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Making Memories
Sherran Andersen 5/27/2011 8:56:08 PMHow sweet. #1380693
Ann Coates 5/27/2011 9:41:05 PMWow, amazing capture here. I love the look on the big fish's face, he looks a bit grumpy. #9432097
Carolyn M. Fletcher 5/28/2011 2:23:07 AMLooks like a winner to me! #9432149
Michelle Alton 5/28/2011 3:03:25 AMVery difficult shot to make, and you've succeeded with aplomb, Donna. #9432177
Jack Gaskin 5/28/2011 3:21:45 AMWONDERFUL CAPTURE Gotta love the kids reactions
Happy Shooting
Jack #9432198
Joannie Bertucci 5/28/2011 3:55:54 AMAnother gold badger winner Donna...marvelous work! #9432243
Rolando Rosito 5/28/2011 4:58:06 AMThis is a winner to me Donna, fantastic! #9432347
Carol Eade 5/28/2011 5:20:25 AMFabulous image, Donna, terrific comp! #9432373
Joy Rector 5/28/2011 5:30:27 AMbeautiful shot #9432390
Mary Dimitriw 5/28/2011 5:55:08 AMWow, just stunning Donna!! #9432420
Jill Odice 5/28/2011 11:05:22 AMThis went right into the favs! It is screaming WINNER!!!! ;- 0 have a great weekend Donna! #9432705
JudyAnn Rector 5/28/2011 11:51:17 AMWonderful image, Donna... super work in a very difficult situation. #9432729
Erica Murphy 5/28/2011 2:47:07 PMWhat a wonderful photo Donna!! I know how hard it was to get anything there, and this is such a great shot!! #9432880
Debra R. Harder 5/29/2011 8:51:04 AMYour timing/exposure is absolutely superb on this, Donna!! A winner in my book all the way! Deb #9433836
Deborah C. Lewinson 5/29/2011 6:09:29 PMWow, awesome shot, Donna, a fav and best wishes for a win!
Debby #9434420
Phyllis H. Burchett 5/29/2011 7:18:26 PMWonderful capture Donna! #9434516
Bob Cournoyer 5/30/2011 3:20:03 AMHow did you get that grumpy fish to be looking down at her finger?? #9434861
Lisa J. Boulden 6/2/2011 6:47:43 AMDelightful capture, Donna!
Phyllis H. Burchett 6/22/2011 1:02:14 PMCongrats on this fabulous finalist Donna! #9473593
Kathy Salerni 6/22/2011 1:09:28 PMCongratulations on your well deserved Finalist, Donna! #9473636
Kathryn Wesserling 6/22/2011 1:33:14 PMWhat a wonderful picture and a perfect title! It is these small moments in time that we remember all our days. Congratulations for your Finalist. #9473774
Carol Eade 6/22/2011 1:36:05 PMCongratulations on your wonderful finalist, Donna! #9473795
Nancy (Peaches) Harker 6/22/2011 2:06:58 PM
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 6/22/2011 2:09:40 PMI'm so excited, thank you everyone!!!
Donna #9474033
Courtenay Vanderbilt 6/22/2011 2:28:53 PMHuge congrats, Donna! Beautiful capture and well deserved! #9474157
Amy M. Wilson 6/22/2011 3:25:29 PMBig congratulations on your awesome Finalist, Donna!! #9474432
Deborah C. Lewinson 6/22/2011 3:57:32 PMCongrats on your finalist, Donna! This gets my vote for best in show!
Jill Odice 6/22/2011 4:06:43 PMSo far I am right :-) WINNER :-) Congrats, I love this! #9474775
Kay E. Mahoney 6/22/2011 4:35:51 PMCongratulations on your finalist, Donna. Good luck in the next round.
Renee Doyle 6/22/2011 4:47:01 PMYour aquarium series is fantastic Donna!! Congratulations! #9475076
JO ANN CLEVELAND 6/22/2011 4:55:52 PMCongrats on your super finalist Donna!
Best of luck in the next round!
jo ann c.
Phillip R. Connolly 6/22/2011 5:08:17 PMCongratulations, Donna!!! This is a stunner, and I'm sure it will go further!! Excellent capture!!
Phil #9475219
Randy D. Dinkins 6/22/2011 5:31:50 PMGreat capture, congratulations! #9475360
Lisa J. Boulden 6/22/2011 6:28:49 PMLove it!
Mary Dimitriw 6/22/2011 6:32:30 PMSo glad to see this one again! Amazing Finalist Donna! #9475759
Nancy Bergeson 6/22/2011 7:00:45 PMStunning, awesome composition, Congrats on your Finalist #9475900
Dick Jenkins 6/22/2011 7:08:46 PMLove it, love it, love it......... #9475948
Monnie Ryan 6/22/2011 7:40:11 PMCongratulations, Donna! #9476195
Usman M. Bajwa 6/22/2011 8:18:35 PMCONGRATZ on this terrific Finalist and good luck up next, Donna!!!
Ann Coates 6/22/2011 9:39:35 PMCongrats on your superb finalist! #9476854
Marilyn K. Lincecum 6/22/2011 9:42:51 PMCongratulatiions on your finalist and good luck in the next round !! #9476866
Marilyn K. Lincecum 6/22/2011 9:42:55 PMCongratulatiions on your finalist and good luck in the next round !! #9476867
Dianne Brin 6/22/2011 10:24:03 PMBeautiful! Congratulations! #9476998
Naomi Weiser 6/22/2011 11:24:42 PMpictures tells a full story, I love it, congrats! #9477110
Janet McNeil 6/23/2011 4:02:09 AMCongratulations on this beautiful Finalist!!! Good luck in the next round!! #9477672
Marilyn Cornwell 6/23/2011 4:18:39 AMWhat a strong Finalist! This is amazing! #9477756
Kathy Cline 6/23/2011 6:57:17 AMSo sweet Donna, just wish some of mine turned out this amazing! Congratulations on a well deserved award.
Katarina Mansson 6/23/2011 7:34:33 AMExcellent and heartwarming photo. Congratulations Donna! #9478522
Kelley J. Heffelfinger 6/23/2011 7:57:26 AMDefinitely a difficult shot, but you did it. Love the fish & kids. Well done. #9478587
Christopher Budny 6/23/2011 10:27:33 AMCongratulations, Donna! I tried several like this while I was in CA, but nothing seemed to come out remotely this good. #9478865
Erica Murphy 6/23/2011 10:47:30 AMCongratulations on your awesome finalist Donna!! #9478920
Maria Coulson 6/23/2011 11:27:35 AMDonna, love the clarity and colors. Congratulations1 #9479036
Patrick Rouzes 6/23/2011 11:46:46 AMCongratulations, Donna! WTG! #9479084
Leslie McLain 6/23/2011 12:12:56 PMCongrats on two beautiful finalists, Donna. #9479200
Elida Gutierrez 6/23/2011 12:49:42 PMWOOOHOOOOO, CONGRATULATIONS DONNA!!!! #9479359
Kathy Cline 6/23/2011 12:58:54 PMWell Im not surprised.
Phyllis H. Burchett 6/23/2011 1:14:19 PMNope, no surprise here....big congrats Donna on this wonderful winner!!! #9479452
Joseph M. Muench 6/23/2011 1:19:29 PMHey, Donna...way to go!
Cathy Barrows 6/23/2011 1:25:16 PMCongrats on your win...very nice #9479495
Monnie Ryan 6/23/2011 1:27:42 PMYES! WTG, Donna -- congratulations! #9479503
Daniella Puente 6/23/2011 1:30:33 PMCONGRATULATIONS on this great prize Donna!!!!!! #9479522
Millie A. Talarico 6/23/2011 1:34:06 PMCongratulations, Donna!! #9479539
Judy V. Kennamer 6/23/2011 1:34:48 PMCongrats on your beautiful WINNER Donna!!! #9479542
Sarah A. Christian 6/23/2011 1:35:59 PMCongratulations, Donna, for your spectacular Winner! #9479547
Marilyn K. Lincecum 6/23/2011 1:43:26 PMWTG Donna!! Congratulations on your First Place Win !! #9479573
Melissa Olsen 6/23/2011 1:52:07 PMA perfect 1st place win!
Agnes Fegan 6/23/2011 1:57:35 PMCongratulations ... a beautiful winning image! #9479621
Denis Bennett 6/23/2011 2:12:53 PMgreat, amusing, and riveting! #9479674
Ellen Hodges 6/23/2011 2:19:21 PMHuge congrats on your awesome winner, Donna!! #9479694
David Phalen 6/23/2011 2:34:50 PMHuge Congrats on your First Place Winner!! #9479733
Michelle Alton 6/23/2011 2:54:05 PMThe judges did very well with this first place selection Donna. I love this image. Congratulations. #9479825
Michael Umbreit 6/23/2011 3:10:12 PMDonna - Congratulations! That is such a neat shot! - Mike #9479882
Bunny Snow 6/23/2011 3:16:11 PMThe judges picked this First Place winner perfectly. Congratulations, Donna, I also love this creation!!!!! #9479904
Nancyj E. Hovey 6/23/2011 3:37:31 PMC O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
Emile Abbott 6/23/2011 4:02:40 PMYou rock girl. This is such an awesome capture and well deserving of a FIRST PLACE WIN. Huge congrats Donna. You will sleep well tonight. #9480096
Christopher Budny 6/23/2011 4:04:59 PMCongratulations once again! #9480109
Claudia Kuhn 6/23/2011 4:05:45 PMCongratulations on your wonderful winner Donna, great story telling image. #9480116
Deborah C. Lewinson 6/23/2011 4:10:29 PMCongratulations, Donna, on your excellent first place win!!!
Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna 6/23/2011 4:27:07 PMWTG on this fantastic winner, Donna! :-) k #9480211
Amy M. Wilson 6/23/2011 4:35:45 PMBig congratulations on your beautiful First Place winner, Donna!! #9480260
Michele Peterson 6/23/2011 4:36:23 PMCongratulations on this BIG win, Donna!! #9480263
marcia A. molnar 6/23/2011 4:44:58 PMWonderful work! Congratulations!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful shots! #9480325
Leslie McLain 6/23/2011 4:54:48 PMCongrats on an amazing winner, Donna. #9480401
Tammy L. Newcomb 6/23/2011 5:01:47 PMGreat Job and many congrats to you.
Cindy Hamilton 6/23/2011 5:15:23 PMWhat a great story telling winner. Love it! #9480508
Jessica Jenney 6/23/2011 5:16:23 PMCongratulations, Donna on your fabulous First Place Win! #9480513
Rolando Rosito 6/23/2011 5:37:04 PMI knew it Donna, Big Congratulations!! #9480584
Carol Eade 6/23/2011 5:38:19 PMCongratulations, Donna, on your First Place, it's such a wonderful image! #9480590
Linda D. Lester 6/23/2011 5:42:16 PMAWEsome shot....Congratulations on your first place win! #9480615
JO ANN CLEVELAND 6/23/2011 6:55:05 PMCongratulations on this awesome Gold 1st Place Winner Donna!
jo ann c. #9480883
JO ANN CLEVELAND 6/23/2011 6:55:29 PMCongratulations on this awesome Gold 1st Place Winner Donna!
jo ann c. #9480884
Mary Dimitriw 6/23/2011 7:00:14 PMCongratulations on your First Place Winner Donna! This is such a magical image, well deserved! #9480905
Julianne Bradford 6/23/2011 8:28:15 PMThis is just fabulous Donna! I couldn,t be happier for you! A huge congratulations on this first place winner! Wo-oo woo! #9481060
Renee Doyle 6/23/2011 9:30:58 PMTold you it's an awesome series!! Big Congratulations on this excellent First Place Winner Donna!! #9481180
Usman M. Bajwa 6/23/2011 10:05:23 PMSo happy to see this get the First Place Gold, Donna. CONGRATZ!!!
Katarina Mansson 6/23/2011 11:05:05 PM100% theme fit - and so gorgeous photo! Big congrats Donna! #9481306
Raymond Pauly 6/23/2011 11:10:05 PMCongratulations on your outstanding winner, Donna! #9481320
Alan L. Borror 6/24/2011 2:43:54 AMCongratulations on your wonderful first place image, Donna! Great moment captured. #9481509
Stefania Barbier 6/24/2011 3:20:52 AMWTG Donna, congrats on your first prize winner!!! #9481576
Courtenay Vanderbilt 6/24/2011 3:49:08 AMHuge Congrats, Donna! #9481678
Patrick Rouzes 6/24/2011 7:26:39 AMCongratulations, Donna! WTG! #9482289
Dr Silly 6/24/2011 8:20:59 AMCongratulations Donna on your Gold. :O) #9482460
Michael Robichaud 6/24/2011 9:53:01 AMBeautiful keepsake photo, a well deserved first place photo! Congrats. #9482560
Datha Y. Thompson 6/24/2011 10:06:42 AMCONGRATULATIONS!!! WTG :)
Tarun Bose 6/24/2011 10:11:43 AMBig congrats for your outstanding winner, Donna. #9482592
Tiia Vissak 6/24/2011 10:52:47 AMCongratulations on your Winner! #9482707
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 6/24/2011 2:22:46 PMThank you everyone, you have left so many kind and inspirational comments. I'm deeply honored and moved to tears of joy. Also, a huge THANK YOU to the Judges and Jim Miotke!! I really enjoy being a member of this community of OUTSTANDING photographers!!! I have made so many life long friends on this website!!!
Wow, how exciting!!! Thanks again!!!
Donna #9483102
Monika Sapek 6/24/2011 3:15:08 PMMany congratulations on your First Place Win, Donna! Wonderful capture! #9483203
Kim Andelkovic 6/24/2011 4:14:16 PMCongratulations Donna on your 1st place win.....its a wonderful image :-) #9483318
Marcel J. Fernandez 6/24/2011 6:12:32 PMCongratulations, Donna on your exceptional First Place Winner. #9483525
ALLEN O. HOWARD 6/24/2011 11:51:47 PMFantastic Donna! A B*I*G congratulations! #9484097
Anita Hogue 6/25/2011 4:37:24 AMA fabulous first place winner, Donna! Congratulations! #9484372
Maria Morrow 6/25/2011 8:15:57 AMAwesome image, well-deserving of first place. Congratulations Donna! #9484678
Mary Beth Aiello 6/25/2011 8:58:04 AMWTG, Donna. Huge congtrats on this spectacular GOLD. Just gorgeous. #9484761
Debra R. Harder 6/25/2011 10:00:15 AMWell...you know how I feel about this amazing image, Donna! Huge congratulations on your BRILLIANT FIRST PLACE WINNER! Deb #9484847
Guy D. Biechele 6/25/2011 3:41:02 PMOutstanding, Donna! Congratulations on your First place win. #9485429
Stanley C. Sims 6/25/2011 5:39:15 PMStunning image Donna. Well deserved of the gold. Congratulations. #9485595
Evy Johansen 6/25/2011 9:22:03 PMWonderful image, Donna! Big congratulations on your win!! #9485896
Robert K. Bemus 6/25/2011 10:05:59 PMGreat moment with phenomenal color and light, Donna...congrats on a wonderful First Place Win!!
Janet Fikar 6/26/2011 5:22:22 AMBrilliant shot! Congratulations on your well deserved win! #9486583
Bojan Bencic 6/26/2011 5:41:51 AMCongratulations on your win, Donna. #9486639
Mitch Spence 6/26/2011 9:28:46 AMCongratulations, Donna, on another wonderfully captured aquarium image and on your gold. #9487127
Robert Jensen 6/26/2011 9:57:23 AMGreat capture - glad the judges chose this one. #9487204
Kate Jackson 6/26/2011 1:31:02 PMCongratulations Donna on your win! #9487613
Mike Clime 6/27/2011 2:16:40 AMCongratulations on your winner,Donna! #9488739
Lydia Williams 6/27/2011 7:28:49 AMThis is fantastic, Donna...what a memory and keepsake to have. Well done!
Maria Coulson 6/27/2011 7:49:21 PMDonna, huge congratulations on your first place!! #9490767
Mary K. Robison 6/28/2011 12:07:27 AMDonna, this is marvelous!
Christine Czernin 6/28/2011 9:14:13 AMMany congrats on this fabulous win, Donna.
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 6/28/2011 5:18:33 PMThank you all so very much! Your comments are a true inspiration and deeply appreciated!!
Take care and best of luck!
Donna #9492946
Karen E. Baumann 6/29/2011 8:02:43 AMSuch a great image for the theme of sharing, Donna!!! A big congratulations for this first place win! And, for so many of your WATER SPORT images featured in the Snapshot!!! #9494678
Karen Bacon 6/30/2011 3:58:43 PMCongratulations Donna on this fantastic winner! #9497647
Ellen Hodges 6/30/2011 6:34:20 PMSuper detail and color, Donna!! #9498007
Nadia Paul 6/30/2011 11:24:40 PMCongrats on your wonderful winner Donna! #9498489
Terry L. Ellis 7/1/2011 6:42:23 AMAn awesome first place win, Donna! Huge congratulations! #9499252
Merna L. Nobile 7/11/2011 4:10:13 PMCongratulations to all of the Award Winners for May 2011. Merna
JudyAnn Rector 7/13/2011 2:03:29 PMLoved it the moment I saw it the first time... CONGRATULATIONS on a very well deserved win!! #9527893
Carolyn McIntosh 7/14/2011 5:42:00 PMThought I should visit your gallery again. This is one amazing photo and so well captured and composed.
I have been MIA for awhile. #9530614
Craig W. Myers 7/16/2011 8:47:00 PMJust outstanding, Donna. Great story image. Congratulations. #9534854
Kimber Wallwork-Heineman 7/28/2011 3:47:31 PMWonderful - my favorite of all! #9560445
Josie Detmers 11/6/2011 2:53:45 PMPerfect candid shot, Donna!! Congratulations on your award! You have lots of beautiful photos in your gallery!! #9787776
Zsuzsanna M. Szugyi 1/15/2012 7:14:56 PMWow, amazing capture! Congratulation, Donna! #9922423
Rod Partington 8/3/2012 7:41:01 AMFantastic capture! Well deserved win. #10261105
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 8/3/2012 7:54:02 AMThanks again to each and every one of you. Your kind and inspirational comments are AWESOME.....very much appreciated!!
