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Sometimes I think that I live two different lives… The French country life and the city life. Depending on where I am, my focus changes.
When I am in the city… I think about fashion. When I am in the French country I think about our home and all things French… I think about interiors, styling and where the local flea markets are happening. This past week I have been in London enjoying the buzz of a big city and as you can probably tell my mind has turned to fashion… largely, because I have a trip to Paris soon and I need to pack… and also because I have had a love affair with fashion ever since I can remember.
I will be going to Paris on the train so a small bag is essential… I need a capsule wardrobe… which means I have to think about what to take… be ruthless… and only pack those pieces that work… The easy pack is the one that fits whatever you want… My Paris pack has to be practical, tight and allow me to look presentable…. I know from experience that the time spent planning my travel wardrobe this week will save me wasted moments next week… and I don't want to lose any time in Paris thinking about, 'what to wear'… I want to be out and about soaking everything up… catching up with friends, seeing what's been worn on the streets, taking photographs, trying restaurants… packing as much into my few days as I can.
I try and adopt the French girl's way of dressing when I travel… basic good pieces + accessories to add flair and personality. Space is limited, so black will be my base with accents of white… any colour will have to come from my accessories… As black is popular once again this season, supplementing my wardrobe for this trip has been delightfully easy.
My Paris Pack… The Basics…
1. Black slightly cropped pants to wear with flats or ankle boots for evening… Love the capri look and these type of trousers work with every shoe… à la Hepburn or à la stiletto..
2. Skinny jeans ( these work for me.. ) for day and night… with flats… with boots… with heels…
3. White shirt… the simple and the more ornate… I am mad for the frills and bows this season is showing
4. Black shirt… lace in particular… with the jeans… with the capri pants
5. Two white tee shirts and two black tee shirts… my day time basic under a coat
6. Cashmere sweater… black turtleneck… perfect for European/uncertain weather
6. Velvet blazer… looks great with a tee or over a more elaborate style blouse at night
7. Black slip style dress… The LBD… needs no explanation
8. Biker style ( very simple) leather jacket… Probably my biggest investment but it's the one piece I anguished over and it is the one jacket that I wear constantly and receive the most compliments on
9. Trench coat or Anorak depending on the weather
Most of these pieces I already have but this year I have updated my shirts, found some new black trousers, another LBD and freshened up my tee shirts… They are simple items that can be interchanged and that can be worn from the morning through until the evening… I want to be able to add a pair of heels at night, my new drop earrings and be ready to go… Or throw my leather jacket over my LBD to smarten up my look… This packing plan might not rock fashion week or tell you anything you don't know… but it works… these items can take you anywhere… especially to Paris… xv
J Crew black Capri pants… here
J Brand Skinny Jeans… here
White shirt… the simple… here and something really special… here
Black lace shirts… here and here
Tee shirts… here
Black Turtleneck… here
LBD… here, and in my dreams here
Leather Jacket… here…here… here
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19 February 2013
Posthaven launches as Twitter to shut down Posterous
Social blogging platform Posterous that launched in 2008 is to close it doors on 30 April, less than a year after its announcement that is was acquired by microblogging service Twitter. In an announcement on its blog Founder and CEO Sachin Agarwal wrote that the service will switch off its Posterous.com website and mobile apps, with no further access to edit content from its shutdown date.
It was also announced via its Twitter account.
Posterous will turn off on April 30 post.ly/ACMqg
— posterous (@posterous) February 15, 2013
The post guides users how to back-up their content (Spaces) and how move their sites to other services such as blogging WordPress or Squarespace (although initially didn't work so well).
Posterous Spaces backup tool available now post.ly/A3oRw
— posterous (@posterous) December 27, 2012
1. Go to http://posterous.com/#backup.
2. Click to request a backup of your Space by clicking "Request Backup" next to your Space name.
3. When your backup is ready, you'll receive an email.
4. Return to http://posterous.com/#backup to download a .zip file.
In addition to the back-up and transfer of Posterous sites to the services such as above, Techcrunch reports that other cofounders Garry Tan and Brett Gibson have team up to create Posthaven. The new blogging platform priced at $5 per month pledges that it won't show ads, seek investors and will strive to be live 'as long as humanly possible' - so posts and photographs don't have to be moved. Posthaven is accepting registrations now and is enabling users to reserve website names in the first month of credit. The site states at sign-up that a working version that can import Posterous blogs will be available in late February.
Posterous is credited with being vocal on privacy and a niche service that's influential in disrupting and innovating the competitive social space. In such a competitive space between what may be considered the top tier social superpowers, Twitter will be seeking to maximise the juice from Posterous into the services it continues to develop. How and if it achieves this remains to be seen.
In a digital world where so much appears to be free, it will be interesting to see how Posthaven develops as many users now accept that there isn't much in life that is free. With so many services falling to the wayside pre and post acquisition leaving less than impressed users behind with no recourse, it will a lesson to see if they now prefer to opt for paid models where there are more guarantees.
Were you a Posterous fan and if so, what have you replaced and/or moved to?
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This exhibition is organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art and curated by Scott A. Shields, Ph.D., chief curator and associate director of the Crocker Art Museum, with Patricia Trenton, Ph.D. advising. Additional venues for the exhibition include the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, and the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK.
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It used to be only grannies had foot problems and foot surgery. But with the popularity of monster high heels, doctors are seeing younger and younger women coming in with crippling foot pain.
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The chances of finding alien life have been given a boost after it was revealed that one in two stars in the universe have Earth like planets orbiting around them.
The news came from NASA scientists studying the results from the Kepler telescope which in its first two years in space has found evidence of more than 1,200 planets in orbit around far distant stars.
The early findings suggests that there are triple the number of known planets outside our own solar system – 54 of them are Earth size and in the habitable zones from their suns.
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I've been thinking about making myself a McCartney mix, but I need your help, as I don't know what the good solo songs are. Okay, I know of a couple, but there has got to be more, right? Here's my list so far...
- Every night
- Band on the run
- Heart of the country
- The lovely linda
- Maybe I'm amazed
- Rock show - I'm still considering this one
I know we've bashed ol' Paul on here before, and it's great fun, but I'm curious what the "good" stuff is, and I figure there are enough rockists around here to enlighten me.
