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Review: In Netflix's 'Wet Hot American Summer,' Back to Camp 14 Years Later as Big, Big Stars
This eight-episode Netflix series expands on the 2001 movie "Wet Hot American Summer" by David Wain and Michael Showalter and features many of the same actors....
July 31, 2015, Friday
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Ant-Man, a Small Superhero, Does Big Business at the Box Office
The film, starring Paul Rudd, took in about $58 million. It was Marvel's 12th consecutive first-place opening....
July 19, 2015, Sunday
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'Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp' Continues the Comedy on Netflix
The television series is a prequel to the 2001 film starring Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler and others....
July 19, 2015, Sunday
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Review: 'Ant-Man,' With Paul Rudd, Adds to a Superhero Infestation
Directed by Peyton Reed, this movie is a passable piece of drone work from the ever-expanding Marvel-Disney colony....
July 16, 2015, Thursday
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How Does Paul Rudd Work?
The actor is known for being "likable," but that doesn't fully explain his appeal....
July 12, 2015, Sunday
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Wheelies: The Sonata Star Power Edition
Hyundai says Paul Rudd will voice its national advertising; Dodge begins delivery of the 707-horsepower Challenger Hellcat SRT....
September 10, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON PAUL RUDD AND: Automobiles , Rudd, Paul , Marchionne, Sergio , California , Anchorman (Movie) , Wireless Communications , Advertising and Marketing , California Air Resources Board , Chrysler Group LLC , Delphi Automotive PLC , Ferrari SpA , Fiat SpA , Hyundai Motor Co , Stanford University
When Boy Meets Girl in Ben Franklin Wigs
In "They Came Together," the director David Wain goes after the romantic comedy genre with a metaphoric jackhammer and more....
June 26, 2014, Thursday
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Paul Rudd to Play Einstein at World Science Festival
Mr. Rudd is to participate in a reading of "Dear Albert," a play by Alan Alda that will open the five-day festival in New York City....
May 18, 2014, Sunday
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Ron Burgundy's Boob Tube Goes 24 Hours a Day
Will Ferrell stars in "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues," a sequel now set in the 1980s and the era of cable....
December 17, 2013, Tuesday
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Good News! He's Back!
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, the creators of the 2004 movie "Anchorman," have raised expectations with its coming sequel, "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues."...
December 1, 2013, Sunday
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The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra raises the curtain on
its 19th season with a concert in the Mount's Aquinas Hall Theatre.
The performance will include works by Brahms, Tchaikovsky,
Prokofiev, and Rimsky-Korsakaov.
Mount Saint Mary College students, faculty and staff
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This is a film about a teenage Christian girl who loses an arm in a shark attack in Hawaii. There are some perilous moments, but they are handled well. The surfing sequences are excellent - and by the way, Helen Hunt (she plays the mom) did her own surfing scenes, and AnnaSophia Robb, who plays Bethany, took lessons from her and did her own surfing as well. I thought the faith dimension was handled well; I cannot imagine what losing an arm to a shark would have done to me if I had wanted … [Read more...]
Soul Surfer – Based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton
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Side Event: Ambassador Berger on the campaign "Cartas de Mujeres"
(Remarks as delivered by Ambassador Berger at a side-event to the 57th session of the Committee on the Status of Women, hosted by the German Mission in cooperation with UN Women and the Peruvian Ministry for Women and Vulnerable Minorities: "Cartas de Mujeres/Letters from Women")
"Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues
It is my honor to welcome you to the German House today for the side event "Cartas des Mujeres / Letters from Women".
Ladies and gentlemen,
In 2000, the then General Secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, said of violence against women: "It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace."
Unfortunately, the words of Mr. Annan haven't lost their relevance. Violence against women, at home, at work, in school or on the street exists here and now.
Human rights are a leading principle of global development politics, especially for Germany. They are the universal basis for a life of dignity, equality and freedom. Human rights are indivisible and apply to women, men and children alike. Violence against women is a violation of these principles. It hampers equality, development and a self-determined life. Germanyadvocates for the prevention, reduction and elimination of violence against women and girls.
In line with the UN Human Rights Treaty, CEDAW and the European and national policies combating violence against women, we oppose gender-based violence. It is not only a hindrance to an individual's development or to the family, but also to societies and states.
Only when women's rights are respected and they can unconditionally and actively exercise these rights access to education, justice, economic participation, as well as social inclusion can be realized. This is particularly true for indigenous, poor and rural women.
To achieve our goals of preventing, combating and finally, eliminating violence against women, we need innovation, creativity, responsibility and constructive cooperation among different actors in society. Dialogue, exchanging experiences and learning from each other are of the utmost importance.
The Latin American awareness raising campaign "Cartas de Mujeres" is a vivid example of innovative participation of a wide variety of societal actors, of the coordination between development agencies and, most of all, of achieved impacts. It brings the issue of violence against women into the public spotlight and picks up on the topic of this year's Commission on the Status of Women.
"Cartas de Mujeres" began in Quito, Ecuadorin 2011 as a cooperation between UN Women, the City of Quitoand the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Its success lead to its replication in the city of Guayaquil / Ecuadorund Peru.
We are pleased to have Dr. Marcela Huaita, Mr. Norman Wray and Ms. Tarcila Rivera here with us today to share their insights on the concrete impacts of the campaigns in Ecuadorand Peru.
The example of "Cartas de Mujeres" is proof that it is worth it to seek out new avenues in preventing violence against women. We invite everyone – women, men, girls and boys – to join this campaign. Your participation is important; your participation will make change happen.
Each of us, in our respective lives, can take responsibility and become actively involved. German development cooperation takes this step by working together with strategically important partners. In this case, the Ministry of Women and Social Development in Peru, civil society organizations like Chirapaq and the National Platform for Women's Rights, the city administration of Quito, Lima and Guayaquil and, last but not least, UN Women! Thank you all very much!
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(NEWSER) – A woman who was raped in Columbus, Ohio, said the 911 dispatcher she called after her attack had "zero sympathy" after the victim got this response during her call: "Ma'am, you're going to have to quit crying so I can get the information from you." The victim was staying with a friend at a sorority house near Ohio State University last Sunday when she woke up with a gun to her head around 4am; the man holding it allegedly forced her to perform sex acts on him. After the alleged assault, he left with some stolen cash and an iPhone and the victim called 911, reports ABC News.
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Best Photo from the Olympics (So Far)
Not everything at the Olympics has to be serious.... Norwegian speed skater Harvard Bokko is showing off the softer side of the games.
The athlete paused for a moment to take a very clever pic of the official Olympic cauldron.
Call it disrespectful, call it silly..... but we're LOVING IT! Go Harvard!
