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As the season of holidays creeps ever closer, find ways to make the most of your time together and make it memorable. Why not consider an overnight or two in a Virginia destination known for its merriment and cheer?
Spend the holidays in Abingdon! This picturesque small town will fill your heart with holiday joy. World class art venues, cultural events and historical sites are all wrapped up in Christmas lights.
– Barter Theatre, Abingdon –
- Stay: The Martha Hotel & Spa, Copper Lantern Inn, River Garden Bed and Breakfast
- Dine: Abingdon Tavern, Zazzy's Coffee House & Roastery
- Visit: Barter Theatre, Holston Mountain Artisans, Wolf Hills Brewery, the Southwest Virginia Cultural Center & Marketplace
- See the Entire Getaway
Capture the memories as you indulge your senses and rejuvenate your soul in Newport News, the heart of Coastal Virginia, this holiday season.
- Stay: Newport News Marriott at City Center, Boxwood Inn, The Pequod Inn
- Dine: Crab Shack on the James, The Lunch Bell
- Visit: Virginia Living Museum, Miles of Lights, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Endview Plantation, Lee Hall Mansion
- See the Entire Getaway
Escape to a cozy winter weekend in Harrisonburg, where holiday events on Main Street highlight the beauty of the season.
– Clementine Cafe, Harrisonburg –
- Stay: Joshua Wilton House, By the Side of the Road Inn & Cottages
- Dine: Shank's Bakery, Clementine Cafe, Corgans' Publick House
- Visit: You Made It!, Winter Farmers' Market, Forbes Center for Performing Arts
- See the Entire Getaway
Enjoy the spirit of a classic Virginia Main Street when you and the girls make it a shopping weekend in Culpeper.
- Stay: Thyme Inn, Suites at 249, Hazel River Inn B&B
- Dine: Hazel River Inn Restaurant & Pub, Raven's Nest Coffee House, Foti's
- Visit: Mount Pony Theatre, Belmont Farm Distillery, Old House Vineyards
- See the Entire Getaway
From charming King Street in Old Town Alexandria to Mount Vernon, the area presents lively, entertaining holiday opportunities for the whole family.
– Old Towne Alexandria –
- Stay: Morrison House, Lorien Hotel and Spa, Hotel Monaco
- Dine: Fish Market Restaurant, Waterfront Market, Virtue Feed and Grain
- Visit: Torpedo Factory Art Center, Woodlawn, Gadsby's Tavern, Alexandria Black History Museum
- See the Entire Getaway
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An Itawamba County election commissioner is still hospitalized following a Monday morning fall that caused a severe head injury.
Third District commissioner Gene Mills was in stable, but not necessarily good condition, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo Wednesday afternoon. Mills was admitted Monday morning after suffering a fall inside the Itawamba County courthouse.
According to the reports of several witnesses, while preparing for Tuesday's election, Mills suddenly passed out, striking his head against the corner of a table and then hitting the floor. Oxford attorney Kristen Boyden was nearby when the accident occurred and immediately called for help and began performing CPR on Mills, who was neither conscious nor breathing. Passerby Mickey Wynn, who was in the courthouse purchasing a car tag when Mills fell, began performing mouth-to-mouth, which helped resuscitate Mills.
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Nothing against Kenny Albert, but he doesn't operate the same as Doc Emrick.
And nothing against either of them, but they aren't supposed to knock out Nick Nickson.
And nothing against some delayed visual gratification. But can we all agree that someone's dropping the puck here as far as a Kings' fan trying to stay loyal at the Stanley Cup Final gets off to another rip-roarin' start?
With some pull from Clear Channel L.A. senior vice president of sports Don Martin, the Kings' radio home at AM-1150 threw a much-needed delay tactic into Wednesday's Game 1, so the audio coming from Nickson and Daryl Evans could match up better with the lag-time video provided by NBC.
Still, it was far from a captivating, Cup-a-rrific experience. Gaps between the call on radio and the action on KNBC-Channel 4 lasted as much as 15 seconds, with radio far ahead — whether it was listening to AM-1150 or finding yourself stuck on KLAC-AM 570 for the first period and a half before it cut away to Charley Steiner and Rick Monday bemoaning the Dodgers' latest performance as the lead-in to their game.
Unfortunately, NBC was already starting the Final in something of a shorthanded situation. A-game play-by-play man Emrick was away attending the funeral of his father-in-law. The plan was in place days ago go keep Albert, the Rangers' regular-season radio voice who had called all the Western Conference finals, with Ed Olczyk and Pierre McGuire, waiting for Emrick to return by Saturday's Game 2 and stay with the rest of the series.
With Bob Miller and Jim Fox gone from the Kings' live broadcasts since the second round of the playoffs — a situation that fans may not always agree with but are more accustomed waiting for them on the Prime/FSW postgame wrap-up since the 2012 Stanley Cup run — the opportunity to listen to a more familiar voice like Nickson's could have made this momentous occasion a more L.A.-centric experience with the action put into some context of the season-long journey.
As was the case last fall when Vin Scully's calls on Dodgers' NLDS and NLCS games were delayed on KLAC a bit to come closer to what TBS was providing with video — another decision by Martin, the GM and program director at the all-sports station — the technology hasn't been able to offer up an alternative to having to ask some radio engineer to just do his best to mess with the signal.
Throw in the additional delay for those who watch via DirecTV's satellite-bouncing feed, and the patience for time-shifting is even more trying.
No relief can be found, either, by trying to follow the video provided on NBCSports.com for its live streaming. For one, it's hardly live. Add another 20-second delay from what NBC has on TV.
So for those scoring at home: The play starts with a description by Nickson and Evans, followed by a long swig of Moosehead before checking out how NBC presented it on TV, and then, if you're still trying to mess with your senses, hit a few keystrokes for the Internet's pushback that actually can give someone a sense of jet lag just from sitting in one place.
"I think the delay used to be maybe two or three seconds, but now with all the equipment and the video that has to go through so many different boxes, it's a much longer delay," Nickson said Wednesday afternoon, prior to Game 1. "I know some fans still tell me they're listening to us while watching (the national TV feed), but I just don't see how they can really do that anymore. It just wasn't as much an issue a few years ago.
"I think there are pluses and minuses on both ends, because the fans in the stands listening on radio would be affected by a delay."
For those who for one reason or another may have missed Nickson's call of the Kings' Game 7 overtime victory over Chicago in the Western Conference final, track it down on the Kings.com website.
"Remarkable! Incredible! Unbelievable!" Nickson exclaimed after Alec Martinez's game-winning shot, an audio clip used by many national outlets in the days since it happened.
Nickson said he had been rolling around some ideas in his head on what he might say should the Kings win their third straight Game 7 of these playoffs, and the number three stuck as a way to emphasize the achievement.
"What three adjectives would have been the best to say if they came with three seventh-game wins?" Nickson said. "And those were the three I came up with at that moment.
"Now with radio calls used so much with video replays on websites, some of our calls are more accessible if you don't hear it live. I guess that's exposure for us, but really it's more for the team."
