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Ronnie Vannucci was born in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 15, 1976.
As a kid, Vannucci claims to have banged every object in his parents' house, even the vacuum cleaner. At age 6, he became the youngest musician to perform in a Las Vegas band; he played drums for "Play That Funky Music White Boy" at a lounge in Caesars Palace.
In fourth grade, Ronnie won his school's talent show for drumming. In junior high, Vannucci listened to punk rock and Britpop and wore white combat boots. He learned to play guitar from his father after quitting the junior high school jazz ensemble over "creative differences". Ronnie attended both Clark and Western High Schools and formed his first band, Purple Dirt.
During this time he'd listen to The Cure and Depeche Mode. He attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He also attended York University.
Vannucci started teaching private lessons while drumming in a variety of bands that played everything and everywhere, from a desert show to weddings.
Previous bands Vannucci was the drummer for include Atta Boy Skip (ska-punk), Romance Fantasy, and Free Food (cover-band). Atta Boy Skip had a big underground following amongst Las Vegas high school students in the 1990s. Free Food was an all-cover oldies/classic rock band that played at local Las Vegas prisons and homeless shelters.
In the late '90s he joined the melodic indierock group Expert On October with The Killers' current touring backup guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Ted Sablay. His final band before joining the Killers was Romance Fantasy with Rodney E. Pardey a.k.a. Michael Valentine. Brandon Flowers penned the Killers song "The Ballad of Michael Valentine" after Vannucci convinced Flowers that it would make a good song subject.
He joined The Killers in 2002 by Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning, who co-founded the band. Later, it was Ronnie's idea to sneak The Killers into the Alta Ham Fine Arts Building on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus for practice. After an all-night practice, Ronnie headed off to his day job as a photographer at the Little Chapel of the Flowers.
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Samoa: Pacific Communities and Social Change
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Homestays in the Samoa: Pacific Communities and Social Change program immerse students in the local culture and provide further context for language and thematic coursework. Through regular exchange and interaction with their host families, students obtain deeper insight into the daily life and customs of Pacific communities. The program offers four homestay experiences: a ten-day village stay in a rural community, a four-day stay with an American Samoa student, a two-night stay in an indigenous eco-tourist village in Fiji, and a two-night stay with Indo-Fijian families.
Families and accommodations vary considerably: they may include open Samoan fales, closed Fijian bures with outdoor toilets and showers, European houses where the family eats and sleeps in one large room, or houses with individual bedrooms. Each homestay experience offers students a closer look into Pacific culture, customs, identities, and issues.
Other accommodations during the program include student housing at a local university.
Lotofaga, Samoa
Students experience a ten-day village homestay in Lotofaga, a rural village on the southeastern coast of the island of Upolu. Families are typically large and extended, often including four generations. The majority of families live a subsistent lifestyle, and many depend on remittances from relatives overseas. In the village, students experience a traditional way of life with little privacy and few material comforts, and gain an understanding of dependence on plantation agriculture.
During their time in Lotofaga, students observe and participate in the making of a Samoan oven, a customary, communal family activity. Students peel taro and breadfruit; feel the smoke in their eyes from heating the stones; make palusami, a Samoan delicacy, using three different kinds of leaves; roast and pound Samoan cocoa; and observe the slaughter, baking, and serving of a small pig. Students witness the amount of work that goes into food preparation and observe how well Samoan families utilize the resources in their environment. A typical Samoan meal can be prepared entirely with foods from local plantations, gardens, or the sea.
American Samoa
Visiting American Samoa grants students the opportunity to compare the two Samoas, one independent and the other an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the US. Students are able to see different approaches to development and also assess the impact of globalization firsthand. Students spend four days with a homestay family on American Samoa. During their time on Tutuila, the largest island in American Samoa, students attend lectures at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) and undertake excursions with ASCC students. They see for themselves the blend of American and Samoan cultures and are often surprised by some of the social and health issues that are a direct result. The role of the military and the opportunity it provides young Samoan men and women is eye-opening. Of all US states and territories, American Samoa has the highest number of soldiers per capita serving in Iraq, and many ASCC students belong to ROTC.
Students spend the first two nights of this excursion with indigenous families in rural Fiji. The stay is located in an isolated inland village without access to electricity or shopping facilities. Students spend two additional nights with Indo-Fijian families, who introduce them to new tastes, customs, and religious beliefs. These homestay opportunities allow students to experience both indigenous Fijian and Indo-Fijian culture and to place these communities in the broader context of Oceania.
When not on excursion or at the village homestay in Lotofaga, SIT students live in student housing on the Alafua campus of the University of the South Pacific (USP). Students live in small six-bedroom houses with other Pacific Island students or long dorms opening to a common verandah. They have the opportunity to interact socially with Pacific students on a daily basis and discover connections and differences among the islands through the relationships they form at USP. These interactions are also a key part of the educational experience of young Pacific students who may never have interacted with Americans.