Norwegian speed skater @HavardBokko took the most breathtaking photo from Sochi yet. pic.twitter.com/kPH1KAeraB
— BuzzFeed Sports (@BuzzFeedSports) February 8, 2014


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Best Of :: Bars & Clubs
Before we stumble out for a tour of the galleries on Roosevelt Row, we like to stop in at the bar at Portland's for a fancy cocktail. Our favorite is a sweetie called the Thin Mint Tini just a simple blend of Ketel One, Rumpleminze Peppermint Schnapps, crème de cacao and a splash of cream. Is this why our friends had so much fun at Girl Scout camp?
We have a good friend whose two favorite things in the world are candy and booze. So when we wanted to try the best candy cocktails in town, naturally, we asked her.
"Twisted!" she shouted. "Well, no," we responded. "We don't think that's such an odd request. We just thought, in honor of our Sweet Life theme this year, that we'd "
"No, dude!" she interrupted. "Don't you get out? Twisted has the best candy cocktails in town!"
Oh. Turns out, our friend has been hanging out a lot in Scottsdale, at a spot called Twisted. And, of course, she's right. The place has the sweetest cocktails, from our particular favorite, a flight of frozen margaritas in far-out flavors like mango, tamarind, and jalapeño, to our friend's standard order, a blood orange Cosmo. The menu also includes Peaches and Cream, The Caramel Apple and the Florida Martini, which involves vodka, vanilla, lime and cream.
Our friend is such a candy purist, she'll only do the hard stuff: Jolly Ranchers, lollipops, the occasional Sour Patch Kid. She actually claims that she doesn't like chocolate, which is why, she explained, she hasn't tried Twisted's Chocolate Cherry Bomb. It sounds gross to her.
Now that, we say, is twisted.
Betty Crocker, get your booze on the German chocolate cake shot could be the sweetest thing to ever hit your lips and liver. This rich, syrupy drink is still something of a secret; many bartenders are lost if the recipe's not in their books. Luckily, most of those behind the bar at Palazzo on the club's weekly Friday goth night, Tranzylvania, know how to cook up this goodie and pour some sugar on us. For the rest, here's the 411: Frost the rim of a shot glass with sugar and lemon. Pour a half-ounce of Stoli vanilla vodka and a half-ounce of Frangelico hazelnut liqueur into the glass and stir together. Lick the sugar off the rim, shoot the booze, and quickly bite into a piece of lemon. It tastes exactly like German chocolate cake but will probably give you fewer cavities and more gusto in your game. But be warned: They are delicious and potentially addictive.
Blue Wasabi has one of the most creative drink menus in town, and we're glad that we can now drink the martinis a little closer to home, with the opening of the Hilton Village location. (You folks who live in DC Ranch had all the luck, 'til now.)
We're particularly fond of a drink called the Mello Jello. This is not your frat party Jell-O shot. Oh, no, this drink is pure sophistication, a blend of Skyy Berry vodka, cranberry-flavored sweet and sour, and cranberry juice infused with dark cherry Jell-O. A Jell-O infusion? Leave it to Blue Wasabi. And if that sounds too grownup, leave it entirely and try the Milky Way or the Lemon Head instead.
Rappers Jay-Z and P. Diddy might have gotten in a little harsh dissing of Cristal on their latest albums, but believe us, there's no finer symbol of style and stardom than downing a bottle or two of the chic champagne, particularly in the utterly opulent environs of either location of the Valley's classiest strip club. You definitely gotta be living large to afford it, however; bottles start at $550. But at least you can kick it in the VIP area, where the sultry strippers dance a little bit closer than they do in the cheap seats. The gold-labeled bubbly's been the sign of status and the subject of hip-hop songs for more than a decade, and your success will shine much more brightly amidst the stylish décor of Christie's when clutching some Cris. It's just like in the Lil Scrappy jam "Money in the Bank" when Young Buck sang, "We keep a bankroll/Wallet full of credit cards/Cup full of Cristal/Box full of cigars."
Perched high above Myst's dance floor in the utter opulence of the lavish nightclub's VIP skyboxes, one feels like Caligula as the hedonistic Roman ruler looked down upon the commoners. Gorgeously decorated, cloaked in darkness, and steeped in swank, these private pads of posh have set the standard for all other Scottsdale VIP rooms to aspire to, and have played host to the shenanigans of beautiful types, as well as the rich and famous including Dennis Rodman, Jesse Metcalfe, and Amaré Stoudemire.
Available in a number of different sizes, the skyboxes are available only if you have some serious scrilla (with per-night charges starting at $500 for the smallest to $1,500 for the largest) and include plenty of perks like bottle service, a stocked private bar, and chocolate-covered strawberries. If you'd rather flaunt your party to the public, separate tables are available in the general VIP lounge for $350, and there's also a cushy catwalk over the dance floor that's available for $1,000. We heard that a few Diamondbacks players had a pretty hopped-up hootenanny in the latter area recently. Let's hope they made it to practice the next day.


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With the Royal Flying Corps (Somewhere in France)
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Running Time
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Royal Flying Corps base at Ste-Marie-Cappel, Western Front, late August 1917.
A Nieuport 17 of B Flight, 60 Fighter Squadron, badly damaged outside a hangar; mechanics removing a damaged wing. Three men working in a mobile repair shop. A new wing is fitted to a FE2d of 20 Night Bomber Squadron outside a hangar. A posed group of members of 60 Squadron, left to right: Frank Mongoose Soden (with dog), Captain William A Billy' Bishop Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Keith 'Grid' Caldwell, E W Moley Molesworth, Spencer 'Nigger' Horn. Pan over a larger group of the squadrons pilots. (Bishop left the squadron at the end of August, when it was moved from Filescamp Farm to Ste-Marie-Cappel, and this may still be Filescamp.) An FE2d of 20 Squadron (indistinctly marked "Presented by the Sultan of Mysore?) is wheeled out of its hangar. Other FE2ds of the squadron are armed, bombed up with 20-pounder and 112-pounder bombs; the pilot and gunner board one plane and the flight of five takes off. A Sopwith 1 '/2 Strutter of 45 Fighter Squadron is prepared for flight and the squadron takes off. One 1˝ Strutter is shown stunt flying. Two FE2ds come in to land at Ste-Marie-Cappel past a line of 1 '/2 Strutters. (This scene dates the film, as by 1 September 45 Squadron had been completely re-equipped with Sopwith Camels.). The damaged Nieuport is 81629, for which lieutenant W Jenkins was the usual pilot. This aircraft was credited with the shooting-down of an Albatros on 15 JuIy 1917. Jenkins was himself killed on 17 November 1917.
Pieces of History
The Lone Hawk: Ace Billy Bishop
Arthur Bishop
The "Lone Hawk" became a living legend whose exploits brought excitement and glamour to a conflict bogged down by the appalling massacre in the trenches during the Great War, a legend that would later inspire thousands of others to join the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II.
