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FWD vs. AWD: What's the difference on the road?
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2013 Subaru Legacy tackles Mecaglisse's ice tracks
AWD can get you going, but are there differences beyond the traction advantage?
Saint-Donat, Que. — Subaru, rather smartly, recently put on an event to show off the benefits of its all-wheel drive systems against current market favourites that "happen" to be front-wheel drive. We say happen to be because Subaru claims that now most of the trade-offs traditionally associated with all-wheel drive — namely a higher price tag, increased weight, poorer fuel economy — have been eliminated.
In broad terms, the 2013 Legacy is only five to 10-horsepower shy of the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, won't get quite as far on a full tank, but actually starts a few hundred dollars less than either. And all that includes one of the more sophisticated all-wheel drive systems in the industry.
Held at the Mecaglisse ice-racing/winter driving facility north of Montreal, Subaru gathered a couple Camrys and Accords in their most popular trims for comparison against their similarly equipped Legacys. Every vehicle was equipped with the same Bridgestone winter tires in the correct size recommended by the car manufacturer, so this whole exercise was as scientific as possible.
As you might expect, there really wasn't any comparison to be made; the Subarus were plainly in their element. However, there were plenty of opportunities to polish our winter-driving skills on skidpads, road-courses and even a teeny tri-oval. But even though the event was designed to demonstrate the advantages of all-wheel drive, there was still a lot to learn about the behaviours of front-drivers and how to make do in terrible conditions.
General Tips
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Protip: Keep your distance. Camrys are interesting, but not so interesting you'd want to make contact with one.
Regardless of what vehicle you're driving, in slippery conditions, every input should be very smooth. Ease on the brakes, feather the throttle, steer with a light touch. Violent or jerky manoeuvres will only break what little traction you already have. So, knowing that, having enough weight transfer to maximize traction without breaking it is a delicate balance.
Understanding how weight transfer affects your vehicle's handling in emergencies is even more important in winter since every extra ounce of extra grip can mean the difference between turning and sliding. For example, say you're traveling in a straight line at a steady speed and something jumps out onto the road in front of you. If you simply jam on the brakes, the helpful weight transfer won't load up the front tires fast enough and the tires will most likely slip and slide. However, if you ease onto the brake to get the weight moving forward and then finish braking rapidly and smoothly, your tires will have a better chance of doing their job.
The same goes for turning, so regardless of how many wheels you have that are driven, getting the weight transferred to the outside tires without breaking traction is your goal.
Finally, keep your eyes up and always look where you want to go, not where you're going. In an emergency situation, find your escape route and keep your eyes locked on that point, and your chances of success increase exponentially. Otherwise, if you target fixate — stare at the thing you're trying to avoid — your mind and body will subconsciously steer you right into it.
Understanding AWD
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Not all all-wheel-drive systems are created equal. Knowing what kind of system your car features will help you understand how it will drive.
It is a little amazing to imagine that only Subaru, Ford (with its higher-end Fusions) and Suzuki (Kizashi) offer AWD midsize sedans. It's a bit odd given the prevalence of AWD in the luxury segment, and the fact that a few years ago, Chrysler, VW, and other brands also offered AWD midsize sedans.
First, not every all-wheel drive system is identical. Some are full-time (permanent), others only send power to slipping wheels when needed, meaning it'll be two-wheel drive most of the time and as such, drives like a two-wheel-drive car. Also, the ratio of how much power gets sent to each axle — or wheel, if the system is very advanced — varies from model to model. Subarus with manual transmissions generally split power 50/50 front-rear, but automatic versions are closer to 60/40.
High-performance models will generally offer more rear-biased settings because it makes the car behave more like a rear-drive sports car. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche — and all the hot Audis and Nissan GT-R — generally start at 40/60 front/rear but can go as much as 90 or 100 per cent to the back axle in situations that demand it. However, those situations are generally never found on snow or ice, which is where this discussion focuses.
Understanding Skids
There are essentially two types of skids you'll encounter when driving: understeer and oversteer. Understeer (pushing or "tight" in NASCAR talk) happens when the front tires break traction, while oversteer (tail-happy or "loose") is when the rears are the culprits.
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A 2013 Honda Accord understeers its way around a corner
There are a few things you can do when encountering understeer: let off the gas gently and if that doesn't work, unwind the steering wheel a little. It seems counterintuitive to steer 'right' when all you want to do is go 'more left', but it gives the tires a better chance of gripping again since you're asking less of them.
Generally, in a front-wheel-drive car, if both of those fail, you're just along for the ride ... if you're confident, you can always try and give the handbrake a little tug, which will break traction at the rear, causing oversteer and more rotation. But fewer cars these days — including the Toyota Camrys we had on hand — have a hand-operated emergency brake, preferring either a pedal or electronically-activated one.
Rally drivers would also suggest left-foot-braking as a method of getting the back-end around in a FWD, but that's a skill best learned in abandoned snowy parking lots (or a facility like Mecaglisse) where there's less pressure and more chances to experiment.
All-wheel drive offers a driver more options when dealing with understeer, including having the system route power to the back axle where the tires still have some grip. That helps to rotate the vehicle ever so slightly. Some can be coaxed from understeer into oversteer with plenty of throttle and the powerful underhood computers.
Because of modern suspension tuning that favours "safe" understeer, and anti-skid technologies like stability control, you're generally less likely to encounter oversteer than understeer. However, having the tail step out when you're not expecting it is generally a moment you'll remember.
Dealing with oversteer in FWD or AWD means turning the steering wheel 'into' the skid, meaning the same direction the tail-end wants to go, and increase the throttle a tad. That gives the front wheels a chance to 'pull' you out of the slide. Hitting the brakes or even letting off the gas too fast can make the situation considerably worse: the already sliding rear will have even more weight transfer and force behind it, meaning a likely spin-out.
Other observations
How a midsize sedan reacts on pavement can be very different than how it reacts on snow.
Just because your car is FWD doesn't mean it'll handle or react like any other FWD. For example, the 2013 Honda Accord and Toyota Camry are completely different animals. In fact, the two took on completely different personalities than you'd find in the dry. In the Accord — usually a more enthusiastic performer with sharper reactions — all it wanted to do at Mecaglisse was plow straight ahead. Only by using the handbrake could anyone get the back end to help out at all, it was very unfriendly and several times came very close to understeering nose-first into the snowbanks.
By contrast, the Camry, that bastion of boring predictability and cushy responses, was the biggest surprise: in certain conditions, its natural inclination was to oversteer, something both instructors and drivers found useful, but probably more disconcerting for buyers who wouldn't expect that more enthusiastic setup from Toyota.