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Language Study: Samoan
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Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 August, 2014
Fazielah WilliamsLet's hear it for the weekend, Mother City lovers!
Welcome to Cape Town, South Africa's Mini-Hollywood
Fazielah WilliamsBest we start searching for a prime location for Cape Town's very own Hollywood Walk of Fame – especially since this August, our cinematic Mother City is filled to the brim with Tinseltown's finest actors!
Flower Power Specials: 4 Amazing Discounts on the Cape's Gorgeous Wild FlowersPrime flower viewing season is from August to September, as Spring blooms in tapestries of kaleidoscopic gorgeousness throughout the West Coast. You've only got a few more precious weeks to see this miraculous natural phenomenon, so if you've always wanted to see the stunning flower field, here's how to do it at a discount!
5 Amazing Sightseeing Experiences for Mini-Travellers in Cape Town
Fazielah WilliamsWhoever said sightseeing was just for grown-ups? In beautiful Cape Town, we love welcoming little globetrotters too and offer some of the most amazing scenic experiences at great prices for families to enjoy together.
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A Foodie Day in #LoveCapeTown
A Chefs Table lunch at one of the world's premier hotels, followed by an eight-course ice cream midnight feast… Does this sound like your dream foodie day? If so, you'd best add #LoveCapeTown to your "foodie destinations" Bucket List!
#InstagramDiary: V&A Waterfront
Do you love shopping? Eating, sightseeing, history and culture? The V&A Waterfront has it all…and more!
The Shoestring Collective Pop-Up Shop launches in Cape Town
#LoveZABuyZA is not just a popular hashtag on Twitter…it's a movement started by local designers and makers to encourage South Africans to shop local. And with pop-up shops like The Shoestring Collective showcasing some of Cape Town's most beautiful locally made items, it's a trend that's sure to take off.
Top places to visit in Kenilworth
The suburb of Kenilworth forms part of Cape Town's Southern Suburbs. Sandwiched between Wynberg and Claremont, this suburb is nestled right in the heart of the Southern Suburbs action. Situated within Kenilworth is the famous racecourse, not to mention the shopping mecca, Access Park. A 20-minute drive takes you to the city centre or any of the beaches along the Atlantic Seaboard. These are our top things to do in Kenilworth.
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Pulling up the ladder: how indie developers are losing the ability to help each other
Ben's note: This is post from Vlambeer's Rami Ismail is an interesting look at what happens when indie devs have a relationship with the platform holders that sell their games, and how having something to lose makes it harder to help out other developers.
Back in the early days of our medium, games were made by enthusiasts and small groups of people with the technical expertise required to program complex machinery. Over time, the medium started expanding its reach and these small groups of enthusiasts organized into small companies. Gaming went through its arcade and shareware eras – a time in which games started to gain a more mainstream appeal. It wasn't long before some of the companies started growing beyond just creating games – some of them started buying other studios or projects. The amount of money to be made in games skyrocketed and games were suddenly available in retail stores. The age of 'AAA' games had begun.
With that, the ability of small groups of programming enthusiasts to distribute games fell away. There was no efficient way to create a game, print it to a physical medium, create the manual and the games packaging – let alone handle the logistics of distribution to retail stores. What remained were studios that made 'AAA' games and somewhat smaller studios that created 'budget' titles. These budget titles were made by medium-sized studios and although many amazing games were made by studios like these, the majority of their output were clones of the larger popular games, but with lower quality and a lower price.
The internet brought digital distribution and changed everything. In this new world, logistics were no longer a problem and the new big players were online stores such as Steam, platform-specific console stores, and app stores. Suddenly, small enthusiasts had a viable model to reach an audience again. As that group slowly grew out of their garages, the indie scene as we know it started to form. These 'indies' were small, agile, flexible and rapidly stormed every new opportunity, releasing games in a matter of months instead of years. They made games from their heart with little compromise. Their leanness allowed them to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape without dealing with layer upon layer of bureaucracy.
Squeezing out the middle
In time, the middle-sized studios started to disappear. They could not compete any longer as they did not have the flexibility of the indies nor the quality and budgets of the AAA studios. Indies started growing in size and relevancy, with titles such as Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Castle Crashers leading this new time in gaming. In the last few years, dozens upon dozens of individuals and small teams achieved success – whether it is Minecraft's Markus Persson or games such as Faster Than Light, Fez or Antichamber. Indie gaming had become a thing that your average gamer has heard of.
Digital distribution was perfect for these indies – and thus indies and digital distribution started working together more closely. The App Store offered an equalized environment, Steam offered a tightly curated ecosystem and Android was completely open. Everyone could make a game and release it on any of these platforms, given that they could prove they could deliver.
