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South Salt Lake, Utah
South Salt Lake, Utah | |
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Columbus Center, South Salt Lake, Utah |
Location of South Salt Lake, Utah |
Coordinates: 40°42′28″N 111°53′21″W / 40.70778°N 111.88917°WCoordinates: 40°42′28″N 111°53′21″W / 40.70778°N 111.88917°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Utah |
County | Salt Lake |
Settled | 1847 |
Incorporated | 1938 |
Named for | Great Salt Lake |
Area | |
• Total | 6.9 sq mi (17.9 km2) |
• Land | 6.9 sq mi (17.9 km2) |
• Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
Elevation | 4,255 ft (1,297 m) |
Population (2012) | |
• Total | 24,366 |
• Density | 3,190.8/sq mi (1,232.0/km2) |
Time zone | Mountain (MST) (UTC-7) |
• Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC-6) |
ZIP codes | 84106, 84115 |
Area code(s) | 385, 801 |
FIPS code | 49-71070[1] |
GNIS feature ID | 1432753[2] |
South Salt Lake is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States and is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 23,617 at the 2010 census.
South Salt Lake's history, is closely intertwined with that of Salt Lake City's. It began in 1847 when Brigham Young brought settlers through Emigration Canyon into the Salt Lake Valley.
Originally, South Salt Lake was made up of three distinct unincorporated areas: Millcreek to the north, Central Park (which was the area between 300 East and State Street and 2700 to 3000 South) and Southgate to the south. In 1936 Central Park incorporated as its own town.
In the late 1930s the area was greatly in need of a sanitation system since at the time most of the area was using septic tanks or open cesspools which drained into local creeks. Salt Lake City agreed to annex the area to help with the problem, but gave no specific date to give them a sewer system. In 1936 several area businessmen formed the South Salt Lake Businessmen's Association to address the problem, deciding to put the issue of incorporation to a vote. Against strong opposition, the vote passed on September 28, 1938. The sewer was built for $462,000 using mostly pick axes and shovels.
In the 1990s, South Salt Lake annexed portions of an unincorporated portion of Salt Lake County to the south, and nearly doubled in land area, and, as a result, population.
The current mayor is Cherie Wood.[3]
In 2012, a Chinatown development started to open businesses on a lot in the city. It will be the only Chinatown in the Intermountain West.[4] Currently there are three Chinese restaurants, a gift shop, a martial arts facility, and an Asian convenience store operating, while construction has begun on a large Chinese supermarket on the property.[5]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.9 square miles (18 km2), all of it land.
The city is bordered by the Jordan River on the west, 500 East and 700 East on the east, 2100 South on the north, and 3900 South on the south. West Valley City lies to the west, Salt Lake City to the north and northeast, and Millcreek to the east and south. Because of its location next to the Jordan River and well away from the mountains, it is mostly flat, only ranging in elevation from about 4,330 feet (1,320 m) to 4,380 feet (1,340 m).
Historical population | |||
Census | Pop. | %± | |
1940 | 1,599 |
1950 | 7,704 | 381.8% | |
1960 | 9,520 | 23.6% | |
1970 | 7,810 | −18.0% | |
1980 | 10,413 | 33.3% | |
1990 | 10,129 | −2.7% | |
2000 | 22,038 | 117.6% | |
2010 | 23,617 | 7.2% | |
Est. 2012 | 24,366 | 3.2% |
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 22,038 people, 8,022 households, and 4,588 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,190.8 people per square mile (1,231.4/km²). There were 8,742 housing units at an average density of 1,265.7 per square mile (488.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 75.24% White, 2.91% African American, 3.00% Native American, 2.65% Asian, 1.21% Pacific Islander, 10.69% from other races, and 4.29% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 22.38% of the population.
There were 8,022 households out of which 30.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.7% were married couples living together, 13.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.8% were non-families. 32.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.17.
