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Dr. Resnick comes to us from his home base in Westchester, NY. From an early age he was involved in animals in one way or another, from competitive horseback riding to working in local pet stores including Columbus Zoo. He earned his undergraduate degree in microbiology from The Ohio State University and earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Ross University. Dr. Resnick joined VCA Wrightsville Beach in 2004, his special interests include, soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, pain management, cancer therapy, and ultrasonography. He completed a clinical year of study at the North Carolina State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, where he met his beautiful wife, Rebecca and worked at the city animal shelter. After practicing at a small animal and emergency hospital in Port Jervis, NY, he returned to North Carolina to work and play. Hobbies include any boarding sport, music, international travel, and teaching his son, River, about this wondrous world. Along with his wife and son her shares his home with a Pointer named Jazz, Thalia, a Pitbull mix, and 4 cats Pixie, Triton, Nico, and Tonks.


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3 September 2001. BBC On-Line news. Excerpt.
Educashunal lunacie or wizdom? From ITA to txt msgs.John Gledhill, of the Simplified Spelling Society, says ITA was hailed as pioneering in its day.
"It fully demonstrated that if you make it easier to read and spell, children will learn faster. But it wasn't a long-term solution because the system was a bit messy."
Texting has taken off in the past two years.
Although society members may raise a glass in memory of ITA, few now champion its use, Mr Gledhill says.
Instead, they are keen to see consistency, with double letters dropped, and a cull of the many and varied spellings for "e" sounds.
Although e-mail and text messages have filtered shortcuts into the language, these are not necessarily the same from person to person, Mr Gledhill says.
"People make up shortcuts as they go along, but these may not be understood outside their circle of friends."
But the enthusiasm for texting has made it clear that English speakers are frustrated with conventional spelling.
5 September, 2001, 10:30 pm BBC Radio.
I.T.A. Anniversary: An interview with Dr. John Gledhill.Alex Trelinski's (BBC) interview of Dr. John Gledhill took place on the 40th anniversary of the i.t.a. or Initial Teaching Alphabet experiment which was introduced into the primary school curriculum in the United Kingdom in the Fall of 1961.
Although Dr Gledhill was chosen for the interview on the basis of his being a member of the Simplified Spelling Society, the views expressed below are his own and not necessarily those of the Society. Any errors or oversimplifications in the content are entirely his own.
The transcript below has been edited only for presentational hiatuses such as the removal of hesitations. Potentially confusing syntactical features arising from the conversational context are adjusted in square brackets.
Alex Trelinski (AT): The Society has been going for over 80 years, it doesn't seem to have made much progress does it?
John Gledhill (JG): It's gone in fits and starts. We were very active in the 60s, about the time ITA came out. That was following a national campaign that got as far as a parliamentary debate, and it was very active at that time. Since then various governmental changes have taken the emphasis away from English literary standards. It's becoming very active recently because the debate's [been] raised again about literacy standards in school; so the society has become much more active again recently.
AT: What's the problem with English?
JG: English as a language - no problem at all. English as a language is no harder to learn than any other language. The main problem is how to read it when you're confronted with text in front of you, and, as you've just said, the rules for actually deciphering what the combinations of letters on the page mean and what they transfer into [as] sounds are much less predictable than nearly every other language in the world.
AT: Yet the many foreign students who learn to speak English, learn to write it, learn to read it, don't seem to have a problem.
JG: They learn to speak it; they have problems writing it down correctly in the [same] way that many English native speakers do. They learn to speak it quite well, it's when they try to learn it from written language that they find the same problems as our children do in schools.
AT: This probably explains some of the eccentric writing you see abroad in non-English speaking countries, and some of the road signs, some of the menus; that probably explains a fair bit of it.
JG: It does indeed, because like English native speakers do when they're trying to learn the language, they have to come to terms with things like [that] there are letters that don't do anything - the "silent letters" - and like English children they know that there are silent letters dotted around here doing nothing, so they stick them in ad lib on the assumption that it makes it look right, and they make the same mistakes as our children do when they are learning.
AT: So the answer is, in your view, to introduce a different written form of English?
JG: Not really, not radically. There could be lots of ways of changing it radically, but that's not what we're trying to do. We're trying to get uniformity, get rid of some of the things that confuse people like the silent letters in "doubt" and "receipt", and things like that that don't actually do anything, and confuse no end of children, and for that matter adults as well, and get some regularity into it. So what we're left with is still by and large familiar to those who use English actively, but [it] gets rid of some of the things that are needless impediments to using it fluently and comfortably.
AT: But who can take such a decision? It's got to be done at the highest level, it's a government decision isn't it? Language evolved, whatever people say, language evolves in a particular direction over the years. You can lay down as many suggestions, ideas, edicts, proclamations [as you want] - language is whatever people want to make it.
JG: Indeed it is. If you're going to have an official national, recognised, authoritative spelling, like some countries do - like in France - then you have to have a government edict which changes it. We don't have that: our spelling has just developed haphazardly, as you imply yourself. There are changes [which] creep in: you'll be aware that things like "program" have lost the '-me' on the end in a computer context - you know, "computer program" doesn't have a double on the end whereas "radio programme" still often does.
AT: That's Americanisation isn't it?
JG: No, it existed without "-me" on the end long before computers came in, and before it went to America. It's just one of the differences there are. Take for example "telegram": it used to be spelt with a double "-mme" within my lifetime, so going back 30 or 40 years. But you don't see that now. Or "kilogram". These have just changed because people felt it was unnecessarily cumbersome and they've simplified it to simple "-am" at the end. So things do change sporadically: it doesn't need a government to say "Tomorrow you don't spell '-mme' at the end of 'kilogram': stop doing it". Take, for example, weights and measures [with] metric 'tonnes'. The government tried to persuade people to use '-nne' to show it was 1000 kilograms rather than the old-fashioned imperial measure.
AT: ... and it bombed.
JG: It bombed, people just said "no, we're going to stick with 'ton', it's virtually the same weight, we'll carry on spelling it the way we're used to; if you like the 'ton' why have a '-nne' on the end that does nothing?"
AT: Let's have a bit of nostalgia here, let's talk about the ITA. As I said earlier on, it's not the Independent Television Authority, as it was in the 50s and 60s; we're talking about the Initial Teaching Alphabet. Tell us what the concept was here. This is just taking it a stage or two further from what you were talking about.