As things progressed, the amount of indie games vying for these positions started to increase. Apple's elusive Editors Pick Feature became an important part of a successful launch on iPhone and iPad, while online store Steam implemented a democratic system named Greenlight for its consumers to pick what game they'd want to see on the platform. Sony started proactively reaching out to interesting developers, quickly amassing a lot of credibility in the indie scene and a massive network of indies.
There has never been a better time to be an indie. Practically every indie you know of has in some way benefited from these systems and support structures. There are conventions, events, specialized press, initiatives like Indie Fund and Indie MEGABOOTH, forum and, mailing lists. The scene has become a tight-knit network of aspiring developers, dreamers, artists, zinesters, thought leaders and influencers willing to help out wherever they can, whether it is in terms of game design, theory, business, ethics or diversity.
A few months ago I played an early build of Lucas Pope's upcoming immigration officer simulation game Papers, Please. Recognizing the prototype as a clever, charismatic game filled with little touches, interesting moral questions and an honest-to-god narrative, I was absolutely certain that if people got to play the game, they'd like it. Thus, as me and many indies along with me often do when we run across something wonderful, I started writing an e-mail to Pope, introducing myself and asking him if there was anything I could help out with in my field of expertise or through my network.
Pulling up the ladder
But suddenly, I realized that there wasn't much I could do for Pope - and it took me a while to realize why: successful indie studios have unintentionally been pulling up the ladder behind them leaving little way for others to follow them. Now that digital distribution platforms cater to indies better than ever, its effect has been tremendously positive on the indies we know of – but what about the indies we don't know yet?
The App Store is so saturated with great releases that a new game by an unknown developer won't get the attention it needs, while Steam's Greenlight is a mess due to it simply being a popularity contest that barely any new developer can challenge. Sony is doing amazing work with their network, but they have thousands of high-quality, dependable and known indie titles available to them before even having to look beyond those.
The increased cooperation between platform holders and indie developers allows platforms to tap into a network of specialized curators – the indie developers themselves. The unseen problem is that such curation is performed by people that have a stake in the platform they curate for. If an indie developer sends two or three games of lesser quality or lesser interest to a platform, chances are that it will impact their ability to recommend new games as well as their standing relationship with the platform. Suddenly the successful indie developers have something to lose, and business relationships to consider. It has become harder to stick one's neck out for something new and original.
In other words, risky titles by new or relatively unknown developers have very few viable ways to get on platforms anymore, unless someone with reach is willing to take the risk to champion the game online or within the structures of a platform. The assigned curators tend to be other developers, who now have stakes in curating and thus can't properly fulfill their role.
This is something I've personally struggled with. Even though I'd love to suggest risky games to Apple, Sony or Steam, I am reluctant to. This is a task that was thrust upon me, a task I happily fulfill, but also a problematic one. Indies should not co-curate other indies on digital distribution platforms they work with.
This sounds like a typical discoverability problem, but the stakes here are higher. The indie scene relies on a support network of big and small studios, of successes and failures, of personal and commercial, of experimental and to-the-point. The inherent diversity in the perspectives of people in the scene is what makes the scene capable of existing at all. We risk splitting the scene in two – a 'new indie' of small developers without a proper fighting chance and a new, more adaptable version of a 'middle ground' in the successful indie studios.
People respond with the idea that every medium goes through this phase – yet I claim we are in a unique position where we are already fighting this development. We have a global, worldwide reach through the internet, videogames are still less than a century old and we have knowledge of how other mediums evolved. Websites like Terry Cavanagh's freeindiegam.es or Dom2D's weekly TIGSource roundup on Venus Patrol allow interested parties to find some of the games that might otherwise be unnoticed.
Personally, I have been working with Indie MEGABOOTH overlord Kelly Wallick to bring a curated area to the MEGABOOTH to show games of developers that wouldn't be able to or wouldn't consider showcasing at the Penny Arcade Expo.
This problem of outsourcing curation to indies is a larger, structural problem that cannot simply be 'solved'. But there must be ways to improve upon the result in which the scene splits in two separate fields, in which case we would also lose half of the perspectives available. If anything, we should try and enrich the diversity in our scene.
So this is our challenge – or our responsibility: to force opportunities across the board for both large and small indies and sustain and promote the diversity of indie games in a meaningful way. I don't know what the solution is, but if we could pull the ladder up, we can also let it back down.


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Mazziotta Takes Home Medalist Honors at UCF Invitational
Eagles finish fifth behind senior's second win of the season
ORLANDO, Fla. – Entering the day with a one stroke lead, FGCU men's golf senior Dan Mazziotta (Fort Myers, Fla./Cypress Lake HS) fired his third straight under-par round and went on to defeat Liberty's Robert Karlsson on the second playoff hole to take home medalist honors at the UCF Invitational. As a team, the Eagles finish the competitive 18-team field at Rino Pinar Country Club in fifth place.
