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Here I am going to break down what the FPL is really about. Not what you'll find in the FAQ, but the real deal Holyfield. First and foremost, we know that FPL is an interactive creative writing site where you create your own characters using a custom character creator to go head to head with other creators in randomly assigned matches formatted by our very own Serge and Mr. Graves. But this here tutorial is not to break down what you already know, but to get into the nitty gritty things that FPLers know and you don't.
First let me give you some background (credibility check) on myself. I arrived on this site as a lurker of the FPL waaaay back when. Had to be early 2000's or earlier. I wanted to do that crap sooo bad. But, I knew that I sucked. I actually created a character once and it got Godsmacked (Something they use to do back in the day. Basically it didn't even make it out the starting gate because I took a swordsman power and didn't give my character a sword. Rookie mistake. I got pissed as many of us do the first time around and left. I came back in 2004 and actually logged on the site. Still lurked (Lurked is French for learned). Then in 2007, I gave the CBUB a try after it opened up to the public. By this time, I had been writing in my spare time. I did well in the CBUB. I stayed there exclusively for years (Marvel Man, Technomancer/Nesh, ND7 and many others will attest to this) and did pretty decent. Finally, I was challenged to an FPL tournament by none other than Landon due to an argument I was having with a user that swore that the worst FPL writer was leagues better than the best CBUB writer. Well, well, well...I just had to shut him up (I love you Geomease). So, anyway...I did the tournament and beat the user and fell head over heels in love with the FPL (I lost the next match in the tournament immediately after my truimphant win - Hello HuanHellHound, regardless it felt good to prove that writing is about the person and not the CBUB or FPL status). Anywho, I created at least a dozen or more characters before I had any success. What!?! Treacherous lost in the FPL! Why didn't he quit? He should've known that those guys were a clique and hate CBUBers. Because I'm nobody's punk! I've never been anybody's punk and I don't let a little thing like a dozen losses defeat me. You know what I did? I created character after character after character after character unstopping until something broke down that door. I was the little injun that could. Hell, they may have let me win because I didn't stop knocking on the damn door. Regardless, the moral of the story is writing improves writing and don't ever think that I don't know what the hell I'm talking about when I tell you something about the CBUB and FPL. I've done it longer and possibly better. Simple. Oh and they eventually made me an Admin (Who knows what the hell they were smoking on that one). Let's move on...
Now, when you begin to create a character the immediate thing you will read is: "The FPL is primarily a creative-writing exercise, so put some thought into your character. Breathe life into it with a solid concept and well-written origin, personality, and power descriptions. Consider how you will spend your points before making the character in the creator." - Either Serge or Mr. Graves wrote this text and you will find it at the end of the very first page you encounter on your journey.
So, let's make no mistakes about the FPL - IT IS A CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE! What does that mean? That means that characters are created and judged based on your creative writing ability. It is the exact opposite of the CBUB. In the CBUB, you shouldn't pick based on your fanboy love for a creative character, you should vote because the feats say he is better. In FPL, it is most definitely about your fanboy love for a more creative character. Feats mean Shite. FPL is not for people who want to find the best powers available, put them together and slam them against another user's character (AKA: the Goku Effect). It is for people to write creatively. Don't get me wrong, writing well is a plus too! We like sentence structure, it helps us to understand what you are trying to convey, we like grammar and we like at least the majority of your words to make sense. A good portion of the FPL population are people that have been writing on this site for up to a decade (give or take).
You must ask yourself, how do I impress people that have seen it all? Example, we've seen all kinds of things in the FPL such as Goku, dragons, uber badass punishers, etc... We have not seen a Pirahna Girl, a Unicorn Boy, A dinosaur that tweets and Steampunk Iron-Man or a little kid that creates pills from his body! WTF!?! Surprise us.
All characters start at street level. This means that your first character may not be more powerful than your typical Punisher, Rorshach or Nightwing type character. There is no way around that. You cannot come in using street level powers and wonder why your GOD OF THE APOCALYPSE DRAGONS! isn't killing everything in the database. It is because your base level Fire will not allow that...Sorry. The well-written, well-thought out, creative Penguin with the Stick will beat your one-line power description GotAD anyday.
But Treach, I thought powers weren't important. Not in the way you think. Powers are a means to an end. Powers are like Chapters in your story. The whole Character should be written like a story, not a Wiki. People want to be entertained, not informed. The rule of thumb is SHOW DON'T TELL. If you've been in the FPL, you've seen it a million times. Don't tell us, "Hey this is a picture using paint." Tell us about the picture, describe the picture, let us touch, taste and smell the picture. You claim to be a writer? Write... And be creative with your damn powers. Anybody can take fire and use it as fire, but what if you take fire and instead use it to describe the passion your fighter has for battle. That the intensity of his fiery rage was so hot that it caused other fighters to sweat. Okay that's awful, but you get the point. Think outside the box. Instead of using mind control and digging to describe your mind controling burrowing ninja. Howabout, creating a guy who uses mind control to dig deeper into the subconscious of his enemies. WIN. Oh but that brings us to my next point. Possibly the most dangerous of all areas in FPL, right? The Critiques.
First things first, if you are a first time user always post your character in the Character Analysis thread first! Not only that, PM or ask people for a review. Yes, that's right. Ask for a critique...perhaps the most feared portion of the FPL. Here there be Dragons! Whatever. Again, I come from experience. It took me a few losses to realize I needed help. And sometimes the best place to learn to be a millionare is from the mouth of a millionare. So, now that you've done that don't expect everyone to swoon over your creation. THIS IS NOT THE CBUB! In CBUB, you may pander to each other because you want to maintain good relationships for votes. Don't lie and say that isn't mostly true, because I did it and I know it. In FPL, there is no pat each other on the back, circle jerk mentality. It gets real folks. Why? Because you need it. You may ask yourself who are these guys to speak on my writing. Oh I don't know, Teachers, Tutors, Lawyers, writers (Real Writers) and/or people who have achieved Hall of Fame or Main Event status on the part of the site you'd like to succeed in. Maybe they know something. Most of the successful FPLers are what you may call grown ups. They are 25 and up. Hence the cynicism. But you want to succeed, you want to impress and you can deal with cynicism...
Keep in mind that there is fact and there is opinion. You will get both. Sometimes you will get both intermingled together. It is your job to distinguish the two, to keep a cool head and take the fact, the opinion and the bull and use what you see fit to help you. See, no matter how cynical the person critiquing may seem, most really are telling you something you need to hear. Look for that and take it in. But Treach! Why can't you be nice? There is a certain way people should talk to each other. You can give critique without being a jerk. Sure, but we live in the real world and in the real world there are ugly things. Either live in your self imposed sense of denial (CBUB) or come into the real world, take the good from the bad, learn and grow. That doesn't mean you have to put up with bull, but that doesn't mean that you have to completely blow your top anytime you don't get the response you want either. There is a middle ground, find it and improve your writing. You want to create, don't let others bad attitudes distract you from your goals. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your life losing.
For God's sake, browse the FPL before you enter! Don't just go posting a damn character like you got this all figured out. YOU GOT NOTHING! Check out the Pinned Topics. Check out the database characters (especially the successful ones), arrange them in order of points or just pick randomly. Everyone's opinions and tastes differ. Regardless, read the characters and find out what's working and what's not. Look at the bottom (15pts) characters too. See what went wrong. Investigate before you go in. FP - F#$@IN' - L is a battlefield. You don't just go running into a battlefield without a plan of attack. We don't call it the Killfloor for nothing.
