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Hey everyone! I am back after taking a short needed break. Last week marked the third year that I have been running this blog! Yay! Happy Anniversary!
Today I return to highlight a few writers I found out about after reading Bilphena Yahwon's post on Africa Is Done Suffering, "The Writers I Never Learned About." In this post, Yahwon writes about mainstream literary establishments and education systems lack of inclusion of black women writers in their canons. Her pieces is an addition to a growing critique of these institutions, like Junot Diaz's "MFA vs. POC" and "We Need Diverse Books Campaign." Besides listing writers I already knew, she did include ones I did not know as well and wanted to show their work here. The two women and their books I want to feature are Nigerian writers and activists Catherine Acholonu and Molara Ogundipe.
Dr. Acholonu, who passed away in March, was a essayist, playwright, poet and published several books of her own anthropological and scientific research into African cultures, specifically Igbo, and gender studies. Some of her books include "The Gram Code of African Adam: Stone Books and Cave Libraries, Reconstructing 450,000 Years of Africa's Lost Civilizations, which earned her the award of Professor of African History and Philosophy from Pilgrim's University and Theological Seminary, North Carolina; The Earth Unchained – A Quantum Leap in Consciousness, A Reply to Al Gore; Motherism – The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism and The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano"
The Gram Code of African Adam is the first book in her African Adam series and explores the history behind the ancient stone inscriptions of Ikom, Cross River State, Nigeria and contributions of ancient Africans to the world in that they possessed systems of writing. The sequel to the book, They Lived Before Adam, delved into prehistoric origins of the Igbo and that "Igbo oral tradition is consistent with scientific research into the origins of humanity." She said in a lecture at a Harlem book fair, "Igbo oral traditions confirm the findings of geneticists, that by 208000BC – 208000 BC – human evolution was interrupted and Adam, a hybrid, was created through the process of genetic engineering. However, our findings reveal that the creation of Adam was a downward climb on the evolutionary ladder, because he lost his divine essence, he became divided, no longer whole, or wholesome. All over Africa and in ancient Egyptian reports, oral and written traditions maintain that homo erectus people were heavenly beings, and possessed mystical powers such as telepathy, levitation, bi-location, that their words could move rocks and mountains and change the course of rivers. Adam lost all that when his right brain was shut down by those who made him."
Her last book and last book of the series, "The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam: Unearthing Heliopolis/Igbo Ukwu – The Celestial City of the Gods of Egypt and India," theorizes West Africa as a place of origin for other Eastern cultures, like Egyptian culture and hieroglyphs.
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*"Don't Blame Science Fiction for Hollywood's Race Problem:" "And there's a decent amount of it these days, because the post-millennial resurgence in Afrofuturism has been one of the more fascinating and welcome developments of the last decade or so. This trend been written about a fair amount in relation to music — the most prominent example is Janelle Monáe and her ArchAndroid mythos, but there's also the hyperspace hip hop of Flying Lotus and Deltron 3030 and the more esoteric work of acts like Ras G and the Afrikan Space Program, whose most recent album, Back On the Planet, was one of the under-appreciated joys of last year.
You hear less about an Afrofuturist revival in film and literature, but if there's not been a resurgence in other areas of pop culture, it might be because, hey, Afrofuturism never really went away. Octavia Butler was writing right up until her death in 2006, and produced as rich a body of work as any of her white male contemporaries. And once you start digging, there's a wealth of writing that addresses the future from the perspective of people of color, from the reasonably well-known to the fascinatingly obscure."
*"Star Wars and the 4 Ways Science Fiction Handles Race:" How science fiction uses metaphor, tokenism, diversity and explicit dealing with racial issues to handle race.
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Social Death, Wounded Transformations and The Hauntings of Prophetic Tradition :
Tomorrow is Christmas and one story that came to mind in relation to afrofuturism, and especially after I watched Arthur Jafa's Dreams Are Colder than Death, was Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and the story's ghosts of past, present and future.
In the Western imagination, blackness, darkness and Africa (Heart of Darkness) to an extent has represented a kind of social and metaphorical death. For example, Edgar Allen Poe's tropes of blackness and darkness representing death and evil in works like "The Raven" (the animal also representing the antithesis of the "human" in western construction) and his lesser known novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Even today, we still see the pervasiveness of it, such as Justine Sacco's tweet about Africa and aids, reinforcing the implication that Africa as a whole is a wasteland, a place of death only, or even ghettos across America where they are only viewed through lens of crime and death.
But that imagination also be observed within the diaspora as well. Jafa mentioned in the discussion after the film that in one particular West African indigenous group, if certain children were past the point of initiation, they were not able to be reclaimed and thus were left in the woods to die. He asked how did that relate to the diaspora; are we the monsters in the woods, the dark big bad wolf in a sense. Jafa emphasized that this was something we need to address to heal.
Otherworldly Videos: The Brother Moves On
I found out about this band some time ago and also just found out that Spoek Mathambo said in an interview they were one of his favorite groups. The Brother Moves On are also from Johannesburg, South Africa. They describe their group as "The ghost inside the magic, the stranglers of an innocent idea of bringing performance art to its knees through costume, music and storytelling. A playful site specific collaborative piece of performance art in the form of a band based in Johannesburg. The name of this collective is derived from David Simons 'The Wire' character Brother Mouzone, meaning "judicious" in Arabic, a transient assassin with that audacious yet sincere difference." You can listen to their two EPs, The Golden Wake and ETA, here.
