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Parra x Toykyo: 'Jean Pierre Le Douche' porcelain sculptureJuxtapoz // Wednesday, May 16, 2012
We had a great time with Amsterdam's Parra when he was in San Francisco preparing his mural installation at the SFMOMA, and we just caught wind of a new porcelain sculpture he is releasing with Belgium's Toykyo, the Jean Pierre Le Douche. The white glazed and black dotted porcelain sculpture, with gold color eyes, is made in a limited edition of 25 and sits at nearly 18" tall.
Andy Council's Things made of other ThingsIllustration // Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Andy Council is a Bristol based artist who has enjoyed international recognition for his work in recent years. His style is a highly individual amalgamation of architecture, structure and character; rendering intricately detailed compositions of imagined creatures composed of iconic objects.
Kidult vs. Marc Jacobs...in Graffiti, Twitter, and MercandiseJuxtapoz // Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Recently, graffiti writer Kidult tagged the front of the Marc Jacobs shop in downtown Manhattan and made it rather public, not only in the physical manifestation of the tag but also by tweeting it and publicizing it across the internet. Well, Marc Jacobs made a rather clever move in response to what could have been seen as an embarrassing incident.
Nekst StopGraffiti // Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Next stop on the bus will be Nekst burgers and shakes. Nice window advertisement placement in Chi-Town.
Good Wood 2012 Skateboard Art ExhibitionJuxtapoz // Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Our good friends at Power House Productions in Detroit, whom we worked with during our 15th Anniversary fundraiser in 2009-10, is putting on a skateboard art exhibition fundraiser, Good Wood, for the Ride It Sculpture Park that is going in the neighborhood close to where Juxtapoz bought houses in 2009. The online bidding auction begins on May 19, and the art show that coincides with the auction begins on May 26 in Detroit.
Gino & The Garlic MythIllustration // Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Gino & The Garlic Myth is a creative collaboration between dutch artists Gino Hoiting and Daniel Roozendaal. This amazing animation, with its vintage Dadaist feel, perfectly expresses their preference in creating raw, analog imagery. The weird humor of their everyday lives plays a major role in the final product of the projects they complete together.
MQIZM/ MCA RIPGraffiti // Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The prolific two letter bombing legend, MQ, along side New York rapper, Skam Dust, sent over this photo of a recent spot paying tribute to the recent passing of Beastie Boys member Adam "MCA" Yauch.
Pin Art Portraits by Philip KarlbergJuxtapoz // Tuesday, May 15, 2012
We don't think we have seen anything quite like these Pin Art portraits by Philip Karlberg (so close to Carlsberg, we can almost taste it), and we are very surprised that we knew this was Jackie O immediately (thanks middle school Rage Against the Machine!). Karlberg takes hundreds of painted pins and arranges them to portray famous icons, and uses the eyewear to seal the deal. This takes a bit of time...
INSA for LA FreewallsJuxtapoz // Tuesday, May 15, 2012
London-based INSA, who graced the subscriber cover of our September 2010 issue with his pink drips, was just in Los Angeles to work on the LA Freewalls project. If you so chose to find this building, it is the ARTSHARE building in Downtown Los Angeles. Thank you to Todd Mazer for the shots!
Feature: An Interview with Chris SollarsJuxtapoz // Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Artist and director of 667Shotwell, Chris Sollars work revolves around the reclamation of private and public space through interventions. The results are documented using drawing, photographs, sculpture, and video that are integrated into mixed media installations. Awards include 2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Grant, and 2009 Headlands Center for the Arts residency.

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I wonder everyday how does this company still do business,I got a call the other day from a displeased customer claiming they were going to contact the media because "the whole company, was racist" I'm not really exactly sure what the issue was because she hung up on me. But this is just only one of the few complaints i get on the daily basis. Understaffed, Overworked, and Underpaid Is pretty much the saying around Heritage One person is expected tot he job of 3 or 4 all for the sake of saving money yet they have acquired two new stores and have lavish holiday parties which only top management get to attend. Don't expect any bonuses or acknowledgement of life events, bereavement, pregnancy,or even a birthday card.Advice to ManagementAdvice
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Inner-city 1992 Victorian home. Private baths. Queen beds. Backyard overlooks Bow River. Non-smoking. No pets. German. Calgary Zoo, Stampede Park, transit...
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5.0 Room cleanliness
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for Couplesby A verified traveler
wonderfulPosted Sep 12, 2013 on Hotels.com
Beautiful place, attention to detail in all areas to make our stay perfect.
for Familiesby Jackiefrom Long Island, NY
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Best stay at a B&B ever. We will be returning!
for Everyoneby Loufrom Southern Virginia
Great Recovery StayPosted Aug 13, 2013
Pros: The quiet comfortable rooms and great breakfasts. Wonderful deep soft Kingsize bed. NO SMOKING!
Cons: NOTHING. It is PERFECT as it can be!
Location: Make a left out of the drive way. Make a right turn at the first traffic light then a left at the second light to enter Hersey Park complex.
The host, hostest and staff were very freindly and willing to cater to our every need. My wife and I enjoyed a very peaceful, deep nights sleep after an afternoon and evening of rollercoaster riding at Hersey Park. The breakfast of freshly made walffels was an excellent start for a morning of more coaster riding. The Inn at Westwynd Farm B&B was only 10 minutes (3 traffic lights) from Hersey Park but a world away from the hussel and bussel of the park. We WILL stay here when we travel through centralPA>
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welcoming aroma of fresh baked cookiesPosted Jul 29, 2013 on Hotels.com
We loved the scenery surrounding and layout of the inn. Several porches with rockers and swing overlooked acres of horse fences and hills. The inn layout was spacious and the decor beautiful. And who wouldn't feel welcome when treated to the aroma of fresh baked cookies upon arrival!
for Everyoneby Suefrom Michigan
Excellent Bed & Breakfast!Posted Jul 28, 2013
Location: Near Hershey Park and Hershey Chocolate World; Cassel Vineyards
Best place we have ever experienced! The staff were very friendly and helpful. Rooms were beautiful and spacious. Every extra little detail was attended to. Breakfasts were wonderful!
for Everyoneby Seanfrom Raleigh, NC
Wonderful B&B close to Hershey attractionsPosted Jul 7, 2013
This peaceful B&B sits in the middle of a farm located less than 10 minutes from all of Hershey's prime tourist attractions. The setting is relaxing and quiet. The home and guest rooms are beautifully decorated and immaculately maintained. The innkeepers, Carolyn and Frank, are thoughtful and gracious hosts and kept the table stocked with delicious, homemade snacks. Carolyn is a wonderful cook and baker. We were able to enjoy two of her breakfasts, which kept us full and satisfied all day. If you go, we recommend that you take the time to explore the horse barn and grounds. Cyclists will enjoy the rolling hills surrounding the property.
for Couplesby Reyfrom Long Island, NY
Feel homeyPosted Jul 4, 2013
Pros: I feel like I was home.
Cons: none
Location: It is located in a farm and it was about 3miles to Hershey Park. Groceries and shopping outlets are within 3 miles radius.
It was a nice and homey feel to it. Very clean and serene place! Very nice staff!
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
Great InnPosted Jul 2, 2013
Great Inn - nice staff - good food - comfy room - close to everything.