In the city the population was spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 16.5% from 18 to 24, 37.0% from 25 to 44, 14.9% from 45 to 64, and 7.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females there were 121.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 127.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $29,801, and the median income for a family was $35,353. Males had a median income of $26,173 versus $23,755 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,474. About 13.3% of families and 16.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.5% of those under age 18 and 8.3% of those age 65 or over.
South Salt Lake has the highest rate of violent crime and the highest rate of property crime of any city in the state of Utah. Extensive urban redevelopment (including the Market Station development) and a reduction in the number of liquor licenses allowed to be issued is anticipated to reduce crime in the city.[6] With 4 murders in 2007, it had a murder rate of ?100,000 (based on 2006 U.S. Census Bureau population estimates).[7]
I-15, I-80, and SR-201 intersect in the northwestern portion of the city. This interchange is known locally as the "Spaghetti Bowl" due to its complex array of on and off ramps, which extend to several other city roads in the area. US-89 runs north-to-south along State Street through the heart of South Salt Lake, serving as the primary commercial corridor and includes an interchange at I-80. SR-171 (3300 South) traverses the city east-to-west, with an interchange at I-15. SR-71 (700 East) runs along the southern part of the east border of the city and also has an interchange at I-80.
Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) TRAX light rail runs through the city at about 200 West, with 3 stations located within the city limits. All three of the TRAX lines (Blue, Red, and Green) enter the city from the north at Central Pointe Station. (Central Point Station is also the headquarters for UTA's Transit Police Department.) From Central Pointe Station the Green Line heads west to West Valley City while both the Blue and Red lines continue south to stop at the Millcreek Station before leaving the city at the Meadowbrook Station. UTA also has several local bus routes that run through the city, many of which stop every fifteen minutes.[8]
By December 2013, the S Line (formerly known as Sugar House Streetcar) line will open for service.[9] The S Line runs along an existing rail line just south of 2100 South (the northern border of the city) from the Central Pointe TRAX station to the Sugar House neighborhood in southeastern Salt Lake City.[10] In addition to Central Pointe Station, the S Line will included stops at State Street, 300 East, and 500 East before leaving the city. Although operated by UTA, the S Line is a joint project between South Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, and UTA.[11]
One of South Salt Lake's most notable and historic buildings is the Columbus Center. Originally a school around the turn of the 20th century, it was later used as a daycare center beginning in the 1950s. After being condemned in the late 1980s, it was renovated and expanded to include a branch of the Salt Lake County Library System as well as an auditorium, senior center and several other facilities.
South Salt Lake lies within the Granite School District. It has 2 elementary schools (Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson) and it also only has 1 junior high school school (Granite Park). With Mayor Wood's emphasis on education, two charter schools have located in South Salt Lake, Alianza and the International School. Granite High School, originally opened in 1906, was changed from a traditional high school to an alternative high school in 2006. Granite High School expanded into an "umbrella" school with various programs under its wing, including Central High, which was already an alternative school. However, the school closed for good at the end of the 2008-09 school year.[12] On November 8, 2011, the citizens of South Salt Lake voted on whether the city should purchase the 27-acre Granite High School property by means of a $25 million bond, however, the vote failed by mere 11 votes.[13] The Salt Lake City campus of Broadview University is located next to the South Salt Lake city offices.
- Edwin Catmull, President of Pixar, graduated from Granite High in South Salt Lake in 1963.
- The world's first Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC) franchise was established in 1952 by Harland Sanders and Pete Harman in what is now part of South Salt Lake.[14]
- Zagg, manufacturer and marketer of the popular invisibleSHIELD gadget protection film, is based in South Salt Lake.[15]
- ^ a b "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "Mayor Cherie Wood". South Salt Lake. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Palmer, Rebecca (22 Mar 2008). "Asian attraction: South Salt Lake's Chinatown will offer food, culture, shopping and more". Deseret News (Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media). Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ personal knowledge
- ^ Palmer, Rebecca (16 Feb 2008). "Bars to dwindle in South Salt Lake Aim is one permit per 3,000 residents: 8 establishments". Deseret News (Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media). Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Davidson, Lee; Reavy, Pat (26 Aug 2007). "Prime for crime? Rates - high and low - in Utah communities can be surprising". Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media). Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Utah Transit Authority (April 2013) (JPG). Salt Lake County System Map (Map). http://www.rideuta.com/uploads/sl_system_map_apr2013_large.jpg. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Vo-Duc, Viviane (5 Sep 2013). "New streetcar S-line set to open Dec. 8 in Sugar House". Deseret News. Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved 17 Sep 2013.
