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Kingdom of The Spiders (1977)
William Snatcher fighting a Spider Invasion, what's not to like?
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William Snatcher
I don't usually point out minor errors in people's posts, but this one caught me off guard.
Vasquez wrote:William SnatcherI don't usually point out minor errors in people's posts, but this one caught me off guard.
Snatcher, yeah. Because he snatches good roles form proper actors.
^^^Mwahahaha Yeah.
The Creature, you've got the eye man, I didn't even notice.
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A HUGE BUNCH OF BANANAS FOR azathoth for mentioning this one and showing me THAT pict:
Man, what a freaking blast. It's rated 3.3 on IMDb so it CANNOT be bad. Anyways, it's a SyFy movie so man is it good or what??? H3LL yeah it is. Not only the creature effects but story and acting are also very entertaining. Ahhh gotta LOVE pure cheesiness.
Just noticed my mistake
Ghost Story. I couldn't remember if I'd seen it or not. Turns out I have. Didn't love it.
I'm kind of feeling like I've seen all the good haunting movies
Ever seen Legend of Hell House (1973)? The Sentinel (1977)? The Haunting (1963)? The Changeling (1980)? Stir of Echoes (1999)?
I watched Cabin Fever today. I think that movie might be one of my favorite movies of the modern era of horror movies. Shut up the 2000's just happened..lol Most of my movie collection comes from the 80's.imo the golden age of horror.
Yes and I'm pretty fond of all those, especially The Haunting.
The Creature wrote:Vasquez wrote:William SnatcherI don't usually point out minor errors in people's posts, but this one caught me off guard. Snatcher, yeah. Because he snatches good roles form proper actors.
Oh, snap!
@Punk - Indeed, my third eye see's ALL!
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (re-watch, 8/10)
It's been a few years since I've watched the film, but I've always retained my opinion that it's a good flick despite the general audience's dislike of it. H3 is a very solid horror/sci-fi film with a unique story and some (IMO) pretty disturbing little elements and scenes throughout. Also a childhood favorite of mine that hasn't yet lost its steam.
Insidious 2. Wasn't too creeped out. But I did enjoy it. My gf was scared shitless though. Can't wait for 3.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Whew, that title is long-winded. Got bored of the straight-to-dvd Hellraiser latter half, which I'll return to eventually, so decided to resume this series. As safe as they play it with this franchise, I do consistently enjoy it, despite most never breaking past mediocre. They're a comfortable horror experience, if you ask me.
Anyway, the addition of a psychic foe to tangle with Jason was interesting and also executed quite well. They did need to change things up a bit, and I enjoyed the final confrontation quite a lot. Some memorable kills and Jason at his best, so this one ranks highly in the series.
I can't help but wish that the Freddy/Jason face-off took place in the late '80s, maybe replacing this movie entirely and also canning ANOES 4 around 1988. Hellraiser was also in its prime so would have been amusing to get that Pinhead cameo.
Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972).
Liked it better than the first. 8/10
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David Cronenberg's The Fly (re-watch - 9.5/10)
Nothing short of being a phenomenal film.
Fright Night 2 New Blood - as a lot of flaws and isn't at all a sequel but it's highly entertaining and bloody. 7/10
I've been spending a lot of time on Netflix lately so this might be kind of long.
Black Sunday (1960)- Good, not great. Anyone with a soft spot for classic horror will like it. 7/10
The Possession of David O'Reilly - Hadn't heard of this one but the write up on Netflix caught my eye. I wasn't disappointed. 7/10
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane - Even at 13 Jodie Foster was an incredible actress. 8/10
Apartment 143 - As much as I love a good ghost story this one just didn't bring anything new to the table. 6/10
Absentia - I really liked this one since it was fairly unique. The low budget was noticeable but not really a distraction. 8/10
Blood Runs Cold - Another faceless slasher flick with no real back story. Mindless fun but not much more. 6/10
The Theatre Bizarre - Not much to say. I didn't hate it. 5/10
Grave Encounters 2 - I didn't expect to like it as much as the first one and I was right. Not a bad movie though. 6/10
The Devil's Rock - A New Zealand made movie about Nazi's summoning demons. It's actually better than that description makes it sound. 7/10
Quarantine 2 - Meh. 5/10
Silent House (remake) - I liked it at least as much as the original, maybe more. 8/10
Midnight Movie - This thing actually looked like it had a smaller budget than Absentia. 5/10
Apollo 18 - Slow. Very, very slow. 6/10
Timecrimes - Such a fun and enjoyable movie. 8/10
American Mary - Decent movie but not much of a true horror flick. 7/10
Silent Hill: Revelation - Just another sequel that doesn't live up to the original. 6/10
Mum & Dad - Such a beautifully twisted movie. 7/10
The Collection - Nowhere near as good as the first one. 5/10
Ghostwatch - Interesting premise and it would have been great to see when it originally aired. 7/10
The amazing thing is that none of these are rewatches.
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Wow, that's quite a lot there ^
Definitely agree on Timecrimes, thought it was a brilliant (if a little weird) time travel movie.
How so? I would be interested why you think it isn't horror.
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An Horror Breakfast Club. How cool is that???
Very much to tell you the truth.
Bunch of teens of course with amazingly GORGEOUS hotties get locked up in dentention in a library which is Haunted apparently.Loved the House On Hanted Hill idea, especially with this Pscychiatric dude that films them. I was blazed by it and it was a great surprise, I didn't really know what to think of the DVD short description on the box...
People get killed but one and I'm glad it was her. Always digged Augie Duke. I loved the Nailgun Suicide she does, INTENSELY COOL!!!
And boy Ali Faulkner man, woooo the cute bomb.
Yup extremely cool with good dialogs and all.
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Nothing Left To Fear 2013
It wasn't the best horror ever but it was okay. It's a slow film that just about gets somewhere about 50 minutes in.
Usually I quit movies that irritate me, before I finish watching them. But with this I stayed with it.
Typical CGI is employed. The film could have been better.
I give it 5/10 on the IMDb, , but really it's 4.8. Not quite a 5.
bentheprop wrote:American Mary - Decent movie but not much of a true horror flick. 7/10How so? I would be interested why you think it isn't horror.
H3LL yeah me too!!! O_O
Nothing Left To Fear 2013 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1662293/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1It wasn't the best horror ever but it was okay. It's a slow film that just about gets somewhere about 50 minutes in.Usually I quit movies that irritate me, before I finish watching them. But with this I stayed with it.
I used to quit movies like that too but I've tried to stick to 'em. Never heard of that one and it has very few votes on imdb, how'd you hear about it?
H3LL man, freaking Slash producing... Woah yeah.


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Check out this incredible trailer for the upcoming humans-vs-zombies-on-an-island game. This is probably the single best video game trailer I've ever seen:
Edited... silly loudlon.
great trailer I edited to post to our own article on it silly boy!