JG: It is. It was to try and get over the initial hurdle that children have when they're trying to read, because when our children are learning to read they have two hurdles: learning to read as a concept, and learning how to turn the letters into words and sounds. The idea of ITA was to give them the nice simple one-to-one correspondence between the letters that they see on the page and sounds that they hear when they're speaking. They had a very easy way: learn the alphabet, the extended alphabet that ITA had, learn that and then you can very easily see what the words mean on the page, which under traditional orthography you can't; you can make a good stab at it, but very often be wrong. So the idea of ITA was to get early learners' and young children's enthusiasm captured into learning how to read. Then, when they've mastered that but have still got their enthusiasm for reading, then wean them off that onto traditional orthography when they were old enough to understand that it was fairly haphazard in many areas. So get them to learn while they are still young and enthusiastic, because most young children are very keen to learn to read, but are put off by unfathomable rules and exceptions - and exceptions to exceptions. Get rid of that, make it easy and enjoyable, get them interested in reading and then once they're hooked on that, then you can get them back to traditional orthography if you like. That was the idea of the ITA, it was a teaching alphabet, not designed to replace English normal orthography.
AT: But if it was so good, it didn't really take off, did it?
JG: Because it was aimed at teaching. It was never designed to take over the official spelling. People were taken off it once they had got the enthusiasm. And it wasn't followed through to say "well, let's see if we can keep some of that enthusiasm by making adult books easily readable". If you like, it was seen purely as a means of elementary teaching, not as a solution. It proved its original thesis, which was "make it simple to learn and people / children will learn enthusiastically"; but it didn't follow that through logically to "keep it simple and adults will keep their learning skills later on and keep their reading enthusiastic". A lot of people lose interest, even as adults, when they find difficulties in spellings and words that just don't make sense.
AT: I understand that. I was looking at the "BBC Online" website, where they've been covering this story and where you've been quoted in it as well. Also they invited people to send in their comments on it - I have to say, a lot of very strong anti-comments with regard to ITA. Just to read a few:
"I suffered ITA for my first few years at school, with the consequence that at the age of 7 I could barely read or write".
Somebody else said [he] was taught ITA in the 60s, said many of his friends blamed their poor spelling on being taught the system in their first year of school.
Somebody from Scotland said a big problem with ITA was that the spelling didn't account for regional accents.
Somebody said "I'm dyslexic and learned ITA at school. I was already able to read and write simple words when I arrived at school, but it crippled me", etc.
JG: I'm surprised at the last one, because there is a lot of research over all the world that shows that dyslexia is a particularly English-speaking phenomenon. Most other countries that have regular spelling haven't [much] dyslexia. There was some research last year that showed that Italian people have about 1/5th - or something like that - the rates of dyslexia that English-speaking nations do. Not just England: it's not that our pupils are particularly difficult to teach, or that our teachers are less efficient than anywhere else. It's the same in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand - the whole English-speaking world has a massive dyslexia problem that doesn't exist in other countries. There has to be correlation there somewhere.'
AT: Just back to the ITA. One or two very interesting comments, not so "anti":
"In my second year of teaching in Luton in 1968," says a lady called Patricia Collet, "ITA seemed a brilliant way of pushing the children on, and they learned to read much earlier than usual, but - and the "but" is enormous - some could not make the transition. I don't think they'll ever unlearn ITA spelling".
JG: I think that's part of the problem with it being seen as a teaching method, a transition and a bridge to traditional orthography rather than a long-term solution to making it simple, which is where we are now. ITA was a valuable experiment to prove the point that learning to read isn't difficult. What we would like to do now is build on that experience and say "Let's get rid of some of those rather useless silent letters and strange rules, and make it fun for everybody to keep on reading now". That's what was missing in the ITA experiment - it didn't follow it through.
AT: Now back to my first question almost, and the comparisons with people abroad learning English - and anybody learning English at any stage. Another quote from "BBC Online". Somebody called "Doug" sent in this point, again with "ITA": "ITA is a classic case of missing the point; if you're taught English, inconsistencies and all, from an early age, you develop an intuition for how words should look." Shouldn't we just grin and bear what we have, and it's down to good quality teaching, and that really is the way to crack it?
JG: Well, yes, you can learn every word by the word shape. There was quite a tendency at one stage to learn [with] whole-word teaching, where the pupil, the student, whatever, looks at the word shape and says "Ah, that says 'plough', and that says 'circuit'", or something; if you do that and say "we're divorcing the ability to read from the ability to decode it from the letters", then you're basically in the same realm as road signs or pictograms and Chinese. You're saying the letters mean nothing, or they'll give you at best a very general hint; you're saying "Let's make up some very nice-looking words that show all the etymologies and so on" but they don't actually help you learn how to read; and I don't think that helps. I think that, for most people learning to read, they want to be able to look at a word and be able to work out what it means, and what it says if it is one they haven't come across before. If you present them with a word they haven't come across before, English is one of the few world languages where you can look at a word you don't know and not know how to pronounce it.
AT: John, good speaking to you tonight. Just a quick "and finally" - in 30 seconds or so how do you see things developing? Do you see the Simplified Spelling Society still around and kicking in about 20 years time?
JG: I hope so, we're very active, we have a good website if you want to look on there. We're always welcome to comments, contributions, even the critical ones, because we pick up lots of good ideas that way.
AT: All right. It's been a good talking point. Thank you, goodnight to you John.
[JG] Of course, the correct answer to the final question would have been "No, in 20 years I hope we will have completed our task and no longer be necessary".
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Summerhill/McGee is like a B horror movie villain. You stab at it, shoot it, run it over, blast it with flame throwers, and the b@$+@rd still won't die.
You want to see what the flanks of Diablo will look like if our paid-off planners and council members have their way? Just look at the debacle on the west side of 680. That is all you need to know.
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A better bridge design would have earned it a ten.
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A better bridge design would have earned it a ten.
I've had this guitar for a couple of weeks now and it's time to write this review.
To begin with I have been playing the guitar for about fifty years and currently own quite a few.
The style I have focused on in the last ten years has been mostly jazz but I did drift into finger style acoustic in the Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Tommy Emmanuel style.
Years ago I owned a fender jazzmaster and really liked it, so that model has always had a place in my heart.
When I started getting the xmas e/mails, I was looking through all the deals when I came upon the
Squire Modified Jazzmaster, and my interest was piqued. I read almost all the reviews from every source and finally after about a week of thinking about it, I ordered one.
Now about that Jazzmaster, after I took one look at it,and before I even plugged it in, I did a complete set on it. I have a certain feel and action that I like and have done my own set ups for years, so I lowered the strings and make some adjustments to the truss rod, and plugged this baby in to take it for a test drive. The guitar played like a dream through an old tweed, nice and clean with great tone.
After an hour or so and a few more tweeks on the set up this baby was as nice as my old jazzmaster.
I got my old strat out of the closet just to compare the playablity, and there wasn't a nickels worth of difference between how the jazzmaster felt and the my old strat, sound was another story, my old strat has been sitting so long that the pots are real noisey, the jazzmaster has a real fat clean tone that I have really been enjoying.
