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|Jurassic Park
|Directed by
|Steven Spielberg
|Produced by
|Kathleen Kennedy
Gerald R. Molen
|Written by
David Koepp
Michael Crichton
Malia Scotch Marmo (uncredited)
Michael Crichton
|Sam Neill
Laura Dern
Jeff Goldblum
Richard Attenborough
Joseph Mazzello
Ariana Richards
Martin Ferrero
Bob Peck
Samuel L. Jackson
Wayne Knight
|Music by
|John Williams
|Dean Cundey
|Editing by
|Michael Kahn
|Amblin Entertainment
|Distributed by
|Universal Pictures
|Release date(s)
|June 11, 1993
|Running time
|127 minutes
|United States
|Gross revenue
|Followed by
|The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional Isla Nublar (Spanish for "Cloudy Island"), in Costa Rica, where billionaire philanthropist John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) and a team of genetic scientists from his company have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs. Threatened with legal action over the accidental death of an island worker, Hammond invites a trio of scientists -- paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and chaos theorist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) -- to inspect the park (and appease the company lawyers) before its public opening. During a storm that evacuates most of the island, except for the visitors and a small team of employees, sabotage engineered by a rival company sets the dinosaurs loose, and the island's few inhabitants attempt to escape the island under peril.
Spielberg acquired the motion picture rights to the novel before its publication in 1990, and Crichton himself was hired to adapt the novel into a proper screenplay. David Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence, and made numerous changes to the characters. Spielberg hired Stan Winston Studios to create animatronics to portray the dinosaurs, shots of which were then mixed with newly developed computer-generated imagery by Industrial Light & Magic. Paleontologist Jack Horner aided the actors and the special effects team in creating authenticity (although aspects of the animals' depictions became outdated due to changes in evolutionary theories). Filming took place from August 24 to November 30, 1992, in Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, and California.
Jurassic Park is regarded as a landmark in the use of computer-generated imagery, and received positive reviews from critics, who praised the effects, though reactions to other elements of the picture, such as character development, were mixed. During its release, the film grossed more than $914 million worldwide, becoming the most successful film released up to that time (surpassing E.T. the Extra Terrestrial and surpassed 4 years later by Titanic), and it is currently the thirteenth-highest-grossing feature film (taking inflation into account, it is the 18th-highest-grossing film in North America). It is the most successful film from both NBC Universal and Steven Spielberg. Ironically, this makes Universal one of only two of the "Big Six" film studios not to have a movie make at least $1 billion worldwide (along with Sony Pictures Entertainment, whose highest grossing film is Spider-Man 3). Jurassic Park spawned a franchise, including the sequels The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Jurassic Park III (2001).
In Jurassic Park, located on Isla Nublar, an island approximately 120 miles west of Costa Rica, an employee for the genetic engineering company InGen is attacked and killed while placing a Velociraptor into a specially built enclosure, prompting a lawsuit from his family. CEO John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) is pressured by his investors to allow a safety inspection by experts before opening the park. He invites paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), chaos theorist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), and his investors' attorney Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) to perform the inspection. The group meets a Brachiosaurus when they set off into the park. At the park, they learn that InGen created the dinosaurs by cloning genetic material found in mosquitoes that fed on dinosaur blood, preserved in Dominican amber. The DNA from these samples was spliced with DNA from frogs to fill in sequence gaps. Only female dinosaurs are created to prevent uncontrolled breeding within the park. The team is also shown the enclosure of the Velociraptor, dubbed "raptors", extremely intelligent, aggressive and ferocious predators.
Malcolm is disgusted by what he sees as the rape of mother nature, Sattler is worried, but Grant remains neutral. They meet Hammond's grandchildren, Tim (Joseph Mazzello) and Alexis "Lex" Murphy (Ariana Richards), and go on a vehicular tour of the park via 2 electric-powered Ford Explorers. Ellie leaves the tour to supervise and take care of a sick Triceratops with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Gerry Harding (Gerald R. Molen). A tropical storm hits the island as most InGen employees leave for the day leaving only Hammond, game warden Robert Muldoon (Bob Peck), chief engineer Ray Arnold (Samuel L. Jackson), and leading computer programmer Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) to supervise the park and the visitors.
Having been bribed by InGen's rival Lewis Dodgson (Cameron Thor), Nedry takes an opportunity to shut down the park's security system so he can steal dinosaur embryos and deliver them to an informant at the auxiliary dock. As a result, the security systems of the whole park are shut down, most notably allowing the Tyrannosaurus to break through the deactivated electric fence surrounding its pen. The cowardly Gennaro flees from the car into a nearby bathroom, while Tim and Lex accidentally attract the T-Rex's attention with a flashlight and are attacked. Grant distracts the T-Rex with a flare, but just as she is about to leave, Malcolm tries the same trick with less success, and in fleeing from the T-Rex, attracts her attention and tells Grant to take the kids and run. Gennaro is devoured and Malcolm is severely injured and assumed killed, while the children and Grant only narrowly avoid being killed themselves.
Soon after they flee the wreckage, Sattler and Muldoon arrive. They discover the remains of Gennaro, and find that Malcolm is actually alive but has a severe leg wound, which he managed to support with his belt. Upon further investigation they find footprints belonging to Grant and the kids. Just then, the T-Rex returns and Malcolm, Muldoon, and Sattler barely escape her in their Jeep. Meanwhile, Nedry crashes his Jeep and, while trying to winch it, is killed by a Dilophosaurus. Grant, Tim, and Lex spend the night in a tree. While hiking to safety the next morning, they discover hatched eggs, indicating that the dinosaurs are breeding. Grant realizes that the frog DNA is responsible: some species of frog are known to spontaneously change sex in a single-sex environment.
Arnold tries to hack Nedry's computer to turn the fences back on but fails for lack of a key identifier. He does a full system restart, which requires him to shut down the entire power grid from the Visitor Center and to manually reset the circuit breakers from the utility shed. When he does not return from the shed, Sattler and Muldoon follow and discover the raptors have escaped, the shutdown having cut off power to the electric fences around their pen. Muldoon realizes that they are near and tells Sattler to go to the utility shed herself and turn the power back on while he tries to distract the raptors and hunt them down. Sattler arrives at the shed and manages to reset the breakers, then she is chased by a raptor, discovers Arnold's remains, and manages to escape the maintenance shed. Muldoon is attacked and killed by a second raptor while hunting the third raptor. Grant and the kids finally arrive at the Visitor Center, after Tim is electrocuted when the fences turn back on and revived by Grant. Grant leaves them to find the others and finds Sattler first, then joins Malcolm and Hammond in the emergency bunkers.
