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SPL clubs pursue plan for two divisions of 12 teams
Scottish Premier League clubs have unanimously agreed to pursue their plan to expand the top flight to two divisions of 12 teams.
Chief executive Neil Doncaster says the present 12 clubs were united at their meeting at Hampden Park.
They will now propose what they describe as their 24-18 model to the Scottish Football League and Scottish Football Association on Thursday.
The 18 refers to the remaining SFL clubs not included in the top leagues.
Neil Doncaster SPL chief executive"What we aim to have is a consensus model that cares for all of Scottish football"
Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson's resignation from the SPL board last week had placed some doubt on the ability of the 12 clubs to produce a consensus.
However, after a three-hour meeting at Hampden, Doncaster emerged to say that agreement had been reached with a plan that would result in the two leagues splitting into three leagues of eight midway through the season.
"I'm delighted to say that we have unanimously agreement in principle from the 12 SPL clubs to the 24-18 team model," Doncaster told BBC Scotland.
"We are looking forward to sitting down with the Scottish Football League and the Scottish FA to talk about the details.
"What we aim to have is a consensus model that cares for all of Scottish football and that's got to be objective."
The SFL's 30 clubs had previously voted in support of its proposal for leagues of 16, 10 and 16.
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The SPL would invite clubs to enter the league, determined by their league positions prior to the start of any re-organised season.
It hopes that this would head off criticism from those who might argue that re-organisation is being used as a vehicle to accelerate Rangers' return to the top division.
Rangers, now controlled by Charles Green's consortium after the old organisation went into liquidation, are playing in Division Three.
Doncaster did not wish to go into detail about what was on offer for the SFL clubs and the mechanics of any change.
"I think it's important to show those teams the respect they deserve and talk to them first," he said.
"There was no formal vote today, but every club gave an informal indication of where they were and, on the back of that, we got 12 clubs unanimously agreeing to this on an in principle basis.
"Unanimity among SPL clubs has sometimes been difficult to achieve when talking about reconstruction.
"We are in a position where we have that unanimous in principle agreement from the 12 clubs about their preferred way forward.
"We now have the opportunity to sit down with the rest of Scottish football, with the remaining 18 Scottish Football League clubs, in fact all the Scottish Football League clubs, with the Scottish FA and how we might try to agree a package that works for everyone for the benefit of Scottish football.
"We understand that there needs to be a lot of redistribution from the biggest clubs and that is something the clubs in principle bought into today."
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5th December 2012 - 7:52Fans need to make their chairmen know that they will vote with their feet and start to boycott games if they don't change their position.
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5th December 2012 - 1:02@340 im a rangers fan (by ur uname im guessing ur a celtic man) i agree with you, question. would you rather have 2 OF's a season or 4? i think 2 is better for every club in the top tier, 18teams 34 games, split the money evenly, clubs can become more competitive, This two tier idea is a ridiculous idea
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4th December 2012 - 23:08If I am not mistaken it is purely the owners and chairmen of the SPL clubs that want this 12/12 setup. Fans of all clubs are surely in favour of the 16 club top tier.
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4th December 2012 - 22:33Totally. But wouldn't you prefer to shout at more teams supporters twice a year than the usual rabble's, 3 or 4 times a season? The game up here is having the heart ripped out of it by bureaucracy and rascalism. It works well down in England. They can afford the spin. We can't even afford the pot to do it in these days.
Comment number 338.
4th December 2012 - 22:22@337 well said. Still I prefer to stand in the terraces next to a guy that looks like he just got outta jail and shout 'generic football comment' at the top of my lungs, so what do I know?
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Anyone who's experienced a loved one — whether a family member or friend — who has schizophrenia knows it is often an unpredictable and sometimes-scary relationship. Scary because you're never quite sure what's coming next, or how a particular hallucination might manifest itself in the person's behavior or decisions.
But schizophrenia, like all mental illness, can also be a teacher. Albeit often a hard one.
Dr. Anne Aspler, writing in the Globe and Mail earlier this week, recounts her experiences in what she's learned in growing up with a mother who suffers from schizophrenia, and the fear she lived in during her early adulthood that she, too, might suffer from this disorder.
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Because people with mental illness are not "them…" is a phrase I wish I would not see, like "Jews are not them," "Blacks are not them."
The negated negative, "them," is -imposed- through the technique. It is very effective.
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I think he was not trying to say mental illness isn't in the category of "them. He was saying there is no "them" in mental illness, we are all part of the human experience, which implies there is not a "them". It's all us.
My schizophrenic mother was very different. She was very open about wishing she'd never had me and I don't recall her ever touching me. Most of the time she stayed in her bedroom talking to herself. Fortunately my father was warm and loving but he was out of town on business a great deal of time. When I was 11 it was decided that I should live with my grandmother and aunt in another state, which gave me the foster care experience to deal with.
My childhood was horrific.
My childhood was equally terrifying. The only way to keep my mother from destroying me was to agree with everything she said and do whatever she told me, no matter how bizarre it was. She perceived any disagreement as a threat to her existence and responded accordingly. At times, even obedience wasn't enough. She accused me of things I couldn't even have imagined doing and did her best to convince me I was a worthless piece of crap. She also lied about my relatives in order to keep me from going to them for help. And finally, when I was a middle aged woman, lied to my future daughter-in-law about how ugly and violent I was toward her as a teenager (when, in fact I was terrified of her and did everything I could to keep out of her way.) She died six years ago. If I cried, it was only because she never did understand what she had done to me.
