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09 Aug 13
If biodiversity disappears, what will happen to our food?
Biodiversity is our insurance policy for the future, allowing plants and animals to adapt to climatic changes, attacks by parasites and disease, or the unexpected. A system that is biologically varied is endowed with the antibodies to counter dangerous organisms and restore its own equilibrium. A system based on a limited number of varieties, on the other hand, is very fragile. The small-scale farmers, shepherds, fishers that know and respect the fragile balance of nature are the earth's last true custodians. If biodiversity disappears, together with wild flora and fauna, many domesticated plants and animal breeds will also disappear. Today 60% of the world's food is based on just three cereals: wheat, rice and corn. Not on the thousands of rice varieties selected by farmers, once cultivated in India and China, or on the thousands of varieties of corn that used to be grown in Mexico, but on the few hybrid varieties selected and sold to farmers by a handful of multinationals.
Slow Food's mission has always been focused on the defense of biodiversity: domesticated, edible biodiversity. Meaning not just pandas and polar bears, but also Gascon chickens and Alpago lambs; not just edelweiss and rainforests, but also violet asparagus from Albenga and traditional Swiss plum orchards. Biodiversity is not some abstract concept. It's all around us, and it's endangered too.
The good news is that we can all do our bit to protect the biodiversity of our local area, in our part of the world, every day. Not by focusing on what we've already lost, but what we can still save. You can protect biodiversity by championing the unique plant and animal species and food practices from your culture.
Three new downloadable publications from the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity will show you how you can actively get involved in protecting our biodiversity.
The first booklet, Biodiversity, explores the definition and the importance of biodiversity—what is it, what it has to do with our daily food and what can we do to preserve it.
The second details Slow Food's Ark of Taste project, an online catalog of endangered foods from around the world. The Ark of Taste was created to draw attention to the existence of these products and the risk of their extinction and to ask everyone to take action to help protect them. The booklet details how to identify products from your area that may be at risk of extinction and how to nominate them for the Ark.
The third booklet details the Presidia, Slow Food projects working with groups of small-scale producers of a particular endangered product, helping them resolve difficulties, uniting isolated producers and connecting them with alternative markets more sensitive to their situation and appreciative of their quality products. The booklet details how to create a Presidium, build relationships with producers and organize activities.
You can download the booklets at www.slowfoodfoundation.org, and take a step towards saving our planet's biodiversity today.
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Bill Ackman's Herbalife (NYSE: HLF) short is getting a lot of attention off late. Although Ackman was able to crush Herbalife's stock price from $42 to $24 in just three days after disclosing his short position, the stock has recovered most of its lost ground. A lot of hedge fund managers have taken opposing bet and the most prominent hedge fund manager among them is Dan Loeb of Third Point LLC. If reports are to be believed, Dan Loeb also took an opposite bet on Ackman's huge long position in JC Penney (NYSE: JCP). Although Ackman is patiently holding JC Penney despite of its steep price decline, Dan Loeb (if the reports are true) has already made a good amount of money from his short position.
In this article I am take a brief look on JC Penney. The company is struggling to revamp its image as an old-fashioned department store into a branded store outlet. I do understand that such transformations take a significant amount of time and effort. However, this makeover strategy is costing a lot more than expected as reflected in declining shoppers and falling cash balances. It's really tough to guess how long the company will take to carry out its transformational policy and whether the investors will be patient till then. One thing in particular which is worrying is poor performance of JC Penney's online platform.
During its last quarter (3Q12), the company's Internet sales via jcp.com saw a sharp decline of ~37% y/y to ~$214 million. This is an important issue given the increasing shift in preference of younger population toward online shopping. J C Penney is putting a lot of efforts to improve its online sales; however it is falling at in these efforts with respect to its peers. The company is currently running a sale of 30% discount on selected outerwear on its online platform that was its response to the rising competitive pressure online. This remains a concern area for the company as its two main competitors Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) and Macy's (NYSE: M) are playing a safer bet with good performance in their online segments.
Kohl's Corp provides online shopping through its website Kohls.com. It is among those retailers that have opened their largest online distribution centers. The company is coming up with various exciting offers in its stores as well as online to improve its sales for higher profitability. It recently announced a Dream Receipt campaign in all its stores and also on Kohls.com. Under this campaign, the company picked up one winner every day randomly and paid for the winner's entire purchase that day. It has ~23000 winners till date and has created a joyful experience for its customers in this holiday season. This will surely help the company post good sales figures along with improved customer loyalty. Another thing which I like about Kohl is that it is one of the low cost operators in the retail industry. It is constantly keeping its SG&A expenses low, which leads to a good profit margin of ~6%.
On similar lines, Macy's is also benefiting from its online shopping platform macys.com. The company handled around 60k orders on one of the busiest days in this shopping season. It is planning to increase that figure to three times in the next two years. To achieve an improved supply management for its online customers, the company recently opened a distribution center worth ~$150 million which can stock ~1million shoes at a time. This center will help Macy's to ensure a better delivery process which can further improve profit margins. Also, the company is adding distribution facilities for its online orders to its existing stores too. Already 292 out of its 800 stores have this facility and the company is planning to add another 200 stores to that list in the next year. These moves will give an opportunity to Macy's to compete with the e-commerce giants such as Amazon in an effective way.
Turning back to J C Penney, the company is resorting to heavy promotional activities to increase its store-traffic. This is the only one factor which I feel is giving a slight optimism to the investors. The company is planning to pull-back its turnaround strategy in 2013 based on its performance from more aggressive promotions. It issued a new 'friends and family' discount which offered an additional 20% off and some heavy discounts on winter wears. With a few exceptions, items were on sale in almost all the segments. While these promotions look sensible in the current retail scenario, they can cause a big dent to the company's margins. This could smash the company's plan of ~$900 million of savings in SG&A expenses. I remain extremely cautious on this move, as this will also have an effect on the operating margins of the company in the next results. And, at this moment J C Penney cannot afford to lose out on its profits because of these increased costs.
To sum it up, I feel the turnaround strategy for J C Penney is a long process and the issue here is that the shareholders are already running out of patience. The company is not performing well and the near-term prospects look gloomy. The company requires heavy capital expenditure to transform its business completely. However it is already facing a risk of declining cash balances and the current promotional activities will further deteriorate the situation. I don't question the company's strategy for improving its shop performance, but I am also looking for some serious signs of stability that seem to be missing!
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Louisville coach Rick Pitino makes a base salary of $3.9 million.
The entire Wichita State basketball program runs on a budget of just over $3 million.
That doesn't mean there aren't some advantages enjoyed by the Shockers, who will faced the Cardinals in the Final Four on Saturday night. Their strong aviation programs means they have a fleet of private planes at their disposal, and the fact that they no longer have a football program means Gregg Marshall's basketball team is the biggest thing going on campus.
Besides, the startling disparity in financial resources between Wichita State and fellow Final Four teams Louisville, Michigan and Syracuse hardly means much on the hardwood, where the Shockers already have proven that everybody can be equal.
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It was 50 years ago today that civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down in front of his Jackson home. In celebration of his life and legacy, The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute sponsored the "Celebration on the Green" in the Mississippi Museum of Art garden.
The family friendly event included speakers who reflected on their interactions with Evers. There was also a literacy fair, entertainment and face painting for kids.
Organizers hope the event spread knowledge about what Evers lived and died for.
"Medgar Evers was from Mississippi and I think its very important to make sure all Mississippians support his movement and what he believed in," said Celebration on the Green organizer Jacqueline Berry.
The Mississippi Museum of Art has a small exhibit on Evers and his Widow, Myrlie Evers. It's on display through August 18th.
