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"It's not a comeback--it's a return!" cries Norma Desmond about her misguided efforts to film the life of Salome. Norma, of course, is the heroine of Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder's 1950 film about the gothic underside of Hollywood stardom. Sunset Boulevard made areturn in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1994 stage musical, a near-hit in both its West End and Broadway editions. Although the musical provided a Broadway triumph for leading lady Glenn Close, it was dogged by bad luck; two other stars engaged to play Norma were let go, and the road company shuttered early when it proved too expensive to tour.
However, Sunset Boulevard made another comeback this winter, when a new national tour went on the road, produced by Pace Theatrical Group and Columbia Artists Management, starring Petula Clark as Norma, Lewis Cleale as Joe Gillis, the screenwriter who becomes her lover, and Allen Fitzpatrick as Max, her faithful chauffeur. This new Sunset Boulevard, directed by Susan H. Schulman and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, also featured a new design concept executed by Derek McLane (scenery) and Peter Kaczorowski (lighting). The tour retains Anthony Powell's original costumes; sound design is by Tony Meola.
With its cynical tone, its cast of silent film favorites playing Hollywood has-beens, and a plot twist featuring Cecil B. DeMille as himself, the film had a voyeuristic allure for movie fans. In its original production, Webber's musical was more sentimental; audiences were meant to weep over Norma Desmond's lost youth and fame. Under Schulman's direction, the Sunset Boulevard tour is closer to the movie, its skeptical view of stardom, its fascination with the details of filmmaking. In fact, this Sunset Boulevard quite possibly takes place in the movie studio of Norma Desmond's mind.
"We wanted a frame for the production," says McLane, "and what presented itself was the idea of a movie studio. Susan was interested in Norma's delusional state, the fact that she has defined herself in terms of the movies. Everything onstage looks like a piece of movie scenery. You're never sure if you're seeing the real thing, or a prop." The suggestion, he adds, is that the play may be Norma's fantasy, acted out on an empty soundstage, using the raw tools of the moviemaking process.
Thus the show curtain, depicting the approach to Norma's mansion, with palm trees floating ominously in front, is a scenic painting fresh off its frame. In the upper left-hand corner, a series of typewritten letters spells out: "Sunset drop. Exterior." Not long after the curtain rises, one notices a trio of scenic towers, filled with furniture pieces, which reconfigure from scene to scene. The guest room that Joe occupies on Norma's estate is a tiny wagon with a bed on it; through the window, a studio lighting unit provides ersatz moonlight.
Even the show's most difficult scene--the chase sequence in which Joe eludes the goons who want to repossess his car--has been conceived in terms of film. Cleale "drives" a vintage vehicle in front of a film sequence shot from the point of view of a moving car. The film was pieced together by projection designer Wendall K. Harrington from several sources. "We found a number of different pieces of film," she says, "that we pulled together and carefully speeded up so that it had some danger." The onstage vehicle is a real car, which was "chopped up and shrunk," with its front cut away, to show the actor. "There's lighting equipment on the front," says McLane. "It's meant to be the car from the movie on the screen. It's as if the front of the car was removed so the camera could get in close and shoot the actor, the steering wheel, and the view out the rear window." (Scenery for the production, including the car, was built and painted by Hudson Scenic Studios. Additional scenery and props were done by The Rabbit's Choice. One amusing technical credit: "The most beautiful and expensive scrapbook in the world by Meghan Abel," the daughter of production propertyman Timothy M. Abel.)
This concept is carried out even in the play's most famous setting, Norma's mansion on Sunset. John Napier's design for the original production was a vast assemblage of vintage bric-a-brac arranged around a sweeping staircase. In its meticulous detail, it resembled contemporary photos of Hollywood's most baroque interiors; it was also cavernous and tended to dwarf the actors. In this production, McLane's setting is less grand, but more claustrophobic, dominated by heavy draperies and dark period furnishings--it's the mansion that time forgot.
The first appearance of Norma's mansion is a moment worthy of a horror film. According to McLane, "If Max spends so much energy trying to perpetuate the idea that Norma is still a great star, perhaps he creates her mansion out of the dreary, empty, industrial space of a movie studio. He leads Joe into the mansion; then we see drapes fly in and unfurl; then the loading doors of the soundstage open and that's where the staircase enters." It's like watching the unfolding of a spider's web. The designer adds, "That set is quite a trick, because it has to be grand, but it also has to be intimate, since it's all about two- or three-character scenes."
McLane notes that some of the interior's details, including the staircase, come from the book Opulent Interiors, published by Dover. The painting of Norma in one of her signature roles was done by Chris Faust. "The body and crown are based on a John Singer Sargent portrait," says the designer, "then he worked from a photograph of Petula Clark, when she was a young woman." A decorative statue was purchased from the firm Industrial Plastics. The draperies were created by I. Weiss.
The second big challenge of the show is Act I, Scene 12, the New Year's Eve party at the apartment of Joe's friend, Artie Green. In the number "This Time Next Year," Artie and his guests, all low-level movie people, spin fantasies of future success. At a certain point, however, the audience must also see Norma, alone in her mansion, contemplating suicide. The original production solved this with a hydraulic lift; Norma's mansion rose several feet in the air and Artie's apartment was seen beneath it. McLane placed the apartment setting down front; it's a collection of brightly colored Populuxe-style furniture pieces, backed by a drop depicting a blueprint of the apartment's layout. In the upper left-hand corner are the words, "Artie's Apartment." In the lower right corner are the words, "Shot #133b." The drop is a scrim; a simple change of lighting reveals Norma in her desolation. About the apartment setting, McLane adds, "The period of the furniture is about five years later than it should be, but we really wanted it to have a modern design sensibility, as opposed to Norma's house, which is practically in another century."
The highlight of any production of Sunset Boulevard is the second-act scene where Norma returns to Paramount and sings "As If We Never Said Goodbye." The setting is the soundstage where DeMille is shooting the film Samson and Delilah; McLane has assembled a jumble of elements, including scaffolding, lighting equipment, and another scenic drop depicting a Philistine palace. The drop, McLane says, is adapted from a design used in DeMille's actual film of Samson and Delilah. "All I could find were black-and-white stills," he says, "so I invented a color scheme for it. There again, you see the drop tied on a wooden frame. I love the look of movie shoots, the way you see one little moment of movie reality, with piles of equipment all around the edges of it."
The techniques of stage and film merge together in the play's climax in which Norma, having murdered Joe and gone hopelessly mad, descends the staircase dressed as Salome, ready to begin filming the movie that will never be. It's probably impossible to equal Billy Wilder's terrifying final shot, in which Gloria Swanson glides closer and closer to the camera, gesturing wildly, until she becomes a total blur. But, as staged by Schulman, the final sequence has a creepy elegance. Says McLane, "When Norma kills Joe, the downstage furniture disappears. When she sings the last verse of her song, 'Surrender,' the other furniture disappears, and the drapes start to fly out, one by one." Meanwhile, the bottom landing of the staircase--where Norma is--breaks apart and rolls downstage center. "By the time it arrives downstage, everything is gone; all that's left is that one section of staircase and the empty soundstage. As the window flies out, for the first time you can see a label on the bottom: 'Norma's Mansion Window.'" As she finishes her number, we see a collage of images on the back wall, depicting Norma in her great film roles, followed by movie title card that says "The End." Harrington says that montage consisted of "fancy Photoshop work" in which Clark's face was inserted into period film stills. These images are seen courtesy of a Pani projector built into the staircase unit.
Lighting designer Peter Kaczorowski notes that seamless transitions were very important to both Schulman and Marshall and his design aids and abets them at every turn. Again, movies provide the inevitable reference point. For scenes set in and around Norma's mansion, the lighting has the silvery gray tones of 40s film noir; for scenes set in the real world--the studio backlot, Schwab's Drugstore, Artie Green's apartment--the lighting uses a much broader palette. "Norma has been holed up in that house, while life has gone on outside," the designer says. "Her return to the studio should be jarring for her. I wanted it to look as vivid and colorful as possible. She remembers it as a black-and-white world, but it's now a Technicolor(R) extravaganza."