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Whoops! Much obliged.
Yes.. It is a really good trailer. I've been reading up about the gameplay and I'm very interesting in "seeing" how it will all come together. But it is a great introduction, to hopfully a great game.
Huh. I have to admit I was a bit puzzled when Meh said he linked the trailer to my article but rolled with it. Just clicked the link and realized the article is actually Deth Banger's.
Sorry, DB. Wasn't trying to steal your thunder, bro.
WOW...Beautiful tralier....Wow.
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Definitely cool! I'm gonna show this trailer to my kids and have a bidding war. Winner will be determined by how many extra chores they're willing to do for it???
that has to be one of the best game trailers i've ever seen.........it's up there with the 'gears' mad world trailer.
lets just hope the game delivers..........
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It was a good trailer, I remember seeing this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx1tl-X8
re=related about it years ago. I really hope they actually use that feature in the game. I really hope it sets itself apart from the loads of zombie and fps games.
Here's the trailer shown in standard forward play, as opposed to reverse/slow-mo. Loses some of the emotional impact, but still a good and scary trailer:
not quite as effective...........but still quite emotional at the end there.
Huh. I have to admit I was a bit puzzled when Meh said he linked the trailer to my article but rolled with it. Just clicked the link and realized the article is actually Deth Banger's.Sorry, DB. Wasn't trying to steal your thunder, bro.
Hahaha no worries dude
You gonna pick this up for xbox Lon? If so ill get a copy as well...you need to get dead space 2 so we can play online! Its a lot like left 4 dead just in 3rd person
Although I'm not a big gamer (BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM was the last game I bought and played all the way through, and that's just 'cause I'm a lifelong Batman nerd), and despite the fact that I'm sorta sick of zombies . . . I'm gonna have to pick this one up when it's released. Judging from that trailer, it's just gonna be too kick-ass *not* to.
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Finally, a next generation Left 4 Dead video game. This will be a "money well spent" purchase for me!!
I've been keeping tabs on this game for some time now.Looks to be one of the best games I've seen in along time.
When this trailer first dropped a couple months ago, it floored me. Still an amazing trailer, and THE best I've ever seen. But the more I read about the game, the less interested I am in playing it. It REALLY sounds like an FPSRPG... boring. There is leveling, stat building, hoarding... guh, not my thing anymore. Initially it looked like a L4D clone, and that's fine. But as more and more info comes out, it seems more like L4D meets Fallout... and I hate Fallout.
Eh, knowing me, I'll get it anyway, cause it's what I do. LOL!
I want this game. I'm not sick of Zombie movies or games at all. Think they at least help us by keeping us aware of the inevitable apocalypse that is coming our way.
I'll be covering this game at E3.
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I stumbled on this randomly one night when I was bored a few months ago. It. Looks. Amazing. Def one of the best trailers I have seen for a game. I can't wait for it to come out [:
Apparently, the trailer is nothing like the game play. The game play will be more Left 4 Dead style with make shift weapons, similar to Dead Rising. To someone like myself, I find this disappointing. The trailer gave me such high hopes and another FPS zombie game is a dime a dozen. I'm hoping there will be more to it. I'll let you all know in a few weeks.
So is it a melee weapon game only or are they actually going to have guns? I didn't care for Dead Rising but loved L4d. I think the only thing missing from those two were a storyline, so I was thinking this one would bring more background. Idk I'm still excited to see more gameplay.
Don't know at this point besides what I wrote. I'll actually get to play it when I am in LA, so I'll have more info then.
This was on their website
- first-person melee combat
- 4 player co-op
- weapon customization
- set on an open world tropical island
- RPG elements for character development
- hordes of gruesome zombies
for Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC - Release Date: 2011
So yeah, I'm pretty sure it is just going to be melee combat but the trailers they have for it make it seem like there is going to be a good storyline to it. But we will have to see (:
There WILL be gun play, but minimal. There's a video of actual game play, and it REALLY reminds me of Fallout 3. Talk to this guy, talk to that guy, get quests, drive across town to save this person, weapons wear out/take damage... eh, looking more and more like I'll be passing on this one.


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That combination of point guard Ronnie Johnson and center A.J. Hammons, along with junior Terone Johnson and senior D.J. Byrd is why the Boilermakers never trailed during the final 36 minutes and improved to 3-2 in the Big Ten with a 65-56 victory against Nebraska in the Devaney Center.
Ronnie Johnson and Hammons combined for 13 points as Purdue built a 20-11 lead, and Terone Johnson and Byrd combined for 23 of the Boilermakers' 37 second-half points. ...


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The Commission on the Status of Women at K-State is an advisory committee of seventeen members including faculty, students, staff, and one representative from Salina. The goal of this commission is to review the roles, needs, and opportunities of women students, faculty and staff at Kansas State University and make recommendations to the university president for changes where appropriate. An annual meeting is held with the President of Kansas State University to present a report detailing the concerns and recommendations of the commission.
Women of K-State Facebook group
This group is a resource for women associated in some way with Kansas State University. Alumni, current students, former students, future students, parents, employees and friends are all welcome.
- Discuss community service opportunities.
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- Share social events on/off campus.
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Nationally recognized research centers of excellence
The Boonshoft School of Medicine houses several research centers of excellence that are nationally recognized, as well as two University System of Ohio Centers of Excellence. Currently, the medical school employs 132 research faculty and staff. Over the past five years, the Boonshoft School of Medicine received a total of $110,402,178 in research and sponsored program funding. Medical students have ample opportunities to participate in this vibrant research community, and many present their work at the school's annual Medical Student Research Symposium.
The school's key facilities include the Matthew O. Diggs III Laboratory for Life Science Research completed in 2007, which was the first university research laboratory in Ohio to be awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-New Construction (LEED-NC) Gold status by the U.S. Green Building Council. In addition, the school is home to a fully accredited laboratory animal resources facility, a Biosafety Level 3 Facility, a chemical surety facility (XCSM), a genomics core facility with advanced gene array systems, proteomics analysis and nuclear magnetic resonance laboratories with multiple mass spectrometers and related equipment and a confocal and electron microscopy imaging core facility.
Designated as an Ohio Center of Excellence, the new Wright State University & Premier Health Neuroscience Institute, represents a groundbreaking public-private partnership that unites the Dayton region's most advanced biomedical research institution with the clinical resources of its largest hospital system. The research component of the institute will be located on the WSU campus, and it will also have facilities dedicated to patient care and clinical research within Miami Valley Hospital. In addition, the partners have created a new clinical Department of Neurology within the Boonshoft School of Medicine. The institute already has a core cadre of NIH-funded neuroscientists, including a team of Wright State researchers awarded a prestigious Program Project Grant of nearly $5 million in 2007 and renewed in 2012 by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Another collaboration between the Boonshoft School of Medicine and Premier Health will open the door to clinical trials. The medical school and Premier recently announced the creation of a Clinical Trials Research Alliance to increase medical research opportunities for physicians and clinicians at the medical school and Premier hospitals. The Alliance is expected to build a $5 million to $7 million clinical research portfolio over five years, roughly doubling the total of what the medical school and Premier have today.