But Treacherous, these guys are a clique. They only vote for each other. STFU/GTFO. The voting on FPL is so ridiculously random. To this day, I can't figure it out. The most common theme that I've seen is we vote based on writing. But that is not always true. One minute you beat a character ten times and the next you lose to that same character thirteen times. You never know. The same people do not vote all the time. Sometimes, nobody votes but one or two people. Guess who will win that time. If you see a bunch of Admins at the top of ratings, perhaps it's because these guys can write their asses off. I lose all the freakin time and I want to curse everybody who voted out, but you don't. Well, some of you do...and when you do...guess what? You lose some more. Yes, sometimes we vote against you because we hate your whining guts. Me personally, I'm always upright with my voting. The better, more creative and better character always wins. If it's too close, maybe I'll go for which character could be best used in a fic or something like that. I believe Soberguy, who we all look to for brilliant words of wit, put it best with this:
Ivan's fiction always makes me feel like I'm writing in crayon.
That is why he's at the top. That is F@#$K'n it. If anything, figure out his formula, emulate the formula if you have to (I know when I lost, I tried a different route every time I came back), but actively try to create your own successful formula. It is the only way no matter what you may think.
What else... Oh yeah...
Fictions/RP's and whatnot
Unlike your favorite comicbook companies, FPL has continuity out the wazooo. That's right, we have created a unique world and we maintain it and make it flourish. Our should I say, you do. Get involved! Write fictions, Start RPG's or help in one. You never know who likes your stuff and will use it later. I know many a new character play major roles in FPL continuity. In this new FPL, the continuity may live longer than your rankings. Be known, be involved. Also, having an impact in RPG's and Fictions has been known to increase the likeability of new characters.
FPL is full of Admins. Definitely not the place. Trust me. Suspicion is even a bad thing. WE LOVE OUR FPL AND WE WILL REAP VENGEANCE UPON YOU!
anyway, I'm going to open this thread. I know there is much more to be said, but I want to see what is being felt out there first. Last thing, please don't get into flame wars on my thread. A quip or two may be permitted, but a full out dogfight will disappear like the wind (as soon as I see it). Let's keep it civil. This is meant to be instructional and a learning experience. Also, don't bad mouth my grammar and spelling...I just write at will on the forums. I save the good stuff for FPL. Now...


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I am a trained Waldorf early childhood teacher and have also completed training as a "Music Together" teacher (a music and movement program for preschoolers and their parents) through the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, NJ. In addition, I am a Suzuki parent and a strong supporter of Suzuki music education. I have been interested in comparing the similarities and differences between Suzuki and Waldorf pedagogy ever since discovering how much they share in common.
In spite of the number of similarities in approach, one fundamental difference between the two approaches is regarding the age at which a child should begin formal music instruction. Suzuki students are encouraged to begin instrumental lessons as early as age two or three. On the other hand, students in a Waldorf school do not begin lessons with string instruments until third or fourth grade. My personal opinion is that Suzuki, for many children, starts too early, and that Waldorf schools may start too late. Based on my research and observation, I believe that age seven is a more appropriate age for most children to begin private music lessons — for many of the same reasons that make seven the ideal age for a child to begin formal, academic learning at school, according to Waldorf philosophy.
In Waldorf pedagogy, formal academic learning does not begin until, ideally the age of seven. This comes after a period of intense growth during the first seven years of life, after which, according to Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Waldorf education, the child's "etheric" or life forces are freed up for more cognitive pursuits. As a child of seven is better able to sit and focus on formal "lessons" than a younger child, so a child of this age would be better able to focus on formal music instruction, and to be capable of practicing. I have questioned many different music teachers – Suzuki teachers, traditional music teachers and Waldorf music teachers — on whether there is a great advantage to starting children on an instrument as early as three- to five-years old and, by and large, most teachers I've talked to seem to agree that children who start when they are older (say, seven or eight) are not at a disadvantage; they are usually able to catch up quickly with the children who have been taking lessons since they were much younger.
Within a few months of starting cello, I observed that my seven-year-old caught up to the same place as another seven-year-old boy in his class who'd been playing for a full two years. My child, I would say, has fairly average musical ability. He is musical, but not precocious.
I think it is unnatural for a child under seven to be asked to sit down and practice an instrument daily, no matter how short or playful the practice session. I feel strongly that children under seven should be moving, playing and engaged in their imagination without the pressure or stress of practicing, or worse, performing. They are learning an enormous amount — taking in the world through their senses, developing their imaginations through play and the experience of life. This short and precious period of childhood should be free from the pressures of performing and feeling the need to please others.
On the other hand, most Waldorf schools don't start teaching strings until third or fourth grade. I worry that this is too late. Recent brain research indicates that there is a musical learning "window" of opportunity that closes around the age of nine (similar to the "window" for language acquisition). Based upon my research and observation, I believe that it is more difficult, though certainly not impossible, for children to become proficient at an instrument if they start after the age of nine. Waldorf students are, of course, learning to play the pentatonic flute, and often the soprano recorder, before the age of nine, which is absolutely beneficial and helps to develop the student's musical ear. There are many Waldorf teachers who would argue that learning to play a stringed instrument or the piano would be inappropriate for a child under nine. I do not agree with them. My own experience with my children has been entirely rewarding and positive, having started them with music lessons at ages seven and eight.
I also recommend waiting until a child begins to show an interest in learning to play an instrument before offering private music instruction. Children are much more likely to be self-motivated when there is a genuine and personal interest in learning to play an instrument. I have observed very few children who have expressed an interest in learning to play an instrument before the age of 5-7. Of course, there are some children who really are musically precocious and may, in fact, prove to be prodigious musical students. If your child is relentless in demanding to learn a particular instrument, I would advise listening to them and taking advantage of his interest.
If you decide to pursue music education for your child under seven I would highly recommend – no, I would BEG you – to find a Suzuki teacher. A good Suzuki teacher, like a good Waldorf, teacher, teaches out of imitation and in a playful, imaginative way. The emphasis should be on the process, not on the product.
Another similarity between Suzuki method and Waldorf education is that children are taught to play beautiful music by memory and ear before they are able to read music — just the way Waldorf students are able to recite beautiful poetry by heart before they are able to read or write. Learning to play music precedes learning to read music, just as in human development learning to speak always precedes learning to read and write. Learning to read music should not be attempted before the child is able to read language.
Readers of Dr. Suzuki's book Nurtured by Love, will come across much philosophy that is similar to Rudolf Steiner's. (It is interesting to note that both lived in Germany during the same period of time.) Dr. Suzuki emphasizes that it is far more important for a child to strive to become a beautiful person on the inside, than the most technically proficient musician. By nurturing beautiful feelings in the child, beautiful music will be produced.
The most important thing one can do musically for a child under seven is to expose them to lots and lots music, especially the human voice. Sing to them and with them all the time! Sing even if you think you can't — your child will not be critical, and will appreciate your effort more than you can imagine. I think it's also of great benefit to let children hear live music being played so that they learn that music is something that human beings make, and are not just mechanical sounds that come out of an electronic box. Research indicates that that listening to music (and lots of different kinds and tonalities) early in life is what develops a child's musical ear. So that even if a child doesn't begin formal music instruction until age nine or later, by having been exposed to many types of music and different qualities of tone, that child will still have developed musically during her early childhood.
Sera Jane Smolen, Ph.D., a cellist who has also taught music in a Waldorf school and wrote her thesis on a comparison of Waldorf and Suzuki methods, once told me that no world-class musician (that is to say, the Yo Yo Ma's and the Emanuel Ax's of the world) ever started music instruction later than the age of five. This statement is likely to give many parents pause. But then she asked me, "Is our goal to raise world-class musicians, or Martin Luther Kings?" Do we offer our children music lessons because we want to produce a prodigy, or do we do it to nurture a love of music in child who may fulfill Dr. Suzuki's vision of bringing about world peace through music?
© Sarah Baldwin, M.S.Ed., 2009
Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education, Suzuki Method International, 1986.