With Game 1's coverage landing on KNBC-Channel 4 instead of the cable swampland of NBCSN, it afforded long-time sports anchor Fred Roggin a 20-minute window for his own "Quest 4 The Cup" pregame leading to the 5 p.m. national start.
For a more true L.A. prep, Roggin mixed in a live interview with musician John "Five for Fighting" Ondrasik (along with his pal, the Galaxy's Landon Donovan), a taped feature on Kings mascot Bailey and game analysis from former Kings Jamie Storr and Mark Hardy.
And Roggin tied it all together by yelling out, "Go, Kings, go!" as the show ended. To be followed by a KNBC station break between the first and second period that "Go Kings Go — Bring home the Stanley Cup, from all your fans at NBC4."
It's simply the kind of stuff you aren't going to find during NBCSN's hour-long pregame, which goes up against the two-hour pregame on the NHL Network.
When Game 7 of the Western Conference Final between the Kings and Blackhawks hadn't been decided after three regulation periods, the @LAKings Twitter account posted: "Blackhawks fans were clearly prepared for overtime with all the snacks they can keep in their cargo shorts. #CHIvsLAK."
Nothing to say about Kings fans when Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final went into OT?
Nope, just an "Oh, the humanity!" remark with a video clip from "The Simpsons" and character Helen Lovejoy crying, "Won't somebody please think of the children!" Followed by: "Overtime in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final? Sure why not."
Steve Levy, partnered with former Kings coach Barry Melrose in covering their 20th Stanley Cup Final together for ESPN, said before Game 1: "I follow two team (Twitter). I followed the Kings for a while, and now I obviously follow the Rangers because of the Stanley Cup Final. Usually I stay away from team accounts because they are not going to give me anything I can use because they are going to be right down the middle, no slant, no opinion, unless it's favored in their direction. But the Kings' Twitter account is brilliant."
Twitter stats say the account has sent out 35.9K tweets and has 385K followers since it launched in January, 2009. …
So what does the NHL Network counter program during a Stanley Cup Final? Wednesday at 5 p.m., it was an hour-long special called "A Curved Stick," a documentary that was billed as how the changing of a hockey stick from straight to curve "changed the game." Just ask Marty McSorley.


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We slept in a bit after a late night. Lynn went out with some delegates to a Styx concert and arrived back at the hotel at some unearthly hour. In the morning (late morning) I went to the Minneapolis Convention Center to see and help with the relief efforts for the hurricane. The bicycle donation ride by Humana was up and going and the volunteers were busy at the convention hall assembling relief packages. It gave me a great feeling to watch people helping other folks unconditionally.
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David Feaker of Kingston recently received his doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harrogate.
Feaker earned his undergraduate degree from Tennessee Technological University.
He was promoted to lieutenant in the U.S. Navy as part of the Military Health Professions Scholarship Program.
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Sky Putty Sunrise
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om
When I look at this image, "Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om" comes to mind. I was completely at peace with all around me. For those who are not familiar with this mantra it is chanted three times for peace. Once for the disturbances that are out of our control such as hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, tsunamis, etc. Once for the disturbances from anything stemming from the world around us mosquitoes, noisy neighbors, barking dogs, the phone ringing, and family arguments. And the third and the most powerful disturbances stemming from "The Self", for one who is still identified with the ego, the people, places and things of this world and is stimulated by one of two reactions in the mind—attachment or aversion. To read more look here: http://archives.amritapuri.org/bharat/mantra/shanti.php
Meritte Island Wildlife Preserve early morning sunrise
Glowing Gold
Black Point Wildlife drive, in Titusville Florida, The scene before you was captured just after the sun rose up over the treetops. As the sun made its assent an array of vibrant colors blanketed the landscape and clouds danced in their own reflection in the waters below. This is not my first sunrise but it always feel as if it is...
Sunrise at Black Point Widlife Drive.
Amazing Sunrise captured over looking the marsh, at Black Point Wildlife drive, in Titusville Florida.
Island Sunset Haulover Canal
New Years Eve 2015 weather was beautiful sky full of clouds and the sunset was breathtaking, an amazing view at Haulover Canal at Merritt Island wildlife preserve.
Marsh Mellow
Leaving Big Cypress Gallery, in Everglades City Florida, and after Meeting Clyde Butcher for the first time, I stop along the Tamiami Trail and opened the sunroof stood on the front seats and stuck my body half my out of the top of the car. My aim was to get a better shot of the salt marsh. The clouds and reflection in the water formed such a magnificent and touching view with the salt marsh taking center stage, I could not help but to applaud Mother by taking out my camera, my way of bowing to her greatness.
Sunrise Over The Marsh Merritt Island Wildlife Preserve
Amazing Sunrise captured over looking the marsh, in Merritt Island Wildlife Preserve. Near Titusville Florida.
The Loud Silence
Magnificently beautiful sunrise at Black Point Wildlife drive, in Titusville Florida,
Fire Of Life
One of the most spectacular sunrises I have watched and photographed in a long time. The dark line across the sky created by the clouds brings uniqueness and character to an already magnificent and one of its kind sunrises.
The Sustainer Of Life
Waters Of Paradise
This strangely beautiful 6,700-acre lake with dark tannic waters is located on the Chipola River near the town of Wewahitchka. West Arm Creek of the lake is accessible from Dead Lake State Park and Recreation Area, located off SR71 just north of Wewahitchka. Follow Gary Rowell Road east into the park; turn right when the road splits past the pond; the boat ramp will be on the south side of the road. There is also a boat ramp located in Calhoun County which allows access to the north western portion of Dead Lake through Cypress Creek.
Divine Light
From a moving vehicle to standing on dry land, or sitting on rocks held up by infinite grains of sand. Countless times my vision has seen you rise and yet that first view of you, stills my soul and tears my eyes. Once you begin your ascent, the love you emit helps to spin, my Sacred Seven and makes me long to be with you in heaven.....
Sunrise In Silhouette
Sunrise In silhouette
In The Garden
All one has to do to is find a garden, take a seat and patiently wait for peace to become present with the help of that magical, mystical nurturing, Being we call Mother Nature.
Golden Pond
Golden Pond
Golden Rays
Golden Rays
Rock A Bye
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Parkrus Island
Lake in Jacksonville Florida
Silent Seclusion
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The Remains Of A Dead Cypress sticking up out on the lake in Wewahitchka Florida,
Against The Fog
Wewahitchka is the site of one of Florida's largest beekeeping operations, which was the setting for Ulee's Gold, a movie filmed in the area. The Dead Lakes offer some of the best freshwater sport fishing in the nation, and a unique opportunity for nature photographers.
Fog On The Dead Lakes
New Beginnings
The comfort of woods
I captured this image on a nature trail in Lake Louisa State Park. Each time I look at this image it puts me in a peaceful state of mind.. The woods were so quiet except for the chirp of a bird every now and then. I felt I could spend days just walking in this wild place being me, being with nature and snapping the shutter.
