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A note in a workshop log proves that at the latest in March 1914, Oskar Barnack put the finishing touches on the first working model of a compact camera for 35 mm standard cinema film. He had not merely invented a new camera – the Leica (= Leitz/camera), not introduced until 1925 due to the war, in fact ushered in a paradigm shift in photography. The Leica made it easier for amateurs, newcomers, and emancipated women to take pictures, but, more than that, it also enabled a whole new way of seeing things – a faster, more dynamic view of the world from new angles. Just in time to mark a milestone birthday of the legendary compact camera, and for the first time in this thematic breadth, this volume with about 1.200 images offers a wide artistic and cultural history of the Leica from the 1920s to the present day.
Essays by international authors examine topics including the technical genesis of the Leica, its influence on photojournalism, and its significance for a wide variety of avant-garde currents in art photography. Heretofore unpublished documents from the archives of the Leica Camera AG round off this multifaceted 100-year cultural chronicle.
Photographs by:
Michael Ackerman, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Ilse Bing, Edouard Boubat, René Burri, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mark Cohen, Bruce Davidson, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, William Eggleston, Richard Fleischhut, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Alberto Garcia Alix, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Ralph Gibson, Bruce Gilden, René Groebli, George Grosz, Ara Güler, Elisabeth Hase, Fred Herzog, Frank Horvat, Thomas Hoepker, Barbara Klemm, William Klein, Robert Lebeck, Saul Leiter, Ulrich Mack, Ramón Masats, Susan Meiselas, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Will McBride, László Moholy-Nagy, Victor Palla, Alexander Rodtschenko, Paolo Roversi, Erich Salomon, Jeanloup Sieff, Klavdij Sluban, Louis Stettner, Christer Strömholm, Sabine Weiss, Kai Wiedenhöfer, Tom Wood and many others
Size: 270 x 320 mm
564 pages ca. 1200 color illustrations
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A revised and updated edition of Phaidon's bestselling book, which brings this landmark work fully up-to-date with new additions covering the latest developments in photography.
The Photography Book is an unsurpassed collection of more than 550 superb images that represent the world's best photographers from the mid-nineteenth century to today.
Arranged alphabetically by photographer, it showcases pioneers such as Gustave Le Gray and Daguerre, icons like Robert Capa and contemporary names such as Richard Wentworth and Carolee Schneemann. The selection encompasses fashion, sport, natural history, reportage, society portraiture, documentary and art, with concise text providing useful insight into each work and its creator. Also included are extensive cross-references and glossaries of technical terms and movements.
Publisher: Phaidon
Size: 290 x 210 mm
576 pages, 563 illustrations
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The history of photography, perhaps more so than any other art, is a history of technology that is best revealed in the very vehicle that makes it possible – the camera.
Through a selection of fifty landmark cameras, Michael Pritchard tells the story of this ground-breaking piece of equipment that changed the way we saw the world around us. Beginning with Louis Daguerre's daguerreotype of 1839, other entries include the Brownie (1900), the Kodak Instamatic 100 (1963), the Polaroid SX-70 (1972), right up to the Canon EOS 5D Mark III (2012) and the Nokia Lumia camera phone (2013).
Illustrations show not only the cameras themselves but also the advertising material that accompanied them and some of the well-known images they were used to take. Pritchard uses each camera as a point of entry for talking about the people who created and used them and the kind of photos they produced, from Weegee and his Speed Graphic to Cartier-Bresson and the Leica's role in the invention of photojournalism. In the hands of individual photographers, he reveals, cameras came to represent unique styles of depiction.
Together, the stories of the fifty cameras gathered here present an approachable and informative take on a medium that continues to fire the imagination, whether we're perfecting the selfie using the modern camera-phone or longing for the days of Fotomat.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Size: 227 x 170 mm
224 pages, 150 colour illustrations
Publisher's Description
From photography's earliest days, the thrill and immediacy of the new medium were defined at the first public exhibitions.
Half art, half science, photography captured the attention of everyone from eager technophiles to curious painters: the art of representation was about to change.
This is the first book to study the history of photography via international exhibitions. The foremost historians of the medium describe the most important shows and set them in the context of their times, from London's Great Exhibition of 1851 to today.
Edited by Alessandra Mauro, with contributions by and interviews with a host of international photography experts, this will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in photography and curating, and provides the most informative and wide-ranging survey available of the era's defining medium.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Size: 265 x 200 mm
272 pages, 125 Illustrations, 75 in colour
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The form of the photo book allows for narrative meaning to arise from the images, and as such, has been used by many of the most preeminent photographers to present and communicate their works. In Spain particularly, the photo book is colored by a complex national history: the Civil War, the transition to democracy, the social and cultural role of the peasantry and the evolving role of women have all been significantly documented via the photo book. The relationship of Spanish culture and photography to the photo book is comprehensively explored in this volume, published to accompany an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. This volume collects the work of not only well-known photographers such as José Ortiz Echagüe, Alfonso, Francesc Català-Roca, Ramón Masats, Xavier Miserachs, Francisco Ontañón and Colita, but also relatively unknown figures, such as Antonio Cánovas, the collective work of Misiones Pedagógicas (Teaching Missions), José Compte, Enrique Palazuelo, Luis Acosta Moro and Salvador Costa. Text by Horacio Fernández explains the cultural significance of these artists' works and further delves into the complex relationship between the Spanish photo book and literature.
Publisher: RM/Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía
Size: 8.75 X 11.25"
264 pages
Publisher's Description
Walker Evans said in his 1958 introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans, "For the thousandth time, it must be said that pictures speak for themselves, wordlessly, visually, or they fail." The images revolutionized postwar American photography. With their candid images of men and women from all classes and walks of life, the photographs presented a very different story than that portrayed by the wholesome caricature of midcentury prosperity pervading American photography at the time. Although initially dismissed by his peers for his pioneering work, Frank was ultimately credited with changing the course of the art form, and his photography holds a secure status in the history of twentieth-century art. And he did all this without words. It seems appropriate then – and not a little overdue – that Jonathan Day has created a book that expounds, explores, and examines Frank's work pictorially.
Taking Frank's iconic images as his point of reference, Day shot new photographs that commented on the road and contemporary America. Here, these images are paired with critical commentary that details the aspects of the work that are visually expounded and explained in Day's complementary images. A visual entryway to the photographs and themes of this iconic book in the history of photography, Postcards from the Road represents an innovative, carefully considered departure from standard photographic textbooks.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Size: 9 x 9"
220 pages, 50 color plates
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The Decisive Moment, originally called Images à la Sauvette, is one of the most famous books in the history of photography, assembling Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years. Published in 1952 by Simon and Schuster, New York, in collaboration with Editions Verve, Paris, it was lavishly embellished with a collage cover by Henri Matisse. The book and its images have since influenced generations of photographers. Its English title has defined the notion of the famous formal peak in which all elements in the photographic frame accumulate to form the perfect image. Paired with the artist's humanist viewpoint, Cartier-Bresson's photography has become part of the world's collective memory. This new publication is a meticulous facsimile of the original book. It comes with an additional booklet containing an essay on the history of The Decisive Moment by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.
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With impressive comprehensiveness, this book documents more than 600 Spanish photographers working in genres and idioms from classical to contemporary photography, reportage to fashion and advertising, press, architecture, landscape and portraiture.
Publisher: LA FÁBRICA
672 pages, illustrated throughout
Publisher's Description
The Genius of Photography sets out to explore – through some of the key events, personalities and images that have marked the development of the medium – what the essence of the part-art, part-science is. Six short chapters set the evolution of photography in its social context, but at the heart of the book is a quest to understand what makes a truly great photograph. And the twenty or so iconic images chosen to illustrate each chapter are examined and explained in essays that place them within the many unfolding stories of photography while illuminating the underlying issues the book addresses. Can we 'believe' what a photograph shows us? Why is a photograph more than the sum of its subject-matter? How does the photographer deal with history? Why is photography the melancholy art?