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New Hollywood
|This article possibly contains original research. (December 2013)
|The New Hollywood
|Years active
|United States
|Major figures
|Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Carroll Ballard, Warren Beatty, Robert Benton, Peter Bogdanovich, John Boorman, Michael Cimino, Brian De Palma, Clint Eastwood, Miloš Forman, Bob Fosse, William Friedkin, George Roy Hill, Dennis Hopper, John Huston, Norman Jewison, Philip Kaufman, Richard Lester, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, Terrence Malick, John Milius, Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Alan J. Pakula, Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Bob Rafelson, John Schlesinger, Paul Schrader, Ridley Scott, Don Siegel, Steven Spielberg, Robert Towne
|French New Wave, Japanese cinema, European art cinema, Classical Hollywood
New Hollywood or post-classical Hollywood, sometimes referred to as the "American New Wave", refers to the time from roughly the late-1960s (Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate) to the early 1980s (Heaven's Gate, One from the Heart) when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence in America, influencing the types of films produced, their production and marketing, and the way major studios approached filmmaking. In New Hollywood films, the film director took on a key authorial role.
The films they made were part of the studio system, and although these individuals were not "independent filmmakers", they introduced subject matter and styles that set them apart from the studio traditions that an earlier generation had established ca. 1920s–1950s. New Hollywood has also been defined as a broader filmmaking movement influenced by this period, which has been called the "Hollywood renaissance".[1]
- 1 Background and overview
- 2 Bonnie and Clyde
- 3 The end of the era
- 4 Interpretations on defining the era
- 5 List of important figures in the era
- 6 List of notable films
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 Bibliography
- 10 External links
Background and overview[edit]
Following the Paramount Case, which ended block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios and the advent of television, both of which severely weakened the traditional studio system, Hollywood studios initially used spectacle to retain profitability. Technicolor developed a far more widespread use, while widescreen processes and technical improvements, such as CinemaScope, stereo sound and others, such as 3-D, were invented in order to retain the dwindling audience and compete with television. However, these were generally unsuccessful in increasing profits.[2] By 1957 Life magazine called the previous decade "the horrible decade" for Hollywood.[3]
The 1950s and early 60s saw a Hollywood dominated by musicals, historical epics, and other films that benefited from the larger screens, wider framing and improved sound. Hence, as early as 1957, the era was dubbed a "New Hollywood".[3] However, audience share continued to dwindle, and had reached alarmingly low levels by the mid-1960s. Several costly flops, including Tora, Tora, Tora, and Hello, Dolly!, and failed attempts to replicate the success of The Sound of Music, put great strain on the studios.[4]
By the time the baby boomer generation was coming of age in the 1960s, 'Old Hollywood' was rapidly losing money; the studios were unsure how to react to the much changed audience demographics. The change in market during the period went from a middle aged high school educated audience in the mid 60s, to a younger, more affluent,college-educated demographic; by the mid 70s, 76% of all movie-goers were under 30, 64% of whom had gone to college.[5] European art films (especially the Commedia all'italiana, the French New Wave, and the Spaghetti Western) and Japanese cinema were making a splash in America — the huge market of disaffected youth seemed to find relevance and artistic meaning in movies like Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup, with its oblique narrative structure and full-frontal female nudity.[6][7]
The desperation felt by studios during this period of economic downturn, and after the losses from expensive movie flops, led to innovation and risk-taking, allowing greater control by younger directors and producers.[8] Therefore, in an attempt to capture that audience which found a connection to the "art films" of Europe, the Studios hired a host of young filmmakers (many of whom were mentored by Roger Corman) and allowed them to make their films with relatively little studio control. This, together with the breakdown of the Production Code in 1966 and the new ratings system in 1968 (reflecting growing market segmentation) set the scene for New Hollywood.[9]
Characteristics of the New Hollywood films[edit]
This new generation of Hollywood filmmaker was predominantly film school-educated, counterculture-bred, and, most importantly, from the point of view of the studios, young, therefore able to reach the youth audience they were losing. This group of young filmmakers—actors, writers and directors—dubbed the "New Hollywood" by the press, briefly changed the business from the producer-driven Hollywood system of the past, and injected movies with a jolt of freshness, energy, sexuality, and a passion for the artistic value of film itself.
Todd Berliner has written about the period's unusual narrative practices. The 1970s, Berliner says, marks Hollywood's most significant formal transformation since the conversion to sound film and is the defining period separating the storytelling modes of the studio era and contemporary Hollywood. Seventies films deviate from classical narrative norms more than Hollywood films from any other era. Their narrative and stylistic devices threaten to derail an otherwise straightforward narration. Berliner argues that five principles govern the narrative strategies characteristic of Hollywood films of the 1970s:
- 1. Seventies films show a perverse tendency to integrate, in narratively incidental ways, story information and stylistic devices counterproductive to the films' overt and essential narrative purposes.
- 2. Hollywood filmmakers of the 1970s often situate their filmmaking practices in between those of classical Hollywood and those of European and Asian art cinema.
- 3. Seventies films prompt spectator responses more uncertain and discomforting than those of more typical Hollywood cinema.
- 4. Seventies narratives place an uncommon emphasis on irresolution, particularly at the moment of climax or in epilogues, when more conventional Hollywood movies busy themselves tying up loose ends.
- 5. Seventies cinema hinders narrative linearity and momentum and scuttles its potential to generate suspense and excitement.[10]
Technically, the greatest change the New Hollywood filmmakers brought to the art form was an emphasis on realism. This was made possible when the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system was introduced and location shooting was becoming more viable. Because of breakthroughs in film technology (e.g. the Panavision Panaflex camera, introduced in 1972), the New Hollywood filmmakers could shoot 35mm camera film in exteriors with relative ease. Since location shooting was cheaper (no sets need to be built) New Hollywood filmmakers rapidly developed the taste for location shooting, which had the effect of heightening the realism and immersion of their films, especially when compared to the artificiality of previous musicals and spectacles. The use of editing to artistic effect was also an important factor in New Hollywood cinema, e.g. Easy Rider's use of editing to foreshadow the climax of the movie, as well as subtler uses, such as editing to reflect the feeling of frustration in Bonnie and Clyde and the subjectivity of the protagonist in The Graduate.[11] Aside from realism, New Hollywood films often featured anti-establishment political themes, use of rock music, and sexual freedom deemed "counter-cultural" by the studios. The popularity of these films with young people shows the importance of these thematic elements and artistic values with a more cinematically knowledgeable audience.[12] The youth movement of the 1960s turned anti-heroes like Bonnie and Clyde and Cool Hand Luke into pop culture idols, and Life magazine called the characters in Easy Rider "part of the fundamental myth central to the counterculture of the late 1960s."[13] Easy Rider also had an impact on the way studios looked to reach the youth market.[14] The success of Midnight Cowboy, in spite of its X rating, was evidence for the interest in controversial themes at the time and also showed the weakness of the rating system and segmentation of the audience.[15]
Bonnie and Clyde[edit]
Perhaps the most significant film for the New Hollywood generation was Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. Produced by and starring Warren Beatty and directed by Arthur Penn, its mix of graphic violence, sex and humor as well as its theme of glamorous disaffected youth was a hit with audiences, and received Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons) and Best Cinematography.
When Jack L. Warner, then-CEO of Warner Bros., first saw a rough cut of Bonnie and Clyde in the summer of 1967, he hated it. Distribution executives at Warner Brothers agreed, giving the film a low-key premiere and limited release. Their strategy appeared justified when Bosley Crowther, middle brow film critic at The New York Times, gave the movie a scathing review. "It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy," he wrote, "that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cut-ups in Thoroughly Modern Millie..." Other notices, including those from Time and Newsweek magazines, were equally dismissive.[16]
Its portrayal of violence and ambiguity in regard to moral values, and 'shock' ending, divided critics. Following one of the negative reviews, Time magazine received letters from fans of the movie, and according to journalist Peter Biskind, the impact of critic Pauline Kael in her positive review of the film (October 1967, New Yorker) led other reviewers to follow her lead and re-evaluate the film (notably Newsweek and Time).[17] Kael drew attention to the innocence of the characters in film and the artist merit of the contrast with the violence in the film: "In a sense, it is the absence of sadism — it is the violence without sadism — that throws the audience off balance at Bonnie and Clyde. The brutality that comes out of this innocence is far more shocking than the calculated brutalities of mean killers." Kael also noted the reaction of audiences to the violent climax of the movie, and the potential to empathise with the gang of criminals in terms of their naiveté and innocence reflecting a change in expectations of American cinema.[18]
The cover story in Time magazine in December 1967, celebrated the movie and innovation in American New wave cinema. This influential article by Stefan Kanfer claimed that Bonnie and Clyde represented a "New Cinema" through its blurred genre lines, and disregard for honoured aspects of plot and motivation, and that "In both conception and execution, Bonnie and Clyde is a watershed picture, the kind that signals a new style, a new trend."[7] Biskind states that this review and turnaround by some critics allowed the film to be re-released, thus proving its commercial success and reflecting the move to New Hollywood.[19] The impact of this film is important in understanding the rest of the American New Wave, as well as the conditions that were necessary for it.