I found this article hard to relate to, and a pretty rosy picture of growing up around mental illness.
What I learned from my schizophrenic dad was:
How to be wary of people and not trust their motives, from both how unpredictable he was, and how he told us everyone was out to get us and we couldn't talk to them any more.
How to over-analyse all interpersonal situations because I was always looking for some kind of clue to what might happen next.
How to provoke rage, as it was the only predictable course of action, as anger when you know its coming is much better that when you are trying to be nice.
How to close off from people emotionally to avoid being hurt and manipulated daily.
How to lie and talk my way around the situation because of the intense stigma and shame.
So yeah, thanks dad.
I read both your blog and Dr. Aspler's essay with great interest. My e-novel, Playing the Genetic Lottery is about a woman who grew up with two schizophrenic parents. Along with trying to educate people about the illness, the main point I tried to convey in my novel was that schizophrenics are real people, with families that love them. People worth knowing and respecting, not feared because they had the horrible luck to come down with a disease.
A good reminder that we,each and every one of us, have our issues. My son suffered from severe OCD and I see that as no different than if he had asthma or diabetes…….it's just the luck (or lack thereof) of the draw as to what illnesses and challenges we may face.
It's complicated….as someone with depression, which even the psychiatrists I've seen avoided writing because of possible stigma, I realize that there really is no normal, no us and them. BUT I've met schizophrenic women who were able to parent their children "acceptably," but others who were completely unable to discern their child's needs – as separate from their own – or to empathize. There's a spectrum, but it's important that no one romanticize or minimize the problems of parenting while seriously mentally ill – especially as they impact the child. A child needs someone who can create stability and give love consistently – especially when the seriously ill person cannot. That, too, is on a spectrum – and many of us might have been on the short end – but if very young children/infants do not get closeness and caring, they are being deprived of a future.
Personally, I look at this post from the other angle.
I was diagnosed with bipolar type 1 back in 1982. At that stage I had a wife who was adversely affected by my disorder. I had some very extreme bipolar episodes. The marriage ended shortly after one of these.
About seven years ago I remarried. My new wife is very caring and understanding of the disorder. I have not had an episode since my remarriage.
Friends and loved ones do have a very big part in looking after anyone with a mental disorder.
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tntssvt Posts: 2OK I HAVE THIS EXACT SAME COLOR AND EVERYTHING. I HAVE ALOT OF PROBLEMS. WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE IS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THEIR DOOR HANDLES. MY DRIVER DOOR LATCH BROKE FROM THE INSIDE AND THE PASSENGER ONE IS VERY HARD TO OPEN. ANOTHER IS THE SUNROOF WONT CLOSE RIGHT. 3RD MY BUTTON TO OPEN BACK HATCH WON'T WORK, NOW TO TOP IT OFF MY WINDOW BROKE. THE BRACKETS AND CABLE THAT HOLD IT BROKE.. ANYONE ELSE HAVING ANY OF THESE PROBLEMS OR KNOW IF ANYTHING HAS BEEN RECALLED? THANKS
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ellsworth1775 Posts: 1My buddy has a Ford Focus SVT (dual overhead cam vin starts with five, year falls between 2000 to 2007) and his transmission is stuck in third but the shifter itself is stuck in fourth. He says that on his way to work this morning that he went to shift from third to fourth and his vehicle remained in third while the shifter went to fourth and would not come out. It also will start in third. Have a Haynes manual and this problem is a little too specific for it or maybe I'm just overlooking the problem. Any help would be appreciated.


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Merry Christmas to you Chicago and to all the kind folks who've shared a bit of wisdom in the Local Search Forum.
Have a great festive season and I'll see you all in 'the year of local search'
If I had to put a label on LS in 2005 it was the formal start to the convergence of utility, data, mediums, and the all important user adoption. ( though many of us started the race long before the gunshot went off )
I enjoy the discussion - regardless of the year.
now I�m going to test local search and do some last minute shopping. Oh how I yearn for the days of ubiquitous data dissemination. :)
Happy Holidays all
2005: the serious marketplace buzz begins, the early push is on, this is real, this is happening now, first mover advantage thinking/action plan sets in deeply, it IS real, companies ARE doing it
2006: the selling of local becomes serious as the land grab mentality takes hold, the buzz starts to work it's way down to (prospective) endusers, endusers are still in a show me state of mind - but not all of them, Barry Diller in discussions to buy TrueLocal and Jake contemplates learning how to fly a private jet
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by dmytroRe bolts in space: wouldn't the composition of the bolt and the threaded material, esp. if titanium or aluminum not make a difference, in that these can "meld" with time?
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by barberouxI heard the astronaut, John Grunsfeld, discuss the stuck fastener that got stripped while trying to remove it. The problem as stated was that the first three fasteners were removed with no trouble but the last fastener required much more torque to remove. That last fastener was hard to remove because the preload on that fastener was much higher since the other fasteners being removed loaded up the last fastener. The same thing happens with lug nuts where the last lug nut is the tightest to remove. The solution is to reinstall and tighten the other fasteners then remove the stuck one. When removing the fasteners you untighten each fastener a small amount to avoid overloading the last fastener. Cylinder head fasteners are often tightened in a strict sequence where each fastener is torqued to only a percentage of the final torque value to avoid warping the head. Those fasteners should be removed the same way, in sequence, untorquing them a little at a time. I am perfectly willing to go up in the shuttle and help in removing recalcitrant bolts.