Take care,
Donna #10261133
Gunther Allen 8/20/2013 5:50:31 PMWhat a treat to look through your gallery... Such awesome winning photos. Great eye and congrats on your achievements! #10815131
Birch Aquarium
La Jolla, California
September 30, 2010
50 mm - f/1.8 II - Canon EF
RAW / Aperture Priority / -2/3 EC
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Injuries may have put a damper on the first half of the season for the Laguna Beach High boys' tennis team, but they haven't stopped the Breakers from once again taking control of the Orange Coast League race.
At the start of the second half of the league season, Laguna sits atop the standings at 5-0. The Breakers picked up their latest win on March 28 by taking an 11-7 match from host Saddleback.
It also was the fifth win, overall, for the Breakers who are ranked No. 3 in CIF Southern Section Division.
They took a 5-8 record into spring break.
"Our doubles played very convincingly," Laguna Coach Don Davis said of the Saddleback win.
The Breakers haven't had a healthy lineup for the past month. Their No. 1 singles player, Teague Hamilton, has missed matches due to wrist and shoulder injuries. Zach Pratto, at No. 3 doubles, has been out with a sprained ankle. Tim Nguyen, who plays at No. 3 doubles, has a wrist injury.
Morgan Lebby, who plays No. 2 singles but has been thrust into the No. 1 spot in a few matches, missed last week's nonleague match against Whitney due to a school trip.
Davis has had to juggle his lineup to make up for those losses. Several players have stepped in, and stepped up.
"Our singles has been hurt by injuries, so we have lost some matches that we most likely could have won, but more importantly, our doubles teams are beginning to jell," he said. "We've kept the No. 1 and 2 doubles teams intact, formulated our No. 3 doubles team, and used whoever is available in singles."
The top two doubles teams, Ryan Gee/Oliver Nasiell, and Owen Weber/Alex Duong, have been steady throughout the season. Davis said the players who have stepped into the No. 3 line have "rotated" depending on which players have been available.
"It's been hard to really come up with a conclusive team at No. 3," he said.
Several players have stepped in to play both singles and doubles including Jeff Spitz, Noah Radach, Matt Meisberger, Jared Boetes and Andrew Koumas.
Laguna starts the stretch drive of its season Tuesday at home against Estancia, which is ranked fourth in Division 4, in a 3 p.m. league match. The Breakers defeated the Eagles, 11-7, in their first league meeting on March 14.
Davis said that a key to a strong finish for the Breakers is "having Teague [Hamilton] and Zach [Pratto] back in the singles lineup."
He said he expects to have Hamilton, Pratto and Nguyen, available starting next week.
"We should have our roster at full strength for the last few weeks of the season before CIF starts," Davis said with a chuckle in his voice.
Following the Estancia match, the Breakers play three consecutive nonleague matches beginning with a 3 p.m. meeting Thursday at Laguna Hills. Before the start of the Orange Coast League Tournament May 1, three Breakers will take part in the prestigious Ojai Tennis Tournament.
Davis said Hamilton has been accepted into the singles draw, and Lebby and Gee have been accepted into the doubles draw.
More than 1,500 junior, high school, collegiate and open division amateur players are entered in the amateur tournament.
Known as, The Ojai, the tournament will be played for the 113th time dating back to its debut in 1896. Among the tennis greats who have played Ojai include Billy Jean King, Bill Tilden, Bobby Riggs, Jack Kramer, Arthur Ashe, Pancho Gonzales, Stan Smith, Tracy Austin, Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, and Lindsay Davenport.
Remaining schedule
Tuesday: Estancia, 3 p.m.
Thursday: at Laguna Hills, 3 p.m.
April 18: Palm Springs, 3 p.m.
April 22: vs. Beckman (at Lower Peters Park), 3 p.m.
April 23: vs. Godinez (at Santa Ana Valley High), 3 p.m.
April 25: Costa Mesa, 3 p.m.
April 25-27: at Ojai Tournament
May 1-2: OCL Tournament (at Estancia), TBA.
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In Soviet HTML5…Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Today's comic features Mat "Wilto" Marquis (Internet folk hero) in a nightmarish world that I imagine Ian Hickson envisions if HTML were ever allowed to slip from his hands and be created by the common man.
We've discussed the issue of responsive images in HTML and the proposed <picture> element before, you and I. Here's a look back in case you need a refresher. It's a bit cheeky. I get worked up over things like one smart person thinking his brain is more efficient than the combined powers of dozens of smart people.
<Picture> has had a rough road.
All the way back in December 2011, Bruce Lawson posted this idea for how the syntax of <picture> might work. Several people started a community group chaired by Mat Marquis back in February (based on a WHATWG email suggesting such) to push the idea forward so it could see eventual adoption into the HTML spec. They did a great deal of good work to make a workable, problem-solving piece of markup. Scott Jehl even created a polyfill script to provide support for the proposed markup until browsers implemented it, which you can find here.
Then Hixie stepped in. It's been well documented in the past before, so I'll summarize: he decided to ignore the community group and efforts of the developer community and went with srcset. Classic Hixie solo action. Here's an aptly named summary, WTFWG by Tim Kadlec, and a piece on A List Apart by Mat Marquis.
Developers were mad. Developers were vocal. Then for the most part, the web moved on.
If it wasn't for the continued effort over the past several months of people like Mat, that would have been that. But he and others didn't stop, and they kept on pushing, and wouldn't you know it? Something came of it.
Not in the WHATWG, of course. Someone hoping for that sort of miracle would be essentially signaling to everyone that they finally lost their last marble. (Here's an example of how things were going over there, AKA, Hixie's got his blinders on like normal.)
But over at the W3C, Mat and his allies accomplished this: an official w3C Editor's Draft of a proposal for HTML Responsive Images Extension, featuring both srcset AND <picture> to be included into the HTML5 spec. It's just a step, but it's a fairly big one, and a great deal of validation for the developers that worked so hard, despite Hixie's best attempts at ignoring them, to create a responsive image solution that works for them.
I could tell you how it's a heroic accomplishment that is leading us towards a better web. But I won't. Not because I think it isn't (it in fact is!) but because Marc Drummond already said it better. Go read his article Responsive images, the picture element and the W3C: This is how you deal with Hixie and WHATWG. It's worth it.
It's hard to say if <picture> will ever make it into the browsers. The browser makers are mostly (but not entirely) involved in WHATWG, and would prefer to work around the W3C. But I do believe that enough community effort will continue to build on the success that Mat and the others have brought us.
I asked Mat about what he saw as the future of <picture> in light of these recent accomplishments, and what interested developers should do to help. Here's his response.
I totally stand by that follow-up tweet I posted earlier ( http://twitter.com/wilto/statuses/240486846801514498 ): no matter how things play out from here, the dev community has done something that I don't believe has ever been done before. You just don't see specs – proposed or otherwise – with a developer's name at the top. If nothing else I hope this marks the beginning of that, and that it leads to we authors having a voice in web standards equaling that of the vendors.
To get involved, more folks should join up with the RICG! http://www.w3.org/community/account/request
Let's not waste the opportunity this has given us. We're the developers that will have to work with the spec that's being created, and will be answerable to the clients and site visitors that will use the sites we create. We should and can have a bigger voice in the direction of HTML. What Mat and others have done is show us how.


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jump on the bandwagon
This page is about the idiom jump on the bandwagon
If someone jumps on the bandwagon, they join a movement or follow a fashion that has recently become popular.
For example
- It seems that politicians all over the world are now jumping on the "war on terror" bandwagon.
- I remember when punk became popular, lots of long-haired hippies jumped on the bandwagon and cut their hair short and wore black clothes.
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When political correctness became popular in the nineties, millions of people jumped on the bandwagon and
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When Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his State of the State address Jan. 9, he will be able to mark progress on many fronts. And he will be able to do so knowing that voters give him high marks for his job performance.
But what would be most impressive is if the governor took the opportunity to speak frankly about what remains to be done-in particular, to restore New York's fiscal foundation.
Those who doubt that the state cannot continue on its present course should read the new analysis issued by the State Budget Crisis Task Force, led by Richard Ravitch, a former New York lieutenant governor, and Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve. It is an update to the group's July 2012 report on the six major fiscal threats facing New York and other states.
"New York has had a structural deficit, papered over with gimmicks, for decades," the task force states bluntly. "When the economy is booming, so is spending; when times are bad, revenues crash and spending remains."
Faced with the need to balance each year's budget on a cash basis, lawmakers have turned to a seemingly endless series of one-shot actions. Over the past decade, these have totaled roughly $25 billion.
Examples of these one-shots in the 2012-13 budget include $2.6 billion in temporary income tax provisions, deferrals of business tax credits totaling nearly $1 billion and $782 million in borrowing for pension contributions.
Among the many fiscal challenges that lie ahead, the report states, two loom largest: the need to maintain and upgrade New York's crumbling physical infrastructure, and a growing number of "illiquid cities and counties with their own structural budget deficits."
The task force had a note of caution for those who think the solution is simply to demand that the wealthy pay more: "Albany has increased dependence on a small group of very wealthy taxpayers to keep the state going, which worsens revenue volatility and budget instability and heightens the state's exposure to risks outside its control."
At the moment, the fiscal cliff might be at the top of the list of risk factors, but it's hardly the only one.
Mr. Cuomo has earned a great deal of trust over the past two years. He should put it to good use by stating plainly what New York must do to put itself on a sustainable course.