The individual win is the second of the season for Mazziotta, who recently became FGCU's all-time leader in rounds at par or lower (40). In the fall, Mazziotta won the Stetson Invitational with three straight rounds at par or lower.
"At the beginning of the year each of us set individual goals and one of mine was to win a tournament in the fall and spring. It feels good to accomplish that," said Mazziotta, who sports a 70.0 stroke average over his last three tournaments. "I knew coming into the semester that I was close. The turning point for me is that I took the pressure off myself and I'm having fun. I'm enjoying every shot."
Mazziotta's two-under 70 on Tuesday was good for his fifth under-par round in the last two tournaments, but not enough to fend off Karlsson who matched Mazziotta's first round seven-under par 65 to force the playoff.
After both birdied the first playoff hole, Mazziotta blasted a perfect drive that ran over 330 yards on the par 5, 2nd hole to put him in perfect position. With a 2-iron in hand from just over 240 yards out, Mazziotta put the pressure on Golf Week's 51st-ranked player in the nation by finding the fringe of the green. From there, the Fort Myers native chipped up close and tapped in for his birdie and the win.
Combined with his seven-under 65 and three-under 69 on Monday, Mazziotta's two-under 70 on Tuesday gave him a three-round 12-under 204 to equal the program record for 54 holes. In all, his scorecard over the two days featured 34 pars, 16 birdies and just four bogeys before carding birdies on both playoff holes.
"I'm proud of Dan for his play this week," said head coach Brent Jensen. "He deserves the win for all the hard work he's put in this year. As a team, we need to get better with our scoring clubs and short game. We were one round away from having a great tournament."
Despite another solid round from Mazziotta, the Eagles shot a 296 in the final round to finish in fifth place in the field that featured six of Golf Week's top 100 teams. The Eagles finished with a three-round 287(-1)-290-296/873. FGCU has finished in the top five in eight of nine tournaments this season.
No. 36 and host UCF took home the team title with a score of 23-under 841 (275(-13)-282(-6)-284(-4). Led by Karlsson, No. 39 Liberty made a charge on Tuesday with a 12-under 276, but finished just five strokes shy (846) of the Knights in second. No. 19 N.C. State (861) held onto the third spot with a final round two-under 286.
Junior Brandon Pena (Clewiston, Fla./Clewiston HS) supplied the Blue and Green's second counting score of the day with his third consecutive two-over par 74. Pena finished in a tie for 36th in the 96-player field. Junior Patrick Williams (Toronto, Canada/Crescent School) matched his first round 74 with another in the final round to tie for 60th overall (74-79-74/227).
Junior Gyles Robin (Jersey, England/De LaSalle College) and freshman Matt Cote (Palm Harbor, Fla./Palm Harbor University) each produced 78s on the day. Cote slipped into a tie for 44th place (74-72(E)-78/224), while Robin equaled Williams' three-round 227 (74-75-78).
FGCU will be back in action at the FAU Spring Invitational on Friday, March 25. The three-day event will be held at Gleneagles Country Club.
T-1. Dan Mazziotta – 65(-7)-69(-3)-70(-2)/204(-12)
T-36. Brandon Pena – 74-74-74/222
T-44. Matt Cote – 74-72(E)-78/224
T-60. Patrick Williams – 74-79-74/227
T-60. Gyles Robin – 74-75-78/227
TOURNAMENT STANDINGS (Golf Week Ranking)
2. Liberty (39) – 283(-5)-287(-1)-276(-12)/846(-18)
3. NC State (19) – 291-284(-4)-286(-2)/861(-3)
4. Wichita State (139) – 292-289-291/872
6. Campbell (92) – 302-282(-6)-293/877
7. Winthrop (195) – 292-289-302/882
8. Toledo (140) – 302-288(E)-294/884
9. Miami-Ohio – 297-295-298/890
T-10. Ball State (86) – 292-301-298/891
12. Seton Hall (202) – 301-296-295/892
13. Akron (102) – 301-291-302/894
T-14. Rhode Island (216) – 303-303-292/898
T-14. Marquette (150) – 300-294-304/898
16. George Mason (196) – 310-301-298/909
17. Houston Baptist (253) – 307-300-306/913
18. Northern Illinois (148) – 311-304-302/917
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CATEGORIES Movies"How did they ever make a movie of 'Lolita'?" asked the poster for Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film adaptation, which premiered 50 years ago this week (on June 12, 1962). Short answer, as many critics noted at the time: They didn't.