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Great attention to detailPosted Jul 2, 2013 on Hotels.com
My wife and I were traveling from Boston to Lexington and stopped here purposefully to enjoy a short getaway from work and the kids. The room was beautiful and had a great attention to detail that made our stay more comfortable. For example, they had snacks and drinks that were available 24/7. Coffee was available in the morning no matter what time we were up. Lots of soft, thirsty bath towels for the jacuzzi. We'd stay here again and recommend this to our friends.
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Gophers Earn Four Titles at Parents Day Invite
Anne Ferguson, Devin Stanford, Agnes Esser and Audra Winter won events for Minnesota
Golding, Hawkins Excel at Iowa State
Erin Hawkins ran a career-best 24.14 in the 200m to move into second among all-time Gopher sprinters
Herauf Breaks Pentathlon Program Record
Jess Herauf scored 4,289 points to win the pentathlon and break the Minnesota program record
Berkholtz Leads Gophers at Drake Relays
The redshirt sophomore finished sixth in the 5,000m run
Gophers to Split Squad at Five Meets
Minnesota is split at Hamline, Drake, Grand View, UC San Diego and Macalester this week
2014 Season - Indoor: Set career-best indoor times in the 3,000m (10:20.34) and the 5,000m (18:18.62) won the 3,000m at UW-River Falls Invite (10:20.34) finished seventh in the 3,000m at Parents Day Open (10:21.28) finished third in the 5,000m at the St. Thomas Showcase (18:18.62) took eighth in the 5,000m at the Jack Johnson Classic (18:19.20).
2014 Season - Outdoor: Ran four races placed fourth in the 5,000m in a season-best 17:53.71 at Hamline ran the 10,000m in a season-best 37:12.59 and placed 21st at Drake Relays ran a season-best 4:52.38 in the 1,500m for 11th place at Carleton Relays.
2013 Season: Redshirted the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons.
High School: A graduate of Robbinsdale Armstrong High School state cross country competitor in 2011 All-Northwest Suburban Conference honoree in 2011 finished seventh in the 3,200m as a senior in a season-best time of 11:01.92 graduated with highest honors.
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This functions completely offline – and worldwide!
PeakFinder knows more than 250'000 peaks - from Mount Everest to the little hill around the corner.
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Even if some peaks are behind others Peak Scanner still allows you to get details on them (obscured peaks are shown in grey).
You'll find Peak Scanner a much better experience than other apps of this type:
- fast start up time
- no finger taps required - just point!
- clean, easy to understand display that shows exactly what you want
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Peak Scanner includes data on mountain peaks from all over the world.
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Experience the intriguing panorama of the peaks surrounding you.
Have you ever wondered "What is the name of that prominent peak over there?" – find the answer simply by taking a look through the camera of your iPhone or Android device.
The advanced segmentation and display algorithms show you all peak names without obstructing the marvelous panorama.
Stagger even the greatest hiking buffs when showing off the fascinating panoramic view this application provides when standing on top of a mountain!
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Get to know the hills and mountains around you just by using our app and your own smartphone's camera.
The app Find the Hill will help you discover world hills and visualize their names on your mobile device. Using the camera in your smartphone, you can see the hill with it's name, description, height and distance from your current location. A filter let's you choose which hills will show up on the map according to the distance.
Find the Hill can recognize, which hill you're currently standing on and also the sealevel of that point.
After clicking on any given hill, you can visualize it on the map screen, where your location and the hill's location will be shown.
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App features:
- more than 240 000 mapped world hills
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- possibility of working offline
- range settings for up to 20km
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In your email application, save the KML or KMZ file, and then tap it again to choose to view it with KMLZ to Earth.
Since Google Earth for Android doesn't seem to have published limits on file sizes, your success with files larger than 4MB may vary. Large files cause Google Earth to to load slowly, or if they are too large, not display them entirely. If this occurs, try to reduce the size of the images used or the number of images selected to create smaller KMZ files.
The size of the images shown in Google Earth decreases progressively as the total size of images are selected, in order to keep the total file size small enough to view on Google Earth for Android.
When creating a KMZ file, each image containing location information is shown as a thumbnail, along with the image name, time taken, resolution and size. Thumbnails can be tapped for a larger preview of the image. All, none, or individual files can be selected to create a KMZ file from images in one directory.
File names must end in ".jpg", ".kml", ".kmz" to be visible to view in KMLZ to Earth, and capitalization does not matter.
Files that you select to view are copied to the "Home" directory, typically /mnt/sdcard/kmlz. WARNING! Any file that does not end in ".kml" or ".kmz" will be deleted automatically from this directory, or when you choose to use Menu, Clear Home, and confirm.
The Home button will take you quickly to the /mnt/sdcard/kmlz directory (or a similar path) to see which files you have previously viewed, and view them again.
This app can't be set as default for any action, if you try, then it will reset itself. This ensures you the choice of action always and prevents a possible undesirable loop.
If experiencing problems with Google Earth, use the Menu, Manage Earth, and either Force Stop, Clear Data, or Clear Cache. Clear Cache is very helpful to get accurate results if you are testing the same file name multiple times.
Likewise, if experiencing problems with KMLZ to Earth, use the Menu, Manage KMZL, and either Force Stop, Clear Data, or Clear Cache.
This application runs a web server on your device at http://localhost:8001/ to serve pages from it's "Home" directory to Google Earth. In order to do this, it will have a running process in the background. A notification will be issued to remind you that this process is running. If you view the notification, then you return to the application, where pressing back will allow you to terminate the application and the background web server process.
World Offline Map Earth Guide
100% Offline & FREE World Map with POI databae.
App offer 2 kind of maps
- high resolution detailed online map - when connected to wifi
- less detailed map for offline use
Our World/Earth offline road map (route map) displays roads and transport and natural geographical information. Offline World map also shows non-automotive tourist routes, and detailed area around the cities.
You can use this map without data roaming, WIFI Connection and hidden costs!
★★★ All continents:
★ Antarctica
★ Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent.
★ Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres.
★ Australia
★ Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents.
★ North America
★ South America
★★★ 11 LANGUAGES supported:
English, german, french, russian, korean, portuguese, spanish, japanese, italian, chinese, thai
App contains cities database. Our search engine works with all languages, so you can use international or local name of the city.
- complete offline map with GPS geolocation (100% offline)
- currency converter: euro, british pound, US dollar, chinese Youan, Japanese Yen, Korean Won, Rupee, Russian Ruble (offline), Thai Bat, Indonesian Rupiah
- Phrase Book (Tourist dictionary)
- multilingual interface
- city finder - serch the map in any language!
- weather forrecast with offline mode
- hotels deals (online module) with motels & hostels included
- Things to do & trips
- Attraction Deals: museums, airport transports, walking tours, bike tours, national parks,, jungle, food discovery deals, scuba diving, River Cruise, adventure cruise, zoo safari, elephant riding, canoe tours, fishing tours, Wine Trails, Thai Boxing Match with Transfers, Speedboat Tours, Mountain Safari
- POI finder (like: police, motels, gas stations, airports)
- News reader with information from most popular newspapers
NOW amazing offline weather plugin included! 14 days weather forecast for every thai cities. Plugin works in offline mode. Detailed current weather with information about: conditions, temperature, humidity, pressure.
With our weather plugin you can set any city or region to get actual weather. Weather is available all the time in your phone in offline mode. It's realy nice because you don't need to pay for internet connection and roaming.