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Creation cannot explain away its creator, it merely tells part of the story of him. The danger comes when we only need God for what we don't know, and, conversely, we don't need him in what we do know.
We need safe places in which to raise the complex issues of submitting wholeheartedly to the authority of God's Word in the Scriptures while wrestling with the important findings and perspectives in the natural sciences.
By getting rid of the miracle stories in the Bible, Bultmann and his followers hoped to make the Christian story more palatable to modern man. Although I recognize the emotional weight of this sentiment, I am not convinced that it is an intellectually coherent approach, mainly for reasons of self-consistency.
I began to imagine God taking delight in watching the universe slowly unfold and grow, much like my wife and I delight in the slow transformation of seeds into a bountiful harvest.
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All creation is the doings of God's hands, no matter how he did it. When I look at a painting, I can connect somehow with the painter, and the same goes with the universe and God.
Origins has given us a lot to think about, namely that there are indeed several "Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and ID", as the title states. Genuine believers have thought deeply and carefully about the various kinds of evidence and have come to differing conclusions.
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9 Date Night Style Commandments
7. Thou shall ditch the Bridget Jones underwear. It's time to start a revolution: let's stop sweating through dinner in "slimming" underwear made of-god-knows-what hiked up to our chests. Anyone who's donned such an undergarment knows it's not exactly easy to making sparkling date conversation with giant rubber underwear slowly suffocating you to death. (Confession: this writer started her own revolution in the middle of a date, so uncomfortable that she had to sneak off to the bathroom to peel off and throw out her giant underwear.)
8. Thou shall graciously accept his compliments. Practice saying "thank you" in front of a mirror if you must, because there's no worse response to a compliment—from anyone—than an argument. So bite your tongue next time you feel the words "Really? You think so?"/"I think it makes me look fat" start to come out of your mouth. Just admit it: you look fantastic.
Whether you're about to embark on your first or fortieth date night, there are 9 style commandments we suggest you follow. After all, relationships are complicated enough without throwing Bridget Jones-style underwear into the mix, right? Read on, because a happy, sexy date night starts with choosing a style that reflects a sexy, confident you.
1. Thou shalt not choose date night to break in new pumps. The moon is bright, the air is cool, you're walking hand in hand... and then you're hobbling down the street, death-gripping his arm, whining that your feet hurt. This date fashion commandment is here because we've lived it and learned it... more than once. If you haven't yet broken in a new pair of heels, or know for a fact that a pair you have gets uncomfortable about 15 minutes into wear, spare him and yourself, and choose a pair that's cute and comfortable.
2. Thou shalt listen to your mother: don't hide your pretty face! Natural makeup is in this season... and for good reason: it looks better! We love a smoky eye as much as the next girl, but we're not surprised guys don't dig makeup overload. Raccoon eyes make it hard to gaze into your eyes without being assaulted by black liner, and goopy gloss layered over bright lipstick doesn't exactly invite a kiss (think about it: would you want to kiss you? If the answer is no, remove a layer of lip goo.) 5 Steps To The Natural Makeup Look That Guys Love
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Ok you would think I would have a clue what this is, but I am stumped. I have been running to the bathroom for #1 literally non-stop since about 8pm last night. I go and then when I am done I feel like I have to go again!!
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Description of Circle DJ RanchCIRCLE DJ RANCH PARCEL - 120 Acre Parcel. Spectacular 120 acre ranch at the base of 14,300 Mt. Blanca. This parcel, located in Alamosa, Colorado, is part of the Circle DJ Ranch in the San Luis Valley, nestled between the Sangre de Cristo Mountain range to the East, the San Juan Mountains to the West, and the La Garitas Mountains to the North. The parcel is 1/4 mile wide by 3/4 mile long, and is fenced on the North side. The North and West sides are BLM land, and the South and East are part of the Circle DJ Ranch. This is a rare chance to own a large parcel in an established area with road access and all utilities already in place. The Circle DJ Ranch is a 2,200 acre family owned estate just a 13 mile drive North and East of the City of Alamosa, which is the County seat. It is approximately 120 miles West of Pueblo, Colorado, 145 miles East of Durango, Colorado, and 90 miles North of Taos, New Mexico. The topography of the parcel ranges from level to slightly rolling pasture from North to South, with some rolling foothill terrain, and moderate grass cover. The average elevation of the ranch is approximately 7,500. Domestic water supply is by well, with private septics for sewage disposal. Power, telephone and internet services are all on site. The climate in the Valley is dry, with an average of 330 days of sunshine, 6-8 of rainfall, and 30 of snowfall annually. |
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Homma established his dojo, Nippon Kan, in Denver's Golden Triangle in 1978. He wanted to create a martial-arts school that focused on traditional Aikido instruction. Twenty-seven years later, that school has expanded to a compound located on Osage Street, one that includes not only the largest Aikido school in the Rocky Mountains, but also a cultural museum and Domo, a Japanese restaurant that's ranked as one of the best in the country by Zagat. Homma is known as a philanthropist as well as a chef and sensei; then-mayor Wellington Webb declared June 27, 1996, "Gaku Homma Day," in recognition of his humanitarian work. He's written five books on the subjects of Japanese country cuisine and Aikido.