That is, there was no way, given the Hollywood self-censorship of the era, to capture even a fragment of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel, even with a screenplay by Nabokov himself. In fact, it's remarkable that Kubrick managed to get a studio to let him adapt and distribute any version of the story. Today -- as the ill-fated 1997 "Lolita" movie showed -- no one in Hollywood would even touch the material.
So how did Kubrick do it? He chose the right collaborators, starting with Nabokov; he filmed far enough away so that Hollywood couldn't touch him (a pattern he'd maintain for the rest of his career); he carefully politicked among the various censorship organizations; he compromised when he had to; and he had the good fortune to work during a window when movies were becoming more open and permissive and mature regarding previously taboo topics.
Even before the novel found an American publisher and became a bestseller in 1958, Kubrick (then a little-known director) and producing partner James Harris bought the film rights for $150,000. According to "The Dame in the Kimono" (Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons' history of the Hollywood Production Code), Kubrick and Harris were determined to make a mainstream film that would get wide distribution and earn a profit, which meant making a movie that would pass muster with Code administrators and the Catholic Legion of Decency. Hiring Nabokov to adapt the book himself lent the project some literary cachet. Besides, who would be a better custodian of the book's sensitive material?
Actually, Nabokov was a bit too zealous a custodian; his original screenplay ran 400 pages and would have resulted in a seven-hour film (he eventually published it in 1974 as "Lolita: A Screenplay"). Kubrick and Harris would have to rework it and throw out all but about 20 percent of Nabokov's work (he still received sole credit).
Despite making the necessary revisions regarding the length of the script, there would be no getting around the film's central relationship, between middle-aged professor Humbert Humbert and pubescent "nymphet" Dolores Haze, a relationship that had led one studio after another to turn down the property (just as most American publishers had). For awhile, Kubrick mulled such ideas as casting an actress in her older teens, or having the couple get married in a state like Kentucky that permits young girls to wed. In the end, however, Kubrick did neither and stuck more or less to the story as Nabokov had plotted it, eventually finding a distributor in MGM.
When it came to the differences between novel and script, one major change was moving the book's climactic murder of nemesis Clare Quilty to the beginning, then spending the rest of the film explaining what drove Humbert to violence. Like most of the movie's salacious material, the gory details went unseen; Kubrick figured that innuendo and clever staging would convey what discretion and censorship kept offscreen.
Plenty of double entendres found their way into the shooting script, as Kubrick was able to keep the prying eyes of Hollywood away by shooting the film in London. He figured he'd be able to present the finished film to the censors as a fait accompli and not have to worry about script approval.
To be safe, he hired consultant Martin Quigley, who had helped write the Hollywood Production Code in the first place, and who was close to the clerics in the Legion of Decency, to lobby both groups on behalf of "Lolita." The Code Administration objected to some of the smirkier lines of dialogue and to the lengthy scene where the precocious Dolores seduces Humbert. So did the Legion, threatening the film with its "Condemned" rating, a commercial kiss of death. In response, Kubrick trimmed the offending lines and cut short the seduction scene with an earlier fade-to-black, thus earning Code approval and a milder "Separate" rating from the Legion. The posters advertising the film also claimed that it was only for adults 18 and over. (Indeed, at the New York premiere, star Sue Lyon, then 15, was denied admission.)
To play Dolores, Kubrick cast a then unknown Lyon, who was 14 when filming finally began in late 1960. (Tuesday Weld reportedly wanted the role but, at 17, was already too old. Kubrick considered Disney starlet Hayley Mills, of "Pollyanna" and later "The Parent Trap," but Walt Disney reportedly barred her from accepting.) A number of prominent British actors -- Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Noel Coward -- turned down the role of Humbert, fearing it would damage their reputations, before James Mason accepted the part. (Errol Flynn was interested, but only if his 15-year-old girlfriend Beverly Aadland could play Lolita; Kubrick wisely turned him down.) Completing the casting was Shelley Winters as the amorous Mrs. Haze and the chameleonic Peter Sellers as Humbert's elusive nemesis, Clare Quilty.
Curiously, the overall nature of the relationship between Humbert and Lolita -- which would have kept the film from being greenlit even a few years earlier -- wasn't an issue for censors. That was odd because, for most of its existence, the Code forbade any depiction of "sex perversion," including homosexuality, incest, and pedophilia. But times were changing, and audiences were becoming more accepting of such adult content, as seen in imported films from Europe and Japan, which didn't need a Hollywood Code seal to be made or marketed. By 1961, Hollywood films were starting to compete on the same turf. Going into production were such movies as "Advice and Consent," "The Children's Hour," and "The Best Man," all of which dealt with homosexuality. Rather than fight everyone, the Code office amended the rules to permit depiction of "sex perversion" as long as it was presented with taste and discretion.