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how the radius would always be maintained because all the saddles set on the bridge plate so you just raise or lower the bridge plate by one of two adjusting screws on each side. To do this you end up with the bridge cocked at about 30 degrees on the bass side which just looked wrong. To top it off the whole bridge system is anchored with just a big honking wood screw driven right into the body of the guitar. Not only that but the threads of the big honking wood screw show from the bottom view, because they don't even drive the screw allnthe way in because it throws off the alignment of the bridge plate. I will never understand why they chose such a flimzy way of anchoring the bridge.
What I chose to due instead was lower the bridge all the way down and adjust the string saddles to the right heighth, this of course effected the 9.5 radius so I made the final adjustment with an under string radius gauge.
All in all this is a good guitar with great tones, for the money it is a steal. My resevations as to the bridge system not withstanding you can't buy a better guitar in this price range and I would recommend it to anyone who wants the looks, feel and sound of a Jazzmaster.
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Let me preface this by saying that after 2 years and 4 months I've finally been able to tweek this pitiful guitar into acceptable playing condition.
The sad problem was that this axe was shipped nearly tuned to EADGBE pitch, but with a highly loose truss rod, making the neck look like an archer bow.
And the "Vintage" tuners are drilled out way to big on the B and little E strings. No way it should be that hard to get your windings started and if you do get it started it slips badly. I never could get a D'Addario .010 polished E string from a set of "Chromes" to grab hold.
I couldn't get this thing setup in time for x-mas '11 for my nephew, so I gave him one of my Jap fake Strats and buried this in a closet for more than two years with strings off and the truss rod adjusted to train out the crazy bow that had been trained into the neck since the Asia inspection date of Sep '11.
I'm quite certain that the heel butt of the neck is way to thick for starters and had to be shimmed at the butt of the pocket.
Another crazy thing is that they didn't even screw that crazy #6 course thread screw down far enough that holds the funky bridge in place.
The "grounding" of this guitar happens at the jack plate, so if it's not tight you'll have a dead circuit.
Anyway, I guess the frets are somewhat leveled, 'cause after much screwing with the nut and bridge and truss rod I've got near Fender specs on the string to fret measurments at 12 fret, #7, and #1.
Consider this guitar a project thing if you order it, and rest assured that MF is sending out "Returns" and will be for some time before they get into the unopened stock. So either bite the bullet and work on this thing, or just flat ask for your money back.
It's free to send it back (they give you a Return sticker), but yeah you'll have to tote it to the post facility.
And another thing, these are Jazz Master pickups and NOT P-90s like some clown on here is raving about.
And these pickups are buried and wont rize closer to the strings without you putting some firm spongy pipe insulator behind them.
I hated the varied saddle heights. It was a good idea to help a dufus keep the strings on radius, but it jacks the G and D strings WAY UP into unplayable zone. Again, the fault is that mine and probably many others didn't get a finish sanding to the butt of the neck. So, happy metal sawing to ya'll.
And happy nut shaving and sawing to ya'll, too.
I'm actually warming up to the very shiny thick poly coat on the neck, what the heck, they did what they had to do with the bad dedicated Fender forest neck wood to preserve it.
I do salute Squire for using the 2 inch "Knob" on the headstock, as opposed to the ugly 2 3/16 inch one.
All in all a joke of a guitar out of the box.
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I purchased this back in May for an absolute steal. Now some months later and having plenty of time to play it, I have to say it is a really excellent instrument. Having been a gigging musician for quite awhile now, my first thought was "Unh Squire" but I was wrong. Manufacturing is much better now than they used to be. Like any guitar this needed to be set-up to my preferences (which is really easy to do, especially without that annoying Jazzmaster trem system). The tone and playability on this guitar is fantastic. Finish is very nice, solid Alder body, over all just a very nice guitar. The only real issue I had with mine was needing to replace the 3 way toggle switch (again not that uncommon). I have used this as both a back up and as a recording tool and was very very pleased with the outcome. If you are looking for a Jazzmaster guitar without paying a decent chunk for the Classic Player or American Special, then give this a try. Great instrument for the money and one that I have NO regrets purchasing. Thanks to MF for the awesome deal on it.
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I owned a Jazzmaster back in the 70's, and this plays better and sounds almost a good. You need to try a few of them to find one that is just right for you. The quality is not consistant. But when you find it you will love it. The best 299 I ever spent. I gig 3 nights a week. I do use an Electro Harminix dehummer with it at some venues to get rid of the singgle coil buzz. I benched my 2200 Eastman Elrey 3 for this guitar.
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This is a great guitar. Its easily on the same level as the chinese fender modern player or fender MIM. I am a huge fan of offset body shapes but not the tremolo systems they usually come with. I was planning on buying an american special jazzmaster but ended up taking a chance on this while it was on sale. I plan on putting some Rose pickups in it but besides that I am completely satisfied. Do yourself a favor and buy this if you are looking for a hardtail, single coil guitar that is more comfortable than a telecaster or strat.
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I love this guitar. The price point was my initial attraction. After seeing the guitar in person, I would highly recommend you consider this as your practice axe. I have an American Strat, a custon tele, and a Squire Duo-Sonic. I replaced the tuners on my Duo-Sonic with locking tuners and that mitigated any tuning issues I had with that guitar. I will probably do the same with this one as well. I chose "flat sound" only because the system made me pick something, but it's true this isn't your hot-rod guitar, more clean mellow sounds, but you can always turn your amp up to eleven!
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At 199.00 it a good deal, at 179.00 it's a buy it now! That said it comes right off the boat to you so set up is a must. The bridge needed to be lowered to get the action to a playable level, the truss rod needed a half a turn, and the saddles needed some slight adjustment to get the buzz out. I put elixers on it since the strings were rusty...like I said right off the boat. The intonoation was close out of the box. I'm quickly becoming a fan os Squire guitars from Indonesia, they remind me of the old Japan guitars from the 80s. PS change strings one at a time otherwise the bridge gets a bit funky.
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As a beginner, my goal is to one day be able to play well enough to be worth this guitar.
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You'll likely need to spend a few hours setting it up just right, but you should expect that with most guitars. Once you dial it in, it's a lot of fun to play and gets a lot of the Fender tones we all love. It can get that Tele twang and Strat pop, but it also has a dirty kind of bite as well as some gentle mellow tones with the neck pickup. I play a lot of Chet Atkins/Merle Travis stuff and I get that ringing clean tone I'm after really easily from this guy. I play a little jazz too and it's remarkable how silky you can get it without sounding muddy. The electronics on this model are a bit more dependable than with the other Squier Jazzmaster with the tremolo. It's practically free so the little extra work I had to do setting it up was more than worth it to me.