In 2009, the medical school broke ground for the National Center for Medical Readiness Tactical Laboratory at Calamityville®. Developed by the Department of Emergency Medicine, NCMR is a community-wide effort to better prepare our community for large-scale emergencies, such as a weather disaster, terrorist attack or hazmat situation. Its vision is to be the international center of excellence in medical readiness education, training, research and operations by integrating medical readiness into all aspects of health care, public safety, public health and homeland security systems. Designated a University System of Ohio Center of Excellence, NCMR provides training and education, research, product development and testing and commercialization opportunities and strongly emphasizes collaboration among individuals and organizations within the military, the private sector and government at the local, state and federal levels.
A broad range of investigation
The Lifespan Health Research Center (LHRC) is home to the Fels Longitudinal Study, the world's largest and longest running study of human development, growth, body composition and aging. Research in the area of epidemiology focuses on examining risk factors and health consequences for a number of common diseases, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, sarcopenia and osteoporosis. Research in the area of morphological sciences and biostatistics focuses on determinants of craniofacial morphology, genetics of bone and joint health, longitudinal modeling of growth and assessment of skeletal maturity. Current Center funding from NIH exceeds $13 million in support of multi-year studies.
The Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research (CITAR) advances the production, dissemination and utilization of scientific knowledge and professional technology regarding the epidemiology, consequences, prevention and treatment of substance abuse. It conducts wide-ranging research through programs such as the Weekend Intervention Program (WIP); Substance Abuse Resources & Disability Issues (SARDI); the Dayton Area Drug Survey (DADS); and the NIDA National Early Warning System Network (iN3). In 2010, Public Health–Dayton & Montgomery County awarded CITAR a contract, funded by a grant from the Ohio Department of Health, to investigate the high rate of unintentional prescription drug overdoses in Montgomery County through the Unintentional Prescription Drug Poisoning Project;.
Wright State's Center for Genomics Research (CGR) provides state-of-the-art technical assistance and facilities for both basic and clinical science projects in the areas of gene expression, flow cytometry and genotyping. CGR supports Wright State researchers, as well as industry partners and collaborations with the 711th Human Performance Wing at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The Center for Global Health provides education, conducts research and promotes service towards improving and sustaining the health of populations and individuals worldwide. The center provides educational opportunities for all health providers — physicians, hospital administrators, managers, insurers and employers — in areas of management and health economics. Through grants and contracts, the center analyzes and develops programs and systems of care. It focuses on preventive and community-based health care and works to prevent disease, disability and lost quality of life.
The Proteome Analysis Laboratory (PAL) is a Wright State University facility for the analysis of protein/peptide expression in cells, tissues and body fluids. Proteomics is the study of the intricate structure and function of thousands of proteins in cells and tissues. Diseases result when proteins, which are encoded by our genes, are defective or malfunctioning. Like the study of genetic defects, the in-depth study of proteins will produce medical advances. Current investigations involve the proteome and genome of the hypothalamic, pituitary, adrenal, pancreatic-axis (HPAP-Axis) under normal, disease or chemically challenged conditions. One goal of the PAL is to provide high-quality proteomic services to the faculty and staff of Wright State University, to researchers outside Wright State University and to provide support for intramural and extramural grants.
Through a collaborative partnership with Premier Health and the Dayton VA Medical Center, the Boonshoft School of Medicine established a Department of Geriatrics to enhance geriatrics education for the next generation of physicians and expand geriatric research. Researchers are studying macular degeneration, a form of age-related vision loss that most often strikes individuals over 65. Other elder issues — such as sleep disorders, Alzheimer's disease and bone thinning — are also under study.


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In a Yuletide shift, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee finally agreed to call a 17-foot statehouse spruce a Christmas tree, admitting that his past practice of calling it a "holiday tree" generated too much anger.
No kidding. Naming a Christmas tree a holiday tree should be offensive to both the religious and secularist or atheist. It is deceptive.
While using green trees during the winter solstice celebration predates Christianity, by the 16th century and possibly even the 15th century the custom of the Christmas tree developed as "devout Christians (bringing) decorated trees into their ...


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Coach Rosalind Gallino shouted encouragement to Kristi Licursi as the Somers senior finished each lap on her home track. The returning all-American was walking fast for a mile in the crisp air Wednesday to kick off the outdoor season at the 10th annual Tusker Twilight Meet.
"Good job," Gallino said after her race walker easily crossed the line first in a hand-timed 8 minutes, 3.9 seconds. "Beautiful job."
It was a nice start to Licursi's final go-round for Somers. Her final go-round of her junior season turned out rather well. That was at outdoor nationals in Greensboro, N.C., last June. She ...


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A case for Indiana to join the nullification cause
I implore the Indiana Senate to respect its obligation to follow the U.S. Constitution and vote yes on Senate Bill 400. This bill says in part, "Prohibits specified state actors in Indiana from aiding certain United States agencies or other state actors in the investigation, prosecution or detention of a person lawfully in Indiana under a state or federal law that the state actor knows or reasonably should know violates the due process clause of the United States Constitution." The ability to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process, as outlined in the National Defense Authorization Act, is in direct violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Some say the process of nullifying federal laws violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause. That clause says, "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof ... shall be the supreme law of the land." This means that the Supremacy Clause applies to constitutional laws, not unconstitutional ones. Would the states have ratified a Constitution that allowed the federal government to pass whatever laws it wanted, whether or not they violated the Constitution? I don't think so. Finally, in the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, James Madison said the states were "duty bound to resist" when the federal government violated the Constitution. I hope our representatives will uphold their oath of office and nullify this terrible threat to the Constitution and to liberty.
Russel Choules
West Lafayette
Historic voting rights protections at risk
On Feb. 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder, one of the nation's most important voting rights cases to date. At issue is the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark legislation that outlawed racial discrimination in state voting practices. The court is being asked to rule on the Voting Rights Act's Section 5, the critical enforcement mechanism of the law. Over the years, the act was reauthorized several times by Congress, including in 2006 with broad bipartisan support.
Section 5 is vital in protecting eligible citizens from barriers to voting and ensuring that their votes count. The immense progress made in recent decades to protect and expand the right to vote has largely been due to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. With the onslaught of anti-voter legislation that has recently swept the country, we still need Section 5 to keep our elections free, fair and accessible. Section 5 has helped defeat approximately 2,400 discriminatory voting changes over the years, and helped protect voting rights just last year in a number of states.
