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Harry spends the day with Sylvester Stallone, Ricardo Montalban, a really cool 3D Camera & Robert Rodriguez on SPY KIDS
Hey folks, Harry here… Ya know, every now and again I find myself in a situation that is going way, way waaaaay too good. Where you can't believe that you're talking to the person you're talking to, seeing the things you're seeing and well… that I wasn't just making a drooling fanboy ass out of myself.
When I first arrived at TROUBLEMAKER STUDIOS, I noticed that it no longer looks like an airplane hanger, it now looks like a studio. It's finished out inside, decorated, trophies from films past. I wasn't really here to write about SPY KIDS 3, because… well that's a Robert film and I don't write reviews or analysis of his work anymore because of our friendship… However, I was going for three very simple reasons.
1) I was finally going to get to meet Sylvester Stallone.
2) I would be watching Ricardo Montalban on a very dramatic day.
3) I would get to check out, not only James Cameron's new Digital 3D toy in action, but I would also get to see a film shoot entirely on a rear projection 3D HD system, created SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS FILM and will one day be a technology that could be in our homes.
First thing I noticed as I was entering the Emerald Studio… aka The Green Screen Stage was the sound of Ricardo's voice. Next, I find myself sitting watching that huge dual projection synced 3D High Def system as though I'd be insane to turn away.
I have been on a lot of sets in the past 7 years and seen an awful lot of innovation first hand. However, the technology that is going on Rodriguez's SPY KIDS 3D GAME OVER really turned the tech-fetishist inside me on in a way I was not expecting. The 3D High Def Camera Rig that was invented for Cameron's GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS is simply the bestest coolest damn thing I've ever seen. It doesn't reinvent the wheel, but what it does do is this. A filmmaker shooting with this camera, all at once is making a film that can be shown in IMAX 3D, be used in Theme Park Attractions, be shown in 3D in theaters, be shown in regular Flat projection. When Cameron was working on having the camera invented, what he was shooting for was a "Holy Grail" camera that could, all at once, shoot everything you could ever need or want. Is that what they have? I don't know, but I do know that the results are absolutely amazing to watch.
Right now, all the footage that Robert is shooting is the GREEN SCREEN stuff, because he has to get this stuff shot, so that the effects can be being delivered while he shoots the rest of the movie, the parts that don't require visual effects. So while I was watching 3D being shot, I was mainly seeing just the human elements being captured with bare minimum sets in place.
Watching Daryl Sabara and Ricardo Montalban acting in 3D… well let me explain. When James Cameron was shooting on GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS, he was having to look at a low-res computer image of the 3D results, till he got the tapes up for dual projection. That was the same situation at the beginning of SPY KIDS 3D till they invented a new way of displaying the images which is… well one day there will be a very expensive High Definition Home Version, but for now, all there is is this prototype.
When you watch VIDEO PLAYBACK on most sets, you are watching a rough idea of what you'll see in dailies. Last year when I visited Robert's SPY KIDS 2 set, he was watching his playback on an HD Monitor which looked EXACTLY like what the finished product would look like. Perfect images to analyze. No longer did a director need to look at dailies, his dailies were the real time images he was looking at while directing. Basically what this enabled Robert to do was to make his decisions about which take was THE TAKE as he's shooting, instead of the next day in "Dailies". Just something that makes the process a bit faster.
Well, in the history of 3D filmmaking, the filmmaker has never had playback to observe the performances, or how the 3D is working. Thus when you watch a lot of 3D films, you'll find ghost images all over the place which give you a headache. This is a problem because the convergence of the dual images being captured is not being monitored or observed live while shooting. Essentially, this is like having a blind Focus Puller operating the focal points on your film. As a result, the "sweet spot" that you have for "best 3D" is generally a slide-rule estimation and calculation, as opposed to visual reality.
Well, on SPY KIDS 3D – they have a live 4ft by 3ft Dual High Def 3D Projection Screen that you watch everything on with Polarized glasses on. Hypnotic does not even begin to communicate how striking this is. I mean… WOW. Ok, we've all seen some form of 3D being delivered, but imagine the crystal clarity of a High Def monitor in 3D. That was what every second that the camera was on, was relating to the screen I was watching. So, watching Daryl Sabara and Ricardo Montalban performing was just great… but even better, when Hair and Make-Up and grips and other folks entered the shot between takes… suddenly the depth perception and focus and clarity was optimized. It was a constant wonder to behold. Whatever you may think of SPY KIDS, whether or not it is too juvenile for you… that was irrelevant. What was paramount, was this technology and how amazing it was to watch.
For the first time a filmmaker shooting a 3D movie can see what he's doing, when moving the camera through a shot, he can adjust the "Sweet Spot" through a control, much like the Focus Pulling control, that controls the distance between the two cameras to alter the point of convergence to create a constant and flowing "Sweet Spot". BTW – I wondered out loud if this created a new position called CONVERGENCE PULLER, but in actuality the FOCUS PULLER does his regular job in the right hand, but now his left hand controls Convergence.
As for the scene I was watching, it was basically Juni (Daryl) and Grandpa (Ricardo) coming out of the 'game' and talking to an off camera Donnagan (Mike Judge) about what is happening. There's a very funny line that Ricardo has here, that I will not spoil as it will delight everyone that's a fan of Ricardo's career. However, this wasn't a key scene. After wrapping that, it was a break for lunch, where I joined Robert in his newly created office which is decorated with Inserts for ROCK ALL NIGHT, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, BLADE RUNNER, ROAD WARRIOR and a few others I can't remember. Out one window was the construction of a set, to the other side was a High Def monitor showing what was being prepared on the other set. This way, Robert can always be monitoring what is happening on set, even during breaks. Meanwhile, he was on his Titanium Powerbook getting e-mail via an airport somewhere, that had early effects being delivered from around the world and upstairs.
Robert showed me several animatics regarding Giant Robots, very intense Road Warrior-esque destruction at impossible speeds and some insanity with lava that was just very intense. He also showed me some tests of Ricardo Montalban running, leaping and being a superhero in the film, within the context of the game that was just… really cool. Ricardo is confined to a wheelchair and is constantly in intense pain while working, because of a pair of spinal operations he's gone under in the past two years. But, I'll go more into that later.
Rodriguez also showed me the poster for ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (the O is a silhouette of a scorpion) in which Johnny Depp looks absolutely killer… and Salma and Antonio don't look to shabby either. Then there was the trailer that'll be hitting this summer on SONY films. I'll let you folks judge the trailer when you see it. I expect JoBlo will give it 5 out of 5, and it will cause much droolage in the land of geeks.
Then Robert and I broke for lunch and to meet Stallone.
When I walked out into the lobby of the TROUBLEMAKER STUDIOS, I saw Sylvester Stallone. Frankly I was stunned and shy to start with. To me, born in 1971… I remember watching ROCKY in 1976 at the FOX Theater on Airport Blvd and being blown away by the story of a man that just wanted to go the distance. Hearing Bill Conti's music for the first time. It is one of those films that captured my imagination. I am a ROCKY nut. I used to walk every day to the FOX theater, over a mile from my house, to see ROCKY 3 for over a month. Until I discovered BLADE RUNNER at that same theater, watching Balboa getting his face destroyed by Mr T… well it did it for me. And here he was. Stallone.
He was talking to Rodriguez about his costume. The costume. Frankly, I'm not good enough a writer to describe this thing, but… Ziggy Stardust era David Bowie would've given eyeteeth to possess it. A psychedelic combination of snake/alligator patterns with the textural undercurrent of crushed velvet with an Edwardian stylings of baroque gold lamet ruffles from the cuffs and an undervest… The coat snapped at the top of the chest, with a John Wayne button arrangement… He looked like a friggin superbeing. AB King would've died. This was the finest outfit that I've ever seen Stallone in. Cool did not cover it. Robert was asking about "The Ring" – Stallone wanted the ring in the part as a power symbol, then to demonstrate he took a step back, posed like Hal Jordan and said:
"In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight, let those that worship evil's might, beware my power, Green Lantern's Light!"
Ok, right there. It was at that exact moment that I realized how fucking amazingly cool this day was going to be. I just watched Sylvester Stallone use a ring of power and quote Hal Jordan in full superhero pose. I don't know if you have a clue how cool that was to see. But it was so cool… so impossibly awesome that I just could not believe what I was seeing. That's when he saw me and said, "I recognize this guy," and started to walk towards me. Instantly my brain began to do a bit of that flutter panic thing. Shook his hand, looking at this HUMONGOUS ring he had on. When he backed up to explain to Robert and everyone that he got this ring from Shaq, it was the Laker's Championship Ring, which Shaq gave Stallone, if Stallone promised to put Shaq in one of his movies and fight him. Stallone felt it was a good deal and took the ring.