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POLICE have been inundated with calls about loud bang, believed to be a series of sonic booms.
Fire crews are also investigating the source of the noise and Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue are liaising with neighbouring counties.
Thames Valley Police duty inspector Phil Rogers said people have reported the noise, from Chipping Norton, Burford, Banbury and North Newington, right out to Swindon and Warwick.
He said: "There have been no reports of any casualties or damage.
"We believe it could be a sonic boom from a supersonic aircraft."
He added that he believed it to be more than a single incident as the reports were so far spread.
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Attorneys General Upset That Craigslist Is Profiting From Procedure He Forced Craigslist To Put In Place
from the banging-your-head-on-the-virtual-wall dept
But that doesn't get headlines.
Instead, Blumenthal, based on no legal basis whatsoever, used his soapbox (along with some other attorneys general) to get Craigslist to changing its policies on "adult" advertisements. Whereas, previously, those ads had been free, Craigslist now required that anyone putting up such ads pay for them with a valid credit card, eliminating many of the ads and making it much, much easier to track down whoever placed them in the first place. You would think that would make the AGs happy. Six months later, however, the AGs were still upset, and got Craigslist to change again, boosting the fee on such ads from $5 to $10 and reviewing more of the ads.
Almost all of these moves came in response to public posturing and baseless legal threats from Blumenthal. So what's he doing now?
He's apparently doing more public posturing and issuing more baseless legal threats, because Craigslist stands to make an awful lot of money from these ads -- the very same ads that Craigslist only started charging for because of Blumenthal's pressure:
"I believe Craigslist acted irresponsibly when it unilaterally decided to keep the profits from these posts," Mr. Blumenthal wrote in the letter...Yes, and I believe Blumenthal acted irresponsibly when he put bogus grandstanding pressure on Craigslist to put in place the tollbooth in the first place. At what point does he recognize that Craigslist isn't the target here. It's the people using Cragslist to break the law -- and that Craigslist is more than willing to help law enforcement track down those law breakers?


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Problem is that Henrik is best at setting up plays in the opponent's zone, so he needs someone with finish.Benjo wrote:
I think AV may be testing the waters on this one to try and see if Raymond could draw a few penalties so we can bust out these new PP formations we've been keeping under wraps. LA is definitely one of the slower teams in the league and speed is one of our biggest assets, may as well exploit it. This will also give us a chance to see just how tight the officials will call it now that the rules have changed.
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Opinion: Have China's Hackers Crossed the Rubicon?
AEI scholar John Bolton on the White House's plan to curb Chinese hacking and intellectual property theft. Photo: Getty Images
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... I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... any Fortune five hundred CEO privately and they will lax we are with wax lyrical ... about the threat from Chinese hacking ... but now the ten network security firm is made these threats very public led change the policy conversation in Washington ... American Enterprise Institute scholar and Fox News contributor investor John Bolton is here ... John Mediacorp which I should disclose we've also hired ... two without looking hacking for The Wall Street Journal ... so really change this report to change the conversation in the violent why think it has the potential to do that because although the Pentagon has studied hacking ... of the government and a major American corporations for some time ... it's been done in the classified world this report is now public and I faxed the White House report ... many report came out first and said ... hey guys hacking is very widespread ... let's talk about that White House report hundred and forty pages ... aam ... what is a Telesat soon ... will ... be the ... the extent of the threat we face from state actors particularly China I think is a very real in every business is worried about Comercial staff then losing its information or violating people's privacy ... that that this really raises it to a whole different level and it shows that ... is our economy that so vulnerable point for some of our potential adversaries ... not just our military and potentially affecting American workers the White House report named names that said ... I'd DuPont four hundred million dollar loss G and forty million in there a number of examples here ... on ... this is an extensive documents Chinese isn't enough ... no it's not the White House is treating the threat of cyber warfare ... much the same way it treats the threat of international terrorism that is a law enforcement matter if you look at the White House solution ... it's finds prosecutions that sorta thing ... I think that's a piece of a broader response ... but critically when it comes from countries like China Russia Iran ... this has the potential to rise to the level of an active or even if it's directed against ... infrastructure the air traffic control system our financial system ... it could cause enormous disruption to the US in the economy and we have to be much more aware of that and much more active in ... no way defending against that the building up our own offensive cyber capability on the use of that phrase it could be an act of war ... on the Obama administration has not been particularly ... shall we say strong on China to believe when they do things like this with James robbery cry this ... on the ... house China really crossover book rubric on here ... I do use is from your contacts in Washington ... said they're going to adopt a new approach and attitude is tougher attitude toward China ... well I think there are many people in the military to want to do that I think people in the intelligence community understand that's why these reports and the public discussion on hold flow from them is so important as more people need to be aware of ... CEOs of major American corporations are already aware of it ... the we need to talk alot more about where this fits into China's overall strategy it's the it's ... assertive territorial claims it's building a blue water navy its anti satellite weapons ... and its asymmetric threat to our information technology ... was the it before and gone ... so the threat that was always going to be there or ... is this kind of ... muscular behavior out of China a result of ... our weakness in the Pacific or our stance internationally well I think it's I think it's part of it but I think what China did was look and where America was vulnerable where he could pose an asymmetric threat to us ... they're not for the forseeable future than a match us in nuclear weapons of war ... Bluewater naval capabilities that they could see how reliant we are on information technology communications and computers ... and their cyber warfare ... capabilities are intended ... to cripple us if favored the use that that's why I think we need to be ... much more aware of the nature of the thread because they're way ahead of us were were trying to catch up let's let's be clear they're way ahead of Stampers this week is this man in corporate report and then we had the White House come out ... yesterday ... out with its own document ... I that I was there also surrounds the sequester ... which is across the board cuts including to the Pentagon ... aam you should we recalibrate how we think about cutting defense and given ... that now the public has more knowledge about the seriousness of the threat from China yet this is just one more reason why Manson cuts in the defense budget or so ill advise cyberwarfare ... doesn't replace existing ... places where battles can take place is a new front in this broader struggle so it shows why the United States has to be agile to meet ... the potential for threats ... the conventional level one level weapons of mass destruction in the cyberspace ... and and and every time we caught were limiting our capabilities not just in the areas we cut specifically but in the expanding ... battle space that we say lesson thirty seconds left eye which is why pick on Democrats here or there also are Republicans ... who don't truly understand the nature of this threat unfortunately a lot of Republicans I'm more worried about rising isolationism in the Republican party than in any time since the nineteen thirties were out of practice dealing with it but we better get back in practice or ... we will see even the Republican Party traditionally strong national security party ... moving an isolationist or action ... cook a moving and isolationist erection ...


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Da Vinci Code : Extended Edition, The (UK - BD)
Our Marcus takes a long ol' look at a movie that is essentially a grail quest
Based on the cultural phenomenon that is The Da Vinci Code, this 2006 adaptation of the Dan Brown book from director Ron Howard tells the story of Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) as he's caught up in the shady goings on of the church and the greatest conspiracy mankind has ever known.
After the murder of a man in the Louvre by a killer albino (Darth Maul-esq) monk (Paul Bettany), Robert Langdon, a world renowned symbologist, is asked to take a look at the bizarre murder scene, as the victim has seemingly left a message in his own blood. Langdon draws a blank, until French police specialist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tatou), fills Langdon in on the parts that the police had hidden from him and so begins a series of events that may very well lead to the Holy Grail.
When the movie arrived on our cinema screens in 2006, I felt as if I was the only person on the planet who hadn't read The Da Vinci Code. Seriously, it was everywhere; friends and family members were engrossed, TV specials spent many an hour discussing the theories and it was no surprise that Hollywood wasn't too far behind the global buzz. When the news of Ron Howard's involvement came and Tom Hanks got attached, this all got quite exciting. I rolled into the cinema expecting great things. The great things didn't come.