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In my mind, Squier used to be associated with the low end of entry level guitars not worth owning if you were even a somewhat serious musician. This guitar has changed my mind on that completely.
I've been looking for a backup guitar and something completely different that what I own in the past which has mostly been humbucker equipped guitars. MF had such a great deal on this, I figured I'd take a flyer after reading other positive reviews thinking if I still hated it, I could return or resell and get my money back.
Needless to say, I'm keeping it. This guitar is a blast to play and unlike most Squier's I've played, it stays in tune great and doesn't have sharp frets. The neck feels great, the knobs and switches are all solid as well and while it did need a set up upon arrival, I couldn't be happier with the way it plays for the money.
There are some cons though. As mentioned, the bridge is a little annoying and the bridge pickup is very thin and tinny.
The neck pickup is great and the middle position is FANTASTIC sounding. The controls are interesting but I don't find them that useful. The pickups don't clean up particularly well and the tone controls just aren't that useful for me. I'd prefer they just have kept it simple with a master volume and tone.
I'd say in the price range, this guitar is a standout. I'm super impressed with it's ability to stay in tune even with hard playing and you really can get some great sounds of out it. Squier really outdid themselves on this one, grab it up while it's at this price.
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Beautiful guitar. Fret ends were very sharp and needed dressing. Replaced stock pickups with a set of Seymour Duncan SJM-2s. Stock pickups are powerful, but too bright for me. When replacing pickups, found that the Duncan Designed JM101N (neck pickup) was installed in the bridge position and the JM101B (Bridge pickup) was installed in the neck position. Hmmm. Bridge is easy to remove/replace and adjust for string action. On a side note, the body cavity is routed for a complete Jazzmaster set of electronics if you want to replace the stock concentric pots and 3-way switch. The tone controls are set up to click into position. I find this very handy as I can count the clicks and remember positions for the best tones between the two pickups. A few minor finish issues: dust spots in the top coat, over spray on the fret board at the nut, and rough edges around the bottom of the pick guard. All in all, happy with this purchase. I would give this 5 stars, but with the pickups installed in the wrong positions and the sharp fret ends, I give it a 4.
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Good electric if somewhat funky in appearance and can't be beat for the price. Solid body and neck . . . even if one of the frets needed a bit of work. The intonation was pretty good out of the box.
Not everyone cares for the combination of a jazzmaster body with a strat input jack and no tremolo and a somewhat weird tone and volume control setup but it works. The advantage is that you can blend the pickups, the 'disadvantage' that the volume changes can be significant when moving the pickup switch.
The tone (at the bottom of the concentrics) have detents and are not continuous, this prevents them moving when the volume is changed (if they don't stay put, take off the knobs, put on the bottom part and push down and then tighten the allen screw . . . the harder you push down before tightening, the harder it is to move them around afterwards).
May make a great platform for modification . . . . I'm thinking about changing the electronics setup to master volume, tone 1, tone 2 & pickup blend by adding a pot at the bottom, changing the existing pots to singles and adding a roller knob at the pickup switch.
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NAMING the Saints bridge in honour of Steve Prescott is a fitting tribute to how strong a man he was, his widow Linzi told a ceremony tonight.
More than one thousand people gathered beside the footbridge this evening for an event that saw Saints and St Helens Council unite to name it after one of the town's greatest sons.
Crowds were told it was fitting that the bridge links the town he loved so much with the home of the club he played for with such distinction.
Designs that will be installed on the bridge were unveiled by Steve's sons Koby and Taylor.
Speaking on stage Linzi said: "The reaction of the people of St Helens makes me feel so proud - the turn out here is fantastic and is really comforting to us as a family.
"I am sure Steve would have felt very proud and honoured. He didn't do what he did for recognition so he would have been embarrassed by all of this too.
"Stephen and I learned to be strong over the past few years and having the bridge in his name will provide a lasting memory of how strong he was."
Tonight's event took place three months after Steve passed away at the age of 39 following an immense seven year battle with cancer.
Hundreds watched the ceremony - which took place ahead of Saints' clash with Hull - despite it opening to driving rain.
The designs for the bridge - to be installed at a later date - include the iconic image of Steve celebrating one of his two tries at Wembley in 1996 and features the motto his monumental challenges came to be defined by: "The body achieves what the mind believes."
Taylor, 12, giving a speech to the crowd, said: "On behalf of Koby my mum and I would like to say a massive thank you to St Helens Council and Saints for naming the bridge after my dad.
"He was and always will be our hero and will be in our hearts and minds forever.
"This landmark will remind future generations how great our dad was and what he meant to the people of St Helens.
"We hope his name will continue to inspire people as he continues to inspire us everyday.
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The finding is both surprising and logical. It's surprising because Google's +1 buttons are relatively new. It's logical because any smart retailer is going to do whatever Google wants in the hopes of getting better search placement.
Herman worked with Evidon, which tracks online ad tags, to see what ad technology and social buttons were on 20 major retail sites. The sites looked at were: Best Buy, CouponCabin, Sports Authority, LL Bean, Gap, Dicks Sporting Goods, Bed Bath & Beyond, SVPPLY, DSW.com, Modells, Zappos, Old Navy, Disney, Target, Walmart, Gilt, Sears, Amazon, NewEgg, and Piperlime.
According to his research, the Google +1 button is on 45% of sites versus 40% for Facebook like buttons, and 15% for Twitter share buttons.
What does the +1 button do, exactly? It sends a signal to Google that you like what you see. And if you're on Google+, it might show up in your stream.
It's supposed to be another signal Google can use to refine it's search engine. Most normal web users probably don't understand this, but for a retailer looking to get better search results, it doesn't hurt to throw up a +1 button to make Google happy.
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With Andrew Luck heading back to Stanford, the quarterback class for this 2011 NFL Draft is looking a bit on the skimpy side of things. There is no question that with him heading back for a junior year... and possibly even a senior year that the upcoming draft was shaken up a bit.
With the 49ers in desperate need of some attention at the quarterback position, it's a mystery as to which way they will head with it. However, if there is one thing that we saw while the 49ers new head coach was at Stanford is that he is one of the best at coaching young talent up to meet their potential.
In this new thread, I went ahead and took an in-depth look at NFL teams needs and plugged in who I thought they would pursue in the draft based on that. Of course you have to consider and factor in best player available for each team as well. Some teams may have two or three big time needs at a few different positions.
So with all of those factors, let's look at me new "unofficial" mock draft. The "official" mock will be the last one of the year I do. The draft order is not set in stone yet. so I have used another sites draft order for the selections for this post.
1st Pick Panthers - DT -- Nick Fairely -- Auburn -- 6'4", 300 LBS: Fairely played like an animal in last nights National Championship game. He is by far the most destructive force to offensive lines this year. The Panthers are basically starting from ground zero and there is no better place than to start than by building a dominant defensive line.