"Lolita," then, had the good fortune to come along at a time when Hollywood (along with the culture in general) was becoming more open and frank about sexual matters. Even so, its success at the box office (it was the 12th highest grossing film of the year in North America) and at the Oscars (Nabokov was nominated for his adapted screenplay) turned out to be one more example of the Code's obsolescence, as it was clear that studios could now make films strictly for adults without fear of offending the marketplace or the Academy. (Still, it would be another six years before the Code would be replaced by the self-policing ratings system we have today.)
Nonetheless, Kubrick felt the censors had forced him to compromise too much in depicting Humbert's sexual fixation. "Because of all the pressure over the Production Code and the Catholic Legion of Decency at the time, I wasn't able to give any weight at all to the erotic aspect of Humbert's relationship with Lolita," Kubrick said in an interview, years later, "and because his sexual obsession was only hinted at, it was assumed too quickly that Humbert was in love. Whereas in the novel this comes as a discovery at the end."
Kubrick was wrong, however, to assume he would have had it any easier if he'd tried to make "Lolita" in the post-Code years. In recent decades, as concerns about pedophiles and sexual predators filled the news and resulted in more stringent laws, the subject matter of "Lolita" became even more untouchable. That's what director Adrian Lyne found out when he remade "Lolita" in 1997, using a script by critic-turned-screenwriter Stephen Schiff that was more faithful to the letter of Nabokov's novel than the Nabokov/Kubrick/Harris screenplay had been. Despite a cast of stars (Jeremy Irons played Humbert, Melanie Griffith played Mrs. Haze, and Frank Langella played Quilty; Dolores was played by 15-year-old newcomer Dominique Swain), handsome period production values (the movie was set in 1947, like the book, rather than being updated to the era of TV and rock 'n' roll as in the Kubrick version), and some critical acclaim, Lyne's "Lolita" couldn't find an American distributor. Instead, it was dumped to cable, premiering on Showtime. Indie distributor The Samuel Goldwyn Company eventually released the $62 million film in North American theaters and sold just $1.1 million worth of tickets, making Lyne's "Lolita" one of the least profitable flops in cinema history.
Compared to the Kubrick movie, Lyne and Schiff's version was truer to the details of the novel, as well as to its lyricism and to Humbert's ultimate moral reckoning over how he'd robbed Lolita of her childhood. But it lacked any of the novel's humor, something the Kubrick/Nabokov version had in spades (especially with the protean clowning of Sellers, which inspired Kubrick to cast him in three roles in his next film, "Dr. Strangelove"). And maybe that's the final lesson of how Kubrick managed to get "Lolita" made: the comedy made it go down easier. Seen today, the 1962 version plays as a droll, satirical comedy of manners, with the laughs papering over the more unsavory, cringeworthy reminders of what's really going on. Thirty-five years later, the culture had decided that relationships between Humberts and Lolitas were no laughing matter, and Lyne and Schiff didn't even try.


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After Dr. Dre rocked headlines last week by speaking on his aim to solely focus on the careers of Aftermath rappers Kendrick Lamar and Slim the Mobster, SOHH hopped on the phone to get some post-reaction from one of his proteges.
After becoming privy to Dre's publicized pledge, he said getting the Doc's spotlight is only more motivation to keep working harder.
"I've been knew that," Slim jokingly told SOHH when informed about Dre's primary focus on him and Kendrick Lamar. "I knew that months ago. It never changed how I am or who I am. I mean, things change but I'm not trying to change too much. I don't want it to be as if [Dr. Dre's pledge] gives me my confidence. Confidence comes from what I do. Despite who I'm with, that's where my confidence comes from. [Dre's words are] like a boost, but I never had the vision in my head, 'Because Dre this, Dre that,' nah, I still got work to do." (SOHH)
Last week, Dre revealed his intent to primarily work alongside Slim and Kendrick.
"I am never going to give music up," he said. "Music is like air to me, [music] is like oxygen, so I am always doing that. As soon as I get back to Los Angeles, I am back in the studio doing my thing. I have a couple of new artists that I am excited about, Kendrick Lamar and Slim The Mobster. These are the next two artists, and these are probably my final two artists that I am going to be working with at least for the next couple of years. I am going to devote all my attention to them and make sure their sh*t comes out the way it should be. I am just having fun with life right now!" (Global Grind)
Recently, fellow West Coast rapper Blu hit up SOHH and co-signed Kendrick's music hustle.
"I definitely stay in touch with some of the [XXL '09] Freshmen class," Blu told SOHH. "I seen Asher [Roth] the other day, we should be hitting the studio pretty soon. There's been songs that circulated which I've done with Asher and Charles Hamilton. I always salute Curren$y when I see him out and about. I feel that's a really dope brother right there. Same with Kid Cudi, it's just dope running into these heads. As far as the new Freshmen class, I definitely think Kendrick Lamar will be up there. I think Pac Division, they've been out way longer but Pac Division should be up there. U-N-I and Dom Kennedy, I know it's all West Coast. I definitely think those heads are bringing it right now." (SOHH)
A few days ago, Slim released a new record with Kendrick called "Whose House?"
