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New Halo, new downloadables for Mass Effect, Fallout 3, and Grand Theft Auto, new Forza. It was a pretty good year for Xbox 360 owners.
Pick through the list to decide which games to give and get and leave a comment to point out any you would add that we didn't review.
And don't forget, this is more reference material than it is suggestion. Just because it's on the list doesn't mean we're saying you should get it.
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Mature Genre: Third-person hip-hop shooter Subject Matter: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand tells the unintentionally(?) amusing tale of rapper 50 Cent as he struggles to reclaim his diamond encrusted skull from a Middle Eastern bad guy. He's assisted by his G Unit hangers on and some laughably outlandish moments. Value: An adequately long adventure, made seemingly longer by endlessly looping 50 Cent songs. There are much better games to give this holiday season. Buy it for: someone as a gag. Or a die hard 50 Cent fan fresh from a six month coma. Read the Full Review
Axel & Pixel
Price: 800 Microsoft Points ($10) Rating: Everyone Genre: Adventure Subject Matter: A point and click adventure game about a man and his dog escaping a dream world with small doses of action. Value: Axel & Pixel is a good couple of hours worth of relaxing adventure gaming, with a few action / racing segments tossed in to keep things interesting. It's very simply, extremely easy, and once you are done there isn't much reason to go back through it. Buy it for: Adventure game fans and older parents, to show them that consoles have something for them too. Read the Full Review
Price: $US59.99 Rating: M Genre: Free-running platforming adventure game Subject Matter: Assassinations and conspiracy spent mostly in 15th century Renaissance Italy. Value: Lots more content than the first game had, probably lasting gamers at least double the time they spent with the first Assassin's Creed. Buy it for: People who were let down by the first game, people who like history, beautiful scenery, dynamic platforming, solving mysteries and games that might be the Game of the Year. Read the Full Review
The Beatles: Rock Band
Price: The stand-alone game sells for $US59.99, the Limited Edition Premium Bundle sell for $US249.99, the Rickenbacker 325 Standalone Guitar and the Gretsch Duo Jet Standalone Guitar sells for $US99.99. Rating: Teen Genre: Rhythm music game Subject Matter: The Beatles: Rock Band is a musical journey through the history of one of the world's most popular bands. Value: For those new to the Rock Band phenomenon and fans of The Beatles, this 45-track game is well worth a purchase because this is the only way you'll play The Beatles music in a Rock Band game. If you're not into the band, give this a pass. Buy it for: huge Beatles fans. Read the Full Review
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Mature Genre: First-person shooter RPG Subject Matter: Borderlands targets the loot-hungry region of the brain, offering four classes with which to stalk the planet Pandora, shoot things and level up, acquiring cool guns, sweet armour and totally rad superpowers. As role-playing games go, it's shallow, but offers a constant stream of junk food gaming. Value: Seeing all that Borderlands has to offer could take hundreds of hours. But the real value comes in the form of being able to play with friends on Xbox Live or via splitscreen. Buy it for: the loot glutton with an itchy trigger finger and a history of playing Diablo. Read the Full Review
Brutal Legend
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Mature Genre: Action Adventure Subject Matter: Brutal Legend is a heavy metal-themed action game that combines racing, shooting, real-time strategy, and hack and slash into one slightly disjointed mix. Value: Brutal Legend is a game from Tim Schafer, one of gaming's greatest comedy minds, and the absurd humor carries the game a long way. It's the story of a roadie who gets transported to a heavy metal world where he must raise an army to free the oppressed inhabitants. There's plenty to do, though the odd mix of genres might be too much for some players. Buy it for: Anyone with a strong affection for heavy metal music or sa twisted sense of humor. Read the Full Review
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Price: $US59.99 to $US149.99 Rating: Mature Genre: First-person military shooter Subject Matter: Lead a team of elite commandoes in Modern Warfare 2 as they try to prevent a Russian invasion and global thermonuclear war. Then take the action online, going head to head against other well-armed gamers. It's loud, violent and a hell of a lot of fun to play. Value: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's single-player storyline may be short, but the package more than makes up for it with ample cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes. Near endless replayability will be stoked with future downloadable content. Buy it for: the Michael Bay action movie fan who likes his shooters bombastic and nearly devoid of a comprehensible story, one who doesn't shy away from ultra-violent fare. Read the Full Review
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Price: $US39.99 Rating: Mature Genre: First-person shooter Subject Matter: Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is a Civil War era first-person shooter. Value: With an engaging story, wide open maps and plenty of mulitplayer options, this game will take up quite a bit of your time. Buy it for: First-person shooter enthusiasts, fans of the Wild West and Civil War buffs. Read the Full Review
DJ Hero
Price: $US119.99 Rating: Teen Genre: Rhythm Subject Matter: DJ Hero is a rhythm game featuring a replica DJ turntable so players can mix and scratch to the beat of original music mash-ups. Value: DJ Hero features upwards fo 100 different DJ-driven mash-ups featuring songs from the 70's on up to present-day hits. Unlike the latest Guitar Hero or Rock Band games, however, it's only good for one or two players, so the party element just isn't there. The innovative turntable-based gameplay makes it a breath of fresh air in the currently band-centric music genre, but it certainly isn't as social. Buy it for: Fans of eclectic music mixes and lonely Guitar Hero fans. Read the Full Review
Dragon Age: Origins
Price: $US49.99 Rating:Mature Genre: Roleplaying Subject Matter: An epic action roleplaying game set in a world besieged by evil inside and out. Value: Dragon Age: Origins packs more than 100 hours of gameplay into this action RPG, with branching story paths that encourage multiple play throughs in order to experience it all. BioWare designed the game so it can be played by RPG gamers of any skill level, but mature content and strong sexual situations mean you might want to keep it in the high teens. Buy it for: Anyone who has ever conversationally mentioned hit points. Read the Full Review
Fairytale Fights
Price: $US59.99 Rating: M Genre: Action Subject Matter: A quartet of cutesy fairytale characters set out to regain their fame by beating the beejesus out of other cutesy things. Value: With two-player cooperative play and a four player battle royal mode, you can really let out you violent side in buckets of cartoony blood. Buy it for: People who need a healthy way to blow off steam after a bad day at work. Just don't be standing next to them if the game happens to crash and they need an immediate alternative. Read the Full Review
Price: $US10 (Requires a copy of Fallout 3) Rating: M Genre: Post-apocalyptic role-playing game Subject Matter: Fallout 3 expansion involving missions with a high-powered fighting force. Value: High because it extends the level cap to Fallout 3, changes the game's ending and allows the adventure to be played infinitely once the story has "ended" Buy it for: Fallout 3 fans who want to play more; essential for anyone getting any Fallout 3 downloadable content Read the Full Review
Price: $US10.00 (Requires a copy of Fallout 3) Rating: Mature Genre: Still a post-apocalyptic RPG Subject Matter: It's Fallout 3 in space! Value: Mothership Zeta gives the Fallout 3 player an entire spaceship to explore and make their own, some futuristic new weapons, and tacks a good five hours onto the regular campaign, making it a relatively fair value for your money. Buy it for: Fallout 3 fans. Read the Full Review
Price: $US10 (Requires a copy of Fallout 3) Rating: M Genre: Post-apocalyptic role-playing game Subject Matter: Fallout 3 in microcosm, set on a spooky island. Value: Tons of content, and widely seen as the Fallout 3 downloadable content that best shares the strengths of the base game. Buy it for: Fallout 3 fans. Read the Full Review
Price: $US49.99 Rating: E Genre: Round-Ball Football Subject Matter: The best football game on the market. Value: Almost endless. There are so many leagues and cups, and such a deep singleplayer experience, that it can be played to death until FIFA 11 is released. And that's before we even get to the 10v10 multiplayer… Buy it for: Anyone who has even a passing interest in the world game. Read the Full Review
Price: $US59.99 Rating: T Genre: Boxing Subject Matter: Boxing Value: Tons of fighters, good online options and no real competition. Buy it for: Boxing fans or people looking for a fighting-based game that has longer-lasting fights. Read the Full Review
Forza Motorsport 3
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Everyone Genre: Driving simulation Subject Matter: Forza Motorsport 3 takes the driving simulation in a new direction, making it easier than ever to get into a car, upgrade it, tune it and take if for a spin. For more advance driving game fans, there's plenty of hardcore driving simulation to enjoy as well. Value: Hundreds of cars, dozens of tracks, thousands of upgrade possibilities and an increasing amount of user-generated content available via the game's storefront, all purchased with in-game credits, not real money, make Forza Motorsport 3 a great driving value. Buy it for: the Xbox 360 owner who likes to go fast. Read the Full Review
Gears of War 2: Dark Corners
Price: 1200 Microsoft Points (about $US15) Rating: Mature Genre: Third-person tactical shooter Subject Matter: This downloadable add-on for Gears of War 2 lets players run through The Road to Ruin, a campaign level original cut from the game. Value: With a new single-player level, seven new multiplayer maps and director's commentary, you can't go wrong for $US15. Buy it for: Owners and fans of the original Gears of War 2. Read the Full Review
