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Several months ago I posted a mail from a reader's rant on FICO (see Fair Isaac May Get Treated Unfairly When…), along with our own take on the on the situation (subscribers see FICO Note, click here to subscribe). Here's an excerpt from the said reader's take:
Short FICO. This company engineered a stock-back program in Nov 2011. The Stock buy-back was equivalent to 20% of its market cap at the time. The three executives left the company and cash in their stock options. The company had 3 CEOs in 4 years. The Company latest quarter was slightly down, without the massive buy-back the share count would have meant that the stock had lower earnings per share YoY. What is staggering is while the company did this massive stock buy-back, some execs (including the 3 execs departing) sold at price sometimes below the price the company was buying back its stock at. If the company was doing such a good deal by buying the stock "cheap" at around 40 USD, why would the execs sell their "cheap" stock at 39 USD?
Now recently the company announced its quarterly earnings, poor data, the stock plunges by 10.5%, next thing you know SECput the Rule 201 alternative uptick rule. The next day the stock is up 10.5%, but of course nothing is done to prevent the stock to move up more than 10% a day. The same happened on the same day with Vulcan Materials which released its earnings, really crappy (a lot more than FICO), Vulcan Materials is a Einhorn short, and yet again you have the rule 201 implemented the next day....
Said BoomBustBlogger returned with some more "unfair" treatment of Fair Isaac, viewable from this link - Fair Isaac May Get Treated Unfairly When The Newest Credit Bubble Bursts. ....And here come's FCO's earnings, as reported at CNBC:
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- FICO (NYSE: FICO), the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, today announced financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2012. Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2012 Results Net income for the quarter totaled $21.2 million, or $0.60 per share, versus $24.6 million, or $0.64 per share, reported in the prior year period. The current quarter results include $3.3 million, net of tax, or $0.09 per share, in restructuring and acquisition related costs.
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers made a second trade in 24 hours Monday in hopes of boosting a struggling offence and solidifying the defensive line.
The Bombers completed a trade with the Montreal Alouettes late Monday afternoon for import quarterback Ricky Santos. Going the other way to the league-leading Als (9-2) are Canadian defensive linemen Riall Johnson and Shawn Mayne.
After losing 33-14 to Montreal on Sunday, the Bombers (3-8) announced a five-player deal with the Calgary Stampeders.
Winnipeg acquired receivers Titus Ryan and Jabari Arthur and defensive lineman Odell Willis in exchange for receivers Romby Bryant and Arjei Franklin.
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The six-foot-two Santos has been on Montreal's nine-game injured list (toe) this season after signing with the Alouettes in 2008. The 25-year-old University of New Hampshire product attended minicamps with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2008.
The Bombers are tied with Toronto (3-8) for last in the CFL and play a critical game Saturday when they host the Argonauts.
Bombers head coach Mike Kelly had already had his daily meeting with reporters before the Santos deal was announced.
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The play Kelly referred to was a 54-yard pass from quarterback Michael Bishop to running back Fred Reid that would have taken the Bombers deep into Als' territory in the second quarter.
Kelly said Bishop will start at quarterback Saturday.
Bishop completed 9-of-19 passes against Montreal for 145 yards, one touchdown and one interception. He was taken out late in the second quarter and replaced by Casey Bramlet, but went back in again in the fourth quarter.
Bramlet, who arrived in Winnipeg last week, was 1-of-8 for 13 yards and two interceptions in his first CFL game.
To make room on the roster for Santos, the Bombers released QB Bryan Randall.
Kelly said he was frustrated and disappointed with his inconsistent offence.
"There's just some things that could be to a point of ridiculousness, to be quite honest with you," Kelly said.
"It's a real challenge and a real struggle. I've been counting the rotations on the ceiling fan above my bed. We're just gonna continue to try to find answers. That's the best we can do right now to help these guys out."
And even if some fans say he should quit, Kelly said he's never quit anything in his life and he's not about to start now.
Ryan, Arthur and Willis may be in the lineup against the Argos, he added.
With the angry atmosphere surrounding the team, the newcomers from the Calgary trade could be forgiven if they feel like they've been yanked off a sunny beach and dumped in Siberia.