One element that links both parts of Kaczorowski's design is the use of footlights. "They seem to cross the line between the two worlds," he says. They are used in the first number, "Let's Have Lunch," in which Joe is surrounded by a chorus of hustling studio employees. The number builds, says the designer, to "what Kathleen Marshall called the 'cacophony' sequence.'" The actors come downstage and directly challenge the audience, with the footlights creating a sinister uplighting effect.
Besides the footlights, there are also a couple of units placed in shinbuster positions at extreme stage right and left, which are used to illuminate the curtains in Norma's house. "They're pointed at the front swag," he says. "All the others are lit from ladder positions upstage of the proscenium. The lighting is meant to be as sheer and fold-revealing as possible. I treat them more or less aggressively at different times. When Norma sings 'Salome,' describing her script, or when she watches a movie of herself, the curtains are seen in greater relief. For other, more real scenes, when she and Joe are working on the script, they're not so obvious. They felt very much to me like movie palace curtains and it seemed extremely appropriate that they should be most prominent when she is in the middle of her movie-related reveries."
Many of Kaczorowski's most colorful effects come from nine High End Systems Cyberlights(R), which perform a multitude of functions on this show. This is particularly true in the backlot sequence, in which Joe and Betty Schaefer, the woman he really loves, wander through an unused soundstage, and perform the ballad "Too Much in Love to Care." Betty, the daughter of a studio electrician, demonstrates her knowledge of studio lighting. "There's a pink and yellow sky at the rear," says the designer, "and she flips the switch that turns it into a night sky and moon. All nine Cyberlights compose a vivid daytime California sky at the top of the scene; those same nine lamps turn a vista into an evening sky with stars and moon, using various templates."
Cyberlights are used in several other key moments as well. During the "cacophony" sequence of "Let's Have Lunch," the units, showing patterns on the floor, move down with the actors "and cross to their corners with them." When Norma enters the Samson and Delilah soundstage and is spotted by the elderly electrician Hog Eye, the Cyberlights pan across the stage and auditorium and onto her. During the second-act studio scenes, the units cast Venetian blind patterns on the floor. "They jog a vista from left to right, just to focus each little book scene." The Cyberlights, more known for their bold colors, are also key players in the creation of the slightlychilly feel of Norma's mansion. "I had made a dichroic version of Lee 142, Cool Lavender, for the Cyber," Kaczorowski says. "The lamp made it a steelier, cooler color, with an arc-light feeling."
Other touches include a pink sky made with R39. "It's called Skelton Sangria," says Kaczorowski, recalling the legendary lighting designer Thomas Skelton. "I worked with him for years and I miss him terribly, so I try to get that color in every show, as a tribute. When the show can stand to have a vivid pink, it's an awfully good one to have." The eerie effect of Joe's body floating in Norma's pool is also done with a Cyberlight. Another aquatic effect, that of rippling water reflected from the pool, is achieved with a tubular ripple projector from City Theatrical. Ropelights, placed inside the prop tower units, give the units a haunted-house quality.
Lighting is used for one of the play's climactic moments: Joe discovers Norma on the staircase, phone in hand, telling Betty to stay away. Joe picks up an extension and gives Betty the address of the house on Sunset. Norma exits, and to the accompaniment of Webber's most darkly melodramatic music, Joe is left alone onstage, while a number of supporting characters appear, each revealed briefly in a shaft of cold white light. The final apparition is Betty; the lights come up on the set, and she speaks. The sequence effectively sketches in Joe's inner turmoil, provides a swift transition, and gives Betty an elegant entrance.
Overall, Kaczorowski adds, his rig is quite small for a big musical. "There are 215 conventional fixtures, all [ETC] Source Fours and Altman PAR cans, and nine Cyberlights." The production calls for three followspots, but in each city, house equipment is used. Also, he says, the design was built for speed. "There are electrics built into Derek's trusses. They travel like that, so when the truss goes up, the electrics are basically hung and focused. There are five overhead electrics downstage of the big studio doors; four of them are in trusses, so only one pipe has to be hung separately. Upstage of the door, there's a striplight pipe and two smallish leko pipes. There are three ladders per side--four ladders have eight lamps on them and two ladders have four lamps. The whole show has to go up in 13 hours, soup to nuts, ready for a show. Electrically speaking, it's very tourable."
The show is run on an ETC Obsession console, MIDI-linked to an Expression, which runs the moving lights. Lighting equipment was supplied by Four Star Stage Lighting. The projection system was provided by Scharff Weisberg, and the large-format projection system came from Production Arts. Other key personnel included assistant set designer Antje Ellerman; McLane's assistants Stephen Carter, Atsuko Kurita, and Rob Wolin; Harrington's assistants Michael Clark and Chelsea Pennebaker; assistant lighting designers Tracy Klainer and Christopher Reay, and moving light programmer Josh Weitzman, who, says Kaczorowski, "did a fabulous job."
As Broadway productions become more and more complex, look for more shows to be significantly redesigned for the touring market. What remains to be seen is whether other productions will get as thorough a rethinking as this Sunset Boulevard. The original production will have its partisans, but there's no doubt that this touring design is fascinating for the way it explores the thin line between individual delusion and the professionally manufactured dreams of Hollywood. Or, as Norma Desmond would put it, they give the world new ways to dream.


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Mithra (Avestan: 𐬀𐬭𐬚𐬌𐬨 Miθra, Old Persian: 𐎷𐎰𐎼 Miça) is the Zoroastrian angelic divinity (yazata) of covenant and oath. In addition to being the divinity of contracts, Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-seeing protector of Truth, and the guardian of cattle, the harvest and of The Waters.
The term Mithra is from the Avestan language. In Middle Iranian languages (Middle Persian, Parthian etc.), Mithra became Mihr, from which Modern Persian مهر Mihr, Northern Pashto لمر Nwar, Waziri Pashto ميېر Myer and Armenian Mihr/Mher ultimately derive.
The Romans attributed their Mithraic Mysteries (the mystery religion known as Mithraism) to Persian or Zoroastrian sources relating to Mithra. However, since the early 1970s, the dominant scholarship has noted dissimilarities, and those mysteries are now qualified as a distinct Roman product.[1]
Together with the Vedic common noun mitra, the Avestan common noun miθra derives from proto-Indo-Iranian *mitra, from the root mi- "to bind", with the "tool suffix" -tra- "causing to." Thus, etymologically mitra/miθra means "that which causes binding", preserved in the Avestan word for "covenant, contract, oath".[citation needed]
On Elamite tablets of the time of Darius, offerings are recorded five times for Mica-Baga — where Mica was Old Persian for Mithras — and, on one occasion, these offerings coincided with offerings to Ahuramazda. Later, Artaxerxes III, invoked "Ahuramazda and Mithras Baga". In the compound, Mithras-Baga, Varuna, under the title Baga, began as an equal partner, but because Baga was understood to mean simply God, and was not used liturgically, Varuna was forgotten as a separate entity, and the compound was understood as Mithras-God.