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Price: $US49.99 Rating: Teen Genre: Action Subject Matter: A arcade-style shooter loosely based on the live-action G.I. Joe movie. Value: G.I. Joe is a movie tie-in strangely reminiscent of Konami's Contra series. One or two players take control of their favourite Joes from the movie and take on Cobra across multiple levels of run-and-gun action. There are a few unlockables catering to fans of the old cartoon series, but other than that this is strictly a movie-lover's affair. Buy it for: Really, really big fans of the G.I. Joe live-action movie. Read the Full Review
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Price: $US20 if downloaded through Xbox Live Arcade (requires a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV) or $US39.95 if purchased as one half of the Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes From Liberty City disc (GTA IV not required; Episodes disc also includes the similarly-sized first GTA IV expansion, Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned.) Rating: M Genre: Open world, third-person shooter. Subject Matter: Over-the-top modern crime drama set in a fictional New York City. Value: Offers more content per dollar than just about anything else downloadable on the Xbox 360, a 13-hour-plus campaign, numerous side activities and returning multiplayer challenges similar to what was offered with GTA IV. Buy it for: People who thought GTA IV was too tame and wished their lead character would be asked to parachute off skyscrapers, steal subway cars (with a helicopter), dance in a nightclub and cross paths with the last two protagonists in the GTA IV saga. Read the Full Review
Guitar Hero 5
Price: $US59.99 for the game, $US99.99 with a guitar controller included Rating: Teen Genre: Music/Rythym Subject Matter: It's Guitar Hero. You play a quintet of color-coordinated "notes" as they scroll downscreen to a new selection of music. Value: Guitar Hero 5 offers a great suite of single and multiplayer modes, the most robust options yet for the series. What it doesn't offer is the series' most attractive soundtrack, despite an 85 song strong line up. Good for the new Guitar Hero gamer, but that money may be better spent on downloadable songs. Buy it for: for Guitar Hero noobs who have extremely eclectic taste in music. Read the Full Review
Price: $US59.99 Rating: M Genre: First-person shooter Subject Matter: Daytime sci-fi military action interspersed with noir-inspired nighttime sleuthing. Value: Varies depending on one's Halo experience. A seven-hour campaign and the offline Firefight mode can be played with up to four players and is all-new, but only three of the game's 24 multiplayer maps haven't been sold — and possibly purchased by the prospective ODST consumer — before. Buy it for: Halo fans who either never bought Halo 3's bonus maps or wouldn't spend $US60 of their own for ODST because they did. Read the Full Review
The King of Fighters XII
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Teen Genre: Fighting Subject Matter: SNK Playmore's latest entry in its King of Fighter series is a return to its roots with 2D fighting and hand-drawn graphics. Value: The game feels largely unfinished — though, the parts which are done should please the hardcore fans. Buy it for: Die-hard SNK fighting game fans. Read the Full Review
Left 4 Dead 2
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Mature Genre: First-person horror shooter Subject Matter: Four Survivors fight their way through a gory zombie apocalypse in the Southeastern United States, decapitating, dismembering and generally destroying every walking dead human in their path. Cooperative multiplayer is at the core of the Left 4 Dead 2 experience. Value: Left 4 Dead 2 is a multiplayer game with a massive amount of replayability, but requires cooperative gameplay and reliable friends to fully enjoy. There's very little here for the lone, single-player gamer, so make sure that Live subscription is all paid up. Buy it for: the grown-up Xbox Live Gold subscriber who believes there's no "I" in team and may be disappointed with the body count in Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3 ODST. Read the Full Review
Price: 800 Points Rating: Everyone Genre: Platform/Puzzle Subject Matter: Little girl Sofi wanders through her dreams, looking for her lost Nana. Value: While the puzzle gameplay element is average, the art style is superb. Buy it for: Tim Burton fans. Read the Full Review
Mad Catz Modern Warfare 2 Throat Communicator
Price: $US29.99 Rating: NA Genre: NA Subject Matter: This throat communicator is meant to replace the need for a standard Xbox 360 microphone. Value: The throat communicator does a great job of cutting down on room noise for your friends and feels pretty comfortable. If those things are important to you, you should pick this up. Buy it for: Modern Warfare 2 enthusiasts, online gamers and friends who play in noisy settings. Read the Full Review
Madden NFL 10 Price: $US59.99 Rating: Everyone Genre: Sports Subject Matter: The only video game licensed by the NFL, covering the current season. Value: For the first time on the current console generation, Madden earns its must-own status among sports gamers. The fine-tuned action is slightly slower, creating greater big play potential on both sides of the ball. Buy it for: Any sports gamer who doesn't yet have it. Madden is a no-brainer gift that any sports fan will enjoy. Read the Full Review
Marvel VS. Capcom 2
Price: $US15.00 Rating: Teen Genre: Fighting Subject Matter: Marvel characters. Capcom characters. Fighting. Value: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 contains one of the largest roster in fighting game history, with 56 Marvel and Capcom characters to choose from. The sheer amount of variety plus online multiplayer makes this one downloadable title well worth the price. Read the Full Review
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Teen Genre: Action RPG Subject Matter: Tons of Marvel heroes take on tons of Marvel villains Value: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 may not quite live up to the thrill of the original, but it is a more cohesive package overall, with a storyline ripped from Marvel's Civil War storyline and a good dozen hours of heroic fun for 1-4 players. Read the Full Review
Price: $US5 (requires a copy of Mass Effect) Rating: M Genre: Bonus missions for third-person shooter/role-playing game Subject Matter: Mass Effect gets a battle simulator to allow goal-based shooting challenges. Value: High for those looking for something new in the original Mass Effect while awaiting the January sequel; low for people looking for what made the first game popular. Buy it for: Mass Effect completists, though you'll only be able to buy them download points for this game or give them a small check. Read the Full Review
Price: $US49.99 Rating: E Genre: Juvenile Bush Disguise/Phantom Removal Subject Matter: Play as one of a band of adorable child ninjas on a quest to kill a bad guy and free the adorable little forest animals. Value: A somewhat short singleplayer game, but the ability to play as one of several ninjas means there's plenty of replay value. Buy it for: Anyone. Everyone. Kids will love the straight-forward combat, adults will find there's a great stealth and combat system lurking under the hood. Read the Full Review
Modern Warfare 2 Combat Controller Camo
Price: $US49.99 Rating: N/A Genre: N/A Subject Matter: This wired controller features programmable buttons, better triggers and a Modern Warfare 2 theme. Value: It's a bit pricey, but if you're a big fan of the game and like the idea of programmable buttons, it's probably worth the $US50. Buy it for: Fans of Modern Warfare 2. Read the Full Review
NBA 2K10 Price: $US59.99 Rating: Everyone Genre: Sports Subject Matter: NBA 2K10 celebrates the 10th anniversary of 2K Sports' best-in-class basketball simulation. Value: NBA 2K10 offers a much more varied set of gameplay modes, both single- and multiplayer, than its challenger NBA Live 10. Its season simulation lacks the aspect of playing in this year's league but is deeper in all other regards. My Player, in which you create and control one player on his journey from prospect to all-star, is tough but a rewarding experience. Buy it for: Serious basketball fans with some exposure to the sport in real life, either as a player or a devoted fan. Read the Full Review
NBA Live 10 Price: $US59.99 Rating: Everyone Genre: Sports Subject Matter: NBA Live 10 is EA Sports' current title covering pro basketball's upcoming season. Value: EA Sports has poured a ton of effort into resurrecting the franchise. New controls enabling you to move players off the ball on offence and defence are easy to learn and a real plus. Dynamic DNA allows you to run your season simulation as if it were taking place among current league events in real life. Buy it for: Basketball fans who prefer singleplayer sports gaming, want a very accurate league simulation, and an easy-to-comprehend control set. Read the Full Review
NCAA Football 10 Price: $US59.99 Rating: Everyone Genre: Sports Subject Matter: The tradition and pageantry of college football's 115 teams, plus any schools you might choose to create. Value: NCAA Football 10 is the deepest simulation of a sport, on and off the field, of any currently available sports title. Buy it for: Any sports nut with a serious helping of school pride or leftover nostalgia for college days gone by. Read the Full Review
NHL 2K10 Price: $US39.99 Rating: Everyone 10+ Genre: Sports Subject Matter: NHL 2K10 is 2K Sports' current title covering professional hockey's latest season. Value: NHL 2K10 is still a runner-up to EA's NHL 10, but it is not without merit. It features the same robust multiplayer package as its NBA cousin. The action's a little arcadey, but it also is the only NHL title with the league's popular outdoor classic venues. Buy it for: A casual-to-moderate hockey fan who enjoys lots of scoring action. Read the Full Review
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010
Price: $US59.99 Rating: E Genre: Sports Subject Matter: Football title encompassing international and club tournaments, manager modes and online play. Value: Pro Evo's "Master League", a time-devouring game mode incorporating RPG and strategy elements, is the one area fans remain devoted to this series ahead of its rival, EA Sports' FIFA. Buy it for: Football fans who like to not only play a good game, but also roll up their sleeves and get lost in a sea of statistics and growth charts. Read the Full Review
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Mature Genre: Realistic military first-person shooter Subject Matter: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a relatively open-world tactical shooter that has players trying to take the fictional island of Skira from China. Value: Plagued with problems this shooter doesn't deliver much for the premium price you pay. Buy it for: hardcore fans of realistic shooters that offer no chance for mistakes or do-overs. Read the Full Review
South Park Let's Go Tower defence Play!