After three years of pretty much vowing I'd never watch the movie again, I took on the daunting task of reviewing the all new Blu-ray edition—an almost three hour cut of the movie and a whole second disc of features to boot. So was there a change of heart following the second viewing? Well no, not really.
At this point I will say, that however bad this movie is (and it can be very bad), it has tucked within it, one of the strongest and compelling storylines out there of late. The theory and main driver of the movie about the ongoing lineage of Jesus Christ is one that is enough to watch the movie for, at least once. Unfortunately this batch of theories is probably better suited for a book or a documentary because how all of this is presented and handled in this movie is close to a disaster.
For starters, pretty much ninety percent of the dialogue in The Da Vinci Code comes stamped with the giant letters PLOT POINT. For the first hour or so it's almost embarrassing to watch. Tom Hanks does his best to run the fumes of this drivel, handing out lines that feel flaccid and forced. The opening murder is also extraordinarily weak, especially on second viewing when you know its importance in the grand scheme of things and just how many weird and wonderful clues this guy left before he died makes you wonder if he might have survived if he got himself to a hospital rather than spending a few hours moving paintings about, drawing on walls and sketching symbols on himself.
The badness just keeps on coming though. The guess-work in some of the clues that unsurprisingly lead Langdon and Sophie down the right paths and the constant dissection of codes and historical significance just begins to wash over you with little importance. The running around Paris or worst still the Smart car chase, all in reverse I might add, is just so badly cobbled together and uneventful, that the spark of life Ron Howard is trying to get into the proceedings, just hinders rather than helps things.
It's not until about an hour in, when Langdon and Sophie get to Leigh Teabing's (Sir Ian McKellen) home, that we begin to get some genuine insight into where this is all going and the movie begins to move away from its near un-watchable state. However, even then it can be tough going. Teabing's wild theories about Jesus' offspring, all presented within an argument/discussion between the three characters is a long drawn out affair that is going to make or break the audience, who up to this point may have been toying with the idea of walking away. For all of its bad points (the unnatural way in which the discussion comes about, Teabing's pre-set 'this is my theory' multimedia centre, McKellen's over the top and attention-grabbing performance) the information that's packed into the scene is really what sets you off for the remainder of the movie, which thankfully, despite all its continuing flaws, is far better than the first half was.
I can't go much further without hinting at the big ol' plot reveal that is satisfying enough but I will say this entire movie feels aimed a little too much at the masses. Treading carefully not to leave anyone feeling confused and spelling out every little thing multiple times, never trusting its audience to draw their own conclusions and generally just feeling a little unfocused and sloppy. The plot is packed with too many moments of convenience to be truly believed (like how are Langdon and Sophie merely let go when the police do finally catch up with them?). They may have been cleared of the murder charge, but they've still skipped countries with no passports and there's a whole lot more they could be questioned about. Oh and isn't it lucky some random kid on a bus knows so much about how Google searches work and there's one too many moments where the two avoid being shot via some whimsical save. Seriously, a bullet shell stopping a door opening I can take, but when all that's left on the umpteenth threatened execution is birds coming down from a belfry, you can't help but roll your eyes.
As for the extra footage in this extended cut, I honestly can't be sure what's new. There's nothing that struck me as drastically different and the only thing that felt in any way extended was the funky historical flashbacks we have dancing around the screen when Langdon tells or indeed thinks of the historical events revolving around the Holy Grail.
For an HD transfer for a high profile movie, The Da Vinci Code spends much of its earlier scenes looking a bit murky. In its defence, many of these early scenes are spent in a dark gallery with a high amount of shadow but still, the image just didn't feel quite sharp enough. The only scene where things do start looking up is Langdon's first trip in the elevator. To show his fear of enclosed places we get plenty of close ups on his face and it really shows off the textures of Hank's skin under the harsh light of an elevator.
Moving through, much of the Paris elements of the story do very little in proving this 1080p transfers worth but as soon as we get to sunny London, everything turns around for the better. Colours begin to pop with green grass, London bus reds. Even the blue and yellow interiors of the good ol' London bus look great (ah the illusion of HD). Church interiors begin to look wondrous, with the CGI beams of light showing off their ancient art work and statues well and the second half of the movie generally looks much better, even if only brief segments of it actually push the HD to its limits.
All in all this is a pretty drab, uneventful TrueHD track. It has some nice atmospherics now and again, and the almost heartbeat musical sounds that tells us to listen up because this bit is important are quite effective, but outside of a few flutters of well placed bass, there's just nothing really to write about here.
The Hans Zimmer score is subtle, forgettable and underwhelming even at its most rousing, the dynamic sound effects are few and far between and outside of the strong dialogue, in what is primarily a wordy movie, the surround system merely does it job and never steps out of its comfort zone.
'This is essentially a grail quest'. Get used to this phrase, because when watching these special features, you're gonna hear people say it countless times, especially Ron Howard.
The features here are almost the polar opposite of the movie. Whilst the movie struggles at the beginning and slowly becomes watchable, the special features, of which there are many, begin quite light-hearted and informative but soon become repetitive and frankly heavy going.
Starting with disc one, which in all honesty covers the majority of the good stuff across the two discs, we are given a sneak peak at the next 'Langdon Thriller' (another phrase you'll hear a lot in these features) Angels and Demons. Firstly we're presented with an intro from Ron Howard (01:05 HD) and then we move onto a preview scene and the movie's trailer (0 7:26 HD). I'll reserve judgement on this one for now but other than it feeling a little slicker, it looks to be more of the same.
Moving on, we get BD Live and CineChat. A new Blu-ray feature that enables you to text chat to friends, or 'buddies' as they like to call them in the demo, while watching the movie. It's a pretty good idea, but maybe using a Bluetooth headset for PS3 owners might be a nice addition.
'Unlocking the Code Interactive Picture in Picture' is a great little feature (even more so if it was for a film I liked more). Essentially it gives you a themed menu bar at the top and bottom of the screen with a number of selectable options to watch along with the movie. These are split into Interviews, Storyboards, Prop Talk, B-Roll, Photos, Symbols and Code, Langdon's Journey and Location Trivia. These selections come at a nice pace and often in multiples and bring up lots of little details from interview snippets to trivia tracks or mini history lessons. It's a pretty great additional thing to run alongside a movie and I found it far more satisfying than a lot of the other attempts at this sort of thing. It's just a shame the movie pauses for a few seconds between selections as it puts a dampener on the overall feel of the experience.
Next up is Commentary by Ron Howard on selected scenes. It's about thirty eight minutes worth and even though I'm lukewarm on Ron Howard's body of work as a director, I always find him talking about his art both enjoyable and insightful. Or it could be that it makes feel like I'm watching an episode of Arrested Development. Either way it's a good little mini commentary, even if it is only about specific things within the movie rather than the movie as a whole.
Moving onto disc two of the movie 'that is essentially a grail quest', it all starts getting a little more conventional. 'First Day on the Set With Ron Howard' (02:13 HD), which introduces us to the production and the wow factor of being able to film in the Louvre (and element that you will hear no end of on this disc), Ron's history with the book (again something that comes up too much) and generally the challenges ahead.
'A Discussion with Dan Brown' (0 4:52 HD) is a fairly brief interview with the author of the book, telling us how his life has changed and when he knew the book had become a hit. For all you Langdon fans he teases about his next book as well. The next 'Langdon Thriller', which makes all this sound a little Miss Marple really.