Robert was discussing Sly's look… at this point I walked over to the table and put my hands on the back of one of the chairs. I was having a momentary panic attack. I had frozen a bit upon meeting Stallone, I was the same way with Mr T and Carl Weathers when I met them. I could not be this way here. I was acting like I was looking at a bunch of props on a table, when Robert says, "Harry, you missed it, last night I was drilling Stallone on Rocky stories and he was just spilling them left and right, you would've loved it!"
I figured this was a good time to say, "Well, damn… That must've been cool." Stallone then starts going into a story about ROCKY II and how the producers threw the script at him and how nobody would touch it so they let him direct it thinking it would be the end of the series. At this point, I ask Sly if he'd sign my ROCKY 2 poster which Father Geek happened to be holding along with a 1955 lobby card set we were going to talk with Ricardo about later. At this point Robert "OK"ed the look, but said Stallone's hair needed to be more white and that the ring was cool. Then left, and Stallone autographed the poster. He then went into ROCKY 6.
It seems that Stallone has taken inspiration from George Foreman with ROCKY 6. George after getting whupped by Spinks just sort of walked away from boxing and gained weight, took up charity work, but then one day discovered that the money had run out for the charity and himself, and nobody would give him a loan, his friends told him that the ships had sailed. And he just didn't have anything anymore. He was an overweight, out of shape, middle aged man of questionable diminished fame. George decided to go back to boxing, mainly small club fights, tiny venues, people calling him a joke, but he was winning, and around that 16th fight, people started to take notice, things began to turn around. Well Stallone wants to basically tell that story, the has-been giving it a run story, but he also has in ROCKY 6 a character that he's heading towards fighting, a new champ, which represents the modern black athlete which is very different from the Apollo Creeds or Alis of yesteryear. That new generation of Athlete with their posses and hanger ons. And what he wants is a DMX or a LL COOL J type to have in there, that has his own reasons for fighting, his own motivations. Not just some icon of evil that he has to defeat, but someone with their own demons and their own reasons to step into that ring.
By the time he was done, I was ready to see ROCKY 6, it definitely sounded more up my alley than ROCKY 5. Hair and make up took Stallone away, and I headed back to set. Dad and I were really stunned by how open Stallone was, and couldn't wait to get talking to him when he returned to set.
There was a bit of shooting with Ricardo solo, nothing particularly big. Just tiny pieces to place in here and there. It was a lot of shooting that wasn't particularly captivating, with lots of stops between shootings, to move the camera, Ricardo, lights, etc. So there was a lot of time here.
I killed it by talking with Vince Pace… Vince was the Director of Photography on GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS and an associate of James Cameron's since ABYSS. He's typically known as an Underwater Expert on shooting, designing camera rigs that work on the bottom of the ocean floor… that type of thing. When Cameron wanted to invent the Holy Grail of Cameras, using Lucas' "Holy Grail" digital camera, he called in Vince Pace, who found the task very interesting. I gave y'all a lot of the information I gathered from this talk up above, but while talking to him, I discovered that James Cameron is very much motivated to use this new technology for his next film. On a fishing expedition, I floated BATTLE ANGEL out there as having the possibilities of being astonishing in 3D, to which Vince smiled. Then deftly side-stepped to say that the problem is this. Jim isn't entirely happy with the projection situation yet. You see, currently they can CAPTURE the images, but the nation's projection capabilities are still in the stone age by comparison.
Most theaters can't do the over and under projection necessary… or the silver screens for best effect. Which means that the next stage is with Digital projection. There's currently one digital projector in existence, I believe he called it a Mirage, though that may be wrong. It is an experimental unit that has a refresh rate fast enough to handle the dual image stream necessary for the perfect clarity. But it isn't ready for distribution yet, and is prohibitively expensive from mass distribution. What Robert is doing with SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER will be a Red and Cyan lens process that due to Digital Cinema, he'll have the ability to create a far better product than has ever been seen in that format. The theaters that can handle the polarization lenses may be getting that as well. Robert showed me tests with the Red and Cyan lenses and it looked fantastic, and I didn't have that headache thing happen, so that was good.
In talking to Vince, I found out that Robert is designing the environments inside the "game" that Juni and Grandpa go into to be the stars of 3D. That way it isn't Juni and the other characters stabbing their fingers into the camera and throwing stuff at the camera, but an image with depth and a foreground. The 3D animatics demonstrated this to quite a dramatic effect. The "Road Warrior" cycle sequence demonstrated motion and depth, the result was really really cool.
Vince really communicated that this isn't reinventing the wheel, but adding an extra layer of cool for those fetishists that love cool technology. To which I agreed greatly. Vince's goal is to be the owner of the first High Def 3D Television system, and as we turned and watched Ricardo dramatically demonstrate this by wheeling from a distance towards us… well, I couldn't help but smile.
I also talked with Sebastian Vega. He's the Focus Puller on SPY KIDS 3D as he was on SPY KIDS 2. However, this time Sebastian and the camera operator, Jimmy "Rack" Lindsey, flew out to Vince Pace's shop back in November for a week of training with the equipment. Sebastian demonstrated his extra duties… i.e.… using the left hand as well as the right. I asked him if it would be better to have two different people working it. One on focus and one on convergence. He told me that it takes a bit of getting used to, but that he has a pretty good hold on it now. There have been a couple of places in shooting where he thinks dividing up the duties might've been superior. But he's been able to handle it through zooms, pans, tilts, tracking shots… the whole gamut of filming.
That's when Stallone arrived on set having come out of hair and make-up… I was just delighted. His final look was cool. He reminded me of Lee Marvin somehow. Stallone's face has aged quite a bit, but he has a new look that just instantly cries to be used in very dramatic fashions. There's a very intense performance waiting to come out of him, something brutal, something Peckinpah-ish. Whoever does it first is going to really reinvent Stallone on camera. I can see it there.
Over the course of the next 6 hours or so, Stallone went from performing with Ricardo Montalban in their SHOWDOWN scene inside the skull of a giant Robot, to talking with me. In all, I spent around 5 hours chatting with Stallone. We weren't doing the interview thing, it was more or less just talking about films, his, others and what not. Politics, personalities, fandom, crazed obsessives, careers, cheesecakes, hotdogs, footsie (ya know that sport of PELE's), crazed world of modern boxing, golfing, raising kids, personal responsibility, Green Lantern, Peter Jackson being robbed, Song of the South, every film he's ever made, Charlie Chaplin, Johnny Weismuller, Sgt Fury, Sgt Rock, Nick Fury, Judge Dredd, CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Ziggy Stardust, being the slave of pre-teen girls you're raising, John Huston, Rocky, Rambo, The Punisher, Farewell My Lovely, McCarthyism and its modern relevance, having your face on underwear, Butt-Numb-A-Thon and on and on and on.
I was shocked how easily the conversation would just keep going, one thing leading to the next. First off, Stallone is very much in tune with where he is right now. He's reached a point in his life and career where he can see the mistakes he's made. He knows he's made a ton of bad movies and has worked with a lot of bad directors and directors that weren't at their best. At this point in his career, he wants to focus on playing character roles and finding not only great material, but making sure that he's working with people who can make that material great on screen. First time and inexperienced directors are seeming to be getting on Sly's nerves because the results of those pairings have not been the best. And he is certainly at a point in his life, where he has 3 very young daughters and doesn't need to be constantly working, he'd rather pick and choose his projects.
Right now, the Arnold/Sly pairing is still nowhere in sight. RAMBO 4 is currently in development hell as CAROLCO wants it, Miramax has it and wants to co-make the film with Carolco, but Carolco doesn't want Miramax's involvement and Bob and Harvey don't want to just let go of the property. So all this stuff about Luc Besson, Renny Harlin and yadda yadda yadda, is yadda yadda yadda.
ROCKY 6 will end up happening at MGM, but other than that Stallone has written a script for Robert Downey Jr regarding Edgar Allan Poe that he's trying to get set up and he's enjoying life. He's doing SPY KIDS 3 because he wants to work with Robert and because his daughters will finally think he's cool, because they are addicted to the first two. In fact, while I was there, Stallone made a 3D DVD greeting to his kids with Carmen and Juni in their POWER SUITS from the set of SPY KIDS 3. It was done in one quick take, made on an IMAC and Fed Ex'ed in matter of about 40 minutes. Stallone was utterly delighted. Running around showing people the instant glossy 8x10 that Alexa and Daryl autographed to his daughters with him in the middle. Yes, he was being a great geek about it. He knows this will delight his kids to no end!