The League of Women Voters' support for voting rights and the Voting Rights Act is longstanding, and we have submitted amicus briefs in Shelby v. Holder. If the court overturns the Voting Rights Act, it will not only threaten voting rights, it also will threaten the very foundation of our great democracy.
Joanne Evers
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The United States, land of the free, is home to a staggering 1.6 million State and Federal prisoners.
That number, recorded in 2010 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has some people wondering if we live in a Nation of criminals. But the evidence suggests that government largess—and the profiteers who run the privatized American prisons where 128,195 U.S. inmates reside—may have as much to do with incarceration as crime does.
The Times-Picayune in Louisiana recently published an eight-part report detailing how that State incarcerates more people than any other place in the world. One out of 86 adult Louisiana residents live behind bars— that is three times more people than are jailed in Iran and seven times as many as China, the paper reports.
Throughout the series, reporters describe Louisiana prisoners as "vehicles for profit" and explain that powerful prison lobbies have blocked reforms to the State's multi-million dollar prison industry. While Louisiana may have the most prisoners, it certainly isn't the only place in the Nation where incarceration is big business.
ProPublica breaks down the numbers in a recent report:
Corrections Corporation of America
66: number of facilities owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, the country's largest private prison company based on number of facilities
91,000: number of beds available in CCA facilities across 20 states and the District of Columbia
$1.7 billion: total revenue recorded by CCA in 2011
$17.4 million: lobbying expenditures in the last 10 years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics
$1.9 million: total political contributions from years 2003 to 2012, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics
$3.7 million: executive compensation for CEO Damon T. Hininger in 2011
The Geo Group, Inc., the U.S.'s second largest private detention company
$1.6 billion: total revenue in year 2011, according to its annual report
65: number of domestic correctional facilities owned and operated by Geo Group, Inc.
65,716: number of beds available in Geo Group, Inc.'s domestic correctional facilities
$2.5 million: lobbying expenditures in the last 8 years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics
$2.9 million: total political contributions from years 2003 to 2012, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics
$5.7 million: executive compensation for CEO George C. Zoley in 2011
The millions the prison-industrial complex spends on lobbying each year is heavily focused on ensuring that medicinal marijuana reform is stalled, and in more recent years has been used to push for stricter immigration laws. The Huffington Post reports that illegal aliens make up the fastest growing segment of the U.S. prison population.
While many Americans may favor harsh laws regarding immigration and drugs, the prison-industrial complex also routinely lobbies for draconian laws across the board. According to a Justice Policy Institute report, corruption of the judicial system can also result.
The extent to which corporate campaign contributions influence elected officials" decision-making is a matter of much debate. But in one recent case, a private juvenile correctional facility crossed the line, making outright payments to judges in a clear quid pro quo with tragic results.
In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, two local private youth prisons made illegal payments to two judges totaling over $2.6 million. In what came to be known as the "kids for cash" scandal, the Mid Atlantic Youth Service Corporation paid the judges for sentencing youth to confinement in their two private youth prisons. It is estimated that over 5,000 children appeared before the two judges over the past decade, and half of those who waived their right to counsel were sentenced to serve time in one of the private correctional facilities. According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, privately owned corporations operate more than 50 percent of youth correctional facilities in the United States.
The Institute reports that the prison companies are routinely in talks with judges, legislators and law enforcement agencies to encourage policies that drive-up incarceration rates throughout the Nation.


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Topic: Rank the Halloween Franchise from your fave to least fave.
Since it's Halloween i wondered what is your faves from the franchise. I rank mine as follows:
1. Halloween '78 - original & the best.
2. Halloween 2 - more gore & i like to watch it after the original to make one big movie.
3. Halloween 3: Season of the Witch - the first Halloween movie i saw & i still love it & i don't care that there is no Michael Myers
4. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - Great story & just the all round feel.
5. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers - Same as above & cool to watch as a double with part 4.
6. Halloween '07 - Great remake, gory & brutal.
7. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later - Good to see the return of Jamie but as much as i like it it does feel a little watered down.
8. Halloween 2 '09 - I know most don't like it but i for one did, violent & gory.
9. Halloween: Resurrection - Great idea with the web cam thing but think they were starting scape the barrel with this, same as H20 with watered down feel.
10. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers - worst of the lot for, just boring & slow.


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The internal structure of the Civil Aviation Authority
The CAA is a unique resource of over 1,000 people with expertise which addresses every sector of aviation in this country – from safety and airspace management to economics and consumer protection, from Airbus A380 to microlights and air displays.
The CAA is divided into three Groups:
The role of the CAA's Safety and Airspace Regulation Group (SARG) is to ensure that UK civil aviation standards are set and achieved in a co-operative and cost-effective manner. The CAA must satisfy itself that aircraft are properly designed, manufactured, operated and maintained; that airlines are competent; that flight crews, air traffic controllers and aircraft maintenance engineers are fit and competent; that licensed aerodromes are safe to use and that air traffic services and general aviation activities meet required safety standards.
To monitor the activities of this complex and diverse industry, SARG employs a team of specialists. They have an exceptionally wide range of skills, including pilots qualified to fly in command of current airliners; test pilots able to evaluate all aircraft types; experts in flying training, leisure and recreational aviation activities; aircraft maintenance surveyors; surveyors conversant with the latest design and manufacturing techniques; flight test examiners; aerodrome operations and air traffic control specialists; and specialists in aviation medicine.
Specific responsibilities include:
The group is also responsible for the planning and regulation of all UK airspace including the navigation and communications infrastructure to support safe and efficient operations. Staff include civilian and military experts with experience of commercial, business, recreational and military aviation. The needs of all users are accommodated, as far as possible, with regard for safety as well as environmental, economic and national security considerations.
Specific responsibilities include:
For further information view the Airspace web pages.
The Regulatory Policy Group (RPG) is a new unit that includes work previously organised as the Economic Regulation Group. RPG's remit is to provide policy advice to colleagues across the CAA, aiming to help the organisation to put the consumer at the heart of its work.
The new Regulatory Policy Group has four core functions:
The changes are designed to help the CAA to take a holistic approach to our regulatory aims and ensure that all potential regulatory options are considered when deciding the ideal course of action to achieve best outcomes, across the organisation's work. The changes also underline the Group's role in providing analytical and policy support across the CAA's mission - for example, on environmental issues.
The responsibilities of the Consumer Protection Group (CPG) are to
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This obituary is for Benjamin Blewett, son of John Blewett and Margaret Brookens. He was born May 20, 1845, in Guilford Twp, Jo Daviess Co, Illinois, the fourth of six children. He married Rose Stephens and they had a son Benjamin. He died October 21, 1928, in Elizabeth, Jo Daviess co, Illinois. He was killed by a bullet through the brain. His death was ruled a suicide, but it was suspicious since there was two bullet casings. Interment made at Oakwood Cemetery in Elizabeth. Obituary from the Freeport Journal-Standard, 26 Oct 1928, page … [Read more...]