- ^ "State Street Closed At Night Next Two Weekends for Streetcar Construction". Utah Transit Authority. 18 Apr 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ "Sugar House Street Car". Utah Transit Authority. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Stewart, Amy K. (6 May 2009). "Granite High to close in current location. The deecision to close Granite is expected to save the district $1.3M in annual operating costs". Deseret News (Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media). Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Farmer, Molly; Page, Jared (8 Nov 2011). "South Salt Lake bond measure fails by 11 votes". Deseret News (Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media). Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Henetz, Patty; Nii, Jennifer (21 Apr 2004). "Colonel's landmark KFC is mashed". Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media). Associated Press. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ "Customer Service". Zagg. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
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UVa Motivated for Saturday's Trip to Virginia Tech
There is no postseason bowl game on the horizon for the Virginia football team this year. And unlike last year, there is no spot in the ACC title game at stake when the Cavaliers face Virginia Tech this Saturday.
But the Cavaliers say they've still got plenty to play for when they visit Blacksburg this weekend.
"It's basically our bowl game," junior quarterback Michael Rocco said Monday. "So, to go out on a winning note for our seniors, and just to win our last game is a big deal for us. So we're kind of taking this as the stakes are just as high as going to an ACC championship or going to a bowl game."
The Cavaliers lost any shot at a second straight bowl appearance when they dropped to 4-7 with last Thursday's 37-13 loss to North Carolina. The Hokies enter Saturday's regular season finale at 5-6, needing a sixth win to extend the program's streak of 19 straight bowl appearances.
"Right now they have five wins, and I'm quite sure that they look at this as a sixth win opportunity to extend a bowl streak and opportunities for themselves," Virginia coach Mike London said Monday. "So we look at it also as an opportunity for us to win a football game against a team that has beaten us at Virginia the last several times."
A season ago, the ACC Coastal Division title was at stake when the Hokies finished the regular season in Charlottesville. Virginia Tech came away with a one-sided 38-0 win, their eighth straight in the series against Virginia.
"The streak is there. You know about it; everybody knows about it," Virginia sophomore quarterback Phillip Sims said.
"We know that we're capable of winning this football game," Sims said. "We've just got to do the things that we're capable of doing. We've got to prepare this week like this means something."
"The competitive side in you wants to change those opportunities," said London. "And you have to play well. We have to play better than obviously we played last week. We have to play probably our best football to date for anything like that to change."
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President Barack Obama met with 13 chief executives yesterday to dig deeper into cybersecurity.
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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, along with chief executives at Exxon Mobil, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase, were all in attendance, according to the Times.
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The Ultra-Legacy Problem - Systems so old...
"That app is so old, they've found caves with the source code scrawled on them!" ... sounds funny right? It may be funny, unless you're the person heading up the organization which needs to "do something about" that ultra-legacy code or system in your environment.
Say you're a sizeable institution here in the United States. Say also that over the last two decades you've amassed lots of interesting technologies and platforms that run your business, in a time before the Information Security organization did much more than install anti-virus on your desktop... and now that technical debt has come back to haunt you.
If you're not familiar with the notion of technical debt as applied to Information Security, it's something you must read, and can certainly research yourself additionally. The problem with the masses of technical debt that we've accumulated in the various industries is that it's not going away via "natural obsolescence". It would also seem to concentrate heavily in finance, particularly with the "old financials" which translates to companies that have been around for 30+ years either as banks, or other forms of financial services. These organizations have archaic systems that very few of us are even qualified to address anymore ... remember Foxpro? Those systems don't really have people who can easily decipher decades-old software and translate it into more modern systems without severe pain, or maybe a seance!