You see, to Sly's kids, he just plays golf. They're all too young to really get Rocky and Rambo and all of that. They have the ROCKY video game, but Stallone apparently sucks at it and can't even beat Spiderico, and apparently breaks his kids' hearts, but he just can't make Rocky swing right. I suggested that he buy a cheater's guide and practice. Can't you just picture Stallone with one of those code books, learning all the tricks and button combinations, practicing for hours, all set to Conti's score only to be unleashed in front of his kids as he beats the tar out of Apollo, Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago, Thunderlips and on and on. It'd be killer! Great lil short film.
As for Stallone's character of the TOY MAKER – it is a schizophrenic character with multiple personalities each of which has a different visual look. Stallone will be playing each of these characters in different costumes, makeup, personalities and voices. It will definitely not be like anything we've seen from Stallone before. In fact today was his first day in character to perform in SPY KIDS 3 at all. The single personification of himself is very intimidating. None of the other villains in the SPY KIDS series have been particularly threatening… But seeing Sly in this costume hitting super-villain stances as he faces down Ricardo Montalban's Grandpa in a wheelchair… You can't help but be threatened. Particularly with these 3D low angle shots of him. He's always being shot up to, while Grandpa is angled down at. The result is intimidating at best.
I will be returning to watch Stallone play some of the other personalities and to pick up my conversations with Stallone.
Today was really Ricardo's day to perform. The dialogue that Ricardo has as he faces down Stallone is more about the personal sacrifices that Ricardo has had to endure due to being placed in a wheelchair for the past 30 years due to Stallone's Toymaker's mistake. Robert was allowing Ricardo to mine his own frustrations and pain in these scenes. Using the truth about his being in constant pain, being stuck in a wheelchair… that anger, that frustration in this showdown. I look forward to seeing the final product when their surroundings are brought in, when the world is falling apart and the music is swelling. It should be a very nice showdown.
Basically that was the day. Discovering with delight this new technology, staring slack jawed at the screen, meeting Stallone and finding out what a great normal guy he can be and watching Ricardo fighting off pain to deliver one helluva performance. A very cool day indeed.
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Feb. 27, 2003, 5:16 p.m. CST
Can you picture Sly doing this?
by Terry_1978
If he can disguise himself so well in this thing that he's totally unrecognizable, he's got better acting chops than we thought.
Feb. 27, 2003, 5:18 p.m. CST
by chuffster
Stallone is finished.Avenging Angelo is going straight to video here in the UK.Still,I bet AB King is shitting his pants over this! Fuck this-Arnold rules!
Feb. 27, 2003, 5:21 p.m. CST
Rocky AND Khan on the same day?
by Silvio Dante
Feb. 27, 2003, 5:57 p.m. CST
by WAVYDAVY
It's FOOTY, not Footsie. For the love of pete. By the way, good luck Man U on Sunday. Give those Bin Dippers a good seeing to!!
Feb. 27, 2003, 5:59 p.m. CST
Huh. I lost interest cause the things SO DAMN LONG!
by T-MACK 1.01
Stick to Spy Kids 3, Harry. For God sakes leave Sly Stallone's Rocky 6 for another seperate article.
Feb. 27, 2003, 5:59 p.m. CST
Hey Harry, can you get the 3d guy to write an article?
by halconmilenario
I find it really interesting all the stuff about the 3D technology, and since there
Feb. 27, 2003, 6:20 p.m. CST
Have Rodriguez direct Stallone in a DC or Marvel film! Robert Ro
by riskebiz
I'd be interested in Rodriguez directing Stallone in a DC or Marvel film! Any well known character would do outside of the ones already done. Stallone as Katar Hol aka "Hawkman" would be awesome! Not really interested in him being the Punisher or Nick Fury or anyone else with a gun. I'd like to see him as a superhero ... like Hawkman.
Feb. 27, 2003, 7:10 p.m. CST
by Stuffedlemur
Mayby it's the cynic in me but this all sounds too good to be true. The technology that is, not Stallone
Feb. 27, 2003, 7:25 p.m. CST
THUMBS UP: 3D Camera article
by mindKMST
Yeah, I have to agree that I would love to read something more in depth on 3d cameras. I'm a nerd at heart. You should pursue that, Harry.
Feb. 27, 2003, 7:36 p.m. CST
You are my idol
by retrocrush
Holy crap, Harry, that's cool as hell! Thanks!
Feb. 27, 2003, 8:08 p.m. CST
by Evil Chicken
Excellent article! My Biznich is the Shiznet! My kids are already drooling for the release.
Feb. 27, 2003, 8:29 p.m. CST
more on the 3D Camera
by m@cleod
Feb. 27, 2003, 9:04 p.m. CST
Rambo IV held hostage!
by BobbyB
What the hell is Mirimax doing with Rambo IV anyway? Come on Harvey and Bob, let's make this fucker. Stallones probably got five good years left, if that. Does anyone know if they already have a script? I can picture the opening credits now: "This film is dedicated in loving memory to Richard Crenna. Then the movie opens with John J. himself at Colonel Trautman's funeral... where the script goes from there I'm going to need to ponder, but it's about Rambo carrying on Trautman's legacy. Which is of course reminding American Men that they still have balls. Holla if ya here me. Bobby B. out--
Feb. 27, 2003, 9:32 p.m. CST
Whenever I think of anything Rocky I just think of that damn pos
by Alcamaeon
I never thought there would be any truth to that parody. Looks like we're heading in that direction. The pushed it with Rocky 4. Got away with it. COMPLETELY RUINED the Rocky "saga" with that shit Rocky 5. Idiotic Don King characters and that white street kid. Now he wants to put in a "gangsta" boxer? Come on already. The Rocky story died with Apollo Creed. Don't ruin it anymore.
Feb. 27, 2003, 9:33 p.m. CST
what's wrong with taking your kids into consideration?
by TenDeuChen
If I remember correctly, Viggo only took the role of Aragorn because his son urged him to do it...and as we all know, he is the perfect Aragorn.
Feb. 27, 2003, 9:36 p.m. CST
Stallone and Spy Kids 3
by Sooma
With all that's happened to Stallone in the past 2 years with films, it's good to see him attach himself to an experienced director and a proof winning franchise. I have waited for years for Sly to play the bad guy and finally he accepts a childrens movie to be his canvas. I think Stallone fans are a little confused of the decision on Spy Kids 3 but it's really a good move right now. I think we all would of prefered a thriller or something but this will do just fine. With Shade right behind it coming, Sly needs his next public appearance to be a strong one, and Spy Kids 3 will provide that. Shade sounds great, but I hope they find a distributer soon. Miramax would be a great pick up for the film. In the end Stallone has ran into some serious bad luck these days but he's got the chops to be doing better stuff. I hope Stallone starts taking smaller more daring roles. He's a better character actor then most people give him credit for. His choices at times seem to get the better of him. Wake up Sly, it's not too late...
Feb. 27, 2003, 10:24 p.m. CST
by KneelBeforeZod
Can somebody please explain why Ricardo Montalban really is confined to a wheelchair? I thought he was just acting for the Spy Kids 2 role, apparently not. Poor guy.
Feb. 27, 2003, 11:30 p.m. CST
Can i PLEASE SEE "ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO" before this COMES
by wadew
that is all.
Feb. 27, 2003, 11:40 p.m. CST
Farewell, My Lovely
by RenoNevada2000
How did a Raymond Chandler novel come up in conversation? Sly's not thinking of playing Marlow is he? That could just very well be a good idea...
Feb. 28, 2003, 12:18 a.m. CST
by exador
I've been a fan of this guy for a long...long time...and to read this report was a real treat. Thanks Harry!.........To see that stallone is going to go the character route is like music to my ears....i absolutely loved him in copland..i thought that was one of the best performances i've seen in years....everyone is going on and on about some actors like harrison and denzel being cast against type, and how great they came off as bad guys...but stallone was the one that pulled that off even better..by being cast as the big softy...the big nice guy that no one thinks has any guts...it was beautiful.....god..to see him again in movies like that would be amazing....oh...and for the record..the footsie comment was about his movie 'Victory' with michael cain and pele (which of course you fellow aicn'rs will allready know..) anyhow...great work harry....
Feb. 28, 2003, 12:24 a.m. CST
Rocky 7 - Rocky finally hits it big and no longer needs to box a
by NicholasWolfwood
The infomercial shows Rocky beat the meat and cooks it in his new Balboa Grill that drains away the fat. You heard it here first folks!
Feb. 28, 2003, 1:27 a.m. CST
Stallone and the TOP directors in Hollywood!
by ABking
Stallone is a VERY smart man saying he only wants to work with the BEST from now on. Tarantino, Spielberg, Cameron ect. should all use Sly in one of their movies. Rodriguez will show us a Sly we have never seen before!
