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Easy Rider | |
Original poster
Directed by | Dennis Hopper |
Produced by | Peter Fonda |
Written by | Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper Terry Southern |
Starring | Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper Jack Nicholson |
Music by | Roger McGuinn |
Cinematography | László Kovács |
Editing by | Donn Cambern |
Studio | Raybert Productions Pando Company Inc. |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $360,000 |
Box office | $41,728,598[1] |
Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood phase of filmmaking during the early 1970s. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998.
A landmark counterculture film,[2] and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination,"[3] Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. In Easy Rider real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances.[4]
The protagonists are two freewheeling hippies: Wyatt (Fonda), nicknamed "Captain America", and Billy (Hopper). Fonda and Hopper said that these characters' names refer to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid.[4] Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather (with an Office of the Secretary of Defense Identification Badge affixed to it), while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat. The former is appreciative of help and of others, while the latter is often hostile and leery of outsiders.
After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, Wyatt and Billy sell their contraband to "Connection," a man (played by Phil Spector) in a Rolls-Royce and score a large sum of money. With the money from the sale stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-adorned fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward in an attempt to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for Mardi Gras.
During their trip, Wyatt and Billy meet and have a meal with a rancher, whom Wyatt admires for his simple, traditional farming lifestyle. Later, the duo pick up a hitch-hiker (Luke Askew) and agree to take him to his commune, where they stay for a day. Life in the commune appears to be hard, with young hippies from the city struggling to grow their own crops in a dry climate with poor soil and little rainfall. (One of the children seen in the commune is played by Fonda's four-year-old daughter Bridget). At one point, the bikers witness a prayer for blessing of the new crop, as put by a communard: A chance "to make a stand", and to plant "simple food, for our simple taste". The commune is also host to a traveling theater group that "sings for its supper" (performs for food). The notion of "free love" appears to be practiced, with two women seemingly sharing the affections of the hitch-hiking communard, and who then turn their attention to Wyatt and Billy. The hitch-hiker wants the two bikers to stay at the commune, saying, "the time is now", to which Wyatt replies "I'm hip about time...but I just gotta go." As the bikers leave, the hitch-hiker (known only as "Stranger on highway" in the credits) gives Wyatt some LSD for him to share with "the right people".
Later, while jokingly riding along with a parade in a small town, the pair are arrested by the local authorities for "parading without a permit" and thrown in jail. In jail, they befriend American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and local drunk George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) who has spent the night in jail after overindulging in alcohol. George helps them get out of jail, and decides to travel with Wyatt and Billy to New Orleans. As they camp that night, Wyatt and Billy introduce George to marijuana. As an alcoholic and a "square", George is reluctant to try the marijuana ("It leads to harder stuff", and "I don't want to get hooked"), but he quickly relents.
While attempting to eat in a small rural Louisiana restaurant, the trio's appearance immediately attracts the attention of the locals. The girls in the restaurant want to meet the men and ride with them, but the local men and police officer make mocking, racist, and homophobic remarks. One of the men menacingly states, "I don't believe they'll make the parish line." As the waitress does not take their order Wyatt, Billy, and George leave without eating and make camp outside of town. The events of the day cause George to comment: "This used to be a hell of a good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it." He observes that Americans talk a lot about the value of freedom, but are actually afraid of anyone who truly exhibits it.
In the middle of the night, the local men find the trio asleep and brutally assault them with clubs. Billy manages to scare off the attackers by yelling and brandishing a knife. Wyatt and Billy suffer minor injuries, but George has been bludgeoned to death. Wyatt and Billy wrap George's body up in his sleeping bag, gather his belongings, and vow to return the items to his parents.
They continue to New Orleans and find a brothel George had intended to visit. Taking prostitutes Karen (Karen Black) and Mary (Toni Basil) with them, Wyatt and Billy decide to go outside and wander the parade-filled street of the Mardi Gras celebration. They end up in a cemetery, where all four ingest the LSD which the hitch-hiker had earlier given to Wyatt. They experience a psychedelic bad trip infused with Catholic prayer represented through quick edits, sound effects, and over-exposed film.
Making camp afterward, Billy declares that their trek has been a success. Wyatt disagrees, declaring, "We blew it." The next morning, the two are continuing their trip eastward to Florida (where they hope to retire wealthy) when two rednecks in a pickup truck spot them and decide to "scare the hell out of them" with their shotgun. As they pull alongside Billy, one of the men lazily aims the shotgun at him and threatens and insults him by saying, "Want me to blow your brains out?" and "Why don't you get a haircut?" When Billy flips his middle finger up at them, the hillbilly fires the shotgun at Billy, who immediately hits the pavement, seriously wounded in the side. As the truck then takes off past Wyatt down the road, Wyatt turns around and races back to put his jacket over his critically injured friend, who is already covered in blood, before riding off for help. By this time, the pickup truck has turned around and closes on Wyatt. The hillbilly fires at Wyatt as he speeds by the pickup, hitting the bike's gas tank and causing it to instantly erupt into a fiery explosion. Wyatt lands by the side of the road, apparently dead. As the murderous rednecks drive away, the film ends with a shot of the flaming bike in the middle of the deserted road, as the camera ascends to the sky.