Ryan, a six-foot import rookie used mainly by the Stamps on kick returns, said he learned of the trade when he was watching TV, then his agent called him.
So what does he think of joining a CFL club that has fans wearing paper bags on their heads and calling for Kelly to be fired?
"That's not good," Ryan. "Hopefully, you know, things will turn around. There's positive thinking, you know. Just try to keep it positive and do what we can do."
Arthur, a Montreal native who was Calgary's first pick in the 2007 CFL draft, was driving to Winnipeg to continue his second CFL season in a new city. He's coming off the nine-game injured list this week after breaking a foot in the pre-season.
Willis roared out of the gates in his rookie campaign, racking up six quarterback sacks in his first four games. He didn't pick up any sacks in the next five games and was put on the practice roster.
When Calgary signed defensive linemen Charleston Hughes and Tearrius George after NFL tryouts, Willis became expendable.
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Read All About It: Writers, readers will mingle at 19th annual book festival
Over the past few years, the Chippewa Valley has become nationally (even internationally) known for its music festivals, which draw tens of thousands of fans from far and wide to celebrate their love of good tunes and good times (not necessarily in that order).
The Chippewa Valley Book Festival is admittedly a smaller and more sedate affair – but should it be? After all, over the course of 10 days, this year's festival will feature more than 20 events with a broad swath of nationally recognized writers, including a Pulitzer Prize-winner, a homegrown best-selling author, and even a woman who ran away to join the circus and lived to write about it. Instead of long lines to the beer tent, the Chippewa Valley Book Festival offers a smorgasbord of delicious literary experiences, almost all of them free.
This is the 19th year for the festival, which will run Oct. 15-25 at locations throughout the Chippewa Valley. Two longtime organizers, Mildred Larson (co-coordinator) and Douglas Pearson (past chairman) said the festival's longevity and success are a credit to hard-working volunteers, generous donors, and avid local readers. And it hasn't hurt that in recent years the region's literary community has grown in prominence with the success of authors such as Michael Perry, Nickolas Butler, and Molly Patterson.
"It's not just a festival for readers – it's a festival for readers and writers," Larson said. In fact, the Chippewa Valley Book Festival has inspired people to become writers: Larson recounted an anecdote about a woman who attended the book festival, got interested in writing, and then pursued a creative writing degree at UWEC. Last year, more than 2,000 people attended book festival events, a total that tops 6,000 when authors' school visits are considered.
Through a stroke of fortunate scheduling – or perhaps clairvoyance on the part of the selection committee – for the second year in a row the festival will feature a Pulitzer Prize winner. Last year, that was Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted; this year, it's Caroline Fraser. Her latest book, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, won the Pulitzer Prize in Biography last spring, after she'd already been scheduled to take part in the festival. Fraser will speak about the true story behind the beloved Little House on the Prairie series at 7pm Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Pablo Center at the Confluence.
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The purpose of this Pilot Project is to have the CRCPD, through the G-34 Committee on Industrial Radiography, serve as the lead organization for the oversight of all activities associated with a national industrial radiographer certification program. Oversight activities include:
The committee's starting point will be to formalize the criteria, based on nationally-accepted standards, and develop a process for conducting the initial application reviews. The committee will then apply this criteria and process when reviewing a test case, and evaluate its effectiveness. The committee will make recommendations for evaluating certification programs once they are recognized, but because of project time constraints there will not be time to actually develop and implement any follow-up program evaluation activities.
A centralized or national program approach for accomplishing the recognition of states or associations as certifying entities uses a review group, such as G-34, as its "center of expertise." The group is comprised of individuals from State and Federal governments, as well as with industry representatives. The committee, by CRCPD design, is a ready-made group of these representatives - who collectively have spent many years in the industrial radiographer certification arena. These members are knowledgeable of the issues pertaining to certification because they regularly participate in the decision-making activities that surround it.