Raptors enter the Visitor Center and Lex and Tim narrowly escape them in the kitchen (locking one in the freezer). Grant and Sattler take Lex and Tim to the control room, where Lex is finally able to restore the Park's computer systems to call Hammond to request a helicopter rescue of the survivors. Grant and Sattler hold off a raptor trying to open the door to the computer room, until the power is restored and the electromagnetic locks begin working. With the door secure, the raptor breaks into the room through the window, and the group climbs into the ceiling crawlspace and arrive at the Visitors Center rotunda, above the skeleton display. The raptors pursue and, after a scuffle on top of the fossil exhibits where the raptors block their escape route, 'help' comes from an unlikely source; the Tyrannosaurus arrives and attacks the raptors. The T-Rex and raptors fight while Grant, Sattler, Lex, and Tim escape. The four flee, climb into Hammond and Malcolm's jeep and leave. Grant says he will not endorse the park, a choice with which Hammond concurs. Meanwhile inside the T-Rex tears apart one of the raptors and kills the other by hurling it at a Tyrannosaurus skeleton on display. As the group fly away in the helicopter, the children fall asleep beside Grant, who contemplatively looks out the window over the horizon at a flock of birds flying nearby, the modern descendants of dinosaurs.
Michael Crichton originally conceived a screenplay about a graduate student who recreates a dinosaur; he continued to wrestle with his fascination with dinosaurs and cloning until he began writing the novel Jurassic Park.[10] Spielberg learned of the novel in October 1989 while he and Crichton were discussing a screenplay that would become the television series ER.[11] Before the book was published, Crichton demanded a non-negotiable fee of $1.5 million as well as a substantial percentage of the gross. Warner Brothers and Tim Burton, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Richard Donner, and 20th Century Fox and Joe Dante bid for the rights,[11] but Universal eventually acquired them in May 1990 for Spielberg.[12] Universal paid Crichton a further $500,000 to adapt his own novel,[13] which he had finished by the time Spielberg was filming Hook. Crichton noted that because the book was "fairly long" his script only had about 10 to 20 percent of the novel's content; scenes were dropped for budgetary and practical reasons.[14] After completing Hook, Spielberg wanted to film Schindler's List. Music Corporation of America president Sid Sheinberg gave a green light to the film on one condition: that Spielberg make Jurassic Park first. Spielberg later said, "He knew that once I had directed Schindler I wouldn't be able to do Jurassic Park."[11] At the time, MCA was the owner of Universal Pictures.
Spielberg hired Stan Winston to create the animatronic dinosaurs, Phil Tippett to create go motion dinosaurs for long shots, Michael Lantieri to supervise the on-set effects, and Dennis Muren to do the digital compositing. Paleontologist Jack Horner supervised the designs, to help fulfil Spielberg's desire to portray the dinosaurs as animals rather than monsters. Horner dismissed the raptors' flicking tongues in Tippett's early animatics,[15] complaining, "[The dinosaurs] have no way of doing that!" Taking Horner's advice, Spielberg insisted that Tippett take the tongues out.[16] Winston's department created fully detailed models of the dinosaurs before molding latex skins, which were fitted over complex robotics. Tippett created stop-motion animatics of major scenes, but, despite go motion's attempts at motion blurs, Spielberg still found the end results unsatisfactory in terms of working in a live-action feature film.[15] Animators Mark Dippe and Steve Williams went ahead in creating a computer-generated walk cycle for the T. rex skeleton and were approved to do more.[17] When Spielberg and Tippett saw an animatic of the T. rex chasing a herd of Gallimimus, Spielberg said, "You're out of a job," to which Tippett replied, "Don't you mean extinct?"[15] Spielberg later wrote both the animatic and his dialogue between him and Tippett into the script.[18]
Malia Scotch Marmo began a script rewrite in October 1991 over a five-month period, merging Ian Malcolm with Alan Grant.[19] Screenwriter David Koepp came on board afterward, starting afresh from Marmo's draft, and used Spielberg's idea of a cartoon shown to the visitors to remove much of the exposition that fills Crichton's novel.[20] Spielberg also excised a sub-plot of Procompsognathus escaping to the mainland and attacking young children, as he found it too horrific.[21] This sub-plot would eventually be used as a prologue in the Spielberg-directed sequel, The Lost World. Hammond was changed from a ruthless businessman to a kindly old man, because Spielberg identified with Hammond's obsession with showmanship.[22] He also switched the characters of Tim and Lex; in the book, Tim is aged 11 and into computers, and Lex is only seven or eight and into sports. Spielberg did this because he wanted to work with the younger Joseph Mazzello, and it also allowed him to introduce the sub-plot of Lex's adolescent crush on Grant.[4] Koepp changed Grant's relationship with the children, making him hostile to them initially to allow for more character development.[11] Koepp also took the opportunity to cut out a major sequence from the book, for budgetary reasons, where the T. rex chases Grant and the children down a river before being tranquilized by Muldoon. This scene was revived in part in Jurassic Park III with the Spinosaurus replacing the T.rex.[20]
After 25 months of pre-production, filming began on August 24, 1992, on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi.[23] The three-week shoot involved various daytime exteriors.[12] On September 11, Hurricane Iniki passed directly over Kauaʻi, which caused the crew to lose a day of shooting.[24] Several of the storm scenes from the movie are actual footage shot during the hurricane. The scheduled shoot of the Gallimimus chase was moved to Kualoa Ranch on the island of Oahu and one of the beginning scenes had to be created by digital animating a still shot of scenery.[18] The crew moved back to mainland USA to shoot at Universal Studios's Stage 24 for scenes involving the raptors in the kitchen.[12] The crew also shot on Stage 23 for the scenes involving the power supply, before going on location to Red Rock Canyon for the Montana dig scenes.[25] The crew returned to Universal to shoot Grant's rescue of Tim, using a fifty-foot prop with hydraulic wheels for the car fall, and the Brachiosaurus encounter. The crew filmed scenes for the Park's labs and control room, which used animations for the computers lent from Silicon Graphics and Apple.[26]
The crew moved to Warner Bros. Studios' Stage 16 to shoot the T. rex attack on the tour cars.[26] Shooting proved frustrating due to water soaking the foam rubber skin of the animatronic dinosaur.[6] The ripples in the glass of water caused by the T. rex's footsteps was inspired by Spielberg listening to Earth, Wind and Fire in his car, and the vibrations the bass rhythm caused. Lantieri was unsure of how to create the shot until the night before filming, when he put a glass of water on a guitar he was playing, which achieved the concentric circles in the water Spielberg wanted. The next morning, guitar strings were put inside the car and a man on the ground plucked the strings to achieve the effect.[27] Back at Universal, the crew filmed scenes with the Dilophosaurus on Stage 27. Finally, the shoot finished on Stage 12, with the climactic chases with the raptors in the Park's computer rooms and Visitor's Center.[28] Spielberg brought back the T. rex for the climax, abandoning his original ending in which Grant uses a platform machine to maneuver a raptor into a fossil tyrannosaur's jaws.[29] The film wrapped twelve days ahead of schedule on November 30,[12][30][31] and within days editor Michael Kahn had a rough cut ready, allowing Spielberg to go ahead with filming Schindler's List.[32]
Special effects work continued on the film, with Tippett's unit adjusting to new technology with Dinosaur Input Devices:[33] models which fed information into the computers to allow themselves to animate the characters traditionally. In addition, they acted out scenes with the raptors and Gallimimus. As well as the computer-generated dinosaurs, ILM also created elements such as water splashing and digital face replacement for Ariana Richards' stunt double.[15] Compositing the dinosaurs onto the live action scenes took around an hour. Rendering the dinosaurs often took two to four hours per frame, and rendering the T. rex in the rain even took six hours per frame.[34] Spielberg monitored their progress from Poland.[35] Composer John Williams began work on the score at the end of February, and it was conducted a month later by John Neufeld and Alexander Courage.[36] The sound effects crew, supervised by George Lucas,[37] were finished by the end of April. Jurassic Park was finally completed on May 28, 1993.[36]
Despite the title of the film referencing the Jurassic period, most of the dinosaurs featured did not exist until the Cretaceous period.[38] When explaining the ferocity of the Velociraptor to a cynical young boy, Dr. Grant says "Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period..."