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What are the spiritual and physical consequences of us not studying the spiritual and magic systems of the African Diaspora in depth? This is one question amongst several explored in the British documentary film, Ancestral Voices: Esoteric African Knowledge. Premiering in New York City last Saturday at the New York African Diaspora International Film Festival, the film delves into several African and African-American spiritual systems that are often demonized, misrepresented or lack attention in comparison to more mainstream religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Filmmakers Verona Spence and Dalian Adofo made this film as a way to educate people on these systems and ancestral knowledge, and interviewed a variety of artists, intellectuals, and spiritual leaders and practitioners, and participants. The interviewees provided a vast amount of knowledge about not only the recurring themes in African and Afro-diapsoric spiritual systems, but also specific elements in different ones, including Egyptian Kemetic, Yoruba, Gabon's Iboga ritual, The Sky God Tree story of the Akan in Ghana, Caribbean Obeah, Haitian Vodou, Cuban and Puerto Rican Santeria and Brazilian Candomble.
Rethinking the 'Fantasy' of Africa in Roots Reggae
Professor, author and cultural analyst Louis Chude-Sokei speaks in his lecture, "When Echoes Return: Roots, Diaspora and Possible Africas (A Eulogy)." The lecture centers on the death of South African reggae singer Lucky Dube and how the fantasy of a singular Africa in roots reggae music has been both a dangerous space and a space for possibility for people in Africa.
Also, Chude-Sokei said later in the lecture that "there's nothing more important than fantasy. Without fantasy, you don't have politics. Without fantasy, you don't have reality." Thoughts?
What Is Afrofuturism? Part 11: Cosmic Yoruba
Cosmic Yoruba wrote a piece on Afrofuturism from various African perspectives. Read an excerpt of "'We've Been to the Moon and Back:' Afro-futurism in Music" and the rest at This Is Africa:
Although Afro-futurism doesn't have one clear-cut definition, for the purpose of this article we'll go with the one that defines it as a study of science-fiction themes with particular emphasis on the way advances in technology will affect the Black – that is African diasporic – experience. Afro-futurism is a response to any imagined future that excludes Black people, perspectives from Black culture, as well as African history, artists and writers, and those invested in Afro-futurism are attempting to include and represent Black people in the future as they imagine it.
The first person to use the term was apparently Mark Dery, who defined Afro-futurism as "speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of 20th century technoculture – and more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced – might, for want of a better term, be called 'Afro-futurism'." Afro-futuristic fashion, literature and music boomed especially in the 70s and 80s, envisioning a brighter future for oppressed people.
Nonetheless, Afro-futurism is still an emerging genre, so there isn't that much information about the subject out there, and what there is is scattered all over the place. Most of the discussions on the subject posit Afro-futurism as solely relating to the African-American experience. However, with the growing interest in the place of science fiction in Africa, and in the way Africans imagine themselves in the future, Afro-futurism is slowly being looked at from the African perspective as well….
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Moving on the Wires: "Space Into Time: Africa In Science Fiction"
In relation to my earlier post on the museum trip I went on, I am posting this lecture about an exhibition on the portrayal of Africa and science fiction. The lecturers discuss how Africa is used as a backdrop in some science fiction work and also its place in the science and speculative fiction world.
Listen to the lecture here and if you are in England, go visit the exhibition, which runs until July 1.
Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction surveys the recent tendency for artists and filmmakers to apply the forms and concerns of science fiction to narratives situated in the African continent. It considers the complex undercurrents for this occurrence in art today, and posits other and possible realities existing simultaneously, via careful re-orientations of tense; elevating the need for vigilance towards the present and future over a concern for the past.
Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science-fiction, from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut movie District 9, a multi-layered allegory on South Africa's recent internal and external tensions. Imagining a new space-time to the typical "third worldist" representations of the African continent, caught in a perpetual state of crisis, the works in Superpower project an alternative landscape of possibilities.
Works include Neïl Beloufa's compelling video installation Kempinski (2007), a 'science fiction documentary' (pictured). In it, a series of short monologues given by inhabitants across Mali describe their visions of the future – from telepathic communication to teleportation – as if they were present realities. Turning the monuments and mausoleums of a failed communism into spaceships, Kiluanji Kia Henda's series of photographs Icarus 13 (2006) document the preparations for the first ever expedition to the sun led by the Angolan government. Wanuri Kahiu's film Pumzi (2010), set on a post-apocalyptic Earth, follows a scientist's quest to regenerate biological life literally underneath a repressive subterranean Nairobi culture.
Gusmão and Paiva film the world as if for the first time, producing an "alien theory" of moments in 16mm, while Mark Aerial Waller's Superpower – Dakar Chapter (2004), colliding times and video formats, uses TV soap actors from the Senegalese capital as astronomers awaiting a future event. The exhibition also includes garlanded South African movie director Neill Blomkamp's early short films and Omer Fast's three-part installation Nostalgia (2009), which reconfigures document and dramatization, past and future. Superpower will be reflexive of the ever-ubiquitous exhibition format of the regional or national showcase, foregrounding the modes of representation rather than considering the artist as a regional representative.
Whilst holding up a mirror to Eurocentrism in the contemporary world, more significantly here, the model of science fiction offers speculative viewpoints on Africa that supersede the necessity of recourse to essentialisms and history. Also avoiding such genres as Afro-futurism, which located the means of producing the future amongst the African diaspora specifically, Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction presents works by artists based across the European and African continents that raise a number of questions around the position of Africa in the collective conscience – actively participating in the battle to represent the future.