Even the different Legacy models Subaru brought out were significantly different to drive. The volume models that best matched the Accord and Camry used four-cylinder engines and CVTs, and felt pretty stable and solid. There was a 3.6-litre six-cylinder model there for demonstration purposes too, but it uses a traditional five-speed automatic transmission and more neutral AWD settings. Easily the most fun and confidence-inspiring to drive.
The best advice we can give is to practice, practice, practice. We're all extremely busy with kids, mortgage payments, jobs and all the responsibilities that go along with them, but find time to go play and experiment in an empty parking lot. Practice braking, inducing oversteer, how to play on that edge of grip and traction. This isn't being a hooligan on someone else's property; you're building life-saving skills and techniques that we all need to survive.
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She almost drifted off to sleep when she heard a creaking door open slowly. She looked over to see Jet standing there, his hands and shirt covered in her fiancé's blood.
Chapter Sixty - Hallucinating
Dr. Isoda didn't waste much time after David told her that Grace was ready to go into questioning.
Isoda was eager to see Grace since she was heavily involved with the Fabulous Killjoys. She was even like a daughter to Party Poison, she was fully aware that it could be used to their advantage.
The second Isoda walked into the room with two Draculoids and two S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W agents, reality kicked in for Grace. He was really going to let it happen. David, her own father, was going to let them take her away and use her as they saw fit.
She turned to him. "You're a fucking traitor."
"My, my. The child I met several years ago has turned into the Killjoy she was unfortunately raised to be."
"What else did you fucking expect?" While she was talking to Isoda, her eyes remained fixated on her father's face.
David couldn't even look at her. When he looked at her, he saw her mother.
"I think that a part of me may have hoped that you were not as," Isoda searched for the right word. "vile as they are. You have kept a low profile all these years. I assumed you were not as much of a troublemaker as your adoptive father is."
David grew curious and wondered who her adoptive father was. He didn't remember her mentioning a father, had she just kept him a secret from him?
"My father raised me the best way he could. He taught me to rebel against the bullshit you and your company spurt out on a daily basis. He did a good job of raising me as far as I'm concerned and he's gonna do an even better job of raising his and Lexia's daughter. Do you remember what you did to her?"
"We must leave now, Miss Jeanette."
"Fine," Grace looked at David one last time before letting them take her away. "I can't even tell you how disappointed my mother would be in you right now."
He hung his head in shame. "Goodbye, Miss Jeanette."
She spat on the floor. "Fuck you and fuck your goodbies."
The two Draculoids grabbed Grace and harshly pulled her out of the room and down the hallways.
She tried to pull herself away from them a few times, but she failed to run away from them and go back to the Zones.
They threw her into a brightly lit room with a table and chairs with a one way glass on the wall.
"Please, take a seat and make yourself as comfortable as possible, Miss Jeanette."
Grace glared before taking a seat.
"Well, I do believe you have some questions to answer for me."
"And if I refuse?"
She smiled and took a tube of pills out of her pocket. She put them down on the table.
"The fuck are they? Your pills that kill emotions?"
"No. This is my most recent invention. When they're taken, they twists and distorts people's minds. It makes them see and hear things that are not really there, it makes them see terrible things, Miss Jeanette. It makes people see things that they would much rather forget. They also come in the form of injections, which is obviously much easier to give to someone when they rufuse to answer questions."
"It's to torture me."
"Well done for figuring that out."
She continued to glare. "I don't care what you do to me. I'm not ratting out my family to you."
"I have not even told you what I wish to know."
"You don't have to. You want my family, the Fabulous Killjoys in particularly. I know you want them dead and I know where they are. You want to know that. You can make me see whatever the fuck you want, I'm not going to tell you a single fucking thing about them, bitch."
"Well then, we had better get started."
After hours of crying and wondering if her fiancé was going to live, Static managed to calm down a little by the time it was pitch black outside.
Since they were low on their medical supplies, it was taking a lot longer than usual for them to see to Kobra's wounds from getting shot during their encounter with Dr. Livanni and his Draculoids.
Static was curled up on the couch, Zack and Guiden were sleeping in their room while her daughter was snuggled into her side.
Lacie looked up at her mother, her wide, innocent eyes were the same emerald green as her Static's were.
"Mama, I ask you somethin'?"
"Anything, honey."
"Daddy gonna be okay?"
If there were any tears left to cry, she'd be in histerical tears again. Her two-year-old daughter shouldn't have to ask if her father was going to be okay after being shot in the stomach.
"I-I don't know, sweetie. I don't know."
"Daddy hurting?"
"Daddy's hurting a little, baby."
"What happen?"
"Something bad. Someone else was gonna get hurt, but daddy was brave and tried to stop it from happening. Daddy got hurt instead of someone else, baby."
"That's no fair, mama. Daddy was helping."
"You're right. It's not fair, sweetie."
Static soothingly stroked locks of her daughter's hair while she tried to keep her tired eyes open.
She almost drifted off to sleep when she heard a creaking door open slowly. She looked over to see Jet standing there, his hands and shirt covered in her fiancé's blood.
She carefully moved and got off the couch so she didn't wake her peacefully sleeping daughter.
"What's happened? How bad is it? Is he okay? I mean, I-" She panicked.
"Static, try and calm down."
She nodded, taking deep breaths. "Okay, sorry."
"Well, the good news is he's stable right now and he's resting."
"I'm sensing there's bad news."
"But the bad news is . . . I didn't have enough supplies so I obviously couldn't do certain things like clean the wound. With the environment we're in, there's a fifty fifty chance it could get infected. If it gets infected-"
"He could die." She finished for him.
He nodded.
"Well then I guess we need to get more meds. I'm not gonna just sit here and watch him die when I know I could've done something about it."
"Static, you know what happened last time we went."
"That was a one off thing."
"Ghoul almost died, so did you and Kobra."
"Jet, you don't understand. This is Kobra, I can't just sit here and watch him die. I'm not just thinking about him, I'm thinking about our kids too. They can't lose their dad, Jet. They can't."
"Static, what if that happened again but you actually got caught and died? I'm not trying to sound like an asshole here, I mean I want him to live too. He's my brother, but you need to think about yourself too. What if, god forbid, Kobra didn't make it and you died trying to save him? Zack, Lacie and Guiden'd be left without both of their parents."
"What about Acid? She's in Battery City still, what if we get in touch with her and tell her to get some meds? She could help Grace, too, since she's stuck with Lufrini in Battery City."
Jet paused, considering the idea for a moment. "It could work. Do we have the cell phone?"