Universal spent $65 million on the marketing campaign for Jurassic Park, making deals with 100 companies to market 1,000 products.[46] These included three Jurassic Park video games by Sega and Ocean Software,[47] a toy line by Kenner that was distributed by Hasbro,[48] and a novelization aimed at young children.[49] The released soundtrack included unused material.[50] Trailers for the film only gave fleeting glimpses of the dinosaurs,[51] a tactic journalist Josh Horowitz described as "that old Spielberg axiom of never revealing too much" when Spielberg and director Michael Bay did the same for their production of Transformers in 2007.[52] The film was marketed with the tagline "An Adventure 65 Million Years In The Making." This was a joke Spielberg made on set about the genuine, millions of years old mosquito in amber used for Hammond's walking stick.[53]
The film premiered at the National Building Museum on June 9, 1993, in Washington, D.C.,[54] in support of two children's charities.[55] The film made its VHS and LaserDisc debut on October 4, 1994,[56] and was first released on DVD on October 10, 2000.[57] The film was also released in a package with The Lost World: Jurassic Park.[58] The DVD was re-released with both sequels on December 11, 2001,[59] as the Jurassic Park Trilogy, and as the Jurassic Park Adventure Pack on November 29, 2005.[60]
Following the film's release, a traveling exhibition began.[61] Steve Englehart wrote a series of comic books published by Topps Comics. They acted as a continuation of the film, consisting of the two-issue Raptor, the four-issue Raptors Attack and Raptors Hijack, and Return to Jurassic Park, which lasted nine issues. All published issues were republished under the single title Jurassic Park Adventures in the United States and as Jurassic Park in the United Kingdom.[62] Ocean Software released a game sequel entitled Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues in 1994 on Super NES and Game Boy.[47]
Jurassic Park was broadcast on television for the first time on May 7, 1995, following the April 26 airing of The Making of Jurassic Park.[63] Some 68.12 million people tuned in to watch, garnering NBC a 36 percent share of all available viewers that night. Jurassic Park was the highest-rated theatrical film broadcast on television by any network since the April 1987 airing of Trading Places.[64]
"The Jurassic Park Ride" went into development in November 1990[65] and premiered at Universal Studios Hollywood on June 15, 1996,[66] at a cost of $110 million.[65] Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, has an entire section of the park dedicated to Jurassic Park that includes the main ride, christened "Jurassic Park River Adventure", and many smaller rides and attractions based on the series.[67] The Universal Studios theme park rides have been designed to support the film's plot, with Hammond supposedly having been contacted to rebuild the Park at the theme park location.[66]
Jurassic Park became the most financially successful film released worldwide as of that time, beating Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial which previously held the title, though it did not top E.T. in North America.[68] The film opened with $47 million in its first weekend[2] and had grossed $81.7 million by its first week.[69] The film stayed at number one for three weeks and eventually grossed $357 million in the U.S. and Canada.[70] The film also did very well in international markets, breaking opening records in the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, and Taiwan.[71] Spielberg earned over $250 million from the film.[72] Jurassic Park's worldwide gross was topped five years later by James Cameron's Titanic.[73] It still remains the oldest movie in the top 20 highest grossing movies of all time to this day.
The film received mostly positive reviews. High praise was heaped on the visual effects, although there was much criticism leveled at the characterization and departures from the book. Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it "a true movie milestone, presenting awe- and fear-inspiring sights never before seen on the screen… On paper, this story is tailor-made for Mr. Spielberg's talents…[but] [i]t becomes less crisp on screen than it was on the page, with much of the enjoyable jargon either mumbled confusingly or otherwise thrown away."[74] In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers described the film as "colossal entertainment—the eye-popping, mind-bending, kick-out-the-jams thrill ride of summer and probably the year [...] Compared with the dinos, the characters are dry bones, indeed. Crichton and co-screenwriter David Koepp have flattened them into nonentities on the trip from page to screen."[75] Roger Ebert noted, "The movie delivers all too well on its promise to show us dinosaurs. We see them early and often, and they are indeed a triumph of special effects artistry, but the movie is lacking other qualities that it needs even more, such as a sense of awe and wonderment, and strong human story values."[76] Henry Sheehan argued, "The complaints over Jurassic Park's lack of story and character sound a little off the point," pointing out the story arc of Grant learning to protect Hammond's grandchildren despite his initial dislike of them.[22] Rotten Tomatoes reported that 84% of critics gave Jurassic Park a positive write-up with 90% of top critics being positive.[77]
In 1994, the film won all three Academy Awards it was nominated for: Visual Effects, Sound Effects Editing, and Sound (at the same ceremony, Steven Spielberg, Michael Kahn, and John Williams took home Academy Awards for Schindler's List). The film won honours outside of the U.S. including the 1994 BAFTA for Best Special Effects, as well as the Award for the Public's Favourite Film.[78] It won the 1994 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation,[79] and the 1993 Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction, Best Writing for Crichton and Koepp and Best Special Effects.[80] The film won the 1993 People's Choice Awards for Favorite All-Around Motion Picture.[81] Young Artist Awards were given to Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello, with the film winning an Outstanding Action/Adventure Family Motion Picture award.[82]
The American Film Institute named Jurassic Park the 35th most thrilling film of all time on June 13, 2001,[84] and Bravo chose the scene in which Lex and Tim are stalked by two Raptors in the kitchen as the 95th scariest of all time in 2005.[85] On Empire magazine's fifteenth anniversary in 2004, it judged Jurassic Park the sixth most influential film of the magazine's lifetime.[86] On Film Review's fifty-fifth anniversary in 2005, it declared the film to be one of the five most important in the magazine's lifetime.[87] In 2006, IGN ranked Jurassic Park as the 19th greatest film franchise of all time.[88]
Most significantly, when many filmmakers saw Jurassic Park's use of computer-generated imagery, they realized that many of their visions, previously thought unfeasible or too expensive, were now possible. Stanley Kubrick, the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, contacted Spielberg to direct A.I.,[86] George Lucas started to make the Star Wars prequels,[89] and Peter Jackson began to re-explore his childhood love of fantasy films, a path that led him to The Lord of the Rings and King Kong.[90] Jurassic Park has also inspired films and documentaries such as the American adaptation of Godzilla, Carnosaur, and Walking with Dinosaurs,[86] as well as numerous parodies, like the Leslie Nielsen comedy feature Spy Hard. Stan Winston, enthusiastic about the new technology pioneered by the film, joined with IBM and director James Cameron to form a new special effects company, Digital Domain.[91]
The original novel contains many differences from the movie which are both major and minor to the plot.
|Awards and achievements
|Preceded by
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
|Highest-grossing film of all time
|Succeeded by
|Preceded by
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
|Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film
|Succeeded by
Jurassic Park is a 1993 film about an island theme park stocked with genetically-engineered dinosaurs. When the park's creator invites three scientists down to solicit their opinions, a series of mishaps strands them all inside with the security systems out of commission, and the humans find themselves under attack by the resurrected predators.