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Revolution: From the latin words, re + volvere, volgere, which means to roll back, turn back around or return.
Art and Ms. Jones
During my Art of the Other (Black and Latino Art) class, I found out about Lois Mailou Jones, a Harlem Renaissance artist. I came across, a few days ago, her painting "The Ascent of Ethiopia." In this 1932 painting, Jones traces the journey of Black people from the Egyptian/Ethiopian culture to the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. Jones appreciation of the African Diasporic culture increased after she met Haitian graphic artist, Louis Vergniaud Pierre-Noël, who would be her future husband. Besides completing works based on the African–American culture, including portraits and collage paintings of well-known figures like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and Carter G. Woodson, her paintings included works with influences from African culture, such as in "Les Fetiches," "Ode to Kinshasa," "Africa," "Initiation Liberia," and "Ubi Girl From Tai Region," and Haitian culture, in "Peasant Girl, Haiti," "Voodou Symbols" (page 3), and "Veve Voodou III."
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What do you use in order to make the photo gallery like the one on the homepage demo? The big one in a half page with small ones underneath and when you click on the small ones they take the place of the big one..
I struggle to find this option,
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In Avia Layout Builder, you should add Gallery element under Media Elements inside a 1/2 column
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C++ const Correctness
Objects declared const have a modified type whose value cannot be changed; they are read-only. For built-in types declared as const, this means that once initialized the compiler refuses to alter their values:
void inc( int& x ) { x +=1; } const int i = 1; // initialize constant value i += 5; // error: 'i' is const inc( i ); // error: 'i' is const
Usually, the const modifier comes immediately before the object it modifies. For example:
const int ZERO = 0; const std::string msg( "Hello, World" );
When applied to pointers, special attention should be paid to the placement of const. A pointer is a variable itself, so the placement of const often determines whether it applies directly to the pointer, to the object pointed to or to both. For example:
const std::string * str1 = &someString; std::string const * str2 = &someString; str2 = &anotherString;
Above, str1 is a pointer to a constant string. The const modifies the type std::string. Because there is no const * construct in C++, str2 also is a pointer to a constant string. Both str1 and str2 point to constant strings; therefore, it is impossible to alter the value of the strings they point to. However, it is possible to alter the pointers themselves, and indeed the str2 pointer is changed so that it points to another std::string. Deciphering these declarations can be difficult unless you read them backwards, from right to left. For example, the declaration of str1 can be read from right to left as "str1 is a pointer to a std::string which is const". And str2 can be read as "str2 is a pointer to a constant std::string". Although they are written differently, these declarations describe pointers of a similar type.
std::string * const str3 = &someString; const std::string * const str4 = &someString;
The str3 variable demonstrates a pointer that is constant itself; the pointer value cannot be modified, although the argument pointed to can. It can be read as "str3 is a constant pointer to a std::string". Finally, str4 is the most extreme example. It can be read as "str4 is a constant pointer to a std::string which is const"; neither the pointer nor the string can be modified.
The const modifier becomes a part of the object type and also can be applied to user-defined types:
class Invoice { public: void giveDiscount( int d ) { //... } }; const Invoice i; // a constant user-defined object i.giveDiscount(); // error: 'i' is const
Because Invoice::giveDiscount() has the potential to alter the internal state of the object, the compiler refuses to let you invoke this member function on i, which is declared as const. However, individual member functions themselves can be declared const, which tells the compiler that those member functions do not alter the internal state of the object and therefore are safe to invoke on const objects. For example:
class Invoice { public: int sum() const { // a constant member function //... } }; const Invoice i; // declares a constant user-defined object int s = i.sum(); // ok: Invoice::sum() is const
C++ directly supports const as a language feature, so the compiler provides free compile-time checking of const objects. With properly designed interfaces that utilize const member functions, you are free to declare and use constant user-defined objects--only the const interface of those objects will be available. Designing interfaces that are const correct essentially boils down to declaring const member functions wherever possible. And these const member functions should be included early on in the design of your classes. Trying to retrofit them later often leads to a cascading effect throughout the applications that use your classes. It is much better to use const early and often in your designs.
When designing const member functions, you may encounter a situation in which altering the internal state of the class is necessary. For example:
class CustomerInvoice : public Invoice { public: int sum() const { // calculate sum, and save for later sumCache = items.size() + custItems.size(); // error return sumCache; } //... protected: //... int sumCache; };
In the above example, the value of sumCache cannot be altered, because CustomerInvoice::sum() is declared to be const. However, we really do want to cache the value for later use; so how can this be done? The answer is "with the mutable keyword", which is the converse of const when applied to member variables. For example, CustomInvoice can be corrected as follows:
class CustomerInvoice : public Invoice { public: int sum() const { // calculate sum, and save for later sumCache = items.size() + custItems.size(); // ok return sumCache; } //... protected: //... mutable int sumCache; // mutable member variable };
Now, the compiler allows sumCache to be modified within the CustomerInvoice::sum() const member function because sumCache was declared to be mutable. The mutable keyword instructs the compiler to accept changes to the variable declared with it, even in const member functions.
I just wanted to thank you for this great text, too.
I read lots of tutorials and also a big book about C++ and never got behind the const magic (worse: I misunderstood it!).
This finally made my mind clear about const, references and these things.
Very good work!
