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FACT OR FICTION-Infamous Movie Urban Legends
FACT OR FICTION-Infamous Movie Urban Legends
by Jonathan Crow April 23rd, 2009
The unbelievable scale and complexity of movie productions, not to mention the unparalleled egos of the people who make them, make Tinseltown a veritable factory for gossip. While some tidbits pop up in tabloids and are quickly dismissed, others develop into full-fledged urban legends. Here's a list of some of the most enduring of these tales, along with a little research -- with thanks to snopes.com and other sources -- to separate the rumors from reality.
Movie: The Wizard of Oz
Claim: A lovelorn munchkin's suicide was captured on film.
Verdict: FALSE
There are few movies out there that have more urban legends connected to it than "The Wizard of Oz." And while some are partially true -- it does actually synch up in some freakish ways with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" (start your CD when the MGM lion roars for the third time) -- others, like the dead munchkin tale, are not.
The scene in question is when Dorothy and Scarecrow discover the Tin Man. It ends with all three dancing off into the distance along the yellow-brick road as the camera cranes up. If you watch closely, you can see some kind of odd motion behind a tree at the center of the screen. Some have it that it's a hiding stage hand who didn't hear the director shout "action" until it was too late. More active imaginations have it that it's a suicidal actor who played a munchkin kicking a ladder out from under him.
Leaving aside the absurdity that footage of a suicide would make it past the editors who labor over every frame of a movie before it's released, the truth is that movement the background is actually a stork or a crane. In order to help add some atmosphere to the indoor set, a number of exotic birds were lent to the production by the L.A. Zoo and were allowed to roam free. That strange flutter is one crane stretching its wing at an inopportune moment.
Movie: Back to the Future Part II
Claim: The hoverboards actually worked.
Verdict: FALSE
"Back to the Future II" might not have been the best movie of the BTTF franchise, but it did have one of its most memorable scenes: Marty McFly escaping a gang of bullies on one of those way cool hoverboards. Soon after the movie came out, rumors spread that these hoverboards were in fact real and that they'd soon be available in stores. Other rumors claimed that Mattel had a warehouse full of the boards but were sitting on them because parents' groups were concerned about safety. And even another rumor had it that a Mattel employee died a gruesome death testing one, causing the toy company to shelf the product. Director Robert Zemeckis added fuel to this urban legend by claiming in the "making of" documentary that "hoverboards have been around for years."
It turns out that the hoverboard scene was the result of Hollywood special effects, not some new, totally awesome technology.
The actors were suspended on wires that were removed digitally (this was one of the first movies to use the now-common technique). The boards were then attached to the actors' feet, so they were holding up the hoverboards, not the other way around. Zemeckis got tired of answering questions about how the effect was achieved that he just started lying and claiming they were real. To this day Mattel swears up and down that they don't have piles of the boards gathering dust.
Movie: Three Men and a Baby
Claim: The ghost of a dead boy is visible in the background of one scene.
Verdict: FALSE
The notorious "ghost boy" in this film appears in scene where Jack Holden (Ted Danson) is talking to his mother. For the past twenty years, this image of what appears to be a human figure looming between the curtains has been freaking out viewers. Rumor has it that the figure was the ghost of a nine-year old who died -- either from a shotgun to the head or from jumping out the window -- in the New York apartment where they filmed the movie.
In fact, "Three Men and a Baby" was shot on a soundstage in Toronto; no actual residential locations were ever used for the production. The figure itself was a cardboard cut-out of Ted Danson, which was supposed to be a part of his character's job as a product spokesman. Though much of that storyline ended up on the editor's floor, the cut-out remained and a legend was born.
Movie: Goldfinger
Claim: An actress died from being painted gold.
Verdict: FALSE
Back in the '60s, it was widely believed that you can breathe through your skin. If you cover your skin with something like paint, the theory went, you could die of asphyxiation. James Bond explained as much when Goldfinger's ex-secretary Jill Masterson wound up dead, in his bed, and covered in gold. Science has since proved this theory to be bunk; you breathe through your nose and mouth, not your skin. Though Jill Masterson still could have died from getting the head-to-toe Goldfinger treatment -- her body would have overheated since it has no place to sweat -- it wouldn't have been from asphyxiation.
This belief no doubt fueled the rumor that the actress who played Jill Masterson, Shirley Eaton, died from all that gold paint. Though a pair of doctors was on set just in case something went wrong, Eaton not only survived the shoot, she is, as of this writing, alive and well in her native England and a grandmother of five.
Movie: Ben-Hur
Claim: A stuntman's death ended up in the final cut of the famed chariot race.
Verdict: FALSE
The chariot race in William Wyler's 1959 epic "Ben Hur" is one of the most spectacle action sequences ever shot, easily holding its own against later day CG-laden sagas like "The Lord of the Rings."
Based partially on the strength of this scene, the film nabbed a record-breaking eleven Oscars.