"It's all been sort of an accident," Homma says in heavily accented English that even his students take years to fully understand. He wears a gray kimono and wooden sandals as he sips green tea in his Japanese garden, complete with a pond holding six-year-old red koi and manicured trees that he tends to personally. It is a place of peace, marred only by the occasional train passing by on the nearby tracks.
Aikido remains Homma's first love. In keeping with tradition, Nippon Kan offers a program that lets students train there as uchideshi. Over the past 25 years, hundreds of people from around the world have come to Denver to live and work with Homma.
Even in Japan, living at a martial-arts school is a rare experience. Many students who apply to be uchideshi have no real idea of what they will experience. "Everybody go to martial-arts school to be uchideshi, thinking maybe they go there, they're going to bow and hit gong. That's a movie," Homma says. He points his finger up toward the clear blue sky. "Uchideshi training does not go to this way. It's down to ground. How to standing to ground, and where we standing now here. So actually, very simple life."
A successful uchideshi keeps his expectations close to the ground. "I didn't come here expecting I'd learn how to kick everybody's ass or throw a person with my mind," says Jason Austad, who arrived at Nippon Kan this winter. "I knew it would be mentally demanding. I knew I would be in service to the dojo and the sensei."
He started his Aikido training at a dojo in California, then moved to Bismarck, North Dakota. The nearest dojo was a hundred miles away, in Fargo, so he tried to keep up his moves by himself and occasionally with other martial artists he met, but it was difficult. "It takes people to train in Aikido," he says. "You can't do it by yourself."
He read Aikido magazines and websites, which is how he learned about the three-month-long uchideshi program at Nippon Kan. Austad had friends in Denver, so when he came out to ski, he visited the dojo and paid a mat fee to train there for a few practices. "I was very impressed with everybody's Aikido and the other members who come here," he says. "They were so nice and so helpful. I just kept coming back."
He wanted to sign up to be an uchideshi, but he was too old. "They had a different age limit, so I wasn't able to be accepted," he remembers. Then, last year, he found out that the maximum age requirement had been changed to 35. Just under the bar, he applied immediately, attaching the required resumé detailing his education level, career goals and experience in Aikido -- although Aikido proficiency is the least-important factor when Homma selects who gets into the program. People come to Nippon Kan knowing no Aikido and still are admitted.
Nippon Kan has accommodations for ten uchideshi at a time. The rooms they live in are painted light blue, with a small window, a single bed and a rosewood dresser. A three-month stay costs $900, which covers the room, the instruction and two meals a day from Domo's kitchen. The fee is not refundable if an uchideshi decides to leave the program early, and many do. Only 30 percent of the people who start out as uchideshi make it to the end of the three months; one candidate quit after only two hours.
"We are not military base," Homma says. "No punish. Main policy is, welcome to anybody, but also, if you want to go, we not stop you."
When he didn't hear back from Nippon Kan for two months, Austad traveled to Denver to inquire about the status of his application. Finally, he was accepted into the program.
Two other uchideshi, a man and a woman, were in residence. The woman finished the program before he could get to know her; the man left after a week and a half. And other students didn't give him a particularly warm reception. "At first, people were distant or didn't say anything," Austad says. "I'm sure that they see many people go through the dojo and they don't last, so what's the point of investing time into someone who doesn't stay?"
In his book Aikido Sketch Diary: 365 Days, Homma offers a detailed description of uchideshi training. When a candidate arrives, he is told the dojo's practice times and little else. It is up to him to find his way around the dojo and things to occupy his time. This period is known as "hochi," and it tests the candidate's initiative. Though his contact with the staff is limited at this point, the dojo's senior students, the sempai, constantly observe his actions.


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text: News Daphne Guinness' Music Video Debut 10 June 2013 Sarah Karmali SHOWstudio: Fatal Flaw - Daphne Guinness / Nick Knight / Marie Schuller / Patrick DonneSHOWstudio DAPHNE GUINNESS has unveiled her debut music video. The heiress collaborated with SHOWstudio on the film for her first single, Fatal Flaw. The surreal, somewhat psychedelic, video was directed by photographer Nick Knight and edited by filmmaker Marie Schuller."This song came from broken bonds, fragmented dreams," said Guinness. "In part, it's about the sheer randomness of love and its illusionary effect."The heiress has also played muse to another SHOWStudio project - a showcase of the work of Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen. A dress sculpted from plastic forms the centrepiece of the exhibition, inspired by a splash of water as it hit Guinness, which was recorded on high-speed camera by Knight."Iris van Herpen's SHOWcabinet presents a world where time dissolves and disciplines intertwine," reads a release. "Van Herpen's collaborative approach to her couture has resulted in collections that defy categorisation. In her work, fashion, science, art and technology are not separate objects, but flow from a single source."Accompanying the water dress and other pieces from van Herpen are a series of other artworks which also find their inspiration in natural wonders - including pieces from Philip Treacy, Jordan Askill and Nick Knight. Click through the gallery for a preview of the SHOWcabinet installation, which is open to the public until July 19 at the SHOWstudio gallery space at 19 Motcomb St - open Monday to Friday from 11am to 6pm.Download Guinness' single at showstudio.com from June 20.


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My honeysuckle is going crazy, is there a way to seperate it?
I trimed it back in the fall, but it's still a bit huge. What can I do?
