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In Defense of Moe: An Interview with Patrick W. Galbraith (Part Six)/
Many of us have a strong sense that gender differences are enforced in Japanese culture. I had the experience of crossing to the wrong section of a manga shop in Akihabara and seeming to create some consternation amongst the other patrons. Yet, in many ways, moe itself involves various kinds of transgressions of gender barriers – men consuming texts created initially for a market of young girls. Can you share with us a bit more about the ways gender is reinforced or transgressed in the moe culture you are describing? What does moe masculinity look like? First of all, I don't want to give the impression that moe is somehow limited to male fans of media featuring or originally targeting young girls. For one of my first major research projects in Japan, I spent a year with female fans of manga and anime, who referred to themselves as fujoshi, which means "rotten girls." Why rotten? Well, because they enjoyed watching manga and anime featuring charismatic male characters, who they then would imagine sexual relationships between. They drew fanzines about these imagined romantic and sexual relationships, which they called "couplings," and then sold these fanzines at conventions or published them online.
Their activities are not really that different from the writers of slash fiction that you wrote about in Textual Poachers, except that they typically were interested in characters from manga, anime and games rather than live-action TV shows and film. This is simply a reflection of the prevalence of manga and anime in Japan, which provides charismatic male characters. Also in line with the prevalence of manga and anime in Japan, these fujoshi tended to draw their fanzines instead of writing textual stories. But aside from growing up in manga and anime culture, fujoshi are not so different from slashers. Indeed, male-male romantic fan-fiction, which is called yaoi in Japan, got started in the late 1970s, which is around the same time that it did in North America and Europe.
The presence of these female fans in Japan in the 1970s is also interesting because they were there in the early days of "otaku culture," when manga and anime were beginning to attract mature and intense fans. Too often we ignore the presence of these female fans, despite the fact that some of the earliest records of anime fan clubs date back to Umi no Toriton (Triton of the Sea), which was dominated by female fans, including Kotani Mari. The critic Sasakibara Gō goes so far as to say that it is women, not men, who first recognized, celebrated and shared their love of fictional characters. That is, and Sasakibara is quite clear on this, female fans responding to fictional male characters like Triton are the origin of moe culture.
It is perhaps not a surprise that women dominated early attendance of the Comic Market, a central gathering for fanzine buyers and sellers since its founding in 1975, or that women led the charge in drawing sexual parodies of manga and anime characters.
Men were always behind, late to party and responding to what women were already doing. Indeed, just as women consumed across gender/genre lines to find charismatic male characters to slash in their fan works, men then did the same, but in the other direction. The bishōjo or cute girl character, which is now so prevalent in manga and anime, is actually a hybrid of Tezuka Osamu's manga and shōjo manga, and was developed as a result of women producing manga for boys and men and men producing their own manga in a style inspired by shōjo manga. This is why, in the late 1970s, even as women were pioneering sexual parody fanzines, adult men began to read Ribon, a manga magazine originally intended for young girls.
This gender/genre crossing goes both ways – male to female and female to male. Indeed, Weekly Shōnen Jump, a magazine ostensibly for boys, is not only read by adult men but also a significant number of women. Eventually, the lines blur to the extent that it's hard to locate the gender/genre boundary. Take for example Sailor Moon, originally a manga for young girls written by a female artist and serialized in the magazine Nakayoshi. It is hard not to notice that Sailor Moon draws on cultural touchpoints that might be categorized as "boys' culture," for example a team of young people who transform into color-coded rangers to fight evil. Sailor Moon simply has young women transform into color-coded sailor soldiers to fight evil. It adds a strong dose of melodrama, but its not really so different. Once transformed, the young women wear modified school uniforms with shortened skirts. Is it any wonder that Sailor Moon attracted male fans when it was adapted into a TV anime in the 1990s?The crossing seems calculated at this point.
So, there is certainly a strong tendency to carve the manga and anime market up into target gender and age groups, but there is also a great deal of movement across the boundaries. This typically doesn't bother anyone, expect perhaps the when adult men come into close proximity with young girls around a shared object of affection, which is to say bishōjo or cute girl characters. The presence of adult men at events surrounding the Sailor Moon anime, which is at least ostensibly for young girls, caused some commotion in the 1990s. Legend has it that when one child began to cry at such an event, one of the women who voices a character in the show defused the situation by referring to the adult males in the room as "big friends" (ōkii otomodachi). It's a cute story, but my suspicion is that this scene probably makes many people uncomfortable.
Indeed, Mizuko Ito notes a similar discomfort when adults and children came together in the unsupervised environments that sprung up around the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game. There seems to be a general anxiety about adult men being near children, especially adult men interested in fictional girl characters. Even in Japan, when there is a violent crime involving a child, admittedly rare, it is not uncommon for commentators to point out that the perpetrator was a manga or anime fan. As if that explains anything. I have seen politicians in Japan do this, even pointing to cases where the police have not yet revealed if the media that the suspect consumed was in fact manga and anime or not. That is, these politicians have said to me, without a trace of irony, that they can assume the connection to manga and anime because the criminal in question was an adult male who harmed a girl child.
By this point, it's a foredrawn conclusion – except that it's tenuous at best and asinine in any case. These men, we are told, spend too much time with manga and anime and are socially isolated and sexually immature. They become warped and cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. Their desire is suspect, as at any moment their benign perversion might transform into predatory sexuality. That is, by virtue of their interest in cute girl characters in manga and anime, these men become suspected sex criminals.
We are starting to see this all over the world, with arrests and prosecutions for the possession of pornographic (and sometimes not) manga and anime as "child abuse material" in Canada, Australia, the United States and beyond. Men with no record of ever consuming actual or even "pseudo" child pornography, let alone abusing a child, are arrested, convicted and jailed for possessing drawings of purely fictional characters. As these stories circulate in the news, Japan is set up as the perverse sexual "other" of the West, with manga and anime on the whole characterized as child abuse material and anyone who touches it suspected of harboring the darkest of desires.
With all of this negative press, conservative forces in Japan are emboldened to attack manga and anime and argue for stricter regulation. Sometimes the conservative agenda is obvious, as when a library was raked across the coals for making boys' love manga, which is commercially published and widely available, accessible. The criticism was that young people would be sexually "confused" by this material, though this has not happened since such manga first appeared in Japan in the 1970s. The same logic seems to be at work in saying that manga and anime more generally will lead to "cognitive distortions" about children, though this has not happened in Japan, where manga and anime are widely available.
The conservative and criminalizing discourse about manga and anime is exactly why it's important to remember the basic definition of moe as a positive response to fictional characters and representations of them. To return to the Sailor Moon scene that might have made us uncomfortable, the adult male fans in the room are not there for the children, but rather for the characters of Sailor Moon. Surrounded by children, they are there to see the drawings, hear the voices and get the merchandise. To conflate desire for the fictional characters with actual children is a gross misunderstanding of Sailor Moon fandom, which potentially makes innocent people suspected criminals. It also ignores that moe is a response in relation to fictional characters, which are kept intentionally separate from reality. Such a critique completely misses the point of the word moe.
What do you hope to achieve with this book?
I hope that the interviews will introduce people unfamiliar with manga and anime to the faces of the men and women, both real and fictional, who are so often talked about rather than talked to. This talking over and around Japan, Japanese fans and criticism in Japanese has led to a seriously biased view of otaku, especially Japanese men who are attracted to fictional girls.
There is a lot of room for more nuance. For example, Kotani Mari talks about "otaku" as those who feel alienated by hegemonic masculinity, as "strange men" who struggle for alternatives. We can certainly see that in people like Itō Kimio, though this male reader of shōjo manga is not among those identified or identifying as an "otaku." But when it's Honda Tōru talking about his love for fictional girls, for cute characters, this guru of moe seems like a walking otaku stereotype. We tend to point and laugh rather than listen to what he's saying, which reveals his own deep discomfort with hegemonic masculinity. Until we actually begin to see the faces and hear the voices, it is difficult to even entertain Honda Tōru's ideas about "moe men."
At its worst, its most poisonous, the bias against male otaku in Japan makes it seem as if merely hearing them out and letting them speak is apologia for "perversion" and "pornography" that endangers real children. It's a gothic narrative, and this iteration of otaku are the bad guys. If you don't stand against the bad guys, then you stand against the good guys and are one of the bad guys.
There is no way to raise questions about moe in such an environment. It is in this impossible environment that I decided to focus my interviews on male otaku in Japan. It was a purely strategic decision meant as a response to and intervention into the most reactionary discourses that demonize and criminalize manga and anime fans.
In the future, I hope to do another book focusing on female fans, male characters and moe. Or, better yet, an expanded edition that is not segregated based on the sex/gender of fans and characters. As we can see from the fact that Itō Noizi, a female artist, is one of the most popular illustrators of these characters, bishōjo should not be reduced to "male fetishes" of "sex objects." I tend to agree with Momoi Halko, who is incidentally also a female artist, when she describes interactions with manga and anime characters as potentially taking us beyond a bodily, binary understanding of male/female into imaginative dimensions of sex/gender.
Patrick W. Galbraith received a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Tokyo, and is currently pursuing a second Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of The Otaku Encyclopedia: An Insider's Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan (Kodansha International, 2009), Tokyo Realtime: Akihabara(White Rabbit Press, 2010), Otaku Spaces (Chin Music Press, 2012) and The Moe Manifesto: An Insider's Look at the Worlds of Manga, Anime and Gaming (Tuttle, 2014), and the co-editor of Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (Palgrave, 2012) and Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan: Historical Perspectives and New Horizons (Bloomsbury, 2015).
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Ala al-Din Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (Ibn al-Nafis) (1210-88)
A polymath, Ibn al-Nafis was born in Damascus in Syria, and spent much of his working life in Egypt, becoming head physician in a medical school in Cairo. He was also influential in questioning the authority of Galen, suggesting that 'observation, sensible investigation, and common sense' were more important than blindly following ancient teachings.
Renowned for the volume and quality of his work, Ibn al-Nafis was also, among other things, a linguist, philosopher and writer of fiction. He was also the first writer to treat anatomy as a separate and independent discipline.
Ibn al-Nafis's most famous medical discovery is the pulmonary transit of blood. That is, he recognised that blood moved from the right to the left side of the heart via the lungs. This was revolutionary, in that it corrected some of the mistakes Galen had made when describing the role of the heart and blood.
As more work has been done on the translation of Arabic texts, it now seems clear that parts of Ibn al-Nafis's books were available in medieval Europe, and may have influenced the work of people such as Servetus and Harvey.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- James van Riemsdyk scored twice within 2 1/2 minutes in the first period Tuesday, setting the tone for Toronto's 3-2 victory over Washington.
Van Riemsdyk opened the scoring with an unassisted goal off a Washington turnover 10 minutes into the game and added his sixth of the season shortly thereafter for the Leafs, who broke a two-game skid.
Korbinian Holzer added his first NHL goal and Phil Kessel collected a pair of assists in the victory.
Ben Scrivens turned aside 24-of-26 shots for Toronto.
Marcus Johansson and Mike Ribeiro each found the net for the reeling Capitals, who dropped to 2-7-1 to begin the season.
Michal Neuvirth stopped 18-of-21 shot as Washington fell for the fourth time in five contests.