In scripture[edit]
Mithra is described in the Zoroastrian Avesta scriptures as "Mithra of wide pastures, of the thousand ears, and of the myriad eyes,"(Yasna 1:3),[2] "the lofty, and the everlasting...the province ruler,"(Yasna 1:11),[2] "the Yazad (divinity) of the spoken name"(Yasna 3:5),[2] and "the holy,"(Yasna 3:13)[2]
The Khorda Avesta (Book of Common Prayer) also refer to Mithra in the Litany to the Sun, "Homage to Mithra of wide cattle pastures,"(Khwarshed Niyayesh 5),[3] "Whose word is true, who is of the assembly, Who has a thousand ears, the well-shaped one, Who has ten thousand eyes, the exalted one, Who has wide knowledge, the helpful one, Who sleeps not, the ever wakeful. We sacrifice to Mithra, The lord of all countries, Whom Ahura Mazda created the most glorious, Of the supernatural yazads. So may there come to us for aid, Both Mithra and Ahura, the two exalted ones,"(Khwarshed Niyayesh 6-7),[3] "I shall sacrifice to his mace, well aimed against the skulls of the Daevas,"(Khwarshed Niyayesh 15).[3] Some recent theories have claimed Mithra represents the sun itself, but the Khorda Avesta refers to the sun as a separate entity - as it does with the moon, with which the sun has "the best of friendships,"(Khwarshed Niyayesh 15)[3]
Like most other divinities, Mithra is not mentioned by name in the Gathas, the oldest texts of Zoroastrianism and generally attributed to Zoroaster himself. Mithra also does not appear by name in the Yasna Haptanghaiti, a seven-verse section of the Yasna liturgy that is linguistically as old as the Gathas. The lack of Mithra's presence in these texts was once a cause of some consternation amongst Iranists. An often repeated speculation of the first half of the 20th century was that the lack of any mention (i.e., Zoroaster's silence) of Mithra in these texts implied that Zoroaster had rejected Mithra. This ex silentio speculation is no longer followed. Building on that speculation was another series of speculations, which postulated that the reason why Zoroaster did not mention Mithra was because the latter was the supreme god of a bloodthirsty group of daeva-worshipers that Zoroaster condemned. However, "no satisfactory evidence has yet been adduced to show that, before Zoroaster, the concept of a supreme god existed among the Iranians, or that among them Mithra – or any other divinity – ever enjoyed a separate cult of his or her own outside either their ancient or their Zoroastrian pantheons."[4]
As a member of the ahuric triad, a feature that only Ahura Mazda and Ahura Berezaiti (Apam Napat) also have, Mithra is an exalted figure. As the divinity of contract, Mithra is undeceivable, infallible, eternally watchful, and never-resting. Mithra is additionally the protector of cattle, and his stock epithet is "of wide pastures." He is guardian of the waters and ensures that those pastures receive enough of it.
Together with Rashnu "Justice" and Sraosha "Obedience", Mithra is one of the three judges at the Chinvat bridge, the "bridge of separation" that all souls must cross. Unlike Sraosha, Mithra is not however a psychopomp. Should the good thoughts, words and deeds outweigh the bad, Sraosha alone conveys the soul across the bridge.
The Avestan hymn to Mithra (Yasht 10) is the longest, and one of the best preserved, of the Yashts.
Roman Mithraism[edit]
Mithras or Mica, a Persian then Roman sun god.
Mithras is a Greek form of the name of an Indo-European god, Mithra or Mitra (Old Persian, Mica). Roman writers believed that Mithraism came from Persia and that Mithraic iconography represented Persian mythology. Mithraism was once called the Mysteries of Mithras or Mysteries of the Persians;.[5][6]
In Rome, Mithras was a sun god, and, in Persia, he was a god of the morning sun. The Roman Mithras killed the Primeval Bull, mirroring the death of a Primeval Bull in the Persian religion.
The Roman Mithras wore a Phrygian cap. Phrygia was in the Persian empire for 200 years. Modern scholars have traced Mithras in Persian, Mittanian and Indian mythology. The Mitanni gave us the first written reference to Mithras in a treaty with the Hittites. These and much more suggest a continuity of belief from India to Rome in a myth of a sun god killing a bull.
In tradition[edit]
In the Zoroastrian calendar, the sixteenth day of the month and the seventh month of the year are dedicated to, and under the protection of, Mithra. (The Iranian civil calendar of 1925 adopted Zoroastrian month-names, and as such also has the seventh month of the year named 'Mihr'). The position of the sixteenth day and seventh month reflects Mithra's rank in the hierarchy of the divinities; the sixteenth day and seventh month are respectively the first day of the second half of the month and the first month of the second half of the year. The day on which the day-name and month-name dedications intersect is (like all other such intersections) dedicated to the divinity of that day/month, and is celebrated with a Jashan (from Avestan Yasna, "worship") in honor of that divinity. In the case of Mithra, this was Jashan-e Mihragan, or just Mihragan in short.
While Mithra is not the divinity of the Sun in Zoroastrian scripture (or in Indian scripture either), this being the role of Hvare.khshaeta (literally "radiant Sun", whence also Middle Persian Khorshed for the Sun), in Zoroastrian/Iranian tradition, Mithra became the divinity of the Sun. How, when or why this occurred is uncertain, but it is commonly attributed to a conflation with the Babylonian Shamash, who – in addition to being a Sun god – was a judicial figure like Mithra. In the Hellenistic era (i.e., in Seleucid and Parthian times), Mithra also seems to have been conflated with Apollo, who – like Mithra – was an all-seeing divinity of the truth.
Royal names incorporating Mithra's (e.g., "Mithradates") appear in the dynasties of Parthia, Armenia, and in Anatolia, in Pontus and Cappadocia.
In Manichaeism[edit]
Persian and Parthian-speaking Manichaeans used the name of Mithra current in their time (Mihryazd, q.e. Mithra-yazata) for two different Manichaean angels.
- The first, called Mihryazd by the Persians, was the "The Living Spirit" (Aramaic rūḥā ḥayyā), a savior-figure who rescues the "First Man" from the demonic Darkness into which he had plunged.
- The second, known as Mihr or Mihr yazd among the Parthians, is "The Messenger" (Aramaic īzgaddā), likewise a savior figure, but one concerned with setting up the structures to liberate the Light lost when the First Man had been defeated.
German academic Werner Sundermann has asserted that the Manicheans adopted the name Mithra to designate one of their own deities. Sundermann determined that the Zoroastrian Mithra, which in Middle Persian is Mihr (in Russian "Mir" = world), is not a variant of the Parthian and Sogdian Mytr or Mytrg; though sharing linguistic roots with the name Mithra, those names denote Maitreya.
In Parthian and Sogdian, however, Mihr was taken as the sun and consequently identified as the Third Messenger. This Third Messenger was the helper and redeemer of mankind, and identified with another Zoroastrian divinity, Narisaf (derived from Pahlavi Narsēh from Avestan Nairyō.saȵhō, meaning 'potent utterance', the name of a yazata).[7] Citing Boyce,[8] Sundermann remarks, "It was among the Parthian Manicheans that Mithra as a sun god surpassed the importance of Narisaf as the common Iranian image of the Third Messenger; among the Parthians the dominance of Mithra was such that his identification with the Third Messenger led to cultic emphasis on the Mithraic traits in the Manichaean god."[9]
See also[edit]
- ^ Beck, Roger (2002- 7 -20). "Mithraism". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition. Retrieved 2012-09-07.
- ^ a b c d http://www.avesta.org/yasna/y0to8s.htm
- ^ a b c d http://www.avesta.org/ka/niyayesh.htm
- ^ Boyce 2001, p. 243, n.18.
- ^ Beck, Roger (2002-07-20). "Mithraism". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition. Retrieved 2011-03-24. "The term "Mithraism" is of course a modern coinage. In antiquity the cult was known as "the mysteries of Mithras"; alternatively, as "the mysteries of the Persians."…The Mithraists, who were manifestly not Persians in any ethnic sense, thought of themselves as cultic "Persians." …the ancient Roman Mithraists themselves were convinced that their cult was founded by none other than Zoroaster, who "dedicated to Mithras, the creator and father of all, a cave in the mountains bordering Persia," an idyllic setting "abounding in flowers and springs of water" (Porphyry, On the Cave of the Nymphs 6)."