While we're still fiending to hear that damn album, we can't really argue against Dre's decision after hearing these guys rap together on "Whose House?". It's the latest leak off Slim's forthcoming War Music mixtape, which is sounding d*mn good thus far. The track lifts the ill G-funk beat from Big Sean's "My House" -- off Finally Famous: The Album -- and showcases why producers need to give their best material to Slim and Lamar instead of, um, lesser rappers. (Prefix Mag)
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Artists in south Georgia and across the country are building bones for a good cause.
Students in Rich Curtis' Thomas University Art Class participated in the One Million Bones project.
The goal is to spread the word about genocide and other atrocities throughout the world.
The art students presented their bones while helping others create their own today in Thomasville.
"One Million Bones is a national arts activism project that brings awareness to issues of mass violence and genocide like what's happening right now in Syria, in Burma, in Congo. And also raises money for survivors. For every bone that we make it raises $1 for survivors," said Florida Organizer Jane McPherson.
All of the artwork will be displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. from June 8th to the June 10th.
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CAROLINA BEACH - Michael's Seafood Restaurant in Carolina Beach knows how hard Pleasure Islander's work all summer to keep our beach a top vacation destination and they love to reward everyone with a great list of specials just in time for the football season. Their delicious selections of fresh seafood, appetizers, entrees, soups, and sandwiches are some of the best you will ever taste. Dining in Michael's Seafood Restaurant will place you under the sea.
Michael's Seafood Restaurant in Carolina Beach is ready for the upcoming football season and invites you to join them for all the games and their specials on each night of the week. On Mondays Michael's will be hosting their famous "Prime Rib Night." Get their juicy slow roasted prime rib in your choice of petite, queen or king cuts. Also on Monday nights select bottles of wine will be featured half off their regular price.
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I made it into the double digits baby!
10 days on juice. 10 pounds gone!
Nothing I could have ever imagined could have prepared me for this journey, and I have only just begun. With 82 days left I still feel like a juice feasting virgin, but I will say I have already learned some valuable tips and tricks.
A lot of readers have sent me emails asking me my favorite recipes, or how I create my day so I thought I would break it down for you… The Zen of Juice Feasting.
MSM – I mix a teaspoon of MSM with 16 ounces of water twice a day. MSM is a sulfur compound that helps to rebuild tissue, increases flexibility, and works wonders on your nails, hair, and skin.
NCD ZEOLITE – I take 7 drops of NCD Zeolite, 3 times a day. Zeolites are 100 percent natural and non-toxic, and are composed of volcanic ash and salt. They act as a cellular defense by ridding the body of heavy metals and toxins. It also helps to balance the ph levels in the body.
E3LIVE – I take 1-2 tablespoons of E3Live every day. E3Live is fresh frozen liquid AFA from Klamath Lake. AFA is a wild harvested aqua botanical that restores the overall mind and body in many ways. It provides 64 vitamins, minerals and enzymes and has more chlorophyll than any other food known. It increases stamina, balances mood, reduces stress, balances blood sugar, speeds recovery time, and increases mental focus.
SKIN BRUSHING – I use a skin brush to brush down my skin every morning. I try to make this more of a meditation process instead of rushing through it as a chore. Skin brushing helps to remove the old layer of skin allowing the new layer that grows daily to shine!
TERMINATOR II ZAPPER – I strap a zapper to my shin and wear that throughout the day. A zapper is a small electronically box that is designed to destroy parasites in the body by sending a weak electric current which reverses the polarity of the parasites and actually disintegrates them.
I like to make a different juice everyday but I do have a few favorites. For my green juices I like to add garlic and cayenne. For my fruit juices I love to add cinnamon. The properties of all three ingredients are remarkable.
Current favorite juice: Beet, Pear, Pineapple, Ginger
- Drink at least 3-4 quarts of fresh juice each day.
- Juice 2 lbs of leafy greens each day. (does not include celery)
- Juice 1-2 heads of celery each day.
- Fruits can be fun but try not to get carried away… Alkalize!
- Kombucha – This can be a good transitional drink into the raw foods lifestyle, but not appropriate for a juice feast at all. It is possible to become hypoglycemic or develop Candida from too much Kombucha.
- Caffeine – This is your chance to break away from addictive habits, not embrace them. Caffeine is a no no on your juice feast.
- Pasteurized Juices – You will be pouring dead, heated, pasteurized, juice into your body, void of minerals, nutrients, and enzymes. Definitely less than the best ever.