The race took three months to finish and required eighteen chariots and 8,000 extras. It also featured some of the most gruesome on-screen death scenes up to that point in movies. So it's not too surprising that people started to confuse movie magic with real-life fatalities.
William Wyler, Charlton Heston, and stunt coordinator Yakima Canutt have all stated on the record that no one was seriously injured in that scene. The crew managed to make those on-screen deaths, particularly that of Ben Hur's rival Mesalla, look so shockingly real through a clever use of dummies and top-drawer editing. The only stunt that came close to resulting in serious injury happened when Ben Hur was tossed from his chariot. Heston's stunt double Joe Canutt, Yakima's son, got an ugly cut on his chin that required a few stitches, but it was hardly fatal.
Movie: Casablanca
Claim: Ronald Reagan was originally slated to play Rick Blaine.
Verdict: FALSE
Humphey Bogart's turn as Rick Blaine in "Casablanca" made his career, launching him into the pantheon of cinema icons. Yet urban legend has it that future-president Ronald Reagan almost got tapped for the part. It's a great story, but it's not true. Reagan was never considered for the role.
On December 27, 1941, producer Hal Wallis bought the rights to the unproduced play "Everyone Comes to Rick's." Two weeks later, before the screenplay had even been started, a press release hit "The Hollywood Reporter" stating that Reagan and Ann Sheridan were going to co-star in "Casablanca." This was most likely a planted item from Warner Bros.' Page Ranking department, a common practice back then to keep studio actors in the spotlight.
The truth was this: Hal Wallis was an independent producer who agreed to make movies for Jack Warner; his contract stipulated that he was under no obligation to take casting cues from the studio. In fact, the studio was required to make its stable of actors available to him. Though Jack Warner did ask Wallis to cast George Raft, Wallis refused. The producer always had Bogart in mind to play Rick.
Movie: The Madness of King George
Claim: The original title, "The Madness of George III," was changed because Americans thought it was a sequel.
Verdict: FALSE
The 1991 play "The Madness of George III" dramatized the strange behavior of the British monarch who supposedly lost his mind after losing the American colonies. When it was adapted into a 1995 film, rumor had it that distributors changed the title for the American release to "The Madness of King George" so that confused Yanks wouldn't think they had missed "The Madness of George" parts I and II.
In fact, the "The Madness of King George" was the title for the movie worldwide, even in the UK. It's true the filmmakers did change original play's name. Reportedly, this was because they were keen to get the word "King" into the title for cultural reasons; while Brits immediately recognize that George III was a monarch, while Americans -- a people without a history of royalty -- might not.
Movie: For Your Eyes Only
Claim: One of the Bond girls used to be dude.
Verdict: TRUE
This 1981 Bond flick, the twelfth starring Roger Moore, had its usual quotient of explosions and scantily clad women. One of these ladies, however, garnered a lot more attention than usual when British tabloid
"News of the World" came out with a front page headline reading: "James Bond Girl Was a Boy."
Caroline Cossey was born Barry Cossey in rural England in 1954. At the age of seventeen, he started taking hormones and two years later, he went the full nine yards and had sex reassignment surgery. The doctors apparently did a bang-up job because Caroline, working under the stage name of Tula, soon found work as a model and as an actress. Caroline's role in "For Your Eyes Only" was quite small; she's listed as "Girl at Pool," a credit shared by eight other women.
After the tabloid outing, an experience that devastated her, she went on to appear in Playboy and publish a couple autobiographies. She is currently married and living in Georgia.
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Dear Pizzasgood,
Thanks for your termcap. It works perfectly. For those wishing to launch apps via -x, please note that sakura uses -e for that function. These are the command line arguments from the manpage:
-?, --help
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I like this new(?) terminal. I set it up to look similiar to the old basic prompt of the TI-99/4A, which is a little easier on my eyes. Really cool. Thanks.
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Thanks Pizzasgood for the fix !
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Pizzasgood wrote:
Okay. I haven't bothered to track down exactly which entries in the termcap file are relevant, but if you drop in the one from the old Sakura package (which was at a different place and under another name) everything seems to work properly. Just decompress this (
gunzip termcap.gz
) and stick it in /etc, overwriting the existing copy.
I thought you updated the libtermcap but you modified only the termcap file
to fix the errors
so now its clear to me what happened
*Because I noticed that puppy 4.00 does not have
I had to add that from version 3.01 to get my debugging program to work called "basdb"
that may be needed too
thanks for the fix
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Thanks Pizzasgood I updated the main release package with the new termcap file you posted
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Yes, that works much better. Pizzasgood, Ttuuxxx, you guys are great.
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ttuuxxx wrote:
big_bass wrote:
ttuuuuxx how do you make the transparent background ?
I 'd like to give that a try too
like this
right click --> Otions --> Set Opacity Levels
untick -->Disable Opacity --> set to "0" or a bit higher to give it a glass kind of look
enjoy !!