Great Article
First, thanks for the article. I found it very informitive and well thought through. So much on the iNet today is certainly less than what we would hope for. (Thanks for putting the time into this)
Second, I appologize for my Rambunctious colleagues. (Assuming they are in the profession of Software Engineering and not just college hackers)
Keep up the great work.
Re: C++ const Correctness
Great article! :-)
invalid references
> You never can create an invalid reference,
> so f() does not need to worry about invalid pointers.
How about this :
int* x = NULL;
int& rx = *x;
Isn't rx an invalid reference ?
I saw this many times "there are no invalid references" ... it's simply false.
Re: invalid references
Dereferencing a null pointer yields undefined behaviour, so your example is flawed.
Re: invalid references
Dereferencing a null pointer produces undefined behavior. So you are not so much 'creating an invalid reference' as you are invoking undefined behavior (by dereferencing a null pointer).
Your compiler may accept this program, however at run time it should crash when you dereference 'x'. If it does not, that does not mean you are creating an invalid reference since any behavior after this point is undefined.
Re: invalid references
Especially bastardish in multi threaded applications and dynamically created objects.
Sometimes it is really easier to just use pointers because you can at least check if they are != 0...
Re: invalid references
No, since using pointers in function interfaces is ambiguous at best. For example,
void foo( int* x );
Here, there is no indication whether nulls are allowed or not. If they are, who is at fault: the calling function or the called function? Using references removes all ambiguity:
void foo( int& x );
The fewer pointers you have in your interfaces, the less time you will spend running around chasing nulls.
Effective C++
Was just reading Scott Meyer's 2nd ed of Effective C++... It's great to get another walk through on this topic. Articles like this are the best... I don't have to know huge amounts about c++ to learn this one part. Please do more articles like this!!!
Re: C++ const Correctness
That's all fine and well.
But doesn't all this messing around with const really show that C++ is not the greatest language for object-oriented development.Most people are just content to accept this less than adequate language as if there is nothing better.No one to blame but yourselves. Try reading about a number of other.programming language architectures and then, if you are bright enough, you'll realize there are some compelling alternatives available.
By the way, C++ is not a pure object-oriented language.It is a hybrid. True object-oriented languages typically consider all types as objects, not just those types that are instances of classes
And contrary to the author's point of view, the most fundamental unit of development in C++ is not the class. Classes are extensions of structures in C++.
Use a better langauge and these 'const' issues are just noise.
Go figure..
Re: C++ const Correctness
I'm assuming the author is a Java programmer. It always seems like those people that use other languages like java forget where they came from. If you go read those other programming langauges most the time you will find "...uses a C++ like syntax".
Anyways without going into a fifty page rant, it pretty much boils down to this. If you don't like C++ don't use it... unless of course you need to write a driver for your new unsupported sound card.. opps can't do that in java.. sorry.. but you should be ok writting that next high speed 3d shoot em up.. opps.. can't realy do that in java either..
Re: C++ const Correctness
Don't assume. It makes you look less intelligent, especially when you can't spell "oops" correctly. Most people that complain about the speed of Java are simply bad programmers. C and C++ have the brute force to let bad programmers write fast code, where Java will penalize the programmer who really doesn't know how to program, which is generally the case. Just because Java is easy to program, it doesn't mean that it easy to program correctly.
And actually, you can write high speed 3d graphics in Java, just don't try it with Swing or AWT. Unsubstantiated conceits like this betray the meaning of what you were trying to say with your reply..
Despite the author's commments and even Bjarne Stroustrup's various digs at his own language, C++ can be an elegant and effective language, both in it's C and object-oriented forms. Cornering yourself into a single language because of some herd mentality that it is just "better" is just plain silly. Each has it's strengths and weaknesses that should be evaluated for a project, and hopefully the "best" for that project is used.
Re: C++ const Correctness
True object-oriented languages typically consider all types as objects, not just those types that are instances of classes
Even true object-oriented languages like Java do not treat all types as objects. They have basic data types like int and char. Every language eventually has to be compiled down to machine language and machine language does not recognize objects. Each programming language has its strengths and weaknesses.
True Object Oriented Languages
That's true, although the standard Java library does re-implement primitives as classes.
Of course, what takes C++ out of the "pure object-oriented language" category is the fact that it doesn't force all functions to be members of classes, and ultimately uses a non-member function as the program entry point. It has nothing to do with whether the language has primitives (the only languages I've used that *kind of* don't are high-level languages that use scalars -- which are basically primitives.) The original poster simply didn't know what he/she was talking about.
Oh, and by the way, 'const' is a reserved keyword in Java, they just don't use it for anything (yet) to my knowledge. I do know there has been talk to add similar functionality to that language.
Anyways, this guide was exactly what I was looking for when I typed '"c++" +const' into google. Great article!
Re: C++ const Correctness
By the way, C++ is not a pure object-oriented language.It is a hybrid. True object-oriented languages typically consider all types as objects, not just those types that are instances of classes.
Incorrect. Though C++ is a hybrid, and this is a strength because it allows the user to choose the paradigm to employ, an object can be of any type. Objects that are of a class-type are not special in this way. You might only consider arrays not to be first-class objects (but they are objects, just apply sizeof to one), and you can use features like std::vector or boost::array if find that a hindrance.
Re: C++ const Correctness
> And contrary to the author's point of view, the most fundamental unit of development in C++ is not the class. Classes are extensions of structures in C++.