He quickly proved his skill as the ultimate aerial duellist soon after joining a Royal Flying Corps fighter squadron on March 17, 1917. Eight days later, he brought down his first enemy plane. On April 7, he scored a second time, then a week later brought his tally to three. Next day, Easter Sunday, Bishop brought down three enemy planes to qualify him as an ace plus one. During the encounter, he experienced his closest brush with death when a bullet grazed his flying helmet and put a hole in his windscreen1. By this time, he had been awarded the first of his decorations, the Military Cross.
On the last day of that month, by which time his tally had climbed to fourteen victories, he clashed with the notorious Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron," at 15,000 feet over Vitry. The dog-fight between the greatest aces of each side ended in a quick draw, the Lone Hawk getting off a short, exasperated shot at the scarlet Albatross, plunging to earth as if hit, the old ruse, then flattening out and away.
On May 2, a date in which Bishop engaged a total of 23 enemy aircraft, he destroyed a pair of enemy two-seater observation planes and over the next four days brought down three more, to boost his victories to nineteen. Before going on leave to England the next day, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
On his return to France, he shot down three planes in two days, then on June 2 made his historic lone attack on Esnes aerodrome that won him the Victoria Cross. He described it to me in these laconic words:
I'd forgotten that the 'drome would be guarded by machine guns when I planned the raid, and they shredded my wings. Anyway, I managed to shoot down an Albatross trying to take off. I took a shot at a second one but missed. It didn't matter; the pilot turned around in the cockpit and crashed into a tree. Two more tried to take off. I got one of them. The other one fled and I decided to get the hell out of there. On my way home, there were four Huns well above me. I was lucky. They never saw me.
But then nausea set in, he said—he hadn't eaten any breakfast and was afraid he'd pass out. However, he made it safely back to his field.
Before his first tour ended, he ran his score up to 47 and was awarded a bar to his DSO.
On May 27, 1918, Bishop returned to the Western Front as head of his own squadron and in twelve days of flying, shot down an incredible 25 planes, a record never equalled and for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
During the Second World War, Billy Bishop was head of recruiting for the RCAF as Air Marshal. He died in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1956 at age 62.
1On display at the Canadian War Museum
Selected Bibliography
Bishop, Arthur. The Courage of the Early Morning: The Story of Billy Bishop. Paperback ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989 (1967).
The First Air War
Hugh A. Halliday
Historian and author
During the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) experts noted that smokeless powder, rifled artillery, machine guns and barbed wire had turned battlefields into vast wastelands where armies hid from their opponent's shells. Cavalry—the traditional form of reconnaissance—could not manoeuvre . Ten years later, aircraft made stalemate even more certain. In August 1914 aerial reconnaissance enabled the Allies to counter-attack against German armies invading France. Thereafter, with few exceptions, aerial observers forecast an enemy's offensive and thus assured its failure (or success, at appalling cost).
The power of aerial observation went further. With armies driven into complex trench systems, artillery came to the fore as the deadliest weapon of the war. The great guns of the Western Front were the primary killing machines of what had become industrialized warfare—65 percent of all deaths and wounds were attributable to artillery fire, which delivered awesome weights of shell and shrapnel.
Days before his death by artillery fire, an American soldier wrote, "This is a cowering war—pygmy man huddles in little holes and caves, praying to escape the blows of the blind giant who pounds the ground with blind hammers." But the hammers were not blind. Their targets were mapped by men in aircraft and balloons, their fire was directed from aircraft and balloons. The aerial observer was the most important airman of the war; his role today has been assumed by others, including the aerial spy satellite.
The courage of these men defies imagination. Balloon observers ascended under gas bags filled with flammable hydrogen, vulnerable to fighter aircraft determined to shoot them down. The men in the balloons at least had parachutes, if time permitted them to escape. For most of the war, pilots and airplane crews had no such equipment; fire in the air was the most dreaded fate of all, and many men carried pistols to shoot themselves rather than suffer agonizing deaths. In June 1918 German aircrews were issued parachutes; even these failed to deploy about 25 percent of the time.
Given the importance of aerial reconnaissance and artillery direction, it is puzzling to find so much attention being devoted to fighter pilots, these "knights of the air." Fighter pilots and tactics evolved from 1915 onwards, but their task was always secondary to that of the observation crews. It was a fighter pilot's job to shoot down enemy observation aircraft and protect his own observation aircraft. Nevertheless, propagandists trying to divert attention from the awful slaughter on the ground fastened upon the fighter pilots as men engaged in single combat, man-to-man, with the high-scoring "ace" as the centrepiece of the narrative. Never mind that the fighter pilot's objective was (preferably) to surprise an opponent and shoot him in the back. Chivalry there might be—a decent burial for a fallen enemy, a toast with a captured foe—but in the heat of battle there could be only one rule: kill or be killed. At the heart of everything else, that was a fighter pilot's job description. It is a measure of the propagandist's success that, 90 years later, the public knows more about the First World War fighter pilots than the men they were actually protecting.
Airplanes were used for many other tasks—anti-submarine patrols, trench strafing, communications and bombing. Indeed, aircraft performed almost every task in the First World War that they would later execute in the Second World War. The one exception was the aerial delivery of soldiers. Even so, aircraft were used to place spies behind enemy lines and drop supplies to isolated troops. Nevertheless, in most roles the airplanes of 1914-1918 only hinted at what was to come. Only one submarine was sunk by aircraft during the First World War; at least 400 submarines on all sides were destroyed by aircraft during the Second World War. Aerial bombing between 1914 and 1918 inflicted only modest devastation (although its psychological impact was very great at the outset); the bombing campaigns of the Second World War were horrific both in physical impact and subsequent moral outrage.
Aircraft affected the conduct of the war, and war influenced the technological development of aircraft. For example, engines increased from an average of 80 horsepower (1914) to 350 horsepower (1918), while speeds of 110 km/h had risen to about 200 km/h. Yet if the war had not taken place, it is conceivable that commercial incentives might have produced similar results. The first four-engine airliner had flown in Russia in 1913. Might not development have taken place along civilian lines ? Five years later, France and Britain initiated civilian air transport services using modified bombers that carried fewer passengers than their Russian predecessors of 1913.
Whether or not it was due to war, a radical transformation occurred between 1914 and 1918 that involved the attitudes of aviators themselves. Even among the select circle of 1914 pilots, flying was considered hazardous,, and training methods reflected this. At the time, no aircraft had been designed specifically for training; throughout the war most training aircraft were machines like the RE.7 and Farman Shorthorn, which had been retired from front-line duties to rear echelon tasks. The Curtiss JN-4 broke this pattern.