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I heard if you take a branch off the honeysuckle shrub and put it in water, it will root. Any idea how long it takes before it gets roots? |
When I lived in Maryland, we had a lovely honeysuckle bush by our front door. At least I think it was a bush. The flowers were always only white. I never remember having any yellow, let alone reddish, flowers like I see in the catalogs. Would that have been the same kind that grows here? I'd love to have one now. |
I don't think it's any special kind - the flowers are red on the outside (from what I can rememeber of them, they're not blooming yet). You are welcome to some - if I can figure out how to keep a trimming alive or divide it some how that is <: |
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Why 'Heaven's Gate' Deserves the Second Chance that Criterion Didn't Give It
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on November 28, 2012 | Comments (5)Sometimes the greater cinematic spectacle ends up not being the film itself, but the ability to watch the film crash and burn. And Hollywood history has arguably seen no greater spectacle of failure than Michael Cimino's epic anti-western, Heaven's Gate. Credited as the film that destroyed United Artists, the bloated-for-its-time production has come to represent for some the last hurrah for a New Hollywood whose challenging artistic visionaries eventually stumbled over their own escalating egos. But decades after the hype, damage, and demonization of the film faded away, audiences can finally see Heaven's Gate's depiction of the Johnson County War for what it really is: a gorgeously realized, largely misunderstood, admittedly far from perfect but heavily underrated film. The Criterion Collection's addition of Heaven's Gate is a significant step in complicating the story of the film's overwhelmingly bad reputation. But unfortunately Criterion's DVD and Blu-ray packages make for a strange release that doesn't go far enough in recontextualizing a movie whose tattered history always threatens any potential appreciation of it.
Culture Warrior: George Lucas's Problem of Mass Appeal
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on January 31, 2012 | Be the First To CommentA week and a half ago, Anthony Hemingway's Red Tails was released. On the surface, the film breathes Hollywood oxygen through-and-through. It's a WWII era action film that uses its setting for broad family-friendly cheese-banter and CGI-heavy eye candy rather than an opportunity for a sober interrogation of history. Red Tails looks and feels like any Hollywood film geared toward as mass an audience as possible. But the studio that's distributing it – 20th Century Fox – didn't pay a dime to produce it. The reported $58 million cost to make Red Tails came solely out of the pocket of producer George Lucas, who had been attempting to get a film about the Tuskegee Airmen made since the early 1990s. He was continually met with resistance from a studio system that saw anything less than the biggest guaranteed appeal to the largest possible audience as a "risk," including a heroic true story about African-American airmen. The ideology that closed the doors on George Lucas of all people reflects the same business mentality that inspired Jeffrey Katzenberg's lengthy warning to other studios in a memo written during the same years that Lucas was first trying to get Red Tails financed. In the memo, Katzenberg warned studios regarding their practice of exponentially centralizing all their resources in a few very expensive projects, resulting in high risk, little room for experimentation, and an increasing reliance on that coveted monolith known as the "mass audience" (which, to make things even more complicated, now includes […]
Culture Warrior: How the 70s Proved Mass-Marketing Wasn't the Only Way to Make Movies
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on January 24, 2012 | Comments (1)As much as I admire the incomparable films made during the era, New Hollywood (the term referring to innovative, risk-taking films made funded by studios from the mid-60s to the mid-70s) is a title that I find a bit problematic. The words "New Hollywood" better characterize the era that came after what the moniker traditionally refers to. Think about it: if "Old" or "Classical" Hollywood refers to the time period that stretches roughly from 1930 to 1960 when the studios as an industry maintained such an organized and regimented domination over and erasure of any other potential conception over what a film playing in any normal movie theater could be, then if we refer to the time period from roughly 1977 to now "New Hollywood," the term then appropriately signifies a new manifestation of the old: regimentation, predictability, and limitation of expression. Where Old Hollywood studios would produce dozens of films of the same genre, New Hollywood (as I'm appropriating the term) could acutely describe the studios' comparably stratified output of sequels, remakes, etc. What we traditionally understand to be New Hollywood was not so much its own monolithic era in Hollywood's legacy, but a brief, strange, and wonderful lapse between two modes of Hollywood filmmaking that have dominated the industry's history.