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BALTIMORE – UMBC women's soccer concludes its three-game road trip on Thursday, Oct. 3 when it continues America East action at Binghamton. Game time is set for 6 p.m. at Bearcats Sports Complex, with live action and stats available at www.UMBCRetrievers.com.
The Retrievers (5-4-2, 0-1-0 AE) have dropped back-to-back contests for the first time this season, after falling on Sunday in their America East opener at Maine. The Black Bears' Alex Abrahams struck for the game-winning goal with 3:03 remaining in regulation en route to a 2-1 victory.
Sophomore back Amira Walcott (Beltsville, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) and junior back Melissa Hummel (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East) connected for a score for the second time this season on Sunday against Maine. Walcott is third on the team in points in 2013, while red-shirt junior Jessy Brown (Plantation, Fla./American Heritage) and junior Lilly Rydon (Stirling, South Australia/Concordia College) have each added a team-best six points.
Senior goalkeeper Lauren Kadet (Oakville, Ontario/St. Thomas Aquinas) has seen all the action in net for the Retrievers. Kadet, who became the program's all-time leader in saves (348), is allowing 0.95 goals per game on the season.
Binghamton (5-3-2, 0-0-1 AE) opened up America East action with a 0-0 tie against New Hampshire on Sunday. The Bearcats have not surrendered a goal in their last 180 minutes of action and rank second in the conference in goals allowed (0.80 goals per game).
Sophomore forward Stephani Church has come off the bench in seven of 10 games to lead the squad with three goals and seven points on the season, both ranking in the top-5 of the league. Sophomore midfielder Rebecca Raber has chipped in five points on one goal and three assists.
Senior goalkeeper Carrie Martin has started all 10 games for the Bearcats this season, with junior Gaby Gold and senior Stephanie Speirs each having seen action in 2013. Martin has tallied 30 saves and is surrendering 0.76 goals per contest.
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-UMBC is winless in 11 all-time meetings versus Binghamton. The Retrievers' two ties have come on the Bearcats home field.


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More like Hunger Games than My Big Fat Wedding
So it's off to Adelaide, where Stefano is starting the day with a secret. He's coming out of the closet. With a jewellery box in his hand.
"I've got something planned tonight," he says, and sadly for the guests he's not talking about an edible meal. "Lisa doesn't know what it is."
But soon enough, we do. The Italian stallion is planning a marriage proposal. How romantic. There's nothing like sharing your most intimate moments with 2 million or so of your closest friends. We'll all be sure to pop around to your place the morning after the wedding too, to see the sheets hung over the balcony. Ah, sweet.
Moving right along, the entree is served and Lisa gives her big-eyed bug-eyed stare as she scrutinises - her word - Pete and Manu as they eat the entree. "Please just give us something," Lisa says and Manu obliges with the cold stare of the killer we all suspect he was before he ran away to join the French Foreign Legion, which is undoubtedly where he learnt to speak with that outrayzhurss accent.
Manu is a little disappointed with what's on his plate. He likes his mussels wet and sloppy, he says, so "you've got the salt dribbling down your chin and you just don't care". But Lisa and Stefano's mussels aren't juicy at all. "It's 'affway there for me," Manu says, and Lisa spits back a terse, "OK. Thank you" like she really, really means it.
"Are you overwhelmed?" asks Pete.
"Yep," says Lisa, ever chatty.
"Do you think you might have missed something on the plate?"
"I don't know," she says, warming to this whole conversational thing. "You tell me if we did."
This is getting tense but any dummy could tell her what's coming. "Seasoning," says Pete.
D'oh! A pinch of autumn, a sprinkle of spring and everything would have been fine.
The dish was flat, insists Pete, but Lisa says she likes it this way because she hasn't spent the last 20 years dousing everything in tons of salt. And besides, she thinks, any fool can see the dish is round with a little raised rim on it. Flat my arm.
Cue the critics. It was bland, say the Italian gatecrashers. It was mismatched, says Sophia, who hasn't just crashed the gate, she's ripped it off its hinges and taken the fence down too. "I'm not saying it was the greatest dish," says button-eared Dan in a passably bitchy impersonation of Sophia. Wouldn't you just love to see these guys battle to the death in the Hunger Games arena?
Back in the kitchen, Stefano is cooking rabbit ragu, a little known character from the Merry Melodies cartoons. "I am in total command of this main course," he says, thus demonstrating beyond all doubt that he bunked out of school the day they covered "hubris" in Classics.
Enter Manu, with a handy definition of ragu, which is basically anything other than what Stefano is cooking. "Yeah, but I've got to add the stock," says Stefano by way of defence. It sounds about as convincing as "the cat ate my homework".
"If I don't get a perfect main course I'll probably be very, very upset," says Manu, and given that killer stare of his I'd be afraid. Very afraid.
Now Pete has got them worried about seasoning and Lisa is looking so stressed he'll be lucky if he gets out of there without being a-salted.
Stefano, though, is blissing out. "I feel like I'm in my element cooking risotto in the kitchen with my love. Perfect." That's enough of those herbs for you, sonny Jim.
Lisa is convinced the ragu is a bit ragone; it needs to be wetter, so she convinces Stefano to add some wine, against his better judgement.
"I just have to trust her," he says.
"I'm wearing the trousers," she says.
In this ragu Rashomon, I know whose version of events I believe.
As the risotto hits the table, the gatecrashing Mamas wonder where all the creamy goodness is. Pete thinks it looks lousy but tastes good. Manu thinks it tastes great but it's not a ragu and it's not a risotto and that's that. "I've never got this in a restaurant, anywhere," he says, steam spurting out of his Gallic ears.
"I meant to make it dry," says Stefano, feeble lies streaming out of his Latin mouth.
After the ad break, the voiceover tells us it's been a "disappointing" meal at Carnevale, which is a bit rough as no one has scored the SA Dating restaurant yet. Hang on, should that be SAD eating? Hmmm.
But maybe dessert can turn things around. They're making cookies, and Lisa tells us she's been playing with them since prep time. By my calculation that's about 36 years; I'm not sure I'd be telling everyone you're planning to serve up some Play-Do from the mists of time, Lisa.
While she's deep in regression therapy, Stefano is working on a semi-freddo that is "perfect", even if he says so himself. Which he does. But frankly I'm not convinced half a chocolate frog can be as good as all that.
Outside, Kieran the Goth Dungeons and Dragons geek is holding court (medieval, natch), telling the judges he doesn't think of cookies as a dessert. More a snack. And will it be one big cookie or lots of little ones, he wants to know. And will it be gooey on the inside and crunchy on the outside? And will it have little flecks of green in it and make your head spin? And will he need a prescription to get one? And does anyone else have the munchies or is it just me?
"Can we just move on from the cookies?" says Sophia and for once everyone agrees with her.
When the dessert hits the table, big Sam the Tas man says it is exactly what he imagined from reading the menu. Which is a shame because that means "it's one big whopper of a cookie on a plate with a dollop of ice-cream and some chocolate sauce".
He's clearly much better at visualising menus than I am. I had imagined something quite tasty and instead it looks like a big blob of poop. With raspberries around the outside.
"Holy cow," says one of the gatecrashing Italian mamas, and it is just possible she is referring to the orifice from which the dessert appears to have emerged.
"This is Lisa's dessert," Stefano reveals to the camera in a very special and intimate moment of blame-shifting.
"Tonight's a celebration for you guys," Pete says after gagging on a few spoonfuls. "I don't know how to say this, but this dessert is not good."
"It was hers, it was hers," Stefano's bad Jiminy says.
Sophia says it's like eating a slug and while we knew she grew up poor, this really is a revelation. Wow, girl, you ate slugs? You are forgiven. A bit.
Nastassia has managed to eat not just hers but also Kieran's. "I thought it was great," she says, "but then I may just have been…"
"…hungry," Kieran finishes, thus doubling his contribution to their collective effort thus far.
In the kitchen, Lisa and Stefano brace themselves for a mauling. Out on the deck, the guests happily oblige. Sophia, naturally, has the best line (does she write them herself or is Don Watson ghosting for her?) "It was such a waste of my stomach space," she says. "It was a train wreck."
The guests' scores total a brutal 13 out of 50. The 49 they need to be safe looks a bridge too far. "It's disappointing," says Lisa. "It's dog eat dog." Which, to be fair, may have been a better menu option than human eats poo.
"We're in a pool with sharks right now," she adds, at which point Carnevale is raided by a SWAT team from the RSPCA on suspicion of widespread cruelty to animals.
While Stefano and Lisa are being bundled away, the judges deliver their verdicts. They've scored just as harshly, giving them 25 out of 60. That's a total of 38 and it has them firmly anchored to the bottom of the leader board.
But on the upside, that's like being the leaders of the bottom board. Right?
Lisa is certainly accentua-ate-ing the positive. "Despite our miserable score, I'm still walking away with happy memories," she says. It seems cruel to point out that she has momentarily mixed up her priorities so that real life becomes (ridiculously) more important than reality TV.
"At least we've got each other," she adds, gazing lovingly at Stefano.
Ah, sweet. See you at the wedding.
Karl Quinn is a senior culture writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.