These initial successes paved the way for the studio to relinquish almost complete control to these innovative young filmmakers. In the mid-1970s, idiosyncratic, startling original films such as Paper Moon, Dog Day Afternoon, Chinatown and Taxi Driver among others (see below), enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success. These successes by the members of New Hollywood led each of them in turn to make more and more extravagant demands, both on the studio and eventually on the audience.
The end of the era[edit]
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In retrospect, Jaws (1975) and Star Wars (1977) marked the beginning of the end for the New Hollywood era. With their unprecedented box-office successes, Steven Spielberg's and George Lucas's films jumpstarted Hollywood's blockbuster mentality, giving studios a new paradigm of how to make money in the changing commercial landscape. The focus on high-concept premises, with greater concentration on tie-in merchandise (such as toys), spin-offs into other media (such as soundtracks), and the use of sequels (which had been made more respectable by Coppola's The Godfather Part II), all showed the studios how to make money in the new environment.
On realizing how much money could potentially be made in films, major corporations started buying up the Hollywood studios. The corporate mentality these companies brought to the filmmaking business would slowly squeeze out the more idiosyncratic of these young filmmakers, while ensconcing the more malleable and commercially successful of them.
The New Hollywood's ultimate demise came after a string of box office failures that many critics viewed as self-indulgent and excessive. Directors had enjoyed unprecedented creative control and budgets during the New Hollywood era, but such expensive flops as At Long Last Love, New York, New York, and Sorcerer caused the studios to increase their control over production.
New Hollywood excess culminated in two unmitigated financial disasters: Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980) and Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (1982). After astronomical cost overruns stemming from Cimino's demands, Heaven's Gate only earned $3.5 million in box-office sales after costing $44 million to produce. The loss was so great that it forced United Artists into bankruptcy, resulting in its sale to MGM. Coppola, having flourished after the near financial disaster of Apocalypse Now, plowed all of the enormous success of that film into American Zoetrope, effectively becoming his own studio head. As such, he bet it all on One from the Heart, which only took in $636,000—barely a fraction of the $26 million it cost to make. The film lasted only a week in theaters, bankrupting Coppola and his fledgling studio. (Following the box-office disaster, Hollywood wags started referring to the picture as "One Through the Heart".)
These two costly examples, as well as the above-mentioned box-office failures, coupled with the new commercial paradigm of Jaws and Star Wars gave studios a clear and renewed sense of where the market was going: high-concept, mass-audience, wide-release films. Therefore, the costly and risky strategy of surrendering control to the director ended, and with that, the New Hollywood era.
Interpretations on defining the era[edit]
For Peter Biskind, the new wave was foreshadowed by Bonnie and Clyde and began in earnest with Easy Rider. Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls argues that the New Hollywood movement marked a significant shift towards independently produced and innovative works by a new wave of directors, but that this shift began to reverse itself when the commercial success of Jaws and Star Wars led to the realization by studios of the importance of blockbusters, advertising and control over production.[20]
Writing in 1968, critic Pauline Kael argued that the importance of The Graduate was in its social significance in relation to a new young audience, and the role of mass media, rather than any artistic aspects. Kael argued that college students identifying with the graduate were not too different from audiences identifying with characters in dramas of previous decade.[21]
John Belton points to the changing demographic to even younger, more conservative audiences in the mid 70s (50% aged 12–20) and the move to less politically subversive themes in mainstream cinema.[22]
Thomas Schatz sees the mid to late 1970s as the decline of the art cinema movement as a significant industry force with its peak in 1974–75 with Nashville and Chinatown.[23]
Geoff King sees the period as an interim movement in American cinema where a conjunction of forces lead to a measure of freedom in filmmaking.[24]
Todd Berliner says that seventies cinema resists the efficiency and harmony that normally characterize classical Hollywood cinema and tests the limits of Hollywood's classical model.[25]
List of important figures in the era[edit]
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Many of the filmmakers listed below did multiple chores on various film productions through their careers. They are here listed by the category they are most readily recognized as.
Writers and directors[edit]
The issue of whether or not a specific director belongs to the "New Hollywood" generation is a difficult one to address. Many of those listed below made either their only films or their most successful films (Bogdanovich or Hal Ashby) in this period. Others, such as Martin Scorsese, have continued to make acclaimed and successful films. Aside from this, however, "membership" of the New Generation is a blurred line. Initially, thus, many of these filmmakers' earlier productions (such as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960), Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men (1957), and the early Westerns of Sam Peckinpah) did not play a part in informing the New Generation's zeitgeist as, say, Nashville (1975) or Midnight Cowboy (1969).
- Woody Allen
- Robert Altman
- Hal Ashby
- John G. Avildsen
- Robert Benton
- Peter Bogdanovich
- John Boorman
- Mel Brooks
- John Cassavetes
- Michael Cimino
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Brian De Palma
- Clint Eastwood
- Miloš Forman
- Bob Fosse
- William Friedkin
- Monte Hellman
- George Roy Hill
- Dennis Hopper
- Norman Jewison
- Stanley Kubrick
- George Lucas
- Sidney Lumet
- Terrence Malick
- Paul Mazursky
- John Milius
- Paul Newman
- Mike Nichols
- Alan J. Pakula
- Sam Peckinpah
- Arthur Penn
- Roman Polanski
- Sydney Pollack
- Bob Rafelson
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- John Schlesinger
- Paul Schrader
- Martin Scorsese
- Steven Spielberg
- Robert Towne
Cinematographers, editors, and production designers[edit]
Producers and executives[edit]
According to Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, one aspect of New Hollywood was a de-emphasis on the traditional view of casting physically attractive actors in lead roles; the movement's occasional emphasis on recreating a reality which audiences could relate to resulted in actors with "everyman" looks, such as Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman, getting cast in lead roles that would have been unavailable to their physical type under the classical studio system.[26]
- Vincent Canby, film critic
- Roger Ebert, film critic
- Pauline Kael, film critic
- Sue Mengers, agent
- Andrew Sarris, film critic
- Richard Schickel, film critic
- Gene Siskel, film critic
List of notable films[edit]
The following is a chronological list of those films that are generally considered to be "New Hollywood" productions.