Central certification promotes the efficient use of resources and expertise. Individual states do not have to do independent reviews in order to determine whether to recognize a new state or ICO. Having comparable programs nationwide encourages the uniform acceptance of cards and what they mean. This helps to accommodate the mobile nature of the industrial radiography industry. Naturally there may still be some local issues due to individual state's laws and resources, but overall having a designated "center of expertise" to deal with certification issues assists in providing continuity, tying up loose ends and closing the loopholes. Eventually, the implementation of follow-up program activity evaluations will ensure programs are accountable and operating in a manner consistent with their commitments.
Currently, 10 states are recognized as certifying entities. Seven of the states (Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, North Dakota, and Texas) offer three types of certifications: radioactive materials only, x-ray only, or the combination of radioactive materials and x-ray. Two states (Georgia and South Carolina) offer just the radioactive materials only certification. Oklahoma offers radioactive materials only, and the radioactive materials and x-ray combination certifications.
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RIVIERA BEACH — In a town that's fighting an image that it is has excessive crime and violence, shots fired and injuries in three locations on the same day almost a month ago, didn't help.
It was widely speculated that the shootings were just another rash of violence in Riviera Beach, a city that's seen too much over the years. Panic swept the community, when somehow it was reported that mad men were on the loose, randomly shooting people in the city and that residents were urged to stay inside. It was also reported that the police department had called on all units to bring order to the city.
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"We immediately got information that tied the events together," said Brown. "This was not a surge in crime. It was a related incident. It remains under investigation because we have not made the arrest that we intend to make in this case," she said. "We expect to make an arrest soon."
Still the uptick in crime concerned the Black Educators Caucus of Palm Beach County which partnered with the Black Youth Enrichment Association to bring Dr. Umar Johnson, a Philadelphia-based expert in the education of students of color, to address violence among young people of color. Johnson said the key to fighting violence is getting a proper education and, for that, parents need to be held accountable. Johnson said young black boys join gangs because they are looking for a surrogate family. "To eliminate this, give them a strong black male teacher," he said.
Parents, he said, can demand what they want for their child in the classroom. This, they must do, because the world is looking at their black male child as a criminal regardless of their age. "The black boy in American society is considered a criminal, whether he is 3 or 33," he said.
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"We want to avoid that," said Ronald Leonard, Caucus president.
Riviera Beach Deputy City Manager Danny Jones said crime is actually down in Riviera Beach, contrary to common perception.
"For years, the City of Riviera Beach has worked very hard – and has been very successful – in reducing crime within the city limits. In fact, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) crime statistics over the past 16 years show clearly the city's efforts are working. The crime rate has dropped by 68 percent since 1998 with steep drops in both violent and property crimes. Despite a spate of recent shootings on Aug. 9, there is clearly no spike in crime, but rather a steady decline in crime. Those informed and those who truly know the city know that Riviera Beach is steadily becoming a safer place to live, work and play," Jones said in a statement.
City officials have done much recently to shed an image of crime and focus on its massive revitalization and redevelopment plans. A $375 million redevelopment of the city's marina is now underway, which officials expect to be a worldwide draw to the city. The redevelopment is expected to change the face of Riviera Beach, officials say. In March, voters passed a referendum allowing the redevelopment of the marina to move forward and in April there was a groundbreaking ceremony. The first phase of the development, which is expected to be completed by fall of 2015, will include a two-story events center, with a main ballroom named Newcomb Hall that will seat 300 people. The center will also have smaller meeting rooms for community groups, a restaurant, a café and a rooftop terrace overlooking the water. This phase will also include a $4 million makeover to Bicentennial Park, which will include a stage for concerts, a fountain in which kids can play and concessions. With the advent of the new plans, officials say it's a new day in Riviera Beach and the city will become a world-class destination.
"A lot is happening in Riviera Beach. The perception of high crime is outdated and oversimplified, and the city leaders working to put that perception behind them and move Riviera Beach into the future," said Jones.