Provocative and enlightening by turns, Gerry Badger's critical perspective and keen aesthetic sense will make this a landmark book for anyone who wants to know more about one of the most important artforms of the twenty-first century. The Genius of Photography was originally published to tie-in with a BBC series, produced by Wall to Wall Media'.
Publisher: Quadrille
Size: 225 x 290 mm
256 pages, over 120 illustrations
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The image of the untamed American West persists as one of our country's most enduring cultural myths, and few photographers have captured more compelling images of the frontier than Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Trained under Mathew Brady, O'Sullivan accompanied several government expeditions to the West—most notably with geologist Clarence King in 1867 and cartographer George M. Wheeler in 1871. Along these journeys, O'Sullivan produced many beautiful photographs that exhibit a forthright and rigorous style formed in response to the landscapes he encountered. Faced with challenging terrain and lacking previous photographic examples on which to rely, O'Sullivan created a body of work that was without precedent in its visual and emotional complexities.
The first major publication on O'Sullivan in more than thirty years, Framing the West offers a new aesthetic and formal interpretation of O'Sullivan's photographs and assesses his influence on the larger photographic canon. The book features previously unpublished and rarely seen images and serves as a field guide for O'Sullivan's original prints, presenting them for the first time in sequence with the chronology of their production.
Toby Jurovics is curator of photography at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Carol M. Johnson is curator of photography at the Library of Congress. Glenn Willumson is director of the graduate program in museum studies and associate professor of art history at the University of Florida. William F. Stapp is an independent scholar of photography. Page Stegner is a novelist, essayist, and teacher.
Mar 23, 2010
272 p., 9 1/2 x 11
150 illustrations
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Born in upstate New York in 1829, Carleton Watkins ventured west in 1848 to strike it rich. Instead of prospecting for gold, Watkins acquired a talent for photography. Through the 1860s and 1870s, Watkins charted the remote American West, and masterfully captured the vast scale and spirit of the Pacific Northwest. Among his most iconic photographs are the dramatic waterfalls, peaks, and valleys of Yosemite Valley. So moving were these images of the Valley that they were instrumental in convincing the 38th U.S. Congress and President Abraham Lincoln to pass the Yosemite Act of 1864, the first official step toward preserving the region and creating a blueprint for America's National Park System.
Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums presents over 150 images from three of Watkins's albums—Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861 and 1865-66), Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862-76), and Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867 and 1870)—from the Stanford University Libraries Special Collections. These images represent the definitive collection of Watkins's highest achievements. In addition to the complete albums, the book also features fifteen essays by renowned scholars of the American West, including David M. Kennedy, Alexander Nemerov, and Richard White. Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums accompanies an ambitious exhibition of the same name, on view at the Cantor Arts Center from April through August 2014.
June 2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the congressional act that preserved Yosemite Valley and launched the national park system in the United States. These photographs—feats of innovation and technology at the dawn of photography—evince the beauty, power, and persuasiveness of the great American landscape.
280 pages
160 photographs
28.55 cms L x 36.09 cms W (2.61 kgs)
Publisher's price $40
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These rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images from the private collection of Marc Walter were produced by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924. Using a photolithographic process that predated the autochrome by nearly 20 years, they offered people the very first color photographs of the United States. Suddenly, the continent's colors were available for all to see. The rich ochres and browns of the Grand Canyon, the dazzle of Atlantic City, became a visual delight not only for eyewitnesses, but for Americans far and wide.
Imbued with this sense of discovery and adventure, the pictures gathered here are a voyage through peoples, places and time at once. They take us through North America's vast and varied landscape, encounter its many communities, and above all transport us back to the New World of over a century ago. Over more than 600 pages including fold-out spreads, this sweeping panorama takes us from Native American settlements to New York's Chinatown, from some of the last cowboys to Coney Island's heyday. As luminous now as they were some 120 years ago, these rare and remarkable images that brought America to Americans now bring American's past to our present.
The authors:
Graphic designer, photographer, and collector Marc Walter specializes in vintage travel photographs, particularly photochroms, of which he has one of the world's largest collections. He has widely published books with images from his collection as well as his own photographs.
Sabine Arqué is a documentarian, iconographer, and author. She has collaborated on numerous books on the subjects of travel, the history of tourism and photography.
Hardcover with fold-outs, 11.4 x 15.6 in., 612 pages
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
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From the invention of photography in 1839, architecture was second only to portraiture as the most favored subject for the camera. The fact that buildings were immobile was advantageous for the long exposures needed in the early days, but architectural images were popular for other reasons: they documented dynastic, civic, and religious achievements; educated architects about construction and decorative details; and whetted curiosity about distant lands. Later photographers found innovative ways to depict structures of every era and type.
Arranged chronologically, Architecture in Photographs spans the history of the medium and includes works in a variety of photographic processes by such distinguished nineteenth-century practitioners as Henri le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, and Roger Fenton; twentieth-century photographers Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, and Walker Evans; contemporary artists Ed Ruscha, Lewis Baltz, and Steven Shore; and younger image makers Catherine Opie and Michael Wesely.
The seventy-five images presented here, all from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, form a panoply of architectural structures and styles, from Egyptian ruins to Greek temples and Gothic cathedrals, and from skyscrapers and Modernist schools to mundane vernacular dwellings.
The book is published to coincide with the exhibitionIn Focus: Architecture, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from October 15, 2013, to March 2, 2014.
Publisher: Getty Publications
Size: 7 1/4 x 8 5/8"
112 pages, 75 colour and 4 b/w illustrations
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A chilling look at how Joseph Stalin manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase the memory of his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were airbrushed from group portraits, and crowd scenes were altered to depict even greater legions of the faithful. In each case, the juxtaposition of the original and the doctored images yields a fascinating - and often terrifying and tragic - insight into one of the darkest chapters of modern history.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Size: 288 x 246 mm
192 pages
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Donigan Cumming's The Stage is one of the most challenging photobooks published in the last century. Collaborating with his subjects to explore a kind of psychological portraiture, Cumming created a theatre of domestic and institutional interiors peopled by the strange and eccentric. Books on Books #19 presents an in-depth study of this remarkable and little known Canadian photobook with an essay by Richard Enright called The Overwhelming Quotidian: Donigan Cumming and The Stage.
Essays by Robert Enright, Jeffrey Ladd
Hardcover w/ Dustjacket
240 pp, 9.5 x 7 in.
275 Duotone & Color illustrations
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Chris Killip's In Flagrante is often cited as the most important photobook to come from England in the 1980s. Published in 1988, In Flagrante describes the communities in Northern England that were devastated by the deindustrialisation common to policies carried out by Thatcher and her predecessors starting in the mid-1970s. Books on Books 4 presents Killip's political yet lyric work and a new essay by Gerry Badger called Dispatches from a War Zone.
Essays by John Berger and Sylvia Grant, Gerry Badger, Jeffrey Ladd
Hardcover w/ Dustjacket
108 pp, 9.5 x 7 in.
65 Duotone and 4-color illustrations
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Richard Billingham's Ray's a Laugh is considered one of the most important contemporary photobooks from Britain. Centred around Billingham's working-class family who live in a cramped Birmingham high-rise tenement apartment and his father Ray - a chronic alcoholic - these candid snapshots describe their daily lives in a visual diary that is raw, intimate, touching and often uncomfortably humorous. Books on Books #18 contains every page spread from this classic book including a contemporary essay by Charlotte Cotton.