- Peter Fonda – Wyatt, "Captain America"
- Dennis Hopper – Billy
- Jack Nicholson – George Hanson
- Luke Askew – Stranger on Highway
- Phil Spector – Connection
- Karen Black – Karen
- Toni Basil – Mary
- Antonio Mendoza – Jesus
- Mac Mashourian – Bodyguard
- Warren Finnerty – Rancher
- Tita Colorado – Rancher's Wife
- Luana Anders – Lisa
- Sabrina Scharf – Sarah
- Robert Walker Jr. – Jack
- Sandy Brown Wyeth – Joanne
- Bridget Fonda and Justin Fonda (uncredited) – children in the commune scene
- Carrie Snodgress (uncredited) – Woman in Commune
- Dan Haggerty (uncredited) – Man in Commune[5]
Hopper and Fonda's first collaboration was in The Trip (1967), written by Jack Nicholson, which had similar themes and characters as Easy Rider.[6] Peter Fonda had become "an icon of the counterculture in The Wild Angels (1966), where he, "establish[ed] a persona he would develop further in The Trip and Easy Rider.[7] The Trip also popularized LSD, while Easy Rider went on to "celebrate 60s counterculture" but does so "stripped of its innocence.[8] Author Katie Mills wrote that The Trip is a way point along the "metamorphosis of the rebel road story from a Beat relic into its hippie reincarnation as Easy Rider", and connected Peter Fonda's characters in those two films, along with his character in The Wild Angels, deviating from the "formulaic biker" persona and critiquing "commodity-oriented filmmakers appropriating avant-garde film techniques.[6] It was also a step in the transition from independent film into Hollywood's mainstream, and while The Trip was criticized as a faux, popularized underground film made by Hollywood insiders, whereas Easy Rider "interrogates" the attitude that underground film must, "remain strictly segregated from Hollywood."[6] Mills also wrote that the famous acid trip scene in Easy Rider "clearly derives from their first tentative explorations as filmmakers in The Trip.[6]
When seeing a still of himself and Bruce Dern in The Wild Angels, Peter Fonda had the idea of a modern Western, involving two bikers travelling around the country and eventually getting shot by hillbillies. He called Dennis Hopper, and the two decided to turn that into a movie, The Loners, with Hopper directing, Fonda producing, and both starring and writing. They brought in screenwriter Terry Southern, who came up with the title Easy Rider. The film was mostly shot without a screenplay, with ad-libbed lines, and production started with only the outline and the names of the protagonists. Keeping the Western theme, Wyatt was named after Wyatt Earp and Billy after Billy the Kid.[9]
During test shooting on location in New Orleans, Hopper fought with the production's ad hoc crew for control. At one point he entered into a physical confrontation with photographer Barry Feinstein, who was one of the camera operators for the shoot. After this turmoil, Hopper and Fonda decided to assemble a proper crew for the rest of the film.[4]
Allegedly, the characters of Wyatt and Billy were respectively based on Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of The Byrds.[10] According to Terry Southern's biographer, Lee Hill, the part of George Hanson had been written for Southern's friend, actor Rip Torn. When Torn met with Hopper and Fonda at a New York restaurant in early 1968 to discuss the role, Hopper began ranting about the "rednecks" he had encountered on his scouting trip to the South. Torn, a Texan, took exception to some of Hopper's remarks, and the two almost came to blows, as a result of which Torn withdrew from the project. Torn was replaced by Jack Nicholson, whom Hopper had recently appeared with in Head (along with another Easy Rider co-star, Toni Basil).[11] In 1994, Jay Leno interviewed Hopper about Easy Rider on The Tonight Show, and during the interview, Hopper alleged that Torn had pulled a knife on him during the altercation, prompting Torn to sue Hopper successfully for defamation.[9]
The hippie commune was recreated from pictures and shot near Santa Monica, California overlooking Malibu Canyon, since the New Buffalo commune near Taos in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico did not permit shooting there.[12]
A short clip near the beginning of the film shows Wyatt and Billy on Route 66 in Flagstaff, Arizona, passing a large figure of a lumberjack. That lumberjack statue—once situated in front of the Lumberjack Cafe—remains in Flagstaff, but now stands inside the J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome on the campus of Northern Arizona University.[13] A second, very similar statue was also moved from the Lumberjack Cafe to the exterior of the Skydome.[14]
Most of the film is shot outside with natural lighting. Hopper said all the outdoor shooting was an intentional choice on his part, because "God is a great gaffer." The production used two five-ton trucks, one for the equipment and one for the motorcycles, with the cast and crew in a motor home.[12] One of the locations was Monument Valley.[12]
The restaurant scenes with Fonda, Hopper, and Nicholson were shot in Morganza, Louisiana.[12] The men and girls in that scene were all Morganza locals.[12] In order to inspire more vitriolic commentary from the local men, Hopper told them the characters of Billy, Wyatt, and George had raped and killed a girl outside of town.[4] The scene in which Billy and Wyatt were shot was filmed on Louisiana Highway 105 North, just outside of Krotz Springs, Louisiana, and the two other men in the scene—Johnny David and D.C. Billedeau—were Krotz Springs locals.