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Lasting First Impressions
It was hard to ignore the announcement of The Order 1886 when it debuted during the PS4 announcement almost two years ago. Harder to ignore still, was the negative comments about Ready At Dawn's game when it finally released last week. Complaints that it was too linear, that it was too short, plagued the internet before the game even had a chance to make it into the hands of excited gamers. Myself being one of them. This was a game that I was mildly curious about at first, then excited for once gameplay videos began to surface. So it was with bated hesitation that I began to play the game, my excitement slightly dulled by the comments and criticisms everywhere. Because of these negative comments, or perhaps in spite of them, I decided that this Lasting First Impression was going to be longer than our typical one hour. It turns out, however, that wasn't hard to do. I can honestly say that I don't understand all the hate directed towards this game. The Order 1886 is a stunning game, simple as that.
Set in Victorian era England, The Order 1886 tells an alternate version of history in which the Order of King Arthur still exists and is engaged in a centuries old war against foes such as the Lycans. King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table have found a way to extend their lives and, when they do eventually die, they pass their mantle and name onto another to carry on their mission. Players take on the role of Sir Galahad and, using advanced and powerful weapons, players will find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy that will take them through underground tunnels, cramped streets of England, and even high into the sky in flying balloons. We even get a chance to work alongside the genius of Nikola Tesla as he designs our amazing weapons and gadgets.
The Order 1886 is visually stunning. This is, for all accounts and purposes, the best looking game available on the PS4. The story is told through many cut scenes that, at times, made me think I was watching a feature film. Characters move naturally, the lip syncing is spot on, and the voice actors are brilliant. There is even a slight graininess to the visuals giving it that quality film look.
The Order 1886 is a third person cover based shooter along the lines of the Gears of War franchise. Controls feel tight and the gunplay is accurate and responsive. I mention the Gears of War franchise here for a very specific reason. It is a series that is heralded by many as a classic and yet many are heralding doom upon this game. The Order is very much like Gears. Both game tells a very specific story with intense action interspersed amongst cut scenes. Both games are linear specifically to tell that story. Both games have a relatively short campaign. And both games are absolutely stunning on their respective consoles. I would even go so far as to say both games present memorable characters that players will begin to care about and actually like. It is these very similarities between the two franchises that immediately poke holes into the undue negativity surrounding The Order.
Is The Order 1886 worth spending your precious gaming time with? Absolutely. After the first hour of gameplay, I had no desire to put the game down and move on. I want to keep playing this game right to the very end. The story is engaging, the gameplay is tight, the Lycan encounters are intense, and the visuals are stunning. While there are quite a few Quick Time Events throughout the game, they are used in meaningful ways similar to those found in 2013's Tomb Raider reimagining. These QTEs are used to instill a sense of dread and urgency into the story and they are never presented to make the player fail.
Whether you play the game now, or wait until later, you definitely don't want to pass on The Order 1886. This is a series that I'd love to see more of. While it may serve up a relatively short experience, it is a visually stunning experience you'll never forget, and a game most definitely deserving of being called a true next generation game. I, for one, hope to see more from The Order and Ready at Dawn.


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Many Michigan residents have had close calls with drinking and driving. Facing a DUI charge can often result in serious consequences including heavy fines, jail time and license suspension to name a few.
Due to the severity of a DUI conviction, many offenders will refuse a blood alcohol test in the hopes that their charges will be dropped. Individuals who refuse can often face heavier consequences but after a Supreme Court ruling, police will now be required to obtain a warrant before subjecting a drunken-driving suspect to a blood alcohol test.
In an eight-to-one vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police must have a warrant before they can test an offenders BAC level via blood test. To be considered intoxicated or under the influence in Michigan, an offender must have a BAC of 0.08 or higher. If people refused to take a breathalyzer test, they may face an additional one-year driver's license suspension and have six points added to their driving record. Therefore, this ruling prevents officers from implementing a BAC blood test until they have a proper warrant unless it is an emergency situation.
With today's society and technology, the Supreme Court determined that it would not take very long for law officials to obtain a warrant. Judge Sonia Sotomayor said "police can often obtain a warrant quickly by using their cell phones or by email." While the new law does not provide immunity for DUI offenders it may help in their defense since evidence obtained in an illegal search — like a BAC level obtained by blood test without a warrant — cannot be used in court.