Oh Dear!
Im probably being unbelievably thick but I still cant set transparency. Did all the above without success. I can change background colour and even apply a background picture but transparency doesnt seem to work for me.
Am I missing something here?
(Im running puppy 4.0 with icewm if this makes any difference.)
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... We prefer that the core OS works flawlessly instead of masking it with layer upon layer upon layer of insulation and fluff...
hear, hear
I wouldn't normally bother to voice my opinion
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... If you want eye candy which most of us do ...
I thought I register my vote against candy
I am all for a choice (as long as I am the one who is making it
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Dear puppians,
We have heard the anti-eyecandy and pro-eyecandy arguments ad nauseum. I, for one, want a consistent desktop, and my gtk apps do this for me automatically. Being a stickler for UI consistency (and a stickler with regard to programming consistency, using functions in bash, for example and not spaghetti code, and preferring Modula to C++ in principle), I see everything "right" in promoting visual consistency for Puppy apps. I, for example, use a OSX-style interface, and go to great lengths to get QT3, QT4, java (swing with gtk), tk/tcl (with Gnocl), Wine (with an appropriate theme) and whatever else to look nearly identical. It's not that hard to achieve UI uniformity if your really want to. If you don't, that's also fine - but it's definitely not my cup of tea. As for Sakura, it meets the needs of most users for a terminal emulator, does it using very little in terms of memory and does it more attractively than good old rxvt. For that reason alone, it's an eminently suitable replacement.
As an aside, since I am a professional composer, I would be very dissatisfied if a desk, or one on a desk, of string players told me that he/she/they wished to play using his/her/their own intonation. I would sooner tell them either to play my way or not to play at all, since they would be ruining the performance. There is something to be said for collective unity in that instance and for consistency when it comes to the interface between a human and a machine, not to mention the less tangible aesthetic aspect. It is not visual "audacity" I am after (eye candy for eye candy's sake), but simple consistency. In all orchestral scores, woodwinds come first, followed by brass - French horns first - followed by non-tuned then tuned percussion (including piano, harp, marimba, vibraphone, etc.) and then the strings, the real guts of an orchestra. In Mozart's Requiem, for example, we get the normal orch. parts and then the trailing vocals, solo and SATB, in the standard editions. That is the way it is done, and that is the way ALL conductors expect it, conductors who have studied in conservatories in various countries and with various backgrounds. Do it any other way, and I can guarantee you the music you write will never be played - since it reflects a large degree of unprofessionalism and lack of formal training on the part of the composer. It is much the same with users and the UIs they confront from the "composers" of computer programs. If you can do it with proper fonts, antialiasing, GUI consistency etc., etc., then more power to you. And users will appreciate it.
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Well lets just say Rxvt is nice in a simple way, It does its job very well, If you want eye candy which most of us do, Then Rxvt falls behind, kind of like if you want to go out to a night club for some drinks, Well lets see
-The first bar is called, "Club Rxvt"
it has drinks, bar, table and chairs and a few nice looking ladies. You spend your whole night setting back admiring the scenery and go home alone.
-The second bar is called "Club SAKURA"
it has drinks, bar, table and chairs and a few nice looking ladies
But wait all of a sudden it has music and a dance floor with lasers and lights, The ladies get off their chairs and start bust'in a move.
You then get off your chair and start doing the grinding monkey dance.
Then you accidentally slip on a banana peel and fall on your butt. The ladies start to laugh and so do you, The tall blond bends over and and reaches out her hand to you. Meanwhile your face is red and blushing and the blond says "How Cute, your blushing, I like it when a Man is in touched with his inner feelings."
You then get up and dust your pants off as she walks away, Suddenly The blond yells out " Come over to my table."
You then strut your stride over to the blonds table where you spend hours talking and drinking. 3am rolls by and the Bar tender comes over to your table and says, "Ok its 3am time to go, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here."
The blond says to you thats ok we can always go back to my place for a night cap. Which you did without even giving it a second thought. What a great night indeed.
The next day you wake up and your not alone, The blond is laying beside you and you look over on the nightstand. A book of matches was setting on the table. you grab the matches and read the text, it says "SAKURA just what your Console Needed"
Thanks for the chuckle. Good start to the day!
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Re: Does 27 & 30 seem young to say no more??
We will be 27 and 26 when this baby is born.. I'm 99% sure we are done. I'm going to push for DH to get a vasectomy. I'm absolutely not going on BC... and I don't think we have enough willpower to use condoms or any other barrier method effectively.
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Re: Does 27 & 30 seem young to say no more??
I don't think your age is nearly as important as the fact you aren't 100% certain you don't want any more children. I'm 20, and I know for sure that I am done. I'm an only child, and I want to raise an only child. I have always felt that way. So, my DH will be getting snipped very soon.
