when they were gearing up for that too-good-to-be-true "American Pop" spin-off channel that never happened - and watched it as my candlelight vigil. She's in the film somewhat less than I remembered, but in the course of its madcap 87 minutes, she has two lines that I imagine imprinted themselves on me deeply. At the end of the film, Marvin reveals that she has seen through Homer's disguise from the very beginning, and when he asks how she possibly did this, she deadpans, "I read a lot." Well. Four words straight to my heart. Secondly, as she explains her liking for Homer twice in the movie, "I go for the weird ones." And ever since seeing OUT OF SIGHT, I did, do, and probably always will.
In the early 1980s, Carolyne parlayed her experience (which included appearances in some 400 television commercials) into the founding of the Professional Artist Group, the Carolyne Barry Workshops, and finally Carolyne Barry Creative - all acting workshops in which she trained students not only how to act, but how to successfully audition and land roles. On YouTube there are a number of videos that eavesdrop on her seminars, and they show her to be an effective and personable instructor. In this role, she reminds me a great deal of my late friend Mary Dawne Arden, a former actress and model who went on to found Arden Associates, who had a similar gift for public speaking and directing people to their secret potential.
In my early years on Facebook, I found a page for Carolyne and took the opportunity - as I've often done there with people I admire - to send her a note of appreciation. I expressed my particular liking for OUT OF SIGHT (which may have led her to think I was some kind of crank) and shared that her "horn-rimmed glasses girl" character had been responsible for a character trait in myself that had always served me in good stead - to judge women not by their looks, but by their personal character. Indeed, I had married a blonde who wore glasses, and she was one of "the weird ones." Unfortunately, the reply I received seemed confused and wary; it gave me the feeling that she didn't often receive fan letters and perhaps didn't quite know how to deal with that kind of well-meaning intrusion. Before I could reply, a postscript followed from her, apologizing and explaining that she had a sister who was dying of cancer, which was very much on her mind - and, as quickly as that confession came out, thanking me for writing. I wrote back, to thank her for following up, to send my regrets and my wishes for only the very best for her and her sister.
So we didn't become friends, but we didn't have to. Her life had touched mine, so I wanted to touch hers back. I know now, from reading numerous online testimonials from her colleagues and students, what a positive force she was in so many lives, in both her incarnations. Godspeed to her horn-rimmed spirit.
Posted by Tim Lucas at Monday, November 30, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Some Holiday Gift Book Suggestions
With the holidays rapidly approaching, I thought it might be a good time to recommend some of the best film-related books to have surfaced in the past year, because - never mind the propaganda we hear about the death of bookstores and the imminent demise of printed matter - no gift so eloquently embodies the holidays as a beautiful book. And this year there have been quite a few that you might consider giving... or receiving.
FAB Press vault to the top of my list with the year's most notable coffee table book and impressive objet d'art: Nicolas Winding Refn's THE ACT OF SEEING, with text by Alan Jones. Lurking behind an outward presentation that doesn't quite tell you what's inside, this is actually a book that has been sorely needed: a retrospective of the art of exploitation poster design, focusing primarily on rarely seen sexploitation titles of the 1960s. Admittedly there have been other books that collected such posters, but there has never been another quite like this one, and not simply due to the extent of its rich indulgence. If you have ever, like me, responded to that mercurial, unnameable quality found in the posters for films like THE ORGY AT LIL'S PLACE, THE DEFILERS and THE UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS - a quality that somehow encompasses unrepentant sleaze and a haunting quality otherwise found only in the highest forms of art - this is the book for you, because Refn recognizes it too and that is what this book is about, organizing these materials with a genuine curator's eye and aesthetic. Packaged inside a handsome slipcase and printed on heavy glossy stock that makes every color pop, this is a book that offers as much substance as surface, and its surface is considerable. THE ACT OF SEEING is a veritable aphrodisiac of sordid salesmanship, and Jones' witty and knowledgeable annotations put the exciting parade of images into meaningful context.
Over the last ten years, British journalist Paul Sutton has devoted much of his time to interviewing the surviving cast and crew members associated with the late, great British film director Ken Russell. Published as both a large softcover and limited hardcover edition with bonus color pages, TALKING ABOUT KEN RUSSELL (Buffalo Books) is the end result of that dedicated effort - more than 100 original interviews, including Russell himself on most titles, with additional comments drawn from other sources. What makes this book so special, almost unique of its kind, is that it presents generally without editorial adornment the history of a filmmaker's career from the points of view offered up by his crew, the people overlooked by most historians, which presents us with new and unusual perspectives of how films like WOMEN IN LOVE, THE MUSIC LOVERS and THE DEVILS were made. Sutton, who worked with Russell on his last video efforts, shows an inexhaustible passion for the subject while making no attempt to white-wash his findings. This balanced frankness enables the book to present Russell in a more human dimension, through the eyes of the co-workers who more than once followed him into battle through fires at heart's center; so we come away with a more three-dimensional view of this man whose temper, tendency to provocation, abuses of power, and professional recklessness are more easily aligned with what we know of his intelligence and creative authority. By the end of this book, we better understand what attracted Russell to certain subjects and certain actors, why his best work ended with VALENTINO and why the overall body of his work can be divided into specific periods, and how the most successful British film director of his generation became "unbankable." You might think this sounds like a "rise and fall" story, but if anything, this is a testament to one of the 20th century's great visionary artists and his indomitable spirit. Available from Amazon or directly from the author.
The winner of last year's Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Monster Kid of the Year was Frank J. Dello Stritto, who won the award primarily for writing I SAW WHAT I SAW WHEN I SAW IT - which Cult Movies Press has published as a handsome signed and numbered hardcover limited to only 1,000 copies. This book (which takes its title from a line in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN) is a kind of autobiography told primarily through the author's initial and recurrent encounters with horror and other popular entertainment via neighborhood theater matinees, drive-ins and television. As such, it is particularly recommended to readers who share with Dello Stritto the uncanny experience of having grown up in the 1950s and 1960s and will glean a special pleasure from having their feelings about childhood companions like Abbott & Costello, the Frankenstein Monster, Rod Serling, Bela Lugosi, and Steve Reeves revived in eloquent, loving language. This may well be the definitive account of the "Monster Kid" experience published to date, and it follows its own central Monster Kid into adulthood and the way these characters abide through life with us. One reads this book with the uncanny impression that Dello Stritto has been taking careful notes toward this ultimate expression his entire life, and I'm sure he has.