2nd Pick Broncos - 34OLB -- Robert Quinn -- UNC -- 6'5", 271 LBS: The Broncos could go three different ways with this selection, possibly four if they trade. But despite their need to build a better Dline, and to get younger at the cornerback position, they lack a pass rush in the worst kind of way. The other two positions of DL and CB are much deeper than the outside linebacker position. If they are smart, which is to be determined, this would be the best way to go. Linebacker D.J. Williams led the team with 6 sacks. There is definitely room to improve.
3rd Pick Bills - OL -- Derrek Sherrod -- 6'6", 310 LBS: The Bills could go several different ways with the pick here, but the smartest thing to do would be getting Ryan Fitzpatrick a bit more protection. They have some offensive weapons and if Fitz has enough time to get the ball to them... on top of beefing it up for the run game, then the Bills could be on their way to improving in a very tough division.
4rd Pick Bengals - WR -- A.J. Green -- Georgia -- 6'4", 205 LBS: With Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco potentially moving on, the Bengals will be running a skeleton crew at this position. Even if T.O. moves on, they still can afford to get better there. If Jonathon Joesph leaves, it is also possible that the Bengals target a defensive back with this pick.
5th Pick Cardinals - QB -- Ryan Mallett -- Arkansas -- 6'6", 240 LBS: Coach Whisenhunt seems to like the larger sized quarterbacks. Just a couple of years ago the Cards had one of the best pass-protecting lines in the NFL. Not too many pieces have changed. When Kurt Warner was with the team, he was not the most mobile of quarterbacks. Mallett falls in to the category of a non-mobile quarterback but has a rifle of an arm. All any quarterback has to do in Arizona is just get in the general area of Fitzgerald's hands and they should be good.
6th Pick Browns - ILB -- Greg Jones -- Michigan State -- 6'2", 241 LBS: Last year the Browns did very good at drafting some potential star talent for their secondary. I believe that it will be Mike Holmgren's desire to get better at the linebacker position this year. While they desperately need help in the department of receiving, they can get help in the second and third rounds... possibly even free agency. The ground game is already solid with Hillis running the rock. Jones would be a great addition to an evolving defense. Jones is already used to playing in cold weather, so he won't have to make too much adjustment in Cleveland.
7th Pick 49ers - CB -- Patrick Peterson -- LSU -- 6'1", 211 LBS: There is no question in my mind that the 49ers would jump at the opportunity to grab Peterson at number seven should he be there. There is an instant need for help in the 49ers secondary. If you watched even one game last year, you'd know this to be true. Peterson has all the tools to be one of the best in the league.
8th Pick Titans - OLB -- Von Miller -- Texas A&M -- 6'2", 245 LBS: The Titans were literally running dry at the linebacker position. The secondary was banged up all year due to the lack of competence there. Miller would fit very well in what the Titans do. It is very possible that they could go with a wide receiver here, or something to help the offense, but Miller is very good and fills a crucial need for Tennessee.
9th Pick Cowboys - CB -- Prince Amukamara -- Nebraska -- 6'1", 203 LBS: Let's face it, Terrance Newman is not exactly number one cornerback material. He serves as a very good and solid number two. Amukamara could possibly step up and meet the challenge of being a number one rated corner for the Cowboys. Their secondary could definitely use a face-lift.
10th Pick Redskins - SS -- DeAndre McDaniel -- Clemson -- 6'1", 210 LBS: With LaRon Landry on the other side, this pick here would give the Redskins one of the better safety tandems in the league. The Redskins got beat a bunch on big plays down the field and will need a ball hawk like McDaniel back there to keep the opposition honest.
11th Pick Texans - C -- Stefen Wisniewski -- Penn State -- 6'3", 305 LBS: The Texans ran flat at times on offense last year. They seemed to be stuck in 2nd gear in spurts last season. They need help big time on their interior line. A good center is the leader of the offensive line. It would be ill advised to go in any other direction for the Texans as they are much stronger in all other areas. This should be priority numero uno.
12th Pick Vikings - QB -- Cam Newton -- Auburn -- 6'6", 248 LBS: Brett Favre is gone, Adrian Peterson is still there, the defense is pretty solid minus possibly a safety... Cam Newton makes sense here. He is a duel threat and a beast at the goaline. With Peterson and Newton in at the same time in the redzone, it will be very hard to defend against. Newton has a big arm to get it down field to the big play receivers in Sidney Rice, Percy Harvin, and Bernard Berrian. There are endless possibilities on offense should the Vikings go with Newton.
13th Pick Lions - 43DE -- Da'Quan Bowers -- Clemson -- 6'4", 271 LBS: If Bowers is here, he could ultimately be a addition to help on that defensive line. He was the Nations leader with 15 sacks. If he could replicate what he has done in college in the pro's, the Lions will be stacked with one of the best defensive lines in the National Football League.
14th Pick Rams - WR -- Julio Jones -- Alabama -- 6'4", 210 LBS: Jones could be the missing link to an up and coming very talented football team. There are several receivers on the team now on the brink of breaking loose and emerging as threats to the opposition. With the addition of Jones, Bradford will have multiple options as he goes through his reads. Should they draft Jones here, this could be the makings of this decades next super tandem ala Manning/ Harrison, Montana/ Rice... well maybe not that good, but pretty good.
15th Pick Dolphins - 34DE -- Stephen Paea -- Oregon State -- 6'1", 315 LBS: The Dolphins lack a strong force in the middle of their defensive line. Although they may be looking for a quarterback, there really isn't many options. This is the safest pick for the Dolphins. They have their linebackers and they seem to have their secondary. Now it's time to focus on getting some push on that Dline.
16th Pick Jaguars - 43DE -- Adrian Clayborn -- Iowa -- 6'3", 285 LBS: The Jags lack any sort of force or outside rush from either defensive end. With Jack Del Rio, a defensive minded coach running the show, it seems appropriate that he would help out last years draft pick Alualu in drafting Clayborn. Clayborn has been a menace throughout his entire college career and should do just that as a pro as well.
17th Pick Patriots - 34DE -- Cameron Heyward -- Ohio State -- 6'5", 290 LBS: Big Daddy Wolfork is getting too old to do things by himself. He is going to need some help next year assuming he returns. Heyward has had a dominant college career. He could be an elite at his position. Specifically because Belichick is a master at coaching his guys up. Heyward just seems like a Belichick sort of guy and would be a good fit.