But, since you are still thinking you might want additional children, but money is the main thing holding you back, I think you should wait and not do anything permanent. Financial situations can always change- you never know what the next 5 or 10 years might bring.
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Re: Does 27 & 30 seem young to say no more??
Thanks everyone for the advice. It's all really great.
DH and I talked again last night about it and he says that if I am not 100% sure then he would rather wait.
Then I said I could get an IUD and he said "No way" he's totally scared of them for me, heard too many bad things, so we are going to talk with my OB about it at my 8 week appointment to see what other options we have.
Maybe NFP, our OB is really big on it soo we'll see.
DH found a website on V's and it had questions to ask yourself to see if you are ready for one or not and when he asked me he said "okay you're not ready for something so permanent".
He said he just doesn't want the responsibility of us not getting pregnant to be all on me ie. protection but I said well the only thing you can do really is condom or V or no sex. LOL
So anyway not sure how long we are going to wait, really no time limit just we will do it when we are both ready.
Thanks again ladies.
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Re: Does 27 & 30 seem young to say no more??
I wouldn't decide on something so "Forever" I would think about a IUD, it works just about as good as "getting fixed" but it's completely Undoable.
I might be a little Biased as I have one. lol (mirena, love it!)
ETA: Yeah, didn't read the replies.. Oh well! DH had no choice in me getting one. I said I was getting it and he was in Iraq. lol)
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Re: Does 27 & 30 seem young to say no more??
I don't think it sounds too young. I think everyone needs to decide what is right for their own family and age doesn't have to be a factor. Sure, you could still have babies for another 10-12 years (or more) but not everyone wants to have babies at older ages.
I'm 28, will be 29 when this baby is born, and DH will be 29 in January. I KNOW in my heart that I am done biologically having babies. We have always talked about adoption and may re-visit that idea later down the road. But I know for me, 4 is perfect and I'm all done. I'll be having a tubal. Dh would be willing to have a V, but I don't trust them, especially with how fertile we are
I think if you know financially you can't add another child and you know for sure you want to be a SAHM, then maybe your family is complete. Perhaps you can look at adoption someday, too. There are a lot of children in this world that need a loving home.
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Re: Does 27 & 30 seem young to say no more??
My sister has infertility problems. I have fertility problems. I married at 21. By 28 I had 4 kids and 5 pregnancies. I can't use the pill due to health problems. I wish I had done the 5 yr IUD. I have heard a lot of good things about it. I think it is an excellent alternative for those who are pretty sure they're done, but want to make sure before they take the plunge. It's a great way to have something long term and yet not permanant. You can remove it if you change your mind, or do the vascectomy before your 5 yrs if fully up. But I highly recommend making sure HE does it. Women take much longer to recover from tubals than men do with a v. I'm now 29 with 4 kids. I KNOW I am done. But that's also clarity I didn't have when I was 26 with 3 kids...
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Re: Does 27 & 30 seem young to say no more??
My dr advised both dh & I against sterilization at 24 & 26 with DS#5. I had issues with my Mirena's in the past, 2 expelled, 1 time I knew and the other time I didn't until after my bfp & an u/s. But she said she would try the Mirena again under close watch and so far so good. Its been 10 months and no babies. If I can go about 5 more months w/o getting pregnant we'll have a new record!
If you do decide to do sterilizations, there is a new non-surgical method called Assure that causes your tubes to close completely which could later be helpful for IVF. My dr said that if I did want to have another baby later on I could just save $20k and get IVF, they'd rather have your tubes blocked off anyway. LOL I did actually sign papers in advance to birth that if I needed an emergency c/s that I'd opt to be sterilized while they were in there. Dh doesn't want a V, I don't want a tubal... we don't know whether or not we definatly DON'T want more. We love babies, kids, family! We could probably handle one more and then THAT would be it. LOL 6 is my final number, unless of course God blessed us with twins again! hahaha!!
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Re: Does 27 & 30 seem young to say no more??
I don't have time to read the other responses, but have you considered an IUD? There are hormonal and non horomonal options and they have similar (or better) failure rates to steralization. I was really scared to get mine but its been a week and its great.
Good luck on your desicion
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Re: Does 27 & 30 seem young to say no more??
Dh and I were both 27 when this last one (#4) was born and I signed the paper that said if I had to have a c-section for any reason that I wanted my tubes tied while they were in there.
