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Links for the Day: Why Stopping #GamerGate and 8chan Is Important, Matt Zoller Seitz Inhabits Wes Anderson's Universe, Gene Seymour on Selma Snub, & More
1. "Why Stopping #GamerGate and 8chan Is Important for Everyone—Including GamerGate." A primer on the toxic culture and terrorism that has destroyed people's lives and threatens to destroy the free internet.
"Despite all that, five months on, #GamerGate is somehow still with us, an infection that just keeps bouncing back. But it's different now. The useful idiots—those well-meaning gamers who bought the 'ethics in game journalism' party line and got unwittingly swept up into a harassment campaign—have mostly departed. What's left is the rotten core; the hate movement. Per capita, #GamerGate has worsened, its seedy underbelly revealed as the foot soldiers have sidled away embarrassed. It's not about ethics in game journalism anymore (if it ever was (it wasn't)). It's not even about games at all. The 'Gaters left over are those that represent what #GamerGate was always about. These 'Gaters are the ones feverishly devoted to rooting out the 'Social Justice Warriors' and 'feminazis' who are supposedly ruining the world for antisocial straight white guys. #GamerGate has always been about ideology, and the stripping-back that has taken place over the past month or two has made that even clearer."
2. "Inhabiting Wes Anderson's Universe." The New York Times's Penelope Green interviews Matt Zoller Seitz about The Wes Anderson Collection.
"Wes is a very exact, some would say fussy, director. He sort of pre-edits a lot of his films in his imagination and then executes the dreams on film. I think people who don't like him find him too airless, and they use phrases like 'hermetically sealed' or 'twee' to slam him. But I think there's a tension between the controlled style of the films and their stories that's fascinating. The stories are often about people discovering the limits of control when faced with trauma, chaos or sudden death. Sometimes it feels like he's making these obsessive films in order to study the chaos that happens when he's shooting them, which is something that happens to a degree on every film shoot."
3. "Is this why Selma was snubbed?" Gene Seymour explains the "brush-fire-level rage" behind the film's relative dearth of nominations.
"Movie history has many films with black slaves and black victims. It's much harder to think of a Hollywood movie in which African-Americans are depicted as the active agents of their own salvation. "Selma" is one of those movies. And its relative dearth of worthy nominations is viewed, fairly or not, as a collective snub of not just a movie, but of African-Americans' vision of their own empowerment."
4. "On Location with Noir City 13." Brian Darr, for Fandor, on how San Francisco is the shadowy backdrop for many of Noir City 2014's unholy matrimony stories.
"Film is a fragile medium, but a properly-preserved photographic image will last longer than the world it records. Moments pass. Actors and extras age and die. Studio sets are torn down. Even natural landscapes are shaped by erosion, development, de- and re-forestation, et cetera. Cities and towns used as authentic filming locations transform as their neighborhoods and landmarks do. In the last few years the city of San Francisco, where I live, has seen the disappearance of iconic cinematic spots like Jimmy Stewart's Lombard Street apartment from Vertigo (remodeled to unrecognizability in 2012), The Cathedral Hill a.k.a. Jack Tar Hotel from The Conversation (demolished in 2013 and soon to be replaced by a hospital) and the span of the Bay Bridge upon which Dustin Hoffman drives in The Graduate (being dismantled as I write this). Watching a classic film shot on location in a place you're familiar with provides pleasures distinct from simply enjoying a well-constructed story enacted by compelling performers—although the two categories of delight can be entwined and build on each other. The feedback loop of setting reinforcing character, and vice versa, is a big part of what makes the film noir cycle particularly fascinating to urban moviegoers, especially when they feel a personal connection to one or the other."
5. "Bamboo-Ceiling TV." The network tried to turn my memoir into a cornstarch sitcom and me into a mascot for America. Eddie Haung hated that.
"My instincts told me to call a former space traveler. Someone who'd shunned gravity and returned, only to retreat once again: Margaret Cho. I had never met or even talked to Margaret, but I remember her jokes about penises being like snowflakes and still refer to my dick as a six-inch meatball sub. When she wasn't helping me contextualize my penis in the pantheon of fast-casual sandwiches, she helped me navigate being Asian in America: a spirit guide leading me through San Francisco bookstores, fragrance departments, and Korean dinners. All-American Girl was America's first Asian—specifically, Korean-American—sitcom, but it got canceled after one season. Asians like myself ate our hopes and dreams by the grain burnt at the bottom of a seasonal stone bowl, vowing to one day return."
Video of the Day: Sleater-Kinney performs "A New Wave" on Letterman:
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Links for the Day: Angels in America Oral History, Stephanie Zacharek on The Devil Wears Prada, Voyage of Time Trailer, & More
1. "Angels in America: The Complete Oral History." How Tony Kushner's play became the defining work of American art of the past 25 years.
"Twenty-five years ago this summer, Tony Kushner's Angels in America premiered in the tiny Eureka Theatre in San Francisco's Mission District. Within two years it had won the Pulitzer Prize and begun a New York run that would dominate the Tony Awards two years in a row, revitalize the nonmusical play on Broadway, and change the way gay lives were represented in pop culture. Both parts of Angels, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, put gay men at the center of American politics, history, and mythology at a time when they were marginalized by the culture at large and dying in waves. It launched the careers of remarkable actors and directors, not to mention the fiercely ambitious firebrand from Louisiana who wrote it—and rewrote it, and rewrote it, and rewrote it again. Its 2003 HBO adaptation was itself a masterpiece that won more Emmys than Roots. But the play also financially wiped out the theater that premiered it; it endured casting and production tumult at every stage of development, from Los Angeles to London to Broadway; its ambitious, sprawling two-part structure tested the endurance of players, technicians, and audiences. Slate talked to more than 50 actors, directors, playwrights, and critics to tell the story of Angels' turbulent ascension into the pantheon of great American storytelling—and to discuss the legacy of a play that feels, in an era in which gay Americans have the right to marry but still in many ways live under siege, as crucial as ever."
2. "Donald Trump Versus the 'Haters.'" For The New York Times, Wesley Morris grapples with Trump's recent usage of "hater."
"It's the underside of 'hateration' that Trump's campaign exploits: the seething resentments of people—particularly white people—who feel disenfranchised, silenced and oppressed. The populism contains a paradox: He embodies what he mocks. His tweets chastise 'haters and losers.' But he himself has hated on Mexicans, Muslims, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, establishment Republicans, Megyn Kelly and the American news media, pitting his constituent 'us' against them. With him, 'hater' is a term of compound narcissism: It's persecuting and persecuted, wronged and righting, both sword and shield. He's at once the hater, the player and the game."
3. "I Hate The Devil Wears Prada Even More Today Than I Did 10 Years Ago." The film has been the subject of much celebration. Here's why Stephanie Zacharek isn't joining.
"But even though The Devil Wears Prada is set at a fashion magazine, and hits hard at the foibles of fashion people, it isn't really a fashion movie—if anything, it's a movie that hates fashion. Over and over again, Andy laments that what she really wants to be is a journalist—the subtext, so hamfisted it barely qualifies as a subtext—is that she's too good for fashion, with all its idiocy and frivolity. Streep's Priestly has the movie's smartest line—one that the film, ultimately, betrays. Surveying one of Andy's impossibly dowdy, pre-makeover work outfits, she says, in a cool and level voice, 'You're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care what you put on your back.'"
4. "Why TV Shows Are Darker Than They've Ever Been." Just because something appears to be low-light doesn't necessarily mean it was shot that way. Slate's Matthew Dessem explains it all.
"The look of television that we're all familiar with—brightly lit, easy to read, low contrast—was invented, more or less, by Metropolis cinematographer Karl Freund in the fall of 1951 for I Love Lucy. Lucile Ball and Desi Arnaz wanted a live studio audience but also wanted to shoot on film, which would normally have been too time-consuming to keep an audience in high enough spirits to laugh. As he explained in a 1952 interview with American Cinematographer, Freund devised a way to light the set so that multiple 35mm cameras could shoot at once, moving freely without spoiling the lighting. He further modified things to allow for a transfer from film to television that would accommodate the technical peculiarities of the new medium: The equipment that was available back then unavoidably exaggerated contrast, so the original photography had to be done with as little contrast as possible."
5. "The Best Actor on TV is Mr. Robot's Rami Malek." For The Vutlure, Matt Zoller Seitz states his case.
"This is the sort of assignment that might earn kudos for an A-for-effort actor, who can juggle all of the hero's aspects without making obvious slip-ups. It's easy to imagine someone playing Elliot a bit too cute and likable, or else underplaying to the point of near-catatonia. But Malek goes much further, working with series creator Sam Esmail, the show's directors and cinematographers, and his co-stars with keen intelligence and economy of gesture, acting with the filmmaking instead of adjacent to it, as only a true screen actor can. His castmates' efforts seem more intense and believable because Malek is there as our guide, taking every preposterous scenario seriously, wryly noting absurdity with his eyes and body as well as his dialogue and voice-over, creating the subtlest, deepest lead male performance on TV—an electrical field that seems to be powering every other element, as if the actor were the socket that Mr. Robot had chosen to plug itself into."
Video of the Day: Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time gets a trailer:
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Links for the Day: Melissa Anderson on Kristen Stewart, Aziz Ansari on Trump's Anti-Muslim Prejudice, Fifty Shades of Moby-Dick, & More
1. "Ciao, Bella: Post-Twilight, Kristen Stewart Continues to Astound." For The Village Voice, critic Melissa Anderson offers an appreciation of the under-appreciated actress.
"The Twilight franchise's advancement of a conservative agenda of one (undead) man, one woman might have been boosted by the fact that Stewart and Pattinson were dating for much of the series's 2008–12 run. But throughout these years, the actress, refusing to be pigeonholed, signed up for projects that complicated the swoony, boy-crazy, high-femme virgin character that was bringing in box office billions. As Joan Jett in The Runaways (2010), Floria Sigismondi's lush recounting of the rise and fall of the jailbait Seventies rock group, Stewart no longer slinks—she swaggers, strutting not for guys but for girls. She plays the teenage guitarist like a heat-seeking missile, one aimed at Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), the bandmate she's besotted with. Bathed in cherry-bomb-red light, these two share a sultry kiss, the lip-lock initiated by Jett. Stewart's brilliant baby-dyke bravado in The Runaways, her unabashed lustfulness, reveals an appetite that Twilight tamped down (if not outright forbade). Since that franchise concluded, her characters' desires, sometimes unconventional, have often been expressed in more oblique, though no less stirring, ways."
2. "Fifty Shades of Moby-Dick." Did an illicit love affair give birth to the Great American Novel?
"Where other biographers see friends, [Michael Shelden] sees fornicators; instead of affection, he sees infatuation. And since he can't shake his romance-novel mood, you'll have to endure sentences such as, 'She would always be restless and dreamy, a bright woman with endless curiosity searching for an elusive happiness,' and the faux-suspenseful query: 'She may have been eager to cross the line into adultery, but was he?' You'll have to hear of Melville's lust for a 'dreamy realm of lovesick heroes and heroines,' but it should be tormentingly clear by this point that Shelden himself is the one salivating for such sickness. He believes that Moby-Dick was written for [Sarah] Morewood, 'to amaze her, amuse her, and to conquer the world for her,' and it's hard to overstate how hokey that is. Worse, he's consistently inept at handling Melville's language; the best he can do with Moby-Dick is to say that it has 'passages of prose like the best poetry,' a nonstatement. The writer who won't be bothered with the integrity of his sentences won't be bothered with much of anything else either, proof included."
3. "The Shallows Sticks All Too Close to the Surface." For The New Yorker, Richard Brody on the Jaume Collet-Serra film.
"[Blake] Lively is perhaps the great melodramatic actress of the current time, but she's still awaiting her Douglas Sirk. I can think of several candidates, including Amy Seimetz, Alex Ross Perry, and Nathan Silver, who have made exemplary modernist melodramas. I hope to see her appear in films directed by them and other leading, younger filmmakers—filmmakers of discovery, who don't presume to know what a story is in advance but whose process of filmmaking poses, en route, the question of what the cinema is. Because the history of movie-making shows that it's only the fruitful synergy of direction and performance that leads movie actors to display the most original and distinctive aspects of their personae."
4. "A Conversation with Mel Brooks." Tablet Magazine's Ivor Davis chats with the comedy legend, who's still blazing saddles at age 90.
"I recently talked to Brooks about his new show and his remarkable career as his landmark 90 birthday—celebrated today—was fast approaching. 'These personal appearances brings me back to my first love, which is live theater,' he told me. 'I started on the Borscht Belt in the late 1940s as a drummer and pianist. We did three or four items a week in a musical review. A play, then amateur night. I was always busy onstage doing something. Writing sketches beginning on Broadway in 1952 in a show called New Faces, with Eartha Kitt, Paul Lynde, and Carol Lawrence. I still get goosebumps when a Broadway orchestra strikes up. I am energized by what I do.'"
5. "Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family." Aziz Ansari, in an op-ed for The New York Times, on why the presumptive Republican nominee for president makes him afraid for the safety of his family.
"The vitriolic and hate-filled rhetoric coming from Mr. Trump isn't so far off from cursing at strangers from a car window. He has said that people in the American Muslim community 'know who the bad ones are,' implying that millions of innocent people are somehow complicit in awful attacks. Not only is this wrongheaded; but it also does nothing to address the real problems posed by terrorist attacks. By Mr. Trump's logic, after the huge financial crisis of 2007-08, the best way to protect the American economy would have been to ban white males. According to reporting by Mother Jones, since 9/11, there have been 49 mass shootings in this country, and more than half of those were perpetrated by white males. I doubt we'll hear Mr. Trump make a speech asking his fellow white males to tell authorities 'who the bad ones are,' or call for restricting white males' freedoms."
Video of the Day: Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World gets a trailer with English subtitles:
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Links for the Day: Ta-Nehisi Coates Playboy Interview, Ethical Dilemma on Four Wheels, American Pastoral Trailer, & More
1. "The Playboy Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates." Bomani Jones sits down for a chat with the Pulitzer Prize finalist.
"The [James] Baldwin thing, for me, was intentional. I love The Fire Next Time. You've got this essay in book form; dude is using journalism, using first person, the history, the literary criticism, all just kind of mashed together. He's talking about the most essential conflict of his day. Now here we are in this era, and motherfuckers are uploading videos of people getting choked to death, beaten on the street, black president. This seems like the moment for that form. Where's that book? My editor said to me, 'The road is littered with motherfuckers who tried to do that.' My agent knew Baldwin. She said, 'You just don't come across as a Jimmy.' [laughs] But she said, 'I think you can do it.' I tried the first time; it did not work. Second time, did not work. Third time—we've got something there."
2. "Ethical Dilemma on Four Wheels." For self-driving cars to become a reality, they'll need to decide whether they should kill you or not.
"The easiest question was whether a self-driving car with a single passenger should crash itself into a wall to avoid hitting a group of 10 pedestrians. About three-quarters of respondents agreed that sacrificing one life to save many more was the moral thing to do. After that, things started to get tricky. The fewer pedestrians there were to save, the weaker the consensus that the car should sacrifice its passenger. If crashing into a wall would save just one pedestrian, only 23% of those surveyed thought that's what the car should do. When the researchers asked people to imagine that they were riding in the car with their child or another relative, their willingness to swerve away from innocent pedestrians faltered. Still, between 54% and 66% of survey takers agreed that the car should do what it must to save as many lives as possible."
3. "The Sequels of 2016 Aren't About Storytelling; They're Just Brand Extensions." Mark Harris, for Vulture, and today's brand of sequel.
"Sequels have always been a financially driven proposition, and it's not a revelation that some of them are churned out like sausage (happy 24th anniversary, Meatballs 4). But for the 15 years or so of the post–Star Wars blockbuster era, the bottom-line pragmatism behind sequels did not erase another priority: narrative. Is there more left to tell? Can audiences be lured back with the promise that a story they thought was complete was merely a first chapter? Sometimes that could take filmmakers quite a while to figure out. Aliens did not appear until seven years after Alien; Terminator 2: Judgment Day arrived seven years after The Terminator. Neither movie was a mere reprise of the original or anything like it, which is one reason why each is now regarded as a genre classic in its own right."
4. "Now Is the Time to Discover Michael Mann's Ali" The Village Voice's Bilge Ebiri revisits the Muhammad Ali biopic starring Will Smith.
"The contained back-and-forth of these early passages plays itself out on a broader scale throughout the film, as incidents and impressions from Ali's life collide with and inform one another. Ali tells Malcolm X about the day he learned of Till's death, and Malcolm speaks of the impotence he felt in the wake of the Birmingham church bombing that killed four little girls. Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam, had banned him from speaking out, so Malcolm had to quell his fury: 'My muscles seized…my leg gave out. All I wanted to do was find something and break it.' If Malcolm's body seizes up from his inability to speak out, Ali's body becomes an expressive instrument. This is part of the aesthetic strategy of the film. Extended passages of melancholy, silence, and subdued anger give rise to bursts of poetry and physicality."
5. "Film of the Week: Right Now, Wrong Then." For Film Comment, Jonathan Romney on Hong Sang-soo's latest.
"There's a café in Right Now, Wrong Then which could easily be called Novella. This film shows Hong in delicate miniature mode, and while we may think we've seen it all before, what's distinctive is the musical delicacy with which he adjusts small but all-important inflections. The first time we see this story, in the film's first part, a young woman mixes orangey-pinkish pigment for a painting she's working on; in the second part, the paint is blue-green. The two halves of the film, you might say, are colored differently."
Video of the Day: Ewan McGregor's adaptation of Philip Roth's masterpiece American Pastoral gets an official trailer:
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Links for the Day: Senate Rejects 4 Measures to Control Gun Sales, How American Politics Went Insane, American Honey Trailer, & More
1. "Senate Rejects 4 Measures to Control Gun Sales." The Senate on Monday failed to advance four separate measures aimed at curbing gun sales, the latest display of congressional inaction after a mass shooting.
"Eight days after a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State killed 49 people in an Orlando, Fla., nightclub, the Senate deadlocked, largely along party lines, on amendments to block people on the federal terrorism watch list from buying guns and to close loopholes in background check laws. Families of gun violence victims looked on from the Senate chamber as the votes were held. Further action on gun safety measures or mental health provisions seemed unlikely before the fall election, given the rush to finish a series of spending bills and the relatively limited time that Congress will be in session before November."
2. "America's Long, Rich History of Trashing Poor Whites." In White Trash, historian Nancy Isenberg charts America's perennial exploitation of one of the country's most derided groups.
"In her dense and important new book, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg identifies a clarifying precedent for the Webb model of political aggrievement. In 1858, South Carolina's James Henry Hammond, a leading intellectual of the white supremacist movement, argued before the Senate that, 'there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life' in order to allow elites to cultivate 'civilization, progress, and refinement.' Hammond argued that the South had done the right thing by enslaving genetically inferior blacks, the natural fit for such a role in the U.S. But Yankees, by forcing poor whites to compete with blacks for menial work, had essentially become traitors to their race. 'The North had committed a worse offense,' Isenberg writes, 'it had debased its own kind.'"
3. "Green Room Director Remembers Anton Yelchin: 'There's Nothing More Valuable Than Good People'" Jeremy Saulnier shares his memories of the late actor and how he changed his relationship to filmmaking.
"In an industry governed by Excel sheets and foreign sales estimates, Anton reminded me that there's nothing more valuable than good people. He put me back in the comfort zone I knew growing up, making backyard films with best friends, and created a protective bubble where creativity could thrive. Decompressing from our recent press tour together, he treated me to dinner. I was telling him how amazing it was to find such a young cast (25 and under) with so much talent and experience. It was lightning in a bottle, and we captured it. Soon, I said, you kids will be playing good guys and bad guys, husbands and wives. But we got your youth on screen, we archived it. It felt like a mission accomplished."
4. "The Shadow Doctors." The New Yorker's Ben Taub on the underground race to spread medical knowledge as the Syrian regime erases it.
"In the past five years, the Syrian government has assassinated, bombed, and tortured to death almost seven hundred medical personnel, according to Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that documents attacks on medical care in war zones. (Non-state actors, including isis, have killed twenty-seven.) Recent headlines announced the death of the last pediatrician in Aleppo, the last cardiologist in Hama. A United Nations commission concluded that 'government forces deliberately target medical personnel to gain military advantage,' denying treatment to wounded fighters and civilians 'as a matter of policy.'"
5. "How American Politics Went Insane." It happened gradually—and until the U.S. figures out how to treat the problem, it will only get worse.
"Chaos syndrome is a chronic decline in the political system's capacity for self-organization. It begins with the weakening of the institutions and brokers—political parties, career politicians, and congressional leaders and committees—that have historically held politicians accountable to one another and prevented everyone in the system from pursuing naked self-interest all the time. As these intermediaries' influence fades, politicians, activists, and voters all become more individualistic and unaccountable. The system atomizes. Chaos becomes the new normal—both in campaigns and in the government itself."
Video of the Day: Andrea Arnold's American Honey gets an official trailer:
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Links for the Day: Anton Yelchin Dead at 27, How Netflix Became Hollywood's Frenemy, Westworld Teaser, & More
1. "Anton Yelchin Dead at 27." The Star Trek actor was killed yesterday when he was "pinned between his car and a brick mailbox, which was attached to a security gate."
"There was something so sad yet so assuring about the Russian-born Yelchin. Maybe it was his eyes—big, gleaming, set deep into his pale, pensive face, like he was pondering something profound but reluctant to mention it to anyone. He was, after all, a chess aficionado, and a punk rock and blues guitar player, as well as a prolific actor who worked at a herculean pace. He appeared in over 40 movies in a 16-year career."
2. "How Netflix Became Hollywood's Frenemy." The streaming service is changing the way TV shows and movies get made—whether studios and networks like it or not.
"Just a few years ago it would have sounded absurd for a Netflix exec to talk about what makes good storytelling. But these days the Silicon Valley interloper is arguably the biggest influencer in Hollywood. Netflix has harnessed the shock waves of the broadband revolution, becoming simultaneously one of the top-performing tech companies—its stock rose 134% in 2015, the best return of any Fortune 500 member—and one of the world's fastest-growing entertainment businesses. It's spending $5 billion this year on television and film content, a spree that far outpaces its rivals—and underscores the pressure it's exerting on those rivals to rethink the way they operate."
3. "Ciudad Juárez: Mexico's drug wars, rendered in art." Over at The Economist, a look at art helping people come to grips with violence and suffering.
"It might seem unlikely that an artist like Francis Alÿs would be able to engage in any meaningful way with life in Ciudad Juárez. He is known for a poetic and absurdist mentality, sending a peacock as his representative to the Venice Biennial of 2001, for example, or arranging for a troop of Household Cavalry to march through the centre of London in 2004. Yet the sensitive and understated works on display here pack a powerful punch. Mr Alÿs has lived in Mexico City since 1986, and frequently collaborates with artists from his adopted home, so he is no uninformed outsider when if comes to life in Mexico."
4. "L.G.B.T. People Are More Likely to Be Targets of Hate Crimes Than Any Other Minority Group." Even before the shooting rampage at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were already the most likely targets of hate crimes in America, according to an analysis of data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"Nearly a fifth of the 5,462 so-called single-bias hate crimes reported to the F.B.I. in 2014 were because of the target's sexual orientation, or, in some cases, their perceived orientation. Ironically, part of the reason for violence against L.G.B.T. people might have to do with a more accepting attitude toward gays and lesbians in recent decades, say people who study hate crimes. As the majority of society becomes more tolerant of L.G.B.T. people, some of those who are opposed to them become more radical, said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The flip side of marriage equality is that people who strongly oppose it find the shifting culture extremely disturbing, said Gregory M. Herek, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, who is an expert on anti-gay violence. 'They may feel that the way they see the world is threatened, which motivates them to strike out in some way, and for some people, that way could be in violent attacks,' Mr. Herek said."
5. "Pitchfork Review: All Things Must Pass." Given his own studio, his own canvas, and his own space, George Harrison did what no other solo Beatle did on All Things Must Pass: He changed the terms of what an album could be.
"All Things Must Pass had the quality of a broken-off conversation picked up years later; there were gorgeous songs here that Harrison had brought to the group, only to be met with to varying degrees of indifference. 'Isn't It a Pity' had been rejected from Revolver, while 'All Things Must Pass' was passed over for Abbey Road. In hindsight, it is impossible to imagine these songs having half the impact if they had appeared sandwiched between, say, 'Don't Pass Me By' and 'Why Don't We Do It in the Road.' Taken together, they have their own cumulative weight and depth; you can even imagine their demos perhaps sounding too patient or too plodding to the other three. Reviewing it in Rolling Stone at the time, Ben Gerson compared it to the Germanic Romanticism of Bruckner or Wagner, composers who were unafraid of risking a little ponderousness to reach grandiose heights. Harrison might have been nursing resentments, but his former bandmates did him a perverse favor by leaving him with this material: This is music of contented solitude, and it only makes sense by itself."
Video of the Day: HBO releases a teaser for their new series Westworld:
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Links for the Day: Queer and Muslim in America, Keith Uhlich on eXistenZ, Why Johnny Depp Films Are So Bad Lately, & More
1. "LGBT Clubs in American History: Cultural Centers, Safe Spaces & Targets." Raillan Brooks, for The Village Voice, on his having to come out three times.
"The American LGBTQ community seems not to have figured out that we've been conscripted into the country's Middle Eastern wars, thanks to the liberation narrative that's clotted LGBTQ political narratives in the wake of marriage equality. It did get better—thanks to Uncle Sam—and now, it seems, we owe him. So when he asks for support for drone strikes in Syria, or a blithe military alliance with Israel (one of whose expansion stratagems is to pitch Tel Aviv as a gay mecca reclaimed from the gay-murdering Palestinians), he's also sure to remind us of the 'human rights violations' in whatever Muslim state he wants to bomb next. It's called 'pink-washing,' and it gets liberals to consent to intervention after intervention in the names of queer people."
2. "ON MUBI: David Cronenberg's eXistenZ." Keith Uhlich on the auteur's sensual sci-fi thriller.
"One fear among the many: Eroticism equals death. Or is the latter just intertwined with the former—an ever-present possibility, but not necessarily a certainty? How do we reconcile lusting for someone or something that could very well hasten our end? Let's go back to the beginning, to Geller's first line of dialogue, spoken in a church where the faithful have gathered to try out her new VR product (also named eXistenZ): "The world of games is in a kind of a trance." That's the word. 'Trance.' Effectively being inside your body even as you are outside of it. The way Cronenberg and cinematographer Peter Suschitzky stage the scene, Geller is almost always framed with the adoring crowd barely, if at all visible on the edges of the image. She's by herself even in a room full of people, perhaps by choice, most certainly out of necessity. But there's another just like her: Ted Pikul (Jude Law), the anonymous yet attractive PR nerd sitting at the back of the church. As Geller speaks, he leans slowly forward, his chair creaking—a first involuntary step toward full-on infatuation. Why fight it? Can it be fought?"
3. "Why Have Johnny Depp's Movies Been So Bad Lately?" New York magazine's David Edelstein ponders the question.
"[Depp's] infatuation wasn't with the Brando who trained under Stella Adler and learned to release his volcanic emotions onstage and in movies. It was with the crazy, lazy Brando, who skipped (often entertainingly, but still …) along the surface of his roles. Depp's next guru was even farther gone: Hunter S. Thompson at his most alcoholic and paranoid, his brain addled by years of amphetamines. So Depp was inspired by men who indulged their appetites (or, as therapists say these days, 'self-medicated') to the point where they became cartoons of themselves. It's no wonder that acting became like free jazz, played better when drunk—in spirit if not literally."
4. "Here Comes the Angel of Death." Farran Smith Nehme's essay on Here Comes Mr. Jordan, now on the Criterion Collection.
"At first, the sweetness and slapstick of Mr. Jordan may seem like the purest escapism. Audiences were primed for a movie that said that things happen for a reason, and that death can, in a pinch, be undone. Look closer, however, and it's easy to see the grimness that lurks under the bright surface. Bruce Farnsworth's first murder is described in detail—they drugged him, then drowned him in his bath. Farnsworth eventually meets a second end that is even grislier ('Take a look in the basement icebox,' says Max). Later, we learn of crooked boxing promoters planning to kill Joe's erstwhile rival, K. O. Murdock, just as the title is in Murdock's hands. The half-heavenly world of Here Comes Mr. Jordan has an awfully high murder rate."
5. "Borges and $: The Parable of the Literary Master and the Coin." Thirty years ago, the world lost a great literary mind—the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Today, Elizabeth Hyde Stevens revisits the financial conditions that produced this life of pure literature, finding unexpected hope in the darkest period of Borges' forgotten past.
"The role of money plays a two-sided role in Borges' artistic life. On one side of the coin's face, Borges was blessed with the most privileged, ideal life for a burgeoning literary genius. Educated in Europe, raised by his father to become a serious writer, Borges devoted his entire life to literature. He did not take a full-time job for nearly 40 years. But on the coin's reverse side, we see that young Georgie Borges did not actually write his great fictions until after his family lost their money. For anyone who has struggled to make writing pay, Borges' financial story is a perplexing—yet utterly hopeful—case to consider."
Video of the Day: Ken Loach's Palm d'Or winner I, Daniel Blake gets a trailer:
Links for the Day
Links for the Day: LGBT Clubs in American History, The Second Amendment Hoax, Richard Brody on The Fight, & More
1. "LGBT Clubs in American History: Cultural Centers, Safe Spaces & Targets." Barry Walters, writing for Billboard, on the horror and sadness of the Pulse shooting and how places of worship for LGBT people have been defiled in the past by hatemongers.
"Since Stonewall and well before, gay clubs have been our schools, our places of worship. Nightclubs are where we've long learned to unlearn hate, and learn to become and love our real selves. They're our safe spaces; places where music and dancing and the joy of our collective togetherness unlocks our fears and extinguishes our lingering self-loathing. This is why the first important public post-Stonewall gay disco in Manhattan was named Sanctuary; why one of the biggest and longest-running queer dancefloors of London is called Heaven; and why the most beloved current LGBT club in San Francisco is known as Oasis. For many who've never known the security of a truly secure and happy home or school or work life, these places are the homes and churches where we celebrate and extinguish despair with our families of choice."
2. "Only When I'm Dancing Can I Feel This Free." Alfred Soto, writing for MTV, on queer liberation, dreams, and self-discovery on the dance floor.
"The politics of dancing is the politics of feeling good; the politics of dancing is also the politics of willing yourself to feel good. Pop is replete with miniature psychodramas in which memory and desire, subject and object, play out on the dance floor. The teen in The Crystals' 'Then He Kissed Me' gets a happy ending. So does Sylvester in 1978's 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).' For others, the scenarios were more fraught. In Donna Summer's 'Love's Unkind,' released in 1977, the clomping girl-group beat forces Summer to the sideline, 'standing on the outside of the inside where I wanna be.' Shannon's forlorn 'Let the Music Play' literalizes the trauma: Freestyle's urtext depicts a couple for whom sharing dance-floor space presents a congeries of competing lusts, where the right signals go to the wrong people, the wrong ones go to the wrong people, and in the meantime the androgynously sung refrain repeats 'Let the music play' as if in prayer."
3. "The Second Amendment Hoax." Slate's Dahlia Lithwick on how the NRA and conservatives have perverted the meaning of the right to bear arms.
"What does all this have to do with freedom? Well the document that promises and protects our freedom has been interpreted to say that we are all condemned to live out our days in terror, hostage to powerful interests who urge us to become ever more free by purchasing and stockpiling ever more lethal weapons of war. Perhaps nobody so perfectly captured this twisted definition of freedom as former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, who in the wake of yet another round of futile debates about gun rights last fall said this: 'I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.' Indeed."
4. "The Muhammad Ali Documentary That Gets to the Existential Heart of Boxing." The New Yorker's Richard Brody on William Greaves's The Fight.
"There are no supertitles in The Fight to identify the participants in the film; some people who turn up are named in the course of the events, but the rest of them test viewers' knowledge and discernment. There are no graphics, no talking-head interviews, no montage scenes to speed the action ahead (except for one ingenious sequence, done with a minimalistic clarity, to show the labors involved in preparing the Garden for the bout), and only a little added music. It's an existential documentary that thrusts viewers into the world of the fight, in which Greaves reports on the action as well as on the reporting of that action."
5. "The UK Leaving the EU Would Change the European Music Industry." Pitchfork enlisted experts across the music industry to help break down the potential impact of a decision that will affect trade, free movement, and international support networks.
"If Britain leaves the EU, we could find ourselves excluded from having free movement across much of Europe's mainland. That could have two expensive, complex implications for touring bands: individual visas to enter each EU country, and the introduction of the carnet, a document detailing every single piece of equipment on deck, to prevent the import or export of products without paying VAT. It costs between £1000—£2000 (approximately $1400—$2900), and lasts just 12 months."
Video of the Day: A tribute by Candice Drouet to the values of LGBTQ movies:
Links for the Day: A collection of links to items that we hope will spark discussion. We encourage our readers to submit candidates for consideration to [email protected] and to converse in the comments section.
Links for the Day
Links for the Day: The Politics of Mass Murder, Please Don't Stop the Music, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Acceptance Speech, & More
1. "The Politics of Mass Murder." After Sunday's shooting in an Orlando gay club, some politicians and advocates have emphasized homophobia and gun control, while others have focused on Islamic extremism.
"On the Democratic side, leaders were much more eager to show their solidarity with the LGBT community. Obama noted that 'the shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends, to dance, and to sing, and to live,' and Vice President Biden said 'the violence is not normal, and the targeting of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans is evil and abhorrent.' Hillary Clinton addressed the LGBT community directly: 'Please know that you have millions of allies across our country. I am one of them.' Leaders of left-leaning organizations including the National Center for Transgender Equality, the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, and Muslim Advocates gathered outside of the Human Rights Campaign building in Washington, D.C., to decry the violence. Like Obama, Clinton, and other Democratic politicians, though, they also emphasized a policy issue: gun control."
2. "Please Don't Stop the Music." The Orlando shooter violated a sanctuary, but his desecration will not defeat us.
"We may never know how much homophobia drove Mateen to do what he did, or what other springs of madness and extremism he drank from. But we can definitely say this: Just as Dylann Roof preyed upon the specific openness and hospitality of the Mother Emanuel Church, Omar Mateen exploited the specific things that make gay bars magic. He took the dark, the loudness, the density, the chaos of the dance floor—and he made them his accomplices in what is the largest mass shooting in this nation's history."
3. "What We Lose with Every Mass Shooting." Orlando is not merely the destruction of innocence. It's worse.
"So before we start talking about banning anyone from a Muslim country, or even before we wring our hands again about how easy it is to get your hands on an AR-15, a weapon that is built for, and exists only, to kill people in this country, we should all accept that, for all the advancements that have been made in ensuring equal rights for our fellow citizens who are gay, there is still a kind of virulent hate that we can see in its more polite forms in our legislatures and some of our courtrooms, and now we can see it in its most raw and unreconstructed form in our nightclubs."
4. "Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City." How one school became a battleground over which children benefit from a separate and unequal system.
"At the heart of Faraji's concern was a fear that grips black families like ours. We each came from working-class roots, fought our way into the middle class and had no family wealth or safety net to fall back on. Faraji believed that our gains were too tenuous to risk putting our child in anything but a top-notch school. And he was right to be worried. In 2014, the Brookings Institution found that black children are particularly vulnerable to downward mobility—nearly seven of 10 black children born into middle-income families don't maintain that income level as adults. There was no margin for error, and we had to use our relative status to fight to give Najya every advantage. Hadn't we worked hard, he asked, frustration building in his voice, precisely so that she would not have to go to the types of schools that trapped so many black children?"
5. "Maxwell: Hostage of Love." With his first new album in seven years out soon, the R&B survivor opens up about moving past family trauma and shame, and how it feels to be a 43-year-old bachelor singing songs of everlasting romance.
"I'm a little bit more confident now. I'm older and I have a lot of things that I really want to clarify about why everything was so secretive and bizarre with my life, just things I was ashamed of that I shouldn't have been ashamed of. Because the circumstances of my life—my mother's origin, my father's origin, how she was 16 when she had me and he was much older, being shipped off here—I didn't want people to feel sorry for me. I felt transformed through this music thing. It was like I finally felt good about myself. That's why I didn't really connect myself with the energy people gave me onstage back then. It was like, This is happening…but, really? Because most people grow up with parents and family that really love them and nurture them to the point where they believe the world revolves around them. I didn't really have that."
Video of the Day: Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony acceptance speech:
Links for the Day
Links for the Day: Rewriting David Foster Wallace, John Lasseter on Technology of Storytelling, Love Trailer, & More
The Rewriting of David Foster Wallace, John Lasseter on Technology and the Evolution of Storytelling, Gaspar Noé's Love Trailer, & More.
1. "The Rewriting of David Foster Wallace." Christian Lorentzen on the author's ever-morphing legacy.
"Nobody owns David Foster Wallace anymore. In the seven years since his suicide, he's slipped out of the hands of those who knew him, and those who read him in his lifetime, and into the cultural maelstrom, which has flattened him. He has become a character, an icon, and in some circles a saint. A writer who courted contradiction and paradox, who could come on as a curmudgeon and a scold, who emerged from an avant-garde tradition and never retreated into conventional realism, he has been reduced to a wisdom-dispensing sage on the one hand and shorthand for the Writer As Tortured Soul on the other."
2. "Technology and the Evolution of Storytelling." John Lasseter on why it's such an exciting time to be a filmmaker.
"Alfred Hitchcock is one of my favorite filmmakers and one of the reasons why I've studied and admired his films is that guy used new technology in incredible ways, but it was completely invisible in everything he made. You study his films and realize there's no way he could have made that film, that shot, without that technology. But he didn't want you to notice it. We focus on entertaining people in new ways, and if you focus on the technology too much you get caught up. It's important, I believe, to make the technology invisible, but have it push to do something new. That's when you make real breakthroughs. If you love a technology, if you really, really, really, really love a technology, then dig into it. Learn as much as you can. It's fun. That's what I did with CG."
3. "How same-sex marriage could ruin civilization." In the wake of the US supreme court ruling that legalised same-sex marriage throughout America, many commenters and objectors have claimed it will have disastrous consequences. But rather than just dismissing them as irrational bitterness, it's important to consider the genuine scientific basis for such claims.
"Legalising same-sex marriage has one obvious result; more marriages. This means, more weddings. Weddings mean a lot of people gathered in one place, a situation which normally makes a place very warm, seeing as how people give off body heat. People also have to travel to weddings, often over long distances. This requires vehicles, the vast majority of which give off CO2. This situation is even worse if you include destination weddings, where the happy couple and guests fly to other countries to tie the knot, and flying gives off even more CO2. Increasing the number of weddings will no doubt lead to more of this, and thus increasing the threat and potential damage of climate change. Overall, opponents of same-sex marriage could make an effective and logical case against marriage simply by highlighting the dangers of climate change. None of them seem to be doing this though. Weird."
4. "Blank's Canvas." Angelo Muredda on A Poem Is a Naked Person.
"Predictably, though, it's the world just outside the expected frame that most appeals to Blank's digressive nature, and that inspires an ineffably beautiful time capsule of particular places in particular moments. Whether because of Russell's reticence to grant longer interviews or because Blank saw him more as an entryway into a wider setting than as the proper subject himself, Russell operates here largely as a compelling but aloof cipher, a key that opens doors into other, more interesting rooms. Some of those other settings, like a tableau of a child's unvarnished outdoor rendition of Three Dog Night's 'Joy to the World' or an interlude that layers Nelson's recording of 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' over images of a lake glistening at sundown, feel like rare moments of grace and stillness amidst the din."
5. "Interview: Piotr Szulkin." For Film Comment, Other worlds, Ela Bittencourt chats with Poland's master of allegorical science fiction during and after communism.
"Film is a scream. A slogan that you throw out there to attract people, whereas painting must be contemplated at leisure. With film, you gather viewers for some 90 minutes. They may get something out of it, or not, depending on how strong your film's formal aspects are. But film is a type of shorthand, when it communicates thought. You cannot subject it to the infinite analysis that can be achieved when facing a painting by someone like Leonardo da Vinci."
Video of the Day: A NSFW teaser for Gaspar Noé's Love:
Links for the Day
Links for the Day: SCOTUS Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide, The Confederacy's Final Retreat, The Truth About TV's Rape Obsession, & More
SCOTUS Legalizes Gay Marriage Nationwide, The Confederacy's Final Retreat, The Truth About TV's Rape Obsession, & More.
1. "Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide." In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the court ruled, 5-4, that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage
"'No longer may this liberty be denied,' Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority in the historic decision. 'No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.' Marriage is a 'keystone of our social order,' Justice Kennedy said, adding that the plaintiffs in the case were seeking 'equal dignity in the eyes of the law.' The decision, which was the culmination of decades of litigation and activism, set off jubilation and tearful embraces across the country, the first same-sex marriages in several states, and resistance—or at least stalling—in others. It came against the backdrop of fast-moving changes in public opinion, with polls indicating that most Americans now approve of the unions."
2. "The Confederacy's Final Retreat." Jelani Cobb on one of the South's last battles.
"I some future footnote or parenthetical aside, it may be observed that although General Robert E. Lee surrendered in 1865, the Confederacy's final retreat did not occur until a century and a half later. The rearguard movement of Republicans in the aftermath of the slaughter in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church marked the relinquishing of the Confederacy's best-fortified positions: the cultural ones. We have for decades willfully coexisted with a translucent lie about the bloodiest conflict in American history and the moral questions at its center. Amid the calls last week to lower the Confederate battle flag at the state capitol, the defenders of the flag averred that it represents 'heritage, not hate.' The great sleight of hand is the notion that these things were mutually exclusive."
3. "The truth about TV's rape obsession: How we struggle with the broken myths of masculinity, on screen and off." From soaps to prestige drama, it's the theater through which both men and women grapple with maleness and power.
"When it comes to the history of rape on television, it boils down to two basic categories: TV meant for men, and TV meant for women. Primetime, network television was for male audiences (or a mixed-gender audience, which then, as now, defaults to appealing to men). Soap operas, TV movies, and niche cable channels appealed to women. The era between the '70s, when the rape reform movement was at its height, and the '90s, when the 'golden age of television' began to take over, offers up an awful lot of one-off episodes about rape on primetime where a male protagonist encounters a female sexual assault victim and is heroic about it. The heroism was typically accomplished by both not raping and by avenging rape, through safely masculine methods like beating the crap out of a guy, arresting them, or killing them quietly."
4. "Tangerine and the Cinema of Sean Baker.'" Adam Cook on how Sean Baker's generous cinema maps human geography.
"The madness, commotion and even life-ruining drama here somehow is bent to the tune of comedy, and there's something endearing in this chaotic donut shop melting pot of gender blending and family disruption, maybe because it somehow feels inclusive of so-called 'deviant' lifestyle choices. Most importantly, the funny doesn't come from pointing and laughing at the eccentric cast of characters, but from looking at the world through their eyes. More than anything, they're fun to spend time with. The film begins and ends with Sin-Dee and Alexandra. A secret revealed towards the conclusion comes between them but doesn't break them apart. A moment of humiliation for Sin-Dee leads to their reconciliation, as Alexandra comforts her in solidarity, and the film's cartoonishness dissolves in the mundane setting of a Laundromat, where a final gesture between these characters carries the weight of the world."
5. "The Status of Love in the Age of Consumerism." Amir Ganjavie interviews Jia Zhang-ke
"In life you have moments when unexpected things and accidents happen; those are times when you really start to rethink your life and love. The plane crash, or the reference to the Malaysian airliner, is to bring out that unexpected aspect of accidents in life and how that would change the way you think about your relationships, love, and emotions. When I was back home when I was growing up I had a lot of friends whose parents were aviators in the air force at the nearby base. Every year I would hear stories about my classmates losing their fathers because of accidents while they were flying. So to me unexpected accidents happen all the time and they make us think about relationships and love on a completely different level. I didn't really spend a lot of time explaining the accident scenes in [Mountains May Depart] because just like accidents themselves they come and they go unexpectedly; sometimes you remember them and sometimes you don't."
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Fall: March 15
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for Fall 2009. All application materials, including transcripts, GRE scores, recommendations, and written materials, must be received by the deadline to be reviewed by the Ph.D. Admissions Committee.
APPLY ONLINE to this graduate program.
You can track the progress of your application through the ApplyYourself system using the PIN and password assigned to you.
Number Required: 3
From Whom: Letters of recommendation should be obtained from evaluators who can provide insight into the applicant's academic abilities and talents, as well as comment on the applicant's aptitude for graduate study. Recommendations from college/university faculty members are preferred and must be provided on the official university recommendation form.
Applicants are expected to have completed coursework in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Preference is given to applicants who have a background in Health and Human Development and various health-related professions, such as Nursing, Occupational Therapy, and Therapeutic Recreation.
A baccalaureate degree is required. Preference is given to applicants who have a background in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
The Statement of Goals should be approximately 500-1,000 words in length and should specify your current research interests and how those interests link to your long-term career goals. It should further describe how the Ph.D. in Health Ecology will help you meet specific career goals.
The GRE is required. Admitted applicants typically score 500 or higher on both the verbal and quantitative sections and above the 50th percentile on the analytical writing test.
Minimum TOEFL score needed
to be accepted:
550 paper-based, 213 computer-based, or 79 internet-based.
A resume is required.
Scholarly articles, technical reports, or academic professional papers are preferred. Unless it is a published work, the sample should be no more than 10 pages.
After admission, students may apply to the Ph.D. Program Director for advanced standing credits for graduate coursework graded "B" or better from an accredited institution. Credits for courses taken as part of a master's degree will be considered; credits for theses, fieldwork, clinical practice, or directed projects/readings cannot be used for advanced standing credit. The maximum number of advanced standing credits awarded is 30.
Number of Credits Required Beyond the
Master's: 49
Required Courses:
Core Courses (12 credits):
HRP 8101: Bioethics and Ethical Decision Making
HRP 8102: Cultural Competence in Health Studies
HRP 8103: Health Across the Life Span
HRP 8104: Systems Theory and Change Theory
Research Methods/Statistics
(12 credits):
In consultation with their advisory committee, students develop a series of quantitative and qualitative courses from across the University based on their research needs. A sample of the range of possible courses is provided below:
ED 8102: Qualitative Data Collections
ED PSY 8826: Multivariate Research Methods
ED PSY 8827: Advanced Analysis of Variance
ED PSY 8960: Growth Curve Analysis for Longitudinal Data
HRP 8201: Structural Equation Modeling
HRP 8202: Multilevel Modeling in Interdisciplinary Research
HRP 8203: Systematic Reviews in Health and Human Ecology
PH 5012: Advanced Biostatistics
SOC 8221: Qualitative Methods
TR 8161: Methods in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for Health
Cognate Courses (12 credits):
In consultation with an advisor, students select from a range of possible courses from across the University, including:
DIS STUD 5401: Disability Rights and Culture
DIS STUD 5403: Disability and Social Policy
ED 0531: Human Learning and Cognition
HRP 8200: Special Topics in Transdisciplinary Research
OT 5001: Applied Development Across the Life Span
OT 8133: Family Centered Care
OT 8141: Concepts of Gerontological Rehabilitation I
PH 5009: Health Psychology
PH 5204: Mental Health Epidemiology
SOC 8341: Sociology of Kinship
SOC 8391: Medical Sociology
SOC ADM 8303: Dynamics of Health, Health Care, and Health Systems
SOC ADM 8307: Health/Mental Health Policy
SOC ADM 8813: Societal Responses to Aging
TR 5101: Health, Activity and Aging
TR 8150/8160: Therapeutic Recreation and Disabilities Seminar I & II
TR 8280: Behavior Change Seminar
TR 9143: Leisure, Health and Quality of Life
Internship: An internship is required.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
Mentored Research Internship (3 credits):
A unique feature of this program is a research internship, which enhances rigorous training in interdisciplinary mixed research methods. The research internship provides an opportunity to participate in ongoing research with multiple faculty members in order to gain exposure to a variety of research topics and environments. Students register for a 1-credit internship for each of three semesters. During this time, they have the opportunity to work closely with a particular faculty member on a topic of mutual interest leading to a specific outcome, typically a publication-quality manuscript or similar product. With the guidance of their faculty mentors, all students are required to: (a) develop and implement a minimum of one formal research presentation (e.g., at an academic or professional conference); (b) complete a series of three 1-credit research internships within the research laboratories of CHP faculty; (c) develop and submit a publishable scholarly manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal; and (d) submit a grant proposal application to a federal agency, national foundation, or equivalent agency.
Mentored Teaching Experience:
A unique feature of this program is a mentored teaching experience to gain skills in structuring interdisciplinary learning and discourse. The program acknowledges the importance of acquiring advanced teaching skills as one of the triad of research, practice, and teaching. A mentored teaching experience enables students to collaborate with a faculty mentor on structuring course content and process, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary discourse, and facilitating the learning process through lectures and discussion. It is tailored to the student's experiences and interests and helps train and prepare students to assume both research and teaching responsibilities inherent to a faculty role/position in post-secondary institutions and/or other related settings. When possible, either through team teaching or a teaching assistantship, students will have an opportunity to develop and teach a course for which they have primary responsibility.
Dissertation (9 credits):
The doctoral dissertation is an original empirical research study that makes a significant contribution to an area of Interdisciplinary or Transdisciplinary Health within the broad spectrum of Health Ecology. It should be an original, innovative research study that integrates conceptual, methodological, and practical rigor and novelty. It should expand existing knowledge and demonstrate the student's mastery of theory and research methods, particularly within her/his concentration or specialty area. It is expected that the study will result in refereed journal article publications and conference presentations to academic and/or professional audiences.
To fulfill the dissertation requirement, students prepare and orally defend in a public meeting the final dissertation. Students should present their plans for publishing their dissertation as part of their defense. Students must be enrolled continuously for at least 1 credit of dissertation research each semester until their dissertation is successfully defended. The Graduate School requires a minimum of 6 credits for the dissertation experience. Students are required to complete 3 s.h. for the dissertation proposal and a minimum of 6 s.h. for dissertation research. Students must be enrolled in the semester that they graduate.
Ph.D. Program in Health Ecology
College of Health Professions
1700 N. Broad Street, Room 304
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Sylvia Kaikai
Ph.D. Program Director:
Dr. Adam Davey
The Ph.D. in Health Ecology responds to the shortage of and demand for doctorally trained researchers and academicians in the health professions. The uniqueness of this restructured program lies in its mission to prepare doctoral students to become leaders in interdisciplinary approaches that address the complex challenges associated with the maintenance and promotion of health and life quality across the life span by acknowledging the diversity of communities and societies. The program is designed to uniquely leverage a transdisciplinary approach to producing academicians and researchers who are equipped to proactively address micro (e.g., individuals, families) and macro (e.g., socioeconomic, communities, cultural, environmental, institutional systems) issues critical for health, quality of life, and health-care and its interrelationships. Appropriately addressing these issues and their interconnectedness requires leadership that has a broad and integrative perspective, embraced by a cadre of professionals who think and act beyond the disciplinary boundaries in a holistic way. Thinking and acting beyond the limitations of any single discipline add an important dimension to defining and solving problems and challenges in society by employing collaborative and integrative research from a transdisciplinary and holistic perspective.
Time Limit for Degree Completion: 7 years
Students are required to complete the degree program through classes offered before and after 4:30 p.m. Students are also able to complete the degree program on a full-time or part-time (6-8 credit hours or less per semester) basis.
The degree program is interdisciplinary by its very nature.
Numerous health care and human service agencies in Philadelphia and the surrounding Delaware Valley region cooperate with the faculty affiliated with the Ph.D. in Health Ecology. These agencies include the Philadelphia Corporation on Aging, the Temple University Health System, and leading nationally and regionally prominent health facilities such as the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Moss Rehab, and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital.
The faculty and the program are nationally
recognized for excellence in their research and scholarship.
Not applicable.
Faculty members specialize and offer
learning opportunities in health promotion
and rehabilitation, gerontology, physical
and mental health, and disability studies.
Graduates of the Ph.D. in Health Ecology are expected to pursue employment in academia as research faculty and in agencies setting health policy and administering services as well as conducting health-related research.
Students are allowed to take up to
9 s.h. of coursework before matriculation.
Selection of courses must be made in conjunction
with the department's Graduate Director.
Funding is available in various forms, including Teaching Assistantships and Research Assistantships. Both Teaching and Research Assistantships carry a stipend and partial or full tuition remission. Students admitted to the doctoral program in Health Ecology are expected to be supported through the funded research of affiliated faculty members.
Updated 3.20.09


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Hi "Factions forum lurking early access program" members =) (you if you're reading this)
Just a quick update, the crafting interface is now functional and players can turn rocks into hammerstones, hammerstones into crude handled stone hammers and any other item we decide to code into the system. While it's not the prettiest interface and doesn't display all information that it eventually will, it functions very well, works with the inventory, server, etc.. etc.. which we are happy about =) A little preview of it is below.
Just to give a little more detail on the actual crafting system in Factions. Every item crafted will accept not simply an "item type" but an actual "resource category". For example, lets take our hammerstone item, which all players will have access to initially regardless of their starting skills chosen. The hammerstone is an important starting tool which will allow the creation of other stone tools and can be used in place of more advanced hammers to hammer, shape, crush, or defend yourself in a bind.
It is made from the "resource category" of "blunt tool stone". This is a classification of stone which distinguishes some stone varieties which will shatter or crumble when struck. For example, Granite is an excellent stone for blunt tools as it is very durable and does not shatter easily, whereas sandstone is still usable but will deteriorate quickly. Something like shale simply is not usable as a blunt stone tool.
So lets say we use granite in our hammerstone, we scavenge a piece of granite lying on the ground, it is of poor quality but will suffice. We place the item in our crafting interface and craft it, we now have a hammerstone that can be used to craft stone knives, stone arrowheads, some bone tools, etc.. etc.. The hammerstone now has the resource categories of "1 handed hammer" "hammer head" "hammerstone" meaning we can use this as a poor one handed hammer, affix it to a handle to make a crude (yet more effective) one handed hammer, or use it as a hammerstone for crafting which requires the precise control of a hammerstone (such as arrow or spearhead crafting).
I hope you enjoyed this and look forward to any feedback you might have =)


text: My friends and I recently took a tour of 5 farms in Vacaville, CA. It is about an hour drive outside of San Francisco, in the Pleasants Valley area of Solano County. The tour was made possible by the Slow Food Solano and Solano Grown groups. We started the tour at Soul Food Farm. There, they have pastured eggs, chickens, and Olive Oil. They are also starting to grow a bunch of lavender in collaboration with the woman that helps run the next farm we visited, Morningsun Herb Farm. They have lavender there, too, along with culinary and medicinal herbs. The next farm we went to was the Be Love Farm. The owners of this farm also own Cafe Gratitude, and Gracias Madre, which are vegan restaurants in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. The fourth farm on the tour was Sunny Slope Orchard. There, they shared fresh squeezed orange juice and oranges and other citrus as well as showed us their fruit trees. They have apricots, peaches, plums, figs, citrus and persimmons. Lastly, we went to Mercier Grapevines. Here, they grow grapevines to sell to local wineries/vineyards. They showed us how they graft together the vines and they also let us take one vine home to grow and one already growing pot of grapes. It was a hot, fun day learning about the local farms and how they operate. I am definitely grateful for these small farmers that take the time out of their day to give tours and teach people about the food they produce. Support your local farmers! Go to the farmer's market! Buy local! Really, it not just about supporting them, but it will help you eat healthier and it is always good to know where your food comes from. Below, there is a slideshow of the photos I took on the farms (in no particular order). All of the farms offer tours; just go to their website to find out more information!


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In July of 2011, the Wynn in Las Vegas placed the odds of the Devils winning the 2012 Stanley Cup at 50-1.
It must've been quite a surprise to whomever set that line to see the Devils make the playoffs – a 50-1 line suggests a hopeless team, one far away from playoff contention. Only 5 clubs right now are listed as that unlikely to win the 2013 Stanley Cup according to Bovada. It must've been a bigger surprise to watch them take down the Flyers and #1 seeded Rangers on the way to the Cup Finals. Despite that performance, the Devils are listed as 28/1 this year, and while that number still seems pessimistic, it's certainly much closer to accurate than last year's 50/1 number. They've lost some key pieces and others likely can't be counted on. Let's see what will contribute to the Devils' decline after the jump…
In: Bobby Butler, Krys Barch
Out: Zach Parise, Alexei Ponikarovsky, Eric Boulton, Petr Sykora(?)
I detailed Zach Parise's contributions in my Minnesota Wild writeup. It was a tale of two seasons for Zach – through the first 46 games, he was at 50.7% Fenwick – okay numbers, but not what's expected out of a forward of his caliber. Over the remainder of the season, he was at 55.0%, and through the first three rounds of the playoffs, he managed a similar rate at 55.4%. Losing his contributions will be a big blow.
That loss will not be softened by the exodus of Alexei Ponikarovsky, who led Devils forwards in Fenwick % after his acquisition. Petr Sykora has yet to sign elsewhere and the Devils have indicated that they are open to bringing him back. He provided a surprising 21 goals in an even more surprising 82 games after making the team on a tryout.
Coach Peter DeBoer and GM Lou Lamoriello have their work cut out for them to get the remaining forward unit to return to the excellence it displayed in the 2nd half and in the playoffs. Fortunately, New Jersey retians surprising depth at center, with Travis Zajac, Patrik Elias, Adam Henrique, and Jacob Josefson all returning and all capable of being a top three quality pivot. Expect either Elias or Henrique to get shifted over to wing, with the favorite being the younger man – Henrique played a lot of wing in the AHL in 2010-11, and his goal/assist ratio over his pro career to date fit the profile of a winger. In addition, no one took more faceoffs than Elias last year for the Devils.
Going with the perhaps antiquated notion of top two and bottom two forward lines, the Devils have 5 of their top 6 firmly in place – we should expect Ilya Kovalchuk, Dainius Zubrus, Henrique, Elias, and Zajac at the top of the rotation. Right now the favorites to round things out are David Clarkson and newcomer Bobby Butler. Clarkson's 30 goals were certainly a surprise to Devils fans, but even with that performance he operated on the third line for most of the season.
Butler failed to crack Ottawa's top 6 and fell into Paul MacLean's doghouse but he did okay with soft minutes and has an offensive player's profile. Mattias Tedenby has an outside shot at landing this role, but he failed to deliver at either the NHL or AHL level next season, and it would take a quantum jump forward to seriously compete for that position.
Overall, expect this group to be worse territorially than last season's forwards – the Devils lost two key contributors and many of their others (Elias, Zubrus, Zajac, Kovalchuk) are either in or entering the wrong part of their career.
Closer to the bottom of the roster, the Devils retained the 4th line magicians from last season's playoff run. They also kept Cam Janssen, and added Krys Barch, meaning the 4th line should once again be a territorial sinkhole. There's talk from GM Lou Lamoriello that either Ryan Carter, Steve Bernier, or Stephen Gionta could be moved to a higher line if other players falter, which shows how poor the Devils' depth is beyond their top 5.
No Changes. Yet.
Lamoriello made the odd decision of retaining Bryce Salvador to a ghastly 3 year contract, which means the Devils now have 7 defensemen on one-way deals as well as impressive youngster Adam Larsson. It therefore seems inevitable that New Jersey will make a trade, with the most likely candidates being Andy Greene, Henrik Tallinder, or Anton Volchenkov.
An impending deal makes it difficult to talk about the Devils D for the start of the 2012-13 season, since we can't be certain precisely who will be patrolling the back-end once things finally get going. The Devils didn't deploy consistent a shutdown pairing last year – either Greene and Tallinder or Mark Fayne generally took the toughs, but in the playoffs, they were also given to Salvador and Marek Zidlicky.
Even if the Devils manage a trade, they will likely have one of the strongest third pairings in the league when healthy, with either Larsson or Zidlicky paired with Salvador or Volchenkov. Peter Harrold impressed as a third pairing man who can work a power play, and prospects Alex Urbom and Eric Gelinas don't look too far away. They should get a cup of coffee if there are any injuries.
While the Devils don't have anyone who jumps out as a top pairing defensemen, only Salvador was significantly below 50% in Fenwick last season – it's impressive depth, if unspectacular top-end talent. The club does have to be concerned about both Salvador and Zidlicky's length in the tooth, though; both are over 35, and it seems unlikely that they can play the same role they did in the 2011-12 playoffs.
The Only Change Here Is The Passing Of Ruthless Time…
Both Martin Brodeur and Johan Hedberg were UFA this offseason and both players were re-signed to multi-year deals. If they didn't have such a cheerful disposition, it'd be easy to label them the Grumpy Old Men. Regardless, Hedberg is 39 and Brodeur 40.
That said, something strange is happening to Johan Hedberg – he seems to have actually gotten better with age:
Hedberg was one of the league's worst goalies for nearly a decade, but now he appears almost, well, average. How long can Hedberg cheat Father Time? I don't know, but already it's longer than Martin Brodeur, whose performance has clearly declined; his last two seasons' save percentage and GAA are well below his career marks. Brodeur did rebound from a shaky beginning in the playoffs to post solid numbers right in line with his career (.917 SV% playoffs last season, .913 career SV%), and his performance in the Cup Finals actually made the series a lot closer than it should have otherwise been.
However, history is not particularly kind to the 40+ goaltender: Of the 10 seasons where a 40+ year old played 20 or more games, only twice did a puck stopper put up save pecentage numbers better than his career average.
The Devils are tempting fate by signing both goaltenders to multi-year deals – a Dwayne Roloson-like collapse for both players isn't out of the question. Behind these two are a gaggle of could-bes, but right now none of Jeff Frazee, Keith Kinkaid, Scott Wedgewood, or Maxime Clermont scream 'future NHL-quality goaltender'.
Repeating Last Season
The Devils had a number of unusual things happen last season which makes their future difficult to predict: they were first in the league in short-handed goals and also worst in the league in short-handed goals allowed. They set a record for best penalty-killing percentage in a single season, but finished the playoffs 12th out of 16 teams in that category. Their 4th line didn't score a goal until Game 78, then managed 10 in 24 playoff games. Patrik Elias had a career renaissance at 36; it had been 8 years since he had been top 10 in the NHL in points. David Clarkson managed 30 goals when his previous career high was 17. Petr Sykora scored 21 goals after being out of the league for the better part of 2 years. Finally, Martin Brodeur had an .894 SV% before the All-Star Break and a .921 afterwards.
All in all, the Devils finished with 102 points, good enough to be tied for 7th overall in the league, but that record was buoyed by a 12-4 record in shootouts. In games decided in regulation, they were just 32-28. They nevertheless went ahead and made the Cup Finals on the back of an envy-inducing 53.6% playoff Fenwick (59.1% tied through Game 4 of the ECF) before crashing to earth in the Finals.
So, what does all this madness confer to our cogitating prognosticator? Will the Devils be any good or not?
The biggest question for New Jersey revolves around health, as many key contributors suffered calamity last season. Ilya Kovalchuk ended the playoffs with a back injury that he did not have surgery on and played through despite obvious discomfort. With 13 years remaining on that contract, the Devils have to hope that this is not a recurring issue.
Travis Zajac returned from a torn Achilles to have an outstanding playoffs, but it remains to be seen if he'll return to his level of play before the injury. Henrik Tallinder missed the second half of the season and the majority of the playoffs with a blood clot. Jacob Josefson has had three seperate bone breaks that have caused him to miss time over the first two seasons of his North American career.
There is also 4 players over 35, including both goaltenders, who have to be considered injury risks. Health is obviously critical for any team, but the depth here is tenuous, and a long injury to a major contributor could mean earlier tee times than the Devils and their management would like.
There's also the financial issues – the New York Post reported that as a result the Devils had to get approval from the league to make a trade for Marek Zidlicky. Rumors abound around owner Jeff Vanderbeek's ability to remain solvent in the face of the massive debt remaining on the Prudential Center. These fiscal woes could affect the Devils' ability to add salary if obvious needs emerge later on in the season.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. A lesser known corollary to that saying is that when life gives you lemonade of uncertain quality, immediately judge it mediocre.
That's what I'm doing with this year's Devils squad – the defense should be a strength, but the forwards aren't anymore and the goaltending is a giant question mark. If either the forwards or goaltending falter, there isn't likely to be any outside help, and there's not nothing in the organization's cupbaord either. I expect the Devils to be around NHL .500 (.561 last year), and whether they're in or out of the playoffs depends a great deal on Martin Brodeur's aged haunches.


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I want to replace all of the exposed bolts under the hood of our 69 Camaro. I prefer a polished stainless steel button style replacement bolt. Not just the obvious on the 327 intake, water pump, etc, but exposed fender bolts.What do you recommend?
HawkiGo to www.jegs.com or www.summit racing.com or www.speedwaymotors.com Then go to the section for dress up kits. Stay away from the low end crap. There are a lot of the made in china and japan crap.(I'm speeking for what I saw happen to my son years back). Check ARP's and GM Performance Parts. The reall good ones won't come in a baggy. They will be all seperated on a cardboard sheet. I remember my son purchased the GM bolts with a Chevy Bow Tie on them. When your done with your pride and Joy we Gear Heads like to see nice rides... Good Luck...Bob
HawkiI did a little looking around. It looks like GM has licensed Gardner Westcott to make there dress-up fasteners. Jegs has them #402-1056490HSP SBC with headers.$94.99Summit has the same bolts #GAR-10-56490HSP SBC with headers $94.95You will have to look through their catalogs for fender bolts. Some come with the washer attached, but you need to know the correct thread and right-or-left hand. You probably know the drill...Good Luck Bob
have you tried ace hardware? the ones here have a pretty good selection. they also sell some polished stainless bolts with designs in them like skulls, etc. depending on how many you need of a certain size, sometimes its cheaper to buy a full box. most marine stores carry various stainless fasteners too, but are usually over-priced. another good place to check is motorcycle shops. they usually carry some trick fasteners. probably a harley shop for stainless stuff? alot of the ricerocket shops carry anodized fasteners of different colors.
+1 Joe, hardware store. When I need those I go to the local True Value.
This kind is better looking than flat washers and button heads, in my opinion. Surf up boltdepot dot com. I cuss every car I work on that is put together with damn allen heads.
howdy Matt! heres a cool site,....http://www.probolt-usa.com/?gclid=CLfyjYHwj7QCFQkFnQodX1sAaA
Matt:Those are the really nice ones. Thanks for the picture.Bob


text: Nick Knight, Katy England and Alister Mackie unite to pay homage to London's most exciting new club kids in a shoot featuring beautiful boys, girls and drag queens spotted at the East End's infamous 'Sink The Pink' nights. Fashion includes contemporary design, items from the subjects' own wardrobes and iconic clubland pieces from Leigh Bowery and Bodymap. The final shoot appears in AnOther Man.


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Don't feel bad if you'd rather skip it. Studies have not proved its importance.
Because of an F.D.A. labeling change, many consumers will learn that added sugars are in many products generally thought to be healthy.
Is a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages an admirable way to improve public health, or a regressive measure that hurts the poor? The left is divided.
Old but only recently published research increases a concern that when it comes to nutrition, personal beliefs can trump science.
Firms promise to help consumers spot metabolic red flags. Critics say the services persuade healthy people to seek unneeded treatment.
Everyone can tell when I'm behind. Every visit is pared to essentials. Paperwork is postponed, chatting minimized.
Those who developed breasts younger than their peers had a higher risk of depression, a new study found.
Moral injury resembles post-traumatic stress disorder with an added burden of guilt, and requires different treatment.
Readers solve the case of a previously healthy 67-year-old gardener who is too exhausted and feverish to garden.
The New York Times is offering a free mobile app for the popular Scientific 7-Minute Workout and the new Advanced 7-minute Workout.


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Bulimia nervosa and oral health
Bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by episodes of binging on large amounts of food followed by purging through self-induced vomiting to control weight, not only damages the body but also causes problems inside the mouth.
Professors at the Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry say the acid that comes up during vomiting episodes can have a devastating effect on one of the hardest tissues in the mouth — tooth enamel.
Oral complications associated with bulimia include erosion of the teeth, bleeding gums, cavities and loosened fillings. In addition, braces and temporary restorations may not stay on the teeth because stomach acid will dissolve the temporary cement used to keep these materials in place.
Naturally, the most important advice is to seek the help of a physician in overcoming the disorder. Meanwhile, to prevent further wearing of the teeth, sufferers should rinse the mouth frequently with water.
"Water is best, as is gentle brushing with a fluoride toothpaste," says Dr. Charles W. Wakefield, professor and director of the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency Program at TAMBCD. "It is thought that more excessive wear of teeth occurs immediately after purging because stomach acid softens tooth enamel and makes it more susceptible to rapid wear."
Sufferers also are advised to reduce sugar in the diet, brush and floss properly, chew sugarless gum to increase salivary flow or use artificial saliva, and apply fluoride either in toothpastes, rinses or gels to reduce sensitivity of teeth and build resistance to decay from acid.
"Patients should never sip drinks with high acidity, which include all carbonated drinks of both regular and diet varieties, sports drinks, new energy drinks, fruit juices, and water with lemon juice added," Dr. Wakefield says. "Dentists have materials they can prescribe to make teeth more acid-resistant and also help remineralize them — or stop the erosion process — once the habit is discontinued.
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BiteMyApple: A Home for Kickstarted Products
- Location: online only
- Specialty: Tech-centric products from successfully funded Kickstarter projects
- Price range: $-$$
- Website: bitemyapple.co
Store History
- Founded: 2011
- Founded by: Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson is one of those early adopters who will wait in line for hours for a new tech gadget. His web store, BiteMyApple, is geared toward other early adopters by making Kickstarter funded tech gadgets easily available.
Name/Title: Chris Johnson, Founder of BiteMyApple.co
Launch Date: 2011
Inspiration for opening: I stood in line for three hours when Apple launched the first generation iPhone. At that moment, I knew that Apple had something special, and I wanted to be a part its success. So, I decided to start a business that sells iPhone accessories where I could share my favorite products with consumers.
Merchandise source: Almost everything comes direct
Best selling item: Right now it's the MOS "Magnetic Organization System". It's one of those "Why didn't I think of this?" products for your desktop. Who likes cables falling of your desk? This is so simple it's genius.
Your favorite item: I would say the Snooze because I use it every day- and the Olloclip because it helps me take a better picture.
Your favorite store (other than your own): I'm not your typical geek but if I'm anywhere near a Best Buy I have to make that stop.
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We made caramel apples to celebrate Halloween this year. Brett came over and helped dip them before we settled in for an evening of Alfred Hitchcock. We made mostly plain caramel but I dipped a few of mine in melted milk chocolate and crushed peanuts. Without any further tarrying here is Apple Week recipe No. 2! Read the recipe after the jump.
Parchment paper
Unsalted butter (for parchment)
1 bag (9 ounces) of soft caramel candies
2 tablespoons milk
6 apples
6 sticks
Chopped peanuts and melted milk chocolate (optional)
1. Wash apples (if store bought) briefly in hot water and wipe away waxy coating.
2. Insert sticks and place in fridge for a few hours (chilled apples will help the caramel set faster).
3. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and grease paper with unsalted butter.
4. Add caramels and milk to a microwave safe container (it helps to use one that is somewhat narrow and tall for ease of dipping). Microwave caramels and milk in one minute increments, stirring in between, until completely melted into a thick yet "dip-able" consistency.
5. Dip apples one by one, and let the excess caramel drip off. Dip in melted milk chocolate or roll in a bowl of chopped peanuts, if desired and place on baking sheet.
6. Place in refrigerator until caramel has set.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Apple Week: Caramel Apples
We made caramel apples to celebrate Halloween this year. Brett came over and helped dip them before we settled in for an evening of Alfred Hitchcock. We made mostly plain caramel but I dipped a few of mine in melted milk chocolate and crushed peanuts. Without any further tarrying here is Apple Week recipe No. 2! Read the recipe after the jump.
Labels: Entertaining, Styling, Tutorial
17 comments:
- Jewels of Saraswati said...
Oh Yum!!!!
- November 11, 2009 at 6:01 AM
- Lazzenia said...
I wish I had time enough to try this at home :(
- November 11, 2009 at 6:09 AM
- Lisa Ridgely said...
One of my favorite fall treats! There is a candy shop nearby in Gettysburg that rolls the bottoms of their caramel apples in fine grain sugar, which adds the perfect bit of texture. Your photo is styled so beautifully too!
- November 11, 2009 at 7:33 AM
- Alina said...
i love your apple week, these recipes are so fun...and your pictures are beautiful :)
- November 11, 2009 at 8:20 AM
- Katherine said...
I made the mistake of leaving out milk this year and it was a horrid mess! But chocolate mixed into the carmel is such a lovely treat.
- November 11, 2009 at 8:45 AM
- minsquin said...
ooh yummy :)
i adore caramel apples
thank you so much for posting this recipe,
i'll be sure to try it soon
- November 11, 2009 at 10:11 AM
- Saltina said...
Great photo. Everything is perfectly placed in an unplaced way. Amazed how the caramel is so smooth!
- November 11, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- Ade said...
Oh my god... that photo is just delightful. I would love to have the time and patience to make something like this!
- November 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- mausumi said...
wow! They look amazing!
Too bad I'm allergic to apples! I love caramel though... ;)
- November 11, 2009 at 1:31 PM
- Pixie said...
Love apples, love caramel apples, love the cake stand, love your photographs... wow.
- November 11, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- Inty swetha said...
they are lovely!! its looks delicious!
- November 13, 2009 at 5:56 AM
- Eliza said...
did you actually figure out a way to use the striped straws to cover the sticks and stay in place, or are they simply resting over the stick for the picture?
if they are secured in place, could you provide instructions for how to do that?
- November 16, 2009 at 8:55 AM
- Livy said...
Hi Eliza -
The sticks are just plain white sticks from the craft store's baking section. Then I added 1/4" ribbon to them by wrapping it around the stick and then securing it with small amounts of non toxic glue at each end.
- November 16, 2009 at 5:13 PM
- Jordan and Jandee said...
Love everything, as usual. Now where did you find that delectable cake stand?
- November 18, 2009 at 12:34 PM
- jen jafarzadeh said...
Livy, this series is gorgeous. And as usual, your photos blow me away!
- December 1, 2009 at 8:25 AM
- Yvie said...
I was wondering what are the soft caramel candies? I live in England, so Im trying to figure out what you mean by them! A fudge, a toffee, a butterscotch maybe?
- February 6, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Livy said...
Hi Yvie -
Caramels here have a similar flavor to toffee and butterscotch but they are usually very "chewy", similar in consistency to Starburst candies. Hopefully this will help a little.
- February 6, 2010 at 12:48 PM