Source: NPR, "Supreme Court Backs Warrants For Blood Tests in DUI Cases," Nina Totenberg, April 17, 2013


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Saucony® has always been one of my favorite brands of athletic shoes but did you know that they have an entire line of apparel too? With winter approaching throughout much of the country finding the right jacket is important to stay warm while exercising or spending time outdoors. Even here in Florida, we had the lowest temperatures (in the low 20's F) we've seen since 1962. I was so grateful to have the Saucony® Women's Insulated Run Jacket to keep me warm. This jacket is very stylish and I love the fact that it is lightweight and not bulky but super insulated so I was very toasty while running around the park with my kids and walking the dog in the cold early morning hours.
The Saucony® Women's Insulated Run Jacket is semi-fitted and has the following features:
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I appreciated the water resistant coating because when it is very cold in Florida it is usually accompanied by a lot of dew and moisture. The wind can also make it feel much colder and I felt great in my jacket. In fact, my husband and kids were wearing very bulky jackets, hats and gloves and were still complaining that they were cold and damp. Meanwhile, I was warm and quite comfortable in the Saucony® Women's Insulated Run Jacket. I also liked that the jacket had black along the sides to give me the "slimming" appearance that I long for in a garment and the overall quality is excellent. You can purchase the Saucony® Women's Insulated Run Jacket in solid black, pink and my personal favorite, blue. You are invited to visit the entire line of Saucony® apparel and outerwear to find the perfect jacket and accessories to get you through the winter in style and comfort.
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I did a live podcast recording of Ctrl Alt Delete at Starling Bank offices where we spoke about the awkwardness of money and the taboo that surrounds it.
How often do you check your bank account? What keeps you up at night? Why don't we talk about these things? It's a weird, emotional, vulnerable topic. We all have our own personal relationship with money and we all keep a lot hidden in the depths of our own minds. For this very special one-off live recording of Ctrl Alt Delete, hosted at Starling Bank offices, I wanted the whole episode to be around this topic and open up a wider conversation.
We spoke about all sorts of different areas of money awkwardness: asking for it, not having it, having a lot of it, social sitchs when you have more than your friends, or less than your partner, or wanting a raise at work, or saving for a child, or late-night worries in bed and wtf is an ISA and oh shit moments when you realise you don't have a pension. We covered a lot and the aim of the night wasn't to financially advise but to get us simply *talking* about money in an open non-awk way. Sarah who works at Starling shows her colleagues her bank balance most days as they work on the live app. That level of transparency scares me, but I also want to be more open, with myself and others.
The panelists for this event were Michelle Kennedy from Peanut app, Serena Guen the founder of Suitcase Magazine, Otegha Uwagba founder of Women Who and best-selling author of The Little Black Book and Sarah Guha from Starling Bank. Thank you to my amazing panellists for for wearing your hearts on your sleeve for the recording. Think it was the most vulnerable live recording I've personally done. And the questions from the audience were ace. And thank you to those that came and people who listen to the podcast. I started it at home with minimal DIY tools and so to partner with brands I respect and admire is just amazing. I frigging love this community.
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Famed for body horror classics like The Fly and Videodrome, David Cronenberg's latest effort is the cooly contemplative Cosmopolis. An adaptation of Don DeLillo's prophetic novel, the movie features a sterling performance from Twilight's Robert Pattinson as a billionaire called Eric who wants his stretch limo to take him across Manhattan for a haircut while chaos and rioting ignites on the streets outside.
Digital Spy had the pleasure of a long chat with the Canadian director to coincide with the Cosmopolis DVD release, and found out the latest news on proposed sequels to Eastern Promises and The Fly, along with exploring his experiences acting in Clive Barker's newly restored Nightbreed and being headhunted to direct Return of the Jedi...
In the making of featurette on the Cosmopolis DVD, producer Paulo Branco describes Don DeLillo's novel as a mix between Crash and eXistenZ, with its themes of destruction leading to sensation and detatchment from the real world. When you first read the book, did you think it was perfect material for you?
"Well I wasn't thinking of my own old movies... I don't really think in those terms. I don't have a checklist of things that something must have and must relate to my other films. Honestly, each project is as though it's the first movie I have ever made.