Falls Foliage
Fall has a way of playing a symphony in colors and each year it brings forth a new masterpiece. Not only does fall allow you to see, feel, and touch it but to become one with it, by bowing in obeisance, in reverence, in respect, a way of saying "I see you." I raise my camera as well not just to capture an image but to capture the energy that makes the image possible, the "Essence Of Eternal Energy™" that creates us all.
Butler Beach
Bending Branch
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Cork Screw Santuary
Corkscrew Santuary State Park...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
* Outer Space Planet Counting Plates and Preschool Worksheets
We've been practicing counting and number recognition
with "C" during our preschool at home lessons.
I saw some awesome Commemorative Planet Plates by Garth Johnson
in the World of Geekcraft Book:
and thought wouldn't that be a cool project to adapt for "C" this week
for our Smart Summer Challenge, Outer Space Week.
So, I printed out a planet coloring sheet from Coloring Castle
then, "C" and I colored in the sheet
with Crayola Markers and Elmer's Gel Pens
(our new favorite because they're sparkly and awesome.)
I numbered some paper plates from 1-8
with a black permanent marker
and we cut out and glued each planet to a plate.
"C" is learning how to recognize her numbers and her planets
and she's learning how to put them in order.
It's also great practice for "E" (and honestly, mommy too) to learn
the sequence of planets from the sun in our solar system!
I also printed out these worksheets on card stock
for "C" from Make Learning Fun
thanks to Counting Coconuts awesome post about her
mini outer space unit for this great project!
She happily sits placing these little glass beads
from our sensory box stash.
We're having fun this week studying all about space!
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Citizen Kane. Top Gun. The Hottie & The Nottie. The common thread? They're all descendents of cine-pioneer Louis Lumière's La Sortie Des Usines Lumière - no less than the first motion picture ever made.
Fifty seconds long, it captures in real time workers spilling from the gates of Lyon's Lumiere Factory.
A precursor to everything, it particularly anticipates the work of George Lucas: there are three versions in existence – you can tell 'em apart by the number of horses (one, two or none).
Money shot: The bit where men enter the factory. Plot hole!
2. L'assassination Du Duc De Guise (1908)
Influential, how? First movie with a score.
A notorious event in French history, a 15-minute costume drama directed by André Calmettes – and, to provide the first ever specially composed orchestral movie score, the 73-year-old doyen of composers, Camille Saint-Saëns.
Money shot: De Guise is stabbed by thugs as Saint-Saëns' music rises to a frenzy.
3. Gertie The Dinosaur (1914)
Influential, how? Movies get animated.
"The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney," said legendary Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones. "I'm not sure who should go first."
Put it this way: Walt was just eight when McCay's lovable dinosaur called Gertie was born. Mickey, Bugs and Nemo are evolution's children...
Money Shot: Check it out on YouTube and pick your own...
Influential, how? Movies get big.
Even in our CG age of copy'n'paste armies, Cabiria is staggering. Shot across six months, the three-hour Italian silent set the benchmark for epic filmmaking.
DW Griffith saw it a year after he made The Birth Of A Nation - which suddenly didn't seem so big and clever.
Money shot: Innovative camera-dollies over huge sets, dubbed "Cabiria movements".[page-break]
5. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
Influential, how? Cinema's language is written.
DW Griffith's Civil War epic is shockingly racist but it integrated formative film grammar into narrative like no movie before.
Here, America embraced a three-hour movie for the first time - one that tethered a thrusting story to close-ups, iris shots, historical authenticity, impressively mounted battle sequences and cross-cutting between parallel action.
Money shot: Over to critic James Agee: "The most beautiful single shot I have seen in any movie is the battle charge…"
6. The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920)
Influential, how? Cinema goes insane.
The senile granddaddy of the modern horror film, Caligari relates a chilling tale of murder through painted sets, high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting and a modern dance-like performance style.
In a more naturalistic form, these expressionist effects remain central to horror films.
Money shot: The reveal, when we discover Dr Caligari's true calling.
7. Nanook Of The North (1922 )
Influential, how? Cinema goes on the record.
Without Nanook, there'd be no documentary cinema, no Paul Greengrass, no Roger & Me, no Nobel Peace Prize for Al Gore ...
Part real, part faked, Robert J Flaherty's pioneering silent film about Inuit life in the Canadian arctic kick-started the documentary genre.
Accusations that key scenes were staged sparked a debate about keeping it real that still rages now.
Money shot : Nanook and Co hunting angry walruses with harpoons.
8. The Thief Of Bagdad (1924)
Influential, how? The stuff of fantasy.
From magic carpets to invisibility cloaks, winged horses to giant spiders, Raoul Walsh's 'fantasy' film used every single dollar of its then-unprecedented $1m budget to show silent audiences just how fantastical celluloid could be.
Every fantasy film since owes it a big debt.
Money shot: The flying carpet ride over a fairytale Bagdad...[page-break]
9. The Last Laugh (1924)
Influential, how? The first true 'motion' picture.
FW Murnau is remembered for Nosferatu and Sunrise but this is his landmark film, an allegory about a proud hotel porter humiliated in old age.
Murnau dispenses with subtitles and tells the story through a grand visual design and a free-flowing, mobile camera.
Money shot: The camera's tipsy pan to express the porter's drunken state.
10. Becky Sharp (1935)
Influential, how? The Dawn Of Colour.
Goodbye, grey... shot on three-strip Technicolor, this adap of Thackeray's Vanity Fair wowed audiences and subtly used colour stock for dramatic effect.
"The greatest achievement in motion pictures since the advent of sound!" claimed the trailers. They weren't exaggerating.
Money shot: A lavish ballroom dancing sequence showcases the Technicolor tech.
11. The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Influential, how? Meaning through montage.
Deemed a threat to the capitalist order, Eisenstein's recreation of a 1905 incident in which sailors mutinied against their Czarist officers was banned throughout Europe.
But the film is less important for its radical politics than its radical syntax.
A gifted cartoonist, Eisenstein composed bold, dramatic images, but realised that they assumed far greater power through the rhythm and rhetoric of their juxtaposition.
Eisenstein invented 'montage', and his theories became a foundation of film teaching, with Potemkin a seminal influence on the likes of Hitchcock.
Money shot: The Odessa steps sequence - copied and parodied many times (most famously in De Palma's The Untouchables)...
12. The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (1926)
Influential, how? The first animated feature pioneer – and still unchallenged reigning queen – of silhouette animation, director Lotte Reiniger beat Disney to the punch by a dozen years or more.
Weaving together stories from the Arabian Nights and adding her own brand of wit and poetry, Reiniger set the template for telling fairy stories in a way that would enchant the kids, while packing in enough sophistication to keep grown-ups entertained.
Everyone from Disney and Chuck Jones to Hanna-Barbera and Pixar owes her a debt.
As for Achmed itself? "A masterpiece!" said Jean Renoir. Who could disagree?
Money shot: The Spirit Battle of Waq Waq: Achmed does valiant battle with monsters and demons.[page-break]
13. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Influential, how? Movies get mouthy.
Let's clear this up. The Jazz Singer wasn't the first 'talkie'. But it was the first feature-length Hollywood talkie, in which spoken dialogue was meshed into the drama.