Incorrect. In C++, structures are classes, ones with all members defaulted to having public accessability. This is the only difference between a class and a struct.
Re: C++ const Correctness
Bases and members both.
Re: C++ const Correctness
...as if there is nothing better... if you are bright enough, you'll realize there are some compelling alternatives available.
Thats interesting, if those who could program well while having to deal with all these const are not "bright", then what does it make those who cannot handle it?
Re: C++ const Correctness
An important issue has been left out: overloading of methods on const. This is used extensively in the STL:
class vector {
iterator begin();
const_iterator begin() const;
It is very probable that a container class such as vector is implemented with copy-on-write sharing, and that the non-const version of begin() would already cause such a copy (a detach) to happen. I have thus started to maximise the const usage in my applications. I will go to moderate pains to be able to declare a temporary variable const, e.g.:
const std::vector v = someBool ? someFunc() : someOtherFunc() ;
instead of
std::vector v;
if ( someBool )
v = someFunc();
v = someOtherFunc();
The pain becomes moderate if you start to nest ternary operators, which can be done surprisingly readable, but there comes always a point where you want to refactor the mess into a function of its own.
Using const temps also forces you to use proper scoping and init-on-declaration, which is a worthwhile goal in itself (it saves ctor and assignment operator calls).
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On Jan. 7, guest speakers for the Hardin County AM Rotary Club were Rich Griendling and Rik Hawkins. The topic discussed was the Hardin County Veterans Tribute that is expected to be completed by Veterans Day 2012 in Elizabethtown. Pictured are Committee Member Gary Broadway, President of the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce Rik Hawkins, Rotary Club President Christy Childers, Artist/Sculptor Rich Griendling and Committee Member Mary Smith. Pavers and brick are available for purchase to honor a loved one on the tribute. Call 319-1051 for information.
Three members of the "Duke Brigade" 3/1st Infantry were on hand at the Radcliff Rotary to express thanks for the club's contribution to the upgrade of their headquarters building and soldiers' memorial on Fort Knox. Major Smith thanked the club and the community for all the support the brigade has received. He pointed out just how important it was for deploying Soldiers to have peace of mind, knowing their families would be in a caring community.
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Harry Potter may have continued to dominate the Thanksgiving weekend box office, but Disney shouldn't feel too disappointed about the performance of Tangled – It may not have taken the top spot, but it did have the second biggest Thanksgiving opening of all time.
While Potter won the weekend with a haul of $78.8 million, Tangled's $69 million won it second place not only for the weekend, but for the record books. The only more successful Thanksgiving opening was another Disney movie, Pixar's Toy Story 2 in 1999; that made $80.1 million on its first weekend. Disney can also take some measure of comfort in the fact that the other movies that debuted in theaters this weekend all failed to meet their predicted tallies, and took in less than $20 million each.
So 'Tangled' took a "Record-Breaking Second Place" that did NOT, in fact, break any records whatsoever. You gotta love it when hyperbole trumps journalistic integrity!
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Legendary NHRA drag racer Art Chrisman died on July 12. He was 86 years old.
Chrisman, nephew of the great Jack Chrisman, holds a handful of firsts in the sport, including being the first dragster driver to go over 140 mph and 180 mph, and the first to go down the strip at the first NHRA Nationals in Great Bend, Kansas. He was also the fifth member of the Bonneville 200 club -- drivers who hit the double century mark at the Salt Flats -- which now features hundreds of members.
Chrisman was best known for his No. 25 car, with his partner Leroy Neumeyer. In fact, Chrisman only started driving the car after Neumeyer was drafted to fight in the Korean War.
Chrisman's Hustler I slingshot dragster, with a supercharged 392-cubic-inch Chrysler engine, won the Best Engineered Car award at the 1958 Nationals, before gracing the cover of Hot Rod Magazine in 1959. That was the car in which he first hit 180 mph -- actually, 181.81 mph at Riverside Raceway.
Later Chrisman went on to work at Ford's Autolite Spark Plug Division, before founding Chrisman Auto Rod Specialties with his son Mike.(7/13/2016)
This year, the 2016 Inductees will see DRHOF.com's, Harry Laplatte, make the trip from
his home base in Jupiter, FL to present the awards at the Carlisle Chrysler Nationals, July 15-17. Presentation will be on Saturday, the 16th at the Golden Commandos tent/display area. The event features over 2500 Mopars of all shapes and sizes, plus new model Chrysler products, a manufacturers midway, a swap meet and lots more to hold your interest. Headlining the activities this year will be Richard Petty of NASCAR fame! (6/27/2016)
Jere Stahl well known in drag racing circle's for the past six decades passed away on Monday night. Jere an innovator and designer of the "Total Tuned" rained for years as one of best header manufactures around. His equal length headers were beautifully designed and manufactured along with being credited for step-headers, adjustable primaries, adapter flanges and other inventions in exhaust technolgy.
In the 1960's, he campaigned a variety of smallblock Chevrolet powered vehicles culminated by a 1966 Hemi Plymouth that he won the NHRA Top Class at the three consecutive events he entered. (6/22/2016)
During the 60's and 70's race cars had wild beautiful paint jobs prior to the inclusion and financial backing of corporate sponsors where the cars became rolling billboards with gigantic logos pushing products. Some say this was the demise of the iconic styles, but Bob Gerdes of Circus Custom Paint was without a doubt the foremost painter of race cars in the northeast! Bob painted many cars throughout the years, but we all remember the likes of "Jungle" Jim's Chevrolet Funny Cars, Ken Poffenberger's Corvair F/C and many more.