The first volume of Stephen Thrower's MURDEROUS PASSIONS: THE DELIRIOUS CINEMA OF JESUS FRANCO is one of the most absorbing and detailed film books of this past year, not to mention a beautiful artifact in both its standard and deluxe editions from Strange Attractor Press. Co-written with Julian Grainger, who contributes sidebar chapters elucidating the business side of Franco's collaborations with Orson Welles, Marius and Daniel Lesoeur of Eurociné, and Harry Alan Towers, this volume follows a lengthy introductory overview with individual chapters addressed to (one might say "appropriately") 69 feature films made between 1959 and 1974. While I must admit to having some problems with the book - it was written out of sequence, resulting in repetitions of some remarks, and feels impatient toward much of the work, as if the author was inspired by only a handful of the films and had to plough through the majority under duress - it is well-written and infectious about what it likes. Most importantly, it organizes Franco's sprawling and unwieldy oeuvre into a convincing chronological sequence that sometimes finds him filming as many as five pictures simultaneously; this is no small feat. I have a more detailed review forthcoming in VIDEO WATCHDOG 180, but if you are any stripe of a Franco fan, you must have it. Very much looking forward to the second volume, which will cover a wealth of films in greater detail than most have ever before received in English.
I've not yet seen it, but another imposing Franco book was just published - in France, in French. That book is JESS FRANCO OU LES PROSPERITÉS DU BIS by Alain Petit. Petit was the first journalist to cover Franco's work in depth, for both the French fan press and in professional magazines like VAMPIRELLA (the French edition, which unlike the US magazine had a film section), and he later appeared in some of his films, under his own name (TENDER FLESH) and as "Charlie Christian" (THE MIDNIGHT PARTY, JULIETTE). In the 1990s, he published a limited run fanzine devoted to chronicling Franco's entire career entitled THE MANACOA FILES - and this immense book updates and adds to their complete contents, which encompass complete credits and discussion of each film, interviews with Franco and a large number of his collaborators and more. Though the book is in French, it is illustrated with numerous never-before-seen photos and is accompanied with a special code that will allow the reader access to a complete English translation of the text. Published by Artus Films, the book includes a DVD of an otherwise unavailable Franco film - Operation Levres Rouges (1960), the rare French version of his second feature, Labios rojos, the first of several Franco films about the two female private detectives who run the agency known as Red Lips.
If you're looking for something a little more mainstream, a little more affordable, and no less an important achievement, go directly to the newly updated edition of Jonathan Rigby's ENGLISH GOTHIC, now subtitled CLASSIC HORROR CINEMA 1897-2015. When Rigby published the first edition of this now-classic text (then subtitled A CENTURY OF HORROR CINEMA) in the year 2000, his book had the elegiac air of a monument to a bygone age of industry - but happily, almost as if the appearance of the book had catalyzed a long-hoped-for response, the British horror cinema was subsequently resurrected. Consequently, this new edition not only extends the earlier text by some 50 pages but adds on another 75+ pages covering the period of 2000-2015 with discussion of such films as THE DESCENT, THE CHILDREN and THE WOMAN IN BLACK, as well as an added chapter surveying the immensely rich history of English gothic television. Published by Signum Books and sporting a somewhat revised layout that remains nevertheless true to the beautiful, imaginative design of the original edition, the revised ENGLISH GOTHIC is not yet available in America so cast your nets abroad.
An absolutely revelatory art book with strong but unusual ties to the horror genre is Ulrich Merkl's DINOMANIA: THE LOST ART OF WINSOR McCAY, THE SECRET ORIGINS OF KING KONG, AND THE URGE TO DESTROY NEW YORK from Fantagraphics. In the last years of his life, which ended in 1934, cartoonist Winsor McCay - the inventor of the animated cartoon - was planning a new comic strip that would follow in the surreal footsteps of his classics DREAMS OF THE RAREBIT FIEND and LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND. The strip was to be called DINO and would document the troubles that a Gertie-like dinosaur would get into if freed from its resting place into the modern day. Only six pages of such art exists, a combination of McCay's own finished art, as well as some strips scripted by him that had to be completed here in his style by other hands, but it is terribly impressive; however, what is even more impressive is that these strips are just the stepping-off point for the book's primary task of underscoring McCay's paternity of nearly all the popular iconography that is associated with the invasions of great cities by giant monsters, and particularly the way dinosaurs have been depicted over the last century in modern fantasy and storytelling. (As Merkl helpfully points out, dinosaurs only became known to modern man within the last 170 years!) The book not only covers such creatures in the arts, but in general iconography, most impressively reproducing a two-page April Fool's Day spread from a 1906 CHICAGO TRIBUNE documenting a supposed assault on the city by battling dinosaurs - whose fabric is directly traceable to McCay's "Gertie the Dinosaur" and "The Pet." Subsequent chapters draw distinct parallels between McCay's body of work, THE LOST WORLD and KING KONG by demonstrating their shared iconography, particularly in terms of McCay's fascination with giant monsters, giantism in general, and the destruction of cities like New York. Merkl also explores earlier iconography of apes climbing buildings and abducting fair-haired women with results that are sometimes jaw-dropping. A masterpiece of book design, and a history of dots that very much needed to be connected, DINOMANIA will greatly extend your knowledge and enrich your appreciation of subjects dear to your heart.
For those of you who may be partial to the 1950s vintage of horror, may I reach back slightly farther than a year ago to recommend THE CREATURE CHRONICLES: EXPLORING THE BLACK LAGOON TRILOGY by Tom Weaver with David Schecter and Steve Kronenberg? (Not to mention the King of Creach Fetishists, David J. Schow, who kicks in a couple of bonus chapters of his own!) McFarland has indulged this project with production value that includes interior color and glossy paper - it literally doesn't feel like the typical McFarland release - and it's easy to see why they went the extra several miles. This is literally everything you wanted to know about Universal's CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - its origin, its design, its production, its stars, its sequels, its homages, its mind-boggling merch, and its abiding hold on Monster Kid consciousness. This book won last year's Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Film Award for Best Book. With a detailed Introduction by Julie Adams, this book raises a serious appetite for similarly focused, deluxe books on Universal's other classic monsters series. How about a long overdue revised edition of Greg Mank's IT'S ALIVE?