Feb. 28, 2003, 1:40 a.m. CST
Stallone in an M. Night Shyamalan film!!!
by ABking
M. Night should cast Sly as the lead in his next EVENT film. He did wonders for Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson!
Feb. 28, 2003, 1:41 a.m. CST
that footy film with Pel
by Darlef
Damn I love that film....Glory glory Man Utd...
Feb. 28, 2003, 1:41 a.m. CST
They already did Rambo 4 its coming out this march,its just call
by kicker_of_elves
First Posters eat shit and die u fuckers!
Feb. 28, 2003, 3:08 a.m. CST
Stallone as Nick Fury?
by Thunderbuns
Geez I
Feb. 28, 2003, 3:52 a.m. CST
Who the f**k is Man United???
by HillaryLovesMe
On behalf of all true Oasis fans everywhere, who support Man City because Man United is the club of wealthy knobs, I offer the following song, sung to the tune of "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah": "Whooo the f**k is Man Uniiiited? Whoo the f**k is Man Uniiiited?" Repeat ad infinitum. Stay madferit.
Feb. 28, 2003, 4:02 a.m. CST
"McCarthyism's modern relevance"?
by HillaryLovesMe
What the heck is that supposed to mean? There's several ways to go: either liberalism's current trend toward blatant treason, or the alleged persecution of Muslims and Arabs in this country. Could a lib take time to clear this up? I've got some nice anti-schizophrenia meds for ya, to make those nasty conspiracies go all away.
Feb. 28, 2003, 4:09 a.m. CST
Why not make Rocky 6?
by NoOpinion
Whenever talk of Harrison Ford doing another Indy, or Stallone doing another Rocky or Rambo comes up there's always a backlash. People saying they're too old to play those roles anymore etc etc. Well bullshit. The ageing of characters in film, especially beloved characters hasn't been explored that much apart from a few exceptions. Revisiting these characters on film, acknowledging the fact that they are older has a lot of potential for good storytelling. Why should characters need to be perpetually youthful like Bond? One of the best Batman stories is The Dark Knight Returns, an older Batman complete with all the aches and pains that come with age. I for one would happily go and see Rocky 6 or Rambo 4. I think Stallone has the sense to make sure the story is right, and not just repeat what has gone before.
Feb. 28, 2003, 4:59 a.m. CST
by Malchizedik
u realize that ole ricardo, what with his pain and all is well lit with oc's and proably fentanyl lolipops which are really really fun.so i imagine the shoot is going fabulous him!
Feb. 28, 2003, 5:06 a.m. CST
Dammit Harry!!!
by IFartOnYourGrave
Can't you take a digital camera & shoot some behind the scenes photos? You're right about HD. Most people have never really seen it. I work for a post house that has 2 HighDef DS editing systems. Don't let those salesmen fool you at BestBuy when they try & sell you a HD TV. Most people have never seen broadcast HD.
Feb. 28, 2003, 5:07 a.m. CST
Stallone as Nick Fury? . . .
by Steve Rogers
No way. That would stink up the screen so badly it isn't even funny. If you're gonna have Nick Fury in a flick, go for the Ultimate Fury and cast Samuel L. Jackson. You KNOW that would rock. Stallone might have been good as the Punisher fifteen years ago, but now he's too old for this shit. The memory of the big steaming turd he took all over Judge Dredd, one of the best comic book characters there is, should dissuade anyone from putting him another comic book film.
Feb. 28, 2003, 5:53 a.m. CST
I want that Poe script!!!!
by Cash Bailey
I've been hearing about that project for years and as a Poe worshipper I simply must read what Sly has written. Anyone out there with a copy, please send it to me.
Feb. 28, 2003, 8:23 a.m. CST
3D Camera
by Capt.Ahab
i heard a story that Michael Findlay director of "Snuff" and various other low budget schlock had invented a 3D camera back in the other 80's and the prototype was destroyed in the Helicopter crash that killed him. I think it was on top of the Pan Am building that the crash happened. So does anyone else know more details on this or am i the biggest movie trivia nerd in the world.
Feb. 28, 2003, 8:32 a.m. CST
Stallone has already done the Punisher
by holidill
It was called Cobra. Also I think he may be a bit old for Hal Jordan, Maybe Alan Scott? The Golden Age Green Lantern now known as Sentinel. Or just make a Golden-Age JSA movie. Think of all the cool costumes there. Maybe base it on the Golden Age, that Elseworlds Project DC Did a while back.
Feb. 28, 2003, 8:38 a.m. CST
Sly is Frank Castle!
by MiguelAlvarez
I agree about the Punisher idea: he was a Nam vet, so unless Movie Makers want to use another war for his background <Gulf? BORING!> then Sly is the PERFECT age. Younger actors wouldn't cut it, and could'nt have been in The Nam! <If you know what I mean>
Feb. 28, 2003, 9:36 a.m. CST
Stallone's Chops...
by Dorktastik
First off, I had some serious doubts over whether Stallone could act as well. But has anyone seen that episode of SNL he did five or six years ago where he played that geek who used to work in an Orange Julius and now worked in a computer store? It was just awesome. One little bit became my favorite Stallone moment of them all. Not that Rambo, Rocky, Rocky 2...and maybe Demolition Man weren't so bad... And as for Harry going on and on, I don't mind at all. Shit, I read his damn book twice, so...
Feb. 28, 2003, 9:45 a.m. CST
what did we learn today?
by hager
first, this movie will suck it big time. we all know it. let's move on. second, harry doesn't review films of people he is friends with, although he has no problem providing free "hype" (note: this rule doesn't apply to his "brother" who made blade II or the hundreds of other people he claims as friends: QT, josh hartnett, jj abrahms, etc) three, he takes his dad on these trips, which says something, im sure. four, he has no problem having stars sign memorabilia when he is on a "journalistic" assignment. of course, he used to sell memorabilia and might still. which makes one wonder. fifth, moriarty is a superior writer. but we already knew that.
Feb. 28, 2003, 10:53 a.m. CST
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Feb. 28, 2003, 11:55 a.m. CST
Harry, You Fat Bastard!
by AICN Blows
Harry, weren't you the least bit embarrassed meeting Sly when you look like you do? A disgusting, fat mess of a human being. One can only guess what Mr. Stallone thought of your grotesque appearance. You are a big fat hillbilly sloth; who has to grow a disgusting pubic-like beard to cover your numerous chins. You are disturbing to look at. On film, TV, cartoon, whatever...you are the epitome of obesity and laziness. You would think after all the attention you have gotten, you would at try and lose some blubber and take care of your appearance. But no, not you. This site sucks, its a shadow of its former self. Its all about you. No one cares about you, they care about movies, and movie news...which is why people have moved on to better sites for info. Do us all a favor and drop dead already.
Feb. 28, 2003, 12:25 p.m. CST
These fucking TheFacer cartoons suck ass.
by ThaGuru
I can usually enjoy good satire no matter how I feel about the target. But this isnt intelligent, isnt new and just isnt good. Actually, it's so bad that it works against what you're trying to make it do. You just look stupid and make us think that he probably did he have reason enough to ban you. Oh and this 3d camera stuff sounds amazing, but I dont care what anybody says part 3 is definately pushing it a bit. RR should've definately rested the franchise a bit and gained all of his street cred back with ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO before setting off on such an ambitious project that has the potential to backfire on them and ground any future use of such cool technology.
Feb. 28, 2003, 1:47 p.m. CST
Stallone has a screen presence that out does even the best actor
by Philippines
Feb. 28, 2003, 2:06 p.m. CST
I think they should make Rambo IV with Hulk Hogan as Colonel Tra
by Lord Shatner
"He could eat things that would make a billy goat puke, brother"
Feb. 28, 2003, 4:44 p.m. CST
I can understand why Harry loves Stallone so much...
by greetingsearthli
Like Stallone he created something great at the start of his career and has spent every moment since then trying to cash in on it. This article qualifies as a scoop? Give me a fucking break. This is Harry dropping as many names as he can. Get your hand off your cock when you're writing these articles, Harry.
Feb. 28, 2003, 4:57 p.m. CST
"Frankly, I
by kiddae
Biggest understatement ever.
Feb. 28, 2003, 10:01 p.m. CST
by scudworth
good to see stallone getting into a somewhat big movies (I'm not really a fan of SK movies) and this Rocky 6 seems to have potential......
March 1, 2003, 3:04 a.m. CST
hahahhaha. Harry, one part in that article had me laughing my a
by Tall_Boy
March 1, 2003, 4:33 a.m. CST
Nighthawks is one of Stallone's best and it's not mentioned..
by tmifune
Nighthawks is one of Stallone's best films. I just got the dvd and although it's full frame, I'm still captivated by it. Stallone and Billy Dee Williams are the epitome of BadAss Motherfuckers. I'm amazed by how many people have no idea what I'm talking about when I bring it up. Great film, very underrated. Oh and by the way, Victory is a good film, not a great film.