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LONDON — Two-thirds of the world's largest defense companies fail to provide sufficient publicly available evidence about how they tackle corruption, according to a study from Transparency International UK (TI-UK) scheduled to be published Oct. 4.
A defense companies anti-corruption index, compiled for the first time by the respected organization, based here, singled out Fluor as the only firm to reach the gold standard in publicly demonstrating the systems and procedures it has in place to prevent corruption.
The U.S.-based engineering, construction and project management company has nearly 12 percent of its 2011 sales — valued at $23.3 billion — in defense projects like the U.S. Army's Logistics Civil Augmentation Program.
Combining internal and public information elevated Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, KBR, Serco, ThyssenKrupp and others to the top band.
TI-UK estimates that defense corruption costs governments a minimum of $20 billion a year.
Transparency International evaluated the publicly available anti-corruption practices of the world's top 129 defense companies, placing them into six bands running from the gold standard, A, through to the worst performers in band F.
The organization cautioned, though, that the listing was a guide to information availability and not a guide to the level of any corruption among the companies.
"This index only looks at what companies say they do to prevent corruption, not how corrupt they are," TI-UK said.
Band A companies provided extensive anti-corruption information while Band F companies provided little or none.
TI-UK said it hopes the data will help raise anti-corruption standards across a sector whose business historically has been hidden from view. The index focuses on publicly available information, but it also provides revised bandings including companies that gave TI-UK access to internal information regarding anti-corruption practices.
Nine companies made it into TI-UK's band B as publicly demonstrating in considerable detail anti-corruption practices. Accenture, BAE Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Northrop Grumman and Thales figured among these companies.
BAE and Thales have been embroiled in big corruption investigations in recent years that ended up costing both companies hundreds of millions of dollars. TI-UK said corruption scandals often serve as a wake-up call for companies stung by having to pay huge fines.
Evidence suggests that companies Fluor and Accenture, which are not defense specialists, perform better than defense organizations when it comes to corruption prevention, and that publicly owned firms are better than state-owned concerns.
Mark Pyman, the author of the index, said the fact that 10 percent of companies had good disclosure of their anti-corruption systems was an improvement on the practices of a decade ago.
"This is much more than it would have been 10 years ago: the industry is changing," Pyman said.
TI-UK were critical, however, on the performance of company chief executives for not speaking out against corruption often enough, noting that 85 percent of CEOs did not address the issue in public or internally.
Among the two-thirds of defense companies languishing at the bottom of the listings were companies such as Alliant Techsystems, Babcock International, Dassault Aviation, Hindustan Aeronautics and Ultra Electronics in bands D and E.
At the bottom were 47 companies ranging from Israel Military Industries through to Bumar, General Atomics, Sukhoi and NORINCO.
The report said that almost half of the 129 companies "provide very little evidence of having basic systems in place to prevent corruption and instill strong ethical values."
Lord Robertson, the former secretary-general of NATO, said that corruption scandals can wipe away decades of efforts spent building a company's reputation.
"By having the right anti-corruption systems in place, companies can avoid a drop in stock prices, blacklists and even prison," Robertson said. "It is in their interests to take action, and this index provides the guidance to do so."


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Sjalsked is a conlang I have been working on recently. Unlike previous attempts at conlangery, this language has no culture or country associated with it (yet ).
It was in some ways influenced by Danish, but I am expecting that resemblance to fade or even disappear as I continue. The alphabet and orthography are (as of 20/4/2009) designed so as to allow the language to be typed with an Icelandic keyboard.
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Chief Scientific Officer and President of Regeneron Labratories George Yancoppulos,left, and Leonard Schleifer, founder, president and CEO of Regeneron, are photographed in a biopharmaceutical lab at Regeneron headquarters in Tarrytown. / Matthew Brown / The Journal News
About this series
The yearlong Albany Bureau series Rebuilding New Yorks Economy will look at key factors affecting New Yorks economic recovery and whether it is succeeding.
Upcoming installments will look at the growth of the partnerships between colleges and the private sector, the impact of the property-tax cap and the rebirth of the farming industry.
Coming next week: Can fracking be an answer? Some estimates have indicated New York could create more than 50,000 new jobs if it were to permit hydrofracking in the Southern Tier. But critics say the job numbers are inflated and would irrevocably hurt the environment.
Online database: Take a look at a database of unemployment rates and other job data going back to 1990 at LoHud.com
ALBANY — No area of New York saw its unemployment rate drop between 2011 and 2012, and the rate outpaces the national average.
Meanwhile, New York ranks last in the nation for its business climate, the Tax Foundation said last fall, and the state has 279,000 fewer people employed than it did in 2008, down 3 percent, state records show.
As the nation slowly rebounds from the Great Recession, New York may still be in an economic malaise, particularly upstate.
If anyone thinks were out of the woods yet from an economic standpoint, all they need to do is look at the recent unemployment numbers, said Christopher Wiest, vice president of public policy at Rochester Business Alliance.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made the economy a priority, creating 10 regional economic development councils to boost cooperation and drive state aid to projects. But while Cuomo has built a record of accomplishments at the state Capitol, the economy remains a formidable challenge. And as the Democratic governor gains national attention as a potential presidential candidate in 2016, the states economy is already dogging him.
The economic climate that has allowed (Texas) to grow and create jobs hed dearly love to be able to stand up and say, We did this in New York. But he cant, said Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a GOP presidential candidate in 2012, at a forum in January about Cuomo.
Cuomo is also under pressure from business groups in the Southern Tier to allow hydrofracking, the controversial drilling technique that advocates say would be a boon for the economy. Environmentalists have fought the measure, and Cuomo is expected to decide on the issue by mid-February.
Over the past year, the U.S. unemployment rate fell from 8.5 percent to 7.8 percent. New Yorks rate stayed flat at 8.2 percent. It was 8.4 percent upstate, up from 7.9 percent in December 2011. Cuomos office and some economists said the unemployment rate is not a good gauge of the states economic growth. The unemployment rates for the state are calculated by the state Labor Department through a telephone survey.
The state Labor Department said New York has recovered all of the lost private-sector jobs about 348,000 in total since November 2009. It is one of only five states to do so, and the only one in the Northeast.
I tend to not focus just on the unemployment rate, said Richard Deitz, an assistant vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. I think a better indicator to look at is total employment.
In that measure, New York has outpaced the nation, Deitz found. New York didnt dip as low during the recession as other states, so it didnt have as far back to climb. The national unemployment downturn lasted about 25 months; it lasted about 20 months in New York, Dietz said.
Kevin Jack, the statewide market analyst at the Labor Department, said even the unemployment rate has shifted downward. It fell from 9.1 percent in August to 8.2 percent in December the states biggest drop over a four-month period since the 1980s.