While shooting the cemetery scene, Hopper tried to convince Fonda to talk to the statue of the Madonna as though it were Fonda's mother (who had committed suicide when he was 10 years old) and ask her why she left him. Although Fonda was reluctant, he eventually complied. Later, Fonda used the inclusion of this scene as leverage to persuade Roger McGuinn to allow the use of his cover of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)".[4]
Despite being filmed in the first half of 1968, roughly between Mardi Gras and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, with production starting on February 22[15] the film did not have a U.S. premiere until July 1969, after having won an award at the Cannes film festival in May. The delay was partially due to a protracted editing process. Inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey', one of Hopper's proposed cuts was 220 minutes long, including extensive use of the "flash-forward" narrative device, wherein scenes from later in the movie are inserted into the current scene. But only one flash-forward survives in the final edit: when Wyatt in the New Orleans brothel has a premonition of the final scene. At the request of Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, Henry Jaglom was brought in to edit the film into its current form, while Schneider purchased Hopper a trip to Taos so he would not interfere with the recut. Upon seeing the final cut, Hopper was originally displeased, saying that his movie was "turned into a TV show", but he eventually accepted, claiming that Jaglom had crafted the film the way Hopper had originally intended. Despite the large part he played in shaping the film, Jaglom only received credit as an "Editorial Consultant".[9]
Easy Rider's style — the jump cuts, time shifts, flash forwards, flashbacks, jerky hand-held cameras, fractured narrative and improvised acting — can be seen as a cinematic translation of the psychedelic experience. Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls wrote: "LSD did create a frame of mind that fractured experience and that LSD experience had an effect on films like Easy Rider".[16]
The motorcycles for the film, based on hardtail frames and panhead engines, were designed and built by two African-American[18] chopper builders—Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy—following ideas of Peter Fonda, and handled by Tex Hall and Dan Haggerty during shooting.[19]
In total, four former police bikes were used in the film. The 1949, 1950 and 1952 Harley Davidson Hydra-Glide bikes were purchased at an auction for $500, equivalent to about $3400 in current money. Each bike had a backup to make sure that shooting could continue in case one of the old machines failed or got wrecked accidentally. One "Captain America" was demolished in the final scene, while the other three were stolen and probably taken apart before their significance as movie props became known. The demolished bike was rebuilt by Dan Haggerty and shown in a museum. He sold it at an auction in 2001. It now resides at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa. Many replicas have been built since the film's release.[19]
Hopper and Fonda hosted a wrap party for the movie and then realized they had not shot the final campfire scene. Thus, it was shot after the bikes had already been stolen, which is why they are not visible in the background as in the other campfire scenes.[9][19]
A box office smash with a $41 million intake (becoming the third highest grossing film of 1969), along with Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, Easy Rider helped kick-start the New Hollywood phase during the late 1960s and early 1970s.[20] The major studios realized that money could be made from low-budget films made by avant-garde directors. Heavily influenced by the French New Wave, the films of the so-called "post-classical Hollywood" came to represent a counterculture generation increasingly disillusioned with its government as well as the government's effects on the world at large, the Establishment.[20] Although Jack Nicholson appears only as a supporting actor and in the last half of the film, the standout performance signaled his arrival as a movie star,[20] along with his subsequent film Five Easy Pieces in which he had the lead role.
The film's success, and the new era of Hollywood that it helped usher in, gave Hopper the chance to direct again with complete artistic control. The result was 1971's The Last Movie, which was a notable box office and critical failure, effectively ending Hopper's career as a director for well over a decade.
Awards and honors[edit]
Hopper received the First Film Award (Prix de la première œuvre) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.[21] At the 42nd Academy Awards, Jack Nicholson was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and the film was also nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced.
The film appears at number 88 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Years, 100 Movies. In 1998, Easy Rider was added to the United States National Film Registry, having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The movie's "groundbreaking"[22] soundtrack featured The Band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Steppenwolf.[22] Editor Donn Cambern used various music from his own record collection to make watching hours of bike footage more interesting during editing.[12] Most of Cambern's music was used, with licensing costs of $1 million, more than the film's budget.[12] When CSN viewed a rough cut of the film, they assured Hopper that they could not do any better than he already had.