Let's take a system I was introduced to recently where the problem isn't the desire to move off a 30-year-old platform, it's the ability that's the show stopper. When a friend of mine took this organization over at CISO, he immediately noticed that there were systems out on his network that were ...how should I put this ... antiquated. How in the world would you migrate that Foxpro system over to your current web-based platform? There just aren't any simple roadmaps or recipes to do this, so the ultra-legacy stuff keeps churning.
It makes sense that the biggest risks in any organization are the unknowns and systems that are more than 10, 15 or even 20 years old definitely classify into that category. Odds are pretty good that not only are the original architects, developers and implementers not around anymore, but that documentation and knowledge has left the building with Elvis. In a situation where you're not entirely sure what a system does, how it behaves, or what it depends on you have no choice but to try and understand it and what risks it may post first before you go to anything else. I've tackled one of these projects before, and it wasn't even this difficult. One day I'll have to write up a post about porting a Phion firewall to Checkpoint, but I digress.
Let's take a minute to reflect on why those ultra-legacy systems exist in the first place. It's generally one of two things that cause ultra-legacy systems to stick around - cost or knowledge ...and sometimes both are the problem. Cost is often the biggest reason due to the enormous costs that are required to migrate some of these ages-old systems to modern technology. For example, migrating one simple timecard tracking system on a shop floor (which was running Windows for Workgroups) in 2003 was projected to cost north of $300,000.00 USD to bring it up to 'modern' code standards. The result was the application was kept around until "it could no longer be reasonably maintained or used". The idea behind technical debt is that the longer a system sticks around the higher the costs of modernizing its internals and technology, or fixing bugs. So after, say, 15 years you're in serious financial ruin trying to migrate a system that should be simple in the first place. The other big problem is knowledge. Yes, that timecard system wasn't overly complex but it was written in C, and the original source is long gone so to effectively duplicate that system we must find the original business process documentation, right? Right ...good luck. If only it was that easy. In places where you've got both problems the costs tend to be higher and the life-support requirements elongated.
On a system where simply 'securing it' doesn't fit with modern technology you have at your disposal what do you do? When you can't patch a system because it relies on technology that has been out-of-support since the Clinton presidency you may have a problem. It's interesting to note that there are plenty of solutions out there that claim to solve many of your legacy problems with a new box on your network, or a proxy-based approach, or whatever ... be careful when you go to these types of 'solutions'.
What do you do, then, if you've got some of these ultra-legacy systems sitting around causing you nightmares and cold sweats? Stay tuned, that's coming in my next post in this series, because this issue isn't going to just 'go away' or solve itself.
Note: If you maintain, work with, or know first-hand of these types of ultra-legacy systems I want to talk to you. I want to hear from you what you're doing to mitigate the risks, migrate the platform, or whatever else your strategy may involve. Heck, if there's a wrecking ball in the future then even better! Either leave a comment or email me directly (Wh1t3Rabbit at hp) or find me on Twitter (@Wh1t3Rabbit) ... I look forward to hearing from you!
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I have a few good stories for this one, and thanks to some harassment on twitter, I've been invited to post here.
Circa 2004 we had an ancient IBM/Power (Probably a first-generation AIX, Power-based system) at a former employer. It had an old database on it that was occasionally used for forensic work (info in the database would be pertinent to investigating a history of fraud, for instance.) However, we knew it wasn't Y2K complaint, and we were responsible for making sure it stayed "up" continually. Although sometimes the system wouldn't be accessed for several months it needed to be up and running for when it would be accessed (and it was used maybe twice a year.) Because it wasn't Y2K compliant, we had to roll back the clock on the system every year or so in order for it to stay "up." It didn't matter if the clock was five years out of date, the data on the system just needed to be accessible.