Static looked through dirty piles of clothes that couldn't be worn anymore due to the amout of rips and tares and found a pair of jeans she thought the phone was in.
She tried getting in touch with Acid, begging that she'd be able to help. If she couldn't, she didn't know what she'd do.
After the phone rining several times, it was answered by a very tired sounding Acid.
"Hello?" She almost moaned in frustration at the person who'd dared to interupt her beauty sleep.
"Acid, it's me, it's Static."
"Hey, Static. Is something wrong?" The frustration in her voice faded and sounded calmer.
"Actually, yeah. We need help."
"What's happened?"
"The Killjoy Bitches had trouble in Zone two with Dracs and an Exterminator."
Acid instantly panicked, her thoughts going immidately to Curse and his well being. "Holy fuck, are they okay?"
"Y-yeah, they're fine . . . it's Kobra and Grace who aren't. I was gonna get shot and like the idiot he is, he took the fucking bullet for me and got himself shot in the stomach. And Grace . . . we don't know what's going on with her, but remember when she was kidnapped by Lufrini?"
Even though Static couldn't see her, Lexia nodded. "Yeah, I remember that."
"Well, I don't know what happened while she was there, but Lufrini seems to want her so she traded herself for our safety and now she's stuck in Battery City with him. We were wondering if you could try to get meds and get Grace back. We just don't know what else to do." She started to get a little emotional again.
"I can guarantee meds, Isoda lets me take them incase something were to happen to me in the Zones, but with Grace it's gonna be hard. All I can do is promise to try and get her back, but this is Lufrini we're talking about."
"I know. All we can ask is for you to try."
"Okay, I'll try."
"God, thank you so fucking much. I honestly can't say how thankful I am, Ace."
"Don't mention it, Static. I'll be back tomorrow night, okay? Just tell Kobra to hang on and I'm coming."
"Thank you."
With that, they both hung up.
At around noon in the Zones, Curse woke up feeling great after sleeping on a warm, comfortable matress instead of the cold, dirty floor of the desert ground.
He yawned and stretched out his arms, recalling what'd happened the day before his glorious sleep.
He pulled himself off the matress and onto his feet then started walking into the living room where he saw Bandit drawing by herself on the floor.
To begin with, Bandit didn't even notice Curse had walked into the room. She was too caught up in trying to draw a picture for her father to cheer him up after what'd happened the day before. Bandit still had no idea what'd even happened, but she knew it must've been bad if her father was crying.
"Hey, B, what're you doin'?"
She looked up to see him, a smile spreading quickly across her face. "Uncle Curse!"
She got up and wrapped her arms around his legs since she wasn't tall enough to hug him properly.
"Hey, B."
"Mama said you wasn't comin' back for a little while. Are you back for good now, uncle Curse?"
"No, not for good, B. We're just here to make sure your uncle Kobra's okay."
Bandit frowned. "What happened to uncle Kobra? Is he okay?"
Curse realized that no one told her what'd happened yet. He instantly felt guilty, but he didn't want to be the person to tell her that there was a strong possibility her uncle was going to die.
"Your uncle Kobra . . . he got hurt yesterday, B."
"Is that why daddy was cryin'?"
Curse just nodded. "I think so, B. Was your dad upset?"
She nodded. "He was cryin' but I didn't ask what happenin'. I didn't wanna make it worse, uncle Curse."
"I know you didn't, B. I know you didn't. I was wondering-" Before Curse could finish, Bandit's father walked in. Curse couldn't lie, he looked like an absolute mess. His skin was ghostly pale, his bright red hair was heavily matted, there were thick bags under his eyes from lack of sleep, he was still in the same clothes from yesterday and he quite frankly, looked like he'd been to hell and back.
The thing that bothered Curse the most was that his eyes were extremely bloodshot. He just hoped it was because of the amount of sleep he had and because of tears rather than him being hungover. The last thing they all needed was for Poison to be drinking again.
"Morning." Curse said.
Poison just glanced at him for a moment, not saying a word. He just walked into the kitchen and picked up a bottle of water.
Curse looked at Bandit then nelt down so he was on her level.
"Hey, B, do you wanna go play with Jeremy while I talk to your dad?"
She frowned. "Can't I stay with you an' daddy?"
"We just need a grown-up talk for a minute, then you can come back okay?"
"Is it about uncle Kobra?" Bandit's voice was full of sadness when she mentioned her uncle. She knew something had happened to him.
Hearing his daughter say that made Poison realize that Curse told her about what'd happened. The anger burned in his veins. Curse didn't have the right to tell his daughter about what'd happened to his brother. Just because he liked Acid and just because she liked him back, that didn't give him the right to act like her father. Poison was her father, not him for fuck's sake.
Poison found all of his anger being directed on Curse, even though it wasn't his fault what'd happened to his brother or Grace.
"Okay." Bandit said, defeated.
Curse smiled and hugged her one last time before she left.
As Poison stood in the kitchen with his back turned to Curse, he could hear his footsteps getting closer and closer.
"Poison, we need to talk-"
"There's nothing to talk about."
"Are you kidding me? There's so fuckin' much shit that needs to get talked out right now."
"Well I'm sorry, but I'm not in the fuckin' mood to talk about it."
Poison was about to walk away, but Curse gripped onto the top of his arm.
Poison glared at him and growled, "Get your hands the fuck off of me."
"We need to talk." He repeated.
"And I said I don't want to."
"Well that's the thing, sometimes you don't always get what you want. Now let's just get this talk out of the way and we can move on with our lives."
"Fuck you, I don't need this shit."
"What happened to us?"
"You heard me, what happened to us? We used to be friends. We could talk to eachother, we could share a few laughs and now . . . now you're struggling to even say one word to me without getting pissed off."
"That all changed when you decided you wanted to fuck my ex-wife."
Poison's anger started spreading into Curse. "Don't talk about it that way, that's not how it is."
"Then how is it?"
"Look, right now you're pissed and you're looking for a reason to fight. Just calm down and let's talk."
"Just answer my question."
"I care about her, there's nothing more to it."
"Do you love her?"
"Are you in love with Acid, yes or no?"
He paused. He didn't know the answer. Curse knew he cared about her, he cared a lot but he didn't know about love yet.
"You are, aren't you?"
"It's really none of your business. We're getting off topic here, we need to talk about what's happened with Kobra and Grace. If you really fucking want to, we can just fight about how I feel for Acid later, but right now we've got more important shit to be focusing on, you got it?"
He sighed. "Fine, we'll discuss it later."
"I need to ask you something. Last night . . . were you drinking?"
He found hiself getting irritated by Curse again very quickly. "You're accusing me of drinking?"