Because the state economy is improving, more people are re-entering the workforce.
When the job numbers start looking decent, a lot of people who have been on the sidelines decide to jump into the labor force, Jack explained. Oftentimes what happens is there is a temporary bump up in the unemployment rate.
The state's efforts
Cuomo and economic-development officials said theyve seen strong regional growth. The Rochester area has a booming optics sector. Buffalo has focused on biomedical research. The Albany area has the burgeoning nanotechnology industry. The Hudson Valley has a promising biotechnology corridor.
There is no real upstate economy. Its the metropolitan areas that have their unique abilities to do things, said Gary Keith, a regional economist for M&T Bank in Buffalo.
With pomp and circumstance, Cuomo has hosted two annual award ceremonies to tout the regional councils and dole more than $1.5 billion in state aid to thousands of projects.
Cuomo in his State of the State address Jan. 9 hailed the achievements but recognized that they havent been enough. He noted that over the past 10 years, jobs grew in upstate at 5 percent, while New York City grew at 16 percent and the nation grew at 9 percent.
When you look at the job growth in upstate New York, frankly it is sad, and it is troubling, he said. The nations growth led upstate New Yorks growth.
Cuomo is proposing additional tax-free zones to promote new businesses and expansions. He wants to market upstate to tourism better and build three privately owned resort casinos.
I believe if they visit, they will come back and they will stay, but we have to get them there, he said. And I believe casinos in upstate New York could be a great magnet to bring the New York City traffic up.
The state also is grappling with struggling local governments, despite smaller budget deficits in state government. A report in May from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that though private-sector jobs have returned, theyve been partly offset by the loss of 23,200 government jobs between December 2009 and April 2012.
Unemployment is still too high, DiNapoli said. The challenge for us is that we are not certainly going in the negative, but we are not moving forward in the kind of leaps and bounds people would like to see.
Numbers vary
Rochester has led the state in employment gains since the recession, regaining all the jobs it lost despite the bankruptcy at the citys longtime flag bearer, Eastman Kodak Co.
But even Rochester has seen a rise in unemployment in recent months. In December, the jobless rate was 8 percent, up from 7.5 percent in December 2011. The unemployment rate, though, didnt tell the full story. Monroe County added 3,200 jobs from November 2011 to November 2012, up 1 percent the most of any county outside the New York City area.
Westchester County led the state in the number of new employees in that period, up 4,500, or 1 percent, state records show. The county had an unemployment rate of 7 percent in December.
Tompkins County, aided by being home to Cornell University, had the lowest unemployment rate in the state at 5.6 percent. The Lower Hudson Valley counties of Putnam, Rockland and Westchester had the next lowest.
Leonard Schleifer, president of Regeneron, a biopharmaceutical company based in Tarrytown, said the regional councils have brought better focus to the region. He co-chairs the Hudson Valley council.
I think the whole concept of a region determining what its strategy should be is working, he said.
Moving forward
Al Samuels, president of the Rockland Business Association, said the Hudson Valley council is seeing success. It recently received $3 million to establish the New York State Cloud Computing and Analytics Center at Marist College in Poughkeepsie.
There is improvement in our economy in the Hudson Valley, and we have reason to believe that will continue because of the attention that we have gained and the funds we have gained through the state process, Samuels said.
In the Southern Tier, $7 million in state aid is going to build the Southern Tier High Technology Incubator, a collaboration between Binghamton University and the private sector in the citys downtown. The unemployment rate in the Binghamton area was 8.8 percent last month, up from 8.3 percent in 2011.
The Elmira area for the past several years had led the state in sales-tax growth due to the influx of people from hydrofracking in nearby Pennsylvania. But the glut of natural gas and the closing of the Sikorksy Aircraft Corp. plant last month a loss of 570 jobs has hurt the local economy.
The Elmira region had the largest rise in its unemployment rate over the past year: from 8 percent to 9.3 percent, state statistics show.
Lou Santoni, president of the Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce, said the area hopes for the approval of hydrofracking.
The area sits above the gas-rich Marcellus Shale, which has been tapped in neighboring Pennsylvania but not yet in New York.
Were pinning a lot our hopes on the OK, he said.


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SPASH goalie Nathan Siclovan freezes the puck in front of Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln's Jacob Gilbert Friday in the K.B Willet Arena in Stevens Point.
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No one could blame members of the Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln boys hockey team if they have nightmares about Nathan Siclovan all weekend.
After all, the Stevens Point Area Senior High sophomore goalie just finished stoning them at just about every turn Friday for the second time in less than a 24-hour span.
Siclovan showed why he leads the state in save percentage by stopping 35 of the 36 shots Wisconsin Rapids threw at him in a 5-1 win for the Panthers in Wisconsin Valley Conference action at K.B. Willett Arena. ...


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[pl_amazon_book_order src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=perslibedige-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0618091564&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr"]Established by the Catholic church in 1231, the Inquisition was designed to make people adhere to the teachings of the church and make them toe the official church-approved version of Catholicism. And if Cullen Murphy's book God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World stuck to describing the 700-year history of the Inquisition, it might only hold interest for historians who wish to explore how the church functioned as a medieval political power.
Instead, Murphy's larger purpose is to show how large organizations filled with small-minded bureaucrats can terrorize a population when they have willing foot soldiers to do their bidding. The Inquisition, as Murphy sees it, was just a taste of what big governments would later accomplish when they set their minds to trying to control both how people behave and how they think.
And Murphy points out that today's technological marvels of communication and surveillance allow government inquisitors to record and track personal behavior in ways the old-time Inquisitorial powers could only dream of. He points out, though, that if you subtract the technological aspects of our modern inquisition, it shares a lot of similarities with what the Catholic church implemented.
Retaining Power
The basic tenet of a bureaucracy, whether it works for the Federal government or a church, is that "Institutions do what they must to retain power. Isn't it that simple?" That's a quote that Murphy takes from Eamon Duffy, a historian who has tracked the bloody changeover of England from a Catholic country to a Protestant power in the 16th century.
Murphy shows how the tools of today's bureaucratic governments are outgrowths of past measures to keep power: "Motivations may change, targets may shift, but the infrastructure builds by increments. Proof of identity, record-keeping, informers, surveillance, denunciation, interrogations: these are the basic instruments. And as medieval kingdoms remade themselves into modern states, the instruments became better and were applied in a more systematic way."
The transition from the Inquisition to the modern police state picked up steam in France in 1790. It was then that France invented the passport and the identity card. Napoleon and his head of secret police, Joseph Fouche, formulated summaries of all the intelligence, news, rumors and gossip they could gather to make sure they stayed ahead of efforts to depose them.