A colleague of mine discussed his time in the Air Force being forward-deployed during a conflict in the 1990s. He lamented that one of the fire-control systems (not fire-alarm sprinkler, but directional control for guns/missiles) still made use of paper tape, and that they had to use it sparingly, as finding replacement paper tape was difficult.
Finally, in a former life when I was selling Sun gear (in 2001) I was on-site at a US Defense contractor who still had a VAX 11/780 up and running in full-glory. It was a beautiful thing to behold, because even though it was older than I am, and was running at a whopping 5Mhz, it was working flawlessly 23 years later. And it was pristine. Unlike some legacy systems in datacenters that remain plugged in but ignored, this system was as sparkling and clean as it had to have been when it was first taken out of its crate. I believe this system performed specific industrial control functions under VMS.
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I work in a large automotive enterprise and the "ultra-legacy" problem is definitely part of everyday life for us.
Manufacturing lines have over the years evolved from manual to mechanical to digital and as you can imagine the supporting (IT-)systems have very much followed the same chain. Requirements and architectural challenges were very different a decade or two ago compared to today's always online just-in-time manufacturing and logistics.
Moving a piece of old infrastructure is one thing, it's complicated - but in most cases your hardware supplier will be able to assist you - but trying to migrate entire ultra-legacy system, is a challenge which shouldn't be tackled lightly.
I've been working on moving a ultra-legacy b2b-integration system to a new platform for the past couple of years. The project has been running for a total of 6 years, which almost makes the actual project "ultra-legacy" in itself (the people who started the project are not around anymore, the current team is fourth iteration). Reflecting on it for too long will put you somewhere in the vicinity of The Inception, so be careful - it's a multi-layered concept :-)
Enterprises and especially integration within enterprises is often organic and always grows with the principle of least resistance. A typical ultra-legacy system migration involves everything from infrastructure to application to routines to Business Logic. The way your business works now, isn't anywhere close to the way it used to work when your ultra legacy system was part of the bleeding edge.
In practice this means your system is most likely submerged in the middle of a huge boiling spaghetti bowl - work-arounds have been made to accommodate the ever expanding and changing business, there might even be work-arounds to work-arounds. If you're lucky, they might be documented, but most likely they're not. Your system might be enclosed in a wrap-around system (or two) in order to make it compliant to current policies. And suddenly your stakeholder list starts growing exponentially.
For example, in my case the system mostly uses FTP for external communication - while this might have been ok 18 years ago, it certainly isn't going to pass any policy scrutiny today. So it chains communication to another system which connects to third - all with different protocols. Also, since the network topology around it has also changed, a bunch of VPN tunnels connect it to external systems (it originally spoke through X.25 and ISDN connections). The backend ERP systems have changed, so there's neverending flora of different message formats to take care of. There are thousands of receiving and sending external partners who might or might not be dead.
There is no out-of-the-box magic solution to help you - the ultra-legacy system is ultra-legacy because it's just like tree-ring dating - it reflects the changes in your business throughout the years.
And before you go and start your new product selection process - anchor the business decision as high up in your organization as you possibly can - this will help enormously later on as you'll be forced to pull in stakeholders who don't necessarily even know they are stakeholders in your system migration.
Make sure you spend some time with your crystal ball as well. Your project might run for multiple years - you don't want to deliver your new shiny platform straight to legacy status.
I mentioned organic growth above - if your new system can accommodate this, and you can offer your enterprise low migration threshold, it will allow your enterprise to "migrate itself" off the old system. Basically - don't make it unnecessarily hard for the business to migrate, love your spaghetti incident, don't fear it :-)
Selecting something that is easily extendable and modifiable is preferred in these cases, even though your IT-policies might want to disagree and buy in something "standardized". Forcing your business back into the "standard box" requires army of magicians, so my advice is to follow your business, it ensures success, even though you might have to sacrifice some standardization.