The most radical change, however, involved the training syllabus itself. Early flying instruction covered the basics of flying but emphasized dangers to be avoided, particularly stalls and spins. By 1916, however, the dynamics of flight controls were more fully understood, and recovery from spins could be practised. New systems of instruction emphasized the theory of flight and explained exactly how manoeuvres could be executed, thus encouraging intelligent aerobatics. Instead of being regarded as a threatening mount, the airplane came to be seen as an even-tempered, reasonable machine. Previously, students had been taught what to avoid; the new methods instilled confidence. By the end of the war, pilots had become enthusiastic about the potential uses of aircraft and convinced of the fundamental safety of their machines. Confident prophets inspire confident converts.
Canada's role in these developments was insignificant in some ways, crucial in others. Before the war the government studiously ignored aviation, and only in 1918 did it take steps to form distinct Canadian air force units. On the other hand, it assisted the British flying services, which recruited in Canada and trained personnel in this country. Thousands of Canadians enlisted in the British flying services, either directly or by transferring from the Canadian Expeditionary Force. No one really knows just how many joined; the lowest estimate (13,160) seems too modest, but the highest guess (22,812) cannot be documented. It is generally believed that, as of 1918, about one-quarter of all members of the Royal Air Force were Canadians. The most famous were aces such as Raymond Collishaw and William Barker, but they included many other fascinating individuals. In 1915, Redford Mulock had been a trooper transferring from the cavalry to the Royal Naval Air Service. As of November 1918, he was a decorated colonel commanding heavy bombers that would have raided Berlin if the war had lasted only two weeks longer.
Selected Bibliography
Chajkowsky, William E. Royal Flying Corps; Borden to Texas to Beamsville. Cheltenham, ON: Boston Mills Press, 1979.
Costello, W. Brian. A Nursery of the Air Force. Carleton Place, ON: Forest Beauty Products, 1979.
Dodds, Ronald. The Brave Young Wings. Stittsville, ON: Canada's Wings, 1980.
Drew, George. Canada's Fighting Airmen. Toronto: Maclean Publishing, 1931.
Ellis, Frank H. Canada's Flying Heritage. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1954.
Fuller, G.A., J.A. Griffin and K.A. Molson. 125 Years of Canadian Aeronautics: A Chronology,1840-1965. Toronto: Canadian Aviation Historical Society, 1983.
Goodspeed, D. J. The Armed Forces of Canada,1867-1967. Ottawa: Canadian Forces Headquarters, 1967.
Greenhous, Brereton. The Making of Billy Bishop. Toronto: Dundern Group, 2002.
Greenhous, Brereton and Hugh A. Halliday. Canada's Air Forces,1914-1999. Montreal: Art Global, 1999.
Halliday , Hugh A. Not in the Face of the Enemy: Canadians Awarded the Air Force Cross and Air Force Medal,1918-1966. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000.
Jones, Neville. The Origins of Strategic Bombing. London: William Kimber, 1973.
Milberry, Larry. Aviation in Canada. Toronto: Canav Books, 1979.
---. Canada's Air Force at War and Peace. 3 vol. Toronto: Canav Books, 1999 to 2001.
Rimell, Raymond Laurence. Zeppelin! A Battle for Air Supremacy in World War I. Stittsville, ON: Canada's Wings, 1984.
Shores, Christopher, Norman Franks and Russell Guest. Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces, 1915-1920. Stoney Creek, ON: Fortress Publications, 1990.
Sullivan, Alan. Aviation in Canada,1917-1918. Toronto: Rous and Rous, 1919.
Wise, S.F. Canadian Airmen and the First World War. Ottawa: Department of National Defence, 1982.
The following Web site has a section "Honours and Awards" and a subsection dealing with Canadians in the British Flying Services during the First World War: http://www.airforce.ca/.
Other Materials
"Aces" in WWI
Captain Arthur Roy Brown was born at Carlton Place, Ontario, in 1893, the son of J. M. Brown, a leading grain merchant. He attended school in Carlton Place and in Edmonton, where he starred as a basketball and hockey player. Later he took a business course at Ottawa.
When the Great War broke out, Brown tried to enlist in the Royal Flying Corps, but was turned down. In those early days one first had to have private pilot's licence, so he went to Dayton, Ohio, where he entered the Wright Brothers' Aviation School. He became one of the first persons trained there, flying rickety Wright Model B's, two-seater pusher biplanes with twin chain-driven propellers, hopelessly obsolete even in 1915.
Having completed his course, he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service as a probationary flight sub-lieutenant and sailed for England on November 22, 1915.
While training at Chingford, Brown was repeatedly ill and in May 1916 he was hospitalized following an air accident. Nevertheless, he survived and was posted to No. 9 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service, attached to the Royal Flying Corps. On July 17, 1917, he scored the first of his kills. Three German Albatrosses attacked him. Twisting to and fro, he selected one of them and bored in. The enemy aircraft went out of control and crashed. More victories followed.
His Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) was gazetted on November 2, 1917, five days after he and a fellow flier, Lt. Banbury, had sent a German plane flaming from a formation of seven, and three days before he was made a flight commander. By the close of March 1918,while his squadron was engaged in a fierce fight, he made his thirteenth kill. It was not until some time after he had submitted his claim that he learned the identity of his victim: it was no other than the celebrated Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Knight of Germany, who had 80 kills to his credit.
Ill health again caught up with Brown and he had to leave the squadron for hospital. He then went to England to receive a bar to his DSC. For a time he was attached to the Second School of Fighting in a staff position. He wanted, however, to return to the front. Unhappily, battle fatigue clung to him and in July he fainted while flying and crashed. He was so badly injured that for a time the doctors despaired of saving him. He pulled through, but the Armistice found him still recovering from his injuries.
Brown left the service a captain with two DSCs and 13 confirmed kills. Friends who knew of his behind-the-lines patrols put the score at closer to 20.
Back in civilian life, he married and became the father of two daughters and one son. For several years he worked for the Imperial Varnish and Colour Co. Ltd., which specialized in aircraft finishes.
In 1934, he organized General Airways, which operated out of Noranda, Que., and Haileybury, Ontario. But ill health dogged him and a few years later he retired. In January 1943 he accepted the post of advisory editor of Canadian Aviation magazine. He found the work fascinating and he remained with the magazine until a few weeks before his death at fifty years of age, at Stouffville, Ontario.
Wing Commander William G. Barker, VC, DSO and Bar, MC and two Bars
Wing Commander Barker was born in Dauphin, Manitoba, on November 3, 1894. He attended elementary and high schools there and shortly before the outbreak of war moved to Winnipeg.
On December 1, 1914, he enlisted as a trooper in the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (CMR) at Brandon, Manitoba, and went with his unit to Britain in June 1915 to serve with the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). He took a machine-gun course at Shorncliffe Camp and sailed for France with his regiment in September 1915. His unit, along with a group of infantry and other dismounted cavalry units, formed part of Corps Troops [sic]. These units later became two brigades of the 3rd Canadian Division; the 1st CMR was part of the 8th Brigade.