- ^ Origen, Contra Celsus, Book 6, Chapter 22. "After this, Celsus, desiring to exhibit his learning in his treatise against us, quotes also certain Persian mysteries, where he says: 'These things are obscurely hinted at in the accounts of the Persians, and especially in the mysteries of Mithras, which are celebrated among them...' " Chapter 24 "After the instance borrowed from the Mithraic mysteries, Celsus declares that he who would investigate the Christian mysteries, along with the aforesaid Persian, will, on comparing the two together, and on unveiling the rites of the Christians, see in this way the difference between them."
- ^ Sundermann, Werner (1979), "The Five Sons of the Manichaean God Mithra", in Bianchi, Ugo, Mysteria Mithrae: Proceedings of the International Seminar on the Religio-Historical Character of Roman Mithraism (Leiden: Brill)
- ^ Boyce, Mary. (1962) On Mithra in the Manichaean Pantheon. In Henning, Walter B. and Yarshater, Ehsan (eds.), A Locust's Leg: Studies in Honour of S. H. Taqizadeh, London
- ^ Sundermann, Werner (2002), "Mithra in Manicheism", Encyclopaedia Iranica (Costa Mesa: Mazda Pub)
- Boyce, Mary (2001), "Mithra the King and Varuna the Master", Festschrift für Helmut Humbach zum 80., Trier: WWT, pp. 239–257
- Malandra, William (1983), An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0-8166-1115-7
- Schmidt, Hans-Peter (2006), "Mithra i: Mithra in Old Indian and Mithra in Old Iranian", Encyclopaedia Iranica, OT 10, New York: iranica.com.
- Jacobs, Bruno (2006), Iconography of Mithra "Mithra", Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East, (Electronic Pre-Publication), Leiden: U Zürich/Brill.
- Dumezil, Georges (2008), Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty. New York: Zone Books.


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The assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin marks a serious escalation in Israeli occupation tactics. While Israel had (in earlier assassination attempts) already crossed the "red line" that once defined some limits in aggressive acts, its message in the Yassin murder was that there are no limits, that Israel's military attacks face no restrictions. Counting accurately on
"Targeted assassination†is murder; it stands in clear violation of international law. The Israeli action and the
Killing is an absolute prohibition; international law does not allow exceptions for "ticking bombs,†or anything else. Article 3(I) of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 "prohibits at any time and in any place†(a) "violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds†and (d) "the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized people.â€
In the case of Sheik Yassin, the Israeli claim that he was responsible for earlier suicide attacks (which, when they target civilians, are indeed a violation of international law) does not provide legal justification. Those who claim that Sheik Yassin does not merit protection under the Fourth Geneva Convention because he supported suicide bombings should note that "protected persons†are identified as those "taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces … placed hors de combat [out of combat] by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause.†It is hard to imagine a clearer example of someone "out of combat by sickness†than a 67-year-old quadriplegic cleric, wheelchair-bound, largely deaf and mostly blind.
The assassination has been condemned by the United Nations, the European Union, and virtually every government in the world with the exception of the
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan "strongly condemned†the assassination. It was an important and unmistakable departure from the usual UN position of "condemning†only Palestinian operations, while "deploring†(a lower level of diplomatic criticism) illegal actions by the Israeli occupation forces.
The European Union and key European governments, including that of close
As declared by Condoleezza Rice, the administration's claim that "we believe†Sheik Yassin "might be†responsible for some attacks, places the
As the
The assassination was also timed for maximum influence on events inside
The assassination of Sheik Yassin was carried out, like other escalations before it, as part of
The assassination also reflected
Popular support for the assassination among Israelis reached 60%, although 80% believed it would lead to more violence. Support would be particularly high among
It had already been rumored, and was confirmed on 26 March, that Israeli officials, in Washington ahead of Sharon's planned April 14th White House meeting, are demanding U.S. approval for permanent Israeli annexation of the Ariel, Gush Etzion, and Ma'ale Adumim settlements in any future Israeli-Palestinian agreement. Almost 75,000 Israeli settlers inhabit the three large settlements, all built illegally on occupied Palestinian land. The issue was first raised in February when a high-level U.S. delegation, led by Bush's top Middle East advisor, the convicted Iran-contra defendant Elliot Abrams, along with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice's deputy Stephen Hadley, and the State Department's William Burns, visited the region for talks with Israeli officials. The Israeli request for endorsement of the plan to resettle
Reports indicate that
The Bush administration appears divided on the issue. So far there is no clear approach on the issues of return and
Some officials are claiming that maintaining permanent Israeli control over the three settlements (all large, relatively long-standing cities built on expropriated Palestinian land) is inevitable in any future peace agreement, so why not accept it as a "fact on the ground.†Others, some of whom also appear tactically concerned about the consequences of such an endorsement in the wake of the Yassin assassination, seem to believe that U.S. support for annexation should reflect how far and how much Israel is prepared to withdraw from Gaza, and perhaps on how it defines its future rights to send Israeli troops back into Palestinian territory. In other words, they believe that if the
There is no indication anyone in the Bush administration is concerned about the illegality, under international law or existing UN resolutions, of endorsing the annexation of illegal settlements built on stolen land.


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The Andover Townsman
---- — Andover Public Schools have revised student dismissal times for early-release days for 2013-14.
Early-release days are scheduled for Fridays, Oct. 25, Dec. 6, Jan. 31, March 14, May 9 and June 6. Students will also get out early the Wednesday before Thanksgiving (Nov. 27) and the last day of school.
The dismissal time for all early-release days is 11 a.m. for elementary students and 11:45 a.m. for middle and high school students.
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A proposed ordinance from Springfield city councilors has been causing controversy lately.
It would require pawn shops to hold items that are turned in for 20 extra days than they do now.
It's been the center of debate for over six months. On Monday night, the council took up that issue during their meeting.
Both councilors and residents were fired up over the ordinance.
Emotions ran high at Springfield City Hall as the debate over pawn shops heated up.
An ordinance spearheaded by City Councilor Thomas Ashe would have required pawn shops in the city to hold items turned into them for 30 days instead of the current 10.
Customers turning in those items would also have their pictures taken that would be stored and made available to police departments across New England.
For shop owners like Michael Sarkis, they said the new rules could have crushed their business.
"The price of gold and silver have been fluctuating up to as much as 25 percent over a 30-day hold period and it would be catastrophic to business," said Sarkis.
Springfield police said they wanted to extend the holding period so that items stolen from homeowners and the thieves who took them could be found a lot quicker.
Maria Cardinale had several items stolen from her home when it was broken into.
"These pieces are not just possessions, they're not just something you work for. They're evidence, the only evidence sometimes that can link criminals to the crime," said Cardinale.
The council was supposed to vote on the ordinance Monday night.
But after accusations of politicking among councilors and a brief recess, Ashe decided to withdraw the ordinance from being voted on, leaving everything to its current state.
This means pawn shops are still able to hold items for a 10-day period.
"Even though people may not be happy, at the end of the day, it's the right thing to do," said Sarkis. "If the police are asking for help, why is the council and city not giving them that help they need and really favoring probability of a business over public safety," said Cardinale.
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Dabe Alan
Colonial Marines' failure: why it may be impossible to recreate James Cameron's masterpiece in games
Aliens: Colonial Marines is terrible. It's hard to make much of an argument for what the game does well, as it fails at everything it attempts with a finality that is almost admirable. It's a game that failed hard, failed well, and didn't come close to delivering what was promised to gamers. The Aliens property still has legions of fans, though, and it's easy to be disappointed by the ultimate result of Gearbox's attempt to create a sequel to James Cameron's masterpiece. Colonial Marines was a technical as well as artistic failure, but is it possible to really do the sort of game that would make fans happy? Can a good first-person shooter be made out of the Aliens franchise, without bringing in any outside characters? I have my doubts. The reason is simple: What makes the Xenomorphs such great movie bad guys makes them very troublesome game bad guys.