World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth.
In a theological context, world usually refers to the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The "end of the world" refers to scenarios of the final end of human history, often in religious contexts.
A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with up to seven regions commonly regarded as continents. These are—from largest in size to smallest: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
World history is commonly understood as spanning the major geopolitical developments of about five millennia, from the first civilizations to the present.
World population is the sum of all human populations at any time; similarly, world economy is the sum of the economies of all societies (all countries), especially in the context of globalization. Terms like world championship, gross world product, world flags etc. also imply the sum or combination of all current-day sovereign states.
In terms such as world religion, world language, and world war, world suggests international or intercontinental scope without necessarily implying participation of the entire world.
Ortovox Bergtouren App
Die Grundlage der App bildet eine zoombare, topografische Outdoorkarte im Maßstab 1:25.000. Die Karte ist online oder offline verfügbar und wird für den Alpenraum, je nach Jahreszeit, schneebedeckt oder im Sommergewand dargestellt. In den obersten Zoomstufen beinhaltet sie neben dem amtlichen Wegenetz sogar sämtliche Lifte und Pisten und einen Hangneigungsindikator. Sämtliche Hangpartien über 30° Neigung sind mit einer roten Schraffierung versehen. Die Karten können, losgelöst von der Tourendatenbank, überall im deutschen, österreichischen und Südtiroler Alpenraum zur Positionsbestimmung und Tourennavigation eingesetzt werden.
Da besonders im Gebirge die Mobilfunknetzabdeckung nicht immer ausreichend ist, können alle topografischen Karten auch offline gespeichert werden und funktionieren so völlig Netz unabhängig!
Das Herzstück der ORTOVOX BERGTOUREN APP ist die große, immer weiter wachsende Tourendatendank. Du kannst tausende Ski-, Snowboard-, Wander-, Hoch- und Biketouren sowie Freerideabfahrten oder Klettersteige nach den unterschiedlichsten Kriterien auswählen:
• Alphabetische Auflistung: Alle Touren werden in alphabetischer Reihenfolge angezeigt.
• Auflistung nach Entfernung: Die Tourenliste wird nach der Entfernung zum eigenen Standort sortiert
• Filterung nach Sportart: Alle Touren werden anhand verschiedener Kategorien angezeigt (Skitour, Schneeschuhtour, Freeride, Wandern, Hochtour, Klettersteig, MTB)
• Suche nach Ort: Eine Volltextsuche innerhalb der Listendarstellung ermöglicht eine Filterung der Touren nach dem Kriterium Ort
• Anforderung: Die Touren können nach Alphabet, Entfernung und Dauer der jeweiligen Tour sortiert werden
Zu jeder Tour kannst Du auch die Anfahrt planen - die ORTOVOX BERGTOUREN APP schließt sich und die Google-Maps App zeigt Dir automatisch den Weg zum Startpunkt der Tour an.
In den Tourenbeschreibungen erfährst Du alle wissenswerten Facts, kannst Bilder, das Höhenprofil und die Karte anschauen. Sobald Du eine Tour startest, siehst Du Dein Positionssignal in der topografischen Karte und folgst dem Routenverlauf.
Bereits zuhause oder auch unterwegs kannst Du künftig Deine eigenen Touren planen. Zuhause kannst Du im Tourenplaner unter ortovox.com mit der Maus die Wegstrecken der 1:25.000 Karten abfahren, Wegpunkte setzen, Beschreibungen ergänzen und gegebenenfalls Bilder hochladen.
Ähnliche Funktionen kannst Du auch in der App nutzen. Egal ob online oder offline, Du kannst in den topografischen Karten Wegpunkte setzen und Dir das Live-Höhenprofil der geplanten Tour anzeigen lassen.
Auch für Notfälle haben wir eine Hilfestellung parat. Mittels Notruffunktion kann eine Verbindung zur Rettungsstelle hergestellt werden. Zur möglichst genauen Positionsbestimmung werden Dir Deine Koordinaten auf dem Display angezeigt – Retter wissen so, wo sie suchen müssen.
Wer sich alles Wissenswerte zum Thema Lawine aneignen möchte, kann dies jederzeit offline mit dem umfangreichen Lawinenglossar von ORTOVOX machen. Hier erhältst Du alle Infos vom Grundlagenwissen über Risikomanagement bis hin zur Rettung.
ORTOVOX steht für Bergsport - Berge sind unsere Leidenschaft. Wir sind 365 Tage im Jahr im Gebirge unterwegs, sammeln Ideen für neue Produkte oder genießen einfach nur unseren Sport! Solltest Du Ideen oder Verbesserungsvorschläge zur App oder unseren Produkten haben, freuen wir uns auf Deine Nachricht: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ein wichtiger Hinweis:
3G-Empfang wird empfohlen. Achtung: Im Ausland können hohe Roamingkosten entstehen.
Bei Nutzung der App im Hintergrund bei aktiviertem GPS Empfang kann sich die Akkulaufzeit drastisch verkürzen!
MyDirections-Google Map ext.
Supports Find direction/Navigate/Store Locations(Address).
* Requires Google Maps 4.2.0 or higher.
* Navigation Feature requires Google Maps 4.2.0 and Android 1.6 or higher.
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Flightradar24 - Flight Tracker
Features that have helped make Flightradar24 - Flight Tracker the #1 selling app in 100+ countries and the #1 Travel app in 140+ countries (United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany and more) include:
* Watch planes move in real-time on detailed map
* Identify planes flying overhead by simply pointing your device at the sky
* Experience what the pilot of a an aircraft sees in real-time and in 3D
* Tap on a plane for comprehensive flight and aircraft information such as route, estimated time of arrival, actual time of departure, aircraft type, speed, altitude, and high-resolution picture
* Easy to search for individual flights using flight number, airport, or airline
* Easy to filter by airline, aircraft, altitude, speed, and more
* Easy to set bookmarks to enable quick navigation to areas of interest
* Turn the device into the arrivals and departures board of any major airport and get real-time status updates for flights plus current airport weather conditions (in-app purchase)
* Realistic aircraft symbols (in-app purchase)
* Set up custom alerts based on airline, aircraft type, flight number or registration (in-app purchase)
Most aircraft are equipped with so called ADS-B transponders that transmit positional data. Flightradar24 has a rapidly growing network of several thousand ground stations around the world to receive this data that then shows up as aircraft moving on a map in the app. In an expanding number of regions Flightradar24, with the help of multilateration, is able to calculate the positions of aircraft that don't have ADS-B transponders.
Traditional radar data is also used in the app thanks to a direct feed from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Minimum required screen resolution is 320x480px.
If you are only interested in tracking air traffic in a specific region, we suggest that you check Flightradar24.com BEFORE purchasing the app. Flightradar24 provides unrivaled positional aircraft data coverage around the world but there are areas where we don't have coverage.
Overview of coverage as of December 2014:
* Europe: close to 100%
* North America: 100% of US and Canada via slightly delayed radar data. Real-time coverage for most of US, Canada and Mexico for ADS-B equipped aircraft
* South America: Substantial coverage in most countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
* Asia: Substantial coverage in most major Asian countries including Japan, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, UAE, Malaysia, Taiwan and many other countries. Rapidly expanding coverage in China
* Oceania: Nearly complete coverage in Australia and New Zealand
* Africa: Substantial coverage in South Africa. Limited but growing coverage in the rest of the region
Find out how you can help:
Coverage is subject to change at any time.
Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/flightradar24 and follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/flightradar24 for the latest on Flightradar24.
The use of this app is strictly limited to entertainment purposes. This specifically excludes activities that might endanger yourself or the lives of others. Under no circumstances will the developer of this app be held responsible for incidents resulting from the use of the data or its interpretation or its use contrary to this agreement. We reserve the right to anonymously track and report a user's activity inside of app.
GPS Status & Toolbox
Tools included: compass with magnetic and true north, leveling tool, mark or share your location and navigate back later using the Radar.
Keep your GPS fast: reset it or download A-GPS data regularly for faster fixes.
Visit the FAQ at: http://mobiwia.com/gpsstatus
GPS Status is 100% space proof. Try to spot the program in the promo video :)
PRO features:
- show/store/edit/export multiple waypoints and use them on the Radar for navigation.
- pressure, rotation, temperature, humidity values (if supported by the device)
- removed ads
- Location: We need this to display your location and allows the program to re-download AGPS data or reset the GPS.
- External storage: required by the PRO version to be able to export the stored waypoints to an external file.
- Internet: Used by the advertisement component. The PRO version does not use the internet connection at all.
KNOWN FIRMWARE ISSUES (please do not report them):
- Galaxy S4 on Verizon: Because of a firmware bug, the notification item in GPS Status can't be removed. You need to disable the notification feature in Settings if this annoys you.
- Droid 3: The initial Droid 3 firmware does not implement the satellite status API so you will not see the satellites and the signal strength bars. The rest of the features should work properly.
- Motorola phones: On some phones, turning your phone to airplane mode will turn off the GPS receiver, too. This is a hardware limitation.
- Droid Charge: Reports 0 altitude.
- LG Optimus: The phone cannot report the satellite SNR values correctly (all signal bars will be maxed out).
- Samsung phones: Because of a firmware bug, they may report extreme battery consumption for GPS Status even if it is not running at all (other programs using sensors are affected too). This is harmless and no power is consumed! Just ignore it and let's hope that a future firmware upgrade will fix this on your phone.
- Nexus One/S: With Andoid 2.3 it cannot report NMEA sentences. This means that the DOP/HDOP/VDOP values are not available.
-- MobiWIA - a cooperation with Andrs Studio --
Stations Montagne
• Self-contained worldwide database of place names, mountain/hill peaks, castles, ruins, and monuments*
• Advanced filtering by distance, bearing and marker type
• Adjustable compass
• Imperial/metric units
• Search by name
• Zoom
• Map view
• Snapshot*
• Custom markers*
• User guide
• No adverts
* Cities, towns, and villages are included for free. Mountain/hill peaks, castles, ruins, monuments, custom markers, and the snapshot feature are available as an in-app purchase. There are more than 213,000 peaks, 13,000 castles, 16,000 ruins, and 19,000 monuments in ViewPoint's database.
See developer's website for more information and user guide ( http://www.planetcoops.com/apps/viewpoint/ViewPoint.pdf ).
ViewPoint is currently 21 MB in size. We recommend you download and install ViewPoint only when you have Wi-Fi access.
Mountain Live Explorer - ALPS
This augmented reality application let you have information on ITALY, AUSTRIA, GERMANY, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND AND SLOVENIA mountains simply turning your smartphone towards the peak and enabling the GPS. This application supports Italian and English languages, in the database there are more then 50.000 mountains.
It is then possible to set a visual distance that let you increase or decrease the range of mountains to be shown.
In every moment it is possible to browse all the mountains database with the search menu.
Both in search mode and in interactive mode it is possible to enter Google Maps and see the peaks that surround you.
If an internet connection is available, Google Maps will show you the map, otherwise you will see a basic visualization with the peaks position.
It is possible to know the distance between your position and the mountain selected.
The application gives you also useful features for your security: a compass for your orientation, the possibility to send an SOS light signal and, if the phone signal is available, an SOS SMS with your latest coordinate registered by the GPS.
WARNING: Samsung Galaxy ACE models, like GT-S5830i models may have a firmware bug that prevent the right camera orientation, this is a known Samsung bug and it is just comunicated to Samsung.
PLEASE NOTE: before leaving a negative feedback, please read the user guide inside the application, about its correct use or contact the support with the link in the application menu or sending an e-mail. You will receive all the explanations and the support you need. The application has been tested with many devices and a lot of mountains and always with very good results. Then, I ask to everyone who has had a good experience with this application to let me know with a feedback directly in the Android Market webpage, voting with the 1 to 5 stars. Thank you for your cooperation.
* Search the huge database of mountains and trip reports from peakbagger.com
* Keep track of your climbs, even when offline
* Measure your progress against hundreds of peak lists
* Get route information and directions from SummitPost and listsofjohn.com
* See weather forecasts (U.S. and Puerto Rico), topographic maps (U.S., Alps, Norway, New Zealand), and survey markers (U.S.)
* Save a peak to your device for offline use, including topographic maps
* Find peaks near your current location, or near other peaks
* Long click on the map to get elevation and driving directions
* Record your starting elevation, and information about the gear and route you used
* Leaderboards show the top climbers for each peak list


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Covered California may lead the nation in Affordable Care Act health plan signups, but it continues to have problems linking consumers to accurate lists of the physicians participating in those health plans.
The Golden State's Obamacare exchange late Thursday took the provider list off its web site for a second time citing "some errors in the physician lists" for plans that consumers choose between, such as Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California and Health Net.
In mid-October, Covered California did the same thing, then put the list back on the web site in November, the Los Angeles Times' Chad Terhune reported early Friday morning.
About 625,000 Californians picked plans between Oct. 1 and Jan. 15, Covered California disclosed late last month, making it the most popular Obamacare exchange in the nation.
But there's still no official word on how many of those "enrollees" have paid their bills and are technically insured at this point.
Meanwhile, an unspecified number of consumers have complained that doctors listed as participating in particular health plans "won't take their insurance," the L.A. Times reported.
In a statement it distributed broadly on Friday, Covered California acknowledged that "some enrollees located physicians thought to be in their plan, and subsequently discovered they were not."
"Thought" meaning, listed in the provider list on Covered California's web site, in case the passive voice made that unclear.
It advises consumers who picked a plan and run into these problems to contact the health insurance provider — a move sure to warm the cockles of the insurers' hearts — "or to ask for a different provider in their area."
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In 1960, American International Pictures – well-known for being a low-budget film production house possessed of some genuine talent – released The Fall of the House of Usher. It was something entirely new for the company: a color picture, released by itself instead of as part of a black and white double-feature package as was standard operating procedure for AIP. Director Roger Corman, one of the studio's most valuable assets, had pushed for AIP to extend their usual shooting schedule (from ten days to fifteen!) and shoot the film in color. AIP was wary, but Corman had proven his ability to deliver profitable results for the company over and over, so after hearing his pitch, they were willing to give the benefit of the doubt to his risky venture. With Corman as director, Vincent Price as the star, and Egdar Allan Poe as the source material, it seemed like it would be a decent enough success.