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The Yomiuri Shimbun
OSAKA, Japan – Laughing is said to be good for the mind and body. Taking that advice to heart, a number of seniors are flocking to laughter yoga – an exercise that encourages people to laugh while practicing yoga.
Despite its name, laughter yoga does not require practitioners to bend and contort their bodies into difficult poses. Developed in 1995 by an Indian doctor and his wife, the exercise only requires people to take deep breaths while doing simple yoga poses.
The exercise trend has spread to more than 70 countries around the world, including the United States, China and Germany. According to Laughter Yoga Japan, an incorporated nonprofit organization, the exercise can help refresh the mind and body, ease stress and improve the lymphatic and circulatory systems.
Bright and early on a recent day, about 30 members of a laughter yoga group gathered in Osaka Castle Park in Chuo Ward, Osaka. "Imagine you're an airplane flying to Hawaii," Rikako Ueda, the group's organizer, told participants.
The group then stretched their arms wide open to mimic airplane wings before bursting out into laughter while running around.
After a while, the group began clapping before saying in unison, "Eeyan, eeyan …" or "It's good" in the local dialect.
"If you can't laugh properly, just let out a loud 'hahaha,' " said Ueda, a 58-year-old certified laughter yoga teacher.
The exercise continued as members were prompted to imagine themselves picking up gold bars, or peeling huge bananas. They also mimicked swimming strokes, such as freestyle and the doggie paddle.
The group continued the laughing exercises for about an hour.
Said Ueda: "It's important that at first, you just let out your voice cheerfully. If you practice every day, you'll be able to laugh very naturally."
Ueda's "Warai Yoga Kurabu" (laughter yoga club) holds meetings at the park once a month, in addition to indoor practices.
According to scientists, people laugh less as they grow older.
In a survey of 2,471 people conducted by Tetsuya Ohira, a professor at Fukushima Medical University, more than 60 percent of female respondents under 50 said they laughed almost every day, compared to just 43 percent for those aged 70 or older.
For men, the figure stood at 36 percent for those 70 or older, significantly lower than the 58 percent recorded for those under 40.
"The less people laugh, the more likely they are to develop memory loss or other symptoms," Ohira said.


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Pele: Birth of a Legend is a very light sports entertainer that fails to capture the game in its truest form. It is not a good sports movie, but it is definitely a great entertainer if you are looking for something really frivolous to go with your frolic mood. It seems to have been helmed for those who aren't really big fans of the game.
Pele: Birth of a Legend will let you have a glimpse into the life of Pele the true legendary footballer and throw some light towards his madding fad. Things that were pulling him down were all around him, and despite all the odds he shone through.
The movie tries to capture his street football shenanigans, adds in some humour, a pinch of dramatic spices and tries to bring in the forefront the popular Brazilian Ginga style that was Pele's USP.
Despite how Pele: Birth of a Legend lodges in you some good vibes, it falls flat owing to its pathetic depiction. You constantly see drops of frustration on Pele's brows, which really takes a toll on your spirits. If you are really looking for something extraordinary to happen given the mammoth sports figure he is, the movie lets you down so many times, you constantly wonder if something out of the box is going to happen. Even though it does, it is nothing akin what happens in a gut-wrenching live sports match.
Leonardo Lima Carvalho was a pleasant find. He made young Pele really endearing. His group shenanigans were a delight to watch. The starting bits of the movie were the best moments I would say. Even Seu Jorge who played Dondinho was great. Vincent D'Onofrio unfortunately had very little to play with in his baggage, but he performed his bits nicely.
Melodrama has been deliberately pushed in its frames and there is so much of it that it becomes really exhausting at times. When in the middle of the game players go in bullet mode to have a look at each other, you can almost imagine how implausible its dramatic elements must be.
There is a guest appearance by the legend himself at one point, which will bring a smile to your face. But that's about it. Eventually you get to see one game in Pele: Birth of a Legend, but then it is smitten with so much melodrama that sports simply gets lost in those pointless close-up frames. Nothing wrong with watching it once though.
Pele: Birth of a Legend
- Little Pele was a pleasant find
- His early days have been depicted beautifully
- Football fandom can be read from character's faces
- Cashes in on Brazilian Ginga style
- A pleasant light entertaining movie
- Drama seems like a forced attempt
- Poor depiction of gameplay
- Not a single game has been shown properly
- There isn't a tinge of seriousness to be found


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It is the end of an era for the iconic convenience store chain. Media, Pennsylvania-based Wawa is closing its very first location after 50 years in business.
"Store #1," located at MacDade Boulevard and Swarthmore Avenue in Folsom, Delaware County, will shut its doors in spring 2016. Around the same time, the company plans to open a new state-of-the-art location about a half-mile away.
"It is emotional yet exciting for all of us," said Lori Bruce, Wawa spokeswoman.
The newly constructed store will open at MacDade Boulevard and Kedron Avenue in the spring of next year, Bruce said. Current employees will not be affected by the change, she added.
"With the same Wawa associates and customer connections traveling to this new store," Bruce said, "for us this will still be store number 1."
As many as 60 people will work at the new store, double the number of workers staffing the older locations.
Wawa -- a Native American word for the Canada goose once found in the Delaware Valley -- is symbolized by the store's logo of the bird in flight.
In the Philadelphia area, the chain has achieved cult status and draws in hordes of people hungry for their "Classic Hoagies."
The well-known and well-liked convenience store got its start in 1964 as an outlet for dairy products. Today Wawa has more than 645 locations in six different states, including New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Florida, according to its website.


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Blood and Faith - Snap #213
Every single day, people dive into the unknown, demanding that the universe catch them. This week Snap Judgment leaps after them. Stories from people who put EVERYTHING on the line, no matter the consequences. Listen now, or get the podcast!
Blind Faith
Bartlomiej Skorupa is having a great time diving off of the beautiful beaches of Madagascar. But there is a price for living off the grid.
Check out Bart's amazing non-profit, Groundwork Opportunities, born of this adventure.
Produced by Stephanie Foo
River Rescue
Keavy Neff thought he had it bad until he heard a man's cry for help in the Spokane River and knew that only he could help someone worse off than him.
Produced by Mark Ristich and Pat Mesiti-Miller
Song Playlist
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*start times for songs are from the first word of the story.
Fighting for Air
Maribel always considered herself blessed by God. The two of them had an understanding, a relationship. But when her life is threatened, Maribel finds herself having too choose between her faith and her health.
Produced by Stephanie Foo, Sarah Jessee and Natalia Jaeger
In the Thick of the Night
In the middle of a rugged wilderness, Randy is hurt bad. John Campou has two choices: Get help in the middle of nowhere--or watch his friend die.
Produced by Mitzi Mock and Mark Ristich
War hits home, forcing a teenage boy to make a grown-up decision in the wake of his father's sacrifice.
Produced by Anna Sussman
Team Rubicon
Jake Wood, a decorated Marine Corps Scout-Sniper comes home from war, and returns to a new kind of battlefield, using his wartime skills to save countless lives.
(Big thanks to Jake Wood and William McNulty.)
Produced by Anna Sussman
See footage from Team Rubicon in Haiti:
Listen to all the songs we used in this episode right here:
The "I go with the undertow" music clip is from Ornand Altenburg's 2007 album "Catfish Row". I couldn't figure it out either until I searched discogs.com Sorry for double-commenting.
Does anyone know the song in this episode with the lyrics "and I go with the undertow"? I've done a few different searches and can't find it anywhere...
The "I go with the undertow" music clip is from Ornand Altenburg's 2007 album "Catfish Row". I couldn't figure it out either until I searched discogs.com