March 1, 2003, 6:22 a.m. CST
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March 1, 2003, 4:33 p.m. CST
Harry, you rock!!!
by Tsunami3G
Incredible article. I wish you could have gone into detail about EVERYTHING you and Stallone talked about for 5 hours. Especially the movie stuff. Keep up the good work. The site is great because of stuff like this. Poolhall Junkies here I come!
March 1, 2003, 5:32 p.m. CST
the facer is fucking lame
by MiltonWaddams
i don't see why anybody would go that far to make fun of someone. god knows how many hours he's taken out of his life to insult someone that doesn't even care. the only people that read that shit are people that hate AICN, so he's just preaching to the converted. what a lame-ass.
March 1, 2003, 11:04 p.m. CST
Go Sly
by FrankCobretti
Stallone was brilliant in Rocky I & II, and he blew me away in Copland, but so much of his stuff has been so bad that his name is no longer enough to get me in the theater. As Samuel L. Jackson proved in XxX, the right actor can kick ass in a small supporting role. Go for quality, Sly, and show us what you're really worth.
March 24, 2003, 7:14 p.m. CST
Stallone is tha bomb
by andies21
I think that Sylvester Stallone is the best thing since ever. I have almost everyone of his movies and I think that he has this thing about him that no one else could touch. He is the most handsom actor of all time.
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On the same rink, where they upset set Wisconsin Rapids, the Panthers will take on a familiar foe for a chance to experience the Magic of March.
West Salem and Onalaska square off Saturday at 4:00 p.m. for a chance to play for a trip to state.
The Panthers and Hilltoppers met once this year, with Onalaska scoring a 2 to 1 win on the road.
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Through many years I wait.
The REMASTERED REISSUE!!! of an album they already own. Record companies are so privy to sell a record nowadays, they'll celebrate the 10th anniversary of any album it seems -- and yes, I will fight you on this, there is NO WAY that Stereophonics' Word Gets Around deserves a 10th Anniversary Edition. Maybe Performance and Cocktails. That's it.
The problem is that it's frustrating to buy an album you already own, but it's also inherently frustrating to know that you now own the "inferior" version of the album. For the few remaster editions I do have, all I can really tell is that they turned the general volume level of the album up a couple clicks. Then they tacked on a bonus disc of demos and outtakes, which, for completists, drives you even crazier, because one - if you're a true completist, you already have most of the demos on bootlegs anyway, but now they've been "touched up" by the record company, so you might not have as much of that annoying ass tape hiss that rests on your CD-R copy, and two - they have ONE demo or outtake that you've never heard before, and now you're essentially buying a two-disc set for ONE F*CKING SONG.
You can tell I've been frustrated by this before, no?
Granted, MP3 blogs have rectified the situation quite a bit - it's now pretty easy just to swipe that ONE track in question now after perusal of the Hype Machine or elbo.ws, but I still haven't entirely made the switch yet to getting all my music online. I'm getting more of it than I ever thought I would, but I still go into Best Buy and spend a good chunk of time in the music aisles... and I still love little indie shops like the B-side here in Madison.
Anyway, I've been burned before by buying the "remaster" edition for that one previously unheard outtake, because 9 times out of 10, you realize why it was an outtake in the first place. But once in awhile those outtakes come along where you scratch your head as to why the songs weren't included or weren't pursued. Obviously the answer is, "To benefit the 10th, 20th and 30th anniversary reissues of the album."
So for May's edition of the Friday Five, we present five of those such gems.
Frank Sinatra - The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
Capitol got into rereleasing all Sinatra's albums in 1998 when someone (was it Capitol?) named Sinatra the "Entertainer of the Century." For whatever reason, they only released "the indispensible" albums, and overlooked the less-popular but just-as-classic albums like No One Cares and Point of No Return. They rectified their mistake in 2002 and put the rest out, and this was tacked on to No One Cares. The fantastic blog Locust St. told the story of this song's exclusion from the original LP just a couple weeks ago: ""The One I Love" was cut from No One Cares for technical reasons. In the early days of stereo LPs, sides had to be short due to the broad groove width needed for "optimum separation of channels." So "The One I Love," though it was the best track on the album, was dumped and forgotten, surfacing at last in 1973, when the Longines Symphonette released a mail-order Sinatra compilation. With the recent CD reissue of No One Cares, the track's finally back where it belonged."
George Harrison - I Live For You
Included in the 2001 "30th Anniversary Edition" of Hari's classic All Things Must Pass, this song is just charming as all hell and hits you like bucket of cold water in its "cleanliness" after listening to the first part of the album's heavy/muddy Phil Spector production. Could be that Spector never got around to getting his hands on this track or that the basic track was laid down and it was decided that it wasn't worth pursuing the wall of sound ornamentation. Either way, it's an absolutely beautiful track and actually made me quite happy I picked up the 30th Anniversary edition of All Things Must Pass, as the 2000 remake of "My Sweet Lord" that was also included was a total let down.
Ian Dury - Something's Going to Happen in the Winter
Fuel 2000 snatched up the distribution rights in the US to remastered versions of Ian Dury's landmark late 1970s and early 1980s albums, all of which included non-LP singles that were released around the time of their respective album and a bonus disc of demos and outtakes. As New Boots and Panties!! had previously been rather difficult to track down in the US on CD prior to this issue (my only version was on LP, and I actually bought that in Madrid, Spain), I was quite happy to see a proper rerelease of the album. This is from the bonus disc, and is obviously left in rough demo form - with only Ian Dury and Chaz Jankel playing the instruments and singing. Their voices don't mesh all that well here - it sounds like Jankel's laying down a falsetto guide vocal, and Ian overdubbed a vocal take just to get timing down, but then it was never pursued. Probably for the best - this might have sounded a tad out of place on Panties!!, but it's still a shame that it never was retried. It's a terribly sweet song. Just listen to lyrics - "So if you want to break your heart, be all I need."
Jeff Buckley - Forget Her
"Forget Her" was the most legendary unreleased track in Buckley's canon. It was supposed to be included on the original version of Grace and Columbia Records even had designs on making it the lead single, but then Buckley recruited Michael Tighe on guitar toward the end of the sessions, they had a jam, "So Real" was born and Jeff said it would replace "Forget Her." The label was pissed, feeling "So Real" wasn't half the song "Forget Her" was, but Jeff stood adamant. Written about a breakup he had recently been through, it's believed Buckley felt the song was just a little too personal to put out, much less as a single to be strewn all over popular radio and MTV. Buckley's mother Mary abstained from releasing the song for years after his death, but when the time came for a Legacy Edition of Grace, well... there was only one track that could justify a bonus disc and it was this. The bonus disc, as it turns out, actually has a host of great stuff, but it's great to hear this in non-bootlegged clean, glorious form. Even though it probably turned Jeff over in his grave.
The Kinks - Lavender Hill
"Lavender Hill" had already made a showing on the "unofficial" bootleg, The Great Lost Kinks Album, but had never seen a proper release on CD, or one authorized by the Kinks themselves. Really strange, considering the quality of the song - it is quintessential Ray Davies at his mid-1960s peak, and it's believed that it might've been tipped to be the follow up single to "Waterloo Sunset." As it turns out, my all time favorite Kinks song, "Autumn Almanac" was finished off instead and won that honor (tells you how incredibly prolific Davies was at the time), and "Lavender Hill" sadly got shelved. It could've easily fit on The Village Green Preservation Society in terms of style and theme, but Davies instead wrote 15 other gems to make up my all time favorite Kinks album. I had the album on LP, CD and import CD (with the 12-track mono edition tacked on), so when Sanctuary released the "Ultimate 3-Disc Version" in 2004, I was peeved to have to buy the album again, but that third album of outtakes is entirely worth it. This is the best moment, but there are several others that are just as good.
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Ceiling Fans
You've come a long way, baby!
Let's be honest, ceiling fans have often posed a dilemma for those who want to be both style-conscious and practical in their homes. With a reputation for being unattractive and unsophisticated, yet highly practical and energy efficient, ceiling fans might be necessary but they don't often get a lot of style points. Don't sweat it, though, because the winds of change have blown in new ceiling fan styles that are worthy of being the focal point of any room.
It all started when…
The first ceiling fans in the U.S. were introduced in the 1860s and ran on a system of running water with a turbine. A few of these are still in use in the southern United States in restaurants and commercial buildings. Then in 1882 the first electric-powered fans were made from motors adapted from Singer sewing machines. By World War I, most ceiling fans were manufactured with four blades instead of the original two. Besides making fans quieter, this change allowed them to circulate more air, thereby making more efficient use of their motors.