And lastly - because we weren't sent every new film-related book that came out this past year - this year also saw the publication of MIDI-MINUIT FANTASTIQUE VOLUME 2 by Michel Caen (who sadly passed away while the book was in production) and Nicolas Stanzick - continuing the ambitious, deluxe, hardcover repackaging of the greatest of all European magazines devoted to fantastic cinema. This new volume includes the complete French-language contents of #7 through the double issue of 10-11, a spread that happily encompasses MMF's legendarily banned (and now difficult-to-find) 8th issue, devoted to eroticism in the fantastic cinema. One of the purposes of this series is to refurbish and preserve the contents of these precious magazines in state-of-the-art quality whenever possible, so one of the most impressive aspects of this particular volume is seeing the racy stills exclusively presented in that eighth issue - from the "continental" versions of films like THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS, JACK THE RIPPER and THE HELLFIRE CLUB - digitally scanned from original photos and presented herein with startling (and sometimes full-page!) clarity. To make an already incredible document still more impressive, extensive new text and photographic content pertaining to the period covered has been added, including Ornella Volta's ground-breaking 1970 interview with Mario Bava; a revealing color pictorial of actress Sylvie Bréal (Robbe-Grillet's THE MAN WHO LIES); an article by Stanzick documenting a Dracula graphic art project by Philippe Druillet and Jean Boullet; a recent essay by former MMF editor Jean-Claude Romer about lost films; and also Stanzick's introductory tribute to Michel Caen. I dearly wish these books were available in English, but it is still extremely easy for a monolinguist like me to get lost in them. I can't point to any other book or books that better capture, pictorially, what I love most about the horror genre. VOLUME 2 also contains a 150 minute DVD consisting of many choice rarities, including Patrice Molinard's 1963 short film Fantasmagorie (40m) starring the great Édith Scob (EYES WITHOUT A FACE, JUDEX)!
Saturday, November 21, 2015
RIP Germán Robles, the Genii of Darkness (1929-2015)
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
HELLEVATOR: It's Only A Game, It's Only A Game
I finally freed myself from the bonds of cable television some months ago, but thanks to Hulu and my trusty Apple TV, I've been able to keep tabs on the latest adventure of the Soska Sisters, HELLEVATOR. It airs on GSN: the Game Show Network, Wednesday nights at 8:00pm eastern. The third episode of eight airs tonight.
When I first heard about this program, I was excited that someone had recognized Jen and Sylvia Soska as personalities and had understood how well their darkly giddy, sweet-and-salty personalities could lend themselves well to a scary game show project. The premise is fairly irresistible in itself: the Soskas imperiously preside over a control room that operates an elevator that delivers three terrified contestants to three different levels, where they must individually conquer that level's unique challenges for a $5,000 cash prize. Thus, they stand to gain up to $15,000 before the final challenges posed by the final level, called The Labyrinth, where they must find as much additional money as they can retrieve from a series of gooey death traps, which - if they conquer them - brings them up to $20,000 and whatever additional monies they have plucked from the rusty jaws of an ancient embalming room or delousing pit.
Two episodes - "The Mortuary" and "The Asylum" - have aired thus far, and I've found them to be fairly entertaining, but there remains room for improvement. The most entertaining facet, surprisingly, has been the contestants. They are so hilarious, so completely over-the-top in their apparent complete belief in the Soskas' proposed scenarios of deranged coroners and madhouse nurses, that the viewer can't help but wonder if these people are real, off-the-street contestants or actors hired to sell the spooky vignettes. (Either way, it's entertainment, right?) Christian, the self-styled group leader of the second episode, immediately reveals himself as a whimpering ninny who "can't do hospitals" - prompting Jen's deadpan line, "Christian, this whole place is a hospital." His quivering, shivering, nearly pants-peeing performance is particularly funny, and lends itself unexpectedly to a feminist high-five finale.
The beauty of the show is how well it captures the purity of those trusting souls who are completely sucked into scary tales told around a campfire in the dark. At the beginning of each show, as the Soskas trade lines, spelling out the instant myth of some vintage sicko who briefly ruled over their own private world of gruesome anatomical and sickly psychological transgressions, we are treated to the most unlikely, wide-eyed expressions blossoming on supposedly adult (well, young adult) faces... and, speaking as a storyteller myself, it's irresistably charming. It also brings something back to the horror genre that has been lost in recent years - the vicarious pleasure of watching a trio absolute fools attempting to survive a night in a haunted house. In terms of the scares it serves up, HELLEVATOR is closer to the SAW films than, say, THE GHOST AND MR CHICKEN, but it forges a genuine connection between the two that simply did not exist before.
However, I think the producers of the show are selling their hostesses short. While HELLEVATOR shows a very real (or at least seemingly real) connection between the contestants and their chain-rattling challenges - which, on last week's show, included a young lady with her head locked inside an acrylic box that was being slowly filled with live (and very tame) rats as she had to navigate a ceiling grid to the key that would free her - there is absolutely no sense of contact or connection between the contestants and the two baleful ladies controlling their fates. Whether it's true or not, it consistently looks like the Soskas and the contestants were never on-set at the same time. Do the contestants even know who their hosts are? Also, Jen and Sylvia (whose names are never mentioned, whose screen credits are buried in the end titles under the names of the producers) don't seem to be playing themselves, but rather something closer to the svelte, black-dressed daughters of HELLRAISER's Pinhead. As you can see in the above photo, they have been made up in such a way as to look dour and slightly unnatural, accentuating an unconvincing contrast between them, rather than the natural symmetry that makes the Twisted Twins so appealing. While they do occasionally come up with a laugh-out-loud line (like "We don't have all day" in the premiere episode), they seem under directorial duress to speak and react with only the coldest pleasure. Stoic sarcasm is the best we get from them, which is a far cry from the infectious sense of fun which has always been the most compelling thing about them. I can't help feeling that HELLEVATOR would be so much better if they were allowed to be themselves, but there is a sense that the controlling minds behind this show were convinced that Horror is a dish best served grim.
For those of you who use Twitter, the Twins are known to tweet live along with the first broadcast of each episode, which is bound to add something vital to the experience.
I imagine that the first season of eight episodes will continue to adhere to this somewhat imperfect pattern, but even so, HELLEVATOR is worth a look - as a modern-day SPOOKS RUN WILD, if you like - not to mention an idea worth nurturing and developing further.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Mario Bava and Orson Welles - Collaborators!