Bob Dylan was asked to contribute music, but was reluctant to use his own recording of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", so a version performed by Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn was used, instead. Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of "Ballad of Easy Rider" and told the filmmakers, "Give this to McGuinn, he'll know what to do with it." McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film.
Home media[edit]
The film was released by The Criterion Collection in November 2010 as part of the box set, America Lost and Found: The BBS Story. It included two audio commentaries, one featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, the other Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis, Born to Be Wild (1995) and "Easy Rider": Shaking the Cage (1999), documentaries about the making and history of the film, television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, and a new video interview with BBS cofounder Steve Blauner.[23]
There is a sequel to the movie titled Easy Rider: The Ride Back.[24] The film is about the family of Wyatt "Captain America" Williams from the 1940s to the present day.
See also[edit]
- List of films featuring hallucinogens
- American Dream
- Hippie exploitation films
- Method acting
- Outlaw biker film
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- ^ "Peter Fonda's Easy Rider auction". Boing Boing. 2007-09-16. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ^ "Born to be a classic: "Easy Rider" was a touchstone for a generation and for American filmmaking". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 2001-07-29. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
- ^ a b c d e Interviews in Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage at the Internet Movie Database. A Making-of documentary.
- ^ first hand account- present during filming
- ^ a b c d Mills, Katie (2006), The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television, Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 122–123, ISBN 9780809388172, retrieved December 22, 2013
- ^ Laderman, David (2010), Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie, University of Texas Press, pp. 143–144, ISBN 9780292777903, retrieved December 22, 2013
- ^ Boyd, Susan C., Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the United States, University of Toronto Press, p. 68, retrieved December 22, 2013
- ^ a b c d Biskind, Peter (1998). Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Simon and Schuster.
- ^ Walker, Michael. Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006, p. 210.
- ^ "Head (1968) - Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ a b c d e f g Fisher, Bob (June 22, 2004). "Easy Rider: 35 Years Later; László Kovács on the 35th anniversary of Easy Rider". Moviemaker.com. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
- ^ "Meet the Characters: LouieII". rightpalmup.com. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
- ^ "Meet the Characters: Louie". rightpalmup.com. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
- ^ "MovieMaker Magazine". Moviemaker.com. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
- ^ Whalen, John (1 July 1998). "The Trip". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ Custom Culture, Harley-Davidson Museum, 2012
- ^ Black Chrome. The California African American Museum, Los Angeles, 2009
- ^ a b c Wasef, Basem; Leno, Jay (2007), Legendary Motorcycles: The Stories and Bikes Made Famous by Elvis, Peter Fonda, Kenny Roberts and Other Motorcycling Greats, MotorBooks International, pp. 47–52, ISBN 0-7603-3070-0, retrieved 2011-08-29
- ^ a b c Canby, Vincent. "Easy Rider (1969)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Easy Rider". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
- ^ a b "The greatest week in rock history". Salon. 2003-12-19. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
- ^ "Easy Rider". The Criterion Collection.
- ^ Easy Rider: The Ride Back at the Internet Movie Database
- Aldaz, Gabriel (2010). Right Palm Up, Left Palm Down: The Log of a Cross-Country Scavenger Hunt. SparkWorks. ISBN 978-0-9703407-7-1.
- Carr, Jay; National Society of Film Critics (2002). The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81096-4.
- Easy Rider Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
- Hill, Lee (1996). Easy Rider. British Film Institute. ISBN 0-85170-543-X.
- Hoberman, J.. Criterion Collection Essay
- Klinger, Barbara (1997). "The Road to Dystopia: Landscaping the Nation in Easy Rider". In Steven Cohan, Ina Rae Hark. The Road Movie Book. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-14936-3.
- Lev, Peter (2000). American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-74716-0.
- Osgerby, Bill (2005). Biker: Truth and Myth: How the Original Cowboy of the Road Became the Easy Rider of the Silver Screen. Globe Pequot. ISBN 1-59228-841-3.
- Phipps, Keith. (November 16, 2009) Slate.com. The Easy Rider Road Trip: Retracing the Path of the Iconic Movie on Its 40th Anniversary
- Zoller Seitz, Matt. Criterion Collection Essay
External links[edit]
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Hurricane watch for Mexico, U.S. as Alex strengthens
Monday, June 28th, 2010Interactive tracking map
Hurricane watches were posted Monday for a stretch of Gulf coast in southern Texas and northern Mexico as Tropical Storm Alex gained strength and appeared on track to become a hurricane before it makes landfall later this week.
Forecasters said the storm's path could push oil from the huge Gulf oil spill farther inland and disrupt cleanup efforts.