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Moldy Seeds
Anyone else having the problem that some of the seed savers are packing too fresh of seeds that haven't had a chance to dry yet and they get moldy by the time you get them a few days later in the mail?
If they're that fresh and not properly dried or dried long enough, why don't they use the paper envelopes, so the seeds won't get moldy?
To my surprise, several established traders do this. I just got done washing some seeds to get the mold off and letting them dry here myself before putting them in a paper coin envelope.
Maybe this is a no-no topic, and I shouldn't have brought it up. Surely, I'm not the ONLY one this is happening to, right? What do you do when this happens?
Angela ~~~*wishing this post was anonymous*
so far ive never got moldy seeds, but thats one reason i always use paper pks, even though i let them dry out for a few days the papper pks are a second safety thing lol i once thought about poking holes in the pks with my sowing needle.
try washing your seeds in peroxide, that will take off any bad stuff from the mold.
i have got seeds all over in the envys cause the baggies came opened. i just scoop em up n put them in a back in the baggie. or a mixed if theres alots of diffrent seeds.
To my surprise, several established traders do this.
Possibly it is a particular seed that they have never gathered and dried before. I would let them know that the seeds molded, as they would likely 'want' to know. I might even ask for replacements, if they happen to still have the seeds available.
I am fairly certain that I at one time or another sent out 'bad' seeds...well I can say I 'did' send bad butterfly bush seed pods that were harvested immature, thus they never opened to release a mature seed.
I don't harvest all that many different varieties of seeds, but have noticed fresh seeds posted of things that will not be 'ready' here in my zone for a long time. I kinda question if some of those seeds weren't harvested while they were still green, and thus immature, and would take a long time to dry, just to end up being nonviable.
I have only had the moldy seed problem a couple times,none so far this year,thank goodness. I agree the seeds should be packed in paper envies when fresh. I am hoping none of mine arrived moldy and if they did I would hope the person would tell me,I wouldnt want anyone to be out seeds because of my mistake!
I would tell them but make sure it comes out in a nice way. Does that make sense, lol. Many people don't know that you have to let the seed dry completely before putting in plastic.
Even if there isn't mold, tiny amounts of moisture locked in a bag will kill seed. When I have seed that needs to go in a baggie, like poppy seeds, I keep then in an open container for at least a few weeks before transferring to a plastic baggie.
I'm mostly doing trades for edibles, so I think that might be why I'm getting more that are moldy. Veggies are more moist than flowers and many are much bigger/thicker seeds, so they might take longer to dry.
Thanks, everyone, for giving me your thoughts. It is interesting to hear what has happened, if anything, to others.
Sue, you wrote, "I... have noticed fresh seeds posted of things that will not be 'ready' here in my zone for a long time. I kinda question if some of those seeds weren't harvested while they were still green, and thus immature, and would take a long time to dry, just to end up being nonviable."
I am VERY new to this, but I have already wondered that very same thing. Hmmmmmmm is all I can say to that one. We all should be looking at this perhaps more closely before trading?
If I had made a trade and my seeds were moldy, I'd definatley want to know. As Sue said, some of us are trying new seeds and may not be aware that they weren't completely dried. After all, isn't sharing and gathering info what this is all about?.."S'
Like Sue, I have wondered the same thing concerning immature seeds. There is a trader who consistently offers Japanese maple seeds in the spring. Every reference I have consulted indicates that they are not ripe until the fall. That's why it's a good idea if possible to find out as much as you can about some of the more unique seeds being offered.
Though I doubt it's the case with the seeds Angela has been sent, there are some seeds that should not be allowed to dry out or they will not germinate, including many tree seeds and native woodland plants (most maples, carpinus aka musclewood, uvularia aka merry bells, aconitums, to name a few).
I'm also the one wants to know right away, we're all learning. Not sure how my Night Blooming Seeds come out thru shipping if left in the white covering, as I've sent one pkt last week, wrapped seeds in the napkin, then put in the paper pkt and wrapped in more paper, making sure moisture doesn't come thru, emailed and wrote a note saying seeds got to be taken out right away to dry.
I'm not sure if I send one pkt of NB Jasmine earlier, but a few days ago have made sure I let them dry out completely before sending, they're my most moisture containing seeds otherwise, also have to wait til my Sweet Autumn Clematis dries out, have lots of both.
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Nothing can throw you out of sync quite like travelling, especially if you are travelling from place to place or over different time zones. Whether it is for business or personal reasons, travelling by plane can be tiring, even if it is the quickest mode of transport. So when you are coming in to land it's very likely you will want to take some time out to rest and refresh. While many do this in an airport lounge it's not the most comfortable way to spend time after or in between flights and there is of course a better solution.
Brisbane airport motels are the best way to unwind after a long or short flight. When your stay is going to be a short one then they make the most obvious choice. Situated close to airport access they are generally also close to a selection of restaurants, shops and a varied number of public transports. When you are away from home you want to stay somewhere that is cosy and convenient. When you have close access to the airport, restaurants and public transport it takes away the need for a vehicle. This means if you are travelling on a budget it is ideal to be able to access amenities by either foot or a quick cab ride.
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A poster on a downtown Miami utility pole lampooning the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton weren't the only ones who stopped by during the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami this weekend. Hundreds of protesters marched outside the InterContinental Hotel in hopes of making the government officials and public aware of the problems that still plague many Americans.


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Every wedding I've photographed this summer has been beautiful. From Hindu celebrations in Kew Gardens to a sophisticated soirée in Soho to beautiful scenes in Bath and a guest photographer slot in northern Hungary – officially one of the most memorable 4-day parties I have ever been to. I might blog about these in more detail after the summer, but for now I'll be getting my oodles of film developed, getting equipment fixed, going to the New Forest, entertaining guests from Belgium, Poland and the Netherlands, enjoying the Olympics and doing whatever else it takes to avoid the rain.