Price: 800 Microsoft Points Rating: Mature Genre: Tower Defense Subject Matter: South Park Let's Go Tower defence Play! has the South Park kids big towers to fend off enemies that range from gnomes to old people in an 11 mission campaign. Buy it for: Fans of South Park, fans of tower defence games, and fans of both. Value: The game features unlockable characters and challenging maps (especially the later levels), co-op and online. There are also unlockable clips from the show. Read the Full Review
Tekken 6
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Teen Genre: Fighter Subject Matter: Once you've mastered the moves of your favourite character, Tekken 6's 3D fights are all about timing and tactics. Value: With 40 playable characters and a seemingly endless single-player campaign, Tekken 6 is a good deal for fans of the franchise willing to put up with some online issues. Buy it for: fighting fans, Tekken fans, and maybe as a taste of something different for Street Fighter IV fans. Read the Full Review
Trials HD
Price: 1200 Points Rating: Teen Genre: Racing/Puzzle Subject Matter: Trials HD is a twist on motorbike racing: Players must navigate trick courses and tricky in-game physics as fast as they can. Value: The game features over 50 tracks and seemingly simple, yet deep game play — offering replay value as your skills continue to get better and better. A level editor lets players make their own courses. It's the Excite Bike of the 21st Century. Buy it for: Those who want more from their racing games than speed. Read the Full Review
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Mature Genre: Third-person acrobatic shooter. Subject Matter: Rubi Malone is a leather-pants wearing, wall-running, pole-spinning death machine. She can shoot two shotguns while flipping through the air, slide under tables to hamstring and gut with her sword, and regains health by swigging liquor. Value: The single-player only game has a sizable campaign, fantastic music and troubled controls and camera work. It's sort of a mixed bag. Buy it for: fans of Kill Bill and fast-paced action noire games. Read the Full Review
Price: $US59.99 Rating: Mature Genre: First-Person Shooter Subject Matter: World War II First-Person Shooter with Occult Tendencies Value: While Wolfenstein is an excellent first-person shooter from a technical standpoint, the story is a bit far-fetched and the multiplayer is disappointing, especially in the face of games like Modern Warfare 2. Buy it for: First-person shooter fans looking for a little something different. Read the Full Review
Price: $US59.99 Rating: T Genre: Pro wrestling Subject Matter: WWE wrestling, with deep customisation options allowing players to create and share their own characters, moves and — the big new addition — storylines. Value: High value for those who will take advantage of the online play and content creation/sharing. Buy it for: WWE fans, even those who don't like current WWE programming, since those disgruntled fans can create the WWE of their own liking using the game's deep editors. Read the Full Review


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- Film by Mr Ikenna Mokwe
- Styling by Ms Sophie Hardcastle, Fashion Coordinator, MR PORTER
- Words by Ms Jodie Harrison, Editor, MR PORTER
Life envy. This is the residual emotion you are left with after two days spent in the company of Ms Mimi Thorisson. To say that the 38-year-old author of the beautifully curated culinary blog, Manger, is an ambassador for French country living is, shall we say, a little undercooked. She lives and breathes French lifestyle and cuisine in a manner so beguiling that you start to pity being born in any other nation.
Born in Hong Kong to a French mother and Chinese father, Ms Thorisson spent her childhood summers in France, where her preoccupation with Gallic cuisine began. It wasn't until two years ago, however, that it found an output in the form of her online food diary, inspired after she and her husband, Mr Oddur Thorisson (who featured in last month's The Way I Cook), decided to leave the bustle of Paris with their growing brood in search of a little more space of mind and home.
The move saw them settling in the winemaking region of Médoc, a picture-perfect area of coastal farmland and forest about an hour's drive north of Bordeaux. Life there serves as a textbook example of the pros of trading city for country. The house, its light and contents (all 20 dogs, four children and a husband) are a vision of pastoral charm and simplicity. While Mr Thorisson focuses his attention on his passion for dog breeding and photography (he is responsible for all the images on Ms Thorisson's blog), she focuses on her cooking. And what cooking. During MR PORTER's trip to their home we were treated to her achingly tasty Parmesan soup with bacon, chives and croutons (see the recipe here), a rich chocolate tart, a delicious duck confit parmentier (a sort of duck-based cottage pie), and of course, today's focal recipe, a surprisingly light yet comforting Calvados apple tart, which she shows us how to cook in our film, above.
"My family love this tart," Ms Thorisson says. "It's rich and the combination of Calvados, which is a French apple brandy, and crème fraîche is so delicious."
If one recipe isn't enough to satisfy your curiosity about the charming Ms Thorisson, fear not; a cookery book and TV deal are just a few meals away. We can hardly wait. mimithorisson.com

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Glute Medius & Hip Abduction Functional Training (Part 2)
By Jeffrey Tucker, DC, DACRB
"The foundation of stability for the pelvis is fundamentally supplied through activity in the gluteal muscle group."
This quote from Oliver and Keeley (2010) highlights the importance of including a sound gluteal-strengthening component for patients with lumbopelvic-hip dysfunctions. In my rehab programs, whether I am coaching a "regular" rehab patient or an athlete, I use numerous exercises to help strengthen the gluteal group. For the glute medius, I use anything from "clams" to side-lying hip abduction, to lateral band loop walks, to "hip hinging" progressing to single-leg squats. For the glute maximus, I could use deadlifts, transverse lunges, step-ups / step-downs and "bridges." These are all often-used exercises in my in-office programs.
Exercise Specifics
In part 1 of this article, I discussed the side-lying hip abduction exercise, which is a common exercise in Pilates. Distefano, Blackburn, Marshall and Padua (2009) compared gluteal muscle activation across 12 common strengthening exercises and found the side-lying hip abduction exercise produced 16-30 percent more gluteus medius activation than other remedial exercises.
Again, I prefer taking the side-lying exercises to a standing exercise as soon as possible to incorporate more core work. For example, I have patients perform repetitive standing hip abduction with slight hip extension while holding a kettlebell in one hand. This exercise creates functionality. My purpose in bringing the participants to a standing position is to incorporate more stabilization into the exercise.
As long as the participants are "standing tall" with a level pelvis, toes pointing forward with minimal (less than 15 degrees) foot rotation, my opinion is that they are still effectively working the gluteus medius. However, they are also working the other stabilization muscles (other hip muscles, multifidus, etc.). If they are standing on the left leg and abducting the right leg, patients usually complain about both hips working, not just the right hip.
In my non-athletic patients with lumbopelvic-hip pain related to glute medius dysfunction, I like to recommend the side-lying hip abduction maneuver and lateral band loop walks (with the loop around the knee and/or the ankle), and progress to single-leg hip hinging. For my athletic patients recovering from lumbopelvic-hip pain, I like to provide a greater challenge and teach them how to do single-leg squats and single-leg Romanian deadlifts. Single-leg maneuvers are especially valuable in the warm-up section of every workout, especially a speed-agility-quickness (SAQ) session. More single-leg exercises can be performed during the strength-training section, and can be done with resistance from bands or weights. The gluteal muscle group acts to stabilize the torso over a leg that is planted; therefore, single-leg training is essential.
Progression Protocols
While we progress toward continuous improvement in all areas of our rehab treatments, especially athletic performance, one of the major goals is avoidance of injuries. Nicholas, et al. (1977), and Nadler and Malanda, et al. (2002), describe the link theory in which the ankle, knees and hips act as a link system, making it possible to transmit forces into the pelvis and spine during running, jumping, kicking and throwing. Since these movements activate a kinetic chain, all of which involves the gluteus muscles as a stabilizing force, we understand the importance of a sound gluteus-strengthening program.
It is equally important to make sure the hips are not stiff and that they have reasonable mobility. I recommend that before starting a glute-strengthening routine, it is time well-spent to mobilize the hip joints and stretch to release tightness in the hip flexors. Once you get the hips moving properly, the lumbar spine can follow.
Do you remember the bell curve for tests results in school? I always talk to my students about the bell curve. If I focus my rehab treatment on the number of people in the middle of the bell curve, those are the majority of the LBP patients we see. Some are to the extreme right of the center; these are usually the professional athletes. Some are to the extreme left of the center; these are the chronic LBP patients (failed lumbar surgery, severe fibromyalgia, severely deconditioned from complicating conditions).
For the majority of those in the middle of the bell curve, as my patient improves during acute care from a lumbopelvic-hip injury, and as soon as possible, I explain to them that my plan is to introduce corrective exercise designed to progressively increase strength, conditioning and endurance. I teach them how to stretch the hip flexors, perform the birddog, planks (forearm to toes), bridges for the glutes and side bridges for the oblique abdominals.
For more athletic patients, I might try the Romanian deadlift (hanging position), progressing to the single-leg hip hinge; along with the front squat (catch position) with a single kettlebell held in the rack position, then the overhead press, to walking with the kettlebell held overhead in a locked-out position.
Through observational assessments, my patients confirm Nadler, Malanda et al.'s (2002) statement that the Romanian deadlift may be the most challenging lift for patients (non-athletes and athletes alike) to perform correctly, especially athletes who present with posterior chain segment dysfunction. Therefore, to decrease the probability of injury and increase the strength progress, extra time and effort is spent to ensure the athlete has the correct technique before progressing to the next level.
One of the problems I hear about in the typical chiropractic patient setting / practice is that our patients do not have the flexibility, motor control and strength to begin a weight-lifting program. I believe it is our job to help patients get flexible, gain mobility, achieve muscular development and prepare for the aging experience. I understand the challenge to get patients to perform exercises, especially correctly, and then to ask them to lift weights correctly.
Have you had experiences that validate these statements? I am always looking for strategies to implement to decrease the time patients spend developing competency in exercise techniques. These are three of my most often used "cues" during exercise drills: 1) Maintain length in the spine or think "tall spine." 2) Initiate movement from the hips. 3) Reach with the scapula first (not the hand or arm).