The big news of the day comes from Wellesnet: The Orson Welles Web Resource, who thank Massimiliano Studer for the information: Mario Bava and Orson Welles worked together! This frame enlargement is taken from an unedited reel of film shot for Welles' 1958 documentary PORTRAIT OF GINA, a now-difficult-to-see appreciation of actress Gina Lollobrigida, and clearly shows the clapper board identifying Mario Bava as the cameraman. This footage was recently discovered in Pordonone by historian Luca Giuliani.
While it is startling to learn that Bava had worked professionally with Welles (and somehow never mentioned it), it should come as no surprise to find him lighting La Lollo. Mario Bava had been the cameraman on all of her most important films - the one in which she was discovered (ELISIR D'AMORE, 1941), those in which she made her breakthrough performances (PAGLIACCI, MISS ITALIA), and also her most breathtaking color film of the 1950s (Robert Z. Leonard's BEAUTIFUL BUT DANGEROUS) - and could be said to be the principal cultivator of her screen image. The half-hour short, produced as part of a proposed "Orson Welles At Large" series, was likely shot around the same time as Bava's first horror film - Riccardo Freda's I VAMPIRI (1957).
The film curiously contains no screen credits, but was evidently the work of more than one cinematographer and was likely assembled piecemeal as Welles' side-projects usually were. Lollobrigida - who is visited and interviewed at her home by Welles, and who looks beautiful, indicating that she specifically requested Bava as a cameraman whom she could trust to make her look her best - was reportedly unhappy with the film and filed an injunction to prevent it from being shown in the US. It is known to have been screened only a few times, first at the Venice Film Festival in 1958, and subsequently on French and German television.
The future of this footage is presently unknown, but an augmented revival of the film would certainly be welcome.
While it is startling to learn that Bava had worked professionally with Welles (and somehow never mentioned it), it should come as no surprise to find him lighting La Lollo. Mario Bava had been the cameraman on all of her most important films - the one in which she was discovered (ELISIR D'AMORE, 1941), those in which she made her breakthrough performances (PAGLIACCI, MISS ITALIA), and also her most breathtaking color film of the 1950s (Robert Z. Leonard's BEAUTIFUL BUT DANGEROUS) - and could be said to be the principal cultivator of her screen image. The half-hour short, produced as part of a proposed "Orson Welles At Large" series, was likely shot around the same time as Bava's first horror film - Riccardo Freda's I VAMPIRI (1957).
The film curiously contains no screen credits, but was evidently the work of more than one cinematographer and was likely assembled piecemeal as Welles' side-projects usually were. Lollobrigida - who is visited and interviewed at her home by Welles, and who looks beautiful, indicating that she specifically requested Bava as a cameraman whom she could trust to make her look her best - was reportedly unhappy with the film and filed an injunction to prevent it from being shown in the US. It is known to have been screened only a few times, first at the Venice Film Festival in 1958, and subsequently on French and German television.
The future of this footage is presently unknown, but an augmented revival of the film would certainly be welcome.
Posted by Tim Lucas at Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Wednesday, November 04, 2015
RIP Charles Herbert (1948-2015)
IMITS ("The Inheritors")... he was even cast as Patty's brother Ross in the pilot of THE PATTY DUKE SHOW (later replaced by Paul O'Keefe). Imagine doing all of that before you were 15! His filmography stops in 1968, when he was 20 - and after that, as happens with so many child actors whose futures are not properly cared for by their parents, it's said that he lived a very unhappy life until some friends pulled him out of his tailspin; in his 50s, he made some new friends and began meeting with fans on the movie convention circuit. I was saddened to hear that he died on Halloween night of a heart attack at the age of only 66.
Thank you, Charlie, for helping my generation to feel like a part of all those great stories.
Thank you, Charlie, for helping my generation to feel like a part of all those great stories.
Monday, November 02, 2015
First Look: VIDEO WATCHDOG 180
We're here to fight those post-partum post-Halloween blues with your long-awaited First Look at VIDEO WATCHDOG 180! Here's the front cover... and for those of you who would like a generous preview peek inside, just follow this handy link!
Posted by Tim Lucas at Monday, November 02, 2015
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If you're in North Carolina and you see a big bearded dude in a red suit about to accost you, perhaps you should let him. He might be trying to hand you a hundo.
The Charlotte Observer reports that on Friday, a crew of anonymous St. Nicks roamed the streets of the North Carolina city, shaking hands, spreading holiday cheer, and giving $100 bills to people who looked like they could use it. I hope no one said they were going to use it to buy that pony that Santa never brought.
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|Feb 24, 2014
European consortium to address directed self assembly for chip industry
|(Nanowerk News) PLACYD, an EU funded consortium of industrial and academic collaborators and led by Arkema will establish a dedicated material manufacturing facility that allows the production of block copolymers meeting the rigorous standards required for their use in industry as nanolithographic templates. PLACYD brings together leading researchers and industries to allow for the first time the integration of synthesis through to wafer scale production and system/device characterization.
|Arkema hosted the kick-off meeting of the PLACYD project on February 18th in Paris, aiming to set up a full European Ecosystem dedicated to DSA technology with the support of key players of the semiconductor industry.*
|Part of the Seventh Framework European Programme (FP7) and funded by ENIAC JU (European Technology Platform for Nanoelectronics), this project will be led by Arkema for 3 years. Its aim is to develop and bring DSA materials to industrial maturity, as well as processes and integration schemes. It will contribute to establishing specific DSA design rules and developing specific software for device manufacture. Metrology and inspection requirements in the sub-10 nm range will be defined and implemented in next generation tools, and lastly, a full integration demonstration activity will be performed based at CEA-Leti to assess the efficiency of the whole solution.
|Arkema has been developing Block Copolymer technology for decades for various applications. Based on this technology, the chemicals manufacturer has developed nanolithography materials in partnership with the CEA-Leti Institute and the LCPO laboratory. Through the PLACYD project, they will bring their know-how to the semiconductor industry. With the help of the PLACYD Consortium partners, a dedicated materials line will be set up on the Arkema Research Center site in Lacq (France) with the aim of delivering precisely defined, high purity, and highly reproducible materials on an industrial scale in order to enable supply to the semiconductor industry.
|Meanwhile, new materials will be developed and optimized for next generation electronic chips.
|PLACYD will strengthen the partners position in their respective markets such as materials, equipment, EDA (Electronic Design Automation), and semiconductors, and it will secure and accelerate potential DSA lithography adoption by industry through proper materials supply and infrastructure availability.
