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Woodside is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Queens. Although it was inhabited by European settlers in the early years, it did not grow substantially until the 1800s because it was a dangerous and isolated area of snake-infested swamps and wolf-inhabited woods. In the1860's, the first developers, Benjamin W. Hitchcock and John Andrew Kelly, moved in and the Community of Woodside was formed. Kelly built a home that he called "Woodside" after the nearby forests. The name also became popular from a series of newspaper articles he wrote from his home. In 1869, more than one thousand lots were laid out by Benjamin Hitchcock, generating the first massive building of the new village Woodside.
The completion of the Queensboro Bridge and subway tracks allowed more people to migrate into Woodside and the population reached 6000 by 1910. Eventually the city of New York and other developers began building in the area to accommodate the influx of people. Woodside has since grown as a mixed residential, commercial, and manufacturing suburb for working class people.
Public library service didn't arrive in Woodside until 1908 when the Woodside Improvement Association succeeded in converting Mr. H. Wikters' General Store into a public library, known as a "traveling library station". On June 19, 1910, the city-funded branch library opened to the public with Anna Burns as librarian. The library was housed on the first floor of a two-story frame building on the southwest corner of Roosevelt Avenue and 58th Street. During World War I, the library served as a community activity center. The branch later temporarily relocated to a newly built store at 59-12 Woodside Avenue until 1932 when it moved to its permanent location on the southwest corner of 55th Street and Skillman Avenue. In 1963, after the building underwent extensive renovation and rehabilitation, it reopened to the public with a new entrance on Skillman Avenue. The branch building was again updated in 1999, improving access to the building for those with disabilities. The Woodside Community Library primarily serves the area bounded by Northern Boulevard to the north, Maurice Ave to the south, 50th St. to the east, and Brooklyn–Queens Expressway to the west. Among the residents of Woodside, most are immigrants. Chinese immigrants are the largest group. Ecuadorians are the second largest group. Koreans, Colombians, Bangladesh, Filipinos, Asian Indians, Guyanese, Peruvians and Irish are also well represented in Woodside.
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Woodside: a tour through the past, present, and culture of a historic urban community:http://users.bestweb.net/~brouwer/
Catherine Gregory: Woodside, Queens County, New York : a historical perspective, 1652-1994.
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Adventure Enthusiast
February 13, 2012
February 13, 2012
2009 graduate Akshay Nanavati has tried mountaineering, caving and sky diving. But this spring he will undertake his longest and most ambitious expedition to date – a 342-mile ski crossing of Greenland.
Nanavati is going on the trip to raise money for Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization.
"Their work is extremely inspiring," Nanavati said. "They willingly go in to horrible conditions to try and serve other people who don't have a choice to be there. It is a true testament to the humanity of others."
Nanavati will make the ski crossing with a team of about six people led by a member of Pirhuk Greenland Expedition Specialists. He will have to drag a sled carrying all the supplies he needs to survive for just under a month.
In early February, Nanavati went to Oslo, Norway, to train for the expedition. He described it as an "amazing trip and training" that will prepare him for the time he will spend crossing the second largest ice cap in the world. A typical day during the ski crossing will consist of waking up early, melting snow for water, and skiing for five to 12 hours with only five to 10 minutes for lunch. After the team is done skiing, they will make camp for the evening where once again they will have freeze-dried food for dinner with water that is made from melting snow.
Nanavati hopes to raise $10 for every mile he will be skiing − a total of $3,420. Anyone interested in supporting Nanavati on the trip can do so at http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/greenland/crossing. Nanavati will be documenting the expedition on his blog at www.existing2living.com/blog.
Nanavati said his passion to begin exploring and challenging himself began in high school in Austin. "I had no sense of direction and was getting into some bad things," he said. "That is when I saw 'Black Hawk Down,' and it just hit something in me. I started reading lots of books on it and the Medal of Honor recipients Gary Gordon and Randy Schughart, and I knew that was something I wanted to do."
Nanavati withdraw from Southwestern and joined the U.S. Marines in April 2007. As a participant in Operation Iraqi Freedom, he got to be a part of working in a dynamic setting where he served "a higher purpose than yourself." "I had to work for the group," he said. "We saw people go out and sacrifice it all for other people."