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A landmark study, the Adventist Health Study-2, was started in 2002 and is still gathering data from 96,000 Adventist participants. They range from vegans (no animal protein at all) to those who do include meat in their diet and every vegetarian range in between. Because of the religious encouragement to live healthy, many do not smoke or drink alcohol. Here are some of the preliminary results:
Adventist Health Study 2 results for BMI and Heart Disease Risk:
Adventist Health Study 2 results for Type 2 Diabetes risk:
Adventist Health Study 2 results for Inflammation and Cancer risk:
In this study the vegans and lacto-ovo vegetarians watch less television, sleep more, and at more foods with a lower glycemic index such as nuts, and dried beans and peas. All of these factors probably have some role in being well and reducing disease risk.
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Jason Kao Hwang /EDGE - Jason Kao Hwang (composer, violin, viola), Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet/flugelhorn), Andrew Drury (drum set), Ken Filiano (string bass)
"For Crossroads Unseen, each composition is a language of vibrations that accrues into the energy and mass of an emotive landscape."
With their new album "Forth" The Four Bags continue a decade-long adventure. Their signature sound, a combination of disparate instruments, is skillfully deployed over ten tracks, alternating intricate originals with a diverse collection of arrangements.
On "Dialogic," Anthony Branker creates another inspired recording of new music for Origin Records featuring the stellar quartet of saxophonist Ralph Bowen, pianist Jim Ridl, bassist Kenny Davis and drummer Adam Cruz. An underlying soulful vibe permeates the diverse musical offerings found this most highly recommended recording.
Saxophonist Patrick Cornelius' latest album on Posi-Tone Records. Featuring Gerald Clayton (piano), Peter Slavov (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums), Miles Okazaki (guitar), and Assen Doykin (guest pianist).
"With this release Kikuchi proves once again that he's one of the most interesting composing drummers currently working."
-Ken Shimamoto, The Stash Dauber
"Lovely, thoughful music, well worth seeking out."
-Nate Dorward


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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
cinema obscura: Maddow/Meyers/Strick's "The Savage Eye" (1960)
The dual-level film - directed in tandem by Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyeres and Joseph Strick, who also produced and edited the film - is ostensibly about a woman named Judith McGuire (Barbara Baxley, then a popular New York stage actress who had just appeared in Tennessee Williams' "Period of Adjustment"), who spends the day waiting for her divorce to come through by wandering around Los Angeles.
The year is 1959.
Jaded and now seeing life in a more realistic way, Judith serves as a guide through a city which, seen up close, looks dirty and disreputable - bustling yet empty. The rose-colored glasses are off.
The result is a narrative which works also - largely - as a documentary about the city and its assorted haunts, a narrative whose compelling supporting cast is a vast array of Los Angeleans, most of whom come across as emotionally and culturally impoverished. There's no sense of joy here because priorities have been skewed in favor of relentlessly shallow needs and goals.
Gary Merrill co-stars as a character called The Poet, who gives voice to the city, and Herschel Bernardi is on board, too. Leonard Rosenman wrote the score for this vivid journey through hopelessness.
For its 2008 screening of "The Savage Eye," the UCLA Film and Television Archive utilized The Billy Wilder Theater on its campus. More please.
Monday, July 26, 2010
The head toy there is an embittered old stuffed bear who sadistically puts the new arrivals in the line of fire of a bunch of stampeding brats.
Smoothly directed by Lee Unkrich, it's all alternately affecting, hilarious and heartbreaking, and among the new editions to its cast is a Ken doll who is worthy of/sleazy enough for a spot on ABC's "The Bachelor."
Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right" is a bright alt sitcom that benefits considerably from another thorough performance from Annette Bening and a playful one from Julianne Moore, the two (that's them above) playing lesbian partners/mothers whose world is turned upside down by the arrival their respective kids' same sperm-donor dad.
The only problem with the film is not Mark Ruffalo's usual non-actor performance, but a conventional twist in the narrative which has Ruffalo bedding Moore and Bening discovering the betrayal in a way that would be dated even on a daytime soap opera. I'm not spoiling anything here; Cholodenko sets up Moore's interest in hetero sex early on by having the two women use gay male porno films to jumpstart their own sex lives. It's an unfortunate tonal shift that mars an otherwise smart comedy.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
cinema obscura: Lewis R. Foster's "Those Redheads from Seattle" (1953)
Poster art for "Those Redheads from Seattle"Paramount's lively "Those Redheads from Seattle," directed in 1953 by Lewis R. Foster, was yet another overripe musical designed to exploit the 3-D craze, much less cheesy than two other 3-D musicals, George Marshall's "Red Garters" and Lloyd Bacon's "The French Line," both from 1954.
Brewer shares the title role with Rhonda Fleming and sister duo, Cynthia and Kay Bell, as members of a singing-sister act, The Edmunds, performing in saloons in the Yukon during the Gold Rush days of 1898 - and hoping to strike their own fortune. The inimitable Agnes Moorehead plays their mother.
The plot, such as it is, involves Fleming's suspicion that the act's boss - a saloon owner played by Gene Barry (with the untrustworhty name, Johnny Kisco) - may be the very no-account who murdered the girls' beloved father.
Teresa Brewer with Guy Mitchell in a musical number
Brewer's endearing, outsized perkiness - she was dubbed "the little girl with the big voice" at the time - made her a screen natural. The camera loved her. And, for what it's worth, she steals the movie - or what little there is to steal.
But nothing came of her film debut. The problem may be that she didn't have musical numbers here as infectious as her signature songs, "Music, Music, Music" and "Ricochet Romance." Too bad. Because if Doris Day hadn't been available (and as wonderful as she was), Brewer would have made a terrific Babe Williams in "The Pajama Game."
Another missed opportunity.
Note in Passing: Co-incidentally, Guy Mitchell, a young musical leading man of the era, had roles in both "Redheads" and "Red Garters."
Brewer above and in a publicity shot with Agnes Moorehead and Rhonda Fleming and The Bell Sisters
Sunday, July 18, 2010
nolan's brilliant crackpot of a movie
Structured as a state-of-the-art noir,"Inception" has something to do with a small band of intellectual adventurers who invade - and often share - the dreams of clients with lofty problems that need to be solved.
They are provocateurs who suggest ideas to their clients, manipulating their thought and dream patterns, and particularly astute viewers might sense that Nolan is using dream manipulation here as an allegory for filmmaking itself and that his chief protagonist is an auteur of sorts.