|Project participants
|Coordinator: Arkema (France)
|A global chemical company and Frances leading chemicals producer, Arkema is building the future of the chemical industry every day. Deploying a responsible, innovation-based approach, we produce state-of-the-art specialty chemicals that provide customers with practical solutions to such challenges as climate change, access to drinking water, the future of energy, fossil fuel preservation and the need for lighter materials. With operations in more than 40 countries, some 14,000 employees and 10 research centers, Arkema generates annual revenue of some 6.5 billion, and holds leadership positions in all its markets with a portfolio of internationally recognized brands. www.arkema.com
|CEA-Leti (France)
|By creating innovation and transferring it to industry, Leti is the bridge between basic research and production of micro- and nanotechnologies that improve the lives of people around the world. Backed by its portfolio of 2,200 patents, Leti partners with large industrials, SMEs and startups to tailor advanced solutions that strengthen their competitive positions. It has launched more than 50 startups. Its 8,000m² of new-generation cleanroom space feature 200mm and 300mm wafer processing of micro and nano solutions for applications ranging from space to smart devices. Letis staff of more than 1,700 includes 200 assignees from partner companies. Leti is based in Grenoble, France, and has offices in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Tokyo. Visit www.leti.fr for more information.
|STMicroelectronics (France)
|ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the spectrum of sense and power and automotive products and embedded processing solutions. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life augmented.
|Intel IPLS (Ireland)
|Intel Corporation is a leader in semiconductor manufacturing, producing integrated circuits and conducting R&D globally. Ireland is Intel's manufacturing and technology centre for Europe. The Leixlip site in County Kildare employs approximately 4,500 people and is Intel's fourth largest manufacturing site overall, and the largest outside the United States. On site there is a team responsible for ongoing research in semiconductor manufacturing and nanotechnology in such areas as advanced process control, next wafer size generation, energy efficiency in manufacturing, self-assembly, nano-materials synthesis and integration, nano-photonics, and silicon spintronics. www.intel.ie
|Applied Material Israel (Israel)
|Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT) is the global leader in providing innovative equipment, services and software to enable the manufacture of advanced semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic products. Our technologies help make innovations like smartphones, flat screen TVs and solar panels more affordable and accessible to consumers and businesses around the world.
|Mentor Graphics (France)
|Mentor Graphics® is a leader in electronic design automation software. We enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. Our innovative products and solutions help engineers conquer design challenges in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design.
|ASML (Netherlands)
|University of Cork (Ireland)
|The block copolymer self-assembly group at University College Cork has considerable expertise in the formation, characterization and pattern transfer of block copolymer nanopatterns. They will bring their expertise in pattern formation and characterization using techniques such as transmission electron and helium ion microscopy to generate reproducible and reliable methods for pattern formation at large scales and define quantitative assessment of defectivity in as formed and pattern transferred patterns.
|LCPO-University of Bordeaux (France)
|The LCPO (and particularly the team run by G. Hadziioannou) has lifelong experience in block copolymers (synthesis, physical chemistry and physics) and has already been involved in the development of polymeric materials for DSA applications. In recent years, the LPCO in collaboration with Arkema and CEA-Leti has fostered the development of a technical solution based on a PS / PMMA system for DSA.
|LTM-CNRS (France)
|An academic research laboratory (CNRS and universities) in the field of micro and nanotechnologies, based within the CEA-LETI facilities and with a staff of around 100 people (including PhD students and Post-docs), LTM-CNRS addresses advanced R&D studies in the field of patterning and integration technologies. www.ltm-cnrs.fr
|CNM-CSIC (Spain)
|The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) is the largest public multidisciplinary research organization in Spain. It has a staff of more than 10,000 employees, among them 3,202 scientists, and around 3,802 pre- and postdoctoral researchers in 116 institutes or centers around Spain. CSIC will participate through the National Center for Microelectronics Institute of Microelectronics Barcelona (IMB-CNM), the largest center in Spain devoted to micro/nano electronics and micro/nano systems technology. IMB-CNM has outstanding facilities for micro and nano fabrication in a clean room environment.
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David W. Wilson, PhD, has been hired as the Chief Assessment Officer and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Lindenwood University.
Wilson begins his work on campus March 1. President James D. Evans, PhD, said Wilson will be responsible for analyzing Lindenwood's current system of comprehensive student and program assessment, as well as planning, authorizing, and directing implementation of improved assessment methods. He will work closely with the leadership in all offices, academic schools, and departments to accomplish those objectives.
"He will have a big job," Evans said. "And I am very confident in his abilities. Dr. Wilson brings nearly four decades of higher education experience as a faculty member and administrator at all levels. He knows as much about assessment in higher education as anyone in the business."
Wilson has spent the last three years as a higher education consultant. He was president of Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Oregon for six years. He was also a vice president at Culver-Stockton College, where he worked in a variety of faculty and administrative positions over a 16-year-period.
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I am pleased to offer a new workshop for those who are interested in the exciting and addictive world of Mail-art.
You may have heard of Artist Trading Cards, Moleskin Journals, or Art Dolls. All of these creations and more can be traded online with artists all over the world. Build a collection of small artwork with your favorite themes, colours, and styles.
I have been actively participating in the Mail-art world for 5 years. I have created over 500 pieces of mail-art, and traded them over the internet with other artists from Japan, to New Zealand, to Mexico, to the States, and here at home.
In this workshop you will benefit from my experience, gain a basic knowledge of the Mail-art phenomenon and leave with all the tools to start mailing and trading yourself. Not to mention in the added comfort of my spacious professional art studio, Gallery IS, located in Downtown Red Deer.
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Adult Workshop: 5 - 8 participants.
Included : A starter kit which includes; A Mail-Art for Beginners Booklet, folder with plastic storage sheets, and ATC blanks.
This workshop is strictly for adults. For the experienced hobbiest, or artist who wishes to make the leap into this exciting world of Mail-Art.
Bring your own favorite materials to the studio and I will guide you step by step, through the basics of trading online, and mailing your artwork. The class will create its own Swap, where you will make and trade with your fellow classmates to start your own collection.
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Ages 13 - 17.
Included : A starter kit which includes; A Mail-Art for Beginners Booklet, folder with plastic storage sheets, and ATC blanks. Access to professional quality materials which will be provided.
A unique opportunity for teen artists to soak up the atmosphere of a professional artist's studio, and learn from a working artist. Each day of the workshop will be structured through a project based approach, so that your teen will leave with artwork they can trade immediately, and also a collection of art by their fellow participants.