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2008 saw a considerable slowdown in posting around these parts. I blame Twitter. Still, the long form blog post was not entirely forgotten as I dove into alternate media stylesheets, launched and wrote up a redesign of my business arm Bright Creative, pondered the implications of full page zoom, and put electronic documents to a real world test.
The "Fountain" style you see now graced this site all year.


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Hinterstoder is one out of 27 exclusive destinations across Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy that are part of the "Alpine Pearls" Association.
Impressive mountain scenery, an unspoiled environment, first-class infrastructure, an overall commitment to sustainability, and a friendly and hospitable atmosphere make Hinterstoder a popular destination both in summer and winter.
Hinterstoder is a modern tourism resort which has nonetheless managed to preserve its relaxed, traditional charm. Also known as a stop on the World Cup calendar of Alpine Skiing, Hinterstoder will enchant you with its atmosphere and lovely scenery.
Hinterstoder has dedicated itself to a "sustainable mobility" policy. It is easily accessible for tourists by means of public transport both in summer and winter. Your luggage will be picked up at the station and delivered to your accommodation. Your host will be happy to give you a lift in case you have chosen to stay off the town center. Public transport is a hassle-free and eco-friendly way of traveling.
The Pyhrn-Priel-AktivCard entitles to free use of means of public transport. In addition, the Wandertaxi takes you to various trailheads at discounted rates (also applies to pick-up service at the end of the hike).
Also make use of free rental bikes, take a ride in a horse-drawn carriage (or sleigh), or hire an eco-friendly vehicle.
Sustainable mobility: Hinterstoder (and the Stodertal Valley in general) is on the Via Alpina route (long-distance hiking route no. 1; E4 (Alpin) 09).
Choose from a variety of leisurely walks and hikes, get to know charming mountain pastures, enjoy stunning views, and drop in at one of the quaint mountain lodges and restaurants for a decent meal or a refreshing drink. Walking and hiking in Hinterstoder makes you forget about the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
Highlight: Hinterstoder Kneipping facilities (barefoot trail, meditation, Kneipp treatments to the legs and arms, ...)


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Juanita Bogard Steadman died February 18, 2013 in her home of natural causes. Born April 28, 1908 in Cape Giradeau, Missouri, Juanita graduated from Glen Ellyn High School (Illinois) in 1923 and lived with her family in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1933, she married John Steadman and they moved west, first to the San Francisco area then later to Hollywood in 1945 and finally, to their home in La Canada in 1956 close to his work in the entertainment industry. Juanita continued to live in this home until her death. Juanita was predeceased by her daughter Mary Lou Steadman Dixon in 1966 and husband John Steadman in 1993.
Juanita worked as an administrative assistant at LockheedAircraft in Burbank in the years following World War II. John Steadman was a broadcaster first with NBC radio and then with the Armed Forces Radio /Television Network for more than 30 years and a character actor in film and television. He had a leading character role in the first Longest Yard film starring Burt Reynolds.
Juanita is survived by her grandsons Patrick R Dixon (Diane), David M Dixon (Kathleen) and
granddaughter Robyn Dixon Freeman (Gregory); six grandchildren (Colleen Dixon Tompkins,
Bradley Dixon, Jennifer Dixon, and Kevin, James and David Freeman and two great great grandsons (Troy John Freeman and Joseph Brooks Tompkins). Her grandchildren are grateful for Juanita's many years of loving support to the family after their mother passed away.
Juanita loved playing hymns and popular music on her organ and piano until her mid-nineties, wrote and published books of poetry and was an original founder in the mid-1960s of the La Canada Country Club bridge club. She retired from the bridge club in 1996. She was especially proud of her collection of personal correspondence with every U.S. president from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton, a personal favorite from her Little Rock years.
The family wishes to thank the loving care of her long-time caregivers Minda Dikib and Alice
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When, several years ago, we succumbed to unavoidable financial pressure and sold our only family vehicle to help cover the rent for awhile, it was my son, Zeke, the analytical type, the scientist, who wanted to run to the window to watch—solemn, stoic—as the new owners drove away. He was about five at the time.
"Are they going to bring back our Honda Pilot?"
No, Zeke. They're not bringing it back.
Today, he asks me things like this: "The next time we make a turkey, can I watch it cook from beginning to end? I would like to do that. I'd like to watch it no matter how long it takes. That means you're going to have to clean the oven window, and I don't know how you're going to do that, because it's dirty in between two panels. So you should research. But I want to watch that. I like to watch the changes happen to things, slowly."
He notices now, on the relatively rare occasions when we're in someone's vehicle together, that he doesn't have time to take in his surroundings. Things pass too fast for him to observe and integrate. "The only things I can see better when I'm in a car are other cars. Instead of them just speeding by, it's like they've slowed down. I guess because I'm traveling with them. So I look at zooming cars when I'm in a car, because they're the only thing I can really see. They become slow."
Zeke has always talked like this. He used to refer to people smoking cigarettes as "humans operating small smokestacks." I think of him as a real-life equivalent of Charles Wallace from A Wrinkle in Time, better friends with his fifteen-year-old sister Rainer than with his peers. On our bike rides to school, we travel down one long boulevard we've come to call "weather street," where back in late August we noted its late-summer status quo and watched, with little sister Molly, as the densely green trees and the short shadows they cast turned into the golden lens of early autumn. Our morning ride became more softly-lit and forgiving, with even small hedges and rosebushes casting long silhouettes like puddles beneath our wheels as we pedaled. Later, we took pleasure in the crunch of dry leaves underneath our tires, and avoided the carefully-made sleeping mounds at the curbs, representing hours of raking and optimism that no blustery day would carry the work away before green waste pick up.
We saw the change as autumn gave way to the parchment scratch of winter's branches against a colorless sky. "It always comes after a really big windstorm," Zeke said, when we rode to school one Monday amidst streets littered with the smaller branches and limbs from a weekend of near-relentless gusts. I told him that's when autumn's last leaves lose their grip, to which he replied, "that's sad, but it's okay, I guess."
"Sometimes you have to let go in order for the next thing to come in, right?"
"Yeah, but what if it's not better? Like, the leaves are leaving the branches just to be crumbly dead leaves. And a gray branch with nothing on it is what's left behind."
"Well, sure, but that's the order of things. And that's why they bend with the wind, see? They've got time to adjust before they let go of the branch. It's not so sudden as all that. We've seen the change. They haven't even been green for weeks and weeks now."
That's not to say Zeke's okay with anything and everything nature has to dish out. He's less impressed when things happen with alarming quickness. A couple times this year, we've been "blessed" with a most shocking and sudden fungal display in our yard, known colloquially as "dog vomit fungus." The fact that it appears seemingly overnight—in addition to its profoundly repulsive appearance and consistency—is deeply disturbing to The Boy Who Likes Things Slow.
Part I of the Dog Vomit Fungus that Appeared in the Nighttime:

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Part II of The Dog Vomit Fungus that Appeared in the Nighttime:

Post by Corbyn Hanson Hightower.

You can hear me extolling the horrifying "virtues" of the oddly instantaneous appearance of what looks, from a distance, like wet quinoa rejected and tossed out of a pot in in the middle of the yard, but as you approach seems more like tapioca pudding, and only becomes repugnant when the incongruity hits you. Wet tapioca? Soft, fresh, cooked quinoa? In the middle of the yard, in great quantity, at seven a.m.? We approached, in an uneasy darting fashion, and because this was our second-go-'round with this, and because and I had been told what it was by my friend Nicole, who's an admitted fungus enthusiast, we took a few extra minutes out of our morning to chronicle its appearance. I told Zeke to fetch a stick; Molly appeared with one instead. [And yes, it dawned on me later that despite my insipid comment in the video, the grass didn't grow through it, it grew around the grass.]
But something about the suddenness of its appearance was unnerving to our Ezekiel. I tried to rally the native scientist within, but he kept making noises about saddling up and riding as far away from that hasty pudding as fast as we could.
"Just drop the stick and leave," he implored.
"Why, Zeke?" I was shocked he didn't want me to poke and prod more.
"Because . . . because it might be . . . unsanitary?"
Laughter all around. "I think that's pretty much a guarantee."
Nervously, from Zeke: "Let's just go." Black screen.
That's where the video ends. I obeyed his request, because it came from the very root of who he is. He's a boy who likes to take things in in his own time, and I am thankful for that, because whether it came before getting rid of the car or was a result of our having gotten rid of the car, it now makes him uniquely well-suited to our lifestyle of biking and walking everywhere. We are able to see small changes—both natural and man-made—as they occur. He enjoys watching new houses go up, and will comment on the roofing paper being rolled out, the stucco getting sprayed on. He likes watching people's garden beds get seeded, grow into plants, bear fruit.
And so we take our notes, make our observations. And nothing need be rushed. Because in the end, I'm looking for any clinging crimson leaf left on the gray branch, and the last thing I want to do is leave a pile of dog vomit fungus for the child to integrate when he's in no way ready to handle that.
. . . and thank you for making it possible for me to write for you!


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Vertical Earth " State of the Union "
As of Friday, February 26 Mountain Biking has been cancelled at the Vertical Earth Gravity Park at Blue Mountain Ski Resort. The mountain has decided to dedicate all resources to the future waterpark coming in 2012.