Arcane wordplay is used to explain everything and simply listening to it can lull one into a seductive dreamworld that is not unlike a movie.
And that is not at all unpleasurable.
A commanding Leonardo DiCaprio, Nolan's on-screen surrogate, is physically even a dead-ringer for Nolan here as he leads a world-class supporting cast through an intimidating maze of rushing action and melancholy moods. The latter is driven by DiCaprio's relentless pursuit of his late wife (the magnetic Marion Cotillard) in a dreamworld that he would like to share with her but, for apparent reasons, can't.
Their "relationship" is the core of "Inception" and it's clear that Nolan shrewdly used Alfred Hitchcock's woozy, iconic "Veritgo" (1958) - the last word in a man hopelessly stalking a woman - as his template.
This most audacious film tackles remarkably serious matters - loss and the fear and sense of exclusion that come with it - and, in the end, despite its willfully confusing vision, "Inception" is astonishingly simple.
It is that rare modern movie that has a moral conscience.
Monday, July 12, 2010
cinema obscura: Stanley Donen's "Lucky Lady" (1975)
It was to be Fox's B.H.E. - Big Holiday Entertainment. (It was a Christmas release.) But it turned out to be Fox's B.H.E. - Big Holiday Embarrassment.
What went wrong? The plot - about a trio of unlikely rum-runners (Burt, Gene and Liza) - sounded like it could be a pleasing romp, particularly with that cast. Plus Huyck-Katz added the titilation of Minnelli going back and forth between Reynolds and Hackman, romantically, with coy hints of ménage à trois doings (coy enough to avoid an R rating, natch).
Actually, now that I think about it, none of this sounds very good at all. In performance, the film is forced, with everyone pretending to have a blast and Minnelli, in particular, irritating in her trademarked giggly/jittery way.
Two additional endings were filmed when Fox became understandably anxious over the original in which the film takes a jarringly tragic turn with Hackman and Reynolds ending up dead and Minnelli ending up alone.
In the early 1980s, the Fox syndicated self-promotional show, "That's Hollywood," included this footage in an episode on outtakes.
The sequence is haunting and painterly as Hackman and Reynolds are gunned down on a beach, with the waves pushing their dead bodies towards a traumatized, immobolized Minnelli who walks towards the shore.
It's a sobering, fatalistic moment but one has to ask what it had to do with what preceded it. What on earth were Donen, Huyck and Katz thinking? Not surprisingly, Fox (which presumably approved the original script) demanded a happy ending. Donen shot two - one in which the three characters are still together in old age (see out-of-focus photo below) and the one which went into the release print, where everything turns out rosy and the implied ménage à trois continues uninterrupted. The End.
Hackman came through the ordeal essentially unscathed, while the ever productive Reynolds didn't have a care in the world as he had churned out three other titles that year (John G. Avildsen's "W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings," Peter Bogdanovich's "At Long Last Love" and Robert Aldrich's "Hustle"). He operated as an old-style studio star.
But the film effectively ended the film careers of Donen, Minnelli and Huyck and Katz, who would go on to write a negligible sequel to "American Graffiti" and the notorious "Howard the Duck" (1986).
"Lucky Lady," reportedly never released on any home entertainment format, had disappeared until the Fox Movie Channel started airing it (in wide screen) in June. Added showings have been penciled in for July 21 at 2:00 p.m. (est), July 27 at 4:00 p.m., August 3 at 2:00 p.m. and August 13 at 4:00 p.m. Not a good film but, for some bizarre reason, worth catching.
Friday, July 09, 2010
when men were men
Mary Badham (above) and Phillip Alford (below) both looked up to Gregory Peck in Mulligan's "To Kill a Mockingbird." So did the audience in those days.Growing up, I paid scant attention to Gregory Peck. He wasn't my favorite movie star. I thought him too stiff and reserved, emotionally distant. What can I say? I was young and stupid.
But these days, when I look at what Hollywood passes off as men, Peck looks and sounds pretty good. Watching one of his films now, I see a genuine grown up - a fully formed, mature man. You don't see much of that on screen anymore, not even in the work of an elder statesman like Jack Nicholson.
It made me wonder - why aren't there any actors who want to be like Gregory Peck, who want to be "the next Gregory Peck" or who remind us, even slightly, of Gregory Peck? A few years ago, I read an article in which contemporary actors were asked what actors from the past they appreciated the most and hoped to emulate and the name invoked the most was Steve McQueen, a fine, commanding actor who shrewdly couched a certain immaturity into his performances. It was novel and appealing when the person in question was Steve McQueen, less so when it's (well, fill in the space with a young actor, almost any young actor, today).
Cary Grant, of course, is also a big reference point for most of today's actors. George Clooney is "the new Cary Grant," don't cha know.
But no one ever calls forth the name of Gregory Peck.
Tom Cruise is currently 48, although he seems like an eternal boy. Peck was actually three years younger than Cruise when he played his most defining character - Atticus Finch in Robert Mulligan's film of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" in 1961. (The film was released in 1962.)
No one would ever mistake Atticus Finch for a boy.
And I, for one, have given up on the idea of Cruise ever playing a character even remotely like Finch, even remotely mature.
By the way, Peck is currently being honored by Turner Classic Movies as its Star of the Month, via 26 titles. Tune in and see what it means to be a man, to be a grown up. Then go see Cruise in "Knight and Day."
Note in Passing: As another point of reference, Clark Gable was 37 - 11 years younger than Cruise - when he appeared in "Gone with the Wind."
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
cinema obscura: Anne Bancroft's "Fatso" (1980)
Films fail for a variety of reasons, the most recurring one being neglect - by the studio that produced it, the critics who review it and a public that just doesn't care. Neglected films are what drives this site.
Case in point: Anne Bancroft's soulful "Fatso," her only directorial/writing credit. Released (half-heartedly) by 20th Century-Fox in 1980, the small, very small, taciturn film offered Dom DeLuise one of his few noteworthy film roles ("The End" is another) as Dominick DiNapoli, an unassuming guy with a weight problem and, by extention, body-image issues. Two women come to his rescue - his sister, Antoinette (played by Bancroft herself), who tries to nudge him towards a healthier diet and lifestyle, and Lydia (the singular Candice Azzara), a neighborhood woman who is just the distraction that Dom needs.