Regardless of age, ranking, sport, gender, or even strength and conditioning experience, all of my patients begin with the basics. I have them show me that they can establish a solid athletic position, perform some basic mobility maneuvers in the hips and shoulders, perform a squat, step over a hurdle, perform multi-directional lunges, and perform a push-up and a rotory birddog, all gracefully and efficiently. The list goes on, but the common thread is that each patient must master body-weight-based exercise first before moving on to loaded (free weights or kettlebells) exercise.
An Example Circuit
Here is an example (circuit) progression for developing an improved hip abduction movement pattern. I have the patient build up to 10-15 reps and perform this circuit three times.
There are many ways to train your patients to engage in strength training. My template for recovery and preparing patients to experience weight loading is: body and posture awareness; self myofascial release using a foam roller or similar device; stretches and body-weight moves; and band resistance. Hopefully they will take the next step in the progression toward strength and conditioning with kettlebell training or free weights. I teach all the same exercises to young kids (7-10 years old) and old kids (65-85 years old) without load in hope that through repetition, they will develop motor control and earn the right, later on, to add weights.
References / Resources
Part 1 of this article appeared in the last (Aug. 15, 2013) issue.
Click here for more information about Jeffrey Tucker, DC, DACRB.


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Did you know these 'Western' uber-successful billionaire businessmen were of Arab extract? All male, this selection of exhorbitantly rich gents have featured year in year out in the Forbes wealth index lists, and are often the biggest fish – in dollar terms- in the global pond, let alone their domestic pools.If they're American, they were not necessarily born in the USA, but realized their American dreams nontheless when they became filthy rich! If they're from the UK, they were not always thoroughly British born and bred. All of them have Arab origins (as well big dollar signs) in common. Most of them are Arab and know it! With the exception perhaps of Steve Jobs, perhaps who would not particularly identify as ethnically Arab since his genetic roots were alien to him, the rest can even describe how their Arab heritage affected their business visions. Whether from the Lebanon or Syria, Palestinian, Egyptian or from Iraqi backgrounds, they share entrepreneurial spirits.In a sequel to Bet You Didn't Know these Celebs Were Arab, here's a run-down of some of the region's wealthiest 'Arabs' abroad. A short-list of the Arab diaspora's most affluent members, with wealth index rankings to show for it. Find out which ethnic Arab produced extreme-sexy flick, Basic Instinct….Between them, they've produced therefore, the hottest films, an exclusive line in computers and the most lucrative businesses. Telecommunications through oil and gas, they have added a sheen to whichever industry they mined their fortunes in, proving that the Arab tenacity gene is active, nurture notwithstanding.Some of these business giants have established philanthropological records, taking the filth out of rich. From the more recognizably Arabs featured as Mohamed Fayed, and Carlos Slim to the lesser known, but extremely prosperous Nadhmi Auchi and brotherly duo Joseph Safra and Moires Safra, through British billionaire Simon Halabi, here are the rich pickings of the western world's billionaire Arabs (discounting the out-and-out Arab Gulf oil barons).


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Priya Pappu, Soph., Santa Clara, Calif.: Coach Bill Taylor described Priya as the perfect example of perseverance and patience this year. After a rough summer recovering from an injury she incurred at the end of track, she started the season finishing 20th in the team time trial. She finished the season setting all-time PRs in both the 5-K and 6-K and earning a top-9 spot on the Conference team and a top-seven spot on the Regional team.
"Priya is an inspiration for everyone and the perfect example of what can happen when you just keep working and striving to get better,†Taylor said. "She had every reason to pack it in mentally after a very rough summer and difficult start. I think most people would have just given up mentally after the time trial. Now everyone on our team has seen that no matter what your circumstances or how you might logic out the future, you never know what will happen.
"And anything can happen. This message that everyone on our team watched unfold will make our entire program stronger. Priya wasn't our fastest runner this year. She didn't make the travel squad for Vermont or Oregon. But when it counted most she was there and I think she had the best season of anyone on the team."
Ben Wright, Soph., Vincennes, Tenn.: Ben joined the program as a walk-on last season and almost made the travel roster this season. He set huge PRs and showed dramatic improvement in his assertiveness in practice and in races.
"Ben really impressed everyone this season, especially in the second half of the season,†Taylor said. "He showed immense desire to improve and to figure this sport out. It's a tough sport and you have to have that drive…that desire to succeed and get better. Ben stepped it up in practice and in competition. He's going to develop into a really really good collegiate distance runner.â€
â€FIGHTIN'†BISON AWARD: The "Fightin'†Bison Award is the person who demonstrated the most guts, mental toughness and physical toughness.
Catherine Beals, Jr., Glasgow, Ky.: Catherine earns this award for the second year in a row. She was also voted "Fightin' " Bison for Track & Field last season.
"Catherine is just simply a fighter,â€Taylor said. "She has so much desire. It's obvious that everyone respects Catherine and the fire and desire she has to be incredible. And it isn't just for herself. She wants this program to go win Nationals. She wants to perform for her team and her teams success as much as she wants to perform for herself. "
Catherine has also been voted most improved (XC 2008), Total Commitment (TF 2010) and MVP (TF 2009).
Isaiah Greer, Soph., Johnson City, Tenn.: Like Catherine, Isaiah has been voted "Fightin' "Bison for the second year in a row and also earned the same award in track last season.
"Isaiah embodies the Fightin' Bison award,†Taylor said. "He's one of those rare athletes that you never ever question whether he is giving his best. You just know he is. He fights for every inch and maximizes his ability. He is an example of what can be achieved if you want it bad enough and have the courage to charge full on after it.â€
FOR THE TEAM AWARD: The For the Team Award is given to the person who is the best teammate and the person who is the most positive, motivating and caring.
Caitlin Anderson, Senior, Franklin, Tenn.: Caitlin has been a team captain for three years. She has also earned team awards for MVP (XC 2009), Total Commitment (XC 2008) and For the Team (TF 2010 and TF 2009).
"Caitlin has been a great leader,†Taylor said. "But this year she took it to a new level. She's been in our top two since she was a freshman. This year she had a good year, but with so many new girls joining the program and such a rapid advancement in our performances she found herself down the depth chart.
"Instead of worrying about it, she just led this young team. She helped everyone she could, she encouraged, she directed…she simply stepped up for her teammates. In one example of this she won her section of the Louisville Classic, and led the Lipscomb B team to a team victory, going 1-3 and six in the top ten. I'm very proud of all that Caitlin has accomplished here as a leader and as an athlete.â€
Jonathan Williams, Senior, Knoxville, Tenn.: Jonathan served as a team captain this year.
"Jonathan really loves his team and truly desires this program to be successful,†Taylor said. "He was there for everyone this season and really did all the little things to help each person succeed.â€
HEART OF GOLD AWARD: For the runner who demonstrates the highest character, who doesn't compromise and who does the right thing even when nobody is looking.
Jenny Randolph, Senior, Knoxville, Tenn.: Jenny has previously been voted Total Commitment (XC 2009), For the Team (XC 2009), For the Team (TF 2010),†Fightin' " Bison (TF 2009) and Total Commitment (TF 2009).
"Well, Jenny has been a gigantic part of this program for four years,†Taylor said. "She has won a variety of different awards from the team, which just shows how much esteem everyone has for her.
"Jenny has been like a team mom for the women. She's such a giving person, is always upbeat and truly has a heart for others. She loves God, loves her teammates, loves people and does all she can to help everyone.â€
Mike Yang, Sophomore, Oceanside, N.Y.: "Mike just loves people and has a great heart,†Taylor said. "He is super nice and his teammates all respect him. Everyone talks about how genuine Mike is too. They respect that he is the same person in all situations. He's a great guy with a desire to help everyone.â€
TOTAL COMMITMENT AWARD: For the runner that did it right, did it all, did it all the time and did all the little things.
Tessa Hoefle, Fresh., Winnebago, Ill. and Alex Newby, Knoxville, Tenn.: Two freshmen tied for the Total Commitment Award this year. Alex Newby made the A-Sun All-Freshman team and earned All-A-Sun honors this season.
"Our freshmen really helped set the tone for this great season,†Taylor said. "Tessa and Alex were amazing examples of the desire to be incredible and the willingness and commitment to do everything possible to succeed at the highest level. This award can be seen as a symbol of what it takes to be an elite program.
" A lot of people run. Only a few strive for greatness with all they have and sacrifice. For our team this is becoming the norm. Commitment is contagious, especially when the results are seen. Tessa and Alex are tremendous examples of doing all the little things and the big things in pursuit of their best. They are an inspiration to everyone, and they both have incredibly bright futures.â€
Geoff Musick, Soph., Nashville, Tenn.: Geoff earned All-A-Sun honors this season. He is only the second man in Lipscomb history to earn All-A-Sun honors (Ryan Chastain is the other, in 2008 and 2009).
"Geoff is constantly striving to be the best he can be,†Taylor said. "Last year he watched how our top guy, Ryan Chastain, worked and I've seen him working to follow in Ryan's example. He is definitely working to take care of business daily and giving all he can.â€
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER: For the runner who was most valuable to the team in every way and who contributed the most to the teams success.
Dani Walker, Fresh., Wichita, Kan.: Dani led the LU women in five of seven meets. She set school records in the 4-K (14:49), 5-K (17:52) and 6-K (21:14). She finished fourth in the A-Sun Conference to earn All-A-Sun honors. Fourth is the highest individual finish in Lipscomb history. She was the highest placing freshman in the A-Sun meet, earning A-Sun Freshman of the Year honors, the first for a Lipscomb woman. Dani broke 18 minutes three times this season, besting her high school 5-K PR of 19:45. She led the Lipscomb women to second place in the A-Sun Conference and ninth place in the NCAA DI South Region, both best ever finishes for the program.