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AFP – Damascus signed a major oil and gas exploration deal with a Russian company in the Syrian capital Wednesday which will allow for exploration in a section of Syrian waters, an AFP journalist witnessed.
The agreement was signed by Syrian Oil Minister Suleiman Abbas, Syria's General Petroleum Company and the Russian Soyuzneftegaz company.
The deal permits the exploration of an area of 2,190 sq km (850 sq mi) in the Mediterranean off the Syrian coast.
The contract "is the first ever for oil and gas exploration in Syria's waters," head of the General Petroleum Company Ali Abbas told AFP.
"It will be financed by Russia, and should oil and gas be discovered in commercial quantities, Moscow will recover the exploration costs," Abbas added.
Oil Minister Abbas meanwhile said during the signing ceremony that the contract covers "25 years, over several phases," adding that: "The cost of exploration and discovery is $100m."
Russia is one of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's main backers, as well as a key proponent along with the United States of peace talks slated for January in Switzerland.

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Older members of the European Union (EU) are making progress implementing smart grid technology, but newer EU countries are falling behind, according to a European Commission Joint Research Centre review of 219 projects throughout the continent.
The report, which called smart grids a "key component in the EU energy strategy," said the "vast majority of investments, amounting to about 5.5 billion Euros, were made in old member states (EU15), while new member states (EU12) tend to lag behind."
Distributed system operators (DSOs) are providing about two-thirds of the new investment in smart-grid projects, but the report said tweaks to regulations could make such investments even more attractive. As now written, regulations encourage DSOs to reduce short-term operating costs, dampening the incentive to pour money into long-term smart-grid investments. "The investment potential on smart grids will have difficulty accelerating without revising the current regulatory models," the report concluded.
The generally positive European update on implementing smart-grid technology falls into line with other recent reports from around the world. Research and consulting firm IDC Energy Insights forecast significant growth in the smart meter market, saying the global industry shipped 5 million units in the first quarter of this year, and will exceed 71 million by 2015. In addition, GE said its units help lower electricity use in the United Kingdom, and the U.S. Department of Energy has been praising smart meter rollout in America.


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How and why did you start doing hair?
I was living in Chapel Hill and had, what I refer to as, a quarterly life crisis. I was looking for something that I could truly enjoy waking up to everyday and would allow me flexibility, as music was a central part of my life at the time. I found the idea of being a stylist utterly romantic. A livelihood that is creative, easy to move around with and necessitates personal interaction. As it permits movement and space in other facets of my life, which is vastly appreciated, I have found an unbroken and ever-changing growth within this work which can be a difficult thing to come by. The unique relationship with clients this craft encourages has become one of my favorite aspects of what I do.
If you could do hair for any famous person, living or dead, whom would it be?
Yoko Ono
Who is your personal style icon?
David Bowie, the love of my life, and Tilda Swinton who is also the love of my life. They are basically one in the same because they both sprouted from the same alien space tree. Of course Helena Bonham Carter for my goth side.
If you could go back in time and live in any time period, in which period would you choose to live?
The Seventies for sure. London or Berlin. Probably both.
If you were an alcoholic beverage, what would you be?
If you could bring one album with you to a desert island, which would you bring?
The Velvet Underground & Nico or Pornography- The Cure. I might have to close my eyes and point to one at random (and of course a small mix tape of various Bowie songs I would sneak in my pocket)


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Science is my favourite realm of study. Although physics is the branch that I am most comfortable with, I find science as a whole very fascinating. It seems to me that science can be broken down into five categories: physics, chemistry, biology, psychology and sociology – in that order.
How do these five pillars relate to one another? What is their connection? Consider the following simple organizational chart.
A Scientific Road Map
The scientific road map shown above is organized in terms of causality and complexity.
Although my physics students would disagree, physics is the simplest science, as there are only a few key relationships to consider. There are only four kinds of forces that affect the way in which matter interacts in the universe. Conversely, there exist hundreds of known elements and millions of known chemicals, each with their own unique properties. Chemistry is indeed more complex than physics. Bring the chemistry to life, and you have biology. The most baffling aspect of biology is the brain of an organism, which is the least understood organ in the human body by far. The only thing more complicated than psychology would be how many psyches interact: sociology.
Let us now follow this chart in the reverse sequence. Why do people act the way they do? This is the root question in sociology. Well, the answer may be found in the study of psychology. What controls our psyche? It is most certainly biological. Biology is simply chemistry, and the way in which chemicals interact is governed by the laws of physics.
The neat thing about the scientific road map is that it is chronological from left to right. What arrived first in the universe after the big bang? For the first 5 billion years, the laws of physics were sufficient to describe everything in the universe. After all, there were only two elements in existence (hydrogen and helium undergoing fusion within stars). When stars burn out, they release many new elements, and the study of chemistry becomes necessary. Perhaps 10 billion years after the big bang, life begins to emerge, and biology is born. Evolution then runs its course, such that biological complexity increases from bacteria to organism. Once organisms become sentient, the study of psychology pops up. Finally, when groups of sentient beings begin to interact in large groups, the branch of sociology comes into existence.
It makes sense that the complexity of the universe should grow with time. This is what the second law of thermodynamics predicts: entropy (chaos) can never decrease with time.
One final conclusion I take from this picture, which comes as no surprise, is that physics governs everything. If you continuously ask "Why?" for any problem within the scientific realm, you will eventually arrive in physics territory. Physics is where the why ends. In truth, physics is the how, and the rest of science from chemistry on down is the what. Physics is the king of the scientific jungle, sitting atop the scientific food chain.
This is what Rutherford meant when he said, "Physics is everything – the rest is stamp collecting."