Essays by Charlotte Cotton, Jeffrey Ladd
Hardcover w/ Dustjacket
108 pp, 9.5 x 7 in.
90 Color illustrations
Martin Parr's Bad Weather is the debut book from one of Britain's most world-renowned and prolific photographers. Armed with wry humour (and a water-proof camera), Parr captured the social landscape of the UK during downpours, snow storms and the most challenging elements. Published in 1982, Bad Weather has been long out of print and is one of Parr's most sought after books. Books on Books # 17 offers an in-depth study of this important photobook including a new essay by Thomas Weski called Even the Queen Gets Wet.
Essays by Thomas Weski, Peter Turner, Jeffrey Ladd
Hardcover w/ Dustjacket
90 pp, 9.5 x 7 in.
50 Duotone illustrations
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Following the success of volumes I and II of The Photobook: A History (published in 2004 and 2009 respectively), this is the third volume bringing this study of the photobook fully up to date, with specific exploration of the contemporary, postwar photobook. It covers key themes including the globalization of photographic culture, the personalization of photobooks, the self-publishing boom and the new 'layered' photobook approach.
While the history of photographs is a well-established canon, less critical attention has been directed at the phenomenon of the photobook, which for many photographers is perhaps the most significant vehicle for the display of their work and the communication of their vision to a mass audience. Volume III, co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, expands this study and history of the photobook further. It explores the symbiotic relationship between the contemporary propaganda book vs. the protest photobook, sex and youth culture, photographers examining their own environments and the impact of the Internet and social media on the nature of the photobook, among much else.
The book is divided into 9 thematic chapters, each featuring general introductory text providing background information and highlighting the dominant political and artistic influences on the photobook in the period, followed by more detailed discussion of the individual photobooks. The introductory chapter texts are followed by spreads and images from over 200 books, which provide the central means of telling the history of the photobook. Chosen by Parr and Badger, these illustrations show the most artistically and culturally important photobooks in three dimensions, with the cover or jacket and a selection of spreads from the book shown.
Publisher: Phaidon
290 x 250 mm
320 pages, 900 colour illustrations
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The fourth edition of this comprehensive history of photography has been thoroughly revised and updated. Spanning the entire history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and providing a focused understanding of the cultural contexts in which photographers have lived and worked throughout, this remains an all-encompassing survey.
Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from a truly global viewpoint and looks at a wide-ranging collection of images through the lenses of art, science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual photographers. In addition to representing the established canon of Europe and the United States, key work from Latin America, Africa, India, Russia, China and Japan is also included. Professional, amateur and art photographers are all discussed, with 'Portrait' boxes devoted to highlighting important individuals and 'Focus' boxes charting particular cultural debates. New additions to this fourth edition include an overview of photography's involvement in conceptual art, a detailed review of the photographic work of artist Ed Ruscha and new material on European Worker Photography during the 1920s and 30s. Many new pictures have been added throughout the book, including superior versions of historical photographs and recent images from contemporary photographers, including Walead Beshty, Youssef Nabil, Lalla Essaydi and Ryan McGinley. A rich and vivid account of the history of photography placed in an essential cultural context, this indispensable book shows how photography has charted, shaped and sharpened our perception of the world.
Publisher: Lawrence King
Size: 292 x 220 mm
568 pages, 642 illustrations


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Maharashtra anti-terrorism police questioning Mangalore resident Abdul Samad Bawa
The Maharashtra anti-terrorism police are questioning a Karnataka resident they say may have been involved in February's bombing of a café in Pune, and in jihadist networks which have executed a series of urban bombings across India bombings since 2005.
Mangalore resident Abdul Samad Bawa was held by the Maharashtra police soon after his return from the United Arab Emirates, and flown to Mumbai for questioning. Government sources said India's intelligence services had worked closely with their counterparts in the UAE to secure Mr. Samad's return to India.
Police have been seeking Samad's brother, Mohammad Zarar Siddi Bawa, on suspicion that he may have played a central role in executing the German Bakery bombing. Investigation sources say informants identified an individual filmed by the café's closed-circuit camera as Bawa. Bawa, also known as 'Yasin Bhatkal', has been named as fugitive by authorities involved in the prosecution of members of a jihadist network called the Indian Mujahideen (IM), which carried out multiple urban bombings nationwide.
Airports alerted
Samad, intelligence sources said, had flown to Dubai on March 25. Following his identification by the Maharashtra police as an individual of interest in the Pune investigation, airports nationwide were alerted to detain him on arrival.
Investigators say they now hope to establish whether Samad was one of at least three individuals who were recorded by a separate closed-circuit camera system, located in a hotel adjoining the café, who met on the street minutes before the bombings.
Police sources said they would also examine allegations that Samad might have been linked to a cache of weapons recovered in Mumbai's suburbs last year. However, they denied media reports that Samad was also being questioned for his connections to the November, 2008 Lashkar-e-Taiba assault on Mumbai.
No past criminal investigation has thrown up any suggestion that Samad was involved in the Indian Mujahideen's networks or organised crime activity, Maharashtra police sources said.
Little is known about Samad's background, but Karnataka police sources say he had been studying in Bangalore until 2008, when several key Indian jihadists were held in a series of nationwide raids. He was not linked by prosecutors to any of the Indian Mujahideen's operations.
But investigators say they hope Samad's questioning will offer insights into the Indian Mujahideen's networks in the UAE and Pakistan. Bawa, along with key Indian Mujahideen commanders, Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri and his brother Iqbal Shahbandri, are thought by Indian intelligence to have conducted extensive recruitment and fund-raising operations among the Indian diaspora in the UAE.
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MOODY -- A Moody ISD board member is in jail for sexual assault of a child.
Michael Aycock is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
The district was unavailable for comment Monday, but the school board accepted Aycock's resignation Sunday.
He's in jail on a $250,000 bond.
Aycock had been with the school board for 4 years.


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"Take a listen to Southern New Jersey Native Payton Taylor's latest single, "Small Town Paradise", and you will believe a girl from New Jersey can sing country music…..WELL!"
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"Payton Taylor, a young country singer from Washington Township, is finding her way through the country music scene with the independent release of her first album..."
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Niall Hall has joked that he hasn't washed his face since Katy Perry planted a kiss on him at the MTV VMAs last month.
The heartthrrob spoke to Australian radio hosts Kyle and Jackie O about the public smooch that he has treasured ever since, admitting:
"Katy Perry had lovely purple lipstick on and I still haven't washed it off to be fair!"
The 18-year-old also struck up a friendship with the 'Firework' singer on Twitter after the awards ceremony, where he and his One Direction bandmates clocked up three awards, but confessed he is also wary of the social networking site.
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Thursday, February 10: UTEP (17-5, 8-1 C-USA) faces red-hot SMU (11-11, 4-4 C-USA) on Wednesday in Dallas. The game will be televised in El Paso on Time Warner Cable MetroSports Southwest Channel 24, with tip-off slated for 6 p.m. MT. The Mustangs have won five of their last six games, including three in a row at Moody Coliseum -- most notably a 70-60 upset of Memphis on Jan. 30. "SMU is playing considerably better than the last time we faced them," UTEP coach Tony Barbee said. "We didn't play well offensively against their zone (on Jan. 6 in El Paso). We're going to have to do something to speed up the tempo of the game on Wednesday. If you're not ready to play, they're good enough to beat you." UTEP took over sole possession of first place in the Conference USA standings with Saturday's 73-59 win over Tulsa in El Paso. The Golden Hurricane (18-5, 7-2) and UAB (19-4, 7-2) are a game back of the Miners in the conference chase with seven games remaining in the regular season. It marks the latest that UTEP has been in first place in the league standings since tying for the Western Athletic Conference crown with a 13-5 record during the 2003-04 season. The Miners have won seven straight games for the first time since the 2004-05 season (UTEP had winning streaks of seven and 10 games that year). UTEP has also reeled off three straight conference road wins for the first time since 2004-05. The Miners haven't won four league road games in a row since 1974-75, when they were victorious at New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado State and Utah in succession.