18th Pick Chargers - S -- Rahim Moore -- UCLA -- 6'1", 200 LBS: Moore has been one of the most talented players at his respective position. The Chargers are set at cornerback, but could use an upgrade on the back end of the secondary. He had 10 interceptions his sophomore year but only 1 pick this year. It was in large part to teams throwing away from him. Pro scouts, particularly the ones in the southern California have not forgot about the talent and presence that this kid brings each and every game. He finished the year with 77 tackles. It may be a bit of a reach considering the drop off in INT's, but it will be a pick well spent in an area that the Chargers need.
19th Pick Giants - RB -- Mark Ingram -- Alabama -- 5'10", 215 LBS: This could be the closest thing the NFC East has seen to an Emmitt Smith type player in a long time. This is one of those best player available meets a need type of situations should Ingram fall here. I imagine he will be one of the players invited to the green room during the draft, but he may be waiting there for while considering that most teams are now looking for running backs in later rounds nowadays.
20th Pick Bucs - WR -- Jonathan Baldwin -- Pittsburgh -- 6'5", 225 LBS: The Bucs lucked out in grabbing Mike WIlliams... he has been a pleasant surprise for them. However, they lack a solid second receiver. Of course there is always free agency, but when you are that young, it is wise to continue to try and get guys through the draft. The Bucs, and Josh Freeman would love to have a potentially great receiver like Blackmon.
21st Pick Chiefs - ILB -- Akeem Ayers -- UCLA -- 6'4", 255 LBS: Vrabel will not be around much longer. Ayers could start imediately and give the Chiefs the pass rusher they have lacked since the late great Derrick Thomas. Ayers is a guy who posses lightning fast speed for his position and a nice set of skills to get by would-be blockers. This would be an ideal selection should Ayers fall in to the Chiefs lap here.
22nd Pick Eagles - CB -- Brandon Harris -- Miami -- 5'11", 195 LBS: The Eagles got torched by Aaron Rodgers. One side of the field seemed to be secure and the other not as much. Harris would be a steal at the 22nd pick and the Eagles could certainly use it. Even though a lot of the blame was put on Michael Vick for the loss, the Eagles defense did give up 3 touchdowns in the air.
23rd Pick Colts - OT - DeMarcus Love -- Arkansas -- 6'5", 315 LBS: Love protected Ryan Mallett's hind parts all year long. He helped a not-so-mobile quarterback launch his draft stock a bunch higher than it should be. With that said, Love could wind up being the guy to protect Peyton Manning for the remainder of his career. This is more need than it is BPA, but it would work for the Colts who have done very well at drafting in recent history.
24th Pick Saints - 43DT - Marcell Dareus -- Alabama -- 6'3", 306 LBS: The biggest knock on Dareus, which is a big one, is that he had tendencies to take plays off throughout the year when he was in the game. Sean Payton is a big-time motivator. If he can't get this kid kick started, then nobody can. Dareus would be a nice replacement for the right defensive tackle Remi Ayodele who struggled quite a bit through the course of the season. He didn't manage many tackles, sacks, or just presence in general. Dareus would be an upgrade on downs when he decided to play.
...the rest will come as the playoffs progress and more teams are knocked out.
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Manchester United 1 Sunderland 0 | Barclays Premier League | 6 December 2008
The game pitted the reigning English and European champions against a Black Cats side in 18th place and reeling from Roy Keane's resignation as manager four days earlier.
All the signs pointed to a comfortable home win but, despite battering the unambitious visitors for the entire game, United could not find a way through a dogged defence.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Dimitar Berbatov and Carlos Tevez all missed chances, Sunderland keeper Martin Fulop was in inspired form and United were seconds away from being held to a frustrating and damaging point.
But in the 91st minute, Vidic reacted quickest to prod home after Michael Carrick's deflected shot hit a post and bounced back across goal, with Fulop stranded.
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Home Press Releases CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR GUESTS OF ALL AGES FOSTER IMMERSION IN LOCAL TRADITIONS AT BANYAN TREE UNGASAN, BALIPress Release
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Bali, Indonesia – September 2012 - Perched high on the cliffs of Bali's southernmost peninsula with unrivalled views of the Indian Ocean, Banyan Tree Ungasan, Bali offers a host of activities for families to witness the colourful charm of Balinese culture. Often referred to as "The Island of the Gods," Bali is renowned for its vibrant religious traditions and ceremonies which play a pivotal role in daily life, offering fascinating insight for guests of all ages.
From the moment a guest arrives at Banyan Tree Ungasan, Bali, they are greeted in a traditional manner with a local blessing ceremony. A floral offering called a canag is extended, which involves sprinkling holy water on the ground and placing grains of rice on the guest's forehead and frangipani flowers behind their ears to represent peace and prosperity.
Meanwhile other cultural festivities can be experienced at Bambu, where the restaurant regularly hosts kecak and legong dance performances by local artists from nearby Ungasan village. Staged under the moonlight, fire torches transform the garden terrace into an outdoor theatre for an evening of cultural entertainment. An elaborate buffet representing the best of Indonesia's culinary heritage features delicacies such as bebek betut, or slow roasted duck in Balinese spices.
The highly energetic kecak dance features the hypnotic rhythms and chants from a chorus of male dancers as chapters from the ancient Sanskrit epic "Ramayana" tell the story of Prince Rama rescuing Princess Sita from the evil King of Lanka.
On a different night, the graceful legong dance is performed. This classical Balinese palace dance is set to the enchanting sounds of gongs and percussions from the traditional gamelan orchestra. The mesmerising performance is characterised by expressive gestures and facial expressions, along with complex and intricate hand and finger movements from a cast of young female dancers.
At Banyan Tree Ungasan Kids Club, children can also experience local culture and Balinese pageantry by signing up for the "Traditional Balinese Costumes" programme. Boys and girls are transformed into a glittering parade of Balinese royalty as they play dress-up in ornate gold-trimmed outfits. The Kids Club also offers a range of games and educational activities including complimentary Indonesian language classes.
Those wishing to immerse themselves in local culture need not travel far beyond the resort's perimeter. The hotel organises daily cycle tours to Ungasan village where guests enjoy a leisurely two-hour ride through streets that offers a fascinating glimpse into village life. The tour passes by local homes, Balinese family compounds, the local school and the administrative buildings of Banjar (the village council). Guests may witness villagers placing small offerings of fruit and flowers at temples, shrines and pathways to appease the gods or watch a funeral procession amble through the streets.
- Balinese Cultural Dance Performances with Buffet Dinner at Bambu Restaurant, USD 65++ per person
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The new iPhones have been released and in Charlottesville that means some stores have been pretty busy. Dozens lined up at the Emmett Street AT&T store for the new iPhone - many of them waiting for the iPhone 5s.
The iPhone 5s features an improved camera, longer battery life, and a fingerprint reader.
Tris Buck couldn't wait to get his hands on one. He got in line at 5 a.m. Friday - 3 hours before the store opened.