By the 1920s, ceiling fans had become commonplace in the United States, and had started to take hold internationally; however, during the Great Depression, ceiling fans were out of vogue in the U.S., and by the end of World War II ceiling fans had become almost non-existent, and remained that way into the 1950s. In the 1960s, some East Asian manufacturers started exporting their ceiling fans to the United States. They caught on slowly at first, and although they lacked style they found great success during the energy crisis of the late 1970s, since ceiling fans consume far less energy than air conditioning units.
The rest is history, as they say, and you can see the entire history of ceiling fans and desk fans at the American Fan Collectors Association Museum. The museum is located at the Fanimation Company's facility in Zionsville, Indiana, and contains more than 450 antique ceiling and desk fans from over 140 manufacturers.
Styles that will blow you away
Today, manufacturers are proving that the sky is the limit when it comes to high style in ceiling fans. The San Francisco ceiling fan by Minka Aire, characterized by the simplicity of its bold, clean lines, was the winner of design awards from the Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and the International Interior Design Association. The Artemis ceiling fan, which is available in nine colors, also makes a striking design statement with graceful and fluid blades that wrap around to form the housing of the fan.
According to the Lumens.com Trend Watch, manufacturers are offering fans that are more versatile, accommodate small spaces, and range from two-bladed styles to modern Asian and beach-inspired designs. Colleen McCracken, director of merchandising for Lumens.com says, "We're seeing a lot of two-bladed fans. They're as efficient as a 4- or 5-bladed fan, and while it might seem that these are a more contemporary structure for a ceiling fan, they come in a lot of different styles." For ultimate flexibility, the Multimax fan from Fanimation can be used with or without a light and easily changed from 2, 3 or 4 blades with reversible sides for a choice of finish.
Fan Museum photo courtesy of Fanimation
Big what?!
For oversized foyers, lofts, conservatories and great rooms, the Isis from Big Ass Fans may be just the right fit. Big Ass Fans is the leading manufacturer of huge ceiling fans for industrial and commercial settings and offers Isis as their residential solution for rooms that need a "serious air moving machine." The Isis is precision built using industrial components, and boasts a circulation rate equivalent to nine standard ceiling fans that can be felt from floor to ceiling and wall to wall, but at a monthly operating cost of less than pennies per day.
Airing it out
Abby Mays, lighting consultant for Central Light in Cincinnati, says the majority of lighting plans for new homes built in Cincinnati include ceiling fans for the great room and master bedroom. She points to Minka Aire's 3-blade Concept fan as one of the top choices by her customers for its transitional look and mid-range price. For those who want a light kit on their fan, Abby offers this reminder: "The Department of Energy has regulated the wattage allowed on light kits to a maximum of 180 watts. This means that even if you decide to push the limit with higher wattage bulbs, light limiters have been placed on the light kits and automatically shut the light off when it exceeds the 180 watt limit. Some manufacturers are now offering fans with fluorescent lights to provide more lumens."
Looking good at last
It appears that ceiling fans not only have a long history, but they are also here to stay. To that end, manufacturers have gone to great lengths to provide consumers with incredible styles that could literally become the artwork that hangs from the ceiling. With options and styles so numerous, the choices in fans could make your head spin.
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25 Oct 1900
American Crotch Oct 25/000000 (1900)
Poor Old Soldier
We the undersigned did receive a letter from Bingham teling about lots of things & of corse I have got to send an answer back.
Mother says for you not to bother your self about the boarding expences She thinks that you might find some family living over there that you are aquainted with from this place
Charlie Roberts has a hotel some where in Bingham. he married Lizie Shelley & proberly there are other familes where you could stay on reasonable terms. But don't attempt to go any where by your self. That is you should be in the house of some respectable Family. You might get a furnished room Some thing like you had where Georgenia lives.
You did not say weather you received your valice. We would like to know.
Mother went to look at the fancy coats this morning. they run from 7 1/2 to twelve dollars any colour you want & the latest style lined with Satin the best quality & mother thinks If you are coming home on Thanks Giving you had better wait & choose your own coat.
Peggy Transtrom hs to give a lecture to the Girls of the School this afternoon to try & teach them better morals & Bro Forbes takes the Boys & gives them a doce of the same medecien.
There has been some thing radiculary wrong going on among the hopefulls. Peggy says she is going to write to you so I expect she will send you the news. There are two of the teachers boarding at Grants their name is Sumtion from Springville & Mrs Evans says that they empty their necessarys out of the front windows on to those who happen to pass that way.
There is not much news here every thing is given up to poltitico the Repubs do fear & tremble.
We are Glad to hear that you are getting along well with your School. don't get out of temper if every thing don't go exactly strait & all will be well.
How many schools are there where you live?
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By Alan Burke
Staff writer
---- — Four months ago Yasmine Saleh went home to Cairo. Now she finds herself in a society tottering on the brink of civil war.
Formerly a postdoctoral intern in counseling and health services at Salem State University, Saleh, 43, is on a yearlong sabbatical in Egypt, anxious to share her professional expertise with fellow Egyptians after living for 10 years in Massachusetts.
Unhappily, it has become a trial and a danger just getting to her graduate students at the American University.
"I have been living my life with a lot of precaution," she wrote this week in response to an email from The Salem News. Everything is planned — where to go, when to go, whom to go with and what route to take.
"On the very long drive to get to my teaching job ... I would plan my day around (the traffic.) So I would leave my house four hours before class to ensure that I would not be late. (I would) be in a locked car with some money and a cell phone. ... In case we are stopped somewhere and the car hijacked (which often happens these days), my plan was to give them the car and all my belongings and find a way back with what I had in my pocket."
With the country's standard of living spiraling downward, Saleh, who has a doctorate in psychology, has conducted therapy by candlelight as power outages came daily. Prices have soared from week to week. Lines grew around gas stations. And she has endured verbal harassment in the streets.
"Nothing you can do about it," Saleh explains. Weapons are everywhere, from switchblades to guns, owners "brandishing them in someone's face over the least offense. ... And no police presence to ensure safety. ... Most people are hypervigilant and anxious and worried about the future. ... They are also angry and frustrated as they watch their lives going from bad to worse. They feel the revolution is being hijacked by some more power-hungry individuals who also undermine and insult their intelligence."
Dissatisfaction with deposed president Mohammed Morsi crossed religious lines, particularly among women.
"The administrative assistant at the clinic where I practice — who, by the way, is veiled and extremely religious — would complain to me daily of how insulted she felt when Mohamed Morsi spoke. She often stated to me that being simple did not make her a simpleton and that she did not appreciate how her religion, Islam, was being seized, used and misinterpreted.
"My cleaning lady would ... rant and rave about how angry she felt about what was being said about the role of women, and thanking God that she had only a son and not a daughter."
Saleh had returned to Egypt with high hopes. "I missed a lot of things about home," she wrote.
In the heady days of the Arab Spring in January 2011, she was working in Salem. "I spent 18 days glued to all sources of media in awe and inspired by what was going on." Until then-president Hosni Mubarak was ousted, however, she also lived in fear for her relatives.
Yet, within a year, the military still in charge, she was impatient with the slow transition to a democracy. She wrote in the Salem News, "Freedom of the press and basic human rights are worse than they were at this time last year." Then, with the election of Morsi in June 2012, she saw "a wonderful chance for change" sabotaged. Though democratically elected, Saleh believes, Morsi's fundamentalist government was not democratic.
"On many occasions, I felt that the rug was being pulled from under those who fought so boldly for the simple and basic human rights: freedom, a decent life, and justice. ... I was so saddened and cried to watch the simplest of rights being denied... rights that we often take for granted in the West, the right to live a life of your own choosing ... to live side by side near those who may be different than you."
The complaint extended beyond Morsi's fundamentalism; Saleh decries his incompetence. Responding to power outages, he suggested "maybe housewives should reduce the amount of laundry they did."
Confusion over just who or what the United States government supports has created a consensus — anger at America. Protesters believe the Obama Administration supports the Muslim Brotherhood and the Brotherhood accuses it of supporting the military coup.
"The bottom line, Saleh writes, "is the negative response to what is viewed as the constant meddling of the U. S. in the affairs of others, all for the sake of supporting the state of Israel."
In the wake of Morsi's ouster, Saleh says, "The army did what it needed to do ... support the will of the people."
Saleh isn't certain how long she will remain in Egypt. "I take things as they come." Much depends on the quality of life, and "if I enjoy my life here and feel that I am doing rewarding work professionally."