When good properties are treated well, and why that's hard with Aliens
There have been good games based on the Alien series of films, and in fact one of the better games was released on the Super Nintendo. Alien 3 featured Ripley with a pulse rifle, among other weapons, and the game almost felt like a Metroid-style release. You were tasked with exploring a large environment, taking missions and avoiding the Xenomorphs to survive. The game did a great job of putting the player in a hostile environment where survival was next to impossible. It was hard, but it was you against a building filled with Xenomorphs. That shouldn't be a situation you can easily win.This tension is what made James Cameron's Aliens so compelling. The humans throw their best-trained soldiers and a metric crap-pile of technology at an opponent that fights using guerrilla tactics, and they lose badly. It's a character study in what happens when bravado meets a clever, brutal enemy. Cameron has said that Aliens was his attempt to film a critique of the Vietnam war, and put through that lens you can understand why those action scenes could only take place in a movie. The movie is seen through the eyes of Ellen Ripley, allowing almost every other character to be expendable. Those making video games will never be able to suppress the temptation to give us direct control of a Marine. Once they feel safe, the game has lost almost all of the impact of the film. Cameron only had the budget for a limited number of the special effects suits to bring the Xenos to life, and they knew that if the camera lingered on that suit for too long it would be clear that each one was a man encased in rubber. This worked in the production's favor, as the suit is usually shown in shadow, and the creatures move with a sort of reptilian grace. It's hard to get a sense of what they look like, their size, or how many of them there are in any scene. The unknown made them scarier. There were six suits made for the entirety of the movie, and there are rarely more than one or two Xenomorphs in a scene at one time; the idea that they were swarming the Marines was mostly due to clever editing and camerawork. Go back and re-watch the movie; the Xenomorphs are more than a match for the Marine force even in small numbers. The only time they're described as being "wall-to-wall" is in the sentry gun scene, and that happens off-camera. You only see the guns, not the aliens being cut down. The Xeno is a formidable foe, and the fact they're rarely seen in detail only adds to the sense of danger. By the time the movie showed us the Queen, an alien character that took many mechanical effects to bring to life, we were ready to see one of the Xenomorphs in long, clear takes, and the effect was brilliant. Here was an alien, insectile, menacing presence. She was protective, pissed off, and ready to fight to save herself and her eggs, and the final battle was more of a duel than a brawl. Cameron did a wonderful job of selling the Xeno threat, and then paying off with the final confrontation. This is hard to do in a first-person video game, where you can't control where the camera goes or how it sees each scene. Based on Aliens, the Xenomorphs would simply mop the floor with any human force in an armed conflict. That makes for a good movie, especially when we get to experience the bloodshed through the eyes of Ripley, who stays far away from the large conflicts for most of the film, but this approach makes for a shitty video game. So what does one do? If you suck, you decide to simply make the enemy weaker. When you decide to do so, however, you turn the setting we all love into window dressing. You lose what makes the world of Aliens so powerful. It's a poor response to a complex problem.
Where Colonial Marines failed
Colonial Marines tried to place humans against the Xenomorphs in wide open environments, and in those cases it's almost comical how easy they are to kill. The game takes great pains to dial back the alien threat, to the point where they attack you once and then move backwards to give you time to shoot them. The game's main threat is proven to be a pushover in the opening scenes; the aliens are simply grunts to be killed en masse. It takes minutes for the game to turn the legendary predator into cannon fodder, and that's a shame. An "accurately" modeled Xeno soldier would have ripped through the Marines in the game in very short order. It was a question of making a game that was more horror than action, which worked very well for Ridley Scott's Alien film, or nerfing the central enemy. So the central enemy was nerfed. The conflicts became comical; to the point where even the game's boss characters seem to hold back their attacks to give you a chance to fight back. There is no sense of the quiet desperation of the film. Even the Alien 3 game, which threw Xenomorphs at the player, did a wonderful job of making you feel like your resources were being whittled down slowly. It was a war of attrition in that game, and you were losing. That's one way to handle a human vs. Xenomorph battle in a way that makes sense. The second one involves a third party…
Bring in the Predators!
This is one of the reasons it's so tempting to bring in the Predator characters when you're trying to show a war between humans and Xenomorphs, and in fact the first PC Aliens vs. Predator game released in 1999 did a wonderful job of showing what would happen if these three species were to fight. By adding a third group of warriors you level the playing field, and it begins to look like a battle between two superior fighting forces, and humanity is caught in the middle. All the figurative air is sucked out of the room when you add Predators; this makes it easier for humans to operate in the open with their guns and be competitive in the fight. The three species have unique powers and strengths, and they work very well together. It's hard to imagine humans winning against a crowd of Xenomorphs in most circumstances, unless you create a game like Colonial Marines where the enemy is almost totally neutered, but when you add Predators it becomes an uneven, fun brawl. The game also featured large areas where you simply walked around and listened to the omnipresent noises of the motion tracker, which can drive the player crazy with stress. When a Xenomorph finally appeared, it was a big deal. The tension was handled expertly. One is reminded of the masterful way Epic introduced the first Skaarj warrior in the original Unreal title. By the time that guy showed up, you were ready for something amazing, and he proved to be a formidable opponent.Rebellion, the game's developer, revisited the franchise in the 2010 Aliens vs. Predator, published by SEGA, and while it wasn't as good as the original, it was still fun. Splitting the main campaign into three parts, with each species getting a section, also helps to negate the overwhelming power of the Xenomorphs, although it takes clever design to make each of three campaigns fun. Hell, even the Jaguar Alien vs. Predator game was more fun than many expected, and to this day it's warmly remembered. You could argue that adding Predators into the mix to help balance humans vs. Xenomorphs was cheating, but to me it's like mixing chocolate, peanut butter, and handjobs. You're less worried about mixing the chocolate and peanut butter into a golden ratio when you have something else going on under the table, if you get what I'm saying. In this metaphor, the Predators are the handjobs. I may be getting slightly off-topic.
Aliens are hard to do well in games
If you go back and watch Alien and Aliens with an eye towards video games, you'll see how difficult that enemy is to place into a good first-person shooter. They're too fast, too reliant on their environment, and too powerful to portray in a way that does justice to the character while also making the game fun to play. It may be possible to do a straight-up Aliens game that's enjoyable, but it's much harder than many assume. The results of poor design, which we see with Colonial Marines, are comical. The Xenomorphs simply don't attack, or they refuse to do so with any gusto. If the characters in that game acted like they do in the films, giving you the experience we think we want, the game would be over in 10 minutes. The humans wouldn't win. I would love to see a really good game in this universe, and one that doesn't use the Predators as a crutch to allow humans to operate in the chaos of two warring races, but I don't think it will happen any time soon. Natural Selection 2 already does a great job with asymmetrical multiplayer between human soldiers and aliens, and the Dead Space series has nailed the horror of Alien while slowly shifting into the action of Aliens. The style of game we want from this series is being done in other places, and it's being done well. Gaming has learned much from Cameron's film, even though it's proven difficult for gaming to give anything back to the series. But we want Giger's designs, and we want our guns to sound like pulse rifles. We want strong female characters. We want Aliens, dammit, and it's sad that Gearbox dropped the ball so thoroughly. This story contained an image from this article


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Oh there was going to be a good update today. I was working along quite well, with lots of help from Bobby, of course. Then it happened. I was getting ready to 'fine tune' some photos and 'poof' my computer locked. I rebooted, it locked again. I rebooted and decided to check to make sure I had all of the Windows downloads and updates I was supposed to have. When it rebooted, my graphics were totally fried. Then I fought and fought, but I wasn't able to get back to 'normal' graphics. I gave up and went to bed, thoroughly disgusted. Rick worked on it last night, but to no success.