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Bloody Territories
For a long time, yakuza films were the big missing piece of puzzle that is Japanese film in America. In the years before DVD, you could find any number of groovy Japanese monster movies. Sure, they were pan and scan and dubbed, but few people thought to be offended by such things at the time because we were simply happy to be watching Godzilla or Yog or any other creature smashing up the place. Samurai movies were a bit scarcer, but at least they were represented by a smattering of titles. Yakuza films were a vast and largely untapped reservoir just waiting to be unleashed on American fans who had perhaps read about the films, or knew people in Japan who had seen them, but had otherwise been limited to little more than tantalizing photos in magazines and stories about movies in which guys screamed a lot and cut off their pinky fingers.
In the past few years, all that has changed. Well, I reckon it started a little bit before that when someone decided to release a fistful of Seijun Suzuki films on VHS. Then in the past year, HVe and American Cinemathique really opened the floodgates and started pushing yakuza films into the forefront. And while certain notable titles remain MIA (the Abashiri Prison series, and frankly, most of the great old Takakura Ken films that started the craze back in the 50s and 60s), we're certainly a hell of a lot better off now that we can walk into any old video store and pick up a copy of Blackmail is My Life, Underworld Beauty, or the movie on the chopping block right now, Yasuharu Hasebe's 1969 yakuza thriller, Bloody Territories.
I first discovered Hasebe when I picked up the film Black Tight Killers, a movie in which sexy female assassins in a vast array of showy mod outfits do things like fling deadly razor-sharp 7-inch records. It was really my kind of movie. Hasebe, I'm told, learned his craft from the master of pop-art yakuza madness, Seijun Suzuki, and the influence of Japan's number one maverick certainly showed in Black Tight Killers. By 1969, however, much of the eye-catching weirdness seems to have left the work of Hasebe, and while Bloody Territories is not a bad film, it's also nothing special, certainly not as special, quirky, or weird as you would hope from the man that gave us Black Tight Killers. It is just a yakuza film. Well, no. Maybe it's not just a yakuza film, but with Kinji Fukasaku just over the horizon, Bloody Territories is simply the kind of movie that gets lost in the shuffle even if it has a few interesting thematic twists.
The deconstruction of the yakuza genre that had been built up in the films of Takakura Ken began with Seijun Suzuki's gleefully cracked subversion of the genre, but he was just so out there that a lot of people didn't even realize exactly what was happening. In 1967, Junya Sato made what many consider to be the first "modern" yakuza film, that is to say, a film in which the noble notions of honor and righteousness that characterized the Takakura Ken films were completely trashed, and the yakuza were depicted mainly as a bunch of ruthless, opportunistic thugs with no sense of honor and no flare for the romantic. Hasebe's Bloody Territories falls somewhere short of Sato's Organized Violence when it comes to its depiction of the yakuza. The core characters still cling to the old values and traditions of loyalty and honor, but it's obvious they live in a world that has abandoned such ideals. The twist Bloody Territories brings to the table isn't that the other yakuza have become dishonorable and sleazy; it's that the yakuza are bested at their own game by businessmen, who are every bit as ruthless and far more effective, it turns out, at running things.
The action revolves around the number two and number three man in the Onogi Clan, a renegade yakuza gang that refuses to dissolve their organization during a big pow wow where everyone else agrees to disband. The Onogi Clan, it seems, spends as much time cleaning up the streets and serving as a sort of neighborhood watch as they spend engaging in the usual activities that occupy the average yakuza's day. In fact, as the credits roll we are treated to a montage of Onogi gangsters prowling the streets, protecting young ladies who are getting harassed, taking care of drunks who mess stuff up, and other small-time disturbances they don't want going on in their turf. The Onogis are never the less disturbed by the fact that these random acts are even occurring. It never used to be like that. Turns out another big gang from out of town is attempting to muscle in on Onogi turf now that they know the Onogis have no larger organization supporting them.
Proud though they may be, the Onogis know their small neighborhood group can't take on the entire Kansai region syndicate. They seek the help of old friends who have now entered into legitimate business to mediate a truce, though the price of mediation bankrupts the clan since they'd never measured their success in terms of money, but rather through their acquisition of turf, order, and respect. This newfangled obsession with money instead of "face" is simply outside the realm in which the Onogi operate. Before too long, they realize that they've been had, and while they were worrying about rival yakuza, what they should have been watching out for was the big corporation – a gang in its own right, but one with loyalties not to any single boss but instead simply to the practice of making a profit.
The central characters are Onogi's number two (Seichi) and number three (Yuji, played by Akira Kobayashi, who starred in Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer, Hasebe's Black Tight Killers, and later a couple of Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity films). Seichi is the cool one, collected and smart and basically the man who will take control of the gang when the current boss retires. Yuiji is smart as well, but a bit more of a hothead who is quicker to call for retribution even when he knows it'll be certain death. Seichi is confident that they can figure a way out of the predicament without all having to die in a valiant last stand in the name of old school honor. Yuiji figures they're stuck in a no-win situation and might as well go out in defense of their out-of-date principles and notions of honor. Their opposite, at least for a while, is the underboss of the Kansai gang, a man who first sets out to destroy the Onogis and take over their territory until he himself finds out that even his larger gang is simply a pawn of big business. Although at war with the Onogis, he finds himself standing alongside Yuiji and Seichi in defense of the old ways.
The conflict's shift from rival yakuza gangs to the entire concept of what it was to be a yakuza versus the amoral profit-motivated aggressiveness of big business provides Bloody Territories with the twist that keeps it from being dismissible as "just another yakuza film" and situates it as a nice bridge between the Takakura Ken films, which celebrate the morals and ideals upheld by Onogi gangsters, and the Kinji Fukasaku films in which we see the erosion and breakdown of the yakuza code. But remember, these are still knife wielding killer businessmen, not just guys who throw around a lot of business buzzwords. However, I doubt the yakuza would fare any better if pitted against an adversary who, instead of simply meeting them in the back alley for a fight, insisted instead on setting up a meeting to discuss enterprise-wide paradigm shifts in how the yakuza implement robust solutions for end user clients. And oh yeah, they intend to tear down your quaint neighborhood tea house and gang headquarters and replace it with a TGI Friday's. Try being a tough yakuza hitman when you're forced to have meetings in the rumpus room of a TGI Fridays while a peppy suspenders-wearing guy named Stevie brings you jalapeno poppers. You can't kill people while eating jalapeno poppers!
Although the film takes a while to get going, once it does the twists are entertaining and the action is appropriately bloody. As if to underscore the position of the Onogi boys as die-hard old schoolers, they eschew the use of guns and favor the good ol' tanto knives – probably more realistic than showing a bunch of gangsters sporting heavy duty firepower since firearms are harder to come by (not to mention get away with using) than blades.
Hasebe's direction lacks the flare one would expect from him. This must have been his "normal" movie on the road from Black Tight Killers to Spectreman. Bloody Territories is still vividly colorful, especially when yakuza thugs get to have knife fights amid flowing white sheets of laundry, but there's a certain something missing that keeps the film from being as visually innovative as it should be. I am thankful for the fact that they're still using tripods and dollies for the shots. The 1970s would usher in the era of wildly shaking "heat of the action" shots that can really make an old man's head hurt. And oh yeah — this being a Nikkatsu production (the studio who would later become to pinky violent and softcore porn films what Britain's Hammer was to horror), there are a couple gratuitous boob shots and weirdly out-of-place and completely frivolous "sweat-dripping lesbians" scene. As always, we welcome such utterly throw-away and inexcusable forays into cheap and tawdry titillation. If only every movie ever made would cut away to a minute or two of wet, dripping, naked lesbians naking out for no reason!