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Some other little treats I add into my juice feast is hemp oil, bee pollen, mesquite, maca, and nettle tea. It has been such a liberating experience not having to think about meal planning, eating nuts and avocados (bite my tongue), or overeating. Sounds funny, but I really do feel juicier!
Today also marks my milestone of being 75% of my way to my goal. Starting at 400 lbs, I have lost over 150 lbs!
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Troy Daniels tied a school record with eight 3-pointers and scored a career-best 24 points Friday night, leading Virginia Commonwealth to an 83-70 victory against Old Dominion.
Treveon Graham added 23 points for the Rams (6-3), who dominated for much of the night until the Monarchs closed within 65-53 with eight minutes left. But Rob Brandenberg scored on a drive with the shot clock winding down, Briante Weber tapped a steal into the open court and Brandenberg chased it down, slipped into the left corner and made the Rams' 11th 3-pointer to push the lead back up to 17.
DeShawn Painter, a transfer from North Carolina State, led the Monarchs with 26 points and 10 rebounds and Donte Hill had 13 as Old Dominion (1-8) lost its seventh in a row, and fifth at home.


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A team of researchers led by psychologist Jason Rentfrow of the University of Cambridge have constructed a test that can identify where a person is from based on a number of questions relating to mood, personality and temperament.
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Don Causey was beginning to plan his retirement, selling off his profitable sporting newsletters, when his life took a horrific turn. While on a safari on a long-anticipated trip to Africa, a tree tumbled onto him, breaking his back. The process of getting a medical transport to take him from a remote village back to Miami proved arduous and costly.
Today Causey's back is healed, and at 70 he finds himself in a post-retirement career – consulting for a company that sells travel memberships that include medical evacuation benefits. It's a profitable part-time gig that Causey believes is an important service to travelers. Plus, he said, "It keeps my mind alive and keeps me connected with a community I care about, just in a different way."
Like Causey, most Americans are crafting their own version of meaningful work in their later stages of life. It's a direction that brings balance and an ability to be impactful in a whole new way.
"More and more people – sometimes by necessity, sometimes by choice – are forgoing traditional retirement and investing a new state of life and work," said Marci Alboher, author of "The Encore Career Handbook."
Alboher is part of a movement that has named this later-in-life stage "encore careers," paid or volunteer work that has a social impact. An encore career can last from a few years to 20 or more. While 9 million baby boomers already have entered their encore phase, another 31 million will soon make the leap in that direction, according to Encore.org, a nonprofit organization that promotes "second acts."
The concept of an encore career is being buoyed by a convergence of trends: financial realities, layoffs, long life spans and the desire for a more purposeful existence during the aging process. "It's a way to leave a mark that makes things better for future generations," Alboher said. "But usually it's not quick or easy. It's a slow metamorphosis involving baby steps, detours, persistence, creativity and a do-it-yourself spirit."
An encore career job might be a nurse or health aide. It could be a teacher, tutor or fundraiser, founder of a nonprofit, or even an entrepreneur that solves a social problem. For many, it has become the answer to "now what?" and "what will be my legacy?"
Knowing what's ahead, some people plan their encore career for years, beginning as early as their 50s. They use travel time to build alliances or weekends to take a community college course.
The reignite-rather-than-retire movement has been recent, but it may already have played a role in curbing the high rate of suicide for older males. David Cohen, a professor of psychology at University of Texas, had previously discovered a high rate of suicide for males in the 65-to-74 year old age group, observing that this set was susceptible because of its preoccupation with lost status and higher risk of apathy and isolation. That high rate has lowered in recent years.
An identity shift
Vicki Cerda, 53, already has begun her transition. After 20 years as an information technology trainer for Florida Power & Light in Miami, her position was eliminated. Today, Cerda splits her time between a seasonal paid job as a conference planner and a volunteer work for a nonprofit organization, e-learning for Kids Foundation, which provides free educational workshops on the Internet for children ages 5 to 12. The teachers are volunteers, too. "This is cool because it's an encore career that I can do from anywhere and I feel like I'm making a difference," she said.
Yet, the transition phase requires an emotional adjustment or identity shift. And finding new ways to use skills, contacts and instincts may take time. "You may feel like what some have started calling 'a previously important person,' " Alboher said.
Volunteer to paid
Patterns of reinvention vary, but often encore careers start with volunteer gigs that get parlayed into full- or part-time paid work. A later-in-life job could be completely unrelated to what you previously were doing for a living. It might even evolve from a hobby or interest. In her book, Alboher describes how one senior's love of sailing led him to an encore career with a sailing program for Boy Scouts of America.
Alboher said figuring out your encore career requires a personal process of exploring, building a network, getting necessary training, seeking out opportunity and brainstorming ways to create your own role. You might want to consult with a career coach or a friend in the same life stage, or one of the growing number of organizations focused on helping people through an encore transition.