- The Pawnbroker (1964)[27][28]
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)[29]
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)[30][31]
- The Graduate (1967)[30][32][31]
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)[33][31]
- Dont Look Back (1967)[31]
- Point Blank (1967)[34]
- Coogan's Bluff (1968)[35]
- Greetings (1968)[36]
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)[37][38]
- Planet of the Apes (1968)[39]
- Petulia (1968)[37]
- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- The Producers (1968)
- Head (1968)[40]
- Alice's Restaurant (1969)[34]
- Easy Rider (1969)[41][40]
- Medium Cool (1969)[41]
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)[30]
- The Rain People (1969)[42]
- Take the Money and Run (1969)[35]
- The Wild Bunch (1969)[29]
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)[29]
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)[33][32][39]
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)[42]
- Alex in Wonderland (1970)[42]
- Catch-22 (1970)[42]
- Love Story (1970)[32]
- Airport (1970)[32]
- The Strawberry Statement (1970)[29]
- Loving (1970)
- The Landlord (1970)
- Five Easy Pieces (1970)[36][40]
- Little Big Man (1970)[41]
- Brewster McCloud (1970)
- Joe (1970)[29]
- Patton (1970)[39]
- Zabriskie Point (1970)[41]
- Drive, He Said (1971)[40]
- Panic in Needle Park (1971)
- Play Misty for Me (1971)[35]
- Klute (1971)
- A Safe Place (1971)[40]
- McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
- Carnal Knowledge (1971)
- Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)[41]
- The Last Movie (1971)[41]
- The Last Picture Show (1971)[36][40]
- The French Connection (1971)[39]
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Dirty Harry (1971)[35]
- Harold and Maude (1971)
- Straw Dogs (1971)[29]
- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)[41]
- Cabaret (1972)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Fat City (1972)
- Fritz the Cat (1972)[29]
- Images (1972)[42]
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)[32]
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)[42]
- The Godfather (1972)[37][32]
- The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)[36][40]
- What's Up, Doc? (1972)[36]
- Papillon (1973)
- American Graffiti (1973)[32]
- Badlands (1973)[36]
- Dillinger (1973)[36]
- The Long Goodbye (1973)
- The Last Detail (1973)
- Mean Streets (1973)
- Paper Moon (1973)
- Serpico (1973)
- Sisters (1973)[36]
- Sleeper (1973)[35]
- The Exorcist (1973)[32]
- The Sting (1973)[32]
- Thieves Like Us (1974)
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
- Dark Star (1974)[36]
- Harry and Tonto (1974)
- Chinatown (1974)
- The Conversation (1974)[42]
- The Godfather Part II (1974)[35]
- The Sugarland Express (1974)
- The Parallax View (1974)[42]
- A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
- The Towering Inferno (1974)[32]
- Blazing Saddles (1974)[35][32]
- Young Frankenstein (1974)[35]
- Three Days of the Condor (1975)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)[32]
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- The Eiger Sanction (1975)[35]
- Jaws (1975)[43][32]
- Nashville (1975)
- Shampoo (1975)[44]
- The Day of the Locust (1975)
- The Wind and the Lion (1975)[36]
- All the President's Men (1976)
- Carrie (1976)[35]
- Marathon Man (1976)
- Obsession (1976)[43]
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)[35]
- Network (1976)
- Rocky (1976)[32]
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)[35]
- Eraserhead (1977)[36]
- The Gauntlet (1977)[35]
- The Goodbye Girl (1977)
- High Anxiety (1977)[35]
- Julia (1977)
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
- New York, New York (1977)
- Saturday Night Fever (1977)[43]
- Sorcerer (1977)
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)[35]
- 3 Women (1977)[42]
- Blue Collar (1978)[36]
- Coming Home (1978)
- Grease (1978)[43]
- Days of Heaven (1978)[36]
- The Deer Hunter (1978)[36]
- Heaven Can Wait (1978)
- Interiors (1978)[42]
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- An Unmarried Woman (1978)
- National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)[43]
- Halloween (1978)[35]
- ...And Justice for All (1979)
- All That Jazz (1979)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Being There (1979)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Melvin and Howard (1980)[36]
- The Shining (1980)[35]
- Bronco Billy (1980)[35]
- Cruising (1980)
- Dressed to Kill (1980)[43]
- Airplane! (1980)[35]
- American Gigolo (1980)
- Heaven's Gate (1980)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Body Heat (1981)
- Blow Out (1981)
- History of the World, Part I (1981)[35]
- Reds (1981)[44]
- They All Laughed (1981)
- One from the Heart (1982)
See also[edit]
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- ^ King 2002, pp. 1–4.
- ^ David E James, Allegories of Cinema, American film in the Sixties, Princeton University Press, New York, 1989, pp. 14–26
- ^ a b Hodgins, Eric (1957-06-10). "Amid Ruins of an Empire a New Hollywood Arises". Life. p. 146. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
- ^ Thomas Schatz, "The New Hollywood", in Film Theory goes to the Movies, by Jim Collins et al. (eds.) Routledge, New York, 1993, pp. 15–20
- ^ John Belton, American Cinema/American Culture, McGraw/Hill, New York, 1993, p. 290
- ^ David A Cook, "Auteur Cinema and the film generation in 70s Hollywood", in The New American Cinema by Jon Lewis (ed), Duke University Press, New York, 1998, pp. 1–4
- ^ a b Stefan Kanfer, The Shock of Freedom in Films, Time Magazine, Dec 8 1967, Accessed 25 April 2009, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844256-7,00.html
- ^ Tomas Schatz Ibid pp. 14–16
- ^ Schatz ibid
- ^ Todd Berliner, Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema, University of Texas Press, 2010, pp. 51–52
- ^ Paul Monaco, The Sixties, 1960–69, History of American Cinema, University of California Press, London, 2001, p. 183
- ^ Schatz pp. 12–22
- ^ Monaco, pp. 182–188)
- ^ Monaco Ibid
- ^ Belton, Op Cit, p. 288
- ^ NewWaveFilm.com, "New Hollywood" article, March 2013
- ^ Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Bloomsbury, London, 1998, pp. 40–47
- ^ Pauline Kael, "Bonnie and Clyde" in, Pauline Kael, For Keeps (Plume, New York, 1994) pp. 141–57. Originally published in The New Yorker, October 21, 1967
- ^ Biskind Ibid
- ^ Biskind, Op cit, p. 288
- ^ Pauline Kael, "Trash, Art, and the Movies" in Going Steady, Film Writings 1968–69, Marion Boyers, New York, 1994, pp. 125–7
- ^ Belton, Ibid, pp. 292–296
- ^ Schatz, Ibid, p. 20
- ^ King 2002, p. 48.
- ^ Berliner, Ibid.
- ^ Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Bloomsbury, London, 1998, p. 16
- ^ King 2002, p. 39.
- ^ Harris 2009, p. 183.
- ^ a b c d e f g Thompson & Bordwell 2003, p. 515.
- ^ a b c Thompson & Bordwell 2003, p. 513.
- ^ a b c d Harris 2008, p. 1–4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Krämer 2005, p. 8.
- ^ a b Thompson & Bordwell 2003, p. 514.
- ^ a b Harris 2008, p. 386.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Thompson & Bordwell 2003, p. 528.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Thompson & Bordwell 2003, p. 516.
- ^ a b c Thompson & Bordwell 2003, p. 517.
- ^ Harris 2008, pp. 416–417.
- ^ a b c d Harris 2008, p. 422.
- ^ a b c d e f g Crawford, Travis (16 December 2010). "Criterion: American Lost and Found: The BBS Story". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g Thompson & Bordwell 2003, p. 518.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Thompson & Bordwell 2003, p. 519.
- ^ a b c d e f Thompson & Bordwell 2003, p. 527.
- ^ a b Harris 2008, p. 419.
- Biskind, Peter (1998). Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Simon and Schuster) ISBN 978-0-684-85708-4.
- Biskind, Peter (1990). The Godfather Companion: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About All Three Godfather Films (HarperPerennial)
- Belton, John, American Cinema/American Culture, McGraw/Hill, New York, 1993
- Berliner, Todd, Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
- Cook, David A, "Auteur Cinema and the film generation in 70s Hollywood", in The New American Cinema by Jon Lewis (ed), Duke University Press, New York, 1998, pp. 1–37
- Harris, Mark (2008). Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. New York: The Penguin Press.
- Harris, Mark (2009). Scenes from a Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood. Canongate Books. ISBN 9781847671219.
- James, David E, Allegories of Cinema, American film in the Sixties, Princeton University Press, New York, 1989, pp. 1–42
- Kael, Pauline "Bonnie and Clyde" in, Pauline Kael, For Keeps (Plume, New York, 1994) pp. 141–57.
- Kael, Pauline, "Trash, Art, and the Movies" in Going Steady, Film Writings 1968–69, Marion Boyers, New York, 1994, pp87–129
- Kanfer, Stefan, The Shock of Freedom in Films, Time Magazine, Dec 8 1967, Accessed 25 April 2009, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844256-7,00.html
- King, Geoff (2002). New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781860647499.