Barker soon applied for service in the Royal Flying Corps and early in 1916 was sent to No. 9 Squadron, which was equipped with BE2c's; he carried out reconnaissance duties as an observer under training on the Somme Front, but was still a member of his CEF unit.
No. 9 Squadron's record book shows that Trooper W. Barker made a 20-minute test flight in a BE2c on March 6, 1916, and then flew nine other patrols, the last of which was photo reconnaissance on April 1, 1916.
Barker was struck off the strength of the CEF on April 1, 1916, and commissioned in the RFC on either April 1 or 2. Five days later he was sent to No. 4 Squadron RFC, also equipped with BE2c's and based at Baizieux, France. He flew for three months with this squadron as an observer.
On July 7, 1916, still as an observer, Barker joined No. 15 Squadron, RFC, at Marieux, France. It also was equipped with BE2c's although it later acquired BE2d's, BE2e's, and RE8's. On July 20, 1916, Barker's machine was attacked by a Roland Scout over Miraumont but it was driven off by Barker's fire. On August 15 of the same year he drove off another Roland when it attacked him near Achiet le Grand. During November he was recommended for his first decoration, the Military Cross (MC), and the award was announced in the London Gazette in January 1917.
Sometime in late November, Barker was selected for pilot training and sent to the UK. He rejoined No. 15 Squadron as a pilot in February 1917 and much, if not most, of his flying was done on RE8's. He and his observer were mentioned in RFC communiqués for actions of April 25 and May 25, 1917. He was made a flight commander on May 9, 1917, and two days later received a Bar to his MC.
Early in August 1917, Barker was wounded in the head, a shell splinter narrowly missing his right eye. In the middle of the month he was sent to the UK for a tour of instructional duty. He applied for service with a fighter squadron and was posted as a flight commander to No. 28 Squadron, then in England and preparing to fly its Camels to France. By now he had been promoted to captain. His new squadron arrived in St. Omar on October 8, 1917.
On October 20, Barker's squadron took part in an attack on a German airfield. The plan called for aircraft of No. 70 Squadron to bomb and shoot up the German airfield at Rumbeke, at low level. Biplane fighters of No. 23 Squadron were to fly a high patrol during the attack while 19 Camels of No. 28 Squadron were to come in from the rear to attack any German aircraft which might be able to take off from the Rumbeke field. Heavy damage was done by the bombing and strafing and seven enemy scouts were shot down. One of these was an Albatross, described in RFC reports as being "painted green with small black crosses," and which Barker sent down "with both wings off."
Barker was hospitalized following his Victoria Cross (VC) fight of October 27, 1918, and on leaving hospital was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel in the Manitoba Regiment and seconded to the Canadian Air Force overseas. After returning to Canada he became a partner with Billy Bishop in a post-war commercial aviation venture in Toronto. In June 1922, he accepted a commission as a wing commander in the non-permanent Canadian Air Force formed in Canada and he was a member of the permanent RCAF, which came into being in 1924, serving as its first director from April 1, 1924 to May 18, 1924. He resigned his commission in 1926. On March 12, 1930, he took up a commercial Fairchild from Rockcliffe air station, Ottawa, and was killed when the machine crashed on landing.
Air Vice-Marshall Raymond Collishaw, CB, DSO and Bar, OBE (Order of the British Empire), DSC, DFC
Air Vice-Marshall Raymond Collishaw was born at Nanaimo, British Columbia, on November 22, 1893 and received most of his schooling there. At age 15 he joined the Fishery Protection Service, being rated as a cabin boy. He served in several ships engaged in patrol work along the British Columbia coast, rising to first officer. In 1915 he applied for service in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and briefly attended—at his own expense—the Curtiss flying school in Toronto. In January 1916 he was appointed a probationary flight sub-lieutenant and embarked for England.
He was selected to serve on fighters and after completing his training in England was posted to No. 3 (Naval) Wing, formed to fly long-range bombing attacks on German industrial targets from bases on the Vosges region of north-eastern France. He went out to the Wing's aerodrome at Luxeuil-les-Bains in September 1916 and for the next five months flew escort to the RNAS bombers. Collishaw flew a Sopwith 1 ˝ Strutter while with Three Wing and it was on this machine that he had his first aerial combat with enemy fighters. He was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for his escort work.
In late January 1917, Collishaw was posted to No. 3 (Naval) Squadron, then attached to the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) on the Somme and equipped with the little Sopwith Pup fighter. He scored his first confirmed aerial victories with this squadron but during the latter part of March suffered severe frostbite and was sent to England to recover.
He returned to France a month later and was posted to No. 10 (Naval) Squadron, also a fighter unit, which had just been equipped with the Sopwith Triplane. With Naval Ten, Collishaw led the famous "B" or "Black" Flight throughout the spring and summer of 1917 and was able to demonstrate his full capabilities as a courageous and skilful fighter pilot. Naval Ten was attached to the RFC on the Ypres front and a grim aerial war of attrition developed with heavy casualties. While with Naval Ten he was credited with sending down 27 German aircraft and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) and the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). Collishaw left the squadron during the first several days of August 1917 for Canadian leave.
He returned to duty in late November and was posted to lead a flight in the Seaplane Defence Squadron, a Sopwith Camel unit situated near Dunkirk. It later became No. 13 (Naval) Squadron. At this time its main duties were providing aerial protection for Royal Navy vessels off the French and Belgian coasts, carrying out fighter sweeps and flying escort for RNAS bombers. In late December he took over command of the unit when its commanding officer was injured in a crash. Promotion to rank of squadron commander followed.
He was then posted back to one of his old squadrons, No. 3 (Naval) – this time as its commanding officer. It was also equipped with Sopwith Camels and was heavily engaged with the enemy, particularly during the great German offensives of March and April 1918 and the Allied victory push that began early in August. It became No. 203 Squadron on creation of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Collishaw was given the rank of major. While leading No. 203, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and a Bar to his DSO.
Collishaw left No. 203 Squadron on October 21, having been selected to fill a senior staff position in the big pilot training scheme that the RAF was operating in Canada but the war ended before he could take up his new appointment. He is generally credited with having shot down 60 enemy machines during his flying in France. Under Collishaw's command, No. 203 Squadron is credited with shooting down some 125 enemy aircraft; fewer than 30 of its own pilots were killed or became prisoners of war.
From 1919 to 1943, Collishaw was responsible for commands in South Russia, Iraq, England, Sudan and Egypt. In the summer of 1943, he retired from the RAF but remained in uniform in Britain until after the war's end, serving as a regional air liaison officer with the civil defence organization. He returned to Canada after the war and made his home in West Vancouver, British Columbia. He died in September 1976 in Vancouver, at age 82.
Adapted with permission from texts provided by the Directorate of History and Heritage, Canadian Department of National Defence.