She yearns for a better life in Egypt. "I hope that peace will come to this country. ... I would like to see Egypt regain its footing on a path towards true democracy including freedom and justice. ... I would love to see Egypt and Egyptians get all they rightfully deserve in my lifetime."


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The latest election law headlines taken from media outlets across the country during the week of February 3, 2013.
- Maryland - Campaign finance loophole may be plugged (Baltimore Sun)
- Maryland - Md. House panel considers increasing the number of early voting days, voting centers (Washington Post)
- Pennsylvania - Plaintiffs In Pennsylvania Voter ID Case Ask Judge To Extend Block On The Law (CBS Philly)
- Tennessee - Justices hear voter ID case (Clarksville Leaf Chronicle )
- Indiana - Indiana legislature bill would restrict out-of-state college students from voting (Indianapolis Star)
- Florida - Emails raise questions about Fla. redistricting (Miami Herald)
- Georgia - Fulton County disputes vote tampering allegations (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- Maine - Maine panel rejects voter IDs, backs early voting (Portland Press Herald)
- Missouri - Missouri's voter ID bill inspires pushback over 'voter suppression' (Kansas City Star)
- National - Waiting Times at Ballot Boxes Draw Scrutiny (New York Times)
- Montana - House backs GOP in legislative redistricting proposal (Billings Gazette)
- Utah - Vote recount measure passes House committee (Deseret News)
- Florida - Judge rules state can't delay early voting jury trial (Florida Times-Union)
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#Oilers have placed forward Linus Omark on waivers today for the purpose of assignment to the AHL's @OKCBarons.— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) September 24, 2013
Well that was quick.
Omark's recovery has led him to work on leg strength and speed. He also notes that his agent, Patrik Aronsson, has said there are other NHL clubs interested in Omark.
#Oilers have recalled defenceman Bryan Rodney on an emergency basis from the #OKCBarons of the AHL > http://t.co/d8ZYnlOj— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) April 2, 2012
Rodney will be in the lineup tonight against the Kings. Neal says he's "excruciating" to watch.
The Edmonton #Oilers have recalled left-winger Linus Omark from the Oklahoma City Barons of the AHL: http://t.co/fltdHBHS— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) March 5, 2012
An announcement this morning from the Oilers' Twitter feed that Linus Omark has been recalled from Oklahoma City. Omark has played 18 games with the Barons this season recording six goals and ten assists. Omark also spent some time with the Oilers earlier this season but didn't play much, dressing in just five games before being demoted. The timing of this move is interesting for a couple of reasons. First Omark played with the Barons in Peroria, Grand Rapids, and Chicago over the weekend and will now have to fly to Anaheim to meet the Oilers. If he plays tonight and tomorrow that would mean he'd have played five games in five nights, not an ideal situation by any means and not one that Omark is likely to shine in. And secondly, if Omark plays in four or more games with the Oilers he would have to clear waivers to rejoin the Barons for the playoffs. I can't imagine the Oilers would be willing to risk a claim on him so if he stays for any time the Barons will almost certainly be without Omark come playoff time.
The Oilers announced this morning that Taylor Chorney, Teemu Hartikainen, and Magnus Paajarvi have been assigned to the Oklahoma City Barons. With the All-Star break this weekend the Oilers don't play again until next Tuesday, so giving the Barons a roster boost as they get set to host the Houston Aeros and Texas Stars this weekend make a lot of sense.
Also via @OKCBaronsHockey, Green & Hartikainen still en route to join OKC. Absent from today's lineup. #OKCBarons— Neal (@tweetneal) January 8, 2012
Travel issues mean that Hartikainen and Green will not be in the lineup for the Barons today.
Artful Puck has the recap: Tyler Pitlick scored twice and Ryan Martindale once as the Barons shut out the Aeros.
The Cult of Hockey and The Copper and Blue's Bruce McCurdy interviews Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers prior to the Barons - Heat game at the Calgary Saddledome February 18th. Deslauriers comes across as a very serious man, on a career mission. JDD was likely the one player who's development was hurt the most when the Oilers didn't have their own farm team. Next for Deslauriers was battling for backup and starting roles with the Oilers. Currently JDD is backing up Martin Gerber of the Oklahoma City Barons, struggling to find his consistency.
It seems the Oilers are interested in giving prospects and in the system players alike a chance to play a few games in the NHL this year. Most expected the call-up of Teemu Hartikainen to be reflective of potential injuries to Shawn Horcoff, Jean-Francois Jacques and or GIlbert Brule, but the Oilers have assigned Alex Giroux to the Oklahoma City Barons. In his five games with the Oilers, Giroux has had one goal and one assist. Barons' fans will most likely be delited to have a scorer returned for the playoff push after seeing one taken away in Hartikainen.
Jonathan Willis takes a look at the Oilers' management decision to send Jeff Petry down to Oklahoma City and call Taylor Chorney back to the Oilers. Willis speculates that Petry might be the ticket to help the Barons make it from the bubble into a playoff position. Some believe that this is a move that is due to poor performance on Petry's part as of late, and that this move will help Petry find his game and confidence once again. A move that will help the Oilers secure a lottery position and help the Oklahoma Barons make the playoffs seems to be more than a coincidence.
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With school bells ringing again, this September HIRED staff members decided to make the back-to-school season a little brighter for low-income families in the Twin Cities.
Together, they contributed $510 to Keystone Community Services to purchase school supplies and other support services for families in need. The effort is part of the organization's new HIRED Community Gives campaign, in which staff members contribute funds to a different charitable cause each quarter of the year.
Pictured at right with a bounty of school supplies are HIRED Community Gives committee members (front row) Amy Barwick, MayKo Sadler, Carol Aharoni , (back row) Amelia Walicke and Jeff Ambroz. Not pictured is committee member Sara Jelinek. The photo was taken at Keystone's food shelf on University Avenue in St. Paul, where the school supplies are distributed to families with school-age children.


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|Desk Type: Computer desk with armoire
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|Top Finish: Spiced Pine
|Number of Interior Shelves: 5
|FSC Certified: Yes
|Tools Needed: Phillips screwdriver and hammer
|Base Finish: Spiced Pine
|Adjustable Interior Shelving: Yes
|EPP Certified: Yes
|Additional Parts Required: No
|Accent Finish: Spiced Pine
|Soft-Close Cabinets: Yes
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|Top Material: Engineered wood
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|Hardware Material: Metal
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|Stain Resistant: Yes
|Heat Resistant: Yes
|Style: Country
|Design: Rectangular
|Hardware Finish: Wood
|Eco-Friendly: Yes
|Cable Management: Yes
|Keyboard Tray: Yes
|Height Adjustable: No
|Drawers Included: No
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|Cabinets Included: Yes
|Ergonomic Design: No
|Handedness: Both
|Scratch Resistant: Yes
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|Legs Included: No
|Hutch Included: No
|Treadmill Included: No
|Cork Back Panel: No
|CPU Storage: Yes
|Built In Outlet: No
|Built In Surge Protector: No
|Light Included: No
|Modular: No
|Lifestage: Teen-adult
|Application: Armoire desk
|Compatibility: Any item in Sugar Creek Collection Spiced Pine
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|Country of Manufacture: United States
|Weight Capacity: 60 Pounds
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While the "wood" is a little thinner than I would like, overall this is a great product and definitely worth the money spent. It was easy to put together when following the instructions. As others mention I do recommend having two people just so you can help hold the pieces while aligning and screwing the pieces together. It looks great and is the perfect way to hide the cluttered appearance of a desktop computer and all its accessories.
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The storage armoire is easy to put together (better with 2 people) and is definitely a space saver. The door came loose from the trim, but wood glue worked like a charm. Great to be able to hide the mess behind closed doors! Construction is mostly of particle board, but not unexpected given the price.
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Bought this for a computer in the hall at the top of the stairs. It looks great when the doors are closed there is no mess to look at. Great work surface when open too. I love the cord management as this armoir is flush with the wall and all cords are inside. We use a laptop as a tower and it just fits below the printer. Great color and height. It does stand less then 5 feet high even if the picture looks taller and it had to fit against a wall that was only 35 inches wide. Bought on sale so a great price too.
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By Stephanie Springer - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) - It was an exciting day for animal lovers in Lee county. Tuesday officials broke ground on a brand new air-conditioned facility to house the animals.
For years they've lived outside in heat, rain, cold and other extreme weather conditions.
"Each year our animal population we deal with grows by about five percent and consequently several years ago we realized the need. We have established an adoption program that has been very successful we deal with anywhere between 1,400 to 1,600 animals per year," said William Clark, Animal Control Director.
But things are finally looking up for the animals dropped off in Lee County and animal control workers couldn't be happier.