This morning, I booted my computer and everything was still messed up. For those of you who have Windows XP, pay very close attention, this is simply amazing. (Not you Grandma, let me or Jeff do this for you!)
OK, I had tried everything else, so I went to the Start button and to the Accessories folder. Inside there is a System Tools folder. The last item on my list of programs was System Restore. I didn't think this would do a lot of good, because I don't think I've ever made a 'Restore Point'. To my surprise, my computer had made several 'Restore Points'! I knew everything was working well over the weekend, So I chose to go to Saturday and there were two options (one was because I had installed some software). I chose the other option (not the new software install) and let the computer do it's thing. It told me that I would not lose any documents or anything, I don't know yet, because I haven't checked yet, but my graphics are back to normal and my computer isn't locking up.
I have noticed that some things are different from before the crash, but nothing significant. Some of the programs I had updated are now gone. That is fine, it may have been one of those that caused all of this!
Later today I will check my files. I had the Matney page done and was starting on the Dobbins page. I had also made some minor changes to the entire site. After I review everything, I will upload it, and just post a brief entry to the blog. Right now, I'm just happy to have my computer back!
OK, that's all for now. Sorry there is no new stuff for you to see on the site. I did want to share this interesting 'Restore' option that I had never used before. Hope everyone else's week is going better than this!


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Although Ronda Rousey's first round submission victory over Liz Carmouche is getting the lion's share of the attention coming out of last night's (Sat., Feb. 23, 2013) UFC 157: "Rousey vs. Carmouche" pay-per-view (PPV) event at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, and rightfully so, there were two other high profile marquee bouts on the card.
One of them delivered and one of them did not.
The one that did was Urijah Faber vs. Ivan Menjivar, a bantamweight battle pitting two top contenders both looking to establish -- or in the former's case, reestablish -- themselves as next in line for a shot at the winner of Renan Barao vs. Dominick Cruz, whenever that happens.
"The California Kid" rose to the occasion, dominating "The Pride of El Salvador" for nearly the entirety of the bout. In fairness, it lasted less than a round but after a quick throw had him on his back and scrambling, Faber got top position, unleashed vicious ground-n-pound, took his opponent's back, locked in a body triangle while Menjivar was standing up, and choked him out from that position.
It was incredible.
What wasn't incredible was the co-main event bout between Dan Henderson vs. Lyoto Machida. There was a certain outcry from a segment of the UFC fan base that these two should have been the main event but after three rounds of plodding "action," if you can call it that, "The Dragon" was awarded a split decision that some called into dispute.
Only some, though, because the rest simply didn't care by that point.
Machida moves on to take on the winner of Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen while "Hendo" heads to the back of the line. After his performance last night, he just might deserve to be there.
To get more detailed breakdowns on these two fights click here (for Faber-Menjivar) and here (for Henderson-Machida). For complete UFC 157 results and all the latest news coming out of the event click here.


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By Dennis Glade
Washington Times Herald
With Loogootee coming to the Sports Complex Wednesday afternoon, the Washington baseball team needed a strong performance. Tyler Edmiston and the Hatchet offense did just that.
Edmiston struck out eight and allowed one run. Brayden Walls had two doubles and three RBIs in Washington's 13-0 five-inning win over Wood Memorial Monday.
Edmiston struck out six Wood Memorial batters through the first three innings, as the Hatchets held a 1-0 lead. In the bottom of the third, the Washington bats came to life.
After allowing the first three Hatchets hitters to reach base, Walls knocked in two runs with a double to right field. Jake Bedwell added a sacrifice fly and Kyle Pfender scored an RBI single to push the lead to 5-0. A Max Smith run-scoring double, followed by a Colten Garland hit by pitch, and Trojan starter Jeff Williams was pulled for reliever Zach Willis.
Willis entered the game with two outs, but the bases were loaded for Washington catcher Nathan Sult. Sult laced a two-run double to center.
After Walls was walked, Tyler Edmiston added two more RBI's on a single.
Edmiston scored on a wild pitch, and the score was 13-0.
Edmiston finished out the blowout victory with only one hit allowed and eight strikeouts in five innings.
The victory was Edmiston¹s first on the season, after he earned a no-decision last week at Barr-Reeve. Monday afternoon Edmiston was facing more than just the Wood Memorial lineup.
"To Edmiston's credit, I think he threw up three times during the game," said Washington coach Steve Reed. "He's been fighting the flu. He battled through that. Two walks and eight strikeouts in five innings with a one-hitter - very efficient, I think he threw 70 pitches. He did what we needed him to do." The offense was led as usual by Walls. Walls has started this season on fire.
The senior has hits in nine of his first 13 at bats, to go along with 11 RBIs, three home runs, three doubles and one triple.
"He's just a natural, he has that natural left-handed swing," Reed said.
"He's been dropping the hammer, and he's really been getting the barrell through the zone on some of these pitches. He's actually driven a couple of doubles the other way. That's how you tell if a guy is locked in. If he's pulling balls out of the park and hitting doubles in the opposite field, he's locked in and that's what Brayden is doing right now." The offensive explosion was nice to see for Reed after Washington's 10-2 loss Saturday at the hands of Pike Central. Washington (3-2) had split its first four games this season, as it tries to find the rhythm of the young season.
"This game couldn't have come at a better time, because Saturday we laid an egg at the plate," Reed said. "I told the kids we were out of pitching, it was our fourth game in four days. We¹re not deep anyway on the mound, and that's a game you want to go win 11-10, and we just didn¹t hit. You leave there thinking, we should have battled a little bit and we watched a lot of fastballs. Today our game plan was to come out - don't take that first fast ball you see. If you get a gut check fastball early in the county, jump on it so you don¹t have to see the curve ball. We did that today and we got better results." With Loogootee coming in on Wednesday, Reed will have Walls - his ace on the mound. Loogootee, one of the top Class A teams in Southwestern Indiana, has already lost two Blue Chip conference games and will be hungry to get on track.
"We've got (Brayden) Walls on the mound, and that's always a good thing for us," Reed said. "We're at our best when he's (Walls) pitching. Loogootee is going to be gunning for us, but it is nice to be going into that game after coming off 13 runs.²
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Yeah, Coastal Carolina guard Anthony Raffa has heard a number of times this week about how he's leading all NCAA Division I players in scoring through the early part of the season, but he insists he isn't caught up in any of that.
Averaging 26.0 points through five games and coming off a career-high 34-point effort over the weekend, the standout senior guard has certainly found his rhythm offensively – but the same cannot be said for the Chanticleers as a whole.
So he's not looking to bask too much in his individual success just yet.
"I've got friends from Jersey, people from here just telling me, 'You know you're the nation's leading scorer right now?' I said, 'Yeah, yeah,' " Raffa said before practice Monday. "But I don't worry about that too much. I don't want that to get in my head. I just want to play ball. I want to focus on this team trying to win games."
Coastal is off to a 2-3 start as it heads north to play Boston (0-5) on Wednesday night inside Case Gymnasium, and CCU coach Cliff Ellis said he too is more concerned about the collective development of his squad than any individual scoring marks.
"Right now, we're focused on our team as a whole – fundamentals," Ellis said. "I'm proud of Raffa for scoring, but at the same time we've got to get his defense and our other guys fundamentally sound in both areas because we're giving up as much as we're getting. But without him, it would be tough."
That's been one of the Chants' problems thus far with a young roster. Senior point guard Kierre Greenwood and sophomore guard Warren Gillis are each averaging 12 points per game, but for the most part the team has relied heavily on Raffa to put points on the scoreboard.
Consequently, he acknowledged that opposing defenses are taking notice of that.
"I just play my game," Raffa said. "I've been with Kierre for four years, and he knows how I play and I know how he plays. We try to look out for each other. … I know defenses are going to try to key on me the most, but he knows how to get me the ball in the right spots to be successful."