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TUAW's Daily App: Alice in Wonderland
I played Disney's Alice in Wonderland way back in February of this year, and back then, I wasn't super impressed. It was a little too much before the movie, and for US$4.99, it was a little too common for a platformer. But the app has just gone on sale for Halloween, and for $0.99, it's worth anoth...
Hands On: Alice for iPad shakes up storytime
Yesterday, after I posted the Alice for iPad preview video, Ben Roberts, who is one of the app creators, emailed us here at TUAW with promo codes for the application. I downloaded a copy of the app, installed it on my iPad, and spent a lovely half-hour reading out loud to my son. If you like read...
Found Footage: iPad Alice comes to life
I'm not a huge Alice in Wonderland fan but I've got to give props to the developers behind this iPad realization of the book. They've taken Alice to a new place with their interactive graphics that simulate the kind of reader engagement you'd normally find in a pop-up book. Ben Roberts and Chris ...
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America needs a wealth surtax
"The 400 richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans put together," says Robert Reich in The Huffington Post. "A surtax on the super-rich is fair, and it's necessary," he says, "given this unprecedented concentration of wealth."
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The rich recover and get even richer
Income inequality is no longer decreasing, says Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. "The 1% absorbed half of total income losses between 2007 and 2009; but in the first year of recovery the top percentile won 93% of all income gains," he says.
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Wealth gap in politics hurts us
It matters that our politicians are all rich, says Britt Peterson in The Boston Globe. Despite their efforts to downplay this and try to fit in with average Americans, the wealthy think and behave differently than the rest of us, Peterson says.
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Waltons illustrate great wealth divide
The combined wealth of Sam Walton's six heirs is equal to that of the bottom 30 percent of Americans, notes Elizabeth Flock in The Washington Post. And while that wealth continues to grow, the Walton heirs continue to lobby to lower their taxes, she says.
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Income inequality is the real trickle down
Growing income inequality strains the middle class in many ways, not the least of which is that it dramatically resets the margins of what is thought to be required to get by and see one's self as participating in mainstream society, says Robert H. Frank in Slate.
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Founders feared concentrated wealth
The concerns of Occupy Wall Street would have had a sympathetic ear with some of the founding fathers, says Jose-Antonio Orosco in The Oregonian. Constitutional Convention delegate Robert Yates was fearful that concentrated wealth would threaten democracy, Orosco says.
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Mobility more vital than size of gap
It's not income inequality that is America's big problem, says Shikha Dalmia in Reason. What should concern us most, Dalmia says, is income mobility. And Americans, have it, even those who are protesting in Zuccotti Park.
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Are you well off?
How wealthy are you? In The New York Times, an interactive graphic will give you a sense of where you stand here at home, while Global Rich List will tell you how your income lines up globally. And in Gawker, an irreverent quiz should close the topic.
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Before program cuts impose wealth tax
Raising the tax rate for the richest Americans, what President Obama has called the "Buffett rule," is an important milestone, say Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott in the Los Angeles Times, but it's only a first step. Correct gross wealth inequities, they say.
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Biggest issue is poverty, not slights
The biggest race issue in America is not whether rich and famous black Americans are still occasionally treated with indignity because of their color, says Thomas Chatterton Williams in The Atlantic. Rather, he says, it's the vast disparity between rich and poor blacks.
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Anyways, I'm not going to go into details about what I saw the Panthers do for obvious reasons - but I can tell you that both Moore and Clausen seemed to be taking an even number of reps with the 1's, so the question about who starts against SF may be more up in the air then it might seem.
I also saw DT run a couple of nice routes and make a couple of nice catches. The guy is definatley explosive, when he makes a cut he hits another gear. Had a chance to chat with him after practice on his way out, nice guy - bigger than I expected - if you didn't know what position he played and someone told you he was a linebacker you would believe it.
No Beason or DWill at practice today. Coach Fox was the last to leave the practice field and took extra time to chat with a few fans and take pictures. There is one thing you can say about Fox, he treats the fans first class, it has always been a pleasure to be around him - every time I've met him he's greeted me with a warm smile and a firm handshake. There are guys who force themselves to be nice to the fans and then there is Fox. We often forget that the coaches and players we watch every week are human beings. Regardless of what kind of coach you think Fox is, I can tell you that he's an A++ human being based on the multiple interactions I've had with him and the interactions I've watched him have with other fans. No matter what happens this year, or after this year, I wish coach Fox all the best.
Take this for what you will, but I decided to play devil's advocate and say to coach Fox as I was shaking his hand: "we're not going to lose you, are we?" to which he replied: "I hope not". I can clearly see how this was the only good answer to the question I asked from a PC standpoint and I wouldn't read much of anything into it, but I thought I would share anyways.
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text: New 'Twilight Zone' series in the worksBy James Hibberd, EW.comUpdated 2:28 PM ET, Wed December 19, 2012Bryan Singer is attached to executive producer a new version of the classic series "The Twilight Zone."Story highlightsCBS TV Studios is in the early stages of a new "Twilight Zone" seriesBryan Singer ("X-Men") is attached as executive producerThere is no writer and no attached network at this timeThis is the most exciting TV development news we've heard in awhile.CBS TV Studios is in the very early stages of a new version of the classic series "The Twilight Zone."Bryan Singer ("X-Men") is attached as executive producer. There is no writer and no attached network at this time. So this project could go nowhere. But the development wheels are turning.Creator-host Rod Serling's original 1959-64 edition of "The Twilight Zone" is considered one of the best shows of all time. Attempts to revive the series have largely struggled — there was a 1985 edition that ran for three seasons (two on CBS, one in syndication), and another in 2002 on UPN that lasted only one season.Terence Malick's 'To the Wonder' trailerYet a potential revival now of this ground-breaking anthology show makes sense. Sci-fi and horror series are delivering big ratings (AMC's "The Walking Dead," NBC's "Revolution") and there's several other genre projects coming to the small screen (NBC's "Hannibal" and "Dracula"; CBS' "Under the Dome"). Networks have become less squeamish about edgy content, which has allowed producers to more realistically depict dark subject matter. Plus, FX already took a step toward successfully reviving the anthology format by launching American Horror Story, a drama with close-ended seasons.There's been a second "Twilight Zone" movie mired in development for several years now too, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached as executive producer. The film is reportedly about a test pilot who returns to Earth after an experimental flight to discover it's 96 years in the future.See the original article at EW.com.More from showbizWhat to look forward to in 2015The sexiest night on TVWhy we're obsessed with spiesPowered by Livefyre


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quote:Number nine The number nine is special in China as it is the largest possible single digit, and Chinese dragons are frequently connected with it. For example, a Chinese dragon is normally described in terms of nine attributes and usually has 117 (9x13) scales - 81 (9x9) Yang and 36 (9x4) Yin. This is also why there are nine forms of the dragon and the dragon has nine offspring (see Classical depictions above). The "Nine Dragon Wall" is a screen wall with images of nine different dragons, and is found in imperial Chinese palaces and gardens. As nine was considered the number of the emperor, only the most senior officials were allowed to wear nine dragons on their robes — and then only with the robe completely covered with surcoats. Lower-ranking officials had eight or five dragons on their robes, again covered with surcoats; even the emperor himself wore his dragon robe with one of its nine dragons hidden from view. There are a number of places in China called "Nine Dragons", the most famous being Kowloon (in Cantonese) in Hong Kong.