It was out of this sense of serving a higher purpose and wanting to sacrifice for others that Nanavati is trying to raise money through his ski expedition to donate to Doctors Without Borders.
Nanavati returned to Southwestern after his deployment and completed a degree in history with a minor in philosophy. He also earned a master's degree in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Nanavati currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and volunteers with the local fire departments. He hopes to get his EMT certification soon and would like to work with Doctors Without Borders in the future.
After his Greenland expedition, he plans to take courses for a life coaching program and hopes to go on several different expeditions, including a trip to the South Pole. He also is starting a business called Amara Adventures that will take people on expeditions around the world.
For more on Nanavati, visit his website at http://www.existing2living.com/.
- Isaac Bernal

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text: DigitalSecond-Screen Sports Options Circumventing TV Rights PactsCan ESPN steal the show without paying astronomical broadcast rights fees?By Mike Shields|April 10, 2012 ShareBy Mike Shields|April 10, 2012 Share NBCUniversal has committed $4.38 billion to broadcast the next four Olympics. Could ESPN steal those rights by hardly spending a dime? Not a chance. But ESPN has every right to go after the Olympics and every other major sporting event via its second-screen companion viewing apps like the popular GameCast. In fact, as social TV continues to explode, it's opened up the next battleground in the sports media world, where those exorbitant broadcast rights fees don't guarantee anything. "We want to see ESPN as second screen for all sports," said Eric Johnson, evp of multimedia sales at ESPN. "We know we have a lot of companion [mobile] usage, even when it's not our event. We want to take co-viewing to the next level." There's no doubt that more and more sports fans are sitting in front of the tube with iPads or iPhones in hand—some just texting or tweeting, while others are consuming complementary content via apps or engaging with mini sports fan social nets. ESPN knows, for example, that its mobile usage spikes for just about every live event. During NFL Sundays, visits to its mobile properties more than quadruple compared to the average weekday afternoon. Are all these people in front of the TV? Who knows? But it's a good bet that a lot are, even though ESPN doesn't air games at that time. Meanwhile, upstarts in the space like Yahoo's IntoNow employ new technology tools that recognize, in real time, what fans are watching. "That's a huge differentiator," said Adam Cahan, the company's founder and vp. "We don't have to get rights for these games. All I need to know is that you are watching football." That has to irk networks that shell out billions for TV rights and then build their own co-viewing apps. "There are plenty of second-screen apps out there," Rick Cordella, vp and gm of NBC Sports Digital, said at an event last week. "What we have are the rights." For the Olympics that means an app featuring an exclusive Twitter integration and unique camera angles. Is that enough to pull away ESPN mobile regulars? That's a big question—and one for which the stat-light, female-skewing Olympics may not provide the answer. And while ESPN isn't sharing any Olympic plans just yet, it's doubtful that the network's co-viewing experiences will be 100 percent synchronized with NBC's broadcasts of the games. More likely, social TV will continue to be highly fragmented, as networks, sports leagues, startups, Twitter and Facebook vie for fans' co-viewing attention. "I think social TV is likely to play out closer to an individual brand [or network] rather than a startup," said Jason Kint, svp and gm, CBS Interactive. "But I don't know that I believe anyone is aligned for victory or there will be a victor." Sharehttp://adweek.it/2kkOHSX copy Adweek Adweek


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I'll admit to having limited first-hand experience with the "Mondo" documentary subgenre. It's a type of film I've read a good deal about but of which I've actually watched relatively few examples, like pre-WWI German Industrialist Hygiene films or Scando-Mongolian Expressionist Midget Porn. Named after the infamous film that inspired all subsequent examples, Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's Mondo Cane (1962), the Mondo movie specialized in sensationalized depictions of strange, shocking rituals from around the world, often focusing on "savage" cultures like African and South American native tribes.