Bob and his crew are still painting cars at the Farmingdale, NJ shop. (6/13/2016)
Well it took a little while (close to a year) to finally get a photo of 2015 Drag Race Hall Fame.com inductee, Paul Rossi with his plaque! Paul was attending the 7th Annual Detroit Dragway Reunion held at Milan Dragway today. Paul competed in the Stock Super/Stock wars of the 60's and 70's. (6/12/2016)
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Anthony Pappas. Anthony, although a young 28 years of age, was an integral part of the 422 Motorsports' Nostalgia Super Stock Team and driver of several of the teams race cars over the past several years.
On Thursday evening while riding a friend's motorcycle he was involved in an accident that took his young life! Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends and as is said over and over, "he will be missed." (5/27/2016)
Well known in drag racing circles in the 1960's was a group of Chrysler employees, all engineers, technicians and mechanics, that worked out of the Central Engineering Department in Highland Park, MI. Their initial foray included (3) three Plymouth's chosen to complete at the 1963 NHRA
Winternationals in Pomona, CA. If you recall, this was the era that paid homage to the saying, "Race on Sunday sell on Monday!" The team was also instrumental in the birth of the funny car when they started pushing the so called envelope and altering the wheelbase of their cars and progressing to the first flip top body in 1967. Needless to say, the Golden Commandos were a group of dedicated race aficionados that contributed much to the then burgeoning sport of drag racing. (4/20/2016)
The Drag Race Hall of Fame.com's, Harry Platte has been out and about of late thrashing on a variety of vintage race machines and classic cars in Jupiter, FL. For the past year or so, Harry has been in continuous talks with Marco DeCesaris about linking DeCesaris' museum/car collection with the DRHOF.com. The collection is located in Maryland. All things are now in line and the DRHOF.com shall be housed as part of the DeCesaris collection. We are presently seeking 501C3 status for the DRHOF.com, which hopefully will be approved shortly. On that note, we are pursuing donations for plaques, etc. for the 2016 DRHOF.com inductees. For additional and donation information email Harry at; 2016 Inductee- Donation Program (firstname.lastname@example.com) or give him a call at 561-301-6840. Also in the works is Harry has been in search of a building to house a collection of Drag Racing memorabilia and vintage drag vehicles. Here's Harry (right) and a building he is in discussion for the permanent location to house the Drag Race Hall of Fame.com. The building here is in Georgia with plenty of space. (3/19/16)
We have started the selection process for the 2016 inductees and the first person chosen is Annunziata Romano, better known in the racing community as Nunzi. Nunzi is without a doubt one of the true throwbacks to the past specializing in the performance, tuning and development of Pontiac engines. Starting back in his shop in Brooklyn, NY in the 1960's, he went on to build and race some of the quickest and fastest Pontiac powered vehicles in the country.
Along with Nunzi several other inductees shall be announced in the coming months with presentation ceremonies to be announce as well. (1/13/16)
Over the years, we have seen some wild looking race vehicles, but this early model Chevy II has to rank up there as one of the oddest! The car originally rolled off the production line as a four door, but the ingenious builders cut the front door section off hence making it into a two door model. The body sits on what appears to be a tube chassis and as you can is powered by a small block Chevrolet engine.
If you have any information on the vehicle let us know. (11/23/2015) DRHOF info
Ed Youmans claimed his second 422 Allstars Championship title! The title came down to the last event, which was held at Capitol Raceway in Crofton, MD. Mathematically Ed was leading, but Gary Nies or Anthony Pappas would have had to take the number one qualifying position and win the event to overtake Ed. Needless to say, things fell into place for Ed. Ed's first championship title came in 2011 at the season ending event held at ATCO Dragway, while driving Dave Power's 1964 FE powered Comet.
Ed, who drives the 422 Motorsports 1967 Fairlane did and outstanding job going rounds, plus scoring two wins, two semifinal finishers, plus several round wins accumulating a total of 287 points. Youmans is trailed by runner-up Gary Nies (271) and teammate Anthony Pappas with (270) in third place. Dave Reitz was fourth and Tom Sneden fifth.
Incidentally, the names Sneden and Reitz, whom campaigned the Bob Banning sponsored Dodges in the 1960's and 70's.These two drivers now in their eighties still compete in the 422 Allstars Nostalgia Drag Racing Series in their period 1960's Dodges!
Youmans will receive his championship awards and check at the annual award ceremonies in January 2016. For additional information on the 422 Allstars contact Rich Lamaont at 610-630-6563 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. (11/10/2015)
Paul Rossi along with Dan Dvorak were chosen as 2016 DRHOF.com inductees, but after the initial tally of votes Harry Laplatte chose to slide both Dan and Paul into the class of 2015. Harry has been in constant contact with both racers so amidst their prodding the decision was quite easy with both racer's credentials speaking for themselves.
Paul Rossi a longtime drag racer running a series of Hemi Mopars along with a stint in a Mercury Comet in the 1960's and 1970' (1976 NHRA Super/Stock runner-up), before moving on to compete in IMSA (International Motorsports Association), where he scored five wins. Paul also ran at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb claiming four wins. (8/24/2015)
Drag Race Hall of Fame.com's Harry Laplatte had a successful trip up north making inductee presentations to Neal Hinkle and the Napp Family (Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ) prior to his return back home in Florida. On the trip back, Harry stopped by the shop on Mopar maven Dan Dvorak at his Waldo, FL shop. Harry along with DRHOF.com Florida representative, Steve Ritter (left) presented Dan's plaque to him.