The film, hastily dismissed upon release, seems downright prescient 30 years later. Ahead of its time? Has its time finally come? Perhaps. I do know that Bancroft's sure hand with her actors and the material is impressive. She handles both with the simplicity of a silent film; the courtship shared by DeLuise and Azzara is like a tiny duet out of Chaplin.
Almost impossible to see, the affecting "Fatso" has suddenly surfaced on HBO, where it plays throughout July, with performances scheduled for July 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20 and 25. Check for exact times in your area and be sure to catch it. You'll be both surprised and pleased. I promise.
Note in Passing: Dom DeLuise directed his own film, for producer Ray Stark, a year earlier - "Hot Stuff," in which he co-starred with Jerry Reed, Suzanne Pleshette and Ossie Davis. Also lost and also appealing.
"cyrus" - there's more there
Hill, Tomei and Reilly gamely participate in a study of dubious relationships in the Duplass's "Cyrus.I've an elusive thought: Am I the only one to notice that John C. Reilly's relationship with his ex-wife in Jay and Mark Duplass's "Cyrus" is every bit as unhealthy as Jonah Hill's with his mother? That parallel seems to be the point of an otherwise pointless, albeit engaging, film but it's been addressed by no critics to the best of my knowledge. It's also interesting that Reilly's so-called hero consistently, and rather selfishly, intrudes upon and interrupts two relationships here - Catherine Keener's with her fiancé and Marisa Tomei's with her son. He's an interloper and a third wheel in both cases - a narcissist deceptively disguised in sheep's clothing.
Monday, July 05, 2010
a mad "inside" joke: ethel's revenge
La Merm with screen daughter, Dorothy Provine, in Stanley Kramer's elephantine, oddly unfunny comedy epic, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"I've written repeatedly here about my affection for Mervyn LeRoy's 1962 filmization of "Gypsy," my all-time favorite movie musical.
The film - actually, its star, Rosalind Russell specifically - has been the subject of a five-decade hissy fit on the part of Broadway types who resent that Ethel Merman, the star of the piece on stage, wasn't signed by Warner Bros. to repeat the role that she created to some acclaim.
The disturbing columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in particular got her nose out of joint when her good friend Merman was passed by as Mama Rose.
But Jack Warner wasn't stupid: Like everyone else, he had seen "Call Me Madam" and "There's No Business Like Show Business" and knew that Merman was no screen personality. Instead, he went for a world-class actress who would bring psychological depth to the character.
Anyway, while it was in production, Kilgallen had "Gypsy" under a microscope for her on-going demonization. LeRoy's nifty decision to hire Jack Benny for an inspired cameo elicited the following Kilgallen criticism: "Jack Benny has been hired to play a role in the film of 'Gypsy.' It must be in trouble." Jeez, you can't buy bad publicity like that.
A year later, Merman got a consolation prize when she was hired by Stanley Kramer to play the harridan, Mrs. Marcus - mother of Dorothy Provine and mother-in-law of Milton Berle - in Kramer's elephantine comedy, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." The film, despite its plethora of noted comedy stars, is singularly unfunny - except for Merman.
She's a hoot in the film.
Anyway, Jack Benny, perhaps not coincidentally, popped up for a cameo scene opposite Merman - which leads to a very inside joke.
Merman and company are stranded, their car having broken down, when Benny drives by and asks if they're having trouble.
"No!," screams Merman as only she could, adding angrily "And we don't need any help from you!"
The scene isn't the least bit funny and seems pointless - until you think about Benny's unclean participation in Merman's beloved "Gypsy."
The traitor!
I don't know but that thowaway line, "And we don't need any help from you!," always takes on a deeper meaning for me.
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" airs on Turner Classic Movies at 8 p.m. (est), 6 July.
Sunday, July 04, 2010
turner's misstep
Janet Leigh, being a good sport and a team player in George Sidney's 1963 destruction of "Bye Bye Birdie"Turner Classic Movies rarely does anything wrong. It almost never loses its footing in its pristine presentation of the best of Hollywood.
However, for me, its Essentials, Jr., Turner's attempt to introduce kids to the pleasures of great old movies, was misconceived from the very beginning and has a remained a slough in the TCM landscape.
For some bizarre reason, this feature has been hosted for the last two seasons by the ordinarily affable John Lithgow. I assume that someone at Turner thinks that Lithgow is a draw for children because of his association with the sitcom, "3rd Rock from the Sun." But that show ended its five-year run in 2001, and the kids who watched it are probably in college now and could care less about John Lithgow, who begins every segment earnestly trying to enlighten Turner's coveted young viewers by pontificating in the most professorial, unctous way imaginable.
This is OK when the film in question is a genuine classic, such as the June 20th Essentials, Jr. showing of Robert Mulligan's 1962 "To Kill a Mockingbird," but right now, Turner is airing George Sidney's singular disaster, "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963). Surely, calling this catastrophe, this embarrassment, a "classic" or an "essential" is a joke, right?
The film seems to exist only so Sidney, who came onto the film after original director Gower Champion bolted, could fetishize Ann-Margret, grotesquely miscast here as a 15-year-old innocent. So "Bye Bye Birdie" is questionable not only as a "film classic" but also as something suitable for children, given A-M's bumping and grinding and heavy breathing.
But back to Lithgow's opening lecture... He sings praises of Michael Stewart's book for the stage show, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Sidney's film, by way of Irving Brecher's hack screenplay, destroys everything that was good about Stewart's script. (The inane, Disney-fied bits involving the turtle, the speed-up pill and the Russian ballet troupe were all Brecher's brainchildren.) I know that Lithgow doesn't write this stuff himself but, as the front man here, this kind of omission, this misinformation, reflects directly on him. That's right - misinformation.
Case in point: During his intro, Lithgow comments that Sidney retained three of the show's original stars - Dick Van Dyke and Paul Lynde (both of whom reportedly never liked the film; ditto for Janet Leigh) and, as the titular Conrad Birdie, Jesse Pearson. Wrong. Pearson was not the original Birdie on Broadway. That would be the incredible Dick Gautier. Pearson didn't even appear in "Birdie" on Broadway. He was plucked from the touring company. He's a stick in the role and it's understandable, once you've witnessed his arch performance here, why he made only one other feature film (George Marshall's "Advance to the Rear" in year later).