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Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > Does anyone on this list use the "embossed" media in CSS to produce > style sheets for braille? Hi Charles, Do you know if any user agents support that media type? (Or 'braille' which might be the obvious choice from the CSS 2.1 spec). Knocking up a quick test page: http://alastairc.ac/media_type_test.html Moz & IE6 show only all & screen on viewing, and only the all/print types when print previewing (correctly I assume). However, JAWs only reads the all/screen types, not the speech type. Technically incorrect, but perhaps practical? (Results from other screen readers would be useful.) Do the braille readers understand their media type? I don't have access to one, but since most use something like JAWs as an intermediary anyway, I would guess probably not... as there aren't many sites that use them, it is something of a chicken & egg situation. Kind regards, -Alastair -- Alastair Campbell | Director of Research & Development 0117 929 7333 | firstname.lastname@example.com Please refer to the following disclaimer for this message: http://www.nomensa.com/email-disclaimer.htmlReceived on Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:50:26 UTC
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As the Sales Director of Craft and Import Brands for the Hand Family Companies, Austin Sawyer oversees the craft and import brand managers for all of the Hand Family Companies, as well as new craft brewery acquisitions, sales incentives, and marketing plans. Austin has been working at the Hand Family Companies for eight years; previously he was at Budweiser of Memphis, where he was a craft brand manager.
Austin's vision for the craft and import side of the Hand Family Companies, put simply, is to grow as much as possible. By following market trends, aligning with the best suppliers and strongest partners, and hiring the right people, Austin feels that the Hand Family Companies will be in the best position to succeed heading into the future. Staying ahead of the curve is especially important to Austin given all the growth and diversification that has happened within the market in recent years.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Gion bayashi
At the heart of Kenji Mizoguchi's Gion bayashi is the effect of changing sexual politics coming into contact with the traditional role of the geisha in Japanese culture. The film represents a dialectic between the traditional understanding of a woman's place as submissive and obedient and more modern attitudes regarding the ability of women to define their own desires and their own lives. Mizoguchi's film suggests that the reality of the world lags well behind these changing attitudes, as many expect the old ways to continue unchanged. This is a film, above all, about sexual exploitation, and it candidly examines the many ways in which women are exploited by the male-dominated society in which they must live. Eiko (Ayako Wakao) decides to become a geisha as a last resort: her mother was a geisha, and when she dies, Eiko is left with no one but an uncle who takes her in only on the condition that Eiko should sleep with him. Fleeing her uncle's sexual advances — forced upon her from a position of power and control — Eiko goes to the geisha Miyoharu (Michiyo Kogure) and begs to become a geisha. Miyoharu agrees to train the young girl, even though it would be at her own expense, because she sees that Eiko has nowhere else to go. The two women soon become embroiled in a complex set of pressures constricting them and limiting their choices, as they become pawns in the business plans of Kusuda (Seizaburo Kawazu) and Kanzaki (Kanji Koshiba).
The film's plot is relentless in documenting the pressures weighing down on Miyoharu and Eiko, as women whose sole role is to be desirable and solicitous, to tend to the needs of men as objects of beauty. Kusuda is a powerful older businessman who loves to be surrounded with young girls. He plays games with a harem of geisha like a little boy, running around and pantomiming baseball gestures, but he takes an especial liking to Eiko as soon as he meets her. Kusuda is also using Miyoharu as a tool in his attempts to get a lucrative contract, since the mid-level minister Kanzaki — who has the ability to make a decision on a business deal affecting Kusuda — falls in love with Miyoharu. Both women thus becomes objects in this business deal, ornaments to the negotiations between Kusuda and Kanzaki. The film carefully establishes the stakes, as Miyoharu and Eiko are manipulated into place by the powerful Madame Okimi (Chieko Naniwa), whose favor is necessary to find work as a geisha.
Miyoharu and Eiko are the only decent people in the film; everyone amassed around them is out to use them or exploit them in some way, especially but not only the cartoonishly lecherous Kusuda and Kanzaki. Eiko's father (Eitaro Shindo), an ailing and struggling storeowner, refuses to support his daughter, washing his hands of her and leaving her to either live with her sexually predatory uncle or to struggle wherever else she can. Later, however, when Eiko becomes a successful geisha renowned for her beauty, her father comes crawling around, begging Miyoharu for money, pathetically telling her that if she doesn't lend him some money he'll have no choice but to kill himself to escape his debt and his failing business. He tells her that he feels entitled to a share of his daughter's earnings — this despite his refusal to support her during the girl's training period to become a geisha, when Miyoharu was forced to borrow a great deal of money to establish Eiko as a geisha. Okimi, as well, is exploitative and predatory, with an old-school understanding of a geisha as basically a prostitute. Eiko resists the idea that she has to take on a "patron," and so does Miyoharu; the two women have more modern ideas, primarily the idea that they don't have to sleep with a man they don't like. This is anathema to Okimi, who tries to maneuver the two women into keeping Kusuda and Kanzaki happy.
The film's story is thus naturally melodramatic, with the character types deliberately exaggerated to maximize the horrors these women are subjected to. Mizoguchi's style, however, is low-key and unobtrusive, and the contrast between the direct, observational realism of his style — which captures in its delicate way the simple day-to-day lives of these people — and the passionate melodrama of the narrative creates a pleasing tension in the film's aesthetic. Mizoguchi's style doesn't call attention to itself, but in subtle ways he's constantly accentuating the film's themes, crafting striking compositions that guide the eye to the power relations that are at the heart of the film. One of the most suggestive images comes when Miyoharu, realizing that she has no choice if she wants to support herself and Eiko while keeping the younger girl pure, finally gives in and agrees to spend the night with Kanzaki. When she goes to see him, he's lounging on his belly on the floor, reading, and Mizoguchi shoots him from above, with Miyoharu towering above him as she walks in. The composition superficially suggests that the power relations are in favor of the woman, but the man's languorous pose and the gaze of entitlement he gives her as he says he's been expecting her work against the composition to suggest that in fact it's the man, languidly doing nothing and waiting for the woman to come serve him, who's in control here. The next shot, in which Miyoharu silently goes off into the corner to undo her complicated geisha robes and sashes, reinforces this impression. The geisha is a servant for the rich, and this scene subtly parallels Miyoharu's obsequious behavior with the many scenes of servants catering to the women throughout the rest of the film. If elsewhere the geisha is respected and served, treated with dignity, in the privacy of the bedroom she's expected to be a servant.
Mizoguchi's style is similarly effective in the scene where Eiko first hears that Miyoharu has spent the night with a man. Mizoguchi stages the scene in a single shot, from just outside the door of Eiko and Miyoharu's home. After Eiko hears the news, the door is closed, inserting a wooden grate over her, obscuring her reaction to the realization of what has been necessary to provide for her. The static shot, and the grating layered over it, simultaneously distance the viewer from Eiko's reaction and call attention to it. Mizoguchi's formalism is more restrained, more subtle than that of his contemporary Yasujiro Ozu, but there's still a clear sense of a constructed world in this film, not only in the artificial contrivances of the script but in the gentle aesthetic sensibility guiding the material. Ozu is an inevitable comparison here, since the theme Mizoguchi is addressing — the conflict between tradition and modernity in a changing postwar Japan — was Ozu's essential theme throughout his postwar work. In comparison, though Ozu is the bolder stylist, Mizoguchi is more overt and melodramatic than his peer, approaching this story as a big theme to be worked out, a message to be communicated, which is very unlike Ozu's method of allowing his themes to gradually emerge from the texture of ordinary lives. If in Ozu's films tradition and modernity are simply part of the fabric of everyday life, in Gion bayashi the script establishes these conflicts in broad strokes and constructs scenes and dialogues obviously intended to bring out one point or another.