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We've made a series of posts this week celebrating the release of The Hobbit, including conversations with Andy Serkis, the actor behind Gollum, and Philippa Boyens, co-screenwriter of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
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Now, we catch up with Joe Letteri, Senior Visual Effects Supervisor on The Hobbit movies, who geeks out with GeekDad about motion capture, 3-D, motion blur, the 48 frames-per-second debate, and how his latest innovations affect the always astonishing field of digital effects.
Letteri is also the director of Weta Digital, in Wellington, New Zealand, where his leadership has helped make the studio one of world's best visual effects houses. His work has earned him four Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects — for the films Avatar, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and King Kong. He has also received the Academy's Technical Achievement Award for co-developing the subsurface scattering technique which helps create realistic rendering of translucent materials, like skin, that brought Gollum to life.
Letteri got his start as an animator on such films as Star Wars (the 1997 special edition), Jurassic Park, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and The Abyss. In addition to the Rings movies, he also worked on I, Robot, The Adventures of Tintin and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. You might say he specializes in creating highly realistic creatures, from dinosaurs to Gollum, the Na'vi to apes. As senior visual effects supervisor on Avatar, Letteri helped launch a new approach to filmmaking called virtual production.
I had first spoken to Letteri some years ago, in 2003, when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King had just come out. This time around, I wanted to ask him about advances in digital effects since then, the evolution of performance capture, and of course his take on this whole 48 frames-per-second issue.
Gilsdorf: We spoke a long time ago, probably ten years ago, when Lord of the Rings came out. You probably don't remember me.
Letteri: We'll pick up where we left off.
Gilsdorf: Ha! Yes. Can you clarify your title? You are senior visual effects supervisor on The Hobbit, but also running Weta Digital?
Letteri: I'm one of the partners with Peter [Jackson]. I'm basically responsible for running the company, but my day job is doing effects for film.
Gilsdorf: You're American. Are you full time in New Zealand or do you go back and forth?
Letteri: I went down 11 years ago on a two year contract to work on the Lord of the Rings and I'm still there.
Gilsdorf: It sounds like [Conceptual Designers] Alan Lee and John Howe. They went down to New Zealand and never left.
Letteri: Well, they left for a little while and of course they came back for The Hobbit.
Gilsdorf: That's quite a commitment on your part, to go down and stay all this time.
Letteri: It's been great. Everything we've been doing at Weta and getting it built up, the kind of shows we've been able to do, and working with Peter, it's all been a progression for us.
"Hopefully we're keeping a little bit ahead."
Gilsdorf: Peter, you, and Richard [Taylor, head of Weta Workshop] have put New Zealand on the map as having the preeminent effects houses in the world. Has it been hard staying on top? Keeping up with the Joneses, whoever the Joneses are?
Letteri: Hopefully we're keeping a little bit ahead. It's a unique environment. We've just been fortunate with Lord of the Rings starting everything off, to have this whole landscape of characters and creatures that we had to create, that led just directly into King Kong, where we had a similar mandate, and of course with Avatar, that was entirely the mandate. To create this whole world, to create all these characters. We had to do the same thing with Tintin to where it was just, "OK, there's no live action, now let's just do the whole movie this way." It's been a kind a good progression where we've learned a lot along the way. So when we got to do The Hobbit, it's kind of this homecoming. Well, here's kind of where it all started. Now let's take what we've learned and do it again.
Gilsdorf: I was just speaking with Richard Taylor, who told me that with shooting in 3-D, and the 48 frames-per-second format, there's no need for Weta Workshop to make miniature models anymore. Or their famous "bigatures" (oversized miniature models). Now they are modeled entirely in computer graphics.
Letteri: It's easier these days to create everything entirely digitally than it is to build miniatures and to try to figure out how to shoot miniatures. Just the logistics of shooting in stereo, getting certain camera moves on the stage, and dealing with the lighting, there's just a lot to think about. Whereas in a digital world, it all becomes kinda the same. You have seen our scene inside the goblin caverns [in The Hobbit], where you're flying the camera around in this three dimensional space. And you don't have to worry about building pieces of the set that will fly in or out, or that you're going to have to match up the various pieces that are going to have to be shot at different scales. This thing's far away and it needs a big camera move, so you're going to shoot it at 1/24th scale. [This things is] closer so you need a 1/8th scale. All that sort of thing.
Gilsdorf: The goblin town scene is a good example of the long shot you're talking about. When the actors (playing dwarves and Gandalf) are running across the bridges and gangplanks, are the actors completely modeled in CG at that point? Are they motion captured and imported into a digital model?
Letteri: Yeah, the actors are all digital. But we do use a lot of motion capture to create the performances. Motion capture, if you're doing a human kind of character, you know dwarf or goblin… that's still kind of our animation tool of choice. It's still the best animation technique for doing believable character [motion].
Gilsdorf: Regarding Andy Serkis and his performance as Gollum: In what ways has which motion capture has gotten better? Is it actually tracking more parts of his face and body than before, than in Lord of the Rings?
Letteri: It's more that we can do it more accurately and with lighter-weight gear. The markers that he has to wear are a lot smaller because the camera's more accurate. That has certain advantages. It's not the weight of the markers that's such a big deal but the smaller they are, the less likely that they get knocked around. The less likely they impair the performance. With things like that, we're trying to make the technology as invisible as we can.
"[Motion capture is] still the best animation technique for doing believable character [motion]."
Gilsdorf: I remember there was an internal dispute during Lord of the Rings between those who wanted to animate Gollum using motion capture versus the key-frame animators. At this point, is it almost entirely done as motion capture?
Letteri: It's still a blend. But the motion capture tools have gotten sophisticated enough, not just on the capture side, which is really just part of the equation, but on the animation side. How you actually create the character once you have that captured data is still important. So for example, one of the things we can do much more easily now is we can take motion capture and we can edit it much more easily. That happens all the time.
Even though you are looking at a performance of Gollum, there's still a lot of detail that has to be done by hand. The hand, the fingers, the foot, the way the toes bend, all those contact points you can't capture accurately. Those all have to still be animated. In the past it was really hard to do that onto motion capture data, because it was so dense. Now, we have tools that allow you to do that.
If you're doing an impossible jump over a rock, or crawling down the side of a wall, there are things where, even Andy as physical as he is, still can't perform it. We go and change the animation and touch it up. In a character like Gollum, because he basically is a one-to-one human performance, that's much less of an issue. Most of it is at this point cleanup work. Whereas ten years ago, there was actually a lot more animation you were seeing, even though we were trying to copy Andy's performance. A lot of it was done by hand. This time, we're recording a lot of what Andy's doing directly and that's what you're seeing on screen.