Actual animal killings, bizarre rites of passage, and taboo sexual ceremonies were the genre's stock in trade, and the lurid scenes that fill such movies were sometimes real, but just as often staged by the filmmakers for maximum shock value. (This aspect of the Mondo film was satirized gruesomely and unforgettably by Ruggero Deodato in his even-more-infamous Cannibal Apocalypse.)
As time went on the "savage" Mondo films (Africa Addio [1966]) were joined by "sexy" Mondo films like L'amore primitivo (1964--according to imdb, "including such things as sex slavery, dwarf love, Asian brothels and lesbians!"), the wonderfully titled Mondo Freudo (1966), and even Russ Meyer's Mondo Topless (1966, reviewed right here on MMMMMovies). As long as something was shocking and exotic and suitably unconfirmable, it was fair game, and the perverted public ate it up.
For trash-film fans from the USA, however, probably none of the Mondo titles is more shocking than Sergio Martino's 1970 effort Naked and Violent (aka America cosi nuda, cosi violenta, or America: So Naked, So Violent). Directing only his third feature and with still a ways to go before finding his stride in a series of excellent, stylish gialli and horror flicks, Martino presents a view of late 60s America as a savage, brutal place, with all the sensationalism and cultural condescension one would expect from the Mondo Africa films it mimics.
We open--after the AMAZING heart-felt title song, "Look Away (Lady Liberty)"--at Cape Kennedy, where for the second time NASA is about to send a group of astronauts to the moon. As the stern, disapproving narrator tells us, the moon no longer charms people the way it used to--jaded by success and affluence, curious Americans gather more to buy spaceman-shaped earrings, interstellar snacks, toy rockets, and even space-themed pornography! Rather than a symbol of the triumph of man over nature, Cape Kennedy has become a "lunar park," an amusement park for the bored, pampered, perverse citizenry to glut its insatiable appetite for thrills.
Insomuch as the flick has a central thesis, this is it: America, the richest country in the world, is full to the brim with sickos. Perhaps because of its wealth and unchecked political power, even the most way-out tastes and fetishes can be indulged, and frequently are. The movie purports to be a documentary of the darkest corners of the American Nightmare.
Viewed dispassionately, it's not a bad thesis--in fact, it's neither the first nor the last film to place the American consumerist lifestyle at the center of all the manifold evils not just in our country, but in the world. A compelling and even damning movie could be made--in 1970 or in the present day--with just that argument as its basis. But of course a Mondo documentary is not the place for serious socio-cultural critiques, and Martino and crew are not interested in presenting one. They're here to shock, and shock they will, by hook or by crook!
"the largest Italian city in the world," as it contains at least four million people with Italian surnames. Looking at the massive skyscrapers in a dizzying vertical shot from street level, he informs us that some of these buildings, with hundreds and hundreds of floors, are built "entirely without windows!" Then we take a tour of the Bowery, where we see alcoholic bums sleeping on the street as passersby step over them. Finally we visit a Retirement Home, where sad-faced, dementia-plagued seniors languish, "forgotten" by society. One old man is happy to be used for experimental cancer treatments, we're told, as it promises him a chance to be "useful."
In a time-honored Mondo technique of juxtaposing the grotesque with the sensual, we are then flown to Miami beach, where we watch some of the "most healthy, well-fed examples of youth" in the world. It's a cheap shot to go from the dying derelict cancer patient to the beautiful bodies of Miami, but it's also an effective one--you can't help but be drawn in, and then ashamed for it, which is of course the point. Sniffing most derisively, the narrator tells us these girls "all have the most perfect figures possible...and therefore, identical ones."
A few shots underwater and on the beach hint at some of Martino's future style, but just barely. Still, as quick and dirty as mondo films were, it's surprising any got through at all. The film moves at an absolutely breakneck pace, hardly giving one scene or pronouncement time to register before moving on to the Next Shocking Thing. Therefore, narrative summation is neither possible nor terribly useful. It appeals more to my low-level OCD, therefore, to categorize the scenes first by a) subject matter and then by b) reality versus staged.
And then there are the things that just have no category.