But with 4 living kids and 7 total pregnancies, we knew we were done. I said I was done after having my second two kids 13 months apart and having 3 under 3yo but a little part of me still wanted another, just not anytime soon! I got the IUD (we are also quite fertile, easy pregnancies, quick labors...) and had it for 3.5 years before we were ready for another kid. We got pregnant 6 mos after having it removed but I was on bedrest for the rest of the pregnancy at 14 weeks. It was a total chance thing, abruptio placentae which means the placenta had lifted partially from the uterine wall. My labor was still pretty quick and easy but I had to be induced at 36 weeks due to the placenta issue. The reason I'm telling you this is because I had the same kind thoughts you did, I'm still young and all my other pregnancies have been easy pease but I learned the hard way even the healthiest of people with normally perfect pregnancies can still have a problem pregnancy just by chance. (Everything was fine in the end btw, the baby was observed a little more closely at first as they considered her a preemie but she never even went to the NICU at all, was discharged from the hospital at 2 days old and other than being smaller than my full term babies she's been a picture of health) But because I had her vaginally and I didn't want surgery if it wasn't absolutely neccesary (and since we don't want anymore but it wouldn't be the end of the world if we did have more we didn't consider it neccesary) and dh won't have a vasectomy for his own reasons, I now have another Paragaurd IUD and I love it. I would encourage you and dh to find out more about them. They are really quite safe nowadays not to mention effective (something like 99% effective, same effectiveness rating as sterilization but easily reversible and with the Paragaurd which doesn't have hormones you don't have any of the side effects of hormon based birth control).
I agree with everyone else, age isn't really the issue here,you are done when ever you no longer feel like someone is "missing" from your family.
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Self discipline means deliberately aligning our energy with our values and priorities. Through mental practice we focus in on a task before us and lets other temptations and distractions pass us by.
Self-discipline asks that we endure frustration, disappointment, and pain in the service of a higher goal. It means being willing to push ourselves to the limits of our will and endurance if that is what is needed for success.
Self-discipline need not be harsh; it can take the form of a quiet resolve or determination that then directs our choices. It is exacting, but is rarely served by our being self-critical or self-denigrating. Self-discipline allows us to make use of whatever power and capabilities have been given us, to be all that we can in the service of our dreams.
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FuseDC blogger Charise puts her finger on an issue I've been mulling over. Only difference is that she's furious and I'm just stymied.
As Charise says, "front-end investments in prevention and intervention measures for youth and families" cost a whole lot less than programs that address our failures to provide the integrated education, training and other services that will get young people into ongoing living-wage employment.
Yet we don't want to pit investments that will in the long run pay off in higher tax revenues and reduced social spending against programs that provide a safety net for those our system has failed.
Nor, I trust, do we want to opt for investments in youth development if that means neglecting the needs of people who for various reasons can't become fully self-sufficient. What about seniors who worked at low-wage jobs their whole lives and now depend on meager Social Security retirement benefits? What about individuals with severe physical and/or mental disabilities?
And what about investments in programs that can lift adults out of poverty? These too will reduce safety net spending — and probably needs for spending on young high school dropouts and other "disconnected youth" as well.
So here's the quandary. We know that robust, well-targeted investments in public education, job creation, workforce development, child care and other poverty reduction programs will help get us out of the current cycle of budget gaps that repeatedly have sent District officials back to the drawing board.
In fact, they'll generate more revenues to plow back into these investments. But the budget gaps result largely from revenue shortfalls. So we don't have the funds to turn the spending cycle around — more on prevention and early intervention, less on safety net because less needed.
Look, for example, at what the DC Council faces now. Say it finds the funds to make the adult job training program whole again. That would still leave local funding for the program at only $9.2 million — this when a 2007 Brookings Institution study found that as many as 61,000 low-income working-age residents needed more training and related services.
Say the Council rejects the proposed cut in funding for subsidized child care. That would still leave about 13,000 children on the waiting list for placements.
Parents with very young and/or disabled children would still face a formidable barrier to sustained full-time employment. More child care providers could close their doors, putting yet more people out of work — and likely in need of additional training.
Same story for a host of other investments that pay off in the long run.
The Council can and should find alternatives to Mayor Fenty's proposed cuts that don't make a bad situation worse — a new top income tax bracket among them.
But I think the District is in the same situation as state governments across the country. The need to maintain a balanced budget when this deep recession has so depressed revenues severely limits measures that could generate more revenues without further tax increases while also reducing pressures on the safety net.
The federal government doesn't have to keep its budget balanced. It could shore up hard-pressed state and local programs, including some that have been under-funded for a long time. Instead, we see a range of initiatives to slash federal spending — not just in the long term, but right now.
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TMZ caught the newly-engaged "Hills" brats leaving Les Deux in Hollywood last night, where they constantly held hands and chatted up the photogs snapping their picture on their way to the valet. They sure do love
Spencer joked that all the attention coming their way was due to a lack of anyone else to shoot, saying "Justin and Cameron must be at home." He's right. Though the two kept talking to every camera they could, Spencer did manage to keep his wedding date a secret, saying, "Every day is a big day, it's good to be alive."
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Caerleon Legionary Fortress
Excavations at Roman Isca
Since 2006, archaeologists have been undertaking a series of surveys and new research excavations at Caerleon. This website gives details of past, present and future work at the fortress of Isca, home of the Legion II Augusta for nearly 300 years during the Roman occupation of Britain.