Audiences went mad-crazy as jazz megastar Al Jolson broke into song, ad-libbing with his old mum at the piano.
It wasn't much: a song and a few lines of dialogue. But it was enough to change cinema forever.
Money shot: "Wait a minute, wait a minute… You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
14. Metropolis (1927)
Influential, how? Welcome to the future.
The Fifth Element's New York, Blade Runner's LA, Batman's Gotham... The city of the future was first built here.
Metropolis' shadow looms over every decade and every genre: from Bride Of Frankenstein's lab to Dr Strangelove's mechanical hand and even David Fincher's music videos.
Metallic femme fatale Maria warned us about the machine-men who would appear in Westworld, The Terminator and The Matrix.
Money shot: Mad-scientist Rotwang runs through darkened catacombs, swinging his light like, well, a sabre. George Lucas takes note.
15. Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Influential, how? Surrealism opens eyes.
Not the first surrealist movie (that honour belongs to René Clair's 1924 Entr'acte) but the first to make a major impact.
Right from the opening shot of an eyeball being sliced by a razor, Buñuel and Dali aimed to shock – and succeeded.
Thereafter, surrealist imagery tinged pretty much every movie dream-sequence.
Money shot: Gotta be that eyeball.
16. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930 )
Influential, how? Hollywood goes to war.
Banned by the Nazis, loved by pacifists, this early 'war is hell' classic captured the tragedy of the trenches and proved that there really is no honour in dying for one's country.
"Here is war as it is - butchery," wrote Variety.
Money shot : A dying man reaches for a butterfly fluttering over barbed wire.[page-break]
17 . It Happened One Night (1934)
Influential, how? The original romcom.
Bagging itself the top five Oscars, the Clarke Gable-Claudette Colbert sleeper hit not only spawned a generation of screwball comedies, but established the 'loathe at first sight' blueprint that three out of five Hollywood romcoms have been following ever since.
Money Shot: Grudgingly sharing a room together, the duo trade rapid-fire quips.
18. Le Roman D'Un Tricheur (1936)
Influential, how? The art of narration.
Sure, there'd been earlier voiceovers – but never before had the main character told us his own tale.
Sacha Guitry (writer, director, lead actor) dances us through the life of his self-styled 'Cheat', dispensing with dialogue. Ealing's Kind Hearts And Coronets is a direct descendant.
Money shot: Sent to bed early, our hero sees his family die of food poisoning.
19. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Influential, how? Calling the 'toon.
"No one's gonna pay a dime to see a dwarf picture..."
Even Walt Disney's wife mocked his first feature-length 'toon, but Walt was vindicated in the end - Snow White took home $66m and seven Oscars.
It set the template and the quality-bar, too.
Money shot: Snow White cleans Chez Dwarf with fwuffy forest animals.
20. Stagecoach (1939)
Influential, how? New Western frontiers.
Both the Western and John Ford has been around for decades when the latter revitalised the former with a modern, mature, myth-making 'road' movie.
Orson Welles watched it 40 times before making Citizen Kane. 'Nuff said.
Money shot: The seminal stuntwork as legendary daredevil Yakima Canutt is dragged beneath galloping horses.[page-break]
21. Citizen Kane (1941)
Influential, how? Movies get cinematic.
The 26-year-old Orson Welles expertly marshalled theatrical influences, dazzling technique, innovations in cinematography and the latest technology to produce a film that showed his fellow (older) filmmakers the sheer scope of the medium.
Some of the staging might seem a little hammy today (hell, it is over 60 years old) but Kane's simple, universal subject (the tragedy of an all-powerful man who wants the one thing he can't have) hasn't aged a day.
François Truffaut said that Kane is less influential than it is inspirational. We say it's one of the few films that manages to be both.
Money shot: The opening tracking shot: an immaculate temptation ("No trespassing"). Afterwards, there's an awful lot of shots - all bang the money...
For an extended look at Citizen Kane, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine .
22. Meet Me In St Louis (1944)
Influential, how? Movies find their true voice.
Vincente Minnelli's family musical broke ranks with the backstage template. Here, the songs aren't so much show-stoppers as plot-pushers, woven spontaneously into the characters' daily lives.
Set the tempo for everything from The Sound Of Music to South Park.
Money shot: The Trolley Song: ding-ding go the bells, sing-sing go the passengers…
23. Rashomon (1950)
Influential, how? East comes west.
The West finally woke up to Japanese film when Rashomon won Venice's Golden Lion (and went on to win an Oscar).
The idea - a rape and murder related through conflicting flashbacks - has been repeatedly ribbed but never bettered.
Money shot: The second flashback, when we realise the camera does lie.
24. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Influential, how? Marlon brings The Method.
Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski: maybe the single most influential performance in the history of American film and theatre.
This was the first production to emerge from Elia Kazan's Actors' Studio, and its intensity rocked Broadway, before jumping to celluloid.
In Tennessee Williams' play, Stanley is a working-class brute who resents the airs of his sister-inlaw, Blanche. Brando's naturalism came as a shock to moviegoers, who weren't used to seeing sweat, but it was his sexual magnetism that really scorched the screen.
Money shot: "Stella!!!!" Brando howls into the night as his submissive wife folds into his arms.[page-break]
25. Bwana Devil (1952)
Influential, how? 3D takes shape.
The technology had existed for decades but Bwana Devil jump-started the '50s 3D boom.
Its tale of lions attacking railway workers was tosh, but as the tagline (grumpily) inquired: "What do you want? A good picture, or a lion in your lap?" Audiences opted for the latter.
Money shot: A spear hefted at the camera had audiences ducking.
26. The Robe (1953)
Influential, how? Cinema gets 'the big picture'.
Clunky Biblical epic? Yes. But also the first movie made in CinemaScope – using special lenses to squeeze and re-expand the image allowed cinema aspect ratios to rocket from 1.33:1 to an eye-slapping 2.55:1.
As a result, widescreen became the Hollywood way.
Money shot: Four horses gallop straight at the camera in a spectacular chase scene.
27. Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Influential, how? The movies rock'n'roll.
Plug in, turn on, rock out: Richard Brooks' social-problem flick is often viewed as the founding wallop of the rock'n'roll movie.
Infamously, the opening credits propelled Teds to their feet, where they ravaged seats and grooved to the sound of…
Money shot: Bill Haley And The Comets' 'Rock Around The Clock'.
28. The Man With The Golden Arm (1955)
Influential, how? Hollywood tackles hard drugs.
Sidestepping the censors' Production Code, this downbeat flick mainlined controversy with a taboo-shattering take on heroin addiction.
With Frank Sinatra hooked on dope, The Man... is the granddaddy of smack-pics from Trainspotting to Requiem For A Dream.
Money shot : Ol' Blue Eyes going cold turkey in a shitty apartment.[page-break]
29. Shadows (1959)
Influential, how? The godfather of indie.
Actor John Cassavetes resolved to make a movie his way, on the streets of New York, with friends and acting students, and money raised by public donation.