"Now for Paulo as a producer coming to me, he might have his reasoning that's based on my other movies and that's fine. It didn't seem like things that I'd done before, but after having made the movie I can see why people might want to compare it to my movie Crash, for example. At the same time JG Ballard and DeLillo are very different kind of writers, so I don't think many people can connect them, but when they see the movies, it's kind of interesting.
"With Cosmopolis, I was a big fan of Don DeLillo's work. I loved his dialogue, which is unique, and Harold Pinter-esque in the sense that you can recognize it when you hear it. It's realistic but also very stylized."
It's very rhythmical too...
"It is very rhythmical and kind of hypnotic, yet it is American speech. But those things are not like my own work, so I respond very directly to the material, rather than be extremely analytical about it. I just think if this is a movie for me, and would I be having great fun and be finding exciting, interesting things while making this movie or not."
Were you stunned by how topical Cosmopolis became with the Occupy movement rising to prominence during the shoot, and then six days after filming wrapped Rupert Murdoch was attacked with a cream pie, just like Eric was in the movie?
"Yes, that was quite surprising. It's funny because when the book came out, if you read the reviews which were mostly bad, one of the things said was 'Oh, this stuff happening on Wall Street in the book is completely unrealistic'. That was in 2005 or something. Then of course, it was happening while we were shooting.
"It didn't derange us though, and we didn't change the script as a result. It was suddenly obvious that both the book and movie had resonance that it hadn't had before. It also suggests that Don DeLillo is an artist with very sensitive antennae to things that are going on and can be predictive of the future, not even necessarily intentionally.
"That isn't the function for us as writers and filmmakers, but it does happen. It happened for me with Videodrome - it's something that I was inventing that later came to be seen as sort of a prediction of the Internet and a whole bunch of other things."
That iconic image of James Wood inserting a videocassette into his stomach - it foreshadows how much humans become 'consumed' with media. Similarly in eXistenZ, characters physically plug themselves into the Internet and become absorbed...
"Yes, that's right. You have your feelers out there into the zeitgeist and you sense it and can see where things are going. It's not necessary to be accurate in terms of predicting the future if you're doing science fiction, I mean Arthur C Clarke was sort of a hardware sci-fi writer who did pride himself on being prophetic. But to me that's a small part of the creative process, it's not the main thrust of it really."
In terms of tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, the casting of Robert Pattinson works extremely well. Was his current fame and adulation a key factor in choosing him to play Eric?
"Well not really, I mean the so-called 'baggage' a certain actor brings with him or her is something that is completely irrelevant once you're on the film set. As a director you can't worry about that - it's too complex, it's too shifting.
"Eric in the movie is not famous, he is like the London Whale - and I don't mean the baby whale that went up the Thames. I mean the investment guy called the London Whale because of the immensity of his trades. He's anonymous, not a celebrity, because as soon as people started tracking his moves, his power to make these trades was gone.
"Eric is like that, and the reason he has this one guy tracking him is because it's an obsessive guy who is anti-capitalist in the movie. He can be in a restaurant and not besieged by fans who are tracking him on the internet, he has a bodyguard because he's worried about normal threats that anybody with a limo might have. His situation is totally different from Rob's."
There's an excellent line from Samantha Morton's character in the movie: "The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind." Did that resonate with you in terms of the reception to your own work?
"Well, yes, I think it's one of the consolations when your movie is not widely popular - you say maybe it's ahead of its time. I have had that happen with a couple of movies including Videodrome, where the reception at the box office wasn't great but the afterlife has been quite great.
"Cosmopolis is an art film, not a mainstream movie, so you know that you are gambling in that sense and you hope that it has what they call legs. When I was a kid, if you didn't see the movie that weekend, you never saw it again. The advent of VHS tapes and later DVDs is fantastic. The movies really do have an afterlife, and it encourages filmmakers to make art rather than just a consumable item."
You mentioned Videodrome's reception at the box office, so how do you feel about the remake which is being touted at the moment?
"Well, I have no connection with it whatsoever. Frankly, I'd be happy for there not to be any remakes of my movies, but we'll see if that movie really gets made."
Your film The Fly was a remake itself though...