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MLB & Dodgers Notes 8-19-08
It's official
Greg Maddux joins the Dodgers. Ned Colleti had this to say…
"It's very rare that you get the opportunity to add a pitcher like Greg even one time, let alone twice," Colletti said in a club release.
Really ? Even let alone twice ? So why did you let him go in the first place ?
Not Joe's Fault
According to Wallace Matthews of Newsday, Joe Torre deserves apology from the Yankees. Matthews writes the following…
Last October, the Yankees made Joe Torre an offer he couldn't accept, the chance to be a lame duck in the shooting gallery known as Yankee Stadium.
They came with 6 million bucks in one hand and brass knuckles in the other. Torre walked away because he knew that, even at that kind of money, he wasn't going to be a manager, just a punching bag.
Can you imagine how hard and fast the fists would be flying in the Bronx today if Torre had accepted the deal, only to find himself 10 games behind the Tampa Bay Rays of all teams, and 5 1/2 games out of the wild-card race with fewer than 40 games to go?
For a guy dubbed Clueless Joe before his first day on the job, it was an incredibly shrewd and prescient move by Torre. –
I disagree that the Yankees need to apologize. They knew very well the way they treated him. I do agree Torre would of been a punching bag. Imagine if your only purpose is to win a World Series every single year ? It's impossible to win every year. The Yanks didn't treat him fair. I'm glad Torre is with us but I do believe we would of been ok with a younger manager that can fire up these young players.
Stamp This !
I noticed this last week. The U.S. Postal Service released a baseball theme stamps. Pretty cool. Nice to add to your collection. From the USPS site…
On July 16, 2008, in Washington, DC, the Postal Service™ issued a 42-cent Take Me Out to the Ball Game commemorative stamp. The stamp was designed by Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, Arizona. This issuance commemorates the 100th anniversary of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," one of the most popular baseball songs of all time. For decades, the song's catchy chorus has been part of the musical tradition at ballparks around the country, especially during the seventh-inning stretch. The song was born on a New York City train in the summer of 1908, when passenger Jack Norworth (1879-1959), an actor, singer, and songwriter who had never attended a major league ball game, saw a sign about an upcoming game at the Polo Grounds. Suddenly inspired, he took out a piece of paper and began dashing off lines about a fictional fan.
Kemp Party
Matt Kemp hosted a party last week. You can check out the pictures by clicking here.
Video Time ! Troy from West Virginia is going to Philadelphia this weekend to catch the Dodgers. Just don't get arrested again Troy 🙂


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Lifetime of dieting is the new weight loss plan
A NEW year: a new you. It's the diet industry's perennial catch cry.
As obesity rates continue to climb, weight-loss companies are rebranding their message.
While reaching your ''goal weight'' was once the slimmer's holy grail, success is now being redefined.
Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers say it's no longer about shedding all your excess kilograms and fitting into that summer bikini - it's about getting healthy.
Drop as little as 5 per cent of your body weight and you can reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
And there is now acknowledgement that it may take repeated attempts at their programs to see results.
Weight management is being sold as a ''life service'' - a disclosure that would once have been anathema to an industry built on the lure of the quick fix.
But while some health professionals have welcomed the move towards greater transparency, others fear that the slimming world is moving backwards by legitimising yo-yo dieting - a habit that has been linked to increased risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and metabolic disorders.
Repeated cycles of weight loss and weight gain can lower the body's metabolic rate, making it harder to burn calories when normal eating patterns are resumed.
''What concerns me is the idea that it's normal to go up and down in your weight,'' dietitian Rosemary Stanton said. ''A new study a few weeks ago showed that from a health perspective, people who repeatedly lose weight and put it back on would have been better off staying fat.''
Stanton, who was once a consultant for Weight Watchers until it became ''too commercial'', also questions if it and other weight-loss companies are now more focused on getting customers to buy their range of convenience foods than helping people slim down. This was creating dependent consumers and not attacking the real problems of diet and obesity, she said.
Jenny Craig chief executive Amy Smith dismisses the criticisms and says the shift in its marketing message is not an admission of failure, but recognition of how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off.
''You have to look at it as a life service. It's like taking your car in once a year for a tune-up. Some people will come back several times, but we have to accept on the basis of the statistics – a third of Australian adults and a quarter of our children are overweight – that weight loss isn't a straight line; there are humps and bumps along the way. That doesn't mean people attempting it who experience [weight] regain have failed. So in that sense, yes, we have reframed the marketing of what success means.''
Stanton says the medical profession has also moved away from ''target weight'' as the ultimate goal for those trying to shed excess fat.
With increasing evidence that even modest weight loss in very heavy people can be beneficial, she believes it's not surprising the industry has followed suit.
''It probably reflects the fact that people are now not just a few kilos overweight, but a high percentage of Australians are obese or morbidly obese. I think the weight-loss companies are starting to see that there's so many of those people that they have to adapt their message to make the goal more attainable.''
By adopting a more realistic approach to weight loss, Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers maintain they set themselves apart from the ''charlatans'' that thrive in a $790-million-a-year diet industry notorious for spruiking unsubstantiated methods to achieve ''miracle transformations''.
As countless Australians prepare to fight the festive flab, these companies say their focus on peer support, lifestyle change and nutritional education will give them a better chance of losing weight than if they opt for a fad diet, pill or shake.
This positioning, along with scientific evidence that the programs offer relatively good results, has seen sectors of the medical community begin to embrace their programs as a potential pillar of the obesity solution.
Weight Watchers, backed by the Weight Management Council – a collaboration of health professionals and weight-loss companies including Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers, which aims to improve standards in the industry and protect consumers from shonky diet products – this month lobbied the federal government for $115million to allow publicly funded access to the programs.
The size of the business – one in three Australian women has attended a Weight Watchers meeting – makes it a more cost-effective approach, they argued, than people attending individual dietitians.
They pointed to a 2011 Lancet study, which found that overweight and obese adults in Australia, Germany and Britain who were given a year's Weight Watchers membership, lost twice as much weight as another group who were treated by GPs.
Jenny Craig has made a similar pitch to government, arguing it offers a scalable national response to the obesity crisis.
But how many people who sign up to these programs regain the weight and return for another attempt?
Neither Weight Watchers nor Jenny Craig said they were able to provide Fairfax Media with data on how many times, on average, their clients repeat the programs.
Weight Watchers Australasia managing director Joseph Saad said it wasn't uncommon, particularly for women who regained weight at menopause or after having children, to come back, but that did not equate to yo-yo dieting.
''It's OK for people to give smoking cessation a go but not everyone can quit first time, and we're no different to that ... Ultimately does it really matter when you get to the prize of losing weight if it took three or four attempts? The benefits outweigh the number of attempts when you finally get there. We get more people to that level than any other weight-loss program anywhere in the world and that's why the doctors support us.''
Saad says Weight Watchers has more than 70 clinical trials that detail the approach's efficacy, including one showing that five years after completing the program the majority of people have kept off more than 50 per cent of the weight they lost.
So how many reach their target weight? ''The top of Everest is to get to your goal weight or your BMI and keep it off – that is gold standard. We get over 10per cent of people to that level,'' Saad says. ''Success shouldn't just be about how much weight you lose, it should be about milestones and about what you deem success to be.''
Arguably, if a drug or medical service failed to provide optimum results in 90per cent of cases it would be pulled off the market. Yet, in the weight-loss world, these figures are considered acceptable.
It is, in part, because of the complex nature of obesity. There is no one-size-fits-all answer. Each person will gain and lose weight in different ways, influenced by a range of individual genetic, emotional, environmental and metabolic factors.
Gary Wittert, professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide and chair of the Weight Management Council, says that repeated attempts to lose weight should not be viewed as failure and that, while not perfect, formalised programs such as Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers were far more effective than DIY dieting.
''There's good evidence that the program works. Fundamentally though, the way the body works and the physiology of weight regulation, nothing is a one off ... Success is dependent on ongoing engagement in the program – whatever you do has to be lifelong.''
Saad maintains that if Weight Watchers memberships were publicly subsidised it would make a ''huge dent'' in Australia's obesity problem and therefore significantly reduce the costs of treating chronic disease.
Yet, as the weight-loss giants pitch their services as mainstream medical solutions, some health experts are cautioning government against funding commercial enterprises, which have strong ties to the food industry.
In 2010, Jenny Craig's Australia and New Zealand arm was bought by global food giant Nestle – which makes Smarties, Kit Kat and Allen's Lollies. Weight Watchers New Zealand recently partnered with McDonald's to produce a range of healthy meals. The link-ups prompted the Obesity Policy Coalition to accuse junk food companies of making their customers fat then selling them the cure.
Weight Watchers also now has its own line of convenience foods, which can be incorporated into the program's eating plan.
Saad insists that the food range is not the company's core business and that members are never told they must buy those products. He says that while Weight Watchers is a commercial organisation, that should not preclude its services from being government-funded, in the same way that drug companies supply medicines that attract subsidies.
Stanton sees it differently. ''I think we have to ask the question, is the aim still to give support and help people change their habits or are they just aiming to change them on to another [food] product? If it's a Jenny Craig product you don't even have a choice on what you can eat because they supply all the food, so I think it is creating a dependency. I hear people say all the time I went on Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers and lost weight but they're hugely fat now and they just think, 'I'll do it again'. People just aren't seeing that this is a problem for their health and for their wallet and they're not attacking the real problem.''
Amy Smith – who was a repeat Jenny Craig client before becoming the company's chief executive and still checks in each year for a ''tune-up'' – says modern life has made it harder for people to lose weight and that a dose of realism is required.
''The less educated we are about basic nutrition, the more sedentary we are, the more availability of food and the less time we have, means the problem is compounded and what people need is support and education.
''You're not just going to be able to have half a dozen lessons and it be sorted. It's a life skill like driving or parenting.''