Culture Warrior: Occupy Hollywood
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on November 8, 2011 | Comments (2)One of the great misconceptions about Hollywood is that it is a liberal institution. Several false assumptions inform this misconception: thinking of "Hollywood" as a monolithic entity in any way besides its shared corporate infrastructure, confusing public endorsements of celebrity politicians by celebrity movie stars as political activism, thinking that left-leaning consumers of movies see Hollywood as representing their political beliefs in any way, selectively reading a limited number of texts (e.g., Green Zone "proves" Hollywood's liberalism, but every superhero movie ever isn't proof of its conservatism), and, most importantly, thinking that the most public figures associated with Hollywood (i.e., stars and filmmakers) are Hollywood. This last point I think is one that has continued to be the least considered when such straw man critiques are drawn, because Hollywood here is equated only with its most visible figures who overshadow its intricate but also not-so-shrouded political economy. It's no mistake that despite the fluctuating numbers of major and minor Hollywood studios in the past 100 years, the most powerful studios, like the biggest banks in the nation, have been referred to as "The Big Five." And indeed, to the surprise of no one, both Big Fives have had and are continuing a lucrative relationship with one another. Hollywood's agenda, of course, has always been profit, and the representatives of this ideology are not George Clooney and Matt Damon, but Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal (Chairman/CEO & Co-Chairman, Sony/Columbia), Stephen Blairson (CEO, 20th Century Fox), Brad Grey (Chairman/CEO, Paramount), Ronald Meyer […]
Criterion Files #547/548: 'Drive, He Said' and 'A Safe Place' Find a Lost Hollywood
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on July 27, 2011 | Be the First To CommentAs I argued in my introduction to our coverage of the BBS box set, this major Criterion release both celebrates New Hollywood and complicates the master narrative informing the way in which the era is typically remembered. Alongside classics of the era like Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and The Last Picture Show, the set also includes films that were received badly or misunderstood in their time like Head and The King of Marvin Gardens which can now be reassessed with the benefit of hindsight. But perhaps the most interesting juxtaposition to the canonized works of New Hollywood here is the presence of the absolutely obscure, the completely forgotten, the movies that up until now were lost in time and memory. This set marks the first time Jack Nicholson's Drive, He Said (1970) and Henry Jaglom's A Safe Place (1971) have been released in any home video format. These films are, in a sense, correlated with New Hollywood because of their themes, narratives, characters, and their temporal and economic contexts, but unlike the three heavy-hitters in this set, watching them now is, by comparison, to see a film with a forty-year-old blank slate – a unique and rare experience when one contrasts watching these films to, say, Easy Rider, a movie inseparable from an ongoing and reiterated forty-year-long conversation about what it meant then and means today. Separately, these are interesting films on their own, but together, Drive, He Said and A Safe Place point to the fact that there's […]
Criterion Files #546: The Vulgar and the Literate of 'Five Easy Pieces'
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on July 13, 2011 | Be the First To CommentThe most difficult thing about watching seminal, groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting movies is that it's impossible to see them, feel them, or experience them the way they were in the moment, before they became influential enough to seem almost unexceptional by retrospective comparison. It's difficult to marvel at the audacious camera angles or fragmented narrative of Citizen Kane in an age where Gaspar Noe and Guillermo Arriaga exist, or be shocked by the expertly-crafted profanity of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in a post-David Mamet world. These movies may remain strong and, in other ways, timeless, but even with the very best, the "moment" of greatness is lost by the sheer force of its effect on cinema that came after. Films, after all, aren't made in a vacuum. They are the constant subject of influence, and rarely anything influences a film more than another great film.
Criterion Files #544: Bob Rafelson, The Monkees, and Victor Mature Give You 'Head'
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on June 29, 2011 | Comments (1)For the rest of the summer, Adam and Landon will be focusing on films included in the Criterion Collection released by the legendary BBS Production Company whose anti-establishment films rocked the world of Hollywood in the late 1960s and early 1970s. So dust of your old LPs, set out on the highway, and embrace your countercultural sensibilities with one of the most eccentric and essential stories of New Hollywood. When rummaging through the Criterion Collection's available box sets, one thing becomes abundantly clear: the serious and traditional role that authorship has played in forming both the Collection and its reputation. Whether it's five films by John Cassavetes, Sergei Eisenstein's sound years, or Truffaut's cinematic adventures of Antoine Doinel, the Collection places the director as the primary author of the text, just as they do when ascribing possession to individual titles ("Orson Welles's F for Fake," for instance). Then came the BBS set, which frames authorship to a group of films not because of the signatures of the directors who made each individual title, but as a group effort through the umbrella of a production company. BBS may refer specifically to Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, but the talent pool that determined the artistic output of this company was hardly exclusive to them, incorporating the then-young talents of Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, Jack Nicholson, and Henry Jaglom. None of these figures solely inhabited clear and exclusive occupational signposts like "writer," "director," "producer," or "actor," but a combined contributions to […]
Criterion Files #336: 'Dazed and Confused' Wipes That Face Off Your Head, Bitch
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on June 15, 2011 | Comments (2)When I write this column, I typically don't get the opportunity to write about movies from my teen years. I, like many, came into a cinephilic love for art and foreign cinema during college, and in that process grew to appreciate The Criterion Collection. Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993), however, is a movie that's followed me through various changes in my life for (I'm just now realizing as I write this) about half of my time thus far spent on Earth.