Raffa's 34 points Saturday in a loss to Florida International came on 12-of-23 shooting (4-of-10 from beyond the arc). He's also had games of 18, 25, 26 and 27 points. He's shooting 47.7 percent from the field overall and 40.5 percent from 3-point range with 17 3s already.
It was expected all along that he and Greenwood – the Chants' two proven veterans – would have to lead the way this season, but Ellis remains confident the rest of the roster will continue to progress and increase their contributions
"I think we can get there," Ellis said. "As I told our team, I think every team we're playing – and I'm not including teams that are not Division I – could win our league. We're playing nothing but teams that could be at the top of our league."
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At the beginning of the season, Bull_trojan looked at the schedule and predicted that next Friday's game between Buffalo and Bowling Green would be meaningful in the MAC Standings. A few months later, the man we Bruwpeggers call "The Don" is sitting pretty, as the game will determine the MAC East champion and earn the winner a trip to wonderful Detroit.
Now that we're here, UB Athletics is getting the word out, pushing the hashtag #BeatBG (Seriously, tweet nothing but #BeatBG, and they'll retweet you) and using the twitter account @ClashattheRalph, which seems to be the product of a Communications class, to up the ante on social media:
As for ticket sales so far, The Buffalo News tracked down Todd Garzarelli:
Todd Garzarelli, UB's Senior Associate Athletic Director for External Affairs, said 24,000 tickets have been sold for the game and another 6,000 are out through a promotion run in conjunction with the Turkey Trot.
In addition to the Buffalo YMCA Turkey Trot, Athletics is partnering with the Roswell Park Foundation and the Buffalo Zoo to sell tickets, and has also distributed a block to Niagara Falls AFB.
The all time home attendance record for UB is just shy of 30,000 in a game against Syracuse that featured a sea of Orange in UB Stadium. It sounds like with that many sold already and some good weather, UB could see its most favorable crowd since the International Bowl, even if only 2/3 of the distributed tickets are actually used.
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NEW ALBANY, IN (WAVE) - When David Camm left the Boone County Courthouse Thursday after he was acquitted of the murders of his wife and two children, he didn't leave legal proceedings behind.
Frank and Janice Renn, the parents of Camm's wife, Kim Camm, are pursuing lawsuits to prevent Camm from recovering an estimated $625,000 in life insurance and 401K funds stemming from his family's deaths.
After being cleared Thursday, Camm stands to collect it all.
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"It's unfortunate we still have another chapter here, but they're not going to walk away from this," Stein said.
Stein said he will also pursue a wrongful death civil case, claiming the standard of proof is different in civil cases. "That's why we're proceeding on with these cases because we think we can win," Stein said.
It's a move Camm's civil attorney said is just a little too soon. "He's been hurting and grieving for 13 years. It's kind of early to talk about civil suits and money in my view," David Mosley said.
"It's not about the money to them. They live a very simple life. They just feel like they need to protect it from David getting it and profiting from this tragedy," Stein said.
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3 medium potatoes
1 large carrot
1 large turnip
1 small onion
350 g lean beef mince
½ cup frozen peas and corn
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2 tablespoon chopped parsley
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2 tablespoons McCormicks Seasonal Seasoned Pepper
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- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- Peel vegetables and process in food processor.
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- Place some mixture in the centre of each round and brush the edge of the pastry with a little beaten egg.
- Lift the two sides of the circle together on top of the vegetables and pinch together to make a frill.
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- Bake in preheated oven for approximately 30 minutes or until golden brown
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Alternatively make into pastie rolls by cutting pastry similarly to a sausage roll shape, place a line of mixture down middle of pastry. Brush one side with beaten egg, roll and cut to length.
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3.25/5 rDev -10.2%
06-03-2014 22:46:53 | More by soulcougher
New Jersey
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02-26-2014 15:48:42 | More by InspectorBob
New Jersey
3.03/5 rDev -16.3%
A long running neighborhood favorite known as much as a dinning spot as a beer destination. We tend to go for either/or but never both at the same time. A nice pre-prohibition charachter to the small bar area, but nice comfortable homey vibe to the dinning area (like a nice family run italian restaurant).
When it comes to the food, the overall experience is very hit or miss. The bar food is generally sub-par while the dinner options can range from excellent one night, to incorrectly prepared, bland and overpriced the next - consistency is not a word I can use here. Service tends to be surly at best - from the bar staff to the wait staff. The prices can be, well pricey - $17 for a pasta entre which contained no meat. A recent visit saw us order a small pasta, but served in much greater quantity than the "entree" described above. Another recent visit had an appetizer prepared and served after the entree due to a "backup" at the pizza oven.
Back to the beer. Mostly local craft with a mix of mid range imports and decent domestic crafts. Generally there is a cask on at all times.
All in all, we tend to visit the bar when passing by - rarely making it a destination for that. And after very incosistent service and food over our last few visits, it may be hard to go back for that.
05-16-2011 14:03:37 | More by rfgetz
4.13/5 rDev +14.1%
I've been to this place a bunch of times and have been going frequently since moving two blocks away. I'm surprised I haven't entered a review yet.
This is a really cool bar/restaurant in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia. The bar area is pretty small but they offer outdoor a bunch of outdoor seating in the warmer months. They have a good gastropub bar menu in addition to their full dining room offerings. They usually have a good selection of local craft beers as well as some west cost stuff and Belgian options. Nothing that exciting but an above average selection.
Their food is very good, offering casual light fare and a full finer dining menu. Everything from burgers(which are served on a toasted English muffin) to gnocchi and pork tenderloin and everything in between. They also have quiches and pizzas including selections of the day. They service is very friendly and attentive. The servers aren't very knowledgeable about beer but are adequate. The bartenders tend to know their beers though.
I really like this place even though the beer selection is that great. They always have a decent selection of good beer, great food and service. The atmosphere is pretty cool as well but can get pretty crowded at times. Perfect for beers and a light meal as ell as a nice night out for dinner. Recommended.
10-16-2009 14:41:23 | More by corby112
3/5 rDev -17.1%
Oh, if only the quality of the food matched up to the decor. The bar is beautiful and homey and the dining room is open and airy (Though don't bother with the outside tables unless you love repeated blasts of bus exhaust in your face). It's worth going to London if only just to sit in the bar. The beer selection is pretty good, mostly local micro brews, and they always have something fun on their hand pump tap, usually Victory's Hop Devil. But the food. Ah, the food. It ranges from the adequate to the terrible. The best bet is the happy hour small plates in the bar, but even they are hardly excellent. Still, a Happy Hour small fish and chips with a couple of pints of something cold can make a late afternoon in the bar near perfect.
08-12-2008 22:05:00 | More by Seanibus
3.45/5 rDev -4.7%
So, ho-hum, what to say about a place with a couple of commonly-available craft beers (e.g., Hop Devil, Magic Hat, Anchor Steam, Hoegaarden), decent food, and an atmosphere that feel like a slightly luxiourious Bennigan's? I like London, or at least don't dislike it, but I recommend you look elsewhere in Philly. Just around the corner from London is Bridgid's, which is much better, and the Bishop's Collar is right on the same block if you're up for something crowded, loud, and lively.
Note: Don't try London's nachos...a real disappointment. The burgers are solid, though.