This message-oriented perspective is sometimes grating and overbearing, but more often the delicacy of Mizoguchi's aesthetic and the warm, natural performances of his leads prevent the film from becoming too didactic. There's a tenderness and warmth between Miyoharu and Eiko that becomes more and more powerful the more the women suffer together, culminating in the late scene where Miyoharu tells the younger girl how much she loves and cares for her. Mizoguchi deliberately leaves the nature of this love ambiguous — Miyoharu doesn't say she loves the other girl like a daughter — because it's a multilayered bond that encompasses mother/daughter loyalty, friendship, and even a hint of attraction in the way he frames the two women so close together, their heads bowed toward one another in their shared grief. The film ends with them walking down the street together, side by side; in a world amassed against them on all sides, conspiring to sabotage the independent lives they desire, they can ultimately only count on one another.
Posted by Ed Howard
Labels: '1950s, 1953, Japanese cinema, Kenji Mizoguchi
2 comments:
- vidal said...
I actually managed to see this film via the Masters of Cinema DVDs from the UK. It's hard to imagine a society where women had to go through things like this. Mizoguchi was very effective at portraying it as such a nightmare of social constriction. Not only here, but in many of his films. It's little wonder a law banning prostitution was passed after Streets of Shame, his final film, came out.
- May 23, 2011 at 4:06 AM
- Ed Howard said...
Yes, I have those MOC DVDs too, they're great. Mizoguchi definitely conveys how constricting and sad this life is for these women. It's a very affecting film with, as you say, an implicit social message about the treatment of women.
- May 23, 2011 at 12:09 PM
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I've been receiving a lot of rental referrals lately. One of the first questions I'm asked from renters is, "how does this work?" in regard to my service. The other question that most people ask (or hesitate to ask) is, "what do you charge? Do I pay you?"
My name is Val Aranda and I'm a Texas REALTOR® in San Antonio. This short video will explain what my FREE RENTAL SERVICES include. I will also briefly explain what an Apartment Locator does.
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The Indian culture by tradition and teachings preaches that parents take care of kids by educating them for their brighter future when they are young. And children when they grow up and become householders take care of their parents in retirement. Thus the youth has responsibility for their children and their elderly parents. Fulfilling their responsibility to family, work and God in its purity and correctness is a journey and a pleasure, but needs perseverance, dedication and adherence to Bhagwan Swaminarayan philosophy
In the Shikshapatri Bhagwan Swaminarayan has clearly put rules by which devotees should live their lives. The youth may face challenges adhering to the guidelines of Bhagwan Swaminarayan and sometimes unknowingly actions might be incorrect and non-aligning with Bhagwan Swaminarayan teachings.
To clarify the doubts that devotees might have and to facilitate healthy discussion among devotees and sanots, Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul USA, Dallas conducts a weekly Yuva Satsang Pathshala for youth. This congregation is held every Saturday from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM. The santos notify the participants of the topic to be discussed during the week ahead of the sabha. This sabha is viewable online and online participants can post online questions
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We are opening an hour early today (at 9AM) and I just wanted to make sure you know that we have some special things planed for you. We'll be giving 15% off your total purchase of all regularly priced items, all day long! We will be drawing for freedoor prizes through out the day and we will have special sewers gift baskets for sale (in limited quantity).
So in short, it's a SALE!
It's A Holiday Sewing Kickoff!
It is a thanks to you for being the wonderful customers that you are! As a thanks, we'd like to help kickoff your holiday sewing with a special day of sales and more.
You can also receive this discount while shopping online from 12AM - 11:59PM, November 26th (today). Just type ThankYouKickoff into the coupon code box in your shopping cart, and we'll take 15% off your entire order. Locals can always choose our "pick up in shoppe" option to avoid the cost of shipping.
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Hello readers! I'm Nikki Vergakes, a senior at Salem State University. I won't be able to say that for a long time anymore, however. I'm moving on to the "real world". I was in a similar position four years ago when I was graduating from high school and moving on to SSU. My first year was definitely very different from my senior year. Since then, I've become way more involved in student organizations and have turned my two friends from freshman year into many friends that I hope to stay close with after graduation. Through some life lessons learned the hard way, I've accumulated many pieces of advice for undergraduates navigating the tricky waters of college.
I've been the one who has been writing these blog post for the past three years while simultaneously working with the most inspiring people, buffering my digital and social media skills, and most importantly seeing the direct positive effects of student involvement on campus. I was passed down this job after my freshman year from a graduating senior I knew from PRSSA (the organization that I've been President of this year) and am forever grateful to her! But enough with the sappy stuff, here's some advice for you that I've gathered through my years at Salem State.
1. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone
Okay, this is totally an Oscar Wilde quote, but it's also my life motto. Sorry, Oscar. I began with this mantra the minute I emailed the past SSU Cross Country coach about joining the team that was here. After I had talked to a girl (who has since become one of my closest friends) at orientation and looked up the women's team 5K times, I decided to do what I said I'd never do: NCAA cross country. This ended up being one of the best decisions of my college career. The moral of the story is: don't knock anything until you try it, especially in college. You'd be surprised at how many extra hours are in a day when you're not in class from 7:30 AM – 2PM daily!
2. Treat Yo Self
Once you've tried a bunch of things and have a productive life, it can be hard to find time for yourself. A lot of my college career was spent working on programs and initiatives to help fellow students. It can be rewarding, but draining too. So don't forget to enjoy that "me time". Take yourself to Chipotle. Get an ice cream from upper north. Try Candlelit Yoga at Gassett. Take a walk on the bike path. Better yet, take a nap! If you're burnt out, you can't be your true authentic self.
3. You can always take it a step further
In college there are a lot of deadlines that pile up at once. You also may have internships, on-campus jobs and EBoard positions. With all of these things to balance, it may seem easier to only put half of your effort into something and pass in a final assignment that wasn't done to the best of your ability. This may just be from my writing background, but something should always be double-checked. Have a friend read your paper or article over for clearness and readability. Double-count the math problem. Don't be afraid to ask for help!
4. Impulsivity is key
Getting stuck in humdrum routines leads to a lackluster life. You'll get bored with your major, your job and more. Even with the craziness of college life, this is possible. If your friend asks you to go to Treadwells and you've been studying for five days straight, don't say you're too busy. Take a study break! Some of the fondest memories I have are from last-minute plans.