Even though disappointed, the past two years have been a dream come true and I thank Blue Mountain for the opportunity to build trails and promote races with local lift access. To all the riders, racers, supporters, sponsors, and park crew there are a mountain of memories, good vibes, laughs, adventures that will last a lifetime. New friendships were made, more people are riding, and I can't thank everyone enough for making that happen. I can say at the end of one year the park averaged 60 people a day droppin' in on the trails a lot of people had a hand in. I know many of you will be disappointed but mountain biking may not be gone for good, so hopefully when the waterpark is complete we may see the mountain bring it back. In the meantime, I look forward to getting on the bike and getting out to a few races this summer.
Season pass holders for the upcoming season, the mountain will be refunding passes starting next Friday. Thanks very much everyone for an awesome two years of livin' the dream. Everybody keep it upright and I hope to see you on the trails!
-Dan / Vertical Earth


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Michael Jai White stars as the title character, a former CIA commando who is called back into action on the mean streets when his brother is killed and he gets word that drug dealers are selling smack to orphans. White, a muscley smooth talker with a killer Afro and matching mustache, mostly plays it straight, much to his credit (he only fails when he plays it too broad, as in the scene where he finds out about those orphans). Most of the other supporting players are too clearly in the joke, winking at the audience at mugging wildly, forgetting the main rule of successful parody (established most memorably in Airplane!), which is to take the role absolutely seriously, no matter how ridiculous your surroundings. Byron Minns, for example, plays Bullhorn, a rhyming club-owner clearly modeled on Rudy Ray Moore (specifically on his role in Disco Godfather, a film literally quoted at one point early in this one). But Minns plays him with a big grin, laughing at his own jokes, and it's the wrong approach entirely--part of the charm of the Moore films is how seriously he takes himself, as if he's really a credible action hero and the serious message of a picture like Disco Godfather isn't completely laughable.
To be fair, some of the gags--especially those that come early on--do work, like the car chase that ends with the fiery crash of a car that doesn't match up, or a montage of Black Dynamite and his crew cleaning up the streets with the help of hilariously mismatched stock footage. But there are also plenty of would-be comic set pieces that just lie there, like a meeting of pimps and hustlers (including a brief and uninspired appearance by Arsenio Hall) and a sex scene played out in cartoons and astrology symbols. In these moments, and in the opening scenes, Sanders and his screenwriters don't do the hard work of writing comedy--they're so impressed with their own cleverness that they forget to put in the punch lines.
Through much of the film, though, the design elements do most of the heavy lifting. Black Dynamite looks just right, as if it were an honest-to-goodness blaxpoitation picture that's been sitting in a vault for thirty-plus years. Cinematographer Shawn Maurer doesn't go the Grindhouse route, aging the film in post-production; instead, he shoots on a Super-16 color reversal stock, creating a high-contrast, richly saturated image, well-augmented by excellent imitations of the clunky camerawork and awkward framing that became part of the template. Sanders and his writers do manage the nail the tin-eared expositional dialogue (currently heard in the soap-opera minstrel shows of Tyler Perry), and the sound mixers even manage to replicate the slightly-hollow sound quality of those old dialogue scenes. Adrian Younge's original score is spot-on as well, full of funny trills and "Dynamite!" vocal hits. Ruth E. Carter's costume design couldn't be better, and the sets are a hoot (particularly the wonderfully chintzy White House interiors of the closing sequence).
However, the karate scenes are played too straight and look too good (at least compared to the oeuvre of the aforementioned Rudy Ray Moore); an early kung-fu training scene lands some laughs from its stilted choreography and poorly-timed editing, but that's abandoned later, for no good reason. Sanders makes another key error in utilizing some obvious CG (for a man on fire) and green-screen (when Dynamite parachutes out of a chopper); it looks and feels wrong, wrong, wrong, blowing the carefully replicated vintage aesthetic.
Black Dynamite mocks blaxpoitation pictures with affection, and make no mistake, they're easy to sneer at. Those filmmakers were often making it up as they went along, doing their best with ridiculously low budgets and limited resources. But part of the reason that so many of them have survived and influenced filmmakers today was that their energy was undeniable. Little to none of that energy is evident in this send-up, which lurches from scene to scene and often leaves its cast standing around in period costumes on period sets, waiting for something funny to happen. It works in places as a parody, but also has the misfortune of following the Grindhouse films to the marketplace--which worked both as spoofs and as their own enjoyable entertainments. In Black Dynamite, not much happens once they've wrung the easy laughs out of the premise.
If I'm a little hard on Black Dynamite, it's mostly out of disappointment--I was genuinely excited to see if after taking in its brilliant trailer last year. The trouble is, you'll get about as much out of the film as you will from that trailer (the clothes, the cars, the action, the flawless recreation of period low-budget filmmaking), but it's 88 minutes shorter and it's free.
"Black Dynamite" is out today on DVD and Blu-ray. For full A/V and bonus feature details, read this review on DVD Talk.


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Thousands Protest Keystone Pipeline in Washington Rally
Tens of thousands of people Sunday showed their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline as they marched in cold weather to the White House to urge President Obama to reject the $5.3-billion project, which critics say would hurt the environment.
Organizers estimated that roughly 35,000 people from several U.S. states gathered on the National Mall and then marched to Constitution Avenue, up 17th Street and past the White House, and billed it as the largest climate rally in American history.
"All I ever wanted to see was a movement of people to stop climate change and now I've seen it," Politico quoted Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, as telling the crowd of protesters. "I cannot promise you we're going to win, but I've waited a quarter century to find out if we were gonna fight. And today, at the biggest climate rally by far, by far, by far, in U.S. history – today, I know we're going to fight."
McKibben's group was one of the three organizers, apart from the Sierra Club and the Hip Hop Caucus. Sunday's rally was held following a call from a bipartisan group of senators to approve the project.
Critics say the TransCanada Corp.'s pipeline project will hurt the environment by encouraging development of Alberta's oil sands, the mining of which releases three times more carbon dioxide, believed to be a greenhouse gas, than conventional crude oil. But its supporters claim the pipeline will lead to job creation and less foreign dependence on oil.
"It will be a punch in the gut to all the activists who worked so hard to get the president elected" if Keystone is approved, Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, was quoted as saying.
"I don't have any reason to believe at this point that the pipeline won't go through," said Van Jones, founder of Rebuild the Dream and former Obama special adviser for green jobs. "I think if you look at the status quo, the big polluters tend to win these fights. They've got the big money. They've got the big lobbyists and they tend to win these fights. And that's why the people have to come out."
Obama was reportedly playing golf in Florida when the rally was being held.
TransCanada promises that its 2,154-mile international tar sands pipeline extending from Alberta, Canada, to U.S. markets in Illinois, Nebraska and Oklahoma will create "more than $20 billion in new private sector investment in the U.S. economy" as well as create 20,000 construction jobs that will "generate $6.5 billion in new personal income."
The company issued a statement Sunday, saying while it is good to shift to more sustainable energy source, the transition might take decades.
Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker John Boehner, have called on Obama not to delay the decision, which has been kept pending for over four years.
Earlier this month, actress Daryl Hannah along with scientist James Hansen, Robert Kennedy Jr., and several other high-profile personalities were arrested after handcuffing themselves to the gates of the White House to mark their protest.
Some Christians have also opposed the pipeline.
John Elwood, an evangelical and pastor in the Presbyterian Church of America, earlier told The Christian Post the pipeline's path will run through 1,904 rivers and streams – including Nebraska's Ogallala Aquifer – putting the livelihood and drinking water of the poor in harm's way. Referring to Psalm 51:4, he added, "When we do things that affect the poor harmfully, of course we do it to God and when we bless the poor, we do that to God."
A December 2011, Rasmussen Reports survey showed that 53 percent of Americans either strongly favored or somewhat favored the pipeline. Another 2011 Rasmussen poll showed that 75 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. is not doing enough to develop its own traditional gas and oil resources.


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It has been a horror show for the Giants offense on Sunday and wide receiver Victor Cruz is one of those caught in the carnage.
Cruz fell on his head while trying to make a jumping third down catch in the third quarter and was helped off the field by trainers a short time later. Officials originally gave Cruz a catch, but replay showed he didn't hold onto the ball. That shouldn't come as much of a surprise because there is no good news for the Giants on Sunday.
Cruz is done for the day with a concussion and a knee sprain, leaving the Giants with even less to throw at an overwhelming Seahawks defense. Eli Manning threw his fourth pick of the day to set up a Doug Baldwin touchdown that has the Seahawks up 23-0 in the fourth quarter.
The Giants have gained 81 yards on the day, which makes the only question left in New Jersey whether or not they'll find a way onto the scoreboard at all.


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Benefits of Recycling
Together, Reducing, Reusing, Recycling and buying Recycled products make up a comprehensive waste and resource reduction strategy that benefits our natural world and our local economy. Because Juneau is an isolated community with limited landfill sites, we must also Rethink what we bring in to Juneau. As the photo above shows, what we bring in by barge often must leave by barge.
Recycling conserves our natural resources, saves landfill space, conserves energy, and reduces water pollution, air pollution and the green house gas emissions that cause global warming. Recycling is an important way for individuals and businesses to reduce the waste they generate and reduce the negative impact of that waste. Because recycling is now a growing business in Juneau, every time you recycle supports the companies and employees doing this important work.
The estimated capacity of the landfill is approximately 30 years. Do your part to reduce the growth of Mount Garbage and lengthen the capacity of the landfill. Rethink, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.