Rethink your security. Your security landscape has guaranteed changed completely. You need to look at your processes, business logic and components. You might have to change or tweak all of them and you probably have a lot of catch-up to do with your complicance and policies. You need backing from your security org (hope you anchored your project high-enough).
Assemble a small team of dedicated people - you don't necessarily need huge amount of specialist resources as long as you can pull in specialists from other teams when needed (again, anchor things high up in your org before you start). Try to keep your core team work agile, lean or whatever methodology it is you use. The simpler the better, because in multi-year project the people are going to get worn out if you don't.
I've blogged a bit about spaghetti integration and security over here if anyone is interested in reading more about how to cook your enterprise al'dente :-)
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I do a lot of Post Merger Management for retailers, banks, insurance.
The reason we don't replace legacy isn't CODING, or integrating or whatever. It is TESTING this new code which has to black-box reproduce something that has had millions and millions of live customers go through it with constant tinkering. You just can't come up with the test conditions or the database.
So unless there is some tearing new business case which is going to pay for a NEW set of functionality, it just makes no sense at all to take legacy out. And we manage this heterogenous set of loosely coupled systems, not too visible to the customer, just reliably chugging along on hardward that is ever cheaper.
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Owen LOVES HIS MOBILE, so I know your lil one will love hers. He looks at it A LOT when I put him down, I give it a good twirl and hes mezmorized. You do need to ask for a HARMONY LANTERN tho! I just got a new one in as a gift from the company, its beautiful, has stars and sheep on it. Owen loves looking at that 2. They are so beautiful.
http://www.harmonylantern.com/store/product.php?productid=16184&cat=274&page=1- KristineJune 6, 2010 at 4:36 PM
I really like the mobile. Is there a tutorial for this. Excited to see your finished nursery!
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I made the fabric birds using a pattern and directions found here: http://www.spoolsewing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/birdpattern1-1.pdf (though I made my birds a little smaller and made the beaks a little different). I used an embroidery hoop for the ring at the top, and simply tied scraps of fabric (you could use pieces of ribbon) around it until it looked full. I used invisible (transparent) thread to hang the birds from the ring. I used a little plastic ring (available at sewing stores) to hang it from the very top! Hope it helps.
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56 minutes, 2007, Nigeria
Producer: Franco Sacchi and Robert Caputo
Associate Producer: Aimee Corrigan; Director: Franco Sacchi
This documentary film is a partial but intensely focused image from a dense picture: the current cinematic phenomenon in Nigeria which its title proclaims. With an admirable sense of humor, it captures the gritty and confounding optimism that keeps Nigeria going, against all rational expectations. In its innovative approach to narrative and the contingencies of production characteristic of the industry, This is Nollywood becomes the drama it seeks to document, without losing direction.
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Richly comprehensive in scope and insight, the film vividly captures the austere universe, entrepreneurial verve, hardy outlook, and production dynamics of Nollywood's creative ferment. The resilient voices of key practitioners blend with deft editorial touches to yield invaluable depth and dimensions to the complex relationship between this phenomenon, its generative society, and the search for viable models of African cinema.
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Extraordinary in scope and profundity, the film succinctly renders, in engaging tones, the unique mixture of infrastructural limitations and originative wealth that characterize Nollywood's innovative, revolutionary approach to film-making.
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The strategy of presenting the whole enormous Nigerian video phenomenon through one of its parts-the making of a single film-works brilliantly, vividly illustrating the extraordinary conditions under which the filmmakers work and evoking the personality of this film culture with quiet sympathy.
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This is Nollywood captures the problems and dynamism of making movies in Nigeria while giving a vibrant introduction to this fast growing movie industry. Dealing with rainstorms, missing stars, and power cuts, we see the pressure on Nigerian moviemakers and the guerilla filmmaking they have invented to cope. As the director Bond Emeruwa says, 'In Nollywood we don't count the walls, we have learned ways to climb them'.