'A Portrait of Langdon' (0 7:18 HD), 'Who's Sophie Neveu?' (06:55 HD) and 'Unusual Suspects' (17: 58 HD) looks at the cast and more so the feelings on who these characters are. Input from the cast themselves as well as Ron Howard and Dan Brown pretty much tell us what we already know from watching the movie, which I know is the point, but it seems an awful lot of time to dedicate to rehashing the basics. Maybe it was just a personal thing, but by this stage the features were getting a little one note and tedious.
'Magical Places' (15:58 HD) focuses on the many locations of the movie and the freedom they had to film in many previously 'un-filmable' places. There's talk about each of the countries governments stepping into help out and how certain churches and cathedrals were kitted out to look like the genuinely un-filmable real locations. It was genuinely quite a daunting task.
'Close Up on Mona Lisa' (06:37 HD) is some personal accounts from the cast and crew about the first time they saw the painting and 'how small it was' and 'Recreating Works of Art' (0 6:03 HD) looks at the many, many, many classics works that had to be recreating for the sets and talks with the guys and gals who were involved in the process.
Getting really repetitive now, we move onto 'The Filmmakers Journey Part 1' (24:40 HD) and 'Part 2' (12:20 HD). The first half goes on yet again about how good the story is and the daunting task of turning the book into a movie and how many thought it was 'impossible' to do. That old chestnut comes up on many a book to screen adaptation. Part two delves into how to keep the movie moving at a pace to match the page turner that the book was and shows lots of B-Roll footage and has pretty much everyone patting Ron Howard and Dan Brown on the back for their work.
'The Code of the Da Vinci Code' (0 5:33 HD) is probably the most impressive feature for me, even if it slightly doubles up with part of the Picture in Picture feature. This featurettes is essentially a grail quest—just kidding—it's a look at some subtexts, sub visuals and hints in the movie that are peppered about the sets and locations. Certain pieces of art or phrases that relate to characters back stories, symbols and statues that represent certain story moments. It's not quite enough to persuade me to go back and watch the movie again but if I was a fan, this would be the sort of thing that I'd take great delight in.
'The music of the Da Vinci Code' (0 2:54 HD) and 'Scoring the Da Vinci Code' (09:44 HD) looks at Hans Zimmer's generic score which if I wasn't underwhelmed with enough already, I certainly am after hearing no end of it on these features and menus.
'Book to Screen' (11:06 HD) (even the titles are getting repetitive now) is more of the same and has Dan Brown telling his story about how he never even had movies planned but then Ron Howard seemed interested and his feelings changed. Ron tells us that it's 'essentially a quest'.
'The Da Vinci Props' (0 9:43 HD) and 'The Da Vinci Sets' (9:10) give a slightly deeper look into this part of the production and 'The Visual Effects World of The Da Vinci Code' (15:03) shows us the many effects and effects-houses that did the work on the film. Showing off the heavily green-screened flashbacks within the movie and how they interact around Langdon as he tells the story, which is all very effective, despite coming off a little daytime TV in places. Oh, and no one explains the thinking behind the completely over the top Silus car camera shot which even at the time of watching feels like a big ol' waste of CGI money.
Also on the disc are trailers for Close Encounters, Seven Pounds and Damages Season 1.
I'll admit it, the second time out, The Da Vinci Code wasn't quite as bad as I remember it being the first time, but that being said it's still a pretty poor and I certainly haven't had a change of heart towards it.
The biggest shame of it all is that the core story centred on the bloodline of Christ and the conspiracy to hide the so-called-truth is very, very intriguing. All of the elements discussed are interesting and plausible (depending on your beliefs) and it's just a strong story that brings something new to the table. It's just a crying shame it's presented to us in this weak, heavy handed and considering the calibre of talent involved, pretty amateur way.
As for the disc, it does enough to warrant the upgrade from standard definition, especially considering the fairly reasonable price. To add more of a temptation there are plenty of features to keep the Dan Brown flock, as well as fans of the movie (are there any?) entertained, even though you'll probably have to do it in multiple sittings to prevent the repetitive nature of it all driving you insane. After all, this is essentially a grail quest...
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
Review by Marcus Doidge
Graversen Member Join Date: April 2009 Location: Denmark Posts: 23
I think that people who has read the book generally dislike the movie, where people who has not read the book more often consider the movie to be good.
Peter Member Join Date: September 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 89
Well, I've read the book and think it's awful. And I've seen this movie and I think it's awful too.
Frank Vincent Member Join Date: August 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 68
Sony screwed us Dutch people by including a French Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track and an English Dolby Digital 5.1 track. NO English Dolby TrueHD 5.1. Sony said they made this decision so the end credits could also be included in the French language which is obligatorily according to the French law.
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
Those French take the piss with their DVDs.
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
Bit too long and nuddy for me...
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 4th May 2009
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English
Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, English, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Swedish
Extras: BD-Live Features, Cinechat, Exclusive First Look at Angels & Demons, introduced by Ron Howard, Unlocking the Code: Picture-in-Picture , New Commentary on Selected Scenes with Ron Howard, Featurettes, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tatu, Sir Ian McKellen
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery and Thriller
Length: 174 minutes
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LG Swimmers Highlight Busy Saturdayby Brent Harris and Howard W. Hewitt • January 27, 2011 Share:
A busy weekend on the Wabash College campus will provide ample opportunity for fans to support the Little Giant swimming and basketball programs.
The Wabash swimming and diving program will celebrate the careers of seniors David Birrer, William Cheng, Adam Current, Evan Rhinesmith, Eric Vaughn, and Chad Woods prior to their final home meet 1 p.m., Saturday against Illinois Wesleyan University.
A group of alumni basketball players will provide plenty of entertainment Saturday afternoon before this year's Little Giant team plays a key North Coast Athletic Conference home game at 3 p.m. against Kenyon College.
The swim meet will be the last appearance for those seniors in the Wabash pool. After Saturday's meet, the swim team's full attention turns to the Feb. 10-12 NCAC Championships.
"The team is currently in the middle of taper so some people are starting to get some spring back in their swimming while others are still feeling sluggish," Coach Steve Barnes said. "All of this is normal at this time of year, but I can tell the team has more energy. Going into the meet this weekend, we are looking to put up some of our best times of the season as well as fine tune our races. This is our last competition before the NCAC meet, so we need to make sure to work on the small details like breakouts, breathing patterns, starts, and technique." (Senior Adam Current in photo)
Barnes said senior day is a time to celebrate this group's passion and resiliency.
"All have done a fantastic job at juggling the tight rope walk of athletics and academics and they are a group that the college should highlight," Barnes said. " Last year Vaughn, Birrer, and Rhinesmith earned Scholar All-American honors, and this year Current should be added to the list. Woods maintains a 3.99 GPA and Cheng has seen a great improvement in his grades over the past 18 months. The seniors are natural born leaders that have been the pulse of the program for four years. They listen to others, help one another, and encourage while also leading by example."
Vaughn summed up the emotions that he and the other seniors have heading into Saturday's meet.
"Most of us have been swimming since we were five years old. Knowing that our careers as college swimmers are ending seems a bit strange. I've grown a lot as a person through the sport. I've learned to realize and assess what is important, how to establish priorities, how to achieve your goals, and how to overcome challenges and obstacles. I can never be grateful enough to this sport and the people I've met here through swimming and what they have done for me." (Senior Chad Wood in photo)
The annual Wabash basketball alumni game will begin at 1 p.m. at Chadwick Court. Former players of all ages will return to reminisce about their glory days in a Little Giant uniform in a sometimes spirited but always enjoyable affair for players and fans alike.
Currently over 13 former players, including several from the Little Giant teams from the 1997-2000 period will return to honor teammate Josh Estelle. Estelle, the all-time leading scorer for Wabash basketball, will be inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at halftime. Estelle scored 2,065 points in his career while earning both All-America and Academic All-America honors. He helped Wabash to its best-ever four-year record (83 wins, 26 losses), was a four-year, First Team All-Conference selection in three different leagues, and was named the 2000 NCAC Men's Basketball Player of the Year.