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- Height:10.00"
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- Material:Cotton
- Color:Black, Blue
- Weight:0.80 oz.
- Brand:Hanks by Hank (HBH)
- Model:Handkerchief
- Country of Origin:USA
- Product Type:Handkerchief
This Hanksbyhank model features a blue digicam pattern with a black backing.
Variety is the spice of life and Hanksbyhank not only offers an admirable array of handkerchiefs to satisfy any taste, the quality of these handmade accessories is top-notch. They each measure 10" x 10" and showcase a unique pattern stitched to a muslin backing. The handkerchief is the mark of a distinguished gentleman and its uses extend beyond blowing your nose and sneezing, although we highly encourage using the hank as needed for that too. These everyday-friendly handkerchiefs are 50-state legal and won't cause any unnecessary excitement at an airport.Other Uses:
- Knife needs a little attention/cleanup, you're covered.
- Uncomfortably hot with sweat pooling, that calls for a handkerchief.
- Doubles as a mini place setting at the dinner table, or better yet breakfast.
- Fold it up and you've got a handy coaster.
- Hot beverage or container, fold to the appropriate thickness for burn-free insulation.


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Locum Dentist opportunity available part time to join our team in our well established practice in Seaford, South London.
This opportunity is available across 4 days in the week Monday – Thursday 08:30 – 17:00. This locum position is to assist with UDA delivery so a performer number is essential, available immediately and for a period of four weeks initially with potential for this to carry on longer.
Oasis Dental Care is the current market leader in private dentistry and as we continue to grow we would like to welcome you to join in our success. We have recently been welcomed to the BUPA group making us the largest dental provider in the UK. At Oasis Dental Care our primary focus is on patient care and quality dentistry and as such we are seeking enthusiastic, patient focused dentists to join in our success.
It is a fantastic time to join Oasis as we were recently named in the 'Sunday Times' Top Track 250. Ranking 61st we achieved a massive leap up from 119th last year.
If you are asking yourself the question 'why join Oasis' allow me to highlight just some of the incentives:
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-118?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Dag H. Wanvik updated DERBY-118: -------------------------------- Issue & fix info: (was: Patch Available) > Lift some DB2 restrictions on DEFAULT values [was: Allow any build-in function as default values in table create for columns] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-118 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-118 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: SQL > Reporter: Bernd Ruehlicke > Assignee: Dag H. Wanvik > Priority: Minor > Attachments: derby-118-all-defaults.diff, derby-118-longvarchar.diff, derby-118.diff, derby-118.stat, derby-118b.diff, derby-118b.stat, derby-118c.diff, derby-118c.stat > > > It is ok in ij to do a values char(current_date) but is is not allowed to use char(current_date) as default value for clolumns; like for example > CREATE TABLE DOSENOTWORK (num int, created_by varchar(40) default user, create_date_string varchar(40) default char(current_date)) > Request: It should be allowed to use any build-in function which return a valid type as part of the default value spec. > There was a e-mail thread for this and the core content/answer was: > Bernd Ruehlicke wrote: > > > > CREATE TABLE DOSENOTWORK (num int, created_by varchar(40) default > > user, create_date_string varchar(40) default char(current_date)) > > > > give an error as below - any idea why ?!??! > > > The rules for what is acceptable as a column default in Derby say that the only valid functions are datetime functions. > The logic that enforces this can be seen in the "defaultTypeIsValid" method of the file: > ./java/engine/org/apache/derby/impl/sql/compile/ColumnDefinitionNode.java > The Derby Reference Manual also states this same restriction (albeit rather briefly): > ---- > Column Default > For the definition of a default value, a ConstantExpression is an expression that does not refer to any table. It can include constants, date-time special registers, current schemas, users, and null. > ---- > A "date-time special register" here means a date-time function such as "date(current_date)" in your first example. > Since the function "char" is NOT a date-time function, it will throw an error. > I believe this restriction was put in place as part of the "DB2 compatibility" work was that done in Cloudscape a while back. > Hope that answers your question, > Army -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Police say they are examining newly received information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, and that officers are assessing the information's "relevance and credibility".
Scotland Yard declined to provide details about the information, only saying in a statement on Saturday that the assessment will be carried out by officers from its specialist crime and operations unit.
The force stressed that it was not reopening the investigation into the 1997 deaths of Diana and Fayed, who were killed in a car crash in Paris.
In 2008, a jury ruled that Diana, the Princess of Wales, and her companion, Fayed, were unlawfully killed due to reckless speed and drinking by their driver, and by the reckless pursuit of paparazzi chasing them.
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"I think the police did a thorough investigation prior to the inquest and that's why we had an inquest," he added. "The French did a thorough investigation and they both came up with the same conclusions.
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This section describes possible problems with an HTTP or HTTPS connection and provides guidance on how to handle them.
The consequences of a server or broker failure in an (HTTP or HTTPS) connection vary depending on the specific component that has failed:
If the application server or Web server fails and is restarted, all existing connections are restored with no effect on clients.
If the broker fails and is restarted, an exception is thrown and clients must reestablish their connections.
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On Globalization
Where one nation has got the start of another in trade, 'tis very difficult for the latter to regain the ground it has lost; because of the superior industry and skill of the former, and the greater stocks which its merchants are possest of, and which enable them to trade for so much smaller profits. But these advantages are compensated, in some measure, by the low prices of labour in every nation that has not an extensive commerce, and does not very much abound in gold and silver. Manufactures, therefore, gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces, which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whither they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour, till they have enriched these also, and are again banished by the same causes. And in general we may observe, that the dearness of every thing, from plenty of money, is a disadvantage, that attends an established commerce, and sets bounds to it in every country, by enabling the poorer states to undersell the richer in all foreign markets.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Shane Bannon did something today no Yale football player has done in seven years, he got drafted by a National Football League team. The versatile Yale H-Back was taken by Kansas City in the seventh round and is the first Eli draft pick since Nate Lawrie '04.
Bannon, a 6-2, 265-pound runner/receiver/blocker, could play tight end, H-back or fullback for the Chiefs. He started every game last fall and had a career-best 13 catches playing the hybrid position for the Bulldogs.
"I could not be more honored to be a part of the Chiefs' organization. I want to thank the Hunt Family, and I look forward to strapping on the pads and showing them what I am all about," said Bannon, the only Ivy League draftee this year. "The fans at Arrowhead Stadium are known to be the best in the nation. I look forward to making them proud."
The Southbury, Conn., native played in 28 games at Yale. He had two rushes and scored one TD while catching 16 passes for 147 yards with two TDs.
Bannon, the 20th pick in the seventh round, was Kansas City's ninth selection and the 223rd player named overall in the 2011 draft.
Lawrie, a tight end at Yale and in the NFL, was taken by Tampa Bay in the sixth round (181 overall) but is no longer in the league.
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Rd 1, Pick 26 (26) Baldwin, Jonathan WR
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The markets fell Tuesday as traders cautiously awaited Alcoa's results after the bell, marking the beginning of fourth-quarter earnings season.
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As of 3:10 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 55.7 points, or 0.42%, to 13328, the S&P 500 dipped 5.5 points, or 0.38%, to 1456 and the Nasdaq Composite slipped 8.3 points, or 0.27%, to 3091.
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Hi, Folks! About to head out on vacation here, but just wanted to pop in and share a few links about an author I'd like to read!
Some of you may have heard of him, Samuel Martin. I just learned about him through the GCM board. A true, modern-day Biblical scholar! I'd really love to see his writings hit mainstream, as I believe they'd really mark a turn in how we interpret the rod verses and treat children, as a culture.
I have not read him myself, so I'm not sure what other topics or ideas he represents. But, here are a few links to get you and me started. Two of these links contain excerpts of his writings. Samuel Martin on Biblical/Hebrew interpretations of child discipline and spanking:
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This movie offers so many potential avenues from which I could approach it that I'm finding it almost as overwhelming as climbing the north face of the Eiger while an unknown assassin tries to kill me because he knows I'm trying to kill him. There's the career of geologist-filmmaker Arnold Fanck, whose fascination with mountains and mountaineering resulting in a series of films possessed of breathtaking beauty and power. There's the subject of mountaineering itself, and of the depiction of mountain climbing in film. There's the subject of silent film, and more specifically, silent spectacle and action films, which were far more lavish and epic in scope than most people ever imagine. And perhaps the 900 pound gorilla in the room is the bizarre and difficult career of German actress turned Nazi propagandist and, until her death in 2003 at the age of 101, the world's oldest living certified scuba diver, Leni Riefenstahl. Hers is a story of incredible talent, revolutionary film technique, terrifying loyalty to Adolf Hitler, arrest by a naval intelligence officer working with a John Ford film crew, war crimes, and after the dust settled, a career as an underwater nature photographer.
I'll try to cover them all, but forgive me if I'm a bit scattershot in my style. Well, more scattershot than usual, which is really saying something. After all, it's rather nice outside right now, and I'm thinking about going climbing instead of finishing this review. So let's begin at the beginning, a very good place to start. Oh man, this review is chocked with the potential for awful Alps-related film references. I prmise that, as far as I know, that is going to be the only one I make. Heidi. There. I said it, just to get it out there. Now we're done.