"Dani had a phenomenal freshman season,†Taylor said. "It was a historic season really. She is just such a tough and driven competitor and she has barely scratched the surface of her ability. She wants to be amazing and wants the team to be amazing. She will make sure both happen. Dani will have an amazing cross country and track career here and it's going to be really fun watching her develop and watching the team advance.â€
Tim Muller, Soph., Denver, Colo.: Tim led the Lipscomb men in six of seven meets including the post-season.
"Tim really set the tone for the men's team this year.†Taylor said. "From day one he led the way. He set big PR's this year and was really consistent in all but one race. Unfortunately his conference race was the one poor race, however he bounced back and ran a great race at Regionals. As Tim matures and learns he will rise to that upper level of collegiate distance runner.â€
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: For the freshman that made the biggest impact on the team.
Dani Walker, Wichita, Kan.: Dani led the LU women in five of seven meets. She set school records in the 4-K (14:49), 5-K (17:52) and 6-K (21:14). She finished fourth in the A-Sun Conference to earn All-A-Sun honors. Fourth is the highest individual finish in Lipscomb history. She was the highest placing freshman in the A-Sun meet, earning A-Sun Freshman of the Year honors, the first for a Lipscomb woman. Dani broke 18-minutes three times this season, besting her high school 5-K PR of 19:45. She led the Lipscomb women to second place in the A-Sun Conference and ninth place in the NCAA DI South Region, both best ever finishes for the program.
"We had tremendous contributions from many freshmen and the future is very bright,†Taylor said. "However, Dani did set herself apart and pushed herself and the team to a whole new level. She is the first A-Sun Freshman of the Year winner in Lipscomb history for the men and the women, and combined with Alex Newby as the first two LU women to earn a spot on the A-Sun All-Freshman team. She posted the highest finishes in Lipscomb history at the Conference and Regional meets, and she has so much room to grow. She wants to be incredible…she is and will be even more throughout her career.â€
Justin Weise, Austin, Texas.: Justin was consistently the highest freshman finisher on the men's team this season.
"In men's cross country, the freshman season is pretty tough,†Taylor said. "The men increase their race distance from 5-K to 8-K, which is significant. Justin had a rough start to the season, but rebounded well and established himself as a future force.â€
TEAM CAPTAINS: The team captains for the Lady Bisons are Caitlin Anderson and Jenny Randolph. The Bisons team captains are Benton Reed and Jonathan Williams.


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Richard Dale Skidmore, "Dale" was born to Freddie and Maudine Skidmore on December 17, 1957.
Dale lost his battle with cancer on June 25, 2012 at his sister's home in West Valley City, UT.
Dale worked many different types of jobs, including farming on Ucolo Road and working for J.E. Sutherland Construction.
He married Shirley Fletcher (later divorced) and had three boys. His love of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and debating with anyone who would, was known by all who knew him.
Dale is survived by his parents of Monticello; sons Anthony (Paula) of Beloit, KS, Daniel of Monticello, and Josh of Monticello; sisters Lorena Trujillo of West Valley, UT and Nora (Richard) of West Valley, UT; grandchildren Isaac, Mikayla, Lillian, Savannah, Aidan and Kayla; 20 nieces and nephews; and many aunts, uncle and cousins.
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Sept. 22, 1938: High winds blew the chimney off a house at 77 Main St., Charlestown. The remains of the chimney landed on the car of Barnett Mazow parked outside his store, Mazow Supply Co., at 73 Main St.
Sept. 23, 1938: Benson's Garage in Whitman was tossed on its side, destroying a truck and two cars in the tumble.
Sept. 23, 1938: After the hurricane, John Runane of Roxbury held tightly to a wire below the roof of a house suspended by trolley wires. (Note the attempt to add features to his face and jacket by painting on the photograph. This retouching was done often to prints in the production process in newspapers decades ago. This is a past practice that no longer exists.)
Sept. 22, 1938: Pushed inland by 100-mile-per-hour hurricane force winds, the heart of Providence was under 6 feet of water, lapping at the tops of automobiles on Sabin Street. The tide was even higher than usual due to the autumnal equinox and a full moon.
Sept. 24, 1938: A National Guardsman stood watch at the corner of Beal and Safford streets in Quincy where this drugstore lost two big plate glass windows as well as hundreds of dollars worth of goods ruined by wind and rain.
Sept. 22, 1938: Buildings owned by the Transcript Printing Co. of Peterborough, N.H., were gutted by fire as fireman stood helpless in flood waters from the hurricane that swirled about the buildings. The town was badly hit by flooding from the Contoocook River. Peterborough was one of the worst hit New Hampshire communities, reachable only by airplane for several days.
Sept. 23, 1938: More than 1,000 emergency workers hastily erected sandbag levees in Hartford as the swollen Connecticut River continued to rise. Reporting from Hartford to the Globe had to be by shortwave radio as all other communication had been cut. Byron Goodman of station W1INF in Hartford and Frank Lewis and Donald E. Kerr of W1MX of MIT collaborated on the report.
Sept. 23, 1938: The remains of St. Hedwig's Catholic church at 99 Otis St., East Cambridge, the oldest Polish Catholic church in the city. Amazingly, the altar was unharmed.
Sept. 23, 1938: This was all that remained of the Beverly Yacht Club in Marion after 100-mile-per-hour hurricane winds swept over it. The flagpole still stood, but beyond it only scattered fragments of the clubhouse foundation remained.
Sept. 26, 1938: A house flattened by the hurricane on Ocean Avenue, the million-dollar section of Newport, R.I.
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The vast majority of long-term cars we order come loaded with all the newest and hottest options, sometimes with a blatant disregard for the bottom line. This, we freely admit, could be considered juvenile. But it gives us the ability to report on whether or not that $4000 list of interior trimmings is actually worth it.
This is not one of those cases. We wanted to get a jump on testing a new F10 535i sedan so badly that BMW let us choose from a selection of previously ordered vehicles. At the high end were 5ers costing close to $70,000. At the absolute low end was this white 535i with a manual transmission and the Sport package ($2200), Dynamic Handling package ($2700), a $400 iPod connector, and cinnamon-brown Dakota leather seats ($1450). Grand total: $57,225. On paper, we were drawn to its simplicity. We thought that this might be the kind of 5-series we would spec out were we to actually purchase one. One of the many lessons learned at the Bay of Pigs is that theory is often at odds with reality.
In the logbook's first entry, associate online editor Jon Yanca set the tone for this car's tenure: "I know everyone will complain about the lack of navigation, heated seats, and satellite radio." Sure enough, entry after entry complained endlessly of cold seats and the cheap non-navigation iDrive display that resembles an old cathode-ray tube more than a modern LCD flat screen. Most 5 drivers were not aware that the Cold Weather package, and its heated seats, was not available at launch. No matter—we were resentful that a nearly $60,000 car had our backsides making their own heat on chilly mornings.
The 535i's spartan mien did not stop it from becoming an instant long-haul favorite, however. Never mind the car's shortcomings—numb steering, disappointing handling composure, and a hefty curb weight—that left it behind the Audi A6 and an Infiniti M37 in a comparison test [August 2010]; its odometer rolled past 20,000 miles in less than five months while visiting locations such as Myrtle Beach, Yellowstone National Park, and the Great Smoky Mountains. Editor-at-large John Phillips was one of many to commend the 535i for terrific interstate behavior, calling it "serene, composed, and quiet." Yeah, that, and it was not unusual to hit 28 mpg on an interstate stretch. We averaged an impressive 23 mpg over 40,000 miles.
Phillips was on a solo trip; had he been driving two-up, he surely would have noticed the dearth of cup holders fitted in the manual 535i. Automatic-equipped 5-series cars have a pair of cup holders just in front of the gear selector. For the sake of clearance, manual versions dump the cup holders for a small bin and a short, three-quarter round cup bolster hidden beneath the passenger's half of the center armrest, leaving just one exposed beverage stabilizer that deploys at the push of a button. It's not able to meet a Big Gulp on its own terms.
Now, enough with the frippery and onto the durability portion of this test. Early in its stay with us, when the car's odo turned past 9000 miles, we discovered a bubble in the sidewall of the right-front Goodyear. It was the first of many wheel and tire expenses we incurred. The bulging tire was replaced for $447—more on that in a minute.
The first of two scheduled services, as determined by the 535i's onboard computer and covered by BMW's scheduled maintenance program, came in fall 2010 at roughly 19,000 miles. During it, BMW of Ann Arbor performed an oil change and some inspections; attended to a couple of recalls (a potentially faulty fuel-level sensor and new trunk trim that required a second trip to the dealer for installation); and also replaced (under warranty) a door-lock tab that went MIA.
After the 535i spent the winter months on Bridgestone Blizzak LM-60s, our local tire installer found that the right-rear wheel was severely bent, thus adding a $595 line item to the 5-series books at 32,000 miles.
It was at roughly this time that we started to notice the onset of automotive middle age. A few creaks and rattles but nothing alarming. Senior editor Tony Quiroga thought the engine never fully loosened up and that it continued to exhibit a bit of turbo lag when compared with other turbo sixes from BMW. His subjective feelings were contradicted by our track results, in which the 535i improved its end-of-test 0-to-60-mph and quarter-mile times by 0.1 second, to 5.7 and 14.2, respectively.