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The #20 Blue Streaks battled through first quarter woes and ripped off 38 unanswered points in a 41-9 victory over Muskingum in rainy University Heights, OH. The win moved the Blue Streaks up to #16 nationally.
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7:30 PM ET, January 25, 2010
TD Garden, Boston, MA
Pierce, Rondo lift Celtics past road-weary Clips; wet arena floor poses issues
BOSTON -- Kevin Garnett's second game back had Boston coach Doc Rivers concerned for an unexpected reason.
Paul Pierce scored 22 points and Rajon Rondo had 16 points and 12 assists, leading the Celtics to a 95-89 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night in a game played on a TD Garden floor that had to be continually wiped because of condensation.
Forsberg: Little Drama
The Celtics eased into a rough stretch of their schedule with a routine win over the L.A. Clippers, writes Chris Forsberg. Story
"The first seven, eight minutes I didn't think we were going to even finish the game," Rivers said. "I was nervous, though. I really was."
The sometimes-slippery parquet floor forced the ball boys to mop one end while play was going on at the other for most of the game. Early in the game, a few players slipped, causing a brief delay with 2:28 left in the first quarter.
Rivers and Los Angeles coach Mike Dunleavy spoke about the conditions early in the game.
"Mike and I came together, if anybody else slipped in the next two minutes the game was going to be canceled," Rivers said. "We, at that point, were very close. Mike said the same thing, 'We can't afford to get a guy injured on this floor.'"
"It was wet," said Rondo, who shared a postgame podium with Garnett.
Garnett played 30 minutes and scored 17 points, while being the center of the defense.
"I think I'm just talking," Garnett said of his defensive presence. "I'm trying to bring a continued awareness of defense, a continued awareness of energy."
It was the Celtics' second straight win after they lost four of five games.
Ray Allen added 15 points for the Celtics, who lost to the Clippers 92-90 in Los Angeles on Dec. 27 when Baron Davis hit a fallaway jumper at the buzzer.
Rasual Butler led the Clippers with 17 points and Davis scored 16 on just 5 of 13 shooting. Craig Smith scored 11 of his 13 in the final quarter for Los Angeles.
Dunleavy knew the floor was a problem before the start.
"Our guys complained about it before we even played the game, guys were at risk and you hate for that to be the case," he said.
"We kept having to go out and wipe it. There were three kids on each end trying to wipe it. It must have been better because I didn't see guys -- we had four guys in the first quarter slip."
Both teams shot under 37 percent in the opening 12 minutes.
"I actually slipped one time posting up Kevin, trying to go around him," Clippers center Chris Kaman said.
Los Angeles forward Marcus Camby felt they waited a bit too long to address the problem.
"We were all slipping. It seemed like every Clipper was slipping, then when Ray Allen slips, they want to bring it in and address the issue, so that's what we were chirping about," he said. "It was kind of dangerous out there for both teams."
Los Angeles, which snapped an eight-game road losing streak at Washington Sunday, fell to 6-15 on the road.
Boston opened a 71-61 edge on Tony Allen's steal and breakaway layup with just under 11 minutes to play before Smith scored either from the floor or free-throw line on seven straight possessions, closing the gap to 77-73 with 5:43 left.
But Pierce answered with a 3-pointer, pushing the Celtics lead to seven.
The Clippers never closed the gap to below four points the rest of the way.
The Celtics, who trailed by one at halftime, opened the third quarter by scoring the first six points to move ahead 49-44. They pushed their lead to 58-50 on Rondo's driving basket midway into the quarter and led 64-59 after three.
Game notes
Clippers G Eric Gordon was sidelined for his third straight game with a sprained left big toe. ... Boston Celtics F Glen "Big Baby" Davis said before the game that he's looking to change his image and wants to drop his nickname. ... The Clippers have not won consecutive road games this season. ... Rivers said he'll know more Tuesday when F Brian Scalabrine will return from a sore right shoulder, which sidelined him for the second game in a row.
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Team Stat Comparison
Points | 89 | 95 |
Rebounds (Offensive-Total) | 11-48 | 5-43 |
Assists | 18 | 21 |
Turnovers | 16 | 14 |
Steals | 11 | 10 |
Blocks | 2 | 3 |
Fast Break Points | 16 | 16 |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 23 (1/0) | 15 (1/0) |
Largest Lead | 9 | 10 |
Top Performers
Game Leaders
Points | R. Butler 17 | P. Pierce 22 |
Rebounds | M. Camby 14 | K. Perkins 15 |
Assists | B. Davis 7 | R. Rondo 12 |
Steals | M. Camby 3 | R. Rondo 4 |
Blocks | M. Camby 1 | K. Perkins 2 |
Team rosters: Los Angeles | Boston |
Next 5 Games
Los Angeles | Boston |
01/27 @NJ 7:30pm 01/29 @MIN 8:00pm 01/31 @CLE 6:00pm 02/02 @CHI 8:00pm 02/03 @ATL 7:00pm |
01/28 @ORL 8:00pm 01/29 @ATL 7:30pm 01/31 LAL 3:30pm 02/01 @WSH 7:00pm 02/03 MIA 8:00pm |
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LNG Group Panama target Q3 close for Panama NG Power
LNG Group Panama is expected to close financing on the $1.2 billion Panama NG Power project in either August or September of this year, IJGlobal has learnt
LNG Group Panama is expected to close financing on the $1.2 billion Panama NG Power project in either August or September of this year, IJGlobal has learnt
Keiji Okagaki is to leave London, where he was a vice-president at Marubeni Europower, to take up a role at the Japanese trading house's Tokyo headquarters.