Workshop Dates : Wednesday - Friday July 17/18/19, 2013 - 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
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Why do they torture me? Soon I'll be buying a brand new steel road bike. And, although I decided that I was going to compliment my older 1987 Marinoni with another Marinoni, something else reared it's ...head badge. Guy was over for lunch and then we talked during our ride about the De Rosa Corum Steel model. Oh, it's a beauty dressed in Deccadi Steel alright and has a catchy color name, too. It's color is Azzurro Italia. And it hits me right in my 'tifosi' heart. But, it's alluring with just the right amount of TIG wielded love in a modern Italian body.
And steel is back into the racing scene. Look at the Indiana based Men of Steel Racing Club (good article here) and their love for the steel road bike. They have a race ready steel Corum bike weighing in at 16 pounds! The Marinoni tears at me with it's familiar blend of Canadian/Italian sophistication and I know no other love ...until now.
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Bail Bonding
Dixie Bonding provides bail bonding serves in Lamar, Fayette, Pickens, Marion and Winston Counties in Alabama.
Dixie Bonding provides fast and curtsies service for all clientele.
An exhalent working relationship has been established over time with Judges, Jails, and Sheriffs, All law enforcement to insure the fair and accurate service you deserve.
How does the bail process work?
Posting of a bail bond this process involves a contractual undertaking guaranteed by a bail agent and the individual posting bail. The bail agent guarantees to the court that the defendant will appear in court each and every time the judge requires them to.
For this service, the defendant is charged a percentage of the bail amount. Before being released the defendant or a relative or friend of the defendant, typically contacts a bail bondsman to arrange for the posting of bail. Prior to the posting of a bail bond, the defendant or a co-signer must guarantee that they will pay the full amount of bail if the defendant does not appear in court.
Typically, a family member or a close friend of the defendant will post bail and cosign. Collateral is not always required for a person to be bailed from jail. Often a person can be bailed from jail on the signature of a friend or family member. Cosigners typically need to be working and either own or rent a home in the same area for some time.
After an agreement is reached, the bail agent posts a bond for the amount of the bail, to guarantee the defendant's return to court.
If the defendant "skips", the cosigner is immediately responsible for the full amount of the bail. If the defendant is located and arrested by the bail agent the cosigner is responsible for all expenses the bail enforcement agent incurs while looking for the defendant.
What is Bail?
The term Bail is used in several distinct senses: (1) It may mean the security—cash or bond—given for the appearance of the prisoner. (2) It may mean the bondsman (i.e., the person who acts as surety for the defendant's appearance, and into whose custody the defendant is released). (3) As a verb, it may refer to the release of the defendant (he was bailed out). The first meaning is the most common and should be employed for clarity.
Admission to bail is the order of a competent court that the defendant be discharged from actual custody upon bail. The discharge on bail is accomplished by the taking of bail (i.e., the acceptance by the court or magistrate of security—either an undertaking or deposit—for the appearance of the defendant before a court for some part of the criminal proceeding).
Bail is evidenced by a bond or recognizance, which ordinarily becomes a record of the court. The bond is in the nature of a contract between the state on one side and the defendant and his sureties on the other. The agreement basically is that the state will release the defendant from custody the sureties will undertake that the defendant will appear at a specified time and place to answer the charge made against him. If the defendant fails to appear, the sureties become the absolute debtor of the state for the amount of the bond.
What is the purpose of bail?
The purpose of bail is to assure the attendance of the defendant, when his or her presence is required in court, whether before or after conviction. Bail is not a means of punishing a defendant, nor should there be a suggestion of revenue to the government.
Do I get my money back after the defendant goes to court?
When the bail bond has served its purpose, the surety will be exonerated (i.e., released from the obligation). Exoneration normally occurs when the proceeding is terminated in some way or on the return of the defendant to custody. After conviction, the defendant appears for sentence. If sentenced to imprisonment the defendant is committed to the custody of the sheriff, and the liability of the surety terminates. You will not receive any money back that you have paid a bail bondsman.
What if the person I bail out skips?
The surety or depositor may arrest the defendant, or authorize a bail enforcement agent or private investigator to do so for the purpose of surrendering him into custody to ensure his future appearance. This extraordinary power of the bail bondsman is of ancient origin. When bail is given, the principal is regarded as delivered to the custody of his sureties. The following may be authorized to arrest a bail fugitive: A certified law enforcement officer. A person licensed by the State to do so (i.e., holding a bail license in another state and authorized in writing by the bail or depositor to make the arrest). A person contracted and authorized in writing by the bail or depositor to do so, Bail Recovery Agent, A private Investigator. Persons doing the foregoing have been called bounty hunters, yet the term does not fit the facts of today's world, they are acting under contract.
If the defendant does not appear and the court orders a forfeiture can it be set aside if he later appears?
A court will sometimes order bail forfeited on the defendant's nonappearance, then vacate the forfeiture to reinstate the bail when the defendant appears and offers an explanation for the absence. Some instances of this would be the nonappearance because of death, illness, or insanity, or detention by civil or military authorities, and if the absence was not with the connivance of the bail (acquiescence of the bonding company to the absence). An example of illness would be where the defendant is confined to bed by reason of a doctor's order. If a defendant flees and the prosecuting agency does not seek extradition the bail may be exonerated.
If the defendant has skipped town, what must the bail fugitive recovery person be able to show? Is that person a bounty hunter?
That he possesses the authority to arrest by virtue of satisfying any licensure requirements a state may impose upon such a person. Additionally, he or she must have in their possession proper documentation of authority to apprehend issued by the bail or depositor, which shall include the name of the individual authorized to apprehend the bail fugitive, the address of the principal office, the name and business address of the bail agency, or other party contracting with the individual authorized to apprehend a bail fugitive. In a historical sense they are a bounty hunter as they generally are contracted to do this and are remunerated for their services by the bail agency or other contracting party. The bounty hunters of old are not the bail enforcement agents of today. Some jurisdictions require significant training and licensure of persons engaged in the recovery of bail absconders.
What if the underlying criminal charge is dismissed?
Statutes provide for exoneration of the surety in the event of dismissal. However, there is usually a time period within which the prosecuting agency may seek to re-arrest and charge with a public offense arising out of the same act or omission upon which the action or proceeding was based. You will not receive any money back from the bail bond company.
When can bail be increased?