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Two weeks ago I blogged about Facebook's new "text in images" guideline and how I found it somewhat confusing.
"Ads and sponsored stories in news feed may not include images made up of more than 20% text, including logos and slogans."
Recently (January 31, 2013) I saw a Jimmy Kimmel Live sponsored post (read: ad) in my news feed that only added to the confusion.
At first glance, my eyes were telling me the image contained more than 20% text. So how did this image sneak past Facebook's SPAM checkpoint and make it to my news feed?
Theory: By stretching the image's height and loading the text in the middle of the image, JKL was able to get past Facebook's defenses. Once inside, Facebook did all the work by cropping the image to display in the mobile news feed, serving up a text heavy graphic. Brilliant!
With this newfound knowledge, I conducted a test.
On the left is how the image appeared in mobile news feed thanks to Facebook's auto-cropping. The text takes up 12.18% of the image, still well below the 20% cutoff. On the right is the full image, the text consuming just 5.75% of the image.
The result of the test?
Yet another rejection letter from Facebook claiming the image violated the "more than 20% text" image guideline.
How could this be? If you compare the two images side by side, the groundhog image clearly has less text than the JKL ad. Yet the JKL ad ran in my news feed while the groundhog image was rejected.
//stop the blog post… was just directed to a Social Fresh blog post, thanks Annalisa//
Does Your Content Play By Facebook's New 20 Percent Rule?
Thankfully, the team at Ron Sachs has developed a grid-based template to help content developers determine what percentage of an image contains text. The tool is a 5 x 5 grid with a total of 25 boxes. An image meets the 20% test if text appears in no more than five boxes.
A 5×5 grid? Could it be that easy? No counting pixels in Photoshop?
I guess the grid explains why the groundhog image was rejected — text appeared in 8 boxes, 3 more than allowed. But it doesn't explain why the JKL image found its way to my news feed as an ad — text appeared in every box, EVERY BOX???*
I've never wanted a perfect Facebook experience… just a fair one.
*Logos and slogans count as text.


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NW Portland's Neighborhood Frame Shop
Joanne Rollins offers custom framing at the best little picture frame shop in Portland. Museum quality, reasonable prices and a fun, collaborative experience.
If it's important to you, it's important to us.
At J. Rollins Art of Framing, we have a simple philosophy—if you care enough about a piece to bring it in for custom picture framing, we care enough to treat it as if it'll be hanging in our own homes.
Owner and designer Joanne Rollins brings a lifetime of experience as an artist and expert framer to every project, regardless of size or budget. A creative soul with a broad range of experience and keen eye for detail, Joanne is equally comfortable doing museum-quality archival work or simply helping a client with a limited budget get a cherished piece on the wall, looking fabulous.
Joanne and her staff understand it's not the frame you should see—it's the art within. Her team's job is to enhance the framed work and protect it for generations. We truly enjoy fostering a collaborative relationship with our customers, and it's always our goal to make the process a fun, non-intimidating one.
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Recent News
April 16, 2013
Louisiana Firm Recalls Cooked Meat, Poultry, and Deli Products
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of roast beef, ham, turkey breast, tasso pork, ham shanks, hog head cheese, corned beef and pastrami by Manda Packing Company due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
Each package has a "Sell by" date of May 13-June 9, 2013, and bears the establishment number "EST. 8746A" inside the USDA mark of inspection.
These products may have been sliced at retail delis, and if so will not bear this packaging information. The products were shipped for further distribution, for sale at retail, and to retail deli stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Consumption of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Healthy people rarely contract listeriosis. However, listeriosis can cause high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea. Listeriosis can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths, as well as serious and sometimes fatal infections in those with weakened immune systems, such as infants, the elderly and persons with HIV infection or undergoing chemotherapy. Individuals concerned about an illness should contact a health care provider.
The full recall can be found at www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_028_2013_Expanded/index.asp.


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Soups Recipes
Cannellini Bean Soup with Arugula
Cannellini bean soup is an easy dish I can whip up in no time. It's also a meal I can be sure everyone is going to enjoy. It's vegetarian, it contains no major food allergens and even baby Aria can eat it easily.
I try to always have fresh greens in my refrigerator. I usually toss them in a simple salad, I also make pesto or use them as garnish for appetizers, pizza and sandwiches. The addition of arugula at the last minute provides color and a peppery flavor to the otherwise fairly bland, pale soup. To ensure the nutrients of the arugula were still intact, I added finely chopped arugula only at the last minute, so it barely wilted in the soup.
Full Recipe...
Vegan Coconut Soup Recipe
I usually pair coconut soup with seafood. To ensure that the rest of the family could share a similar meal with me, I made scallop-lookalike sweet potato out of a Vietnamese root vegetable called khoai tu. It resembles sugar cane but once cooked, it's starchy with a subtle sweetness. I cut it into the dimension of sea scallops and pan-fried them. Once the fragrant coconut broth is ready, you just need to add the wonderful looking vegetarian "scallops".
Khoai từ has been available at the Asian market this season but it's a little pricey. I think this would make a fabulous dish for you to serve if you celebrate the Vietnamese New Year. I'll try to have a vegetarian diet the days before and after New Year's Day but since it isn't time for the festivities just yet, I indulged in the real thing with fresh, large and sumptuous sea scallops.
Full Recipe...
Pea Soup Topped with Pasta Chips
I may sound like a broken record, but I try not to waste food. In Vietnamese, it is tội chết: "dreadfully sinful" to waste. Yesterday, I had a little bit of leftover boiled bow-tie pasta. The quantity was too little to serve as a main dish, so I seasoned them, deep-fried them and served them as chips.
To ensure everyone enjoyed the small amount of chips in equal portions, I used them as crunchy toppings for pea and leek soup. You could serve them as appetizers for a buffet-style party (maybe next week for Christmas Eve) in mini shot glasses. A sprinkle of curly parsley is more than enough to provide an elegant final touch.
Waste not, want not!
Full Recipe...
Chicken Minestrone Soup Recipe
One way to guarantee flavorful minestrone soup is to use pre-roasted chicken and chicken broth. Once you have these ready, making minestrone soup is very easy. For this winter version, I added common vegetables that are available this season, such as onions, celery, turnip and carrots. A few herbs, as well as black lentils and pipette macaroni pasta completed this rustic, thick soup.
I don't know about your area, but we've been pulling out all our cold-weather gear. In the Bay Area this evening, temperatures dipped to near freezing; I could barely feel my nose and ears. Baby Aria was so cute in her cozy, quilted snowsuit. When we came home, this chicken minestrone soup really warmed us up.
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Roasted Cauliflower Pumpkin Soup Recipe
I hope it's not going to be too cold next Thursday for our family gathering. But I'm keeping this soup recipe as a "maybe" in case the temperature drops too much and we crave something soothing and warm.
To ensure the soup keeps up the Thanksgiving theme, I used a combination of fall-friendly veggies like pumpkin and roasted cauliflower. I also added duck prosciutto for texture and thyme-infused whipped cream for extra creaminess.
Full Recipe...