Philippine utility Meralco is talking to Japan's Osaka Gas about the construction of a $2 billion gas-fired power plant in Luzon
A consortium led by GDF Suez and Saudi Electric Company (SEC) has shortlisted a club of roughly 30 lenders to participate in a soft mini-perm refinancing of the Riyadh PP11 independent power project in Saudi Arabia
Spanish utility Iberdrola's US subsidiary and the New England-based utility UIL Holdings have agreed to merge
Dutch development bank FMO will partially finance the 85MW Aguas El Carmen hydro power project in the Nicaraguan department of Matagalpa
A Pomerleau-led consortium has closed 20-year debt to finance a data centre that will be leased to Hydro-Québec
Four Indian firms have submitted bids for the $970 million Gadarwara A and B transmission projects in India
Actis subsidiary Globeleq is speaking to lenders regarding a planned expansion of the generating capacity of the Kribi gas-fired power plant in Cameroon which it acquired a controlling stake in from AES last year
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has called for the UK to strengthen the Green Investment Bank and other targeted financial aids as well as improve public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure financing
Bidders on the Salalah 2 independent power project in Oman are hoping for a preferred bidder announcement in the next few weeks, after further talks with granting authority Oman Power and Water Procurement Company
Statkraft has signed an agreement to buy a majority stake in the listed Chilean hydropower company Pilmaiquén
The sponsors for the roughly $4 billion Central Java power project in Indonesia are reportedly close to reaching an agreement with PLN to acquire the final land parcels for the project
British insurance company Aviva and the Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) are to launch a £250 million ($388.3 million) solar PV fund as PiP plans its next, £1 billion fund
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering a loan of €130 million ($148 million) for the 253MW Tumarin hydro power project and other transmission investments in Nicaragua
Some of the shortlisted bidders have ceased working on proposals for the 1,200MW Sumsel 9 and 600MW Sumsel 10 mine-mouth coal-fired power projects in South Sumatra, according to two sources familiar with the deal
PPL and Riverstone have decided on which assets it should sell before jointly forming Talen Energy
Amandi Group and Aldwych International are sounding out potential lenders for their 190MW gas-fired power project near the town of Aboadze, Ghana
A consortium of funds managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is set to acquire a further 15% interest in RWE Grid Holding
Blackstone has reached close on the Blackstone Energy Partners (BEP) II fund with more than $4.5 billion in commitments
Sponsor EDF Energy is pressing ahead with plans to finalise the equity club for its £16 billion ($24.6 billion), 3.2GW Hinkley Point C nuclear plant in the UK despite announcing delays and contending with legal challenges to the project
Egyptian developer Orascom Construction is hoping to raise more than $200 million through a share offering of 15% of its total equity capital in the next few weeks, the company said in a statement yesterday (19 February 2015)
IJGlobal held its Europe & Africa awards dinner at the National History Museum in London last night (19 February)
UK utility Centrica has abandoned plans to sell three UK combined-cycle gas-fired pants, saying offers were "significantly lower" than its internal valuation
Panda Power Funds has emerged as the equity investor for Corona Power's 1,000MW combined-cycle, gas-fired power project in Snyder county, Pennsylvania
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Genre | Science fiction/fantasy sitcom |
Created by | Paul Fusco[1] Tom Patchett |
Starring | Paul Fusco Max Wright Anne Schedeen Andrea Elson Benji Gregory |
Theme music composer | Alf Clausen Tom Kramer |
Composer(s) | Alf Clausen |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 99 (original run) 102 (syndication) (List of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Bernie Brillstein Tom Patchett |
Producer(s) | Paul Fusco |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 25 minnutes |
Production company(s) | Alien Productions |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | NBC[2] |
Audio format | Dolby Surround |
Original run | September 22, 1986 | – March 24, 1990
Genre | Science fiction/fantasy sitcom |
Created by | Paul Fusco[1] Tom Patchett |
Starring | Paul Fusco Max Wright Anne Schedeen Andrea Elson Benji Gregory |
Theme music composer | Alf Clausen Tom Kramer |
Composer(s) | Alf Clausen |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 99 (original run) 102 (syndication) (List of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Bernie Brillstein Tom Patchett |
Producer(s) | Paul Fusco |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 25 minnutes |
Production company(s) | Alien Productions |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | NBC[2] |
Audio format | Dolby Surround |
Original run | September 22, 1986 | – March 24, 1990
ALF is an American science fiction/fantasy sitcom that aired on NBC from September 22, 1986 to March 24, 1990. It was the first television series to be presented in Dolby Surround sound system.
The title character is Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF (an acronym for Alien Life Form), who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family. [3] The series stars Max Wright as father Willie Tanner, Anne Schedeen as mother Kate Tanner, and Andrea Elson and Benji Gregory as their children, Lynn and Brian Tanner. ALF was performed by puppeteer/creator Paul Fusco.[4]
Produced by Alien Productions, ALF originally ran for four seasons and produced 99 episodes, including three one-hour episodes which were divided into two parts for syndication for a total of 102 episodes.
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ALF follows an amateur radio signal to Earth and crash-lands into the garage of the Tanners. The Tanners are a suburban middle-class family in the San Fernando Valley area. The family consists of social worker Willie (Max Wright), his wife Kate (Anne Schedeen), their teenage daughter Lynn (Andrea Elson), younger son Brian (Benji Gregory), and their cat Lucky.
Unsure what to do, the Tanners take ALF into their home and hide him from the Alien Task Force (a part of the U.S. military) and their nosy neighbors Trevor and Raquel Ochmonek (John LaMotta and Liz Sheridan), until he can repair his spacecraft. He generally hides in the kitchen. It is eventually revealed that ALF's home planet Melmac exploded because of a catastrophe involving nuclear war. The alien was a gardener on his planet. In Episode Four of Season One, ALF tries to convince the President of the United States to stop the nuclear program, as ALF fears that Earth might suffer a fate similar to Melmac's, though miscalculating his words causes the President and National Security to call the FBI to arrest the Tanners. ALF was off the planet when it was destroyed because he was part of the Melmac Orbit Guard. ALF (a.k.a. Gordon Shumway) is homeless, but he is not the last survivor of his species. He becomes a permanent member of the family, although his culture shock, survivor guilt, general boredom, despair, and loneliness frequently cause difficulty for the Tanners. Despite the problems and inconveniences his presence brings into their lives, they grow to love him, though some episodes make it clear they're also afraid of how their lives would be turned upside down if word that he's been living with them gets out.
While most of the science fiction of ALF was played for comedic value, there were a few references to actual topics in space exploration; for example, ALF uses a radio signal as a beacon in the pilot episode. In the episode "Weird Science", ALF told Brian, who was building a model of the solar system for his science project, that there were two planets beyond Pluto called "Dave" and "Alvin" (as in David Seville and Alvin from the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise), which gets Brian in trouble at school. However, after ALF makes a call to an astronomical organization and states that "Dave" is known by the organization, Willie comes to believe that "Dave" could have been the planetoid Chiron, or "Object Kowal", after its discoverer. ALF then shows Willie exactly where "Dave" is on an intergalactic map of the universe.
Each episode dealt with ALF learning about Earth and making new friends both within and outside of the Tanner family, including Willie's brother Neal (Jim J. Bullock), Kate's widowed mother Dorothy (Anne Meara) (with whom ALF has a love-hate relationship), her boyfriend (and later husband) Whizzer (Paul Dooley), the Ochmoneks' nephew Jake (Josh Blake), a psychologist named Larry (Bill Daily), and a blind woman named Jody (Andrea Covell), who never figures out that ALF is not human(although she is aware through touch that he is short and hairy).
Changes occur within the Tanner household over the course of the series, including the birth of a new child, Eric (the reason for adding a baby in the series being that Anne Schedeen was pregnant at the time); ALF's move from his initial quarters in the laundry room to the attic, which he and Willie converted into an "apartment", and the death of Lucky the cat; in this instance, ALF finds that despite his occasional attempts to catch Lucky with the intention of making the cat a meal, as cats are the equivalent of cattle on Melmac, he has come to love and respect the family pet too much to do anything untoward with Lucky's remains. When ALF acquires a new cat with the intent of eating it, he actually grows fond of it and allows it to be adopted by the family, although he admits to the Tanners he has become the worst kind of Melmackian, a "cat lover".
Gordon Shumway is an alien nicknamed ALF (an acronym for Alien Life Form) by William Tanner in the pilot episode. ALF was born on October 28, 1756, on the Lower East Side of the planet Melmac. Melmac was located six parsecs past the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster, and had a green sky, blue grass and a purple sun. The commonly-used currency is a "Wernick" (named after producer Sandy Wernick) which is equal to $10 American dollars. Lint, gravel, and foam are as precious on Melmac as gold is on Earth, whereas gold and platinum are so common that they are used in place of porcelain to make toilets and sinks, as seen in the Season One episode "Baby, You Can Drive My Car" where ALF sells the gold and platinum plumbing in his ship to buy a Ferrari for Lynn.
ALF's body is covered with fur and he has a rippled snout, facial moles, and eight stomachs. His heart is apparently located in his head. He likes to burp and eat cats, and can whistle without opening his mouth, He had a best friend on his home planet named Malhar Naik. He has a friend named Skip and a girlfriend named Rhonda, both of whom also escaped the explosion. He attended high school for 122 years and was captain of a Bouillabaisse ball team, a game played on ice using shellfish as a ball.
ALF has an enormous appetite; he is also troublesome, sarcastic, slovenly and cynical, and sometimes he puts himself at the risk of being discovered while perpetrating some of his often-unintentional pranks. However, if things have gone too far, he does as much as possible to make up for his mistakes, generally with positive results. In the episode "It's Not Easy Bein'...Green", he tries to help Brian, too afraid to perform, to gain confidence during a school show by giving him a "lucky tooth" which ALF claims helped him be a star of the stage on Melmac. On another occasion, in the episode "Keepin' the Faith," he helps Dorothy deal with Sparky's death and move on to accept Whizzer's friendship. In the episode "Take a Look at Me Now" after neighbor Raquel Ochmonek claims to see ALF and is ridiculed on a call-in television show, ALF calls into show to defend her.