The script also lacks flare as it dutifully covers all the yakuza film points from the loving wife whose man is killed, to the guy who has to chop off a pinky as atonement for some offense. And of course there is gambling and lots of sitting around in a teahouse engaging in boisterous talk. Aside from our three central yakuza, there are very few characters worth remembering. A former yakuza torn between his respect for the old ways and his position as a top employee at the corporation and the mistress of the head of the Kansai gang show promise as two more interesting characters, but their stories are either too spottily covered or simply seem to get lost and remain undeveloped amid the sundry plot threads that have to be tied up by the film's rain-and-blood soaked finale. No one is as cool as Takakura Ken from the old films or Bunta Sugawara from the Fukasaku films that would follow. Akira Kobayashi is a good central character, but even the central characters lack anything that really makes them stand out. Although the movie's plot pitting old-fashioned yakuza against corporate greed and corruption is a unique take on the genre, none of the characters are anything out of the ordinary for such a film. There's cool and reserved guy, medium hothead, guy in floppy hat, so on and so forth. It simply doesn't give us enough that's new and different from what we'd seen beforehand, resulting in a film that isn't a must-see but is instead one of those, "See it if you get the chance" films that don't really demand any sense or urgency.
Even with so-so characters and a script that could use some tightening in places, Bloody Territories remains a good film. Just not a great one. It's an interesting transition piece, but with Hasebe directing, one tends to expect more. Still, I'm just thankful to have so many yakuza films from which to chose now, and even a rather average one like this is still a treat.
Release Year: 1969 | Country: Japan | Starring: Akira Kobayashi, Ryoji Hayama, Tadao Nakamaru, Hiroshi Nawa, Tatsuya Fuji, Yuriko Hime, Jiro Okazaki, Yoshi Kato, Fujio Suga, Bontaro Miyak, Kichijiro Ueda, Takamaru Sasaki, Kyoko Mine | Writer: Kazuo Aoki, Yasuharu Hasebe | Director: Yasuharu Hasebe | Music: Hajime Kaburagi | Cinematographer: Muneo Ueda | Producer: Tetsuro Nakagawa
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So this is the one that started it all, so to speak, so long as you consider "it all" to be the first cycle of films based, sometimes extremely loosely, on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, and directed by low-budget legend Roger Corman. Prior to this film, Corman had made a name for himself slapping together drive-in quickies while Price had become a beloved horror film icon working with William Castle. Film production company AIP had specialized primarily in black-and-white genre pictures, made two at a time with ten-day shooting schedules. Everyone came together for this historic meeting of elements that remains, to this day, one of the best examples of American-made gothic horror films. Corman's Poe films for American International Pictures became to the United States what Hammer films were in England: low budget, wonderfully acted, gorgeously designed horror films dripping with atmosphere and literary tradition. It was Corman's first picture in scope, and one of AIP's first color films to be sold as an individual movie rather than as part of a package. It also had an extended shooting schedule – a whopping fifteen days as opposed to ten.
Dracula, Prince of Darkness
For many, the first official sequel to Hammer's groundbreaking Horror of Dracula, an oft-neglected film called Brides of Dracula, was little more than a pit stop on the road to this film, the second sequel but first to feature the return of Christopher Lee in the title role of Count Dracula. Hoping to avoid being typecast as Dracula, Lee resisted doing the sequel, and it was another eight years or so before he agreed to don the opera cape once again and reprise the role that made him famous. In that time, he'd built up a pretty solid and diverse career that would ensure he would not become "nothing but Dracula" to the audience. Of course, in the end, he was best known as Dracula, but what can you do? He would, I assume, remain cranky about people calling him Dracula until, some decades later, everyone just started calling him Saruman.
Brides of Dracula
When people talk about the sequence of films that make up Hammer Studio's "Dracula" series, a good many of them make the eight-year leap from the first film, 1958's Horror of Dracula to Dracula, Prince of Darkness in 1966. It's quite a jump, indeed, but one that seems to land you just about where you need to be, with the latter film beginning with a quick recap of the climax from the former. What gets lost in between the two films is the actual first sequel to Horror of Dracula, which is a shame because it's one of the best in the series, and one of the best vampire films Hammer ever produced.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Whenever someone is promoting a film as either "getting back to the spirit of the original" or "the most faithful adaptation of the novel," you know you're going to be in trouble. They never recapture "the spirit of the original" even when the spirit of the original wasn't that hot to begin with, and the more they crow about how faithful their adaptation is, the less likely it will be to stick to the source material.
The Mummy
Ahh, Sangster and Fisher. If you want my opinion, and you must or else you'd go read a much better website that this, that screenwriter-director team is as integral to the success of the Hammer horror films as the Cushing-Lee acting team. When you make a list of the best films Hammer produced, the Fisher-Sangster duo comes up quite frequently. The whole quartet is at it again with this, Hammer's third reimagining of a classic Universal Pictures horror icon. By now, there was no real gamble involved in the Hammer formula. Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula had proven the effort, and Hammer's only challenge now lie in maintaining the high standards set by those two films. With two Universal legends left, those being the mummy and the Wolfman, Hammer decided to go all old Egypt and bring the bandaged avenger of desecrated tombs into the Technicolor world of Hammer horror.
Horror of Dracula
Hammer Studio's Horror of Dracula is, without a doubt (at least in my mind), the absolute best vampire film ever made, and quite simply one of the finest examples of proper Gothic horror that's ever been filmed. It was a busy couple of years for Britain's Hammer Studio. In 1955, their sci-fi/horror thriller based on the popular TV character Quatermass became a smash hit, and the studio soon learned it was because audiences were hungry for shocking, boundary-pushing films of the fantastic and horrible that still handled themselves with a degree of wit, intelligence, and dignity as would befit a rousing British tale of terror. Inspired by that film's success, execs turned to studio director Terence Fisher to rework Mary Shelley's classic tale of Gothic horror, Frankenstein. It was a risky move for any number of obvious reasons, not the least of which was the fact that Universal's Boris Karloff version of the monster was practically a global icon. Hammer had to come up with a completely new approach to the monster's appearance, since the Universal version was copyrighted, and they figured that while doing so, they might as well ratchet up the sex and violence and see just how much they'd be able to get away with in a horror movie.
So this is what a Playboy-produced film used to look like. You know, back before they modeled themselves after their brainless FHM style spawns and were still at the very least attempting to inject some cutting edge material in between the shots of naked women with badly feathered 1970s hair. I know the joke is old and tired, but you know there used to even be something worth reading in that magazine. Not so much these days, from what I can tell. I have many vices, but Playboy ceased to be one of them round about the time it forsook that dapper jet-set lifestyle and became just another frat boy publication. And Playboy films? Don't even get me started. Yeah, I've seen one or two. They're awful erotic thrillers, which I know seems like a silly criticism to level at Playboy films until you consider for a moment that there, for a brief spell in the 1970s, Hugh Hefner decided to throw the Playboy name and money at Roman Polanski's stylish, intelligent, and grim adaptation of one of Shakespeare bloodiest plays.