"I'm here because I really needed a new phone. I mean I've never really been someone to like come early in the morning for something but my phone was broken so badly that I needed to get a new phone and the 5s is sick," said Buck.
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Police say Pacheco was crossing the street mid-block when a speeding car hit him and just kept going.
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Former "Ghost Hunters" cast member Amy Bruni created a panic this week when she announced on her Facebook page that a popular fast-food chain was putting Ouija boards in their kid's meals for Halloween. According to a Facebook post from Tuesday, she said that she was excited about the new McDonald's Happy Meals.
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Researcher and colleague Albert Rosales forwarded a recent amazing encounter report from central Spain...specifically, multiple witnesses chased by a giant humanoid.
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Have you seen this entity? I offer this sketch rendition of a Mothman-like being that has been seen by several witnesses in and around the Lancaster, PA area.
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The witness was asked by unknown men (MIB?) if he had spent time in Seal Beach, which is located across the San Gabriel River from Alamitos Bay. I thought the mention of Seal Beach was odd until I realized that the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach military base was located there and that may have been the reason for the question.
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Posted: 8/25/2014 1:19:07 PM Reads: 225 Submitted By: jeff Source: www.movoto.com Category: Ghosts
here are a few places where men fear to tread, places so scary locals have labeled them with names like "Hotel Hell," "Hell Bridge," and "Satan's Tunnel." Witches, demons, and shadowy entities are said to lurk there. Some are even believed to contain portals to Hell itself. We at Mysterious Heartland have braved damnation to bring you this list. Which will prove to be the most terrifying place of them all?
Posted: 8/25/2014 8:14:25 AM Reads: 270 Submitted By: makleen Source: mysteriousheartland.com Category: Ghosts
I was driving down Dead Oak Road in Haralson, GA when a wolf ran out in front of me. I stopped and took a bunch of pictures because that was really weird. I didn't get a picture of the wolf, and didn't see anything unusual - just a weird feeling. Then later when I looked at pictures, I had 2 that had unexplained things that I'd like someone's opinion on. BG
Posted: 8/23/2014 2:23:18 PM Reads: 303 Submitted By: Medieval Source: www.phantomsandmonsters.com Category: Mysterious Phenomena
The building referred to as 'Old Main' is a historic building, that has had many events, and hauntings, that have taken place there.
Posted: 8/22/2014 2:10:05 PM Reads: 284 Submitted By: RavenRequiem13 Source: lite987.com Category: Ghosts
A man was arrested recently for pretending to be a ghost in an alleged haunted cemetery. Police were summoned to the cemetery when mourners that were visiting their loved ones called to complain about "wooooo" noises coming from behind the gravestones.
Posted: 8/22/2014 12:27:38 PM Reads: 286 Submitted By: Paranormal Playground Source: www.examiner.com Category: Oddball News
I felt that this couple was not in costume. There were no Halloween parties that time of year and I don't believe their reason to be there was to stage theatricality for the sake of getting attention. No, they were simply being whoever they were.
Posted: 8/21/2014 11:50:34 PM Reads: 256 Submitted By: Medieval Source: www.astralperceptions.com Category: Mysterious Phenomena
The Syfy Channel announced recently that it will renew "Ghost Hunters" for another season. The popular paranormal program premiered in October 2004 and returns this fall for its tenth season with new one-hour episodes. The series will remain in its Wednesday night time-slot. Syfy also announced that a special guest investigator will be appearing on the season premiere.
Posted: 8/21/2014 11:31:11 PM Reads: 248 Submitted By: Paranormal Playground Source: www.examiner.com Category: Television Shows
FLIR Systems Incorporated recently released a new accessory for the iPhone. The new FLIR One device turns the popular smartphone into a thermal imaging camera and the price is just a fraction of the cost of other FLIR thermal imagers.
Posted: 8/21/2014 11:30:21 PM Reads: 260 Submitted By: Paranormal Playground Source: www.examiner.com Category: Technology News
As they approached the back of my boat I could see that both men were dressed in black attire that reminded me of Ninja bodysuits. Both men had very short blond hair and sunglasses, even though it was dark. Their faces were dark tan and smooth looking. They looked very odd.
Posted: 8/21/2014 4:52:47 PM Reads: 243 Submitted By: Medieval Source: www.phantomsandmonsters.com Category: Mysterious Phenomena
The Bird Cage Theater at 535 E. Allen Street in Tombstone, Arizona, is one of the only surviving buildings from Tombstone's Wild West days. The Bird Cage Theater opened in 1881 and closed in 1889. In those short years, it gained a notorious reputation as a house of gambling, entertainment, and prostitution. The Bird Cage Theater is also rumored to be haunted with the ghosts of Tombstone's tumultuous past.
Posted: 8/21/2014 1:16:14 PM Reads: 217 Submitted By: makleen Source: mysteriousheartland.com Category: Ghosts
"I don't know what we saw, but the animal, the monster, burned itself into my retinas. It looked like something that ought to have been dead millions of years ago. As a scientist, I should have been happy, of course, but this encounter was so frightening, so nasty that I never want to see it again."
Posted: 8/20/2014 4:04:50 PM Reads: 291 Submitted By: Medieval Source: www.phantomsandmonsters.com Category: Cryptozoology
The Susquehanna River is known for huge catfish, carp and muskellunge...and an occasionally Florida manatee will swim as far north as the Conowingo Dam. The Delaware & Susquehannock native people told tales of large serpents that traversed the deep waters of the mighty river.
Posted: 8/19/2014 3:07:30 PM Reads: 273 Submitted By: Medieval Source: www.phantomsandmonsters.com Category: Cryptozoology
Seven Witnesses and an articulate MUFON report. Great photograph of structured red orb that almost looks like a paperclip.
Posted: 8/19/2014 1:36:58 PM Reads: 279 Submitted By: m4ever Source: newhampshireufo.blogspot.com Category: UFOs
I have written extensively about the York County, PA Hex Murder (Rehmeyer Hollow) and some of the history of Pow-wow folk magic, Pennsylvania Dutch hex-meisters and witchcraft...including my personal experiences. Previous to the Rehmeyer murder was the Tumbling Run Valley 'Hex Cat' incident in Schuylkill County, PA. At the time, it was also a national story. I have included several reports of the incident and follow-up information.
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On Friday, Dallas and I met up with Dallas's friend Matt, who he had not seen for NINETEEN years! Ever since graduation parties after they graduated high school. For most people, if you hadn't seen someone for nineteen years, you wouldn't even bother, but if there's one thing I learned about Kamehameha Schools, it's that everyone who went there is friends for life. Especially those who boarded together, away from their friends and families, for years.