Alex was swirling through the Gulf of Mexico with winds near 60 mph (95 kph) Monday evening on a path that would take it very near the Mexico-U.S. border sometime Thursday, said the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. The storm is expected to become a hurricane Tuesday.
Conditions late Monday afternoon led the center to believe the storm will be less powerful than previously predicted but still likely to gain hurricane strength, forecaster Todd Kimberlain said.
Tropical storm-force winds extended up to 70 miles (110 kilometers) from the storm's center, and Alex was stationary, but was predicted to resume moving slowly to the north-northwest.
Heavy rains in Mexico's southern Gulf coast state of Tabasco forced the evacuation of about 300 families from communities near the Usumacinta river.
The hurricane watches extended about 225 miles (360 kilometers) south of the U.S. border over an area of sparsely populated Mexican coast, and about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north along the largely unpopulated Texas coast from the Rio Grande to Baffin Bay.
The tropical storm's center wasn't expected to approach the area of the oil spill off Louisiana's coast, said Stacy Stewart, senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center. But Alex's outer wind field could push oil from the spill farther inland and hinder operations in the area, Stewart said early Monday.
Alex caused flooding and mudslides that left at least five people dead in Central America over the weekend, though Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula appeared largely unscathed.
It made landfall in Belize on Saturday night as a tropical storm and weakened into a depression on Sunday as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula.
Mexico's northern Gulf coast braced for heavy rains, and forecasters said precipitation from Alex would keep falling on southern Mexico and Guatemala until Tuesday, raising the possibility of life-threatening floods and mudslides.
"It is a fact we are going to get very heavy rains," said Gov. Fidel Herrera of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
On Sunday, heavy rains prompted a landslide in northwestern Guatemala that dislodged a large rock outcropping, killing two men who had taken shelter from the storm underneath, according to the national disaster-response agency.
In El Salvador, Civil Protection chief Jorge Melendez said three people were swept away by rivers that jumped their banks. About 500 people were evacuated from their homes.
There were no immediate reports of damage to Mexico's resort-studded Caribbean coast.
When Alex became the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, officials immediately worried what effect it could have on efforts to contain the millions of gallons of crude spewing into the northeastern part of the Gulf.
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Alex was centered about 420 miles (675 kilometers) east-southeast of Tampico, Mexico, and 525 miles (845 kms) southeast of Brownsville, Texas, on Monday evening. Its rains could reach Veracruz and the border state of Tamaulipas late Tuesday or Wednesday, the Hurricane Center said.
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It might come as a surprise to most people under the age of 50 that one of the fastest growing online user groups ranges from 51 to 65 years old and over. This demographic is joining online sites to schmooze with peers in growing numbers, according to the most recent research on the subject. Playing digital games can also have a positive effect, studies say, on a senior's mental and physical health, cognitive skills, and self-esteem. Playing games can even improve their general outlook on life. But in a 2010 study conducted at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel, and published in the journal "The Gerontologist" in 2011, Dr. Galit Nimrod, a researcher in the Department of Communication Studies and the Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Aging found something even more surprising. In her large, qualitative study, "The Fun Culture in Seniors' Online Communities," the topics most frequently posted and discussed as part of online social games in the forum sections were sex, gender differences, aging, grandparenting, politics, faith, and alcohol. When it came to having some laughs and a good time, seniors infused their game time with humor. Apparently, they "just wanna have fun." In an email, Nimrod told JTNews that in her newest survey of online senior respondents, one of her subjects put it quite nicely. "As a widow," wrote the respondent, "I get very lonely but am not well enough to go outside of the home…I have found support, friendship, humor, wisdom and answers to various questions from friends that I have met online…I get more support and day-to-day friendship from these people than my own family mainly because my family work and live apart from me but my Internet friends are on the end of my keyboard 24/7." In her study, Nimrod looked at 50,000 posts from forums in six of the largest online communities with members from around the world. These forums were identified as "fun" areas and included jokes, games, humor, and quizzes. Four of the sites were located in the United States, one was Canada-based, and one originated in Great Britain. The senior members of these communities had higher-than-average incomes and all communicated in English. The game types included cognitive games, like trivia and alphabetical vocabulary games, associative games that required participants to complete a "go-together" phrase from someone else's previous post, and creative games involving the creation of a poem, story, or limerick. "An interesting fact was that the games in the communities were not competitive," said Nimrod. "Hence, a sense of success and improved self-esteem could result not from being better than others but from the positive feedback from others on one's own creativity, knowledge, or sense of humor." The seniors offered humorous tips about their sexuality, joking that it's helpful to set a timer in case you fall asleep "in the middle," Nimrod noted in the study. They also laughed about aging as being when you have more food than beer in the refrigerator. And, finally, what may have been the most important tip to other grandparents: "Do not lose your grandkids in the mall!" "The humor in the communities, as well as the opportunity to practice and demonstrate their abilities and enjoy others' feedback, offer important means for coping with aging," said Nimrod. The research cited in Nimrod's study shows that 18 percent of 51 to 65 year olds in the United Kingdom play digital games, and 52 percent of the Finnish who are over 65 do, too. A 2007 study found that 42 percent of Americans over 65 go online. However, Nimrod found that the frequency of online time paralleled the average family's schedule, dropping off in the evenings, on weekends and during holidays, when families typically gather, and becoming most crowded during the weekdays. Many respondents in her still-unpublished online senior survey described how the online companionship made them feel less lonely in their offline day-to-day reality. "Family time is the priority, and online time is secondary," said Nimrod. "Nevertheless, I found that sometimes participating in seniors' online communities has an effect on members' offline social life as some of them meet each other in person. "Such relations cannot replace real relationships and/or significantly help seniors who suffer from loneliness. Still, they may provide enjoyable interaction and, to a certain extent, a sense of belonging."