Dan, needless to say is one of the countries standout Mopar engine builders and authorities on 1960's Plymouth's and Dodges. (8/20/2015)
The 2015 awards were presented to a a few of the inductees at Raceway Park's "Old Time Drags" event this past Sunday. On hand was Neal Hinkle from Allentown, PA along with his family and several pieces of his former Corvette Altered. Neal also campaigned a injected Nova Funny Car. 1989 Funny Car World Champion, Bruce Larson, accepted the Inductee plaque for Stanley C. Shoppel who passed away earlier this year. Bruce will deliver the plaque to Stanley's wife shortly on his return to his Dauphin, PA home. Walter Frey, the track manager at Raceway Park, accepted the plaque for the Napp Family, the owners of the well-known race facility (Raceway Park Englishtown, NJ). Thanks to John McCartney from Raceway Park for sending us the photo of Harry Laplatte and Neal Hinkle during the on track awards presentations.
Still to receive plaques are Mike Summers, Dan Davorak, Joseph Gerdelman and Paul Rossi.
Paul sent a message saying, how much being inducted meant to him. DRHOF.com's Harry Laplatte will deliver his plaque at an event later this year. (7/27/15)
Final candidates chosen for the 2015 Drag Race Hall of Fame.com inductees. Along with Mike Summers, Joseph Gerdelman and Stanley C. Shoppel two other outstanding candidates are now included for 2015. Neal Hinkle a former racer from the Allentown, PA area and the Napp Family who built and operate the well-known Oldbridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. Neal raced for many years concentrating his racing endeavors in the Pennsylvania area at tracks like Vargo, Pocono Drag Lodge, Numidia, Island Dragway (NJ) and Maple Grove Raceway. Neal campaigned a 1961 Corvette in B/SP, a 58' Corvette C/A and the former "Jungle Jim" 1969 Chevy II as a B/A. Neal still dables with cars operating Neil's Performance Center, in Allentown, PA.
The last inductee for 2015 is the Napp Family, who built and operate Raceway Park in NJ. The track has been one of the most historic tracks on the east coast throughout the 1960's and onward. Vinny and Richard, who have both passed away have left the track in the capable hands of sons Michael, Alex and David.
We are happy to the include Mike Summers as previously announced as well. Mike well known on the east coast at many tracks and by many racers is by far one of the best starters in the country and track prep technicians. His dedication to his craft, which includes track preparation and attention to detail with safety of the racer prominently and always his number one priority. Mike's initial dabblings in drag racing go way back as a crewman on Carl Ruth's TA/FC in the early 80's, prior to the becoming the Chief Starter at Maple Grove Raceway for many years, then moving on doing several starting line stints at Numidia Dragway and Cecil Country Dragway. Mike is a fixture to many of the NHRA Division 1 tracks and has honed his skills well over the years. Mike Summers like so many of our inductees is one of those people that make the sport great! (3/29/2015)
DragRaceHallofFame.com's Harry Laplatte finally caught 2014 inductee presenting him with his inductee plaque. Harry came into contact wit Bob Lee at an event held at Palm Beach International Raceway, then made a visit to his shop in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, where he has operated since 1968. Bob's racing career started way back in the 1950's, when he won his first trophy driving a 1951 Studebaker in E/S. During the same time period he also ran a flathead powered Crosley wagon on methanol. Later, in 1963, Bob got real serious starting construction of his 4-speed, 283" Chevrolet powered 1932 Ford coupe dubbed the "Thunder Shifter!" He campaigned the coupe until 1972, when Bob switched his efforts into road racing. The "Thunder Shifter" coupe is still owned by Bob and was brought back to better than new and now runs periodically at nostalgia style events. (1/19/2015)
2014 Inductee Ceremonies at Island Dragway....
Island Dragway, located in Great Meadows, NJ, the site of the first officially recognized 200 mph run by the NHRA and recorded by Don Garlits back in August 1964 saw the return of Garlits to the hallowed site, plus the 2014 induction ceremonies for the Drag Race Hall of Fame. Albert Bambace, along with his daughter Isabel accepted for his dad/her grandfather, Joseph Bambace, posthumously. Joe Bambace campaigned a 1964 Plymouth Hemi called the "11th Commandment," back in the day prior to moving up to a 1965 Hemi. The 65' car later was modified into an altered wheelbase A/FX'er. (August 2, 2014)
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2014 DRHoF.com Inductees named....The class of 2014 nominated five inductees. Leading off the pack is Joseph Bambace followed by photographer and graphic designer, Steve Bell, custom car painter Bob Gerdes, racer Bob Lee and the last, the deceased Paul Linderman. Linderman's name may not be familiar as he passed away in 1964 while racing a Super Stock Dodge in Canada, Linderman also owned a Dodge dealership. The accident occurred at the completion of his pass and while attempting to push the neutral button he hit the reverse pushbutton by mistake. The car went into reverse and flipped violently when the seatbelt attachments ripped out of the floor. Unfortunate happenings such as this is how many of the safety measures were introduced into drag racing. (2/5/2014)
The 426 cubic inch Hemi was available in February 1964 strictly sold as a race engine. The first Hemis made their way into NASCAR with Richard Petty taking his famous #43 to several wins before NASCAR disallowed the venerable engine in competition. The 1964 Plymouths' and Dodges' instantly became the ultimate race cars of the era in NHRA drag racing circles and still today racers covet owning one of these treasures. Originally built for Super Stock the basic engine has become the standard for Top Fuel Dragsters and Funny Cars as well as the SS/AH Hemi Barracudas and Darts (1968/69). In 1966, Chrysler came out with a milder detuned version called the Street Hemi, which made it accessible to the general public. Prior to the Street Hemi powered cars only a select few of proven racers were able to obtain one of these jewels.