The Shocking Truth
a 2000-soul strong home for "retarded" children, where kind-hearted USA-sians teach the mentally deficient to feed themselves, dress, and perform Christmas pageants. It's a choice clearly made as an excuse to show the afflicted children as sideshow grotesques, and is fairly shameless and exploitative in the worst sense--what I mean is, it's one thing to make fun of middle-class hippies in psychodrama therapy, but another to leer at mentally handicapped children smearing oatmeal in their hair and shrieking "Silent Night" off key. I've got a pretty high threshhold, I'd like to think, but this seemed extremely icky in its intent and execution.
The conclusion of the documentary will get any red-blooded American's dander up, as the narrator unleashes a poetically damning speeach at one of the country's most beloved symbols, the Statue of Liberty. After reciting the "Give us your poor, your tired, etc." speech, the narrator responds:
"Oh, put out your light you hoarse old gal. Your shouts do not move me anymore. Your call sounds always fine, I must admit. But I cannot accept it any longer. After years listening to your lies, I don't care anymore. Put out your light! Ye tired old gal. And turn your back to the Ocean. And put a little love, if you can, in me too."It's a good thing for Martino & co. Toby Keith wasn't around in 1970--and also that one presumes he doesn't watch that many movies with subtitles. (Or maybe he does, what do I know?) He'd have put more than love into him, that's fer sher. Boot-shaped love, courtesy the Red White and Blue! YEEE-HAW!
MYA DVD used for their transfer was the best surviving one they could find, but it's still in pretty rough shape--lots of scratches, specks, and occasional print-damage jump-cuts. But as you might imagine, that sort of enhances the viewing of a Mondo film rather than taking away from it.
As a film by a man whose later work I admire a great deal (well, except for the cannibal stuff), I find it interesting to see how Sergio Martino got his start, even if little of his later trademark style is in evidence. As a time capsule of perversion, an exercise in gross-outs, and a fascinating look at my own country's culture from an outside point of view, I'd recommend Naked and Violent to those interested in that sort of thing. 2 thumbs.
Just keep it away from Lee Greenwood, though--God knows it would probably kill him!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Naked and Violent (1970): or, Mondo Americano
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 7:00 AM
Labels: '70s, 2-3 thumbs, Animal Snuff, Hippies, Mondo, Naked Hippie Sex, Sergio Martino, Shockumentary
6 comments:
- Andrew Green said...
Fascinating post....
I gotta check out that Naked and Violent movie.
- July 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Samuel Wilson said...
Damn! This one looks like it would give Goodbye Uncle Tom a run for its money. But now that I mention Jacopetti & Prosperi, they prove that style was possible in mondo films, which can be said to have a certain generic rhetorical style, at least, along with ironically romantic orchestral music from Riz Ortolani and others. Bigger budgets like J & P had also help a lot. But back to Martino, I must never have noticed this one because the title makes it sound like a giallo. Now that I stand corrected, I've got to track it down. Thanks for bringing it to our attention in such amusingly critical detail.
- July 7, 2010 at 2:11 PM
- dfordoom said...
I've never seen a Mondo film. Unless you count Mondo Topless! I'm not sure if you've actually convinced me I want to see one or not. It sounds sort of fascinating though.
- July 7, 2010 at 11:14 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
@Andrew -- Thanks for the comment!
@Samuel -- Actually I added it to my queue without knowing it was a Mondo movie (as you say, it sounds like a giallo), and only became aware of the difference upon receipt. I haven't seen GOODBYE UNCLE TOM, and don't know if I will in the future, but this one definitely delivers the shocks and gross-outs.
@dfordoom -- MONDO TOPLESS has about 50% more nudity, and 100% fewer actual animal deaths, so I think that's definitely a win for Russ Meyer. ;) And indeed, the genre proper is both fascinating and horrible.
- July 8, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- Sarah from Scare Sarah said...
Very informative! SOunds right up my street.
- July 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM
- Joe Monster said...
Hmm. I pretty much have the same ideas as everyone else. This film sounds kind of sick and definitely not cool because of the animal deaths. But yet, for some strange reason, I feel like I want to see it. Maybe it has something to do with the morbid fascination inherent in most horror fans.
Or maybe it's just my overwhelming patriotism!
- July 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM