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Jack Sparrow
|Captain Jack Sparrow
Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
|Pirate Captain
Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea
"Governor" of Rumrunner's Isle
East India Trading Company
|Ship(s) served on
La Fleur De La Mort
Fair Wind
Wicked Wench/Black Pearl
HMS Interceptor
Queen Anne's Revenge
|Anything Conceivable
|10001 Guineas
(Wanted dead)[1]
|Edward Teague (father)
|Film series
Video games
|Portrayed by
|Johnny Depp
Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. The character was created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and is portrayed by Johnny Depp. He is first introduced in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). He later appears in the sequels Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), and On Stranger Tides (2011). He was brought to life by Depp, who based his characterization on The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and cartoon character Pepé Le Pew.[2]
The series Pirates of the Caribbean was inspired by a Disney theme park ride, and when the ride was revamped in 2006, the character of Captain Jack Sparrow was added to it. He also headlines The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Sparrow is also the subject of a children's book series Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, which chronicles his teenage years, and he has also appeared in several video games.
In the context of the films, Sparrow is one of the nine pirate lords in the Brethren Court, the Pirate Lords of the Seven Seas. He can be treacherous and survives mostly by using wit and negotiation rather than weapons or force, preferring to flee most dangerous situations and fight only when necessary. Sparrow is introduced seeking to regain his ship, the Black Pearl, from his mutinous first mate, Hector Barbossa, and later attempts to escape his blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones while battling the East India Trading Company. The character's role was expanded more as the films progress.
The Curse of the Black Pearl[edit]
Captain Jack Sparrow first appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl, when he arrives in Port Royal looking to commandeer a ship. Despite rescuing Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), the daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann (Jonathan Pryce) from drowning, he is jailed for extreme piracy. That night, a cursed ship called the Black Pearl attacks Port Royal, capturing Elizabeth in the process. Its captain, Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), is trying desperately to break an ancient Aztec curse that he and the crew are under. Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), a blacksmith, frees Sparrow so that he can aid him in rescuing Elizabeth. They commandeer the HMS Interceptor and acquire a crew in Tortuga before heading to Isla de Muerta, where Elizabeth is being held captive. Along the way, Will learns that Sparrow was originally captain of the Black Pearl, but Barbossa posed as his first mate in order to steal the ship from him – eventually leaving him marooned on an island ten years earlier.
Unfortunately, the rescue attempt goes awry and Jack soon finds himself marooned again along with Elizabeth. The pair are rescued by the British Royal Navy, after Elizabeth uses some rum found on the island to send off a smoke bomb signal. In order to escape hanging, Sparrow cuts a deal to deliver them the Pearl. However, Commodore James Norrington insists rescuing Turner will be a dangerous and fruitless trip. Elizabeth, desperate, leaps forward and subdue to the Commodore's marriage proposal. Norrington agrees and sends Jack down to bilges, telling him to consider all meanings of the phrase: "silent as the grave". During the film's final battle at Isla de Muerta, Sparrow steals a cursed coin, making himself immortal so he can duel Barbossa on equal footing. He shoots his rival with the same pistol he had carried for ten years just as Will breaks the curse, killing Barbossa. Despite his assistance to the Navy, Sparrow is re-arrested and sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead.
At his scheduled execution in Port Royal, Will comes to his rescue, but they are quickly surrounded. Right at that moment, Elizabeth shows her love for Will, and he is pardoned, while Sparrow escapes by falling off the sea wall. He is rescued by the Black Pearl's new crew, and made captain once more. Apparently impressed by the clever pirate, Commodore James Norrington (Jack Davenport) allows him one day's head start before giving chase.[3]
Dead Man's Chest[edit]
A year after the events of the first film, Sparrow begins searching for the Dead Man's Chest, which will help him to "control" the seas and save himself: thirteen years earlier, Sparrow bartered his soul to Captain Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) in return for Jones raising the sunken Black Pearl and making Sparrow captain. In the film, Sparrow must either serve for one hundred years aboard the Flying Dutchman, or be taken by the Kraken to Davy Jones's Locker. The Kraken is a legendary sea monster apparently under the control of Davy Jones, the squidman.
The Dead Man's Chest contains Jones's heart, which Sparrow can use as leverage against Jones and end his debt. Adding to Sparrow's woes, Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) of the East India Trading Company wants to settle his own debt with Sparrow and forces Will Turner to search for him. Will finds Sparrow and his crew hiding from the Kraken on Pelegosto, where they have been captured by cannibals and Jack pretends to be "King". "I am Chief, want big Fire! Maboogie snickel-snickel!", Jack exclaims in an attempt to divert the cannibals. They escape, but Davy Jones captures them and demands that Jack pay his debt. Jack argues that he was captain for only two years before he was mutinied by Barbossa, but Jones rejects his argument, stating that he's been calling himself "Captain" Jack Sparrow for the allotted years.
Sparrow betrays Will to Davy Jones as part of a new deal to deliver 100 souls in exchange for his own. Sparrow recruits sailors in Tortuga, where he unexpectedly encounters Elizabeth and the disgraced James Norrington, who has turned to alcohol. Convincing Elizabeth that she can free Will by finding the Chest, Sparrow and she head for Isla Cruces after she pinpoints its location with Jack's magic compass. Will also arrives, having escaped Jones's ship after stealing the key to the Chest. Will wants to stab the heart and free his father who is in Jones's service, while Norrington—who has discovered that Beckett desires the heart in order to control Davy Jones and the seas—hopes to regain his career and honor by delivering the heart to Beckett. Sparrow fears that if Jones is dead, the Kraken will continue hunting him, and wants the heart as leverage.
Jones' crew arrives, and during the ensuing battle, Norrington steals the heart. Jones summons the Kraken to attack the Black Pearl. After seeing his crew get attacked by the Kraken, Jack tries to escape in the last undamaged longboat, but just as he nears an island, he is struck with remorse at abandoning his crew, and goes back to help rescue them. Once there, he helps blow up the Kraken's tentacles before sadly giving orders to abandon ship; when his first mate Joshamee Gibbs (Kevin McNally) asks if he is sure that he wants to leave the Pearl behind to the Kraken, Jack reluctantly replies, "She's only a ship, mate."
Realizing that the Kraken only wants Sparrow, Elizabeth tricks him by giving him a passionate kiss while chaining him to the mast to save the crew. Though Sparrow manages to free himself from the mast, he is too late to escape before the Kraken returns. With no choice left, Jack resigns himself to his fate and charges the beast's mouth muttering, "'Ello beastie." Sparrow and the Pearl are dragged down to Davy Jones's Locker. The crew seeks solace at the home of Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), who surprises them by offering a captain who can help rescue Sparrow: Barbossa, brought back to life at her doing.[4]
At World's End[edit]
By this time, Davy Jones's heart is in Cutler Beckett's possession and he begins exterminating all pirates (and all those associated with pirates) with the Flying Dutchman under his command. In order to combat the combined threat of Beckett and Jones, the nine pirate lords of the Brethren Court are summoned to convene at Shipwreck Cove. Though taken to Davy Jones's Locker at the end of the previous film, Sparrow, who is Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, must attend the meeting, as he failed to bequeath his "piece of eight", a pirate lord's identification marker, to an heir. The collective "nine pieces of eight" can free the sea goddess Calypso. Barbossa leads Sparrow's crew to Davy Jones's Locker using the pirate lord Sao Feng (Chow Yun-fat)'s navigational charts. There Sparrow has been hallucinating an entire crew of himself, each member representing a facet of his personality. After Barbossa and the crew find him, Sparrow deciphers a clue on the charts that indicates (in a clever nod to the Fata Morgana mirages attributed to the real life legend of the Flying Dutchman) they must capsize the Black Pearl to escape the Locker; at sunset, the ship upturns back into the living world.
Sparrow and Barbossa journey to the Brethren Court where they encounter Elizabeth, who was traded to Sao Feng, and was made a Pirate Lord by him just before he died. At the Brethren Court, she is elected "Pirate King" after Sparrow breaks a stalemate (in all previous meetings except the first, Pirate Lords had always voted for themselves), and Sparrow is briefly reunited with his apparently-estranged father, Captain Teague (Keith Richards). During parley, he is traded for Will, who was captured by Jones and Beckett after Sparrow sent him overboard. When Sparrow negotiates with Beckett in the extended version, it is revealed that he once sailed The Black Pearl under Beckett's command, but deserted when he refused to sail with slaves. The Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman face off in battle during a maelstrom created by Calypso, during which, Sparrow steals Davy Jones's heart in order to become immortal. However, when Jones mortally wounds Will, Jack ultimately chooses to save Will by helping him stab the heart; killing Jones and making Will the Dutchman's new captain. Together, the Pearl and the Dutchman destroy Beckett's ship. At the end of the film, Barbossa again commandeers the Pearl and Sao Feng's charts; marooning Sparrow and Mr. Gibbs in Tortuga. Fortunately, Jack has already removed the chart's center, and he sets sail in a dinghy, using his compass and the chart to guide him to the Fountain of Youth.[5]
On Stranger Tides[edit]
After reaching a dead end in his search for the Fountain of Youth, Sparrow makes his way to London, where he hears of someone going by his name to gather a crew. Along the way, Sparrow poses as a judge to save the convicted Mr. Gibbs before being captured by the Royal Guards and summoned to an audience with the British monarch, King George II, and Barbossa, now a privateer in the Royal Navy. By then, Sparrow crosses paths with his impostor, revealed to be an old flame named Angelica (Penélope Cruz) who shanghaies him to the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the horrific Blackbeard (Ian McShane) who forces Jack to help him reach the Fountain of Youth. Learning the full story behind it, Jack attempts to set up Blackbeard's demise and save the naive Angelica from her father. After some trouble with mermaids and the Spanish Navy, he succeeds by tricking Blackbeard into giving up his life to save Angelica. Angelica holds him accountable for her father's death even though Jack retorts that he just did what any father would have done. Jack and Angelica admit their love for one another, but Jack maroons Angelica on a stranded island, knowing that she will probably want to avenge her father's death. He then has Gibbs retrieve the shrunken Black Pearl in the hopes of finding a way to restore it to regular size. When asked about giving up his chance for immortality, Jack answers that immortality is not everything, though he admits making a name for himself as the one who found the Fountain is good enough immortality at the moment. After the end credits of the film, the voodoo doll of Jack is seen drifting at sea towards the island Sparrow stranded Angelica on.[6]
Dead Men Tell No Tales[edit]
Captain Jack Sparrow will return in the fifth film, portrayed once again by Johnny Depp.
Jack and his team are in search of The Trident, about which Captain Teague holds valuable information. The villain this time is Captain Brand, a ghost that wants the Trident so he can get his revenge on Jack. Brand believes Jack turned his brother Eric into a pirate, which led to his death. Also, Jack becomes enchanted by Barbosa's daughter, Carina Smyth, a woman called a witch by some though she's actually an adept astronomer.[7]
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Outside films, Captain Jack Sparrow appeared as a companion character in the 2006 video game Kingdom Hearts II, where he was voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the English version and Hiroaki Hirata (who also dubbed Sparrow in the film's Japanese dubs) in the Japanese version. Sparrow has since appeared in other video games, including "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (video game)" voiced by James Arnold Taylor for the second time. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow, where he was voiced by Johnny Depp, and the game adaptation of At World's End, where he was voiced by Jared Butler with motion capture movements provided by Johnny Paton. The character was again voiced by Jared Butler in Pirates of the Caribbean Online, which takes place between the first and second films. Jack is also a playable character in Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game. He is also a playable character in the video game Disney Infinity, voiced by Jared Butler.
Sparrow's backstory in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide indicates he was born on a pirate ship during a typhoon in the Indian Ocean, and that he was trained to fence by an Italian.[8] Rob Kidd wrote an ongoing book series entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, following a teenage Sparrow and his crew on the Barnacle as they battle sirens, mermaids and adult pirates while looking for various treasures. The first book, The Coming Storm, was published on June 1, 2006. In 2011, Ann C. Crispin wrote a novel titled Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom, which follows Jack's adventures when he worked as a merchant captain for the East India Trading Company.
Concept and creation[edit]
Character creation[edit]
When writing the screenplay for The Curse of the Black Pearl, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio envisioned Captain Jack Sparrow as a supporting character, citing Bugs Bunny and Groucho Marx as influences.[9] The producers saw him as a young Burt Lancaster.[2] Director Gore Verbinski admitted, "The first film was a movie, and then Jack was put into it almost. He doesn't have the obligations of the plot in the same ways that the other characters have. He meanders his way through, and he kind of affects everybody else."[10] Sparrow represents an ethical pirate, with Captain Barbossa as his corrupt foil.[9] His true motives usually remain masked, and whether he is honorable or evil depends on the audience's perspective.[11] This acts as part of Will Turner's arc, in which Sparrow tells him a pirate can be a good man, like his father.[9]
Following the success of The Curse of the Black Pearl, the challenge to creating a sequel was, according to Verbinski, "You don't want just the Jack Sparrow movie. It's like having a garlic milkshake. He's the spice and you need a lot of straight men ... Let's not give them too much Jack. It's like too much dessert or too much of a good thing."[10] Although Dead Man's Chest was written to propel the trilogy's plot,[12] Sparrow's state-of-mind as he is pursued by Davy Jones becomes increasingly edgy, and the writers concocted the cannibal sequence to show that he was in danger whether on land or at sea. Sparrow is also perplexed over his attraction to Elizabeth Swann, and attempts to justify it throughout the film.[13]
At World's End was meant to return it tonally to a character piece. Sparrow, in particular, is tinged with madness after extended solitary confinement in Davy Jones's Locker,[12] and now desires immortality.[14] Sparrow struggles with what it takes to be a moral person,[15] after his honest streak caused his doom in the second film. This is mainly shown by his increasingly erratic behaviour and Jack's hallucinations which appeared to be simply his deranged mind in the beginning where dozens of "Jack Sparrows" appeared to crew the ship in his solitary exile, but later the hallucinations grew more important and there were mainly two "Jacks" constantly arguing about which path to follow: the immortality or the mortality. The last hallucination took place while Jack was imprisoned on the Dutchman where his honest streak won (possibly due to not liking his sea creature-like "future" which comedically dropped his brain and searched for it around the Brig.[16] By the end of At World's End Sparrow is sailing to the Fountain of Youth, an early concept for the second film.[17] Rossio has said they may write the screenplay for a fourth film,[18] and producer Jerry Bruckheimer has expressed interest in a spin-off.[19] Gore Verbinski concurred that "all of the stories set in motion by the first film have been resolved. If there ever were another Pirates of the Caribbean film, I would start fresh and focus on the further adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow."[20] The Pirates Trilogy told Elizabeth Swann's journey of being touched by piracy, while the fourth film told Jack Sparrow's quest for immortality.[citation needed]
On Stranger Tides was first announced on September 28, 2008 during a Disney event at the Kodak Theater. Gore Verbinski did not return to direct the fourth installment and was replaced by Rob Marshall. The movie uses elements from Tim Powers novel of the same name, particularly Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth, but the film is not a straight adaptation of the novel.[21]
Johnny Depp[edit]
Johnny Depp was looking to do a family film in 2001, and was visiting the Walt Disney Studios when he heard there were plans to adapt the Pirates of the Caribbean ride into a film. Depp was excited by the possibility of reviving an old Hollywood genre,[2] and was further delighted that the script met his quirky sensibilities: the crew of the Black Pearl were not searching for treasure, but were instead trying to return it to lift their curse. In addition, the traditional mutiny had already occurred.[22] Depp was cast on June 10, 2002.[23] Producer Jerry Bruckheimer felt Depp was "an edgy actor who will kind of counter the Disney Country Bears soft quality and tell an audience that an adult and teenager can go see this and have a good time with it."[24]
At the first read-through, Depp surprised the cast and crew by portraying the character in an off-kilter manner.[25] After researching 18th-century pirates, Depp compared them to modern rock stars and decided to base his performance on Keith Richards.[24] Richards would later appear in two cameos as Jack's father, Captain Teague, in At World's End and On Stranger Tides. Verbinski and Bruckheimer had confidence in Depp, partly because Orlando Bloom would be playing the traditional Errol Flynn-type character.[22] Depp also improvised the film's final line, "Now, bring me that horizon", which is the writer's favorite line.[25] Disney executives were initially confused by Depp's performance, asking him whether the character was drunk or gay. Michael Eisner even proclaimed while watching rushes, "He's ruining the film!"[25] Depp responded, "Look, these are the choices I made. You know my work. So either trust me or give me the boot."[24] Many industry insiders also questioned Depp's casting, as he was an unconventional actor not known for working within the traditional studio system.[26]
Depp's performance was highly acclaimed by film critics. Alan Morrison found it "Gloriously over-the-top ... In terms of physical precision and verbal delivery, it's a master-class in comedy acting."[27] Roger Ebert also found his performance "original in its every atom. There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie ... his behavior shows a lifetime of rehearsal." Ebert also praised Depp for drawing away from the way the character was written.[28] Depp won a Screen Actor's Guild award for his performance, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe[29] and the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first in his career.[30] Film School Rejects argued that because of the film, Depp became as much a movie star as he was a character actor.[31]
Johnny Depp returned as Jack Sparrow in Dead Man's Chest, the first time the actor had ever made a sequel.[25] Drew McWeeny noted, "Remember how cool Han Solo was in Star Wars the first time you saw it? And then remember how much cooler he seemed when Empire came out? This is that big a jump."[32] Depp received an MTV Movie Award[33] and a Teen Choice Award for Dead Man's Chest, and was also nominated for an Empire Award and another Golden Globe.[34] For his performance in At World's End, Depp won an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance, as well as a People's Choice Award, a Kids' Choice Award, and another Teen Choice Award. He has signed on to reprise the role for future sequels.[35]
Make-up and costumes[edit]
Johnny Depp wore a wig to portray Sparrow's dreadlocks, an aesthetic influenced by Depp's rock n' roll approach to pirates.[36] In addition to a red bandanna Sparrow wears numerous objects in his hair, influenced by Keith Richards' habit of collecting souvenirs from his travels;[37] Sparrow's decorations include his "piece of eight".[5] Sparrow wears kohl around his eyes, which was inspired by Depp's study of nomads, whom he compared to pirates,[38] and Depp also wore contacts that acted as sunglasses.[39] Sparrow has several gold teeth, two of which belong to Depp,[40] although they were applied during filming. Depp forgot to have them removed after shooting The Curse of the Black Pearl,[41] and decided to keep them throughout shooting of the sequels.[2] Like all aspects of Depp's performance, Disney initially expressed great concern over Depp's teeth.[13] Sparrow wears his goatee in two braids. Initially wire was used in them, but the wires were abandoned because they made the braids stick up when Depp lay down.[42] Sparrow also has numerous tattoos,[5] and has been branded a pirate on his right arm by Cutler Beckett,[4] underneath a tattoo of a sparrow.[3] In At World's End, one of the "Jack" incarnations is working stripped to the waist, and a full body tattoo of the anachronistic (1927) poem Desiderata is clearly seen.[citation needed]
Depp collaborated with costume designer Penny Rose on his character's appearance, handpicking a tricorne as Sparrow's signature leather hat: the other characters in the series could not wear leather hats, to make Sparrow's unique. For the scene when it floats on water in Dead Man's Chest, a rubber version was used.[43] Depp liked to stick to one costume, wearing one lightweight silk tweed frock coat throughout the series,[44] and he had to be coaxed out of wearing his boots for a version without a sole or heel in beach scenes.[45] The official line is that none of the costumes from The Curse of the Black Pearl survived, which allowed the opportunity to create tougher linen shirts for stunts.[46] However, one remains which has been displayed in an exhibition of screen costumes in Worcester, England.[47] It was a nightmare for Rose to track down the same makers of Sparrow's sash in Turkey. Rose did not want to silkscreen it, as the homewoven piece had the correct worn feel.[48] Sparrow wears an additional belt in the sequels, because Depp liked a new buckle which did not fit with the original piece.[49]
Sparrow's weapons are genuine 18th century pieces: his sword dates to the 1740s, while his pistol is from the 1760s. Both were made in London.[39][50] Depp used two pistols on set, one being rubber. Both props survived after production of the first film.[51] Sparrow's magic compass also survived into the sequels, though director Gore Verbinski had a red arrow added to the dial as it became a more prominent prop. As it does not act like a normal compass, a magnet was used to make it spin.[52] Sparrow wears four rings, two of which belong to Depp. Depp bought the green ring in 1989 and the gold ring is a replica of a 2400-year-old ring Depp gave to the crew, though the original was later stolen. The other two are props to which Depp gave backstories: the gold-and-black ring is stolen from a Spanish widow Sparrow seduced and the green dragon ring recalls his adventures in the Far East.[53] Among Depp's additional ideas was the necklace made of human toes that Sparrow wears as the Pelegosto prepare to eat him,[54] and the sceptre was based on one a friend of Depp's owned.[55]
During the course of the trilogy, Sparrow undergoes physical transformations. In The Curse of the Black Pearl, Sparrow curses himself to battle the undead Barbossa. Like all the actors playing the Black Pearl crew, Depp had to shoot scenes in costume as a reference for the animators, and his shots as a skeleton were shot again without him. Depp reprised the scene again on a motion capture stage.[39] In At World's End, Sparrow hallucinates a version of himself as a member of Davy Jones's crew, adhered to a wall and encrusted with barnacles. Director Gore Verbinski oversaw that the design retained Sparrow's distinctive look,[56] and rejected initial designs which portrayed him as over 100 years old.[57]
According to screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Sparrow is a trickster who uses wit and deceit to attain his goals, preferring to end disputes verbally instead of by force.[58] He walks with a slightly drunken swagger and has slurred speech and flailing hand gestures. Sparrow is shrewd, calculating, and eccentric. He fools Commodore Norrington and his entire crew to set sail on the royal ship Interceptor, which compels the admiration of Lieutenant Groves as he concedes: 'That's got to be the best pirate I have ever seen'. Norrington himself acquiesces to this praise: 'So it would seem', in sharp contrast to what he had previously proclaimed: 'You are without doubt the worst pirate I have ever heard of'. In the third film, while he leaves Beckett's ship stranded and makes off, Lieutenant Groves asks him: "Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?".[5] It was he who deciphered the seemingly unintelligible map in the same film while the others were still grappling with the problem of returning to the real world. When the Brethren Court convenes but the pirate lords fail to reach a consensus as to whether to fight the Armada or not (he and Elizabeth are inclined to go to war, while the others are not), Jack suggests a way out of this impasse by calling for a ritual vote whose results determine who will be the king. Every pirate lord votes only for himself or herself, but he votes for Elizabeth, resulting her being elected the 'king', after which she announces 'Prepare every vessel that floats. At dawn we are at war', which was what he had intended, and which other pirates are now bound to obey.[original research?]
In combat, Sparrow is a skilled swordsman (capable of holding his own against Barbossa and Davy Jones), but uses his superior intelligence to his advantage during fights, exploiting his environment to turn the tables on his foes rather than relying purely on his skill with a sword. Jack usually prefers the strategies of non-violent negotiations and turning his enemies against each other, reasoning "Why fight when you can negotiate? All one needs is the proper leverage."[4] He will invoke parley and tempt his enemies away from their murderous intentions, encouraging them to see the bigger picture, as he does when he persuades Barbossa to delay returning to mortal form so he can battle the British Royal Navy.[3] He often uses complex wordplay and vocabulary to confound his enemies,[3][4] and it is suggested that his pacifism may be one reason Barbossa and the Black Pearl crew mutinied; Barbossa says in the first film, "Jack, that's exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl. People are easier to search when they're dead."[3] His pacifism is further indicated by the tattoo of the Desiderata on his back.[citation needed]
Although a pirate and willing to kill his enemies in a fight, Jack has also shown a reluctance to kill people who do not actually wish him harm, as seen when he preferred to simply avoid a fight with Will Turner in their first meeting (the fight being provoked by Will's insistence); when facing soldiers or navy officers who are only after him because it is their job rather than because they have personal issues with him, Jack has generally resorted to simply knocking them out or distracting them while he makes his escape. When Will is fatally wounded by Davy Jones, he relinquishes his dream of stabbing Jones' heart and becoming immortal and lets a dying Will stab it instead, thus ensuring that he lives, albeit not in the usual way. When searching for the Fountain of Youth, Jack noted that his desire for the Fountain had lessened when he learned that the Fountain would only provide someone with extra life if another died at the same time.[original research?]
|"Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow."
|—Jack almost escapes another sticky situation[3]
The character is portrayed as having created, or at least contributed to, his own reputation. When Gibbs tells Will that Sparrow escaped from a desert island by strapping two sea turtles together, Sparrow embellishes the story by claiming the rope was made from hair from his own back, while in reality, Sparrow escaped the island by bartering with rum traders. The video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow bases itself around these tall tales, including the sacking of Nassau port without firing a single shot.[3] In a script draft of Dead Man's Chest, Will's guide says that he heard Sparrow escaped execution in Port Royal by grabbing two parrots and flying away.[13] Johnny Depp has said pirates were like rock stars in that their fame preceded them, which suggests a reason for the portrayal of Sparrow as having an enormous ego.[58] Sparrow also insists on being addressed as "Captain" Jack Sparrow[3] and often gives the farewell, "This is the day you will always remember as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!," which is sometimes humorously cut off.[3][4] When accused by Norrington as being the worst pirate he has ever heard of, Sparrow replies, "But you have heard of me."[3] In a deleted scene from The Curse of the Black Pearl Sparrow ponders being "the immortal Captain Jack Sparrow",[59] and during At World's End he again is interested in immortality, although his father, Captain Teague, warns it can be a terrible curse. Sparrow also ponders being "Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate," as the East India Trading Company purges piracy.[5]
Despite his many heroics, Sparrow is a pirate and a morally ambiguous character.[15] When agreeing to trade 100 souls, including Will, to Davy Jones in exchange for his freedom, Jones asks Sparrow whether he can, "condemn an innocent man—a friend—to a lifetime of servitude in your name while you roam free?" After a hesitation Sparrow merrily replies, "Yep! I'm good with it!"[4] He carelessly runs up debts with Anamaria,[3] Davy Jones, and the other pirate lords.[5] Sao Feng, pirate lord of Singapore, is particularly hateful towards him.[5] In a cowardly moment, Sparrow abandons his crew during the Kraken's attack, but underlying loyalty and morality compel him to return and save them.[60] Sparrow claims to be a man of his word,[3] and expresses surprise that people doubt his truthfulness;[4] there is also no murder on his criminal record.[1][3]
Depp partly based the character on Pepé Le Pew, a womanizing skunk from Looney Tunes.[2] Sparrow claims to have a "tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature",[4] although his conquests are often left with a sour memory of him. Former flames, Scarlett and Giselle, usually slap him[3] or anyone looking for him.[4] His witty charm easily attracts women, and even has Elizabeth questioning her feelings.[4] Director Gore Verbinski noted phallic connotations in Sparrow's relationship with his vessel, as he grips the steering wheel.[22] The Black Pearl is described as "the only ship which can outrun the Flying Dutchman".[5] The Freudian overtones continue in the third film when Sparrow and Barbossa battle for captaincy of the Black Pearl, showing off the length of their telescopes, and in a deleted scene, they fight over the steering wheel.[61] Sparrow claims his "first and only love is the sea,"[4] and describes his ship as representing freedom.[3] Davy Jones's Locker is represented as a desert, symbolizing his personal hell.[13]
Sparrow also has bad personal hygiene, a trait of Pepé Le Pew. Verbinski described Sparrow's breath as very foul.[22] Sparrow knocks Will off his ship simply by huffing at him.[5] Lastly, Sparrow has an insatiable thirst for rum, which can confuse his magic compass as to what he wants most.[4][5] According to his criminal record on the At World's End website, he even sacked a shipment of rum to quench his thirst.[1]
Impact on pop culture[edit]
When Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest grossed over $1 billion worldwide, Ian Nathan attributed this to Sparrow's popularity: "Pirates, the franchise, only had to turn up. There was a powerful holdover from the cheeky delights of its debut, something we hadn't felt since the Clone Wars called it a day."[62] Empire declared Johnny Depp's performance to be the seventy-fourth "thing that rocked our world" in 2006 when celebrating 200 issues and later named him as the eighth greatest movie character of all time.[63] A survey of more than 3,000 people showed Jack Sparrow was the most popular Halloween costume of 2006,[64] and a 2007 poll held by the Internet Movie Database showed Sparrow to be the second most popular live action hero, after Indiana Jones.[65] In a 2007 Pearl & Dean poll, Jack Sparrow was listed as Depp's most popular performance.[66]
Emanuel Levy feels the character is the only iconic film character of the 2000s decade,[58] while Todd Gilchrist feels Sparrow is the only element of the films that will remain timeless.[67] According to Sharon Eberson, the character's popularity can be attributed to being a "scoundrel whose occasional bouts of conscience allow viewers to go with the flaws because, as played to the larger-than-life hilt by Depp, he owns every scene he is in."[68] Film history professor at UCLA Jonathan Kuntz also attributed his popularity to the increased questioning of masculinity in the 21st century, and Sparrow's personality contrasts with action-adventure heroes in cinema. Leonard Maltin concurs that Sparrow has a carefree attitude and does not take himself seriously.[69] Mark Fox also noted Sparrow is an escapist fantasy figure for women, free from much of the responsibility of most heroes.[70] Sparrow is listed by IGN as one of their ten favorite film outlaws, as he "lives for himself and the freedom to do whatever it is that he damn well pleases. Precious few film characters have epitomized what makes the outlaw such a romantic figure for audiences as Captain Jack Sparrow has."[71] Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Part Keith Richards rift, part sozzled lounge lizard, Johnny Depp's swizzleshtick pirate was definitely one of the most dazzling characters of the decade."[72] In June 2010, Sparrow was also named one of Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years.[73]
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detail: Temple hanging [pichhavai]: Krishna's fluting summons the entranced gopis India c. 1840 opaque watercolour, gold and silver on cotton Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
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The opening of a new Indian Gallery off the entrance foyer in August provides a perfect opportunity to reveal recent additions to the National Collection. It also refocusses attention on works of art from South Asia acquired over 30 years of collecting Asian art. One of the most spectacular of the recent additions is a series of massive wooden brackets which act as a major architectural feature drawing visitors into the newly refurbished spaces and creating a series of niches within which to display small miniature paintings, illuminated manuscript folios and small textiles. The angles of the intricately carved late 15th–16th century teak brackets echo the structure of the Gallery building, while the combination of Hindu and Mughal and Persian inspired ornamentation is a subtle introduction to the works displayed within. In fact a number of sculptures, such as the white marble Jain arch which surrounds the seated jina provide elaborate depictions of very similar architectural structures and ornamentation. Both the brackets themselves and their recurrence in many sculptures attest to the centrality of temple and palace architecture for South Asian artists. A stone ceiling panel in the form of a lotus further demonstrates the way in which key decorative elements are shared by the major religions of India: even the eight grotesque kirtimukha faces of glory, with bulging eyes, small pointed horns, and distinct fangs are found in the temple architecture of Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism.
Lotus ceiling eastern Rajasthan or northeastern Madhya Pradesh / India 11th-12th century stone Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
Forming an introduction to the antiquity of certain key images in South Asian art is an image of the nagaraja serpent king, depicted in anthropomorphic form sheltering beneath the seven hoods of a cobra-like snake. A rare instance of a three-dimensional stone sculpture in the Gallery's collection, the intermeshed coils of the serpent are sinuously depicted down the back of the red sandstone image. While derived from early nature worship, the naga serpent is a recurring image in Indian art, sheltering the meditating Buddha or buoying up the reclining Vishnu. A smooth oval egg shaped rock – a self born lingam – is also testament to the continuity of primal sexual imagery, restated in terms of the worship of the great god Shiva.
Inside the entrance to the new gallery, Buddhist and Jain art predominates. Among the earliest surviving sculptures from the Indian subcontinent are those from the great Buddhist stupas, and the marble frieze from the vicinity of the Amaravati stupa in central east India shows the adoration of the empty throne, an iconic image of the earthly Buddha dating from the 3rd century ad. Another early image is an imposing standing figure of a richly apparelled bodhisattva from Gandharan Pakistan revealing a very different early Buddhist style. Dating from around 300 ad, the powerful influence of the forays of Alexander the Great into this region of South Asia is evident in the strong Hellenistic features of the saviour, his drapery and stance. Also in white marble, the tall figure is a superb example of the syncretism of Greek and local iconography. Other Gandharan objects already in the collection include a fine stupa gable depicting a scene from one of the Jataka tales of the previous lives of the Buddha.
Standing bodhisattva 3rd-4th century, Afghanistan or Pakistan, stone Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
While the Gallery's collection of Jain objects is small, two sculptures of serene enlightened conquerors or liberators (jina) provide a fine introduction to the intricacy of Jain temple art: the serene white marble seated image of a simply robed jina and the stark standing 'sky-clad' figure, completely unadorned in the abandonment pose, represent the two main orders of Jainism. In contrast the Gallery's internationally renowned Indian textile holdings includes a number of Jain works, the most famous of which shows a series of female courtiers in sumptuous costume. The hand-drawn 5 metre long cloth, dated 1500, echoes on a large scale the imagery of illuminated Jain manuscripts of medieval west India. Textiles in various techniques – double ikat, mordant painting, and pigment printing – are displayed throughout the new Gallery.
Also prominent are large pigment paintings which have been a recent collection development. The pichhvai hangings are created for rituals celebrating the Hindu deity Krishna. They contain some of the most charming images in Indian art – the popular blue god Krishna (an avatar of Vishnu) surrounded by adoring milkmaids and their herds of cows. Other subjects for the very large Indian paintings are scenes of royal progress, such as the Maharana's hunt, vibrant maps of popular pilgrimage centres and tantric cosmological diagrams. The dimensions of the Gallery building are ideally suited to the display of such large paintings.
The collection of Hindu sculpture has also grown over the past year with the addition of a number of important works from the southern Indian 9th–13th century Chola period. Arguably the pinnacle of Indian bronze sculpture, the recent acquisitions of a fine large image of the child saint Sambandar and a delicate rendition of the fierce deity Kali seated beneath the large trident of the god Shiva add significantly to the Gallery's existing collection of Chola bronzes which includes the popular dancing Shiva Nataraj. However, the Chola also were famed for their stone images, and the recent addition to the collection of the voluptuous lion-headed goddesss Pratyangira demonstrates the superb skills of early Tamil Nadu artisans.
The Gallery's collection of Hindu art has been enriched by the addition of these images of the Great Goddess, one of the most revered deities who takes a wide variety of forms, both benign and threatening. The centrality of female deities, alone or paired with male gods as consorts and shaktis, has been surprisingly under-represented in the Gallery's collection. The Chola sculptures join works in paper, textile and stone featuring Durga, the demon slaying goddess. In another recent purchase, Lakshmi, the Goddess of Abundance is shown in a lithe sensual embrace with her consort Vishnu.
Another aspect of the art of the Indian sub-continent which has been a target of recent acquisitions is Islamic art. The Gallery has good holdings of richly decorated textiles displaying Mughal designs, ornamentation which is also present in Islamic architecture and other arts. An intricate openwork pierced stone screen from the 17th century reign of great Mughal emperor-architect Shah Jahan – remembered best for his architectural masterpiece, the Taj Mahal – demonstrates the shared imagery: the design of floral buds within a diagonal grid, subtly set within a mihrab arch is found on numerous early Indian textiles in the collection, examples of which will be displayed in this section of the Indian Gallery. The jali screen is presented so that visitors can appreciate the quality of the stone carving on both front and back surfaces.
Open-worked pierced screen [jali] c.1630-1650 India, red sandstone Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
In the new entrance-level Indian Gallery recent acquisitions join old favourites. In juxtaposing works of different media – stone, wood, paper, metal and cloth – visitors are introduced the spectacular art of South Asia through fine examples of key images from the major strands of Indian culture and religion. In this process existing holdings in the collection are enhanced by conversations with new works located close by, such as the huge 12th-century Pala dynasty stone stele depicting a majestic Vishnu flanked by two diminutive images of his consorts Lakshmi and Sarasvati, now shown beside the newly acquired panel showing Vishnu and Lakshmi in a dynamic embrace of more earthly proportions. The addition of recently acquired works also encourages a deeper appreciation of the range of cultural, religious and stylistic representation and imagery in the art of the Indian sub-continent. Along with the physical move to a more central and accessible location off the main foyer, it is hoped that the displays in the new Indian Gallery will more successfully engage, excite and inform visitors about the arts of Asia.
Robyn Maxwell
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River Ridge Commerce Center is hoping to draw a major manufacturer to a minimum of 1,500 acres in the former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant off of Ind. 62.
At the River Ridge Development Authority Board meeting Monday, a resolution to pursue the development of a megasite in the commerce center was approved.
River Ridge Director of Marketing and Finance Paul Wheatley said the approval would allow for the evaluation of a site to locate a company like a large steel manufacturer, chemical manufacturer or an automotive manufacturer inside the commerce center.
The megasite itself would be an area of about 2,500 acres, and could be no less than 1,500 acres. River Ridge encompasses about 6,000 acres.
McCallum Sweeney Consulting, a company specializing in site evaluation and certification, will conduct an evaluation of a potential site where a large company could locate, per the resolution approved. The contract to complete the site evaluation totals $35,000.
"From that report we would seek a megasite designation," Wheatley said.
He explained with the designation, River Ridge will be able to market a shovel-ready site and it will be able to attract a wider variety of potential tenants into the commerce center.
"It is very rare to have a landmass under common ownership like we do that also sits in a major metropolitan area, that also sits at a major interchange," Wheatley said. "We feel like this site is going to be very attractive."
The goal of having a marketable megasite is to attract a single, large, major manufacturer to River Ridge. Around the major manufacturer, Wheatley said, a supplier park could be developed. He said River Ridge would hope to locate one single company around which to build the megasite, rather than selling the site to a developer to lease a number of properties.
"Those projects are heavy in capital investment and they employ people at wages at more than $20 per hour," Wheatley said of a large manufacturing company.
He added that interest from several companies has been generated, but no negotiations have begun, nor would Wheatley divulge which companies expressed interest in developing a megasite.
River Ridge was also notified that it will receive assistance to improve the infrastructure throughout the commerce center through a U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration Public Works Grant.
According to the resolution accepting the grant, River Ridge will receive $1.8 million in grant funds to complete several infrastructure improvements, largely around the current development area along Ind. 62 between Salem Noble Road and Stacey Road.
The grant requires 50 percent matching funds from River Ridge and the estimated cost for the improvements total more than $3.6 million.
Among the infrastructure projects listed are a railroad relocation, Trey Street extension to River Ridge Circle, the resurfacing of River Ridge Circle as well as a traffic light at its intersection with Ind. 62, improvements to Cox Street and a traffic signal at its intersection with Ind. 62, create a water line loop from Trey Street to undeveloped sites, install a lift station and increase the size of the sanitary sewer collector.
River Ridge secured the grant through the Disaster Relief Opportunity administered through the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
"Each disaster-recovery investment is intended to support a community's long-term recovery, spur job creation, leverage private investment and promote disaster resiliency," according to the notice of investment award. "The region has suffered through five declared disasters since 2008 — disasters that caused many millions of dollars in damages. This investment will help the Clark County region capitalize on its competitive strengths, assist in its long-term recovery efforts and promote disaster resiliency."
Wheatley said River Ridge has been working to secure the grant funding for about a year and the commerce center will likely seek an engineering plan to be developed before the end of this year. The construction of the projects outlined in the grant funding is expected to be completed by the end of 2014, he said.


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ALEXANDRIA, Va.—It's official. Attendance was up by 5.5 percent at the 2013 ASIS conference, held last month in Chicago, the organization reports. Good news for ASIS, great news for the industry.
The 59th annual conference drew 20,600 security professionals from 76 nations, and more than 640 companies were on the exhibit floor. Nearly 200 educational sessions were held, too. No wonder I have barely caught up since my return!
It truly was a productive, action-packed event. If you missed it here's a roundup of the visits I made along with Martha Entwistle's from Security Systems News.
Next up on the conference circuit for me is our very own TechSec Solutions, coming right up in January. I've just started to speak to my "20 under 40" award winners in preparation for that, so stay tuned. Again, a great "class" of your pros.
Public safety and security provide significant growth opportunities for the location industry, in applications ranging from criminal surveillance to emergency response. But not all location solutions are alike, and some work better than others in powering the next-generation efforts of law enforcement and private security organizations. The two technologies most in use today are:
· Global Positioning System-based location systems. These require GPS receiver chipsets to be included in the caller's mobile device. GPS solutions take relatively longer to locate a target resulting in possible life-threatening situations for emergency callers. GPS solutions work well in direct line-of-sight conditions with the satellites, such as suburban and rural areas, but are challenged in dense urban areas and indoor environments where most calls originate.
· RF Pattern Matching [RFPM] is a network-based positioning method based on radio-link measurements collected from the network, using the device's own radio signals to identify its location and eliminate any dependency on satellites or other hardware. RFPM is able to locate all callers across any air interface and in any environment, eliminating limitations related to the phone type or network technology. RFPM works extremely well in non line-of-sight conditions, such as dense urban and indoor environments, and is highly reliable for mission-critical applications.
As high-accuracy wireless location solutions become increasingly prevalent in public safety applications, law enforcement organizations are finding new and creative uses:
· Gunshot detection. As profiled in a recent 60 Minutes episode, the Springfield, Mass., police department deployed a location-based application called ShotSpotter that detects the sources of gunshots using acoustic measurements, detecting over 4,000 gunshots in the first two years it was deployed, leading to more than 25 arrests.
· Augmented reality. Imagine an officer approaching a suspect location. By using location technology interfacing with court and police records that have been geo-tagged, the officer can instantly access all outstanding warrants, arrest records of persons living there, and other useful information to better assess the situation before he enters the building.
· Facial recognition. An officer can photograph a suspect in the field under surveillance and upload the photo to headquarters where it is instantly analyzed. The suspect identification and related information (criminal record, arrest warrants, known associates) is then relayed back to the officer, providing a real-time snapshot of the suspect and better equipping the officer.
· License plate reader. When tailing a suspect vehicle, an officer can scan license plates and check against a database to determine if the car is stolen, has been used in a crime, belongs to a crime suspect, etc. The location application can also alert other officers in the area if backup is required and determine the most optimal routes to intercept the suspect vehicle.
· Crime heat maps. Location technology can be used to create crime "heat maps" based on public safety statistics to identify concentrations of various types of crime, such as auto theft and burglary, and respond accordingly. The officer will be alerted when he has crossed a virtual geo-fence into such a hotspot so that the officer can prepare and respond. Similarly, headquarters can filter and analyze geo-tagged events such as arrests, 911 calls and more to determine patterns and better allocate resources.
Location-enabled solutions for security applications help protect the public and law enforcement officers, and they are cost effective, often resulting in smarter use of resources. Most importantly, high-accuracy wireless location technology gives public safety organizations an advantage over criminals and opens new doors to more advanced applications in the future.
Bhavin Shah leads the Marketing and Business Development activities for Polaris Wireless. He can be reached at: (408) 492-8900 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Here's an interesting twist on municipal security cameras.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, people are being asked to register online to point out where they've seen security cameras. The initiative, from VideoSurveillance.com and CommunityCam has been successful previously in Philadelphia and Portland, Ore., according to founder Josh Daniels.
The goal is to allow runners, bikers and walkers to plan safe routes, those that they know are under surveillance, Daniels told NBC Bay Area News.com.
So far, more than 1,000 cameras have been mapped online in San Francisco and another 1,000 in Oakland and surrounding East Bay cities, the NBC report said.
Privacy concerns have not been an issue, Daniels said. "In fact, we've seen quite a dramatic appreciation for the tool," he told the news station.
I watched the TV broadcast and those members of the public interviewed did, indeed, appreciate the cameras' coverage. They feel safer, they said. I wonder how much cameras' role in solving the Boston Marathon bombings played a part in that.
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr praised the initiative as being a tool that will help his department get good video evidence and have a better chance at moving cases forward. It's a "gift that keeps on giving," he said.
No, it's not a joke. But it is absurd! And somewhat frightening, really.
Last week, a Minneapolis-area child without a ticket, or an adult handy, or an unaccompanied-minor pass, boarded a Delta flight to Las Vegas. It was only when the plane was airborne that the flight crew became suspicious and called authorities in Las Vegas, who took the boy into protective custody upon landing.
Delta officials told news outlets that they are looking at video surveillance and gathering other information to understand how this could happen and to ensure it doesn't happen again. You think?
The TSA says the boy was screened at the security checkpoint. But without a boarding pass? I've traveled many times with my son and his boarding pass has always been required. Were the TSA agents just not looking as the 9-year-old circumvented the guards that check ID's and boarding passes? Great! And what about at boarding, when you have to get your boarding pass scanned before entering the jetway?
There are lots of reports flying around out there about the boy's past brushes with the law, and that he has a history of dangerous behavior and had sneaked into a water park before. But as his father told the New York Daily News, "My son is not a terrorist. He's a 9-year-old, misunderstood, but very intelligent young man. How do you … let a 9-year-old sneak past your system without checking him, questioning him, talking to him?"
Well, let's consider ourselves all lucky that he is just a 9-year-old with behavioral issues and not, indeed, a terrorist, or a terrorist's weapon. Let me just repeat, a 9-year-old.
Be safe out there.
Landscape security and tight perimeter control will figure strongly into the proposed new 2.8-million-square foot, Apple Campus 2 in northeastern Cupertino, Calif. The company hopes to occupy the Pentagon-sized building in 2016.
According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the goal of the campus is to "[a]chieve the security and privacy required for the invention of new products by eliminating any public access through the site, and protecting the perimeters against trespassers."
That includes Apple's request to close a road that goes through the middle of its two-parcel, 176-acre site. That hasn't gained it any more fans among the locals.
It also objects to the city's request that it add a public trail along a nearby creek. "Apple has indicated that the fundamental objective of a secure campus would be compromised with the provision of a public trail immediately adjacent to or through the project site. Even with security and design measures such as fencing, Apple maintains that such a trail through a portion of the site would pose security risks because Apple has been the target of intense scrutiny regarding its future projects. Given that Apple's research and development facility is to be located at this site, perimeter security that will afford privacy is a fundamental objective," the company said in response to an environmental impact report, according to the newspaper.
Relocating a tree is also on Apple's objection list.
I have calls into Apple about these and other security plans for the project, but they have not been returned. I hope to have a follow-up with more information for you.
Meanwhile, here's the article and renderings of the new building, which has been referred to as a "spaceship." Worth the look.
I had an interesting conversation about the convergence of physical security and IT a few weeks ago with Doug Louie of Smith Micro Software in Aliso Viejo, Calif.
When mobile devices started flooding the workplace it "caught IT folks like a deer in the headlights," Louie said, but also caught in the headlights were physical security pros, who then had to deal more closely with their IT colleagues.
But that relatively new challenge is just the way it is. With BYOD and the fact that mobile devices change from month to month—when it used to be every year or year-and-a-half, Louie noted—securing connectivity in regards to physical security is of vital importance. That's especially so when it comes to municipal security at the basic level—the police force.
Most police officers nowadays use laptops in their patrol cars for dispatch, for GPS to get to crime scenes most efficiently and more. Increasingly, officers are starting to use tablets and smartphones for those purposes, said Louie, senior director of product marketing, mobility management solutions.
What happens when the police officers are between cell towers and have to juggle between 2G, 3G, 4G, and wi-fi while still maintaining security protocols? The ability to stay connected while on the job is of paramount importance to public safety professionals, Smith Micro says.
The company has worked with large public safety departments, including the Washington, D.C., Metro Police to help them circumvent mobility challenges while officers are on patrol. The company's product is called QuickLink Mobility.
"Officers are mobile," Louie said. "They have different amounts of apps open. They can't afford not to be connected. They can't spend time re-logging in and remembering passwords."
More and more, technology helps first responders protect their areas; without it, they can't do their best to stop a bomber at a sporting event, a burglary in progress at the local convenience store or an active shooter at a school.
In D.C., officers are mandated not to use unsecure, public wi-fi networks due to hacking concerns. Smith Micro's virtual private network solution enables "our public safety partners to stay connected while in the field. We needed a reliable connection solution that allows access to data over a secure mobile broadband network," said Jennifer Greene, director of D.C.'s Office of Unified Communications. "The Smith Micro solution offers a seamless transition between commercial mobile and secure wi-fi, as well as a platform for multiple operating systems."
OUC provides centralized, districtwide management of public safety voice radio technology and other wireless communication systems and resources. It handles almost 2 million 911 calls each year.
Metal theft—especially theft of copper—is alive and well, unfortunately. Some 33,775 insurance claims were filed from Jan. 1, 2010, to Dec. 31, 2012, for the theft of copper, bronze, brass and aluminum, up 36 percent from the previous two years. Of those claims, 96 percent were for copper alone, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
Ohio leads in that timeframe with the highest toll at 3,228 metal thefts, according to NICB. It's followed, in that same timeframe, by Texas with 2,624; Georgia, 1,953; California, 1,888; and North Carolina, 1,682. This shows a 36-percent increase in claims when compared with the 25,083 claims reported between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2011.
The number of claims filed is found to have a statistically significant correlation with the price of copper, NICB said.
This year, thieves have stolen copper throughout the United Sates, including from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which disabled the approach lighting for one of the runways. Copper theft is suspected in an explosion this week at the University of California, Berkeley.
Four-thousand pounds of copper was nabbed from a New York power station, and in the biggest copper heist on record, more than six miles of copper was stripped from a Utah highway.
The full NICB report can be viewed here.
ORLANDO—Homeowners in neighborhoods around this central Florida city have been offered a free shotgun from the Texas-based Armed Citizens Project, according to a report from the Reuters News Agency. Hundreds of residents have accepted the offer, the news report said.
A website for the group offered one free shotgun per household and said the project hopes to create "gun-rich" zones in moderate- to high-crime areas in the United States to analyze what happens to the crime rate when a neighborhood is saturated with guns, the news report said.
But Reuters reported that Ron Ritter, director of the Florida branch, said guns would be distributed to all comers instead of being concentrated in a defined location. He said the group expects to begin distributing shotguns "in the next 10 days."
Those wanting the free shotguns must pass a background check and take a firearms course.
Ritter told Reuters that the project also has branches in California, Illinois, Arizona and other states.
CHICAGO—James Hughes of the North Texas Crime Commission has a lot going on. Busy with his work for NTCC, he keeps adding more to his plate, like setting up meetings with telecommunications reps about anti-crime strategies.
Thefts of $5,000 batteries from TMobile and Time Warner facilities cost those companies $100 a minute, he told me during our talk at ASIS 2013. "And they get hit every day."