No money would exchange hands at the next service visit, it of the unscheduled variety, when the dealer repaired the console-mounted cup holder and replaced the HVAC control face because a few of the instructional pictograms on its buttons had worn off. In the past with other cars, we have paid for a cup-holder repair: Both of the above warranty items are a testament to the BMW 4-year/50,000-mile assurance. Company reps have told us that the only thing owners of new BMWs need to think about paying for during that time period is tires. To that very short list, we add wheels.
Around the 33,000-mile mark, the front tires were on their wear indicators, so we replaced them ($894) and discovered another bent wheel ($581). Then, 2000 miles later, after many observations by staffers about harsh suspension noises and vibrations, we asked the dealer to investigate. The service department said our car's suspension and its bushings were just fine but the left-rear wheel and both of the fronts were bent. Plus, one of those 2000-mile-old front tires suffered an impact failure (likely at the same time the wheels were dented).
There was no way around spending another $447 on a front tire. In lieu of replacing three wheels to the tune of about $1750, we employed Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists to straighten three wheels for $405.
The second of two scheduled stops—oil change and inspections—came and went at 38,000 miles without breaching our wallet.
Right at the end of the test, at 40,000 miles, the rear tires were also at the end of their lives (after being shelved for 10,000 miles during the winter months) and needed to be replaced ($970). The dealer looked into what we thought was abnormal tire wear and charged us $134 for the inspection and $210 for an alignment. The closer look also revealed yet another bent front wheel ($135 tossed Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists' way).
To recap: While the 535i was with us, we replaced two wheels (one front, one rear) and six tires (four worn, two damaged), and we repaired four wheels. The total bill for this, not including installation (which runs $163 for a full tire swap): $4474. We would have saved some cash had we purchased the 535i from a dealership and been upsold on the new BMW Tire & Wheel Protection program ($1389 for five years for a 5-series) because a $50 deductible covers replacement wheels and tires.
If it were not for the wheel and tire problems, the 535i would have finished its C/D tour of duty with very few strikes against it, one being that it was too thin in the options department. This was our fault—we underestimated how truly soft we'd become. But it's a 5er that a hardier soul, or one who lives in a warm state, would buy.
The bigger problem is that, while the F10 535i gained 193 pounds and maintained its 51/49-percent weight distribution, its wheels weren't beefed up for the extra 100 pounds carried by the front axle. Our first wheel specialist saw it right away: The wheels are soft. If you do find yourself in the market for a 535i like this one, a word of advice: Avoid potholes. That ought to be easy enough in a climate where you don't need heated seats.
After replacing two of our BMW's wheels at a cost of about $600 each, we investigated more affordable solutions and found Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists (AWRS). The company's wheel repairmen make house calls. Call 'em up, and someone will come to your home or place of business and get to work fixing dents or curb rash. The process is surprisingly simple. The wheel is mounted on a vertical axle (similar to a tire-mounting machine), with or without a tire. After cleaning the wheel, the repairman measures it with a dial indicator to mark the low spots. Depending on the size of the deformation, the AWRS specialist might use a propane torch to soften the metal before employing a 10,000-psi ram to bring the wheel back to round, or close enough to successfully balance. If a wheel impact deforms the outer spokes, this company can't repair the wheel. We called AWRS twice. The first repairman commented on how soft the 535i's wheels are, but the second said he'd seen softer. We were charged $135 per wheel, but prices vary. Curb-rash repair starts at $125. And the company will even paint a wheel on-site. (800-518-3040; www.awrswheelrepair.com).
Aftermarket Navigation
As noted, our scantily optioned 535i lacked the comforts we've come to expect in luxury cars, such as an in-dash navigation system. With the prevalence of smartphones, a dedicated nav system may seem unnecessary. But, as we found in central Wyoming, having a navigation device that doesn't require cellular service to download a map can save time, fuel, and sanity. At $280, the TomTom Go 2505 TM is in the upper-middle-class range of the portable-nav market. For the lifetime of the unit, it comes with map updates and traffic information. The touch-screen interface is logical, and you can customize the voice with a host of celebrity, cartoon, or movie-inspired themes. We went with Homer Simpson—$13 well spent. We had a little trouble getting the unit to sync with our computer when we wanted to install map updates or the custom voice. But once we worked out the bugs, it was trouble-free. (866–486–6866; www.tomtom.com).
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NEW YORK - The Yale men's cross country team placed third at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship, marking its first top four finish since 1996, at Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, N.Y., on Friday morning. Individually, Yale had four runners finish in the top 25, led by juniors Lucas Meyer and Casey Moriarty, who both received first team all-league honors, while freshman David Napper earned second-team distinction.
The Bulldogs completed the day with 85 points, behind Columbia (69) and first-place Brown (60). Dartmouth finished fourth with 90 points, followed by Princeton (97), Harvard (125), Penn (154) and Cornell (218).
Meyer placed fourth finishing with a time of 24:48.8. Moriarty (25:08.0) came in seventh, while Napper (25:14.7) finished 11th and junior Josh Yelsey (25:36.2) took 22nd place. Columbia senior Steve Sundell (24:26.9) won the individual championship.
Also competing for Yale were Patrick Dantzer (26:11.7/41st), Andrew Johnson (26:23.7/52nd), Robert Dwyer (26:29.8/54th), Mark Turner (26:54.5/66th), Wyatt Golding (27:12.3/73rd), Andrew Pitts (27:15.0/75th), Brian Hanak (27:21.5/79th) and Brian Gertzen (27:21.7/80th).


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by Mike Masnick
Tue, Nov 29th 2011 11:09pm
Filed Under:
blogging, denmark, file sharing
As a bunch of you have been submitting, TorrentFreak recently had the bizarre story of a Danish law school student and legal blogger who had been writing a lot about file sharing... and then was raided by police who were told he ran a private BitTorrent tracker by the local anti-piracy organization, RettighedsAlliancen. While the guy admits he downloaded some unauthorized content, and is a member of the site in question, he had nothing to do with running it, and worries that this is really more about harassment for his blogging. Rather than denying it, the anti-piracy group seems to delight in the fact the guy has a blog where he explains to people how to be anonymous online, saying "we can see that he teaches others to break the law and conceal themselves on the net." I had no idea it was against the law to conceal yourself online...
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Anonymous Coward, 29 Nov 2011 @ 11:21pmI think they will blow a gasket when they see the YaCy network LoL
Anonymous Coward, 30 Nov 2011 @ 12:38am
YaCy the distributed search engine(aka P2P powered search engine) that is hard to censor.
Rikuo (profile), 29 Nov 2011 @ 11:44pmOne thing I noticed from the Torrentfreak article is that it says the police searched the guy's room-mate's room...correct me if I'm wrong, but surely the warrant the cops had wouldn't have extended to the room-mate? Surely that would have been considered a separate legal abode, requiring either a separate warrant or for the original warrant to be much more broad in scope.
xenomancer (profile), 29 Nov 2011 @ 11:49pm
Re:You could think so...
you would think so...
you should think so...
and stop calling me Shirley!
justok (profile), 30 Nov 2011 @ 2:02am
Re: Re:I didn't call you, and how did you know my name was Shirley?
Anonymous Coward, 30 Nov 2011 @ 12:31am
Re:Depends on the wording of the search warrant and how the Danish interpret those things. If it says "premises" and don't put any boundaries they technically would be correct.
Berenerd (profile), 30 Nov 2011 @ 6:08am
Re: Re:They could technically search the whole building.
The Devil's Coachman (profile), 1 Dec 2011 @ 5:44pm
Re: Re: Re:They could technically search your colon.
Anonymous Coward, 30 Nov 2011 @ 7:45am
Re:warrants are generally for the whole property... if it was an apartment they couldn't search the neighbors or anything, but anything w/in the unit is fair game.
Islander, 30 Nov 2011 @ 8:22am
Response to: Rikuo on Nov 29th, 2011 @ 11:44pmIf Danish law is like Swedish, a policeman can decide to search someone's home if there's reason to suspect a crime. He doesn't have to get approval from a court beforehand.
I don't know what applies in this specific case, though - I don't even know if it was a civil or criminal search.
xenomancer (profile), 29 Nov 2011 @ 11:46pm
You Know How the Saying GoesIf you feed a man a fish he will become a slave to the fishing line and lure installed to get all those people catching their own fish, if you teach him to fish you immediately get arrested for ruining the fishing industry.
Anonymous Coward, 30 Nov 2011 @ 6:46am
Re: You Know How the Saying GoesIf you teach a man to fish, he'll buy a funny hat. If you talk about fishing, you're a consultant.
Rekrul, 30 Nov 2011 @ 6:49pm
Re: Re: You Know How the Saying GoesBuild a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ;)
Anonymous Coward, 30 Nov 2011 @ 12:25amThat is why I pirate.
And the last paragraph of the quote below is what I would like to say to "content owners" in a polite way.
What we have here is a century of deceit, and a century revealing the internal culture inherent in the copyright industry. Every time something new appears, the copyright industry has learned to cry like a little baby that needs more food, and succeeds practically every time to get legislators to channel taxpayer money their way or restrict competing industries. And every time the copyright industry succeeds in doing so, this behavior is further reinforced.
It is far past due that the copyright industry is stripped of its nobility benefits, every part of its governmental weekly allowance, and gets kicked out of its comfy chair to get a damn job and learn to compete on a free and honest market.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-industry-a-century-of-deceit-111127/
gorehound (profile), 30 Nov 2011 @ 6:09am
Re:I also enjoyed that part.I am now almost 56 and I remember a few formats those big wigs tried to shut down.
DAT Tape really pissed me off.I used those and my mate still has a few in the studio.