- Krämer, Peter (2005). The New Hollywood: From Bonnie And Clyde To Star Wars. Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-904764-58-8.
- Monaco, Paul, The Sixties, 1960–69, History of American Cinema, University of California Press, London, 2001, pp. 182–188
- Schatz, Thomas "The New Hollywood", in Film Theory goes to the Movies, by Jim Collins, Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins(eds.) Routledge, New York, 1993 pp. 8–37
- Thompson, Kristin & Bordwell, David (2003), Film History: An Introduction (2nd ed.), McGraw–Hill
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Obligatory Space Shuttle photodump.
Opening of the Space Shuttle Pavilion at the Intrepid
July 19, 2012
For the record, they officially opened the exhibit half an hour earlier (1:30 instead of 2:00). I just happened to be walking by the flight deck when I saw a crowd of people just beginning to form a line there early.
Pretty lucky too. Since there weren't many people who knew it had opened, I was initially able to walk freely (both ways) on the elevated bridge to take photos (you can see kinda see it on the last image), but after 15 minutes or so there was a line inside the pavilion just to go up the same bridge.
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"Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework Released in Furtherance of President Obama's Executive Order," IP Law Alert, October 28, 2013 (Luis J. Diaz, Christian A. Stueben, Justin T. Quinn)
"Reeling in Fishing Expeditions: Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules Are Aimed at Narrowing the Scope of Discovery and Increasing Judicial Management," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 10, 2013
"Can You Find Me Now?: New Jersey Supreme Court Says Police Need a Warrant to Access Location Information From a Cell Phone," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 23, 2013 (Michael C. Landis)
"Father's "Lifestyle" as Portrayed on Internet Causes Dramatic Increase in Child Support Obligations," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 19, 2013 (Christian A. Stueben)
"Predictable? -- DOJ Approves Use of Predictive Coding in AB InBev-Grupo Modelo Merger Investigation," E-Discovery Law Alert, July 24, 2013 (Robert D. Brown, Jr.)
"Somebody's Watching You -- New York Court of Appeals Says State Can Place GPS Device on Employee's Car, But Can Only Collect Data During Work Hours," E-Discovery Law Alert, July 17, 2013 (Michael C. Landis)
"Court Denies Direct Access to Computer, Phones, and Email Account Absent a Finding of Improper Conduct or Non-Compliance With Discovery Rules," E-Discovery Law Alert, July 9, 2013 (Michael C. Landis)
"Monitoring of Employee Computer & Email Usage Under U.S. Law," German American Chamber of Commerce Legal & Tax Newsletter, June 2013 (Mark S. Sidoti, Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"NYC Teacher Nearly Loses Job Due to Facebook Comments About Her Students," E-Discovery Law Alert, June 4, 2013 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"Show Your Work: Google Ordered to Produce Search Terms and Custodians Used When Responding to Apple's Subpoena," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 23, 2013 (Michael C. Landis)
"Judge Scheindlin Weighs Comity Concerns and Orders Production of Documents from Bank of China Despite Violation of Chinese Laws," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 17, 2013 (Jeffrey L. Nagel)
"Federal Judge in New Jersey Issues Adverse Inference Instruction Due to Plaintiff's Failure to Preserve Facebook Information in Personal Injury Action," E-Discovery Law Alert, April 22, 2013 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"E-Discovery in the Class-Action Context: Making the Case for Cost-Shifting," The New Jersey Law Journal, April 1, 2013 (Damian V. Santomauro, Melissa DeHonney)
""Persnickety, Persistent" Questions: The Stored Communications Act," E-Discovery Law Alert, April 1, 2013 (Paul E. Asfendis)
"A Bad "Day" for a Company Whose In-House Attorney Failed to Properly Preserve Relevant Documents," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 28, 2013 (Susan L. Nardone)
"Use of Work Computer Results in Waiver of Marital Communication Privilege," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 21, 2013 (Kevin G. Walsh)
"Delaware Court of Chancery Announces Rule Amendments and New "Must Read" E-Discovery Guidelines," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 4, 2013 (Christopher Viceconte)
"New York State Courts Look to Adopt Rules Requiring Parties to Discuss E-Discovery at the Outset of Litigation," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 31, 2013 (Paul A. Saso)
"E-Discovery Cost-Shifting Approaches Get New Attention From Courts," The Legal Intelligencer, January 29, 2013 (Scott J. Etish, Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"Netflix Case Illustrates Potential Social Media Pitfalls Facing Public Companies," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 18, 2013
"Independent Agents Subject to Litigation Hold," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 11, 2013
"Taking Over Former Employee's LinkedIn Account Not a Violation of Federal Law, According to Pennsylvania District Court," Employment Law Alert, November 5, 2012 (Mitchell Boyarsky)
"Florida Joins the Growing Number of States That Have Adopted Specific Rules Addressing Electronic Discovery," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 22, 2012 (Robert D. Brown, Jr.)
"Broken Record? Maybe, But Even Government Entities Cannot Escape the Failure to Preserve," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 19, 2012 (Jeffrey L. Nagel)
"Harris Running Out of Options: Judge Has Tweets and May Conduct In Camera Review," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 3, 2012 (Paul A. Saso)
""Trust me, I know what I'm doing!" - Court Outlines Perils of Custodian Self-Collection and Inadequate Keyword Searches," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 21, 2012 (Paul A. Saso)
"Leveling the E-Discovery Playing Field: Court Shifts Costs to Putative Class Action Plaintiffs Prior to Class Certification," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 19, 2012
"Between A Rock and Hard Place: Twitter's Back Now Against The Wall In Harris Case," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 17, 2012 (Paul A. Saso)
"Twitter Appeals Order to Produce Tweets," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 11, 2012 (Paul A. Saso)
"Good for the Gander: New NY Pilot Program Shows E-Discovery Is Also On State Courts' Radar," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 10, 2012 (Paul E. Asfendis)
"We Produced Privileged Documents; Now What?," IP Law Alert, September 7, 2012
"Changing the "Games": The First Social Media Olympics," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 28, 2012 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"NY Court Likens Tweeting to "Screaming Out a Window" and Denies Twitter's Motion to Quash in Harris," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 17, 2012 (Paul A. Saso)
"Pennsylvania Supreme Court Adopts E-Discovery Amendments to Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 9, 2012 (Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
""Did I Just Get a Tweet From Goldman Sachs?!?": Increased Expansion and Scrutiny of Social Media in the Financial Services Industry," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 7, 2012
"Dancer's Facebook Messages With Opt-In Class Members are Protected Work Product," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 3, 2012 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"Race to the High Court: Hoosier Racing Seeks High Court Review of Third Circuit's Slashing of E-Discovery Cost Award," E-Discovery Law Alert, July 12, 2012 (Mark S. Sidoti)
"New Jersey District Judge Upholds Sanctions for Camden County's Grossly Negligent Litigation Hold Procedures," July 6, 2012 (Scott J. Etish)
"New Jersey State Courts Enter the E-Discovery Arena in Earnest; Award Sanctions for Email Spoliation," Business Litigation Alert, June 29, 2012 (Kevin W. Weber)
"Attorneys' Use of Social Media to Research Jurors -- Another Ethical Land Mine," E-Discovery Law Alert, June 20, 2012
"High Noon in DC: Judge Facciola Lays Down the Law on Discovery Cooperation," E-Discovery Law Alert, June 18, 2012 (Mark S. Sidoti)
"Motion to Quash Part II: Twitter Seeks to Quash Subpoena Seeking Tweets in Harris Case," E-Discovery Law Alert, June 7, 2012 (Paul A. Saso)
"Judge Peck Stays Defendant's ESI Production in da Silva Moore Pending Resolution of Several Motions," E-Discovery Law Alert, June 5, 2012 (Phillip J. Duffy)
"Your Tweets May Be Held Against You in a Court of Law - #tweetsdiscoverable," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 23, 2012 (Paul A. Saso)