Spirits of the Dead
Anyone claiming that Spirits of the Dead isn't a good movie is probably only just saying that because Vadim's contribution to this anthology of Edgar Allen Poe adaptations as conceived by three of Europe's maverick directors is so sloppy and unengaging. Vadim's contribution, "Metzengerstein," is certainly not the way you'd want to start a film. As was par for the man, Vadim casts his current sexy main squeeze in the lead, which just happened at the time to be Jane Fonda. The duo were fresh off Barbarella, and this story was originally envisioned as a feature film follow-up to that piece of sci-fi pop art. How they could have every stretched this thing out to a full running time is beyond me, though it's not as if Vadim wasn't a pro at stretching out thin-to-nonexistent plots and pasting them together with eye-popping, mind blowing costume and set design. Fonda plays the Countess Metzengerstein, heir to a vast fortune she squanders by throwing lavish orgies and torturing the underlings. Actually, they're rather dull and lifeless orgies. You know, orgies always seem like a good idea until you try and hammer out the logistics of the whole thing. As for me, I'd be too worried about people knocking stuff over. Anyway, she delights in hurling barbs over the fence at her more modest cousin, played by none other than Jane's brother, Peter. Eventually, she becomes sexually obsessed with him — kind of, well, you know, but then this is Roger Vadim we're talking about, and it was the sixties — until he rebuffs her advances. I mean, heck, Henry was probably already pretty steamed at the both of them for being a coupla hippies. Incest would have really set him off.
As revenge, the mad Ms. Metzengerstein burns down his stables, and he in turn dies in the fire trying to save his horses. Or so it would seem. A big black stallion bursts through the flames and gallops to safety, but there is no record of such a horse in the stable. Metzengerstein becomes convinced that the horse is the reincarnation of her beloved cousin, and her obsession with the horse crosses into madness and, frankly, borders on bestiality. Despite all the weird stuff thrown into the mix, this is a decidedly dull and uninspired way to kick off the film. The costuming, usually one of Vadim's only strong points, is relatively without shock or beauty. Jane dons some navel-exposing Little Lord Fauntleroy type outfits, but everything else looks like it's on loan from the local community theater. The cinematography is listless, and Vadim's usually striking composition of scenes is non-existent. In addition, everything is shot in soft-focus "Playboy-o-vision." The English speaking actors are dubbed into French in the currently available version, which means the only way we can judge their performances is through body language, most of which consists of them staring half-stoned at the camera.
The tone of the film is all wrong too, at least in my opinion. A tale of mystery and the bizarre, as this is meant to be, should have some sense of menace and the macabre, some sort of tension. There is none of that here, and the film instead unfolds like a languid, ethereal, and intensely boring dream. Fairy tales and Cocteau Twins songs conjure up more darkness and dread than this supposed Edgar Allen Poe tale. There are some nice crumbling castles and decaying seaside scenery, but Vadim doesn't seem to understand how to take thematic advantage of it or relate it to the decaying morality and mental state of his central Nero/Caligula-like figure (though I must say I bet Jane Fonda's figure is better than Nero or Caligula's). When you fail to match even someone as hit-or-miss with similar atmosphere as, say, France's Jean Rollin, you know you're way off the mark. It's like Vadim wasn't even trying here. The hilariously silly ending was repeated in Vadim's 1973 film Don Juan (Or if Don Juan Were a Woman), which we covered right up there at the very beginning of this journal.
Things pick up, but only just, for the second story in the trilogy. Luis Malle directs "William Wilson." Malle is probably most infamous for flirting with child pornography when he introduced the world to Brooke Shields in his 1978 film Pretty Baby. Before that, he was a member of the French New Wave, which helped get him this gig. He's pretty far off his game for this outing, though, turning in an entry that manages to be less ponderous and a little more tense and eerie than Vadim's meandering hunk of nonsense, but it still just doesn't play out the way it should, perhaps because the story itself has been done so many times and this one offers nothing new. French heartthrob Alain Delon stars as the titular Wilson, whom we meet as he stumbles into a confessional and claims to have killed a man. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn the history of Wilson, who in every regard is a grade-a prick. As a young boy attending a military school where his classmate was no doubt Damien from The Omen II, he encounters a boy with the same name as he who seems dedicated to countering everything he does. He encounters this double, who even grows to look exactly like him, throughout various points in his life until, ultimately, they face one another in a fencing duel.
There's very little to surprise here. The man fighting his doppleganger, and by killing it killing himself, is nothing new, and Malle's approach is so straight-forward and by the books that the story, while decent for a single viewing, has nothing more to offer. Like Vadim, Malle seems to almost be phoning it in just to collect his paycheck. The primary difference is that the performers, native French speakers, are better and the story is, as I said, OK at least for the first go-round. Brigitte Bardot shows up briefly in a gambling scene. All in all, the segment isn't bad. Direction is nice, acting is good, and it moves at a fair clip. There are also a few effective moments, chiefly the scene of a young Wilson lowering a new student into a barrel full of rats and a later scene in which Wilson, now a medical student, seeks to practice his dissection technique on a living subject. So OK, it's not bad. It's just not that interesting.
If you make it through the awful first story and middling second, they pay-off is Federico Fellini's entry, the final piece in the trilogy and easily one of the most delirious, grotesque, and utterly insane forty minutes of film you'll ever come across. Fellini was known for a lot of things, not the least of which was his fondness for the absurd. If you're familiar with the director, and you should at least try to be, then try to imagine everything about him and his style distilled down and concentrated in one forty-minute sequence. Quite frankly, it's almost too much, and that's simply divine.
His story is "Toby Dammit," based loosely on Poe's "Never Bet the Devil Your Head." A wild-eyed, completely mad looking Terence Stamp stars as Dammit, a drunken, wild British film actor who seems to be hovering on the brink of a career collapse. He travels to Italy to star in a film in which Jesus is reincarnated as a pioneer in the American West, but nothing about his trip to Rome is the least bit ordinary. Fellini saturates his film in colors, and they're all the wrong ones for what should be going on. Think of film that has been cross-processed. The world of Toby Dammit is awash in red and yellow, billowing orange clouds and dust, like driving through someone's hallucination of the end of the world. Given the Biblical nature of the film Dammit is to be starring in, it wouldn't surprise me if Fellini's own inspiration for the look of the film came straight from the Book of Revelations.
Dammit's biggest problem, besides his addiction to and disdain for fame, is that he is haunted by visions of a smiling young blonde girl (shades of Mario Bava's Kill, Baby, Kill) who he believes to be The Devil himself. We follow Dammit onto a bizarre talk show, an even more bizarre awards show, and finally a manic, out of control car ride as he attempts to escape the increasingly bizarre and artificial landscape around him (people on the street are frozen in mid-motion, and eventually become mannequins).
The difference between the two French directors and the Italian Fellini couldn't be more obvious. He seizes his story with gusto, indulging every bizarre notion that crosses his mind and throwing it all onto the screen with a madcap zeal totally lacking in Vadim's entry and an absolute lack of predictability as seen in Malle's. Nothing is the slightest bit real. It's all highly stylized and has its grotesque alien factor cranked to the very top. Everyone is grossly overdone. Their make-up is outrageous; their movements are more the movements of stage props and puppets. Lights flash and glitter from every angle, and a non-stop of psychedelic detail and sheer lunacy require that you watch the segment several times just to catch everything that goes on in each scene.