After Lithgow's introduction, I tried to watch the film again but, as usual, I couldn't make it past the spectacle of A-M running toward the camera and, seemingly, growling, stratching and barking at it, as she she screamed out the opening title song. "Bye Bye Birdie" is a prime example of good material sacrificed in service to a misguided director's obsession with his starlet. Sorry, but, I never shared this particular obsession.
By all means, forget Sidney's unwatchable film and instead check out the 1995 TV remake, directed with fidelity to the original - and with intelligent wit - by Gene Saks. As for Essentials, Jr., it also represents a good idea that remains stillborn. It's time for Turner to pull the plug on this feature.
Or seriously rethink it.
Friday, July 02, 2010
turner this month - bravo!
The gifted Michael Ritchie gets an evening on Turner, 13 & 14 July, with screenings of his "competition" films - "Downhill Racer," "Smile" and "The Survivors"Keeping up with Turner Classic Movies on a daily basis can take over one's life. Trying to document its monthly schedule has become frustrating because it's always such a bear - a merciless bottomless pit of movies that demand to be seen, must be seen. They must!
So, starting this month, I'm making a concerted effort to control myself, dealing largely (and tersely) with those titles that are rare, difficult to see and/or generally underrated. Wish me luck. Here goes...
Charles Walters' "Lili" (1953) - 10:30 a.m., July 1. A one-song musical and it's irresistible. For kids, this was "The Sound of Music" in its day andm unlike "Music," a good example that less is more.
John Brahm's "Hot Rods to Hell" (1967) - 3:15 a.m. July 2. A lurid, compulsively watchable road/vacation movie with a knockout cast - Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain and the very hot Mimsy Farmer.
Vincente Minnelli's "The Long, Long Trailer" (1954) - 11:30 p.m., July 3. Somewhat of an aching comedy in which Minnelli examines the dark side of marriage in general and the Lucy-Desi union in particular.
Peter H. Hunt's " 1776 " (1972 ) - 2:30 p.m., July 4. A masterpiece which Jack Warner tried to destroy, a la "A Star Is Born," by making wholesale, gratuitious cuts so that it would qualify for an engagement at Radio City Music Hall. Produced by Hunt as a three-hour roadshow, replete with overture and intermission (track down the Pioneer laser disc pronto!), this is the 165-minute version, minus the reserved-seats-only trimmings.
Stanley Donen's "Fearless Fagan" (1952) - 7 a.m., July 6. Adorable Donen trifle with cute couple Janet Leigh and Carlton Carpenter.
Robert Ellis Miller's "Sweet November" (1968) - 4 p.m., July 9. Sandy Dennis, a reluctant icon, caught in all her idiosyncratic glory.
John Ford's "Sergeant Rutledge" (1960) - 10 p.m., July 10. Two years before Robert Mulligan filmed Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," Ford got there first with this courtroom drama about a black man accused of raping a white woman. Woody Strode has the Brock Peters role.
Lew Landers' "Living on Love" (1937) - 10:45 a.m., July 12. One of Turner's RKO discoveries, a remake of "Rafter Romance" about a young woman sharing an apartment with a man she never sees.
John Frankenheimer's "I Walk the Line" (1970) - 5:30 a.m., July 13. Gregory Peck as a rural sheriff whose midlife crisis involves Tuesday Weld, daughter of a local moonshiner. Estelle Parsons co-stars.
Michael Ritchie's "Downhill Racer" (1969) and his terrific "Smile" (1975) air at 6:15 p.m., July 13 and 1 a.m. on July 14, respectively. Now sadly forgotten, Michael Ritchie produced the most thoughtful comedies about American drive and pushiness, as exemplifed by these tiny gems. The planned screening of Ritchie's , "Semi-Tough" (1977), once scheduled to follow "Smile," has been replaced by another Ritchie flick, "The Survivors" (1983).
Sam Peckinpah's "Convoy" (1978) - 5 a.m., July 14. Ali MacGraw who made out so well under Peckinpah's direction in "The Getaway" teams with Kris Kristofferson for some more bumptious fun.
Joseph H. Lewis's "Gun Crazy" (1949) - 9:15 p.m., July 14. A man and woman, both somewhat deranged and loose cannons, get their hands on guns and go on the crime spree. Low-down fun.
Savage Steve Holland's "Better Off Dead" (1985) - 8 p.m., July 15. Savage Steve directed John Cusack in to livewire comedies - this and "One Crazy Summer" - and then slithered into TV work. What a waste.
Paul Henried's "Girls on the Loose" (1958) - 2:30 a.m., July 17 - followed by Bernard Vorhaus' "So Young, So Bad" (1950) - 4 a.m., July 17. Henried directs one film about girls gone wrong (among them Barbara Bostock and Mara Corday) and then plays opposite a bevy of them (including Anne Jackson, Anne Francis and Rita Moreno) in the second.
Phil Karlson's "The Phenix City Story" (1953) - 2 p.m., July 17. Crackerjack Karlson flick, edgy and moody. You can't miss.
Curtis Bernhardt's "Kisses for My President" (1964) - noon, July 18. Long unavailable, this affable comedy stars Polly Bergan, just swell as the Prisdent of the United States, and Fred MacMurray as the First Husband.
Robert Mulligan's "Inside Daisy Clover" (1965). Dark, dark warning about how Hollywood uses people. Great cast, headed by Natalie Wood. See companion film "The Legend of Lylah Clare" - 6 a.m., 7/24.
Green is the operative word here. Kinji Fukasaku's "The Green Slime" (1969) - noon, July 19 - Richard Fleischer's "Soylent Green" (1973) - 1:45 p.m., July 19. Delectable - and good for you, too.
Richard Thorpe's "Man Proof" (1938) - 5:45 p.m., July 20. In which Myrna Loy and Rosalind Russell fight over Walter Pidgeon.