"The Inferior Statutory Penalty Class Action," New Jersey Law Journal - Complex Litigation & E-Discovery, May 21, 2012 (Michael R. McDonald, Damian V. Santomauro)
"Social Media in the Securities Industry: Complying with Reg FD," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 21, 2012
"New York Court Dismisses $20 Million Case as Spoliation Sanction," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 18, 2012 (Paul E. Asfendis)
"Predictive Coding Upheld by District Court: Judge Carter Endorses Judge Peck's Approval of Computer-Assisted ESI Review," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 16, 2012 (Phillip J. Duffy)
"ESI Guidelines for the Bankruptcy Case: The ABA's Electronic Discovery in Bankruptcy Working Group Issues Interim Report," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 14, 2012
"Surf at Your Own Risk: For the First Time in New Jersey, Judge Holds Juror In Contempt for Internet Use During Deliberations," E-Discovery Law Alert, April 24, 2012
"E-SIN: Court Orders Identification of Suspected Porn Pirates," E-Discovery Law Alert, April 2, 2012 (Paul E. Asfendis)
"Pinterest: Potential IP Pitfalls for New Social Networking Trend," IP Law Alert, March 30, 2012 (Owen J. McKeon)
"Inadvertent Production of Two Privileged Pages Among Over Two Million May Waive the Attorney-Client Privilege," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 30, 2012 (Paul A. Saso)
"Third Circuit Finds That Failing to Produce Original Documents May Constitute Sanctionable Spoliation," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 28, 2012 (Susan L. Nardone)
"Not So Fast: Race Tires Court Gives a Flat to Momentum for Broad ESI Cost Shifting Under 28 U.S.C. §1920," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 27, 2012 (Mark S. Sidoti)
"Who's Paying For This? First Department Requires the Producing Party to Initially Bear the Costs of Production in U.S. Bank N.A. v. GreenPoint Mtge. Funding, Inc.," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 26, 2012
"Ex-Juror Who "Friended" Defendant Faces Jail for Bragging on Facebook About Dismissal From Jury Duty," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 22, 2012 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"Taking the Plunge: Judge Peck Issues First Decision Endorsing Computer-Assisted ESI," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 2, 2012 (Phillip J. Duffy)
"Show Some Respect: International Privacy and Comity Concerns May Become More Important in Foreign E-Discovery Disputes," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 1, 2012 (Jeffrey L. Nagel)
"Hard Drive of a Key Non-Party Witness is Searchable in Response to Subpoena," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 28, 2012 (Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"Still No Cure for the Malady of Jurors' Social Media Use During Trials and Deliberations," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 24, 2012
"How a Case Can Crash and Burn: Why a Litigant Should Not Set Afire a Computer After It Crashes (Preservation 101)," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 22, 2012 (Robert D. Brown, Jr.)
"New York's Appellate Courts Surface on Litigation Hold - First Department Confirms Reasonable Anticipation of Litigation Requires Implementation of Litigation Hold," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 21, 2012
"Lester v. Allied Part 2: "Clean Up" of Compromising Social Media Evidence Can Result in Severe Sanctions," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 21, 2012
"Agree or Else: Delaware Adopts Revised Default Standards for Discovery," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 9, 2012 (Christopher Viceconte)
"Ooops, They Did it Again -- Jurors Continue to Improperly Use the Internet, and Courts Struggle with Solutions," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 3, 2012
"A Port in the Storm of Change," For The Defense, February 2012 (Mark S. Sidoti)
"Drafting an Effective Records - Management Policy," For The Defense, February 2012 (Phillip J. Duffy, John J. Jablonski)
"Not So Fast: 95 Million Reasons to Carefully Select and Limit Search Terms," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 24, 2012 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"Recent Regulatory Guidance from the SEC on the Use of Social Media," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 23, 2012
"Non-Party E-Discovery Obligations in New York - A Question of Proportionality," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 17, 2012 (Paul E. Asfendis)
"Southern District of New York Implements Pilot Program to Require Early Identification & Resolution of E-Discovery Issues in Complex Cases," E-Discovery Law Alert, December 22, 2011 (Paul A. Saso)
"The Fifth Annual Gibbons E-Discovery Conference Closes With Helpful Guidance on Drafting Records Management Policies," E-Discovery Law Alert, December 12, 2011 (Phillip J. Duffy)
"Ineffective Privilege Review Leads to Inadvertent Waiver in Rolling Document Production," E-Discovery Law Alert, December 9, 2011 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"In re Facebook Privacy Litigation - Uphill Battle for Plaintiffs," E-Discovery Law Alert, December 8, 2011 (Scott J. Etish)
"Extended Access to Cell-Site Records Constitutes Fourth Amendment Search, Which Requires Showing of Probable Cause," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 17, 2011 (Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"The Fifth Annual Gibbons E-Discovery Conference Kicks Off with an Interactive and Thought-Provoking Overview of the Past Year's Pivotal E-Discovery Case Decisions," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 16, 2011 (Robert D. Brown, Jr.)
"The "Dos" and "Don'ts" of Litigation Hold Notices: Deconstructing the Effective Litigation Hold Notice," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 11, 2011
"ABA Formal Opinion 11-460 is at Odds With Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc.," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 25, 2011 (Suzanne Herrmann Brock)
"SEC Document Destruction Policy Suspended," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 17, 2011
"The Federal Circuit's New Model Order on E-Discovery," IP Law Alert, October 6, 2011 (Sheila F. McShane, Mark S. Sidoti)
"New Jersey Supreme Court Considering Guidelines Concerning Use of Electronic Devices in Courtroom," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 4, 2011 (Thomas J. Cafferty, Nomi I. Lowy, Lauren James-Weir)
"Choose Your 'Friends' Wisely: The Perils of Internet Use By Jurors," New York Law Journal, Special E-Discovery Supplement, October 3, 2011 (Mark S. Sidoti, Paul A. Saso, Mara E. Zazzali-Hogan)
"New Jersey District Judge Grants Spoliation Sanctions Citing Negligent Litigation Hold Procedures," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 28, 2011 (Mark S. Sidoti)
"E-Discovery Sanctions May Be Entered and Have Consequences Long After Litigation Concludes," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 27, 2011 (Jennifer A. Hradil)
"Twombly, Iqbal and Heightened Pleading Standards in Patent Infringement," IP Law Alert, September 22, 2011 (Vincent E. McGeary)
"FINRA Issues Regulatory Notice 11-39: Social Media Websites and the Use of Personal Devices for Business Communications," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 21, 2011 (Paul A. Saso)
"Courts Embrace Sua Sponte Imposition of Rule 502 Clawback Provisions," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 13, 2011 (Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"DuPont v. Kolon: A Lesson In How To Avoid Sanctions For Spoliation Of Evidence," E-Discovery Law Alert, September 6, 2011 (Suzanne Herrmann Brock)
"No End in Sight: Thoughts on the Application of U.S. Electronic Discovery Rules to Foreign Corporations," E-Discovery Connection Newsletter, Volume 6; Issue 2, August 30, 2011 (Jeffrey L. Nagel)
"E-Discovery Considerations in Drafting Settlement Agreements," E-Discovery Connection Newsletter, Volume 6; Issue 2, August 30, 2011 (Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"So You Want to Be "Friends?" Why Attorneys Should Think Twice About "Friending" Represented Parties or Witnesses on Facebook," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 25, 2011 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"How a "Stink Bomb" E-Mail and Its Proof That Facebook Pictures Were Deleted Might Have Blown Up a $10.6 Million Verdict," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 8, 2011
"Judge Grimm Authors Tutorial on Federal Rule of Evidence 502," E-Discovery Law Alert, August 4, 2011
"Court Withdraws Opinion, But Metadata Will Still Likely Be Considered Integral Part of ESI," E-Discovery Law Alert, July 18, 2011 (Jennifer A. Hradil)
"Caution to Anonymous Internet Posters - Your Cover Might Be Blown," E-Discovery Law Alert, July 11, 2011 (Scott J. Etish)