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Following the success of the last 2 Winter Festivals, we will be taking part in Oban's Winter Festival - the biggest and most exciting festival happening in the area over the winter months. Get ready for our ...
Don't miss out on the fabulous fun we will be having here - something for everyone to enjoy! All of this for only £5.00 per person on Sunday 24th November 2013 - see you there!
Our SEA LIFE centres will be hosting a special Shark Weeks event in celebration of one of natures most magnificent but misunderstood creatures.
In an urgent bid for shark's conservation, SEA LIFE will be proudly supporting the Shark's Trust in presenting a range of exciting, interactive and memorable experiences to raise awareness about the wide range of sharks' species and the challenges that they are facing.
We'll throw the spotlight on sharks for this event, so help us support the sharks and raise money whilst enjoying and entertaining yourself with the following activities throughout this three week event:
Fans of Timmy Time are in for a baaaa-rilliant treat at The Scottish SEA LIFE Sanctuary this summer. We're hosting a feast of Timmy Time activities every day from Friday 27th September – Monday 30th September! We've teamed up with Aardman to celebrate the premiere of Timmy's Seaside Rescue, the special Timmy Time film. For all your essential Timmy Time information, just click here
Join the team from The Scottish SEA LIFE Sanctuary with the MCS (Marine Conservation Society) in giving our beautiful coastline a much needed clean up. Since 1993 we have found that beach litter levels have doubled, with the majority of litter made of plastic. We want to see a reduction in beach litter – not an increase – over future years, and you can help! With your help, we can put some fun into this beach clean up...Grab the family, head on down to see us here and join in for a fun day out at The Scottish SEA LIFE Sanctuary.
Sunday 25th August Calling all ye young pirates and princess come and join us for a day of adventure, treasure hunts, games, competitions and much more. jump on board me hearties! If you can't make it along, click here to keep updated on our Facebook page. An event not to be missed!
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Did you know that a Giant Sea Turtle can swim up to 20mph! Well that's just one of the awesome facts we've got in store for you guys at this years Turtle Fest! Join us for a day packed full with feeds and talks dedicated to these incredible ancient creatures. Take part in our FREE Turtle Fest quiz and visit our Turtle Sanctuary and learn about how we take care of these amazing creatures. Not only will you learn about the conservation efforts which SEA LIFE support, you can learn about the changes which you can make to your lifestyle to support the countries local turtle population! That's right there are turtles on our shores here in Scotland! To celebrate these amazing creatures we've got turtle based activities running through out the day!
Join The Scottish SEA LIFE Sanctuary and WDCS for a fun 3 mile family walk on Sunday 30th June and help us stop commercial whaling. Suitable for all the family, why not get them all involved and make a day of it?! All in the name of fun, whilst also helping draw attention to the dangers these beautiful creatures face.
Please meet at The Corran Halls, Oban, to begin the walk. Once the walk has been completed, participants will be entitled to FREE entry into The Scottish SEA LIFE Sanctuary. Further details on how to gain free entry will be given at the event.
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Through partnerships with Pruntytown Correctional Center, the Marion County Humane Society and Fairmont State University, paws4people foundation is training service and shelter dogs and impacting lives in the process.
Formed in 1999 and based in North Carolina, paws4people trains service dogs for children with disabilities, veterans and senior citizens. Earlier this year, the organization opened a thrift store in downtown Fairmont at 309 Cleveland Ave. to help raise money for its efforts.
This summer, the foundation began training inmates from Pruntytown Correctional Center in Grafton via Skype and hands-on meetings to work with service dogs and also to handle animals that are part of the shelter-to-pet program with the Marion County Humane Society, said Mark Reynolds, director of operations for West Virginia for paws4people.