George Axelrod's "Lord Love a Duck" (1966) - 1:30 a.m., July 23. Only the fertile mind of someone like Axelrod could imagine Roddy McDowell and Tuesday Weld as high-school kids, he playing demented mentor/Henry Higgins to her protégé in the usual teen schemes.
Don Weis' "The Affairs of Dobie Gillis" (1953) - 3:30 a.m., July 23. Watch it for the cast - Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Bob Fosse and Barbara Ruick - and the especially dancing by Van and Fosse.
Martha Coolidge's "Valley Girl" (1983) - 5 a.m., July 23. Nicolas Cage as the unimaginable - a teenager. Deborah Foreman in the girl.
Steve Carver's "Big Bad Mama" (1974) - 2:15 a.m., July 24. Angie Dickenson, William Shatner and Tom Skerritt squeeze as much juice and seediness as they can out of this crime version of "Gypsy" (about a mother who pushes her daughters into crime rather than show biz).
Robert Aldrich's "The Legend of Lylah Clare" (1968) - 6 a.m., July 24. Hollywood horror from Aldrich, campy and disturbing. With a game performance from Kim Novak and a distinquished one by Peter Finch. See companion film "Inside Daisy Clover" - 4 p.m., 7/18.
George Roy Hill's "The World of Henry Orient" (1964) - 2 p.m., July 25. A sort-of update of "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer," in which precocious teenagers Tippi Walker and Merrie Spaeth stalk - and lust after - Peter Sellers. Like "Bobbysoxer," it could never be made today.
David Butler's "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (1953) - midnight, July 28. Doris Day and Gordon MacRae when they were something of a screen team in an entertaining version of the Penrod stories.
Will Price's "Rock, Rock, Rock" (1956) - 8 p.m., July 29. With Tuesday Weld (only this time, she really is a teenager). She gets to sing. OK, she's dubbed. But who cares? It's Tuesday Weld for heaven's sake.
William Castle's "Shanks" (1974) - 2 a.m., July 31. Castle directs mime Marcel Marceau (who gets to utter one word) in his least-seen movie.
Burt Kennedy's "The Rounders" (1965) - 2 p.m., July 31 - Modern day "oater" (as they called them) which teams aging cowpokes Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford with hot Sue Ane Langdon and Hope Holliday.
Millard Kaufman's "Convicts Four" (1962) - 9:30 p.m., July 31. The ever sexually intimidating Ben Gazzara in one of his rare lead roles. He was like Anthony Franciosa, only without the smoothed-over edges.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
the movie year. 2010. so far...
Polanski's atmospheric "The Ghost Writer," tops the movie year 2010 - 1 January through 30 June
Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer"
Raymond De Felitta's "City Island"
Alain Resnais' "Wild Grass"/"Les herbes folles"
Nicole Holofcener's "Please Give"
Julian Jarrold, James Marsh and Anand Tucker's "Red Riding Trilogy"
Brian Koppelman & David Levien's "Solitary Man"
Lee Unkrich's "Toy Story 3"
Derrick Borte's "The Joneses"
Rodrigo García's "Mother and Child"
Floria Sigismondi's "The Runaways"
Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg"
Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island"
Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right"
Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work"
Pierce Brosnan & Olivia Williams/"The Ghost Writer"
Annette Bening/"Mother and Child" & "The Kids Are All Right"
Julianne Moore/"The Kids Are All Right"
Michael Douglas/"Solitary Man"
Colin Farrell/"Ondine"
Joan Rivers/"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work"
Leonardo DiCaprio/"Shutter Island"
Andy Garcia, Emily Moritmer & Julianna Margulies/"City Island"
Greta Gerwig/"Greenberg"
Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei/"Cyrus"
Vanessa Redgrave/"Letters to Juliet"
André Dussollier/"Wild Grass"("Les herbes folles")
Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet & Rebecca Hall/"Please Give"
Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart/"The Runaways"
Michael Shannon/"The Runaways"


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Honda confirms return as F1 engine supplier
16 May 2013 by TF1T Staff | M | Tweet
The Honda motor company has confirmed it will return to Formula One as an engine supplier to the McLaren F1 team in 2015 in what will be a "joint project" which will see the team renamed McLaren-Honda.
In a press conference in Japan on Thursday, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh confirmed the rekindling of a partnership which delivered many championships during their time together.
"I am delighted to announce that Honda and McLaren will soon begin a new chapter of our legendary Formula 1 partnership," said Whitmarsh.
"It's a partnership synonymous with success. Together during the 80s and the 90s McLaren and Honda won 44 grands prix and eight world championships.
"Together in 1988 we created the most successful Formula 1 car of all time, the all conquering McLaren-Honda MP4/4, which was driven to victory 15 times out of 16 by Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.
"McLaren and Honda are about to embark on a new and extremely exciting adventure together, so on behalf of everyone at McLaren and also everyone who loves F1, I am delighted to welcome Honda back to the sport."
Honda president and CEO Takanobu Ito added: "The new F1 regulations with their significant environmental focus will inspire even greater development of our own advanced technologies and this is central to our participation in F1.
"We have the greatest respect for the FIA's decision to introduce these new regulations that are both highly challenging but also attractive to manufacturers that pursue environmental technologies and to Formula One Group, which has developed F1 into a high value, top car racing category supported by enthusiastic fans.
"We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Mr Jean Todt, the President of FIA and to Mr Bernie Ecclestone, the CEO of Formula One Group who showed great understanding and cooperation to help realise our participation in F1 racing."