"It was. It was different enough I think, and don't forget that was maybe 30 years later, whereas Videodrome... mind you, it's true - I am old enough now that I have made movies that are 30 years later. Well, we'll see.
"I have no idea how clever and intelligent the people who are involved in this are, but I can tell you that every movie I made in those early days - Shivers, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly - have all been selected for remakes at one point and have all fallen through.
"Obviously things are different now - the difference between a movie that anticipates the internet and being made after the internet. Two different things. I have no idea what they would do with it."
I recently saw the newly discovered and restored 'Cabal Cut' of Clive Barker's 1990 horror movie Nightbreed at FrightFest in London, in which you have a rare acting role as Dr Decker...
"Oh yeah, sure. Well, I'm familiar with the movie but I didn't know it was shown recently."
The new cut is from a couple of recently discovered workprints that Clive Barker believed were destroyed and restores an hour of vital footage. Were you aware of his battle with the studio at the time, which involved them butchering his intended vision for Nightbreed?
"I remember Clive was very bitter about it. That was the most serious film role that I played in the sense that I was on location in London for three months. I was writing the screenplay for Naked Lunch in the rented house I had in St John's Wood, but it still was a real commitment. It was very interesting to do, and I love Clive and was very interested to be on the set with him."
How sad were you, as a filmmaker, about what happened with Clive's film in the end with the reshoots and recutting?
"Well I don't think I ever really saw what Clive had in mind, but it's a tough game and Clive, well, sort of opted out of directing. And when I saw him, which was at a Stephen King event in Toronto, he was really bitter about his movie experience, as he had quite a few bad ones.
"I have not had the same bad experiences, and have never had a movie re-cut on me. I've had one or two censorship problems, but I've somehow avoided being in that situation. It would really be a violation, I can see how horrible it would be, no question."
There has been a lot of speculation that a sequel to the brilliant Eastern Promises has been scrapped by the studio. Is there any hope?
"I think it's pretty much dead."
Not even if another film studio with more sense offered to finance it?
"Well, Focus Features will not let go of it. I do think there are other places - independent producers would happily have taken the Steven Knight script, which was really good, and produced it separately from Focus even with them having distribution. It's kind of disappointing given that Focus has been a very interesting, small studio.
"They don't want to make it, but they don't want to give it to somebody else to make it. It's not very good, you know, and it's frustrating all around. So as far as I'm concerned, it's not happening."
Is it purely a financing issue?
"Yeah, I think it was money. And I think it's just the general reaction to what's been happening economically, in terms of economics around the world and in particular in the film business. More particularly in terms of Focus and Universal and Comcast and all of that. None of that stuff has directly to do with the movie itself, unfortunately."
Was there any truth at all in the rumours that you were approached to direct The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire? Or was that just an internet thing?
"No, it was not true. There were people who said, 'Wouldn't it be interesting if Cronenberg did it?' and then it sort of became its own reality. Very Videodrome-like. But no, I was never approached. I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm absolutely not the kind of director they would be looking for."
Would you worry a studio blockbuster project would leave you creatively shackled?
"Well, you've got to know the game that you're playing, and that isn't my game really. Look, a long time ago I was approached for one second to do a Star Wars movie, which at that time was called Revenge of the Jedi and then it became Return of the Jedi. And I was approached by Lucasfilm about that and it didn't take them long to realize that maybe that wasn't a good idea."
I think the same happened with David Lynch until he turned down Jedi to do Dune. I think he was going to do that instead of Dune. Like you, his brilliant work is often not easy for the mass public to digest...
"Well you're really restricted by the format that's been established - so for a really inventive or innovative director, that's being put in a straitjacket. And the visual style has been established and the characters have been cast - I mean, you're not involved in casting the leads, which is of course, for a director, a hugely important thing.
"Alfonso Cuarón did one of the Harry Potter movies and imposed his own visual, long take, flowing style on it and it was reasonably successful that way. You can see it's interesting - you have a huge budget to work with and make more money than you would normally make, but you're pretty restricted. Cuarón could only be inventive in terms of the visual style as everything else was established. How satisfying can it be?"
What do you have coming up next and - pardon the pun - is there any buzz about this new Fly movie you're reported to have written a script for?