Dallas has told me stories of Matt and his wife, who was also in their class at Kamehameha Schools, so it was nice to finally meet him. We met up for dinner at Chicago Cut, one of Dallas's favorite Chicago steakhouses, for a nice dinner. .. probably my last splurge meal before the baby is born. Matt still hangs out with a lot of Hawaiians where he lives in Portland and I could tell right away because of his pidgin, but by the time we ordered our appetizers, Dallas was right there too.
After dinner, I sleepily headed home with an overstuffed belly, but Dallas and Matt met up with friends downtown for a late night of drinking and reminiscing. Hopefully, we'll get to see Matt and his wife again next year at their 20 year Kamehameha Schools high school reunion! If not, I'm hoping that it will not be another 19 years before we see Matt again!


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CATEGORIES Fandom, Home Entertainment, Features, CinematicalThe best movie scores don't just add extra depth to a movie, but they take on lives on their own; they sneak into your subconscious so that the next time you hear Nino Rota you feel like downing some espressos and dancing in the Trevi Fountain.
Post-punk/death rocker turned mustachioed Southern Gothic philosopher Nick Cave and his fellow Bad Seed bandmate Warren Ellis* have become standout film composers in the past few years, beginning with their collaboration on The Proposition, a Western from the land Down Under directed by The Road's John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave. They also created the soundscape for the sadly underseen and somewhat overlong The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Their most recent collaboration on the score for The Road is worthy of an Oscar nomination -- subtle, appropriately dark but not overbearing, and elegant.
However, the two have also written scores for other, lesser-known movies like the documentary The Girls of Phnom Penh, about young Cambodian sex workers, and The English Surgeon, a doc about a brain doc who regularly travels to the Ukraine to perform surgery on the poor, sick, and often desperate.
White Lunar is an upcoming 2-disc compilation of these scores, along with a few extra bits from the vaults:
"Accompanying the soundtracks on the second disc are four pieces drawn from the Cave & Ellis archives, all named after craters: 'Magma' is constructed from a chorus of Warrens singing a pitch-shifted riff, 'Zanstra' swarms like a storm of hornets besieging a submarine, 'Halo' finds pastoral calm in the eager teeth of defeat and 'Daedalus' rises sure as the sun, with dewy flute and fluttering piano motes, before a sudden fade. The sequence is conceived as a suite. 'Listen to it as you might listen to an instrumental album,' recommends Ellis, as 'some kind of trip.'"
So all you Nick Cave completists or diehard melancholics can now add this goody to your wishlist. And who knows? Perhaps Hillcoat's next collab with Cave, which Monika wrote about earlier this September, will also include a Cave/Ellis soundtrack. (IMDb lists the project under the name Death of a Ladies' Man, although Variety referred to it by the same title of Cave's newest novel, The Death of Bunny Munro. Either way, we're all winners here. Right?!
*Ellis is also in the beautifully melancholy band Dirty Three and Cave's side project Grinderman, and is not to be confused with the Warren Ellis who writes graphic novels and greets his legions of Twitter followers each morning with good-natured and colorful insults.


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According to Cherry Hill Police, investigators are looking for a suspect caught on camera who robbed a hotel of 400 bucks and also tried to sexually assault a clerk.
The incident happened on December 10th at around 7:40 in the morning at the Inn of the Dove Motel located on the 700 block of Cuthbert Boulevard.
Surveillance shows the male suspect climbing through the window that separates the lobby from the office. The suspect then takes cash from the register and tries to drag the female clerk into a motel room to assault her.
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He didn't look Jewish. Not with his perfect pug nose, electric blue eyes and a boyish spit curl that suggested Anglo as well as Saxon.
No hint in his sleek movie-star name, Clark Kent, which could belong only to a Gentile and probably one with a lifelong membership at the country club. The surest sign that Clark was no Semite came when the bespectacled everyman donned royal blue tights and a furling red cape to transform himself into a Superman with rippling muscles and expanding superpowers. Who ever heard of a Jewish strongman?
The evidence of his ethnic origin lay elsewhere, starting with Kal-El, his Kryptonian name. El is a suffix in Judaism's most cherished birthrights, from Isra-el to the prophets Samu-el and Dani-el. It means God. Kal is similar to the Hebrew words for voice and vessel. Together they suggest that the alien superbaby was not just a Jew, but a very special one. Like Moses.
Much as the baby prophet was floated in a reed basket by a mother desperate to spare him from an Egyptian Pharaoh's death warrant, so moments before Kal-El's planet blew up, his doomed parents tucked him into a spaceship that rocketed him to the safety of Earth. Both babies were rescued by non-Jews and raised in foreign cultures — Kal-El by Kansas farmers named Kent — and all the adoptive parents quickly learned how exceptional their foundlings were. The narratives of Krypton's birth and death borrowed the language of Genesis. Kal-El's escape to Earth was the story of Exodus.
Clues mounted from there. The three legs of the Superman myth — truth, justice and the American way — are straight out of the Mishnah. "The world," it reads, "endures on three things: justice, truth and peace." The explosion of Krypton conjures up images from the mystical Kabbalah where the divine vessel was shattered, and Jews were called on to perform tikkun haolam by repairing the vessel and the world.
Superman's lingering heartsickness was survivor's guilt. A last rule of thumb: When a name ends in "man," the bearer is Jewish, a superhero, or in this case both.
This search for Superman's roots has a special resonance now, in what is likely to be the summer of Superman. The Man of Steel turns 75 this month, and Warner Bros. is about to release a Man of Steel movie it hopes will be its biggest ever starring a superhero.
If most of his admirers did not recognize Superman's Jewish origins, the Third Reich did. A 1940 article in Das Schwarze Korps, the newspaper of the SS, called Superman writer Jerry Siegel "Siegellack," the "intellectually and physically circumcised chap who has his headquarters in New York." Superman was a "pleasant guy with an overdeveloped body and underdeveloped mind." Creator and creation were stealthily working together, the Nazis concluded, to sow "hate, suspicion, evil, laziness and criminality" in the hearts of American youth.
Superman had even stronger cultural ties to the faith of his founders. He started life as the consummate liberal, championing causes from disarmament to the welfare state. Clark also had something in common with his boyish creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster: All were classic nebbishes.
Clark and Superman lived life the way most newly arrived Jews did, torn between their Old and New World identities and their mild exteriors and rock-solid cores. That split personality was the only way he could survive, yet it gave him perpetual angst. You can't get more Jewish than that.
So compelling were those bonds that The Jewish 100, a book about the most influential Jews of all time, listed Jerry and Joe alongside Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein and Abraham. Jules Feiffer, an authority on cartoons and Jews, said the Last Son of Krypton was born not on Krypton but on "the planet Poland, from Lodz maybe, possibly Crakow." The alien superhero was, more than anything, "the striving Jewish boy's goyishe American dream."
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