Criterion Files #275: Godard Fights Cinematic Imperialism with 'Tout Va Bien'
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on June 1, 2011 | Be the First To CommentMuch of Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic output is inaccessible to American audiences. His most prolific period, the 1960s (in which he made 18 feature films) is almost entirely available, due in no small part to the Criterion Collection's well-justified infatuation with the cineaste's important and influential work. The output of much of his later career, however, isn't commercially accessible in the US including much-lauded work like Nouvelle Vague (1990) and the Histoire(s) du Cinema entries (1988-98). In fact, Tout va Bien (1972 – his most recent title included in the Collection) is to my knowledge the only film he made in the 1970s that's available on Region 1 DVD. This is all to say that here in the US, what we know of Godard we know mostly the first decade of his career. While it's unfortunate that cinephiles have minimal access to his later work, this complaint is not meant to undervalue the importance of the work he did in the 1960s. Godard made an unbelievable amount of brilliant and challenging work in an astoundingly short amount of time, and by 1970 he had emerged as a different kind of filmmaker altogether. Godard's 1960s work is, in a sense, the only logical starting point in order to approach an understanding of this later work. Godard's films are an ongoing exercise in personal growth, aesthetic experimentation, and political criticism. Each work builds off of what came before. With this weekend's US release of Godard's most recent work, Film Socialisme, the gaps in […]
Culture Warrior: 'Taxi Driver' at 35
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on March 29, 2011 | Comments (6)You hear the phrase "This movie could never be made today" quite often, and it's typically a thinly veiled means by which a creative team allows themselves to administer loving pats on their own backs. But in the context of at a 35th anniversary exhibition of the restoration of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver with a justifiably disgruntled Paul Schrader in attendance, such a sentence rings profoundly and depressingly true. Like many of you, I've seen Taxi Driver many times before. For many, it's a formative moment in becoming a cinephile. But I had never until last weekend seen the film outside of a private setting. And in a public screening, on the big screen, I'm happy to say the film still has the potential to shock and profoundly affect viewers so many decades on. For me personally it was the most disturbing of any time I'd ever seen the film, and I was appropriately uncomfortable despite anticipating the film's every beat. Perhaps it was because I was sharing the film's stakes with a crowd instead of by myself or with a small group of people, or perhaps the content comes across as so much more subversive when projected onto a giant screen, or perhaps it was because the aura of a room always feels different when the creative talent involved is in attendance. For whatever reason, I found the film to be more upsetting than in any other context of viewing. But one of the most appalling moments of Taxi […]
Talking Heads: About That Proof That Movies Are Getting Worse
Features By Scott Beggs on February 25, 2011 | Comments (2)Every week, Landon Palmer and Cole Abaius log on to their favorite chat client of 1996 as BlurryProjector and TheGeneralRulz in order to discuss some topical topic of interest. This week, they ponder the wildly wide-spread Mark Harris article, "The Day the Movies Died," alongside the new infographic proving movies have gotten worse. We really need a scapegoat, huh? Is marketing really to blame? Are movies really getting worse? If so, how do we, the fans, fix them?
Culture Warrior: The Contemporary Auteur, Part 2
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on March 30, 2010 | Comments (1)Last week I wrote about the history of the auteur theory and its strengths and weaknesses when applied to actual film practice. Regardless of the theory's apparent problems, it's clear that the idea of the auteur still holds great weight in framing the way even the most casual of filmgoer goes about experiencing cinema.
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The stars, moon and all the planets must have been in alignment for me in May. If you had been around my domincile at the time, you'd have seen me doing the happy, happy dance! Requiem for a Party Girl, first in my mystery series featuring sassy female PI, Cameron Locke, has found a publishing home. I have signed a contract with Oconee Spirit Press to release Requiem to the world. The release date they've given me is February 2015.
Disguise for Death, starring Royce Thorne, policeman's widow and writer, had been waiting patiently for me to get around to publishing it, and I did in April. Royce has to rethink her decision to keep secret her husband's unfaithfulness more than twenty years ago to save the son he fathered.
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After firing my friend's 1911, I think I have decided I want a 1911. I think I am leaning toward the Kimber Pro Carry II (stainless).
When I put in my hand, it was a perfect match.
Perfect length, perfect grip angle, AMAZING TRIGGER PULL, Sights were naturally dead on and it will be easy to conceal on or about my skinny person.
My Problem lies with it being SA only. I am still not sure how OK with SA only I am.
As far as SA only goes, whenever I cock the slide, the hammer will come back and when it fires, the slide comes back and cocks the hammer again however, I am just not sure about carrying right away with a round in the chamber and the hammer back (even with the safety).
As far as DA Only goes, I dont't have the problem of hammer back but I lose the amazing trigger pull that the Kimber has.
I am trying to think how SA/DA would affect me in a survival situation whether my accuracy (smoother trigger pull) or my speed of draw/firing (not having to rack the slide if none in chamber or having to pull the hammer back because I am a "hammer back wimp") will give me the best chance.