Our own Harry Laplatte's Dad, Harold, purchased a 1964 Hemi Plymouth and campaigned it in the mid-60's. The car, called the "Satellite" ran on the East Coast. Fortunately, the car is now in the care of Wade Laplatte (Harry's brother) in its original form. Take note of the seven inch rear slicks! (2/7/2014)
Here's what we do know; In late 1964, Ford contracted Holman & Moody to prepare ten 427-powered Mustangs' to contest the National Hot Rod Association's (NHRA) A/Factory Experimental class in the 1965 drag racing season. Five of these special Mustangs qualified for competition debuting at the 1965 NHRA Winternationals, where they competed in the Factory Stock Eliminator class. The car driven by Bill Lawton won the A/FX class and his connection with TASCA Ford is now legendary in drag racing history. Several other notable driver's including Len Ritcher, "Gas" Ronda, Dick Brannan, Les Ritchey, Al Joniec, Terry Harvey, Clester Andrews, Paul Norris, Phil Bonner to name a few participated. The Mustangs were a replacement for the infamous 1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt, which were outfitted with the tried and true 427 FE side-oiler sporting dual Holley four barrel carburetors. The 427 cubic inch "Cammers" were originally designed for NASCAR to battle against the 426 Plymouth and Dodge Hemis of the era, but both the Cammer and Hemi were outlawed and transitioned into the drag racing, hence the A/FX Mustangs.
Mike Matune did track down the list and article provided by Charles Morris of the ten A/FX Mustangs built for competition; Car Tech Auto Books article HERE
UPDATE - From what Mike has been able to ascertain, Ron Pellegrini campaigned a 1964 Mustang notch-back with a 427 FE motor in 1964. The drive-train came from the Hawkison 1964 Ford Thunderbolt. More information on the car in the Car Tech article Ford's 1965 Factory Experimental Mustangs (2/14/2014)
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Let's see where these candidates get their money to convince you to vote for them;
Hillary Clinton;
Goldman Sachs $413,361 Morgan Stanley $362,700 Citigroup Inc $350,895 Lehman Brothers $241,870 JP Morgan Chase & Co $214,880 EMILY's List $213,266 National Amusements Inc $210,010 Kirkland & Ellis $179,676 Greenberg Traurig Llp $177,800 Skadden, Arps et al $167,796 Merrill Lynch $165,042 Cablevision Systems $145,313 Time Warner $144,977 Microsoft Corp $143,459 Bear Stearns $141,835 Latham & Watkins $138,598 Patton Boggs $137,200 Ernst & Young $126,865 PricewaterhouseCoopers $121,939
Barack Obama:
Goldman Sachs $421,763 Ubs Ag $296,670 Lehman Brothers $250,630 National Amusements Inc $245,843 JP Morgan Chase & Co $243,848 Sidley Austin LLP $226,491 Citigroup Inc $221,578 Exelon Corp $221,517 Skadden, Arps Et Al $196,420 Jones Day $181,996 Harvard University $172,324 Citadel Investment Group $171,798 Time Warner $155,383 Morgan Stanley $155,196 Google Inc $152,802 University of California $143,029 Jenner & Block $136,565 Kirkland & Ellis $134,738 Wilmerhale Llp $119,245 Credit Suisse Group $118,250
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Merrill Lynch $155,950 Citigroup Inc $153,362 Blank Rome LLP $141,401 Greenberg Traurig LLP $130,587 Goldman Sachs $85,252 Univision Communications $82,000 IDT Corp $79,250 Bank of New York Mellon $74,000 Bridgewater Assoc $72,100 MGM Mirage $70,400 Irvine Co Apartment Community $66,100 JP Morgan Chase & Co $65,485 Credit Suisse Group $65,000 Pinnacle West Capital $64,000 Lehman Brothers $63,450 Wachovia Corp $58,675 Cisco Systems $56,650 Morgan Stanley $55,701 Blackstone Group $47,950 MacAndrews & Forbes $45,000
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Floor Surplus inc $2,550 New Perspectives Quarterly $2,300 Jim Stork for Congress $2,300 Decode Biostructures $2,008 Mitchell Gold Co $2,000 Hewlett-Packard $2,000 Exxon Mobil $2,000 Paypal Inc $1,695 Worldwide Media $1,500 Internet Communication $1,000 Urburn Univiersity $1,000 Ogim $1,000 Crisis Consultants Group $1,000 VOTEC Corp $1,000 Pictures Inc $1,000 Hypertone Inc $1,000 Apple Inc $1,000 Witness for Peace $1,000 American Ecology Corp $1,000 Treeman Inc $875
Is there something a wee bit fishy up there? Seems like the same people are financing the same "top three", Is it me being suspicious or is it really true? By the way, these contributions are from employees of these companies that give and are "bundled" together by their employers. Are they being patriotic? Some of these corporations aren't even American corporations!
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