"Motion for Sanctions Denied Due to DuPont's Reasonable, Professional Efforts to Implement and Update Litigation Hold Notices," E-Discovery Law Alert, July 5, 2011 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"Notes From the E-gallery: Live texts, tweets and postings by courtroom observers present new challenges," E-Discovery Law Alert, June 20, 2011 (Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"The Role of Lawyers in the Age of Electronic Discovery -- Don't Hit Delete!," E-Discovery Law Alert, June 13, 2011
"Pennsylvania Court Orders Plaintiff to Disclose Facebook and MySpace Passwords, User Names, and Log in Names to Defendant," Employment Law Alert, June 10, 2011 (Suzanne Herrmann Brock)
"Knockout Punch: Claims of Futility & Computer Crashes Not Enough to Prevent Key Word Searches Requested by Former Champ," E-Discovery Law Alert, June 6, 2011 (Paul A. Saso)
"Caveat E-Mailer: New York Court Holds E-Mail May Be Binding in Real Estate Transaction," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 26, 2011
"Third Circuit Considers Privacy Interests in Electronically Collected Information and Whether Such Information is Voluntarily Publicized By User of Electronic Communication Devices," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 16, 2011 (Jennifer A. Hradil)
"How Useful is Facebook's "Download Your Information" Feature in E-Discovery?," E-Discovery Law Alert, May 11, 2011 (Patrick V. DiDomenico)
"E-Discovery Under FRCP 45," For the Defense, May 2011 (Mark S. Sidoti, Stephen J. Finley, Jr., Mara E. Zazzali-Hogan)
"Courts Rely Upon Jury Instructions to Discourage Juror Use of Social Media and Electronic Devices," E-Discovery Law Alert, April 4, 2011 (Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"Show Me The Evidence - Use of Social Media Information at Trial," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 28, 2011 (Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"The Rising Tide of Sanctions for E-Discovery Failures," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 21, 2011
"Judge Scheindlin Rules That Metadata is Integral Part of ESI, Admonishes Counsel for Failing to Meet & Confer Concerning Form of ESI Production," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 14, 2011 (Jennifer A. Hradil)
"Direct Infringement Liability May Be Possible Without Possession of All the Claimed Elements," IP Law Alert, March 10, 2011
"Trial Court Says New York's "Requester Pays" Rule Applies Only to Data That Is Not Readily Available," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 7, 2011 (Paul A. Saso)
"California Court Holds Employee's E-mails To Counsel From Work Computer Are Not Privileged," E-Discovery Law Alert, March 2, 2011
"New York Appellate Court Refuses to Amend Confidentiality Order to Address Runaway Data Issue," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 28, 2011
"Davis v. Grant Park Holds That Sanctions Motions for Breach of Duty to Preserve Electronic Communications are Premature Until the Close of Discovery," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 22, 2011 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"Blind CCs and "Replies to All" - An Email Trap for the Unwary Attorney," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 15, 2011 (Scott J. Etish)
"Orbit One: Inadequate ESI Preservation Does Not Merit Sanctions Absent Evidence That Relevant Information Has Been Destroyed," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 14, 2011
"Court Finds Pictures Downloaded from MySpace Inadmissible," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 14, 2011 (Suzanne Herrmann Brock)
"Confusion in New York Regarding Who Bears the Cost of Electronic Discovery," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 7, 2011 (Paul A. Saso)
"Time For a Bright-Line Preservation Rule?," E-Discovery Law Alert, February 4, 2011 (Paul E. Asfendis)
"New York's Appellate Division Finds Facebook Accounts Off-Limits When Discovery Demands are Non-Specific," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 31, 2011 (Robert D. Brown, Jr.)
"You Want Discovery of an Adversary's Computer? Better Have a Good Reason.," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 24, 2011 (Paul E. Asfendis)
"Delaware Court of Chancery Adopts ESI Preservation Guidelines," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 24, 2011 (Jeffrey L. Nagel)
"Federal Communications Commission to Move to the Cloud," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 18, 2011 (Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"Internet File Sharing Constitutes Distribution in Child Porn Case," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 10, 2011
"New York Courts Address ESI Inconsistencies at State and Federal Level: An Erie Solution?," E-Discovery Law Alert, January 3, 2011
"Different Approaches to Cost Shifting in New York State and Federal Courts for Production of Inaccessible ESI," E-Discovery Law Alert, December 27, 2010 (Paul A. Saso)
"McGee v. East Amwell - The "Advisory, Consultative or Deliberative" Exemption to The New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA)," E-Discovery Law Alert, December 20, 2010 (Thomas J. Cafferty)
"Analyzing "Care, Custody or Control" for Preservation and Production of Electronically Stored Information," E-Discovery Law Alert, December 13, 2010 (Jeffrey L. Nagel)
"Lawyers for Civil Justice Plea for Change in ESI Preservation Rules; Report Submitted to Civil Rules Advisory Committee," E-Discovery Law Alert, December 7, 2010 (Paul E. Asfendis)
"N.J. Judge Dismisses Potential Juror for Attempting to "Friend" Defendant on Facebook," E-Discovery Law Alert, December 6, 2010 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"No Privilege for Information Posted on Social Network Sites -- Court Orders Production of Plaintiff's Social Network Account Usernames and Passwords," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 29, 2010 (Robert D. Brown, Jr.)
"'Cached' Web Files May Serve as Evidence in Child Pornography Case," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 22, 2010 (Scott J. Etish)
"Technology and Legal Panel Addresses the Risks and Benefits of Cloud Computing at Gibbons Fourth Annual E-Discovery Conference," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 18, 2010 (Luis J. Diaz)
"Gibbons Fourth Annual E-Discovery Conference: Panel Discussion On Emerging Technologies In ESI Preservation, Collection And Processing," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 11, 2010
"The 2010 E-Discovery Landscape: Panel Discussion on the Essential E-Discovery Decisions of 2010 at Gibbons' Fourth Annual E-Discovery Conference," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 11, 2010 (Scott J. Etish)
"Sedona Conference's Proportionality Guidelines Encourage Reasonable Limits on Scope of E-Discovery," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 8, 2010 (Jennifer A. Hradil)
"Expert Panel Offers Advice On Executing Effective Legal Holds Following Pension Committee, Rimkus and Victor Stanley II At Gibbons' Fourth Annual E-Discovery Conference," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 8, 2010 (Phillip J. Duffy)
"Evidence Preservation Lessons in US V. Suarez," Law360, November 3, 2010 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux, Mara E. Zazzali-Hogan)
"Federal Judge Rules Government Failed to Preserve Text Messages and Orders Adverse Inference Instruction in Criminal Case," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 2, 2010 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Applied to Proprietary Database License Misuse," E-Discovery Law Alert, November 1, 2010 (Natalie H. Mantell)
"Accessing an Adversary's Public Social Networking Information -- N.Y. Professional Ethics Opinion 843," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 25, 2010 (Robert D. Brown, Jr.)
"NJ Courts Allow Internet Usage in Court," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 18, 2010
"Willful Destruction of Electronic Evidence Can Lead to Jail Time," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 6, 2010
"New York Courts Adopt Preliminary Conference Counsel Readiness Rule for Electronic Discovery," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 6, 2010 (Jeffrey L. Nagel)
"Mt. Hawley and the Cost-Saving and Practical Benefits of Fed. R. Evid. 502," E-Discovery Law Alert, October 6, 2010
"How Private is Facebook? Courts struggle with social networking access questions under 1986 Stored Communications Act," New York Law Journal, October 4, 2010 (Mark S. Sidoti, Phillip J. Duffy, Paul E. Asfendis)
"Weighing in on Manual Collection Methods," The National Law Journal, March 22, 2010 (Mark S. Sidoti, Wendy R. Stein, Verne A. Pedro)
"Form and Manner of Production Under FRCP34," For the Defense, February 2010 (Mark S. Sidoti, Scott J. Etish, Stephen J. Finley, Jr.)