"Not to offend you, but you like crap. The last time I saw you like this was when you were drinking and you'd wake up every morning with a hangover from hell. I just wanna know if you're drinking 'cause of what happened to Kobra and Grace."
"Well, I didn't touch a drop of that shit so you can stop worrying about that now, Curse."
"Good. That's the last thing we all need right now."
"I know it is, I'm not stupid. I wouldn't go something like that, not when my family needs me."
"Good. It'd better stay that way."
When Ghoul woke up, he half expected to be alone with Violet missing from the bed as usual, but then he realized he could feel the warmth of someone else's body on his skin. He remembered what'd happened from yesterday. While he wanted to be overwelmed with joy at the fact Violet was with him again, he couldn't. Not while Grace was in Battery City and not while Kobra was dying.
He snuggled into her, planting a soft kiss on her shoulder.
Violet felt his kiss and turned around to face him.
"G'morning." He said.
"Morning." She kissed him for a breif moment, but she didn't look particularly happy to him like she usually did. The little gleam in her eyes was missing and so was her warm, comforting smile.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm happy to be here with you, but I just can't help but think of the circumstances. Grace is in Battery City with Lufrini and Kobra might be dying. I guess I just can't really stop thinking about that."
He understood completely, he even agreed with her.
"I know. I wish the circumstances were better, too. Did you even find anything on Silk while you were gone?" He hoped they had since that meant they could follow that lead and come back sooner.
She shook her head. "No, we didn't have time to. I already know Storm's gonna want to leave the second we know Kobra and Grace are okay. She fucking hates wasting time when we've got any kind of information."
He nodded, sadly.
"Do you think this'll ever end?"
He smiled slightly. "You're gonna have to be a little more specific than that, Vi."
"Do you think Better Living'll ever end?"
He sighed. "I hope so, but I can't say for sure. We tried to take them down once, we even suceeded for a little while, but it came back. So I guess what I'm say is, I don't know. I wish I did, but I don't."
"I wanna be normal someday."
"I think we all do."
He kissed her forehead and held her close to him for a little while.
"If we ever get to be normal, I think that I want to be normal with you."
She smiled. "Yeah. I want that too, Ghoul. I want that too."
Grace tried to focus on what was going on around her, but it was extremely hard since she'd been injected several times with Isoda's poisons.
Her vision was blurred and she felt uncomfortably warm. A layer of sweat was starting to build up on her skin, but she couldn't do anything about it. Her arms were strapped to the chair and she couldn't move since the injections made her weak.
"Gracie," A faint, familiar voice whispered. "Gracie, it's me." The voice was slowly getting louder and clearer. If she didn't know any better, she would've said that it was her mother.
She looked around the unclear room for a moment, trying to see if there was a face to the voice she could hear.
"Gracie, it's me. It's your mom." A blurred figure walked out from behind Grace. They started to become slightly clearer to her.
When the figure was clear as day to her, she tried hard not to freak out. The person standing in front of her was how her mother looked when she died. There was a bullet wound in her chest and blood leaking out of it, the blood stained her dirty clothes and dripped onto the white, shining floor.
"M-mom . . . fuck, you're not real. You're not real. I'm hallucinating right now, I know I am."
"No. You're not real." She looked down, refusing to look at her.
"Grace Danielle Jeanette, look at me." Her voice was still calm as she leaned in, getting closer to Grace.
She looked up only to wish that she hadn't. Her mother's eyes were vacant and stained and her skin was deathly pale. She looked down again, she didn't want to remember her mother like that. That was the whole reason Poison wouldn't let Grace see her mother's body after she'd died. He wanted Grace to remember her mother as the person she was. He wanted her to remember her as the girl who was full of life. Not as a corpse.
"Grace, I just want to talk. That's all."
"Grace, look at me."
"I said no!"
"Why, Grace?"
"Why what?"
"Why did you do this to me?"
"I didn't do anything to you."
"But you did. Don't you remember, sweetheart? You were there the day I was killed, the day I was murdered because of you. I died trying to protect you, a stupid kid who got in the way when I was just trying to do my job as a Killjoy."
"I didn't do anything!" She screamed. "God, why am I even talking to you. You're not even really there, my mother's dead and in a better place now. I know she loved me."
"But did I love you? I want you to think about it, Grace. You took everything away from me. Absolutely everything. I mean, when I found out I was pregnant, I told David. He was supportive to begin with, as you know, but then things changed. He didn't want me anymore because I was knocked-up with you. I lost the one person I ever actually fell in love with because of you."
Grace said nothing.
"Then there's my family. I lost them because of you, too. I knew if I told my step dad he'd beat me. He'd hurt me because you were growing in my stomach. My mom would be just as pissed too, she'd disown me completely. My dad would've wanted nothing to do with me anymore. If he didn't see me, I wouldn't have been able to see Iris and Claudia anymore. You know, they were like sisters to me once upon a time. But then I was forced to runaway because of you. I lost them, just like I lost everyone else. Do you know how that feels knowing you're alone with a bastard child you don't want?"
Grace started crying silently. She knew it wasn't her mother, but it didn't stop the tears from falling down her cheeks.
"Aw, you're crying? Is Gracie upset?"
"Shut the fuck up."
"Does little Gracie think she has problems? Try having mine."
"Do you wish for us to stop it, Miss Jeanette?" Dr. Isoda's voice said, but it sounded distant to her. "If you tell us where your family is, we can make it stop right this second, Grace. All you have to do is tell us where they are."
Her dead mother stared her in the eyes. "You gonna tell her to stop, Gracie, and make me go away?"
Grace looked between her mother and Isoda. She knew what she had to do.


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The content will change every week to feature a new video highlighting a different artist providing customers with new and unique content, which should help drive repeat activity.
"The codes feature exclusive content from artists that will be performing at the Hype Hotel all this week." (SXSW 2012 in Austin, TX)


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Animals 07/22/2013
Animal Monday: Reptile Heist, Bumblebee High Five, Raccoon Bandit
It's Thursday and the northeast heatwave is over so let's all watch really cute animal videos to celebrate. This week, we have a high-fiving bumblebee, a cat in a bag, adorable puppies, a not-so-sneaky raccoon, dragon-stealing thieves and the cutest bobcat kitten ever. Enjoy.
Awesome Bumblebee Gives High Five via videobash
Why is that guy touching a bumblebee!?!?!?! Bumblebees are ferocious insects that STING. Don't high five them! It's just encouraging them.
Why cats shouldn't be curious about plastic bags via videobash
Things get crazy at the :36 second mark.