"You can't do things the same way as before. Put up the same camera and you'll get a great picture of the guy's hoodie," he said.
It was great to meet James in person during my last day on the ASIS 2013 show floor. He promises to keep me posted on his latest doings. He's really on top of all the latest tech out there and offers that up to his members in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, one of the prime sites for organized retail crime.
At Johnson Controls, Sarah Zwicky talked about multiuse of security cameras, especially in schools and hospitals. I'll be following up with her.
At Interlogix, Kostas Mellos , sales leader for video and transmission, noting the difficulties many companies have in migrating from analog to digital, said it's not necessary to start from scratch. "Budgets are still tight, you can leave your old stuff and get new stuff, and we can now make it so everything works together."
CHICAGO—3VR, Cisco, Avigilon, Verint, March Networks, FLIR, Mobotix, Guardian 8 and more! Those were among the booth visits I made Tuesday at the 59th Annual ASIS International Seminar and Exhibits here.
Common themes among those I met with were making security cameras better and having them do more for actionable, business intelligence for a bigger ROI and taking the potential for human error out of the equation.
For example, 3VR's Masa Karahashi, senior VP, engineering , and Cisco's senior marketing manager Lindsay Hiebert and product manager Jenifer Piccioni told me about their products' ability to troubleshoot, manage huge numbers of cameras and provide valuable "un-siloed" data.
FLIR's Mark Kline, business development manager for critical infrastructure in the western U.S., Latin America and Canada, talked about adaptive command through the company's Cameleon and told me to look more into Skywatch, its manned mobile surveillance tower.
Avigilon was showing off its new Light Catcher, designed for hotels, restaurants, bars and other places that use low lighting. The cameras can capture colors in a way that others can't in darkness or low light, said Ian Povey, director of product management and product marketing. Knowing if someone who just took a wallet from someone's purse at a bar was wearing a red or blue shirt can be a big plus, he said. Avigilon had a very effective demo at its booth.
Verint end-users Rudy Wolter, director of North American security and investigative services for Citigroup, and Eric Biernatt, manager of public safety, physical and tech security for the Medical College of Wisconsin, talked about their success with Verint's products across the verticals.
I also spoke with a Guardian 8 end user who is beginning to deploy the G8 ProV2, enhanced nonlethal device at his sites. (The end user did not want to be named as of yet, but he is from a nationwide company.) The deviceå provides a layered defense as an alternative to force from up to 50 feet away, including laser spotter, siren, strobe light, O.C. pepper spray, camera with voice and video auto-record functionality, push-to-talk communications capabilities, the company said.
It's always nice to put faces to people I often talk with via telephone, so I stopped by the American Military University booth to meet in person my good source, Jeffrey Hawkins, manager of strategic initiatives for the private security sector.
I topped off the day with an excellent dinner hosted by Morse Watchmans at the Girl and the Goat restaurant (highly recommend!). There I had the opportunity to chat with colleagues in the security trade pub biz.
As an aside, I took a hilarious ride back from the show with nine strangers. It was a long route so I had the chance to get to know Tyler Sweatt from Toffler Associates, who served three years in Afghanistan. Great guy. We at Security Director News thank him for his service!
Now, it's time for Day 2. Another busy day ahead. Stay tuned.
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Keld Jensen, Contributor
I write about negotiation, behavioral economics and trust.
Whether you're presenting on stage or networking at a trade conference, discussing a project with a co-worker or detecting someone's lie, body language is often the key to creating, or uncovering, the real meaning of a message.
Body language became a significant part of your life long before you said your first word. In his book Silent Messages, Professor Albert Mehrabian concludes that 55 percent of communication actually takes place through body language. People intuitively and instantaneously develop a perception in the first moments they see you, and body language builds, confirms, or dispels those impressions.
With this in mind, here are a few feelings you may have experienced while watching other people around the office, or everyone else may have felt while watching you! Use this information to improve your understanding of the world around you and increase the effectiveness of your own credibility, communication, and negotiation skills.
You're either lying, or incredibly nervous
Poor or no eye contact can be symptomatic of a lie, nervousness, or fear in Western cultures. Other signals include sweating, shaking, licking lips, and moving the hand to the face to cover the mouth or eyes.
Unfortunately, lying can sometimes be confused with a bad case of the butterflies, but it also makes perfect sense. When someone lies, they usually don't have confidence in their message and their body reveals that. When you're nervous, you just lack self-assurance and it shows.
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Charisma. Energy. Eye contact. Open body language. These are the signals of success, and of someone who knows how to communicate well with their body. They come up to you with an assertive handshake, can sit calmly while still exerting energy, align themselves with the room when speaking, and are in complete control of their movements and gestures. I talked about Anthony Robbins in my last post, and he is a great example of a person who has mastered these skills.
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Imagine a person whose lips are pursed tightly, feet firmly on the ground, and crossed arms. You're trying to have a conversation when suddenly he points a finger right at you and his face begins to flush red. This is the point where you either get ready for battle or look to defuse the situation as quickly as possible.
You can detect boredom from a mile away. When people go into standby mode, they tend to focus on the important things, such as drawing squiggles, staring off into space, or reading the words on their pen. Boredom is difficult to hide because it represents a conflict between one's unconscious desires and physical presence.
We communicate as much with our body language, eye contact and gestures as we do with our words. So it is critical to keep language and gestures in sync. The best way to do that is to just be yourself. Authentic speakers tend to let their language and non verbals flow naturally. We tend to concentrate so much on our verbal delivery, we forget the non verbal part. Taking the time to be thoughtful and focus your attention on the non verbals as well as the verbal content can help you be a more natural speaker. Loraine Antrim
Great read.
As a public speaker and training instructor, I cannot agree more with your points on body language. Some of these can be ignored (because one does not want to get distracted with interpreting stuff); but overall, passion, settled enthusiasm (dependent on situation) and great body language can do a lot towards success in any field.
Thanks for sharing Keld.


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Oakley UK's Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter won the men's Summer Games lightweight double scull in commanding style on Lake Shunyi yesterday, wearing custom red-white-blue Radars.
The pair pumped the air as they went over the finish line and Purchase stood up to wave to GB fans after holding off the fast finishing Greek crew who took silver. The double world champions from Denmark took bronze, just ahead of Italy.
It was the 13th straight win for the UK crew and the first for Britain in the lightweight doubles at the Summer Games. Hunter had to receive medical attention after clinching gold – his first in international rowing, eight years after he first joined Great Britain's senior squad and 13 years after his first junior appearance.
"That was amazing," he said. "Who said 13 was an unlucky number? We've got rid of that one. I just want to see that flag go up and hear the national anthem. I've been dying for that since I started rowing," said Purchase. "10 years of hard work comes down to six and a half minutes or so of hell – but with a fantastic result".
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A TEENAGE actor from Read has joined the cast of prime-time BBC1 show Waterloo Road.
Lucien Laviscount, 18, who attended Ribblesdale High School Technology College, Clitheroe, has landed the role of a Year 12 pupil called Jonah Kirby in the hit programme set in a Rochdale comprehensive school.
He has wanted to act since he was two and would love to make it big in Hollywood, like his idol Will Smith.
Lucien is best known for playing Sophie Webster's boyfriend, Ben Richardson, in Coronation Street.
He has also appeared in other dramas, including Cutting It, New Street Law and Grange Hill, where he beat off 100 other competitors to land the role of Jake Briggs.
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