Later, the Russian Czars modeled their secret police after the French undercover agents. And when the Communists took over Russia, Lenin made the Czar's bureaucracy into what would later become the KGB. Today the KGB has morphed into the FSB. The FSB, if you can believe it, is even more powerful than the KGB ever was. As Murphy points out, at least the KGB had to report to the Communist Party. Today the Communist Party is gone and the FSB has no one to restrain it.
Preemptive Action
In the United States, Murphy says, these types of efforts at control led to the so-called Palmer raids in the early 20th century. At that time, the attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer, organized raids "led by the young J. Edgar Hoover, (that) rounded up targeted individuals by the thousands." As The Washington Post noted in 1920: "There is no time to waste on hairsplitting over infringement of liberties."
Later, the FBI, led by the same Hoover, would gather files on 25 million Americans. Today, as the Federal government collects more and more information on its citizens under the USA Patriot Act, untold numbers of electronic files are being collected.
Murphy believes that single-minded organizations, whether they are inquisitions or modern police states, are misguided by their belief in their infallibility. He quotes Samuel Johnson's observation about a man who "seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one."
A bureaucracy that wants everyone to behave like obedient sheep is likewise enslaved to one idea that is a wrong one. But as long as we stay vigilant and fight back against that wrong idea, there's hope for a freer future.


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Drill instructors from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, engage the Semper Fi Bowl East Team's student athletes in January 2014. The Marine Corps announced then that the 2014 Semper Fi Bowl would be the last due to budget cuts, but they've now brought it back. (Cpl. Caitlin Brink/Marine Corps)
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Marine Corps officials will reinstate funding for the Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl, a high-profile recruiting event that brings together dozens of high school football players from across the country each year. Earlier, the Corps had announced the program would be cut due to budgetary constraints.
Marine Corps Recruiting Command received additional mid-year funding from higher headquarters, said Jim Edwards, a Recruiting Command spokesman. That will allow the command to execute the next bowl game in January 2015, he said.
Maj. Gen. Mark Brilakis, commanding general of MCRC, told Marine Corps Times in the fall that the command was weighing the benefits of the bowl as officials looked for ways to work through fiscal constraints caused by across-the-board budgetary spending cuts. But about five months after they decided to put the program on hold, a funding change has brought it back.
The commandant has decided that this is one of those premiere events that he would like us to continue and provided the resources necessary to do it, Brilakis said, according to a Marine Corps news release.
The Marine Corps spends about $2.6 million annually on the program, Edwards said. Launched in 2011, the Semper Fi Bowl brings together about 90 high school foot ball players from across the country to face off in a game that pits players from the Eastern and Western United States against each other. Players are selected based on their athletic abilities, personal character, academic performance and leadership.
The game is normally nationally televised from California. The players participate in a week-long event that has them interacting with Marine Corps leaders, drill instructors and recruiters. The players are given jerseys, gear and equipment, and their meals and travel are paid for.
Edwards said the command has seen benefit in the opportunity to introduce Marine Corps values and culture to players from across the country.
The Semper Fidelis Football Program as an opportunity to establish a strong connection with America's youth, he said. [The program] has been part of our overall recruiting plan and has enabled our recruiting force to engage well-rounded student athletes, parents and influencers throughout the nation.
The next bowl game will be similar in scope to the 2014 game, Edwards said. Returning funding to the program wont pull dollars away from any of MCRCs other initiatives, he added.
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Language Poets
Language Poets
A literary movement primarily rooted in the United States, Language Poetry began in the late 1960s and became defined through L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine and several anthologies published in the 1970s. The poets associated with the movement—Ron Silliman, Steve McCaffery, Susan Howe, Hannah Weiner, Michael Palmer, Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten, and Steve Benson, among others—are interested in the social and political dimensions of language, as well as in the ways in which it actually functions. For instance, where traditional poetry would typically use language to convey something else—a sunset, strong emotion, etc.—Language Poetry will often take language itself as the subject of such exploration. As McCaffery explains, however, Language Poetry is more of a disposition than a movement, allowing for a great deal of diversity between individual poets. As the editors of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine explained, the group encompasses "a spectrum of writing that places its attention primarily on language and ways of making meaning, that takes for granted neither vocabulary, grammar, process, shape, syntax, program, or subject matter." Some of the significant influences on Language Poetry include Surrealism, Russian Formalism, and eighteenth-century rhetorical poetry.
The Language Poets generally criticize the idea that a poem should be organized primarily around the "self" (the narrative persona of the poem), and they are against the notion that the poet is at the center of his or her poem. Through minimalist and experimental uses of language, they strive to demonstrate that ideas and events exist independently of the poet and do not necessarily refer to "reality." Several of the poets have, therefore, used language ways that challenge traditional notions of poetry. For example, they have used pre-lexical constructions—random combinations of letters and symbols, or codes of various sorts—to call attention to the fact that meaning is elusive; they have deconstructed language by physically manipulating it to complicate its meaning; and they have worked with alternative ways to render text on the page by using spacing, hinged constructions, or superimposing one text over another. In calling attention to the text as a text and to reality as a construct, many Language Poets manipulated the illusion of created reality through poetry and have become fascinated with composition influenced by clairvoyance or schizophrenia. Language Poetry also extends to social and political concerns since the poets believe that traditional language is responsible for perpetuating a traditional social order that contributes to the preservation of capitalism. In reaction, many Language Poets offer a leftist or Marxist critique of American society in their poetry and literary criticism and have even developed alternative ways of publishing and distributing their work in order to escape the restrictions of traditional capitalist business practices.
Many literary critics—for example Lee Bartlett, Jerome McGann, and Marjorie Perloff—have praised the inventiveness and reformist impulses of the Language Poets and have saluted the success of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine. But the group has also received its share of criticism for the difficulty of its works and for what some critics perceive as elitist tendencies. In recent years, Douglas Messerli, Barrett Watten, and Marjorie Perloff have written about the individual literary styles that have grown out of the Language group and its shared aesthetic. Several critics also have explored various influences on the Language Poets. For example, George Hartley has explored their place in the avant-garde tradition; Watten has traced the group's connection to Surrealism; Lynn Emanuel has pointed out their kinship with Formalism; and Kornelia Freitag and Judith Goldman have focused on women Language Poets, who have adapted their technique and methodology in unique ways to suit their sensibilities.