5. Don't wish it away
It's ok to turn down plans to regroup or if you're just not feeling it. Don't wish the days and hours away. Don't just simply be somewhere and not be present. If you wish the days away, it'll be four years later and you're going to be confused as to how the black gown got on you. You'll be thinking– wasn't it just freshmen year? Enjoy the small and big things, and be in the moment for all of them.
6. Every challenge is a learning experience
In the moment, yes, little and big inconveniences can really be a downer. They can cloud your judgement when planning an event, they can hold you up from study time, or force you to miss a meeting or event. The show must go on, however. In that moment, you must think fast and either figure out a solution or enlist help. We can all think of a time that this has happened to us. Did it work out? With every inconvenience, we learn a lot. It's also something that you will most definitely be asked during future job interviews!
8. Take pictures and document everything!
This is self explanatory. There's nothing I love more than plugging in my external hard drive and looking at old pictures. I have a folder for every year of college. Save your snaps. Archive your memories. Document these moments, because you'll never experience college again after graduation, and you'll want to be able to remember every minute.
It's been an honor to serve SSU and it's been quite the four years. They've definitely been unforgettable. I'll be reliving the memories on my hard drive very soon!


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I you are like me and loved the Deus Ex series, then chances are you cannot wait until Mankind Divided is released. I remember back in 2000 when the first Deus Ex was released playing through the game numerous times trying the objectives in various ways. Sometimes I would play it as a stealth game, other times I would go in guns blazing. For those of you who know nothing about the series, its a fps/rpg/stealth game. It has been my experience that often times when a game tries to do too much, it doesn't do any one thing exceptionally well. This series is definitely the exception to that rule. Every element was so well done and ahead of its time it set the bar for many different genres. So here we are several weeks until the new one releases, in gamer time its forever. So what do you do if you absolutely have to have your Deus Ex fix, well Square Enix has the answer, a documentary about real augmentation. Here is more info:
NEW YORK – Aug. 1, 2016 – CNN's branded content studio Courageous along with Square Enix, publisher of SQUARE ENIX® interactive entertainment products in the Americas, have partnered to release "Human by Design," an original documentary that explores the world of human augmentation and the blurring lines between humanity and technology. This documentary is available exclusively on Amazon Video and was produced in conjunction with the Human by Design conference, which will take place on August 3, 2016 in New York City.
"Human by Design" is a 30-minute film that follows 12 extraordinary people at the intersection of technology and imagination. Inspired by the futuristic themes and ethical questions contained in the video game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided®, developed by Eidos-Montréal, this real-world journey introduces the leading minds in human augmentation that are redefining what it means to be human.
"This documentary is meant to inform and inspire, which many may consider outside the norm for a video game," said Jon Grant, senior product manager at Square Enix. "However, if you know about the Deus Ex universe, then you also know that this type of film makes perfect sense. Bionics and human augmentation are rapidly advancing, and as a result, it's time for everyone to consider the social and ethical impact that this will have on mankind. We are excited for people to see this film, and we could not be happier with the Amazon Video partnership."
To capture the reality of human augmentation that exists outside the fantasy world of the game, the Courageous team of award-winning journalists and filmmakers traveled the world to find the people, issues and technologies at the forefront of this movement. Keeping to the highest editorial standards, their research uncovered a technological future that has already arrived.
Thought-leaders featured in the documentary include:
- Asem Hasna – A Syrian university student who left school at the start of the revolution to become a paramedic. He lost his leg when his ambulance was hit by artillery. He now works with Refugee Open Ware to create low-cost prosthetics for refugees in camps.
- Neil Harbisson – A British-born cyborg artist and activist for selective augmentation best known for curing his color-blindness by having an antenna implanted in his skull to detect colors such as infrareds and ultraviolets via sound waves.
- Tan Le – The founder and CEO of Emotiv, a bioinformatics company advancing the understanding of the human brain and creating devices that will let people control technology with their minds.
- Michael Chorost – A groundbreaking "cyborg memoirist" who was an early adopter of the cochlear implant 15 years ago.
- Regina Nuzzo – A teacher of statistics at a deaf university who received a cochlear implant one year ago, and created a device to train her brain to hear sounds previously inaudible to her.
- Hugh Herr – A leading biophysics engineer at MIT Media Lab who lost his leg in a mountain-climbing accident and is working to deploy technology that nullifies the limitations of all disabilities.
- Will Rosellini – IP expert and entrepreneur who is focused on repairing the nervous system using active implantable devices.
- Cathrine Disney – Materials innovator who was born with a limb difference and is the first women to wear a 3D Prosthetic limb designed after a video game characters arm.
- Samantha Payne – Cofounder of Open Bionics, an award-winning startup developing low-cost bionic hands for—closing the gap to make high-quality prosthetics affordable.
- Jonathan Jacques-Belletête – Executive art director of the Deus Ex Universe at Eidos-Montréal whose job is to dream as far into the future as he can go—He is the designer behind the real life Titan arm modeled after the lead character in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
- E. Christian Brugger – Cardinal Stafford Professor of Christian Ethics at John Vianney Major Seminary in Colorado and author of multiple articles on topics in bioethics, natural law theory and the interdisciplinary field of psychology and Christian anthropology. Brugger's passion is to ask the big questions in human augmentation and help determine the ethical guideposts.
- Steven Sanchez – Exoskeleton pilot who was paralyzed as a teenager. Sanchez is on a quest to walk again and believes that exoskeletons should be available to everyone, not just the disabled.
Available today, please visit Amazon.com to watch the documentary: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ISIPKB4
The full documentary trailer can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWm5m2L9w8I
About the Human by Design Conference
Courageous and Square Enix are partnering to host a first-of-its-kind conference on human augmentation. Human by Design will be held at The Paley Center* for Media in New York City on August 3, 2016 and explore the intersection of technology and humanity with the objective of bringing together top minds to debate, question and challenge what it means to be human. This one-day event will be streamed live on Twitch and include many of the people featured in the documentary film. For access to the conference live stream, please visit: https://www.twitch.tv/deusex .
For more information on Human by Design, please visit the conference website: www.humanxdesign.com/ .
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was developed by Eidos-Montréal, will be available August 23, 2016 on PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and Windows PCs.


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Trout Redemption
The amiable John Coles is a fishing guide around the fringes of Sydney. His reputation is second to none. But I am a piscatorial Thomas.
This creeping doubt emerges on the trip down as John seems a little tense in the car. He is on edge, I decide. My fishing buddy Scott is seasoned fly-fisherman. And when not penning funny books, I am a fishing and travel writer. We have tagged along to chronicle John's manifold talents.
Uncertainty is tempered however when we reach John's clandestine fishing spot in Goulburn, only a two-hour drive from Sydney. It is everything he promised. The lake is stocked with trout as fat as footballs. And the endless undulating green paddocks, cradling lush soft grasses of varying hues, are spotted with drowsy Black Angus. As we drive around the lake I wrestle a frisson of excitement. The water twitches with insects and frisky trout.