But then when you see Goblin King where there's such a big difference in proportion between the actor's body, Barry Humphries in this case, and the character, then you still have to go in and edit it, right? If you had a normal person performing that, just the fact that he's moving his arm around, his elbow is going to be inside the Goblin King's body the whole time. No part of his elbow will go out to clear the body. Well, an actor can't act that way. So we want them to just act naturally so we understand the gesture of performance, and we go back and an animate on top of that to make it fit the body, to fit the character. So we sort of operate on a spectrum, almost, from 100 percent motion capture [to] it could be full key-framed animated. Hopefully you don't know the difference. The animators need to be as fully aware of the characters as the actors are so that they can take over and blend all these techniques.
Gilsdorf: What's the future? Will motion capture get so sophisticated, especially for special effects-heavy genre movies, sci-fi, fantasy, that increasingly these movies are going to be MoCap? Will MoCap eventually be able to capture individual toe joints?
Letteri: That is certainly is possible sometime in the future. We haven't put so much effort into that because it's sort of diminishing returns. The resolution we need to get that, we can capture enough data that we can just go in add that more easily than taking the effort to capture it. And we know that what we added in is correct because we have enough of the surrounding information. At some point, if you've got 100 megapixel cameras the size of an iPhone in five years, who knows, you might get that kind of information, who knows.
"Even though you are looking at a performance of Gollum, there's still a lot of detail that has to be done by hand. The hand, the fingers, the foot, the way the toes bend."
Gilsdorf: In terms of special digital effects shots, does the first Hobbit film compare to the last of the Lord of the Rings films, in terms of shots with digital elements in them? Does The Hobbit now hold the new record? I had thought at one point Return of the King had held the record.
Letteri: I forget the actual number [for Return of the King]. I think around 1,900 something. This one was 2,176 shots. I think a little bit more than The Return of the King.
Gilsdorf: Wow. And that's just for the first movie?
Letteri: That's just for the first movie. We've got two more to do.
Gilsdorf: And does creating digital effects for 48 frames-per-second, does that create headaches for you guys?
Letteri: 48 frames-per-second creates more work, but it's spread throughout the effects. For example, you've got to render everything twice, there are twice as many frames. Four times if you consider the stereo. There are twice as many frames to render, so from a technical point of view, there's that you have to deal with. Some things aren't affected by it so much. Lighting doesn't really matter what the frame rate is; animation, a lot of body movements are not that sharp that it really matters. However things like hand contacts, eye blinks, it's actually nice to have the extra frames because you can really refine the points at which all those things really happen. Things that are very hand intensive … there's twice as much work to do there. There's no way around that. But it doesn't add up to twice as much work but in the end, you have twice as many frames you have to create.
Gilsdorf: Are you a fan of the 48 frames, as a medium, or does it not do much for you?
Letteri: I like it both ways, because it what it does is remove the motion blur artifact from stereo. It allows your eye to resolve things spatially that you couldn't see before if you were just shooting at normal 24 frames. I like that aspect of it. Having grown up with film at 24 frames, I'm still completely comfortable with seeing things on film. With me, I get to see it all four ways, every time. I'm sort of spoiled.
"People who are skeptical of 48 felt the loss when they went back to 24."
I would suggest, if people are on the fence about it, to really just look at that approach. If you're curious and you think you really want to see what this would really look like, like in a hyper-real sense, go for the 48. It might take you a few minutes to get used to, and when I say get used to, it's just because it's a familiarity. We all go in having seen film with an expectation of what a movie should look like. This will look a little bit different. But again, that's the effect that we are going for, so you'll get to see that. And you can always then go back to look at the 24 to experience the difference.
People that have done both have told me that the 24 has actually been a little bit of a letdown, even though they did have that initial adjustment period that they weren't planning for, because you see everything so much more vividly in 48. I would say, if you're skeptical of the whole thing, and you're happy with the way film looks in 24, go see it that way. If you like the film and want to see it again, which we hope you do, then maybe it's worth having a look at 48, because it will build up from there.
Gilsdorf: Whereas the other way, 48 to 24, it will feel like you are losing something.
Letteri: Right… People who are skeptical of 48 felt the loss when they went back to 24.
"It's not 3-D, it's two fixed images, but your eye is fooled into thinking it's 3-D."
Gilsdorf: The other issue being 3-D. You can also see this movie in 3-D, or not in 3-D. And when you combine 3-D with 48 frames per second, does that add another layer of issues?
Letteri: The formats you can see it in are: 3-D 48 frames, 3-D 24 frames, 2-D 24 frames, and 2-D film. The 48 frames, even though you can certainly do it and you get some advantages if you weren't shooting stereo, the real reason to do it [in 3-D] is because it solves this motion blur problem with stereo. It's one of the things that tends to give people a headache, if you've got stereo with a lot of fast action, and your eye can't follow it because you can't focus on it, this solves that problem.
Gilsdorf: So the motion blur is a 3-D problem, and the 48 can solve it.
Letteri: Motion blur is not a problem in 2-D, because you're looking at a single image on a screen. Your eye is used to seeing motion blur in a photograph or in a film. But in 3-D your eye is fooled into thinking — see, it's actually stereo, it's not 3-D, it's two fixed images, but your eye is fooled into thinking it's 3-D, and of course it's marketed as 3-D. But it's not really 3-D. You can't look around and focus on anything you want to. The photography's already [set]. So if you try to focus on something that's fast-moving, it's just going to be blurry, and that'll give you a headache. It's like trying to focus on something from a fast moving car, when you're not the driver, and you don't know where you supposed to be looking, and everything just blurs, and your eye is trying to find something to lock onto? That's the problem. This eliminates that problem.
Gilsdorf: So if you see The Hobbit in 24 frames per second, but in 3-D, that problem's going to be there.
Letteri: Exactly. The motion will have a little more blur. So the fast action scenes will be a little bit harder to focus on than they will be at 48. They still play fine. We were careful to make sure we still delivered a good 24 frame movie. 48 just really takes it one step further.
Gilsdorf: That just sounds like, from a technical point of view, to make sure that all the formats this film will be released in will be a satisfactory viewing experience. A more than satisfactory viewing experience.
Letteri: We were careful to make sure that everything had its own unique finish. They're all made from the master, but every one is finished differently so it's optimized for its own format.
Gilsdorf: What was your biggest surprise in making The Hobbit, what was your main takeaway from the experience for you?
Letteri: I think the biggest surprise for me was actually Gollum. Because, after having done him 10 years ago, there's always the sense that you're going to come back to something that you're familiar with and it's not going to have the same impact. He's still my favorite character and my favorite scene to watch. It just goes to show the power of not only performance — Andy brings this great performance. But when you have all aspects of the character working together, you've got realism on top of performance. You've actually got a digital actor there. You're not just creating a creature like, I love the eagles, they're big, they're majestic, they feel like this amazing creature that you see in Middle-earth. With Gollum, you really understand his whole journey and his whole story, just in that scene with him.