Representative Works
Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E [editors] (journal) 1979-83
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book [editors] (poetry) 1983
Christopher Beach
Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics [editor] (poetry) 1998
Steve Benson
Blindspots (poetry) 1981
Charles Bernstein
Controlling Interests (poetry) 1980
Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (essays) 1986
My Way: Speeches and Poems (speeches and poetry) 1998
Clark Coolidge
A Geology (poetry) 1981
Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten
This [editors] (journal) 1971
Carla Harryman
Under the Bridge (poetry) 1980
Lyn Hejinian
My Life (poetry) 1980
Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten
Poetics Journal [editors] (journal) 1982-98
Susan Howe
Hinge Picture (poetry) 1974
Chanting at the Crystal Sea (poetry) 1975
Secret History of the Dividing Line (poetry) 1978
Cabbage Gardens (poetry) 1979
Defenestration of Prague (poetry) 1983
My Emily Dickinson (essays) 1985
A Bibliography of the King's Book, or, Eikon Basilike (poetry) 1989
Frame Structures (poetry) 1996
Steve McCaffery
North of Intention (essays) 1986
Douglas Messerli
"Language" Poetries: An Anthology [editor] (poetry and essays) 1987
Michael Palmer
Blake's Newton (poetry) 1972
The Circular Gates (poetry) 1974
Without Music (poetry) 1977
Notes for Echo Lake (poetry) 1981
First Figure (poetry) 1984
At Passages (autobiography) 1995
Bob Perelman
The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (essays) 1996
Leslie Scalapino
Considering How Exaggerated Music Is (poetry) 1982
Ron Silliman
Ketjak (poetry) 1974
Alcheringa [editor] (journal) 1975
Tjanting (poetry) 1981
The Age of Huts (poetry) 1986
In the American Tree: Language, Poetry, Realism (poetry and essays) 1986
The New Sentence (essays) 1987
Barrett Watten
Total Syntax (essays) 1984
Frame (1971–1990) (collected poems) 1997
Hannah Weiner
Clairvoyant Journal (poetry) 1978
LITTLE BOOKS/INDIANS (poetry) 1980
Nijole's House (poetry) 1981
Code Poems (poetry) 1982
Sixteen (poetry) 1983
Spoke (poetry) 1984
silent teachers remembered sequel (poetry) 1994
Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
Ron Silliman (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: Silliman, Ron. "Language, Realism, Poetry." In In the American Tree, edited by Ron Silliman, pp. xv-xxiii. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1986.
[In following introduction to his anthology of Language Poetry, written in 1984, Silliman briefly comments on the origin and development of the movement.]
"I Hate Speech." Thus capitalized, these words in an essay entitled "On Speech," the second of five short critical pieces by Robert Grenier in the first issue of This, the magazine he cofounded with Barrett Watten in winter, 1971, announced a breach—and a new moment in American writing.
As his essay was careful to make...
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Lee Bartlett (essay date summer 1986)
SOURCE: Bartlett, Lee. "What Is 'Language Poetry?'" Critical Inquiry 12, no. 4 (summer 1986): 741-52.
[In the following essay, Bartlett discusses some of the chief characteristics of the Language Poetry movement as described by several poets and literary critics.]
W. H. Auden, the sometimes Greta Garbo of twentieth-century poetry, once told Stephen Spender that he liked America better than England because in America one could be alone. Further, in his introduction to The Criterion Book of Modern American Verse Auden remarked that while in England poets are considered members of a "clerkly caste," in America they are an "aristocracy of one."...
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Barrett Watten (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: Watten, Barrett. "Method and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E." In In the American Tree, edited by Ron Silliman, pp. 599-612. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1986.
[In the following essay, Watten focuses on Surrealism in postwar American art and how the Language Poets incorporated it into their methodology.]
Method in American art after the war incorporated numbers of Surrealist concepts. Traces of automatism and objective chance fuse in the renegotiated value for "the self." That recognition and the self are equivalent terms is coded into a wide range of art work. Logically, "the method that is no method," which so many artists have claimed, is consistent...
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Jerome McGann (review date 15 October 1987)
SOURCE: McGann, Jerome. "Language Writing." London Review of Books 9, no. 18 (15 October 1987): 6-8.
[In the following review of two anthologies of Language Poetry, McGann sketches the characteristics of the Language Poets' style and philosophy.]
In 1918, the intensity of Yeats's fascination with the young American phenomenon Ezra Pound had cooled enough for Jack Butler Yeats to supply his son with some smouldering paternal wisdom:
The poets loved of Ezra Pound are tired of Beauty, since they have met it so often … I am tired of Beauty my wife, says the poet, but here is that enchanting mistress Ugliness. With her I will live...
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Jerome J. McGann (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: McGann, Jerome J. "Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes." Critical Inquiry XIII, no. 3 (1987): 624-47.
[In following essay, McGann addresses the social and political implications of the Language Poets' ideas about style and method.]
Opposition is true friendship.
—William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
that the vanishing point might be on every word.
—Lyn Hejinian, "Grammar and Landscape"
What is the significance of that loose collective enterprise, sprung up in the aftermath of the...
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Douglas Messerli (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Messerli, Douglas. Introduction to Language Poetries: An Anthology, edited by Douglas Messerli, pp. 1-11. New York: New Directions Books, 1987.
[In following introduction to his anthology of Language Poetry, Messerli emphasizes that, while Language Poets as a group constitute "a true community of thought," their work is also highly individual.]
In a decade in which so many poets and critics have expressed dismay over an ever-shrinking audience for contemporary poetry and have decried what they see as a decline in the cultural and political vitality of poetry and poetics, we have also witnessed something else: an almost meteoric rise in the publications and...
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George Hartley (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Hartley, George. "'endless PROTEANL inkages': Language Poetry and the Avant-Garde Tradition." In Textual Politics and the Language Poets, pp. 1-25. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
[In the following essay, Hartley demonstrates the stylistic and ideological connection between Language Poetry and the avant-garde tradition in American poetry.]
I begin this essay with an apparent oxymoron: avant-garde tradition. As art critic Rosalind Krauss explains in her essay "The Originality of the Avant-Garde," one of the key myths of early twentieth-century avant-garde art is its original status, its supposed separation from the "corrupt"...
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Lynn Emanuel (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Emanuel, Lynn. "Language Poets, New Formalists, and the Techniquization of Poetry.1" In Poetry after Modernism, edited by Robert McDowell, pp. 199-221. Ashland, Oreg.: Story Line Press, 1998.
[In the following essay, Emanuel explores the similarities and differences between the methods of Language Poets and those of the New Formalists, concluding that the two groups have much in common.]
There has never been a society—until our own—in which all representations are available equally to any observer at any time. That we are rapidly approaching such a condition (or have reached it) is the result of complex social...
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February 10, 2013; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes forward Sam Thompson (12) drives past Indiana Hoosiers guard Jordan Hulls (1) at the Schottenstein Center.
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It had been almost 48 hours since experiencing their worst loss of the season, but the feelings remained raw as the cold February wind blowing outside.
"Flat out, we just didn't come out to play," Ohio State sophomore forward Sam Thompson said Tuesday afternoon.
The Buckeyes lost 71-49 at rival Wisconsin just three weeks after beating the Badgers by nine at home. It was Ohio State's worst lost in three seasons and dashed any lingering hopes of winning out and earning a fourth consecutive Big Ten championship. ...