After the alumni game, the Wabash varsity squad will try to rebound from an 11-point road loss Wednesday night at Ohio Wesleyan. The Little Giants will face a Kenyon College that is still smarting from a 103-67 loss to Wooster in its last contest.
Wabash and Kenyon met in a thriller earlier this season that was decided in the final seconds. The Lords took a 60-59 lead with four seconds remaining on a Marcus Healey 3-point basket. Wabash junior Derek Bailey became the hero for the Little Giants a moment later when his long-range jumper at the buzzer produced a 62-60 victory.
Kenyon enters Saturday's game with an 8-11 record and is 4-6 in NCAC games.
Admission to all the weekend events is free of charge.
Fans can pick up the latest Wabash gear to show their support by stopping at the bookstore from noon until 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
The Wabash teams are partnering to help the Montgomery County FISH food pantry restock its shelves. Fans attending either the swim meet or basketball games are asked to bring non-perishable food items — particularly cereal, soup, macaroni & cheese, pasta, spaghetti sauce, packaged dinners, and cans of tomatoes — for area families in need of these items from the FISH program. Collection boxes will be placed in front of the entrance to Chadwick Court.


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Thank you. Another lovely, poignant story.ReplyDelete
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Thanks you for sharing Thomas' story. He will not be forgotten.ReplyDelete
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How sad, and it was very intuitive of your mum to know that there had been another brother in the family, and that her brothers were able to confirm this. JoReplyDelete
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Five grocery stores in the Gresham and Englewood neighborhoods on the South Side were closed after their owners were charged with Link card fraud, officials said.
Walid Mohamed, 50, of Palos Hills, Imad Qatanani, 37, of Burbank and Mohammed Abuzir, 49 of Bridgeview are each charged with organizing a criminal financial crime enterprise.
Link cards function as debit cards for Illinois residents eligible for "cash assistance or ... food stamps," according to the state Department of Human Services. The three are accused of making phony transactions that allowed customers to get cash, officials said.
Police were tipped to the scam in June and opened an investigation with the Cook County state's attorney's office, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Homeland Security, officials said.
Police searched safety deposit boxes, bank accounts and seized two guns and $100,000.
The stores closed were on Ashland Avenue south of Garfield Boulevard; Garfield Boulevard west of Ashland Avenue; the 6500 block of South Ashland Avenue; the 8500 block of South Ashland Avenue; and the 6800 block of South Damen Avenue.


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Except for getting more sleep after retiring eight days from now from his job of 12 years at General Dynamics in Marion , Bob Bytnar says nothing about his life changes after winning $4 million in the Illinois Lottery's Gold Bullion scratch-off game last week.
He says his Ford Ranger with 300,000 miles is just fine and he plans to finish clearing off the lot next to his house on South Chestnut Street in Du Quoin. "I don't know why Ford stopped making that truck. It's the best truck they ever made." He's owned several of them over the years.
These are the words of a man who served a six-year tour as a Marine in the "Rice War" in Vietnam between 1964 and 1970, went on to complete his engineering degree in 3 1/2 years at the Missouri School of Mines at Rolla and worked for 17 years as the engineering manager at Phelps Dodge cable and wire plant in Du Quoin until it was sold to Cablec.
He left Du Quoin, lived in Paragould, Ark. and the Missouri Bootheel and fulfilled a promise to wife of 38 years Gayle that in moving back to Du Quoin in 2000 he would open an ice cream shop. The shop was opened in 2008. "In Paragould our shop was called "Ye Olde Country Store and Sweet Shop" because we sold bulk candy along with ice cream and fudge.
Gayle made the best homemade fudge on earth and last year the "Ye Olde Country Store" in Du Quoin shipped it to 19 states for the holidays.
Gayle died on Thanksgiving Day Nov. 25, 2010 after a four-year bout with cancer.
Bytnar's life has been filled with caring and he is very humble about that life well-lived.
"I am not lucky. I am blessed," he said of the $100,000 he won in the Illinois Lottery in 2009, most of which went to pay his wife's medical bills at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis.
"You would think I would be jumping up and down," he said of matching the number 4 in the top row with the number 4 in a row below it that said "$4 million dollars."
"I'm not."
He's the same man.
But, for once in his life his sleep habits will change. Since the Du Quoin ice cream shop opened in 2008 next to the Grand Theater in downtown Du Quoin his daily routine included helping daughter Bobbi Bytnar Smith by day, going into his job from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. at General Dynamics and catching two or three hours of sleep "when I can."
"This will enable me to sleep at night," said Bytnar, 66.
"I plan to take care of my three daughters and my five grandchildren," he said.
Bobbi was married July 7, 2012 in a ceremony at the ice cream shop and both would have given their all for her mother to see it.
He is equally proud of daughter April Mitchell of Carbondale. She and her husband are connected with Universal Glass Co. of Carbondale.
Daughter Lynna Alderson and her husband are EMTs in West Memphis, Ark.
Bytnar says he has bought lottery tickets "off and on" for several years.
He says he has always believed that, "If you don't play, you can't win."
"I started buying Little Lotto tickets two or three times a week," he said.
The Illinois Lottery's Gold Bullion game is a pricey scratch-off game at $20 apiece from a machine at the Du Quoin Farm Fresh Store. Bytnar showed us a copy of his winning card. You have a row of numbers in the top row, then drop down to see if it matches any numbers below.
Bytnar purchased the ticket a week ago Tuesday and knew immediately that he had a $4 million winner, the biggest prize offered by the game.
"The lottery has already verified it," he said. A check presentation is planned for 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 16."
"The manager and workers there at Farm Fresh are the finest people in Du Quoin," he said.
The Chester Dairy, which owns Farm Fresh, will get a $40,000 commission. "I wish the employees there could get it," he said.
"I'm retired, now," Bytnar beamed. "I've worked six days a week over in Marion for 12 years," he said.
He has a strong faith and believes in the work at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Du Quoin and the Christian Fellowship School.
In fact, he will be honored by the Belleville Diocese at an upcoming dinner at the St. Nicholas Cathedral in O'Fallon for being a winner in the "Businesses Promoting Faith" competition held by the church. Ye Olde Country Store in downtown Du Quoin got several nominations and was named in the diocese newspaper, The Messenger.
"I don't want for anything. I'm happy. I'm going to run the ice cream shop," he said, but there will probably be some more flavors, some bulk candy and maybe even a Ford Ranger with fewer miles on it in his future.


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Lady Ottoline Morrell papers
Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) was a British-born literary hostess of the World War I era. Her group of friends, including D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forester, T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, Siegfried Sassoon, and Virginia Woolf, was known as the Bloomsbury Group. They often met at one of the Morrell homes at Bedford Square, Gower Street, or the country home at Garsington. The collection includes Lady Morrell's correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon, publications documenting her literary interests and photographs.
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Historical Note
Lady Ottoline Morrell's (1873-1938) desire to support and encourage creativity led her to become a literary hostess and friend to many of the literary and artistic giants of post-World-War-I Britain. By opening her homes at Bedford Square and Garsington as gathering places for conversation she became acquainted with T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, John Gielgud, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, John Singer Sargent, and Virginia Woolf. Morrell did not limit her invitations to the Bloomsbury Group, as many of the prominent figures came to be known; she welcomed any creative person she thought she could help, often introducing young talent to wealthy patrons and mentors.
Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck was born in England on June 16, 1873, the youngest child of Lt. General Arthur Bentinck and Augusta Browne Bentinck. Both parents already ailing at her birth, her father died in 1877; her mother lived the next nineteen years as a semi-invalid. In 1879, her half-brother Arthur became the Sixth Duke of Portland, suddenly elevating the family's status and conferring upon Ottoline the title of "Lady." The poor quality of her early education, under the guidance of a governess selected more for her religious strength than her erudition, led to a lifelong ambition to remedy this fault. Brief attempts included several trips to the continent, two terms as an "extracurricular" student of philosophy at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and two terms as an "out-student" of Roman history and political economy at Somerset College at Oxford. It was at Somerset College that she first met Philip Morrell. They were married in London in 1902. She gave birth to twins Hugh and Julian on May 18, 1906; Hugh died five days later. Daughter Julian married Andrew Goodman in 1928, three children followed before a divorce and second marriage to Ivan Vinosovich.
Morrell began her famous "Thursdays" in 1907 at the suggestion of her husband's friend, writer Logan Pearsall Smith. By the time she wrote several enthusiastic letters to the young soldier-poet Siegfried Sassoon in 1916, she was already "frightfully well known in the literary and artistic world" (Seymour, Ottoline Morrell, 217). Brought to Garsington to meet his admirer, Sassoon described his first meeting with her in his autobiography Siegfried's Journey 1916-1920:
Always original in her style of dress--which was often extremely beautiful--she happened on this occasion to be wearing voluminous pale-pink Turkish trousers I had seldom seen anyone quite so extraordinary. In fact I must admit that it wasn't until about a year later that I began to feel at all comfortable with her. The reason for this was that in spite of her being so consistently nice to me I was embarrassed by her appearance, which seemed to have been artificially imposed on the rest of her personality. She had immense dignity and distinction, and could also be charmingly gay and unaffected; she drew me out sympathetically and made me feel that my ideas and emotions were intensely interesting and important to her. (p. 9)
Morrell became infatuated with Sassoon and wrote to him frequently, often enclosing small gifts, including the essay in which she had described her dreams for "Garsington."
Morrell suffered from an unknown but extremely painful illness most of her adult life. She was treated at various times for nervous exhaustion, prolonged headaches, and, in 1928, bone cancer. In 1938, Morrell entered the Turnbridge Wells clinic of Dr. Cameron. He misused the experimental drug Prontosil, however, prescribing twice the recommended dosage and prolonging treatment four times longer than allowed. Morrell died April 21, 1938, at the age of sixty-four, while being injected with Prontosil.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The papers of Lady Ottoline Morrell consist primarily of correspondence, letters and post cards written in her hand to Siegfried Sassoon. The papers also contain unpublished manuscripts of some of Morrell's essays and five photographs depicting Morrell and several literary friends. The main topics include mutual friends, social events, country life, literature, Sassoon's writing, and her illnesses.
Custodial History and Acquisition Information
The papers of Lady Ottoline Morrell were purchased by the University of Maryland at College Park Libraries in 1978.
Processing Information
Processed by Mary A. Boccaccio, May 1979 Addendum incorporated and guide revised by Anne L. Foster, 1995.
The collection was originally organized into five series. The letters and postcards have been rearranged into one series of correspondence and organized chronologically. The two essays were also combined to create the second series. One group of newspaper and magazine clippings, auction lists, and publishers' advertising about Virginia Woolf was probably compiled by the same collector who previously owned the Morrell items. Because these materials have no connection to Morrell, they have been removed to the Morrell control file. Conjectured dates have been supplied in pencil where appropriate. Multiple pages comprising one document are held together with plastic paper clips. The photographs, originally placed in a separate collection of miscellaneous pictures, have been reunited with the collection as the third series. They had previously been dry-mounted onto archival matte board when they were originally processed in 1978. Dates, locations and subjects have been identified on the back of the boards; in some instances only estimates were possible. The materials have been placed in acid-free folders.
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Arrangement of Collection
The collection is organized in three series.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon, 1916-1934 ( 36 items)
Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886-1967) was a British poet and prose writer. His best known works include some one hundred poems that expose the horror of the trenches and protest the continuation of World War I. After the war, Sassoon also produced a series of autobiographical works. The partially fictionalized Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Three more autobiographical works, including Siegfried's Journey 1916-1920, describe his early years through the Great War. Turning increasingly contemplative and religious in his later life and poetry, he nonetheless stayed in contact with many of his friends from the Bloomsbury Group.
This series contains thirty-six letters and postcards to Siegfried Sassoon, all but one handwritten by Lady Ottoline Morrell; one was penned by Philip Morrell. The earliest letter is dated June 26 and is most likely from 1916; the last is dated December 24, probably in 1934. The bulk of the letters and postcards are from the period between 1930 and 1934. Several of the letters include Sassoon's lover Stephen Tennant in the salutation. The postcards were mailed from all over England and the Continent. The correspondence covers a variety of topics including Sassoon's writing; D. H. Lawrence's death; Virginia Woolf, Edmund Blunden, and other mutual acquaintances; books; health; and various locales. The materials are arranged chronologically.
|Box / Reel
|Folder / Frame
|Correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon from Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell, 1916-1934
|series 1
|box 1
|folder 1
|Correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon from Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell, 1916-1934
|series 1
|box 1
|folder 2
Series 2: Works by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1916 and 1938 (2 items)
Both items are short essays composed by Lady Ottoline. "Garsington" is a typewritten description of her feelings and hopes for her new country home. The second item is a printed copy of a February 1, 1936, diary entry. Entitled a "Farewell Message" it was reprinted, along with a 1903 photograph of Morrell, by her husband on the occasion of her death in 1938. These items are arranged chronologically.
|Box / Reel
|Folder / Frame
|"Garsington", 1916
|series 2
|box 1
|folder 3
|"Farewell Message", 1938
|series 2
|box 1
|folder 4
Series 3: Photographs, 1902-1920s (5 items)
The photographs in this series depict both Lady Ottoline Morrell and a number of her literary friends. The three earliest pictures, all taken around 1900, are individual shots of Morrell. At least one of these was taken in 1902 on her honeymoon. The other three, showing her daughter Julian as well as such literary friends as Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, Dorothy Brett, Augustine Birrell, Aldous Huxley, H. R. L. Sheppard, Bertrand Russell, Clive Bell, and, perhaps, Frank "Toronto" Prewett and Andre Gide were taken between approximately 1917 and the late 1920s. The photographs are arranged chronologically.
|Box / Reel
|Folder / Frame
|Lady Ottoline Morrell standing on road in wind-blown field on Berkshire Downs., undated
|series 3
|box 1
|folder 5
|Ottoline Morrell in field on Berkshire Downs with trees in background., undated
|series 3
|box 1
|folder 6
|Lady Ottoline Morrell on honeymoon, Paris, 1902., 1902
|series 3
|box 1
|folder 7
|Group on doorstep -- Top row: Augustus Birrell, F. Birrell, Aldous Huxley, Lytton Strachey, H. R. L. Sheppard. Seated: Clive Bell, Dorothy Brett, Bertrand Russell, and Julian Morrell., circa 1917-1918
|series 3
|box 1
|folder 8
|Ottoline and friends in front of church (Oxford?) -- Left to right: Andre Gide?, Mark Gertler, Ottoline Morrell, Frank "Toronto" Prewett?, Julian Morrell?., 1920s
|series 3
|box 1
|folder 9
|Ottoline and friends on sidewalk -- Left to right: Mark Gertler, Ottoline Morrell, Frank "Toronto" Prewett?, Siegfried Sassoon, and Julian Morrell?., undated
|series 3
|box 1
|folder 10
Related Material
The papers of Hope Mirrlees, maintained by the Archives and Manuscripts Department, contain a series of letters by Lady Ottoline Morrell to Mirrlees and her mother. The three autograph letters date from 1936 to 1938 and discuss mutual friends, Philip Morrell's illness, and Ireland.