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This review is part of the Epinions Big Hair Write-Off. Please read other great reviews by the following participants: sparkospunky phibes69 cuitepi evansec kristinafh cerdo wolfman309 dazedcunf teddiec In the days of my youth, somewhere tucked between New Kids and Nirvana, there was Nelson. Oh, yes, they were cute, innocent, and had the best hair of any band I ever knew. (Not to mention they were the sons of music great Ricky Nelson. Yes, they had good genes.) I immediately fell in love with Nelson upon their MTV emergence, suddenly rushing out to purchase their debut album, After The Rain, for my own listening pleasure. I couldn't stop listening, rushing home every day to sing along with the powerful songs bandleaders Matthew and Gunnar belted out. It was like they were actually singing to me. So, for the Epinions Big Hair Write-Off, I chose Nelson, the band with the best Big Hair and the most powerful songs. I dusted off the ten-year-old tape, played it on the stereo, and it was as if I was once again a thirteen-year-old with way too much makeup and Sun-In in my hair. But enough about me. Let's go to the album. First and foremost, the album sounds like a simple effort to capitalize on the hair band explosion of the early 90's. Because Matt and Gunnar had good looks, flashy clothes and a reputable family backing them up, it was no problem for these cuties. Aside from that, the album has some great tunes that are guaranteed to take you back into ye olde land of guitar rock. (I Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection (Track 1): I'd give up my pride to save me from bein' alone; I can't live without your looooove. Nelson's first single, this one starts out with a simple-yet-meaningful acoustic guitar solo and leads into the Nelson twins' fabulous harmonies. This classic hair band love song mixes acoustic and electric guitars, thrashing drum beats, and even has an Eddie Van Halen ripoff bridge in the middle. It's a song that says, "Hey, we ain't singin' no 'Travelin' Man.' We're bad boys with a soft side!" After The Rain (Track 2): After the rain washes away the tears and all the pain, only after the rain will you live again. Okay, okay, this song is credited with one of the worst music videos ever made. All I remember is sister Tracy Nelson (of Square Pegs and Father Dowling Mysteries fame), some kid with a bandanna, a Native American with a feather, and Matthew and Gunnar wearing even flashier outfits than the ones from their first video. But forget about that! This song is a classic early-90's power song. I love it. It's a motivational song that has inspired the hearts of young women from all around. This one is a bit more powerful than "Love and Affection," has all the great Matt/Gunnar harmonies, and has a bridge that, while not being as powerful as the one in "Love and Affection," doesn't need to be so. This song makes you want to do a Michael-Bolton-Reach-The-Sky move. More Than Ever (Track 5): Do I, do I love ya, baby? Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, More than ever! Oh, man. Now, this one is great. It's the classic hair band anthem, beginning with an a capella plea for nameless female's knowledge of Matt and Gunnar's love. This song also comes from the acoustic rock genre of hair bands, as seen in Trixter, Extreme and Tesla. This is a song that brings visions of old headbangers raising their demon signs in the air and rockin' out while Matthew and Gunnar belt out those guitar riffs and make sure their hair hasn't become misplaced. The song's bridge is one of those classic drum-backed a capella choruses you can see an audience clapping to, with their hands constantly clasping above their heads to those strong one-UH, one-UH beats. Good job, Nelson. Fill You Up (Track 7): Now is the time to open up your wings and fly. Let me fill you up with love tonight. This is Nelson's token "Let's sound like Bon Jovi song." Well, actually, it sounds more like a cross between Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine" and .38 Special's "Rockin' Into the Night." The song is comprised of speedy guitars, great harmonies, cymbal-invoked percussion, and a hidden wokka-wokka guitar sound that makes this one unique. Although, I must admit, it was hard for me to believe if it was actually Nelson or their hair singing. Personally, I think it might be a little bit of both. I hear the Nelson boys have decided to follow in their father's footsteps and jump into the country scene (this time as The Nelson Brothers). They can be found hanging around in Southern states, adding a country flair to their old tunes, playing some new country songs, and belting out some of Dad's tunes. Maybe one day they'll go back to the long hair and shiny Sgt Pepper-esque outfits of the days of yore. Right now, the prospect seems unlikely. Ah, well. I still have After The Rain to remember them by.


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Rep. Fattah Introduces Bill To Spur Innovation Through Federally-Funded Scientific Research
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA-02) says the U.S. government, which spends $130 billion a year in basic research, needs to recoup some of that investment when the research leads to commercially successful applications – and it should require that those new products be "made in America."
To accomplish these goals and focus the spotlight on government research, Fattah today introduced the American Discoveries American Jobs Commission Act. The bill looks at ways the federal government can leverage its sponsorship of basic research to expand support for that research, grow manufacturing jobs and recoup a portion of its investment.
"The Federal government should be able to claim royalties from its own investment in early research, then reinvest those royalties in science, technology, engineering and math education and future federal research," Fattah said. "If new or improved products are on the commercial market because of federal research dollars then they should be stamped 'Made in America.'"
The Philadelphia Congressman said, "Federally funded research is a quiet success story that immeasurably improves our way of life. Every day, taxpayers are contributing to the foundational research that is necessary for the new discoveries that improve people's lives. They deserve to know that their hard earned tax dollars have been put to work, and they deserve to know they are contributing to the economic growth arising from research investments."
The Fattah bill establishes a commission to assess the benefits of collecting royalties from government subsidized research that has led to commercialized products. The fees would be reinvested in further research for future discoveries. The commission is further directed to make certain that products developed with federal research funds are manufactured in the United States. This would not only produce jobs but guarantee broader benefits from initial investments. Over the years, the $130 billion that the federal government spends annually on research and development has led to new products and processes such as antibiotics, plastics, airplanes, computers, microwaves, and bioengineered drugs. These types of innovations are responsible for up to one-half the growth of the U.S. economy and are the principal driving force in the nation's long-term economic prosperity. The Commission that Fattah proposes would have nine members, three appointed by the President and six by Congress. It would report its findings to Congress, with the ultimate goal of inspiring legislation to accomplish the stated goals regarding innovation, research, royalties and job creation.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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LARGO, Fla. Joan Farnham (nee Hitzel), age 90, died peacefully in her home on March 19, 2013.
A loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Joan was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Farnham Jr. and her daughter, Fabian Shapiro.
Born in New Jersey, raised and educated in Vermont, she is survived by her daughters, Sheridan Farnham Snell (Richard) and Cassandra Farnham Gaenger (Paul); and her sons, Charles Farnham III (Kathleen) and Seward J. Farnham (Caris); also by 8 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
Joan was a teacher in the Schenectady, N.Y., public school system. She was an accomplished artist and a world traveler.
A celebration of her life will be held at St. Jeromes Church on Hamlin Boulevard, Largo, Florida, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 23, 2013.
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