ALF comes from a large family and has at least 30 known relatives: cousins "Pretty Boy" Shumway and Blinky; two uncles, Tinkle and Goome; a Grandma Shumway; a brother Curtis; parents Bob and Flo Shumway; and aunts Bubba, Wagner, and Eugene. In a commercial for the NFL that ran during Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011, it was confirmed that ALF is a Carolina Panthers fan.
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Due to the inherent nature of producing a show featuring hand-operated puppets (à la The Muppet Show), ALF was technically difficult and demanding on series creator Fusco as well as its four lead actors. All confirmed during a 2006 People magazine interview that there was incredible tension on the set.[6] Max Wright stated that he despised supporting a technically demanding inanimate object that received most of the good lines of dialog. He admitted to being "hugely eager to have ALF over with."[6] Anne Schedeen added that on the last night of taping, "there was one take and Max walked off the set, went to his dressing room, got his bags, went to his car and disappeared. [...] There were no goodbyes." Schedeen herself said "there was no joy on the set [...] it was a technical nightmare – extremely slow, hot and tedious. [...] A 30-minute show took 20, 25 hours to shoot." (The taping lengths were not unusual for a show of ALF's nature, as a single 25-minute episode of The Muppet Show took nearly one week to film.[7]) While fond of her on-screen children, Schedeen said some adults had "difficult personalities. The whole thing was a big dysfunctional family." Schedeen added, "It's astonishing that ALF really was wonderful and that word never got out what a mess our set really was."[6] Elson, who suffered from bulimia during the second season of shooting, stated, "If ALF had gone one more year, everybody would have lost it."[6] Wright would eventually reflect more kindly on ALF, saying in June 2006, "It doesn't matter what I felt or what the days were like, ALF brought people a lot of joy."[6]
In reference to the tension, Fusco commented in 2012 that "It was just the nature of the beast. There was no way we could have made it go any further or any faster," he insisted. "I think it was frustrating that it would take so long, but people got paid for what they did. Despite what people thought, that there was a lot of tension on set, there really wasn't."[8]
Fusco was notoriously secretive about his character up until the series premiere. During the show's production, Fusco refused to acknowledge that the puppet ALF was anything other than an alien. All involved with the production were cautioned not to reveal any of ALF's production secrets.
The set was built on platform raised four feet above the ground, with trap doors constructed at many points so that ALF could appear almost anywhere; Fusco operated him from underneath, so the unoccupied holes all over the floor were deep and treacherous. The trapdoors had to be reset multiple times, sometimes during a single scene. Fusco was the principal puppeteer, and used his right hand to control ALF's mouth, while the left controlled ALF's left arm. Second puppeteer Lisa Buckley assisted Fusco beneath the stage, operating ALF's right arm. Together with third person Bob Fappiano who controlled ALF's facial and ear movements via a radio controller offscreen, they worked in concert to make ALF's movements fluid and believable. During tapings, Fusco would wear a head-mounted microphone to record ALF's voice. The painstaking process resulted in countless mistakes and retakes, making it impossible to record ALF before a live audience; as such, a laugh track was added during post-production.
To avoid wear and tear on the principal ALF puppet, the performers rehearsed with a crude early version of ALF, nicknamed "RALF" (for "Replacement Alien Life Form").[9] Fusco did not like to rehearse, and would often substitute his hand or RALF for the real ALF puppet during rehearsals.[9]
In an interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Tina Fey said that her biggest frustration as producer of NBC's 75th anniversary special was dealing with ALF's "people". Fey said Fusco would only allow ALF to appear on the show if the puppeteers were completely hidden from everyone else, even the studio audience. After ALF's cameo alongside former Family Ties star Michael Gross, ALF disappeared through a hole in the riser, was stuffed into a case, and immediately hustled out of the building.
While a puppet was usually used for ALF, there were some shots of the tiny alien running or walking around. This was accomplished by actor Michu Meszaros wearing an ALF costume. This can be seen in one of the series' intros, which concludes with the Tanner family getting their picture taken; ALF (played by Meszaros) walks over to be part of the photo. However, Meszaros' services became too costly as well as time consuming, and the full ALF costume was abandoned after the first season.
ALF scored its highest ratings during Seasons 2 (#10) and 3 (#15), but plummeted to #39 during Season 4. NBC moved the show from its traditional Monday night slot to Saturday in March 1990, but ratings continued to fall. The series finale "Consider Me Gone" became an unintentional cliffhanger when NBC gave Alien Productions a verbal commitment for a fifth season, but ultimately withdrew its support.[8][10] ABC resolved the cliffhanger on February 17, 1996 with the TV movie Project ALF. NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff later told Fusco that the network regretted cancelling ALF prematurely, saying "It was a big mistake that we cancelled your show, because you guys had at least one or two more seasons left."[8]
Fusco co-produced the series with Tom Patchett. Patchett also co-created, wrote, and directed the series. The series was first syndicated by Warner Bros. Television and Lorimar-Telepictures. The North American syndication rights are currently owned by Debmar-Mercury as its parent company, Lionsgate, now owns home video rights.
Fusco commented in 2007 that his most enjoyable experience on ALF was sitting in the Writers Room and pitching jokes, while pushing the limit as to what NBC censors would allow. Fusco commented that, "the greatest things were the jokes we couldn't put in the show."[9] Specifically, puns dealing with ALF eating cats and other pets were problematic after NBC reported that a child placed a cat in a microwave after watching the show.[9] In the pilot episode "A.L.F.", ALF is seen consuming a beer with Brian. Fusco defended the premise saying that "ALF is 285 years old, he can drink beer, he's old enough." However, as ALF became more popular with children, NBC told Fusco "you can't have him drinking; the kids are watching, it's a bad role model." Even though Fusco believed that ALF was "an adult: he can do it," the alcohol consumption concept was discarded by the end of the first season.[9] The cat-eating concept carried into the second season, with references including the "wedding cat," The Melmacian equivalent of a wedding cake.
For the hour-long Season One episode, "Try to Remember," originally broadcast on February 9, 1987, ALF tries to simulate a jacuzzi by bringing Kate's electric mixer into the bathtub, resulting in being electrocuted and suffering from amnesia. Fusco ended the original episode with a public service announcement from ALF himself, warning of the dangers from mixing water and electricity. Despite this, NBC reported that a child attempted to recreate the scenario and nearly electrocuted himself in the process (Fusco confirmed that the child was unharmed); Fusco was forced to refilm the opening sequence, replacing the electric mixer with a hand-operated mixing utensil. ALF's amnesia is instead caused by a cranial concussion received after slipping in the shower (a "thud" is heard rather than a "zap"), with all mentions of being electrocuted either overdubbed with new dialogue or deleted entirely (including ALF's public service announcement). This censored version was utilized for the summer 1987 rebroadcast, as well as all future U.S. and Canadian syndicated airings.[9]
In 2010, blooper footage surfaced in which ALF was made to deliver racial jokes and inappropriate sexual comments. He was actually mocking a then recent episode of L.A. Law dealing with Tourette syndrome. Asked to comment, producer Steve Lamar stated that the footage was from an era when things were not so "ridiculously PC".[11]
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To capitalize on the success of the series, a spin-off animated series was produced, airing Saturday mornings on NBC. ALF: The Animated Series, set on ALF's home planet of Melmac, ran from 1987 to 1988, and was produced by DIC Entertainment. This was a prequel series, set on Melmac before the planet exploded. The show focused on ALF, his family, his friends, and girlfriend Rhonda and their various exploits. Each episode was book-ended by a live-action sequence involving ALF talking to the television viewers, setting up the episode and commenting on it afterward. When the cartoon entered its second season, it was paired in a one-hour block with its own spin-off ALF Tales, which took Gordon and the cast of characters from Season One, and recast them as characters from assorted classic fairy tales.