The result was as fresh and alive as the bebop he used to score it.
Money shot: The end title card - "The movie you have just seen was an improvisation…"
30. Room At The Top (1959)
Influential, how? Class becomes an issue.
With its grimy canals and sexual frankness, Jack Clayton's film kick-started the Brit New Wave.
Laurence Harvey's slimy social climber set the pattern for a gallery of class-conscious protagonists in a whole decade of British movies.
Money shot: Harvey, preparing for his wedding, overhears people describing his lover's agonising death.
31. Breathless (1960)
Influential, how? Jumping to the next level.
The French New Wave found its most revolutionary expression in this debut feature from critic Jean-Luc Godard.
Francois Truffaut provided the basic story outline about a young hoodlum (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his doomed relationship with an American girl (Jean Seberg) in Paris, but it was Godard who shook up the system with jerky jump-cut rhythms, handheld camera work and a penchant for mixing lofty dialogue with low-brow action.
For once, the artist didn't hide behind the story – Godard invited the audience right behind the looking glass.
Money shot: Belmondo draws his thumb across his lip in homage to Humphrey Bogart. Cinema enters its self-conscious stage.
32. Psycho (1960)
Influential, how? Horror comes home.
In many ways, the first truly modern American film: Hollywood movies lost their innocence here, in the shower with the shockingly brutal rubbing-out of the picture's apparent star.
In 1960, many critics were appalled by what Time called "one of the messiest, most nauseating murders ever filmed".
These days, it seems relatively discreet, but overwhelmingly sad – not least because it inaugurated the mostly shabby serial depravities of the slasher film.
It was also a radical rethink for Hitchcock, a low-budget black-and-white movie with no frills.
Money shot: The shower scene, with its multiple cuts, chocolate-sauce blood and implicit nudity.[page-break]
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33. Victim (1961)
Influential, how? CInema comes out of the closet.
Closeted star Dirk Bogarde gave his idol image a kick in the crotch by taking the role of a barrister with gay yearnings.
Brave, bolshy and poetic, it opened the door to everything from Boys In The Band to Brokeback Mountain.
Money shot: Bogarde's angry, agonised confession to his wife: "I wanted him! Do you understand? I wanted him!"
34. Blood Feast (1963)
Influential, how? Horror goes splatter.
Drive-in quickie Blood Feast's story about a cannibal Egyptian caterer broke messy new ground: no one had ever spilt so much claret, faked human organs by using sheep offal or chopped up so many actresses (actually hard-up strippers) before.
"It's like a Walt Whitman poem," claimed director Herschell Gordon Lewis. "It's no good, but it's the first of its type, and therefore deserves a certain position."
Money shot : A woman's tongue being ripped out of her bloody gob.
35. The Battle Of Algiers (1966)
Influential, how? 'Based on real-life events...'
It's hard to believe that no newsreel footage was used in Gillo Pontecorvo's blistering docu-drama.
Shot on the same streets where, only a few years earlier, Algerian nationalists and French colonialists had battled it out, The Battle Of Algiers set the bar challengingly high for every docu-drama that followed.
Money shot: Algerian women descending from the Casbah to bomb a French cafe.
36. The Graduate (1967)
Influential, how? Average schmoes could be leading men.
The casting of Hoffman changed Hollywood's idea of what a 'movie star' could be. Even Hoffman took some convincing he was the man for the job.
Making an arse of himself at the audition and bringing an uncomfortable tension to his scenes, Hoffman left miserable but director Nichols was sold.
Hoffman picked up an Oscar nom for Best Actor for his misery, and casting logic was never the same again. Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Tobey Maguire, Steve Carell, Michael Cera and Shia LaBeouf are just a few of Hollywood's unconventional leads who've benefited from the Benjamin Braddock Effect.
Money shot: "Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs Robinson?"
For an extended look at The Graduate, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine . [page-break]
37. Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
Influential, how? The birth of the horror movie.
Romero's stark monochrome nightmare about the walking dead came (very slowly) with stark violence and disturbing docu-realism.
"Horror films were usually about rubber monsters or hands groping in the dark," says fellow legend John Carpenter. "George
revolutionised that."
Money shot : A mother. A child. A trowel…
38. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Influential, how? Space becomes a real place.
2001 made a giant leap into deep space a full year before Neil Armstrong took one small step.
Using everything from a 30-tonne ferris wheel set to a close-up of an eye and reacting chemicals, Stanley Kubrick created SFX footage that left Nasa baffled by its accuracy and anticipation.
He also proved that movies could try harder and reach deeper (philosophy, ecology, evolution, the nature of 'intelligence') in their pursuit of a grand cinematic design.
Money shot : That first space station rolling in the inky blackness of space.
39. The Wild Bunch (1969)
Influential, how? Shooting to kill.
The called him "bloody Sam", which he didn't like much, but Peckinpah's pre-censor Bunch earned the first X rating due to its break from the strictures of Hollywood's tired old Motion Picture Code.
Peckinpah splashed red screen-wide with raw steak, even double-loading squibs so that bullets left exit wounds. Slow-motion, multi-camera shooting and montage amplified the impact.
No wonder The New York Times called his revisionist Western "by several thousand red gallons the most graphically violent Western ever made."
Money shot: Shots, rather - the bunch are bullet-holed in a final, orgiastic shoot-'em up...
40. Easy Rider (1969)
Influential, how? The movie brats come of age.
Hippies, LSD, motorbikes: Easy Rider is a cultural landmark. The defining movie of the '60s.
Connecting with the long-haired kids (and earning millions for its trouble), Hopper and Fonda's crotch rocket-fetishising classic ushered in New Hollywood by breathing hip life into the square studio system.
"You guys are finished," Hopper ranted at Oscar-winner George Cukor. "We are in now... It's our time."
Money s hot : Fonda and Hopper dropping acid in a New Orleans cemetery.[page-break]
41. Sweet Sweetback's Baadass Song (1971)
Influential, how? Black cinema finds a voice.
Dedicated to "all the Brothers and Sisters who have had enough of The Man", Sweet Sweetback's... is the first 'blaxploitation' flick.
It's a full-frontal attack on honky hegemony as hero Sweetback fights and fucks his way through corrupt white cops and lurid whorehouses.
Black Panther Huey P Newton praised it as "the first truly revolutionary black film."
Money shot: Handcuffed Sweetback beating up a couple of racist rozzers.
42. Pink Flamingos (1972)
InfluentIal, how? Time to get gross.
Taboos are obliterated as fat tranny Divine stamps (and pisses) all over common decency in John Waters' no-budget shock-pic.
Critics fumed ("one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made" spat Variety, reaching for the smelling salts) as this outrageously camp attempt to show the forbidden featured turd-gobbling, sphincter-puckering and a sex act involving a live chicken.
It's an anarchic vom-com that makes the Farrelly Brothers' gross-outs look like something from CBeebies.
Money shot: Divine munching dog shit. The poodle poops, she scoops – for real.
43. Deep Throat (1972)
Influential, how? Porn goes mainstream.
Deep Throat was the movie that legitimised porn, a swinging hardcore sex film that became a crossover hit.
It quickly became a cultural watershed – changing the way America talked about sex forever.
More than just the movie that made blowjobs into dinner-party chatter, it stripped the seedier side of the porno industry bare for everyone to gawp at.
Money shot: Lovelace making like a turkey...
For an extended look at Deep Throat, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine .
44. Mean Streets (1973)
Influential, how? Plugging the jukebox.
Shot with style and swagger, Scorsese's breakthrough film blazed with rock'n'roll energy, rebooting the sound of cinema. At last, popular - not just classical - music could score a movie.
"For me," Marty reckoned, "the whole movie was 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' and 'Be My Baby'."
He sourced many of the songs from his own collection, bringing a personal stamp with an era's rock-noise.
Try imagining Trainspotting or Reservoir Dogs without it.
Money shot: Johnny Boy's slo-mo, hot-wired entrance, propelled by The Stones' "crossfire hurricane".[page-break]
45. Enter The Dragon (1973)
InfluentIal, how? Martial-arts go west.
The dragon died just a few weeks after he entered, but by then Bruce Lee was already an icon.
Warner Bros co-produced this sudden-impact thriller, hungry to capitalise on the growing popularity of Chinese chop-socky flicks in the US.
The Bond movie set-up and white supporting actors were a sop to drive-in tastes but the tightly coiled Asian star's rapid-fire moves smashed east into west.
The '70s kung fu craze kicked off here.
Money shot : Lee fighting claw-handed Shih Kien in a hall of mirrors.
46. Blazing Saddles (1974)
Influential, how? Here comes the modern spoof.
Movie parody had been around since Abbott And Costello's heyday, but Mel Brooks' western set a new bar, lowering the tone and full-throttling the gag-rate.
For better (Airplane!) or worse (Date/Epic/Disaster Movie), Brooks' more-is-more mantra is par for the parody course.
Money shot: Bean-fuelled cowboys farting round the campfire
47. Nashville (1975)
Influential, how? Every character is a star.
Robert Altman first hit on his sprawling, improv style of filmmaking with M*A*S*H in 1970, but he brought it to a pitch with this epic C&W satire.
No less than 26 character actors rub shoulders, sing, cry and vie for the limelight.
Money shot: A mega pile-up on the highway featuring almost the entire cast.
48. Jaws (1975)
Influential, how? It ushered in the blockbuster.
"It lives to kill. A mindless eating machine. It is as if God created the devil and gave him… JAWS!"
Jaws created the 'blockbuster' – a new breed of pacey crowd-pleaser with big budgets, bigger marketing drives and a broad commercial appeal.
The test screenings convinced Universal to spend $700,000 on a TV ad campaign and open in an unprecedented 409 cinemas across the US.
For better or worse, Jaws kick-started the practice of selling movies as a summer 'event'. As producer Zanuck put it: "Jaws became more than a movie. It became a phenomenon."
Money shot : Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) comes face to face with Ben Gardener's corpse in an underwater wreck. A generation of moviegoers throw their popcorn in the air. Some even puke in the bucket…
For an extended look at Jaws, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine .
49 . Carrie (1976)
Influential, how? The rise of the shock ending.
Hollywood's first adap of a Stephen King paperback melds high-school teen flick with gory horror.
The shock graveyard ending has been much imitated but this is the original - and still the best: "I knew they were going to do it," said the novelist, "and I still almost shit in my pants!"
Money shot: That grave, that hand...
50. Star Wars (1977)
Influential, how? Cinema gets spectacular.
"It ate the heart and soul of Hollywood," grumped Paul Schrader.
OK, so Star Wars isn't Raging Bull. But George Lucas' ubiquitous space-opera is the most popular film ever made - inspiring a whole generation to fall in love with the whole idea of Going To The Movies.
Capturing the heart and dazzling the senses, Star Wars revolutionised CG visual effects, practically invented immersive Dolby Stereo surround-sound and gave audiences something they'd never seen or heard before.
We're betting Schrader secretly enjoyed it.
Money shot : That unbelievable opening, as a deafening Imperial Starship engulfs the star-sprinkled vastness.
51. Halloween (1978)
InfluentIal, how? The slasher movie comes home.
John Carpenter's cheap and chilling shocker set the savage style for a new horror sub-genre: the slasher flick.
Steeped in Hawks, Hitchcock and Westworld, it introduced a villain with supernatural implacability and a score that did its own sonic stalking.
And, pre-Blair Witch, it thrived on a budget: at $320,000, Halloween was the top-grossing indie pic of its era.
Changed the face of babysitting, too.
Money shot: Laurie weeps in the foreground while The Shape, who should be dead, gets up...
52. Heaven's Gate (1980)
InfluentIal, how? The first nail in the coffin of the American auteur movement.
Cimino's over-long, over-budget Western was a disaster so toxic it bankrupted United Artists, killing its director's post-Deer Hunter career stone-dead and curbing the creative freedom of the '70s movie brats.
Critics loathed it and audiences avoided it. The film's dark shadow still clouds every blockbuster, every 'vision' - a grim warning of what can happen when egos and budgets inflate at the expense of entertainment.
Money shot: The roller skate dance sequence. Size does matter.[page-break]
53. The Evil Dead (1981)
Influential, how? Horror goes nasty.
"Rape of our children's minds!"
In the summer of 1983 the British tabloids were frothing over "video nasties". Public enemy #1 was Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead, a full-throttle gore-fest of near-comic extremes.
Fanboys laughed, everyone else barfed (one BBFC examiner felt her "bodily integrity had been attacked") and knee-jerk hysteria over the VHS release led to the draconian Video Recordings Act of 1984 – effectively banning The Evil Dead from home viewing.
Few horror movies have scared the powers that be quite so shitless.
Money shot: Zombie Witch stabbing a pencil into an ankle. That's gotta hurt.
54. Blade Runner (1982)
Influential, how? The Future begins...
"There was nothing for me to do but stand around and give some focus to Ridley's sets…"
Sour grapes, Harrison Ford. Director Scott was busy frying bigger fish - reinventing the future in a neon noir style whose influence has seeped everywhere from anime to architecture.
Yeah, it's also inspired the odd movie, too: Brazil, Dark City, Strange Days, The Matrix… Constant rain and overbearing billboards have become dystopian clichés, but the foresight and detail of BR's mega-city decay still smell fresh.
Money shot: The opening panoramic reveal of LA, 2019: flying cars, flaming spires, forbidding wonder.
55. Tron (1982)
Influential, how? CG starts here.
Ironically, there was little computer wizardry to the first movie about computer wizards. "We treated live-action footage like individual animated cells," says conceptual designer Richard Taylor.
For the 20 minutes of CG in the movie, the animators had to create each element, frame-by-frame. "We gave the computer guys six rows of handwritten numbers for every frame," says animator Bill Kroyer. "And they typed them in!"
Everyone agreed on one thing: Tron's CG was groundbreaking. So groundbreaking, in fact, that the Academy refused to nominate the film for its effects.
"They said we cheated!" says director Lisberger. "Which in the light of what's happened since is just mind-boggling."
Money shot: That thrilling light cycle duel, inspiring Family Guy skits, iPhone games and more.
For an extended look at Tron, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine .
56 . Flashdance (1983)
Influential, how? MTV is here to stay.
Flashdance had no star, a dour blue-collar setting and a lame script. It also had powerhouse producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, welding music and movies like never before.
Both David Cronenberg and Brian De Palma turned it down before TV-ad man Adrian Lyne grabbed the reins.
The movie is as dumb as an inbred redneck but it's also a fairytale button-pusher with flashy quick-cuts and an infectious soundtrack (Slumdog Millionaire, anyone?).
Heavy airplay on MTV steered the film past savage reviews, and sent it to the top of the charts, both in music and movies.
Money shot: Alex, silhouetted in hazy blue light, drenches herself with water as the prelude to a frenzied, erotic wet-dance.
For an extended look at Flashdance, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine . [page-break]
57. The Abyss (1989)
Influential, how? Computers can do characters now...
It lasts just 75 seconds, but needed eight months of work. The 'Pseudopod', which snakes out of the ocean to explore an underwater oil platform was the first ever example of digitally animated CG water.
This being James Cameron, that wasn't enough. He had the gliding alien water-tentacle replicate Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's face, making it also the first ever realistic CG character.
"That's the movie," says Cameron. "You go down to confront the aliens and all they do is hold up a mirror and show you how fucked up you are."
Money shot : Cameron thinks the giant wave is even more amazing than his CG tentacle. He's right.
58. Do The Right Thing (1989)
Influential, how? Fighting the power.
No fake uplift, no clean-cut message, heaps of style: Spike Lee slammed home his take on racism with Public Enemy-enhanced pizazz, granting every character their reason to exist and liberating black cinema as he went.
Money shot: Mookie and Pino debate race. Direct-to-camera racial slurs follow, capped by Samuel L Jackson's generation-defining slap-down.
59. Sex, Lies And Videotape (1989)
Influential, how? Here come the Sundance kids.
Miramax paid $2 million for Steven Soderberg's Sundance-pleasing voyeurs-and-video debut. They made back over 20 times their investment, in the process setting the blueprint for a new wave of US independent cinema.
Money shot: Ann (MacDowell) turns the camera on perpetual peeper Graham (Spader). And Graham... turns it off.
60. Batman (1989)
Influential, how? The cinema of synergy.
Tim Burton's Batman was no mere movie. It was a lunchbox, a book, a comic book, two soundtracks, a toy town…
The multinationals of the '80s created a climate in which movies could be sold through multiple media, thus recouping the costs and then some.
"Cereal manufacturers and fast-food companies were looking over my shoulder the whole time," Burton fretted. "It was quite horrifying."
Money shot: The Bat-plane pauses in silhouette over the Moon. Would make a great badge...[page-break]
61. Terminator 2 (1991)
Influential, how? The synthespian is here.
Why spend $20m on an actor when you can spend $100m on a computer? Umm…
It wasn't so much that James Cameron's uber-sequel T2 was the first movie with a $100 million budget. It was what he spent it on that stunned cinema.
Morphing into anything it touched, the liquid-metal T-1000 was the movies' first ever CG-generated main character. "But there really
aren't computer actors," says Cameron. "There are actors. The T-1000 was Robert Patrick."
Money shot: A frosted T-1000 shattering into metal ice cubes, melting, then reassembling itself.
62. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Influential, how? Hollywood goes (pop) culture.
Reducing Godard's girl-and-gun template to just guns, Tarantino's post-heist debut wasn't just cheap-suited criminals screwing up a robbery.
Dogs was a guided missile of genre-repacking - from New Wave to extreme HK cinema to Peckinpah Westerns, every scene homages something .
Money shot: Waffles and rat-a-tat banter for breakfast. How many dicks is that, again?
63. Toy Story (1995)
Still, despite the audacious, full-length innovation, the timeless greatness of Toy Story lies in... the story.
"When you see a great live-action film, you don't walk out and say, 'That new Panavision camera was staggering,'" sighs director John Lasseter.
"The computer should always be in the service of the story."
Money shot: The battered toys take revenge on plaything torturer Sid.
64. Twister (1996)
Influential, how? DVD in the house.
Twister was the first ever UK DVD, the first film to be tested for 2.1 surround sound, and the default herald of a new era of home entertainment.
DVD was a genuine revolution. With a definition twice that of VHS, images that wouldn't deteriorate no matter how many schoolboys paused a Basic Instinct disc, multi-channel sound and enough space to contain – gasp! – bonus material.
Money shot: "I gotta go, Julia – we got cows!" And pause. And repeat...[page-break]
65. The Cable Guy (1996)
Influential, how? Show me the money!
When Columbia handed Ace Ventura's Jim Carrey a cheque for $20m, they smashed the salary-barrier to bits.
Today's biggest stars (Cruise, Smith) won't get out of bed for any less. The Cable Guy was Movie Zero for today's megastar culture.
Money shot: Carrey's unscripted Silence Of The Lambs improv.
66. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Influential, how? Movies go digital.
The Sundance-conquering micro-budget horror built up a new kind of hype with internet marketing: publishing a dedicated website to feed the "Is it real or fake?" rumour mill and seep the film and story into public consciousness without any major advertising spend.
Due to the surrounding hype, the indie frightner scared up a $140 million US gross from a $35,000 initial budget back in 1999 – a movie-biz record-shattering ratio of outlay to profits.
Money shot: Heather Donahue's tight-angle apology to camera, a portrait of abject terror.
For an extended look at The Blair Witch Project, see this feature in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine .
67. The Matrix (1999)
Influential, how? Lock and load: bullet-time!
A string of computer-linked cameras arranged in a big curve so that another box of tricks can jigsaw their pictures together into a moving image?
Not excited yet? Us neither, but then a PVC-clad Trinity leapt into the air and everything changed in a thudding heartbeat. (Say thank-you, Zack Snyder).
Money shot: Trinity. PVC. Freezeframe. Spin. Kick. Weren't you listening?
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I'll be back later this week to give you a quick update on my Baby Monkey Sewing progress. And it will be quick, as there isn't much progress. But Baby Monkey himself is making lots of progress and growing big, so I'm not a total slacker. ;-) See you soon!
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The Galax football team doesn't hear a lot of talk from its coaching staff about going 10-0. The Maroon Tide does hear a lot about getting better.
That's where teams like Eastern Montgomery and Radford come in mighty handy.
Though the Maroon Tide (2-1) suffered its first loss of the season Friday at EastMont, and may play a state championship-caliber team tonight in Radford, those are the games that make a better football team, not the 40-point shutout wins.
"It's been really good for us," said Galax coach Mark Dixon, whose Maroon Tide takes on Radford (2-0) in a nondistrict game at Norman Lineburg Field. "The first two games presented challenges at different levels. Last week and this week, and then next week, that's what we need going into the district. Having this type of competition forces us to play at a level we need to play at if we're going to have success."