And standing above this gaudy, gorgeous horror show, this gleeful dissection of fame and the film industry (or rather, the industries that affix themselves to the film industry) is Terence Stamp, white-faced and genuinely looking like he's just come of a weeklong binge. He's haggard and sweaty and pasty and looks utterly spent, while at the same time seeming completely and utterly hysterical. Although in the currently available version all his dialog has been dubbed into French, unlike the Fondas in the first segment, he gives you plenty more by which to judge his frenzied performance. He's a whirlwind of agitated energy, and it's one of the best performances in the career of one of England's best actors. It's impossible not to compare him here to Malcolm McDowell's equally cracked performance in 1971's A Clockwork Orange. I'm no expert on the film, but I'm willing to bet Stamp's turn as Dammit (right down to the wild driving scene) was a major influence on both Kubrick as director and McDowell as actor. Spirits of the Dead is owned by Fellini's segment, and Stamp owns that segment. It is sublime, and a must-see.
Where Vadim and Malle try, or we assume they try, to invoke dreamlike and Gothic horror atmospheres respectively, grounding themselves in historical settings and costumes, Fellini sets his film in a warped and twisted version of the present, a fever dream where the mood he goes for is more one of psychosis and hysteria than creeping dread (or oozing boredom, in Vadim's case). "Toby Dammit" is as funny as it is warped. It is a celebration, in it's own way, and by dispensing entirely with the "typical" Poe setting, Fellini seems to have achieved the only truly eerie Poe feeling in the entire anthology, though it might be Poe on one of his famous drug binges. Every scene drips with the promise of menace, albeit a completely absurd one, and his ending is as comical as it is spooky. And those images of the maniacally grinning little girl/Satan? Positively brilliant. The whole thing is an orgy of a psychotic, surreal Hell on Earth populated by annoying comedians and glittering women in gigantic false eyelashes.
So skip the first segment. Sit through Malle's middle segment, but for the devil's ball-bouncing sake, don't miss Fellini's finale. It's the sort of lunatic filmmaking that makes you happy to be watching a movie. It's a five-star segment trapped in an otherwise two-star film, but more than justifies the effort of getting through the film.


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In Trek, it appears as much a title as a name (a dual purpose for the term that exists in the real world). Cumberbatch could easily be using "Khan" the way Montalban did in Space Seed (if I recall the dialogue correctly enough from Space Seed to paraphrase, Kirk presses Khan with something like "Khan, just that, nothing else?" to which Khan replies something like "just Khan").
Not quite. In "Space Seed," Khan actually said "Khan is my name" to Kirk and "My name is Khan" to Marla. (Kirk also said "Name: Khan" in the later briefing.)
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Widely acknowledged as the lowest place on earth, researchers have found thriving microbial life at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, seven miles below sea level in the Pacific Ocean. Previously the trench was considered a cold, dark, desolate environment long thought too harsh for life to exist.
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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - It's been discovered that organisms can thrive at this incredible depth. Sediment tested in the deep ocean trench revealed that it contains almost 10 times more bacteria than the sediments at a shallower, nearby site approximately four miles deep.
It was presumed that the farther down you go, the less food you expect to find. The microbes have been show to survive on the remains of dead animals, algae and other microbes that float down the trench slopes, making it a surprisingly rich place for organic matter, scientists have learned.
Researchers used an unmanned robot to measure the distribution of oxygen in trench sediment in 2010. Sensors were inserted directly into the seabed since samples can't be brought back to the surface. The microorganisms are thought to die due to extreme changes in temperature and pressure.
"Titanic" and "Avatar" director James Cameron became the first person in 2012 to visit the bottom of the trench in more than 50 years. Footage from the deep-sea dive showed a few new species, but it's still a rather barren environment.
Videos from the bottom of the Mariana Trench now confirm that "there are very few large animals at these depths," lead researcher Ronnie Glud from the University of Southern Denmark said in a statement. "Rather, we find a world dominated by microbes that are adapted to function effectively under conditions too inhospitable for most higher organisms."
Like other oceanic trenches, the Mariana Trench has been proposed as a site for nuclear waste disposal, in the hope that tectonic plate subduction occurring at the site might eventually push the nuclear waste deep into the Earth's mantle. However, ocean dumping of nuclear waste is prohibited by international law. Furthermore, plate subduction zones are associated with very large megathrust earthquakes, the effects of which are unpredictable and possibly adverse to the safety of long-term disposal.
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Well, you have to understand that Ap Yi is currently out of control. In lane your damage doesn't stick, he'll just back away and heal. Even in the middle of fights he'll stand around and heal all damage away. Not a big fan of how heavy handed the nerfs are but, they are deserved.
bump for new eyes.
I hate playing against Yi. I've hated it ever since I started the game.
Delete Yi.
I completely agree with the creator of this post.
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I don't care. Nerf him into the ground. Least fun **** to play against in the game.
even tho I hate ap yi, I agree.
their latest changes lean more towards destruction than "balance". Just look at diana nerfs and eve lol.
(I hate those champs too but dayum are they being harsh..)
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Even though area residents have been nice this year, they may end up with a lump of coal through falling for a naughty text messaging scam that asks them for personal information.
Alma D. Slate, 78, of Loveland Colo., died Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012 at her residence after a short illness. She was born Oct. 29, 1934 in St. Marys, PA, daughter of the late Dort and Ottie Urbancic. On Sept. 19, 1959, in Denver, Colo., Alma married Clarence E. Slate, who preceded her in death on May 24, 2009.
After graduating from high school, Alma entered the United States Navy. She served five years, with her last position bringing her to Denver, Colo.
Alma was devoted to her family and friends and was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church.
Rebecca (Becky) Mae Johnson, 59, of Spring Creek Rd., Ridgway, died suddenly at home on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012.
She was born on Sept. 2, 1953 in Ridgway, the daughter of Lila Jean Duffee Johnson of Dagus Mines and the late Theodore W. Johnson. She graduated from Ridgway Area High School, Class of 1971. Becky attended the Bethlehem Lutheran Church. She worked at Aiello's Restaurant for years. She then became owner/operator of a cleaning business. She was forced to retire due to health problems.
This week the City of St. Marys is working with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA), Division of Weights and Measures, in calibrating the city's 300 parking meters.
The board of commissioners on Tuesday approved an accord by Zito Business for a fiber optic E-line connection between the North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission and the Elk County Courthouse during a board meeting.
EZ Rolling, located on Erie Avenue in downtown St. Marys, has rolled its inventory into a wide variety of new offerings obtained from popular department stores and sold at deeply discounted prices.
Upperclassmen at Elk County Catholic High School will have the opportunity to interact with alumni in their intended career areas on Friday in an effort to aid the students, who are facing an important time in their lives as they prepare to select a college, enter the workforce, or join the armed forces.
Grace W. McGill, 94, of 108 Irishtown Rd., Fox Manor, Kersey, and formerly of Bucktail Road, St. Marys, died early Sunday morning, Dec. 16, 2012 at the Elk Regional Health Center after a brief illness.
She was born Feb. 12, 1918 in Horton Township, Elk County. On May 14, 1938, in St. Marys, she married Charles J. McGill, who preceded her in death on June 9, 1982.
She was a lifelong resident of the area and attended Kersey and Toby schools. She was a former employee of the Stackpole Carbon Co., the Keystone Carbon Co., and was a retired Tip Staff for the Elk County Court.