"Where the animals are being housed now are outside holding pins, the cats are in a shed, when it rains, in the heat, in the winter time so its really been a long time coming," said Jackie Grigg, Animal Control Officer.
Animal Control officer Jackie Grigg has been working for Lee County Animal Control for nearly five years, and says donations have helped build this make-shift facility to get them by.
That's why staff is overjoyed to be breaking ground on the first animal control shelter in the county.
"This is a 3,200 square foot facility where we will be able to take care of most of our canine population that we deal with, it will allow us for an adoption area, a holding area with animals that may need to be quantified and also for our feline population there will be an area to accommodates them as well," said Clark.
And the building couldn't come at a better time.
"Here lately there have been a lot of animals left behind a lot of people turning in stray dogs that they found where people probably just threw them out because people couldn't feed them so we bring up to the shelter," said Grigg.
70,000 thousand dollars in private donations for the project plus SPLOST funding will help build phase one of the project. But animal control officials still need more help to make this project to become a reality.
The first phase of the project, includes the concrete pad, rough plumbing and outer shell which should take 3 to 4 months to complete. But it depends on when they can get enough donations to finish constructing the remainder of the building. This includes the electrical system, windows, septic tanks along with all the cages and equipment needed for the animals.
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As it does every year around this time, the Izzone held its annual Izzone Campout on Munn Field. It happened Friday night, and the raucous Michigan State basketball student section got to hear from head coach Tom Izzo, meet the 2013 Spartans and, of course, camp out with their fellow sections. This year's event yielded an incredible photo, too. Check it out in this post.
Best photo of last night's Izzone Campout that I've seen. Awesome. http://t.co/1XBU1Zyg7z—
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UTI Banking Sector Fund declares 25%
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UTI Mutual Fund targets 20 pc growth
Promoters' associate co offloads 16% in S Kumar's Nationwide
CHAMUNDESHWARI Trading and Finance, a big shareholder in S Kumar's Nationwide, has sold more than 16 per cent in the company in the open market this month. Most of these shares were bought by HSBC. Mr Nitin Kasliwal, Managing Director of S ... More
Bears prevail
BEAR domination during the Monday's trading turned the sentiment reading in its favour. Bull move on Tuesday has the opportunity to turn the sentiment reading to bullish. On the other hand, the prevailing sentiment reading is likely to be ... More
SEBI notifies on SEs' corporatisation
NOW that the BSE has completed its corporatisation and demutualisation exercise, the Securities and Exchange Board of India has passed the notification for the corporatisation and demutualisation of 10 regional stock exchanges. The ... More
Real estate move keeps it up
WITH markets sentiment highly hinged on real estate prospects of companies, news of land development or sale are welcomed with big moves in stock prices. One such announcement that propelled the stock to its 52-week high on Monday is that of ... More
Edelweiss pools $35 m for pvt equity investments
EDELWEISS Capital Ltd has collected $ 35 million (Rs 155 crore) from overseas investors (mostly institutional). The newly-created private equity fund will invest in Indian stocks. This is the first tranche of the fund, which is expected to ... More
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Small-cap stocks shine amid weak condition
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I never knew about this gallery before a few days ago, it's in the Guardian building at Kings Cross, There are a few rooms with different exhibitions in. These were a few of… Continue reading
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These are a few of my collection of final knits to go along with the taxidermy project. I mixed up lots of techniques using both hand and machine knitting. I really like the… Continue reading
This project was for Knitwear and had to be designed for a specific season. I looked at trend predictions for Autumn/Winter 2010, trends were; knit with large holes, layers, organic colours with natural… Continue reading
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This was my first project at London College of Fashion, it was a Print project called 'botanical stripe'. I thought it was a hard brief because the theme was so obvious and… Continue reading
For my final major project at Bournemouth Arts Institute I designed around the theme of Football Hooliganism, I was interested in this because it's not really something you see anything about in the… Continue reading
These are the final designs for a project I did looking at the contrast between manmade and natural changes to the environment around us. I experimented using wrappers, tins and wire to make… Continue reading
These are my attempts at photography on my Art Foundation, the project was just to concentrate on colour. I really like how the images turned out, they look pretty retro!
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A six week long fund raising effort for tsunami victims came to a close Tuesday, February 15th. Up to that date, the total for the "From Lubbock With Love" campaign stood at just more than $900,000. Tuesday night's benefit concert at the was the last major event raising money for the victims.
More than 400 tickets were sold and sales from the concert will be added to the total, which will contribute to the original goal of one million dollars. But campaign heads estimated they'll still hit the mark.
"I think with anyone when you hear that at the first press conference your first thought is oh my goodness, that's such a huge amount," said American State Bank Marketing Director and Project Organizer, Kay Miller.
|From Lubbock With Love Tsunami Campaign
On January 1st, the goal was announced. "From Lubbock With Love" would raise $1,000,000 for Breedlove Dehydrated Foods, the local Salvation Army and Red Cross. A seemingly lofty goal for a tragedy that happened halfway around the world.
"So many different partners have stepped up and have been donating their time and services. It's just been amazing to watch it grown and see how so many people in West Texas have found some way to give," added Miller.
Throughout the campaign, donations could be made at the checkout lanes at United Supermarkets.
"People can donate very easily when you shop at United or Market Street locations, just by adding $1, $5, $10 or $100 on to your tape total," said United Supermarkets Marketing Director, Renee Underwood in January when the effort began.
NewsChannel 11's "From Lubbock With Love" telethon helped raise more than$ 130,000 at the beginning of the effort. As the Valentine's Day deadline grew closer, the community still found a way to give.
Telethon Raises $136,000 for Tsunami Victims
"The effort has not fallen off. I mean it's been continual the entire time for people to come up with creative ways to raise money," said Miller.
Students from Lubbock ISD threw in nearly $38,000. Other fund raising efforts were smaller, but every little bit really does count.
"Without the people of West Texas really opening their heart to this, obviously that goal would've just been a number," said Miller.
After the final fund raising amount is tallied, the money will be distributed to Breedlove, the Red Cross and the Salvation Army.
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Meet the 'Real Abraham Lincoln' in Person on February 9 in Sandy Springs
Preeminent Abraham Lincoln actor, playwright and scholar, Dr. Gene Griessman will present "The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln" at Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Sandy Springs, GA on Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
Sandy Springs, GA- Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation is bringing one of the world's preeminent Abraham Lincoln actors, playwrights and scholars to Sandy Springs for a special President's Day Celebration appearance on Sunday, February 9th at 7:00 pm.
Internationally known Lincoln scholar and actor, Dr. Gene Griessman, will appear in costume as the 16th President delivering the presentation, "The Wit & Wisdom of Abe Lincoln." "It will be like having the real Abraham Lincoln in person," said Beryl Grall, the organizer of this event. "President Lincoln never visited Sandy Springs; bringing him here to share his knowledge 150 years later doesn't seem like a moment too soon."
The wit, humor and eloquence of the 16th President are brought to life by Griessman's remarkable performance and uncanny resemblance to Lincoln. His stirring portrayal of Lincoln will take us back to the Gettysburg address and moments before his assassination at Ford's Theatre. Through Lincoln's wisdom and wit, Griessman will share the secrets Lincoln learned for dealing with the challenges we face in our everyday lives including: leadership, communication and personal achievement. He will offer some unforgettable lessons from one of the greatest figures of all time in this once in a lifetime opportunity.
"Entertaining our visitors in a meaningful way is a strong tradition at Northwest," said Beryl Grall. "Sharing Lincoln's special and timely message on leadership in times that demand leadership - who better than Abe to teach us about handling the pressing issues of today," she said.
LOCATION: Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 1025 Mt. Vernon HWY NW, Sandy Springs, GA 30327
TIME/DATE: February 9, 2014; VIP Reception 6:00 pm; Performance 7:00 pm.
TICKETS: http://NWUUC-ABE.brownpapertickets.com $50 general admission; $75 VIP reception, reserved seats & DVD & souveneir book.
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ghI3ZPMP8
Dr. Gene Griessman is an internationally known public speaker, author, actor and consultant. He has spoken at conventions and annual meetings worldwide. As an actor and playwright, he has performed his one-man play on Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre and before large audiences at the Georgia Dome and the Ice Palace. He's conducted exclusive interviews with US Presidents, famous actors, sports figures, business leaders and Nobel Laureates. Griessman is the author of numerous books and articles on famous high achievers.
Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation is a liberal religious community that draws its heritage from many sources and its energy from the commitment and diversity of its members. We delight in the variety of individual spiritual journeys we share with each other. We truly welcome people of all theologies, ages, races, abilities, heritage, and sexual orientation to join our vibrant community for worship and spiritual growth.
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