An aerial view of Caerleon
Excavations in 2011: Caerleon's 'Lost City' of the Legion
Cardiff University recently undertook trial excavations in the area of newly-discovered monumental buildings outside the fortress, on the banks of the River Usk. This area of settlement outside of the walls (known as the canabae to the Romans) might be a major harbour facility, or a series of official and/or religious buildings.
Read about the discoveries made in 2011 on the dig blog!
Read the 2011 excavation blog
Follow CaerleonDig on Twitter∞
More about the background to the dig∞
This project, directed by Dr Peter Guest∞, is generously supported by Cardiff University, the Roman Research Trust, the Haverfield Bequest (University of Oxford), Newport City Council and many members of the Caerleon Community.
Priory Field Excavations 2007-2010
Cardiff University and UCL undertook a series of excavations in Priory Field, in the southern part of the fortress enclosure, between 2007-2010. After one season of trial excavations in 2007, this project focused on the examination of one wing of a large, square warehouse building. During the summers of 2008 and 2010, this building gave up many of its secrets, including a great deal of information about the equipment of the legionaries, and also an important story of late and post-Roman life in Caerleon.
Although this dig has now been completed, this website will be updated with reports of our progress in looking at the finds in more detail over coming months.
This project, directed by Dr Peter Guest∞ and Dr Andrew Gardner∞, has been generously supported by Cadw, Cardiff University, UCL, National Roman Legion Museum, and many members of the Caerleon community.
Read about the on-going conservation of our major find of Roman armour at the
National Museum Cardiff∞
See some of the finds from 2010
Read the 2010 excavation blog
More on the project's background
An aerial view of Caerleon, with the 2008 trench in the centre (Courtesy Stewart Ainsworth)
Open Day activities in 2010 (above) and 2008 (below)
Useful Links
Caerleon.net: www.caerleon.net∞
Caerleon Research Committee: www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/archaeology/crc/∞
Cardiff School of History, Archaeology & Religion: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/index.html∞
Cadw: www.cadw.wales.gov.uk∞
Council for British Archaeology: www.britarch.ac.uk∞
Festival of British Archaeology: festival.britarch.ac.uk/index.php∞
National Roman Legion Museum: www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/caerleon∞
UCL Institute of Archaeology: www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology∞
Gardner, A. and Guest, P. 2010. Exploring Roman Caerleon: new excavations at the legionary fortress of Isca. Archaeology International 12, 47-51
Gardner, A. and Guest, P. 2009. 'Fortress Isca: A mighty Roman garrison', Current Archaeology 226, 31-37.
Guest, P and Young, T. 2006 'Mapping Isca: geophysical investigation of Priory Field, Caerleon', Archaeologia Cambrensis 155, 117-33.
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October is the time to kick off another winter season with EXIT REAL WORLD's annual movie premiere party. October 19th was EXIT's eighth anniversary and each year everyone is invited to attend a movie premiere party to honor this occasion and to invite the snowfall.
This year EXIT premiered "BRAIN STORM", "STAND AND DELIVER". In addition to this videos, EXIT showed their skate team video and Premiere Snow Skate's video. Tons of prizes were raffled off and kids competed for bigger prizes in fun games such a girls sit-ups competition to win a Chorus snowboard and a guys push-ups competition to win an M3 snowboard.
Premiere Snow Skates were handed out as well as various other goodies including snowclothes, skateboards and other things. Nobody went home empty handed as goody bags including stickers, candy, keychains, catalogs and various things are traditionally given out to everyone upon exiting. About 800 people attended the party. Although there was concern and stress from the management of the facilities, there were no problems in the end.
Under organization of Missy Samiee (owner of EXIT), managers Brad Vaterlaus, Rob Aragon and Chare Erich along with the rest of the staff acted as the backbone of the event, adhering to the minute to minute schedule. Ramps had to be set up on stage for the skate demo, banners had to be hung, goody bags filled, prizes organized, DJs and attendees herded and an itinerary closely administered in order to keep the flow of the party under control.
Managers Brad Vaterlaus, Rob Aragon, and Miles Lauridsen, the northwest Burton rep helped by announcing and introducing the movies and people such as Josh Dirksen (on team EXIT) to the audience. Tom Czahor, Sole Tech's northwest rep helped by loading in and out. Phil Kennedy of Circus and Alphanumeric helped out. Brent Lance came up with a tech from Oakley and was a tremendous help as usual… and on the sale day with Oakely's lazer demo. The above reps were even more help by being at EXIT the next day (EXIT's biggest sales day of the year) to help sales by being available with technical answers and other support.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The road doesn't get any easier for the Yale women's crew. After defeating Virginia and Radcliffe last weekend in the varsity races, the Bulldogs meet defending NCAA champion Brown on Saturday morning. Racing starts at 6:30 a.m. on the Seekonk River.