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin house letters to Lady Ottoline from Bertrand Russell, the Asquith family, Augustine Birrell, Dorothy Brett, Dora Carrington, John Cramb, Hilda Douglas-Pennant, T. S. and Vivian Eliot, Mark Gertler, Frances and Signe Hackett, L. P. Hartley, John Hayward, Philip Heseltine, Aldous and Maria Huxley, Dorelia and Augustus John, Samuel Koteliansky, Henry Lamb, D. H. Lawrence, Desmond and Molly McCarthy, William Maclagan, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murray, Frank Prewett, Hester and Siegfried Sassoon, Gilbert and Sir Stanley Spencer, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and W. B. Yeats. The letters of Morrell to the Hacketts are also included in this collection.
Columbia University Libraries house a collection of papers of the author D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Lady Ottoline Morrell was one of the correspondents with whom he discussed his literary work. The papers consist of forty items and form part of the Alfred M. and Clarisse B. Hellman Collection.
Lady Ottoline Morrell is the chief correspondent in the papers of D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) owned by Stanford University Libraries. The 184 items in the collection also include two letters from Frieda Lawrence to Lady Ottoline, as well as several proofs and editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Collections housed in Britain include the Portland Family Papers in the Nottingham County Archives and the Portland Archives at Nottingham University Library. The University of Sussex owns letters from Ottoline and Philip Morrell to Virginia Woolf in the Monks House Papers. Letters between Lytton Strachey and Morrell, as well as her letters to Samuel Koteliansky can be found in the British Library.
For other related archival and manuscript collections, please see the following subject guides.
Selected Search Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the University of Maryland Libraries' Catalog. Researchers desiring related materials about these topics, names, or places may search the Catalog using these headings.
- Bloomsbury group -- History -- Sources.
- Country life.
- Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938 -- Archives.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Public opinion.
Names (Added Entries)
- Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.


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Thibodaux residents can expect a few more lane closures on the Canal Boulevard Bridge due to delays in the canal walkway project.
Archie Chaisson Sr., of Sea Level Construction in Thibodaux, said the project is behind schedule because of weather delays.
The project is expected to be complete before Christmas, said Ryan Perque, administrative assistant to the mayor.
The next steps for the project are to finish the decking and set up electrical work, Chaisson said.
The $505,000 project is aimed at improving pedestrian accessibility and safety.
On Tuesday contractors planned to close one lane of traffic as they delivered 40-foot deck rails for installment. The right, southbound lane was to be closed from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
"We took some metal supports and tied it into the bridge connection. We're putting some rails on there, and what will be on top of the rails is the deck for the walkway," Chaisson said.
Chaisson said because the beams are so long it would take two machines to set them into place, necessitating the lane closure.
The Canal bridge had experienced an increase in traffic since the closure of the Tiger Drive Bridge for renovations. Earlier this year, Mayor Tommy Eschete apologized to residents for the inconvenience of multiple closures.
The walkway work is one of several projects aimed at improving the city's busiest road.
One project aimed at improving the traffic flow on north Canal is widening a section of the road to four lanes.
Currently northbound Canal Boulevard goes through a lane transformation.
After motorists cross the Canal Boulevard Bridge, the four-lane road constricts into two lanes at the Wal-Mart intersection before expanding to four lanes near Andolsek Park. The project, expected to begin this fiscal year, will widen the two-lane section to four lanes with raised medians in the middle.
Perque said the city has worked for years with the local state delegation to get the $4.4 million project paid for.
Earlier this year the state Department of Transportation and Development completed a traffic-flow study at Canal Boulevard and Seventh Street that showed safety issues and determined the intersection needs to be improved.
"A lot of it had to do with the center island that has created a somewhat confusing turn for people crossing the intersection," Perque said. "Also Seventh is skewed and doesn't line up perfectly, and the light is old and inadequate."
The Thibodaux City Council accepted $325,000 in state money for improvements there, but Perque said how the money will be used hasn't been determined.
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This chequebook contains 20 booklets of 10 x $1 self-adhesive stamps from the Wildflowers stamp issue.
Issue date: 14 December 2015 Product withdrawal date: tba
Western Australia is the country's hot spot for wildflowers, home to around 10,000 species of the approximately 20,000 that occur across the country. This flourishing botanical scene is the result of a temperate climate and isolation from eastern Australia. Some 60 per cent of the species are endemic to Western Australia.
Rose Coneflower (Isopogon formosus) is a low, bushy or slender, upright shrub that grows between 20 centimetres and two metres high. Its compact, divided foliage has pointed tips, and its blooms, which begin as tight globular cones, open to around six centimetres in diameter. The stamp design shows the subspecies dasylepis.
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The collectables site will be home to a whole host of content including: Australia Post Philatelic news, updates on new collection launches, a look back at past and popular stamp releases and national/international event listings.
Collectors are being encouraged to contribute to the site's content and demonstrate their passion for the hobby by submitting guest articles that enable them to showcase their collections, give their views on stamp launches both new and old, and/or offer expert advice in specialist areas of Philately.
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Joyce Duriga is editor of the Catholic New World. She has worked in communications and media for Catholic organizations for several years. Most recently, she served as assistant editor at Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic newsweekly.
Monday, December 28, 2015
It's that time of year when news outlets galore are looking back on the highlights of 2015 and predicting the highlights of 2016.
Read more...
Monday, December 29, 2014
2014 was an eventful year for the Archdiocese of Chicago, not least because of the appointment and installation of Archbishop Blase Cupich. But that's not the only thing that happened in the last year.
Some of the highlights include:
Monday, August 04, 2014
At the Catholic New World we get to tell stories about the different ways people live out their Catholic faith. It's often inspiring.
Monday, November 04, 2013
From Oct. 21-24, Auxiliary Bishop John Manz made his 10th visit to migrant workers on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Over the years, Bishop Manz has crisscrossed the country visiting these workers, who often fall under the radar of the local community and the church.
Monday, June 24, 2013
As people buy their Fourth of July decorations and make plans for the day celebrating our nation's independence, the U.S. bishops once again are asking Catholics to take time to pray and take action for religious freedom in our country.
Monday, April 15, 2013
During times of war, the worst of humanity can surface but so can its goodness. One such example of goodness was Father Emil Kapaun who brought faith and hope to his comrades in a Korean War prison camp and to whom President Obama awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor on April 11.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Lots of people are talking about it. The cardinal-electors of the Catholic Church will enter conclave on Tuesday and in all likelihood we should have a new pope by the end of the week.
Monday, September 17, 2012
On Sept. 10, 1892, Benjamin Harrison was president of the United States, plans for the Columbian Exposition were well underway and Patrick Feehan was serving as the first archbishop of the newly elevated Archdiocese of Chicago. On that day, 120 years ago, the first edition of the New World hit newsstands, selling for 5 cents. The name has changed over the years -- from the New World, taken from the World's Fair, to the Chicago Catholic and then to the Catholic New World -- but the ministry has remained the same: bringing the good news of the Gospel to the people of God.
Monday, October 25, 2010
I'm sorry. Simple words that can have a powerful impact, but words we don't offer enough to those we love the most, according to two recent studies by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Ever since the first days of elementary school and the promise of summer vacation, many of us have looked to the summer months with great anticipation. When we were younger, it was a time for seemingly endless play. Trips to the pool or lake. Playing outside with friends. Now that we're older, many of us still look forward to summer as a time for vacations and activity. It's a time to breathe freer. Rest. Relax. Pray. Slow down. Talk to God a little more.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI gave a brief address to the city of Rome on Dec. 8 that could have easily been given to people living in the Chicago area, or any city for that matter.
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Howard Rosenthal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 133 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
We need a business card for our employees to use when representing out business
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