08-18-2005 15:32:03 | More by GnomeKing
3.83/5 rDev +5.8%
Was in the area of Eastern State and decided to stop here for a brew and food. I had read some reviews of the place and about its association with Willie Sutton and wanted to try it out. When you first walk into The London Grill (from Fairmount Ave.) you step up onto well-worn stone stairs, seems a lot of beer drinkers have been here before! The floor is tiled in black and white tiles reminiscent of the 1920s and 30s. The bar is a fairly long wooden one with ample room to sit down and relax. There were sections of the Philadelphia Inquirer laid out on the bar in case you didn't want to watch the two tvs inside the bar area. Oh, there's also a little restaurant part to the London Grill, I chose to eat at the bar. Many bottles of liquor were displayed behind the bar, ranging from the usual vodka, tequila, etc, to exotic liquers like Amarula, Ouzo, and Slivovitz. However, I only came here for the beer. The London Grill has about 25 + beers to chose from with about half of those on tap. Bottles of other beers sit below the liquor behind the bar.
It took me a while to get my first beer. I guess I didn't look thirsty enough, but it was lunchtime so I allowed for that. The lunch selection is very good with choices ranging from soup and salads to entrees and sandwiches--all reasonably priced around $8. I chose a grilled Panini with Italian meats and cheese called the Autostrada. It came with Parmesan fries, which were very good I might add. Originally I wanted to have the Willie Sutton Lager, but the keg needed to be changed so I had a pint of Stoudt's Honey Double Maibock (incidentally, the waitress who was very nice gave me the latter beer for free and obtained a Willie Sutton for me anyway). The London Grill is a pretty swanky joint. They have good specials throughout the week and the place has great atmosphere. I'd definitely go back.
04-20-2005 14:49:21 | More by tomthumbsblues
3.18/5 rDev -12.2%
On the corner of 23rd and Fairmount, is London Grill & Restaurant. You MUST enter through the double doors on the 23rd street side. The swank red restaurant area is to the right and the bar (yeah!) is to the left and down a few stairs.
The interior is just turn of the century style to be cool. A giant flatscreen t.v. is immediately behind the bar that shows mostly classic movies or AMC. The bar has about 12 wooden backed stools and there are four elevated pub tables with wrought iron pedestals to hold the overflow in the bar area. Tiled floor, tin paneled ceilings, coat hooks under tha bar and green accountant lamps above the back bar give a real 40's vibe that makes it feel like Humphrey Bogart is going to walk in any minute. This passes the "Could you bring your Mom here" test., despite being a tad smoky. Even the wait staff smokes while you sit there.
The selection is certainly above a prosaic average. One large brass tap has Anchor Porter and Liberty Ale, SNPA, Whitbread, Vic'ry Golden Monkey, Stella Artois, Rolloing Rock, Hoegaarden, Strongbow, their "house beer" Willie Sutton which is Stoudt's Gold Lager and last but not least, Vic'ry Hop De'bil on the hand pump!
Bottle selection was formidable also with Yards ESA, Delirium, La Chouffe and a few Sans Coulottes that the guys next to me bought to scratch the panties off the girl on the label. Extra props goes to the neatly written, up to date chalkboards behind the bar that explain the taps and bottles, even with Ales and Lagers separated.
*** Why don't more bars do this??? ***
My brew du jour was a "Willie Sutton" and a hand pump Vic'ry Hop De'bil.
Service was pretty poor. It started ok with usual pleasantries exchanged and a Vic'ry glass to compliment said choice, but headed South when the 'tender disapeared for 15 minutes and didn't come back after my glass was empty. Other employees just walked by and looked at me. Staff even griped about their jobs right in front of me. F'in lame!
Last call: Pop in for one brew on a crawl and then leave. I'll say that the restaurant looked hip. This would be a good place to drag a date. Having a cask is cool. There is an old prison next door that does great tours too. The Willie Sutton story is worth inquiring about if you order one. London also does a cheap Happy Hour and Blue Monday 11pm movie nite with old movies and $3 for a shot, can of PBR and pork rinds. No joke!
03-24-2005 02:45:19 | More by blitheringidiot
New Jersey
3.93/5 rDev +8.6%
I had been trying to get here for a while. Every time I was in the neighborhood, it was closed. There was a private party one time, no lunch on Saturdays, and too late one time. I finally got to try the place, and I really like it. The atmosphere is great. The bar is comfortable with a number of taps and a friendly bar tender. A TV for sports events was turned to a Giants-Cubs game, and we got to see Greg Maddux win his 300th.
The selection is not huge and some of it is contract brewed for the place, but they have one beer on the hand pump and about 10 others on tap. The selection is a little heavy on Yuengling and brews that only London carries, but there were some good selections such as the Yard's ESA on the hand pump and Victory Hop Devil. The bottle selection was small but I got a Rogue Dead Guy and was extremely happy. We were limited to the bar selection for food so it was mostly bar food, but the burger on an English muffin was good. I liked the small fries also.
The restaurant food selection looked very good, although very heavily tilted to fish and seafood. They did have to beef dishes. All in all a good experience, and a place that the wife will be comfortable visiting.
8/31 visit: Went to take advantage of their month of lobster before it ended. The food was awesome, including some very fresh tuna tartar. Beer list was solid, but not outstanding. I had to increase the score for food after this visit.
09-02-2004 23:23:27 | More by rdrummer
3.63/5 rDev +0.3%
Though many agree that Bridgid's or Bishop's is a better place for a beer experience, London Grill just felt right to me. The place is dominated by simple but nice wood work, has a magazine rack (a rarity), has great airflow, and posssesses outdoor space heaters - I guess all the intangibles came together to give a nice feel to the place. Beer selection was pretty good, with about 10 taps ranging from the Interbrew Belgian Trio (Leffe, Hoegaarden, Stella) to locals like Yards, Victory Hop Devil, Yuengling. Bottles included Samuel Smiths, Stone AB, Smuttynose Brown Dog, and a couple other micros that were tough to remember, mainly because they were common but good. Service was mainly the bartender yelling, "hey, watcha want?" Much less crowded than many of the other bars in Fairmount, so check it out if you want a pint but everywhere else is packed.
11-03-2003 16:50:09 | More by nomad
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- rates (USD) $ 650 - $ 850 / month
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The condo has a bedroom with a king bed and a queen sleeper sofa in the living room. Vista Royale is an active 55+ community. The property has been designed for large open areas for great scenic views of park quality landscaping and lakes. There are 3 miles of private roads for walking, biking or jogging. Vista Royale is an established community that prides itself in it's financial stability and priority on highly maintained and clean, up to date facilities. There are many and varied group and social activities for residents to be involved in.
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There are four clubhouses on property for residents to enjoy. These facilities include: billiards,an auditorium with a dance floor and stage, computer center with free wi-fi, big screen t.v.'s, cardrooms, kitchens, heated pools with patios and cooking grills, shuffle board courts, a library, a sewing room, pingpong tables, tennis courts, healthrooms with treadmills and suanas, a woodworking shop, a ceramics studio, and bocce courts. These clubhouses serve as the social centers for the community.
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Vero Beach is a wonderful small town community that still has the flavor of "old Florida". Many native Floridians enjoy our town as a "get away" from the sprawling metropolitan areas. We of course have wonderful Atlantic Ocean beaches with many parks for public access. Vero Beach has two excellent theatres, movie theatres, and museums. Surrounding communities also have restored vaudville theatres with live entertainment throughout the year. Top notch medical staffs and health facilities are also available. Shopping opportunities abound, from outlet malls to upscale ocean front shopping and dining. Golf courses, both private and public, abound.
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Unit rented for Feb. and March 2013. The rate is $650 per month with an annual lease. $850 per month with a two month minimum lease. A first month and last month and security deposit check would be needed to activate the lease. No smoking and no pets allowed. The lease signee would have to be at least 55 years old.


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Stowe is a skiing destination for people from all over the world. But how did it get that way? A new book looks at the history of the first 25 years of skiing at Stowe.
If you're a ski enthusiast, live in Stowe or just love history, this book could be for you. Pat Haslam wrote "Ski Pioneers of Stowe, Vermont" about the first 25 years of skiing in Stowe.
Patricia and her daughter Kate Paine, who is also her publicist, appeared on The :30 to tell us more about the book.