text: STYLE Fashion Advice 2014 Men's Fashion Trends © Getty Images Ovadia & Sons: Spring/Summer 2014 Ovadia & Sons: Spring/Summer 2014 Button Down Shirts Button Down Shirts Front-Pocket Wallets Front-Pocket Wallets New York Fashion Week: Spring/Summer 2014 New York Fashion Week: Spring/Summer 2014 Coming Next OR 0 11 Back to Top ▲ 2014 Men's Fashion Trends 2014 Men's Fashion Trends London Collections: Men Trends Bethan Holt Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 0 Shares There have been some perfectly awesome trousers, shirts and coats on the catwalks at the men's London collections this week. But there is also a wealth of envelope pushing if slightly head scratching new stuff that designers are tempting us with. The new items and ideas that you might not really have considered before but that you might possibly be wearing next summer. Here we round up 10 things we've seen at the menswear shows that could be the next thing you consider adding to your wardrobe. Approach with an open mind. Next Page Comments Show Comments More Like This Promoted Around the Web Special Features


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One of my favorite bridal designers Claire Pettibone just launched her newest collection – Decoupage– and I'm in major love with the dresses! Lots of layering chantilly and guipure, silk and vintage laces, flowers and delicate hand beaded details…combining textures and treatments for an heirloom collection of wedding gowns. The lace details are some of the most gorgeous I've seen…
Do you have a favorite? The dress right above (Charlotte) with the gorgeous lace sleeves + back and flower details is probably mine. :)
photos by Anton Oparin courtesy of Claire Pettibone
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text: TJPDC Housing and Human ServicesTJPDC works with local government agencies and non-profit organizations to coordinate local initiatives on housing and human services and to develop effective and efficient solutions to our region's housing and human service needs. TJPDC is involved in a variety of housing and human service activities aimed at improving the quality of life of the region's residents. Our projects include administering federal housing rehabilitation, regional housing planning and home ownership program funds entitled to the region, convening government agencies and non-profit organizations addressing homelessness in the region, and coordinating regional services for people with disabilities. Select a button on the left to learn more about TJPDC's work in housing and human services. HOME Performance Report Available for CommentThe Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission and the City of Charlottesville invite all interested citizens to comment on the DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for HOME funds and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for the 2013-2014 year. The CAPER is a required document describing the use of federal funds for housing and community development projects. The final report must be submitted to HUD by September 29, 2014. Comments are accepted from September 11 through 26. The DRAFT CAPER is available here. Questions or comments may be submitted to Billie Campbell, TJPDC, 434-979-7310 or firstname.lastname@example.com or Melissa Thackston, City Hall, 434-970-3182 or email@example.com Consolidated Plan UpdateEvery five years the regional HOME Consortium and the City of Charlottesville evaluate local housing needs, establish priorities, and adopt a plan for the next five years of community development activities. This plan, known as the Consolidated Plan, serves to guide the use of federal funds allocated annually to create affordable housing for low-income households. The update process will occur between October 2012 and May 2013, and public input will be needed throughout. Visit the Consolidated Plan page for more information. Housing Performance Report SubmittedThe City of Charlottesville and TJPDC submitted the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME funds for the 2011-2012 year. The CAPER is a required document describing the use of federal funds for housing and community development projects, submitted to HUD on September 28, 2012. The HOME Consortium completed 52 HOME projects during the program year. Of the 52 projects, 34 were rehabilitation of owner-occupied units, 13 were first-time homebuyer projects, and five were rental projects. Completed units for the year total 53. 79.2% of people receiving HOME assistance had incomes less than 50% MFI and 83.3% had incomes below 60% MFI. 54.7% of the families assisted with HOME funds were racial or ethnic minorities. Over the life of the program, the Thomas Jefferson HOME Consortium has brought in $16 million in HOME funds to the region to provide homeowner rehabilitation, homebuyer assistance, and rental development. 1344 projects have been completed since 1993. The 2011-2012 CAPER is available online here. Second Edition Toolkit - Including update for 2010 CensusThe Second Edition of the Transportation and Housing Alliance (THA) Toolkit is now available and ready for use. The Transportation and Housing Alliance (THA) is a statewide initiative in Virginia linking public and private efforts in the areas of housing and transportation. The Toolkit was produced through a grant awarded to the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC) by the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities (VBPD). VBPD recognized the important role of Planning District Commissions in developing and using this Toolkit. The purpose of the Toolkit is to create plans that lead to livable communities for all citizens. The Toolkit provides approaches to assess current housing and transportation needs, project future needs, and identify overlapping issues and opportunities. To learn more, please visit our THA Toolkit Page. Supplemental Update Transitioning to American Community Survey Data and 2010 Census Home Modification GuideAn online Home Modification Guide has been created to assist residents in the region with modifying their own home to meet their special needs. The website contains descriptions of potential home modifications, such as widened doorways and roll-in showers, a list of local organizations and individuals who have experience assisting in these projects, as well as links to local, state, and federal funding sources dedicated to home modification. The creation of the site was made possible with funding from the Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF). Homesharing/Accessory Dwelling Units Feasibility StudyIn partnership with JABA, TJPDC has completed the feasibility study of a potential Homesharing program in the region, with an initial focus on the City of Charlottesville and the urban ring in Albemarle County. The feasibility study indicates a need and support for initiating a program here. Based on the input from the Advisory Committee at their final meeting on June 23, the program is being proposed to focus on the screening and matching process, with needed wrap-around services provided by other agencies and organizations in the community. The final report is available here in pdf format. For more information, contact Billie Campbell at TJPDC at email@example.com or 434-979-7310 x230. Universal DesignThe Livable for a Lifetime (L4L) initiative is a partnership of the TJPDC, the Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) and the Piedmont Housing Alliance (PHA) to promote the design of homes and communities that are livable for a lifetime. This means incorporating universal design features and other amenities and services that allow people of all abilities and ages to live at home and engage fully in community life. 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A rapid prototype master pattern is created from a 3D CAD file.
Master pattern is inspected against CAD file dimensions to ensure accuracy.
Pattern Tooling
Master pattern is placed on a parting board to establish the parting lines of future molds. A temporary rubber negative is then made of the master pattern. The permanent rubber positive is created from the rubber negatives. This allows for duplicate prototypes or short-run multiples.
Plaster Mold
A plaster slurry is poured over the rubber positive tooling to produce a plaster mold. This plaster mold is placed in an oven for 12-14 hours to ensure that all moisture is removed.
After curing, both halves of the plaster mold are assembled and the cavity is filled with a wide range of aluminum or zinc alloys. Once the metal cools and solidifys, the plaster is broken away from the casting and disposed of.
The gates and sprues are removed. The casting goes through a visual check and straightening process prior to being inspected.
First Article Inspection
The cast part is physically and dimensionally inspected.
Secondary Operations
Several secondary operations can be performed on the part. These additional operations include: heat treatment, machining, chemical film, chromate conversion, paint, special finishes, and assembly.


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