Adorable Puppies Attack Man via Jokeroo
That is WAY, way too adorable.
Sneaky Raccoon Steals Food From Cats via Jokeroo
Is that raccoon sneaky, though? It just kind of walks up and takes all the food… It wasn't much of a covert operation.
Thieves steal 23 reptiles including an alligator via ZoomIn Canada
I'm so excited when actual thieves steal exotic things like snakes, diamonds or priceless works of art. I sometimes start to think heists only exist in movies but this proves they don't! I can't wait for the movie about this starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.
New Bobcat Kitten! via Big Cat Rescue
When they say "released back into the wild" does that mean "delivered to my apartment" because I WANT one. I don't care if it grows into a giant cat that eventually attacks me, it's worth it, I WANT one.
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SHE Created IT Dance Workshop, Performance and Brunch
Sep 28, 2013
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Performance: Saturday, September 28, at 7:30 p.m.
The SHE Created IT dance organization, led by Ursula Kendall and supported by Salem College dance instructor Heidi Echols, is offering a workshop, performance and brunch. Workshop registration begins at 9:30 a.m. on September 28, in Hanes Auditorium with classes meeting 10:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m. A performance featuring female choreographers and local dance instructors begins at 7:30 p.m. and is open to the general public. Participants include: Maria Bauman, N.Y., N.Y.; Heidi Echols, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Robin M. Gee, Greensboro, N.C.; Kim Jones, Charlotte, N.C.; Tianna P. Sykes, Atlanta, Ga.
A Woman2Women Brunch is offered September 29, at 12:00–2:00 p.m., featuring guest speaker Beverly Mclver and presented by Creative Capital Professional Development Program in Strategic Planning for Individual Artists. Refreshments offered in the Mary Davis Holt Gallery.
Performance ticket price: $15 Salem faculty and students, $20 general admission.
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Forty of Wayne's films, together at last.
Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, INC
Father's Day is all about indulgence. Indulging in big meals and big beers all in honor of that guy who put up with your teenage disrespect while also driving you to football practice – and giving you a few tips on how to read a defense while he was at it. Few gifts for the occasion this year will be as expansive and engrossing as John Wayne: The Epic Collection, released by Warner Bros. and Paramount just in time for Father's Day. The set collects 40 of Wayne's films across 38 discs, and represents the best opportunity for dads, either familiar or unfamiliar with Wayne, to catch up with an American icon.
Wayne was a classic actor, and a classic man at that. He was a blue-collar worker, finding jobs on film sets as a bit player and prop boy before, as the story goes, director Raoul Walsh saw him moving furniture on set and decided to cast him as the lead in 1930's The Big Trail. The Epic Collection follows Wayne throughout the rest of his career. There are his legendary films with John Ford, including box set highlight The Searchers from 1956, and 1948's Fort Apache, where he starred alongside Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple; also, the tense and simmering Howard Hawks-helmed Rio Bravo; and his swan song The Shootist, where Wayne plays an aging gunslinger not long for this world.
If anything, The Epic Collection shows us that Wayne was a diverse actor, not just the swaggering cowboy we know him as. He played many complex characters and brought equal parts charisma and vulnerability to each role. There are few better ways this year to celebrate the stoicism and integrity of dads everywhere than with the films of the man in Hollywood who embodied such characteristics so fully.
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Children who lived in terror were spared the trauma of testifying in court because a plea agreement approved Friday promises to put their mother behind bars for 10 years.
Myra Rodriguez, 31, admitted guilt to 16 felony and 30 misdemeanor charges regarding what court documents called "torture and cruel punishment" inflicted upon four children – the youngest who was only 3 at the time.
As LaRue County beef producers consider buying bulls they should think about their overall breeding program. It is important to assess what traits are going to have the greatest economic impact in your management system and target a bull to give the production level that you need. If you are in the commercial cattle business and you have been using the same breed of bull for several years then you should probably consider adopting a crossbreeding program.
The increased costs of seed, fertilizer, fuel and land rents have caused many farmers to consider cutting costs in corn production, however, it is also a good time to review the concepts of producing high yields.
A former LaRue County High School student received recognition at the state wrestling tournament.
Former wrestler Jimmy Shaw, a regional and state champion in 1999, was selected by the Kentucky Wrestling Coaches' Association as its Referee of the Year.
Central Hardin High School wrestling coach Russ Pike, who wrestled for Central Hardin at the same time Shaw wrestled for the Hawks, said he voted for Shaw.
Hawks basketball coach Paul Childress left the draw for the boys' 5th Region Tournament in a happy frame of mind.
The eight-team field was set Sunday afternoon at Nelson County High School.
On Thursday, LaRue County (17-9) meets the 20th District runner-up Taylor County Cardinals (17-13) at 8 p.m. Taylor County pulled out a 57-54 win at LaRue County on Feb. 12.
The Kentucky Arts Council is accepting applications from Kentucky performing artists from every tourism region in the state to perform on the Kentucky Experience Pavilion Performance Stage during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, to be held at the Kentucky Horse Park Sept. 25-Oct. 10, 2010. The World Equestrian Games are expected to draw audiences from around the world and the Kentucky Experience Pavilion is the hospitality center for the event, which expects to host over 60,000 visitors.
Magnolia Bank's board of directors announced promotions of three employees.
Pamela Cecil was promoted to assistant vice president. Cecil joined the bank in 1992. She serves as loan processor and administrative assistant to President Ron Sanders at the Lincoln Hills Branch.
Weldon Riggs was promoted to assistant vice president. Riggs has been with the bank since 2008. He serves as manager to the secondary market loan department at the Parkway Branch in Hodgenville.
Thank you to the 13 individuals who braved the weather to donate blood Feb. 9 at the Hodgenville Woman's Club. The snow caused some problems and early closure.
Many thanks to the volunteers who worked – Cecil Druen, Opal Dail and Diane Rock.
The community blood drive returns April 13.
Faye Puyear
Volunteer Coordinator
After receiving dozens of calls and complaints from Kentuckians, Attorney General Jack Conway has asked Topix.com, an interactive message board Web site host, to provide information regarding its policies dealing with abusive posts that violate the Web site's terms of service. The Office of Consumer Protection has received calls and complaints from concerned citizens who allege that false and defamatory information about children, as well as adults, has been posted on Topix.
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"Dragons? Yeah, sure why not… though I like mine with a bit of red wine."
"Dragons? Yeah, sure why not… though I like mine with a bit of red wine."
I caved and got my main, Tai, the new Phalanx heavy armor skin. It's pretty much the type of armor I've been looking for him… since the game released.