"Un-ringing Bells and Closing Barn Doors - Strategies to Leverage the Protection of FRE 502," The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel Magazines, Special E-Discovery Insert, December 2009 (Mark S. Sidoti, Phillip J. Duffy)
"Cyberspace "Friend" or Foe?: Ethics Jurisprudence From Various Jurisdictions Affects Whether Lawyers Should "Friend" Witnesses Online," E-Discovery Alert, October 8, 2009 (Jennifer Marino Thibodaux)
"Please Stop Speaking After the Tone...Controlling the Risk with Unified Voicemail Systems," New York Law Journal, Special Litigation Supplement, October 5, 2009 (Mark S. Sidoti, Paul E. Asfendis)
"ESI Preservation Efforts Exposed," New Jersey Law Journal, May 18, 2009 (Phillip J. Duffy, Melissa DeHonney)
"An Electronic Discovery Wake-Up Call," Law360, May 13, 2009
"Messaging Systems: Haunted by Voices?," Law Technology News, May 2009 (Mark S. Sidoti, Paul E. Asfendis)
"On The E-Discovery Horizon: Voicemail," E-Discovery Alert, March 11, 2009 (Mark S. Sidoti, Paul E. Asfendis)
"CASE LAW UPDATE: A discussion of key federal court decisions involving electronic discovery from 2008 to present," E-Discovery Alert, March 11, 2009 (Mark S. Sidoti, Paul E. Asfendis, Scott J. Etish)
"Hot Topics in E-Discovery - Lessons from 2008," Geneva Group International Insider, January 2009 (Mark S. Sidoti, Jeffrey L. Nagel)
"How Important Is It to Cooperate With Opposing Counsel After In Re Seroquel?," The American Lawyer, December 2008 (Mark S. Sidoti, Phillip J. Duffy)
"CASE ALERT: Nursing Home Pension Fund v. Oracle Corporation, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66740 (N.D. Cal., Sept. 2, 2008)," E-Discovery Alert, September 25, 2008 (Paul E. Asfendis)
"Searching for the Smoking Gun: Forensic Examination of an Adversary's Computer," The Legal Intelligencer, August 25, 2008 (Scott J. Etish)
"The Admissibility of Electronic Records," New Jersey Law Journal, August 25, 2008 (Phillip J. Duffy, Paul E. Asfendis)
"VoIP Telephony: Keeping a Lid on Pandora's Box," New York Law Journal, June 30, 2008 (Michael Cukor, Thomas R. DeSimone)
"Caselaw Update: Muro v. Target Corp., 2007 WL 3254463 (N.D.Ill. Nov. 2, 2007)," E-Discovery Alert, February 26, 2008 (Scott J. Etish)
"Company E-Mail and Privacy:
Can You Communicate With Your Attorney While At Work? ," E-Discovery Alert, February 11, 2008 (Jeffrey L. Nagel)
"Drafting the Electronic Communication Policy," New Jersey Law Journal, February 4, 2008 (Mark S. Sidoti, Kristin D. Sostowski)
"Book Review, Arkfeld on Electronic Discovery and Evidence (2nd ed.)," The Federal Lawyer, February 2008 (Mark S. Sidoti)
"Getting to "Good Faith" under New Rule 37(f)," For the Defense, January 2008 (Mark S. Sidoti, Phillip J. Duffy, Scott J. Etish)
"Electronic Discovery Agreements," New York Law Journal, December 3, 2007 (Mark S. Sidoti, Phillip J. Duffy)
"Rule 37(f) - Has This 'Safe Harbor' Provided Any Protection?," ALM, December 2007 (Mark S. Sidoti)
"The Sedona Conference® Publishes The Sedona Principles, Second Edition, Addressing Electronic Discovery," E-Discovery Alert, September 1, 2007 (Phillip J. Duffy)
"New Federal Rules Amendments - Evidence Rule 502," E-Discovery Alert, September 1, 2007 (Jennifer A. Hradil)
"RAMing New ESI Preservation Obligations Down Litigants' Throats - Columbia Pictures Industries v. Bunnell, 2007 WL 2080419 (C.D.Cal. May 29, 2007)," E-Discovery Alert, September 1, 2007 (Scott J. Etish)
"Navigating the Changing Landscape of E-Discovery," Legal Intelligencer, Vol. 235 No. 70 and GC Mid-Atlantic, April 11, 2007 (Mark S. Sidoti)
"The Effective Internal Litigation Hold Letter," In-House Defense Quarterly, Winter 2007 (Mark S. Sidoti, Renée Lynne Monteyne)
"E-Discovery Strategies," GC New York, October 10, 2006 (Phillip J. Duffy, Mark S. Sidoti)


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I am more of a straight peperoni person myself. My wife loves the hawaiian style though. /sigh I always lose that fight.
I do have a question today too.
With the announcement of the mounts being removed from the raiding achievements there has been a large uproar on the forums. Many people are in favor of it while many more are against it. Several suggestions have been made as alternatives to removing the mounts from the achievements. One of these suggestions is to put an item level restriction on the achievement. So basically no one in the raid may be wearing gear with an item level above X (i think the current item level of raid gear is 213). I like this suggestion but some people were shooting it down saying that item level is more of a point system on how stats get distributed on gear and that some items may be better despite lower item levels.
So the main question is how exactly does item level work? How is it determined and how does it effect the stats on gear?


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36th Meeting of the Ramsar
|CONVENTION ON WETLANDS (Ramsar, Iran, 1971)
36th Meeting of the Standing Committee
Gland, Switzerland, 25-29 February 2008
DOC. SC36/SG Finance-2
Ramsar core budget for 2008
|Action requested: The Subgroup on Finance is invited to recommend in its report to the Standing Committee the approval of the 2008 core budget expenditure.
1. The Convention's core budgeted expenditure was set for 2008 at CHF 4,365,094 by Resolution IX.12 Annex I.
2. The attached table shows the expenditure allocations for 2008, arranged in line with Decision SC35-6 to show the overall allocations proposed to each major area of expenditure. Thus in this table, Secretariat staff salaries and social costs are allocated to the relevant areas of expenditure.
3. At the foot of the table, a 'recap' is provided to summarise the expenditure allocations under the major headings in the expenditure as approved by COP9.
Revised version of this table, 25 February 2008, to be tabled at the meeting (PDF)


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2013 has been a year full of champions in local high school sports.
In all, 13 local teams won titles. It was one of the most successful years that included clean sweeps in two different sports and it didn't take long for the winning to begin.
It was March 9 when the Bridgeport Lady Indians capped off their season with a 44-27 victory over Westside to win the class AA basketball title.
"We were kind of iffy," said then Bridgeport Guard Miki Glenn. "It was if we could get to the state tournament it would be a success. But when we got down here you could see the girls' focus narrow, and you could see that they wanted as much as anyone too."
Bridgeport was the only winter team champion. The spring brought a new season and May, the winningest month of the year.
In May, the Ritchie County and the Doddridge County boys won state track title, as did the Buckhannon-Upshur girls. And the Morgantown girls and UHS boys swept the lacrosse championships bringing May's win total to five.
"We left no doubt as to our talent and what we wanted to accomplish," said Mohigans head coach Suzy Bane.
When students returned in the fall, so did the winning.
In November, University High, Bridgeport, Morgantown and Philip Barbour swept the cross-country state meet.
One month later came one town's biggest win.
It seems like it was just yesterday when Bridgeport, in the snow, beat top-seeded Wayne for the class AA state title snapping the Pioneers 36-game winning streak
"We kept going, we kept playing our ball game," said Indians quarterback A. C. Caldera"That's what won us this game. We kept our heads in it and fought. That's what won us this and it feels good to be state champs."
The success wasn't over there.
Later in December Robert C. Byrd claimed it's second straight class AA cheerleading title, and Clay-Battelle offered us the most inspiring win of them all, winning the single A cheer championship just months after losing a teammate.
"Sydney was my best friend so losing a friend was hard enough, but knowing I was going to come to cheerleading practice everyday and not see her was even harder," said senior Amanda Ammons.
2013 offered us a lot.
How will 20-14 follow?
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