But the beginning to which I'm referring is the beginning of modern feature filmmaking. When I was a young lad full of energy and vim, I did not have very much interest in silent film. I'd seen plenty of them, all the usual suspects a horror film fan sees early in his viewing career: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis (including the one with the rockin' 80s soundtrack). They were interesting, but I preferred movies with talking. Later in life, I grew to appreciate and adore silent films much more, but even now I don't get excited about discussing any of the classic silent horror films from Germany — not because I don't love them, but rather because such a tremendous amount of ink has already been spent on them by much smarter people than me, and there's really not a lot I can add to the discussion of German expressionism, the Weimer Republic, or vergangenheits-bewaltigung that hasn't been covered by someone who, unlike me, actually knows what the hell they're talking about.
In high school, we had to watch The Birth of a Nation because it was a valuable lesson in the history of perceptions regarding the Civil War and race relations, and also because cinema pioneer D.W. Griffith was buried in the small Methodist church a couple minutes away — the very same church I attended as a youth and had my first and eventual ruinous run-ins with religious authority. It was a pretty typical looking small-town country church: whitewash wood, a steeple, no air conditioning, heavy wooden pews filled with sweating men and women in their Sunday finery, furiously fanning themselves with those cardboard fans attached to a Popsicle stick and featuring a painting of kindly Jesus waving at you or blessing you or possibly just fanning you because he grew up in the Middle East, and he understands what it means to be hot. Anyway, in the church cemetery were a variety of crumbling old graves, and right in the middle of them was the grave of D.W. Griffith.
Griffith, for those who may be unfamiliar with the early days of feature film making, was one of the fathers of the modern feature film. Along with a group of film makers in Europe, many of them Italian, and inspired by the Italian costumed spectacle Cabiria, Griffith was at the forefront of exploring what could be done with a motion picture camera and the ability to work on location rather than being bound to stages and sets like plays. Unfortunately, Griffith chose to explore these new possibilities in the form of a film called Birth of a Nation. The movie tells the story of the Antebellum South, when all the black slaves were suddenly free and immediately set about raping white women and dancing while getting drunk on cheap booze on the floor of the Senate. So basically, the slaves were all freed and acted like legally elected, white congressmen. The only thing standing between these unruly throngs of free, violent black folks (who, I should mention, were all happy and content as slaves,with gumdrop smiles and the freedom to hambone solo on the banks of rivers filled with chocolate and gold) and proud white America was the noble and chivalrous order of the Ku Klux Klan.
Yeah, so you pretty much get the picture, right? regardless, this was where it all began: the first American feature film. At the time of its release, Birth of a Nation was wildly popular — America wasn't exactly racial paradise in 1915, and there were veterans of the Civil War still floating around. Civil rights groups protested the film, but that did precious little to diminish it int he eyes of a white America for which black freedom was still a relatively new thing. It seems that Griffith himself was ultimately horrified by the reaction many audiences had to the film, reactions that often involved race rioting and violence. His next film, Intolerance, was an attempt to undo some of what he'd wrought with Birth of a Nation, by showing the evils slavery has caused through time. The film was another lavish spectacle in the spirit of the great Italian spectacles like Cabiria, but it was a failure both politically and financially. Griffith's career never recovered. Though he was one of the founding artists of United Artists, he wasn't with the company for long, and the final years of his life were spent in relative seclusion. Despite all he may have contributed to the history of cinema, Griffith's name was forever linked with that single movie, and it forever shadows — perhaps rightfully so — everything else he did.
Of course, I didn't know any of this in 1977, darting around the cemetery at Mount Tabor and poking around his grave. The grave is still there, of course, though the quaint church building has been replaced by one of those generic, pre-fab deals Methodists seem oddly fond of. Still, that grave connects to the movie we're actually here to discuss, as the career of German actress Leni Riefenstahl is very similar. Riefenstahl began her career in front of the camera, but it was behind it that she made her lasting contribution to cinema. Many of the techniques we now take for granted — moving the camera around, crane shots, dolly shots — can be traced back to Riefenstahl. Along with a host of other German filmmakers, she made cinema far more kinetic, far more dynamic, than it had been before. Unfortunately, she chose to showcase much of her incredible talent in Triumph of the Will, a film whose primary aim was to show how glorious Hitler and the Third Reich was. Like Griffith, pretty much anything you did before and after a film like that is going to be overshadowed. And among the things Riefenstahl did before Triumph of the Will was star in a series of sweeping mountaineering epics directed by geologist and outdoor sporting enthusiast Arnold Fanck.
The White Hell of Piz Palu represents the middle entry in a thematic trilogy that began with The Holy Mountain and ended with Storm Over Mont Blanc (SOS Iceberg is sort of a cousin), all three starring Riefenstahl, directed by Fanck, and concerning people who get in a lot of trouble up in the Alps. In the case of Piz Palu, the trouble begins straight away with a trio of climbers making an ascent up the titular mountain. Piz Palu was and remains notable for being covered in a lot of ice, and it is this ice, in combination with a warm wind, that causes such trouble for healthy young lovers Dr. Johannes and Maria Krafft (Gustaff Deissl and Mizzi Gotzel respectively) and guide Christian (Otto Spring). A snow slide catches them off guard, and poor Maria plunges into a crevasse, leaving Johannes kneeling helpless at the edge while Christian makes his way down the mountain in search of help, though both men know there's precious little hope of it amounting to anything other than body recovery.
Skip ahead a bit, to the same mountain, where hearty newlyweds Hans (Ernst Peterson) and Maria (Leni Riefenstahl) have decided, apparently, to celebrate their marriage by hiking up into the Alps and staying in one of the many shelters that dot all the popular hiking and climbing routes. From time to time their friend Flieger (real life World War One flying ace Ernst Udet) buzzes them in his biplane and drops little bottles of champagne attached to wee parachutes. It's all very healthy and fun and vigorous, so much so that Maria is more than happy to cavort happily in the snow while wearing a skirt and sleeveless blouse. Things turn dour, however, when Johannes shows up at the shelter. Maria does her best to befriend the haunted climber, who returns to Piz Palu every season in a vain search for his wife's body. Hans, on the other hand, seems alternately fascinated by the gloomy man and irritated that he's lurking around. I guess that's what happens when you spend your honeymoon in a public cabin in the Alps. You're just asking for a damned soul to show up and recount his haunted past to you.
Maria discovers that, while he was waiting for Christian to return with help from the town at the foot of the mountain, Johannes thought he could hear Maria (his Maria — that the two women have the same name is no accident, I'm sure) shouting for help. Both horrified and elated by the thought that his wife might still be alive, injured at the bottom of the crevasse, Johannes begins a reckless solo descent into the cavernous crack. But when he reaches the literal end of his rope, there is no one there and no sign of Maria. Since then, he has combed the mountain for her, but to no avail and with no ability to do it effectively without a support team. Well, obviously, he's about to get one, and this trio's ascent isn't going to go any better than the first time Johannes attempted Piz Palu.
There's a lot of stuff to admire in this film, but you're really going to need to like mountaineering, because that's the film's obsession. Fanck was a naturalist, after all, and Piz Palu itself is the star of this film. I thought it was fascinating. Being a beginner climber myself, though one with no aspirations to go anywhere where the photo of me includes having an ice-encrusted beard (I'll stick to boulders and mountains of a shorter stature than The Matterhorn), these movies serve as an incredible, documentary-like look at Alpine climbing in the early years of the 20th century. In fact, this movie could very well be regarded as a documentary about mountain climbing with some make believe drama injected. Fanck, working alongside co-directed G.W. Pabst, films much of the movie on location and with actual mountaineering going on. And given modern clothing and safety systems, watching it done old school — in heavy wool and with almost no equipment other than a rope, and ax, crampons, and that famous German/Swiss physical culture can-do vitality — is interesting. But make no mistake, given the choice between climbing in heavy wool and knee socks or performance fleece and ultra-5000 space age wicking material, I'm sticking with modern gear, regardless of how cool someone looks kitted out in the old style duds.
And the climbing in this film is truly breathtaking, especially when it concentrates on Johannes' dangerous descent into the crevasse. Watching the way the climber wedges his way into small spaces, makes crazy leaps, dangles over nothing — there have been decades of mountain films made since this one, but few capture the activity with such raw energy. Fanck is a documentarian by nature, and he doesn't rely on camera tricks and snazzy editing. He simply puts the camera in place — which itself must have been quite a feat of climbing and rappelling — and lets the action speak for itself. Most of the film's drama stems from this approach, as one gets the feeling that the actors are in as much danger as the characters they are playing. A second descent into an icy network of caverns and crevasses, this one performed by a rescue team searching for the bodies of a university climbing team caught in an avalanche — succeeds in creating a completely alien, eerie universe. Shadowy men with flares move through the ice tunnels, casting reflections and smoke in all directions.
Secondary to the presence of the mountain and the act of climbing, then simply trying to survive, it, is the human drama. One of the things that sets this film apart from many of the silent era is that the acting is subdued and natural, never reverting to any of that extremely exaggerated pantomiming that has become synonymous with performances of the era. I love films of the silent era, but even I have to admit that many of the performances in even the best of films are so stylized and artificial that it becomes hard to relate to the characters. Not so in The White Hell of Piz Palu. Everyone looks and acts like a regular person, and as such, it becomes very easy to identify with them. It would have been easy for Gustaff Deissl to express his melancholy by doing the "crazy panic face" and "furtive glancing back and forth before burying head in hands."