If falling behind 19 points in the first quarter has a bright side, it may be that the Tide shouldn't be quite as stunned by the speed of the game that Radford will bring.
"They're as good as advertised," Dixon said of the Bobcats. "They've got speed at pretty much every position, they're physical up front, they block well, and they present a lot of issues offensively. And defensively, it's their speed. They can run up and play base and never have to get out of it because they can chase you down when things go wrong. Great speed."
While Galax was having its struggles at Eastern Montgomery, Radford was tangled up in its own battle with George Wythe. A late touchdown, an onside kick and a last-second field goal propelled the Bobcats to a 36-35 win.
As has been the case for the last two years, much of the Radford offense revolves around quarterback Dontae Carter. Kevin Adkins rushed 14 times for 112 yards against Wythe, but Carter has been the key, connecting on 19-of-31 passes for 226 yards and five touchdowns.
One chink in the Radford armor may be ball security, as the Bobcats have fumbled eight times and thrown four interceptions in two games.
But Dixon is more concerned about seeing his club improve and has preached discipline and fundamentals since Day 1. Discipline is in the form of penalties (whittled down to an acceptable five flags Friday) and turnovers (Galax has one giveaway in three games), but there is a greater form of discipline for which Dixon strives.
"Now it's the little things that win games that we have to get better at," he said. "Do you step with the correct foot? Do you attack at the right angle? Do you read your keys right? Those are things these kids have never heard. They're hearing it for the first time. You've got to see the game differently. You can't just run to the ball. That's not football."
He's seen that type of discipline from opponents, and fully believes it's attainable in Galax.
"Everything inside tells you 'There's the ball, run after it. Stare in the backfield and eventually I'll see who has it and I'll go chase it down.' You can't play defense like that," he said. "If you read your key you get there quicker. Carroll County does that. They read their keys and they play fast. We've get to get there. Other people at this level do it. We've got to start doing it. Kids at Radford do it. It's nothing special, it's just discipline. They don't do anything that wows you. They're disciplined and they read their keys. We have to get there."
Dixon said that Week 3 proved to be a valuable learning experience for him, as well.
"Early in the game we probably went away from what we do well a little too quick. In the second half when we went back to what we do, we at least became competitive," he said.
"It's a learning curve for me, too, both being here and coaching in general. At different levels, sometimes you can just tell a kid, this is what you need to do. At this level you really need to have practiced it."
But Dixon believes that in the big picture, it's all a positive experience. He had nothing but words of praise for his team's character and effort after falling behind – and then rallying back – against Carroll County and EastMont.
"It will help us in the long run to be the type of program we want to be," he said. "We're not there yet, and that shouldn't surprise anybody. We're starting a whole new thing. It's a different style of football. I think maybe the first two games everybody's hopes got real high, and that was great for our kids, but last week and this week are a reality test."
Galax (2-1) at Radford (2-0)
Friday, 7:30, Norman Lineburg Field
Radio: WWWJ 1360AM, www.wwwj1360.com
Last week
Galax lost to Eastern Montgomery 38-26
Radford defeated George Wythe 36-35
Last meeting
2009 – Radford won 42-0
Last Galax win
1981 (37-16)
Common opponents
None to date
The series
(since 1970)
1970–Radford 8-0
1971–Radford 21-6
1972–Radford 39-6
1973–Galax 18-6
1974–Radford 20-14
1975–Radford 13-0
1976–Radford 22-12
1977–Radford 42-14
1978–Radford 21-0
1979–Radford 14-8
1980–Radford 27-6
1981–Galax 23-20
1982–Radford 28-0
1983–Radford 26-0
1988–Radford 35-7
1989–Radford 41-0
1989–Radford 41-0
1989–Radford 41-0
1989–Radford 41-0
1994–Radford 13-7
1995–Radford 34-0
2005–Radford 33-10
2006–Radford 40-6
2007–Radford 29-12
2008–Radford 37-16
2009–Radford 42-0
Radford leads 21-2
The season
Galax Radford
D Northwood 45-0 8/27 D Pulaski Co. 32-29
D Alleghany, N.C. 35-0 9/3 Open
L to EastMont 38-26 9/10 D G.Wythe 36-35
at Radford 9/17 Galax
Craig County 9/24 Gretna
Open 10/1 at Grayson Co.
Grayson County 10/8 at EastMont
at Fort Chiswell 10/15 Floyd Co.
at Covington 10/22 Glenvar
Bland County 10/29 at Auburn
at Narrows 11/3 at Giles
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When did the concept of personal responsibility get kicked to the curb by all the addiction and other excuses? A new trend seems to be in the works, that when someone does something terrible, just blame it on an addiction or the people or persons they have wronged.
The latest example in the news is two parents Michael and Iana Straw who are being prosecuted for child abuse and neglect of their 11 and 22 month old babies. The court said the parents allowed both babies to starve and contract serious mouth and genital infections. The only excuse that they have was being so addicted to the computer and online role playing video games that they couldn't help it. Supposedly they had food in the home they just failed to give it to the babies. Luckily both babies are doing better in foster care.
We have heard this time and time again by some rogue preacher or politician who gets busted having gay sex or sex with a minor then "BAM!" next thing you know it was my addiction to some drug or the kid seduced me or maybe the gay act itself is addictive and off they go to rehab. A couple of months later, "I'm all better, no more drugs, no more kids, no more gay sex etc". Try blaming the people like Michael Richards and Don Imus who both blame black people for their racist comments.
At a time when blacks are being talked to constantly about personal responsibility so many Americans are coming up with excuse after excuse for their abhorrent behavior. The point is none of these people are taking any responsibility at all while a whole race is having fingers pointed at them. The double standards are blatant and utterly ridiculous. Bill Cosby is constantly touring around to chastise blacks about their personal responsibility yet this is a man who had been paying child support to some white lady he had an affair with even though he wasn't sure the child was his. I'm pretty sure it was just a little hush money, anyway WOW! Now that's some double standards on personal responsibility for you.
They say that personal responsibility is what separates the adult from the child. I guess the United States is being overpopulated by large children. So the next time anything bad happens to you, I'm pretty sure you can just get rehab for it. Where does it end?


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The 2011 AAA Photo Contest is a showcase of anthropology at its best. Of the 93 photos submitted, AAA members selected their favorites in each of the four categories: Practice, People, Place and Process. You can view the top 20 photos in Anthropology News. Here on the AAA blog, we will feature several of the photos in a blog series, Photo Friday.
Title: Mortification
Photo Courtesy of Brian Brazeal
Contest Category: People
Caption: This man is an educated, successful and established gemstone trader. The last time I saw him he was singing, sweating and bleeding as a large gentleman pulled out his beard and mustache, grabbing large hanks of hair, yanking them free from his face and rubbing ash on the affected roots. Why? A religious reputation is crucial to success because the emerald business is conducted in cash. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are committed among traders without even a handshake. You can only get this kind of credit if you are recognized as devout. Self-mortification is vivid proof of piety. People are happy to entrust thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of gems and debts to this man's care.
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