"This weekend will be a big challenge for us," said Yale head coach Will Porter. "Brown is the defending NCAA champion, but we are not looking to beat Brown. We are just looking to go fast. In fact, we hope Brown goes fast as well."
The Yale varsity eight victory over third-ranked Virginia and No. 12 Radcliffe propelled the Bulldogs back into the top spot in the CRCA/US Rowing national poll. Yale was ranked first in the preseason poll but was overtaken by California after the opening weekend of racing. The Bulldogs received 13 of 22 first-place votes this week and have 431 points, four more than second-ranked Cal.
Saturday's race with the Bears concludes the regular season. Yale competes in the EAWRC Sprints on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J., on May 18, and should be in good position to receive a bid to the NCAA Team Championships beginning May 30 on Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, Calif.
"We have shown that we can be tough at home on our course but from now on we have to do it on the road," Porter said. "We need to do a better job getting off the line in all our crews. I think we can go faster by continuing to work on the small things throughout the race course that make the difference. We are slowly closing in on our best stuff."
Brown is coming off a sweep of Columbia and Cornell last weekend in Ithaca, N.Y. The Bears' varsity eight is ranked 10th.
Race Schedule
6:30 - Varsity Eight
6:50 - Second Varsity Eight
7:10 - Novice Eight
7:30 - Varsity Four
7:50 - Varsity Four B
8:10 - Second Novice Four
Yale Boatings
Varsity Eight
C: Mia Kanak
8: Taylor Ritzel
7: Christina Person
6: Tess Gerrand
5: Jamie Redman
4: Alice Henly
3: Maren McCrea
2: Caroline Nash
1: Christine Glandorf
Second Varsity Eight
C: Berkley Adrio
8: Katherine Adams
7: Cara Dermody
6: Jennie Hansen
5: Catherine Hart
4: Stephanie Madner
3: Emily Matykiewicz
2: Lee Glandorf
1: Rebecca Nadal
Varsity Four
C: Erin Haber
4: Suzanne Salgado
3: Karrin Weisenthal
2: Allix Wilde
1: Alexandra Thompson
Third Varsity Four B
C: Alyssa Reyes
4: Mary Pat Wixted
3: Melissa King
2: Katherine Kazimer
1: Lilah Hume
Third Varsity Four C
C: Ruoxi Wu
4: Ryan McCarthy
3: Zoe Ballance
2: Laura Gottesdiener
1: Margaret Sullivan
First Novice Eight
C: Sarah Brownlee
8: Amanda Grady
7: Roxanne Carini
6: Jennifer Zeckendorf
5: Lauren Ross
4: Hayden Mulligan
3: Mary Freeman
2: Mary Barrosse-Antle
1: Lily Blair
Second Novice Four
C: Christina Lin
4: Lily Twining
3: Phoebe Hinton
2: Ariel Baker-Gibbs
1: Alexandra Cook
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Deloitte named a leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Oil & Gas Professional Services
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New York, NY, 3 December 2012 — Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) is pleased to announce that IDC Energy Insights, a provider of global IT research and advice, has named Deloitte* a leader in oil & gas professional services in its report,, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Oil & Gas Professional Services 2012 Vendor Assessment.
IDC Energy Insights recognized Deloitte as a business consulting "heavyweight," pointing to Deloitte member firms' deep experience and expertise in the oil and gas industry.
"Today's oil and gas industry is characterised by uncertainty, volatility and change. A deep understanding of the issues and the ability to work seamlessly cross border are key to capitalizing on the opportunities this presents" said Adi Karev, Global Oil & Gas Leader, DTTL. "Being named as a 'leader' in this study recognizes our positioning as 'trusted advisors' to the world's largest and most important oil and gas companies. It is encouraging to see that the investments Deloitte member firms have made are being recognized and have allowed Deloitte to become a market leader with a truly differentiated oil and gas advisory business."
The IDC Energy Insights report highlights the following key Deloitte attributes:
- "Deloitte's strongest technology capabilities in oil and gas are in IT strategy, security, energy trading and risk management, and consolidation of ERP systems."
- "Deloitte's service delivery is global, with engagements sometimes playing out across more than 30 geographies, including countries in APAC and Latin America."
- "Recognizing that talent is where winners and losers will be defined in business consulting, Deloitte has a unique approach to its employee strategy. Short- and long-term assignments are designed to transfer skills and capabilities, develop globally minded leaders, and better serve cross-border clients."
- "Deloitte has significant depth and a long history in the oil and gas industry. Deloitte's advisory capabilities complement its implementation capabilities across technology, people and process. The range of services may be appealing for oil and gas companies looking for a full-servic e organization."
Source: IDC Energy Insights, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Oil & Gas Professional Services 2012 Vendor Assessment, Doc #EI237328, October 2012.