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California Newsreel considered a number of recent films on Nigerian cinema before choosing THIS IS NOLLYWOOD because it offered the most intimate and accurate portrait of the technical, economic and social infrastructure of the industry. At the beginning, a crew member boasts that they will show us step by step how Africans can make movies without any outside help faster than anyone else in the world. The film follows a typical shoot from first day to last, while the director, producer, actors, crew members and notables from the industry, tell us how it all works, why they do it and why they believe locally produced media is essential for Africa.
Acclaimed director, Bond Emerwua, has a nine day schedule and $20,000 to film an action adventure, Check Point. Set in a village outside Lagos, it tells the story of two innocent men robbed and shot by rogue cops who are eventually brought to justice. The film was made against the backdrop of a campaign to clean up the notoriously corrupt Nigerian police force. Emerwua says he makes 'edutainment' because it entertains to get an audience and recoup its costs, but at the same time conveys a relevant social message. Nigerian films regularly involve such controversial issues as AIDS, women's rights, the occult and ethnic differences. Emerwua believes Nollywood films are the most effective way of reaching Nigeria's vast population of 140,000,000, Africa's largest.
Shooting conditions, we soon discover, are much more improvised and unpredictable than in the U.S., Hong Kong or Mumbai. Emerwua does not work in a studio but in the streets and countryside, while everyday life flows around him. Sometimes directors simply draft extras out of passing crowds. One day on location, a neighborhood mosque broadcasts non-stop prayers most of the day, bringing the production to a halt. A tropical downpour ruined another day's shooting. Frequent power outages require that every crew take along a generator. The lead actor, a current Nollywood star, arrived several days late and could devote only four days to the project; apparently, he had accepted roles in three films simultaneously.
The producer and director remain surprisingly calm during all these costly and unforeseen delays explaining that in Nigeria 'filmmaking is an economic adventure.' Emerwua reflects that 'In Nigeria, we do not count walls, we figure out ways to climb over them.' Among all the chaos, he maintains a professional and cooperative set, managing to shoot a remarkable 13 scenes in one day.
Industry veteran Immanuel France describes how this unique system of producing films grew in response to a crisis in the Nigerian film industry at the beginning of the 1990s. Because of civil unrest people stopped attending public theatres and many closed. Then Nigerian television started importing cheap Latin American telenovelas rather than supporting original local production. Nigerian filmmakers had no choice but to find a way to produce inexpensive films for a new market. Low cost video, an innovative technology for feature film production at the time, provided an answer and a new outlet: the VCR.
Before the rise of Nollywood, Nigerians saw mostly American Westerns, Hong Kong Kung Fu movies and Bollywood musicals. In contrast, Nollywood appeals to a hunger for indigenous stories with characters and situations audiences can easily relate to. The popularity of these films has spread across English-speaking Africa and their stars have become celebrities from Zambia to Ghana. Nollywood also provides a vital, constantly up-dated link between the vast Nigerian diaspora and their home culture. Thousands of Nigerian films are already available to immigrants to the United States both on DVD and over the internet.
The Nollywood phenomenon is doubtless an expression of the resourcefulness and vigor of Nigerian society. But it also raises questions about the potential social impact of commercial cinema, especially in the developing world. Does Nollywood in fact depict daily Nigerian life any more accurately or incisively than Hollywood portrays American society? Does it dare expose the kleptocracy which for forty years has kept its citizens impoverished by pocketing the nation:s immense oil wealth? As for cultural preservation, Nollywood narratives seem more influenced by international genres like the action thriller and the soap opera than Yoruba drama or Ibo folk tales. Can we reasonably hope that a cinematic Chinua Achebe or Wole Soyinka will emerge out of the frenetic deal-making of Lagos? Superstar Saint Obi optimistically predicts that "I believe very soon we are not only going to have better movies, we'll have that original Nigerian movie." For the time being, hard-pressed Nigerians are at least getting their own version of the vicarious excitement and undemanding escapism, which have become the prime commodities of the Information Age. For us, these films may give clearer insights into the apprehensions and aspirations of the average Nigerian than any documentary or political drama.
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