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Newtown residents come together as news of tragedy spreads
Newtown - They come and go in groups of two, three, five out front in the fading afternoon, clutching coffee cups and cigarettes, mostly hushed, occasionally laughing in a self-conscious, strained way, more often shaking their heads.
They have cellphones pressed between ear and shoulder, cold hands stuffed in pockets. They're getting together after work or they're on their way home, in daily routine or by chance.
In this town, dealing with unspeakable tragedy, everyone meets up at Dunkin' Donuts.
The center of town sits at the intersection of Church Hill Road and Queen Street - on the latter, a shopping center offers a Big Y, a liquor store, a CVS, and New England's unofficial joint of choice for coffee and fried dough.
It's about 2 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman on Friday killed 26 people, including 20 students.
It's not a tiny town - 60 square miles, close to 30,000 residents - but they all seem to agree: Everybody here knows each other, somehow.
Inside, standing with hands on hips or sprawled on the brown faux-leather chairs set up in a semicircle, they watch strangers on TV narrate their lives, their turf, using words like "sleepy" and "tight-knit" over and over.
When asked, they pause to recall the moment of discovery, looking away or at each other for reassurance in sharing the same moment - that shift, the elusive way in which everything is fine, until it isn't.
For Will Schubert and Sean Edwards, both 18, it was between when they went to sleep and woke up Friday morning, around 10, to text messages - friends in lockdown at the high school, broadcasting their plight with quick thumbs.
"Obviously, you're not supposed to text during a lockdown," Schubert says. "But everybody does it anyway."
The boys recently graduated from Newtown High School. They sit in their cars in adjacent parking spaces, talking through rolled-down windows.
Schubert works in the tire department at wholesaler BJ's in Brookfield; Edwards, who works at the doughnut shop, commutes to nearby Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury from his aunt and uncle's home in town.
After the texts, Schubert tuned into the police scanner on his phone and watched the listener tally bloom from a couple hundred to thousands.
Around 3:30 p.m., Edwards is about to call a friend for a rain check: A co-worker is too shaken to take his shift at Dunkin', so he's stepping up.
"He wouldn't ask me to cover if …" Edwards trails off. "He loves to work."
Ashley Sieling, 25, and Theresa Roberto, 20, have just gotten off work - Sieling from her job as a life skills instructor for special needs adults at Ability Beyond Disability in Bethel, and Roberto as an attendant at the Citgo on Route 25. They grew up here.
Sieling went to Sandy Hook Elementary.
The connections and coincidences unfold - the what-ifs and almosts and friends of friends. Schubert's father only recently retired as a cop for Newtown and state police; Sieling's directs traffic for the local fire department.
Her 5-year-old cousin is enrolled in kindergarten at Sandy Hook - the afternoon session.
Later, a group of men, stubbled, a little gruff, gathers in a circle outside, lighting each other's cigarettes. They speculate, make plans for the next day. They recall the 1986 murder of Helle Crafts - the "Woodchipper Murder," for the way in which Crafts' body was disposed - another grisly Newtown legacy.
It's fully dark now. They eye a chopper that lingers overhead.
"I still don't know which of my neighbors lost children," says one, a retired prison guard who declined to give his name.
They grapple with the feeling of tragedy striking surreally close, where you never thought it would, where you couldn't possibly have thought it could.
Earlier, Sieling glanced at her hands. They're still shaking, she said.
"It's different when it's you," she said.
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Vehicles for Change, a Baltimore-based nonprofit, and Harford County Wheels for Work joined forces to award their first vehicle, a 2005 Subaru Impreza, to a Harford County family.
The organizations partnered together in October 2012 to provide automobiles to participants of residential programs for people in crisis in Harford County. The Subaru will be awarded to a single mother with three children, including one son with special needs.
"Vehicles for Change is excited to award our first vehicle with Harford County Wheels for Work," Steve Sullivan, assistant director of Vehicles for Change, said in a press release. "This vehicle will help the family travel to work and day care, and move towards self-sufficiency."
Wheels for Work was made possible through a grant from the Dresher Foundation. The program will provide cars and bus transportation to clients of Anna's House, Harford Family House, SARC and the Homecoming Project. Like all Vehicles for Change car recipients, Wheels for Work clients need to be working at least 30 hours a week or have a verifiable job offer before they are eligible to receive a vehicle.
"We are so excited to have our first client receiving a car through the Harford County Wheels for Work Program, it will open up a world of possibilities for this family," Joyce Duffy, executive director of Harford Family House, said. "We are so fortunate to partner with Vehicles for Change, an incredible resource in bringing cars to people in Harford Family House, SARC, Anna's House and the Homecoming project. Hopefully people in Harford County will be encouraged by this award and donate cars to Vehicles for Change, in the name of the Wheels for Work Program. By doing so they will be changing the lives of people in need, right here in Harford County."
Through the VFC-Wheels for Work partnership, the public can donate vehicles on behalf of Wheels for Work and directly assist the program's clients. For each car that is donated on behalf of Wheels for Work and in good enough condition to be provided to a family, a vehicle will be awarded to a Wheels for Work client.
VFC accepts donated cars from the public and provides these vehicles to low-income families in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Since its formation in 1999, Vehicles for Change has impacted the lives of more than 14,000 individuals by awarding more than 4,000 cars to low-income families in Maryland, Washington and Virginia. There are more than 81,000 low-income households without a car in the Baltimore metro area.
Vehicles for Change, a nonprofit organization committed to selling refurbished cars to low-income families at minimal cost, was founded in 1999. Vehicles for Change awards cars to worthy families throughout Maryland, Washington and Virginia.
For more information about Vehicles for Change or to donate a vehicle, visit http://www.vehiclesforchange.org or call 410-242-9674.
Follow the organization on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/vehiclesforchange and Twitter @vehicles4change.


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Gathered today for the Tokyo Two trial verdict in Aomori, Japan.
Responding to the verdict Junichi said, "While the court acknowledged that there were questionable practices in the whaling industry, it did not recognise the right to expose these, as is guaranteed under international law. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on which our defence was based, supersedes domestic criminal law, but the judgment did not properly take this into account."
"This sentence is totally disproportionate and completely undeserved," added Toru. "We set out to reveal the truth about the government's whaling programme, but instead have been punished, while those behind the misuse of public money walk free."
Greenpeace is appealing this totally unjust, politically motivated sentence. Junichi and Toru have taken great personal risks to investigate and expose embezzlement at the heart of Japan's tax-funded whaling industry. They intercepted one of numerous boxes of whale meat embezzled from the whaling programme as evidence. These boxes were taken for private use by the crew of the Nisshin Maru in violation of the whaling programme's regulations, and this amounts to a misuse of public funds.
However, instead of investigating and arresting those behind the whale meat embezzlement scandal, Junichi and Toru were detained arbitrarily, forced to live under onerous bail conditions and put on trial. After more than two-years of political prosecution the court has convicted them of "theft" and "trespass", while the criminals behind the whale meat embezzlement walk free.
You can read key facts heard in the trial here.
Activists are not criminals, and to treat them as such has a chilling effect in society, undermining the quality of democracy.
The freedom to peacefully expose wrongdoing is not only a crucial part of any democracy, it is a right that must be defended. Greenpeace will continue to make this case a global priority until this unjust conviction is overturned.
Greenpeace International Executive Director Dr. Kumi Naidoo
This conviction is a slap in the face for those that expose inconvenient truths and the misuse of public funds. It's bad news for the entire political culture in Japan, not least the role of non-governmental organizations in society; there is little doubt that the ruling signifies a major step backwards for the country's aim of gaining international reliability. More broadly this conviction is part of a disturbing trend of authorities meeting peaceful and civil dissent with harsh and disproportionately severe punishments. Sentences such as the one that has been given to Junichi and Toru today create a chilling effect in society. They narrow the democratic space and discourage people from speaking out, with impacts for all of us.
Greenpeace activists are always prepared to take responsibility for their actions, and standing up in court for what we believe in is often a result of taking appropriate, peaceful action. However, it is unacceptable for the authorities to ignore human rights and freedom of expression.
Japan has already drawn criticism from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention for its treatment of Junichi and Toru, and as Professor Dirk Voorhoof, an international law expert and defence witness in the case, said: "This conviction is very likely to earn Japan more criticism for its failure to respect its obligations under international human rights law."
Junichi and Toru are not alone in facing this verdict. Vigils are being held at Japanese embassies around the world and hundreds of thousands of people have already signed our petition calling for justice. In addition, the Toyo Two's case has already been taken up by Amnesty International, by Nobel Laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and by celebrities like Bryan Adams and Benicio Del Torro.
People around the world respond to the sentancing of Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, known as the Tokyo Two.
Over the course of the Tokyo Two trial a lot has also happened to shift public perceptions in Japan. Industry whistleblowers have continued to speak with Japanese media about corruption and wrongdoing in the whaling industry, interest in the story keeps growing, and in the last fortnight alone articles in major newspapers such as Tokyo Shimbun and Kyodo have closely examined the issue. The headlines include "the trial of whale meat theft exposes horrifying realities" and "Scientific Whaling is diverting to illegal channels after all". Japanese journalists are also not just increasingly interested in what's going on in the tax-funded whaling programme, but in what the Tokyo Two trial has to say on the question of freedom of expression and non-governmental organizations' rights in their country.
"Activists are not criminals, and to treat them as such has a chilling effect in society, undermining the quality of democracy," said Greenpeace International Executive Director Dr. Kumi Naidoo, who travelled to Japan to hear the verdict. "The freedom to peacefully expose wrongdoing is not only a crucial part of any democracy, it is a right that must be defended. Greenpeace will continue to make this case a global priority until this unjust conviction is overturned."
We're standing with Junichi and Toru all the way and will make sure as many people as possible hear their story – and the positive impact their brave action is having.