He's such a lucky bum. He gets all the cool toys. :)
… ill be leaving now
Some assorted Translate Tyria entries. Living Story banners and some more books.
White Charr meets Gray Charr (NPC) in the Zephyr Sanctum. Perhaps they're distantly related?
I revamped Kazrec's build. He now has a mixed set of Berserker and Knight gear with full Divinity Runes. To celebrate, I gave him some new pieces of armor for a brand new look!
He now wears a mix of the new Aetherblade armor along with some cultural armor and his customary Lightning gem. The gloves would have been the Fused Gauntlets, but they looked a little too bulky when paired with this armor. So I'm going to keep the Exalted gloves for now and wait on the new armor that will be coming in the new "Bazaar of the Four Winds" patch.
I wanted to preserve the "classy charr" look while still keeping the "Badass." I'd like to think I succeeded. What do you think about the new Kazrec?
Okay. Mirage as steampunk mesmer kitty. I like the legs, feet and arms. Not quite sold on the chest. However, she is a little eccentric and the colors look really strong on her, especially matching her hair and eyes!
Opinions? Something I should strive for, if possible?
Yes? No?
Got my wings for my guardian yesterday. Just figured out how to get them on his back today (only level 18). Thank goodness for extra level 10 back items from Wintersday!
C H A R R T O P U S' demonic kneel face…
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UNIVERSITY PARK | After an extensive national search, Governors State University has named one of its own to serve as the university's new provost. In making the announcement, President Elaine P. Maimon pointed to Deborah Bordelon's distinguished service to GSU.
"Under Dr. Bordelon's leadership our College of Education has received praise from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education in terms unprecedented in my experience," Maimon said. "At this pivotal moment in GSU's history, Dr. Bordelon is fully prepared in background and character to do an outstanding job as provost and vice president for academic affairs. As GSU moves toward the admission of freshmen and the opening of our first residence facility, Deborah Bordelon is the right academic leader for Renaissance 2014," she added.
Prior to joining GSU in 2008, Bordelon served as dean of the College of Education at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La. Since 2008 she has served as dean of the College of Education; in 2011 she was named dean of Graduate Studies.
Bordelon was instrumental in establishing the doctoral degree program for Counselor Education and Supervision and the doctoral degree program in Interdisciplinary Leadership. Under her supervision the Family Development Center at GSU received the highest possible accreditation for early childhood centers. She currently co-chairs the Council of Chicago Area Deans of Education.
Bordelon received her bachelor's and master's degrees and Ph.D. from the University of New Orleans. In addition to her scholarly work in special education and reading, she has a particular interest in high impact education practices, critical and creative thinking and in literacy education.
"I am truly honored to be selected for this position," Bordelon said. "This is an exciting time on our campus as we transform to a full-service university, with first-year students and on-campus housing. I look forward to collaborating with the faculty, staff, administration and community members to bring this renaissance to life.
"I would especially like to express my appreciation to Dr. Terry Allison, our current provost, for his leadership in laying the groundwork for the development and expansion of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels," Bordelon said.
Governors State University, the only public university in the Chicago Southland region, serves more than 7,000 students in undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and certificate programs. In 2014, GSU will become a fully accredited four-year university, admitting its first freshman class and introducing apartment and suite-style student housing.
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Two weeks ago, George Will wrote a column in which he said Newt Gingrich "would have made a marvelous Marxist." At the time, it seemed a little over the top, but Gingrich managed to prove Will right yesterday when he leveled this attack Mitt Romney:
I would just say that if Gov. Romney would like to give back all of the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him.
These are not the words of a conservative who believes in the free market system. This is the world view of a socialist bent on redistributing wealth. Charles Krauthhammer told Bret Baier just as much on Special Report last night:
What kind of attack is this of one so-called person of the right to another? What conception of capitalism do you have if you are attacking your opponent for entering what is the risk taking of capitalism? It's the old line from Schumpeter, which is that capitalism is creative destruction and this kind of attack is what you would expect from a socialist.
Earlier in the program, Brit Hume offered similar analysis:
It was only a matter of time before Gingrich said something that would remind conservative primary voters why he is a terrible choice for the Republican nomination. This is it.
Gingrich was paid for "strategic advice" by a government-sponsored loan company which used its government-granted competitive advantage to help build a bad mortgage house of cards that nearly brought down the entire U.S. economy when the bubble popped in 2008. Romney ran a private investment firm that acquired numerous companies in an effort to make money by making them more profitable. In some cases, there were layoffs. And some companies failed. But numerous others, including the office supply chain Staples, grew into large enterprises that created thousands of jobs.
This is the kind of risk-taking, free market capitalism that most people who call themselves conservatives applaud. Indeed, attacking Mitt Romney for engaging in it has been a staple of the left's critique of Romney for years.


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Pomerene Hospital Earns Quality Respiratory Care Recognition in National Program
For the fourth consecutive year, Pomerene Hospital has earned Quality Respiratory Care Recognition (QRCR) under a national program aimed at helping patients and families make informed decisions about the quality of the respiratory care services available in hospitals.
About 700 hospitals or approximately 15% of hospitals in the United States have been named a Quality Respiratory Care institution. Hospitals earning this Quality Respiratory Care Recognition ensure patient safety by agreeing to adhere to a strict set of criteria governing their respiratory care services.
The Quality Respiratory Care Recognition program was started by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) in 2003. The AARC is a membership organization representing more than 46,000 health professionals involved in respiratory care nationwide.
Pomerene Hospital is a 55-bed facility serving the residents of Holmes and surrounding counties. Pomerene Hospital is located at 981 Wooster Road in Millersburg.


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I had this bedspread
This is war.
Ballz 3d: The Battle of the Ballz
I actually own this game
this is just a few what I have seen lately
Why would you do this to my cousins????
Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn't soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy "Dont play this time. Just fake it"
Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.
To my readers: "p" means quiet, "pp" means really quiet. I've never seen "pppp" before haha.
On the contrast, "f" means loud, and "ffff" probably means so loud you go unconscious.
I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…
Me and my trombone buddies had "ffff" and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.
The lengths we go for music.
Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.
One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other's hands all shhh don't call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, "All right, let's run through it up to section A."
And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don't come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:
[stifled giggling]
[reeeeeeally deep breath]
The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn't actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn't even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.
In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: "THERE WERE FOUR F'S."
FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.
This is the best band post
Everyone else go home
Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this
which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,
that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that
Who does that?
This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.
Julius IdontgivaFucik
More like Julius Fuckit
48 Hours : Queers and Allies : Making games together
Creating media to spark unique conversations
What is it?
A game jam is a 48 hour event in which people develop games based on a certain unique theme. In this case, we're developing games on queer experiences, however you define it.
i'll kick anyone's ass. i'll kick your ass. i'll kick your dog's ass. i'll kick my own ass
Good Evening. My name is ____ and I attend the University of Texas at Dallas as a current junior. I am writing to you in regards to my best friend ____ and her husband, who is currently attending your university, Fahad Khan. I am aware that she has made more than numerous attempts to reach out to the Columbia University staff for some sort of action against her abusive and neglegent husband. The reason for this email is so I can get a better understanding of why your university has decided to completely dismiss this awful case (along with multiple other incidents) of sexual abuse by a student who attends your university. It is extremely confusing to me as to what it is about him that drives your university to ignore a victim's cry for help and instead protect an abuser's reputation, as well as your own. ____ is not only my best friend but more than a sister to me. She has supported me and has been a huge part of my life for quite some time now, pulling me out from the darkest areas of my life, and showing me that I do have the strength and courage to move forward; to become something. She continues to be here for me, as well as many other people, and as much as I try I would not be able to type up enough words in this email to describe how she has literally saved my life. This may all seem irrelevant to your university and whoever runs it but it is definitely something I think about when I see, first hand, what Fahad's sexual, emotional, verbal, and physical abuse has done to my dear friend, ____. She, nor any other woman on this entire universe, deserves this magnitude of mistreatment. She continues to struggle every single day, blaming herself for the abuse inflicted on her by another man. I am aware of more than enough information pertaining to their relationship to know that Fahad Khan put ____ through Hell, and every time she attempted to get out of it, he pushed her back in. He has made numerous death threats as well as threats to rape her. He has videotaped her in her most vulnerable states and has done everything in his power to make her feel like less of a human being every day. He continues to manipulate her every single day and she is beginning to feel absolutely powerless. I am not here to provide you with a list of things he has done because I know that my friend, ____, has done so multiple times and has still gotten no immediate action from your university in regards to this situation. I am here to ask you this: Why? Why do you allow this sort of behavior to walk through your college campus? What is it that makes you so desperate to protect your school's reputation by disregarding multiple incidents of sexual assault that occur frequently right under your noses. Why do you continue to provide this terrible, abusive man the power and ego to consistently abuse my innocent and helpless friend every chance he gets? Would you be doing the same if it were your own daughter? Sister? Would you continue to protect a student who sexually, verbally, and mentally abuses her to keep your reputation clean? I am kindly requesting that you do something about Fahad Khan and bring my friend some sort of justice. She doesn't deserve this and neither does any other human being on this planet. After having witnessed the terrible and wretched things that Fahad Khan has done and said to my best friend and sister, ____, I am absolutely disgusted by your lack of initiative for the situation at hand. I cannot speak for any other university, but I can speak for my own. I know that my school would do everything in their power to make sure someone as abusive, manipulative, and down-right nasty, as Fahad Khan, did not walk through those college doors. So I am asking you to please take into consideration the numerous pleas that she has made to keep someone like him from harming another person, victimizing them, just as she was. Do not provide this man with the power to abuse her any longer. Thank you for your time.
I have the pleasure of attending MBLGTACC 2014 aka #gaycon2014 this weekend, and (finally) I've been given the honor of being protested for my sinful lifestyle.
Knowing that I was personally protested by Westboro makes me feel warm and fuzzzy


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During these days we have talked a lot about the TDL3 rootkit infection, a nice example of how malware writers can make security vendors's work harder. We will continue writing about TDL3 to update our readers about the status of both the rootkit and defensive techniques.
However today we want to take a step back and talk about an old friend called the MBR rootkit, or Mebroot, or yet Torpig. The fact that we haven't talked about it for a while doesn't mean it has been defeated. Instead, the MBR rootkit is still actively spreading throughout the web, mostly through compromised websites.
During the last two days we have cleaned hundreds of infected machines, a quite impressive number that shows how the threat is still hitting hard.
As said before, compromised websites are the primary vehicle of infection. Injected iframes and obfuscated javascripts have become a serious threat during the last years, showing how often websites are not protected.
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IDA PRODUCTION Launches with Promotional Event for Genre Bending Feature Film They Call me Jack
IDA PRODUCTION Launches with Promotional Event for Genre Bending Feature Film They Call me Jack
New York, New York (PRWEB) September 13, 2011
Every so often, a film is released that calls society's mores into question. Enter Jamie Neumann as JACK in THEY CALL ME JACK, the story of a hermaphrodite writer struggling with the angst of a series of unrequited loves. A feature length independent film in development directed by first time director Stefan Blomquist, the story examines the myth and reality of duality in gender and sexuality. Somewhat of a fictional anthropology in timbre, the piece is set in New York and San Francesco in the mid nineties amidst the backdrop of opulent high society and drug-induced artistic expressionism with the introduction of Allan Ginsberg played by Laurence K Cantor. Ginsberg who is best recognized for his work in beat poetry figures greatly in the piece as an ever present lover to JACK in her pubescent years even as she courses onward in her adulthood with short-lived, complicated relations. Other locations include Thailand and Bangkok, which have served not only to establish the visual beauty of journey in self-exploration but also to blur the lines between what is ordinary and unusual.
An event launch is scheduled September 12th from 6:30 to 10:00 at La Galleria in New York City to secure investment for this picture. Please direct all press inquiries and RSVPs to Kojenwa Moitt at kojenwa(at)zebra(dot)nu
IDA Production, or Interdisciplinary Arts Production is a New York based production company founded in 2009 by Swedish photographer Stefan Blomquist and co-partners Lauryn Garza and Kojenwa Moitt of Zebra PR. IDA Production is especially grateful for the generous support of its sponsors, Bear Flag Wine, Sockerbit, Fika, Chinatown Brasserie, Voss Water and Bulldog Gin.
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Feature Film About Homeless Man To Donate Half of Film's Profits to Homeless
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 07, 2011
The film is called "The Guitar Player." The story is about a homeless street performer who gets a second chance in life but struggles with his painful past. It seems only fitting that a film about someone who is homeless in a bad economy, will be funded by the public. That is the intention of the filmmaker Michael Stein. He has created an elaborate fund raising campaign to finance the film and intends on giving half his profits to homeless causes. In this day and age where film companies are taking what they can get, it seems like a grand gesture.
The film company, The Guitar Player Inc., has scheduled the film to be shot January 9th in Los Angeles. Due to the content and the film's cause many contributions have been made but the production still lacks liquid funds, so the filmmakers decided to raise funds publicly.
The Guitar Player is based on a fictional character named Robert Shiller (a.k.a "Robert Shiller The Killer") a seventeen-year-old champion high school wrestler in a small town in Northern California. One week before the state championship, Robert accidentally killed his best friend and team mate, during practice. The loss of his friend and the social stigma in a small town was more than he could bear, so he ran away from home, grabbing only what he could fit in his wresting bag and his best friend's guitar even though he did not know how to play. Our story begins twenty years later with Robert living on the streets. The screenplay was written by the director Michael Stein.
Stein has a knack for making lower budget films with a larger budget look and feel. His last film, "Love Hollywood Style" starred Faye Dunaway, Andy Dick, Coolio and Stephen Tobolowsky and has become a cult comedy classic. Stein's first role came when he was cast by his friend Paul Thomas Anderson to play the lead role of Dirk Diggler in the original short film "The Dirk Diggler Story", that later became the feature film "Boogie Nights" which Michael Appears in as well.
"Getting funding has always been a struggle," Stein says. "The past several years in Hollywood have seen a major change. They are not handing out movie deals like hotcakes the way they use to in the 90s."
It's been four years since Stein made his last film. The problem was self funding a film in a bad economy along with the obligations of supporting his family. He knew about crowd funding websites like kickstarter.com but did not feel that any of his scripts would go well with a crowd funding concept. He then came up with an idea that he felt would be with the right vehicle. A film that would be funded 100% by the public about someone who is homeless and the earnings of the film benefiting homeless causes.
The film's production is contingent upon the funds being raised. The film's kickstarter campaign also has a high concept. One of the packages, a thirty five hundred dollar pledge allows businesses to promote their products at each of the premieres, which will be in several major cities, including L.A. and New York. Another package, a ten thousand dollar pledge includes "An Event for a Day" where one thousand tarps will be donated to a local homeless shelter and a screening in a movie theater in the city of your choice, all being promoted in honor of the pledge contributor. There are many other elaborate incentives built around the premieres and promotion of the film. Tricks of the trade Stein learned working with Peter Guber and John Peters on movie promotions when he was a twenty years old nightclub promoter.
The minimal funding goal for the film was set at one hundred and fifty thousand. A typical low amount is always set for projects on kickstarter due to their "all of nothing" policy. Stein and the Line Producer Aimee Flaherty hope to break the kickstarter's funding record for a film, which is approximately half a million. Once funding is in place, Stein hopes to sell the film to one of the larger film companies and donate fifty percent of his profits to the homeless.
The fund raising campaign is being held for fifty days and expires on October 21st. Tarp drives will be held in 14 cities around the country in order to bring more awareness to the project. The tarp drives consist of one thousand tarps will be handed out at homeless shelters for people that are living on the streets.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) September 17, 2007
!Salve, Oh Patria!, a short film shot in Ecuador, South America by Spanish first-time director Alicia Diaz is set to look for financing to shoot the feature film at the IFP Market in New York City the week of September 16.
¡Salve, Oh Patria! or Fight For Country in English, is about an American widow living in Ecuador, South America, who struggles to get her son out of jail after he is imprisoned during an uprising against the government. Her son Gabriel is determined to follow in his popular Socialist father's footsteps after his assassination by powerful American oil men.
The film was shot in the summer of 2007 in Ecuador by a production team from the New York Film Academy that consisted of a crew from Spain, India, and the US. In addition, there was a local crew that was a huge help to these experienced film students.
"The goal was always to produce this short film to showcase our talents to potential financiers — my vision was to produce a short film first, participate in the film festival circuit and then start raising funds to finish the feature," says Alicia Diaz, writer, director and producer of the film.
Production company NetHead Films, Inc., headed up by Producer William Henao has recently launched the website for the film complete with trailer, production notes, photo gallery, crew bios and more.
"We're looking forward to attending the IFP Market and conference to showcase our work and hopefully get the financing needed to work on the feature film to be shot in 2008," says William Henao.
For additional information visit http://www.FightForCountry.com.
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Director Geo Santini — whose best known for his visual, and cutting-edge music videos — is becoming Hollywoodâs latest directing phenom. Santiniâs recent film short Partners, (in conjunction with Alliance Entertainment Group), has caught the attention some of the film industryâs top executives.
Partners — which has been compared to Memento and Reservoir Dogs with an urban and edgy twist — revolves around 3 friends involved in the seedy crime world, and what happens when betrayal, greed, and dishonesty enter the picture.
Aware of the largely competitive film market, Geo Santini devised a strategy to gain the attention of film executives. Santini created Partners as a film short, giving investors a visually stunning sample of what a complete project would resemble. Apparently this young Directorâs strategy has paid off, as his film short has sparked a bidding war between major moviemakers.
What caught the attention of industry insiders was Geo Santiniâs ability to artfully combine scenes keeping the viewer continuously interested in the film. Viewers watching the short found themselves interested in learning more a bout the characters and where they were going next.
"I feel strongly that a good film will leave you desiring more, while leaving you satisfied at the same time. If you look at the top Directorâs in the film industry, that is what they accomplish over and over again,â says Geo Santini.
Geo Santini and Alliance Entertainment Group are very close to announcing a major distribution counterpart for the feature film production of Partners. The feature film promises to be the next cult classic.
The film is set to begin shooting in January of 2006. In the meantime, the film short can be seen at many film festivals, including the The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival on Saturday, October 22, 2005. For more information on Partners, please visit, or contact Terrance Gillum at 323.365.4602 or Sherise Bright at 213.742.9048.
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I don't have any spicy or obscure information to share with you but, have you heard about the differences in Africa? The Chinese government is full speed ahead on the support of the reconstruction & advancement efforts in some of the noteworthy African countries. Chinese known public channels like the CCTV constantly keep informing about it, the Chinese are becoming increasingly pivoted towards Africa while the Western powerhouses are IMHO once again struggling to control what is already under control. Maybe someday in the future we will see a rise of an new alliance.
Also, the Japanese are developing Modular Combat Vehicles as a direct duty successor of the Main Battle Tank because they are becoming increasingly redundant to the new military doctrines in that part of the World. The Strykers did not got that far as promised, the OICW programme failed in the US but the ROK succeeded in improving and fielding the weapon. I'm just a little worried on how safe the MCV's will be in air drop deployments unless they are planned to be carried to the AO via heavy-lift helicopters like the Japanese variant of the CH-47. I like how the JSDF is evolving or "improving", most of the top political and military heads in America also do like that. The media is kind of silent on that matter expect for posting in official polls results. Do you think the Japanese society is ready for the creation of an real deal Armed Forces?
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