After a defendant has been released, the court in which the charge is pending may require him to give additional bail in an amount specified or to meet an additional condition upon a finding made in open court that the defendant has failed to appear; or that additional facts have been presented that were not shown at the time of the original release order, and the court may order him to commitment unless he or she gives such bail or meets such other conditions.
What else may happen when a defendant fails to appear?
The court may issue a bench warrant for his apprehension and arrest for the failure to appear upon the underlying charge, which would thus be a separate chargeable offense, separate and distinct from the original charge. The appropriate agency will enter each bench warrant issued on a private surety—bonded felony case into the national warrant system (National Crime Information Center (NCIC)).
What is an immigration bond?
An immigration bond issued for delivery of an alien guarantees that the individual will appear for all I.N.S. hearings on time and depart the United States at a specified date.
An immigration bond conditioned for maintenance of an alien, guarantees that the person will be financially independent during the time he/she is in the United States.
What is a bail bond indemnitor?
A bail bond indemnitor is the co-signer for the bail bond. The indemnitor is responsible for seeing that all premiums are paid for a defendant's bail bond.
Bail bonds are normally good for one year. If the case continues for longer than a year, additional premiums will be due and collected for each year the case goes on.
Bail bond premiums are not refundable, as they are used for the bail agent's expenses, etc. The indemnitor is also responsible for additional expenses incurred by the bail agent in the transaction of a bail bond, such as long distance calls, travel, etc.
An indemnitor is no longer liable for the defendant's bond when the defendant has completes all of his/her court appearances, and when all premiums have been paid. It is best to contact the bail bond company when the bail bond is exonerated by the court, for the expedient return of any collateral pledged and to confirm that the bond is exonerated.
In the event of forfeiture, the indemnitor is liable until the full amount of the bail has been paid, plus any expenses incurred, or until the court exonerates the bond. The bond then becomes void.


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The Yomiuri Shimbun reports, "A series of classic works by renowned novelists is proving popular due to innovative designs and the fact the text is printed using lateral text rather than the vertical columns usually used for Japanese novels."
The first two books in the Meisaku Bungaku (Masterpiece Literature) series are single volume editions of Soseki Natsume's "Kokoro" (Heart) and Osamu Dazai's "Ningen Shikkaku" (No Longer Human), both published on Aug. 1.
The venture by the publisher, Goma Books, is aimed at getting young people to read classic fiction in a similar manner to the way they read novels on mobile phones.
The two books feature photographs of actresses on their front covers, and the type is not the usual black, but features colors such as orange and bright green to give the books a casual feel. Such designs, coupled with the horizontal text, have helped the publisher sell more than 50,000 copies of the novels since they were put on sale.
The two books were among 60 novels made available on the Goma Books mobile phone Web site in April last year. They were selected due to their great popularity.
Copyright on all the site's books has expired because at least 50 years have passed since the death of their authors.
Some site users said they found it easy to read the masterpieces when they were written horizontally rather than vertically. The site attracts about 100 million hits a month, prompting the publisher to put out printed forms of the works.
As well as the switch from vertical to horizontal text, other ideas also were adopted.
Reading ease was taken into account, with the publisher using fewer words per page and more space between lines. Kana syllables are also frequently printed alongside kanji to aid readers.
My favorite bit, in part because I wonder if the first sentence had ever been uttered before, comes next. Or is this a topic that has been hotly debated among the Japanese literati?
"The emotions [of the work] are not lost with lateral writing," said Yutaka Akiyama–a former editor at publisher Iwanami Shoten–who was responsible for compiling the complete works of Soseki. "Soseki himself wrote his notes horizontally."
The second batch of three works, which include Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "Kumo no Ito" (The Spider's Thread), came out Friday.
source: Laterally printed classics prove hit, Daily Yomiuri Online, August 23, 2008


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So Violet has started to take her first steps! This video was shot last week and we needed to get it posted now, because she is catching on so quickly.
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Since I had the video camera out, here is another of the funny things that Violet does during dinner.
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With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Those were the greatest winter games ever. With or without the Figure Skating scandal. Upon completion of those games, I set out to try and enlist in the Torino games. The Vancouver games snuck up on me. So why were they the greatest games? Because I was a volunteer.
I had the privilege of being a French Linguist/Translator at the Medals Plaza. Our tasks there varied from day to day. But we got to see most of the medalists, talk to many of them, talk to dignitaries, and see some pretty good fireworks and concerts. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would do it again and again if opportunity presented itself. Being an Olympics Volunteer for games held in a country other than your home country can be quite pricey. For those that are able to continue to volunteer internationally despite the cost – kudos.
Besides the Olympics, I have been pondering the act of "service." One can give service in many ways, and many of them for more subtle than the grandeur of the Olympics. Some find service opportunities through religion. Others find service through community involvement. Still others may perform service through professional affiliations, big events, or because a judge told them to do it.
I think that giving service through community, church, or relief efforts pretty much explain themselves. How can one give service through professional affiliations? As a DBA, I am affiliated with PASS, SQLServerCentral (loosely), and my local Users Groups. I don't get paid by any of these affiliations except in the increased knowledge. What can one do through these affiliations?
I think it first needs to be understood that none of these professional communities can function without member participation. People throughout these communities give freely of time, talent and skills to help each other. It's not easy and most have other responsibilities to tend to daily. I think I summed up how to participate quite nicely in my article about Users Group Participation. I think the same kinds of principles apply to PASS and forum participation. PASS is looking for volunteers currently for Summit, and I understand there are more opportunities later to volunteer at Summit to help that event run smoothly. Forum participation can be performed at various levels. One can "Troll" or one can actively engage in the forums for the benefit of the community.
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UPDATE: JamesNT sent me an update to his comments in this post. It's interesting to see the EHR vendors' evolution on the question of openness.
JamesNT wrote a really interesting forum post recently about how a number of EMR vendors are holding doctor's patient information "ransom" (his word) from them. Here's his whole description and he even names a few EMR vendors and the challenges related to getting the EMR data out of their systems:
To many EMR's lock up the practice's data and hold it for ransom. The data entered into an EMR belongs to the practice, not the EMR. It is not fair for EMR's to not provide ways to interface or export data from the database. If a doctor wants to hire an IT person or developer such as myself to write custom reports or export data from the EMR, then it should be possible. Consider the following examples:
Amazing Charts: They use SQL Server 2005 Express as their database but they remove the built-in Administrator account from the SQL instance and change the SQL Server SA password. This means anyone hoping to interface or export data is at a loss – and Amazing Charts will not share the SA password. Amazing Charts also does not publish a database diagram.
eClinicalWorks: Overly complicated database. Does not publish mySQL password (you can find it, though). Does not publish database schema. If you ask them for help, they want to charge $5000 to build an interface.