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Watch Zac Efron Dance Seductively to Jason Derulo's 'Wiggle' [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Stop everything you're doing and watch Zac Efron dance to Jason Derulo's 'Wiggle.' Now.
According to E!, the movie star hottie was vacationing in Italy with Italian entrepreneur Gianluca Vacchi when the pair and another friend decided to get up on a table and dance to the sexy hit. Just in case you forgot that Zac can seriously get his groove on, the 25-year-old hunk rolled his body and waved his arms to the beat, much to the delight of women everywhere. (Which was apparently the guys' intention, considering Gianluca Vacchi captioned the Instagram vid "dancing on the table for girls.") Just about the only thing that could make this better was if Zac decided to do a shot-for-shot remake of the pole-dancing clarinetist's 'Wiggle' vid — but hey, we'll take what we can get!
And for your viewing pleasure, Zac also hung out (shirtless!) with Vacchi, his girlfriend, and their pal Michelle Rodriguez, who shows off her enviable body while doing a handstand in a bikini in the video below. Of course, that's not the only thing to envy the actress for — she gets to sit next to Zac Efron, clad in nothing but his swim trunks. Super jealous!
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Golen notched her first career double-double to lead the Crimson to a 62-57 win over BU (Jon Luszcz).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Four Crimson scored in double-digits and Emma Golen notched the first double-double of her career as the Harvard women's basketball team defeated Boston University, 62-57, Wednesday night in Lavietes Pavilion.
Christine Clark led the offensive efforts with 16 points, marking the eighth straight game the sophomore has reached double-digits. Victoria Lippert notched 11 points while both Brogan Berry and Golen chipped in 10. Golen and Miriam Rutzen pulled down 10 rebounds apiece, as the Crimson (2-4) outrebounded the Terriers (3-3) 47-34.
Both teams shot 35 percent for the game but were over 80 percent at the line. Harvard's big rebounding advantage proved to be the difference in the contest, as the Crimson held a 30-22 advantage in points in the paint and a 16-10 advantage in second-chance points.
Chantell Alford led all scorers with 19 points as Mo Moran tallied 18.
The tone for the game was set early as the two teams traded the lead five times through the first six minutes. BU took a three-point lead off a Caroline Stewart jumper five minutes in but a 6-0 run put Harvard back in front, 11-8. Lippert began the stretch at the line and was followed by a Golen jumper and Clark layup in transition.
The Crimson held on to the lead for nearly seven minutes and went ahead by as many as six, 20-14, on a Lippert three with 8:26 remaining. A 7-0 stretch regained the lead for BU, however, and the Terriers went on top 25-22 on Rashidat Agboola's layup with 5:48 to play. Harvard forced its way back into the game by holding the Terriers scoreless over the next five-plus minutes, and took a 27-25 advantage with Rutzen's three from the top of the key.
Berry's jumper with 32 seconds remaining appeared to have given Harvard a 29-27 lead at the break, but Chantell Alford buried a three with just nine ticks to play, giving BU a 30-29 halftime edge. Lippert and Rutzen led the Crimson with seven first-half points, while Rutzen's six rebounds also paced the team. The Terriers shot 40.6 percent against Harvard's 30.0 percent, but an 8-3 advantage at the line helped Harvard keep pace.
Scoring was at a premium early in the second half with the teams combining for just 10 points through the first 4:30 of play. Missy Mullins changed all that with a pair of baskets in the paint before back-to-back fast-break layups by Clark put Harvard in front, 41-36. The Crimson took an eight-point lead, 45-37, after consecutive baskets by Berry and Lippert.
This time it was the BU defense which answered the call, forcing three Harvard turnovers during an 8-0 run to pull within one, 49-48. A layup by Berry ended the drought for the Crimson and with 3:24 to play, Golen hit a clutch three-pointer to make it a 56-50 game in Harvard's favor. BU pulled to within a bucket twice in the final two-plus minutes, but each time the Crimson had an answer to hold onto the lead. Berry gave Harvard a 60-57 edge with 1:17 remaining and calmly hit both ends of a one-and-one with 12 seconds to play, giving the Crimson the final 62-57 margin.
The Crimson will be back in action Tuesday, Dec. 6 at New Hampshire. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Emma Golen recorded her first career double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds … Golen is the first Crimson to notch a double-double since Emma Markley (22 pts., 11 rbs.) on Feb. 12, 2011 versus Brown … Miriam Rutzen also grabbed 10 rebounds, making Golen and Rutzen the first Crimson teammates to tally at least 10 rebounds in the same game since Jackie Alemany (13 rbs.) and Victoria Lippert (10 rbs.) did so Feb. 19, 2010 at Cornell … Christine Clark has scored in double-digits in eight straight games dating back to last season … Harvard has outrebounded its opponents in three straight games and in five of six games this season.