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Feds Might Be Close to Indicting Bonds
TJ Quinn at the New York Daily News has been absolutely killing the scene when it comes to steroids and amphetamines investigations. I mean this guy is all over these stories. His latest suggests that the grand jury is close to indicting Barry Bonds (probably for charges of perjury). I just got done posting that at FanHouse, so take a look.
This is something I've been expecting for quite some time. Doesn't it all make sense now why Bud Selig has kept his mouth shut about his plans to be in attendance for 756? He was just biding his time, waiting to see if the indictment would come first. Want to know why? Because he plans to suspend Bonds — who would be under investigation for knowingly taking steroids — if he gets indicted. That's why Bud hasn't opened his mouth. He was just waiting to see the progress of the grand jury. This would make quite the off-season. The absolute trifecta: Vick, Bonds, and NBA ref Donaghy. Fantastic.


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For ages, ants have had a monopoly on the coveted acacia, protecting the plant from would-be predators in exchange for shelter and food, or so they thought. Skulking in the background, and recently discovered, is an unlikely competitor of the ant — a spider. And this is no ordinary arachnid. The Bagheera kiplingi also happens to be a vegetarian, and is the first of its kind known to science.
"This is really the first spider known to specifically 'hunt' plants," said Christopher Meehan of Villanova University. "It is also the first known to go after plants as a primary food source."
The veggie-loving tendency of this jumping spider was first discovered in Central America back in 2001 by Eric Olson of Brandeis University. Since then he has teamed up with Meehan, who independently observed the jumping spider in 2007, to learn more about this unusual creature and the extent to which it likes plants. Not only is Bagheera kiplingi the only predominant vegetarian of 40,000 known spider species with plants making up more than 90 percent of its diet, but it's showing scientists a complex side of arachnid biology and behavior that indicates the spider's diet is just the beginning of this animal's surprising life history.
Ants are aggressive defenders of the acacia plant making life difficult for outsiders who attempt to encroach on their turf. After all, they want those yummy beltian bodies all to themselves. So how is the jumping spider managing to exploit the acacia for both food and shelter?
Science is still trying to figure that out, but preliminary research shows the spiders take advantage of the invertebrate equivalent of run-down real estate, setting up residence in less-than-desirable regions of the acacia. But their ingenuity doesn't stop there. Bagheera kiplingi are outsmarting their ant foes, said Meehan, exploiting their intelligence and agility to get around the ants. "Individuals employ diverse, situation-specific strategies to evade ants, and the ants simply cannot catch them," he said.
As if to add insult to co-evolution, the ants may not even know when spiders are in their midst. Bagheera kiplingi literally dupes the ant by baring young that look like carbon-copies of the ants, and Meehan has reason to suspect that the spiders actually wear a sort of insect perfume that makes them smell like their would-be attackers.
More research is forthcoming, including a look at the possibility that spider dad's help raise the babies, a virtually unheard of behavior in spider biology. In the meantime, I hear Meehan and Olson's methods included high-definition video of these smarty-pant vegetarian spiders. Now that would be some footage to see.
Meehan and Olson's study is available in the October 12 issue of Current Biology.


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First off, your comic rocks and I'd swear it was about my life. Anywho.. just wondering, on your gallery pics (the pictures of individual characters) you've got all the trippy fractal psychadelic backgrounds- what are you using to make those, dude? They kick a lot of ass.
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Plaid Effect Tutorial
Esther Chandler
This tutorial shows how to make a plaid effect for use on a scarf, cushion, etc. It uses photos to show the technique and links to my gingham scarf pattern, which uses this method.
Materials List
You will need various colours of stash yarn in dk weight or smaller, and a size 7mm hook (smaller if you are using narrower yarn.) The length will depend on your project, but you only need small amounts to make the swatch shown.
Finished Size
Swatch shown is approximately12cm wide.
Gauge is not important for this project, but you may wish to adapt the number of dc's per square to make squares (rather than rectangles).
This technique utilises two strands of yarn held together, changing one of them as you go to make the plaid pattern.
The Pattern
You can find this pattern at http://makemydaycreative.com/2013/01/22/plaid-effect-tutorial/


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Already selling consistently to all levels of the dive travel market, the dazzling Globetrotter Dive Guide: The Maldives now appears in a fully revised new edition for 2004. There are estimated to be over 3,000 dive sites in the Maldives, which remains one of the world's major diving destinations, renowned as much for the extraordinary natural beauty of its atoll formations as the quality of its diving. Despite the ravages of the 1998 El Nino phenomenon, the Maldives reefs have continued to thrive; where before-hand the focus was on stony corals, now divers of all nationalities come for the myriad fish life and breathtaking array of pelagic species, including awesome Manta Rays. For this new edition all coverage of the existing dive sites has been thoroughly updated, and the latest practical information is included in the regional directories.
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"Mexican police say a woman was carrying something extra in a suitcase after she visited her husband in prison. The something extra was her husband." - AP
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