To bad there can't be a National Boycott Day or Week on Big Content.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Nov 2011 @ 6:38amBecause the police are unaware of the "crime" being committed they bring along these tools from a private firm who basically get handed everything they want.
Several of these companies for all of their gloating actually have destroyed evidence in cases and rendered it unusable. One of them publicly admitted they had a "suspects" laptop and reveled in that they had it, the police handed them the laptop and they decided they could keep it. In the UK they botched the case so poorly that they had to return the raided peoples property, but they made sure to damage it on every level before handing it back.
This is not always about defending the law so much as it is blurring the line to trying to silence people they don't like by illegal means if need be. They lie, cheat, steal, and destroy real property... but people who share content are the "real" criminals.
Anonymous Coward, 30 Nov 2011 @ 6:45amJust one point:
"But we can see that he teaches others to break the law and conceal themselves on the net."
is not the same as
"But we can see that he teaches others to break the law by concealing themselves on the net."
The quote is not making the claim that concealing oneself on the net is illegal.
Other than that, I find it deplorable that the legal system (police included) would act on this. If I were even slightly paranoid, I'd look at the relationships between the judge involved and the groups with a vested interest in copyright.
Anonymous Coward, 30 Nov 2011 @ 11:39am
The quote is not making the claim that concealing oneself on the net is illegal.
Of course it is. Examine the context.
If the claim isn't implying that it's illegal, why say it at all? The only reason they would include it is an attempt to smear him.


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WCSU student awarded Fulbright scholarship
Graduate student says Western put him on right track
DANBURY, CONN. — As soon as Kevin Gaughan graduated from high school, he headed west to start college far from his New Fairfield home. When he got to Arizona, he started hanging out with the wrong crowd, ignoring his studies and getting into trouble.
After his family stepped in, Gaughan returned home to start classes at Western Connecticut State University and said the challenging environment and supportive professors made all the difference. After graduating with a 4.0 GPA in 2009, Gaughan enrolled in Western's graduate program where he also maintains a 4.0 GPA.
But his success story doesn't end there. This spring Gaughan, 27, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study social entrepreneurship in the small, eastern European nation of Estonia beginning this fall. He and his new bride, Elyse Huseas, will live abroad for 18 months.
"This research will result in helping underprivileged people by using ground-breaking types of business models," said Gaughan, who will earn his master's degree in history from WCSU in August. "By trying to find connections between universities, communities and social entrepreneurship we can learn how a university can extend itself to the community to benefit everyone."
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright program is the largest United States international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide. There were approximately 6,000 grants awarded in 2008 to U.S. students, teachers, professionals, and scholars to study, teach, lecture and conduct research in more than 155 countries and to their foreign counterparts to engage in similar academic activities in the U.S.
Gaughan, who majored in political science as an undergraduate and history in the graduate program, said that he learned more from his professors than from text books, specifically, Professor of Political Science Dr. Chris Kukk, Professor of Anthropology Dr. Robert Whittemore and Associate Professor of History & Non-Western Cultures Dr. Wynn Wilcox.
"The courses that I've taken have given me a wide variety of knowledge," Gaughan said, "but the thing I take away most from my education is learning how to interact meaningfully with people. Drs. Kukk, Wilcox and Whittemore have been excellent."
He credits Whittemore with helping him prepare his Fulbright application, Wilcox for challenging him and Kukk for taking him from a floundering teen to a successful academic.
"Dr. Kukk is genuine. I remember taking that first class with him and he told me I had potential," Gaughan said. "He took me under his wing because he saw something in me beyond what I saw, which was a kid with no confidence who wasn't that smart. He told me I had potential. It took me by surprise because I knew how many people respected him. For the next two years, I tried to live up to the standard he held me to and it really paid off."
Gaughan said he's well-prepared thanks to Western and now looks forward to seeing how another culture lives, what they value and "how that's different than what I'm used to. I'm doing this because I've always felt I was missing something. By studying international politics, I'm learning about all of these places and I've never experienced another culture."
Kukk said that the Fulbright is a great experience for students such as Gaughan, as it presents an opportunity to expand on what they've already learned.
"Fulbright and Kevin are a perfect match," Kukk said. "In the words of St. Augustine, the world is a book and those who do not travel only read a page. Kevin realizes he only has one page of life; the Fulbright opens the rest of the book for Kevin."
For more information, contact the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England's best small private universities.


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A Short History of Korean Film
by Darcy Paquet
1903 -- First public screening of a film in Korea (the exact year is debated).
1910 -- Korea is formally annexed by Japan, after several years of effective colonization.
1919 -- First Korean film, a kinodrama (play with motion picture inserts) named The Righteous Revenge(Uirijeok Gutu).
1923 -- First silent film, Plighted Love Under the Moon (Wolha-ui maengseo) directed by Yun Baek-nam.
1926 -- Arirang by Na Un-kyu.
1935 -- First sound film, Chunhyang-jeon directed by Lee Myung-woo.
1937 -- Japan invades China; censorship of film industry increases.
1945 -- Japan surrenders; Korea regains independence, but is soon divided in two.
1949 -- Korea's first color film, The Women's Diary by Hong Seong-gi.
1950 -- War starts on the Korean Peninsula.
1953 -- Cease-fire agreement signed at Panmunjeom.
1956 -- Box office smash Madame Freedom inaugurates industry revival.
1960 -- The Housemaid, directed by Kim Ki-young.
1961 -- Obaltan, (pictured right) directed by Yu Hyun-mok.
1961 -- Military coup leads to consolidation and heavy regulation of film industry.
1973 -- Establishment of Korean Motion Picture Promotion Corporation (KMPPC).
1974 -- Establishment of Korean Film Archive.
1979 -- President Park Chung Hee is assassinated.
1980 -- Gwangju Uprising.
1981 -- Mandala, directed by Im Kwon-taek.
1988 -- Hollywood studios open first branch offices in Korea, led by UIP.
1992 -- Marriage Story is first film financed by a member of the chaebol (Samsung).
1993 -- Democratization spreads in Korea under new president Kim Young Sam.
1993 -- Sopyonje, directed by Im Kwon-taek, sets new local box office record.
1997 -- Opening of Namyangju Cinema Complex outside of Seoul.
1999 -- Shiri, directed by Kang Jae-gyu, kicks off commercial boom.
2001 -- Local market share tops 50%, boom in overseas sales.
2004 -- Silmido and Tae Guk Gi become the first films to sell 10 million tickets.
2004 -- Oldboy wins Grand Prix (second prize) at the Cannes Film Festival.
2006 -- The Host breaks box office record and helps local market share reach 64%.
1903-1945: Korea Under Japanese Rule
Only fragments remain of Korea's early film history. The vast majority of Korea's early film footage was lost due to neglect or the destruction brought about by the Korean War, and not a single feature produced before 1934 survives in complete form today. Nonetheless, historical records paint a picture of a lively and creative industry that produced over 160 features from the early twenties until Japan's surrender to Allied forces in 1945.
From 1909 to 1920, a series of theaters were built in Seoul and in regional cities such as Pusan and Pyongyang. Most of these theaters were owned by Japanese businessmen, but a few Korean theater owners built up a significant amount of capital screening European and American imports. This capital would eventually be used to help finance the first domestic productions. Korea's first "film" (The Righteous Revenge), a kinodrama in which actors performed against the backdrop of a projected feature, debuted at Seoul's Danseongsa Theater in 1919. The public reportedly loved the show, but the long-term prospects of this and other kinodramas were hampered by intellectuals who criticized the mixed-media format as an insult to both theatre and film.
Korea's first silent feature was produced in 1923, and over the next few years, seven Korean film companies would appear. The masterpiece of this era is considered to be Na Un-kyu's Arirang (1926, pictured left). Na, only 25 years old at the time, produced, directed and starred in this film about a mentally unstable man who kills a wealthy landowner's son who is linked to the Japanese police. The title is taken from a popular folk song, which in its newly re-arranged form would become an anthem of sorts for the Korean independence movement. The film, admired for its aesthetic qualities as well as for its hidden political messages, became an inspiration for a wave of young filmmakers who hoped to make films based on principles of realism and resistance to Japanese power.
Despite the increasing popularity of local cinema, however, Japanese censorship played a large role in limiting its growth. The colonial government required all foreign and domestic features to be submitted to a government censorship board for approval before being screened, and police were present at theaters for screenings. Although a few works extolling Korean nationalism reached audiences in the late 1920s, from 1930 censorship became much more strict, such that melodramas, costume dramas, and pro-Japanese films became more prominent. Several features were banned outright and subsequently destroyed.
By 1935 the first sound feature Chunhyang-jeon (based on Korea's most famous folk tale, which has been filmed over a dozen times) was directed by Lee Myung-woo, with the assistance of pioneering sound technician Lee Pil-woo. Nonetheless, local filmmakers found it difficult to raise enough money to produce sound features, and Korean talkies faced much harsher criticism than the silent films which preceded them. It was only two years later, with the runaway commercial success of Lee Gyu-hwan's Drifter (1937) that sound films were established as the norm. In the same year, however, Japan invaded China, and the Korean filmmakers would come under increasing pressure to shoot films that supported the Japanese military and the war effort. By 1942, Korean-language films were banned outright by the government.
Only five films have survived from the period between the U.S. occupation of Korea and the end of the Korean War. Of them, the most famous is Choi Un-gyu's Chayu Manse! ("Hoorah! Freedom"), released in 1946. An ode to patriotism with strong anti-Japanese sentiments, the film proved to be a hit with audiences.