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Investiture Ceremonies Begin New Tradition
A Week of Events Brings Thanks to Scholars, Donors Who Are Making Contributions to the University
Feb. 20, 2012
At the investiture ceremony for the School of Engineering and Computer Science (from left): Dean Mark Spong, Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham and Dr. Gopal Gupta.
Dr. Marion Underwood paid tribute to her father, who was present at her ceremony.
Dr. Emily Tobey and Dr. Aage Møller confer after the investiture ceremony for the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
The winter chill that kicked off a week of Investiture Ceremonies at UT Dallas eventually yielded to sunnier weather befitting the warm atmosphere at the University's celebration of chaired faculty members.
The ceremonies acknowledged both the achievements of accomplished scholars and the generosity of far-sighted donors, said UT Dallas President David E. Daniel.
More than 50 faculty members from four schools celebrated investiture this week, including President Daniel and Dr. Hobson Wildenthal, the University's executive vice president and provost. Investitures of those who hold endowed positions in UT Dallas' other schools will be celebrated at a later date.
One by one, dressed in full academic regalia, each investee was introduced to crowds of colleagues, family members, students and mentors before receiving a medallion signifying the honor of their investiture. Each thanked those who had mentored them along the way and family members who had supported their careers, which began at universities throughout the country and around the world.
Strong themes emerged in their comments, from excitement about the energy of the quickly growing University, to appreciation for a smart and curious student body, to gratitude for the support that professors have received from the top to pursue their research.
"When I received tenure here at UT Dallas, one of my colleagues congratulated me on having become dead wood," said Dr. Robert Xavier Rodriguez, world-renowned composer, aesthetic studies professor and holder of a School of Arts and Humanities Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies. "It's rewarding to me to see that dead wood has become a chair – and I'm grateful for the opportunity to sit in it."
Rodriguez joined 14 of his colleagues in the School of Arts and Humanities at the ceremony, including Dean Dennis Kratz.
"The arts and humanities teaches us to look beyond surfaces," Dr. Kratz said. "The medal to me represents years of conversation and prodding.
Dr. Emily Tobey was invested as the holder of the Nelle C. Johnston Chair in Communication Disorders in Children.
"Thank you, Abby!" he added, nodding to his wife, Associate Provost Abby Kratz. "She's the one who did the prodding."
These group ceremonies were planned to honor both recently recruited faculty chair and professorship holders, and those whose appointments had never been so celebrated. Dr. Roger Malina, the Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair, joined UT Dallas in 2011 and has dual appointments as a professor of arts and technology and a professor of physics.
"Excellence is not enough," he said. "We must make UT Dallas unavoidable, and I am happy to help make this happen."
A few of the honorees had arrived at UT Dallas more than 30 years ago. Dr. Stephen Rabe, a 35-year member of the UT Dallas faculty, reflected on the growth of the campus.
"There have been a lot of changes since the '70s, and I'm very proud of the transformation," he said.
Students celebrate with Dr. Dongsheng Brian Ma, an associate professor of electrical engineering and holder of the Erik Jonsson Distinguished Chair.
Dr. Dongsheng Brian Ma, associate professor of electrical engineering, shared his honor with his students.
"Most of these students are international students," he said. "So when they move to this country, they have no relatives, no family, but they put their full trust and belief in me. So when I decided to move to UT Dallas from [the University of] Arizona, all of them had no hesitation and decided to move with me."
After he described his students packing up their luggage and driving 1,000 miles on a hot summer day in 2010, the audience at the ceremony for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science gave the students a round of applause.
One of those students is Chen Zheng, who is from China. "It was very emotional," Zheng said of the ceremony. "We are so glad to see Professor Ma have such a great honor, and we are also happy we can be part of this achievement."
Dr. Bruce Gnade, the University's vice president for research, was invested as the holder of the Distinguished Chair in Microelectronics.
Perhaps the person who traveled the farthest to attend was Dr. C.V. Ramamoorthy, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, and mentor of Dr. Farokh Bastani, who holds an Excellence in Education Chair in Computer Science. Bastani thanked his 90-year-old mentor, a "visionary pioneer in computer science."
The honorees also thanked the donors who made their chairs possible.
Dr. Ross Roeser acknowledged longtime Dallasite Lois Wolf for the gift that created his Howard B. and Lois C. Wolf Professorship of Pediatric Hearing. He said the support made it possible for him to "do the things that would have been unimaginable 40 years ago."
Mrs. Wolf and her husband established the professorship in 2007 to increase research involving hearing disorders in infants, toddlers and young children at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders.
"I'm so honored and delighted to be a part of this ceremony," said Ms. Wolf. "It's such an important part of life to be able hear, and for little children to be able to grow up and really hear and be a part of the world."
Representatives of Texas Instruments attended Tuesday's investiture ceremony for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. The company donated funds to create the chairs for Dr. Massimo (Max) Fischetti and Dr. Julia Hsu, both professors of material science and engineering who were recruited to the University in 2010.
Dr. Hongbing Lu, a professor of mechanical engineering, was invested as the holder of the Louis Beecherl Jr. Chair.
Texas Instruments also supports two other endowed positions in ECS, for Dr. Kenneth O and Dr. Yves Chabal, whose investitures were celebrated approximately two years ago.
Trisha Cunningham, chief citizenship officer at Texas Instruments, said the company made the investments because it wanted to support UT Dallas' efforts to become a national research university and to maintain close ties with the institution that the company's founders established.
"We enjoy our partnership with UT Dallas. We work with universities all over the world, and it is wonderful to work with an institution of this caliber so close to home. We are truly happy with the trajectory they are on," she said.
Dr. Aage Møller, professor of cognition and neuroscience, not only holds a professorship, but also made gifts to support two other positions. He and his late wife created the Aage and Margareta Møller Distinguished Chair, held by Dr. Bert Moore, dean of the School of Behavioral and Brian Sciences.
"This is a great pleasure to be honored for doing work I love to do," Møller said during a reception held after his ceremony. "And I've been very privileged in another way to have the economic means to help other people, my colleagues, pursue the important work that means so much to them."
Dr. John Hart, medical science director at the Center for BrainHealth, thanked the couple who endowed his chair, Bud and Jane Smith. He said the Smiths were involved in his hiring and have been very engaged with him personally and professional ever since.
"They helped recruit me here. They have been actively involved in my family's life and mine," Hart said. "They are very special people."
Dr. Hart said his move to UT Dallas has created opportunities in his research that weren't possible elsewhere. Dr. A. Dean Sherry, holder of the Cecil H. and Ida Green Distinguished Chair in Systems Biology, hit a similar note at the ceremony for the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
"I felt I've had golden opportunities to build something great here at UT Dallas," Sherry said. "We truly have a lot of freedom to pursue great research."
Dr. Hobson Wildenthal took a momentary break from his formal duty of draping each honoree with his or her medallion to enjoy his own investiture as holder of the Cecil H. Green Distinguished Chair of Academic Leadership.
"There is no finer provost or chief academic officer to be found anywhere," President Daniel said during his introduction.
After stepping to the lectern, Wildenthal thanked several long-time donors to the University, including Mrs. Margaret McDermott, Erik Jonsson and Cecil Green.
"This ceremony is all about appreciation, and I have great appreciation and thanks for the vision of our donors," he said.
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A new Endowed Professorships and Chairs website details the academic careers of the honorees.
The Investiture Tradition
An investiture is a ceremony celebrating the formal conferral of honors associated with academic and research accomplishment.
A chair or professorship is created through the establishment of an endowed fund, often by a private donor. The investiture ceremony honors both the achievement of the faculty member and the generosity donors who create the funds that support the chair.
Faculty who hold these chairs and professorships are among the University's most distinguished and accomplished by virtue of their research or creative work. Donors responsible for the creation of these enduring opportunities to reward faculty excellence include individuals, corporations, foundations and The University of Texas System, all of which have made lasting contributions to the University's excellence.
Investitures of those who hold endowed positions in UT Dallas' other schools will be celebrated at a later date.
Dr. Hobson Wildenthal, the University's Executive Vice President and Provost, was invested as the Cecil H. Green Distinguished Chair of Academic Leadership.
President David E. Daniel congratulates Dr. Margaret Owen, Robinson Family Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Dr. Bruce Novak was invested as the Distinguished Chair in Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the school for which he is dean.
Dr. Bert Moore, dean of the School of Behavioral and Brain Science, was invested as the Aage and Margareta Møller Distinguished Professor.
Dr. Aage Møller talks with well-wishers after the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences ceremony, at which he was invested as the Margaret Fonde Jonsson Professor.
Dr. Mario Rotea was invested as the Erik Jonsson Chair in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Dean Dennis Kratz (left) and Provost Hobson Wildenthal help Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth with her medal on the stage with UT Dallas President David E. Daniel. Ozsváth holds the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies.
Dr. Susan Jerger was invested as an Ashbel Smith Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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The Rolling Stones, the rock 'n' roll icons who have defined creativity, daring and durability, are chronicled in a kaleidoscopic new film that will debut THURSDAY, NOV. 15 (9:00-10:45 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO. The film documents the key periods in their career and their incredible adventures.
Other HBO playdates: Nov. 18 (5:15 p.m.), 20 (6:45 p.m., 1:00 a.m.), 23 (1:45 p.m., 9:00 p.m.) and 26 (2:15 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Nov. 21 (9:00 p.m.) and 29 (12:15 a.m.)
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, directed by Academy Award(R) nominee Brett Morgen (HBO's "The Kid Stays in the Picture"), provides a remarkable new perspective on the Stones' unparalleled journey from blues-obsessed teenagers in the early '60s to rock royalty. It's all here in panoramic candor, from the Marquee Club to Hyde Park, from Altamont to "Exile," from club gigs to stadium extravaganzas.
For CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, the filmmakers amassed a library of more than 1000 hours of film and 500 hours of audio by gaining access to outtakes from nearly all of theStones documentary films. With never-before-seen footage, most notably from "Gimme Shelter" and "Cocksucker Blues," and fresh insights from the band members themselves, the film will delight, shock andamaze longtime devotees, as well as more recent fans, with its uniquely immersive style and tone. Drawing on more than 80 hours of new interviews with the band, the film marks the most extensive participation by the Stones in a documentary ever.
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE features previously unheard versions of such Stones classics as "Tumbling Dice," "No Expectations," "She's a Rainbow," "Prodigal Son" and many more. Rare live performances of "Satisfaction," "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "It's Allright" fill out the soundtrack.
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE places the viewer right on the front line of the band's most legendary escapades. Taking its title from a lyric in "Jumping Jack Flash," CROSSFIRE HURRICANE gives the audience an intimate insight, for the first time, into exactly what it was like to be part of the Rolling Stones as they overcame denunciation, drugs, dissension and death to become the definitive survivors. It's the backstage pass to outdo them all.
The film illustrates the Stones' evolution from being, as Mick Jagger vividly describes it, "the band everybody hated to the band everybody loves," through the hedonistic 1970s and Keith Richards' turning-point bust in Canada, to the spectacular touring phenomenon of today. Richards also reveals the song that he believes defines the "essence" of his writing relationship with Jagger more than any other.
Asked in a formative interview in the film what it is that sets them apart from other groups, Jagger says with quiet understatement, "A chemical reaction seems to have happened." Richards adds, "You can't really stop the Rolling Stones, you know when that sort of avalanche is facing you, you just get out of the way." It's been happening ever since, and the life and times of the Rolling Stones have never been as electrifyingly portrayed as they are in CROSSFIRE HURRICANE.
The odyssey includes film from the Stones' initial road trips and first controversies as they became the anti-Beatles, the group despised by authority because they connected and communicated with their own generation as no oneelse ever had. "When we got together," says Bill Wyman, "something magical happened, and no one could ever copy that."
Director Brett Morgen adds, "CROSSFIRE HURRICANE invites the audience to experience firsthand the Stones' nearly mythical journey from outsiders to rock and roll royalty. This is not an academic history lesson. CROSSFIRE HURRICANE allows the viewer to experience the Stones' journey from a unique vantage point. It's an aural and visual roller coaster ride."
From the outset of the film, viewers know they're in for a white-knuckle ride. No sooner had the early Stones lineup first played live under that name in thesummer of 1962 than they were bigger than the venues that tried to hold them. Wyman remembers how the crowds were soon inspiring manic behaviour, especially among screaming girls, whose uncontrollable excitement was obvious as stardom beckoned for the band already earmarked as the bad guys with press headlines like "Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?"
Riots and the chaos of early tours are graphically depicted, as is the birth of the Mick Jagger-Keith Richards songwriting partnership. The many dramas they encountered are also fully addressed, including the Redlands drug bust, thedescent of Brian Jones into what Richards calls "bye-bye land," and the terror and disillusionment of 1969's Altamont Festival.
The band's rock 'n' roll lifestyle is also discussed with extraordinary forthrightness, including the time of their seminal 1972 album "Exile on Main St.," which topped the British charts both then and 38 years later in its deluxe reissue. Their very survival repeatedly under threat, the Stones survived with a backs-to-the-wall spirit. "We may be going down," says Keith, "but we're not going down your way."
As befits the first rock band to reach the 50-year milestone with their globalstature now greater than ever, the film combines extensive historical footage, much of it widely unseen, with contemporary commentaries by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. Period interviews, extensive live performance material and news archive give the production a truly kinetic aura and no-holds-barred approach. CROSSFIRE HURRICANE has taken over a year to make and produce with the fullcooperation of the Rolling Stones.
The Rolling Stones and Eagle Rock Entertainment present a Tremolo Production; Milkwood Films; A Film by Brett Morgen; music supervisors, Peter Afterman and Margaret Yen; edited by Conor O'Neill and Stuart Levy; executive producers, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood; co-executive producers, Joyce Smyth, Jane Rose, Sherry Daly; supervising producer, Joanna Rudnick; co-producer, Morgan Neville; produced by Mick Jagger, Victoria Pearman; written and directed by Brett Morgen.


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Today's song prompt is "You Are a Memory" by Message to Bear.
"You Are a Memory" – Message to Bear
Our pictures scattered,
Cross the ground, snowflakes —
Gathering, wetting,
Our times together lost in,
Snow, packing higher, hiding.
Tired of calling, this —
Is the last time I'm telling —
You, put my name on,
Your list of significance,
So daft –never mind, too late.
Today I quit you,
Today I saw through you and —
Snow piled up on–
Pictures meaning nothing much,
Goodbye, you're just glass; I'm steel.
Walking beneath trees,
Nature inviting me back in,
Your frosty winter —
Gone when spring comes with daisies,
Buttercups, roses, grass.
Met you one last time,
Found our pictures decaying,
You looked beneath, saw —
The blue and it was stunning,
But it was never us, thank God.
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