The inmates take the service dogs to Fairmont State University for public-acess training, which gets the animals used to sights, sounds and smells in different environments, he said. Most of the service dogs are golden retrievers.
This program of paws4people foundation is called paws4prisons.
"It's beneficial in a lot of realms because it provides the inmates with another training activity to do," Reynolds said. "It gives them a different lease on life because they've giving back to the community now as well as it helps us to train more service dogs and get them out to more clients."
He said Pruntytown Correctional Center keeps working with the dogs, and once they are matched with a client, specialized training takes place or the public-access training continues.
The paws4prisons program was already in operation at Lakin Correctional Center, United States Penitentiary Hazelton and other prisons. Reynolds said paws4people anticipates expanding the program into other prisons in the system.
"We have a great working relationship with the Division of Corrections and Fairmont State," he said. "Dr. (Maria) Rose and Fairmont State have been so gracious as to allow us to do our public-access training up there."
Debra Minnix, warden of Pruntytown Correctional Center, said a portion of the inmates have the ability to go outside the prison grounds and into public settings. For more than 20 years, Pruntytown has been sending inmates to work on Fairmont State's grounds, and now inmates are also assigned as dog handlers and take the animals to campus every day.
"Fairmont State University is providing the venue for the socialization here because the campus community is like a small city," FSU President Rose said in a press release. "With dining, lots of activity, large athletic events, this is a great venue for training for the dogs. FSU already has a partnership with Pruntytown Correctional Center, so it was a natural connection. The university is proud to participate in this program."
Because the dogs are trained in correctional facilities, they are in a very secluded environment. The animals don't hear traffic, aren't around a lot of people, and haven't encountered some sights and sounds, Minnix said.
She said the inmates' responsibility is to provide training for the dogs in classrooms, cafeterias and other areas of Fairmont State, as well as in vehicles.
For the shelter-to-pet program, inmates teach basic commands to dogs from the Marion County Humane Society, which are mixed breeds. Once their training is complete, the animals are returned to the shelter with a certification, which should make them more adoptable, Reynolds said.
"It's been very successful," he said. "We've seen that if we train them in basic commands, the dogs are better suited to be adopted by a potential client."
The first two dogs in the shelter-to-pet program have already been adopted. An evaluation is done on the dogs before they can participate in the program, and there are no aggressive breeds, Reynolds said.
Pruntytown Correctional Center has worked with the Marion County Humane Society for the past four years. The inmates visit the no-kill shelter periodically to do repairs, said Cathy Reed-Vanata, board member of the humane society.
When Reynolds contacted the humane society to see if it would be interested in partnering with paws4people and the Pruntytown Correctional Center to train dogs, Reed-Vanata knew the program would be a win-win for everyone involved.
"The bond that these men have with these dogs is amazing," she said. "These inmates connect with these dogs."
The inmates have successfully improved the behaviorial issues of dogs through their hands-on training. The humane society takes a lot of dogs from animal control, and doesn't know the history of those creatures, Reed-Vanata said.
But the shelter can tell when dogs have been abused or neglected by former owners, and the Pruntytown inmates are helping the dogs to trust and believe in people again, she said. The inmates are trained to identify the dog's behaviorial issues and work on those areas.
"It warms your heart," Reed-Vanata said. "It's a wonderful program. They have changed the whole lives of our dogs. When the dogs come back, they are so well trained. It was a blessing for us when they came to us."
Travis Zimmerman, unit manager for Pruntytown Correctional Center, said the facility originally started the dog-training programs with seven inmates, but has increased the number to about 13 and is hoping to expand even more in the future.
They began with four dogs and are currently up to eight — four each for the shelter-to-pet program and the paws4prisons program. For the public-access training, a primary and secondary handler works with each dog, Zimmerman said.
Minnix explained that the inmates apply for the dog-training positions and go through an interview process.
"We're pretty picky," she said. "We don't let just any inmate in the program."
In the past, some inmates have gone on to work for paws4people after their time in prison.
"The inmates, they're enjoying it a lot because they're learning a skill," Minnix said. said.
The interaction with the dogs is great for the inmates, and the program also gives them an opportunity to help other people and give back to the community.
"It's about that restorative justice and paying back the community," she said.
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Some fitness partners flake out, miss workouts, or make excuses. But here's a partner that won't: your dog. New fitness classes for out-of-shape people and their pets are popping up across the country. And it's about time: More than 52 percent of dogs in the U.S. are overweight or obese, according to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention's 2012 National Pet Obesity Survey. Compare that to the stats for their owners: About one-third of Americans are obese, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control.
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Working out with your dog doesn't just benefit your health, though. It can be a real treat for your pet--and for you. "A dog is the best motivator you'll ever have," says Tricia Montgomery, founder and president of K9 Fit Club, a Hinsdale, IL-based fitness club for people and their pets. "All they want to do is spend time with you and please you," she says. "They look forward to it." And although they won't judge you for skipping workouts, it's tough to say no when you have to face a wagging tail.
If you don't live near a dog-friendly class-and aren't into running with your canine--you can still get in on the fit-pet action. Montgomery created this 30-minute circuit, which alternates between cardio and body-weight training moves, to give you and your canine a heart-pumping full-body workout.
The only equipment you need is your leashed four-legged friend. Holding the leash, warm up together with a minute-long power walk, then perform high knees and butt kicks until you feel loose. Standing in place, perform arm circles while your dog stands next to you until your shoulders feel warmed up. Then repeat the following circuit three times, two to three times per week:
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Tell your dog to sit. Then face him with your feet together. Step back with one foot so that your front leg is bent at a 90-degree angle with your knee directly above your ankle. At the bottom of each lunge, ask your dog for his paw to "shake." Release the dog's paw as you stand to return to your starting position. Repeat on the other side, and ask your dog for his other paw. Repeat for 20 reps.
NOTE: If your dog doesn't know how to "shake"--or won't do it 20 times--pat him on the head instead.
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With your back against a wall, sit so your knees are bent at a 90-degree angle. If your dog is small, hold him. If your dog is large, ask him to put his paws on your lap to increase the challenge. Hold the wall sit for up to one minute.
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Designed and manufactured with professionals in mind the 5.11 tactical range covers all kinds of areas and provides items for diverse situations. Take an undercover police officer, they still need to carry a weapon with them for protection, but they won't necessarily have it out on show. 5.11 tactical have a range of casual shirts, which offer weapon concealment. The shirts are comfortable and offer full freedom of movement so will not hinder an officer in any way. So an ordinary shirt on the outside, offers so much more on the inside.
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ROCKVILLE — Tyler Olander's legal problems are behind him. Now, he hopes there is more UConn basketball and a chance to repair his image in front of him.
"I hope people don't see this as a reflection of who I am," Olander said Monday after pleading guilty Monday at Superior Court in Rockville to driving without a license. "I hope they see I'm a good kid. I've just made some mistakes, as everybody does."
Olander also was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs on Sept. 7 at 10:49 p.m., when state police pulled him over on Route 195, near the UConn campus and his home in Mansfield. Olander failed field sobriety tests, but once he was taken into custody, he took two breath tests that showed his blood-alcohol level under the legal limit.
The state chose not to prosecute the DUI charge, or a charge of driving/towing an unregistered vehicle. Olander paid a $75 fine for driving without a license. A source said he was driving a friend's car, serving as "designated driver" that night.
"The science was on our side," said attorney Rob Britt, who represented Olander. "We're happy the state viewed the science in the matter."
This was Olander's second arrest in six months. He was charged with trespassing during a trip to Panama City, Fla., in March, when he was not wearing the wristband required to be on private property and refused to leave. He paid a $280 fine and performed community service.
Coach Kevin Ollie took Olander's captaincy away and kept him from working with teammates after the first arrest, challenging him to work his way back into good standing. After the second arrest, Ollie suspended Olander from the team indefinitely and it is not clear if he will be reinstated. He has been in the gym watching his teammates play pickup games, and was at the Jim Calhoun tribute Sunday night.
For now, Olander will be working, with the coaches' supervision, on a program designed to instill responsible use of alcohol and conduct away from basketball.
"I'm happy it's behind me," Olander said, "and I can move forward. I'm going to focus on academics and keeping myself mentally and physically fit. I hope to get back on the team, that's my goal. … I hope to show Coach Ollie I'd be grateful for that opportunity."
A UConn spokesman said Ollie would have no comment on Monday. Since the second arrest, Ollie has only said he wants to help Olander "as a person."
In February, Enosch Wolf was arrested following a domestic dispute in a campus apartment. Wolf underwent court-ordered counseling and the charges were dropped, but UConn later chose not to renew his scholarship for his senior season and Wolf stayed in Germany, signing a pro contract.
Though UConn has one of the strongest backcourts in the country, it is thin up front. With Wolf gone, Olander suspended and the NCAA's reviewing freshman Kentan Facey's eligibility, the Huskies have five players in the frontcourt: senior Niels Giffey, junior DeAndre Daniels, sophomores Phil Nolan and Leon Tolksdorf, each of who played little last season; and freshman Amida Brimah. The backcourt is led by senior Shabazz Napier, junior Ryan Boatright, sophomore Omar Calhoun and freshman Terrence Samuel. Grad student Lasan Kromah is another backcourt player.
Olander, from E.O. Smith High in Storrs, played on UConn's national championship team in 2011. He struggled through much of his junior season, 2012-13, but started 26 games, missing the last game after breaking his foot. He averaged 4.3 points and 3.7 rebounds.
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