"Oh, that too is not happening, also because of budget constraints and other things. I think maybe the script that I wrote was a little too radical for Fox and they felt it really needed to be a very low-budget film at that point. However, what was in it that attracted them could not be done low-budget. So I think that was the problem.
"At the moment I don't have anything actually, I mean I'm finishing a novel that I'm two years late with, and that is the only thing that I'm doing."
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I've got an hour before I need to go out so I thought a might write another blog, when I sat down and entered my password I hadn't a clue what to write, I like it that way, then the thought that was to write about asthma and me; I've moved on, what asthma and me, I don't have asthma anymore?
I discovered one of my inhalers this week when I was looking for something. I guess this is where the thought started. So this blog is about me and asthma but I still don't know what to write. When I discovered my inhaler I had a saddening thought of what I was like, I was dependent an inhaler I couldn't leave the house without one, if I forgot it I got into a blind panic. I guess I was a terrible pain to live with.
So why aren't I like that now?
My simple answer is that I think differently.
I live in the here and now that gives me the opportunity to notice things happening in my body, stomach butterflies, chest tightening, lower back pain. When I notice the happenings I can then do something about them.
This isn't a quick fix, to start to notice the happenings took time, it took years. Firstly I didn't know I could notice, secondly I didn't know what the happenings meant and I didn't realise that I could do something about the happenings.
It is the knowing that really helped me, I didn't discover this myself I got the help from some people who had trained to help people to find freedom and happiness within themselves. Please read It's so so simple to give you an understanding.
Being an engineer and technically minded believing that I could have thoughts that could get rid of my asthma was just bonkers, airy fairy, too alternative. It took me a while to believe it, it was only when I realised that for a long time I hadn't need an inhaler I believed it must be the power of thought. I wasn't on any medication for anything.
This change was like a supertanker changing direction, it needs plenty of space and plenty of time, it can't be done quickly. So the sooner it starts the sooner live can change.
It takes time and it also takes my capacity to believe in myself, for my authentic self to blossom. If you haven't read It's so so simple yet, please do, as it will tell you the two simple steps to help you.
If your stubborn and cynical like me, you may well follow the long torturous route I took, enjoy, but there are short cuts, people who have been there and are willing to tell their story and tips. If you are like me, late onset asthma after a traumatic event, your asthma may well be what you are thinking, I was for me.
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My son asked me today "Pops, didn't you say you threw rocks at pigeons at one point"? I told him "no, the story I shared was about this kid I knew growing up that dropped a huge rock on an injured pigeon and killed it". These are two very different scenarios.
However this brief discussion about that event reminded of the perpetrator. We'll call him "Jo" to protect his identity. Jo was an awkward kid, I went to school with him and brought him around the block a few times, he started to become friends with my inner circle and would often just show up at any of our homes uninvited. He was a nice enough guy, so most everyone tolerated him. Though to a person everyone of us agreed he was definitely weird.
His gums used to bleed, he smelled strangely, he claimed his mom was a "good witch", and he also said that he lived like a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" in the sewers for sometime. This could potentially explain the smell he carried perpetually.
In any case, though I didn't approve, and I walked away from him that day, I wasn't surprised he wanted to kill the injured pigeon we found on the sidewalk those many years ago. I saw him pick up the rock, and he had this evil smile on his face, "I'm gonna crush it", we all looked at each other, "dude what's wrong with you, it's an injured animal". He thought it was funny and insisted on putting the animal out of its misery. That's the point that me and my friends walked away from him.
He did go over to pigeon and he did slam the rock on it's head a few times. Me and my buddies walked away from what we determined was a psychopath on some "Dexter" type ish. We went to one of our houses and told our parents to say we were not there if he ended up showing up. None of us wanted to hang out with him much to begin with, for some of the aforementioned reasons, but this pigeon torturing/killing scenario was just too much. We were done with this guy.
I have no idea what ever became of him, he could have become a millionaire in some odd field, homeless, or gone to prison for all I know. No clue. But I never forgot the murderous, abusive tendencies he exhibited towards this poor pigeon when we were just kids.