PODMED (now TrakNet): Kudos for sharing the SQL Server SA password – but does not offer a published database schema.
GE Centricity: Database schema available – if you are willing to tell a bold-faced lie to someone to get it.
Medinotes: Even after sunsetting the product, Allscripts refuses to give out the ODBC driver and database password.
MD Logic: Uses a pathetic HL7 file interface. You can place only one patient demographic in each file – so if you have 200 patients to update that means sending 200 files.
Officemate: Uses SQL Server and it is easy to get to their database – but they do not offer the schema.
I find this situation deplorable. Every EMR should make it easy to get to the data and not try to hide it or charge outrageous amounts for an interface. Seriously – who here would pay $5000 to make an interface?
Of course, he's just highlighting the EMR software he's used. I'm sure there are hundreds more EMR vendors like this.
Then, there's also EMR vendors that don't hold your EMR data for ransom like Medtuity. Here's what Matt Chase from Medtuity said about what they provide to users of their EMR:
At Medtuity, we provide open access to the SQL database. We also provide an export facility under Options. You can export each and every encounter, years and years worth if you wish, to a PDF file for each visit, neatly labeled with the date of the encounter and pt's name to keep it from colliding with other PDF documents. You can also export a CCR for each pt.
We also have our own proprietary format in XML. For a group with a huge number of records, they may wish to hire a consultant to write a program to consume that xml into a new system. Our xml format is most complete and includes the stuff you would not usually wish to transfer (the audit trail on that chart, for example). But it is there. We also have CSV format, but let's face it, you cannot export sophisticated data in a CSV format. It's fine for demographics.
How "liquid" is the data in your EMR software? This discussion is a very important one between you and your EMR vendor when you're selecting an EMR. Make it part of your EMR contract.
More EMR vendors need to voluntarily step up to the plate and provide this type of EMR data liquidity.


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I'm needing to do text on a curve and have been struggling to figure out how to do it with the TextAlongACurve tool that I have read about. The tool doesn't seem to be in my version of Platinum 21. But, then I discovered this: "Not Currently Available in 64-bit editions". What? Do I need to re-install it in a 32-bit version? Are there other things that are only in the 32-bit version? Are there things that I lose from the 64-bit mode?
Where is the egg-on-face emoticon? Will this one do? I've attached a screen shot from this laptop showing that this version, which is 64-bit, does have that tool - although I hadn't checked it when I posted as I was in the shop. But, I swear the one in the shop doesn't have that tool, although I'll check it for sure tomorrow. And, I've attached a screen shot of the HELP entry for curved text for V21 and circled the "Not Currently Available in 64-bit editions".Ok, I've proven that I'm confused. But am I alone?Anyway, thanks Don. Had you not posted while I'm on the little laptop I probably wouldn't have checked as I was convinced this one wouldn't have it either. After all, this is exactly the same version as the shop since they were both installed from the same download. Or, they were initially the same version...... Hmmm, guess I'd better check.
Well, it looks like my rememberer isn't as bad as I thought. As shown in the attached, the version of TurboCAD on the shop computer doesn't have the Text-On-A-Curve tool. How can that be since the TurboCAD installations on both computers came from the same file on a thumb drive? And, both were installed as 64-bit applications. So, what did I do differently on the installation to get different tools? How do I fix it?
Dean - Pro Platinum on both installations.Don & Alvin - No Text-On-A-Curve anywhere in Tools/Customize/Commands, as shown in the attached screen shot.Alvin - The file in Tools/Customize/Options was different on the shop computer, but it is now the same: tc_1024x768pro_pre. And I've restarted TurboCAD with no joy. All - When I load the file I created on the laptop with text on a curve onto the shop computer I get the warning shown below. Basically the curved text isn't supported. Did I miss something in what you guys suggested?
Ok, another update - no joy in Mudville. ...So, what do I do now?
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I assumed that was the case. But, since I'm buying V20 and may, or may not, upgrade that to V21 Platinum, I'm thinking I may wait to do this until then. However, as I think about it, will I even have to install V20 if I'm upgrading? It seems to me that IMSI is pretty open with copies of their applications, but just tight with the Serial Number and Activation Code. So, will they just email me a V21 SN and AC and I'll not even bother to install V20? Does something in the V20 box give me the SN and AC w/o installing so I can prove to IMSI that I bought it?Sooooo many questions! But, I could get by for a few days with using the laptop, although I'll have to load some additional fonts on it to get the graphics I want. However, there is still the question of 32 vs 64-bit software. I'm assuming that if I order a DVD of TurboCAD I get both versions. But, can I easily download both versions if I opt to download the software and not get a DVD? And, do I need/want the 32-bit version?
Yippee! Copying the dll didn't make a difference, but a Repair did. The first clue was when I opened the air cleaner file created on the laptop and didn't get a warning about features this version doesn't support. And, the next was when the file opened with curved text. And then I found the text-along-a-curve tool is there. Thanks, guys! Now, on to working on the file..............
So, "breaking the link" means breaking the link to the text-on-a-curve script/tool. And, if I explode it does the text stay where it was? That would mean I could use the other fonts. Hmmmm.....But, in reality I'm killing a gnat with a sledgehammer. I would think I could use something like Word or Powerpoint to do the same thing, but easier.
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Thanks guys. Looks like the consensus is a 4/3, so that'd be likely what I get. I just haaaaaaate the way the thing sits on you - I feel like a stuffed sausage in it, even though I'm pretty lean. Thinner would have been better, but I am spoiled riding with nothing but shorts most of the year here in FL.
Bille - yeah I got a paraglider that I keep in Seattle (got some family there). Can't wait to hit tiger mountain when I get there!


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I decided to do a wider one the second time around and I love it! Something janky happened on the button edge though…
Working stitches into chain rows is my least favorite part about a crochet project, but I finally learned a way to avoid that! I used a chainless foundation and will probably use this method from now on.
I don't do well with video tutorials (I don't like having to pause, rewind, or fast forward) and prefer picture ones so searched and searched until I found this one by Tracy/Snuffykin.
That's all for now! I think I'll work on some quilt blocks before Modern Family comes on…
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