At the wheel John casually mentions he has organised a couple of strippers for us — from Scandinavia no less! Imagine our disappointment when we discover our buxom blonde bombshells from the fjords are simply new fly-line stripping devices. However, the 'strippers' are a hit, making it easy to store line and cast sans tangles. They are essentially plastic trays that strap onto your leg or waist with a grove of rubber spikes that snare your line, making fly-fishing a helluva lot easier as often every tenth cast or so sees your line inevitably jagged on a rock or weed, skewering your cast or coming up short of the fish. At the upmarket lakeside cabin we unpack while John prepares pea and ham soup for lunch, cooked himself. John is a gourmet of sorts. Suddenly there is much swearing and clanging. We emerge from our rooms to find him upturning the kitchen, emptying draws and wrenching open cupboards.
'You'd think they'd have bloody spoons, at least!' he chides gutted draws. A veritable wind-chime of spoons sits dangling on a cutlery tree on the counter. It is the only thing on the counter. We point at the spoons and wince. John, redder than a tomato in a darkroom, snatches three spoons from the tree.
Pea and ham soup and fly-fishing make poor bedfellows I think as our guide plays a pretty medley on the sphincter trumpet while we connect rods and select flies. Soon we join him for the chorus as we edge towards the water, no doubt spooking the trout. John kindly gives me some scruffy nymphs tied himself especially for the day. They look pretty rough to me. But he swears they are just the right flies for the job. Doesn't believe in creating trophy flies to only to leave on snags. More doubt.
As I prepare my fly-line, John scoffs at my limp-wristed knots. 'What are you going to do when you hook a five-pound brown with a knot like that?' (My knots are crap.) He snatches my line and ties and intricate nail-less nail knot. Impressed, I cock my head and nod, as if admiring a sculpture by Henry Moore.
'Now, there's a knot that will never let you down,' he says, yanking both ends as it instantly breaks. His jaw falls to his chest. With a wild look in his eye he snaps, 'don't write about that!' 'Of course not,' I lie.
No doubt John has tied that knot a thousand times and it has never let him down until he hubristically demonstrates it to a fishing writer with a dry sense of humour. (Surely Murphy was a river guide.) Like any good fishing guide John takes his time studying the water as I make mute observations in my moleskine book. He's still on edge I note. But the day has not hitherto fared well for our trusty guide, what with the self-inflating waders, busted knots and endless spoon jokes. A slick of sweat forms under the lid of his wide-brimmed hat as he selects the right fly for the task at hand.
John reveals that this is the exact spot to fish but Scott leaves us for another part of the water, raising one leg for an encore before waving John away with a spoon joke.
John sighs. Biting his bottom lip he scans the water for an age before spotting a rise. But it is miles out. There's no way he can cast that distance, I think, dismissing the ever-widening rings. In an instant he shoots his line into the heart of the lake, landing his hirsute fly on the nostril of the fish. The cast is as slick as an anteater tonguing an insect. Strike! He hooks the fish before deftly landing it at my feet. I stare open-mouthed at him, at the fish, at him before he regards me with a wry smile. In my years of mediocre fishing I have never before seen it: one cast, one trout.


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by Debra K. Matthews
I was lost in thought as I drove across the icy freeway overpass. Night was falling as I rounded a bend in the road and suddenly realized I was too close to the person in front of me. The traffic signal turned yellow and the driver ahead of me hit his brakes. I tried to slam my own without locking the wheels, but instantly the truck started sliding. At the same time, I glanced in my rearview mirror and saw the car behind me was tailgating. We had hit our brakes almost at the same time, and were both thrown into a fast slide. There was no way either of us could possibly stop in time.
All I could do was exclaim, "Lord, help!"
To my complete amazement, my truck and the car behind me stopped instantly, at the exact same moment. No sliding to a gradual stop -- no collision -- we both just stopped in that split second of time! God instantly answered the shortest, simplest prayer I had ever prayed, and protected all three of us! He truly is, "Not far from every one of us" and ever ready to help us.
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- bella21 said...
Excellent! I am so glad to hear no one was harmed. I had a similiar happening once a long time ago, and God answered my quick prayer as well. Though I stopped driving after this incident, I have remained most grateful. Thanks for sharing your story and reminding me of God and his love for us all.
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Now, let me tell you what I am thinking, and you guys shoot some holes in my plans.
-- We are going to focus our time in Region 7. Those units seem to have the largest populations according to GFP, and there appears to be a fair amount of public ground including BLM, Custer NF, and Block Management. -- I am using OnXMaps to identify public ground southeast of billings to have some spots to get started. I have heard that private access for antelope can be obtained fairly easily especially with archery equipment. Should I spend any of my time knocking on doors if we spot some bucks on private? -- I will not have a ground blind with me, and I think spotting/ stalking will be more fun for her, so I am going to try to spot and stalk. Also, even if I bought a blind when I got there, I do not know if I could get a blind up on a water hole in time for the goats to get comfortable with it. I know this spot and stalk probably lowers our chances of success, but I think it will be the most fun for her.
Here are some pics of my hunting partner next week. Any advice would be greatly appreciated; .
Buy a blind. It may take them a day to get used to it and you can S&S for the day.
Antelope are hands down the most difficult animals to stalk in NA. If you have some broken country then you have a little better chance but still a loooooong shot.
The #1 reason why antelope hunting in a blind is one of my favorite things to do is because you can talk and have fun as you will see them coming from a long ways out.
You don't have to use a blind but I would definitely bring or buy one.
I've been breaking up my blind time with spot and stalk and it is crazy how alert they are. If you move and they can see you they WILL see you.
You could sit the blind and break it up with a little spot and stalk but I wouldn't do it in the same area.
Enjoy the hunt with your daughter and whatever you decide, good luck.


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After a hearty continental breakfast, we visit Keukenhof Gardens (until mid-May), the famous National Flower Exhibition. You will be spellbound by seeing millions of colourful Tulips, Daffodils, Narcissi and other flowers, spread over 80 acres of Hotel Holiday Inn Bloomsbury, 39 Coram street, GB London WC1N1HT, picturesque landscapes and thematic gardens. Or, drive down to The Hague, political capital of Netherlands where you will be able to admire Madurodam - Holland in miniature. Feel like a giant amidst models of palaces, canals, windmills, airports & even doll-like figures in postures of daily activities. You will have plenty of leisure time to relax at this miniature city of Holland.
Later, enjoy a demonstration on the art of making wooden shoes at Ratterman's Factory. Avail of the opportunity to shop for wooden shoes and Dutch souvenirs. Next, stop at one of the windmills - a symbol of the Netherlands, an impressive backdrop for a family photograph. Then visit the renowned Coster Diamond Factory. Enjoy a presentation and shop for diamonds at specially discounted prices for JAAS customers. Discover Amsterdam in a novel manner, as we take you on a canal cruise, the best way to see this enchanting city. Enjoy the splendor of the 17th Century canals, as you cruise through the most picturesque parts of Holland's capital. Enjoy a lavish Veg / Non-Veg buffet dinner. Stay overnight at the hotel.