Select episodes of both shows are included as special features on the ALF: Season 2 DVD as well as the cartoon-specific releases ALF Animated Adventures – 20,000 Years in Driving School and Other Stories and ALF and The Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales.
The animated version of ALF also appeared in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
An ALF comic book was published by Marvel Comics' Star Comics imprint beginning in 1987 and ran for four years, totaling 50 issues and nearly a dozen specials.
The comic loosely followed the continuity of the television show (though it featured alternate takes on certain episodes, like the birth of Eric Tanner) and featured numerous parodies of Marvel Comics characters and other pop-culture parodies in the form of "Melmac Flashbacks." It was the first instance to feature ALF's natural family in a reverse scenario where Willie Tanner is an astronaut who crashes his spaceship into ALF's garage on Melmac, and the Shumway family works to protect Willie from hostile Melmackians.
In 2004, ALF's Hit Talk Show debuted on U.S. cable channel TV Land, featuring ALF as a Johnny Carson-type TV talk-show host and co-starring Ed McMahon as his sidekick. Guests included Drew Carey, Tom Green, and Merv Griffin. It ran for seven episodes.
On May 21, 2012, Paul Fusco said he was pitching an ALF movie.[8] In August 2012, it was reported that Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the rights to ALF and will develop the property into a CGI-Live action hybrid feature. The Smurfs producer Jordan Kerner, will also produce the film, along with Tom Patchett and Paul Fusco.[12]
As a result of the show's success, ALF has made guest appearances on a number of television programs, such as a Season 2 episode of NBC's Matlock in 1987, NBC's Blossom, UPN's The Love Boat: The Next Wave, and the 1980s version of Hollywood Squares, where he also memorably hosted part of one episode in March 1987. The animated version of ALF also made an appearance in the "all-star" animated drug-prevention television special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue in 1990. In the early 2000s (decade), ALF appeared in a series of commercials for the 10-10-220 telephone service with former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw and wrestling legend Hulk Hogan. In November 2007, ALF appeared as "TV Icon of the Week" on The O'Reilly Factor. In October 2011, ALF appeared on Good Morning America during their Totally Awesome '80s Week.
ALF has also been referenced in various media numerous times over the years, being a pop-culture icon. Notable appearances include The Simpsons (where he was voiced by Dan Castellaneta in "The Springfield Files"), the 2009 Eminem music video "We Made You", the 2010 film Hot Tub Time Machine, the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, and in the 2012 video game XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Like many shows of its day, ALF was also the subject of a trading card series by Topps. Most featured stills from various episodes, but a few cards parodied baseball cards by depicting players of the Melmacian sport "Bouillabaisseball," complete with stats such as "Splats." The yellow-bordered first series was released in 1987, with a red-bordered second series released in 1988.[13]
ALF-related merchandise was sold during the show's original run, including a 1987 22-inch plush doll produced by Coleco, and a 1988 calendar with Melmac's planetary holidays, such as "Shout at a Shrub Day", prominently marked.[14]
In 1987, Dutch remixer and producer Ben Liebrand created a song called "Stuck on Earth" with samples from an episode of ALF.[15] During 1988, Burger King ran a promotion called "The Many Faces of ALF," giving away themed ALF puppets and a cardboard record with each kids meal. These records featured original recordings sung by ALF – titled "Melmac Girls", "Cookin' with ALF", "Melmac Rock", and "Take Me, ALF, to the Ballgame".
Tommi Piper, the actor who dubbed ALF's voice for German audiences, spent twelve weeks in the German pop charts in 1989. The single featured Amélie Sandmann (as the voice of Rhonda) and was called "Hallo ALF Hier Ist Rhonda" (translated "Hello ALF, This Is Rhonda"). He also featured as ALF on various themed mix albums introducing songs by pop artists of the time and other original compositions.
There are six video games and one printing program based on ALF: 1987's ALF, also known as ALF: The First Adventure for various computer systems, such as the Commodore 64, IBM, and Apple II, 1989's ALF for the Sega Master System, four educational games for IBM and Apple II computers were released in 1993 called ALF's U.S. Geography, ALF's Thinking Skills, ALF's World of Words, and Add & Subtract With ALF, and the printing program ALF's Party Kit.
Between 2004 and 2006, Lionsgate Home Entertainment released all four seasons of ALF on DVD in Region 1. Oddly, all releases contained syndicated versions, with running times of 21 minutes, compared to the original length of 24 minutes. However, the 60-minute episodes "Try to Remember" and "ALF's Special Christmas" (from season one and season two, respectively), were presented in their original hour-long formats (though "Try to Remember" was presented in its censored version). The 60-minute episode "Tonight, Tonight", however, was split into two parts for syndication. The season four episode "Make 'Em Laugh" was presented in nearly its original length, with a single line of dialogue edited out.
The "To Be Continued..." disclaimer was also from the series finale "Consider Me Gone," as NBC cancelled ALF after its initial airing.
In addition, most copyrighted music was excised from selected shows, shortening the running time by up to six minutes. (The DVD release of The Odd Couple also suffered from this practice.)
Lionsgate insisted they had to utilize syndicated versions for the DVD release of ALF, saying it would be cost prohibitive to remaster the original NBC-TV broadcast versions for release. This resulted in heavy criticism and poor DVD sales.[16]
DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
Season One | 25 | August 10, 2004 |
Season Two | 25 | August 23, 2005 |
Season Three | 25 | May 30, 2006 |
Season Four | 24 | September 5, 2006 |
Video Service Corporation previously released two other DVDs of ALF. The ALF Files was released exclusively in Canada on November 1, 2002. The hour-long episodes "Try to Remember", "ALF's Special Christmas" and "Tonight, Tonight" were presented in their original hour-long format. "Try to Remember", however, contains the re-edited version pertaining to ALF's electrocution.
On September 13, 2005 Project: ALF was released. Both DVDs featured optional commentary by creator Paul Fusco, with co-creator Tom Patchett joining him on the first release.
Warner Bros. Home Video released the first season of ALF in Germany on September 4, 2009, and in the Netherlands and France on September 9. The DVDs are in PAL format, with English-language menus. The language selections available are English, French, German and Spanish, with subtitles available in French, Dutch, Spanish, English and German.
The episodes span four discs and are complete, unlike their American edited counterparts, with a few exceptions:
DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
Season One | 26 | September 4, 2009 | Contains all 26 episodes from Season One
Season Two | 26 | December 11, 2009 | Contains all 26 episodes from Season Two
Season Three | 26 | June 25, 2010 | Contains all 26 episodes from Season Three
Season Four | 24 | October 15, 2010 | Contains all 24 episodes from Season Four
In Region 4, Warner Home Video released the first two seasons of ALF on DVD in Australia and New Zealand on April 7, 2010.[17][18] Season 3 was released on October 5, 2011.[19]
With the exception of Canada, international broadcasts of ALF are unedited
In the U.S., ALF has won numerous awards. In 1987 the show won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy Program; in 1988 it won Favorite Show at the Kids' Choice Awards; and at the 1989 Kids' Choice Awards, ALF himself won Favorite TV Actor. Benji Gregory and Andrea Elson were also nominated in various Young Actor categories for their work on ALF at the Young Artist Awards during 1987–1989, with the show also receiving a nomination for Best Family Television Series.[20]
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