During the Korean War, much of the country's film reinfrastructure was destroyed and the center of the industry temporalily moved to Busan. Many filmmakers became involved in shooting newsreels and war documentaries. Following the armistice agreement in 1953, President Rhee Syngman declared cinema to be exempt from all tax, in hopes of reviving the industry. Foreign aid programs provided South Korea with film technology and equipment, setting the stage for the rebirth of Korean cinema in the late-fifties and sixties.
1955-1969: A Golden Age for Korean Cinema
The latter half of the 1950s can be considered a period of revival for the Korean film industry, as the number of domestic productions increased from 8 in 1954 to 108 in 1959. The public also returned to the theaters, embracing such features as the now-lost 1955 version of Chunhyang-jeon, which drew 200,000 viewers in Seoul (over a tenth of the city's population), and Madame Freedom (1956), based on a scandalous novel that had been published the year before in a local newspaper.
The late 1950s and early 1960s saw the emergence of some of Korea's most talented directors. These filmmakers worked during a time when the domestic film industry enjoyed an unprecedented surge in box office receipts. However in 1962, military dictator Park Chung Hee instituted a highly constrictive Motion Picture Law which caused a severe consolidation in the number of film companies, and which strengthened government control over all aspects of the industry. Although accomplished films continued to be made up until the end of the decade, such restrictive policies would ultimately have a severe effect on the industry's creativity.
Without question, Korea's most shockingly original director is the late Kim Ki-young. Kim, renowned for his gritty domestic dramas, released his most famous feature, The Housemaid (pictured right), in 1960. This film -- the tale of a manipulative housemaid who seduces her master -- transgresses the laws of contemporary cinema to the same extent that its heroine tears apart the Confucian order of her household. As in many of Kim's features, the women in this film possess a great deal of power and become a direct, menacing threat to their male counterparts. Although Kim's work remained largely forgotten for many years, he was "re-discovered" in the 1990s and afforded his rightful place in Korean film history.
Another significant talent to emerge from this era is Yu Hyun-mok, who captured widespread attention with his 1961 feature Obaltan (translated as "Aimless Bullet"). This film, which combines the social concerns and themes of Italian Neorealism with more expressionist sound design and visuals, expresses the pain and despair brought on by the destruction of the war and Korea's industrial development. Yu's work, which focuses on marginalized members of society, is highly stylized and the most obviously intellectual of the period.
Lastly, Shin Sang-ok established himself as a major figure with early works such as A Flower in Hell (1958) and his best-known film The Houseguest and My Mother (1961). The latter work, told through the perspective of a young girl, portrays the struggles of a young widow who falls in love with her tenant, but cannot express her feelings due to a restrictive social code. Later in the decade, Shin would turn to color and a more sensual tone in works such as The Dream (1967), based on an ancient tale about a libidinous Buddhist monk, and a masterful work set in the medieval Chosun Dynasty: Eunuch (1968). In 1978, after having made some 80 films in his home country, he and his wife were mysteriously "kidnapped" and taken to North Korea. After working in the film industry there for eight years he moved to Hollywood, where he would produce The Three Ninjas and its sequels under the name Simon Sheen.
The 1970s
In the seventies, the film industry entered a long period of declining admissions and increased levels of government censorship. In 1973 the Korean Motion Picture Promotion Corporation (the precursor to the Korean Film Council) was formed in an effort to revive the industry, and in the following year the Korean Film Archive was founded, but as an industry Korean cinema would not reverse its commercial slide until the mid-1990s.
Nonetheless a number of interesting works from this period display a high degree of originality in their exploration of personal (and, often on a symbolic level, political) themes. Highlights include some of the most distinctive works by Kim Ki-young (Insect Woman, Iodo, Woman Chasing Killer Butterfly, and more); the debut work by gifted director Lee Jang-ho, The Hometown of Stars; and Road to Sampo, the last film by celebrated filmmaker Lee Man-hee, who died in 1975 in his mid-forties. The seventies also saw witness to the short but dazzling career of Ha Kil-jong, described by many as one of the most talented directors ever to work in Korea. Ha directed seven features including his best-known work March of Fools (1975) before his early death in 1979 at the age of 38.
An infusion of new directorial talent in the early eighties would bring about a modest revival in the film industry. Although attendance remained at low levels, the eighties witnessed a slight relaxation in censorship and an increasing recognition from the international film community, culminating perhaps in Kang Su-yeon's Best Actress award at the 1987 Venice Film Festival for her role in Surrogate Mother.
Many critics would argue that the most significant name of the decade is Im Kwon-taek. Although Im had already directed over 70 features by 1980, it was with Mandala (1981) that he emerged as Korea's best-known filmmaker. Moving away from his earlier, commercially-oriented style, Mandala focuses on two monks in order to explore the meaning and place of Buddhism in Korean society. Im has become known for his efforts to capture and enshrine the older, forgotten elements of Korean traditional culture. His most popular and acclaimed feature, Sopyonje (1993, pictured left), brought about a revival in the Korean vocal art known as pansori. To date, Im has directed 100 features and he remains a central figure in Korean film.
In the 1980s, the Korean film industry undertook the first steps of a major transformation with several important developments. Firstly, military leader Roh Tae-woo enacted a new constitution in 1988 which led to the gradual easing of political censorship. One early film to take advantage of this was Park Kwang-soo's Chilsu and Mansu (1988), which cleverly invokes images of a street demonstration in its memorable final scene. Park would go on to direct more acclaimed films, such as Black Republic (1990), To the Starry Island (1993) and A Single Spark (1995).
Meanwhile back in 1984, a revision to the Motion Picture Law loosened some of the regulatory restrictions on Korean filmmakers. Independent production, which had formerly been illegal, was permitted under certain circumstances, and the government also repealed laws which had kept the film industry consolidated under a few large companies. The end result of this is that by the late 1980s a new generation of young producers had entered the film industry, and their new approaches to filmmaking would eventually have a major effect on Korean cinema.
However the news was not all positive for local filmmakers. In 1988, a change in policy lifted import restrictions on foreign films, and allowed Hollywood companies to set up branch offices on Korean soil. Up until this time, the screening of movies from Hollywood or Hong Kong had always been strictly controlled and limited by the government in various ways. These new laws would mean that for the first time, Korean films would have to compete directly with Hollywood product. Over the next few years, domestic films would gradually lose their market share, reaching a low point in 1993 when Korean cinema made up only 16% of overall attendance figures. The Screen Quota System, whereby theaters were obliged to screen Korean features for 106-146 days out of the year, remained the only protectiong against foreign competition at this time.
However in 1992, Marriage Story by first-time director Kim Ui-seok opened to rave critical and popular reviews, heralding not only the introduction of a new popular genre (the sex-war comedy), but also a new era. With this film, Samsung, one of South Korea's five major conglomerates, would become the first of the so-called chaebol to enter the film industry. In time these conglomerates would transform the structure of the business, introducing a vertically integrated system whereby the financing, production, exhibition, distribution, and video release of films were all controlled by a single company. Although many chaebol including Samsung dropped out of the industry after the 1997 ("IMF") financial crisis, major conglomerates such as CJ, the Orion Group (Showbox), and Lotte remain the industry's most powerful players in the present day.
Several directors who debuted in the 1980s continued to produce interesting work in the 90s. Notably, Jang Sun-woo, who shot his first feature Seoul Jesus in 1986, presented audiences with a series of challenging and controversial films ranging from Road to the Racetrack (1993), a dark and meandering portrait of two Korean intellectuals having an affair, to A Petal (1996), about the lasting effects of the Kwangju Massacre in 1980.
However beginning in 1996, a new generation of directors began to take over the industry. Arthouse master Hong Sang-soo made his debut with the award-winning The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996, pictured right), which weaves the experience of four characters into a single story. In this and his subsequent films, Hong built a reputation for his honest depiction of the cruelty and baseness of human relations. The year 1996 also saw the debut of controversial filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, known for his rough but visually striking film style (largely self-taught) and his tendency to shoot films very quickly on a shoestring budget. Unlike most other leading Korean directors, Kim's films such as The Isle (2000) were first championed internationally, rather than by local critics. Then in 1997, Lee Chang-dong made his debut with Green Fish. A former novelist, Lee would eventually win a Best Director award at Venice for Oasis (2002), and also served as Korea's Minister of Culture and Tourism from 2003-2004.
At the same time, a group of younger, more commercially minded filmmakers were also making their debut. In 1997, the release of the hit film The Contact by Chang Yoon-hyun marked a resurgence of box-office popularity for domestic features, leading up to the unprecedented success of Kang Je-gyu's 1999 film Shiri. Since then, Korea has entered a boom period that ranks as one of the most sudden and notable developments in recent world cinema. Local audiences have rushed to embrace local films, so that by 2001 the 60-70 Korean films made each year sold significantly more tickets than the 200-300 Hollywood and foreign titles that were released. In the international arena as well, festival screenings and international sales expanded at breathtaking speed, as more and more directors began to make a name for themselves.
One could argue, however, that the current boom being enjoyed by Korean cinema is less of an extraordinary circumstance, than a case of the industry finally reaching its natural state. Since its earliest beginnings, Korean cinema has been hampered by Japanese colonization, national division, civil war, authoritative military governments, strict censorship, and highly restrictive, distorting film regulations. Only in the 1990s did Korean cinema finally enjoy a supportive government, a stable economic environment and a sensible film policy. Although the amazing commercial boom that has powered the film industry in recent years may well fade to more modest levels, one hopes that Korean cinema will never again face such extreme disruptions as it did in the 20th century.