"[Gollum is] still my favorite character and my favorite scene to watch."
Gilsdorf: Sequentially, you first learn about Gollum in The Hobbit. But many poeple who see The Hobbit will have already seen Lord of the Rings. So this will be a flashback to a previous time in Gollum's life. I had read somewhere that the younger Gollum, 60 years ago, has more teeth.
Letteri: We didn't do that, though. We decided, we tried it, and just thought it made him look too different. We tried giving him more hair, too. We thought he looked too different, we thought he looked like a different character, so we put him back to the way he was. He's completely rebuilt, the amount of detail, the physiology, everything is taking advantage of everything we know how to do now with characters ten years on. But the core is the same. You can immediately recognize him as the same as when you last saw him.
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The Challenges of Global Corruption
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Frank Vogl, co-founder of global anti-corruption organization Transparency International, will highlight the key findings of his new book: "Waging War on Corruption – Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power." 15 years ago he came to Iowa to highlight the challenges before the new anti-corruption movement, now he returns with a message of surprising optimism.
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Property Rights and Environmental Policy: A New Zealand Perspective
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Author: Kevin Guerin
This paper is intended to lay out a preliminary foundation for applying a property rights perspective to environmental policy issues facing New Zealand. It does not attempt to apply such an approach to any specific issue. Rather it summarises the core principles behind effective rights regimes (illustrated by the evolution of rights over time), reviews how such regimes have been applied to environmental issues internationally, and describes current natural resource rights regimes in New Zealand.
The purpose of applying property rights to the environment can vary widely and reflect quite different perspectives. Regulation by any form, however, whether command-and-control or market-based, creates or modifies property rights. While private property rights will not always be appropriate, the alternatives redefine and reallocate rights rather than eliminating them. A common or public property right remains a right held by someone. The choice is not therefore whether to modify property rights to improve environmental outcomes, but how to do so in a way that optimises national welfare.
However, if more use of market-based instruments is appropriate, then the work required to create the legal, institutional and scientific framework to successfully implement them (including trading off social, economic and environmental outcomes) should not be under-estimated. Fishing and water rights demonstrate these difficulties and the payoff (for fisheries at least) that can be achieved.
The support of my colleagues, and of my manager, Karen Adair, have been much appreciated in the long evolution of this paper.
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A security guard was shot and wounded on the city's northeast side early Sunday when he attempted to break up a fight, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Police say the guard was attempting to intervene in a fight between a man and a woman, when the 20 year old man involved in the argument pulled a gun and shot the guard in the leg. The woman ran toward the Jim's on Perrin-Beitel and Loop 410, while the man fled towards the Wild Zebra club.
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ONTARIO - Six adults and a child were injured Monday afternoon at Ontario Mills when a decorative ceiling tile fell on them.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966".
(a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") is authorized to make loans and grants to the State of Alaska, or any duly authorized agency or instrumentality thereof, in accordance with a statewide program prepared by such State, agency, or instrumentality, and approved by the Secretary, to assist in the provision of housing and related facilities for Alaska natives and other Alaska residents who are otherwise unable to finance such housing and related facilities upon terms and conditions which they can afford. The program shall (1) specify the minimum and maximum standards for such housing and related facilities (not to exceed an average of $7,500 per dwelling unit); (2) to the extent feasible, encourage the proposed users of such housing and related facilities to utilize mutual and self-help in the construction thereof; and (3) provide experience, and encourage continued participation, in self-government and individual home ownership.
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PHOTO: Jennifer Hudson poses for 'V' magazine
Jennifer Hudson has already accomplished so much and the singer turned actress has plenty more where that came from.
In an interview with "V" Magazine, J-Hud reveals that she's finally taking control of her own music career.
"Earlier in my career I was just a soloist singing other people's songs. Now I really want to be an artist. I want to lift the people up, have fun, create a moment," she said.
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If you are recovering from an injury or surgery below the knee, a knee caddy can be just what the doctor ordered. Using a knee caddy keeps you mobile without having to use crutches or a wheelchair. There are several different styles of knee caddies, but the two most popular kinds are the knee walker and the turning leg caddy.
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Telit Communications (Trieste, Italy), a vendor of M2M technology, on Thursday announced that it has completed the acquisition of GlobalConect Ltd, a provider of cellular connectivity for M2M applications, for $2.9 million.
According to Telit, the acquisition will allow it to offer its customers wireless connectivity for its M2M produces. Dan Amir, CEO and founder of GlobalConect, is joining Telit to lead the Company's connectivity activities.
The $2.9 million acquisition included approximately $0.7 million in cash and 800,000 newly issued ordinary shares with an assumed value of GBP1.70 per share.
In the event that within 3 years from the completion of the acquisition, conditions related to the performance of GlobalConect are met and the Company's share price does not reach at least 170p, Telit will issue the current shareholders of GlobalConect additional shares, up to a maximum of 360,000, according to Telit.
This is the second major acquisition by Telit this year, having acquired Motorola M2M from Motorola in March. Telit acquired Motorola M2M for $23 million.
Earlier this month Beecham Research, a research firm, released a study that said that Telit's market share of the "modules" market over 2010 rose from 12.4% in 2009 to 16.1% in 2010, indicating that its market share was on the way up.


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Which Industries Won and Lost in Election 2010?
November 10, 2010 | Imagine that every member of Congress represents the industry or special interests that have contributed the most to his or her campaign coffers. Which industries and special interests, then, lost or won seats in Congress during the 2010 midterm election?
Third Quarter Campaign Finance Reports Show Money Race Is On
October 16, 2009 | An initial Center for Responsive Politics analysis has found that sitting members of the U.S. House of Representatives raised $48.2 million from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2009, based on the 336 reports we have in. The mean amount these lawmakers raised was $143,640, and the median amount was $126,680.
Tracking Your Representatives' Health Care Cash
June 25, 2009 | Here's a cool tool that brings together data from various parts of OpenSecrets.org to show how much money each current lawmaker has raised from various health-related industries and the health sector overall since 1989 (including President Obama's haul).
Embattled Lobbying Firm PMA Targeted Members of Defense Committees
February 12, 2009 | The close ties between Rep. John Murtha and a Washington lobbying firm raided by the FBI have put the powerful Pennsylvania Democrat under greater scrutiny. The lobbyists at PMA Group have been Murtha's fifth most generous campaign donor over time, but he is just one of 284 members of the 111th Congress who have collected money from the firm, which specializes in securing federal earmarks for its clients. In total, PMA Group's employees and its political action committee have given current members of Congress $3.4 million since 1989.
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June 18, 2008 | If you're sick of counting your own pennies, now you can take a break and check out what your representatives are worth. The Center for Responsive Politics has updated our Personal Financial Disclosures database to include the 2007 annual reports for all members of Congress, at least those who filed their reports on time.
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