Instead, we get a deceptively powerful scene where he sits in stoic contemplation, listening to the dripping of a melting icicle that reminds of the melting icicles that surrounded him as he waited desperately at the edge of the cliff for Christian to return with help. But instead of doing the freak out or the over-sold "making an O with my mouth" face, he simply sits there, winces slightly, then quietly gets up, walks outside, and breaks off the icicle. It's a perfect example of how complicated acting can be. There's the hammy over the top way to go, and there's the very accomplished and dramatic but still obviously acting way to go (the "win an Oscar" method). Deissl goes the third, less journeyed route, which is to act in a way that makes the audience forget you are acting. Simply put, I believe this guy.
The film hints at but never develops a romantic triangle. It's obvious that Maria (the Riefenstahl one) is entranced by this dark, brooding, rugged man who climbs the most dangerous mountains in Europe by himself in a hopeless search for his dead wife. And it's just as obvious that Hans develops an almost immediate inferiority complex, feeling that measured against Joannes, he himself is less of a man. But once again, the film plays the melodrama with subtlety, and never turns Hans into some cartoonish jealous lover. His insecurity around Johannes first manifests itself in a need to engage in a bout of manly firewood chopping, and later to accompanying Johannes on his quest, thus enabling Johannes to cover territory that can't be covered solo. Finally, it culminates in Hans insisting on walking point for a while, and it's then that the trouble really begins, even though it's not entirely Hans' fault.
An avalanche injures Hans, and the ensuing rescue attempt results in Johannes breaking a leg, leaving the trio stranded atop the mountain hoping that Christian will notice their entry into the mountain hut log and assemble some sort of rescue. Hans eventually succumbs to high altitude cerebral edema (altitude sickness to you and me), resulting in him becoming delirious and, at times, even suicidal. Needless to say, the romantic triangle that could have developed never trudges into such predictable territory as romantic triangles often do, and it is soon replaced by the simple tale of three people attempting to survive near impossible odds.
Riefenstahl impresses as an actress, and if you are able to forget for a moment that she would go on a few years later to turn Hitler into a godlike Wotan figure descending from the clouds to deliver rousing speeches to masses of Sieg Heiling Germans, she exudes an instant likability. She's not exactly attractive — not in the way one could instantly accept the likes of Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, or Josephine Baker — but there's such a natural air of vitality and energy about her that she endears herself. She's sort of like the tomboy best friend, the cute one you don't date but love to go hiking with. Of course, this best friend eventually turns out to be a Nazi propagandist, and that sort of sours the milk.
In 1933, after making her last film as an actress (SOS Iceberg, again with Fanck), Riefenstahl launched her career as a director. The Blue Light treads familiar territory, as it is set in the Alps and once again prominently features mountaineering. But where as Fanck strove for as much realism as possible, Riefenstahl's film goes whole hog in on mysticism. It was while watching her in movies like these that Hitler became infatuated with Riefenstahl and began the process of bringing her into the Nazi party. Riefenstahl directed a series of pro-German, if not pro-Nazi, documentaries, all of which are considered landmark technical achievements. These included a documentary on the 1936 Berlin Olympics and 1933's Victory of Faith, a propaganda piece that became something of an embarrassment when one of the chief subjects, Ernst Rohm, was executed during the Night of the Long Knives. Rohm was an open homosexual, as were several other prominent members of the paramilitary stormtrooper organization Sturmabteilung, of which Rohm was in command. Rohm was eventually caught up in the purge and charged by Himmler and Goring with plotting to overthrow Hitler. Hitler, however, still considered Rohm a friend, and did as much as he could to put off the man's death. When Rohm refused to commit "honorable suicide" however, he was executed, with his homosexuality being the on-record reason.
Once the war was rolling, Riefenstahl's career became even harder to sort out. She was active in filming a number of victory parades, such as Hitler's triumphant parade through conquered Poland, and was on hand during the killing of a number of civilians in retaliation for resistance efforts. Pictures of Leni at the execution were used to both condemn and exonerate her. She was indeed present, but she is also noticeably upset. What's the story? In her own words, she attempted to prevent the executions but was forced back a gunpoint by German soldiers. War being what it is, who knows? She continued her propaganda work, though, filming the aforementioned victory parade in 1939. She also began work on a feature film adaptation of Tiefland, a production that included in its crew a number of forced labor conscripts from German concentration camps.
Fate seems to have been committed to keeping the actress-director's life as weird as possible. When the war in Europe ended, novelist-screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who was with the Navy at the time working on Allied propaganda films being directed by John Ford (some of which can be downloaded from archive.org and are really worth a look), wa tasked with arresting Riefenstahl. The Allies wanted her in Nuremberg for the War Crimes trials, so that she could identify various people in her films. Riefenstahl herself did not stand trial, but many were skeptical of her claims that she was just an innocent bystander who had no idea what concentration camps were or "what the Nazis were really up to" — especially when that statement was coupled with a statement that she made propaganda films because Goebbels threatened to send her to a concentration camp if she didn't. History, of course, is a nasty knot to untangle, especially in times of conflict.
That was pretty much it for her career. She attempted to return to film making but found few people willing to finance her projects. Tiefland was finally released in 1954. Eventually, she turned to still photography and worked for a while in The Sudan. At the age of 72 — though she lied and said she was 52 in order to do it — she became a certified diver and began a career as an underwater photographer. Her contributions to the history of cinema are as great as they are terrible, and she remains a very divisive person to discuss. However, divorced of its political context and the frightening results it helped yield, her pioneering contributions to film making cannot be denied. In her films we find the birth of much of the modern language of cinema. Even as her subject matter repulses most, her technique is breathtaking. It's hard, even knowing what we know, to watch something like Triumph of the Will or Olympia and not get swept up by how beautiful it is. It's not unlike watching the work of D.W. Griffith, who was, in my opinion, nowhere near the league of Riefenstahl. But he still made sweeping films, and one can't help but get caught up momentarily in the spectacle before the reality of what you're watching sets in again.
Director Arnold Fanck apparently ran afoul of German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels early on. After making such films as Storm Over Mont Blanc — a film featuring a French hero — Fanck found it increasingly difficult to work, until he finally capitulated and began working on projects for both the German and Japanese government. When the war ended, Fanck's career was dead, and he faded into obscurity, his final days being spent working as a lumberjack. It wasn't until more recently that Fanck's adventure films were rediscovered and he collected groups of admirers who appreciated his much more natural approach to film making.
At the behest of Leni Riefenstahl, White Hell of Piz Palu was co-directed by G.W. Pabst. Pabst split his time between German and American projects, as well as between cinema and opera. It was in one of Pabst's films, in fact, that Deissl had his first role. In the end, though, they are all of them the human subplot dominated by the Alps-sized shadow cast by the leading lady.
But even she is outsized by the mountain itself. Mountain adventure films have come and gone since then, and most of the movement has been toward the goofy and embarrassing. Arnold Fanck is really where this type of adventure begins, though, and even if his became a largely forgotten name, his adventure films still stand as some of the best ever made, and his combination of documentary and drama informs many modern films. His camera studies the mountain intently, dwells on the natural wonders such behemoths generate: the dance of cloud shadows over snow fields and rags, the glistening tunnels and pits of ice fields, the bizarre swirls of powder kicked up by winds cascading over the peaks. One gets a feel for every nook and cranny, every nub, jug, and crimpy little handhold. And that helps us understand the pain of the characters as they toil up the spine of this beast. Unencumbered by the modern thirst for special effects, madcap editing, and overblown theatrics, Fanck simply lets the mountain be a mountain, and the end result is both hypnotic and scary. It's going to brutalize you, probably even kill you. But you can't stop yourself from going anyway.
As exciting as White Hell of Piz Palu is in many places, it's also unevenly paced. After the opening disaster, the film settles down for nearly forty minutes of drama that alternates between being effective and simply dragging on for too long and becoming tedious. Even though the acting is natural and there is much in the film that is subtle, it also has its moments of clunkiness, specifically in the overly long way it goes about telling us just how happy and delightful Hans and Maria are. And while it is punctuated by Johannes' panicked descent into the crevasse — quite possibly my favorite part of the film — his time in the mountain hut consists of far too much pensive staring while symbolic snow melts. But then, Fanck goes and does something like the shot of Johannes outside, smoking a cigarette while sitting on an old wooden fence with the whole of the Alps spreading out behind him, and it pulls you right back in. Silent films trade in images, by necessity, and Fanck manages on many occasions to capture scenes of iconic beauty.
Still, despite these missteps, White Hell of Piz Palu emerges as a truly fascinating and exciting film from the dawn of action-adventure cinema. Once we're on the mountain itself, the film is tense and well-executed, not to mention jaw-dropping in some of the stunts that aren't even stunts as much as they are just examples of how dangerous mountaineering was (and is). If I had to compare it to any modern movie, it would be the docu-drama Touching the Void, or the slightly older documentary The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Both films, like White Hell of Piz Palu, capture both the menace and the beauty of such natural wonders and our enduring fascination with trying to climb them. When our trio suffers onscreen, it's easy to feel their suffering. When they stand on the threshold of rescue only to have hope vanish, we feel it. And when Fanck shows us ice-encrusted Piz Palu towering over the landscape, we feel the oppressive weight of its menace as well as the stunning allure of its beauty.


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